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The diplomatic efforts of the Chinese government have not been interrupted, with Britain, with France, with the United States, etc.

The French attitude was the first to be reversed, they needed penicillin, tanks and planes, and the Chinese government explicitly gave up its support for the anti-French forces in northern Vietnam to ensure the security of Indochina. In the Far East, in fact, the enemy that the French feared most was Japan.

After several negotiations, China offered penicillin and tanks on the condition that it would sever relations with the anti-French forces in northern Vietnam. The French ceded Cao Ping, Lao Cai and other places in northern Vietnam to Chinese administration, and the anti-French forces in northern Vietnam were naturally eliminated or pacified by the Chinese army. At the same time, China and France also negotiated tariffs and reached an agreement.

With Russia, China and Russia reached a commercial and trade agreement, which solved a big problem for Russia, which was short of materials during the war.

In view of the outstanding performance of the Chinese military, the U.S. government also changed its attitude, and the suggestion of Minister to China Reinsch was heeded.

"We spend millions and tens of millions of dollars on some of the least important countries in Europe, and we are very stingy with China. As a result, the Chinese government was left alone against Japan. We should give China a strong help, and now, in fact, as long as the United States sends a part of the navy, it can defeat Japan...... Completely remove Japan's military threat to Guam, the Philippines, Midway, and other places. ”

The U.S. government certainly doesn't take the risk of sending its navy to fight Japan, but they have their own way, which is to lend money to China. According to the agreement, the United States will provide China with four loans of up to $200 million in a year, and this news has shocked other powers, especially Japan, and even called this year "the year of American loans."

The German government was also very concerned about the Sino-Japanese war, and was particularly interested in the "wolf pack" tactics of the Chinese Navy's submarines. In order to alleviate the pressure on the Pacific, they naturally hoped that China would continue to hold on and attract the attention of the Japanese.

The Japanese government has fallen into isolation, especially since China and the United States have cut off exports of steel, pig iron, coal and other minerals to Japan. Britain and France are also negotiating with the Chinese government to acquire the technology to manufacture aircraft and tanks.

Moreover, Japan's financial situation was further deteriorated by the war at Tsingtao, and the great powers were too busy with the war in Europe to support them at all.

As early as the Warring States Period, Sun Shengren pointed out: "Where the method of military use, gallop thousands of cars, leather cars thousands of times, bring 100,000 armor, and feed grain for thousands of miles." The material of glue paint, the dedication of car armor, the daily cost of thousands of gold, and then the division of 100,000 yuan. ”

In modern parlance, it is logistics that fights wars. Logistics is the material base, the economy, and the money! Whether the war is real or not, everything is money. If you don't have money, where did you get the 100,000 teachers!

Some people say that the Gulf War was a victory for the dollar, but if you look at the valuable missiles, what was thrown into the Gulf was not thousands of tons of new scientific and technological gifts, but countless bundles of dollars!

In fact, war is really like this: the real contest is the economy and national strength. Which army can hold out to the end depends on nothing else, economic strength.

China cannot say that its economic strength has surpassed that of Japan, but in recent years, it has borrowed money to develop and secretly hoarded materials, and after the outbreak of war, it was far more prepared than Japan. Now with the aid of the United States and the secret support of Britain and France, although it cannot completely defeat Japan, it has an advantage in staying power.

Japan, on the other hand, was in a difficult situation both internally and externally before the war. Huge expenditures, heavy taxes, high debts, depreciating currency, and the people's living standards are deteriorating day by day. After the outbreak of the European War, the Japanese hailed the "Heavenly Opportunity" and fell into an unsustainable embarrassing situation because of the Chinese government's toughness and defeat in the war.

The war lasted less than a month, and the Japanese government had already spent all the recurrent and special expenses of the army and navy for 1914.

However, the annual interest payment on Japan's debt has reached more than 70 million yen, and this figure is still increasing, and there is no expectation of improvement. The country's foreign exchange and gold reserves are only 222.8 million yen, which is only the minimum warning line for maintaining currency stability, and there is no realistic basis for further domestic debt issuance.

Although Japan's industrial base is stronger than China's, it still needs the cooperation of resources to play a role. The Chinese government's total embargo, disguised sanctions by the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries, coupled with the rising prices of resources caused by the war, made it difficult for Japan to import resources from other countries.

Japan's diplomatic isolation is also severe. At present, all countries believe that Japan is the troublemaker of East Asia, and that they do not want to fulfill their sacred obligations between the Entente countries when they are in the Great War in Europe, but are bent on seeking hegemony in East Asia! None of the great powers will support them, and in the dark or in the Ming capital they hope that Japan will dispel its arrogant attempts and truly choose peace!

Even Britain, a country with which Japan has traditionally had friendly relations, expressed dissatisfaction with Japan. Because Britain and France desperately wanted the Japanese Navy to be able to deal with the German camouflaged warships, the Army should rush to Europe to fight the Germans and support the Anglo-French forces in an unfavorable situation.

Of course, if the Japanese army could quickly win the battle of Qingdao, they would have pretended to be deaf and dumb and would not have braved such a big fire. Moreover, in the eyes of the British, China was also one of the potential Entente countries, and a protracted war between a real Entente member and a potential Entente member was something they did not want.

More importantly, they need Chinese supplies, especially penicillin and the manufacturing technology of aircraft and tanks. And China has completely cut off its foreign supply on the grounds of war. Of course, on the international black market, the Chinese made a hard profit.

The United States, on the other hand, was even more explicit, rejoicing at the emergence of a friendly country on the other side of the Pacific that could restrain Japan.

Deputy Secretary of State Lansing issued a public statement on behalf of the US Government, saying that the Japanese Government's move is very regrettable, and that the protracted war on the other side of the Pacific has seriously hampered the realization of the traditional US policy toward China and has also exposed the US West Coast to a possible threat of war. With the situation in Europe developing to such a point, such a threat from outside the West Coast is impossible for the United States to accept.

The Japanese government finally discovered that the current war situation was completely different from that of the Russo-Japanese War, when it had financial and material support from Britain and the United States, and now these two countries are supporting its enemy in disguise, China.

China's preparations for war were obviously beyond the expectations of the Japanese. Not only did an armored division appear in Qingdao, but also in the northeast, and an armored brigade even rumbled into Mukden to deter the Japanese from changing their movements.

Moreover, the news sent back by Japanese intelligence officers made the Japanese government finally decide to end this war, which was very likely to turn into a protracted war.

True or false, the news was that China, or the United States, was secretly negotiating with Britain and France, and that Britain might have to give up some concession privileges or some German colonies north of the equator in the Pacific in exchange for China and the United States declaring war on Germany.

There is also more definite news about the Chinese government's attitude towards the war. Even if Japan forcibly occupies Qingdao, the Chinese government will not acquiesce or stop, but will continue to mobilize troops and carry out military operations to recover Qingdao. At the same time, submarine warfare will also be expanded, striking at all Japanese ships on the surface of the East China Sea.

Since the beginning of the war in Qingdao, the Chinese government has been resolute and tough. Japanese businessmen in China have not been violently harmed, but the boycott has taken a heavy toll on them. The factory could not recruit workers, the goods could not find buyers, the supply of raw materials was cut off, and the cash of the Zhengjin Bank was also exhausted.

The sanctions outside the battlefield also came as a surprise to the Japanese, forcing them to re-examine the aftermath of the war and their diplomatic strategy and approach to China's emerging government.

True and false news, as well as the defeat in the battle of Qingdao and the continuous loss of ships, the Japanese government could not sit still. Since the conditions for an all-out war against China do not exist, it has become a more reasonable choice to end this stalemate as soon as possible.

The most urgent task at the moment is to transfer escort warships to form a southern fleet to seize all the German Pacific islands north of the equator, including the Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, and Palau Islands, as well as Yap Island, the undersea telegraph and communications center in the Pacific region.

At the same time, it is necessary to temporarily show a gesture of reconciliation to China, so that it can make use of China's resources nearby, operate industrial machinery, and make a lot of war profits.

Of course, a war for revenge against China is inevitable, but that should be for the future. It should be admitted that at present Japan does not have the strength to carry the war to the end, and a war that drags on will be a lose-lose outcome in which no one will benefit.

What did Japan enter the war for? Isn't it just to predict that the Entente will win in the end, and to consider that it would be easier to capture German possessions than to capture British, French, Russian, and other possessions?

However, if the war ended in such a result, someone would inevitably come forward to take responsibility, and Shigenobu Okuma naturally became a scapegoat. According to Kazuo Furujima, the Okuma cabinet is not good at all, it is just the minions of bureaucrats and warlords, and nothing can be achieved without the snort of friends in Yangshan Prefecture.

In fact, the greatest expectation of the elders for the Okuma cabinet was to suppress the political friendship association and solve the problem of the unpopular army addition of two divisions.

With the outbreak of war in Europe, and the fact that the senators already had more suitable candidates to achieve their goals, they saw no need to put the brakes on the collapse of Okuma's cabinet. Forced by the elders, Okuma decided to resign and was replaced as prime minister by Takaaki Kato, but was rejected. Subsequently, the governor of North Korea, Terauchi Masatsuki, became the prime minister and began to form a cabinet.

At the time of the change of government, Japan declared a unilateral ceasefire with great speed, and then almost immediately withdrew its warships and remnants of its army off the coast of Shandong, and expressed to the government in Beijing through Britain and France their sincerity in negotiating a settlement of the dispute between China and Japan.

At the same time, the Japanese Navy established a "Special Southern Detachment" and a "Second Southern Detachment" consisting of the battleships Katori, Kashima, and Satsuma, and the battlecruiser Kurama, and carried the army to the German Pacific islands north of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, and by 19 October had occupied all the predetermined targets.

Whenever the Japanese army occupied a place, the Japanese flag was erected and a military administration was established in that area, as if it had been regarded as Japanese territory. When they occupied Saipan, the largest island in the Mariana Islands, the Japanese even enshrined the "main god of Keizu" enshrined in the shrine in the warship on the island, and built the "Katori Shrine" near the former German lighthouse.

The fighting in Qingdao subsided for the time being, there was no official declaration of war, and there was no official truce, and the war ended in such a strange ending.

However, this war had a tremendous impact on the development of China and Japan, and China took advantage of the war to arouse anti-Japanese sentiment among the people, and adopted a comprehensive embargo against Japan, boycotted Japanese goods, and also ruthlessly cracked down on Japanese espionage activities in China, especially in Shandong and Hebei, and repatriated nearly 1,000 people to China.

The victory of the war made China jubilant, countless people poured into the streets to carry out victory parades, countless people tore their throats and cheered there, countless people slapped their red palms, and countless people's eyes were full of tears. At this time, everyone's chest is already filled with joy and pride. The feeling of pride was so sharp that it seemed like it was about to burst out of his chest.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated the country that was sleeping and the boss was in a state of great difficulty, causing China to suffer the heaviest humiliation and burden. The history of humiliation of the country in modern times made many people feel that the country had no hope and that the nation had sunk. People become numb and become like the light.

But now, the victory of the war has mobilized the self-esteem and self-improvement feelings hidden in the hearts of everyone in this country, and attracted countless enthusiastic young people to sacrifice their lives for the strength of the country. In just a few years, although China has just developed, people's psychology has completely changed, and everyone sees the hope of rising and the possibility of revival.

The bill on the national compulsory military service system was quickly passed and promulgated amid the boiling tide of popular sentiment, and although next year's military budget has been raised by nearly 40 percent, there is no suspense in passing it.

After this war, the people have understood that without a strong national defense force, there is no guarantee of security. And the performance of the army and navy also proves to them that the money is worth spending on them.

In the face of drastic changes in the world situation, China has finally won a precious opportunity for peaceful development and is in an extremely favorable international environment by repelling its most ferocious enemy, Japan, and having repelled its most ferocious enemy.

The Chinese navy and army have demonstrated brand-new equipment and tactical tactics in the war, coupled with terrifyingly abundant human resources, and the development potential has attracted the attention of the world.

The German minister to China, Hitch, tried desperately to draw China into the German-Austrian camp, while Britain, France, and Russia hoped that China would participate in the war against Germany, and only the United States persuaded China not to rush into the war and hoped to be in line with the United States.

As secretary of state, Chen Wenqiang maneuvered among the great powers, gave full play to his talents, and worked hard to reap benefits for the country.

Russia's original greatest concern was the alliance of Japan and Germany, and the guarantee of the security of Siberia in its backyard was the Far Eastern diplomatic program of Tsarist Russia during the entire war. Now that Japan has been frustrated, it has turned its attention to the Pacific, while China is constantly building up its military forces in the northeast and northwest, a change that makes Russia very uneasy. Given the ambiguous relations between China and Germany, it is not unreasonable for Russia to be so worried.

Subsequently, in the diplomatic probing with the Chinese government, Chen Wenqiang sincerely stated that he had no intention of taking military action against Russia, and said that China's declaration of neutrality could conduct commercial exchanges with any country, including Russia, in terms of arms and materials, and that Russia's closeness to Japan would lead to strong dissatisfaction among the Chinese people.

This was a sign of goodwill, and at least Russia welcomed it, saying that the treaty in the Russo-Japanese Treaty that was detrimental to China would be revised, and immediately ordered a large quantity of supplies from the Chinese side to launch a sustained attack on Germany and alleviate the crisis of the Anglo-French forces.

As for Britain and France, Chen Wenqiang said that because of national strength, he has no intention of participating in the European war for the time being. However, the tanks, planes, and penicillin that Britain and France were eager to obtain could be supplied or transferred by the Chinese government after the conditions were met.

Moreover, the conditions set by the Chinese government are not excessive, requiring Gengzi to defer the payment of all indemnities for ten years without paying interest; Customs is in the hands of the Chinese themselves, and former foreign employees continue to serve, and the tariff rate is increased to 15%; Abolish the provisions of the Xinchou Peace Treaty on the garrison of troops along the Beijing-Tianjin Railway and in Tianjin.

On the German side, Chen Wenqiang gave full account of the Chinese Navy's experience and experience in using the "wolf pack" tactic, and taught the German side the new technology of submarine mine-laying, which benefited the German side a lot. Even, Chen Wenqiang plans to use some of his foresight in the future to reveal some military intelligence of Britain and France to the Germans, such as the specific deployment of the Battle of Jutland.

Now, although Japan has temporarily retreated, it remains China's biggest threat. In Shanghai, the negotiators of China and Japan are now beginning negotiations, and it is estimated that the negotiation process will last for a month or two before a result can be reached, and the differences between the two sides are still huge, and the Japanese side is not a little less arrogant because of its failure.

The Chinese government's strategy is to strengthen cooperation with the United States, and even to transfer penicillin production technology to the United States free of charge in exchange for American support for China on the condition of dividing the market.

With the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, the U.S. Navy no longer had to rethink the challenges of fleet deployment that had plagued it for years. The presence and strengthening of US military forces in the Pacific has forced Japan to consider US tendencies more seriously and to coordinate conflicts of interest with the United States.

At the same time, the Chinese government has once again promulgated a series of preferential industrial and commercial policies and used its financial reserves to strengthen the production capacity of factories and enterprises. It also has close contact with Chinese businessmen in Nanyang and is ready to export goods to all parts of Asia.

Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and other countries are all engaged in the European war, and their exports of goods to Asia will inevitably be drastically reduced, and the result will inevitably be a shortage of goods in almost the entire Pacific region. Chinese products will compete with Japanese products, and the main battlefield will be the Asia-Pacific market. Due to China's resource advantages and the overseas Chinese businessmen throughout the Asia-Pacific region, this commodity war should not be left behind.

With everything ready, Chen Wenqiang sincerely prayed that the European war would continue. Because now the development of history is more and more out of his expectations, the British and French coalition forces are losing one after another, and the First World War is no longer what it used to be.

I can't read it, I really can't understand it. Chen Wenqiang looked at the map, scratched his ears and cheeks, and was anxious for Britain and France. Resist, we must resist, only when the war falls into a stalemate, can we make a lot of war money.

If France is defeated, will it evolve into another version similar to World War II? Britain used its powerful navy across the English Channel to wage a protracted war with Germany. What will become of the Germans after turning east and slaughtering the Russians...... (To be continued.) )