On the 8th, as a special envoy of the Chinese side, Cai Ye secretly called on Admiral Moltke, chief of the German General Staff, and in addition to bringing a secret piece of information allegedly from Beijing, he also informed the German side of the news of the adjustment of the Chinese advisory group, and the Beijing Military and Political Department appointed Colonel Duan Qirui to take over as the chief officer of the advisory group in Germany, and he was to go to the port of Hamburg the next day to return on a Chinese warship.

In fact, the German side did not care much about the personnel adjustment of the Chinese officer corps, and the tank tactics handed over by the Chinese side to Germany were the key, and after less than half a year, the German General Staff had obviously fully accepted the construction from China, especially the tank tactics were of great help to the mobility shortcomings of the Schlieffen plan, which also surprised the idle Admiral Schlieffen.

However, the military views of this Chinese envoy Cai Ye made the German side more willing to ensure military cooperation with China, after all, Germany's largest military force abroad must rely on China for protection after declaring war on Britain...... Soon, Cai gave the German side a very satisfactory reply.

Two days later, after boarding the destroyer Shangqiu, which was on escort duty from the port of Hamburg, Cai immediately began to sort out his military gains in Germany, and at the same time, he relayed his views on the "Schlieffen Plan" to China via the ship's radio, although it seems that Germany has made full use of the information provided by the Chinese side, and it can be said that the raids through Belgium and Luxembourg have been very successful.

The French army was given less than 10 days to adjust, and according to the intelligence statistics of the Intelligence Division, the commander-in-chief of the army, Marshal Xia Fei, had already drawn up the "No. 17 Operational Plan" against Germany. But. The French apparently had some confusion about the situation. The stubborn old French man was clearly optimistic about his cards.

However, the five army groups arranged by the French on the German-French border fortifications had a total of only 80 field divisions, but the army that the Germans threw into the attack on both flanks had exceeded the size of 100 divisions according to the current plan, and according to his understanding of the German staff and the movement of front-line troops, the German army did show a very high fighting quality.

So. He made a very clear judgment that since the German troops stationed in Belgium did not play any role in delaying the opponent, the French side would take advantage of the short time difference to mobilize the main forces to the border line between Belgium and France, and such a large-scale field battle was obviously not able to complete the position arrangement in a moment, so the Bordeaux area would be the first point of attack...... As for the final decisive battle between the two armies, he stood in front of the map and saw at a glance the focus of the two sides - Paris!

What worries Cai even more. The scale of this European war has completely surpassed the scale of any war he knew before, even the battle-hardened Chinese army. The largest war was only a local war against Siberia, and the opponent came back in that big war, and the huge army became a burden, and the Russians had poor logistics, so that the war had not started and had fallen into defeat.

He sent a telegram back home, and he also cautiously expressed his opinion that the European war was about to become a meat grinder war, and that both sides were armed with a staggering number of machine guns and artillery, which was a complete nightmare for infantry assault, and more importantly, it was a war for Europeans at all.

The destroyer Shangqiu set sail on the 11th to escort 12 Chinese merchant ships to the other side of the Atlantic, and at noon on the 14th, Cai's telegram was already on the cabinet meeting stage of the Beijing Prime Minister's Office, and the Ministry of Military Affairs obviously fully supported the viewpoint expounded in this telegram, and the European war was a European war, and the Chinese army should only protect the dishes on its own plate.

Of course, for the interests of the surrounding areas, the Ministry of Military Affairs did not hesitate to come up with an operational plan codenamed "Snow Wolf", which is not only a cross-border combat plan, but also includes a Central Asian instigation plan secretly promoted by the Intelligence Department, including a plan to continue to provide military training and equipment assistance to the Kazakhs.

In addition to upgrading the Panama base to the largest overseas military base except for Hawaii, the Ministry of Military Affairs has also planned to establish a permanent military base in North Australia to ensure China's interests in North Australia.

Although according to the Sino-British Panama Canal Memorandum, it promised to open navigation rights to Britain, the United States and other European countries, but it is obviously under control, which is also an important reason why the US government has always wanted to negotiate with China on the Panama Canal.

The current military strength of the Chinese Navy, at least in terms of the strength announced to the outside world, is very different from the shape of more than ten years ago, because since 1998, the four major heavy industries are almost all exported foreign orders, and the navy has built all test ships, although since the dreadnought, the navy has already entered the era of dreadnoughts, but the actual real service of dreadnoughts, only 4, in addition to 6 Xia-class, business-class quasi-dreadnoughts, 2 Qin-class battle cruisers.

On paper, the battleships of the Chinese Navy, including the Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Dayu ships that have been grandfather-level, are only 13, 5 battle cruisers, and 15 other main cruisers, and the number of destroyers is huge, and this is also an adjustment made in order to strengthen overseas escort missions in the past ten years, and as many as 90 Shanghai-class, Kunlun-class, and the latest Tianshan-class destroyers have been put into service after modernization and modification.

However, the Ministry of Military Affairs has never announced to the public that the four high-speed battleships and four Han-class super battleships in the top-secret plan are being built at full strength on the slipways of the four major heavy industries, and in addition, 30 new Tianshan-class destroyers built by the four major domestic heavy industries and private shipyards are also being delivered to the navy one after another...... However, the entry into service of the battleships promoted will be at least until the end of the year!

Therefore, the heavy task of maintaining peace in the Pacific Ocean fell on Lu Han, who had already been appointed commander of the Nanyang Theater, and all the trump cards in his hands were only four dreadnoughts, and it may also be mentioned that the aircraft carrier formation of the Navy that had entered service, although there were only two active aircraft carriers in Jiangsu and Shandong, the more important trump card was obviously the invincible naval tradition of the Chinese Navy.

"Jiangnan Heavy Industries, Northern Heavy Industries are outfitting Chilean Dreadnought-class battleships, German Battlecruisers, we believe that we can propose to the two countries to suspend the delivery, transfer to the Nanyang Theater, in addition, I build yì four major heavy industries should go all out to technology Guangzhou-class battleships, in addition, we plan to continue to bid for the construction of small tonnage Tianshan-class destroyers from major private shipyards, the number of construction is 60-80 ships, in addition, in order to cope with the defense ...... of the port"

Xu Shoushan, who was born in the navy, is obviously confident about controlling the situation, but he also understands the urgency of rapidly strengthening the naval armament, and the advantage of holding the Panama Canal is definitely comparable to the effect of a large fleet, but the United States on the other side is not a fuel-efficient lamp, although the military confrontation between the two sides since the Cuban crisis has long been alleviated, but in fact, the Americans are rebuilding the navy like dumplings, and the most direct competitor is undoubtedly China!

After his speech came to an end, Zhou Ruidong took out a report from the official document next to him and handed it to him, he grinned after reading it, immediately came over and muttered a few words, and then put the report into his briefcase.

Tang Shaoyi's next speech naturally did not leave his profession, although the country's financial spaciousness has made the Minister of Finance a lot fat in the past two years, but the level of this guy is more prosperous......

“…… In order to ensure the effective supply of wartime materials, I have drafted a report on the increase of provincial auditors, planning to recruit 500 personnel from among retired military officers, non-commissioned officers, and graduates of academies within three months, to conduct random inspections of products purchased by state-owned assets, and at the same time ask local police stations and courts to cooperate in cracking down on those illegal businessmen! ”

"The military must allocate full-time officers to ensure the quality of military products purchased by state-owned assets, and if it causes the loss of state-owned assets, the Ministry of Finance will deduct it from next year's appropriation, and at the same time ask the Ministry of Military Affairs to hold the Ministry accountable......

“…… There are too many loopholes in the budgets of various ministries and commissions, and the Ministry of Finance plans to carry out a special inspection in September to crack down on the behavior of indiscriminate expenditure of funds......"

Although Beijing has invested heavily in clean government, the intelligence department directly under the cabinet, the clean government department directly under the court department, and many lines such as the Baath Party's internal supervision are staring at the officials, but in fact, there are many wrong places to spend money below, and a large part of them is not intentional.

The most prominent is the construction of investment promotion industrial parks in various places, this kind of local government-led investment, greatly promote the competition in adjacent areas, but also means a lot of risks, which naturally also caused a lot of obvious losses of state-owned assets...... The inspectors sent by the big money lord Tang Shaoyi to various places will naturally not let go of the mistakes of the local government in these aspects!

However, soon the bigwigs of the major ministries and commissions reached a tacit understanding with the rich man of Tang, and when Zhou Ruidong picked up a top-secret document with a red label on his hand and was about to announce it, the guard officer outside hurriedly came in and came to him and whispered to him: "Prime Minister, British Minister Bauer asked to meet you immediately, and he said that he must be able to meet you now!" (To be continued......)