※ The sound of war came from the end of the noisy island. Although all countries are trying to maintain peace, in the face of national interests and those personal interests disguised as national interests, these diplomatic mediations are ultimately futile, and the war has finally exploded.

Of course, this war in Europe was not caused by the conflict between the Entente and the Central Powers, but was actually provoked by the "Balkan Alliance." The four small states, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, the four small states united to deal with the feuding Ottoman Empire.

This war is now known to Europeans as the "Balkan War." In another plane, the official name of this war in the history books is the "First Balkan War", and one side of the war is the Balkan Alliance. And on the other side is the "sick man of West Asia" the Ottoman Empire.

Since the main battlefield of the war was in the region of Eastern Thrace, located in the northern Aegean Sea, the European press sensationally called it the "Great War of Europe." There is also a certain reason, although Eastern Thrace has always been regarded as a wild land in Europe, but it does belong to Europe, Southeast Europe.

The direct trigger for the outbreak of the Balkan War was the Albanian uprising, as an area under the conquest of the Ottoman Empire, as early as the state, Albania broke out a huge anti-"Ottomanization" uprising. Not only did the rebels achieve a brilliant military victory, but they also brazenly demanded the cession of Kosovo and Bitola to the Ottoman Sultan, a demand that not only alarmed the Ottoman rulers, but also provoked the "Balkan League." because the demands of the Albanian rebels seem to expose their attempts to create a "Greater Albania", which is clearly not in the interests of the Balkan League, which is formed to carve up the Macedonian region, which is geographically part of Macedonia.

In order to prevent the emergence of a "Greater Albania" in the Balkans, the "Balkan Alliance" decided to strike first. The Ottoman Empire annexed Macedonia before it was completely finished, and the Balkan Wars broke out.

Another reason that contributed to the rapid outbreak of the Balkan War was the lifting of the "Northeast Asia Crisis" in the Far East, due to the active mediation of Britain, the United States and other European and American powers, the tension between China and Japan eased at once, and considering that Britain was likely to turn its main attention back to Europe after ending its focus on the Far East, the Balphonian League decided to settle the outstanding Macedonian question before Britain intervened, so that Britain would not oppose the war against the Ottoman Empire for the purpose of strategic balance. Moreover, this decision of the Bargan League was also supported by the Central European power Austria-Hungary, which supported the Balkan League's war against the Ottoman Empire mainly because of the war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire. In order to balance the distribution of power within the Central Powers, Austria-Hungary felt that it was time for Italy to stop, and the only condition that could induce Italy to stop its military offensive seemed to be an unequal peace treaty, and perhaps the declaration of war by the Balkan League would prompt Ottoman Sudan and the government to resolve to return to the negotiating table and reach a peace agreement with Italy.

Against this backdrop of deceitful international politics, Montenegro in the "Balkan Alliance" first declared war on the Ottoman Empire, followed by Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece also making ultimatums to the Ottoman government, and the Ottoman Empire, not to be outdone, immediately declared war on the four countries.

When the news of the war in Europe reached China, Zhao Bei was presiding over a cabinet meeting, and when the adjutant walked into the conference room with a pale face with a telegram and handed the telegram to Zhao Bei, the president of the Republic of China was also a false alarm, and thought that the First World War had exploded in advance, which was not good news for him, and it would completely disrupt his strategic layout.

Fortunately, more accurate news came later, it turned out that it was not the Entente and the Central Powers that were at war, but several small countries in southeast Europe who were besieging the "sick man of West Asia" Ottoman Empire, and Zhao Bei's heart was put down. If it was just the Balkan War, Zhao Bei was not worried at all, because he knew it very well. The space-time plane before he crossed over, "A Balkan War should have broken out in the mouth year, and the interference after his crossing did not seem to fundamentally change history, but this Balkan War seems to have been fought a little bit more than in history, and as for other aspects, it does not seem to have seriously deviated from the historical trajectory.

On the one hand, Zhao Bei's interference in history caused the "butterfly effect." On the other hand, the inertia of history is too strong, and the current small changes in the trajectory of history do not hinder the progress of the wheel of history, and the details may have changed slightly, but the general direction of history has not changed.

Although Zhao Bei firmly believed that his intervention in history would not cause an absolute deviation in the historical trajectory at present, in view of the current situation in Asia and the extreme ambiguity of the Japanese government's attitude toward China, he still decided to proceed cautiously, temporarily stop taking the initiative to provoke Japan, lay dormant, wait and see how the situation unfolds, and continue to strengthen his attention to industrial construction, so as to complete the first "four industrial exhibition plans" as soon as possible. A roundabout industrial system. There will be no modern defense system. The reason why he formulated the "Four Industrial Exhibitions and Profits" was to complete a basic and complete industrial system before the outbreak of World War I and to realize the initial modernization of national defense.

Therefore, after learning of the outbreak of the Balkan War in Europe, after a few days of careful consideration in the presidential palace, Zhao Bei made an unexpected decision, the central government of the Republic of China will conduct a census of all industrial and mining enterprises in the "Four Industrial Exhibition Plan" to see which industrial projects have been completed and which industrial projects are still far behind the plan, so as to help the central government make necessary policy adjustments. This is also the only adjustment made after the formulation of the "Four Industrial Exhibition Plan".

This industrial census is a systematic industrial exhibition survey, the scale is not only unprecedented, but the scope of the survey involves almost every area of people's livelihood, and even the national population survey has taken a ride on the industrial census action, once the survey work is completed, then. China's accurate population size and composition can be revealed, which is also conducive to the Zhongban government to formulate corresponding policies, whereas in the past, Chinese population statistics mainly relied on salt consumption to estimate, and the accuracy was not satisfactory.

The president has formulated a policy, which is naturally handed over to the cabinet ministries, so there is no need for the president to worry about this detail himself, and it is not an easy thing for the cabinet to trouble the president even if he wants to, because after the president has arranged the work, he left the capital and went to inspect the work in the districts of the three eastern provinces, and it is impossible to return to Beijing for a while. Because the real center of power in this country, the "commander-in-command", also went with the president to the three eastern provinces.

It is now the fifth day of the President's inspection of the work of the three eastern provinces, and the special train that Mr. President is riding has also arrived in Changchun. It is also the dividing line between the Japanese sphere of influence and the Russian sphere of influence, and the two countries take Changchun as the boundary in terms of railway and mineral interests, and the well water does not interfere with the river water, so as not to hurt the "friendship" between the two countries

Compared with the space-time plane before Zhao Bei crossed over, the "friendship" between Japan and Russia in this space-time plane has indeed been disturbed, at least, because of the trial of Ito Hirobumi's assassination and the subsequent explosion of the Korean anti-Japanese independence movement, Tsarist Russia saw the weakness of Japan, and at the same time saw the value of China. Although there is a fundamental conflict of interest between China and Russia on the issue of the three eastern provinces and Mongolia, as long as the current central government of China is "tame," then Tsarist Russia does not mind uniting with China to contain Japan, which is too eager for quick success, so as not to cause a situation in which Japan will not be defeated in the three eastern provinces.

Therefore, unlike the period of history that Zhao Bei is familiar with, in this plane of time and space, Tsarist Russia only reached the first "Russo-Japanese Entente" with the Japanese government, and as for the second "Russo-Japanese Entente", at least until now, Russia and Japan have not yet reached an agreement.

And this is precisely one of the secondary purposes of Zhao Bei's northern tour of the three eastern provinces, he wants to further win over Russia, prevent Russia and Japan from reaching the second "Japan-Russia Entente", and prevent Japan from taking this opportunity to gain respite.

After Changchun, Zhao Bei would go straight to Harbin, where the diplomatic envoys of Tsarist Russia were waiting for the arrival of Mr. President, so that he might "delve into the Mongol question" with Mr. President, and perhaps conclude a secret treaty which would be advantageous to Russia, and, given that China was now too close to Germany, and that the Russians intended to take advantage of it. The secret treaty forced China to make more concessions in exchange for the "understanding of His Majesty the Tsar"

However, before leaving Changchun, Zhao Bei planned to meet with several important people, and now, when Mr. President's special train entered Changchun Railway Station, those important people were already waiting on the platform

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Among these people, Wu Luzhen, the "General Office of Border Affairs of the Three Eastern Provinces", has the most prominent status, and Zhang Zuoshuang, Wu Junsheng, Feng Delin, Ma Longtan and others are not ordinary figures, they are all fierce generals with heavy troops, and they are now under the command of Wu Luzhen, in fact, the person Mr. President really wants to see is Wu Luzhen, and the others just meet by the way, so that they have the opportunity to get close to the president, so as to cultivate the loyalty of their subordinates.

Seeing that the president's special train had already entered the station, Wu Luzhen and the others did not dare to slack off, hurriedly sorted out the military appearance, and ordered the military band to play music and fire a salute to welcome the presence of Mr. President.

Several people also know in their hearts that although the "Northeast Asian crisis" has now subsided, the grain between China and Japan has been settled and cannot be resolved in a short period of time. I'm afraid it's just to arrange defense, otherwise, I wouldn't have sent a telegram to ask a few of them to wait for the president in Changchun.

But then again, the president inspected the three eastern provinces at this time, and everyone admired it, because this is Japan's sphere of influence, and just after the presidential office announced Mr. President's schedule, the military police of Liaoning Province alone detected several premeditated assassination cases against Mr. President, captured dozens of Japanese ronin, and killed the same number of Japanese ronin in the process of arrest.