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In the German embassy, "the guards scanned the street with cold eyes, and did not dare to be tired in the slightest, because the high commander of the German ** team was staying here these days, so everyone was asked to cheer up the spirit.

But in contrast to the guards, little Moltke sat in his room, frowning at the window, with an indescribable tiredness on his face.

The reason all came from the proposal on the table for the exchange of technology and the signing of the Sino-German agreement put forward by the other party after he met with Li Mo.

Exchange radio for the core technology of precision machining!

It's not that he doesn't know the importance of having no wires, on the contrary, "when he visited the Royal Guards in Beijing that day, the other party contacted Lushun by radio, and reported back the movements of the cruiser Marquis Bismarck, which was anchored there with his visit, and the content was exactly the same as the description of the German ** officer who was holding the telephone and conveying it through the telegraph station, he knew that Germany needed radio."

Even a sky-high price worth dozens of tons of gold was offered for this! But unexpectedly, Li Mo not only refused, but also told himself very simply that "every radio transmitter is equipped with a special device that prevents disassembly, and once it is not disassembled without following the procedure", the ** placed inside will explode immediately.

Obviously, this arsonist is not so simple as the outside world knows, he directly dispelled the idea of his secret acquisition, "after blocking the latter road" and forcing himself to return to the negotiating table, although he said that he would like to go through other channels, but God knows which one of the dense screws on the shell should be removed first? If something goes wrong, Germany will no longer have access to the much-needed technology.

Then he put forward the conditions, one that made him hesitate to use the core machining technology such as high-precision machine tools and send 3,000 corresponding senior technical operators to China in exchange for radio. On the total amount of manufacturing and science and technology, Germany is not as good as the United Kingdom, not as good as France, perhaps worse than the United States" but in precision machine tools and machining technology Germany is the leader, the key is that after years of efforts, Germany has cultivated a group of high-quality technical workers, their attainments in machining, so that precision machine tool technology has advanced by leaps and bounds over the years.

And now that Li Mo wants to take all these things for himself through a radio, which is as if you have saved money for a lifetime, but then you have to share wealth with a person who is friend or foe and cannot be distinguished, and the key is that he also needs a full 3,000 senior skilled workers to come to China to help him train workers, which is unacceptable, which means that once the Chinese learn those skills, there is nothing to restrain them!

In addition to technology, he proposed a near-alliance plan called the "Draft Sino-German Strategic Agreement" that Germany needs to consider carefully, although it is a little strange about this strange name, "but even children know the meaning of the word strategy", which means that once this agreement is signed, Germany's future plans may need to be revised. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

This is a big thorny problem, Germany needs radio, "itself needs a means to be able to contact officers at all levels anytime and anywhere", although the European telegraph network is developed, but if there is a war in the future, "I am afraid no one knows whether there will be a problem", just like Siberia at this moment, the Russians cannot even contact even a single telegraph station.

Acquiring the technology itself can also convince His Majesty the Emperor, because Hua has lost to Germany in some aspects, even if it does not count radio, they have begun to lead the world in terms of internal combustion engines, large generators, electric motors, etc., especially the latter two "are now the machinery export commodities of Huada, and the annual income of these two alone is as high as 200 million marks", which is about 70 million blue coins, and with the increasing application of electricity, the export volume is growing explosively, and even Germany can only buy patents and manufacture them themselves. But it is absolutely not possible to send people, the processing technology of those motors is not high and the large complete sets of high-precision machine tools and processing technology are completely different things, according to Hua's current processing capacity, it will take at least three or four years to give them the technology to explore, but if you send someone to teach them by hand, I am afraid that the time will be shortened to two or even ten years, which means that Li Mo has the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of Germany and quickly make up for the latter shortcoming.

Compared with technology, what really makes him difficult to make up his mind is this strategic agreement, because if the agreement is signed, "it is equivalent to announcing that the Chinese have been recognized to join the game, which is simply unimaginable, just like a group of white people and a yellow race are talking about business, but they are taken the majority of the uncomfortable people!"

There is no doubt that Hua has become an increasingly important country, even surpassing Germany in some respects" but to this day, he is still a bystander, although he has acquired Luzon, acquired Borneo, and even changed the distant Micronesia to Bactria , even if they are fighting bloodily for a huge permafrost at the moment, but he is not a real beneficiary, at best he is only the hegemon of the Far East, because their hands cannot reach far away South America and Africa! Germany is actually not a big beneficiary, but compared with Limer, it is a country that speaks very important in Europe, even the British sometimes have to consider Germany, so the rise of Germany has made Europe very worried, in this case, Germany proposed to add a table knife to the table, "The object is a yellow race, will it attract the hatred of the entire white world?" Will the door that Germany has managed to open be closed again?

No one knows, even if he was the chief of the German General Staff, a core man, could not predict how the world would change after the signing of this agreement.

This will be a big challenge for Germany, and indeed for the world, because you may need to learn to listen to a voice from the East!

Moltke took a deep breath and stood up for his papers, he could not and could not make such a decision, but Germany needed radio technology, so it was necessary to send the news back to the Prime Minister's Council and His Majesty the Emperor.

Half an hour later, a series of telegraph ticks began to emanate from the special confidential line specially opened for diplomats at the Beijing telegraph station, and were transmitted back to Germany halfway around the world through Hong Kong.

"Old, slow, and easy to leak." After sending the telegram, Moltke pinched his nose and suddenly said something like this to Ludendorff, who was accompanying him.

Ludendorff did not know why the chief of staff would say this, but he knew very well that "in those days" the volume of telegrams between Germany and China had increased dramatically, and in just half a month, the German sales on this item exceeded hundreds of thousands of blue coins, so that the staff of the telegraph station during that time received a lot of bonuses.

Perhaps at this moment in Beijing, Moltke is not a person who cares about the outside world" is not interested in the news that the Russian fleet is about to depart from Europe, in his opinion, Russia has actually lost the war, because the gap in strength between the two countries has been fundamentally reversed, in addition to the total steel output of Shanghai ahead of tens of thousands of tons, "whether it is science and technology or manufacturing, Russia has been thrown off a lot."

After twenty days of exchanging telegrams, Moltke finally got the final reply, and when he received it from Ludendorff, he "frowned for many days."

"Ludendorff, do you know what I have gained since I came to China?" Moltke Jr. turned his head and asked as he walked towards the car at the door with his reply.

Ludendorff shook his head, not knowing how to answer, "but Moltke's eyes sparkled: "In the back of every old empire, there is destined to be an empire!" If Germany wants to gain the world, it must step on the corpse of the country that controls it! ”

"There is no second way!" On September 25, the Chief of the German General Staff and Chen Ping, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, held a closed-door meeting in Beijing, "No one knows what happened behind the closed door, but one thing is certain, that is, at the moment of isolating China in Europe, Germany was the first to make a change.

According to the agreement, "Germany will automatically acquire radio technology after purchasing 1,000 units at a price of 10,000 blue coins per radio telegraph machine," while Hua will also automatically acquire all the production and processing technology after purchasing 1,000 high-precision machine tools, and "the entire transaction process will be completed within six months."

At the same time, Germany offered to provide China with 3 million tons of affordable steel in the next five years, and at the same time sold three sets of million-ton steelmaking equipment in exchange for a Qinghuā-class submarine and all technical information, as well as the production technology of copper-clad steel, which was extremely important to Germany, which lacked steel resources in the colonies.

In addition, according to the agreement, the Chinese and German militaries will also establish a regular exchange mechanism, and the navy and army will conduct military exercises once every two years" and can send observers to each other to study, and for the first time stipulate in writing that "the two countries respectively use the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean as their control areas, and no matter which side encounters an attack by a third country in the area under the control of the other side," they have the obligation to provide logistical support and force protection.

However, on the issue of sending high-level skilled workers to China, Germany stubbornly bit the bite and did not let go, and even did not hesitate to withdraw from the negotiations, which also made Li Mo see clearly the true thoughts of Europe, none of these countries really want to see the rise of China!

Germany has also adopted a policy of ambiguity on the crucial question of whether to make the deal public, saying it will make a decision depending on future developments.

In the final analysis, although Russia is second-rate in Europe, it is a force to be reckoned with in the white world after all" Geopolitics also determines that Germany will not jump out to support China at this time, not to mention that Germany is not optimistic about this confrontation, especially when Russia's huge fleet is about to depart.

Li Mo closed the document, and for him it was almost the same reply when he sold the Chinese ship, the conservative Germans still did not see the world clearly, as a continental country that has been away from the sea for a long time, although Germany has led the world in technology and industry, their strategic vision is not very clever, even from the later World War I observation "There are still inconsistencies in the strategy of this country."

However, this is enough for himself, the first generation of radio technology has long been in the sale plan, "can be exchanged for a thousand urgently needed high-precision machine tools and technology, has already made up for a big part of its own shortcomings" As for the Qinghuā-class submarine and copper-clad steel technology, the former is also a knockout item, and the latter is a weapon for a few more years for the resource-poor Germany, if it weren't for the fact that synthetic ammonia technology is too important, "Maybe Master Li would have packed it up a long time ago, Eight years earlier, Germany was freed from its dependence on Chilean saltpeter and the use of large quantities of guano on its own hands to make gunpowder.

Three million tons of parity steel and three sets of million-ton steelmaking equipment not only solve the problem of insufficient domestic steel, but also enable the implementation of important steel plants in the development of Northwest China, which has greatly accelerated China's pace of catching up with the world's steel powers.

Steel is an important and fundamental strategic resource both now and in the future, and a country's steel production determines how much potential the country has, so after purchasing a large amount of steelmaking equipment from the United States, this agreement still makes him very happy.

As for not making the secret agreement public for the time being, "Hmph! Someday, Germany will come and beg itself for an alliance! Li Mo sneered in his heart, and after returning the signed agreement to Li Enfu, he slowly walked to the window under the eyes of the two and asked, "When will the Russian fleet set off?" ”

"Three days later."