454 If you fall behind, you will be beaten
The construction of Cam Ranh Bay is a big project, not counting the construction materials, 100,000 workers, the monthly consumption of more than 2 million yuan, not counting the cost of food purchased from Siam. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Fortunately, Qin Zhiyuan still has a bit of money in his hands, and if the expenditure will not be further expanded, this flower method can still be spent now.
The advantage of having more people and more people, 100,000 people working together, even if they can't catch up with the "national battle mode" in another time and space, but it is not too much worse, Cam Ranh Bay is basically the same day a day, and the construction progress is jaw-dropping.
Of course, it was Bastian who was dumbfounded, not Qin Zhiyuan, and Qin Zhiyuan, who had seen various "speeds" in another time and space, felt a little slow.
In fact, in this era when large machinery has not been widely used, the construction progress of a port is measured in "years".
The first phase of construction in Cam Ranh Bay is expected to take a year and a half, by which time Cam Ranh Bay will have 11 wharves and more than 60 berths, which can dock all Lan Fang warships, including battleships.
At the same time, all kinds of supporting facilities are being laid at the same time, such as a thermal power plant, an artillery shell factory, a torpedo factory, a mine factory, and even a shipyard with four 50,000-ton docks, all of which will together form Cam Ranh Bay, the largest naval base in the Far East.
No, it's not the biggest, and Yokosuka in Japan is the largest military port.
But one day, Cam Ranh Bay will become the largest military port in the Far East.
Qin Zhiyuan is very confident in this.
In the past month, a lot of things have happened, including the signing of the "Versailles Treaty", the temporary ceasefire of the Russian civil war, etc., which have effectively dispersed the influence of Lan Fang's "island grabbing" in the North Sea, and at the same time reduced the world's sensitivity to Lan Fang's lease of Cam Ranh Bay.
That's right, after nearly half a year of exchange of interests, the "Versailles Treaty" was finally signed, and Gu Weijun, the representative of the Beiyang Government of the Republic of China, also signed the contract, which means that the Republic of China has also become a member of the victorious countries in the world war, and at the same time successfully joined the League of Nations, and finally began to tentatively integrate into the international community.
It is speechless that the United States did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, because the Americans found that they had nothing to gain in the Treaty of Versailles, no colonies, no markets, only money.
And the United States is the richest country in the world right now, and people are not short of money at all.
The Treaty of Versailles punished Germany severely, losing 13.5 percent of its territory, 12.5 percent of its population, and all of its overseas colonies.
According to the provisions of the "Versailles Treaty," the Germans were only allowed to retain an army of less than 100,000 men, and the navy was only allowed to retain six battleships with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons.
The Germans even lost the right to import and export, because the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that if the Germans wanted to export goods, they would have to charge almost a quarter of the fee, which undoubtedly increased the cost of German products, reduced the competitiveness of German products, and made the position of Britain and France more stable.
At the same time, the Germans had to pay 226 billion gold marks in reparations, which amounted to about 11.3 billion pounds, and demanded payment in gold.
Very harsh terms, almost everyone is not satisfied with this "contract", except for Lan Fang.
As a victim of the Treaty of Versailles, Wilhelm III considered refusing to sign it, but under the persuasion of Prime Minister Prince Marx and Chief of the Army Staff Hindenburg, Wilhelm III finally chose to bury his hatred in his heart and reluctantly signed the Treaty.
The Germans' reluctance was visible to all, especially the French.
Clemenceau had intended to dismember Germany, but was strongly opposed by the British, who wanted to make the Germans pay the price, but did not want to weaken the Germans too much, and the British did not want to see the French dominate the continent.
That is not in the interests of the British.
In fact, many Britons believed that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on Germany, which could lead to a return to Germany as a source of instability in the future, but these opinions were not widely accepted, and the Treaty of Versailles became like this.
However, after the signing, the British soon realized that without the German counterbalance, the French would become the hegemon of the European continent, so Britain began to provide loans to Germany to help Germany recover its economy.
At the same time, the Americans were dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles, and the Americans did not get anything, except for money, of course, and at the same time accompanied by an increase in the international status of the United States, but this is something hidden, which is not visible on the surface.
During the World War, American capital profited handsomely, and after the war, the Americans continued to wield the stick of capital and began to provide loans to Germany.
These loans went round and round from the hands of the British and French, and then back to the Americans, but the Americans received a large number of preferential terms, and from this point of view, the Americans were the biggest beneficiaries of the world war.
There is a reason why Lan Fang is satisfied with the Treaty of Versailles, because of the French struggle, Lan Fang received a symbolic indemnity as compensation for the Foreign Legion, which was unanimously agreed by Britain and the United States, and the reason why Qin Zhiyuan had the money to build Cam Ranh Bay was derived from this German reparation.
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles was the biggest event in the whole world in the whole of June, so much so that it covered up the smoke of war in Russia.
After a month-long tug-of-war, the coalition government led by Kolchak finally captured Moscow, but at the same time, Kolchak's and Denikin's troops suffered heavy losses and no longer had the strength to launch an offensive against the Russian Bolsheviks entrenched in St. Petersburg.
The Russian Bolsheviks, having lost 500,000 men in the previous war, were unable to organize an army to regain lost territory, so the parties had to sit down and negotiate peace in an attempt to find a peaceful end to the civil war.
Since the capture of Tula, the Foreign Legion did not participate in any offensive, except for the capture of Moscow, but began to search in situ in Tula, Kaluga, Ryazan, etc., looting anything they could see.
These items, including precious calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry, industrial machinery, and even locomotives, were loaded by the Foreign Legion and shipped back to Lanfang as payment for the expedition.
Liu Zizheng and Griff went a little too far, so much so that when the Foreign Legion troops defeated the main force of the Russian Bolsheviks outside Moscow, the Foreign Legion's attempt to enter Moscow was actually rejected by Kolchak.
However, it is clear that Kolchak's refusal did not do much, and the strong Foreign Legion brutally invaded Moscow, just as the Russians brutally broke into the capital of the Qing Empire.
It's really feng shui in turn, thirty years in the east of the river, thirty years in the west of the river.
Kolchak and Denikin's forces suffered almost no casualties during the assault on Moscow, and finally had to call in for reinforcements from the Foreign Legion.
Liu Zizheng and Greif sent all the tanks and participated in the siege of Moscow.
The tank units were so impressed by Kolchak and Denikin that Kolchak and Denikin demanded the purchase of these tanks to be used to augment their strength.
Liu Zizheng and Griff agreed to Kolchak and Denikin's request, and contacted Clemenceau to give him a big gift.
Clemenceau was worried about how to digest the tanks produced by France during the war, and when he heard that Kolchak and Denikin wanted to buy them, they were naturally happy, so they had the compensation given to the Foreign Legion.
And while Kolchak and Denikin were busy doing business with Clemenceau, the Foreign Legion began scraping the ground in Moscow.
As a historical city with a thousand-year-old reputation, Moscow has many more good things in the city than Tula and Ryazan, and although Peter the Great moved the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg, there are still enough things in Moscow to make the Foreign Legion jealous.
State Historical Museum of Russia, Kremlin, Cathedral of Our Lady of God......
As long as the name is called, it will become a sacred place for the Foreign Legion soldiers to linger.
It is really a holy place, Moscow gives the fighters of the Foreign Legion a feeling of "entering the treasure mountain", and the fighters, of course, will not return empty-handed.
According to incomplete statistics, within half a month after the Foreign Legion captured Moscow, the Foreign Legion transported more than 500 trains of various supplies from Moscow, almost plundering Moscow, and after the Foreign Legion withdrew from Moscow, Moscow almost became an empty city.
Of course, the Foreign Legion did not set fire to Moscow, and the Kremlin and the Cathedral of the Assumption were still majestic, but unfortunately almost all the contents were emptied, and even the gold leaf used to decorate the walls was taken away by the pervasive Foreign Legion.
Equally unfortunate is the State Historical Museum of Russia, which was founded in 1872 and is now no longer worthy of its name, and its empty hall is expected to allow the curator to commit suicide.
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Mr. Curator did not commit suicide by hanging a beam, but one day at the end of June, the director of the Russian State Historical Museum jumped from the spire of the Cathedral of the Assumption and was buried for the Russian State Historical Museum.
A very familiar scene, just a dozen years ago, in the capital of the Qing Empire, there were also officials who died for the fall of the capital.
Family!
It's much more powerful than jumping off a building alone.
Just a dozen years ago, the Russians imposed on the Chinese what they are suffering today, and today, the Chinese are nothing more than paying back as they are.
In this kind of national interest, there is no one who is worse, but it only proves the eternal truth: backwardness will be beaten!
Yes, Russia is still nominally a member of the great powers, but compared to Lanfang, Russia is an out-and-out backward.
(To be continued.) )