According to his philosophy, he should have made Germany dare not declare war, even if Britain was destined to enter the war, and then Britain and France defeated Germany, France and Germany weakened at the same time, and Britain once again became the only great power in Europe.

But he must now satisfy the crown prince's purpose, so he can only let this war break out, and it will break out in three days.

In the past three days, everyone has been anxious, not the crown prince alone.

As in the 24 hours of the German ultimatum, international diplomatic contacts were intense, and each country had to determine the attitude of the other countries and then position itself for its own position.

As a super sideline force that has not yet joined the war, but is likely to do so, and is capable of influencing the situation of the war, China is bound to become the focus of diplomatic activities of various countries.

Although the crown prince had to publicly state that he would not extend the Sino-German alliance, the Germans still made a final effort and were willing to pay a lot of benefits to win over China. Among them, he was willing to support China's acquisition of French colonies after the end of the war. It is also willing to significantly reduce tariffs on Chinese goods and strengthen economic ties with China.

Britain and France are also courting China, France said that it supports China's seizure of Germany's colony of Mexico in the Americas, they treat the Aztec Empire under Leopold as a German colony, Britain endorses France's statement, and when China has successfully obtained the Miami base and entered the Atlantic, Britain does not care whether China will take Mexico.

It can be said that China does not have to do anything to take advantage of the crisis of imbalances on the European continent that Britain fears to gain overseas interests. But China had to go through a war to compete for interests that were not necessarily more valuable than those of these colonies.

is just to satisfy the crown prince's obsession with revenge on Britain, but Li Zhangtong still has to actively promote this.

He first stated to Britain and France, reiterating that China would not extend the Sino-German alliance treaty, but he did not say whether to obtain Mexico.

Li Zhangtong not only made his attitude clear to Britain and France, but also made his attitude public, openly declaring that China not only did not consider extending its alliance with Germany, but also would not consider any form of alliance after the end of the Sino-German alliance and during the German-French war. China will not get involved in a war in Europe, and calls on European countries to abandon this tradition of solving problems through war, and everyone can sit together in a civilized manner and solve problems through negotiations. He even proposed the idea of establishing an international organization to arbitrate differences between countries.

Li Zhangtong's attitude dashed Germany's last hope of extending the alliance, and although the situation on the battlefield was still favorable, the possibility of ending the war in the short term or establishing victory was very small.

Germany's superiority in strength was not absolute either, because France was doing everything possible to expand the size of its army when its manpower was exhausted. With the help of the British, the French government even re-established ties with the Kingdom of Quebec, a small country in the Americas ruled by Napoleon's descendants, with a population of 5 million and able to provide hundreds of thousands of troops. The government of the French Republic has always loved and feared the Napoleonic family. The love is that Napoleon is a symbol of the Revolution, and the fear is that Napoleon's descendants will make a comeback and overthrow the republican regime. Now he could not care about all this, and risked landing the army of the Napoleonic family in France again. At the same time, there were also armed colonial armies in Africa, and French North Africa, although not a densely populated area, had a vast territory, inhabited by Arabs, Berbers, and Negroes, and the total number of them exceeded 20 million. Britain and France even persuaded the U.S. government that it was possible to recruit volunteers in the United States. Large numbers of French people joined the army, either in response to the call of their homeland or in the Napoleonic army in Quebec.

France is almost mobilizing the forces at home and abroad that France has built up over the centuries to fight to the death. Germany expects that France will be able to arm two or three million troops from overseas to make up for the gap in strength with Germany. At least it would raise the French army from the current five million to eight million.

Compared to the overseas power of France, the overseas power of the British is frightening. Without restraint, the British were free to form overseas legions, and the number of armies they were able to form was difficult to predict. Because India alone was able to mobilize two million troops in the last war with China, and that was 30 years ago. With a population of 200 million, British India could arm seven or eight million soldiers, even if its mobilization capacity was not comparable to that of European countries. There is also British West Africa, which is not as large as French North Africa, but most of it is located in coastal areas, with relatively good hydrological conditions and a population of up to 10 million or 20 million. In British North America, in those years in the immigration competition with China and the United States, Britain sent a large number of people here, and now the population is as high as eight or nine million. British North America and West Africa combined, it is possible to arm a million people.

Therefore, once Britain entered the war, the Anglo-French forces would have absolute superiority over Germany.

Moreover, Britain's political influence has always been very large, and Britain has never been alone in European wars. He always managed to win allies, some even unexpectedly. In the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden, which had not fought for decades, joined the British side. After the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden fell silent again. It is difficult to say whether a country like Sweden will enter the war again once Britain enters the war.

Although the national strength has become stronger and stronger in recent years, it has completely pressed France, but due to geographical limitations, Germany's influence in Europe has always been less than that of France, let alone Britain. Under the joint instigation of Britain and France, Germany did not dare to guarantee that Sweden and Denmark would attack Germany from the north, Germany did not dare to guarantee whether Italy, which had always been pro-French, would support France, and Germany did not even dare to guarantee that Russia, a country that was still a behemoth after repeated shrinkage, would not attack Germany.

The German diplomatic establishment, without Bismarck as its backbone, seemed clueless and panicked. They simply did not dare to imagine losing China as an ally and facing the Anglo-French alliance alone.

Therefore, the German ambassador actively contacted Li Zhangtong at the same time, hoping to save the situation. Li Zhangtong's attitude is firm, and after the alliance is over, he will never intervene in the situation in Europe. At the same time, however, China pledged that before the end of the alliance, China will strictly abide by the provisions of the alliance treaty and fulfill its obligations under the alliance.

The situation has developed to such a point that in fact the Germans are already well aware that if the war starts in three days, China will help fight the war, and in three days the war breaks out, and China will stay out of it.

Moreover, through diplomatic communication between Germany and Britain, they were very sure that Britain would inevitably enter the war, unless Germany could suddenly withdraw its troops from France when it had already gained an advantage, accept the Spanish government to eliminate the Carlos regime, and continue to maintain a balance with France in Europe.

But Germany is not Russia, and it can't be like the tsar back then, knowing that the Russian army has occupied Berlin, but suddenly after the new tsar who worships Frederick the Great ascended the throne, he ordered the Russian army to turn its guns and pay allegiance to Frederick the Great.

The German emperor did not have such power, and if he dared to do so, the forces that opposed him would directly bring him down. When great sacrifices have been made and great superiority has been achieved, the army will be extremely dissatisfied, and the people who have been inspired by nationalist sentiment will not accept it, and they will start a revolution.

Germany has no choice!

That same night, the German ambassador summoned the leaders of the diaspora group and demanded that any German expatriates who had deposited their money in British-funded banks should transfer them to other banks as soon as possible, and that those who had business dealings with British capital should stop their business as soon as possible.

The Ambassador's explanation was to prevent Britain from freezing these assets in the event of war against Germany. The UK has already frozen German assets in the UK, and it is difficult to say whether they will even freeze the deposits of German expatriates in British banks overseas. The economic ties between the overseas imperial capital and the British power have not been interrupted and cannot be interrupted. It is impossible for German capital in China not to participate in the trade of Britain, China's largest maritime trading country, and many German capitalists are engaged in trade between British India and China, and there are even German-funded shipping companies engaged in triangular trade between China, India and Europe. They load goods from China, and when they pass through India, they unload some of the goods and then load the Indian goods back to Europe.

Once Britain went to war with Germany, these economic ties were no longer secure.

This explanation makes sense, since all commentators agree that Britain would go to war with Germany once the Sino-German alliance ended. During this period, Britain not only did not relax its pressure on Germany, but continued to increase the pressure, grabbed Belgium's neutral status, and constantly demanded that Germany withdraw from Belgium. Although this is impossible, the German millions of troops entered France through Belgium, and the withdrawal from Belgium made those armies do, but the British just held on to this impossible problem, and it was obvious that they had been preparing public opinion for war.

Therefore, the German diaspora community, believing the ambassador's account, withdrew their deposits from the British banks the next day and transferred them to the Bank of China or the German banks. Those who traded with India also quickly stopped trade, because it was impossible to get from China to India in three days, and after three days, there was a possibility that war would break out.

However, De Xuanlin, who was well-informed and sensitive to political issues, felt that the ambassador's attitude was different this time, and if it was only because he was worried that Britain would go to war and let the expatriates transfer their assets, then why not say it earlier.

Moreover, British banks abroad do not have the power to freeze the deposits of German expatriates, otherwise they will be punished by the laws of the host country, unless there is an absolute reason for the British to do so.

After thinking about it all night, he thought of the terrible possibility that it would not be Britain that would go to war against Germany, but that Germany would go to war against Britain, and that such a way of waging war would be very uncivilized, and would allow Britain to retaliate in an unconventional manner, including the extent that British banks abroad would freeze the assets of German expatriates.