New Warlords 1909

Such an aviation power, how dare John Byrne laugh at the aircraft they built, fighter jets are not like fighter jets, and bombers are not like bombers.Such a tasteless design, let alone John Byrne, a naval layman, can't stand it, let alone Hua Fei, who is known as the pioneer of China's aviation industry, can be approved for production.

This type of aircraft is somewhat similar to a dive bomber.

A casual remark by John Byrne's assistant made John Byrne's heart suddenly open.Yes, this should be a dive bomber, this is definitely the dive bomber of the Chinese Air Force!

Dive bombing tactics are not uncommon, on the contrary, this tactic was pioneered by the British Air Force during World War I.Later, the U.S. Marine Corps pilot Lieutenant Colonel Heisen Sanderson proposed the idea of ​​building a dive bomber during the Haiti military operation in 1919, and the U.S. Navy later adopted it.Although the U.S. Air Force later used sophisticated optical sights to bombard a German experimental warship horizontally, the Navy insisted that small moving targets and evasive cruisers were difficult to hit using horizontal bombing.Naval pilots believed that precision dive bombing coupled with low-altitude torpedo attacks was the best way to deal with enemy fleets.

However, before this debate has ceased, the Chinese Air Force's dive bomber has already begun test flights.This is also China's first all-metal aircraft that plans to be fully equipped with troops.China's aviation industry has been designing and building all-metal aircraft for many years, and has reserved a large amount of technology, limited by the constraints of certain supporting equipment. Although the performance of all-metal aircraft is still not good enough, the powerful impact of a dive bomber when diving is not enough. The current half-metal and half-timber aircraft can do the job.Therefore, the dive bomber built by all-metal aircraft was listed in the development and construction plan of China's aviation industry.

The advantages of dive bombers against small targets, especially moving warships, are obvious, and they played a huge role in World War II.China's dive bombers named Avengers are only the first batch of experimental models that have just been equipped with troops, and they still need to be tested in actual combat.This is the purpose of being sent to Macau this time.

The Baikai Army of the United Command sent a large number of Air Force planes to patrol the sky over the British Navy one by one, not for the purpose of games, but for demonstrations and warnings.The implication is very obvious, the warships sent by you British are not enough.We don't need to dispatch the navy, as long as the air force goes up, I am afraid that you will be able to stay in the South China Sea forever, and you will not be able to return to your hometown in England.It's just that Bai Kaijun never dreamed that his demonstration would have such a huge impact on the psychology of the British sailors.Some people simply swear in their hearts, as God bears witness, I, Second Lieutenant Jim, swear that I will never come to the South China Sea to perform missions in the future.I'd rather fight with the Germans, or surround the port and bombard the Germans indiscriminately, than come here and be enraged by those Chinese Air Force patrols!

The British are not stupid either. Although the Bai Kai army's patrol achieved the purpose of weakening the opponent's morale tactically, it did not have much impact on the final decision of the British government.

The British simply sent their special envoys to Nanjing and demanded direct negotiations with Hua Fei.The Nanjing side rejected the British request on the grounds of diplomatic inequity.Since the British have all come to Nanjing to negotiate, there is no need for Chinese diplomats in Washington to stay.Those who should return should return, and those who should go to other countries to continue their missions as ministers continue their missions.

Of course, the two diplomats Gu Weijun and Shi Zhaoji have returned to China, not only because they are needed for domestic negotiations, but also because the newly established Nanjing Foreign Affairs University also needs them to teach!

Diao, the British, although they agreed to repatriate several Chinese wanted criminals, but these people are all Portuguese nationalities, and the British government requested that they be handed over to the Hong Kong neutral court for trial.At the same time, the Portuguese government finally issued a statement, apologizing to the people of Macau and the Chinese people for the incident in which the Macau military police shot at the demonstrators in the Jebsen incident, and stated that those responsible will be severely punished.However, the Portuguese government also believes that this incident is an international incident because it involves two countries, and it should be tried by the International Permanent Magistrates, a subsidiary of the League of Nations, or by a third neutral country, such as the British court in Hong Kong. Trial by China's own courts so as not to lose impartiality!

China, on the other hand, insists that although Macau is a Portuguese concession, it is Chinese land.It is leased to Portugal, but its ownership belongs to China undoubtedly.In addition, the people who were killed were all from Macau, and their nationality belonged to China. Although the murderer was Portuguese, it was an incident in which foreigners killed Chinese people on Chinese soil. It should belong to China's internal affairs and China's independent judicial affairs. It should not be referred to the national magistrates' courts.

: Throughout February, due to the Chinese New Year, the update was really bad.For this, I am deeply sorry.Seeing that many brothers in the group expressed their understanding, I was really moved.

Today is the Lantern Festival, but there are still many things to do.But I was still at home, and I rejected the invitation of my friends to play. I coded, I coded, I coded, and I just coded [-] words in one day.Not only broke the record since I coded, but also created an impossible possibility!

emotion!Human potential, he is really awesome~

282 The Brit Makes a Move

Both Portugal and the British chose to negotiate in the end, and for them, this was the last and only option.Although Portugal once had a glorious moment and took the lead in rising in the Western world with the help of the period of great geographical discovery, that is already a thing of the past. The limitations of regions and borders doomed their glory to be only a flash in the pan.Not to mention distant China, they themselves have to be wary of whether Spain will take advantage of the fire.

The British may be the most powerful, and they can also entangle the so-called Eight-Power Allied Forces.But today's China has not only undergone profound changes, the performance of the Chinese army in Europe during the First World War was witnessed by colleagues in Britain, France and other countries, and of course they are deeply touched.If Britain really wants to declare war with China, the final outcome will not only lose Hong Kong, but I am afraid that the concession in Shanghai will also be lost.And the interests of British businessmen in China will be lost.But if the British want to win this war, they must mobilize an army of at least 100 million.

With a coalition force of 100 million, compared with a standing army of 100 million, China, which can mobilize 200 million or more troops in a short period of time, has little chance of winning.This is not in France, just cross the English Channel.But to go to the ocean, are the officers willing?Soldiers willing?Are the people willing?How to achieve logistics supply?

No one is optimistic about this war. The reason is very simple. Whether it is victory or defeat, the gains outweigh the losses.And without mentioning whether Britain can organize a war of this scale, victory is even more slim.

Since the other party has chosen to negotiate, Hua Fei does not need to worry about the rest.In fact, this result was also expected by Hua Fei. To a certain extent, the western powers are quite bullying.As long as you don't touch their fundamental core interests, they won't fight you to death.It should be because even among allies such as Britain, France and the United States, there is competition.

Hua Fei also devotes himself to the social infrastructure, people's livelihood, education, and heavy industry that he cares about.The affairs of the government are handled by the people from the Cabinet Office. They are more professional than Hua Fei in many aspects, so Hua Fei is very relieved.

Infrastructure, people's livelihood, education and other aspects are the government's eternal focus, and in Huafei's vision, these constructions require a lot of funds.The development of funds needs to rely on fiscal revenue such as taxes, and all of this is based on the rapid development of industry.

At present, China's industrial development pattern is a dual development model. In terms of light industry, the government vigorously advocates the rapid development of national capitalists and provides a lot of support in taxation, policies and funds.In terms of heavy industry, it is mainly operated with the capital under the name of Hua Fei.The government will also participate in capital investment in heavy industry, but it will not be a controlling shareholder or management operator.

The field of heavy industry does not restrict the entry of private capital, and the capital under Huafei's name will also enter the relevant important light industry field. This is the main function of Galaxy Investment.In addition, such as transportation companies, trading companies, department store retail groups, hotels, Kangmin Food Line, etc.

Some of these fields were entered from the very beginning and gradually expanded, and some were strategically entered by Hua Fei with a purpose, such as Kangmin Food Company.As the fundamental food for the rule of a country, it is an existence that cannot be ignored by any ruler.As a strategic material, Hua Fei was deeply aware of the importance of food during several speculative campaigns.

Kangming Grain Bank is not only a chain store of grain sales, but also a large-scale grain purchasing and storage group. It has also purchased a large number of farms in various places to produce grain independently from the source.With the huge and continuous supply of food produced by the Reclamation Corps, Kangmin Food has become the largest good in the country.In addition, in the downstream, Kangmin Grain Bank also operates various grain deep processing industries, thus forming a complete industrial chain and creating a grain enterprise aircraft carrier.

In addition, in the Macau incident not long ago, in order to put pressure on China, countries such as Britain and France greatly reduced the necessary materials imported by China, which caused the prices of various domestic industrial and mining raw materials to rise sharply, and various factories felt extremely nervous.Fortunately, all kinds of raw materials are available in the country, and the market has become stable through the expansion of production and overall planning and mobilization.

Since shortly after entering the autonomous region, Hua Fei has been pursuing the policy of importing all kinds of industrial production materials mainly, supplemented by domestic mining.Although this has increased the current industrial production costs, it has driven the development of other industries such as shipping and transportation from the side.And from a further historical point of view, the reserves of various energy minerals are limited after all. In this era when energy and mineral prices are still very low, it is beneficial to store more resources for the country.

Such an industrial production model made Hua Fei quickly realize that the reserve of strategic resources should not be limited to food, but should also be expanded to energy and minerals.Under the auspices of Hua Fei, a secret strategic material reserve plan was introduced.

The core keyword of this strategic reserve is to dig deep holes and store grain widely.Not only to dig caves all over the country to store food, but also to store huge amounts of energy and mineral resources at the same time.It is necessary to ensure that even in the event of a total harvest failure in the entire country, the food reserves must be enough for all the people to eat for three years.It is necessary to ensure that after the import channel is completely interrupted, the energy and minerals in reserve must be sufficient for more than half a year, to ensure the stability of market prices, to ensure the orderly production of industries, and to ensure that domestic industrial and mining energy companies have sufficient time to expand production and meet subsequent needs. .

This strategic reserve is formulated in secret, and not many people know the details.And this seemingly unremarkable secret plan will definitely produce huge strategic effects. Even Hua Fei did not expect that this seemingly random move will produce such great benefits.

All development is based on the security of the country, and national security is to ensure that the country can win the war when it is threatened by armed forces, or at least not allow the enemy to invade the country.And the war is fought against industrial technology and industrial strength.Not only Hua Fei deeply understood this point, but many officers of the National Defense Force understood this point.The reason why the National Defense Forces have been victorious in all battles has not suffered a single defeat so far. Although there are soldiers of the National Defense Forces who are not afraid of death and are well-trained, there is another reason, that is, behind the National Defense Forces, there is the support of a strong arms industry.Whether it is individual rifle weapons, grenades, artillery, or even weapons such as tanks, none of them are slightly better than other domestic warlords at that time, and even lead by a long distance.

In the subsequent confrontations with Japan, although the navy did not achieve a decisive victory, the Japanese navy still paid a great price in the case of absolute low strength.This is not to say that the sailors of the Chinese navy are much inferior to the Japanese in terms of skills or other aspects. The root cause is the constraints of industrial level and shipbuilding technology.In this situation of unequal strength, the Chinese navy can remain undefeated because of its absolute leadership in aircraft and submarine technologies.Thus there is the possibility of asymmetric tactical use.

After all, a core is fundamentally the importance of industrial technology and industrial strength to a country, and it is not too much to exaggerate.Although China began to develop a large number of Western industries after the Opium War, the Westernization Movement set off a climax.Until later, Hua Fei spared no effort to invest in the development of heavy industry, and took advantage of the opportunity of World War I to train a large number of skilled workers and expand his own heavy industry, and achieved many achievements.However, there is still a big gap between the overall industrial technology and industrial strength of the whole country and the western developed countries.In particular, the fatal weakness is that because Hua Fei is just a layman, he lacked a plan when developing heavy industry, and only invested in the aspects he thought were important.Therefore, although several enterprises with strong strength have been created, the domestic supporting industry is seriously lagging behind, and a complete industrial system cannot be formed, and it still has to be controlled by others.

With the return of a large number of foreign students, many foreign students studying industry have raised this question to Hua Fei.And Hua Fei also realized the seriousness of this problem, and immediately began to prepare the plan.For China now, there is still a great opportunity, and that is Germany.

After World War I, the German economy suffered a huge blow, and all walks of life were devastated.However, the technology of the Germans has not been lost. Under their tenacious national character, the German industry has recovered miraculously and quickly, and in just over [-] years, it has once again launched an unprecedented war. It cannot but be amazing German national power.

Hua Fei had negotiated industrial cooperation with Germany many times, but Germany's new defeat and domestic chaos were full of frustration.The new government was also busy dealing with post-war affairs, and couldn't afford to take Hua Fei's proposal into account.

Later, as Germany gradually recovered and rebuilt on the ruins of the war, Germany finally took a breather after several years of rest.Hua Fei's government made a decisive decision. Whenever Germany encountered difficulties in repaying war reparations, he always announced that the money would be exempted.Even later, Germany was exempted from comprehensive war reparations, which amounted to billions of German marks.You said how the German government could not be grateful, and the most direct expression of the German Weimar government's gratitude is to publicize it in the country.A senior official of the German government even declared in public that in the whole world, only the Chinese can truly be friends with the Germans!

From the government to the people, Germany's attitude towards China has become extremely intimate for a while.This can be seen from the reaction of the German domestic media to the Macau incident.Therefore, Hua Fei believes that the time is ripe to reopen comprehensive industrial cooperation with Germany.

At the end of the summer of 22, Hua Fei sent a large delegation to visit Germany.In the delegation, there are not only high-level government officials, but also military personnel and business entrepreneurs from all walks of life in China.The delegation was warmly received by the German government and the people, which made the members of the delegation feel unbelievable.In the delegation, many people have gone abroad many times, and the number of times they have dealt with foreigners is not infrequent.But the courteous reception they received this time surprised them, and they still didn't believe it.What followed was pride, the kind of pride that came from the heart and could not be suppressed.This kind of pride is the pride of a strong country, the pride of receiving gifts in return after paying reparations.

The delegation stayed in Germany for ten days, and the accompanying government officials signed a large number of cooperation agreements with the German government.Military representatives also signed an agreement with the German military to exchange officers for study and exchange.The accompanying industrial and commercial entrepreneurs held many meetings with their German counterparts and signed a large number of contracts.The President of the German Empire, Friedrich Ebert, even sent an invitation letter to Hua Fei, inviting Hua Fei to visit Germany at an appropriate time.

To the astonishment of the world's media, three days after the delegation returned to China, the Press Office of the Presidential Palace in Nanjing announced that Hua Fei decided to visit Germany in October in order to be far away from the President of the German Empire, Friedrich Ebert.The spokesperson claimed that Hua Fei will sign a large number of agreements during this trip, which will stimulate the cooperation between China and Germany.In fact, many reporters could see that the purpose of Hua Fei's trip was to personally push forward the unfinished tasks of some delegations and further deepen the agreement reached.

Western countries, especially France, were shocked.The French press published a commentator's article with an extremely catchy headline.Our allies have left us for the Germans.

This article outlines the joint Sino-French efforts to counter Germany in World War I.Finally, I will focus on the agreement signed by China and Germany, and finally conclude that although China and Germany have not signed an alliance agreement, as long as these agreements are implemented, China and Germany will become allies that have not signed an alliance agreement, and their interests will be unprecedentedly united.China's move, of course, is due to the demand for industrial technology, but more importantly, it is due to retaliation against the previous position of Britain and France on the Macau incident.This French commentator believes that the French government must use diplomatic power to unite with Britain, the United States and other countries to stop this cooperation.Either strengthen cooperation with China, avoid China completely falling to Germany, and damage France's interests in Asia.

Unexpectedly, the impact of this article was extremely sensational, which directly led to the President of the Third Republic, Millerin, sending an invitation letter to China a week later, inviting Hua Fei to visit France again.

Hua Fei has never visited abroad since he became the interim president, and before that, he only went to the United States and France when the Versailles peace treaty was signed.So you can imagine that after Hua Fei became the interim president of the Republic of China, his first stop was to visit Germany, and how much he shocked the neighboring country France.

A week later, the Press Office of the Presidential Palace announced again that Hua Fei would visit France after his visit to Germany at the invitation of the President of the Third French Republic, Millerin.

He accepted again. Hua Fei, who had never been interested in visiting abroad, actually agreed to the invitation of the French again.Now, the wind vane of the domestic media began to turn, and many people were discussing the president's upcoming trip to Europe.These cheerful people seem to have turned into diplomatic strategists, commenting on the newspapers, analyzing the various reasons and final results of this visit.Although some comments are very plain, they are a kind of propaganda to the people of the whole country and accelerate the internationalization awareness of the Chinese people.

Just as Hua Fei was preparing for the visit, he gave himself three days off so that he could take this opportunity to rest, spend time with his wife and daughter, and recharge his spirits.Qi Haichen came striding forward, holding an undecrypted telegram in his hand.Looking at the basic code of the telegram, it is a telegram sent by the First Bureau of the Secret Investigation Bureau, and the source is Hong Kong.

Hua Fei was taken aback, and quickly handed it over to Qi Haichen to decipher, but frowned in his heart, thinking about what happened in Hong Kong.Negotiations on the Macau incident are drawing to a close. According to a telegram from the negotiating team a few days ago, the British finally agreed to repatriate many wanted suspects who fled to Hong Kong.And China also made concessions, allowing Britain and Portugal to send representatives to observe the entire trial process, and allowing Britain and Portugal to hire lawyers on their behalf.

At the same time, Portugal also made concessions on the issue of Macau, agreed to abolish the relevant agreements in Macau, recognized China's sovereignty over Macau, and signed relevant legal documents on this consensus.And China has also guaranteed all the property interests of the Portuguese in Macau, guaranteed the rights and interests of Portuguese businessmen doing business in China, and released the Portuguese citizens blocked in Macau.

No matter how you look at this result, everyone is happy. It is the best result for China or Portugal.But why at this time, the secret intelligence personnel lurking in Hong Kong sent a telegram, and it was a high-level emergency telegram.

Qi Haichen's speed was very fast, and at his level he could not consult such confidential telegrams.After he came back, there were already two guard soldiers following him.

When Hua Fei opened it, he felt a surge of excitement in his heart.There are no words to describe Hua Fei's mood at this time, anger?frustrated?disappointment?pain?angry?resentment?Blame yourself?It seems to have both, and it seems to not.

This telegram is very simple, that is, the top three suspects on the most wanted list have left Hong Kong and escaped the monitoring of these intelligence officers.They have searched hard, but have found nothing.It is believed that these three people may have left Hong Kong.As for where it went, no one knows.

Hua Fei did not indulge his temper and anger, and slowly put down the telegram in his hand and began to meditate.His behavior made Qi Haichen very puzzled, not understanding how unpredictable the expression on the president's face after reading such an urgent telegram, he finally sat down as if nothing had happened.

Since the negotiation went very smoothly, and Hua Fei will visit Europe soon.Therefore, in order to ease the relationship with Britain and Portugal, Hua Fei's monitoring of Hong Kong has been relaxed.A few days ago, the British fleet that came to Hong Kong left Hong Kong without saying much.Hua Fei believes that this is the British final choice to compromise, so there is no need for the fleet to stay here.In addition, those wanted criminals are under the surveillance of intelligence personnel, so the fleet was allowed to leave.Now it seems that the British played tricks and played tricks to get out of their shells.The three wanted criminals must have left with the British fleet, and at this time, the British fleet may have already sailed through the Strait of Malacca and entered the Indian Ocean.The three wanted criminals are all Portuguese with Portuguese nationality, and they are also the main officers of the Macau Military Police Force and the person responsible for ordering the shooting.

283 Sworn not to disgrace

Portugal doesn't care about the life and death of those African soldiers and police.As long as the three Portuguese military and police escape safely, then for Portugal, at least it can save some face and reduce domestic pressure.For the United Kingdom, it is also gently teaching China a lesson.When they deliberately showed their favor to paralyze China, they played this trick under the slack of Chinese intelligence personnel.In the eyes of outsiders, the three wanted criminals fled surrounded by heavy Chinese soldiers.From the perspective of Chinese nationals, none of the three most wanted criminals have been arrested, so how will your trial proceed?How will your president explain to the people?