Respectfully

Colonial resistance movements in Southeast Asia and other places aroused the vigilance of countries such as Britain and France.When they were discussing whether to send troops from India to suppress, several provinces in southwestern China deployed heavy troops on the border one after another. Facing the consuls from various countries who came to their door, Long Yiting and others replied that it was just in case.

In case of a fight between Myanmar and Vietnam, the guns have no eyes, and one or two precautions must always be taken.

The reason is justified, and the troops of Yunnan and Guangxi provinces have not crossed the border. Even if the consuls of Britain, France and other countries realize that the purpose of the Chinese is definitely not "simple", it is impossible to force them to "take" the army back.

Today's China is no longer a place where these European powers are allowed to dictate and flatten.

After the six northern provinces, the great powers finally saw how powerful the gang of veterans and scoundrels in the Southwest were. They were tough but also smooth, like a group of hedgehogs, leaving them nowhere to attack.

The French couldn't help thinking of the "humiliation" of being "gifted" out of Yunnan by Long Yiting, while the British were thinking, whether the actions of Long Yiting and others were inspired by the Chinese coalition government?

If this is the case, does that mean that the Huaxia government has indirectly stated its position?

But in any case, the flames ignited in Southeast Asia must be extinguished, and an army of [-] Indians, led by British officers, marched into Burma and Vietnam.Don't look at the threes bowing their heads in front of the white master, once they face a guy with a lower "status" than them, they will definitely move their hands unambiguously.

There are quite a few arsenals run by the British in India. Even if the weapons they produce are slightly outdated, it is enough to make these pineapple-headed assams stand out.

The gunshots rang out while the troops stationed in India were marching. Their familiarity with the terrain helped the locals a lot. Small groups of resistance forces launched attacks on the "coming from afar" troops at different locations and at different times. There was a lot of gunfire from the attack, gunshots from Hanyang made and old sleeves were mixed together, and the unique sound of the Japanese-style rifle was particularly clear.

"Japanese gun?"

The British officer frowned. Although Japan was a dog raised by the British in Asia, the British knew well whether this dog was as obedient as it appeared on the surface.

The Japanese who have been clamoring to leave Asia and enter Europe have never lost their ambition to expand their territory and invade other countries.As long as his own interests are not touched, John Bull doesn't care who the Japanese guns are pointed at, but what if the dog intends to bite its owner back?In other words, this dog is planning to change its owner, what should we do?

The British started conspiracy theories.

Although the locals caught the troops stationed in India by surprise, the gap in strength is still quite obvious.

As the cannons sounded, the gunfire of the rebel army became sparse. The British officer drew out his command knife, and several drummers in the team beat the drums. enemy.

It is far away from Europe on the battlefield, and the tactics of the troops stationed in India are still in the stage of intensive charge during the Napoleon period.

The battle ended quickly. Except for those who escaped and those who were killed, the Indian army captured eleven prisoners. The weapons confiscated from them were various. There were old sleeves made in China made in Hanyang, and there were Murata made in Japan. There are French Chasper rifles, and even a few old British rifles that were eliminated in the 60s.

This made it difficult for the British commander to judge the source of the weapon, but no matter how he thought about it, the Chinese and Japanese were the most suspect!

The captives refused to speak at first, but after they were beaten severely, some of them finally couldn't hold on anymore.

A local with a nosebleed and two broken front teeth said in a trembling voice, "Only the leader and the people around him know where the gun came from."

"Very good." A British officer walked up to the prisoner who spoke, and said to the accompanying interpreter, "Ask where their leader is hiding, and I can spare his life."

The translator told the prisoner kneeling on the ground what the British officer said, and the prisoner immediately said that he knew and he was willing to lead the way!

Satisfied, the officer gave the order for the troops to depart in 15 minutes.

"It's just a tedious trip."

For the British in the Indian army, such a battle is no different from a game compared with their colleagues on the European battlefield.

But as the saying goes, carelessness will suffer big losses.

The marching troops stationed in India did not notice at all that they were being led into a death trap by the seemingly "weak" captive...

After the fighting between Vietnam and Burma began, Long Yiting, the governor of Yunnan, and Tang Guangren, the governor of Guangxi, sent telegrams to the capital one after another, asking for instructions on what to do if they were "affected" by the fighting on the opposite side.

President Lou Da, who received the telegram, gritted his teeth, he really is two old fritters!

"Call back and tell these two veteran ruffians that the bullet flew into the house, what do you think should be done?"

Long Yiting and Tang Guangren came out of the telegraph room, laughed a few times, and then ordered that once a bullet flies over, it will be regarded as an attack on Huaxia, and they will fight back immediately!

After the order was issued, everyone from veteran ruffian to junior soldier ruffian was very excited, gearing up, waiting for the opportunity to "counterattack".But what made the soldiers guarding the border frustrating was that after waiting for two days, not a single bullet flew over!

"I can't even pick up a bargain." A soldier muttered in a low voice.

"Is it so easy to pick up cheap?" Another soldier said, "Just wait patiently!"

Just like Marshal Long said, there is a piece of land in Burma that was originally theirs, and finally they have such an opportunity, don't hurry up, is it possible to watch the fat on the mouth fall to the ground?

The resistance movement in Southeast Asia was not successful in the eyes of the colonists, and their main focus is still on the European battlefield.

At the end of December, both the Allied Powers and the Allied Powers had already formulated their combat plans for the coming year. Both warring parties hoped to break the stalemate that has lasted until now. Their combat plans in 1916 were all offensive.

The difference is that the leaders of the Allied Powers have not reached an agreement on the specific time to launch the offensive, and wrongly handed over the heavy responsibility of containing the German troops on the Eastern and Southern Fronts to Italy and Russia.When the two countries delay the German army's offensive, the British and French allied forces will attack the German army on the western front and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop!

Italy, which has always liked to stab its allies, and Russia, whose foreign power is strong but whose tsarist rule is crumbling, can really take on such important tasks?

Perhaps the rest of the Entente will know only when the facts are right in front of them.

The combat plan of the Allied Powers was released almost at the same time as the Allied Powers. Compared with the Allied Powers, which had many members and leaders, the Allied Powers were much faster in action and execution.In fact, all that is needed is for Falkenhausen, Germany's new chief of staff, to submit a memorandum of war to Kaiser Wilhelm II, stating that Germany's main enemy is Britain, but Germany is not yet capable of occupying the British mainland. We can only find another way, first destroy France, Britain's most powerful ally on the European continent, so that the goddess of victory is beckoning to Germany.

The memorandum of war was submitted on Christmas Eve, and William II was in a good mood, and passed it quite happily.However, neither Falkenhausen and William II, who made this plan, nor Britain, France and other countries who are still arguing about the time to launch the attack in the coming year, never imagined that this battle would be so tragic that the entire European continent Almost all of his blood was shed in the battle of 1916.

The situation in Europe and the short-term victory or defeat have little impact on China. As long as the Europeans continue to fight, China's products can earn back a lot of foreign exchange and gold and silver.

From canned food, medicine, to plush blankets, China's factories can produce everything that is needed on the European battlefield.Now that the industries of European countries have basically turned to military industry, the food and medicines shipped from China and other neutral countries have become indispensable and important supplies for both sides of the war.

Not only the factories in the six northern provinces are not working day and night, but factories all over China are busy. The workers can almost hear the roar of the machines when they sleep.The cannery in Northwest Sanma has expanded its production scale, and herdsmen on the Mongolian grasslands, and even those in Siberia, have begun to sell large quantities of cattle, sheep and livestock to China.

The products of the southern provinces are similar to those in the north. The industrial zones established by Song and Wu in the six southern provinces have faintly caught up with the Guanbei Industrial Zone. This makes Li Jinyan sigh. When it comes to business, China will never lack capable people.

Canned food, cigarettes, confectionary and alcohol are major exports.

Cigarettes sold to Europe can fill up the entire cargo ship every time. Ned sent a telegram to Li Jinyan from Switzerland. There is no major problem in the food supply of European countries now, but if you want to buy in-demand commodities, such as chocolate, candy and premium Canned meat and white flour, you get the black market to try your luck.

From the telegram, Li Jinyan can judge that the economic damage of the war to the belligerent countries has begun to emerge, but it is not enough. It will take at least half a year before the food rationing system will be implemented in Europe and Great Britain. "Flourishing," too, had another purpose in which he sent Ned to Europe to have a chance of success.

Take back the antiques that Huaxia wandered outside!

Li Jinyan has been thinking about this matter since the start of the European War, and now the opportunity has finally come.The wealth that was placed in the robber museum, which originally belonged to the Chinese people, should be returned to the original owner.

Ned was no longer the young man who couldn't sleep because of five thousand pounds. The wealth he passed every day was an astronomical figure for many people.

Many commodities shipped from China can be sold at high prices, and those European businessmen will take the initiative to come to the door, holding banknotes, and signing one after another worth of orders with Ned Firm.

The most popular products of Ned Firm are canned food and cigarettes.Although American luncheon meat came out more than ten years earlier, it is only by comparison that we can distinguish the good from the bad. Even if the canned food that China sells to Europe is not at the same level as the domestic ones, compared to the small fat pigs in the United States, European soldiers are still more delicious. I like the taste of Huaxia canned food.

Not to mention filter-tip cigarettes that won’t eat shredded tobacco in your mouth, colorful hard candies, compressed biscuits of various flavors, and fried noodles with oil that can be brewed with a cup of hot water, which is enough to provide a lot of heat.

There are also Huaxia's medicines, wrapped in paper, analgesic tablets and sulfonamides in small bottles, which are necessities that every medical soldier on the battlefield must carry with him.After every battle, when the victorious side cleans the battlefield, the first thing they collect is always the first aid kits on the opponent's soldiers.

Although Germany has begun to produce sulfa in large quantities, and Britain has also bought relevant materials from "Markov" who arrived in Great Britain not long ago, their production capacity will never keep up with the rate of wear and tear on the battlefield.

Especially in 1916, the casualties in almost every battle were calculated in tens of thousands, which made Li Jinyan never have to worry that there would be no market for his goods.

Unfortunately, due to limited conditions, the production of penicillin still cannot be quantified. Even a genius like Ding Zhao can't help showing a frustrated expression.

Qiao Leshan comforted him: "People always encounter setbacks."

Ding Zhao appreciated it, and in order to relieve his depression, he went to the laboratory to synthesize phosgene, which made Li Jinyan quite speechless when he learned about it afterwards.

Should it be said that ordinary people cannot understand the personalities of these geniuses, or should you never guess the minds of geniuses?

The depression was successfully dispelled, and Ding Zhao continued to devote himself to the experiment. It seemed that this man was planning to fight penicillin to the death, and he would not give up until he achieved his goal.

It is worth mentioning that among the overseas students who returned from the United States, three of them also joined Qiao Leshan's laboratory.At present, they are only responsible for simple work, but judging from Qiao Leshan's feedback, these three young people are quite good.

"I'm surprised." Qiao Leshan's Chinese language is still a bit strange, but communication is not a problem. "They can learn so much in only two years. They are quite smart."

"It's not just smart." Li Jinyan shook his head. The intelligence personnel sent to the United States would regularly report the situation of these students back to China. Li Jinyan knew better than anyone else how hard these young people worked while studying abroad.Unless necessary, they are willing to spend all their time on their homework and in the library. The notes recorded by each of them can fill the box. It must be admitted that these Huaxia students' thirst for knowledge will never be exhausted.

"These young people are like sponges that can never be filled with water."

The first batch of [-] students who went to the United States all returned to China after completing their studies. Even if they were detained, and the other party offered them quite favorable conditions and treatment, none of them chose to stay.

"Professor, I thank you for your teaching," a student majoring in physics said when facing the professor's persuasion: "I study, and I study tirelessly, not for myself. My country needs me and needs me. The knowledge I have learned, I must go back!"

One hundred people, but said the same answer.

"In the two years here, I wish I could have 48 hours a day, so that I can read more books and learn more knowledge. What is supporting me? It is my country, it is teaching me literacy, teaching Every word my sensible elders told me. When drinking water, think of the source, and never forget the origin. I am a Chinese, and I want to go back to my motherland."

Two years ago, they boarded the ships in Qingdao and Shanghai, and traveled across the ocean with their dreams in mind. Two years later, they boarded the ships again and returned with full rewards.

When the ship they took arrived at the port, when their feet set foot on the familiar land, when they saw their teachers and relatives who came to pick them up in person, the teenagers once again bowed deeply and stood upright. On the back, the teenagers who traveled far in the past have grown up, and the oath they made under the blue sea and blue sky is still in my ears. Now, they only say one sentence to the teacher: "Sir, we are back!"

Li Jinyan did not see what happened on the pier with his own eyes, but he was able to describe the scene at that time from the photos taken by the reporter and the words in the report.

One hundred students brought back countless hopes.

The majors of international students are different, but they are the best among them without exception.

Eleven of them came to Guanbei. After they got off the train, the first place they went to was Guanbei Middle School. The first thing they did was to record the books they had spent two years of energy and painstaking efforts transcribing. Notes, all to the principal and the teacher in the school.

The paper is well preserved, and the handwriting is very clear, which shows how precious it is to the owner of the notes.Now, they took it out without hesitation.

"What I have learned in the past two years is all here. I hope I can do my best."

Two of them chose to teach in Guanbei Middle School, and the other nine, three of them joined Qiao Leshan's laboratory, two were invited by Zou Chenggong and his son who researched radio, and one was recruited by the Director of the Finance Bureau. Let him work in the military government, but reserve talents for the official banks of the six northern provinces.

Of the remaining few people, one entered the machinery factory, and the other immersed himself in the farm. The people on the farm saw the doll with a white face and a beard that had just grown out of his mouth, almost falling out of his eyes. Are there any students studying abroad who specialize in farming?

There was only one student who was studying law, but he was ordered by President Lou Da to go to the capital with a telegram.

In this way, one hundred returned students were quickly "carved up". When Li Jinyan came back to his senses and wanted to find someone suitable to be a teacher, there was not even a hair left.

Li Sanshao was speechless. Fortunately, this was only the first batch. The second batch of international students will return to China next year, so he can wait.

After a heavy snowfall, New Year's Day in 1916 came.

The streets and alleys of Guanbei City were full of joy, and all the factories were off work for one day. The factory bosses followed the practice of Lou's Commercial Group and gave each worker a subsidy of at least half a dollar. Bacon, biscuits and other benefits.

People from other provinces have come to Guanbei to buy new year's goods one after another. Boxes of biscuits, canned candies and sausages have been sent to the train or directly taken away in a horse-drawn carriage.Several commercial streets have been open since the morning, and the flow of people has not stopped. The business of restaurants and hotels is also very good. Compared with previous years, there are more businessmen who come to Guanbei to buy New Year's goods this year, and the order volume has doubled compared to previous years.

Li Jinyan had a rare day of leisure, sitting at the table with pine nuts, listening to storytelling and cross talk on the radio, and just wanted to sigh that such a good day, he crushed a pine nut, which was already the sixth one.

Li Sanshao wanted to try again, but a plate of pine nuts and chestnuts had already been delivered to him.

"Speak less, let's come."

Sitting around the charcoal stove and peeling chestnuts, the girls couldn't see Li Jinyan's spoiling things, and almost "snatched" the pliers from Li Jinyan's hands. One by one, the plump pine nuts were placed on the plate, and the three girls together Hands-on, a plate was piled up in a short while.

Li Jinyan looked at the plate that was brought to him again, grabbed a handful, threw it in his mouth and chewed.

Well, very fragrant!

What's the point if you don't know how to pinch pine nuts...

When Lou Xiao came in, what he saw was Li Jinyan eating pine nuts by the handful, and the girls were not as casual as before when they saw Young Marshal Lou.Although Young Marshal Lou is not as scary as the rumors outside, the girls still can't help being a little afraid of him.

When the girls went down, Li Jinyan continued to eat the pine nuts one by one. He was on par with the pine nuts, and he would not give up until he finished eating.

But as soon as he picked up one, he was grabbed by the wrist. Young Marshal Lou held his hand and put the pine nuts into his mouth.

"Young commander, there is still more on the plate."

"kindness."

I agreed, but continued to cut off the beard.

Li Jinyan was helpless, and the next moment, he was fed a piece in his mouth, "Young commander?"

Marshal Lou didn't say a word, and continued to feed, and Li Sanshao continued to eat until the plate bottomed out.

Brushing the corners of Li Jinyan's lips with calloused fingers, Marshal Lou finally said, "Twenty."

After being stunned for a moment, Li Jinyan realized that Young Marshal Lou was talking about his age.

His slender fingers brushed the side of Li Jinyan's face, and pinched his earlobe, "Twenty crowns, I'll take the word for you, okay?"

Take the word?

Li Jinyan blinked, why did Young Master Lou bring this up suddenly?Logically speaking, the choice of characters should also be taken by the elders, right?But looking at Young Master Lou's expression, Li Sanshao still chose to swallow the words in his stomach and didn't say anything.

It's rare that Young Marshal Lou has this interest, so let's take the word.