So the French were the first to find the Chinese government, and they offered to provide financial support to the Russian army in Siberia, so that China could provide military supplies to the Russians, and they were very generous to throw a large order to China, but asked the Chinese government to give a guarantee that they would support the Russians to restore domestic power. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the eyes of the French, the three million Russians can undoubtedly send the Tsar to the throne again, plus the rebels in other regions, it is just a piece of cake to suppress the German-backed Bushviks, and then as long as they continue to support, the Tsar's army should still be combat-effective, maybe not as strong as before, but there is no problem in containing the German army's two million troops.

The battles of Verdun and the Somme were indeed about to drain the blood of the French.

Yang Chao gladly accepted the order of the French, and even agreed to the request of the French to recruit Chinese laborers.

"But all Chinese workers must be under our control, and we must not accept them being sent to battle."

Yang Chao emphasized.

He knew that neither the French nor the British had complied with the agreement, sending large numbers of workers directly to the battlefield to dig trenches for them, and even to involve them in the battle, but after the war he refused to admit that the Chinese also contributed to the war.

"We can guarantee that."

The Frenchman said.

In fact, there are already Chinese workers working in France, that was when Yuan Shikai was in power, the French got the power from Yuan Shikai, or they have long had the right to recruit workers in China, and the Americans got the power from the Qing government half a century ago, this power allows Americans to recruit chemical industry to the United States to build railways, so that the United States can sell Chinese laborers as piglets to Nanyang to open mines, and to South Africa to dig gold.

The French just invoked this power, and the government of Yuan Shikai, who recognized the past treaties, did not dare to object, and it didn't matter, just a few Chinese laborers, and their lives were worthless.

As a result, many poor Chinese laborers, attracted by high wages, embarked on the dangerous route to Europe.

To be honest, the French treated the Chinese workers much better than the British devils, and the British devils used all kinds of deception in the Chinese colonies, fooling the local people into being honest and honest, and they were extremely loyal to the queen, but the Chinese workers found that the British racial discrimination was the most serious when they arrived in Europe.

In China, the Chinese encountered British officials who had been trained in the colonial department, and these people knew that they had to respect and accommodate the decadent culture of the colonial people, such as the Chinese concubinage system, but in Europe, it was indeed a group of British low-level officers who managed Chinese labor, and these low-level workers and peasants had serious racist ideas, believing that white supremacy and other races were only slightly higher than monkeys, and that evolution was incomplete.

However, after the formation of the Li Yuanhong government, it rejected the British and French requests to recruit Chinese laborers, cutting off the supply of labor to the French.

Now Yang Chao finally agreed, and generously agreed, agreeing that the French would recruit no more than 3 million workers in Sichuan, Yunnan and other poor areas of China, but Yang Chao would send officials to manage these Chinese workers, who would only work in factories and farms in the French rear, and would never be close to the battlefield.

The French are not qualified to refuse, what they need now is troops, and the labor force in the rear is the force, and they need the Chinese labor force to replace the French labor force, so that the French labor force can become soldiers to defend the motherland.

Yang Chao wished that the Europeans would continue to break into the battlefield and turn them into ashes, and he was also happy to see the Chinese workers help bury these ashes.

But the Germans disagreed, and Waddell immediately approached Yang Chao and lodged a strong protest against this, believing that China was undermining the neutrality law.

"What can you do if we destroy it?"

Yang Chao glared at him with disdain, of course, Yang Chao didn't stimulate him, because the two did not meet officially, if there was a formal relationship, the Germans should go to Lu Zhengxiang, not Yang Chao, and it should be the German ambassador who came forward, not Wald.

Waddell is now communicating with Yang Chao in a private capacity, and Yang Chao invites him to drink the best green tea to quench the fire.

"There is no way we can refuse the demands of the French. And although we have banned it all these years, the French have actually been secretly recruiting. You know that Chinese workers are the best labor force in the world, diligent, silent, honest, and obedient. The reason why the French don't look for labor in Africa is because blacks are not easy to manage. We can't stop it, so we can only regulate it, otherwise I can't help but worry that the French will send Chinese workers to the battlefield when their troops are insufficient, which is absolutely unacceptable to me, and what Germany does not want to see. ”

Waddell snorted: "Well, I came to you in the hope of getting support from China, we need a lot of food." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "A lot of grain? You can import it from Switzerland. I heard that Switzerland has become the largest exporter of iron ore, grain and pharmaceuticals in Central Europe in recent years. ”

The Americans' trade with Germany and Austria was all through Switzerland, but the scale of the trade was getting smaller and smaller, because the Germans had less and less gold.

The Americans were willing to exchange gold for supplies, but they were absolutely unwilling to lend money to Germany, and the Americans had already decided that Germany would be defeated before the war.

Waddell lamented: "This autumn, there was a massive failure of grain in Germany, and the Americans did not have enough capacity. We need at least 10 million tons of food for emergencies, otherwise in three months Germany could collapse! ”

Well, Yang Chao remembered that in the autumn of 1916, there was indeed a famine in Germany.

The Germans had begun to grow potatoes almost exclusively, and the Germans had been eating potatoes for two years, just like the Irish in those days, but like Ireland, there was a massive outbreak of potato disease.

After two years of war, Germany was blockaded by Britain for two years, and one-third of Germany's food needed to be imported before the war.

After the potato production was reduced, the Germans began to use turnips, what turnips, commonly known as kohlrabi in China, are used by Chinese to pickle pickles.

To be precise, this is a slightly starchy vegetable, very low in calories, using turnips can only satisfy hunger, completely unable to provide calories and nutrients, Germans usually do not eat this thing, only used to raise horses.

The Germans had already begun widespread malnutrition, and the civilian mortality rate due to undernourishment had doubled.

And this winter left a deep impression on the Germans, which they will never forget for a century, and they gave this winter a special name, called the winter of turnips.

If it weren't for this reduction in potato production, maybe the Germans would not have broken out in the end, the Germans were finally defeated, they were hungry, there was no shortage of weapons and ammunition, steel and coal were self-sufficient, and the army's combat effectiveness was stronger than that of Britain and France, and the army was basically still fighting near Paris before the defeat, so the later Germans were very unconvinced, and it also made sense.

"Capacity, China's capacity is also insufficient. Unless you can open up the lines of communication between Germany and China, we can't help either! ”

Yang Chao encouraged the Germans to take control of the Soviet Union.

Of course, the Germans also wanted to, but the Soviet Union did not play cards according to the rules at all, they negotiated with Germany, and did not accept the armistice conditions proposed by Germany at all, but they did not want to fight, they simply wanted to withdraw from the war, the front-line troops were constantly fleeing, they did not fight with the Germans, but they did not sign a treaty, which made Germany extremely headache.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff have called many times to launch a campaign on the Eastern Front, but with the two unprecedented large-scale battles of Verdun and the Somme, Germany does not have the spare troops to pick the fruit of Russia.

At this time, the officers of the Russian front, under the control of the soldiers' committee, had completely lost their control, and any order they gave had to be discussed by the soldiers' committee, and basically the order to attack would not be passed, and the order to retreat was very cheerful, and the retreat often turned into a rout.

The Hindenburg duo used their own forces to launch several attacks, the most recent one, with 100,000 people directly defeated the Russian army of 500,000 people, as soon as they opened fire, the Russians fled, and finally annihilated 40,000 people, captured 30,000 people, and more than 400,000 Russian troops ran and they couldn't catch up.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff led an army of troops, which had driven Russia out of the territory of Austria-Hungary, out of Poland, and into Ukraine, but they had no follow-up, they could obviously advance, but they did not have the conditions to advance, the supplies could not keep up, the weapons and ammunition could not keep up, how could they fight?

Now the Soviets are playing scoundrels with Germany by relying on their huge territory, you can fight if you want, anyway, we cannot agree to the conditions you put forward, we do not accept harsh armistice conditions, we just want not to fight, we do not want to pay reparations, and we do not want to cede land.

The Germans were depressed to find that they had nothing to do with the scoundrels of the Russians, who called the people to have a thick foundation and a large territory, so you can't afford to occupy it, what else can you do.

Under the outbreak of the food crisis, the Germans did not occupy Russia, but they were afraid that they would not consume Russia, which had been defeated, but their victorious country would be consumed.

So they need China's support, they need China's food hunger, and most importantly, China's huge air transport force.

"First, we will not enter German territory. Second, we will not transport arms directly. Thirdly, we will not accept paper money! ”

Helping Germany is naturally to help, just like helping France, and letting Europe drain its blood is in the interests of any region outside Europe.

Waddell frowned, and the Chinese were concerned about nothing more than British protests, saying that they were undermining the neutrality law.

Therefore, the Chinese do not transport materials into German territory, transport them to Switzerland or other neutral countries, and of course arms and materials cannot be sent directly over, but there is no problem with transshipment through Switzerland, and these are all understandable, and the previously established traffic routes have always been operated in this way.

But the issue of paper money is a headache. (To be continued.) )