Germany has a population of more than 66 million people, much more than France's 39 million and Britain's 45 million, but not as many as the two countries combined, not to mention the overwhelming superiority of the United States over German manpower after entering the war. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to free up more manpower, Germany recruited labor in occupied Poland, Belarus and other places, and for this reason they pretended to form puppet governments in these areas, but the workers in these countries were not so useful, with a negative working attitude and extremely low efficiency.

The Chinese workers working in France have a very correct working attitude, and they are more industrious than the French workers and peasants, so that the French can continue to send their young and middle-aged people out and send them to the front.

After evaluation, the Germans think that the French way is very good, and the Germans have been operating in Qingdao for more than ten years, and there are a large number of Chinese workers in the German-funded factories, regardless of the technical level, but the work attitude is not to say, overtime has never complained, and even overtime wages can make them work overtime.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the reason why a large number of Chinese laborers went abroad was that in addition to the large population and surplus labor, the most important reason was that Chinese laborers had good discipline and obedience, and were the most popular labor force of the foreign powers, so a large number of Chinese laborers were recruited to work in their colonies.

It's just that the Germans' demands have never been approved by Yang Chao, and now Yang Chao has agreed to them, and it is an unlimited supply of labor, so that the Germans can draw out their labor in large quantities, arm them, and send them to the front.

When the first 100,000 people arrived in Germany, the Americans could not sit still and were the first to find China.

"The Americans are really interesting, order arms? Is this a political compromise? ”

After receiving the Americans' request to order arms from China, Yang Chao personally met with Morgan Jr., who had come to negotiate.

Morgan Jr. made a long order for arms to Yang Chao, ranging from gas masks to artillery, machine guns, and even a thousand tanks. The total value reached $500 million.

This was a large order, but the Americans made a demand: "I hope that your country will stop supplying labor to Germany." ”

Yang Chao shook his head with a smile: "Business is business, and business with political conditions is not a good business." ”

Morgan sighed: "This is also a matter of no choice, Chinese workers continue to go to Germany, this is a threat to the United States." ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "Your country should know very well that I am very friendly to the United States, and I have no intention of threatening American friends, and I have even always hoped to form an alliance with the United States." The issue of Chinese workers is not a political issue, and if it has to be regarded as a political issue, it is not aimed at the United States. ”

Morgan said: "Of course, the government knows very well, otherwise it would not be an order, but a protest note." However, it was impossible for the British government to agree to China's acquisition of German colonies. ”

In fact, how can the Americans accept it, it's just that they are not willing to pay the price of direct conflict, and in their hearts, they don't want China's power to reach the middle of the Pacific.

Yang Chao sighed: "The British do not allow China to have colonies near New Zealand and Australia, but they have colonies on Chinese territory, don't you think the British are too greedy?" ”

Morgan nodded along with Yang Chao, and he suddenly felt that this was Yang Chao's true purpose.

"Could it be that your country bought the German colonies only to balance the British colonies?"

Yang Chao said with surprise: "Isn't the international community what it thinks? ”

Morgan shook his head.

Yang Chao sighed: "It seems that everyone has misunderstood China's intentions. We're not threatening anyone. If we are not threatened by others, we will never threaten others. China is a peaceful and friendly country, and we don't want to pose a threat to anyone unless we are defending our own interests. ”

Morgan doesn't believe it at all, look at the current Russia and Japan, the Chinese are peaceful.

But he heard some possibilities from Yang Chao's words, and asked tentatively: "Can I understand that if the British Empire does not threaten China around China, China will not threaten the British Empire in the Pacific region?" ”

Yang Chao said: "Of course! ”

Morgan added: "If the British Empire does not garrison troops around China, will China not garrison troops in Samoa and other places?" ”

Yang Chao shrugged: "Of course! ”

Morgan got what he wanted, and he felt that this was an opportunity to resolve the Sino-British conflict, so he quickly concluded the negotiations, and then reported the matter to the U.S. government, proposing a mediation method to the U.S. government.

Soon the U.S. government proposed to the British government to hold non-military negotiations with China to persuade Britain to hand over those parts of Samoa to China, but demanded that China guarantee that it would no longer station troops in these places, especially that it would not be able to station naval fleets.

The British, to be honest, are reluctant to agree, they are good at taking advantage of the chaos on the European continent to expand their overseas interests, these places have already been eaten by the British, and it is too difficult for them to spit out, so they refuse.

The Americans then advised the British to give up their colonies in China in exchange for China giving up colonies such as Samoa.

However, the British still thought that it was not cost-effective to exchange barren Samoa and other places for Hong Kong, which had been in business for 80 years, and Weihai.

They are willing to give up Weihai and let the Chinese give up Samoa and other places, but they are willing to accept the Chinese occupation of the Mariana Islands, after all, it is closer to the US-occupied Guam and the Philippines, and where the Chinese have strength, it is a threat to the Americans, and it is very beneficial to keep the United States and Britain in the same trench.

But the Americans are not stupid, they used military orders, in exchange for China's abandonment of sending Chinese workers to Germany, and immediately turned to orders in exchange for China's abandonment of the Mariana Islands, abandonment of threats to American colonies, of course, this is impossible, and the Americans do not think that the Chinese will agree, but the demilitarization of the Mariana Islands is operational.

On this point, Yang Chao had no reason to refuse, and assured the Americans that he would not station troops in the Mariana Islands, nor would he set up military bases, but would only send some policemen to maintain law and order, and assured the Americans that China only needs economic interests in the Mariana Islands and does not seek military strength.

The Americans felt safe, and they even obtained private assurances from Yang Chao that they would not be stationed in the Pacific if they acquired colonies such as Samoa and the British did not have troops in Asia.

The Americans believe that the Chinese still have a certain degree of integrity in their commitment not to expand overseas, at least they do not plan to expand their military power abroad.

So the Americans placed an order, and the first batch was $500 million.

But did the Americans really give orders to China only for the sake of the Mariana Islands?

Yang Chao is not so naïve, the Americans have reached the point where they cannot rely on China's military industry.

The United States has already sent 2 million troops to Europe, and the military industry of Britain and France is no longer able to provide sufficient equipment for the American army.

Later generations always said that the Americans made a lot of war money and sold arms to Europe, but in fact this is a delusion, and it is true that the United States made a lot of war money, but they did not directly sell arms, but sold raw materials, such as steel.

The first order that U.S. Steel received after the war was $150 million, while their largest order before the war was only $10 million.

In addition to steel, American cars have also opened up the European market, as the only country with a mass production of cars, in the automobile industry, the United States has no competitors, Morgan's General Motors Cadillac convertibles are exported to Europe in large quantities, and the more productive Ford has also made war money.

In this war, there were 21,000 millionaires in the United States, and millions of people were called the rich class, but there were really few arms giants among them, and the one who could afford it was a DuPont.

As for the military industry of the Americans, they are not even equipped with their own army, let alone sell arms to Europe, and the American soldiers on the European battlefield, even the steel helmets are wearing French steel helmets, the machine guns are supplied by France and Britain, and the tanks are all produced by the French Renault.

But for the purpose of striking at the United States and forcing the United States to withdraw from the war, the Germans gave priority to attacking the American army.

Obviously, they held a position together, and the Germans' artillery was concentrated on bombarding the area defended by the American army, breaking through the position guarded by the American army, and in just half a year, the Americans lost 200,000 people, so that they had to keep pushing the American GIs after simple training into the trenches and fighting with the Germans.

Therefore, the Americans need more arms to arm their troops.

Although the United States has the most powerful industrial strength in the world, as long as there is enough time, they will definitely be able to produce a large amount of munitions, but the problem is that there is not enough time, less than a year, far from enough for the Americans to convert their own industry to the production of munitions, and the military industry of the British and French allies is also saturated, and the unrestricted submarine warfare of the Germans poses a great threat to merchant ships, which makes the Americans not have to keep an eye on China.

Americans know that the Chinese not only have the ability to produce enough munitions, but also have the ability to safely deliver them to the battlefield.

Therefore, the Americans allocated $500 million in military spending to purchase arms from China, to purchase 1 million Chinese-made Chuntian rifles, 10,000 Maxim machine guns, 5,000 heavy artillery pieces, 1,000 tanks, and 1 million penicillins.

But this is only the first batch.

Yang Chao knows that once the Americans' accounts are opened, this is a super market, a big market bigger than the whole of Europe.

It's just that in this way, China's military industry is somewhat unbearable.

"Hey, Japanese people always have so good luck."

Yang Chao sighed in his heart, feeling that the Japanese can always encounter opportunities to make war money, and immediately after World War II, it was the Korean War, then the Vietnam War, and now it is the order of the United States in Europe.

Of course, Yang Chao will not let go of the United States, a big customer, and when the output is insufficient, he can only let the Japanese get a piece of the pie. (To be continued.) )