In 1915 and 1916, Europe was in full swing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But in North America, with the exception of Canada, which was drawn into the war by the British, the United States ushered in the best era in its history. The huge war that swept through Europe disrupted normal production, especially when the capital of France and a large number of elite areas fell, in order to continue the war, the Entente could only reluctantly send huge orders to the United States, from steel, automobiles to airplanes, artillery, from military uniforms and military boots to food and soap.

The American businessmen, who sharpened their knives, ate these orders with their mouths wide open.

Of all the American consortia vying for orders, the Huntelaar consortium is undoubtedly the star of it. Driven by heavyweight products such as aircraft, tanks, and radios that were ahead of their time, Britain, France, and Russia ordered almost all of their products, and in just three months, they swept away the goods they had been squeezing for a long time.

And......

When the time came to November 1915, when the British, who had a deep industrial background, finally understood the technology of the first generation of tanks and aircraft and could produce similar products on a large scale on their own, the Germans suddenly introduced their own second-generation fighter and second-generation Huntelaar tank: a new product with faster speed and stronger performance!

A huge battle with 300,000 losses left both the British and the French green-faced.

The enraged British immediately approached the Huntelaar consortium and angrily questioned whether they had sold the latest technology to the Germans. In this regard, the head of the Huntelaar consortium, Lao Shenzai, led them to tour their factories and showed them the latest tanks and airplanes - similar in performance to those used by the German army, but different in appearance and technology.

And......

The person in charge took out the agreement signed by the two sides last year, and the agreement on restricting exports to Germany has long since expired.

Faced with the reasons of the Huntelaar consortium, the British were dumbfounded. Moreover, according to the information sent back by the intelligence officers from Germany, the tanks and planes of the Germans were indeed developed by themselves, and the main researchers were all Germans, but these people were all affiliated with General Motors and had worked in enterprises such as the Huntelaar Automobile Company in the United States......

The British guessed the catty inside, but they were helpless.

Moreover, the power of the new aircraft and tanks was too great, and the British, French and Russian armies were defeated on the frontal battlefield, and the British had no choice but to reluctantly accept the proposal of the Huntelaar consortium, buy a thousand planes and a thousand tanks with tons and tons of gold, and buy the patent authorization for their own production, and then ......

They collapsed to discover, and three days later a large fleet of ships arrived in their port. Hundreds of planes and tanks have already been loaded onto ships and sailed across the Atlantic, just waiting for them to sign an agreement to pay for the goods!

This appearance is really ugly!

Under the shameless persecution of the Huntelaar consortium, the British could only give up the idea of preparing to retaliate against them and cancel all orders for other products, pinch their noses and continue to order other products from the Huntelaar consortium, and continue to bear the huge and unrivaled production capacity of the Huntelaar consortium. Because they are finally afraid, afraid that these bastards will soon launch another generation of new products and give them to the hateful Germans.

In fact, they are not unfounded.

Because at the time when the Huntelaar consortium delivered the second-generation aircraft and tanks, the third-generation products were secretly produced at the factory, and the research and development of the fourth-generation products had already begun to be studied for three months......

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Also in 1915, East Asia was quiet for the first time in a long time.

The Japanese, who suffered a big loss, shrank their minions and began to desperately strengthen their own strength. The most important thing is to study your own planes and tanks. It's just that under the strong pressure of the Huntelaar consortium, Britain, France and other countries did not dare to risk providing them with relevant technology, and it was surprisingly difficult to rely on the Japanese to develop it themselves. Therefore, it can be expected that they will not have ten or eight years to produce heavy equipment that can compete with the Huntelaar consortium.

Without tanks and planes, Japan would not have the confidence to enter the mainland.

Relying on the huge amount of money invested by the Huntelaar consortium, the Beiyang government has built a modern army of up to 200,000. Regardless of their combat effectiveness, they were at least on par with the Germans in the European War, and in March 1915 they even had more than 600 tanks and 500 aircraft! And with the current strength of the Japanese Army, it will take at least one million people to compete with these Chinese troops, which they can never afford......

And more importantly, the Chinese continue to increase their strength!

God knows why, after the Japanese lost countless intelligence personnel, they only knew that after the secret envoy of the Huntelaar consortium came into contact with Yuan Datou, the Beiyang government began to purchase more weapons and equipment with tens of millions of dollars of the mining rights of a large number of minerals -- the large coal mines and other minerals discovered by the Huntelaar consortium in Shanxi, Mongolia, and Henan -- and hired a large number of West Point graduates to train them in modernization.

This time, the Beiyang government's action did not cause much opposition at home.

On the one hand, the buyers of these minerals are all domestic capital, although they are inextricably linked with the Huntelaar consortium, but after all, no one can say anything on the surface. On the other hand, following the opportunity of this large-scale military expansion, the Beiyang government also began to exert pressure and infiltrate the major forces in the south, which is indeed something worth looking forward to for many people who have seen the hope of national reunification.

Of course, there were many voices of opposition, but they were all forcefully suppressed.

The growing strength of the Chinese army forced Japan to be cornered, and it was impossible for them to abandon the mainland in a short period of time, so they could only desperately compress domestic industrial investment and other construction funds, frantically building their continental army, and then desperately found that as long as their opponent was not actually the Chinese Beiyang government, but the Huntelaar consortium that was so huge that Japan was desperate......

Without the oppression of Britain, France, Russia, Japan and other countries, Chinese mainland has also ushered in its own golden age.

Yuan Datou, whose personal prestige has greatly increased, has gained a firm foothold, and the Beiyang government, which has increased dramatically, has also stabilized its foundation. With the full support of the Huntelaar consortium, they began to slowly but surely transform and develop China. And under this relatively moderate rule, although there are still dissenting thoughts in those provinces that have not yet been truly unified, there are no more who dare to confront them openly......

What's more, China's industrial power began to grow dramatically!

Spurred on by the First World War, countless factories under the leadership of the Huntelaar consortium began to receive huge orders from Europe, and the relatively low prices also made Britain, France, Russia and other countries turn their attention away from North America. Coupled with the fact that the Bank of Huntelaar spared no effort to provide low-interest loans, as well as countless low-cost transfer of production technology and patents, China's industry began to explode!

The huge group of international students began to return to China one by one.

John's twenty years of preparation finally began to exert its power, and in 1914 alone, more than 11,400 students returned from Germany and the United States, and in the first half of 1915 more than 9,000!

And unlike in the other world, most of these people are industrial talents!

In the original history, although the number of Chinese students studying abroad was huge, most of them studied law, humanities and other majors, and only a small number of real scientific and technological and industrial talents. But in this world, John strongly stipulates that all international students who receive financial assistance can only study modern science or military and other majors, and only those who have money in their families can choose their own majors......

The same is true for the schools that have been built with domestic aid.

John doesn't care what the lack of humanities majors will affect the overall quality of students, anyway, there are many universities like St. John's in China that have such majors. Anyway, in the universities and technical colleges built by the Huntelaar consortium, there are only majors such as science, engineering, agriculture and medicine!

Countless well-cultivated talents have provided the driving force for the great development of China.

Even in China's most difficult agriculture, the Huntelaar consortium began to try to take the first step by building agricultural machinery companies, fertilizer factories, and buying land at high prices in China......

Everything is moving in the direction that John expects.

John had been preparing for this day for thirty years, and at the same time had prepared a huge team of more than one hundred and sixty people to control everything. Among these 160 people, there are more than 70 Americans, and more than 80 Chinese, all of whom are the most elite group after the start of studying abroad -- they are in their thirties and forties, and they happen to be the best candidates to carry out these plans......

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