Expedition to Europe

The construction of Cam Ranh Bay is a big project. Not counting the construction materials, 100,000 workers will consume more than 2 million yuan per month, not counting the cost of food purchased from Siam.

Fortunately, Qin Zhiyuan still has some money in his hands. If the expenditure does not increase further, he can still afford it now.

More people have more advantages. 100,000 people work together. Even if they can't catch up with the "national battle mode" in another time and space, they are not much different. Cam Ranh Bay is basically different every day, and the construction progress is jaw-dropping.

Of course, it is Bastian who is jaw-dropping, not Qin Zhiyuan. Qin Zhiyuan, who has seen various "speeds" in another time and space, feels that it is still a bit slow.

In fact, in this era when large machinery is not widely used, the construction progress of a port is measured in "years".

The first phase of Cam Ranh Bay is expected to take one and a half years. By then, Cam Ranh Bay will have eleven docks and more than 60 berths, which can dock all Lan Fang warships including battleships.

At the same time, various supporting facilities are also being laid, including thermal power plants, artillery shell factories, torpedo factories, mine factories, and even a shipyard with four 50,000-ton docks. All these things together will constitute Cam Ranh Bay, the largest naval base in the Far East.

No, it's not the largest. Yokosuka in Japan is the largest military port.

But one day, Cam Ranh Bay will become the largest military port in the Far East.

Qin Zhiyuan is very confident about this.

In the past month, a lot of things have actually happened, including the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the temporary ceasefire of the Russian Civil War, etc. These things have effectively dispersed the influence of Lan Fang's "island seizure" in the North Sea, and also reduced the world's sensitivity to Lan Fang's lease of Cam Ranh Bay.

That's right, after nearly half a year of interest exchange, the Treaty of Versailles was finally signed, and Gu Weijun, the representative of the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China, also signed the contract, which means that the Republic of China has also become a member of the victorious countries in the World War, and at the same time successfully joined the League of Nations, and finally began to tentatively integrate into the international community.

What is speechless is that the United States did not sign the Treaty of Versailles because the Americans found that they could not get anything from the Treaty of Versailles, no colonies, no markets, only money.

The United States is the richest country in the world now, and they are not short of money at all.

The Treaty of Versailles punished Germany very severely. Germany lost 13.5% of its territory, 12.5% ​​of its population, and all its overseas colonies.

According to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, the Germans were only allowed to retain an army of less than 100,000 people, and the navy was only allowed to retain 6 battleships with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons. At the same time, Germany was not allowed to have submarines, develop air forces, and the army was not allowed to equip tanks and heavy machine guns, etc.

The Germans even lost the right to import and export, because the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that if the Germans wanted to export goods, they had to add almost a quarter of the fees, which undoubtedly increased the cost of German products, reduced the competitiveness of German products, and made the position of Britain and France more stable.

At the same time, the Germans had to pay 226 billion gold marks in compensation, which was approximately equal to 11.3 billion pounds, and they were required to pay in gold.

The terms were very harsh, and almost everyone was dissatisfied with the Treaty, except Lan Fang.

The Germans who were most dissatisfied with the Treaty, as victims of the Treaty of Versailles, William III once considered refusing to sign it, but under the persuasion of Prime Minister Prince Marx and Army Chief of Staff Hindenburg, William III finally chose to bury his hatred in his heart and signed the Treaty with humiliation.

Everyone could see the reluctance of the Germans, especially the French.

Clemenceau once intended to dismember Germany, but was strongly opposed by the British. The British wanted the Germans to pay the price, but did not want to weaken the Germans too much. The British did not want to see the French dominate the European continent.

That was not in the interests of Britain.

In fact, many British people believed that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on Germany, which might cause Germany to become an unstable factor again in the future, but these people's opinions were not widely recognized, so the Treaty of Versailles became like this.

However, after the signing, the British soon realized that without the checks and balances of Germany, the French would become the hegemon of the European continent, so Britain began to provide loans to Germany to help Germany restore its economy.

At the same time, the Americans were also dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles. The Americans did not get anything except money. Of course, it was accompanied by the improvement of the United States' international status, but this was a hidden thing and could not be seen on the surface.

During the World War, American capital made huge profits. After the war, the Americans continued to wield the capital stick and began to provide loans to Germany.

These loans went through the hands of the British and French and then returned to the Americans, but the Americans received a large number of preferential conditions. From this perspective, the Americans were the biggest beneficiaries of the World War.

There was a reason why Lan Fang was satisfied with the Treaty of Versailles. Because of the French's efforts, Lan Fang obtained a symbolic compensation as compensation for the Foreign Legion, which was unanimously agreed by Britain and the United States. The reason why Qin Zhiyuan had the money to build Cam Ranh Bay was due to this German compensation.

The signing of the Treaty of Versailles was the biggest event in the world in the whole month of June, so much so that it overshadowed the war in Russia.

After a month-long tug-of-war, the coalition government headed by Kolchak finally captured Moscow, but at the same time, Kolchak and Denikin's troops suffered heavy losses and had no spare energy to launch an attack on the Russian Bolsheviks entrenched in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Bolsheviks had lost 500,000 people in the previous war, and they were unable to organize the army to regain lost territory, so all parties had to sit down and negotiate, trying to find a way to peacefully end the civil war.

Since the capture of Tula, except for the capture of Moscow, the Foreign Legion did not participate in any offensive, but began to plunder on the spot in Tula, Kaluga, Ryazan and other places, plundering anything they could see.

These things included precious calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry, industrial machinery, and even locomotives, which were shipped back to Lanfang by the Foreign Legion as a reward for this expedition.

Liu Zizheng and Griff played a little too much, so that when the Foreign Legion's troops defeated the main force of the Russian Bolsheviks outside Moscow, the Foreign Legion wanted to enter Moscow but was rejected by Kolchak.

But it was obvious that Kolchak's refusal did not have much effect. The powerful foreign legion barged into Moscow, just like the Russians barbarically barged into the capital of the Qing Empire.

It was really a matter of time.

Kolchak and Denikin's troops suffered almost all casualties in the process of attacking Moscow, and finally had to ask for support from the foreign legion.

Liu Zizheng and Grief sent all their tanks to participate in the siege of Moscow.

The tank troops impressed Kolchak and Denikin so much that Kolchak and Denikin asked to buy these tanks to strengthen their own strength.

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Liu Zizheng and Grief agreed to Kolchak and Denikin's request, and contacted Clemenceau to give Clemenceau a big gift.

Clemenceau was worried about how to digest the tanks produced by France during the war. He was naturally happy to hear that Kolchak and Denikin wanted to buy them, so there was the compensation for the Foreign Legion.

While Kolchak and Denikin were busy doing business with Clemenceau, the Foreign Legion began to scrape the land in Moscow.

As a famous historical city with a thousand-year reputation, Moscow has much more good things than Tula and Ryazan. Although Peter the Great moved the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg, there are still enough things in Moscow to make the Foreign Legion jealous.

Russian State History Museum, Kremlin, Cathedral of the Assumption of the Assumption...

Any place that can be named will become a holy place for the Foreign Legion soldiers to linger.

It is really a holy place. Moscow gives the Foreign Legion soldiers a feeling of "entering a treasure mountain", and the soldiers will certainly not return empty-handed.

According to incomplete statistics, within half a month after the Foreign Legion captured Moscow, the Foreign Legion transported more than 500 trains of various materials from Moscow, almost plundering Moscow. After the Foreign Legion withdrew from Moscow, Moscow almost became an empty city.

Of course, the Foreign Legion did not set fire to Moscow. The Kremlin and the Assumption Cathedral are still magnificent. It's a pity that almost everything inside was emptied, and even the gold foil used for wall decoration was taken away by the all-pervasive Foreign Legion.

The Russian State Historical Museum also suffered misfortune. This museum, founded in 1872, is now unworthy of its name. The empty hall is probably enough to make the curator hang himself.

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The curator did not hang himself, but one day at the end of June, the curator of the Russian State Historical Museum jumped from the spire of the Assumption Cathedral and died for the Russian State Historical Museum.

It's a familiar scene. Just more than a decade ago, in the capital of the Qing Empire, officials also died with their families because of the fall of the capital.

The whole family!

It's much more heroic than jumping off a building alone.

Just over a decade ago, the Russians had imposed the pain they were suffering today on the Chinese, and today, the Chinese are just returning it intact.

In terms of national interests, it is not a question of who is worse, it only proves the eternal truth: if you lag behind, you will be beaten!

Yes, Russia is still nominally one of the great powers, but compared to Lan Fang, Russia is absolutely backward.