Chapter 835: British Hole Cards

Between Britain and France, it took 6 hours to reach an agreement, Raymond left, contented to leave, but left a part of the liaison officers, whether it is the Mediterranean fleet, or to open a new battlefield in France, and fight to the death with Germany, it will take a lot of work, more than a million troops and 100,000 tons of navy to cooperate with each other, I don't know how much.

The war was too sudden, that is, after suffering losses one after another, Britain and France thought of establishing a liaison officer system, if this system had been established in advance, at least Britain would not have been so miserable, and a million troops crossed the English Channel to support France, but because they were confused, they just ran into Germany's roundabout army, and they were defeated and retreated, and almost annihilated.

Therefore, whether it is the current French army or the British army, there are special liaison officers, who are responsible for coordinating the deployment of the two armies and the confirmation of targets, so as to prevent the recurrence of the previous situation.

Henry is the prime minister, of course these things don't need him to deal with, naturally there are people under him to take over, put down his eyes, he has read sixty years, he feels slightly tired, Britain against Germany, set off this war, before the war, it seems to be all counted, but after the war, all kinds of accidents, one is that the Germans are like chicken blood, crazy attacks, pressing France to fight, seeing that Paris is going to be lost, and the Mediterranean Sea in the south is also frequent twists and turns, has been sitting on the wall, Italy, which is on the left and right, actually dared to make a move against France, and even won the war.

Once powerful France, even after the Napoleonic era. France, which has always followed in the footsteps of Britain and is the second most powerful country in the world after Britain. But it became so weak, Henry knew it well. How much water did the French mentioned, a million troops, and how many of them were blacks, who had been urgently mobilized from the colonies, could they really resist the wolf-like Germans?

No, Henry hastened to banish this thought from his heart, no matter how weak France may be. They must all support the French with all their might, without France in front, Britain must independently resist the Germans, the Germans who have gone crazy are absolutely terrible, if he occupies France, after integrating the industry and population of France, it will become even more terrible.

A document was placed in front of Henry, and Henry was stunned for a moment. When I looked up, it was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who had not left after the talks. His gut told him that it wasn't a good thing, and sure enough. The Foreign Minister brought up the situation in East Asia, especially between the Northwest and Japan. Through the ambassador to Japan, I got first-hand information about Japan's experience in Qingdao, which specifically mentioned the basic strength of the 89th Division. The past results also highlight the process of this battle.

In particular, he mentioned the encounter with the Northwest Army and the late-night blockade battle, and finally, there was also the advice of the Foreign Secretary, who was very optimistic about the next outcome of Japan, and that he must plan for the East Asian crisis as soon as possible to prevent the Northwest from becoming bigger.

Henry's head hurts even more, and it is another uncertain factor, in the outbreak of the European war, similar uncertainties emerge one after another, especially in Asia, the Dutch colony of Borneo, the matter of millions of Chinese has not yet been solved, and now there is a war between Japan and the northwest.

Rubbing his aching temples, Henry looked at the report in his hand, did not speak for a long time, but his eyes fell to the northwest, this name, in the past two years or so, began to appear in the British field of vision, but from the beginning of the appearance, it has never been good news, this is a powerful and mysterious guy.

In China's great northwest, in the midst of a barren desert, China has risen quietly, and God knows who helped the northwest build such a huge industrial base, or a full range of categories, which can produce almost everything that the industry can produce.

The Germans, from the very beginning, this idea was removed from Henry's thoughts, and in any case, what the Germans demanded was colonies, global domination, and the contradictions between the British were but irreconcilable contradictions between the Caucasians, and the meeting with the Northwest and the yellow races, which were completely different things. Henry believed that Wilhelm II would not be so short-sighted, but who but the Germans?

Napoleon attached great importance to China, and once mentioned that China may be a sleeping lion and is unwilling to wake him up, which Germany should also be very vigilant about, who did it, and what is the use of supporting China.

I have to say that Henry is a very talented person, and he sees the problem very accurately, Germany will indeed not help China, especially the poor and backward, not even a little help China, during the First World War in history, Germany did not have any other ideas about China except in China, Qingdao lost to the Japanese, even the Entente countries imported a large number of materials and introduced a lot of workers from China, but Germany did not act, which means that China at that time did not enter Germany's field of vision at all.

From this point, Germany's vision is very high, but this life is different, with the emergence of Yang Yuanzhao, almost from scratch to solve China's industrialization problem, to put it bluntly, when China has a certain strength under the premise, Germany will inevitably pay attention.

Germany under the suppression of Britain, under a very difficult situation, now China suddenly appeared, in the way of cooperation, under the situation of two benefits, Germany will not refuse at all, a large number of basic industrial raw materials, especially the emergence of tungsten concentrate powder, directly make Germany unable to refuse, high-precision military industry, need tungsten concentrate powder, and then, from military supplies to civilian goods, and even military transactions, are what Germany needs the most, and can not refuse. In fact, for Germany, the connection with the Northwest has gained much more than it has lost, and the transaction between the Northwest and Germany, in many cases, is only to strengthen Germany, so that Germany can go further in the First World War, without simply considering economic benefits, because of this, the relationship between the Northwest and Germany has become closer, and the twists and turns, if not one by one, not to mention that outsiders are not clear, even some high-level officials in Germany and the Northwest are not very clear.

Seeing that Henry didn't speak, the foreign minister was a little anxious, and hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, what do you say?" The northwest must be restricted, otherwise Malacca ......"

Henry glared at him, he didn't know the situation in Malacca, Asia has been eroded to this situation, not to mention the power of East Asia and China, Malacca, the British spent a lot of effort to finally get the sea transportation hub, may be threatened by the northwest, the Chinese on Borneo, how did they come, the British only found out through the Netherlands, it was a large farm set up by the Germans at the beginning, and they couldn't figure out how it went up so much, but in this era, the relationship between countries, How can it be enough to rely only on real evidence, and sometimes there are doubts.

Before, because of the German offensive, there was no time to care about Borneo's intelligence, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs filed it, and conducted a simple analysis, and reported it to Henry, whether it was the analysis of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Henry's intuition, it was unmistakably pointed to a country. In this world, capable of sending millions of people to a small island thousands of miles away in a short time, I am afraid that few people can do it, Germany is one, and China is another, and Germany does not need to go to Southeast Asia to stir up trouble, under the premise of facing war, besides, it is the Chinese who are still transported.

Then the benefits of this matter have left the Chinese, then the organization and implementation are only in the northwest, as for the north and south of the Beiyang and the revolutionary party, in Henry's view, there is no courage to challenge the authority of the British Empire, only this sudden rise of the northwest, from unheard of to famous in the world, only a few years of time, the rise is so fast, far above Japan, Japan is also in the United States with warships to open the door of Japan, after humiliation, in the Meiji Restoration embarked on the right path, Rao so, 1895In 1906, after defeating the Qing and Russia in two wars, they stood in this position.

The Northwest is faster, defeated Russia in 1911, without the slightest stop, just two years later in 1913 defeated Japan, the rise of the speed is staggering, the British intelligence department increased the intensity of investigation, only to find that at present, most of the light industry products and some drugs in Europe and the United States, almost all from the Northwest manufacturing, in just a few years, the Northwest from scratch, actually in the Far East, created such a big foundation.

It's a pity, with a long sigh, Henry knows that the rise of the Northwest is indisputable, even if it is impossible for Britain to block the rise of the Northwest, because Britain itself has been dragged into a state of war, not to mention that it is too late to know, even if it is known in advance, what can it be, in the face of Germany's aggressiveness, he may not be able to do much better, once the Boer War, but England will always be hurt.

What to do, you can't just let it go. For a long time, Britain has relied on traveling between countries, and this means of coordination and provocation has been used very smoothly, but at this moment, it is a little unsure of what to do, and the situation is in danger of collapsing.

Seeing Henry frowning, the foreign minister next to him suddenly said: "Prime Minister, why don't you contact that side and see how the situation is!" ”

The foreign minister pointed his hand to the west, in the west, in addition to the Atlantic, there is only the United States on the other side of the Atlantic, Henry knows very well what the foreign minister is going to do, this is all along, Britain has been preparing for the backhand, from the decision to start with Germany, Britain not only in the armament, strengthen the preparatory work, on the other hand, is also pulling in another country on the other side of the ocean, the world's strongest industrial country United States. (To be continued......)