Germany attaches great importance to Yang Yuanzhao's visit this time, starting from Yang Yuanzhao's warship, most of his actions are in the attention of German politics, and the connection between Germany and the northwest has only been slowly established in the past two years.

However, from the war against Russia, it was contacted at the political level, and the strength of the northwest table made the German political circles surprised again and again, because the changes in the military deployment of the Northwest Army, barbed wire, Maxim, and even the newly developed light machine gun, began to gradually enter the sequence of the German Army, which are quietly changing Germany's strength, making Germany more powerful in the face of war, and the originally powerful Army is even more powerful.

Don't mention these sources, just say that this time Yang Yuanzhao carried an order of 400 million US dollars, which will have some sensitive materials, such as docks, mainframe equipment, huge interests, and will not involve national security, everyone is greedy, whether they can keep more share to themselves, is what the current senior German officials want to do.

When the warship entered the Indian Ocean, it turned around the Persian Gulf, which is normal, hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers are fighting in the Persian Gulf, and they need to go and see it in a reasonable way, but when they look at it this way, there is a little bit of something, in the telegram jointly between Mulmer and Spee, the Chinese workers in the construction of the Kiel Canal are involved, claiming that the workers in the northwest are extremely efficient and will greatly reduce the construction period.

The Kiel Canal, which is a huge project, was an important project in Germany from the time it was put into construction, and from the time it was completed in 1895, it provided important military and economic efficiency, but unfortunately it was not considered forward-looking at the time, which in the opinion of Wilhelm II, was an eternal pain, and the Kiel Canal had to be completed about 12 years ago, and in 1907, the expansion project was restarted. 、

Expensive and time-consuming, now the expansion project has been more than halfway, in 5 years, most of the difficulties have been overcome, is expected to be completed in 2 years, when the Kiel Canal will no longer be a lock restricting Germany, but will be a huge driving force.

Chinese workers joining, is that good? Wilhelm II had a hard time deciding, thinking that Mummer had made this decision after he had gone to Basra, and by the way, he also wanted to know how efficient the workers in the northwest were, from the signing of the Baghdad Railway to the construction of the port of Basra.

Wilhelm II was the emperor of Germany, and he had every opportunity, especially after gaining insight into the attitude of the British, all kinds of armaments and army expansions were simply complicated, the army and navy, the two major branches of the army had to be adjusted in place, all kinds of rare metals and metals that were not produced in Germany itself, these needed to be purchased secretly and in large quantities, in this case, the problems of the Baghdad railway and the port of Basra were not put on his desk, and unless they had been completely completed, they would attract the attention of the Kaiser.

In Baghdad, there are officials from the German intelligence department, and Yang Yuanzhao has never kept secrets, and he has always had good exchanges with the German side about the construction trends, and the attendants quickly found the latest progress of the Baghdad railway and the Basra port from a large number of files, which had just been sent last month.

Thin, only more than 20 pages of information, Wilhelm II but read very attentively, almost every page read for a long time, while reading, while calculating, in the end, the result was shocking to him, Wilhelm II from the beginning as the crown prince, actively participated in various social practices, and later became the emperor, not deaf to the window affairs, for so many years, for the people's livelihood and other aspects are also relatively well understood, the Baghdad railway handed over to the northwest, on the one hand, because the northwest advanced, However, in addition, it is not a major in the northwest, and it also has experience in building railways, and it may take two or three years to complete the railways that could only be completed in seven or eight years.

Such a speed, in the opinion of Wilhelm II, is already very fast, the number on the information is more radical, the speed of the northwest, than he had expected, much faster, less than a year, basically the main line of the Baghdad Railway, as well as the section towards the Basra eyes, has been built, at most 2 months, can be opened to traffic. This efficiency, which is at least 8 times faster than the Germans calculated before, in 8 years, is what is the reason for the Northwest to have such a huge efficiency.

Turning to the last page, Wilhelm II did not gain anything, the Baghdad Railway, Basra Port, proved one thing from two aspects, that is, the speed and efficiency of the construction of large-scale infrastructure projects in the northwest are far more powerful than he imagined, if you can use the power of the northwest, Germany can not save a lot of labor on large-scale infrastructure construction.

Germany's military expansion was carried out in secret, military expenditures and military orders were also divided, and there was a little contradiction between military conscription and workers, whether to keep enough workers for production, or to recruit enough soldiers, the total population of Germany was only about 66 million, which was large in terms of population density, and the population of important cities had also reached more than 14 million, which was the focus of conscription and workers.

The General Staff also conducted a lot of military exercises on the Entente and the Allies, Germany needs to recruit 300-4 million soldiers to be able to block the joint attack of Britain, France and Russia, so that there will inevitably be a shortage of labor in labor, and the northwest railway plan that Mumo obtained, 3 lines side by side, two passenger lines and a freight line, in peacetime, can speed up the efficiency and density of passenger transport, in wartime, can be quickly converted into a strategic line, for Germany fighting on two fronts, The ability to mobilize military forces at home is the key to determining whether or not he can fight on two fronts and mobilize on both sides.

Following more than a month ago, Wilhelm II once again recruited many ministers, including the prime minister, and discussed the northwest, the familiar term northwest, more and more appeared in the German imperial palace, on the other hand, let these officials begin to go deeper into the future of the huge ancient empire in the Far East, the northwest has enough strength, has the control of that populous country, and a war with the Russian million-level army, although not all out, However, it has given the Northwest a status in the world, especially this time, the 400 million US dollar order, Germany has eaten the profits, but it has also raised the industrial strength of the Northwest from another level, from a force that can only produce light industrial products and ordinary heavy industrial products, to the world's top field of shipbuilding, and the overall strength will definitely be different.

After seeing that the important ministers were in place, Wilhelm II began to briefly recount the situation, mainly mentioning the progress of the Baghdad railway, the construction of the port of Basra, and finally mentioning the mention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China, Mumer, about the construction of the northwestern workers joining the Kiel Canal.

I thought it was a matter of the Far East again, but I didn't expect that it was actually Germany itself, and it was the most important project in the past few years, the Kiel Canal, and some ministers who couldn't hold their breath even wanted to oppose it, but the prime minister didn't say anything more, and looked at Wilhelm II calmly.

Bateman did not speak, and the others did not dare to speak, when he calmly listened to Wilhelm II's account, and then asked, "Is this the number of the intelligence department?" ”

Wilhelm II nodded and said, "Yes! ”

Bateman's eyes lit up, the figures on the intelligence, he didn't doubt it, this was all calculated in detail by the intelligence department, a railway, a port, just there, unless it was all deceived and faked, otherwise a little investigation, you can get the results, such a mistake, mature intelligence departments will never make it, then it is true.

Bateman was surprised, the northwest in the port construction and railway construction on the outstanding strength, for the northwest to build the Kiel Canal he also has a welcome attitude, the expansion of the Kiel Canal, has been 5 years now, there are still 2 years to complete, such a traffic artery, but now it can not be used, for Germany has a great impact, not to mention the military, commercial, many ships have to detour, or dock in the Netherlands, which from a large aspect, so that Germany can not profit.

"I agree!" As soon as Bateman's words came out, the others were in an uproar, especially some Junker aristocrats, who were a little angry when they saw Bateman's eyes, but Bateman looked calm and continued to ask Wilhelm II: "What kind of price do we want to use to negotiate with the northwest!" ”

"Let's talk about this according to the total amount of investment required for the Kiel Canal!" Wilhelm II didn't know what Batemann was trying to say, so he thought for a moment and said.

"No, no, it can't be like this, you know, the labor in the northwest is relatively cheap, as far as I know, it can be cut by 30 on the basis of the current one!"

"So much?" At this moment, not only Wilhelm II's eyes lit up, the Kiel Canal has been improved for 5 years, a total of 170 million marks have been invested, and it is expected that in the next 2 years, there will be 70 million-80 million funds invested in it, and if you cut 30, it is equivalent to saving 24 million marks of funds, which is more important for Germany, which is now preparing for war in all aspects and is short of money in all aspects.

At this time, all the important ministers are no longer thinking about whether the northwest has this qualification to build a project in Germany, the bigger the project, the more it costs the people and money, sometimes the adjustment of the construction period and the determination of the project budget, one percentage point, a day needs to be carefully deducted, and now the hat can be saved 30,24 million marks, if anyone disagrees, it is simply ulterior motives, they understand that Bateman's intentions and foresight, began to put aside prejudice, seriously look at the feasibility of this matter, In the emperor's reception room, there was a calm. R1152