Chapter 257: International Trends
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In fact, the purpose of Lin Haijiang's trip was to secretly obtain a large number of French field survey data and materials during the period when Germany supervised the German troops stationed in France, so as to prepare for the future world war, after all, the Chinese Empire did not intend to abandon Germany as an ally, although Lin Haijiang could completely obtain these materials from the German side, but Lin Haijiang did not want to give Kaiser Wilhelm I the feeling that the Chinese Empire wanted to meddle in European affairs. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because in history, between the popularization of France, Prussia looked at France as a piece of meat, and why didn't France look at Prussia as a piece of meat? There will be no longer any room for a third party to interfere between the two, even if it is an ally of their own.
Lin Haijiang may think very far, Lin Haijiang has thought of the First World War, which does not seem to be far away, because of his arrival, the causes of many historical events have changed, the butterfly effect is fundamentally that all changes will be out of all control, the Franco-Prussian War in history broke out in advance because of the strength of Prussia, and the poorly prepared Prussia faced the same underprepared France, after a lot of back and forth, although the final result has changed a lot from history, But the French seem to have retained more vitality, and the disgruntled Napoleon III did not step down as in history, and Lin Haijiang, who was familiar with this period of history, knew that France was forced to cede Alsace and Lorraine to Germany after war preparations, which touched France's fundamental interests in Europe, and the Franco-Prussian War was actually the real fuse of the First Time War, and the assassination in Sarajevo was actually crucial.
The Second Moroccan Crisis between Germany and France, plus the Second Balkan War between Austria-Hungary and Russia, a war between the Entente and the Central Powers was inevitable!
And all this is due to the rapid development of Germany led to the deformity of the domestic supply and demand industry, and Wilhelm II changed the continental policy formulated by Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck and implemented his so-called new world policy!
Along the way, Lin Haijiang has been thinking about the international positioning of his Chinese Empire, although he has become enemies with most European countries, but he has an ocean-type expeditionary fleet that does not dare to let the world look down on him, and what is more advantageous is that the Chinese Empire has as many as 12 brigades, well-trained, well-equipped marines with rich combat experience, and it can be said that the Chinese Empire is at the forefront of the world in terms of naval construction.
Since the Franco-Prussian War can be advanced, whether the First World War can also be advanced, Lin Haijiang is looking forward to the last large-scale colonial feast in this world, but he is also more aware of the high and noble tickets to participate in this feast!
Lin Haijiang knew that he had no patience to wait for him to be sixty or seventy years old, and his passion had worn out before attending this feast, and the only way was to think of this feast in advance, if in the case of reckless military force, the imperial navy's armament construction could maintain an advantage for another five to eight years, but this advantage would continue to gradually shrink under the gradual catch-up of European countries, so that it would be surpassed in the end!
If the Russians could be completely eliminated before 1870, Lin Haijiang believed that if World War I broke out, the possibility of victory for the Central Powers would be higher, because if the Russians were completely eliminated, the Germans would no longer have to face the dilemma and desperate situation of fighting on the second front.
In the carriage, Lin Haijiang admired the idyllic scenery of France, while feeling the depression and destruction brought by the war to France, it can be said that the ratio of men and women in France has been almost out of balance, and it is rare to see young and strong men, and the enthusiastic and cheerful French girls seem to be very interested in the young men of the Chinese Empire's sturdy marines.
The Marines of the Chinese Empire can also be regarded as having seen some of the world, otherwise it will really scare the enthusiastic French girls, but the French girls hate the Chinese Imperial Gendarmerie with a poker face the most, where they appear the gendarmes can intercept them, and they can intercept them wherever they appear, and they are almost idiots in the eyes of the gendarmes, and the Marines dare to be angry and dare not speak, otherwise once they are rude, the Fuhrer is likely to send them to Nansha to see the islands and reefs.
In the car, taking advantage of the absence of Tokugawa Sakurako, Lin Haijiang, Li Anmin and Wang Faren studied the policy of the Chinese Empire towards Russia and the European countries, Wang Faren knew more about Russia, because in the past two years, the intelligence headquarters in the Far East has made great achievements through commerce and trade, thus facilitating the overall vertical infiltration.
Wang Faren has long been familiar with Russian intelligence, but Wang Faren still thought for a while before saying: "Russia is a huge obstacle to the unification and future expansion of our Chinese Empire, although Russia's industry is backward compared to Europe, the economy is not developed, and the quality of the troops is uneven, but we cannot ignore one point, that is, quantity, the Führer once said that when the two sides are on the same basic weapons and equipment platform, once the quantity exceeds six times the quality, then the quality will be overwhelmed by the quantity." ”
Lin Haijiang glanced at Wang Faren with a little surprise, he did say this sentence on an informal occasion, at that time, he felt that the German tank troops blindly pursued precision and quality during World War II, but in the end, the tiger and the leopard were overwhelmed by the T34/85, which cost only one-seventh of them, but I didn't expect Wang Faren to have been memorized? Li Anmin wrote down this sentence on the cover with a small notebook on the side, as if to use it as a motto to remind him?
Wang Faren continued expressionlessly: "The so-called Tsarist Russia is actually the Muscovy of Moscow, one of the Rus' principalities that came out of the Golden Horde in the Mongol Empire in the mid-fourteenth century, and it was not until 1546 that Ivan IV, Grand Duke of Muscovy, was crowned Tsar, and Tsarist Russia was born. So much so that in 1721, Peter the Great won the Northern War with Sweden, and the Russian Senate awarded the title of Emperor of the Russian Empire, and Russia became an empire in the formal sense. ”
Lin Haijiang nodded after Wang Faren's words and said: "As a major country in Europe, Russia could not avoid participating in the French war with Napoleon, which provided an opportunity for the rise of the Russians and the expansion to Western Europe, around June 1812, Napoleon led an army of 600,000 to invade Russia, which was at least twice as strong as the Russian regular army, and was more well-equipped. However, while Napoleon was advancing, he also faced the problem of overexpansion, Russia used the strategy of scorched earth warfare, and Napoleon encountered the cold winter of Russia, which caused Napoleon to suffer a catastrophic defeat, and less than 30,000 remnants of his army were defeated and eventually withdrew to France. While France was retreating, Russia advanced into Central and Western Europe, and finally outside Paris, where Tsar Alexander I was seen as the savior of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon by the anti-French coalition. ”
Lin Haijiang took a sip of tea and continued to say lightly: "During the Crimean War, the regular standing army of the Russian army has reached 900,000 people, and the cavalry of various tribes that can be called up in wartime, including Cossacks, Chechen Mion, Montenegro and so on, are not counted, although its standing army in the Far East is less than 70,000, but this time it can be expanded to 400,000 in a short period of time, which is a very terrifying number!" ”
Li Anmin closed his own notebook and said: "The situation in the Far East and Chechnya is relatively similar, Russia is a huge multi-ethnic country, Russia is a community of interests formed through continuous marriage and expansion, its population in the Far East is about 4.6 million, basically belong to the tribal towns and towns, the proportion of young and middle-aged people in the pioneer population is relatively large, it can recruit more than 300,000 people, basically belongs to the whole people are soldiers, through the intelligence of the intelligence headquarters shows that the Russian army entered the Heilongjiang cavalry unit of about 20,000 female soldiers, And the logistics are mainly young and strong women. ”
Lin Haijiang smiled and nodded: "The Russians have always liked to hold on, but his thirty army that crossed the border is not locusts, they are building towns and cultivating fields, which is the most terrifying, so once the time is ripe, we must speed up the pace of reunification, so that the Russians will not become stronger in Heilongjiang." ”
Li Anmin nodded and asked: "Führer, then how do we treat Tsar Alexander II to participate in the coronation ceremony of Kaiser Wilhelm I this time?" ”
Lin Haijiang hesitated for a moment and said: "It depends on the performance of the Russians themselves, if they are honest, we will also be polite to him, after all, we are ready to clean them up with a dead hand, we might as well give them a smile, but if the Russians give them a shameless face, then we don't have to be polite to them, we have offended the whole of Europe, don't we have a good life?" This world speaks with strength, and the cannons of our Chinese Empire's naval warships represent justice and justice, and whoever I fight is unjust! ”
Lin Haijiang paused and said: "It is estimated that it is difficult for us to act in a low-key manner this time, after all, we have offended too many people, if we can't be low-key at that time, then we might as well act in a high-profile manner, like Spain, the Netherlands, countries that only have the ability to shout, we might as well whip him hard!" For the British, you will mainly be treated with tenderness, and when the time comes, Commander Li, you can secretly contact the British and tell them that we have no interest in India, and that the Imperial Indian Ocean Fleet is completely for the defense of Indochina! ”
Li Anmin and Wang Faren looked at each other a little helplessly, they both admitted that His Excellency the Führer does have extraordinary intelligence and judgment, but the Führer's face seems to be a little too thick? For some things that can only be understood and unspeakable, they can still speak up and speak extremely righteously, which is really worthy of their admiration and learning!
(To be continued)