For the rest of 1935, Romania spent the rest of its days in a slow expansion.

And in the world, in the civil war in the Far East, Eder's old friends are also moving towards a phased victory. The communist forces were forced to relocate, and their base areas in Jiangxi were nearly occupied. And in this middle battle, the army adapted from the Rhodes Advisory Group played a decisive role.

Therefore, Eder's old friend, who had temporarily relieved his henchmen, was even more urgent to promote the reform of his army. Because the Japanese had become more and more restless in North China, and he urgently needed more weapons and equipment to reorganize more troops, Nanjing proposed to continue the plan of exchanging raw materials for weapons.

As for Nanjing's request, both countries agreed. Among them, the German side needs industrial raw materials and its own foreign exchange is insufficient, and the Romanian side is also to expand exports. Because with the refitting of Romania, a large number of old-fashioned equipment was withdrawn from active service. It costs money to destroy these equipment, and it still takes up space to save them, so it is better to sell them for some raw materials.

Although these equipment in Europe have not kept up with the times, for Nanjing, these very well-maintained equipment is also happy to receive. Because the price is a lot worse than the new equipment, the performance is not much worse. Therefore, for receiving this batch of cheap and high-quality weapons, Nanjing is willing to do so.

So in 1935, Romania transported up to 520 million lei, enough to equip eleven divisions. Of course, in addition to collecting rags from Romania, the German fans who hide it in the marrow are still flaring up, and Germany also exported 110 million Reichsmark weapons in 1935.

Of course, in addition to the Far East, the long-running war in Ethiopia has also come to an end. Italy went through a change of commander and an increase in troops, and finally on April 21, 1935, the main force of the Egyptian army was defeated at Mechu, near Lake Ashanji. On 2 June, Selassie I went into exile in England. On 5 June, Italian forces occupied Addis Ababa. On the 9th, Mussolini announced the annexation of Ethiopian territory to Italy.

Although Italy occupied Ethiopia, the war took a heavy toll on Italy, with nearly 100,000 killed and 43,000 wounded.

Although Ethiopia's mountainous terrain limited the Italian army's playfulness, its huge casualties made all countries praise the Italian army's bravery.

However, the fact that the upper echelons of the army had stiff command, backward tactics, and backward equipment could not be concealed. In particular, the Breda 6.5mm light machine gun and the Manlisia-Carcano rifle are superb.

The Breda 6.5mm light machine gun has a unique sideways magazine, which causes the center of gravity to shift. The mass of the whole gun (excluding the magazine) ---- 10.34kg, which can be described as a big fat man in light machine guns. However, its weight did not bring a higher rate of fire, and the maximum theoretical shooting technique of 500 rounds per minute could not be done at all because of the unreasonable design, which can be said to be able to compete with the Taisho 11 light machine gun (crooked handle) for a while.

As for the Carcano rifle, it doesn't need to be explained too much. In 1890, Salvador Carcano, Italy's chief technician, designed the Carcano M1891 rifle at the Turin Arsenal with reference to the pastry chef's rolling pin. A replacement for the odd 10.4 x47R caliber M1870 Vitri Black Powder Rifle.

The Carcano rifle is 1,285 mm long and has a small caliber of 6.5 mm. The 6.5*52mm rifle cartridge it used was the weakest standard full-power bullet at that time.

The Carcano rifle was fed by a leak clip, which in turn borrowed from the design of the M1888 Commission Clip, with the addition of one round from Italy. (And the previous Vitry's rifle four-shot clamp, Carcano's six-shot missed clip, the Italians won't count 5?) ）

The Carcano rifle uses a unique progressive rifling (the shorter the approach to the muzzle, the faster the bullet speed), and the gun has good accuracy. However, what is surprising is that the Italians have a chaotic management of ammunition, and the gunpowder sources of Carcano bullets are different, so the muzzle velocity of Carcano is from 600 meters to 750 meters per second, and the trajectory is therefore very random... Those who don't fight depend on luck.

Compared with the Japanese Type 38 rifle of the same caliber, the Carcano rifle is completely incomparable. So this is one of the main reasons why the Italian army suffered so many casualties before, and mountain warfare requires high individual quality and weapons.

Of course, Italy can still play backward countries. However, as for facing the great powers, then their combat capabilities are unknown. Although the Italian Army is generally poor, it still has excellent troops. For example, the mountain troops stationed in the mountains of northern Italy facing France are its elite, and its naval strength is still worthy of recognition.

Of course, there are other things going on in the world, but it's not worth paying attention to. However, in 1935, Romania paid more attention to the military promotion of its own country.

Although this year was weakened by the stimulus of additional monetary issuance, driven by the military and shipbuilding industry, Romania's economic growth rate stopped falling and stabilized, once again returning to 7%.

In that year, Romania's GDP reached 82.74 billion lei, occupying the fourth place in Europe and the fifth in the world. Among them, Romania's steel production reached 5.78 million tons, which is already comparable to France. The grain output has also reached the level of 23.84 million tons, which can not only meet domestic demand, but also the scale of its exports.

And under the influence of Eder's ascension to the throne of Bulgaria, the total population of Romania and Bulgaria now reaches more than 43 million people. It ranks fourth in Europe, surpassing France and Italy in one fell swoop, and the gap with the United Kingdom is narrowing.

At the same time, in terms of exports, although affected by the economic recession. However, Romania is still growing by opening up other markets. However, it was not much, with only 4.1% export growth.

In terms of imports, due to the impact of Romania's military expansion, the demand for raw materials, especially rubber, tungsten ore, tung oil, pig bristles and other military raw materials, increased significantly, resulting in a 12.4% increase in Romania's imports in 1935.

Of course, from this point of view, Romania is also moving towards the path of military expansion. However, Romania, which had a better economic environment than Germany, had much easier time expanding its armaments. However, considering the difference between the two countries, this is not easy to compare.

In addition to economic and population growth, the Romanian army also reached a new high in the year, with a total strength of 540,000 officers and men of the navy and air force, making Romania's expansion less difficult.

And 1935 passed. Since 1936, the smoke of gunpowder over Europe has allowed more people to smell it, but they don't know how to choose these visionary people.