Italy, the most famous country in the history of the world's wars.

Isn't there such a sentence, in the history of modern wars, if there is no Italy, it will only be full of blood and killing—————— and the existence of Italy has smeared some comedy on modern wars.

Many historians believe that it was Italy's delay in World War II that hastened the demise of the fascist regime led by Hitler. Therefore, it is safe to say: thank God Italy was added to the Axis powers during World War II, otherwise the Nazi Iron Cross might have really spread all over the world.

In the beginning, Italy was actually on the German side, the so-called Central Powers. It can also be seen from this that the Germans had a poor eye for selecting allies. In World War I, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and then Turkey were picked, and there was basically no one more powerful country among several countries.

As for World War II, Japan is not easy to say, but the Germans actually chose Italy again.

In a way, if it weren't for the Iddully, the Germans might have stormed Moscow. It's a possibility, but it's a possible thing from all angles.

So, Nymph is really the cute thing among cute things...

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Just like in World War II, the Gurdy in World War I was also a pit teammate.

Italy was originally a member of the Triple Alliance, but due to the "unrecovered Italy" problem between Italy and Austria-Hungary, Italy eventually joined the side of the Entente. Declare war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. At the beginning of the war, Italy captured several Austro-Hungarian cities by means of rapid attacks. But then the Italian front fell into the same stalemate as the war on the Western Front. At the beginning of the war, the Austro-German army, despite its numerical inferiority, still took the initiative on the battlefield, and at the beginning of the war. The Italians had a numerical advantage of 3 to 1 over the Austrians, but failed to break through the Austrian defenses in the Julian Alps.

The Austro-Crarian forces were just as rotten, and on the Eastern Front, the Germans were able to wipe out millions of Russian troops. But even so, the Russians were still able to beat the Austrians. This shows how bad the fighting power of the Austrians was, and the Italians, who were even worse than the Austrians. Live up to the name of World War II cuteness.

Although the current government is only planning to join the Entente and send expeditionary forces to help Britain and France, it is very concerned about the war situation in Europe. The Special Service also has a number of offices in Europe. So I know a lot about the situation in Italy.

Although Austria-Hungary was inferior to Italy in terms of military strength, it still continued to hit a wall in front of the Austrians.

And whenever he heard such news, Yan Shao always looked very happy, which made others a little strange. That includes Elaline.

But doubts about his wife. Yan Shao always smiled and did not speak.

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In a teahouse in Beijing, Song Jiaoren was sitting across from a personable young man. Judging from his face, Song Jiaoren seemed to be very distressed.

"Zhaoming, what do you think about the president's desire to go to war..."

Holding the teacup in some distress, Song Jiaoren looked at Wang Jingwei.

That's right, Wang Jingwei...

In history, because of the saying 'lead the knife into a fast, live up to the head of the youth'. Wang Jingwei has great prestige. However, after the Xinhai Revolution, Wang Jingwei left China. During this period, he returned to China several times, but he did not stay for long, and it seemed that he was not interested in power at all.

It was not until the Second Revolution that Wang Jingwei was urgently recalled from abroad by Sun Yat-sen.

However, in this history, although Wang Jingwei also left China after the Xinhai Revolution, after the Anhui military government and the Kuomintang faced off, Wang Jingwei urgently returned from France and assisted Sun Yat-sen in handling some things.

It's just that when the final decision comes...

In this history, Wang Jingwei did not follow Sun Yat-sen, and there was no Wang Jingwei in the 'Chinese Revolutionary Party', but Wang Jingwei followed Song Jiaoren and Huang Xing back to China. Maybe it's because Song Jiaoren's approach is more in line with Wang Jingwei's point of view.

In fact, after learning the news that Wang Jingwei also ran back, Yan Shao was really surprised. After all, he can forget anyone, but Wang Jingwei is really hard to forget.

After all, this person in history is very controversial, first a hot-blooded young man who 'draws a knife into a fast and lives up to the head of a young man', and then becomes a famous traitor in history. Among the traitors, there are only people like Qin Hui who are more powerful than him.

Even Qin Hui may not be more powerful than him, at most he is of the same level.

Putting aside the reason for his defection to Japan in the first place, after learning that he also followed Song Jiaoren back to China, Yan Shaozhi had a headache for a while.

On the one hand, today's Wang Jingwei has a huge reputation in China because of the sentence 'leading the knife into a fast, not living up to the head of the youth'. Although there is no way to compare with Yan Shao, he is definitely the idol of many young people, and Wang Jingwei may be pro-Japanese at this time, but he has no tendency to sell it, if he does it like this, the pressure on public opinion is very great, even if there are opposition within the government.

But on the other hand, if it is said that pro-Japanese elements like Tang Shaoyi, Yan Shao is confident that after establishing a strong country, he can transform them (Yan Shao always believes that pro-Japanese does not mean traitors, traitors are betrayed, pro-Japanese are just more inclined to Japan, there were many pro-Japanese elements in the Anti-Japanese War, but during the war, instead of betraying the country, they supported the Anti-Japanese War). But to Wang Jingwei's words...

No way, who called him too famous.

But in the end, Yan Shao still didn't start, but even so, there are still many monitors around Wang Jingwei...

It can even be said that there are really few manpower in China who are monitored by the Special Affairs Bureau, and the amount of surveillance is really higher than him. In this regard, Caterina and Tang Li are very strange, and they don't know what Yan Shao is doing to monitor such a person. But in the end they did...

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Sitting opposite Song Jiaoren, Wang Jingwei's expression moved.

After following Song Jiaoren back to China, Wang Jingwei became Song Jiaoren's confidant. He even held a decent position within the government because of this.

He seemed very satisfied with this, but in fact, during the war in Shandong, Wang Jingwei, like many people, did not believe that China could win. However, Wang Jingwei at this time was obviously different from later generations, first of all, the status of the two was different, the former was only a small role in the current Kuomintang government, and it was just a very high-status figure in the Kuomintang. The latter, however, is one of the giants of the Kuomintang, and has great influence even in China.

So. Although Wang Jingwei now has some ties with the Japanese, in fact the ties are not very close. And he is not in an important department, even if he wants to sell, he doesn't know what to sell.

So during the war. Although Wang Jingwei was very worried that the war would destroy the whole of Shandong. But not much action was actually made.

And what happened after that surprised him and many pro-Japanese factions.

First, in the Battle of Longkou Bay, the Japanese fleet, known as the first fleet in Asia, suffered heavy losses, and then Japan suffered a series of setbacks in Shandong, and its performance was completely incomparable with the title of great power.

This scene caused a great shock to Wang Jingwei and others.

Even with Wang Jingwei's mentality, he has changed a lot, at least, he is no longer as pro-Japanese as usual.

And Yan Shao's big victory in Shandong. It not only elevated China's international status, but also stabilized the power of the Kuomintang government in China. And the development of the country is very rapid. In some places, as far as Wang Jingwei is concerned, the country can even compare with or even surpass Europe, such as road traffic.

But even so, Wang Jingwei still has something dissatisfied with Yan Shao and the Kuomintang, that is, the authoritarianism of the Kuomintang.

In Yan Shao's hands, the so-called parliament is no different from a vase, and the so-called Kuomintang is only a larger party and does not have much power in itself. Coupled with other things, Wang Jingwei has always been dissatisfied with the status quo, and he admits that China is indeed developing rapidly, but he, like Song Jiaoren, longs for a 'republic'...

It is clear that the present Nationalist government is clearly not at odds with the 'republic'.

Now Wang Jingwei is thinking about a way, how to republic. It's just that I don't know what happened today, Song Jiaoren suddenly got him out of the office and said that he wanted to talk about something, so Wang Jingwei was a little confused. Now that he suddenly heard Song Jiaoren say that Yan Shao planned to send an expeditionary force to fight in Europe, Wang Jingwei was naturally surprised.

"This..."Wang Jingwei said with some hesitation. Personally......... I wonder what your opinion is, Minister Lu Dao? ”

"I—" Song Jiaoren smiled bitterly. I don't know..."

Song Jiaoren also did not know whether he should support or oppose it. It stands to reason that he should support it, after all, if Iraq really has oil, then after taking Iraq, China's financial situation will be greatly improved, and Yan Shao also made it very clear that with Iraq's oil fields, China's taxes and so on are not a problem, and free education or something can also go further.

To put it simply, it is beneficial to the country and the people.

An Iraqi oil field can allow China to fulfill almost all of its wishes.

The premise is that he has to pay the price...

Let's say, send troops to Europe and help the Entente defeat the Germans.

The question is whether the Germans are so easy to deal with, as the Minister of Integrity, he still has access to some information, especially some war situations from Europe. The Battle of the Marne between Britain and France on the Western Front against the Germans cost nearly half a million casualties on both sides. In addition, on the Eastern Front, the Germans annihilated more than a million Russian people, and these figures show that Germany is definitely not an easy opponent to deal with.

If China gets up at this time, if it ends up with the Russians, the casualties will inevitably be too great, and it will hurt the muscles and bones if it is not done well.

And exchanging a soldier's life for money is always an awkward thing for an idealist like Song Jiaoren.

However, there is one thing that Song Jiaoren knows very well, that is, the matter of the oil field must not be revealed, otherwise it will not be said that there will be any consequences if outsiders learn about the Iraqi oil field, I am afraid that he and his family. And the people he came into contact with were in trouble.

Therefore, when Song Jiaoren talked with Wang Jingwei, he only talked about sending troops to Europe, and did not mention a word about the reason for sending troops. Not even a word of oil.

In this case, no matter how smart Wang Jingwei is, there is no way to deduce a suitable conclusion.

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Wang Jingwei could see that Song Jiaoren seemed to support the matter of sending troops to Europe, but he seemed to be opposed, and the whole thing was very contradictory to Song Jiaoren, and even Wang Jingwei couldn't understand Song Jiaoren's true thoughts.

But if you ask him what he thinks...

"Of course I don't agree," Wang Jingwei said categorically. The war in Europe has nothing to do with our country. Why should we get involved, even if Britain and France promise us some benefits, it will not be enough for us to exchange the blood of our soldiers..."

"Yes," Song Jiaoren nodded. But there was a wry smile on his face. "The problem is that it's not a small benefit..."

Naturally, Song Jiaoren would never say the latter sentence. After all, Iraq's existence is still a secret, and if it is revealed, there is a good chance that it will not be China's turn.

So in the end, Song Jiaoren just picked up the teacup. Then I took a small sip.

Song Jiaoren's reaction made Wang Jingwei feel very strange. Because according to common sense, Song Jiaoren's conduct is very upright, and he will definitely oppose this kind of thing. But now, he's...

For a while, Wang Jingwei was also a little confused.

But at this time, Wang Jingwei seemed to see something, and his head suddenly looked down at the teahouse.

"Sir, look. It seems to be the car of the British Legation..."Pointing to a car downstairs, Wang Jingwei smiled bitterly at Song Jiaoren, who was still there.

Follow Wang Jingwei's fingers. Song Jiaoren looked over, and just happened to see a Liulan car with a British flag.

Because it is often encountered, Song Jiaoren knows very well that it is a car from the British Legation.

Because of the high cost performance, both the British Legation and some other legations like Liulan cars very much, and make it their own special car. Of course, there will be some nationalists in every era, especially in this era, and it is the most prosperous era of nationalists, I don't know how many nationalists exist in Ludao, for this kind of people, it is okay to use things from other countries, and at the critical moment, as a diplomat of a country, if you take the car of other countries, it will be too much...

Of course, there is a premise here, and that is that the country can make its own cars.

The problem is that although there are some cars abroad, they are too inferior to Liulan in terms of performance and appearance. Usually it may be nothing, but if the two cars are put together and others are compared, then the most embarrassing thing is their own country.

In addition, there are a few countries that are unable to produce their own cars, or are unable to produce excellent cars, have purchased Liulan. The end result was that Liulan became a public car for diplomats from all over the world.

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Sitting in the car, Zhu Erdian's face looked very ugly.

It's not because he was angry with Yan Shao again, to be honest, maybe it's because he is sympathetic to the elderly, Yan Shao has always been very polite to Zhu Erdian and these old men, and he will never be angry with them.

And even if there were, it was when there was a dispute over the interests of the two countries.

However, in recent times, the relationship between the two countries has been relatively good. Especially some time ago, although the conditions for China's accession to the Entente were considered by Britain and France to be a bit high, they were vetoed. But China gave Britain two very good destroyers, which made Britain and France think that China was a show of goodwill towards the Entente.

At this time, British and French transport ships in the ocean were often attacked by German submarines, so some destroyers were needed to escort them. The 'Shanfeng' class destroyer, which has a full load displacement of 1,500 tons and is known as the strongest among all destroyers, has undoubtedly become the best escort destroyer.

Needless to say, there were shipments from the Far East to mainland Britain. It happened that the escort ships were not sufficient, so Yan Shao sent two 'Shanfeng'-class destroyers to the British government.

However, Yan Shao didn't send it together, so it was the British themselves who used these two destroyers—————— in fact, even if Yan Shao dared to send them, the British might not dare to ask for them.

According to the evaluation of the British, China's navy still has great potential, and those officers and soldiers are also very smart and diligent in learning.

But in all respects this navy is still very immature, and in peacetime, even if it is carried out anti-submarine missions ...

I'm afraid something will go wrong...

Although the navy was a little resentful about this, it also knew that what people said was the truth, so they didn't say much. But who would have thought that those two destroyers had just performed their first mission, and a lot of things had happened ...

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Although the British do not have a high opinion of the Chinese Navy, they have a very good evaluation of the Shanfeng-class destroyers. Especially the 'Snow Wind' among them. It is believed that this kind of destroyer not only has high performance, but also has high comfort, and the crew is very comfortable when living on the ship, and can maintain a high combat effectiveness even when sailing for a long time...

The British were also very happy about this, but who knew that just as two destroyers, together with some other escort ships, escorted the transports, they set off from the Far East, picked up another group of transports while in India, and then continued to London, when they were about to arrive on the British mainland, they were ambushed by German submarines...

These Germans seem to have learned from the Chinese Navy's approach in Shandong, and actually gathered a large number of submarines...

Outcome... (To be continued......)