Han Jing, State Council.

China's high-level meetings on World War I continue.

"So, when should we intervene in the war to get the most out of it?" asked Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Shaw Tu.

Wen Desi smiled: "At least now is not the time, judging from the current situation, neither the Entente nor the Central Powers are exhausted, especially Britain, they have not yet reached the point of exhaustion." In particular, the navies of both sides did not have a decisive battle, so the time was not yet ripe. According to the intelligence, it will be at least after next year

He went on to say: "The great powers that have not yet entered the war are waiting for their time, the United States is waiting for their time, and we are waiting for their time. So we don't have to worry...

"There is another question, what if the United States does not join the Entente, but joins the Allied Powers? The United States has always coveted the British colonies, and if the Entente cannot bear it, they will instead join the Allied Powers and carve up the British colonies together.

As soon as Ban Chuanzhi's words came out, the participants immediately discussed.

Indeed, with the current American investment in Germany, this possibility is not impossible. If the losses of the Entente were too heavy, wouldn't it be easier for the United States to join the Allies to eat a "beef feast" than to fight the Allies, and the profits would seem to be greater. Even the losses of the former investment Entente countries can be passed on to Niuniu's colonies. Don't forget, the United States is next door to Canada, as long as the United States really turns its face, with Canada's little strength, it will definitely be blown away. In addition, the colonies of Niu Niu in South America and Australia will also become a big meal in the United States.

As for the US military-industrial complex, they can guarantee their interests as long as the United States enters the war, and it doesn't matter which side they are on.

Judging from the discipline of the United States, this possibility is not only existent, but also quite large. You must know that the biggest imaginary enemy of the Eagle Sauce Navy has always been the Niu Niu Navy. Besides, the hatred between the two has always been very entangled, the most recent is that in the last century, Eagle Sauce went to push Canada, but the strong x was not reversed by the Japanese, and was pushed by Niu Niu, and even the White House was burned. The farther war of independence or something, not to mention.

For China, of course, it has also made a few preparations, after all, the script of this time and space is no longer the same. So whether it is the Entente countries fighting the streets or the allies being bombed, China can fish in troubled waters, the difference is only a matter of earning more and earning less.

But if it is really as Ban Chuanzhi said, the United States joins the Allies, and the Entente countries hit the streets. The benefits to be gained by China will be greatly reduced. Because China is still digesting new territories, it is not ready to annex Australia and British India, and its naval strength is now insufficient, and it will not be able to eat it for a while and a half, and these places are too far away from Europe, Germany and Austria-Hungary are powerless, and it is the United States that is most likely to eat these pieces of fat at that time. If these places were eaten by the United States, it would be ten times more troublesome than if they were in the hands of the British.

From the perspective of China's strategic situation, it is better to let Britain keep these places than to cheapen the United States until China has the strength to eat these places.

"No, I don't think it will ......" At this time, Premier Zhang Lizheng said with confidence: "I don't think the United States will join the Allied Powers, even if the Entente countries can't withstand it, they will support the Entente ......."

"Why?" asked Ban Chuanzhi.

"Because it is absolutely impossible for the United States to accept a united Europe on this point, the United States and Great Britain see the same thing, and a united Europe is absolutely not in the interests of the United States. Britain is only an island country, and once the mainland is weakened, it will be difficult to keep the colonies. But if the Allies win, Europe will be a whole, and it won't be as easy to deal with as the island countries......"

This is the experience of later generations, after the decline of the-stirring stick of Britain, it was the United States that took over the baton, and they continued the so-called "continental equilibrium" policy like Britain. In the later generations of the original time and space, the European Community and the euro were all messed up by the United States by various means, and they completely failed to achieve the predetermined goals.

Zhang Lizheng paused and continued: "Therefore, for the United States, the best outcome is that the Entente will be severely weakened, and the Allies will lose the war, so that Europe will continue to maintain a divided situation, and the strength of the old colonial empires such as Britain and France will be greatly reduced, and then those colonies will be infiltrated by the United States under various pretexts." Don't forget, the United States doesn't really care about land, their land is vast enough, they don't have that thirst for land, they need a market. So for them, it doesn't matter who owns those colonies, as long as the market is developed for them. This is the biggest difference between the United States and the old colonial empires, and from us, and the Entente countries that have won a crushing victory will certainly not be able to refuse to open their colonial markets to the United States......"

After Zhang Lizheng finished speaking, the participants began to discuss again.

After a while, Wen Deji said: "Premier Zhang is right, from a strategic point of view, joining the Entente at a later stage is indeed the best way for the United States. Let's not forget that Europe accounts for eight of the top ten industrial countries in the world today, and if Germany is allowed to integrate Europe, then there will be a very, very terrifying industrial country in the world. Such an opponent is much more difficult to deal with than the declining Britain and France, and this is an opponent that no one wants to encounter. If the United States wants to take Britain's place and become the world hegemon, it must avoid the emergence of such an adversary, otherwise it is really difficult to say who will take Britain's place at that time. ”

"It is definitely not a good deal to eat that bunch of British colonies and then make up a more formidable opponent than Britain. I believe that the top level of the United States will definitely see this, and even if they really can't see it, we will find a way to let them see it. Wen Deji smiled.

He still did not say that it is absolutely not in China's interests to let Germany integrate Europe, and China and the United States have the same attitude on this point. One more such terrible adversary is definitely something that any challenger aspiring to "earth hegemony" does not want to see, the United States does not want to, and neither does China.

So, Erdezi is destined to be a tragedy, with the world's first and the world's third industrial countries stumbling behind their backs, Erdezi is destined to only "drive for the king" and bite the cow harder.

In fact, in order to win over China to join the Allies, Germany also made a lot of empty promises. Not long ago, the German ambassador to China, Xinci, and the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to China, Nesherne, approached Wendesi together and wrote a blank check from the boss.

The whole of British India and British Southeast Asia, British Arabia, as well as French India and French Indochina, basically packaged all the colonies and spheres of influence of Britain and France in Asia into China. Not to mention the homeland occupied by Russia, even Wilhelm II said that if the car flew to Russia, the east of the Ural Mountains could be assigned to China.

What a big pie

It's a pity that this big pie was drawn. Besides, even if this big pie is real, it can't be eaten with China's current strength, and even if it is eaten, it will be strangled to death.

If it was a secondary two, maybe it would have been a good one, but Wen Desi had already passed the age of secondary two. The rice is still the most stable to eat one bite at a time, with many black technology plug-ins from Xingke, China is not short of technology or funds, what is lacking is digestion time. Just wait another twenty years, and you will have enough digestive capacity to eat these places, but not yet.

Therefore, Wen Deji will never agree to the conditions of Wei Er's guy and tie himself to the chariot of the Allies.

Xin Jie, chief of the General Staff, said: "Mr. Wen, the human resources of Britain and France are very tight now, and if they want to survive, I am afraid that they will have to strengthen their transportation forces and let them transport more colonial troops to Europe." ”

"Well, that's for sure. Wen Desi turned to Ban Chuanzhi and asked, "Vice Premier Ban, how are the merchant ships we built for the Entente?"

Yangon, Myanmar.

Burma was also a small and powerful country in history, and the Gongbang Dynasty, founded by Yongguga, was the last dynasty of Myanmar and the period of their most fortification. The Gongbang Dynasty not only unified the whole of Burma, but also used troops to expand its territory. At the end of the 18th century, the Qing Dynasty fought a war with Burma over territorial and resource control over the border areas (the Qing-Burma War), which ended in the signing of a contract between the two sides.

The ambition of the Gongbang Dynasty is still very big, not only with me in the Qing Dynasty, but also invaded Thailand many times, and many wars broke out with Thailand. It was also preparing to annex Mannipo and Assam, which were on the Indian border, which made the British, who occupied India at the time, very uneasy.

In order to solve the Burmese threat to India, the British launched two Anglo-Burmese wars in 1824 and 186, in which the British won both wars, and finally captured the city of Bago and called it Lower Burma, and established the British Burma administration. In 182, the unrelenting Burma signed a secret treaty with France to cooperate against the British, making the British determined to completely eliminate Burma. Later, the British launched and won the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 183, the Gongbang Dynasty was destroyed, and the British incorporated Burma as a province of British India and established the government in Rangoon, so that Burma was only a part of British India at this time.

Today an army was gathered at the port of Yangon, consisting of ten divisions with a total of more than one hundred and fifty thousand. This was probably the largest army of the Burmese after the fall of the Gongbang Dynasty.

They gathered in the harbor here to board the ship.

One of those men was Sotun, a colonial officer in the service of the British. Although he is only a captain and company commander, he is a rare Burmese "high-ranking official". You must know that in the colonial army, most of the officers are British, especially the middle and senior officers, almost all of whom are British, and it is very rare for the natives of the colonies to become captains.

The port of Yangon certainly could not hold 150,000 troops, and these troops were stationed around the port to stand by, anyway, this time the British ordered a large number of merchant ships from China and the United States, which was enough for this batch of troops.

Sothon's infantry company belonged to the Burmese 1st Division and was stationed northwest of the port. Early this morning, the herald of the division headquarters came to him and delivered the order to prepare to board the ship, and it was said that the troop transport ship had arrived at the port.

"Zhashan, go and tell the brothers to assemble and go to the harbor to board the ship" Sotun ordered his herald. Soon, his 2nd company was assembled, and then he marched towards the port with the large force.

"Oh, what a big ship."

"yes, this ship is really British, isn't it?"

"No, I heard that it was made by Chinese, and the British bought it......"

Looking at the dozen or so huge ships docked on the dock, the Burmese officers and soldiers were stunned, most of these people were from the mainland, and they had never seen such a large ship in their lives. Not to mention them, many people in this era have never seen a 10,000-ton ship.