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Even if the four Wudangshan-class large aircraft carriers are built in the fastest degree in war mode, it will take a year to wait for them to enter service, but the 50 escort-type aircraft carriers converted from large merchant ships can be converted within the specified time

The smallest of these 50 converted aircraft carriers can carry 40 fighters, the largest can transport 90 fighters, plus the 20 aircraft carriers of previous modifications, 70 escort carriers can carry a total of 5,000 fighters or 1,500 bombers

In this way, the Imperial Chinese Naval Air Force will be able to dispatch more than 6,000 combat planes at one time, which will have the capability of large-scale naval and air warfare, and will ensure the necessary air support for the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the event of a decisive battle

In addition, considering that the US Navy also has a certain number of aircraft carriers, it cannot be ruled out that the US Navy will send aircraft carrier-based aircraft to participate in the battle in battle, so the air defense problem of the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy will also be strengthened, and the number of Chinese Aegis air defense cruisers will also be doubled

The US Navy already has hundreds of destroyers, this is a very large anti-submarine fleet, the threat to the submarine fleet of the Chinese Empire is huge, the most terrible thing is that the US Navy and the British Navy have mastered the primary sonar technology, the German Navy's submarine warfare in the Atlantic Ocean has begun to work, and the advanced submarines without sonar arrays exported by the Chinese Empire to Germany have been unable to block the attacks of the British and American anti-submarine destroyers, so the Chinese Imperial Navy has exported sonar arrays to the German Navy, It is hoped that the balance on the Atlantic will continue to be maintained

At the same time, however, the Imperial Chinese Navy also learned about the anti-submarine capabilities of the US Navy through the German Navy, so in the event of a war against the United States, it was necessary to defeat the US submarine power and anti-submarine forces

Although the destroyers of the Imperial Chinese Navy are not as numerous as those of the United States, they are qualitatively far from the destroyer fleets used by the other side to oppose the United States

At this time, the Imperial Chinese Navy had become a global projection force, so the demand for light cruisers was also expanding a lot, and the budget for building 20 ships was increased, but none of them could be completed in three months

However, the Imperial Chinese Navy has sufficient advantages in submarines, with 125 advanced submarines and 110 Tang-class submarines in active service, while the U.S. Navy, despite working overtime to produce submarines, has only 200 submarines, and the quality and sophistication are only as high as the Han-class submarines of the Chinese Empire

However, on November 7, 1915, when a German Seawolf 734 submarine attacked an American merchant ship off the coast near the United States, the German sailors who accidentally sank the submarine and escaped because of an operation error were captured by the American soldiers of the nearby American Sturgeon destroyer

For a long time, although the Allied Navy knew that the Chinese Empire was secretly trading with Germany, and also knew that Germany's advanced submarines came from the Chinese Imperial Navy, but they did not know the specific model and performance in the Atlantic, whether it was a warship or a merchant ship, the Entente was attacked by this unidentified German submarine and suffered heavy losses. However, among the more than 70 German-qualified submarines sunk, they could not be salvaged for research because they sank in the deep sea

This time, the U.S. Navy learned that a submariner had sunk unexpectedly, and the location was in shallow water, so the U.S. Navy dispatched the most advanced salvage ship to salvage the submarine, and secretly conducted research At the same time, the German Navy lost contact with the 734 submarine, and without detailed investigation, it was only judged to be sunk

The U.S. Navy salvaged the submarine out of the water, not only found the real structure of the submarine that made them crazy all the time, but also got the most codebook of the German army that did not have time to destroy the former provided a technical reference for the development of the U.S. submarine, and the anti-submarine power of the U.S. destroyer was huge, and the German codebook was seized by the U.S. military, and the blow to the German army was huge Within a month, more than 30 German submarines were sunk, and two submarines were completely captured by the U.S. military in the predetermined sea area. As a result, the upgraded submarines exported by the Chinese Empire to the German Navy had no secrets at all, and were all in the hands of the US military

In the 1916 Naval Expansion Act, the U.S. military added 100 submarines to the plan, which was based on the study of the Chinese Empire's advanced submarines, for which the U.S. Navy was secretly building Squid-class submarines, which were as a whole replicas of the Chinese Empire's advanced submarines, and this information, the Chinese Empire relaxed because it believed the German Navy's assurances that no submarines would fall into the hands of the U.S. military

The U.S. Navy's Squid-class submarines are built in full accordance with the Chinese Empire's promotion submarines in terms of main dimensions, but the construction materials are still ordinary high-strength steel, and the pressure resistance is far inferior to the high-strength, pressure-resistant, corrosion-resistant, nickel-cadmium-silicon special steel used in the promotion submarines

As a second-generation submarine, the Chinese Empire's upgraded submarine uses the most basic gas turbine propulsion system composed of 4 Diesel 07 6-cylinder 4-stroke diesel engines, but the US military cannot imitate it, and only uses the Dao'er 4 diesel engine, which is much lower in power, with only 16 knots, which is too far behind the 20.23 knots of the promoted voyage

8 450 mm torpedo tubes (including 4 in the bow and 4 in the superstructure) are also used on the armament, 12 torpedoes are loaded, and the artillery is 1 102 mm deck gun from the original 75 guns, and the armament is greatly improved with a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun for the crew, which also increases the submarine crew to 54

However, in terms of torpedo weapons, the US military is unable to produce torpedoes produced by the Chinese Empire with a degree of 40 knots, and the attack range is only 400 meters, which makes the comprehensive combat capability of the US Squid submarine inferior to that of the upgraded submarine

Of course, the Imperial Chinese Navy is not idle in terms of submarines, the Song-class submarines are under development, and the Tang-class submarines in service have the ability to completely overwhelm the American submarines, so the Imperial Chinese Navy does not care about the American Navy's submarines, because before they built this kind of submarine, the Chinese Empire had already waged war

At the same time that the navy, land and air forces of the Chinese Empire were actively preparing for war against the United States, the politicians of the Chinese Empire were not idle, actively lobbying various countries to publicize the peace policy of the Chinese Empire, and for the first time put forward the slogan of mediating the armistice between the Entente and the Allied Powers. If governments do not respond to the call of the Chinese Empire, they will undoubtedly be politically passive and will cause dissatisfaction among the citizens of various countries

Both the Entente and the Central Powers wanted an early end to the war, so they knew that the peace mediation proposed by the Chinese Empire was unreliable, but they did not want to miss the opportunity, so they responded positively

The United States is very puzzled by the Chinese Empire's sudden throw-out of this approach, but far-sighted politicians combined with the analysis of the Chinese Empire's political methods all along, and believe that the Chinese Empire will not be so kind to mediate Europe, because the happier Europe fights, the more war money the Chinese Empire earns, the greater the consumption of Europe, and the more likely the Chinese Empire will dominate the world after the war Based on these reasons, they think that either the Chinese Empire is flooded with brains, or it is brewing a big conspiracy, and the latter is the most likely

At this time, the United States did not achieve any results on the European battlefield, but instead lost more than 100,000 US soldiers in the Atlantic, and US merchant ships were attacked by German ships and submarines, and the losses were heavy

Under these circumstances, it was impossible for the US government to oppose the initiative of the Chinese Empire, but it was forced to vigorously support it under the pressure of public opinion

In this way, under the mediation of the Chinese Empire, the Entente and the Central Powers, as well as Spain, which did not participate in the war, and other countries instructed their ambassadors to China to participate in the peace negotiations held by the Chinese Empire in the capital and try to negotiate reconciliation

The Chinese Empire proposed a temporary ceasefire among the belligerents in Europe, and the various armies were exhausted and exhausted in their national strength, so they agreed to a ceasefire in wartime, hoping to solve the problem through negotiations, and on the other hand, actively preparing for the negotiations, and continuing to fight once the negotiations broke down

The Chinese Empire's move was to gain international prestige and popularity, increase the influence of the Chinese Empire in the world, and on the other hand, to delay time, to prepare for the Chinese Empire's imminent war against the United States, to mislead the United States, and to appease the Entente so that it would not unite with the United States against the Chinese Empire in a short period of time, and that the Entente would at least not be ready to help the United States in the event of a war between China and the United States

Political deception is a compulsory lesson in the Chinese Empire before every war, and this time is no exception, but this time, because of the importance of starting a war against the United States, the Chinese Empire has to be extremely careful to minimize the negative effects

The Chinese Empire is reluctant to ceased war in Europe, because the biggest beneficiary of the European war is the Chinese Empire, during the European War, the Chinese Empire makes a profit of more than seven billion US dollars a year, once the war with the United States breaks out, many materials will reduce exports to Europe, and profits will naturally shrink Therefore, before the war against the United States, the Chinese Empire has to plan to make a huge amount of money from Europe First, of course, making money at this time is directly related to military strategy, because the Chinese Empire is not simply to make money, but wants to blackmail European countries, They did not dare to intervene in the war between China and the United States, because the Chinese Empire did not want to join the Allies and completely break with the Entente, so it would only declare war on the United States, not with the entire Entente, and would not want to get involved in the war in Europe, so it would carry out a comprehensive blackmail plan in the political, military and economic aspects

If the Entente countries support the United States, then the Chinese Empire threatens the Entente on the grounds of joining the Allied Powers, so that they will not dare to act rashly, and military blackmail is based on the powerful naval, land, and air forces of the Chinese Empire, and if the Entente countries dare to support the United States in hostility with the Chinese Empire, then the Chinese Empire will fully realize unrestricted submarine warfare and broken engagement in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean. Then the Entente will face an all-round alliance from the Chinese Empire and the German Navy, for Britain, in the three years that the German Navy has been tossed, the financial and economic collapse has collapsed, and after being tossed by the Chinese Empire, it will be finished in less than a month

The most powerful thing in the Chinese Empire was economic blackmail, and it was also considered by later scholars to be the most shameless international blackmail

The Chinese Empire, under the pretext of mediating between the Entente and the Central Powers, demanded that the gold reserves of each country be transferred to the Chinese Empire, with the aim of freezing the gold reserves of any country if it refused to armistice the war

As soon as this plan was proposed, it was immediately fiercely opposed by the great powers of various countries, who absolutely did not allow the financial lifeline to be pinched by the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire had a way to make them loosen their mouths, and soon came up with a practical strategy to trick countries into agreeing to this proposal one after another

The Chinese Empire was the first to be attacked by Tsarist Russia, forcing the Tsarist government to agree to be the first to agree to transfer its gold and silver reserves to the Chinese Empire and give them to the Chinese Imperial Government for safekeeping

The main reason why Tsarist Russia so painfully agreed to the unreasonable demands of the Chinese Empire was that Tsarist Russia was already in decline at this time, and in the face of domestic and foreign pressure, the Tsarist government was on the verge of collapse

As early as after the Sino-Russian War, because Tsarist Russia has always used foreign wars to divert domestic contradictions, and with the crushing defeat of Tsarist Russia to the Chinese Empire in the Sino-Russian War, the contradictions within Tsarist Russia began to intensify In 1905, the massacre of Bloody Sunday broke out, and the reactionary forces of Tsarist Russia were rampant, which made the Russian workers' revolution led by Lenin turn into a low ebb, but the task of the bourgeois-democratic revolution was not canceled from the agenda, and in July 1907, the resolution of the Third Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party stated: " The basic reasons that determined the Russian revolution remained: the extreme incompatibility of the domestic political system and the requirements of economic development, the bankruptcy of the peasantry, the deepening of proletarian poverty and unemployment, and consequently the objective historical tasks of the revolution had not yet been solved, and at the same time the revolutionary forces had not been completely destroyed"

By the eve of the world war, the scale of the revolution in Russia**, the mass revolutionary struggle, which had approached the level of 1905, had greatly increased its organization and consciousness, and the workers' strikes in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities were constantly taking place, and according to official figures, 725,000 strikes took part in strikes in 1911 and 887,000 in 1912, and in 1912 the actual strikes were much higher than the official figures. However, the development of the revolutionary movement was temporarily interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War

It can be said that in order to divert domestic contradictions, the Tsarist government could not wait to announce its participation in the world war, hoping to divert domestic contradictions, but it is obvious that the Tsarist government has also seriously affected its military combat effectiveness, and the world war in which it participated in the transfer of domestic contradictions did not achieve the expected results, but became the fuse for the outbreak of the revolution in Russia

The First World War, which began at the end of 1912, was a war of reshuffling between imperialism and the 1st day, Tsarist Russia was the main culprit involved in launching this predatory war, and the war was ripe for revolutionThe self-sufficiency rate of lathes was less than 13 The war weakened the commercial ties between Russia and the Entente, and the import of machinery could only rely on the Chinese Empire, which was the main reason why Tsarist Russia was gradually pinched by the Chinese Empire

From 1913 to 1916, although the Russian machine industry increased, most of its products were consumed by the war, during which the products of the 103 major machine manufacturing industries increased from 200.3 million rubles to 954.6 million rubles, and the average military production increased by more than 13 times per year, while civilian production increased by only 40 percent, in 1916, agricultural machinery products were only 15 before the war, the production of locomotives and carriages decreased significantly, the locomotives decreased by 16%, and the carriages decreased by 14%, and the machines and lathes were seriously insufficient, which affected ore and coalIn 1916, 20% of the looms in Petrograd could not be operated on the front line, and there was a serious shortage of weapons and ammunition, and 60,000 rifles were needed per month, while only 134,000 rifles were manufactured in 1913 and 800 machine guns per month, and in the second half of 1913, a total of 860 machine guns were manufactured. In the last five months of 1915, the grain transported by the railway for the army could only meet 61% of the demandBy 1916, the volume of grain transported by the railway dropped again, 50% in January and 42% in February, and some wounded soldiers almost did not receive food and gauze in Petrograd, Moscow and other industrial cities, but in Siberia, the Urals, the Caspian Sea, the Volga and the Don River, a large amount of grain, meat and fish imported from the Chinese Empire rotted in 1916The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea have long been blockaded by Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Turkish Empire, and the connection between Russia and the allies has been cut off, and it is fully dependent on the Chinese Empire, however, the Chinese Empire has continuously reduced its exports to Russia out of consideration of Germany's requirements, and Russia's railway capacity is too poor, and the long-term load pressure has broken the railroad tracks and cannot be repaired, as a result, a large number of goods have been piled up in the treaty port, which cannot be transported in Arkhangelsk, and the coal is piled up like mountains, Boxes of lathes for the arsenal are piled up along the wharfs in Murmansk, and ships wait for weeks and months to be unloaded

After the outbreak of the Great War, Tsarist Russia's agricultural production was seriously affected, and the number of conscripts with the ability to work reached 15 million, mainly from the rural areas, the male labor force decreased by 47.4%, the cultivated area decreased by 10 million, and the number of cultivated animals per mu decreased from 18 million in 1913 to 3 million in 1916, and the grain harvest was reduced by 14. In the summer of 1916, the price of grain in Petrograd was 4.5 to 6 times higher than before the war, and meat and sugar were especially expensive, and the vast number of people were on the hunger line, and they had to rise up to fight1915 In 1915, there were 684 peasant uprisings caused by hunger in Tsarist Russia, and in the first five months of 1916, there were 1,510 peasant uprisings

Among the belligerents, the longest war on the Russian front, fought on 50,000 square kilometers of Russian territory, 6 million refugees, homeless, without food and clothing, many into the war, interrupted life, wounded, maimed and died of the plague By August 30, 1916, Russia had lost a total of 8.4 million soldiers, many soldiers' families had no money to support, and life was very miserable In order to maintain the war, the military expenditure of the tsarist government increased day by day, and by March 1916, it amounted to more than 60 billion rubles, 92% of which was paid by borrowing foreign debt, The rest of the rubles were paid by borrowing domestic debts and indiscriminate issuance of paper money, and the official rate was reduced to 55 kopecks, and the purchasing power was reduced to 7 kopecks, and the national debt increased from 8.8 billion rubles in 1913 to 63.6 billion rubles in January 1916, and the finances of the tsarist government were facing collapse, and in order to meet the needs of the war, in 1915 it set up four special councils on defense, food, fuel, and transport, to regulate the economic life of the country, but it did not save the economy from bankruptcy, However, the labor and people were plundered with incomparably cruelty, and most factories extended their working hours in order to fulfill military orders, increased labor intensity, and exploited the labor of women and teenagers

Economic chaos, combined with military defeats, led to a resurgence of the national revolutionary movement, combined with the struggle against hunger, against imperialist war, and against tsarism

In May 1915, there was a strike by the Ivanovo-Vozeneschensk workers, demanding lower prices and higher wages, and then, the Kostroma workers' strike broke out, and the uprising of the sailors of the Baltic "Hanut" capital ship broke out, and the oppressed nationalities in Russia also carried out a struggle to safeguard national interests and fight for national liberation At the beginning of 1916, in commemoration of the "Bloody Week, 100,000 workers in Petrograd went on strike, and the discontent of the vast number of peasants was also growing. The movement against the requisition of grain and horses spread throughout the country, and the soldiers were also affected by the revolution, and the uprisings in Central Asia and Kazakhstan in February were the major events of the year, in which the uprising in the Turks of Kazakhstan persisted until after the "May Revolution", and the struggle against the bourgeois provisional government

Within the ruling class of Tsarist Russia, the crisis of power tended to be superficial, and Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra were politically and militarily desperate, and spiritually pinned their hopes on superstition. Leaf? Rasputin pretended to be a "fairy chief" and "prophet", and was introduced into the court, he filled the emptiness in the hearts of the tsar and empress with superstition, won their trust, and gained more and more power in the court, and finally manipulated the power of the royal part of the 1913-1916, under the planning of Rasputin, there were 6 cabinet premiers, 8 interior ministers, 7 war ministers, 5 foreign ministers, 8 agriculture ministers, and 14 justice ministers In 1916, the ruling group was split into the chairman of the Council of Ministers (cabinet premier) The pro-German faction headed by Stiyurmeye, the pro-British faction represented by Foreign Minister Sasonov, and the pro-China faction led by Rasputin attacked each other, which added to the political chaos in Tsarist Russia

Alexandra was even suspected of being a spy for Germany, as she was born in Germany, reused the Germans among the nobility, and was deplored by the Tsar's insolence

Finally, the "May Revolution" broke out among the Russian people, who could not bear it anymore

By May 2, 1916, 145,000 workers in Petrograd had gone on strike at the call of the Bolsheviks, and mass strikes and demonstrations were also held in Moscow, Kharkiv, Baku and other cities

On May 3, the workers of the stamping workshop of the Plettilov Plant in Petrograd staged a strike, demanding an increase in piecework wages and a recall of the dismissed workers, who had unreasonably refused to enter the factory, and threatened to close the plant indefinitely, announcing the irregular closure of the plant, and the Bolshevik Party organization, which had already had a major influence in the work of the plant, immediately led the workers to fight against each other, and the strike was extended to the entire Ptiplov plant

On May 9, the number of strikes in Petrograd increased to 200,000 and the masses gathered on Nevsky Avenue from all sides in an attempt to separate the masses, but to no avail, the ministries gathered here and there to continue the demonstrations

On May 10, the Petrograd strike turned into a general strike, all kinds of enterprises, shops, restaurants, cafes stopped working, and the city center was crowded with crowds, when Tsar Nicholas II, who was in Mogulov, the location of the base camp, after receiving a report from the commander of the Petrograd Military District Khabarov on the situation in the capital, ordered the implementation of terrorist measures against the Petrograd strike movement

On the evening of May 10, he signed a telegram to Khabarov: "Order that tomorrow's riots in Kyoto be stopped" and that the tsarist troops arrested 5 members of the Petrograd Committee of the Bolshevik Party overnight, covered the center of Petrograd and the main traffic arteries with military police, and set up machine guns on rooftops and in the corner towers

However, the flames of the revolution were not extinguished, and according to Lenin's decision, the Vyborg Committee assumed the functions of the Petrograd Committee and continued to lead the struggle of the people

On May 11, the soldiers of the 4th Company of the Reserve Battalion of the Pavlov Regiment of the Praetorian Guard, who were still pouring into the streets and squares, revolted and refused to shoot at the inhabitants, and this uprising marked the beginning of the transition of the soldiers to the inductees

On May 12, thousands of workers marched to the center of Petrograd due to the propaganda and organizational work of the Bolsheviks, a large number of soldiers in the army were transferred to the revolutionary side, and at 6 o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the teaching team of the Volyn Praetorian Guard revolted, killed the leader of the teaching team, and then went out into the streets and drove to the nearby Preobrazhensky and Litovsky regiments, and after uniting the soldiers of these two regiments and putting the ranks in order, the insurrectionary regiment left for Vyborg, and the co-workers joined the teaching team of the Moscow Praetorian Guard Regiment stationed in the Vyborg district to resist. Preventing the soldiers from participating in the uprising, the soldiers and workers stormed the barracks, killed the instructor captain, seized weapons, armed the workers and the soldiers of the uprising seized the general munitions factory and artillery headquarters, seized 40,000 rifles, 30,000 pistols and a large number of bulletsThe Bolsheviks led the masses to storm the prison, released the political prisoners, and the released Bolsheviks immediately rushed to the workers' area, and more and more troops participated in the uprising According to statistics, only 600 troops participated in the uprising on the night of May 11, On the morning of the 12th, it increased to 10,200, at noon to 25,700, and in the evening to 66,700

On the evening of May 12, the tsar's ministers held their last meeting at the Maria Palace, but were soon arrested, and Nicholas II tried to bring back troops from the front to Petrograd to suppress the uprising, but the troops near Petrograd had already revolted, and the tsar's expedition party was blocked halfway through, and the entire capital was in the hands of the insurrectionists

On the evening of May 12, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party (after discussion by the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee) published in the form of leaflets "To all Russian citizens", announcing the collapse of tsarism and the transfer of the capital into the hands of the insurrection; He pointed out that the main tasks of the workers' class and the revolutionary army were to establish a democratic republic, confiscate the landlords' land, introduce an eight-hour working day, and unite the belligerents to stop the imperialist war

The success of the May Revolution in Tsarist Russia shocked the whole world, but only the Chinese Empire looked at it very calmly, because the Russian Revolutionary Party had grown up with the covert support of the Chinese Empire in order to weaken Russia's power as much as possible so that it would not pose a threat to the Chinese Empire

The revolutionary government of Tsarist Russia had a very high opinion of the Chinese Empire, so it supported the Chinese Empire's initiative to mediate the world war, so on the issue of the treasury gold reserves, the Russian Duma Council finally decided to hand over 800 tons of gold and 40,000 tons of silver to the Chinese Empire for safekeeping, and played a leading role among the belligerents

Of course, the Russian Duma did not believe in the Chinese Empire as it seemed, but they were forced to have no way At this time, the Duma was still under the leadership of the bourgeoisie, but the power of the army was in the hands of the Bolshevik Party headed by Lenin, and this red party was the gravedigger of the bourgeoisie, so the Russian Duma was very worried that the regime would deprive them of their rights and status

As early as 1915, when the German army approached St. Petersburg, the tsarist government transferred 800 tons of gold and 40,000 tons of silver from the treasury to Kazan in the rear for safekeeping

Of course, the Tsar did not give up, and pinned his hopes on the 800 tons of gold and 40,000 tons of silver, and the Tsar secretly contacted the Chinese Imperial Government, demanding that the gold and silver be exchanged for arms, and the Tsar's descendant army, Tsar Nicholas II, was ready to fight back and destroy the Bolsheviks, so he instructed the Duma to sign this secret agreement with the Chinese Empire on the gold dump

In this way, the savings of Tsarist Russia for hundreds of years, 800 tons of gold and 40,000 tons of silver, were transported to the Chinese Empire, ostensibly handed over to the Chinese Empire for temporary safekeeping, but in fact it was a secret transaction by the Tsar to regain power, and all the money would be converted into arms and secretly handed over to the army of the Tsar

The other belligerents in Europe did not know about the private transactions between Tsarist Russia and the Chinese Empire, but when the Tsarist Empire took the lead in handing over the treasury gold and silver to the Chinese Empire for safekeeping, the citizens of the belligerents in Europe demanded to follow the example of Tsarist Russia and temporarily hand over the treasury gold to the Chinese Empire for safekeeping, so as to end the war. Wouldn't handing over the treasury reserves to the Chinese Empire be like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, and some would come back?

However, the Chinese Empire has repeatedly reiterated that it has absolutely no courage to embezzle the gold and silver of all European countries, and that it will return all the gold and silver once the European war is over

Although they knew the strength of the Chinese Empire and were worried that the Chinese Empire would monopolize this batch of gold, they thought that the gold and silver of all European countries had been handed over to the Chinese Empire for safekeeping, and the Chinese Empire would definitely not have the courage to be hostile to all of Europe, so they were relieved

At this time, there was also turmoil in European countries, various strikes continued, and all countries were worried that if the war was not ended, they would repeat the mistakes of the Tsarist Russian Empire, so they could only choose to believe in the Chinese Empire

Of course, at this time, the gold reserves of various countries were actually not much, and they were basically almost consumed in the three-year war, so after discussion, on the one hand, they signed a gold dump treaty with the Chinese Empire with great fanfare to appease the people, and on the other hand, they secretly signed arms and material supply agreements with the Chinese Empire, and in fact, all the gold and silver were used to purchase military equipment and strategic materials of the Chinese Empire

This result is also a compromise between the Chinese Empire and other countries, because the Chinese Empire did not intend to sincerely mediate with Europe, everything was a show, and the Chinese Empire prepared for war against the United States In order to trap European countries, the Chinese Empire will come up with this strategy, once all the gold and silver in Europe are dumped to the Chinese Empire, then when the Chinese Empire goes to war with the United States, it will be difficult for the European Entente to support the United States, because they have to consider the security of gold in the Chinese Empire, if there is a war with the Chinese Empire, It means that this gold will be swallowed by the Chinese Empire

It can be said that the Chinese Empire went around in a big circle, in fact, only to blackmail European countries financially, so that they did not dare to support the United States in a war with the Chinese Empire

In order to reassure the European countries, when the Chinese Empire signed arms purchase agreements with other countries, it specially showed them the most advanced Thunderbolt fighters, cat demon fighters, H2N1 bombers, combat vehicles, anti-tank combat vehicles, wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, light and heavy machine guns, advanced artillery and other top equipment of the Chinese Empire

Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Bulgaria and other countries shipped a total of 4,800 tons of gold and 225,400 tons of silver to the Chinese Empire

Of course, the countries also left behind, taking out only most of the gold and silver in their respective coffers, which still had about a quarter in their coffers

Thus, from September 1916, Europe entered a three-month armistice, and the major leaders of European countries gathered in the capital of the Chinese Empire to start negotiations of verbal war

On the one hand, the Chinese Empire was acting as a peace ambassador through mediation and mediation, and on the other hand, it was engaged in large-scale production of military equipment and strategic materials on the pretext that European countries were providing arms and materials, and in fact most of these materials would be used in the war against the United States, and the European countries once thought that the war would end, and the United States was deceived by the political strategy of the Chinese Empire, and its vigilance against the Chinese Empire was relaxed

In this way, the Chinese Empire's equally ingenious political strategy succeeded in blackmailing the European countries before China and the United States went to war, and the Chinese Empire had already won one round first

To be continued