After some careful planning, Xiao Zhenlei finally got his hands on the German East Asian Fleet, but the placement of more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the German East Asian Fleet and the German Army stationed in Qingdao before was detained made Xiao Zhenlei quite nerve-wracking, and it is definitely not possible to put these people in prison cells, Huaguo is not ready for war with the Allies for the time being, and Huaguo does not have so many cells to hold these people, but it is even more difficult to release these German troops into ducks. Let these foreigners out, who knows what bad things these guys will do? After the mention of the staff group, Xiao Zhenlei decided to let these people go to mine and build roads, they can't support these people for nothing, right? Let them open mines and build roads so that they can support themselves without the money of China and the German government, and after consulting with the German side, Germany also agreed.

After taking over these German East Asian fleets and taking over more than 30 large and small ships of the East Asian fleet, Xiao Zhenlei immediately gave an order to the navy to let Sa Zhenbing send naval officers and sailors to take over these warships and start training, and these ships will be members of the Chinese navy in the future.

The Japanese side is extremely annoyed, because Huaguo has obtained all the ships of the German East Asian Fleet after its strength has risen a lot, although it is still a big difference compared to the strength of the Japanese Navy, but the speed of development of the Chinese Navy makes the Japanese side extremely worried, but now Japan is carrying out war with Tsarist Russia, it itself is not ready for war, and it is very reluctant to start a war with Tsarist Russia in a hurry. The Japanese authorities believe that they are only afraid that Japan will soon lose Korea after China joins the country, and Japan has finally got North Korea, how can it be willing to lose? On the one hand, the Japanese authorities do not want China to develop and grow. However, they could not find a way to sanction China, and on the other hand, they did not want to push China into the arms of the Entente. Therefore, the Japanese authorities are now extremely conflicted.

Fortunately, in addition to the fact that China had previously purchased four large warships in the United States. During this period, no ships were purchased from foreign countries, but several cruisers were still being built in China. Even if all the ships of the German East Asian Fleet were to be acquired, the scale and strength of the Chinese Navy in terms of large warships would still be too far behind the Japanese Navy.

In terms of capital ships, the Japanese Navy now has more than 20 first-class and second-class battleships, which China cannot catch up with, among which the older second-class battleships are: Fuji, Shikishima, Asahi, Mikasa, Iki (the former battleship Nicholas I of Tsarist Russia was refitted), Tango (the former battleship Poltava of Tsarist Russia), Sagami (the former battleship Peresvet of Tsarist Russia), Zhoufang (the former battleship Victory of Tsarist Russia), Hizen (the former battleship of Tsarist Riet is Zun), Iwami (formerly the battleship Tsarist Eagle) and the battleship Katori. The newer first-class battleships were: Satsuma, Azu, Kawachi, Settsu, Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, and Kirishima. The Fuso and Yamashiro have been launched, but they have not yet been completed. The older second-class battleships were generally assigned to the Western Sea Fleet (garrison fleet), because these second-class battleships could not compete with dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts in terms of protection, speed, and firepower. The newer battleships of the first rank were incorporated into the standing fleet.

Before the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Navy was divided into a standing fleet and a garrison fleet, on the sixth day after the start of the First Sino-Japanese War. At that time, the Japanese Navy changed the name of the garrison fleet to the West Sea Fleet, and temporarily combined the standing fleet and the West Sea Fleet into a combined fleet, which is the origin of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

After the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Combined Fleet was disbanded into the Standing Fleet and the West Sea Fleet, and during the Russo-Japanese War, it was temporarily combined into the Combined Fleet, and in history, it was not until 1923 that the Japanese Combined Fleet became a permanent establishment and unified command.

At present, only four battleships in Japan's standing fleet: Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, and Kirishima are the latest battleships. But in the West, it can only be regarded as a battle cruiser, while China has two real battleships, Yingzheng and Ying-4, and two battle cruisers, Liu Che and Liu Xiu, on the newest battleships. The Chinese were a little stronger, but the Japanese Navy's newer battleships included the Satsuma, the Yasu, the Kawachi, and the Settsu, although these four were a little outdated. It can still be used as a battleship. And in terms of cruisers, there were too many Japanese cruisers. Although China's new cruisers were relatively advanced, they could not withstand the large number of Japanese cruisers.

So in terms of large warships. The gap between the Chinese Navy and the Japanese Navy is still too far away, and it is not something that can catch up in a short time, after all, to build a battleship, unless the ship-building capacity reaches the level and ability of Britain, it will take a year to complete the construction of a battleship.

After settling the German East Asian Fleet, Xiao Zhenlei set his sights on Macao, and the Chinese government had long announced that it would take back the first qiē concession land, and the Entente countries and other aspects fulfilled this point, and the officials and administrative personnel of the British and French countries in various leased areas in China were withdrawn one after another, and even the allied Germany returned Qingdao, but the Portuguese officials and administrative personnel in Macao had not yet been evacuated, which Xiao Zhenlei absolutely did not allow.

Historically, Portugal decided to form an alliance with France after the vote of the National Assembly in 1915, but did not directly participate in the war with Germany after the alliance with France, until 1916, when Germany wanted Portugal to declare war, Portugal sent a force of 367 people to accompany the French army to participate in the war against Germany, this small force fought a total of 17 times, of which 11 were used as artillery artillery, 6 times exchanged fire with the German army, a total of 9 killed and 103 wounded. From these, it can be seen that Portugal's entry into the war was only symbolic.

Now Portugal has not joined the Entente, and Portugal is now only a third-rate country, the military strength is pitifully small, to clean it up, Xiao Zhenlei thought that it did not take a little effort, he asked the diplomatic department to telegraph to the Portuguese legation, let the Minister in Portugal submit an ultimatum to the authorities of the First Portuguese Republic, restricting the Portuguese and Macao officials and a qiē administrative staff to evacuate Macao before October 20, otherwise the Portuguese and Macao officials and administrative personnel will be recovered by force, expelled and confiscated a qiē property.

After receiving the telegram, the minister in Portugal immediately handed over an ultimatum to Morris, the foreign minister of the First Portuguese Republic. The First Portuguese Republic was established in 1910 after the overthrow of the monarchy.

Morris panicked after receiving the ultimatum of the Chinese minister in Portugal, and immediately went to see the president, the president also felt that the matter was serious, I am afraid that this time the Chinese authorities are real, in the past, Portugal could also use the power of Britain and France to put pressure on the Qing court, but now it is not possible, now the whole of Europe is in a war, no country is willing to take care of Portugal's affairs, the Portuguese president immediately notified the Congress, and the Congress immediately convened a meeting of all the parliamentarians.

At this time, the Chinese side was not idle, an infantry regiment had been deployed in Zhuhai near the Macao border, which made the officials of the Portuguese and Macao authorities suddenly frightened, and within two days, the infantry regiment began to fire artillery at the station to the seaside near Macao, one after another shells fell in the seaside sea water and exploded, and the water column rose more than ten meters high, frightening the Portuguese and Macao army soldiers one by one, all of which gave the Portuguese and Macao authorities great psychological pressure.

The Portuguese and Macao authorities immediately telegraphed what had happened to China and made it clear that if they did not agree to return Macao and evacuate immediately as demanded by the Chinese authorities, it was very likely that the Chinese army would enter Macao after the ultimatum period had arrived, and that the bullets and shell casings would not be long-sighted.

At this time, the governor of Portugal and Macao is Mina, Mina has only rushed to Macao from China for more than three months, the governor's addiction has not been enough to encounter this kind of thing, how bad his mood can be seen, I think he invested a lot in order to get this position, to come here for a few months, not only did not get back the capital, seeing that he is likely to become a prisoner, or unlucky, accidentally hit by a stray bullet is really wronged.

Thinking about it, the governor of Portugal and Macao, Mina, felt that it was important to save his life, but it was too much of a loss to go back to Portugal like this, he wanted to get a vote and leave again and again, but now it is absolutely impossible to scrape the ground, if the Chinese army learns of the situation, I am afraid that people will be angry, and when the time comes, they will take a machine gun and shoot suddenly, and they will all die here.

But where can you go to make money without scraping the ground? Mina thought that his predecessor, Meiland, had been here for several years, so he should have made enough money, right? And the greedy guys who rejected him on the council, they must have been rich one by one.

Mina finally decided not to do anything, and he appeared at the Portuguese barracks to convene a meeting of Commander Herris and some other officers, and announced that his predecessor, Merland, and the officials of the Council had been secretly conspiring with the Chinese authorities to sell Portuguese secrets, and that they were ready to abandon the army and everyone else and secretly return home with their treasures.

Mina's provocation succeeded, he succeeded in angering the soldiers, and the Portuguese-Australian soldiers, under Mina's command, arrested the former Governor of Portugal and Macao, Meiland, and all the officials of the Council on the grounds of rebellion, and immediately executed them all, confiscated all their property, which was then divided between Mina and several officers.

On October 20, the Chinese army entered Macao, and Mina signed an agreement with the Chinese authorities on behalf of the Portuguese authorities for the return of Macao. Soon, the administrators sent by Hua Guo took over the administration of Macao, and apart from the Bay Island and the affiliated islands and the Liaodong Peninsula occupied by Japan, there was no longer a single concession or colony in the territory of China, and all unequal treaties were not abolished, and both China and Japan knew that for the sake of Wan Dao and the affiliated islands and the Liaodong Peninsula, Hua and Japan would sooner or later have a war. (To be continued......) R1292