PS: The second more asks for votes

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Spain is a country that has been playing soy sauce during World War I, and it is not as good as Portugal next door, and if it weren't for the "Spanish flu", a super plague, they would probably be forgotten by the world. Well, the Spaniards certainly don't want to rely on this stuff to gain popularity at all, strictly speaking, they are lying down and getting shot.

The origin of the name is not because the flu broke out in Spain, but because at that time, eight million people in Spain were infected with the disease, and even the king of Spain was infected with the disease, and the French people next door were scared to pee, so they called it "Spanish influenza", which later became the common name. Therefore, the Spaniards felt particularly wronged, and they also threw the blame on the Gallic chicken next door, and righteously called the disease "French influenza". Well, this time it's the Frenchman next door who is lying down. However, the name "French flu" did not catch on, and the reason is naturally that the Gallic chickens are big hooligans, and what they say is more convincing.

Without further ado, let's call it the "Spanish flu".

The Spanish flu was not the deadliest of many plagues, but it was the most widespread and deadliest plague in human history. The flu has spread across the globe, from the Eskimo tribes of Alaska to the island of Samoa in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Many Eskimo tribes are dying village by village, with a mortality rate of up to 25 per cent in Samoa. It is said that the island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon River was the only population gathering place in the world at that time where no infections were reported. And the plague was completely wiped out after 18 months of ravaging the earth.

This terrible plague caused a large number of deaths, and since it was in the immediate aftermath of World War I, most countries did not have detailed statistics. In addition, many colonies are not regarded as human beings, and no one cares how many people die. So the exact number of infections and deaths is still inconclusive, but even the most conservative estimates suggest that more than 100 million people are infected, with more than 25 million deaths, in addition to 40 million, 70 million, 100 million and so on. At that time, the world's population was about 1.8 billion, which means that on average, one in every 18 people was infected.

Even by the most conservative estimates, the plague killed more people than the First World War dead. The flu was also one of the reasons for the early end of the First World War, as countries no longer had additional troops to fight.

Coming from later generations, of course, the great plague that swept the world, and since last year, he has asked various institutions at home and abroad to pay close attention to this flu and formulate an emergency plan. At this time, the level of medicine is indeed helpless against this flu, but with the level of medicine 300 years later, it is nothing to deal with this flu.

There are special drugs and vaccines, although enough vaccines have been produced for hundreds of millions of people in recent years, but because it is impossible to determine the time of its outbreak, it has not yet been used by the people. Because the flu vaccine is not lifelong, it only has an expiration date of two or three years, and if it is used too early, it is meaningless.

I don't know if the wind from the wind god pterosaur is too strong, and the "Spanish flu" that should have appeared in the spring of this year has been missing. Even in October, at the peak of the outbreak known as "Black October" in the original time and space, Mr. Wen did not find any shadow of the "Spanish flu" in various eyeliners on the earth. Oh, and there were a couple of false positives in it, but it turned out to be just plain flu afterwards.

It made Wen Deji a little skeptical, whether there would be this super plague on the earth of this plane. As a result, at the end of October, it finally appeared, and it did not appear in the original plane, where it was said to be the "source", but in Japan, where the eight poles could not be beaten.

If it weren't for the fact that the symptoms of their group at that time were very similar to the Spanish flu, they were reported by Japan's eyeliner, and the Japanese were helpless about it and came to China for help, Wen Deji would not have been so enthusiastic about sending domestic experts, and specially arranged for the bombers of the Air Force to send people over.

Of course, now that it has been established that the Spanish flu has appeared in the world, it is time to use a vaccine. As for the special medicine, it is mainly used to make money.

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In addition, it was time for China to prepare for the end of the war, because the oil and water of the Allies had been almost squeezed, and most of the real money and silver they had stolen from their own families and from the Entente had already flowed into China's coffers.

In addition, a large number of antiques, cultural relics, and works of art were also paid by them at low prices to China, mainly from the British Museum and the Louvre Museum. In addition to Chinese cultural relics such as Gu Kai's "Female History Atlas" in the Western Jin Dynasty of China, which were returned to China by Wei Erdang, cultural relics from many other countries have been used to offset the payment.

For example, the famous Code of Hammurabi in the Louvre Museum, which is from Babylon around 2000 BC.2 The black basalt, which is 5 meters high and has 282 laws engraved in wedge, was exchanged for 20 aero engines by Erdezi at a price of 100,000 yuan. There are also treasures in the British Museum, such as the Rosetta Stone, Arni's Book of the Dead, and the bust of Ramses II, which were also deducted by the Germans. For example, the "Treasure of Oxus" (gold and silver handicrafts in Central Asia in the 5th and 4th centuries BC) was actually sold to China at five times the price of the same weight of gold and silver.

Of course, the Germans' festival has not yet been exhausted, and they have not sold anything local to Europe, and they have used it to sell everything in Asia, Africa and America. Like the "Mona Lisa's Smile" from the Louvre Museum, this super precious work of art was given back to Italy by Wei Er, making Italians grateful. In addition, "Venus de Milo" and "Victory of Samotros", which are also the treasures of the Louvre's three main museums, are now in German museums.

As soon as Wei Er did this, the British Museum and the Louvre Museum, the two museums with the largest collections on the planet, were abolished, and after the war, if the people of this plane still wanted to see any cultural relics, they would have to move to other places. If you want to see things from Asia, Africa and America, you basically have to come to the National Museum of China.

By this time, the real money and silver and other hard currencies of the Allies had been almost consumed, and the antique works of art were almost sold, and the remaining gold and antiques were the bottom of the box that they were unwilling to sell. And China is reluctant to accept their mark, krona and lira, which means that their ability to pay is already insufficient.

In addition, after they burst Maozi, they already have a lot of input in grain, rare gold and other resources, and they are reluctant to spend hard currency to buy these things. Therefore, since May of this year, the trade volume between China and the Central Powers has dropped significantly, but the trade volume with the Entente countries has increased significantly.

This is also the reason why the CSD government decided to abandon its neutrality and prepare for the end. Since you allies have no money, don't blame us for not being neutral. Uh, so the problems of a qiē are all economic problems.

However, before the end of the game, some preparation is still needed, and Wen Desi is the most reasonable person and pays attention to his appearance. Of course, it cannot be said that we turned against the Allies because we couldn't make any money. The kind of bold practice of tearing the face directly can probably only be done by Maozi.

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At 4 a.m. local time on November 9, a Convoy of Allied convoys from British Malay was ambushed by German submarines off the coast east of Madeira. In the battle, the German "wolf pack" composed of 15 submarines achieved brilliant results, sinking 36 large merchant ships, but also encountered the fierce counterattack of the Allied escort ships, was sunk 4 ships, damaged 3 ships, of which the U-277 was damaged and forced to float, after evacuating all the personnel, opened the sea valve and sank, and the 48 officers and men on the boat became prisoners of the Entente.

Well, such a battle is not unusual for German submarines, there are more "wolf hunts" than this, which are larger and more fruitful. But among the victims this time, there was a large passenger ship belonging to China - the Langyue. And the passengers on this passenger ship were not soldiers or other armed men, but a group of volunteer medical personnel from the Chinese Red Gourd Society.

It should be explained here that the "Red Gourd Society" is a semi-official social assistance organization engaged in humanitarian work. Its functions are similar to those of the Red Cross Societies of various countries, in fact, there were also Red Cross Societies in the Qing Dynasty back then, but Mr. Wen refused to buy it. The reason is that he refuses to use the "cross", a pattern with strong Western religious meaning, as the symbol of the Chinese institution, and he is an atheist, and the political party he formed is also called the "Scientific Socialist Party", and the party constitution clearly talks about "science", so naturally he cannot tolerate the "cross", a Western religious symbol, to appear in his own country in a grand manner.

Therefore, the organization with the same function in China became the "Red Gourd Society", which means "hanging pot to help the world", the logo is all red tones, and the pattern is a gourd with two leaves. In 1913, the International Red Cross recognized the symbol, as well as the Chinese Red Gourd Society as a member of the International Red Cross Movement. After the outbreak of the European War, the Chinese Red Gourd Society sent some volunteer medical personnel to both warring sides, which was highly praised.

The 1,500 volunteer medical workers on the Langyue passenger liner were planned to replace the volunteers who had been serving on both sides of the war for half a year, but they were actually attacked in the Atlantic. Because it was the darkest period before dawn when it was attacked, the vast majority of people were still asleep, and the passenger ship was directly blown into two pieces and sank to the bottom of the sea within ten minutes, coupled with the low water temperature at that time, only 572 people who had time to climb onto the lifeboat of the 1,765 people on the ship were rescued, and the rest were all buried in the sea.

After the news of this incident, global public opinion was in an uproar. In particular, the governments and media of the Entente countries were all fried, and they all looked indignant, as if their ancestral graves had been ripped up. And the Allies, especially Germany, could not step down. Wei Er personally sent a telegram of apology to Moon-took-hei and expressed his willingness to compensate the victims for their losses.

At a time when global public opinion was boiling, the Chinese government and media were far less excited than their counterparts in the Entente countries, who only expressed their moderate grief and regret. However, the Chinese government later began to withdraw all personnel sent to the Central Powers, including military observer missions, corporate organizations, and volunteers. And the undercurrent of the people is already surging.

This kind of thing can be big or small, depending on the government's inclination. For example, the same American ship was also sunk, and it could be a war, or it could be a, and the other side lost money. The former is the USS Maine, and the latter is the unlucky American ship from the Sino-Japanese War in the original time and space.

Diplomats from both sides of the war are desperately active in China, and both sides want China to make a choice that suits their interests.

"Your Excellency, is it really irretrievable? China and Germany have a good traditional friendship, but have they become enemies just because of a misunderstanding?" German Ambassador to China Xin Ci was so anxious that he was about to cry. He had already greeted all the dozens of generations of the Navy's idiots in his heart, but it didn't work.

Wen Desi sighed regretfully and said: "Hey, Mr. Ambassador, I myself am full of feelings for His Majesty Wilhelm II and the German people, but we in China are a republic, and I must obey the will of the people...... Please rest assured that we are a country that values credibility, and even if the choices made by our people are not good for your country, we will strictly enforce the contract, and we will not default on the debt......"

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On 16 November, after several rounds of negotiations and bargaining, China and the Entente powers, mainly Britain and France, finally reached an agreement. China will cut off trade with the Allies, join the Entente, and send troops to the war with the Allies within three months, but China will not send land forces to the European theater, but will only be responsible for ground operations in the Middle East and Africa, and for the European theater, only the air force and navy.

As compensation for China's participation in the war, Britain and France will transfer the following colonies to China: Sarawak and Brunei, British Papua, British Solomon Islands, and the remaining French Indochina. China has also pledged to no longer demand an increase in China's territory and colonies in Africa after participating in the African war.

On November 20, the special session of the Second People's Congress of China, with 1,245 votes in favor, 653 votes against, and 87 abstentions, approved the proposal to join the Entente and declare war on the Central Powers.

This "Lane Moon Incident" was later called one of the "heavy events that changed the course of history in the 20th century".

Years later, some careful researchers found some doubts. For one, only 15 of the nearly 1,000 people killed were women, a very low percentage for paramedics. Second, the vast majority of the crew on the Langyue survived, and those who died were temporary crew members. Third, the vast majority of those who died were not regular medical staff, because although their names appeared in the staff rosters of some hospitals, their names were not in the college files of any medical school in China. However, many of the same medical staff with formal education survived...... And so on and so forth.

There are also doubts such as "the Langyue sank too fast, and the torpedo appeared to be too large", "none of the volunteer medical personnel with formal education were the elite of the Chinese industry at that time", and "the U122 submarine that allegedly sank the Rongyue was also sunk and cannot be confirmed".

Well, of course these are fallacies that must be severely refuted by the mainstream media. If anyone dares to use these things to explain that the "Moonhorn Incident" is a "conspiracy of China", then he should wash his ass and be prepared to bear criminal responsibility.