Chapter 283 The Outbreak of World War I
Because the domestic political environment is very stable, Hu Chuyuan's visit to Persia is relatively long, and he has a lot of contact with the young King Ahmed.
At the beginning, Prince Ahmed would be elected king instead of his brother, Prince Mohammed Ali Shah. A very important factor is that Prince Ahmed is more Chinese. Many of the consultants around him were personally selected by Hu Chuyuan, and their abilities are also very good enough to help him complete his control of the country.
In this contact, Hu Chuyuan also made a mess with King Ahmed.
Fukang consortium is a long-term investment industrial consortium. Under the condition that Persia's own bourgeoisie is relatively mature and the capital market is relatively developed, Fukang consortium will gradually cash out and leave. Sooner or later, Persia will still have its own central bank.
After the state visit to Persia, Hu Chuyuan's second stop chose to go to the Armenian autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
The establishment of this autonomous state is almost entirely thanks to Hu Chuyuan.
It was Hu Chuyuan's personal strong insistence that the Ottoman Empire finally had to let the Armenians establish its own autonomous state. From the beginning of the founding of the country, Hu Chuyuan has continuously supported the central government to stabilize the construction of the Armenians' own modern army.
The key for him to do this is to deal with Russia.
He believes that only by fighting for themselves will the Armenians become the first iron gate to resist the Russian invasion.
In the past three years, China has sent more than 100 military advisers to Armenia to assist the Armenians in preparing for the construction of the army and militia. A large number of firearms and ammunition came from the Jiangnan II rifles that have been continuously reduced after the rotation of the Chinese Ministry of War.
At the critical moment, China can form more than 300,000 troops in Armenia.
Since then, Hu Chuyuan has successively visited the Ottoman Empire and its Macedonian Autonomous State and the Albanian Autonomous State. In the Albanian Autonomous State, Hu Chuyuan has stayed for a long time. According to the geological exploration information provided by the National Intelligence Agency, it has very high chromite and oil resources, and also has good Copper resources and other resources are relatively scarce.
In fact, in the world, China mainly exports not capital and technology, but joint ventures.
This agricultural business model, created by Hu Chuyuan and Hu Dazong, is easy to quickly improve the development level of the agricultural economy in relatively backward areas. Although the mountainous and hilly areas occupy 3/4 of the country's area, Albania still has a good space for agricultural development.
In particular, it is particularly similar to Shandong Province.
Considering that the geographical location of the Albanian autonomous state is relatively unique, and the Ottoman Empire has no ability to stabilize the Albanian autonomous state, at the instigation of Germany and Russia, the Slavs led by Seville are organizing a new Balkan alliance to try to seize and divide the Macedonia from the Ottoman Empire. Don area.
The war has already reached the imminent stage, in order to avoid unnecessary impact on the Albanian autonomous state, and also to prepare for the later naval entry into the Mediterranean Sea.
After consultation with the Ottoman Empire, Hu Chuyuan reached an agreement with the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul to officially replace the Ottoman Empire as the only protectorate of the autonomous state of Albania.
In Albania, Hu Chuyuan and King Guyoum Duoy of the Autonomous State reached a new Sino-Arab Protection and Trade Agreement, spending 120 million pounds of long-term aid to Albania, and stationed a division in the port of Duras to protect Albania from Foreign aggression.
As part of the agreement, Wells Fargo became the only legal banknote issuing right of the Kingdom of Albania, fulfilling the functions of the Central Bank, and Wells Fargo undertook 1 billion CMB Albanian treasury bonds for agricultural development and infrastructure construction.
At the end of July, Hu Chuyuan left the Balkans and officially returned to China on the Fifth Fleet, which visited the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Bulgaria at the same time.
In the previous few years, the Chinese navy completed a new adjustment. Except for the original Beiyang, Nanyang and Pacific fleets, the rest of the fleets no longer have an exact garrison area. The fifth and sixth new fleets were unified. The fourth number was cancelled within the navy due to the homophonic problem.
At present, the Fifth Fleet is mainly stationed in Kuwait and Djibouti, responsible for naval operations throughout the Indian Ocean region, and the Sixth Fleet is located in the Congo region and is responsible for naval defense in the South Atlantic region.
The scale of the Fifth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet is very large, with an average displacement of more than 150,000 tons, and the three major fleets in the headquarters are about 200,000 tons.
If necessary, it will be reorganized in wartime. According to the temporary addendum of the defense zone of each fleet, it will be a new joint fleet, such as the Beiyang United Fleet and the Pacific United Fleet. If it breaks out in the non-traditional sea power zone, it is collectively referred to as the Central United Fleet.
The Fifth Fleet appears almost in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea with its main lineup. Its flagships are two of the latest Yizhou-class battleships in service. In addition, there are two dreadnought-class battleships, two Yongzhou-class battleships and four Weiyuan-class battlecruisers.
This powerful lineup is to deter the so-called Balkan Alliance... League your mother's League, no matter how League you are, you can be killed!
Now is a crazy era.
Germany and Russia were shocked by China's move to set foot in Europe, especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The three countries successively increased new military budgets and began to increase the speed of ship building on a larger scale. Austria-Hungary even put forward a plan for four post-dreadnought-class battleships.
In March 1911, in response, Hu Chuyuan broke the conventional naming plan and formulated a new 30,000-ton King Kong-class battleship construction plan, and built four ships at a time, all of which were put into the Fifth Fleet.
The designed displacement is 30,000 tons, and the full load displacement will reach about 33,450 tons. The caliber of the main gun is 380mm, and the maximum speed is 24.5 knots.
This data is basically the same as the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship being planned by the United Kingdom. For the sake of traditional cooperation and the necessary surname that must be strengthened, after Hu Chuyuan's plan was determined, the Sino-British Admiralty began urgent consultations.
In the end, the naval departments of the two countries reached a common secret plan to develop a 380mm caliber main gun, which was declared to be a 14.5-inch caliber main gun.
The two countries continue to have close exchanges on key technologies such as steam turbine technology, central fire control technology, and radio communication at the same time to ensure that the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships and King Kong-class battleships can get rid of Germany and Italy at the same time.
In order to meet the needs of the Ottoman Empire for a new generation of battleships, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries, the domestic military industry has been fully armed, and four King Kong-class battleships will be built at the same time.
In May, there was an uprising against Sudan in Morocco. France, as the guardian state of Morocco, quickly sent troops to try to occupy Morocco.
Germany also sent a navy and army to attack from Mauritaria. The two countries once again had a military conflict and began to confront each other again in continental Europe. At this time, the Anglo-German contradiction and the trend of naval hegemony have been very fierce. Britain almost unconditionally supported France, and France has long expected to maliciously take advantage of this situation.
The Moroccan incident is not over yet. At the instigation of Russia, the Balkan League began to take the initiative to attack the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was forced to fight back, and the two sides fought in the Macedonian region.
The Ottoman Empire has not developed significantly economically, but militarily, it has carried out new rectifications with the help of China, and secretly has a mechanized force of two divisions.
In July 1912, the Balkan League was hit hard.
In mid-August, under the order of Hu Chuyuan, on the grounds of protecting the interests of the Ottoman Empire, the main force of the Fifth Fleet of the Chinese Navy was stationed in Istanbul, accompanied by two marine divisions to assist the Ottoman Empire in defending the Strait.
In October 1912, the Ottoman army, under the previous attack of two fully mechanized divisions, fully advanced to Thessaloniki, Greece, and fully occupied the Greek Macedonian and Thrace.
In November 1912, Greece unilaterally declared defeat and made peace with the Ottoman Empire.
In December 1912, the Ottoman army invaded Bulgaria, completely occupied the former Thrace region, and further approached Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
In April 1913, under the oppression of China and Britain, the Balkan Alliance disintegrated, and Bulgaria admitted defeat. The Macedonian region owned by Greece and Bulgaria was divided into the Macedonian Autonomous State. Some islands in eastern Greece, including the South Sporades, Chios, Lesvos and Serey. The islands were divided into the Ottoman Empire.
Thessaloniki and the Mesta River basins were merged into the Macedonian Autonomous State, so that the territory of the Macedonian Autonomous State was basically maintained to the level before it was captured by the Ottoman Empire, and further separated Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
Relying on Albania and the Macedonian Autonomous State, China, Britain and the Ottoman Empire also separated Greece from the Balkans.
The Berdgretsa region of Seville was ceded to the Albanian Autonomous State, causing Seville to completely lose its export sea, and the Ferañé region was ceded to the Macedonian Autonomous State respectively.
The world situation further deteriorated. Due to the defeat of the Balkan League, the Ottoman Empire also received a large amount of war compensation from the Balkan League. The whole Balkan situation began to be significantly biased towards the Ottoman Empire, while Russia and Austria-Hungary intensified their sending troops to the Balkans.
Under the circumstances that the situation has reached a level that cannot be eased at all, the three countries of China, Britain and France and the Ottoman Empire officially formed an alliance in March 1914, concluding four [***] agreements, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy concluded alliances, and Bulgaria, Seville and Greece, which were defeated in the Balkan War, were included in the Allies. Weaving.
As a confrontation, the Allies included the Kingdom of Persia into the organization and agreed that the Azerbaijani people would establish a reading autonomous state in the Caucasus.
On July 11, 1914, Seville suddenly attacked the Feranje region and the Macedonian Autonomous State in an attempt to recover the lost territory.
The Autonomous State of Macedonia and the Ottoman Empire sent troops back.
On July 14, the Ottoman Empire and Seville officially declared war.
The First World War has since begun.
There is no right or wrong in war, only endless benefits.
As the world's largest established empire and colonial country, the so-called G4 organization, China, Britain, France and Austria, are bound to be challenged by Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy and other countries.
On July 15, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian army officially rushed through the Caucasus and launched an attack on the autonomous state of Armenia.
On July 17, China, Britain and France declared war on Russia in an all-round way, and Germany, Italy, Austria and other countries were forced to declare war on the Allied countries.
On July 17, 1914, the First World War officially broke out.
(to be continued)