H2> influence at home and abroad continues to spread, about the strength of Baotou, every day there are new views, Baotou will be intentional or unintentional every day, exposing a little ability, the highest strength, weapons manufacturing, etc., there is still a tuck, but everyone knows that it can produce rails, has 20 million tons of steel output, and can even produce trains and carriages in Baotou, can not produce guns, maybe the quality is a little worse, but the quantity, is very considerable.

Xiang Cheng, Yuan Zhai, Yuan Shikai and Yang Du sat together, their faces were a little uncomfortable, especially Yuan Shikai, who was depressed at this time. Baotou, this border town that has never been paid attention to, all of a sudden, has become a big problem, now, Baotou has expanded to Shanxi, Shanxi can be said to be an important town in the northwest, connecting Henan and Shaanxi, once expanded, the first to bear the brunt of Henan.

Henan is his hometown, although Xiangcheng is not in the north of Henan, bordering Shanxi, but it is not far, with the assault ability of Baotou to appear, maybe a soldier will point to him.

Yuan Shikai believes that Baotou will not be directly aimed at him, he is just a person who is idle at home, even if he comes, the Yuan family has the ability to get out, but on the hometown side, it is best not to encounter the soldiers, looking at Baotou's current table, Baotou does not have a strong attack posture, in stabilizing Shanxi, part of Shaanxi Hebei and most of the inner side of Mongolia, it has not continued, but has been engaged in construction, which makes Yuan Shikai feel at ease at the same time, and he can't help but have doubts in his heart, What is the purpose of Baotou, an independent government with its own referendum, and what kind of demands he wants to achieve, this is the most important.

In any case, after this war, Baotou has become a very important module on the Chinese map, no one will ignore the entire Baotou, the status of this China, and even, some smart literati, began to feel that this Baotou, perhaps, is really the Qing Dynasty, is the gravedigger of the entire Qing Dynasty, some newspapers, began to appear some news advocating Baotou, look at the pen and pen name, Yuan Shikai is very clear about what they represent.

"Is the news back?" Yuan Shikai asked Yang Du.

It's already July, and the confrontation in Zhangjiakou has lasted for several months, among which there have been sporadic firefights, but there has been no large-scale battle, and the new army in Baotou has not come out, but only occasionally harassed it, which makes Yuan Shikai very strange, a certain Cheng dù, in his heart, the combat effectiveness of the Baotou army has been lowered, although they have powerful weapons, a certain Cheng dù, their training days are still short, they have no way to be the same as the Beiyang Army, have a strong field combat ability, if they really encounter a field battle, The Beiyang Army definitely had the upper hand, but it happened to encounter this kind of positional warfare.

The Beiyang Army in the fortified battle, because of the artillery, is relatively weak, even if there are 20 108, but it was destroyed by the longer range of Baotou heavy artillery, Yuan Shikai, who is familiar with the power of artillery, is very clear that without the protection of a strong heavy artillery unit, the army to attack the other side for many years, there are fixed fortresses, reinforced concrete structure of the fortress, how many casualties, especially the other side has almost a large number of Makqin.

In his heart, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but complain about Zhu Erdian and the United Kingdom, what is the reason, Zhu Erdian actually sat back and watched Baotou have such a strong industrial capacity, with some news from Baotou, under the inquiry of some people, the forces behind Baotou gradually surfaced, Germany and the United States, which has been famous in Shanghai since 1908, is still the holder of life-saving drugs such as sulfonamides, has huge assets in Europe and the United States, and controls unimaginable wealth of the consortium, is the direct backstage of Baotou.

Harpy is a German, or a Jew, must have caused some trouble, Europe and the United States and other powers believe that this is a German attempt in the hinterland of China, as for why not choose Shandong, which already has a considerable foundation, but choose Baotou in the hinterland, perhaps this is based on resource considerations.

As for Germany itself, they know very well that Baotou's qiē has nothing to do with them, if anything, it is just a large number of machine equipment imported from Germany, which is slightly more advanced, but not out of the category, why these second-rate, even backward equipment, in Baotou will have such a miraculous effect, they are afraid to attribute him more to the Jews.

Jews, the managers of European wealth, in the past few hundred years, all the wars in Europe, there are Jews, until the rise of industry and Britain, gradually got rid of the control of the Jews, it is difficult to succeed, this is another attempt by the Jews.

If Yang Yuanzhao knew the minds of the great powers, he would probably laugh from ear to ear, the contradictions between Britain and Germany, he knew very well that in many of Harpy's layouts, in terms of financial investment, they were on the side of Germany, as much as possible to weaken Britain, but the Jews, but really did not expect that although the Jews of later generations were also in the financial field, they could no longer affect the general trend of the whole country and the world, and at the beginning of the 20th century, before the First World War, the power of the Jews was weakened, But it is also an era with countless legends.

Successfully diverted the attention of the European and American powers, especially Germany, Baotou and China want to develop, they can't always do everything by themselves, if they want to develop rapidly and complete the process of industrialization, they need to be based on the science and technology of this era, after the rise of Baotou, the possibility of getting the machine from Britain and France is almost nothing, but Germany and the United States are a direction, and the most cutting-edge power that supports the country is cutting-edge technology, but when it comes to the time of the war of attrition, what is needed is just a second-rate level. But the number is definitely much larger.

Later generations of scholars have summarized that the First World War, as the first large-scale war in the world after the industrial **, in fact, he fought nothing else, it was the skilled workers of various countries, taking Russia and France as an example, even if France's focus is on the financial field, the number of skilled workers cultivated over the years is far greater than that of Russia, which has caused the fact that the French army and the Russian army are completely two different concepts of army, and the huge number of skilled workers has supported the continuation and consumption of the world war.

As for World War II, it is already the industry ** has entered the deepening stage, the skilled workers of various countries have reached a huge height, the consumption of the war, in the case of skilled workers to keep up, has become a game of steel, the amount of steel production, directly represents different strengths, compare the steel output and battlefield status and situation in various countries, you can come up with a very interesting conclusion, almost the same.

China, started too late, temporarily in the First World War, did not do much, but with the help of the First World War, coupled with the large investment and training of skilled workers skyrocketed, based on China's huge population, under the selection of the best of the best, training a group of qualified and mature skilled workers, which is very important to catch up with the world powers.

Among them, Germany is a very key link, cooperate with each other, enhance Germany's strength, so that in the First World War, Germany fought better, and further consume the strength of the great powers, is the hope of China's rise.

Since Germany did not suspect it, Yang Yuanzhao did not make any extraneous branches, but quietly doubled the amount of tungsten concentrate powder, and signed a secret contract with Germany, and the steel of Baiyun Obo Iron and Steel Group, starting from 1912, was given priority to supply to Germany, with a total of 3.5 million tons.

The bulk steel transaction is always related to the international shape, 3.5 million tons, almost equivalent to one-third of Germany's national output, although it is only ordinary rebar, plates, steel bars and some steel rails, Baotou is on the external list, high-grade steel is not on the list, there is already a huge output of 20 million tons, if it can still produce the world's mainstream high-grade steel, this is not a bright muscle, that is to cause hatred.

The world's powers, including Britain and Germany, did not expect that Baotou's steel technology is so high, or in the previous vision, as long as it reaches the world's average level, Baotou's steel price advantage will be highlighted, lower than the market price of one or five prices, including Germany's own unlimited demand for steel, some of its own low-end steel plants, can carry out technological transformation, more production for the military industry has great significance, higher quality steel, 3.5 million tons of low-end steel, can allow Germany to accumulate more war materials.

In August 1911, a team of 27 people, including 3 diplomats, 12 officers and other attachés, secretly set off from Germany, they would go to Shanghai by boat, along the Yangtze River and China's railway, secretly to Baotou, they were members of the German office in Baotou, with consul-level diplomatic authority, of course, Baotou's status has not been recognized by the whole world, they are also secretly there, Externally only as the German and American office in Baotou, but in terms of authority, not much worse than the German consul in Shanghai, Baotou's diplomacy, began to take a big step forward, from the German and American transit, into a direct contact, and most of the German universities, are from China, especially from Baotou students, welcome the situation, from this day, Baotou began a large number of expatriate students, from the original 1500-2000 a year, surged to 5000, a step a year, By the end of 1913, the total number of students studying in Europe in Baotou reached an astonishing 79,000, including 75,000 in Germany. R1152