Not to mention China, newspapers all over the world are frantically reporting on the war, and the name of the world war has finally been used. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because not only Europe was at war, but all parts of the world except the Americas were affected by the war for a time.

Asia is the enemy of China and Japan, the Europeans are fighting in groups, and other continents are also affected by the colonies of foreign powers.

Yang Chao never received a reply from Yuan Shikai declaring war on Japan.

Instead, he received bad news: "Yuan Shikai took out a loan from the Japanese." ”

"What is this for?"

Yang Chao was very puzzled, at this time, Yuan Shikai still had the heart to borrow from Japan, and the Japanese were willing to lend it to him, did they figure out whether this was a war.

However, President Yuan Da accepted a loan from the Japanese, so he was naturally embarrassed to start a war with the Japanese, and there was no doubt that the loan must have conditions attached, and if it was not done well, it would be to clean up Yang Chao.

"It's time to do a good job in Shandong's defense. I'm afraid the railroad won't work. Let's use an airship. 100,000 people were brought back in three days. Let the police force left behind in Shandong be prepared to deal with the attack of the Beiyang Army at any time. ”

Yang Chao had to be prepared to deal with the betrayal of the Beiyang Army, or Yuan Shikai's cutting of the domain, Yuan Shikai, as an imperial conservative ruler, is a first-class master of playing power, and playing modern politics is a young novice, but now is Yuan Shikai's only chance, the opportunity to get rid of Yang Chao.

Taking advantage of the fact that the main force of Yang Chao's army is in the northeast, Shandong is empty, and there are only more than 20,000 police forces that have just been formed, Shandong will be captured, otherwise Yuan Shikai will not have any chance.

I am afraid that Yuan Shikai's conspiracy with the Japanese is that the Japanese will destroy the Northeast Army, and then steal the Northeast, at least a part of it, and at least get many privileges in the Northeast, while Yuan Shikai will take Shandong and get this heavy industry base that Yang Chao has painstakingly built for ten years.

"My lord, the governor of Qingdao has called, hoping to meet with you and coordinate and communicate on the issue of war."

The German Yang Chao forgot that Germany had deployed 100,000 people in Qingdao, and it was still thanks to Yang Chao, because the tension with the Japanese made the Germans have to prepare for war, so they successively transferred troops from Europe a year ago to increase the strength of Qingdao.

"Did Japan declare war on Germany?"

Yang Chao asked curiously.

"Not yet, but the Governor thinks we should reach a consensus on the defense of Shandong."

Yang Chao nodded: "Ask him to come to see me, Lao Tzu doesn't have time to go to Qingdao." ”

When did it be, the Germans still put on a colonial attitude, really thinking that the Shandong officials could call them and leave immediately.

"Also, contact the Americans and ask them to immediately fulfill their treaty obligations and declare war on Japan immediately!"

The Sino-U.S.-German alliance, China was attacked by Japan, and the Americans have an unshirkable obligation unless the Americans are willing to nullify the treaty.

The reply was not long in coming, and the Americans said that China had not declared war on Japan and that it was not good for them to intervene in the war in such a situation.

Yang Chao was stunned for a moment, it seems that the big brother is not the only one who has betrayed himself, someone has already woven a big net for himself.

"British devils, I said that they have been so silent recently, so they are holding back here!"

If the British had not been involved in this matter, Yang Chao would not have believed it.

On the one hand, build a bridge between the Japanese and Yuan Shikai, let the two sides reach an agreement, and then let the United States remain neutral without ventilating with the Americans and telling the Americans that China will not declare war.

There is only one person who was betrayed, that is Yang Chao, it is estimated that these people have arranged the ending of Yang Chao, the British are probably also coveting the heavy industry in Shandong, but Qingdao, they probably know that they can't eat it, the British will not attack here, they will only drive the Japanese to attack here, then Qingdao is Japanese, if the British sit back and enjoy it, they will be assigned to Yantai, and the big head can only get other places.

If it is distributed in this way, the big head brother will suffer a lot, and in return, the big head brother will get the northeast.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao felt that he had basically figured out the cats between Yingri and Yuan Shikai, and continued to deduce accordingly, since the Northeast is not a Japanese dish, then the Japanese will not fight Yang Chao anywhere, they will definitely mobilize the main forces to capture Qingdao.

"The Americans want to talk to us about those warships!"

The Americans not only did not participate in the war, but also began to fight Yang Chao on the issue of ordering that batch of warships in the United States, and the time was almost up, the speed of a battleship in 18 months, and now the first batch of warships is almost completed.

"Lao Tzu has paid all the money, can they still rob it?"

It's not that you can't rob it, it's just that it's not very good-looking.

"The Americans said they were strictly neutral, so the ships had to be seized."

"Seizure? Well, tell the Americans, we will send someone over to supervise it, and wait for the post-war reception of these ships! ”

To be honest, Yang Chao didn't care about those ships, but they were used to provoke an arms race with Japan, and in the past two years, almost no Japanese merchant ships have been launched, which means that the arms race has been successful.

But Yang Chao didn't expect that the day when this batch of ships was completed would be during the war, so fun, it was a new fleet of more than 700,000 tons, and whoever got it could affect the balance.

Sure enough, the German governor also came to talk about this matter, and he hoped that the Yang Dynasty would deliver those warships to the German Navy, and the Germans were willing to pay a high price.

"It's late, you're late. Our warships were seized by the Americans, and the most I could do to help Germany was to negotiate with the Americans and prevent them from handing over these ships to the British. ”

These new ships, especially the 12 super-dreadnought battleships, would have overwhelmed the Germans in their navy if the British had gotten them.

You must know that the capital ships of the British Navy are more than the Germans, but they are not twice as much, the British Dreadnought and Super Dreadnought class battleships have a total of 100, and Germany also has 80 ships, both sides are much stronger than in history, but if the British get Yang Chao's 12 ships, it will really be almost twice as many as Germany, because the British not only bought these battleships from the United States, but the 24 super dreadnoughts on their slipway produced for the Japanese will definitely not be given to the Japanese at this time. In addition, the 30 super-dreadnoughts built by the French for the Russians will also be completed within a year.

As long as they wait for a year, the British will have 176 dreadnought-class battleships, and the Germans will probably not have the ability to build warships after being blocked, and when the British will fight the German Navy with double the tonnage, it is not yet a chopping vegetable, after all, the British Navy is not the Russian Navy, let alone defeat the battle with a double advantage, it is the same strength as the opponent, and they cannot accept defeat.

"Thank you very much for the kindness of Governor Yang to Germany."

The German Governor thanked him.

But he continued: "Our Government also wants to receive assurances from your country that you will protect German interests in Shandong, and that no country will be allowed to take advantage of the war to steal German interests in Shandong, including road and mining rights and the safety of the property of German enterprises in Qingdao." ”

At this time, the Germans still dreamed of continuing to be powerful in Shandong after the war.

However, Yang Chao agreed, but demanded: "The German army in Qingdao must ensure the safety of the Qingdao industrial factory." I need your assurances that if you are unable to guarantee the safety of your capabilities, the Shandong army must enter Qingdao to garrison. ”

The German governor frowned: "This, I think the invincible German navy and army are capable of maintaining the security of Qingdao." ”

Yang Chao nodded: "I hope." But I have to remind you that Japan, as an island nation, has a navy as strong as the British navy. Your dozen or so cruisers in Qingdao are absolutely unstoppable, so you must be prepared to give up Qingdao for defense at any time. ”

Yang Chao suddenly found that the Japanese still have a role, as long as Japan enters the war, it will definitely capture Qingdao as soon as possible, then Yang Chao will have a reason to enter Qingdao, as long as his 100,000 troops are stationed in Qingdao, this place will be taken back, and Yang Chao does not plan to lose control here.

For this reason, as soon as the German governor left, Yang Chao stopped the airship troops that were preparing to bomb Japan, and instead directly transferred to the northeast to completely destroy the airship units of the Japanese army in the northeast and gain absolute air superiority.

The Japanese did not let Yang Chao wait long, on August 30, they bombed Qingdao, they declared war on Germany the day before, the Japanese moved smoothly, but much stronger than Austria-Hungary, ready to declare war directly, without making any preparations for the enemy, they went to war.

The bombing of the Japanese airships did not have any effect, after all, the Germans also deployed a fleet of hundreds of airships here, all of which were the 2nd and 3rd generation airships produced by Zeppelin, and the huge gap between them and the Japanese airships made the Japanese airships have no resistance, and their bombing was more like a symbol, a declaration of war.

In the final analysis, it had to rely on the navy, the Japanese navy blockaded Qingdao, and then sent a landing fleet to land at Longkou, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops landed in Shandong.

Yang Chao's 100,000 troops had already been transferred back to Shandong, and to Yang Chao's relief, Yuan Shikai was not shameless enough to send the Beiyang Army to attack the Northeast and Shandong directly.

Immediately, Yang Chao made a request to Yuan Shikai, asking for a declaration of war on Japan and protesting against Japan's infringement of Shandong's interests.

At the same time, he put pressure on Yuan Shikai in the newspaper, but this time Yang Chao suddenly found that the rich and strong party was still at a disadvantage for a while playing with public opinion.

Because the Japanese once again sent troops in the name of helping the Chinese recover Qingdao, and the British were also helping Japanese propaganda, it was obvious that the influence of the Fuqiang Party on Chinese public opinion was not comparable to the combined power of Britain and Japan.

Yuan Shikai never agreed to Yang Chao's request, but asked Yang Chao for 2 million rifles and 3,000 machine guns, but he planned to pay.

Where did the big brother get so much money, and the loan secured by the Shanxi coal mine should be spent, Yang Chao not only thought about it.

He knows that the economic situation of the eldest brother has not been good, because of the impact of the Xinhai Revolution, the strength of the local governor is much greater than that of Zhang Zhidong at that time, and basically few people will hand over taxes to the central government, and Yuan Shikai has been relying on loans to maintain finances since he came to power.

But all the mortgages have been mortgaged, 2 million rifles and 3,000 machine guns are not small deals, this is a business of hundreds of millions of taels, where does Yuan Shikai's money come from?

Loans are obviously unreliable, now that Europe is at war, governments are borrowing money to build their armies, where is the money to lend him, unless the big brother can come up with what the countries need now, those long-term interests of the mine or something no one will want.

"It's still the same batch of battleships!"

Yang Chao was taken aback, and he had already figured out that Yuan Shikai's money was paid through the American warships.

"Ma's, that's all Lao Tzu's money!"

Yang Chao scolded hatefully. (To be continued.) )