Chapter 136: Snakes and rats at both ends
It's a very busy dock, and cranes are lifting bags of hemp, which are full of goods. Next to it are several cranes, lifting containers.
Workers are busy on the docks, and the ashore containers are transferred to the trucks, which then drive away. From time to time, trucks bring containers to the terminal, and then a crane lifts the containers behind the trucks onto container ships.
The whole pier looks very orderly and vibrant. Fix couldn't wait to get out of the submarine, looking at the scene in front of him and looking a little confused.
"What is this place?" Fix got up to the dock, breathed in the fresh air outside, and asked the German beside him.
Fix was a German engineer who designed warships and commanded warship construction, both of which he did, but he was now a battleship designer and had not been in charge of field command for a long time.
By this time his homeland was already in the middle of a war, and the Navy did not currently plan to create a new battleship, so he was sent to China.
On the way they were in a very large submarine, which was packed with people, and the situation was terrible, although it was well supplied.
"I don't know what this place is." The Germans around him didn't know where they were, but when they looked into the distance, they saw a long desert.
"This could be the Middle East! It's still early in the Far East! A technician who had some research on geography looked around and guessed the area slightly.
While people were debating whether or not they had come to the Middle East, a young German man took off his hat and waved it on his head, and ran up to him, shouting: "Good news, guys. We can finally get away from these damn submarines. We can do a big passenger boat to the Far East, and I heard that the rides on it are very complete. ”
"Oh my God! Is it? ”
"Great, fuck the submarines, we've had enough, it's literally transporting African slaves."
"Hey, man, it's not that exaggerated."
At that moment, a whistle sounded in the harbor, and a huge passenger ship sailed into the harbor, and the Germans couldn't help but cheer at the sight of the big cameo that sailed into the harbor.
This port was a port in the southeastern part of the Rashid kingdom near what would become Yemen, and near Qalbiyah, it was a port used by the East China Autonomous Axe, or a disguised concession.
At this time, the Rashid Kingdom was basically under the control of the East China Autonomous Axe, and after many negotiations with the Rashid family, the East China Autonomous Axe obtained the right to command the army and garrison the army in the Rashid Kingdom.
In the future, the army of the Rashid Kingdom will be handed over to the East China Army to train and command operations, and the East China Army can station a division of troops in the territory of the Rashid Kingdom to protect the safety of oil fields and oil pipelines.
The only price is that the East China Autonomous Government will provide one million tons of grain to the Rashid Kingdom every year, and at the same time, the East China Autonomous Axe will help the Rashid Kingdom develop the oil refining industry.
This time, the East China Autonomous Axe used this hidden port in the Rashid Kingdom, which has a long and narrow peninsula that extends out, which is very suitable for concealment.
However, these large submarines could not pass through the Suez Canal and still had to go around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, but this has saved a lot of distance.
Goods sold to the Central Powers were shipped from China to Rashid, and then from Rashid's harbor to be loaded onto submarines, which were loaded with cargo and supplies and sailed for Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
Since Austria-Hungary did not have coastal ports, goods were shipped to Bulgaria. Bulgaria tended to turn to Germany, because Bulgaria wanted to regain the territories lost in the Balkan War.
The technicians hired from Germany got out of the submarine on the land of the Rashid kingdom and got on a large passenger ship and sailed to China in the comfort of a passenger ship.
The gold and silver in the submarines were temporarily stored in the barracks, waiting for the arrival of the navy's escort fleet before being transported back home.
Compared to the Allies, the Entente were more profitable, but if they wanted to get more orders from the Entente, they had to make the Allies fight fiercely on the battlefield.
Xia Jun began to study closer submarine transport routes, and he soon set his sights on German East Africa and German South-West Africa, which would later become Tanzania and Namibia, respectively.
Namibia in Southwest Africa was naturally more convenient than Tanzania, but historically, only the German army in Tanzania survived and defeated a total of 300,000 British [***] troops and 130 generals with no more than 12,000 troops, resulting in 60,000 casualties, including 20,000 war dead.
The German army in Namibia was defeated by South African troops in 1915, and then the whole territory was occupied by South Africa.
Despite this, Xia Jun absolutely provided support for German East Africa and German South Africa in terms of war materials, and if they could open up the situation, then Xia Jun could send submarines over.
If they can't open the situation, it is still acceptable to make a transit at Rashid's port, just pay more points for transportation.
However, the premise is that you still have to consult Germany's opinion, after all, Xia Jun does not trade at a loss, and these materials have to be bought by the Germans, and it is impossible to give them away for nothing.
In order to achieve his goal, Xia Jun was willing to provide Germany with war supplies in German East Africa and German Southwest Africa at cost price.
With such a favorable price, I believe that Germany will not refuse.
…… The German side soon received an offer from the East China Chamber of Commerce in Germany, and this time the East China Chamber of Commerce proposed that it was willing to support the German troops in Africa at cost price.
Germany was now trying to bring the war to the whole world in order to reduce the pressure on the European theater.
The proposal of the East China Commercial Pavilion was in the hands of Germany, and the two sides hit it off, and Germany soon signed a trade order with the East China Commercial Center, in which all the war materials in the order were to be shipped to Africa and handed over to the German army in Africa.
Anyway, it's the cost price, and Germany also bought more.
As long as the flames of war can be raging in Africa, Germany does not care about the money.
At the same time, the East China Chamber of Commerce began to sell to Germany a fighter plane, the 'Eagle 3 Combat Reconnaissance Aircraft' that could carry a machine gun in front of the aircraft.
This kind of reconnaissance aircraft has a high speed, as well as good operation ability, and the machine gun is mounted in front of the aircraft, which can easily shoot down enemy aircraft from the sky.
The German army on the European battlefield was suffering from the indiscriminate bombing of the Allied bombers at this time, although Germany ordered a lot of bombers from the East China Autonomous Political Axe before the war, but after the war began, the Entente also began to order bombers from the East China Autonomous Political Axe that were not inferior to the number of German bombers, and the number of bombers had begun to surpass Germany.
At this time, in addition to ordering bombers from the Junkers Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Germany ordered bombers from the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company's manufacturing plant in Germany.
But the speed of production was not as fast as that of the Entente, and at the same time, the East China Autonomous Axe was also selling bombers to the Entente.
This made the Germans on the front line suffer a little loss, but the German bomber force had a huge advantage, that is, the Germans had the Kunpeng 1 bombers sold to them by the East China Autonomous Axe, which allowed the Germans to send such planes to bomb French cities.
The Entente did not yet know that the Kunpeng 1 bomber was made by the East China Autonomous Government, and they thought that this kind of aircraft was made by Germany itself.
When the Germans first heard that the machine gun of the plane could be installed in front of the aircraft, they felt incredible, there were propellers there, what should I do if the bullet hits the propeller?
The German authorities immediately decided to buy a few to try, and as soon as Germany placed an order, the next day the East China Aircraft Factory handed over the Eagle 3 combat reconnaissance aircraft to Germany.
Germany was overjoyed after experimenting with this new type of fighter, and did not expect that the East China Aircraft Factory had installed a wonderful device to solve the problem of coordination between the propeller and the machine gun.
For this reason, Germany immediately purchased the patent for this technology from the East China Aircraft Factory, and on the one hand placed an order with the East China Aircraft Factory, and on the other hand, handed it over to the Junkers Aircraft Factory, so that the Junker Aircraft Factory could also develop fighter jets.
Xia Jun did not object to Germany's act of handing over aircraft orders to Juncker, and he gave German fighter planes just to get more aircraft orders from the Entente countries. After all, how could the Entente buy new ones if they didn't lose their planes?
The so-called old does not go, and the new does not come.
"You're so bad." Li Shijing knew Xia Jun's intentions and said to Xia Jun with a smile. However, Li Shijing was still a little worried, and asked: "Since Germany is definitely going to be defeated, then our actions are so big, we must not be able to hide it from the Entente, what should we do after Germany is defeated?" ”
"We are neutral, as long as our fist is big enough, what can they do with us? If they make a move, they will not be able to protect their colonies in Asia. Xia Jun said confidently, in fact, he dared to be so unrestrained at both ends of the snake and mouse, and even secretly helped Germany, which itself did not take Britain and France and other Entente countries in his eyes.
By the time this world war was over, the national strength of the Entente would be weakened. After defeating the city in Shandong, China will take the place of the city in Asia, and then it will be time to regain the lost territory, and the next step will be to seize the colonies of the great powers in Asia.
In this day and age, a big fist is the boss.
As for dropping the atomic bomb! That's too unrestrained, and it doesn't meet the conditions, after all, taking out the atomic bomb now, there is no way to explain it later.
Although Xia Jun can afford the atomic bomb now, it doesn't make sense. And as soon as the atomic bomb comes out, is there still a war to fight?
The Chinese team needs the experience of war to forge the glory and confidence of being proud of the world, and it is obvious that winning the war with the atomic bomb cannot do this.
If Xia Jun is in a hurry, he doesn't mind putting an atomic bomb for other countries to taste. The exchange platform that Xia Jun has at this time has put him in an invincible position.
Therefore, Xia Jun did not intend to hide the trade with Germany for a long time, this could not be concealed at all, the Entente had intelligence personnel in Germany, and the East China Autonomous Government continued to transport war materials to Germany, which would soon be detected by them.
(To be continued)