the world is at stake

The immigrants who came to Mozambique with Hu Dayan are all young and old or veterans. They have received at least three months of military training and can play with guns before they can board the ship.

After arriving in Africa, these people are the militia, which are managed and commanded by the local representative office.

On the roof terrace, Gou Sheng grabbed the local rum, pointed to the street with lights on, and said: "When we first came here, it was a wasteland without a single brick.

The Portuguese took the best plots, but there was still plenty of farmland and mines to dig around.They found that the Chinese would also rob unreasonably, and they were not used to it, and wanted to drive us into the sea.

At that time, the Navy sent two cruisers to bombard them with 203 mm large tubes.Only half a day later, the Portuguese surrendered, and the land was ours. "

The director continued: "Africa is where the weak prey on the strong, and the weak will be unlucky. The local blacks have lived here for thousands of years, and it is lucky for them to work as illegal workers for us, because the Chinese government does not play slavery."

Because slaves work inefficiently.

At present, the Chinese community in Maputo has built dormitories and schools specially for blacks. The schools teach some low-level skills, such as brick making, freight transportation, and driving, and eliminate those who are too stupid and stubborn.

In the Chinese community, you can get a better life, have a stable income and shelter, and earn money to get medical care and education.As a result, many people from white farms and black tribes fled to become cheap labor.

When domestically training overseas cadres, it specifically emphasized that the colonial rule should learn from the experience of the United Kingdom, effectively use the aboriginals to manage the aboriginals, and do a good job in the work of differentiation and disintegration.

Hu Dayan admires the fact that a huge urban community can be built in two years.He asked the director in a low voice: "Now this place is jointly managed by China and Germany? How is the land distributed? Is it possible that each has half? Can this last for a long time?"

The director shook his head, "The situation is more complicated than expected. If you don't come here, you don't know the power of Britain and France. They have colonized the world for hundreds of years, and their power is huge and intricate.

In the past few years, China has developed rapidly, and many new technologies and gadgets have emerged.But apart from the shabby settlements like Portugal, none of the real big powers played worse than us, or even played better, which is really difficult to deal with.

For example, the domestic navy built a military port in Maputo, with [-] port artillery and fortress garrisons, one light cruiser, three destroyers and more than a dozen patrol boats all year round.

But do you know how many warships there are in the British South African fleet in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Durban in the south?Two dreadnoughts, a dozen or so cruisers, have no problem crushing us.

As mentioned above, in order to cope with the current increasingly tense international situation, China and friendly countries must be closely united.Therefore, the interests of China and Germany in Mozambique are integrated.

Many shops on this street are run by Germans, and the city government is co-managed by Chinese and German officials, and the tax and expenditure are jointly managed by both parties.The two sides encourage intermarriage, and the new school this year teaches both Chinese and German.

I have been here for two years, and I always feel that Germany wants to drag us into trouble.I talked to the Germans and they said the situation in Europe is very weird right now.

The Celestial Empire is the only one in East Asia, and Little Japan jumped up and down a few years ago, but it is also being suppressed now.But Britain and France have a strong foundation, and they have become stronger and stronger over the years, and the Germans can't stand it. "

Ah... how come?Doesn't it mean that the colonists are weakening?Hu Dayan was a little puzzled.

The director continued: "Did you read the "Reference News" last month? It contained an article I wrote about Britain in South Africa.

The colonists suddenly had hundreds of times more radio stations and trucks, and their ability to plunder local mines and crops increased dramatically.There are also more construction machinery, and the speed of road and railway construction has been greatly accelerated.

The Boers are frightened to death now. If it weren't for our support behind them, they would have dared not have any resistance.The Germans say it's the same in Europe, they use a word..."

The director thought for a while before translating the German from his mind, "It's called an 'arms race'. Everyone is desperately developing, and they keep coming up with technologies that have never been seen before or even thought of. Be eliminated.

The two dreadnoughts of the South African fleet overwhelmed us, and the British home fleet had more than a dozen super dreadnoughts and aircraft carriers, which pressed Germany to death.

Britain and France have many colonies and a strong family background, so they can still afford it at present.Germany seems to be unable to keep up. Many resources are supplied by China, such as their oil.

In addition, the Germans said that it is not they who are unable to hold on at present, but Tsarist Russia in the east.It is reported that Tsar Nicholas II expropriated and built an army and navy, and as a result, the bottom was forced to make a revolution.

At present, it seems that the countries that are left behind will easily open up the generation gap with other powers, and lose half of the war before it is fought. "

Hu Dayan was also worried when he heard it.He has seen some military internal references and knows that the development of foreign military forces is experiencing a blowout phenomenon.For example, the latest vehicle diesel engine has been upgraded to [-] horsepower, completely eliminating steam vehicles.

Several great powers are working on diesel-powered armored fighting vehicles, with a small performance iteration every year.

The Military Intelligence Agency has issued a warning to the Army and the military industry system. The latest tanks of the United States, Britain and France all use long-barreled artillery with a caliber of more than [-] millimeters, and the front armor is generally more than [-] millimeters.

This makes the domestic army extremely anxious, because it means that a main tank that has just been finalized will be obsolete before it is put into production, and must be redesigned, and the possible progress of the opponent in the next five years must be predicted.

This is still the army that has no pressure for the time being, and the navy and air force are even more miserable-the United States has released a monoplane fighter nicknamed "Nurse Bottle", which instantly eliminated more than 1000 old models of the Air Force.

Not to mention the navy, several shipyards just completed the upgrade two or three years ago, and a large number of workers trained in Europe and the United States returned one after another. They were supposed to show their talents...

However, the United Kingdom and the United States have recently completed fast battle cruisers and [-]-ton aircraft carriers, which has put a lot of pressure on domestic shipyards that are still learning to build [-]-ton light cruisers.

Shipbuilding is the ultimate test of the entire industrial system. None of metallurgy, chemical engineering, machinery, instrumentation, and power is easy, and it is too difficult to catch up.

The domestic economy has been particularly good in recent years, and the common people are very optimistic, but they have no real experience of these situations.

But for overseas cadres, China has been desperately catching up, but the characteristics of a weak industrial foundation cannot be changed within ten years.

It was unthinkable for the navy to deploy a small fleet in Africa in the past, but the gap in strength between Britain, France and the United States has not narrowed, but has a tendency to widen.

Gou Sheng was also worried, and sighed: "I don't know about national affairs, I only know that if Britain, France and the United States really surpassed each other, how we used ships to bombard the Portuguese in the past will be the same in the future.

I started a family here, married a foreign daughter-in-law, and I just want to spread out here and stay forever.I don't want to be chased away one day. "

Having said that, Hu Dayan suddenly felt a lot of pressure on his shoulders.

The director clarified the difficulty, but instead comforted him: "Don't worry too much, the central government must understand better than us. Let's do our own thing well.

The bandits around Maputo have been rampant recently, and the British should be behind it.Comrade Hu Dezhi, the task of suppressing the bandits is entrusted to you. "

"Yes." Hu Dayan stood at attention and saluted, taking over the task.

In addition to the regular Chinese and German garrisons in Maputo, there are also 1000 militiamen, mixed from both sides.The Ministry of National Defense knows that the overseas situation is complicated. This time, Hu Dayan arrived in Maputo with a large amount of equipment.

Including four six-wheeled armored vehicles equipped with 90 mm flat-fire guns, twenty armored four-wheeled off-road vehicles, and thirty light trucks with machine guns.

These vehicles were hoisted out one by one in the [-]-ton-wheel cargo warehouse. After landing, they became a military force capable of walking sideways in Mozambique, and they could be supplemented at any time to strengthen them into a militia brigade.

Snakes and rats are mixed in the port, and white and black people from all walks of life come and go to do business.

The news that the Chinese and German militias had gained strength quickly spread, and spread along the railway telegraph line to Johannesburg, more than 400 kilometers away, and then to Cape Town, [-] kilometers away.

Baron Sidney Buxton, the British governor in South Africa in Cape Town, was angry about this-the Chinese actually came to grab the African territory, which was the ultimate humiliation to Britain.

The Chinese settlement in Maputo is like a thorn in the heart of the British.Baron Buxton had long wanted to pull out this thorn.

Chapter 03 Colonial Era

Cape Town, Government House of British South Africa.

There is a huge map of Africa in the Governor's Office of Baron Buxton, which divides the colonies of different powers in Africa with lines and colors.

Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria and other places are red and belong to the United Kingdom.

Algeria, West Africa, Chad, and Central Africa are blue and belong to France.

Congo is purple and belongs to Belgium; Angola and Mozambique are green and belong to Portugal; Morocco is brown and belongs to Spain; Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia are cyan and belong to Italy;

There is also East Africa and South West Africa that belong to Germany.

The whole of Africa has been carved up.

But this map has changed recently, and the colonies of Portugal have been robbed.China and Germany jointly took away Mozambique, and the United States sent troops to take down Angola under the banner of maintaining national equality and freedom.

"The three families of China, the United States and Germany are really shameless!" The angry baron slammed his fist on the desk.The tough oak made his palms ache, reminding him not to ask for trouble.

Both colonization and plunder, is there a difference between noble and ugly?There really are.

Few people know that the British have lost money from time to time in the process of colonizing the world-a typical example is robbing the Dutch colony of South Africa, fighting two Boer Wars, and losing money to grandma's family.

Not to mention casualties, the Boer War cost Great Britain 2.2 million pounds in military expenditures, which was equivalent to 14.65 billion taels of silver.

India is the jewel in the crown of Great Britain, but running India can actually make Great Britain lose money-this is a bit contrary to common sense, but the British bureaucrats really did it.

From 1860 to 1900, India paid less than £100 million in tax money to Britain every year.The annual expenditure of the United Kingdom in India, such as the salaries of road construction and garrison officials, is about 3000 million pounds.

The British East India Company was originally a private enterprise, and its shareholders made a lot of money with the trade patent license granted by Queen Elizabeth.

Later, the British Parliament forcibly turned it into a state-owned company. In 1858, it went bankrupt due to serious corruption and huge losses.British politicians themselves said that 'the colony is a millstone hanging on the neck of Great Britain'.

In terms of bureaucracy, who can compare with me, Daying?

Even the United States, which has dominated the world for a hundred years, has proved one thing - casually going to backward areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan to teach others how to do things will lose money and even affect the country's destiny.

Therefore, the current China, Germany and the United States only send troops to occupy a certain port and support the local people for indirect rule.Harvesting backward areas with industrial and agricultural scissors and economic means is much more efficient, the food looks good, and there are fewer troubles.

You can also stand on the moral high ground and accuse old Europe of being too bloody, brutal and inhuman.

Even the locals in Africa feel that it is more comfortable to live as dogs for the new colonists, at least they have some property and freedom, and they are more motivated to work.

According to Baron Buxton's knowledge, China used Maputo Port to dump commodities to Mozambique, South Africa and other places, and seized more than 80 tons of gold in two years.

According to the telegram just received, there are more and more immigrants and goods in China, which is likely to double this year, and the amount of gold searched can exceed [-] tons.

During the Boer War that year, the Boers in South Africa imported more than a dozen tons of Krupp heavy artillery from Germany to fight against the British. This is obviously a mental illness.

The Chinese are much more practical. They sell to the Boers radio stations, sniper rifles, light machine guns, light weapons such as '60 Force' and '82 Wu', and they also teach tactics such as mine warfare.

The Boers were already badly hurt by the British, but now they are getting worse and more treacherous by the Chinese.

China not only needs gold, but also builds primary processing plants and purchases agricultural and livestock products.You can purchase hundreds of thousands of cowhide alone.Its huge market has made African chieftains earn money and can afford their industrial products.

The railway from Johannesburg to Maputo was built by the British, but now most of the goods transported on this railway are imported and exported goods from China.

In the past two years, China's ocean-going fleets have continued to come to Africa, and the industrial supplies provided to the Boers and black tribes have greatly improved their living standards, which has made it more and more difficult for the British to plunder.

Of course, China is not stuck in a rut.

With less immigration in Africa and South America, there is less resistance to economic predation.But China has more immigrants to Southeast Asia, and it can also grab land.

Indonesia controlled by the Netherlands has become the first choice for Chinese immigrants.Dutch colonial officials tried to drive the aborigines to confront the Chinese, but were bombarded by Chinese naval gunboats.

According to rough statistics by British officials in Singapore, more than 400 Chinese immigrant boats go to Java every month.Even if each boat carries 50 people, more than [-] Chinese immigrants arrive in Java every year.

Most of these 50 people are poor farmers in China.They received simple military training, formed a production and construction corps, and were coordinated by officials, and arrived at their new homes with guns.

Without the central teaching, the new immigrants are like tigers off the brakes, extremely aggressive.

Land on the island is being seized by an influx of Chinese farmers, and the locals either choose to leave or be integrated.Anyway, the Chinese government optimistically announced that the rice production in 1917 could be increased by at least 1000 million tons.

Britain and France expressed extreme concern about their colonies in Southeast Asia.If they were not worried about another 'Boer War', they would have wanted to fight China to prevent its rapid expansion.

When he learned that China was transporting immigrants and equipment to Maputo, Baron Buxton really couldn't bear it.He sent a telegram to Buckingham Palace, urging King Charles I to authorize him to mobilize the British South African fleet.

China's thorn in Africa must be pulled out.

But this telegram is the same as the previous dozens of telegrams. It only exchanged a few words of comfort from Charles I. In addition, it prevented the baron from acting rashly, as long as he kept an eye on China's military development in Africa.

"Military strength? China's military strength in Africa is pitifully weak. It doesn't even have complete ports and fortresses. Maputo only has an airport and twenty or thirty outdated aircraft, plus a light cruiser and garbage destroyer."

The Baron did not understand why Great Britain would make such concessions to China.It was a great shame and humiliation to be driven out by the Chinese army in Hong Kong last year, which caused Britain to lose its most important military port and foothold in the Far East.

The Chinese navy currently does not have warships of tens of thousands of tons, and the largest are several American-made, German-made or Italian-made light cruisers.These light cruisers are built in large numbers according to China's own design.

The feature is... no feature at all.

The 203mm main guns are installed in twins, but only two turrets are used.The three-turret position on the rear deck became a hangar for two seaplanes.The hull armor is very weak, and it is difficult to resist 150mm naval guns.

In the eyes of the baron, this kind of warship is a waste and cannot be used for fleet decisive battles.If you really want to find an advantage, it is probably that the construction period is short, the maintenance cost is low, and the price is very cheap.

There is a little bit of 'colonial battleship', which can only bully the weak.

Of course, the baron also heard another evaluation from the British Navy.

China's "city-class" cruisers use more than 8000 tons of hulls to install heavy oil boilers and 32-horsepower steam turbines, and can run up to [-] knots.The endurance at twelve knots exceeds [-] nautical miles, and the maneuverability is still good.

It saves money on the hull and firepower, but spends more on fire control, and the shelling efficiency is very good.In addition, the two seaplanes have a patrol radius of [-] nautical miles, and have advantages that other warships cannot match in terms of information acquisition.

Judging from the operations in Southeast Asia and Mozambique, this kind of warship is durable and has good maneuverability.The level of automation on the ship is relatively high, and the number of sailors on the ship is less than [-], which is [-]% less than that of similar warships.

Its firepower against ships is weak, but its anti-aircraft firepower is strong. Four double-mounted [-]mm rapid-fire guns and eight double-mounted [-]mm cannons are like hedgehogs.

Because many of its subsystems are made by China itself, the cost of 'city-level' is quite cheap.The cost of a British light cruiser of the same tonnage is close to one million pounds, and it only needs more than 60 pounds.

In the past five years, China has borrowed other countries' shipyards to build more than [-] "city-class" ships for its own navy as the main force.Recently, their own shipbuilding industry has become more and more complete, and they have begun to build their own improved versions.

"The Chinese don't seem to intend to continue to develop the technology of gunboats." As a firm believer in large ships and giant guns, Baron Buxton believes that the Chinese navy's choice is wrong.

But look at the conservative forces of the British Navy who have built a total of [-] super dreadnought battleships of the four ranks of 'Orion', 'George V', 'Iron Duke' and 'Queen Elizabeth' in one go in the past seven years.The baron didn't know what to think...

too crazy!

Should we praise the military and shipbuilding capabilities of the British Empire as the best in the world?Or do you want to scold the Ministry of the Navy for being militaristic and a waste of people's fat?

These are just battleships. The Ministry of the Navy has also built five aircraft carriers-no armor, no artillery, the aircraft carrier is cheap, and the carrier-based aircraft is not expensive.But this kind of shipbuilding speed is really scary.

Correspondingly, the Germans seem to have given up competing with Great Britain on battleships, and instead built more than a dozen large aircraft carriers of [-] tons-capable of carrying dozens of biplane torpedo planes or horizontal bombers.

Not only Britain and Germany are building, but the United States, France, Russia, and Italy are all implementing the "big ship building" plan, and warships of more than [-] tons are "loading dumplings" into the sea.

Even Japan didn't give up, gritted its teeth and finished six "King Kong" class battlecruisers, two "Fuso" class battleships, and changed the funds for follow-up ships to build aircraft carriers - six "Fengxiang" class battleships were produced. .

The battleships of the great powers are different, but the shape of the aircraft carrier is surprisingly consistent-small islands, with enclosed beveled decks, and internal hangars, almost the same design.

Copy the improved "Essex" class in 1956 from the original history - for the time-traveling forces, the Yankees' experience condensed with blood and tears is not learned in vain.

Only China is more restrained. Apart from developing large bombers and strengthening shore-based naval aviation, it does not seem to have much interest in building large warships-a light cruiser of more than 8000 tons is the upper limit.

Sitting at his desk, Baron Buxton stared at the glaring spot on the map of Africa, and said bitterly to himself, "The yellow-skinned monkey is too fond of farming and building factories, and the military is not strong. Why does His Majesty the King hold back?"

Chapter 04 Land Quan