Chapter 868 Plague Attack

"Wen, have you heard about it? The Chinese sent hundreds of warships to the Atlantic Ocean.

"What's more, hundreds of planes flew by Marseille a few days ago. Eric just came back from there and heard him say that the formation of planes almost covered the sun."

"Hundreds? Not much."

"Do you think it's our wooden shelves?! They are all metal planes, and the largest one has four engines. It is said that it can fly thousands of kilometers with tons of bombs.

"No wonder they can play so smoothly."

"Yes, so I heard that they will get the best benefit after this meeting."

"It's a pity, but it's also very good that we can get the African colonies owned by Britain and France, but I don't know if we can force Britain to ensure our country's access to the sea."

"Of course, we are the victors. The British navy has been blocked in Scarpa Bay by General Hipper, and they have no chance anymore."

"Ha ha, so, should we go for a drink?"

"Dang, damn it, why is the road closed? What's the matter?" Three engineers chatting on the streets of Berlin suddenly stopped as soon as they turned a block. They only saw that the road ahead had been completely blocked by soldiers with live ammunition. Many people were watching outside and immediately squeezed in.

After getting rid of the crowd, they found that not only had this residential area had been sealed by all the soldiers, but also doctors in white coats kept going in and out. Then a body began to be carried out. There was no need to count it in detail, at least a hundred!

"God, is it a poisonous gas bomb?"

The engineers swallowed hard. This is a dense residential area with tens of thousands of people. If there is poisonous gas, I'm afraid it's another Liverpool!

"How can it be poison gas? I heard it's the flu."

"The flu?" The news next to him stunned the engineer. The flu may indeed cause death, but who has heard that hundreds of people will die in a block because of the flu? And from the point of view of the deployment of the army, this is obviously unusual.

"It's the flu!" A person next to him who seemed to have some inside information said, "I heard from my friend that he works in the police station. I heard that about 1,500 people have died of the flu in Berlin since this month. This is only Berlin. I heard that Frankfurt and Hamburg have found symptoms. What's more serious is Britain and France, where there have been tens of thousands of deaths!"

"Dude, are you sure this is the flu? Instead of the plague or the Black Death or something?"

"Who knows, maybe." The speaker looked at a corpse covered with white cloth and said worriedly, "It's a plague."

"Plague!"

The word

hits everyone's hearts like thunder. There is a pandemic after a disaster. This sentence is not only circulating in Xinhua. It is the same in Europe. After each war, many people will die from various diseases. This is mainly because the war will lead to food shortages and poor sanitary conditions, which makes people The physique and resistance have been seriously reduced.

And is it really a plague now?!——

"Your Excellency Lansing, I understand the concerns of the United States very well, but I don't think the Chinese are our threat. On the contrary, the Chinese are still our allies now!" In the seat of the German delegation in Istanbul, German Foreign Minister Strauss looked at the Queen of Prince Heinrich next to him, and then turned to look at U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who came to negotiate.

As the U.S. Secretary of State and a politician with a keen sense of smell, Lansing smelled an abnormality in the big exercise being held in Xinhua, so he came to the German delegation secretly today to find a breakthrough and use Germany to put some pressure on Xinhua.

His reason for coming is very simple. Li Mo did not dare to fight Germany. At the moment of defeating the treaty, no matter how crazy people are, it is impossible to go to war with its ally Germany. In that case, the Allies will immediately collapse, all countries will stay away from Xinhua, and Europe will immediately unite against the invasion of the East.

Although Germany will not really clash with the madman at this moment, they send a fleet to use negotiations to exert pressure, cause a small-scale confrontation, and show their existence in this way. It is nothing more than telling Li Mo not to push me. If you are forced, it will trigger racial confrontation, and then hope to blackmail more. It's just to make some profit.

In the final analysis, this is also telling those countries that stand behind themselves to attract more support votes for themselves.

So it seems that Straau refused himself and stressed that Germany and Xinhua were allies, but as a politician, he still keenly captured the two words before Straau said that he was an ally.

"Now."

Yes, now it's an ally. What about the future? Because of Li Mo's strength in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Germany has lost a huge market with a population of nearly 800 million, which is itself an irrecontible conflict of interest!

"Your Excellency Strau, Your Highness, I know that your country and China are allies, but don't you think Li Mo is too greedy? He has turned Russia into a European country and the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean into his back garden. Now he has reached into the Atlantic Ocean and occupied Panama and Suez. If he gets Alaska again, the Arctic Ocean will be occupied by him for most of it!

And I don't know, after the two main waterways are controlled, how can German-made goods safely reach Asia and India in the future? Do you take a detour to Africa or South America? In that case, the distance will increase by 70% and the cost will increase by 20%. Even if you arrive, I'm afraid it will no longer be competitive.

Although he knew it was provocative, Strau still frowned. In Germany, especially in the commander-in-chief, it was an indisputable fact that dissatisfaction with Xinhua began to increase, but he did not think that Li Mo would easily make a move against Germany, so he took out a thick document with a smile and shook it: "Mr. Lansing, I think you are too worried. The Chinese have signed a memorandum of understanding with China on shipping, making it clear that they will sign a trade and transportation agreement with China after this negotiation, and they also said that they will make a public statement in the near future, not only in China, but also in the future, the ships of any country in the above two rivers. It can be kept unimpeded.

Lansing didn't expect Li Mo to start early again. He even signed a memorandum of understanding on shipping and the use of canals. While secretly saying that the other party's speed was fast, he also sneered: "Really? So did the Chinese also promise to continue to be smooth during the war!"

"You don't have to worry about this. Our country has reached an agreement with the Mexican political axe to lease the Gulf of Mexico base to ensure shipping safety. In addition, it has also reached an agreement with the Ottoman Empire to share the naval base. I believe that Germany has the ability to ensure the security of its own country at any time! Just like now!"

Strau's sonorous words made Lansing's face change slightly. He didn't expect that Germany would be so difficult to deal with.

For the United States, the failure of the war is not terrible. What is terrible is the 28 articles proposed by Xinhua, most of which are aimed at the United States, especially the land of Mexico, ceding Alaska and California, establishing the Florida Black Autonomous Region, allowing other parties to participate in politics, and establishing a North-South no-South flight zone! It's simply deadly. If we really sign and surrender according to this agreement, it is estimated that the United States will not be able to recover in a hundred years, and the bipartisan political pattern in China will also be completely broken!

Chinese people have a saying that a monk should carry water to drink, two monks should carry water to drink, and three monks! Therefore, at present, the United States is eager to find a way to force Xinhua to make concessions, at least not to cede too much land.

Lansing quietly took a breath and suppressed the anxiety in his heart. He suddenly glanced at Prince Heinrich, who was sitting next to him. He took out a list from his pocket: "Mr. Strau, this is the latest list of my national political axe."

"List? What list?"

"It's something that the despicable Chinese moved away!" Lansing gritted his teeth and hated the [***] team that was still sweeping like locusts in the United States. He said, "I don't think you know the meaning of this, so let me tell you that they have moved 27,000 ships, most of which are machinery and complete sets of equipment, including China's famous love. Dickson General Electric, Telephone and Telegraph Company, etc. have been emptied! About 23,000 senior technical and technological personnel were also taken away under the promised favorable conditions!

This list contains about 70% of China's industrial facilities! You can't even see a rivet on the East Coast now!

You may not know what this means, so I can clearly tell you that even if the Chinese no longer remove a wire from now on, the things they took away before will only need a year of integration, and then their domestic manufacturing scale is more than the pre-war France and Britain combined! It's 2.7 times more than your country!

Yes, you may say that they don't have enough skilled workers to start all the machines. I won't deny this, but don't forget, even Li Mo himself won't deny that the total number of skilled technicians they had before the war was less than 40% of that of your country!

I don't say this to instigate anything. I just want to tell you that Li Mo has created a strong sea and air force with only 40% of Germany's skilled technicians. If he is given a few more years, what can he do?

Every word pricked Heinrich's ear like a needle. This problem is actually the most helpless thing in Germany at present, because Li Mo's big relocation is simply a robbery, packing back more than 60% of the pre-war American industrial equipment in the simplest way.

Although Lansing is right, Li Mo has fewer skilled workers with so many equipment, but what about a few years later? As an ally, Germany has already learned about Xinhua's three-level technical worker training system from various channels. Even in Europe, the system is advanced, so it can use only 40% of Germany's workers to create a force that countries can't match the sea and air force at present.

Although Germany will not think that Germany will lose to Xinhua in terms of basic manufacturing capacity, the reason why it has not been as efficient as the other party in the past four years is that the wrong policy at the beginning of the war led to millions of workers being pushed to the battlefield, and the shortage of raw materials seems to be insufficient. Fortunately, most of the workers were sent back to the factory later. It continuously produced all kinds of equipment and finally blocked the huge number of Allied forces on the Western Front.

It can go abroad and get a huge colony. Germany is confident that it will keep pace with Xinhua in this field, but Germany's biggest problem is the lack of external purchasing power! There is a lack of a huge population and market similar to the current Xinhua control area!

This is likely to lead to an embarrassing situation that can be created but cannot be sold. It is also why Germany is so worried that the value of Xinhua's reckless relocation is actually far lower than the compensation and colonial American factory facilities.

Before, the technology in Li Mo's hands has been shocking. The whole world is wondering why the countries that belonged to the science and technology desert more than 20 years ago have suddenly emerged, but I didn't expect that this question has not been answered. Now they have taken away 23,000 senior technicians and scientists from all walks of life from the United States, plus At the beginning of the war, the talents they took away from Eastern Europe, Austria-Hungary, Russia, etc., and it is preliminarily estimated that Li Mo also had more than 50,000 senior technicians!

This will continue to increase Xinhua's leading pace in science and technology.

But can we still stop it now?

Prince Heinrich, who had never spoken, stood up in Lansing's expectation and asked, "Your Excellency Lansing, we just want to know what kind of compensation the American political axe wants to make. Of course, if I can't even be moved by this price, then please forgive us for nothing we can do!"

Germany's showdown makes Lansing happy and worried. Germany's appetite is no less than that of Xinhua, but it can't be satisfied for various reasons. So what kind of conditions can make Germany eye-catching and willing to lobby Xinhua?

Just as he was worried about how to bargain for 28 items, a crisp sound of footsteps came from the outside. He turned his head to see the German official who had just led the way hurried in. Lansing's heart suddenly shrank for some reason.

When Straau and Lansing received a telegram from the official, they had been paying attention to them. Lansing found that their faces sank almost at the same time, and there was even a sense of anxiety and uneasiness in their eyes! Although he doesn't know what happened, it is obviously not easy to make Germany feel tricky at this moment.

Lansing decisively chose to leave first, and took the opportunity to negotiate the compensation conditions with the country and inquire about what had happened. But when he returned to the station, a confidential telegram, which was also urgent, made him start to have a headache.

It was not until Lansing's memoir that people knew that when Germany and the United States received emergency telegrams from China almost at the same time, Britain, France, Italy, West and other countries also received domestic telegrams within a few days, and even Xinhua was not spared.

No one expected that the whole world was looking forward to the signing of the Istanbul Agreement as soon as possible. When the war was really over, a great plague of the century hit fiercely! ......

(to be continued)