On the busy construction site, bursts of singing are purifying.

"Green mountains, green fields, blue rivers; Fresh food, beautiful clothes, exquisite pavilions; Whose work, whose strength, the fruits of labor. ”

This labor song of the Republic of China resounded throughout the provinces of China, and this simple and cheerful melody can often be heard everywhere in the fields.

Work hard, work hard to produce.

This is the main theme of the seven provinces of East China, the working hours of workers have been extended, but the income has also increased, and it has increased exponentially, at this time the average profit of each enterprise has exceeded 40%, and it is still rising.

In such a golden age, it is natural to produce as much as possible, and the more money you make in this way.

Whoever made a fortune in this time of war was digging into the wealth of Europeans, the income items that Europeans now have, and the wealth that Europeans have eaten for hundreds of years.

At this time, the East China Autonomous Government had done everything possible to increase production on the exporter side, and was also overhauling the railway.

The number of railway workers alone has reached nearly a million, and the enterprises that produce steel rails and so on have even more workers.

Trade with the Allies continued, but the East China Ocean Company never allowed merchant ships to go to the Allies alone, but passed through the Atlantic in droves under the protection of destroyers.

In addition to transporting supplies to Britain and France, the East China Autonomous Government also sent supplies to Russia.

Russia was also very strong, placing order after order, and by April, Russia had placed orders of 300 million pounds, which Britain had loaned to Russia.

It's just a pity that the transportation system of the Russians is too chaotic.

Russia's communication and transportation to the front line was seriously blocked, and the railways could not bear the rapidly increasing transportation tasks. In the first four months of 1915, the railroad delivered only 81 per cent of the food needed to the army. Some wounded soldiers did not receive food or gauze for several days. Food was scarce in Petrograd, Moscow and other industrial cities, but in Siberia, the Urals, the Caspian Sea, the Volga and the Don rivers there was a lot of grain, meat and fish rotting. In four months, 10,000 wagons of spoiled grain were stored, and this is still in the case of cold temperatures, and as the temperature warms up, there will be more rotten grain.

Germany triumphed on the Eastern Front, not only driving the Russians out of East Prussia last year, but also by the beginning of the year, when Germany had invaded Russia.

With 1.7 million Russian casualties and millions of refugees left unsettled, the seeds of frustration began to sprout, and with Tsarist Russia's complete disregard for the lives of the lower classes, Tsarist rule was already in jeopardy.

Xia Jun looked at it and laughed, but he didn't know when the Germans would send Lenin back to Russia, and the February Revolution in history might become January, or March, or May and June, who knows?

However, Xia Jun is waiting to see a good show, which will be a great opportunity for China to regain its lost territory, and maybe it will be able to grab some Russian gold reserves at that time.

As for the Russian shipping, it had been blocked by Turkey at this time, the entrance to the Black Sea had been mined, and the Gallipoli War prepared by Churchill had also entered the stage of gaining momentum, and Britain had mobilized nearly 200,000 men to prepare to land on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

Prior to this, the Ottoman Turkish Empire had already handed over the order from the East China Autonomous Axe, and a large amount of war materials were transported from the Rashid Arab Kingdom to Turkey, because Turkey had opened up the connection with the Rashid Arab Kingdom, after all, the two places were so close to each other, and there was a later Syria in between.

The Battle of Gallipoli began in early May, when the British fleet gathered outside the entrance to the Black Sea and indiscriminately bombarded the Turkish batteries on the shore.

It's just that Turkey is ready, and their pillboxes cannot be destroyed even by naval guns.

At the same time, Turkey sent mine-laying submarines.

On 11 May, Carden was ordered to direct another naval offensive, but not to sail his heavy ships into it until the Dardanelles Strait had been cleared of mines. A sudden illness forced Carden to stay ashore and hand over command to his main assistant, John? Drobek, who re-attacked on May 18.

The strait has been swept repeatedly, and it is believed that there are no mines within five miles of the strait. Unbeknownst to the British, however, fifteen Turkish minelaying submarines had re-dropped a number of mines in and around the main minefields where the British fleet had stopped during the earlier bombardment.

On the way to the battery, all the Allied ships sailed safely through this dangerous place. Thanks to the support of the seaplane positioning, the Allies were able to dumb out most of the shore guns shortly after noon. While the French ships were retreating, the minesweepers continued to minesweep in known danger areas. Suddenly the battleship "Bouvet" shook a little, cracked, and spewed high columns of smoke and flames from the deck. It capsized as it continued its course, sinking to the bottom of the sea with its captain and six hundred and thirty-nine sailors.

The few survivors who floated up were rescued. Some observers on nearby ships believe that the Bouvet was hit by a Turkish shell, others believe that it hit a mine.

The support ships all drove up, and when they saw the Turkish positions with flashes of artillery fire, they launched shelling, and by 4 p.m. they had destroyed all the artillery groups.

Not long after, without warning, the British battleships "Irresistible" and "Indomitable" suddenly toppled and sank, and the "Ocean" followed in their footsteps. Admiral Drobek, fearing further losses, ordered all the surviving ships to return to the Aegean Sea. By the time the fleet crossed the Dardanelles, three more British battleships had large cracks in their hulls due to the explosion of mines, and they could only stagger along.

The Turkish Navy used minelaying submarines to lay mines overnight, causing heavy losses to the British fleet and causing the British to temporarily slow down their attack.

After a few days of repairs, the British attacked again at the entrance to the Black Sea, this time they were on deep guard against mines, but two cruisers still hit mines.

At the same time, the Turks are returning fire with artillery and blocking the entrance to the Black Sea with mines.

The British offensive was successfully stopped by the Turks, and the two sides were in a stalemate at the entrance to the Black Sea for almost a month. However, after nearly a month of defense, Turkey has almost exhausted its mines and one-third of its artillery shells, which is the result of purchasing war materials from the East China Autonomous Government.

If the British had continued to attack, it would have been clear that they would have been able to win and successfully open the entrance to the Black Sea.

But the British did not know the reality of the Turks, and after nearly a month of fruitless efforts, although the Entente wanted to resume the offensive, it was postponed, and later the plan was changed, and the troops landed at Gallipoli, and the navy was relegated to a secondary position.

Ian, who served as Chief of Staff to Lord Kichener during the Boer War? When General Hamilton was chosen to command the invading forces, the War Office in London decided to move the landing site to the Gallipoli Peninsula without drawing up a battle plan.

Hamilton received only cursory instructions, but there was little help on how to develop them into a cohesive campaign. He hurried to the eastern Mediterranean without the rear attendants, and all he knew for sure was to command an expeditionary force to invade Gallipoli and destroy the enemy.

The British had a vague idea of the peninsula, and Hamilton's full knowledge of his aims, from the 1912 Turkish Army Dictionary, an incomplete map of the area of operations, and a last-minute rush into the local bookstore to buy a travel guide to Constantinople, had not even chosen a landing site on the peninsula when he left London.

Not even knowing whether Gallipoli had water, Hamilton ordered his soldiers to go to the markets of Alexandria and Cairo to collect empty canisters, gasoline cans, skins, and any other containers. As in London, all the maps and guidebooks are bought, albeit inaccurate, and it's better than nothing. Due to the lack of weapons and tools for trench warfare, makeshift military workshops produced mortars, grenades, trenching tools and periscopes. Local donkey drivers and their livestock were forcibly requisitioned for transportation.

As a result of the failure of the Entente attack on the Black Sea, the Battle of Gallipoli officially began, and the Turkish army was well prepared, with a large number of advanced Chinese-made weapons in their hands, and the arms of the East China Autonomous Government continued to be shipped from Rashid Arabia to Turkey.

And in the African theater, Britain was defeated again and again.

In early January, Forbeck succeeded in opening up contact with German South-West Africa, and the German forces of the two places were merged into one, so that Forbeck's strength increased to 50,000 men.

In February, Britain decided to encircle and suppress the German army led by Falbeck in Africa, but this sounded the death knell for the 100,000 British troops.

Falbeck mobilized his forces in February, lured the British into the heart of Africa, and then launched a lightning attack on the British with heavy firepower.

As soon as the encounter between the two sides began, it turned into a one-sided slaughter.

The British army had few artillery and machine guns, and the German artillery and machine guns were numerous, and they launched a premeditated attack on the British army, so that the British army was directly routed under the heavy fire.

The collapse of the 100,000-strong British reinforcement in Africa gave the Germans in Africa plenty of time to prepare for war.

The German army led by Forbeck fought with the British in Africa, bringing a ruthless war to Africa, resulting in many widows and orphans, as well as burning villages...... However, no one cared about the lives of the African people, not only the Entente powers, but even more so the Central Powers.

But the German army in Africa had a very serious weakness, and that was the lack of troops.

In order to obtain sufficient troops, Forbeck accepted the inadvertent suggestion made to them by the East China Autonomous Axe, that is, to promise the African people to read the power in order to gain the support of the African people, so as to obtain a large number of soldiers.

Those blacks are not afraid of fighting at all, they have a stronger ability to adapt to the battlefield than other people of color, and they are very good soldiers.

Falbeck accepted the private suggestion of the East China Autonomous Axe, and began to make a vow to the blacks in central Africa, promising that as long as the African people supported Germany in defeating the British, then Germany would let Africa read and abolish all African colonies.

The promise of the German army was enthusiastically supported by the African people, and for a time the German army in Africa obtained a large number of troops, and the British navy was unable to blockade the African coast at this time, and at the same time, it was not within the scope of the blockade line.

The East China Autonomous Government also sold a large number of trucks and fuel to the German army in Africa, so that the German army in Africa began to have extremely high mobility.

In addition, the East China Autonomous Political Axe sold a large amount of grain to the African German army, which allowed the African German army not to rob the black people's grain, and could use this grain to buy the African people.

The Germans, on the other hand, began to attack northern Africa, where the British were weakly defended, in order to open up land communication with the Arab kingdom of Rashid.

The British colonies in northern Africa soon became vulnerable, and the Germans captured Kenya and the Horn of Africa, where Somalia was located, with a small number of troops, and captured large quantities of supplies.

The territory of Africa is very poor, not because the land is barren, but because Africa is not rich, and these territories can be easily abandoned, just like the places in German Southwest Africa and East Africa, which also created a lot of convenience for the German army, they only need to protect the place where the supplies are stored.

The Germans had abandoned some of the colonial defenses in order to gather their strength.

The two sides were fighting a sports war at this time, because both sides did not attach much importance to those territories, except for South Africa, which had a lot of gold and was the fat meat of the British to defend.

Forbeck knew that his strength was insufficient and that he would not be able to gain much from the South African army, which had dug trenches. Therefore, there was no excessive nostalgia in South Africa, but the British army was lured out and annihilated by various means in order to contain the power of the Entente. In order to increase the pressure on the British, Falbeck often sent troops to attack the weak points of the South African army, and then made a fuss about South Africa before retreating north.

South Africa's borders were relatively large, so Britain was unable to dig a trench on the border as it did on the Western Front in Europe.

Britain had to start paying attention to Africa, which was in a mess with the Germans, and if it was left unchecked, South Africa would be in great danger.

The Germans stirred up Africa like this, and Xia Jun felt the same.

The main purpose of supporting the German army in Africa was to support the self-respect, so that the British would inevitably increase their demand for supplies. So Xia Jun canceled the zero-profit aid to the German army in Africa and began to raise the price of materials to a normal level.

At the same time, Zhu Erdian protested to Xia Jun, believing that the East China Autonomous Political Axe was favoring Germany. Xia Jun's reply to this is that as long as Britain can afford to pay for it, the East China Autonomous Political Axe can also help Britain, and China is a neutral country at this time, and everything has to be done with money.

In this regard, the British political shackles were bitter, gritting their teeth at the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and on the other hand, they were afraid that the East China Autonomous Political Axe would attack the Allied colonies in Asia and cut off Russia's communication lines in Asia.

At this time, the Entente was completely unprepared, and the Entente did not dare to provoke the autonomous political axe of East China.

Once the East China Autonomous Government sent troops to cut off Russia's Eastern Railway, then Russia's lines of communication would be completely blocked, whether by sea or land.

The Allies' fears were not unfounded, and in their view, the close cooperation with Germany before the East China Autonomous Axe had allowed them to establish a well-established military industrial system. From the fact that a large number of arms can be sold to the Entente countries at present, we can see that the arms production capacity of the East China Autonomous Government is very good, and it is even higher than that of the United States.

Moreover, China is a country with a large population, which means that if the Entente does not place orders for the East China Autonomous Government, then these produced arms may be sold to the Allies in large quantities, or even directly participate in the war.

Once China enters the war, then Russia will be in a very dangerous position in the first place, and once Russia collapses, Germany and China may be linked, and then Chinese troops will be sent to Europe.

At this time, Britain simply could not stop placing orders for the autonomy of East China, and the attitude of the people was very clear, it was for money.

If you don't give him benefits, he won't give you a good look.

It was precisely because of the death hole of the Entente that Xia Jun dared to be so unscrupulous, but the money that should be stuffed still had to be stuffed, and Zhu Erdian received another huge bribe, this time the bribe amount was increased to 500,000 US dollars.

So a very strange phenomenon happened in Hangzhou, the two sides who were still protesting before were eating and drinking in the restaurant, and they had a good conversation.

Zhu Erdian told Xia Jun that he would clearly state the current situation to Her Majesty the Empress so that Britain could remain calm and behave right.

Xia Jun expressed his expectation.

Zhu Erdian then went back to England to report on his work, and his secret account had already deposited a large amount of bribes received in China, and according to the account books of the Bank of East China, the amount in the account reached nearly $1.8 million, which was really fat.

However, Zhu Erdian accepted bribes, and his pigtails were also grabbed by Xia Jun, these are all evidence of crime, once Xia Jun is shaken out, then Zhu Erdian will be severely punished by the British political axe.

…… When he returned to England and reported to the British Empress, he analyzed the situation in Asia and expressed his views.

"We must now encircle China's East China Autonomous Axe, although we in Britain want to let Yue Ben defeat the East China Autonomous Axe, but it is precisely so, we must encircle them, because they are now in the eyes of money, and they are still selling a large number of arms in the case of fighting against Yue Ben. If we don't buy these arms, then they might sell them to the Allies, or even use them to form a larger army against them, and if we reject them, I doubt that impulsive young man will declare war on our Allies. "So we must continue to increase our orders for them, at least on a par with the United States." That young man cares a lot about these orders, and if they can get a large order, then it means that we in England are willing to give them benefits, and they will not fall to the Allies, or even to our Allies. ”

The Empress of England was persuaded by what she thought of Jurdian, because it was so by reason.

Although the British Empress does not have much power, she still retains the power to declare war, pardon and other powers, and still has enough influence over the British cabinet.

The British Cabinet also agreed with this, because they had to be afraid that the young man would join the Allies and put Russia into a state of closed traffic if he did not get the benefits.

I can only say that it feels very uncomfortable to be caught in the dead hole.

(To be continued)