Judging by the current situation, an expedition for the Russian Baltic Fleet is already a foregone conclusion. St. Petersburg will never allow the Pacific Fleet to remain in the harbor and stand alone against Japan. Whether out of hatred for the Japanese or anticipation of the fleet he was about to build, the Tsar would send his entire army to the Far East, and then have a showdown with the remnants of the Pacific Fleet against Japan.

Regarding the victory or defeat of the Russian fleet, Qingying was not worried at all that they would rewrite the history of the Battle of Tsushima and defeat the Japanese completely. Although this expeditionary fleet was far superior in size and quality to the scum brought by Rozhdestvensky in history, the core element of war was still people; Without a well-trained group of soldiers, it would be useless to give them the best weapons, as exemplified by the Italian Army's poor performance in the two wars.

Due to the limited navigability of the Suez Canal, and the fact that the British would not give the green light to the Russian fleet, the Russian capital ships with large tonnage draft could only make a detour to the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa; The more than six months of silence at sea and the wanton overloading of large quantities of coal-burning were enough to torture the Russian officers and soldiers to the point of physical and mental exhaustion, and they had no intention of fighting again. And because the well-trained officers and men of the Russian Navy are concentrated in the Pacific Fleet, and Europe is left with only a group of old and sick people, which means that the Russian fleet will be forced to recruit more farmers than ever before, who have never even seen the sea, to serve as sailors; These ordinary people, who have not undergone any military training, will have even more difficulty in enduring the pain of the voyage, and the qualities they can show in real naval battles can be imagined. During the six months of the Russian fleet's expeditions, there were various suicide mutinies among the officers and men at the grassroots level, and the sick sailors on the hospital ships were even more overcrowded. In later generations, when many military fans saw the disparity between Japan and Russia in the Battle of Tsushima, they would accuse the commander of the Russian fleet, Rozhdestvensky, of being an out-and-out super straw bale, but in fact, he was able to sail 30,000 kilometers from St. Petersburg to the Far East, which was a great achievement in leadership, navigation and logistics!

However, in the end, the tragedy was all Russians anyway, and it had nothing to do with Qingying. If Nicholas II had been able to continue his historical "wisdom" and empty all the Baltic ships and warships unfit for long-distance voyages to reinforce Rozhdestvensky, the German Navy would have completely controlled the Baltic Sea, and no force would have been able to stop it. Prior to this, Qingying had been hanging around William and Tirpitz, and through various means, he laid a solid conceptual foundation and technical foundation for the future development of the High Seas Fleet; And with the construction of dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers one after another, the German Navy has officially embarked on the track of vigorous development, and Qingying can finally free up his hands to plan his next move.

Historically, the reason for Germany's defeat in World War I was due to many and complex direct and indirect factors, which can not be encapsulated by a few simple points. Although many things are not feasible in the eyes of later generations, in the context of the time, few people in the German high-level who did not see the end of history can understand the mysteries of this. The plan proposed by the military magnate Schlieffen to destroy France named after him has been explained in detail from the macro causes to the specific strategic plan, which seems to be impeccable and neat, but it is a luxury skyscraper built on the beach: the international situation, armament technology, war pattern and other factors all determine that the implementation of this plan in 1914 can only seem to be within reach, but in the end it can only be a flower in the cold and hard water moon mirror. Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the key factor that determined the west-east offensive, had not yet exerted his strength, Russia's decay and decline had not been reflected in the Russo-Japanese War, and the entire European understanding of Russia was still shrouded in the thick cloud of Napoleon's eastern conquest. What's more, Schlieffen is the leading genius strategist in Germany, and if Qingying runs to deny the Schlieffen plan that he has devoted his life to formulating, then not only will it not have any effect, but it will draw a big scar between Qingying and the army.

Under these circumstances, Qing Ying could only put aside his plan to change the fate of the Second Empire on a strategic level for the time being, and wait until everything was in place before putting forward his idea. At the tactical level, the German Army during the First World War had already performed well enough, and minor repairs to weapons and equipment such as machine guns, mortars, and trench barbed wire systems could also be logically introduced after the Russo-Japanese War. Therefore, all Qing Ying could do at this stage was to work on the auxiliary fields that provided power for the war, and after some consideration, he aimed at food and oil.

In a sense, Germany's rise to the top of Europe before the war was inseparable from its huge population. By 1910, Germany's total population had reached 65 million, far exceeding Britain's 45 million and France's 39 million. Its large population base has created more wealth than Britain in the country, and it has also provided it with a large human capital that can be consumed in war. However, the more the population is definitely not better, because people can only do things after they have their stomachs full; Historically, the reason why the Second Empire collapsed from within after the victory over Russia on the Eastern Front was that the lack of food was definitely the main inducement!

Germany is a large agricultural country, and its location on the plains of Central Europe allows them to use more than half of their land area for farming, but given their large population, they do not produce much food each year. And once the war began, and the crops in the fields joined the army, the problem of food shortage suddenly became apparent. In 1913, the German production of oats was 4.4 billion kilograms, but in 1916 it was only 2.9 billion kilograms, a drop of one-third; And in 1918, when Germany collapsed, the food crisis was on the verge of despair. The extent to which Germany was short of food can be seen from the negotiation of the surrender of the High Seas Fleet to the British Grand Fleet: the German naval officers who were in charge of negotiating the surrender with the British arrived on the British ship and ate and drank like starving ghosts, causing the British to drop their jaws to the ground; And before leaving, a German officer also stole the cheese from the British table! The officers were still starving to death, and the situation of ordinary soldiers and low-level civilians was even more conceivable; Tens of millions of Germans are hungry like this, and it would be hell if they could still keep fighting!

As a traverser, Qingying naturally would not allow such a tragic situation in history to occur in Germany on this plane. The adult Chinging already possessed considerable power within the German Empire, enough for him to realize his personal will on a large scale. Under his ideas, agricultural production was elevated to an extremely important position, and various advanced farming methods using machinery began to be widely promoted in China; In addition, Qingying also expanded the storage scale of domestic granaries, stockpiling non-perishable grains in order to prepare for the outbreak of the European war. Although Germany on this plane will not endure as long as the Great War in Europe under its own control, it is clear that food reserves are the most important thing that must be done.

After solving the problem of human food, the grain and oil of industry are also a factor that determines the victory or defeat of the war. Since Europe produced almost no oil, and Germany's Atlantic route was firmly blocked by the British Grand Fleet, which had an inherent geographical advantage, the oil problem in the two wars was an eternal pain for Germany. Although World War I was not as dependent on oil as it was during World War II, this black goo was still an indispensable element of a country's development. Not to mention the demand for oil for industrial machinery and civilian automobiles, the navy alone is an absolute big oil swallower: oil-fired boilers are lighter in weight, smaller in size, more efficient, and less expensive than coal-fired boilers, and will inevitably be used in large quantities in the pursuit of high-speed battle cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers, and underwater killer submarines are not burned by diesel. In the army field, all kinds of large and small carrier vehicles, military motorcycles, and even the water tank that Qingying is preparing to build can only be powered by fuel. If there is not enough oil, not only will the speed of the warship be greatly reduced, but the submarines, water tanks, cars, etc. will all have to lie on their stomachs, and this is obviously what Qingying will never allow to see.

Fortunately, the fuel problem is relatively easy to solve. In the early 20th century, coal was still used as the main source of energy for human activities, and the price of oil was even lower than that of cabbage: the current market price of oil is only a little more than 0.6 US dollars per barrel, which is equivalent to less than 3 marks. Under the impetus of the Qing Ying, a series of large oil storage depots broke ground on the plains of Central Europe, and it was clear that the Russians were the most appropriate buyers of oil. Russia's Baku oil field can be called the heart of European oil, with large oil production and easy to be transported to Germany; The most important thing is that Russia is currently at war with Japan and urgently needs to ensure a stable European rear, and Germany can take advantage of this time to kill the price and slaughter the Russians fiercely!