Chapter 244: The End (8)

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The Nanjing Station of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway is full of all kinds of noise and sounds, since the central government announced the victory in Henan, how is the Northern Expedition going? How long will it take for unification to be complete?

All kinds of speculations are endless, well-informed people are like a river, and the secret worries of the ill-informed are mixed together endlessly.

Traun got out of the train in this atmosphere and boarded the car with Loew to meet him. After Krausen returned to China, he had essentially become the brain of Germany's relations with China by virtue of the good relationship he had established with Yang Qiu at the beginning.

Whether it is Germany, the United States, or even the United Kingdom, the direction of diplomacy towards China is not in the hands of their ministers and governors, especially at the moment when the smell of gunpowder in Europe is getting stronger and stronger, European diplomats have no intention of paying attention to the distant Far East, they prefer to stand in front of the map, fingers pinching which European country can be pulled into the ally, of course, there is no China on this map for the time being.

Therefore, Traun and his ministers became the core figures of the diplomacy with China in fact, and even Wilhelm II had to go through them if he wanted to understand the Far East, and if anyone deliberately made a bad impression that Yang Qiu was a lascivious, cruel and unscrupulous villain, then Wilhelm II and the German General Staff would immediately believe it.

This is the peculiarity of diplomats in the Far East.

However, Traun knows that Yang Qiu is not that kind of person, he is indeed surrounded by several women, but at least he has not found out that he has bad habits, a young man in his twenties, but repeatedly postponed his marriage for the sake of his career, and let his fiancée stay in the empty room in Hubei but he got into the wars and meetings that caused headaches for anyone every day, in addition to showing that he was a workaholic, it also showed that he had extremely strong power**.

This is a good thing, a person who does not have a ** for power will not be able to meet the requirements of Germany.

Loew closed the information he had gathered during this time, turned his head to look out the window and asked, "Your Excellency, why don't you let Governor Waldeck send troops?" Japan's dispatch of troops to Dongying has violated the principle of unanimity among all countries, and we should immediately cut off their intention of infiltrating the Jiaodong Peninsula ()! ”

Loew is a big Germanic, he has a deep hatred for small Japan, this country has been a little confused since the defeat of Russia, and has always regarded himself as the leader of the yellow race in Asia, in addition to some reverence for Britain and France, but the nostrils of Germany and the United States are uplifted, and it is really a country that is extremely incomparably underwhelmed.

Traun put on a pair of glasses, and he was still a little unaccustomed to becoming the de facto leader of Germany in China, and he had to work more than ten hours a day to keep the country up to date with the situation in the Far East, so his eyesight deteriorated considerably. Slightly pushed down the frame of his glasses, which he was not used to, and said: "Loew, if it was two years ago, then I would agree with your idea, and I would do my best to persuade His Majesty William to send an army to teach Japan a lesson, but now do you think the General Staff and His Majesty will still do that?" ”

Loew hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "Every battleship is precious, and if we send two or three to the Far East, the British will have a greater numerical superiority. ”

Traun nodded: "The decision of Marshal Tirpitz and His Majesty has allowed our country to quickly have the second most powerful naval fleet in the world, but our potential opponents have also not relaxed, so at this time, it is absolutely impossible for Your Majesty to send battleships to the Far East, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are the only warships that our country can rely on in the Far East in the next few years, and they are not enough to ensure victory in the face of the Japanese and British Far East fleets." Therefore, even if we send troops, as long as they have British support, we will at most drive them back to Tianjin. ”

"What do you mean?"

Traun's eyes were sharp, and he calmly analyzed: "Now is an extremely sensitive period, if we break out a war with Japan in the Far East, then Britain, especially France, will do everything in its power to support Japan, thereby weakening our power in the Far East, dragging our country into Russian-style attrition and ultimately affecting the strategic balance in Europe, so I think that instead of us taking matters into our own hands, it is better to fight a proxy war!" ”

Loew somewhat understood, but he still didn't believe in the combat effectiveness of Yang Qiu's troops, especially now that Beiyang was still in the middle, and the Wehrmacht's power could not extend beyond the most critical Shanhaiguan for a day, it would be impossible for a day to really threaten Japan's core interests, and Japan wanted to land on a large scale in Jiaozhou, and at present, even Britain would not agree to it ().

Traun has a different view on his analysis: "We should take a more long-term view, not just at the mouth of the Yellow River, which is just a man-made skirmish." After biting down on the small print, he continued: "Japan does not lack wise diplomats, but why do they do such things that anger Yang Qiu? Apparently there are still things in it that we don't know. But there is no doubt that Japan will never want to see Yang Qiu unify the country with a strong line, so I think this is just a temptation! Japan is testing Yang Qiu's hole cards, and the rupture of relations between the two countries is inevitable, judging from the Han Yeping incident, once he reunifies China, he will certainly increase restrictions on the export of Japanese assets and raw materials, which will be fatal to the island countries that lack resources!

After the Russo-Japanese War, the United States also began to be dissatisfied with Japan, because after the huge loans they provided helped Japan win Russia, Japan did not help the United States further open the market as promised, but joined hands with Britain to blockade the Far East, so Wall Street and the American-Asian Association have always believed that Japan has actually become the biggest obstacle to the entry of American goods here, and they are taking a series of measures to restrict Japanese immigrants in their country, and the export of resources to Japan has also shrunk a lot. Then the United States may be more than happy to see a Japan with the reins on it and the Anglo-Japanese alliance dismantled. ”

is worthy of being a senior diplomat in the Far East, just a few sentences of analysis made Loew's eyes suddenly brighten, but there is still a very big doubt: "Please forgive me for saying that the war between China and Japan may bring some small troubles to Britain and France, but it is not enough to change anything, and Yang Qiu's navy is just a decoration, a country without a navy cannot ensure the defeat of Japan, since it cannot defeat the Japanese navy, then what can we get?" ”

Traun glanced at Loew, a diligent Germanic diplomatic aide, but his eyes needed to be trained. smiled, revealing Sen Han's white teeth: "On my bookshelf, there is a copy of "The Legendary Story of the Three Kingdoms" (the translated version of the Three Kingdoms at that time) that you need to take a look at. The navy will never be able to sail to land, so what is the use of the Japanese navy even if it sinks the entire Chinese fleet? The entire coast is currently under the control of Britain, France and us, will the Japanese Navy dare to bombard Tianjin? Shanghai? Or Guangdong? As far as Britain is concerned, they will not even be allowed to cross the Taiwan Strait and go south, because that would implicate British interests in the Far East, so land is the main battlefield of competition in the Far East.

For our neighbors in Beihai, as well as the damned French, whether Japan loses or Yang Qiu loses, they will be very unlucky! Because this will give Nicholas II the best opportunity. Just imagine, if that greedy madman were to send half a million, or even a million gray cattle from Europe, to the Far East, do you know what would happen? ”

Loew's eyes suddenly lit up, and he even hated that China and Japan would start a full-scale war immediately! Because Traun's prediction was absolutely correct, that cousin of His Majesty William had an unparalleled greed for land! The Sino-Japanese war is impossible for anyone to win, the weak God of the Far East! Nicholas II will definitely take revenge for a few years ago.

When Nicholas II turned his attention back to the Far East, it was simply impossible for Russia to cope with both sides at the same time, and the idea that Britain and France deliberately connived at Japan to fight Russia back to Europe after the Russo-Japanese War will be rewritten! As soon as the Russian army frantically pours into the Far East, it is bound to shrink in Europe! As for what China will end up looking like? This has nothing to do with Germany.

Now the question is, will Yang Qiu fight? Although he has hundreds of thousands of troops, his equipment, quality, and elite level are much worse than those of the Japanese army.

Even Traun can't guarantee this, although Yang Qiu has a tough attitude towards Japan in the Han Yeping incident, will he take risks when it comes to the future of the country? The car quickly arrived at the Ministry of National Defense, and he even ignored the presidential palace that was nearby, because everyone knew who the actual leader of the country was, and he didn't drive again until the guards told Yang Qiu that he had gone to the presidential palace.

When I arrived at the presidential palace, it was busy coming in and out, and the faces of the officials who came to do business were much younger and more capable than a year ago, and the scene even reminded Traun of the scene when Yang Qiu was in charge of the southwest. Obviously, his killings in Jiangxi and Guangdong had scared a lot of people, so officials had to make themselves look more capable and industrious.

"Murong." Traun soon met Yang Qiu's secretary Murong Han, and the two had met several times, so both sides seemed very enthusiastic, but the strange thing was that this young man actually seemed to be going out with a small bag, and couldn't help asking, "Where are you going?" ”

"Thank you for your concern, I am going to Henan to take up my post, and the original work will be taken over by Mr. Cai Gongshi ()." When Murong Han introduced the new secretary Cai Gong beside him, Traun wrote down the newcomer and continued to ask, "Henan? So what is your job? ”

Cai Gongshi's first time dealing with the minister in China, he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed and seriously introduced: "Murong Han has been appointed as the governor of Henan Province. ”

"Congratulations." Traun didn't think it was a big deal for Murong Han to become the governor of Henan Province, and it was a tradition in the country to appoint cronies. Murong Han smiled bitterly: "This is not a good errand, millions of victims, and wandering bandits, my head still hurts." ”

"But it's also trust and exercise." Traun saw Yang Qiu's idea of using this to train Murong Han, and secretly thought that he would collect this person's information after he returned, and maybe he would return to the center one day in the future.

After a few pleasantries, Traun asked, "I would like to see Your Excellency the Vice President now, can you inform me?" ”

"It's very unfortunate." Cai Gongshi pointed to the president's office: "The president and vice president are meeting with Mr. Hangel and Mr. Stade, and they may need to wait a while." ”

American? These nouveau riche are fast. Traun nodded and was about to wait in the side hall, when a young ensign with a telegram suddenly rushed in from outside. He had seen that second lieutenant, who had been one of the guards beside Yang Qiu before, and his excitement when he saw this guard was overflowing, and he was also curious.

What's wrong?

Before he could ask, the German entourage waiting outside also ran in with a German diplomatic counselor stationed in Nanjing, and then a piece of news suddenly broke out.

Yuan Shikai ordered the Jinpu line to be released and let the National Defense Army go north to support Dongying!

ps: Last night the unit had something to do before getting off work at eight o'clock, I didn't expect the battery car to break down on the road, and I didn't get home until ten o'clock, and I simply slept without a code word, and I forgot to make an announcement, I'm very sorry.

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