The fire is bright and warm, and the high-quality anthracite coal burns quietly in the fireplace, dispelling the chill of the deep winter in the room. A small copper jug of purple jade is hanging above the flame and boiling warmly, and the slender spout constantly exudes a mellow coffee aroma, which is diffused and moisturized to the bottom of people's hearts.

Qing Ying let out a long sigh of relief and placed the last volume of the reviewed case on the right side of the desk; With the melodious sound of metal bells, a waiter respectfully pushed the door in, and then carried the processed documents out. With the continuous development of the post-war period, the affairs in the hands of Qingying became more and more onerous; Whether it is the support of the puppet countries of Eastern Europe, the construction of overseas colonies, the control and helm of the national economy, or the leading investment of the military industry, these are all important tasks that require his careful consideration. But underneath his work, a magnificent blueprint slowly emerged before the regime he served.

In 1915, the German Navy began to completely get rid of the green water status ridiculed by American newspapers as "the deep house of the North Sea", and issued its first cry to the blue ocean: a whole six new 10,000-ton heavy cruisers laid keels in major shipyards, both in terms of the speed of finalization and the scale of construction to attract the attention of the world. You must know that the earliest treaty heavy patrol Kent class in history was only started in 1924, and it is also known as the "white elephant" and "tin skin".

In addition, with the completion of the next four King-class battleships, "Graf", "Prussia", "Brandenburg" and "Wissenburg", the German Navy also gained an unprecedented advantage in Europe. The current British Navy has only 10 capital ships, while the Germans have 17. Numerical superiority on the capital ship. prompted the German Navy to begin to adjust the composition of its fleet: the battleship Saar was sent to East Africa as the core of the Indian Ocean fleet. The Palatinate, which was also part of the Caesar-class, was stationed in Manila as the flagship of the Far East Fleet. Although this type of battleship is also not suitable for ocean-going deployment. However, after the bow of the ship was simply equipped with a bulwark for wave protection, it could be regarded as barely qualified for the task of overseas dispatch. Importantly, the German move to send a capital ship of sufficient weight overseas announced to the world its involvement in and use of the blue ocean. Merchant ships flying the tricolor iron cross flag began to be more and more active on the routes, and they no longer had to look at the arrogance of the traditional colonial powers when they docked at various transit stations to replenish supplies.

In the eastern occupation zone, the Qing Ying also supported several satellite regimes in 1915. The independence elements of the three Baltic states, who had been on the verge of movement since the last century, were deliberately pushed by Qing Ying to finally realize their long-cherished wish: administrators from prime ministers to local governors. From the National Assembly to the power structures for the election of deputies, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have it all. However, the independence of these "independent states" is obvious. Before the German troops withdrew from this territory, German capital had taken over the former economic lifeline of Russia in this region; Transportation, electricity, agricultural grain, mineral deposits...... All the key areas related to the national economy and people's livelihood have been put into his hands, so that Germany actually still maintains control over the three Baltic states. With the newly revised Tariff and Trade Agreement, the three Baltic countries effectively became German colonies for resource plundering and commodity dumping, no different from the previous economic situation under direct German occupation; Thanks to the existence of the satellite regime, Germany was able to avoid direct conflict with local nationalists and pass on the administrative costs of rule to the locals. This is also the embodiment of the wisdom of making a fortune in a muffled voice.

According to Qingying's original plan, he was ready to do the same with Ukraine. However since William descended. Almost all the courtiers were eager to bring this rich black land under the direct control of Germany, in order to solve the food problem once and for all. It can also leave a vast survival territory for future generations. After feeling them and the strong nationalist ideology in the country, Qingying, after careful consideration, had to abandon his plan that seemed too rosy in the current era, and chose to adopt direct rule over Ukraine. Although this matter is troublesome, Germany is now fully capable of achieving its own goals.

First of all, Germany needs to emigrate massively to Ukraine in order to dilute as much as possible the absolute majority of Ukrainians on this land. Thankfully, the devastation caused by the war has left large areas of Ukraine in a situation where people are displaced and society is in ruins, which undoubtedly provides an excellent opportunity for German forces to take advantage of the situation. In order to attract people to live and settle in this land, the German press and media began to publicize the fertility of the black soil of Ukraine under the instruction of Qing Ying: as long as crops are planted on this land, then one bag of fertilizer can be sprinkled on top of two bags, and wheat absorbs nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium two meters below the ground and yields 1,800 per mu. The arable land abandoned by the war is also very cheap in terms of contract price, which will inevitably attract a large number of German people to go to Ukraine to pan for gold.

With the encouragement of the German government, tens of thousands of people began to flock to Ukraine: after all, Germany is not yet self-sufficient in agricultural products, and spends a lot of foreign exchange to import grain from Romania every year; If you can fill the gap in this aspect, then you also have great business prospects! The Junckers, a traditional German agricultural company, took the lead and annexed a large amount of land in Ukraine to be cultivated, and more people were attracted to the land, and Qingying's strategy began to bear fruit. The next thing he has to do is to stabilize the local order and invest heavily in the construction of infrastructure in Ukraine. As long as the economy of this region can be developed in this way, then German capital, which occupies an absolutely dominant position in it, will be able to control this territory; In a certain sense, this is undoubtedly similar to Germany's use of economic means to control the Ottoman Empire and the three Baltic states.

In addition, Qingying is also ready to work in the field of culture in order to eliminate the desire for independence of Ukrainians at the root. German is undoubtedly established as the official language of the Ukrainian lands and is taught as a compulsory subject in all schools. Since the English-speaking world of later generations has widely publicized the purely fictional content in "The Last Lesson" as a tacit historical fact to discredit the other party, then Qingying can only respectfully turn it into reality. By eliminating the language from the schools, Germany would have a decisive influence on Ukraine, and eventually the assimilation of the Chinese and European civilizations.

As for Poland, Qingying was prepared to maintain the status quo. After all, Germany only got this land after a series of bloody battles with the main forces of the Russian army, and more than half of its casualties in the war against Russia were thrown here, and it was obviously impossible to spit it out and make Poland independent. Since the country has disappeared from the map of Europe for more than 150 years, it is better to let it disappear for a while longer, and accept the rule of another victor.

The coffee is warm and fragrant; The lips and teeth are fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless. After slowly drinking the coffee that had been boiling on the fireplace for a long time, Qingying suddenly felt exhausted, and her whole body was full of vitality and vitality again. He stood up and exercised his muscles, then put on his winter coat hanging on a hanger, pushed the door and walked out of his office room. When the work is over, Qingying will accompany her family as soon as possible: whether it is to enlighten her youngest son Splinter, or to pay attention to the studies that her eldest daughter Elena has begun, or to provide Sonia, who has known her for twenty years, mentally and physically, with her last trace of comfort after the collapse of her country and family.

At present, the Russian civil war has entered a white-hot stage in a year's confrontation: the red Soviet Russia, which occupies the center, is alone against the white forces of Kolchak, Denikin, and Yudenich in the north. The total amount of arms, food and other materials purchased from Germany by various forces has exceeded the mark of 3 billion marks; All the Russian-made weapons and ammunition captured by Germany during the war were sold out, so much so that the Berlin government had to reopen the original production lines in the occupied zone in the East to meet the purchase needs of various forces. Nearly half of the more than 1.3 million prisoners of war in the camps were released, and they were sold and given to these forces, and they fully released their light and heat on the battlefield.

In just one year, more than 500,000 military personnel on all sides have been killed, while at least twice as many have been injured. Factories and bridges were destroyed, livestock and raw materials were plundered; The mine collapsed and flooded in the war, and the industrial machinery suffered damage. The city was once full of buildings and rubble-strewn ruins. However, the devastation of Russian society by the war was far from limited to that.

The defeat suffered by Red Russia in the early stages of the war led them to carry out the Red Terror in all areas of the war: the Cheka alone had executed more than 200,000 "collaborators" and "class enemies" in the past year, killing nearly a million people. As the situation on the front line became more and more stable, the "Special Punishment Brigade", which was originally used to execute fleeing soldiers, also began to carry out a large-scale liquidation of the occupied White Army towns: countless people were judged to be "accomplices of the White Bandits" and were slaughtered, and countless property was looted!

Faced with this situation, the angry White Army also returned the favor with a large-scale "white terror"; Countless "Red Devil lackeys" died tragically under the ropes of firing squads, and Kolchak alone hanged 50,000 people in Yekaterinburg province alone. The bloodthirsty genes hidden in the blood of the fighting people were fully stimulated, and this also caused the Russian state to slide into the abyss of no return. (To be continued......)

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