Chapter 558: Spiral (1)
After Yao Bang announced his resignation from all positions, British intelligence agencies found that all the officials of the Republic of China and the DPRK were nervous, and they were still very nervous. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The Times affair was not made up by the British intelligence agencies, but the Times' own choice, and Britain was surprised that such a result would occur.
Regardless of what others think of this issue, the British intelligence services did not foolishly hail 'we can overthrow the president of the Republic of China,' and commented in a confidential report that 'the pressure within the Republic of Korea is extremely great, and it seems that the path of the Republic of China from an imperial system to a republic is very dangerous.'
The British upper echelons did not dare to meddle in the affairs of the Republic of China, at least for now they do not have the courage to meddle in the affairs of the Republic of China. More importantly, on June 1, 1905, that is, Children's Day of the Republic of China. A German warship was launched. It was a battleship with a standard displacement of sixteen thousand tons, and unlike the British traditional five-gun turret, the German warship had a twin three-gun turret. Many of the Germans were pro-British or bought or controlled by the British, and the layout of the battleship surprised the British Navy.
The displacement of 16,000 tons is only a second-class battleship in Britain, but the two major technical points of the oil-fired boiler, steam turbine power system, and the Dreadnought-class battleship that is rushing to work on the British slipway at this time are all equipped with this Nassau-class battleship. The continued high speed of the warships of the Republic of Korea troubled Britain for more than ten years, and then the British had an epiphany and finally solved the problem with the ever-evolving steam turbine. Now it seems that the Germans also had an epiphany, and the British did not feel calm at that time.
The Germans did not know the internal evaluation of the British, and even if they did, they might not be genuinely happy. The production of Nassau-class battleships resembled the establishment of the German General Staff, which was the result of the brainstorming of powerful men in those years. Moltke the Elder kneaded together the latest ideas for the war that Germany could assemble at that time, and finally created the incomparably trendy thing of the General Staff Headquarters. The same is true of the Nassau class, and even now that the warship has been launched, there is a lot of controversy within Germany.
The Nassau-class battleships combined what had been copied from Britain and the Republic of China in the minds of the Germans, and at the present time in Germany, the policy of Africa was very confusing to the Germans, and caused far greater internal turmoil than the battleships.
Many of Germany's ideas and methods for colonizing Africa and managing Africa also came from Britain and the Republic of China, and Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and other places are not large, but the resources are quite cooperative. Germany's own economic crisis, and the conquest of North America by the Republic of China, when a large number of Germans who emigrated to the United States fled back to Germany. The final result was that a large number of Germans went to Africa, and the means of developing Africa by the Democratic Republic of China were used.
With the old-fashioned Germans and the advancement of local tribes in Togo and Cameroon, there are now more and more local junior high school graduates with German education standards, and the big black brothers have become urban workers or rural farmers. Togo and Cameroon graduated two hundred junior Chinese black brothers every year in the local infantry schools, and the German central government was stunned when they got the news. They had no idea that the local German colonial authorities would be able to play the policy copied from the East African administrative region.
"Just let this continue. We have learned that the East African Administrative Region already has 400,000 vigilantes in regular service, and how advantageous it would be for our colonies to have an army of this size in the future for African supremacy......"
"Are you going to create black Germans?!"
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Diametrically opposed reasons were all brought out, and each was convincing enough, and the second emperor Wilhelm II felt very embarrassed by this. Europeans who arrived in China during the Ming Dynasty considered the Chinese to be Caucasian, and when the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty in China, the British came to China on a large scale and found that China was already bad under the brutal Manchu rule, and after the Great Smoke War, they began to ridicule China as yellow. Yellow is considered a greedy, vitriolic color in Europe. It is only because yellow is a noble color in the eyes of China that it is accepted by China.
After the rise of the Republic of China, in 50 years, China has re-established itself as the great, rich, and civilized country that Europeans sang about hundreds of years ago. As a result, the idea that Chinese are actually Caucasian has once again become the mainstream view in Europe. In particular, the Jiangnan girls in China are far whiter than European women, and they do not have that layer of golden retriever on their bodies. This statement has been made more common to Europeans.
So the second emperor Wilhelm II, who was keen on racial theory, was very confused, if strength is proof of nobility, and nobility is consistent, then is China noble or low for a hundred years? If Africa develops in the future, will Africans be noble or lowly? It is difficult for European culture to escape the influence of Christian culture, China has not been a Christian civilization for thousands of years, and China has been the most powerful country on earth for more than 20 centuries. This made the German emperor find his theory difficult to justify. The German emperor has recently read a number of books on technology, and German evolutionists are more supportive of the idea that Africa is the birthplace of mankind. When I think that my ancestors may have been black people tens of thousands of years ago, whether it is white skin or black skin, it is simply the result of evolution to adapt to the African weather. Wilhelm II felt a pain in his head.
Just when the German Emperor was too embarrassed to say anything about the strengthening of Africa, the chamberlain brought in the news that 'the Italian colonial army had waged a fierce battle with Ethiopia'.
While everyone was attracted by this news, Wilhelm II looked very casual and said: "Let's continue to strengthen investment in Africa first." Send a trustworthy soldier to be the commander of Cameroon and other places. Send military observers to Africa! ”
This order reassured everyone around them that Africa was already able to build 5,000-ton merchant ships at this time, which was the credit of the Germans and the production capacity that Germany had. Whatever one might think of the colonies, Cameroon's increased industrial capacity helped to bridge the gap between Germany and Britain. This is definitely good for Germany. So everyone took advantage of Wilhelm II's performance to get off the donkey.
Militarily, the German General Staff Headquarters appointed Paul?? Feng?? Retoven Walbeck is the Commander-in-Chief of Cameroon. Politically, the Colonial Office invited Marx, who had been successful in Germany with "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". Professor Weber designed the model of governance for the German colonies in Africa. Although Marx?? Professor Weber is on the list of the German Ministry of the Interior, but even the German Ministry of the Interior borrows a lot from Marx?? Professor Weber's brilliant publications and ideas in the field of social management.
Neither the civilian nor the military rejected the official attitude, but their decision did not provoke the slightest repercussions. At this time, the war between Italy and Ethiopia attracted the attention of Europe, the Kingdom of Italy is the youngest country in Europe, and Ethiopia is an ancient country in the world, and it is still a Christian country. The war between these two countries is at least interesting.
Wang Mingshan's eldest son watched as the workers on the docks were loading things to his fleet, and the Italians next to him were chattering non-stop. "We will win!" "Can we win?" The Italian's words go back and forth between the two.
The Italian preparations for the conquest of Ethiopia caused a stir in Italy, with which the two sides began a war after the Italians landed in Eritrea a few years earlier. The Chinese have always had great respect for local African powers, whether they recognize the Zulu kingdom in Ethiopia or southern Africa. So the Italians are actually very nervous, just like the one next to him, of course, he wants Italy to expand its territory in Africa, but he is worried about the intervention of the Republic of China. After all, Ethiopia is on the edge of the East African administrative region, and generally speaking, everyone thinks that this place should be the sphere of influence of the Republic of China.
Wang Mingshan's eldest son was not interested in this, and his father Wang Mingshan and his Italian mother commented that 'the war would only promote the development of Italy's transportation industry'. In fact, Wang Mingshan's eldest son is concerned about the content of the Italian government's recent clamor that the Italian government wants to make the Italian steel industry develop rapidly, which makes the sale of high-quality iron ore transportation extremely good. Although Wang Mingshan's eldest son did not intervene in the export of minerals from Goa, the export of minerals from Goa was not within the scope of the Italians. The mineral transport fleet is not even more an area in which the Italians can intervene.
"We want to take a stake in your shipping company." After talking for a while, the Italian finally said what was in his heart.
"Nope." Wang Mingshan's eldest son objected almost instinctively.
"Why?" The Italians were puzzled.
Wang Mingshan's eldest son did not answer immediately, his fleet had changed from the original two ships to four by this time, and his friends with deep backgrounds got the money and almost semi-coerced to take a stake in the shipping company. Now these four ships do look like they are making money, but these four ships can transport 60,000 tons of iron ore to Italy in one round trip. Even at 55% iron, 400,000 tons of steel can be made a year, and if the number of ships is increased, it is likely that something will happen.
As a result, a week later, Wang Mingshan listened to his son's statement and told his son, "Go and tell the Italian that if he can afford to build a new ship, he can allow him to buy shares." ”
"Why?" The uncertain future puzzled Wang Mingshan's eldest son.
"Do you know the blast furnaces used in China during the Great Demolition of the North American War?" Wang Mingshan asked his son.
"Yes! I know. ”
"Do you know that there is a lot going on in China to build new steel mills? 10 for demolition and 20 for new construction. During the North American War, the domestic steel production was about 20 million tons per year, and I think that the steel production of the Republic of China will reach 100 million tons in 20 years. This is not only the direction of the people's dynasty, the whole world will move in this direction, and the transportation industry has a lot to do. Wang Mingshan made a judgment.
Without waiting for his son to say anything, Wang Mingshan continued: "I have submitted an application for retirement, you have to hurry up." ”
Wang Mingshan's eldest son was completely speechless by his father's statement, and he really couldn't understand why his father seemed to think that his retirement was a huge help.