Lin Fei made up his mind, so he instructed the German ambassador Yu Xier to find Diesel and recruit him to come to China, at this time Diesel was already a little famous, and it was not difficult to find him.

With the internal combustion engine, there is no difficulty in the car, the car needs rubber tires, and the rubber tire technology has long been available in Huaxia, and the gun car tires of various types of artillery are made of rubber.

For tanks, tracks, suspensions, artillery, and fire control systems are all difficult, and the most difficult of them is the fire control system.

The tank vibrates violently during the march, and the muzzle pointing changes at any time, if you want to aim accurately, you have to keep the muzzle still, which requires the use of a gyroscope stabilization system, but Lin Fei's current gyroscope is not small enough to fit into a tank.

Lin Fei thought about it carefully, if he brought the tank to the battlefield, it would definitely be the first in the world, and the tank of his own era would not appear until the First World War, so there was no need for him to get such a powerful fire control system, if the tank wanted to fire, let it stop firing.

So Lin Fei decided to install only the simplest optical ranging system on the tank, and as for the gyroscope stabilization system, let's talk about it later.

In addition to fire control, tracks, suspension devices and artillery are relatively easy to solve, now this type of tank is very unrealistic to load large-caliber artillery, a large caliber of artillery, all kinds of problems will come one after another, so it should be equipped with small-caliber artillery, all aspects are fully prepared, can immediately launch the tank development plan.

Lin Fei named the tank development plan "King Kong Cover Project", the King Kong cover is a magic skill in Chinese martial arts, it is said that the practice of the King Kong cover can be invulnerable, which is very in line with the characteristics of the tank's rough skin and thick flesh.

Lin Fei arranged the development of tanks and automobiles, and then implemented the plan to provoke the European powers, and when Lin Fei was in Tianjin, he had already prepared a series of plans.

At this time, the European powers had contradictions with each other, and the contradictions arising from the World War in the South Seas were put aside for the time being, and other contradictions were left alone.

Britain and Russia are at odds in Persia (that is, Iran), and they are in Afghanistan.

The contradictions between Britain and Germany are even deeper, and Britain and Germany are at odds in South Africa, East Africa and the Middle East.

Even the two allies, Britain and France, are at odds over the question of West African ownership.

Because Russia had already started a war with Japan, it was powerless to interfere with Lin Fei in the future, and there was no need to engage Russia anymore, so Lin Fei decided to stir up contradictions between Britain and Germany, and it was best to let Britain and Germany break out into World War I like in his own time.

Before the First World War, the two sides launched a fierce arms race, and Britain even openly stated that for every warship Germany built, Britain would build two.

In this era, because of Lin Fei's amazing performance in the World War in the South Seas, the world's obsession with thermal weapons has been promoted, Britain and Germany have been working at full speed to build dreadnoughts, submarines and airships, and the army has also produced a large number of automatic rifles and machine guns, and an arms race has been formed.

Lin Fei decided to take advantage of the contradictions between Britain and Germany in South Africa and the Middle East to provoke the two countries to go to war.

At this time in South Africa, the Boer War in Lin Fei's era was about to break out, although Lin Fei's crossing changed history, but what happened on the distant continent of Africa was not too affected by Lin Fei, so it continued according to the original trajectory.

The Boer War was a war between the British and the Boers, the Boers were not indigenous to the local Africans, but the descendants of the Dutch who first colonized South Africa, and they broke out with the British for a variety of reasons, but in the final analysis, it was one sentence, that is, South Africa was a piece of cake, the British wanted to eat it, the Boers wanted to eat it, and no one wanted to eat it together, so they fought.

This war broke out in September 1899 in the era of Lin Fei, the war ended with the defeat of the Boers, in this war, the Germans were supporting the Boers, and the Germans and the Boers also had extensive common interests, but the Germans were afraid of the British, and did not dare to support the Boers too much, so that the Boers were defeated by the British, on April 15, Lin Fei secretly met with the German ambassador to China in the palace, and at the beginning of the meeting, Lin Fei put on a humble and polite posture, which surprised the German ambassador very much.

The German ambassador hurriedly asked, "Mr. Lin Fei, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "I came to you to mend our relationship with Germany. ”

The gang rape incident and the Jiaozhou Bay poison gas incident caused the relationship between Huaxia and Germany to drop a lot, and before the Russo-Japanese War, Huaxia refused to allow Germany to participate in mediation, which once again caused the relationship between Huaxia and Germany to drop to a freezing point, so it was not surprising that the German ambassador heard that Lin Fei wanted to mend the relationship between Huaxia and Germany.

The German ambassador smiled: "How does Mr. Lin Fei want to mend the relationship with us?" ”

"I've heard that the British are preparing to attack the Boers in South Africa recently, I wonder if you know about it?"

"Of course I know about this, what, Mr. Lin Fei, are you going to help us in this matter?"

Lin Fei laughed, "Of course, we are willing to help your country in this matter, I don't know what your country thinks?" ”

There was no joy or anger on the face of the German ambassador, and he simply asked calmly: "How do you want to help us?" ”

Lin Fei didn't say it directly, but asked with a smile: "How do you want us to help your country?" ”

"Well......" the German ambassador hesitated, as if he didn't know what to say.

Lin Fei said with a smile: "We plan to provide some weapons to the Boers through your country, I don't know what you think, Mr. Ambassador?" ”

The German ambassador's eyes lit up directly, "May I ask Mr. Lin Fei, what advanced weapons do you plan to provide to the Boers?" ”

"I know that the Boers and the British in South Africa use small arms, that is, rifles or something, and the British are equipped with a lot of Maxim heavy machine guns, which gives the British a lot of advantage, so I plan to provide the Boers with a batch of artillery and shells?"

The German ambassador was even happier and asked, "What type of artillery does Mr. Lin Fei plan to provide?" HP-1 type mortar? ”

Lin Fei couldn't help but laugh, "If the Boers like that type of mortar, of course I can give them to them." ”

"What do you mean by that, are you going to give other artillery to the Boers?" The German ambassador's tone was full of surprise, he knew that Lin Fei had a cannon with an extremely fast rate of fire, and he also knew that Lin Fei had a very large caliber and extremely mysterious artillery.

Lin Fei smiled and nodded, "I actually plan to give the HP-2 75mm howitzer to the Boers, and then give the Boers a large number of shells, I don't know what Mr. Ambassador thinks?" ”

"Okay, good, great, since Mr. Lin Fei is willing to send this type of artillery, it's really good." When the German ambassador spoke, he thought in his heart that as soon as this type of gun is in the hands of our Germany, we will definitely take it apart and study it, and then copy it.

In fact, Lin Fei also knew that Germany would study and imitate this type of artillery when it got it, but Lin Fei did not want to hide the meaning of this type of artillery, after all, the hydraulic retraction machine is no longer a mysterious technology, according to the history of its own era, France should have developed this technology.

France developed this type of artillery, maybe it will be sold to European powers, Lin Fei will regard this technology as a secret in secret, there is no need, it is better to be a favor, let the Germans get this technology.

The German ambassador happily agreed, and the speed was so fast that Lin Fei was afraid that he would regret it, Lin Fei continued: "Although we can hand over the artillery to the Boers, we will not send ships to transport it, and we will not say that we gave the artillery to the Boers, we need you to be the intermediary." ”

"As for the reason, I believe you know very well that we and Britain are already incompatible because of the World War in the South Seas, and if the British know that we are helping the Boers, it will definitely be a very troublesome matter for us."

"Okay, I understand, I understand, we Germany will do a good job as an intermediary, Mr. Lin Fei, I will report to the country and let them approve this matter."

Lin Fei then asked people to send the German ambassador gift, and at this time it was getting late, Lin Fei asked people to call Ling Xue, and then took Ling Xue to have dinner with the Arab prince who had always admired Ling Xue.

The reason why Lin Fei wanted to eat with this Arab prince was because Lin Fei's next plan had something to do with the Arab world.

This past March, the German Emperor Wilhelm II did something that shocked the world, and that was a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

As Jerusalem was the holy city of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and was part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, William II made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with the actual aim of bringing him closer to the Ottoman Empire, thus inducing the Turkish Sultan to agree to the German construction of the Baghdad Railway.

The Baghdad Railway, a railway between Iraq and Turkey, will allow Germany to further control the Arab world in the Middle East, which is a huge challenge to British interests, and Britain has always wanted to control the Arab world in the Middle East.

During his pilgrimage, Wilhelm II said that he was a lifelong friend of the Turkish Sultan and that the 300 million Muslims around the world could consider him a trusted friend.

The Turkish Sultan was very happy to hear such a statement by Wilhelm II, at this time the Ottoman Turkey had long lost its former glory, the colonies were plundered by Britain and France, and the Europeans regarded them as the "sick man of the East".