On July 28, after the assassination, Austria-Hungary, with the support of Germany, declared war on Serbia under the pretext of the Sarajevo incident.

Then Germany, Russia, France, Britain and other countries entered the war one after another, and World War I broke out.

The warring parties were the German Empire and Austria-Hungary of the Central Powers, and the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria that supported them.

On the other side were the Entente powers of Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire, as well as Serbia, Belgium, Italy, and Japan, which supported them.

Italy, which was originally part of the Central Powers, considered the stakes, and immediately joined the Entente side of the war very cute and smart.

In order to expand its power in East Asia and invade China, Japan declared war on Germany in 1914 under the pretext of the "Anglo-Japanese Alliance" concluded in 1902, and quickly occupied Germany's sphere of influence in Shandong, China.

Smoke rises everywhere, and the world is in chaos.

There was even a fierce quarrel in American politics over whether or not it had officially entered the war.

However, the fat president very forcefully suppressed the signs of this kind of "mother" entering the war, and he thought that the time had not yet come, and he felt that this should have been a great opportunity for the United States to take the opportunity to develop itself.

It was also at this time that the New Rome Group and the Morgan Consortium and the Rockefeller Consortium strongly supported the president's opinion.

Their meaning is very clear, only do business and do not fight! Sell two goods, don't suffer a loss!

It is said that war is the best stage for testing military products.

At present, New Rome is not officially open to the public, except for the top patents such as aircraft carrier technology and helicopters.

New Rome's individual armament, primary tanks, armored vehicles, T-machine guns, warplanes and other weapons began to shine in the war.

Since New Rome was not too close to the Germans, the Germans also believed in the products of their own military enterprises such as Krupp.

Coupled with the "friendship" between Han Huaiyi and the Artillery Empress, in fact, it was mainly Han Huaiyi's "deliberate indifference" to Germany.

Therefore, New Rome abandoned the German market, and their weapons were mainly sold to the Entente side, that is, the Western Front forces with Britain and France as the main body.

For example, some units of the French army on the Western Front were fully equipped with these things.

In battle, New Rome's weapons not only resisted the German attack, but in some ways even superior.

The T-machine gun, for example, caused considerable trouble for the Germans.

Although the T1 tank was relatively weakly armored, its all-terrain design gave good cover to the British and French infantry.

Only in terms of artillery, New Rome did not have anything to offer, because this was Krupp's specialty.

But in addition to these, the most surprising thing for the troops was the food rations for M soldiers.

This portable individual ration has brought considerable convenience to the logistics and front-line soldiers of various countries, and the ZIPPO lighter has also become standard for soldiers.

All of a sudden, orders from Europe poured in, Tom's busy eyes at the New York base turned green, and the industrial system of the entire free trade zone began to be operational.

Funnily enough, at this stage, a telegram from the Artillery Empress actually increased the sales orders for the M factory in New Rome.

As Han Huaiyi judged, today, the military products of the New Rome Group are contributing to both sides of the European war.

And this is indeed a good opportunity for New Rome to break out again, because in just two months of the start of the war, New Rome has made money that it has not been able to make in the past 1 year! According to this data, as long as the war lasted six months, New Rome would be completely free of debts, and if it had lasted for a year, New Rome would have returned half of the money for the development of the Guianaian road system.

But Han Huaiyi was sure that the war would last four years, so he immediately asked for an increase in the size of the system.

All the money I am making so far is to be invested by Lao Tzu! He made a decision on the matter and did not allow any rebuttal.

Once the second dog comes to the barbar, what can others say?

Hurry up and do it!

Otherwise, do you want to die?

Early October of 14 years.

On this day, Ford came to Han Huaiyi in a hurry: "Charlie." ”

His lips were trembling.

Ford, who was busy at the factory during this time, actually had some doubts about Han Huaiyi's firm request to expand the production line.

But now that he was waving a telegram, that suspicion was completely dispelled.

"What's the matter?" Han Huaiyi is busy recruiting geological talents at this time.

Guanaya is a place of only a few tens of thousands of square kilometers, and you have to find out everything before you play and develop games.

Open the cheat and then lay it out again so that you don't take a detour.

Han Huaiyi had a lot of fun, anyway, he had enough time, and the first battle would give him enough funds.

As for the military industry and other messes, he left them to Tom and Ford.

Ford was angry when he saw him like this: "Aren't you happy? ”

"What the hell, Henry, I'm not idle."

Han Huaiyi, whose train of thought was interrupted, and his old friends had nothing to be polite about.

Ford remembered that he hadn't said it yet, and he hurriedly told Han Huaiyi that just today, Britain's newly established Royal Air Force placed a huge order for 1,200 fighters from New Rome.

"It's a shame that you forced us to expand the production line before, just in time for this batch of orders!"

"How much can I earn?"

"Starting at $3,000 for a plane, a total of $3.65 million, the Sun Never Sets Empire is really rich, but they ask for payment in three years. Each batch of 400 aircraft will be delivered, and the first deliveries will be in February next year. Ford said.

And then his sophisticated analysis, the English side is actually not honest.

They estimated the production of New Rome before they put up a saturation order, so that they could prevent the development of other countries' air forces during the war, and the advantage of batching was that they would have the subsequent product ownership once the war stopped.

If they give up, it's a big deal to give some compensation, presumably they are also desperately researching.

Han Huaiyi had to admire Ford's acumen.

Now that there is no one in the room, Han Huaiyi said to Ford: "The ghost idea of the British is indeed good, but they do not have such a mind and prediction. ”

He pointed to his head and told Ford in convincing words: "This war will last about five years, believe me." ”

"Okay." Ford didn't ask why, he was used to it.

"So the British are trying to make our profits in the end. Of course, we can't afford to be so cheap. Talk to them about two points, first of all, half of the funds must be given first, otherwise there is no need to talk. ”

"Good idea."

"Also tell them that if they don't want to, we have buyers, but don't tell them about the scale of production we have now."

Today, Ford's two aircraft factories can produce an average of 220 fighter jets a month.

But don't forget, two more aircraft factories in the FTZ under Charlie's will already be put into production!