At this time, in Britain, the United States, France, Germany and other countries, it is common to see some Chinese hiring technicians, especially for shipbuilding and machinery manufacturing technicians, Chinese are offered high salaries.

The salary is not ordinarily high, about 20% higher than the monthly salary of those skilled workers in their home countries, which is indeed a big temptation for those skilled workers.

These recruiters were from the Ministry of Trade, and they had been doing so for months, for which they had recruited nearly 3,000 technicians.

These technicians were sent back to the factories in the three provinces of East China, which greatly solved the contradiction between the shortage of skilled workers and the rapid expansion of enterprises.

At the same time, in the three provinces of East China, many technical schools have been opened. In addition, the East China Autonomous Government has recently sent nearly 3,000 educated personnel to the United States for internship in American factories.

Most of the factories these workers went into were arranged by Tana, whose father was a major shareholder of U.S. Steel, and Tana had recently acquired factories related to shipbuilding, military and machinery manufacturing.

Because Tana got a hint from Xia Jun, who told her that the war was coming.

At this time, the arms race in the countries of the world is about to reach its peak, and the countries have long expected that war is inevitable, and military spending is getting higher and higher.

In this atmosphere, many people can keenly smell the smell of war, but people are not too clear about when war will break out.

Whether World War I could happen was not something Xia Jun was concerned about.

It was a world war that took place mainly in Europe but spread to the whole world, and at that time most of the countries of the world were involved in this war, and it was one of the most devastating wars in European history.

In order to unify Germany and compete with France for hegemony on the European continent, Prussia fought the Franco-Prussian War with France in 1870-1871. The war ended with a great defeat for France, a complete victory for Prussia, and the establishment of the German Empire. The Franco-Prussian armistice was a very harsh treaty, which stipulated that France ceded Alsace and Lorraine to Germany and paid an indemnity of 5 billion francs. As a result, Germany and France were at odds.

From this moment on, the seeds of war were planted.

As in the Second World War, the main reason for the Second World War was the huge reparations that France had made to Germany, and from that moment on, the seeds of the Second World War were planted.

After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussian Chancellor Bismarck feared French retaliation, so he adopted a policy of alliance to besiege France. He had originally formed a "Triple Emperor's Alliance" between Germany and Austria-Hungary and Russia, but later Russia had a conflict of interest with Austria-Hungary at the Berlin Conference in 1878 over the Balkan issue. Germany finally chose Austria-Hungary as an ally in 1879, concluding a secret German-Austrian alliance with Austria-Hungary. In addition, Bismarck turned to an alliance with Italy, which faced isolation because of its defeat in the 1881 struggle for Tunisia in North Africa because of a conflict with France over colonial affairs. Therefore, the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy concluded the "Triple Alliance".

When Russia learned that Germany and Austria had signed a "German-Austrian alliance," Russia was very angry. But Bismarck was a sophisticated politician. In order to maintain good relations with Russia, a "Reinsurance Treaty" was signed with Russia in 1887. However, when Bismarck stepped down in 1890, Kaiser Wilhelm II allowed the treaty to be terminated. France, on the other hand, formed an alliance with Russia in 1892 after it financially supported Russian industrialization. It was for the "Franco-Russian alliance".

Britain, on the other hand, signed a "Good Faith Agreement" with France in 1904. This agreement is not a military alliance. It was an agreement to settle the dispute between the two countries over the colonies. At the instigation of France, Britain and Russia finally ended their colonial dispute in 1907 and signed the "Anglo-Russian Understanding". In the same year, France, Great Britain, and Russia, threatened by German power in the Ottoman Empire, formed the Triple Entente.

Europe has since been divided into two camps, so that any disturbance could turn into a world war.

Even if the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince, Archduke Ferdinand, had not been assassinated, the trigger for the First World War would have always been there.

Because at this time, whether it was the Entente or the Central Powers, the arms race between them had made the two sides feel that it was difficult to ride a tiger, and at the same time, the huge contradictions could no longer be resolved through negotiations.

Whether it is the hatred between France and Germany, or the conflict in the overseas colonies, or the rise of Germany in the transportation industry, etc., it is doomed that only a war can solve the problem.

The outbreak of war depends only on whether the two sides can continue this ever-increasing military competition. When neither side can afford it, or one party can't afford it, any small incident can become a fuse.

Therefore, Xia Jun is not worried that the First World War will not happen because of his appearance, and he is still working hard to prepare for this war.

There is nothing going on with China in this world war, and the only thing that may have a conflict with China is the book. In other aspects, Xia Jun only needs to make a fortune from the war.

Naturally, he didn't have much reservations about Tana's guidance, this chick's belly was made big by him, even if the Abrot Group is not his own, the future will be his own son or daughter.

Tana, who got Xia Jun's guidance, called back to the United States and asked her father to take out a loan of her shares, and also follow the same development route as Xia Jun.

Who said that...... It's smartest to do business with other people's money.

…… Germany, inside the Military University of Munich.

A lieutenant [***] officer is talking about the role of sniper warfare, and this lieutenant [***] officer is the person sent by the East China Political Axe to Germany to help establish a sniper school.

"Sniping is to make the enemy pay the maximum price at the minimum cost, which is also the fundamental purpose of training snipers. Snipers often carry out orders such as designated sniping, patrol hunting, destruction of non-hard equipment, patrol and vigilance, and fire support. If the enemy were to make an attack, and their officers were suddenly shot with pinpoint accuracy, the enemy's attack could be delayed or even terminated. If the sniper destroys the enemy's transported ammunition in the enemy's rear, then the enemy's front-line soldiers risk not getting their hands on the ammunition and will be routed......"

After the [***] officer explained, there was warm applause below.

The Germans attached great importance to the establishment of a sniper school, and not only sent Chinese officers to teach at the University of Munich, but also selected a large number of hunters and forest keepers from all over the country to establish a sniper school with the assistance of instructors sent by the East China Autonomous Government.

The sniper instructors sent by the East China Autonomous Government have extremely high professional qualities, and they are very advanced in disguise, combat skills, and combat thinking, which has also won the respect of the Germans.

Of course, the Germans also paid for it, which was 10 million marks, which was not too high, but it was just a lecture, which was already very high.

In terms of sniper equipment, the Germans even purchased 500 Type 09 semi-automatic rifles (M1 Garand) from the East China Autonomous Political Axe to equip these snipers.

However, the Germans were able to produce their own optical sights and did not need to buy them from the East China Autonomous Government. In terms of optical sights, Britain, France and the United States were unable to produce scopes that could be used as sniper rifles.

At this time, Germany had already obtained a lot of advanced combat weapons from the East China Autonomous Political Axe, such as MG08/15, BZ-26 light machine guns, 'Heavy Hammer 1' bombers, 'Eagle 1 reconnaissance planes', and submarine drawings.

The East China Autonomous Government also obtained a lot of basic industrial technology from Germany, such as the production technology of artillery, artillery shells, machine guns, and torpedoes, and also bought more than a dozen docks and some shipbuilding technology from Germany, and even asked for an aid loan of 400 million marks.

It's a win-win partnership.

The Germans don't care about the market anymore, they naturally clearly understand that war is inevitable, and they have not reacted to the loss of the Asian market, they are more concerned about the development of military technology.

Particularly noticeable to the Germans is the military concept of motorized units and sniping, and they really can't understand why the Chinese have such a leading concept?

But it is undeniable that the East China Autonomous Axe is a very different kind of Asian power, and they are rapidly rising, which has been clearly realized by the Germans.

…… The Ghawar oil field, the world's largest oil field in the eastern Rashid Arabia, about 500 km east of Riyadh, came at this time a group of drillers.

When they arrived at the area marked on the map, they immediately found several places where oil was bubbling and the oil was not black.

This means that this is a light oil, which is not only easy to transport, but can even be used directly in the engine, although this is very damaging to the engine.

The drilling team of East China Petroleum Company began drilling the next day, but what they did not expect was that as soon as they drilled a few meters, oil gushed out from the ground.

Everyone was stunned!

What kind of oil field is this, it's just a few meters deep!

At this time, the East China Petroleum Company did not even know how many reserves there were in this field, they just came here to drill according to the orders from above.

While the drilling team was drilling, the other side was already laying oil pipelines.

By this time, the Rashid family had occupied most of the Arabian Peninsula, and the Saud family had retreated to the northwest.

It's a desert area and there are very few oases!

As soon as you control most of the area, the mercenary group did not move on, but returned to the Arled, where they were stationed to protect the oil extraction.

The Rashid family began to turn their attention to the management of internal affairs, and they won so quickly that most of the things were not settled.

However, this does not prevent the East China Petroleum Company from extracting oil.

Only half of the 100,000 tons of grain that were last delivered to the Rashid family were used, and Rashid Arabia now had a population of 1.8 million.

The war has wreaked havoc on production, and the Rasheed family had to start cleaning up the mess after the ceasefire broke the settlements established by the Saud family.

In order to maintain their rule, the Rashid family had to send food to the East China Autonomous Government.

(To be continued)