Since the Spanish government forces began to be unable to pay, the big broker de Pulin changed from a pacifist to a patriot, from supporting the Spanish government forces to supporting the Spanish government forces that kept the peace to supporting the Carlos regime, an ally of Germany.

In the face of the lucrative business of arms, De Zhulin was excited for a long time, but when the German-French war broke out, De Zhulin immediately became angry, because he found that such super large customers as Germany and France did not place orders with him.

And because of the war between Germany and France, the arms delivered to the Carlos regime by De Zhulin did not go so smoothly. Previously, he hired some smuggling ships in Europe, through brokers like him from various countries, to open up trade channels, and under the patrol of the Spanish Navy, he was able to enter and exit the ports of Carlos's forces without danger.

But after the war between Germany and France, the French navy took over the Spanish navy, and they began to blockade the coastline of the Carlos forces, and the French were not easy to deal with. So De Roulin had no choice but to smuggle himself off the coast of Spain in fast smuggling boats powered by the latest gasoline engines, or under the cover of night. These small smuggling boats, fast and shallow draft, do not need a regular port, and can be stranded directly on the beach, which is impossible to prevent, so that De Xuanlin's business can continue.

But at this time, this kind of lucrative arms smuggling has become more and more difficult for him to satisfy, because the arms accounts of Germany and France have been opened, this is a gluttonous feast, but the gluttonous feast, the participants can only be giants, and De Xuanlin cannot squeeze into the feast of this giant.

During the Spanish Civil War, the strength of both sides was no more than one million at its peak. Moreover, there are powerful countries that provide assistance free of charge, and there are not many arms purchases, with a total of less than two million rifles, less than 5,000 cannons, bullets and shells are consumables, many of which are directly attached, and there are arms dealers from other countries to share.

De Xuanlin snatched a large piece of it, and finally succeeded in delivering 300,000 rifles, 3,000 cannons, and earned more than 100,000 pounds in commissions alone, and performed extremely well, and he himself was very satisfied with his operation, but after the war between Germany and France, he was immediately dissatisfied with himself.

Because at this time, he found that China's military-industrial giants entered the market, and they disdained to carry out smuggling in a small way, and they negotiated directly with the governments of major countries. Who are the largest arms companies, multinational giants such as European companies and African companies, they have their own fleets, and even their own arsenals, but these are not the most important, the most important thing is that they can directly purchase arms from China's state-run arsenals, and these government-run factories generally only make government orders and have little dealings with private individuals, not at all like European arms companies such as Krupp that have been privatized.

Therefore, before that, De Xuanlin could only find some private machine factories in China to switch to the production of arms, and could not order from these large government-run factories, because the other party did not look down on them at all.

Due to the tens of millions of regular troops plus reserve troops, and the government's greater attention and sensitivity to military production, China has built the world's largest government-run military industry, arsenals all over the eastern region, the largest is the Jinling Arsenal in Pukou, the Shanghai Pudong Arsenal, the Fuzhou Mawei Arsenal, and the Guangdong Foshan Arsenal, these four major arsenals, which can not only produce guns and artillery, but also build warships, are comprehensive military industries. The number of workers in each family exceeded 10,000, totaling more than 200,000.

They are not only direct producers, but also contractors, and they usually use government orders to maintain their production capacity and use profits to carry out research and development of new weapons. In wartime, when the production capacity could not be satisfied, they immediately turned into contractors, subcontracted orders to private factories, or commissioned private factories to produce spare parts, and they carried out inheritance final assembly, or directly entrusted to private enterprises, and they supervised the process.

In this way, the four major arsenals were able to organize almost the entire Chinese machinery industry for the production of munitions, with unimaginable production capacity.

After the Franco-German war, some Chinese multinational companies quickly signed huge orders with the two countries, especially Germany, although the production capacity is stronger than France, but France has the full support of Britain, but Germany is more in short supply of arms.

Both countries are armed with armies that exceed the capacity of their industries.

In two months, France mobilized a total of 5 million troops, while Germany had 5 million troops in the first month, and after the second stage of mobilization, Germany alone had to equip 5 million men.

This is not a normal state, under normal conditions, the French army has a peacetime strength of about 700,000 people, and the number of trained nationals,

The total does not exceed 3 million. The military machinery of France is divided into three levels, the standing army, the reserve and the national reserve. Soldiers in the Standing Army serve for three years, then transfer to the reserve for eleven years, and then become a member of the National Reserve, as long as the state calls, they have to serve, because this is a responsibility that everyone needs to bear, this is the compulsory military service system.

However, since this system was first established after the Franco-Prussian War, only a generation has passed, and there are still a large number of soldiers of appropriate age who are no longer included in the reserves, who have not gone through the active, reserve, and national reserve stages, and have always been civilians, but they still have the obligation to serve.

So when France carried out a general mobilization, only active, reserve and national reserve soldiers were mobilized, and these were soldiers who had received military training and had served for a long time, and they could enter the battle with weapons and a little training. The final mobilization was the conscription of soldiers who had never served before, but in fact the combat effectiveness was very poor, that is, armed civilians, and armed civilians with limited training. Despite the cooperation of the main forces, these armed civilians paid a much higher casualty ratio than the Polish army, and it was only in defensive battles that they repelled the Polish attack. If this army is allowed to attack, I am afraid that it will be divided and eaten by the Poles in the maneuver.

Germany is similar, with a peacetime strength of about 700,000 troops, but in fact, the French army established a standing army according to German standards. Germany's compulsory military service system was implemented earlier, but due to the late time of German unification, the differences between the regions are large, Prussia is almost all soldiers, almost all the men in the whole country have military experience, North Germany is second only to Prussia, and Poland is about the same, but Bavaria and other kingdoms in South Germany have poor mobilization capabilities. However, the total number of trained troops in Germany is still more than that in France, which has nearly 3 million trained population, and Germany has more than 4 million.

However, due to the rapid technological innovation of weapons in recent years, all countries have accumulated a large number of old arms, and the choice of these old arms is similar to that of changing the front-loading rifled rifle to a breech, but only for training purposes, and if you use these weapons in war, you will lose the war.

However, after the full mobilization of France and Germany, the military industrial productivity of the two countries, and even the entire industrial system, the source of raw materials, can no longer meet the demand, and the arms gap in France is at least two million, and in Germany it is even more, as high as four million.

France produced part of its own production, and Britain aided part of it, and was basically able to barely sufficien, but Germany could not. Germany has established a mobilization mechanism for soldiers, but at this time, countries did not have an efficient industrial mobilization mechanism, so even if the entire German industry was mobilized to meet the equipment supply of the German army, it would not be mobilized for a while. In addition, both France and Germany face a shortage of raw materials.

After France lost Alsace and Lorraine, coal and iron resources became scarce, coal was even imported from Germany, iron ore was imported from Britain and Sweden, and it was necessary to import it in peacetime, and it was even more scarce in wartime, even if it squeezed out civilian raw materials, the supply in wartime had dropped significantly, because Germany did not have the ability to blockade the French coast, but had the ability to blockade the Baltic Sea, and Sweden's high-quality iron ore could not be transported to France, and Swedish iron ore was the best quality raw material used in military production in Europe.

As a result, after the two countries went to war, they both coincidentally purchased arms directly from other countries, France mainly purchased from Britain and also purchased part from China, and Germany purchased from Austria-Hungary and part from China at the same time. After the second mobilization of the two countries, Britain and Austria-Hungary could no longer meet their gaps, and they increased the scale of purchases from China.

So the European company took the French order to send arms from the Mediterranean to France, and the arms were quickly transported to the Black Sea by rail, and then the European company was loaded and shipped to France; It would be simpler to supply arms to Germany, the railway could go all the way from China to Berlin, and even if necessary, the arms train could go directly to the front. And it was the National Railway Company that operated the Sino-European railway business that procured arms for Germany.

However, not all of these arms are produced by China's government-run arsenals, and due to their geographical advantages, the Ural Arsenal, which has a relatively strong military production capacity, is operating at full capacity, and transporting arms from here to Europe can not only save freight, but also save time.

In addition to direct weapons and equipment, many industries will profit in the war, especially those that are dual-use goods. For example, China's four major overseas companies began to use their own fleets to send strategic materials to Europe during the war.

Australian companies continue to transport high-quality iron ore from northern Australia to France and Germany. African companies provide large quantities of medicines to both countries, mainly for the treatment of infectious diseases such as malaria and for the treatment of trauma. The American Company purchased saltpeter from Chile and supplied Germany and France in a steady stream, and due to the British blockade, it directly bypassed the north of England and entered Germany from the North Sea.

Because of the existence of these giants, brokers like De Xuan Lin are not even able to serve his homeland, which makes the patriotic De Xuan Lin angry, and he believes that these giants have deprived him of patriotic power.

In addition to the Chinese giants, the American business tycoons also seized the opportunity, DuPont provided gunpowder to Germany and France to make a fortune, Carnegie provided steel for the two countries to make huge profits, except for the belligerents, almost all other industrial powers found the opportunity to make a fortune from this war.

This made De Xuanlin feel unusually anxious, what else could these giants not do, and what opportunity could he seize?

At this time, he saw some news in the newspaper that the conflicts between China and Britain were becoming more and more frequent, and De Xuanlin felt that if a war broke out between China and Britain, he would be able to make a difference.