Yang Chao's toughness and Yuan Shikai's riding on the wall, one made Zhang Jian very pleased, and the other made Zhang Jian very angry, he wanted to express his attitude and proposed to Yang Chao that he would march to Qingdao. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He can't go alone, he wants to mobilize 1 million workers from the Dasheng Yarn Factory to go together.

Dasheng has now expanded to 1 million people, and the number of female workers in the entire Shandong textile industry has exceeded 3 million, in fact, in the bet with Yang Chao, Zhang Jian has won, but he did not let Yang Chao go to clean the toilet for him, but came to Yang Chao as a knife and pen officer, in fact, he hoped that Yang Chao could win.

"Champion Gong, forget it. I'm afraid the Germans have ideas. ”

Yang Chao smiled and comforted Zhang Jian. The German people in Qingdao were very delicate at this time, and the governor of Qingdao told the German companies that Qingdao was only temporarily handed over to China's jurisdiction, and that Germany would still have to restore its jurisdiction after the war. If Zhang Jian led people to declare sovereignty at this time, these German-funded entrepreneurs were afraid of psychological uneasiness, which would greatly affect production.

Zhang Jian understood what Yang Chao meant, and snorted coldly: "Could it be that you really want to hand Qingdao back again?" ”

Yang Chao entered Qingdao, he was happy in his heart, but the agreement signed by Yang Chao with the Germans to return jurisdiction after the war made him feel as uncomfortable as a fly.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "Champion Gong, do you think this official is the kind of person who will do a loss-making business?" ”

Zhang Jian has always disliked Yang Chao's style of treating state affairs as a transaction, but it is rare that this time he did not show a look of contempt.

"If the German warships come after the war, will you dare to go to war?"

Yang Chao laughed: "Champion Gong, do you think I will wait until the Germans come to beat me?" ”

Zhang Jian was stunned: "Could it be that you want to go to war first?" ”

Yang Chao smiled: "That's right, if I don't start a war with the Germans, how can I confiscate those German assets in Qingdao?" When this period of tension has passed, production has stabilized, and the Chinese technicians and managers have been able to accept the huge industry of Tsingtao, it will be time for us to declare war on Germany. ”

"Confiscation of assets? Which factories are included? ”

Zhang Jian was stunned, he was in business, although he was doing it with the mentality of a strong country, he was not a real capitalist, but he was even difficult to do business, if Yang Chao shamelessly wanted to confiscate those German factories, he would have some sympathy for the Germans.

The result of sympathy was that he intended not to stimulate the poor minds of these Germans for the time being.

At the same time, Yang Chao's counteroffensive against the Japanese army had already begun.

300,000 veterans who have been fighting with the Japanese for a year in the Northeast are not lost to the Japanese in tactical actions at all.

Of course, in terms of mental state, it may not be as good as the Japanese army cultivated by bushido, but the Japanese army at this time has not reached the madness of later generations.

When the 300,000-strong army, on a wide frontage of 10 kilometers, after an hour of shelling by 10,000 cannons, and 3,000 airships forcibly covered the assault, the Japanese army collapsed.

The Japanese position was originally an offensive position, prepared for the attack on Qingdao, and they never thought that China would send troops to attack them after demarcating the neutral zone, but they used the idea that the Qing government had set aside the northeast neutral zone and let them fight to the death with Russia, when they defeated the Russians, they could get Korea, and this time they defeated the Germans, they could get Qingdao.

The Japanese who had such a sweet dream were caught off guard and could not bear it very much.

"Our side lost 110,000 people, annihilated 30,000 Japanese troops, captured 40,000, and the rest of the Japanese troops fled!"

It didn't take three days, the next day the Japanese were driven out of the sea, and only 30,000 people had time to escape back to their warship and leave Shandong in a crowd.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese issued a tough protest, which had already been considered by Yang Chao.

"What is the attitude of the British?"

"The British expressed their regret to the Foreign Office and hoped that China would be able to completely solve the problem of power at the central and local levels."

Zhang Nian reported to Yang Chao the different attitudes of Britain and Japan.

"These two bandits don't seem to agree on their own."

"By the way, the British sent our men back."

Zhang Nian said that the British not only did not follow the Japanese to put pressure on Yuan Shikai, but instead released Yang Chao's spies in Weihai and encouraged Hua Yong to create a counter-agent.

"It seems that the British are not going to go crazy with Japan on the Qingdao issue."

Yang Chao sighed with emotion, quite regretful, so that he had no excuse to do it to Weihai immediately.

However, the reaction of the British was in line with their usual approach, and it was clear that the Japanese did not get the support of the British for their re-attack on Qingdao this time, after all, it was the Japanese who took Qingdao and ate the fat. There is no difference between giving Qingdao to Yang Chao and giving it to Japan, for Britain. And it is impossible to say that the British did not have the slightest idea of Qingdao.

The key is to win the European war, and now is the time when the elite German army is in full swing, and has been taking the initiative to attack the British and French Russian troops, and the British really don't have the strength to come to China to follow the Japanese crazy, and at this time to annoy Yang Chao, except for the loss of their interests, there is no meaning.

As for the post-war, the British have a way to clean up Yang Chao, before Yang Chao was in Shandong, it was hiding under the wings of the Germans, the British did not do it, this war taught Germany a lesson, so that the Germans understand that the countries on their continent, it is best to stay on the continent honestly, the sea belongs to the British Empire, the British Empire will be like before, the mainland countries will fight to the death, they take the opportunity to seize the colonies of the mainland countries overseas, such as from the French to Canada, this time they will also snatch Qingdao from the Germans, robbed Shandong, so they were not very happy that the Japanese would eat Qingdao either.

However, the Japanese will not rest on their laurels, and they can temporarily abandon their relationship with Yang Chao in the northeast, and the importance attached to the industrial base of Qingdao is obviously extraordinary, and the heavy industry here is ten times larger than the heavy industry of the whole of Japan.

Yang Chao soon received a message that the Japanese pressured Yuan Shikai to declare Shandong a rebellion and send the Beiyang Army to attack Shandong, and the Japanese would fully support Yuan Shikai and be willing to send a million troops to help the Beiyang Army.

"Yuan Shikai won't agree!"

When Zhang Nian got the news, one or two panicked overnight and reported it to Yang Chao, and Yang Chao immediately judged.

"If Yuan Shikai plans to unite with the Japanese, then you won't be able to inquire about this news, this news is obviously released to you by Yuan Shikai."

Yang Chao is sure. Yuan Shikai is not the Qing government, and when he engages in conspiracy, it is impossible for people to know. So Yang Chao gave up letting Ma Tengfei stay active in Beijing and sent him to Shanghai.

"Why? Yuan Shikai is not worried that I have heavy troops in my hands, and he can rest assured that he can put 1 million Japanese troops in China? ”

Yang Chao explained to Zhang Nian.

After the Japanese lobbied Yuan Shikai to no avail, they sent warships to blockade the entire Shandong coast, not only Qingdao but also Yantai.

At this time, the New Year had passed, and Yang Chao had finally received an order for the European war, and after half a year of fighting, the arms stocks of the great powers were finally insufficient.

The first was the Russians, they placed an order for 2 million rifles, and an order for 1000 cannons, and as for machine guns they purchased from France.

Last year, Russia first launched three attacks on Austria-Hungary, and at first achieved some gains, capturing several cities on the border, but Austria-Hungary, which had learned trench warfare from the Serbian side, quickly reorganized the defensive line, and the deployment of machine gun trenches and barbed wire still had a great advantage.

The Russians sent airship troops to bomb, but after being shot down by a third, they did not dare to consume these expensive airships, and all of them were sent to the rear, and only used artillery to continuously bombard the Austro-Hungarian positions.

The results of Austria-Hungary were not very good, as soon as the war began, they thought that they would be able to defeat Serbia in two weeks, but they launched three general attacks in a row, but they were withstood by the Serbs, losing tens of thousands of soldiers without achieving any results.

The Serbs' tactics are very simple, that is, to defend, to defend, they have no capital to counterattack, the effect is good under the defense, the trenches dug are armed with a large number of machine guns supported by Britain and France, like an unpleasant place of death, full of the blood of the sworn enemy Austro-Hungarian soldiers.

The lessons learned by Austria-Hungary from the Serbian side were quickly applied to the Russian side, which caused the Russians to remobilize a new group of troops and intend to adjust their strategy.

The new strategy of the Russians was adjusted at the request of the French, who were somewhat unable to withstand the German attack.

Under the Schlieffen plan, the German army broke into Belgium as soon as possible, and the airships and heavy artillery were all in battle, easily destroying Belgium, and then passing through the Belgian border and entering the undefended areas of France in large numbers, which was much faster than the original history, making the French even more embarrassed.

The French hastily formed a new defensive line, but for a time could not stop the German advance.

Everything was done by the French, in fact, they had long known about the German Schlieffen plan, and copies of the plan were obtained by their spies, but the French military did not believe it, they felt that it was unrealistic for the German army to go around in a big circle and attack France from the north, and the commander-in-chief of the French army, General Xia Fei, was still deployed in the German-French border area around Alsace and Lorraine.

The Germans have always been very open to the use of new military technology, they used a large number of airships to open the way, blow up railway bridges and other ways to prevent the French from mobilizing troops, and at the same time actively promoted, and even used thousands of large airships to transport soldiers, the speed of the march almost caught up with the blitzkrieg of World War II, so for a time to achieve a large number of advantages, so that the French panicked.

In fact, the tactics of the Germans were still too conservative, and if they were to change to Yang Chao, they would definitely send airships on a large scale to bomb French communication lines, factories and cities, that is, strategic bombing. However, under the guiding ideology of the short war, the Germans did not do this, but used airships as a cover for penetration, thinking that if they broke through the French line and hit Paris, the French should surrender.

The French did not surrender so easily, and the humiliation accumulated by the Franco-Prussian War gave them a strong desire to be ashamed, and they held back their strength from top to bottom. Therefore, the French did not think of surrendering at all, but immediately asked the British to increase their troops as soon as possible and transfer the army to the mainland.

However, the British have never been active in the deployment of the army, and in half a year they only mobilized 1 million troops to the mainland, which was not enough to offset the losses of the French army.

Therefore, France hoped that Russia would temporarily shift the focus of its attack from Austria-Hungary to Germany to relieve the pressure of the French, and the Russians readily agreed to this request from their allies, which proved that Russia could not be ignored in Europe, and of course, the French asked for $100 million in military sponsorship was also one of the driving forces.

It was thanks to the dollar debt borrowed by the French through Britain in New York, USA, that the Russians were able to form a new army and at the same time purchase large quantities of arms from Yang Chao.

For the orders of the Russians, Yang Chao was directly delivered, and his ordnance production workshop produced enough weapons and equipment during this time, and the result was that when his munitions were sent to Russia through the railway line, the Russians had not recruited enough soldiers, and most of them were still in the countryside around the country.

The French finally held off the Germans at the Marne, and with the help of the growing British, they took a breath before they began to organize a counterattack.

The Anglo-French forces fought a war of attrition with the Germans on the Marne, and the Russian army began to increase its forces in East Prussia, intending to attack Germany from the Eastern Front.

After half a year of fighting, the Westerners are still very optimistic, still believing that Germany will definitely be able to be resolved this year, and the joint actions of Britain, France and the Russian army will definitely be able to defeat Germany.

After the Russian army launched the East Prussian Campaign, the Germans began to take a defensive position on the Western Front, mobilizing troops to solve the urgent needs of the eastern frontier first.

In 1914, the Europeans were fighting lively, and in the East, Yang Chao marched into Qingdao and drove out the Japanese who wanted to get their hands on it.

But as soon as 1915 began, it was not peaceful.

There are three telephones in Yang Chao's office, one black, one white, and one red.

All three phones were emergency and had the same high priority, white for government officials, such as Yuan Shikai, red for the military, such as Wu Peifu, and black for economic issues, such as Li Sidi to Yang Chao at the Industrial Bureau.

Telephones were still expensive equipment at this time, and they still relied on telegraphs for daily work, and these phones were all emergency calls, so they rarely rang.

But it rang on the first day of the new year, and the black phone rang non-stop.

"What, run?"

Yang Chao couldn't believe that there was a run on Shanghai at this time.

Shanghai's light industry is indeed growing out of control, but that is because of the normal growth of light industry products such as Japanese textiles after being driven out of China by Yang Chao, and Yangzi Bank only issued 10 billion banknotes, plus the bank's leverage did not exceed 50 billion taels of silver.

Although it is also seriously overissued, after the outbreak of the European war, European goods are no longer entering China.

Shanghai light industry has monopolized the Chinese market, you must know that although the Japanese light industry is strong, but the largest share of the Chinese market is still the Western powers, Japanese textiles can not compete with the British textiles that have been in business for more than half a century, they are just eating some leftovers behind the British.

It should be said that the economic fundamentals are very good, but there is a run, which is extremely abnormal.

"HSBC again?"

Yang Chao thought that HSBC, controlled by the Sassoon family, was making trouble, so did they plan to be pawns of the British and launch an economic attack?

"It's not HSBC, HSBC says it's Japanese!" (To be continued.) )