"The armored forces of the British have already gone to war? Do you have more information? Qin Kai, who was at Haitian University at the invitation of Cai Shaoji to participate in the school celebration, looked at the telegram in his hand carefully, and then turned his head sideways and asked the accompanying guard officer Hong Hai curiously.

Although China did not participate in the war, it was already in full swing, and the volume of European trade did not decrease, but increased sharply, and the whole of Europe was preparing for an unstable situation, not only for armaments, but also for unimaginable material needs...... But for Qin Kai, who is now the chairman of the party, he has a lot of time to do something he is interested in, and now Cai Shaoji's Haitian University, with its unique academic atmosphere and founding concept, has become a super-first-class university comparable to Nanyang University in China, which is the focus of Qin Kai's attention today.

Now Qin Kai cares most about the industrial field, in fact, many things have long been without his personal intervention, even the four major heavy industry military products, in fact, and Qin Kai almost did not care too much, the advent of the super dreadnought era, the only thing he intervened in was not the battleship at all, the fiercely competitive military industry, undoubtedly stimulated almost all the energy of the entire heavy industry.

Even some private shipyards have begun to get involved in the lucrative midstream and downstream industrial chains of the military industry, in addition to weapons and ammunition that cannot be produced due to the national security law, but the construction of military ships with good performance and low prices has even made the same level of the four major heavy industries feel huge competitive pressure, the emergence of this situation was expected by Qin Kai, but it seemed to be ahead of time!

As for the Navy guys, they all shouted. "All problems can be solved in one salvo! If not. Shoot one more round! The commanders of the front-line warships in the South China Theater had already taken aim at the new warships that were being launched in the shipyard and waiting to be outfitted. In order to ascend to the position of the commander of the supreme honor of the ultra-dreadnought battleship, there was no shortage of competition in private.

Of course, what Qin Kai is interested in now is that the industrial foundation of the French that Germany has completely destroyed, and the British tanks that appeared on the battlefield have no French figure at all, which fully illustrates this point, but the appearance of the British tanks also seems to have completely broken the original appearance of the old history. The shape of this MKA tank is quite similar to the first generation of tanks in the British Empire, but due to design defects in power and armor, it is more likely that it was due to a hasty withdrawal, so it did not use the power of the armored fighting vehicle at all......

"Chairman, the German Second Panzer Division under Major General Ulrich has completely annihilated the British First Panzer Division participating in the war, the battle loss ratio has reached nearly 1:10, the British tank combat effectiveness is very low, General Ludendorff's Third Army has cut off the French Dordogne defense line from the flank, the results of the military administration deduce that. The Dordogne Line has collapsed and will lead to the loss of the organizational ability of the French to dominate the defense on land! Hong Hai flipped through the documents he was carrying. The report of the General Staff was retold emphatically.

Qin Kai replied meaningfully, due to China's intervention, the situation of the entire European war has undergone earth-shaking changes, the German Empire originally fell into passivity, obviously there has been an essential change, once Germany defeats France's ground defense, I am afraid that what will change at that time is not only the war situation, but also the diplomatic situation may also undergo elusive changes, which is very beneficial to muddy the European war.

Of course, he does not need war, but war is undoubtedly the only way to obtain national interests in this era, and it will be an inevitable threshold for China's rise, but one thing is very clear, the most important responsibility of this government is to minimize the cost paid by the people and increase the benefits of the country.

Later, in addition to delivering a speech at the anniversary of Haitian University on continuing to open up academic freedom and strengthening patent protection in the field of science and technology, Qin Kai also donated 4 million yuan to Haitian University to set up a special science fund to support researchers engaged in research in the field of technology.

At the same time, Cai Shaoji also announced another surprising decision, Haitian University will reach an agreement with the Shanghai Bar Association to fully carry out the protection of scientific and technological achievements with the support of this special fund...... This news is undoubtedly a signal that shocked the whole country for Haitian University, which is now rich in academic atmosphere and research results.

Qin Kai's announcement at this time of this not very large science fund, naturally not improvised, industry and education have always been his most concerned things, with a full sense of foresight, he naturally understands that these two closely related industries, is not a system that can be quickly improved, even if China has made amazing industrial and educational achievements in the past thirty years, but in fact there is still too long a way to go forward.

The end of the steam age, the electric age is about to rule the world, but all this is inseparable from industrial innovation and educational innovation, since the establishment of the "China Education Foundation" at the national level, in more than ten years has formed a good trend of industry to feed back education, as the country's largest "China Education Foundation" scale, has grown from the initial 5 million national dollars, growing a super foundation across the country and even overseas territories, providing student assistance and living subsidies for nearly 1.7 million students every year, with an annual expenditure of more than 70 million yuan.

This is almost equivalent to 30% of the Beijing government's investment in education in 1909, which is undoubtedly an important social force to strengthen the domestic education industry, of course, more importantly, this huge source of social investment is almost entirely from the social fund collection and the return of the beneficiary groups over the years, forming an efficient student aid model that can continue to invest, and the experience of the China Education Foundation has spawned a large number of small-scale education funds for the benefit of one party in various places.

However, in the past few years, with the rapid rise of domestic industrialization, there are a large number of problems in the initial stage of industrialization, although a series of patent protection bills have been introduced during his tenure, but the vast territory and huge population have made the early patent protection unsatisfactory, and to promote technological progress, this is obviously impossible to bypass an important pass.

On the 27th, the decisive outcome of the battle on the European battlefield shocked the entire Entente. Admiral Falkingham arrived in Bordeaux by train from Paris and announced to the world that Germany had won a decisive victory on the Western Front, with nearly 800,000 Anglo-French troops on the Dordogne Line suffering a devastating blow.

More than 400,000 Anglo-French troops, of course, most of them French troops, have become prisoners of the German army, France has lost this defense line that runs through the north and south, has been cut by the German army into two divided territories that cannot act in unison, and the French government, which fled to Brest, has completely lost almost all of its industrial areas and more than 80% of its military strength.

The leader of the Republican Party and French Prime Minister Brian declared that he was responsible for the defeat and resigned as prime minister, while the leader of the radical Socialist Party, Ernest, took full advantage of the pessimistic situation of the remaining French territories and proposed more than a dozen measures, including the reintroduction of the American army and the recruitment of domestic men aged 16-60 into the army, which won the support of the majority of the members of the parliament and became the new prime minister of the coalition cabinet through a special proposal that month.

On his first day in office, Chancellor Ernest received a telegram from Prime Minister Asquith of the British Empire, hoping that the new French government in Brest would agree to temporarily annex the French fleet to the Royal Navy and accept the command of the Royal Navy......

The British had a big problem on the first day of Ernest's tenure, not to make things difficult for the French, now that the French mainland had been cut in two by the German sword, the French army had collapsed, and there was no hope of regaining victory on land, and the French fleet, which had been cut off in the Mediterranean port of Oran, although it had not yet become a turtle in the urn, was indeed not too far from this dilemma.

In fact, the powerful Italy on paper in the Mediterranean is now very ambiguous, although the Austro-Hungarian navy is not very powerful, but it is definitely not a soft eggplant, and there is the Ottoman navy that deflated the Italian navy earlier...... These were all potential enemies of the Entente, and it only took one of them to start sabotaging, dozens of torpedoes, to temporarily suffocate the French Navy in the harbor...... And this would most likely allow the Germans to seize French maritime power.

However, on the 29th, France still sent a note to Britain, the French Navy has its own honor, and it is absolutely unacceptable to be incorporated into the Royal Navy, and Ernest's cabinet put forward the so-called 1+2 combined fleet plan, hoping to assemble a combined fleet composed of Britain, France, and the United States, but France must assume the post of deputy commander of the combined fleet command.

Faced with the request of the French government, which did not have a single dreadnought, Prime Minister Asquith immediately gave a clear refusal, and at the same time made a clear warning to France that the Royal Navy would never allow Germany to capture the French fleet, otherwise, the British Empire would reconsider all aid plans to the French government!

The situation in Europe changed rapidly, and the German army occupying Bordeaux, the commander of Army Group, Lieutenant General Ludendorff, clearly saw the great combat power of the armored forces, and at the same time received the full support of the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, General Falkingham, and in just one week from September 27 to October 3, Germany launched an all-out offensive on the entire western territory of France. (To be continued......)