868 Plague strikes

"Vane, have you heard? The Chinese sent hundreds of warships to the Atlantic. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)"

"Well, a few days ago, hundreds of planes flew over Marseille, and Eric had just returned from there, and he heard him say that the formation of planes almost obscured the sun."

"Hundreds? Not much. ”

"Do you think it's us?! All of them are metal planes, the big ones have four engines, and they are said to be able to carry tons of bombs for thousands of kilometers in a row. ”

"No wonder they played so well."

"yes, so I heard they're going to have a big benefit after this meeting."

"It's a pity, but it's also good that we can get the African colonies owned by Britain and France, but I don't know if we can force Britain to ensure our country's access to the sea."

"Of course, we are the victorious powers, and the British Navy has been put in Scapa Bay by Admiral Hipper, and they don't have any more chances."

"Hehe, so we should go for a drink?"

"When ......, damn it, why the road closure? What's wrong? "The three engineers who were chatting on the streets of Berlin had just turned a block when they suddenly stopped, only to see that the road ahead was completely loaded with soldiers, and many people were watching outside, and suddenly squeezed in.

When they pushed through the crowd, they found that not only had this residential area been sealed off by soldiers, but there were also doctors in white coats constantly coming in and out, and then corpses began to be carried out.

"God, is it a gas bomb?"

The engineers swallowed hard, this is a dense residential area, there are tens of thousands of people, if there is poisonous gas, I am afraid ...... Another Liverpool!

"How could it be poison gas, I heard it was the flu."

"The flu?" The news from the side made the engineer stunned, the flu does have the potential to cause death, but who has ever heard that hundreds of people die from the flu in a neighborhood? And from the point of view of sending troops, this is clearly unusual.

"It's the flu!" A person next to him who looked like some insider information said: "I heard from my friend, who works in the police department, and I heard him say that about 1,500 people have died from the flu in Berlin this month, and that's just Berlin, I heard that Frankfurt and Hamburg have found symptoms." What's worse is Britain and France, where there have been tens of thousands of deaths! ”

"Dude, are you sure it's the flu? Instead of...... Plague or Black Death or something? ”

"Who knows, maybe ......." The speaker looked at the corpse covered with a white cloth and said worriedly, "Yes...... Pestilence. ”

"Plague!"

Two words, like thunder hit everyone's hearts, after the catastrophe there is a pandemic, this sentence is not only spread in China, the same is true in Europe, after each war, many people will die because of various diseases, this is mainly because the war will lead to food shortages, poor sanitary conditions, so that people's physique and resistance are seriously reduced. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

And now...... Is it really the plague?!

"Lansing, I understand the concerns of the United States very much, but I do not feel that the Chinese are a threat to us, on the contrary, the Chinese are still allies of our country now!" At the residence of the German delegation in Istanbul, German Foreign Minister Strau glanced at Prince Heinrich next to him, and then turned his head to look at US Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who had come to negotiate.

As the US Secretary of State and a politician with a keen sense of smell, Lansing smelled a hint of abnormality from the large-scale exercises being held by China, so he deliberately came to meet the German delegation secretly today in order to find a breakthrough and use Germany to exert some pressure on China.

The reason for his coming was very simple, Li Mo did not dare to fight Germany, and at the moment when he had just defeated the Entente, no matter how crazy a person was, it would be impossible for him to go to war with his ally Germany, in that case, the Allies would immediately collapse, all countries would turn away from China, and Europe would immediately unite to resist the invasion from the East.

Although Germany will not really go to the head-on confrontation with that madman at this moment, they will send a fleet to exert pressure through negotiations, causing a skirmish, and in this way showing their existence, it is nothing more than telling Li Mo, don't push me into a hurry, if you are in a hurry, it will lead to racial confrontation, and then hope to blackmail more to make profits.

At the end of the day, it's also telling the countries that stand behind them to win more votes for themselves.

So it seems that Strau rejected himself and emphasized that Germany and China are allies, but as a politician, he still keenly captured the two words before Strau said allies.

"Now."

Yes, allies now, and in the future? Because of Limer's strength in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Germany has lost a huge market with a population of nearly 800 million, which in itself is an irreconcilable conflict of interest!

"Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, I know that your country and China are allies, but don't you think Li Mo is too greedy? He has turned Russia into a European country, the Pacific and Indian Oceans into his backyard, and now he has reached into the Atlantic, and has occupied Panama and Suez, and if he takes Alaska, then he will also occupy most of the Arctic Ocean!

And I wonder what future German-made goods will be able to reach Asia and India safely after the two main shipping lanes are controlled. Do you want to take a detour to Africa or South America? That will increase the distance by 70 percent, the cost will increase by 20 percent, and even if you arrive, you may not be competitive. ”

Although he knew that it was instigation, Strau still frowned, in Germany, especially in the high command, it is an indisputable fact that the voice of dissatisfaction with China began to increase, but he did not think that Li Mo would easily make a move against Germany, so he smiled and took out a thick document and shook it: "Lansing, I think you are worried too much, the Chinese have signed a memorandum of understanding with China on shipping, and made it clear that they will sign a trade and transportation agreement with China after this negotiation, and they also said, A public statement will be made in the near future that ships from any country, not just our country, but any country in the future will be able to remain unimpeded in the above two river routes. ”

Lan Xin didn't expect Li Mo to start early, and actually signed a memorandum of understanding on shipping and canal use, and while secretly talking about the other party's speed, he also sneered: "Really? So did the Chinese also ensure that it would continue to be unimpeded in times of war! ”

"Don't worry about this, we have reached an agreement with the Mexican government to lease bases in the Gulf of Mexico to ensure the safety of shipping, and we have also reached an agreement with the Ottoman Empire to share naval bases, and I believe that Germany is capable of ensuring the security of its own country at all times! Just like now! ”

Strau's sonorous words made Lansing's face change slightly, he didn't expect Germany to be so difficult to deal with.

For the United States, the defeat of the war is not terrible, what is terrible is the 28 articles proposed by China, most of which are aimed at the United States, especially the land that goes to Mexico, the cession of Alaska and California, the establishment of the African Autonomous Region of Florida and the permission of other parties to participate in politics, the establishment of a north-south no-fly zone! If the surrender is really signed in accordance with this agreement, it is estimated that the United States will not be able to recover in a hundred years, and the domestic two-party political pattern will be completely broken!

There is a saying in Chinese that one monk is asked to carry water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, and three monks ......! So at present, the United States is desperate to find a way to force China to make concessions, at least not to cede too much land.

Lansing took a breath quietly, suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and suddenly glanced at Prince Heinrich, who was sitting next to him, and the corners of his mouth twitched unnoticed, and he took out a list from his pocket: "Stress, this is a list compiled by our government." ”

"List? What list? ”

"It's something that the despicable Chinese moved away!" Lansing gritted his teeth, hated the squadron that was still sweeping like locusts in the United States, and said: "I think you probably don't know what this means, so let me tell you that they have moved 270,000 ships, most of which are machinery and complete sets of equipment, including the famous Edison General Electric in our country, the telephone and telegraph company, etc., have been emptied!" It also took away about 230,000 high-level technical and scientific personnel on promised generous terms!

This list contains about seventy percent of the country's industrial facilities! Not even a single rivet is visible on the East Coast now!

You may not know what this means, but I can tell you unequivocally that even if the Chinese no longer remove a single wire from now on, it will only take a year to integrate what they took with them, and then their domestic manufacturing will be larger than that of France and Britain combined before the war! That's 27 times more than yours!

Yes, you may say that they did not have enough skilled workers to run all the machines, and I will not deny that, but do not forget, and even Li Mo himself will not deny that the total number of skilled workers they had before the war was less than forty percent of your country's!

I don't say this to provoke anything, I just want to tell you that Li Mo has built a powerful sea and air force with only forty percent of Germany's skilled craftsmen, and if he is given a few more years, what can he do? ”

Word by word, sentence by sentence like a needle prick pricked Heinrich's ear, this problem is actually the current German helplessness, because Limer's large-scale relocation operation is simply a robbery, in a simple way to pack back more than sixty percent of the pre-war American industrial equipment.

Although Lansing was right, Li Mo had fewer skilled workers to start so many equipment, but what about a few years later? As an ally, Germany has long learned from various channels about China's three-level skilled worker training system, which is advanced even in Europe, so he can use workers who account for only 40% of Germany to create a sea and air force that is currently unmatched by other countries.

Although Germany would not consider itself to lose to China in terms of basic manufacturing capacity alone, the reason why it was inferior to the other side in the past four years was because of the wrong policies at the beginning of the war, which led to millions of workers being pushed to the battlefield, and the shortage of raw materials was insufficient.

Being able to go abroad and get a huge colony, Germany is confident that it can keep pace with China in this field, but Germany's big problem is the lack of external purchasing power! There is a lack of a huge population and market similar to the current Chinese-controlled areas!

This is likely to lead to an embarrassing situation where you can create but not sell, which is why Germany is so concerned about the removal of American factories and facilities in China that are worth far less than reparations and colonies.

The whole world is speculating about why countries that were still a scientific and technological desert more than 20 years ago have sprung up, but I didn't expect that this question has not been answered, and now 230,000 senior technicians and scientists from all walks of life have been taken away from the United States, plus the people they took away from Eastern Europe, Austria-Hungary, Russia, etc. at the beginning of the war, it is initially estimated that Li Mo also has more than 50,000 senior technicians in his hands!

This will continue to increase China's leading pace in science and technology.

But can it still be stopped?

Prince Heinrich, who had not spoken, stood up in Lansing's anticipation and asked, "Your Majesty, we just want to know what kind of compensation the US government wants to make. Of course, if this price does not even impress me, then please forgive us for not being able to do anything! ”

Germany's showdown made Lansing happy and worried at the same time, Germany's appetite is not smaller than China's, but it can't be satisfied for various reasons, so what kind of conditions can make Germany look down on it and be willing to lobby China?

Just when he was worried about how to bargain for 28, a crisp sound of footsteps came from outside, and he turned his head to see the German official who had just led the way hurriedly walked in, and Lansing's heart suddenly shrank for some reason.

When Strau and Lansing received a telegram from the official, Lansing, who had been paying attention to them, found that their faces sank almost at the same time, and there was even a sense of anxiety and uneasiness in their eyes! Although he didn't know what was going on, it was obviously not easy to make Germany feel tricky at this moment.

Lan Xin decisively chose to leave first, and just took this opportunity to negotiate the terms of compensation with China and find out what was going on, but when he returned to the station, a confidential telegram that was also urgent began to give him a headache.

It was not until later in Lansing's memoirs that it became known that when Germany and the United States received urgent telegrams from China almost at the same time, Britain, France, Italy, Spain and other countries also received domestic telegrams within a few days, and even China was not spared.

No one thought that just when the whole world was looking forward to the signing of the Istanbul agreement as soon as possible and the real end of the war, a great plague of the century struck!

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