Chapter 310: The World Arms Race
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In response to the question of His Majesty Wilhelm I, von Willem I. The Earl of D'Avis adopted a strategy of asking three questions, and William I was very helpless about this. Count Dewis couldn't understand why Lin Haijiang suddenly invaded Russia, so I am afraid that no one in Germany would be able to understand Lin Haijiang's true intentions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, William I can be sure that Lin Haijiang's move is beneficial and harmless for the German Empire, and the invasion of the Chinese Empire can explain at least two things, the first is that the Chinese Empire not only has the ability to drag the main force of the Russian army in the Far East, but also has the strength to fight it, even if the Chinese Empire's expedition fails, then the Russians will definitely deploy heavy troops in the Far East to deal with the next war launched by the Chinese Empire at any time, if the invasion of the Chinese Empire is successful, then the entire Eastern Front will be nothing for the German army, the German army can concentrate all its military strength on the borders of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and other countries, and the Western Front will become the main battlefield that will truly determine the fate of Europe.
Chancellor Bismarck, Grand Duke von D'Affaires Bauwe, Chief of the General Staff Moltke and others also attended the so-called interrogatorial meeting. The Count of De Wais's helplessness was very understanding, and Wilhelm I had been describing the war launched by Lin Haijiang in a very envious tone, as if Wilhelm I thought that the power of the head of the Chinese Empire was much greater than that of his Kaisei.
In Germany, a war which required the support of the Chancellor, the consent of the Chief of the General Staff, and the approval of the majority of the noble parliamentarians, seemed to be a thought of Lin Haijiang in the far East, and Bismarck and Archduchess von D. Dovis Borwe had been exhorting Wilhelm I to put aside this extremely dangerous idea and practice, which would lead the country astray by the will of one man.
A nation or even a country can never be sacrificed for a person's will, even if this is the emperor, although Wilhelm I on the surface to Bismarck, von D. Archduke Bauwe, Moltke chief obedient, but in his heart he was very disapproving, there was no Lin Haijiang as a reference before, Wilhelm I felt that everything formulated by Bismarck, the iron-blooded prime minister, was so bold and perfect.
But now that Lin Haijiang is a comparison, Wilhelm I finds that Chancellor Bismarck's plan seems to have been too successful? Is that the so-called accumulation? The German Empire has been recuperating for decades, I am afraid that it will not be until the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II or III that the empire will be able to implement the plan to dominate Europe, Wilhelm I does not think that he is a very patient person, if there is no Lin Haijiang's glory Wilhelm I believes that he will be able to wait patiently, after all, people cannot live by miracles, and the reason why miracles are called miracles is because the probability of miracles is almost less than or equal to zero, Expecting a miracle is undoubtedly a losing hand.
Wilhelm I was adamant that the German Empire immediately entered the stage of full-scale war preparations, and the country's economy was also included in the wartime management system, Bismarck did not oppose it as usual, but fought silently for the first time, as the chief of staff of the German army, Moltke was actually old, and this war was probably the last major war that Moltke could command, and Moltke certainly hoped to have the opportunity to go down in history.
The German chariot has been launched, the offensive of the Chinese Empire in the Far East is like a butterfly fanning its wings in the western United States, causing a tornado thousands of kilometers away, Britain, France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, the northern political axe of the United States, the Southern Federation of the United States, the Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, and other countries in the world have all coincidentally placed their military expansion plans in the position of national economic priorities. Europe, which had already been mired in an arms race, was now like a dancing bear that had twisted its clockwork, and it began to gradually lose control and dance.
After the initial industrial revolution, it can be said that no one wants to be a piece of fat in other people's mouths, they are used to being the lord of the predators, and now when they are faced with an even more vicious beast, they know how shameful the bloody plunder is, these European robbers did not expect that the sleeping lion in Napoleon's mouth would wake up so terrible? Everything is out of control, the only truth in front of the Chinese Empire is the caliber of the cannon, it seems that the tragedy of the inferior people who did not slaughter and plunder before is about to repeat itself?
In order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy, European countries began to build ships on a large scale and equip their armies with more machine guns and artillery without any regard for their own economic conditions. Every minute and every second counts.
However, the foundation of the military industry is based on industrial metallurgy, machinery manufacturing and processing, technical reserves, weapons verification, etc., which can be described as freezing three feet and not a cold, so like Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries, they can build ships, but naval artillery and army field artillery, large-caliber howitzers, machine guns, etc. need to be imported, because after testing and comparison, the 75-millimeter field artillery made by the Chinese Empire is far more than the surname made in their own country can be a quarter higher. This was undoubtedly a very embarrassing problem for the European countries, and it was absolutely impossible for Germany to sell the cannons and machine guns they needed, so the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, and other European countries immediately sent secret envoys to Nanjing to seek the possibility of purchasing arms.
In terms of the price of exported weapons, Lin Haijiang took advantage of the so-called monopoly seller's market advantage to ruthlessly slaughter these old European dog robbers.
However, on the whole, Lin Haijiang still admires the concept of Europeans who endure pain and slaughter, rather than being robbed of a fine light, it is better to buy weapons and fight to the death with the enemy, even if they are defeated, there are weapons left, and they can also plunder weaker objects, for the Chinese to use thousands of years of perfect Confucianism, compared with the Europeans used hundreds of perfect bandit theory, it seems that the Europeans are more practical.
The Spring Festival of 1867 was a sense of stability and peace for almost all the citizens of the Chinese Empire, and although the Empire continued to purge the remnants of resistance in Indochina, the war in the Far East seemed too far away from the Empire. For the people of the empire's previous ruling areas and the newly liberated areas that were liberated one after another the year before, the most affordable thing they saw was that their lives were fully guaranteed.
At the beginning of the establishment of the empire, Lin Haijiang did not carry out large-scale liquidation and shouting and killing for those Han annihilators who had served the Qing court, because Lin Haijiang also expected that if the large-scale liquidation and land revolution were carried out in the Guangfu area, then the comprehensive social security within the empire could not be completely pacified for more than ten years, so Lin Haijiang learned from some practices at the beginning of the founding of the country in later generations, first stabilized, and gradually liquidated in batches and levels, and carried out public-private partnership for some compradors whose public anger was not very huge. The nationalization transition of the assets of some big compradors.
Now that the empire has completed the unification and carried out large-scale military operations outside, Lin Haijiang pays more attention to the long-term peace and stability within the empire, in Lin Haijiang's view, the empire is still very immature in terms of public opinion guidance, especially the treatment of non-mainstream voices is basically simple and rude, some people who have returned from studying abroad at their own expense think that since the empire is implementing the democratically elected political axe that has gradually become popular in the West, they can't wait to set up a bunch of political parties that have sprung up. As a result, all of these political parties were banned by the Imperial Intelligence Headquarters, and for Lin Haijiang, it is pure nonsense to engage in the so-called open cooking at this stage, and for a country where more than 96 percent of the country is illiterate or semi-literate, how can the common people know what it means to cook it? If the national election is held now, Lin Haijiang believes that the price of a vote is nothing more than a white-flour steamed bun, or even cheaper! So the only legal political party in the Chinese Empire was the Chinese Imperial Renaissance Party.
At the same time as taking the opportunity to export weapons to Europe on a large scale, the weapons industry drove the entire economic chain of the Chinese Empire, there were factories everywhere recruiting people, and the whole country was engaged in large-scale construction, not afraid that you were not educated, but afraid that you would not do it, as long as you were willing to work for food and clothing, there would certainly be no problem.
Tear a few feet of cloth for the mother-in-law, buy some cakes and sugar cubes for the dolls, cut a few catties of meat, and steam the big white flour steamed buns, this is the happiness of ordinary Chinese people, for this kind of happiness that is almost indescribably happy, Lin Haijiang felt a trace of bitterness, the people's requirements are so simple, so simple that they can't be simple, why do the Manchu rulers turn a blind eye? Listen and don't hear that?
As the supreme leader of the empire, Lin Haijiang always reminded himself that he could not let his eyes be blinded and his ears were congested at any time.
The empire has entered a critical moment of rapid development and expansion, so Lin Haijiang also began to deal with the property and land of the Han Dynasty and the confiscated Manchu nobles who had not been dealt with before, and it was these properties and lands that allowed Lin Haijiang's land reform to be carried out safely and effectively, but the property of the Manchu nobles and Han Dynasty who were cleaned up and confiscated throughout the country also surprised Lin Haijiang!
Lin Haijiang is cutting meat with a blunt knife, taking his time little by little, the balance of interests of all strata within the empire is the key to the comprehensive security of the empire's society, so Lin Haijiang has been paying attention to the vested interests of the new generation of the empire!
(To be continued)