Britain only tried to place an order for 10 Eagle 1 reconnaissance planes, apparently wanting to buy them back and study them, and most of those Western countries held this attitude.

Soon France also placed an order for ten planes, and even Yue Ben came to place an order, and Xia Jun still sold it to them, anyway, this kind of plane was bought by Xiao Yuben, and he waited to be a target when the time came.

Most countries are trying to buy a few to test them, and if they can, they will increase their orders or buy their own aircraft, while those countries that can still produce more aircraft are the current larger buyers.

Such an aircraft is far from meeting the requirements of your army and air force, and the East China Aviation Factory is designing a faster, farther and higher reconnaissance aircraft to equip the army and navy.

Among them, the navy's reconnaissance planes are mainly used to reconnoiter the coastline and focus on defending the navy, so as to be able to discover the navy in a timely manner when it is close to the coastline.

Both the army and the navy have certain requirements for the range of reconnaissance aircraft.

The East China Aviation School, soon a country came to negotiate the dispatch of the academy to study, this is the world's first pilot training school, and the hardware facilities are also the best in the world.

At this time, the air forces of all countries in the world have just started, and many countries have not yet started, and they either lack aircraft or professional pilots.

The East China Autonomous Government can sell them the most advanced aircraft and can help them train pilots with the most complete hardware facilities.

This provides conditions for some countries that do not have the ability to form an air force.

Of course, the tuition fee is not cheap, but this can only be regarded as a small amount of money for a country's defense expenditure, and this little money cannot afford to form an air force.

In addition to continuing to develop reconnaissance planes and bombers, the East China Aviation Factory is also developing passenger planes, transport planes, agricultural planes, and dive-torpedo bombers for the navy.

These projects were all started at the request of Xia Jun.

Since last month, the machinery and equipment shipped from Germany have been in a steady stream, and Xia Jun has not only changed the technology of the Germans, but also obtained aid loans from the Germans.

Most of these loans were invested in the military industry and shipbuilding, two areas that were very profitable in the First World War, because they were purchased by the belligerents.

The Allies imported a lot of their arms in World War I, and the United States was the largest arms manufacturer. In terms of shipbuilding, the German submarine warfare also hit the British fleet hard, and in order to maintain the needs of the war, the British could only continue to buy ships.

The industrial opportunity of the First World War was not only about the markets of the warring countries, but also about the colonies of those countries, because they were busy with the war and the domestic factories were out of business, and the markets of those colonies were suddenly blank, and these markets were either occupied by other countries or replaced by national capital.

Therefore, shipbuilding was very profitable, and not only the British would buy it, but at that time the factories were very profitable, and the transport industry would also be in dire need of a large number of ships.

Because of the arrival of German technology and equipment, Xia Jun's bullet production capacity increased from 100 million rounds per year to 200 million rounds, most of which produced bullets used by the British, French, and Russians.

The equipment needed for the new bullet used by the M1 Garand has also been handed over to the machine manufacturing factory, and Feng Ru is now basically eager to tear himself in half and use it as two people, a large number of machine manufacturing orders, and not very skilled technicians, so that he has little time to rest every day.

The Hangzhou Military Factory and the Jiangxi Nanchang Military Factory were also built one after another, and heavy machine guns, artillery shells, grenades, mines, blasting canisters and other weapons were successively put into the sequence of independent production.

Among them, the Jian'an military factory has begun to try to manufacture artillery, and the artillery manufacturing technology of the Germans has been obtained, although not the most advanced.

At the beginning of May, a production line for tracked tractors was also introduced from Germany to China, and the East China Autonomous Government Axe exchanged drawings for wheeled tractor production lines.

It seems that he has suffered a loss, but Xia Jun wants to use this tracked tractor production line to make tanks, and the tank research team is quickly formed.

At this time, the East China Autonomous Political Axe really had its own military industrial base, and Xia Jun was still strengthening the construction of the military industry.

In terms of shipbuilding, Wang Chengyi purchased two 10,000-ton docks and ten 5,000-ton docks in Germany, spending 150 million marks.

Xia Jun didn't care whether he bought a loss, anyway, the shipbuilding industry would have a golden period of development during World War I, so no matter how big the capital was invested at this time, it would be rewarding.

The reason why Xia Jun is crazy about loans is to be able to make a lot of money in World War I, and by the way, take this free ride, so that China's industry can enter a period of rapid development.

Recently, the first tranche of loans from the banks of the four countries has also arrived, amounting to one-tenth of it, that is, more than nine million pounds.

All this money has been invested in industrial construction, and for this 100 million pounds of planning, the shipbuilding industry will receive 50 million pounds, the military industry will receive 10 million pounds, the machinery manufacturing industry will receive 20 million pounds, the vehicle manufacturing industry will receive 10 million pounds, and the other 10 million pounds will be given to the steel manufacturing industry.

The zero-tariff policy with the United States officially began on May 6, and the U.S. Minister to China, Mo Doma, was transferred to the East China Autonomous Government to serve as the special ambassador to East China because of his relationship with the East China Autonomous Government.

At this time, although China said that Yuan Shikai's Yanjing political axe was recognized by the international community, the autonomous political axe of East China was also recognized by many countries.

Among them, the countries that recognized the legal surname of the East China Autonomous Political Axe included Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Russia and other major countries, and it was enough to have the recognition of these major countries.

After these major powers were recognized, other small and medium-sized countries also recognized the legitimate surname of the East China Autonomous Axe, so many countries have sent ambassadors or ministers to Hangzhou.

The United States, on the other hand, sent an ambassador who apparently placed the axe of autonomy in East China in a more important position, because they were attracted by the zero-tariff policy.

On May 6, the two sides did not release anything about this, and the zero-tariff policy began very low-key.

Behind this low profile, goods from the three autonomous provinces of East China began to pour into the United States in large numbers, and American goods also poured into China.

At this time, the goods of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region had achieved a good market in all provinces of China, and although there were still many foreigners competing with them, some of them had already been defeated.

Under the various means of striking and strong competitiveness of the autonomous political axe in East China, foreign goods from afar are gradually losing the Chinese market.

Among them, the textile and steel of the British have been completely defeated, and the textile industry of the British has been completely ruined, and the factories opened by me in this era are mainly in the textile industry and other industries with no technical surname, or they came to China to be bandits, drug trafficking, and so on.

Germany's products in China are mainly electricity, dyes, medicine, etc., but they are also being severely tested at this time, East China Pharmaceutical Company has gradually achieved the drug market in China, on the three provinces of East China, the region with the largest demand for drugs, its drugs have achieved more than 95% self-sufficiency, and there are a large number of new drugs exported abroad, for the medical department to earn huge profits, and then put these profits into medical care.

The Yankees' main merchandise was Mobil kerosene, but they had previously defeated the Russians' alliance of Baku kerosene factory owners in most Chinese provinces, which mainly sold kerosene to Outer Mongolia, Mongolia and Northeast China.

The East China Petroleum Company has already produced some kerosene, and once oil is extracted in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. kerosene market will cease to exist.

However, under the zero-tariff policy, the U.S. kerosene market should be able to support it for a while.

After the zero-tariff policy was implemented in each other, the United States tried to sell their steel into China in order to squeeze out the British steel market, and also tried to occupy the Chinese market in some daily necessities.

However, their calculation was obviously wrong, at this time, when the factories in the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province bought some things, they would mostly choose to buy national goods, because the members of Xia Jun's industrialists club controlled 50% of the factories in the three provinces of East China.

These members had a high prestige among the group of factory owners, and their appeal led to the formation of a large alliance of mutual support within the three autonomous provinces of East China.

When the price is about the same, for example, if a company wants to build a factory, it will definitely choose to build it by itself, rather than let foreigners build it. When the construction team who is hired to build the house buys building materials, they also choose materials made by the [***] family's factory. If the price difference is too much, it is natural to choose the goods of foreigners, otherwise the factory may lose money.

In addition to the factories, the people of the three provinces of East China now only recognize the goods with the trademark "Made in China", and basically do not buy goods without this trademark, unless they cannot be produced, or there is no urgent need for the surname, so they simply do not buy this thing.

As far as the three autonomous provinces of East China are concerned, these industries of food, clothing, housing and transportation can basically be maintained, while in other provinces, American goods cannot gain an advantage through zero tariff, because Xia Jun levies tolls.

Tolls were collected a few months ago as a precaution against the Yankees.

In this way, Chinese goods can enter the U.S. market through zero tariffs, and zero tariffs on U.S. goods are limited to the three autonomous provinces of East China.

On the other hand, Xia Jun organized the members of the Industrialists Club to start attacking the American market.

Among them, papermaking, textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and agricultural products are the main forces, and the transportation cost is consistent with the transportation price of German merchant ships because of the use of large-tonnage cargo ships.

The Yankees will soon realize their predicament, and even with zero tariffs, most of their goods will not be sold in the three provinces of East China.

(To be continued)