the world is at stake

Charles I was admiring the Portrait of Queen Alexandra in the Golden Gallery at Buckingham Palace when Baron Buxton's telegram arrived.

The queen in the portrait is wearing white silk tulle, sitting gracefully and luxuriously in the bedroom.She is a princess of Prussia, the wife of Tsar Nicholas I, the sister of Kaiser Wilhelm I, and a relative of the British royal family in a sense.

When the attendants delivered the telegram, Charles I only glanced at it, and let the telegram slip from his fingertips, indicating that such meaningless things should be thrown into the trash can.

The reply that Baron Buxton received afterwards was written by the court attendant, and it was not the original intention of the king at all-Charles I was too lazy to respond to the patriotism of his courtiers.

If it was possible, China and Britain would have gone to war long ago.

There is only one reason why there is no fight after such a long time. Daying is a little helpless towards the current China.

Why is Tsarist Russia called the 'European Steamroller'?Because it has more than [-] million people, it can mobilize millions of gray animals from poor Eastern Europe to prosperous Western Europe.

What about China?

Through social and land reforms, the central government had unprecedented power. In 1915, more than 300 million civil servants were mobilized to conduct the first population and land census, and the national population was determined to be 4.6 million.

That's more than expected, and growing fast.

Through several years of hard work, the Ministry of Communications has built roads for 80.00% of the counties across the country.Even if it is a dirt road, at least it is a road that has been rolled over by a steamroller, and it will not collapse just because of the rain.

Where there is no road, simply pass by plane.The soil runway of 600 meters is not difficult.

The Ministry of Health set up primary health clinics at the township level to deliver medicines and medical services to the common people, and forced pregnant women to give birth in public hospitals.

Before 1910, the infant mortality rate in China was as high as [-] per thousand.This means that one in five newborns will die before their first birthday.The maternal mortality rate is fifteen per thousand.

Among them, infectious diseases, malnutrition, and artificial drowning are the main causes of infant death-'Holy Light' absolutely cannot tolerate this situation.

Vaccination, increasing the age of marriage and childbearing, reforming agricultural production, and forcing hospital delivery are implemented by various means.

By 1915, the infant mortality rate had fallen to [-] per [-] in large cities and [-] in remote areas, and would continue to decline.

Likewise, adult life expectancy is increasing rapidly.In the past, certain minor diseases and disasters could take the lives of the main labor force of the family, but now they are avoided at least.

In the next 20 years, China's average life expectancy will definitely increase significantly, and the population will also skyrocket along with the increase in food production.

The State Council issued a warning for this - with the current concept of having more children and more blessings, China's annual net population increase will exceed 2000 million in the future, and the peak net increase will reach [-] million in ten years.

Great Britain, the world's most powerful country, now has a population of just over 500 million.

There are 2000 million more mouths to eat and drink every year. This management difficulty is legendary. The 'Holy Light' team is as big as a bucket, and the only way is to desperately industrialize.

For the current 6000 million people, the easiest way to change their destiny is to join the army.Joining the army can not only fill your stomach, but also have medical security, learn cultural knowledge, and get a jump in class.

Every year, the quota for enlisting in the army is up for grabs.

In 1910, it was difficult for the National Defense Forces to even control the six divisions left by Beiyang. By 1911, it had expanded to 36 divisions.By 1912, all 36 divisions had been organized into a first-class unit of 4000 people, and motorization was completed in 1914.

But the pace of military expansion has not stopped.

By 1915, the Ministry of National Defense organized another 72 second-class motorized divisions with a size of 1 people, and began to establish an armed police force.

By the end of 1917, the total number of armed forces in the country will exceed 240 million.But the pace of military expansion has not stopped, but is accelerating due to the continuous improvement of national strength.

The country is building water conservancy projects and mechanized farmland construction. Major agricultural provinces such as Henan, Hebei, and Shandong no longer need so many agricultural populations.

Millions of young adults were released from the fields to find work in the cities from the countryside.Veterans don't want to go home and continue to 'face the loess, back to the sky' after retiring from the army.

As a result, the country has organized overseas immigration-there are only more than 5000 Chinese in Maputo now, and the central government wishes to send 500 million directly.

Africa is too far away to be blocked, but Southeast Asia is always better.

More than 60 people go to Indonesia by boat every year.It is more convenient to go to Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand.As for the local aborigines how to do?

To learn to integrate with advanced civilizations.

Anyway, there are not so many full-fledged ngos these days, and there are no Swedish girls who come out and shout 'how dare you'.

Charles I did not know the exact number of Chinese immigrants to Southeast Asia, but he could only estimate that the number would not be less than 200 million per year.He does know that China's railway corps, engineering corps, construction corps, and police force are expanding one after another.

Years of training and discipline are a valuable human resource for the country, and it is a crime to let them lose, and this group is always to be exploited.

British diplomats stationed in China collect changes in China’s military power through public or private channels—Britain watched China’s army and air force explode while it exploded its navy. It is estimated that its size will exceed 600 million in a few years.

If Britain explodes with more than 500 million troops, um... Canada and Australia don't have enough bumpkins, so they can only find Indians to make up the number.

In the internal training of the Central Party School, the "Old Master" with the nickname of "National Teacher" conveyed the central strategy to the senior officials of the party, government and army-limited by national strength, China will engage in sea power for a while, but it really cannot win against the European and American powers.

Since you can't win, you can only continue to climb the technology tree and maintain a navy of appropriate size.The focus now is to consolidate land power and ensure that the enemy cannot break in.

The solution is to build railways.

For example, the central government planned the Xiulan-Xin Railway and the Chengdu-Kunming Railway in 1910.The project started in 1912, and one-third of it has been repaired so far.

The national railway mileage increased from nearly 1910 kilometers in 1916 to over [-] kilometers by the end of [-].

Charles I had seen the "three horizontal and five vertical" railway network plans planned by the Ministry of Railways of China, which not only contained the idea of ​​building in China, but also the willingness to open up traffic lines in Southeast Asia.

This made the British very angry.

When China robbed Portugal of its African colonies, Britain tried to intervene to stop it.But Pla immediately mobilized more than a dozen divisions of the army and air force to make a gesture of going south to Southeast Asia-to drive Britain and France out of Southeast Asia if they dared to do it.

The garrisons of Britain and France in Southeast Asia cannot be stopped at all.

The British candidates deduced for a long time and found that China was suppressed in terms of sea power, but the army and air force were not to be underestimated.It lacks an excuse to gobble up the land in Southeast Asia.

British warships can't go ashore, and even close to the coastline may be destroyed by the opponent's shore-based aviation.Do you need to think about whether to export gas for Portugal and the Netherlands, or to protect your own interests in Southeast Asia?

Portugal originally thought that Great Britain would help them, but the British South African fleet had sailed to the sea off Maputo, so they didn't dare to do it. Afterwards, all Europe knew that such things should not be expected to be justified by Great Britain.

Alas... a good fighter has no great achievements.

In the seemingly peaceful world, the order has already collapsed behind it, and the dark tide is raging.But everyone wants to be an oriole, and they are unwilling and dare not do it easily, for fear of being dragged into the quagmire of war and consumed in advance.

After arbitrarily disposing of the South African Governor's message, Charles I finally turned his attention away from the portrait of Queen Alexandra.He continued to walk slowly along the golden gallery until he was interrupted again by the court servants.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of the Navy conducted an investigation on the previous super-dreadnought shipbuilding plan. The report came out. They decided it was an unintentional mistake."

Charles I laughed out loud, with a mocking and helpless tone.

In terms of the shipbuilding industry, Great Britain is now so strong that even the United States is willing to bow down, and China is even more far behind.But after time and space restarted, the British Navy continued to follow its own inertia.

In 1916, I finally found out that something was wrong. Why didn’t the Germans on the opposite side build battleships?The whole world seems to abandon the thick-skinned and rough-skinned turtle-speed iron bastard.

Among the more than a dozen battleships that the British were building in the past few years, the latest "Queen Elizabeth" class only has a top speed of 25 knots, and the others only have a top speed of 21 knots.

But the "Emperor" class and "Elector" class aircraft carriers of the Germans all soared to a high speed of [-] knots.In several North Sea exercises, its aircraft carrier formation broke through the blockade of the British home fleet, and even the battle cruisers could not catch up.

Also don't talk about interception.During the exercise, the German biplane carrier-based aircraft with torpedoes flew over the head of the British guy, and the British navy did not know the opponent's location.

The United Kingdom also built an aircraft carrier, but it followed the path of an armored aircraft carrier. The number of aircraft on board was insufficient, and the speed of 27 knots could not catch up with its opponents.The only advantage is that it has a relatively strong ability to resist the strong winds and waves of the North Sea.

The British Admiralty is still arguing that aircraft carriers cannot operate at night and in harsh environments, and must be coordinated by battleships and battle cruisers.But the chosen ones headed by Charles I couldn't stand it and asked the Admiralty to investigate the shipbuilding decision.

The results came out, and the gentlemen of the Ministry of the Navy still refused to admit their mistakes.

"Oh... what can I do? I am also very helpless." Charles I smiled wryly and shook his head, "I gave orders to the Admiralty as a king, but they dared to perfunctory me."

The court attendant lowered his head and did not speak, but said with a little sarcasm in his heart: "I, Great Britain, is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Who made you a hypocrite? You don't care about military expenditures. Of course, the Admiralty only regards you as a mascot."

Charles I looked up at the majestic ceiling of the Golden Gallery, and said quietly: "If the German High Seas Fleet comes out of Wilhelmshaven now, my British Home Fleet can't stop it at all.

The idiots in the parliament are clamoring for a decisive battle with China every day. They want to send a fleet to distant East Asia to clean up the annoying yellow-skinned monkeys, want to occupy Hong Kong and Shanghai, and want to destroy Tianjin and the imperial capital.

If I really issued such an order, the German repairman Bazel would definitely send another telegram full of 'Ahahahahahahahaha'.He had to die laughing.

Although Daying is strong, he can't stand the toss when he raises his eyes and looks around at the pack of wolves.We have to bear it now and keep an eye on the situation in Tsarist Russia.

The life of Nicholas II is not easy, His Excellency Vladimir is probably regretting it.Who would have thought that those Bolsheviks could never stop killing them?Hooked up with the Germans too. "

Chapter 05 The Power Revolution

Germany, Ruhr area.

Between the Ruhr River and the Emscher River, factories, residences and a dense transportation network are connected together to form a large urban belt.

Chimneys belched black smoke into the sky, and there was a roar in the power plant.Here is the heart of German industry, the engine of the German tank.

Kaiser Bazel I came here in person today to participate in the acceptance and commissioning of the '330 kV high-voltage power transmission and transformation project'.Also present were Foreign Minister Wang of China and engineering teams from both sides.

At the heart of power transmission and transformation is a large distribution station, where huge transformers and high-voltage transmission towers hum.The power generated by the nearby one million kilowatt coal-fired power station is transmitted to the surrounding area of ​​[-] kilometers to supply industrial and civilian power.

Power technology is dominated by China and incubated in the United States.

Starting from a 20-horsepower steam turbine, to a 330-kilowatt coal-fired generator set, and then to a [-]-kilovolt power transmission and transformation equipment, the entire industrial chain was established in China and Germany last year, with a total investment of more than [-] million US dollars.

The territory of Germany is from east to west and from south to north, which is only six to seven hundred kilometers.As long as it is equipped with seven or eight high-voltage transmission equipment, the national power grid can be built, and the electricity price in Germany will be reduced by half because of it.

The high-voltage power grid is an important infrastructure for industrial development. After China's reform and opening up in the 'later generations', China's economy has grown rapidly, and the demand for electricity has skyrocketed. The lesson learned is that the construction of the power grid must be advanced.

Britain, France and the United States also developed the same electric technology.However, each company develops independently, not only the project cost is high, but the price of a complete set of equipment is also high.

In contrast, China and Germany brought in Austria-Hungary, Italy, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania, Spain and other countries to share the cost.

Just like the [-]-horsepower steam turbine at the beginning, after the research and development is completed, the cost will be spread by large orders, and everyone will benefit from this--[-] kilometers of power transmission and distribution distance is still necessary for many countries.

For China, a 330kV high-voltage power grid is enough to cover the surrounding areas of provincial capitals.Economic and industrial core areas such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta can be connected by two or three power grids.

After the steam industrial revolution, the popularity of the electric power industrial revolution relied on large-scale power grids.It requires a large number of manufacturing enterprises and consumer population to gather in a limited area for production and living, stimulating the use of electrical machinery and electrical equipment.

Many people don't know how factories produced before electricity became popular.

Early industrial machine tools were not driven by electricity, but by belts.Large factories have dedicated boiler power workshops, using inefficient steam engines as power sources.

China was still using this backward power system in the 70s and [-]s in its original history.There will be a transmission shaft on the beam frame of the factory, and the workers connect the transmission shaft with a belt to make the equipment to be controlled move.

After the power grid is popularized, such as machine tools, textile machines, and port cranes can be driven by portable electric motors, the efficiency and accuracy can be greatly improved, and the cost has been greatly reduced.

The power of the electric motor can be made particularly large.The iron and steel plant will build a production line several kilometers long, connecting smelting, rolling, profile and other processes on one line at the same time, and the production capacity will be increased several times.

If we want to say where the great powers are strong, it is reflected in the fact that they are always the first and fastest to use such transformative technologies on a large scale.

Now Ruhr, Germany, has launched a high-voltage power transmission and transformation project, and Berlin and Munich will also build it.

China needs more.The imperial capital, Shanghai, and Guangzhou had three sets at the same time.More than a dozen second-tier cities such as Shenyang, Wuhan, Xi'an, and Chongqing are also under preparation.

The power industry in China and Germany is running at full capacity to supply domestic and foreign demand.

"Very good. Russia has a vast territory and needs such a powerful transmission network."

Accompanying the Kaiser was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, laughing and congratulating China and Germany on their industrial achievements.He was recently assassinated in St. Petersburg and transferred to Germany for medical treatment.

The Marxist is not yet 50, but he is already 'smart'.After learning more about the benefits of high-voltage power transmission and transformation, he loudly stated that he would send Russian technicians to Germany to study, and hoped that the Kaiser could transfer this technology.

Behind Lenin, Comrade Stalin, who was less than forty, was with Trotsky, whispering.What they talked about was not only the equipment that can transmit electricity conveniently and cheaply, but also the on-site technical team.

"China and Germany cooperate closely in almost all fields."

"They are thousands of miles apart, and there is no conflict of interest, so they can trust each other."

"Have you noticed? Most of the Chinese technicians are very young, and they all participate in engineering construction after advanced studies in the United States."

"The bourgeoisie is willing to sell the noose for profit. We should also contact the United States more to seek financial and technical assistance."

The close cooperation between China and Germany has been going on for seven years with remarkable results.Even other European countries close to their periphery have received large orders.For example, steel in Belgium, shipbuilding in Italy, and military industry in the Czech Republic and Austria-Hungary.

China's decision to open up its domestic market has attracted a large number of European and American companies to invest. More than [-] companies have settled down within five years, and the economic benefits they have brought have attracted worldwide attention.

The conversation between Stalin and Trotsky was somewhat sour.

The Russian Communist Party 'B' was the only beacon of communism back then, but now they are still working hard to seize power.The Chinese Communist Party came from behind, ruling a population of 6000 million, with an annual economic growth of more than 20.00% or even [-]%.

China's State Council has a 'Development and Reform Commission' that specializes in coordinating the development of industry and agriculture to maximize the advantages of limited funds and manpower.Even foreign investment is "guided" by it, emphasizing orderly competition and win-win cooperation.

In seven years, China's economy has quadrupled in size.Among them, the proportion of industrial output value has increased from less than 5.00% to 20.00%, which is nearly [-] times that of the original.

Now the Russian Communist Party's "Bolsheviks" want to go to China to learn from the revolution, learn how to mobilize the masses, and how to organize struggles.But the Chinese experience is not very applicable to the Russians. On the contrary, more than a dozen party organizations in Southeast Asia are developing rapidly under the guidance of the Turkish Communist Party.

When Lenin talked with the Kaiser, he must thank Foreign Minister Wang.A few years ago, the Turkish Communist Party provided a lot of information to the Russian Communist Party 'Bolsheviks', saving many of its senior leaders.

"At present, we have developed more than 5 party members in various factories in St. Petersburg, and there are also many sympathizers in the army. As long as the Russian Communist Party 'Bolsheviks' can seize power, we will definitely fulfill the relevant promises to China and Germany."

Lenin was making a guarantee to Bazel I and Foreign Minister Wang.

The latter two looked at each other, laughed loudly, and expressed their approval—the 'October Revolution' had originally happened at the end of 1917, and the Russian Communist Party's 'Bolsheviks' gang came to fight the autumn wind and asked for assistance.

Emperor Puteri stood on the side of the tsar representing the interests of the bourgeoisie and big landowners, and these years also led to the substantial development of Russia's industry and agriculture.Industrial cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow benefited greatly.

Russia's steel production has increased from the original 400 million tons to more than 1000 million tons, which is still more than China.Its industrial population doubled and its educated population increased by 50.00%.

While Russia's national strength has improved, the power of the Russian Communist Party's "Bulletin" has also increased.Although World War I failed to break out, Lenin couldn't wait to seize power.

Now only China and Germany can help the Russian Communist Party to 'cloth'.

In order to obtain aid, Lenin promised China that after the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, he would revoke all unequal treaties signed between Tsarist Russia and the previous Chinese dynasty, and restore the border between the two countries to the state of the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689.

The Chinese side laughed at this and expressed a cautious welcome - it just felt that it was not enough and doubted Lenin's sincerity.