After being recognized, Li Yuanhong was the first to meet with the US minister and asked the US minister to fulfill their obligations under the alliance and the Sino-German-US alliance treaty, and at the same time declared war on Japan, but the United States refused because it did not conform to the terms of the alliance. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Li Yuanhong also demanded that the United States strictly observe its neutrality and cut off all strategic material shipments to Japan, including oil, iron and steel, iron ore, copper, aluminum, and other minerals and raw materials.

The Americans were also very embarrassed by this request, saying that they could not sever the agreements they had signed unless they had the understanding of the British, because many of the supplies they supplied to Japan were ordered through the British, and they were the raw materials for the production of weapons and equipment by Japan for the British.

Li Yuanhong also summoned the British envoy to reason with Britain and launched round after round of diplomatic activities.

Just when Li Yuanhong and Lu Zhengxiang were arguing with diplomatic envoys from various countries, Gong Mingde trained the airship unit for a year and successfully bombed Japan across the sea, nothing more.

It did not cause any material impact.

Because Japan is not Russia, it is a fine people, and it is also a model student in the world, and they are good at learning.

Not to mention that they also have a wealth of experience in using airships, but in the two years of European wars, the Japanese have also learned the tactics of using airships and countering airships that various countries have explored.

All kinds of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns that appeared in the war were transferred to Japanese factories through orders from the British, and the Japanese also arranged a large number of anti-aircraft weapons throughout the country, which led to Gong Mingde's airship troops not being able to bomb close to the ground at all, and basically bombed at an altitude of five or six thousand meters, and the bombing effect was very poor.

At the same time, a more fierce air war broke out between China and Japan than in Europe, and because China's airship force is very large, the airship factory of the Zeppelin-Yang Chao airship company has now expanded to 500 workshops, each workshop produces two ships at the same time, and 1,000 ships can be produced at a time, and it only takes one month to complete, that is to say, the speed of 1,000 ships a month.

In the past two years of Sino-Japanese relations, the products of the airship company have not been sold, and all of them are equipped with Yang Chao's airship troops.

At present, the airship unit has been equipped with 10,000 airships, and although European countries are mass-producing airships, China's airship force is still the largest in the world, not only the largest number, but also the most complete models, and has developed various models such as combat, bombing, and transporting.

And Japan's airship industry, although stimulated by the war, both technology and production capacity have been greatly improved, especially after getting the aluminum alloy supplied by the United States, they also began to produce aluminum alloy skeleton airships, but in terms of performance, it is only the third generation of Zeppelin products, in front of the fifth generation of Zeppelin, there is no force at all.

In particular, a large number of small but fully armed combat airships are even more terrifying for Japan's airships that simply add weapons to Zeppelin's third-generation airships, and they are basically certain to die when encountered.

Therefore, the result of the air battle was that the Japanese airships were completely defeated, and they lost hundreds of them on the first day, and after they found that they still had a gap with the Chinese airships, they once again stopped taking off and relied only on anti-aircraft weapons to defend, after all, the airships were too expensive, and it was better to sell them to the British at a high price than to consume them themselves, so that they could exchange more resources for the production of anti-aircraft guns.

It took only three days for Gong Mingde to grasp air supremacy over Japan in three consecutive days of continuous air war against Japan.

It is important to have air supremacy because it allows you to let go and bomb Japan without worrying about Japanese airships taking off to bomb Shandong.

Yang Chao's side is going well.

Li Yuanhong's side is under increasing pressure.

Not only did the Americans not agree to enter the war and cut off the supply of supplies to the outside world.

On the contrary, it provoked a solemn protest from the British, and even threatened that China's bombing of Japan had seriously affected the trade between Japan and Britain, and demanded that China immediately stop the bombing and make peace with Japan immediately, otherwise Britain might be forced to fulfill its Anglo-Japanese alliance obligations and take military action against China.

Obviously, Yang Chao's bombing affected Japan's production of arms for the British, and at the same time, the Japanese probably lobbied the British to intervene.

The French are slightly more neutral, they don't have many orders in Japan, and their main producer is the United States. Only Britain, in order to win over Japan, handed over to Japan orders that could be produced in China at a lower price and captured faster. Russia, France's ally, only recognized Chinese goods, and asked them to use Japanese-made 38 rifles to kill Russia, and they would rather use Cossack sabers to fight.

Therefore, in the international arms market at this time, China monopolized the Russian market, and the British gave part of their orders to the United States and part to Japan, and France mainly relied on the United States.

However, Russia is the best market, because their industry is backward, and the war has been fought until now, the Russians have mobilized more than 5 million troops, which is the largest in all countries, of which at least 3 million people need materials and equipment from China, according to Germany's protests last year, China armed Russia to fight Germany.

It is a steady stream of orders from Russia, which has allowed China to cut one-third of the market orders in this war.

It's just arms, and there is one business in the war that is more profitable than arms, and that is the penicillin business.

The penicillin production line has been completely placed in Shandong, in Weifang, the transportation hub, Yang Chao expanded three large penicillin factories, huge containers to cultivate penicillium, the solution is filtered, transferred to a sealed large steel trough, a huge fan is turned on, the solution is air-dried to obtain penicillin crystals.

This is the benefit of a large industrial system, which can be massively expanded with new technologies and new applications.

Among them, the fan uses the wind tunnel construction technology and experience of the airship company, and the sealed drying tank is the crystallization of the liquefied gas cylinder production experience of the French liquefied gas company.

The three large factories all have the capacity to produce 100,000 pieces of penicillin per month, and the units of penicillin are now formulated by China, and a small vial can treat a seriously injured person, becoming "Yiwu", borrowed from Wu Liande's surname.

300,000 pieces of penicillin a month are enough to meet the needs of the war in Europe, but the price is still expensive, this is not determined by the market, this is brought by the monopoly.

The price of 500 US dollars a bottle makes all countries have to buy a large amount of meat at the same time, more than they buy temporarily, they must also try to eat, the purpose is to reserve, just in case, at the same time they do not buy, the enemy country will buy it, all countries are worried that this strategic material will be purchased by the enemy country to enhance the enemy's combat effectiveness.

So despite the high price, all the productivity is still saturated, and these penicillins alone can bring in a profit of $100 million a month, or 1 billion a year, which is huge and the profit margin is amazing.

The application of penicillin is said to be the heaviest burden on all countries, and for France and Germany, it even exceeds their arms consumption, after all, the French basically only use the army, and do not have to bear the consumption of the navy, and the Germans are the same, their arms are still produced by themselves, and the price is extremely low.

Of course, the countries are very angry about this, and they are about to threaten war, and the British suddenly turned tough in the face of the Sino-Japanese war this time, and the reason for it is that they can't afford to pay for penicillin, although the military spending in the war of various countries has exceeded 100 billion US dollars, but most of them are digested domestically, that is, printed paper money, and the foreign debt issued by the British in the United States is only a billion US dollars so far, of which 7800 million are sent to China, it is really too painful.

However, this is also related to the fact that Britain is more optimistic about Japan, after all, they feel that China has just experienced a large-scale civil war, although the time is very short, it is impossible to have no impact, and most importantly, they believe that the Japanese have absolute naval superiority, which is invincible.

Airship bombing, the British did not think that they could make a country go to defeat, because the Germans had also bombed them, and their perception of airship bombing was that it could only play a role in intimidation, and had no substantive effect.

Unlike the British, the Germans immediately expressed their support for China, and they even expressed their willingness to fulfill their alliance obligations and let China return the cruiser in Tsingtao to Germany, and they would immediately enter the war, but there was no need to declare war, because the Japanese had already declared war on them.

The Germans were positive, and again, because of trade pressures, and their participation in the war did not have any effect at all. It's just an attitude. The aim of the Germans was to borrow money from China, more precisely from the Yangzi banking system under Yang Chao's control.

"We do not accept any form of foreign debt."

Yang Chao apologized to the governor of Qingdao, now the adviser to the Qingdao government.

In this war, Yang Chao unexpectedly refused to borrow money from all countries in Shanghai's financial market, and the external voice was that he was worried about the ability of countries to repay.

He is not an American, Morgan made the most money in this war, Yang Chao does not care about these financial interests, his only need for the war is to activate the industrial system.

"This is really sad news."

Seeing that Yang Chao still adhered to his previous attitude, Wald couldn't help but say regretfully.

"You have to know that Morgan made a fortune in this war, and they monopolized billions of dollars in bonds in Britain and France, which alone allowed them to make more than a billion dollars in profits. If you agree with Germany to raise funds in Shanghai, I believe that the size of German and Austrian bonds will not be much smaller than those of Britain and France. ”

Wald continued to bewitch.

To be honest, Yang Chao is very confused, let alone him, those financiers in Shanghai are going crazy, one by one desperately lobbying Yang Zi Bank, Xie Guanhui has personally come to Beijing three times, but Yang Chao has another purpose, which makes him unable to make the money that Morgan can make. (To be continued.) )