the world is at stake

With China's human and material resources, once it develops, it will be a terrible natural disaster, and countries with insufficient strength will be easily crushed.

Marcoshi hoped that European countries would pay more attention to China, but Pu Dadi was helpless.Because of the particularity of the Tsarist Russian government, the ability to manage the grassroots is very low.

The 'Brotherhood' hopes that the 'Holy Alliance' will strengthen Tsarist Russia's garrison in the Far East, and join forces with Japan to contain China - it's no wonder that Nicholas II, who has suffered a lot from Japan, would listen to this.

Marco also encouraged Emperor Pu to seize power in Tsarist Russia and overthrow the rule of the Romanov dynasty—Emperor Pu regretted that he should not have turned against Martha at the beginning, otherwise now... Martha is also a female tsar in the top position, and there is nothing wrong with Emperor Pu .

In short, there is no regret medicine in this world.

Alas... the tip of the pen drips ink and stains the entire page.Amov irritatedly crumpled up the half-page report and threw it into the trash can.He pressed the button on the desk and called the secretary in.

"Change me a cup of hot tea. And another better pen." Amov misses the convenience of computer typing and voice input, throws the craft gold pen on the table, and blames the pen's writing for his boredom superior.

The secretary went out for a while, changed to hot tea, and brought a fountain pen.

One end of the pen has a light-transmitting girl pattern with skirts flying.Amov got angry when he saw the logo, "Chinese people even produce pens in the United States?"

The secretary didn't know why, so he explained: "This is a new fountain pen recently, it seems...it is indeed made by a Chinese-invested enterprise.

That company is small in scale, specializing in stationery products, with a wide variety of styles, suitable for different needs, and the quality of the pens is quite good. "

The secretary brought pencils, pens, colored pens, folders, staplers, notebooks and many other products.Without exception, they are all produced by the same company, and the selling points are cost performance and design.

From stationery to furniture to electrical appliances to building materials, 'Holy Light' has set up many seemingly inconspicuous but close to the needs of life factories in the United States, and selects articulate Chinese, well-dressed, and drives a van to Various communities to promote.

It was not easy at the beginning, after all, the clumsy and isolated image of the Chinese is incompatible with salesmen, and it is difficult to enter high-end neighborhoods.But I have to say that the profit of retail is very high, which is enough to force people to change.

Amov lowered his head and thought to himself: "'Holy Light' really knows how to do business, and even intervenes in the writing market, making money from anything." But what the secretary said made him think again, "Could it be that they are developing so fast? s reason?"

Any individual, team, or country needs good and careful planning to develop.Amov didn't know the inside story of other forces, but he knew that the internal planning of the 'Holy Alliance' was a mess.

Want to take advantage of any advantage, and refuse to take any loss, but the result is only increasing internal friction.

Even the "Brotherhood" is like this. During the meeting, Marco laughed at himself for not being able to get his subordinates to achieve a unified pace.

The national development plan of 'Holy Light' is undoubtedly the best, and its execution is also the strongest.It even takes into account details such as stationery, nothing else.

"Maybe we also need a strong State Planning Commission." Amov frowned, but quickly dismissed his idea. "No, that's the Bolshevik way. No one wants to go any further."

Surrender some individual rights and obey collective resolutions like the Chinese?No, no.

Similar topics are a taboo within the 'Holy Alliance', they just want to prove that their line is correct and that they are completely separated from the 'past'.

"Alas... we can't go back to the past."

The high-end gold pen produced by 'Shengguang' is indeed more usable, and there should be many patents in it.Amov manipulated the tip of the pen to slide smoothly on the paper, recording his conversation with Marco.

The 'Brotherhood' hopes to make some sort of alliance with the 'Holy Alliance' and bring in the 'European Will' created by France, as if establishing a new 'NATO'.

The reason for this idea is also inspired by the 'Holy Light'.

When China invested heavily in the United States and borrowed American industries for its own use, Sino-German trade was also very frequent.And because the two heads of state have a high degree of mutual trust, many unnecessary frictions can be reduced during cooperation.

For example, China has developed a '[-]-horsepower' steam turbine in the United States, and immediately shared this technological breakthrough with Germany-purchasing four of the same production line, China and Germany split half and half.

This not only greatly reduces the purchase price, but also saves time for Germany to break through similar technologies.Although Germany also has no shortage of technology, but in the face of almost unlimited "future" technology, scientific research manpower is limited after all.

The cooperation of one project can save tens of hundreds of manpower for two to three months, and the cooperation of one hundred projects can save millions of man-hours.

In return for "[-] horsepower", Germany made a breakthrough in the manufacturing technology of high-pressure vessels, which is crucial in chemical production, and shared the complete production line with China.

So China does not need to waste money in the United States, just send people to Germany to study and purchase.This also saves manpower, financial resources and time, and greatly reduces costs.

Another example is that in order to provide the necessary crude oil for Germany's development, the "California Standard Oil" controlled by "Shengguang" is exported to Germany at cost price.

Germany's return is to provide mining machinery at cost price and help China open mining schools, reducing the death toll in coal mining by one million tons.

Due to the pressure of survival crisis in China and Germany, the candidates from the two sides communicate frequently, like closely meshing gears, coordinating each other's development plans and cooperating closely.

This kind of collaboration can produce the high efficiency of "one plus one is greater than two", which is really enviable.So some small European countries also want to integrate.

For example, candidates from Belgium, Italy and other countries are ready to join.They also have their own industrial chain advantages, but their disadvantages are more obvious.

In addition, there are often only a few or a dozen selected candidates in Asia, Africa and Latin America. When they understand that they cannot develop alone, they will also tend to join relatively harmless cooperative organizations.

This kind of efficient cooperation of "not allies, but better than allies" is naturally seen by other companies, and it also arouses strong unease.

In order to counter the 'Sino-German Axis', the 'Holy Alliance' wants to replicate a similar success and use the European industrial system to strengthen itself.

But 'Oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and oranges born in Huaibei are oranges'.

The same approach of Tsarist Russia will not work in Europe - Britain and Germany are both big governments, and it is easy to cut off the hand of Emperor Pu Da to take advantage of it.

France is willing to help, but the condition is that Pu Dadi has to let nearly half of the team members go to work in France, and also hand over a copy of the technical documents he brought.

Amov served as Tsarist Russia's ambassador to the United States. He wanted to learn from the "Holy Light" step by step, and also used his own precious special drug production capacity to obtain huge funds in the United States, and at the same time used the human and material resources of the United States to develop himself.

The penicillin produced in Tsarist Russia is no different from that produced in China, and it has also made a lot of money.However, the establishment of a factory in the United States has been postponed for several months. It cannot be said that it has no effect, but it just doesn't work.

For example, in 1907, the British created a recoil-type '[-]-horsepower' steam turbine, which was successfully used on large cruise ships and battleships.

'Sacred Light' has developed an impact-type '[-] horsepower' in the United States, which can not only be used in ships, but also the core equipment of large coal-fired generating sets.

The Russians also wanted to do this, and they had the technology, but because of the weak basic industries, they couldn't do it in St. Petersburg, so they also wanted to do it in the United States.

The "Brotherhood" heard the news and said, "The Russians don't have to do it, we will follow the example of Sino-German cooperation"-even if they are not political allies, they can cooperate economically and technologically.

However, compared to the huge loan to Japan, the 'Brotherhood' did not approve of Pu Dadi's credit and repayment ability, and expressed that they wanted real money transactions.

Amov saw the other party's quotation and smiled angrily.

China and Germany are mutually beneficial, and the "Brotherhood" is Zai Kaizi-the same is the "12 horsepower" steam turbine, and the "Holy Light" only sells for [-] US dollars. 'Brotherhood' can claim $[-].

'Sacred Light' company in the United States is delivering products at a rate of one every two months, and its customers include Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Germany and itself.

Its total order quantity exceeds [-] units, and the delivery speed is expected to double next year.

The 'Brotherhood' has already received [-] orders from the US government, and the delivery date is five years later.

Amov expressed doubts to Marcos on the spot - the price of your goods is more than twice as expensive as that of 'Holy Light', I bought one of you is enough to buy two 'Holy Light', I only bought it if I was insane.

Ma Keshi spread his hands, saying that the benefit of the "Democratic Alliance" is involved, and the price cannot be changed.

The only advantage is probably to buy products from the 'Brotherhood', and the 'Brotherhood' can help Tsarist Russia build factories-provided that the money is not less.

The feeling of being slaughtered with a knife was so bad that Amov almost walked away.In his report to Pu Dadi, he described in detail the arrogance of the 'Brotherhood', and suggested that they simply purchase from the company of 'Holy Light' in the United States.

But a day later, St. Petersburg sent back a telegram. Emperor Putin calculated the economic and political accounts, thinking that although Europe and the United States are not credible, if the United States is willing to provide loans, it can still consider buying high-priced goods.

When Amov saw the call back, his heart skipped a beat—it's over, Emperor Pu's overconfident fault has happened again.He said 'unbelievable', but he wanted to believe it again.

This will require negotiation, and the negotiation will delay the time, and the delay will consume all the cards, and eventually lose everything.

Thanks to eating that, the stinky problem will never change.

Chapter 77 Approaching Lushun

Kamio Mitsuomi's delegation traveled from Japan to England and then to the United States.Before the end of the east coast inspection, he went to Bath, Maine to visit the famous Bath Iron and Steel Shipyard.

On the berth of the Kennebec River, Kamio saw a long line of light high-speed torpedo boats under construction, and four artillery destroyers that had just started cutting steel plates.

The person in charge of the shipyard said that these are orders placed by China.

According to China's requirements, [-] Chinese workers entered the shipyard to receive training and participate in the construction work, and many new technologies were used in shipbuilding.

"Chinese workers are all screened, smart, obedient, and able to speak English. In fact, working in a shipyard is not difficult. If you can understand blueprints, you can be considered an engineer. They learn quickly, and we have nothing to teach."

"Look, arc cutting and welding, the latest hull processing methods. Thank God, this advanced technology appears in the United States. As long as these ships are built smoothly, we will completely abandon time-consuming and labor-intensive riveting."

The person in charge of the shipyard was full of red, and he was very proud of the scene of sparks flying on the ship's shed.He also introduced the 'Segment Construction Method', and talked about how to improve the measurement tools so that different hull segments can fit together perfectly.

Although Kamio is in the army, he still has a sullen face towards the busy Chinese workers on the slipway like ants.How to increase the speed of shipbuilding and reduce the cost of welding and segmented construction is only silently kept in mind.

Regarding the joy of the person in charge, he asked the translator to reply, "When I was visiting the UK, the Portsmouth Royal Naval Shipyard was already using the welding process to manufacture the latest battleships. The United States is not the only one using it."

The person in charge of the shipyard was so blocked that he couldn't accept the words of the Japanese who underestimated their own technology.He talked about the difference between the welding process of the shipyard and the British, and also praised the Chinese who provided the relevant technology, and revealed a lot of details by the way.

For example, China cooperated in the Bath Iron and Steel Shipyard to study the most advanced rolling and hardening of armor steel, as well as new high-temperature and high-pressure boilers that can bring powerful power, and the huge progress and significant benefits of metal material science behind this.

Kamio didn't want to hear it, and was too lazy to answer, so he ended the visit early and took the trans-North American railroad to Los Angeles, preparing to return to Japan.On the way, he got bad news...

The Chinese National Defense Force pushed the front line of the Liaodong Peninsula to the vicinity of Lushun, and the Japanese Kanto Governor's Mansion was about to be pushed into the sea. Oshima Yoshima asked the military for help, saying that he could not hold on.

The Lushun card is at the entrance and exit of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, only 360 kilometers away from Tianjin.Like a bone spur stuck in the throat of China, it can cut off the sea passage between Gyeonggi and the outside world at any time.

The Wehrmacht has endured this bone spur for a long time.Seeing this telegram, Kamio let out a long, full sigh.What should come will always come, and it cannot be avoided.

At the moment in Pulandian, Dalian, two formations of two big red Air Force aircraft slowly flew over the battlefield where artillery fire was roaring from an altitude of 600 meters.

On the ground, Wehrmacht soldiers wearing German-style helmets stood in the trench, holding cans of beef in their hands, looking up at their own planes showing off their might.

"What do you want to look good? I've been watching it for more than a month, don't you get tired of it?" The sergeant sat on an ammunition box, picked up the can in his hand, and sighed; Tired of eating meat."

The old company man wore a black apron and walked across the ditch carrying two wooden buckets filled with hot soup.He grabbed a spoon and said to the sergeant: "What's wrong? Can you get tired of eating meat? Next time you eat dirt."

The old man has been in the company since the Beiyang era, and his qualifications are older than the company commander.

Several second-class soldiers surrounded the non-commissioned officer, grinning and laughing.Everyone's body and face were covered with mud, as if they were dug out of the dirt.They have full cheeks, calm demeanor, and good morale.

A soldier ate up the can, not even giving up the last sip of soup.He poured the dehydrated vegetables into the can, asked the old man for hot soup to soak, and drank it into his mouth happily.

All the soldiers followed suit one after another, surrounded Sergeant Hu when they were full and asked, "Squad leader, what is written on this can? Some words are incomprehensible."

"You ask me, who should I ask?" The sergeant squad leader grabbed a steamed bun, "If I could understand this foreign character, I would have been promoted to be a company commander long ago. Why should I serve you fools here?"

Commodities these days lack the concept of packaging, and military supplies are even simpler.There are only a few stamps on the metal can, indicating the manufacturer's place of origin and the date of production.

"I heard we ate American canned food."

"It's the United States that the instructor talked about in class. People only eat whole pieces of meat, and don't want minced meat. The internal organs are even thrown away. Black slaves grow tall and strong."

"I was in my hometown in Shanxi. I couldn't eat a piece of meat for a year. I had no oil in my stomach. I was so hungry that I couldn't sleep all night. My parents sent me out because the recruiter said that I could eat enough."

"After I beat the little devils away, I'll buy all the allowances into cans and bring them home to share with the whole village. You don't know, my village is so poor that the women don't have any clothes to wear."

Suddenly the hum of an airplane sounded in the sky.Several Japanese planes painted with plaster flags appeared from the clouds in the sky and swooped down to meet the Wehrmacht fighter planes.

The soldiers on the ground immediately exploded and cursed angrily.

"The little devil still has a plane?"

"They came to die again."

"It's not good, the enemy has a high altitude advantage and wants to disperse our crew."

Both the enemy and us are biplanes, and the dive angle is not large, but the Japanese fighter planes have a certain altitude advantage, and they must take advantage.

It's just that as soon as the diving 'plaster flag' appeared in the sky, several other red crews appeared from a height of more than 1000 meters and also swooped down.

The soldiers on the ground felt a little relieved, and the non-commissioned officer took the opportunity to educate: "See? This is the tactic of luring the enemy. We have two groups, one in the open and one in the dark."

The fighter planes of both sides in the sky are engaged in a dogfight of circling and biting their tails.The little devil was unwilling to give up the bait in front of him and chased his prey at the risk of being shot down.

The low-altitude red fighter plane slid away at a large angle, while the high-altitude red fighter plane tried to shoot down the little devil first.The soldiers on the ground didn't bother to drink the vegetable soup, and screamed nervously from time to time.

Last year, Sino-Japanese relations were tense, and the National Defense Forces were very worried that the Japanese army would mobilize like crazy, entering the Northeast from the Liaodong Peninsula and North Korea, and even attacking Gyeonggi.

But the reality is that the Japanese army only completed the formation of the 1911th and 19th divisions by the end of 20, and they were built and deployed in North Korea.Other newly formed divisions are currently training in their home countries.

However, starting from December last year, the National Defense Forces confronted the Japanese army in the Dashiqiao area of ​​the Liaodong Peninsula.The main six divisions were transferred in turn to accept the baptism of actual combat.

In order to break through the solid defense line of the Japanese army, the National Defense Forces purchased 150mm K16 heavy artillery from Germany, mounted the ten-ton artillery on the train, and bombarded the Japanese army with a range of more than ten kilometers.

In addition, a more effective means is air strikes.

The corridor on the west side of the peninsula is very narrow, and it is only more than 100 kilometers away from the Liaoxi Corridor on the other side of Liaodong Bay.So the planes of the Wehrmacht flew over every day to bomb the Japanese supply lines.

The Second Division of the Japanese Army stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula suffered terribly for this.

The South Manchuria Railway was bombed to pieces by the guerrillas, and as long as the artillery showed up, it would be bombed by the planes.The infantry had no field combat ability after being beaten. Once they lost their fortifications, they would only be slaughtered.

In just one month at the beginning of this year, the Second Division lost more than [-] combat soldiers in Gaizhou, and had to withdraw to the mainland to replenish.The Sixth Division that replaced them didn't hold back for three months, and simply retreated from Gaizhou all the way.

When the United States began to provide assistance and supplemented the Japanese army with machine guns, artillery and aircraft, the so-called "Kwantung Governor's Mansion" had been compressed to Dalian, and it was about to retreat to the Jinzhou Isthmus.

This is not the time of the Russo-Japanese War, when aircraft were more of a threat than artillery.

There were no Japanese ships that could go deep into the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea to get close to Lushun. Yichang, the big island staying in Lushun, could only rely on the narrow road to the east of the Liaodong Peninsula to get supplies from Dandong.

Now that they have been struggling for a year, the Japanese army feels that the reason why the Chinese army did not cut off the Dandong supply line is probably because they want to keep refueling and continue to suffer casualties.They also feel that the Liaodong Peninsula has become a chicken rib, a wound that repeatedly tears and bleeds.

Competing for human resources and war potential, Japan, with its few lands and poor people, cannot bear it at all.

But at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, 10,000+ people were killed and wounded, and the image of Nogi Nogi’s military god was captured. No Japanese politician or general dared to say that he would give up. He could only watch a lot of military spending from the United States flow away. , gritted his teeth and held on.

Correspondingly, by the end of 1911, the Wehrmacht successfully completed the expansion and recruitment training of 36 infantry divisions.After the six main divisions completed their rounds of battle, the latest to come up is the 24th Infantry Division stationed in Liaoning.

Division commander Xu Shuzheng studied in Japan's "Lu Shi" and received training for company and platoon officers.He suppressed bandits for half a year, and his grades were good, but he lacked formal combat experience, so he was kicked to the newly established National Defense University for half a year to study.