The hiccup on the dock soon ended, as the airship slowly lifted off into the air and slowly flew towards the sea, and Zeppelin planned to drive the airship to London, England. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing the airship far away from the port, Yang Chao joined the German expert group waiting on the ship.

The speed of the Germans was very satisfying to Yang Chao, of course, because they had the most developed munitions industry in the world.

It is enough for the Mauser Arsenal and Krupp to join forces, and they have jointly sent a team of 30 experts to China to select a site, and the factory will enter the construction stage before the end of the year, with one year of construction, two years of commissioning, and the third year to meet the requirements of full production.

"What, where is the location?"

Yang Chao couldn't believe his ears.

He still has a lot of respect for these German experts at this time, after all, he wants to use others, and he also takes the opportunity to inquire if they have an ideal location, if not, Yang Chao intends to give them a little advice, Yang Chao's ideal location is in Laiwu, because where there are coal mines, iron mines, and the later Laiwu Iron and Steel is also a well-known steel plant in China.

"Qingdao!"

The German engineer said with certainty, and at the same time looked at Yang Chao with some strange eyes, they were ordered to go to Qingdao to build an arsenal, and it was a joint arsenal of Krupp and Mauser, which was unique in the world.

Yang Chao gritted his teeth, and secretly said in his heart that he was still cheated by the Germans, and wanted to go to Bernard immediately to question him, but he held back.

The Germans are playing with words, they say, "Qingdao is not the land of China?" Yang Chao's rhetorical question is enough to block Yang Chao's mouth, and it is impossible for Yang Chao to admit that Qingdao is not Chinese land, so this dumb man will be decided.

The Germans certainly do not regard Qingdao as Chinese territory, although it is now nominally leased for 99 years, what is the difference between it and a cession, as long as the Chinese are not able to take it back, it will always be German territory.

So they built the arsenal in Qingdao, but it was built for the Qingdao colony, they controlled it, and they also let the Chinese pay the operating costs and personnel salaries, and the deal was very cost-effective.

"Fourteen years! It's only been fourteen years. ”

Yang Chao thought silently in his heart, the Germans probably wouldn't have thought that they would give up Qingdao to the Japanese in less than twenty years, not even twenty years, but in this era Yang Chao would not agree to be snatched away by the Japanese, during the First World War, Yang Chao would definitely take back a number of colonies, such as Dalian and Lushun occupied by the Russians, Qingdao occupied by the Germans, and even Weihai and Hong Kong occupied by the British, and Taiwan occupied by the Japanese, if there is a chance, it will also be recovered.

Just let the Germans be proud for fourteen years.

However, if Qingdao is to be taken over, should the Germans be encouraged to build more, especially where to establish a number of heavy industries, after all, Germany has not established any decent industry in Qingdao until the defeat of the war, and the light industry was opened later by the Japanese, and the Germans just built a good infrastructure.

However, there is no chance for the time being, because the ship has already sailed, Yang Chao can only go back with these German experts first, and then think of a way.

The ship is a freighter of the German Hamburg American Steamship Company, this company is the largest shipping company in Germany, the Germans plan very carefully, this company has started a regular flight from Qingdao to Hamburg in March, once a month.

In addition to passengers, there were also a large number of construction supplies in the cargo hold on board.

There is no doubt about the enthusiasm of the Germans to build Qingdao, but they are a little dead-eyed, all building materials, even including screws, are almost shipped from Germany, and even the whole ship of building materials has an accident, which affects the construction situation, Yang Chao hopes that the ship will not have an accident.

In fact, the Germans can purchase some building materials nearby, and the Japanese can produce basic building materials such as cement, but they just want to give all the benefits to the German enterprises, even if they pay expensive freight, but the freight is not also earned by the German steamship company.

The Germans have a full understanding of industry, know that they are strong because of the strength of industry, so they do their best to develop their own industry, Yang Chao wonders, is it because of this, Germany is keen on urban construction during Qingdao period, but not keen on industrial development.

The boat left the dock and set off, and Yang Chao was even more anxious this time than when he came last time.

The situation in the country made him completely incomprehensible, he didn't know what Li Hongzhang was doing, why hadn't he made any moves until now?

During the negotiations, Li Hongzhang was the plenipotentiary, and after the negotiations were completed, he followed the example of Western countries in Beijing and set up a parliament for all provinces to send representatives.

Yang Chao thought that Li Hongzhang's opening of the parliament was to pave the way for becoming president, but he never waited for the news of Li Hongzhang's inauguration, and he waited for half a year, and the parliament was still the same parliament.

What is Li Hongzhang doing, he is still a plenipotentiary and continues to negotiate with Western countries.

Although the treaty was signed, the Eight-Nation Coalition had not yet withdrawn its troops, and at this time the troops of various countries in Beijing had reached 50,000, and Germany and France had increased their troops to 10,000.

The withdrawal of troops is obviously the most important thing, and other countries say that it is Russia, which has no attitude of withdrawing troops at all, and has tried its best to delay, and it has increased to 180,000 people in the northeast, which makes people wonder if Tsarist Russia wants to fight a war with other powers.

Therefore, Li Hongzhang was still the Russians at this time, so he began to change his previous pro-Russian attitude, and began to frequently show goodwill to Britain and Germany, hoping that the great powers would uphold justice and let Tsarist Russia withdraw its troops from the northeast.

In fact, Britain and Germany were originally very unkind to see Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang arrived in Shanghai as a British ship at first, and was immediately picked up by Russian warships in Tianjin, and at first the Russians pretended to be active in negotiations. When Li Hongzhang arrived in Tianjin, including Beijing, he was also the first to communicate with the Russians. This annoyed the British and Germans, who at first refused to negotiate with Li Hongzhang, because of rumors in Beijing that Li Hongzhang's secret contacts with Russia had already given Russia additional benefits.

The British have long warned China not to engage in secret diplomacy.

The Germans also began to snub Li Hongzhang, when he first started in Shanghai, the new German minister to China, Zimmer, was still actively in contact with Li Hongzhang, but at this time he also refused to see him, and even the commander of the allied forces, German Field Marshal Wadsey, who had just arrived, also refused to see Li Hongzhang, saying that he was a military commander and was only responsible for the war, and threatened to go all the way to Shanxi.

The Russians, who pretended to be close to Li Hongzhang, have also been persecuting Li Hongzhang to take the lead in signing a treaty with the Russians, and the Russians have repeatedly fooled Li Hongzhang about the treaty in Northeast China, saying that Russia's territory is vast and is tantamount to Chinese territory, but they have repeatedly hoped that Li Hongzhang will allow the Russians to station troops in Northeast China, nominally to guard against other countries' ambitions in Northeast China.

No matter how stupid Li Hongzhang is, it is impossible not to see the plans of the Russians, so he changed his mentality.