Time flies, and another month flies. As October approaches, the hot summer that envelops the Northern Hemisphere has quietly passed, and the cool autumn wind is whistling and blowing in the fields, bringing large waves of golden wheat swaying and swaying, and the leaves flying.

In a study room at Charlottenburg Palace, Qingying was reviewing real-time information from various fields in front of her seat. As the number two man in the entire empire, William undoubtedly assigned him quite a lot of responsibilities. As the hand Chinese jiàn continued to change, the expression on Qingying's face became more and more relaxed; When the eyes turned, they were full of comfort and joy.

Today, Germany has received all the colonies ceded to it by France, Britain and Belgium; The original local administrative organs, armed military and police, all left by boat, and instead of a repressive army composed of demobilized German soldiers, they went to various places to control the local situation. When black, white, and red iron crosses were raised on the dome of the governor's palaces, Qingying was pleased to see that Germany had controlled such a vast territory: the area of the Central African Congo obtained from Belgium alone accounted for more than eighty percent of all the pre-war German overseas colonies. Add to that its population of 15 million and its numerous plantations, and the value of this land alone is greater than that of all of Germany's pre-war overseas territories combined!

Although the original owners of this land have withdrawn their capital at the same time, the green mountains are still there, and there is no firewood. The German government has taken over the mines, factories, and plantations in these colonies, and injected initial capital into them to restore the deprived machines to normal operation. Of course, in order to prevent the domestic Junckers from over-inflating. Some of these industries are state-run by the German government. The other part was transferred to the property of the Hohenzollern royal family. Because Germany has always regarded the overseas colonies of Asia and Africa as uncivilized barbarian lands. Qingying's operation was carried out with little resistance.

In order to maximize the profits, it is imperative to carry out industrial deformities and monopolies in the colonies; And for the German government, as the suzerain, this is not a difficult thing. Qingying has every reason to expect that in the future, Germany will gain a huge amount of benefits through this kind of trade scissors, and this continuous flow of wealth and blood to the center is also the core capital that Germany can compete with the United States in the future.

At the same time as the colony was being received, the construction of overseas bases was also in full swing. Whether it's a merchant ship relay in peacetime, or a fleet sortie in wartime. The key role that these bases could play was indispensable for Germany, which had already begun to move out to sea. Morocco, Guyana, Nigeria, German South-West Africa, German East Africa, Kuwait, Philippines, Indochina...... and many other regional ports, which are all overseas strategic points that Germany needs to carefully manage in the future; Only by establishing its roots in these places can Germany's maritime trade be truly extended to the rest of the world.

Among these bases, the most important is undoubtedly Kuwait, which is located in the Persian Gulf. It was not only a frontier to deter India, the core British colony, but also a major source of oil for Germany in the future: the Qing British had sent a survey team to the area in search of mineral deposits, and a breakthrough harvest would soon be made. As long as Kuwait's extremely rich oil and gas resources can be exploited, Germany will no longer suffer from a lack of oil as it did in the era of internal combustion engines in the future. (In a sense, Daimler's invention of the gasoline engine was the culprit that pushed Germany into the abyss of defeat during World War II: because Germany never had enough crude oil, planes, tanks, and warships abounded.) However, hostile countries such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain are all pouring buckets from one bucket to the other. From this point of view, Daimler, Diesel and others are indeed the leaders of the traitors who forgot their ancestors and collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country. ）

Within a month. Funds from overseas investments are pouring out. According to Qing Ying's rough statistics, the German government alone spends as much as 800 million marks in this field, and various banking institutions and private investments are innumerable. Although William was once horrified by this hemorrhagic way of spending money, his doubts were soon replaced by joy and anticipation: the order of production in the colonies began to gradually restore, and then it was time to wait for the pace of counting money. Within a few years, these investments will be fully returned under the exclusive monopoly of trade scissors; And as the biggest profiteer of this harvest of colonial industry, the income of the Hohenzollern family is incomparable to any previous period!

In Siberia, German diplomats in Omsk also sent back encouraging news home. Under the threat of a stick from Kolchak's 100,000 troops and the lure of appointing him as commander-in-chief of the Chita Military District, Semyonov, who was entrenched here, finally decided to accept Kolchak's appeasement and restore the normal operation of the Chita station. Compared with Red Soviet Russia, whose aim was to exterminate the capitalist exploiters and was currently hunting down the nobles, landlords, and capitalists of the former tsarist era, the Siberian state led by Kolchak was obviously more acceptable to Semyonov, who was also from the old aristocracy. Now that he has reaped enough benefits from the power in his hands, it is undoubtedly the wisest choice to accept it when he sees it: if he chooses to continue to fight against Kolchak, will he wait until Red Russia takes the opportunity to destroy the White Guards, and then arrest himself and shoot him?

Semenov's forces moved out of the way, which undoubtedly made the deal between Kolchak and the German government instantly clear. The first armoured train with 100 tons of gold nuggets then departed from Omsk and headed for Vladivostok in the east, escorted by thousands of heavily armed soldiers; The German convoy carrying large quantities of weapons and prisoners of war also arrived at this military port in the Far East after a long voyage to the sea, where they waited to complete the staggering deal with the other side. At that time, the German transports will depart with gold, while the Russians will return to the front line of the confrontation in the Ural Mountains with the arms and personnel they desperately need.

Although the current Japanese occupation of Vladivostok has made the situation in the Far East more confusing, the German government has every reason to believe that the other side will not interfere in their deal. At present, the United States is harshly criticizing Japan's aggression in the diplomatic arena by taking advantage of the danger of its neighbors, and threatens to launch severe economic sanctions. Under these circumstances, it is all the more necessary for Japan to stabilize the attitude of Germany, the other pole. In response to the Germans' move of coming to the East to steal and plunder, Japan, which was not strong enough, could only sit back and watch the other side transport the gold away from its own door; Now the only thing the Japanese want is to take advantage of the current civil strife in Russia and get some territory and resources from this giant, as for gold, they can only choose to let go if they can't compete with the Germans!

The light is dark, the sun is setting. Qingying, who closed the report in his hand, let out a long sigh of relief, and moved the joints that had become a little stiff all over his body to crackle. The connection between Germany and Kolchak was finally established, and it was not in vain that he had put in his efforts. As for Japan's love-hate expansionist ambitions, Qingying also decided to guide them well, so that they could turn disadvantages into advantages and always serve Germany's world strategy. In order to achieve this goal, Qing Ying was prepared to get more involved in Japan's internal affairs in the future, and vigorously supported its naval faction to take power. It is not an exaggeration to say that the relationship between the Japanese army and navy is that the two sides have been fighting since the early Meiji period. As long as the naval faction can ascend to power, its strategic center of gravity will inevitably shift southward contrary to that of the army faction, so that the pattern in the Pacific Ocean will be most favorable to Germany.

There was a dense sound of footsteps in the hallway, as if a small deer was running towards the closer; Qingying was slightly stunned, and then her face showed knowing love. After a while, a small figure suddenly rushed in from the door, and Qingying, who had been prepared, immediately opened her arms and hugged the person in the future.

It's light on the hand and your hair is cloudy. The eldest daughter, Elena, who had reached the age of five, giggled coquettishly in Qingying's arms, and her little white hands just vigorously pulled out the beard under Qingying's chin that had grown some due to neglect to shave. Feeling her daughter's attachment and intimacy to her as always, Qingying, who had not fulfilled her father's responsibilities for a long time because of the war, felt great pity; He began to tease the daughter in his arms with his beard, which caused a continuous stream of innocent laughter, and the quiet and solemn study was filled with warm and happy air.

"Elena, get out of your father's arms, why do you still want to be hugged all day long when you're five years old?" A slightly helpless soft and angry voice sounded in my ears. Qingying turned her head to look, only to see that Sanya, who was dressed in plain clothes and light clothes, had appeared in front of the door of the study at some point, and a jade hand was still holding a cute boy covered in dust but with unusually bright eyes. Qingying smiled and leaned over, unconcernedly pressed her face against the boy's mud-stained cheeks, and said, "It's okay. As long as our little Elena is happy, I will hold her as long as I like. ”

Seeing her husband's undisguised doting on her daughter, Sanya couldn't help but pout. She glared at her daughter, who was still tugging at her hair in Qingying's arms, and then whispered to the graceful face: "Now that the time for summer has passed, we will return to the Imperial Palace in Berlin with His Majesty tomorrow; Little Alexei has been living with us for more than two months, and I want to take him with me. At this point, Sanya's words also carried a hint of heaviness and pity: "He was a poor child, and his parents and family were all buried under the butcher's knife of the Bolshevik devil; Now he is lonely in a foreign land, and we need to give him warmth and care. ”

"Then let's do it." Qingying nodded and said. Raising a teenager is just a matter of raising his hand for him, not to mention putting Alexei by his side, and he can also imperceptibly re-educate him in real time. However, what Qingying didn't expect was that just a few years later, he regretted his decision today. (To be continued......)

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