The top leaders in the Northwest are qualified to know most of the top secrets in the Northwest, after all, for such a group of people who are working hard for the rise of China, there is nothing to believe. Although the northwest is rooted in China, its external actions have always been continuous, and the small actions of the northwest in South Ocean Borneo have directly long ago Borneo has millions of Chinese immigrants, and even has actually occupied the entire Borneo, gaining a firm foothold, and will go to take Borneo belonging to the Chinese in the future after the northwest fleet is formed.

In addition to Borneo, the support for Germany is also a small move, not only to support a large number of materials and products, but also to support a large number of workers, 2 million workers, can directly replace the same jobs in Germany, with these manpower, for Germany, can be for industry, agriculture, and even the army, mobilize more soldiers. All of this was clear to the top brassiers, and the purpose of supporting Germany was also known, in order to weaken the Entente and lay the foundation for the future rise of China.

Themselves, they also thought that everything was normal, the European war broke out, and there were more and more orders in Baotou, looking at the rising orders, as well as the rich benefits brought by the orders, as long as the European war can last for 3 years, the wealth that the northwest can earn is enough to support the development of the next five years.

It's a pity that everything came to an abrupt end in the spring of 1914, and after the great powers discovered the threat of the Northwest and China, they directly drew their salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and iron-clad facts proved that they did not have enough strength as a backing, and did not go around the world battlefield to show their strength, and the great powers would not take you as a thing, just like the United States in the past, as early as 1894. The U.S. economy has jumped to the first place in the world, but its strength has never been the first, the first in the world at that time was the United Kingdom, even after the weakening of the First World War, the United States also participated in the First World War and won the victory. The United States is still not the dominant country in the world, and it only came to power after World War II.

Traditional powers like the United States are all so difficult, not to mention China, China's extremely weak reputation, China's yellow race, these are all constraints, what is better than the war that is being fought now. Is it a more suitable opportunity?

Seeing that most people have the intention of participating in the war, it is equivalent to saying that China's participation in World War I has become a foregone conclusion, Yang Yuanzhao is relieved, he is still afraid of hindrance, yes, he deliberately controlled before, and even had the opportunity to liberate the whole of China. In order to accumulate a little more for China before World War I. A little more strength.

But now, World War I has broken out, and China has also harvested a large number of orders and capital, and its comprehensive strength has increased several times compared with about 1911. It will definitely encounter the ceiling, this is destined, when you accumulate strength, you can develop yourself with your head stuffy, once the strength reaches a certain level. It must be played, which is also the fundamental reason why the Northwest has made a series of preparations before.

Now, the blow of the great powers is tantamount to adding another fire, without the broader market of the world, and only relying on itself to stimulate domestic demand, China's development speed will certainly not be as predicted in the First Five-Year Plan, and it will even touch the ceiling faster, and it must be transferred to wartime, and even take the initiative to enter the war to obtain rich war dividends.

As early as in the previous plan, the northwest has regarded Southeast Asia and Siberia as the fat meat to the mouth, if China wants to develop, if it wants to get more opportunities, it is essential to expand the living space, Siberia as a region of the alpine zone, the huge territory, contains countless undiscovered precious resources, these can be used as a reserve for China's future development, and Southeast Asia, will provide a broader sea and land resources, especially for China's extremely important arable land.

Huge population, barren land, this is a contradiction, China relies on food reform, with the help of Yuan Longping and a group of experts, produced hybrid rice, but the meager arable land, so that China's grain has always been up and down the red line, the red line of cultivated land, so that the contradiction between land and cultivated land increases, some should be returned to forest, as a climate regulation of the forest, but had to become arable land, which makes northern China, the fragile natural environment, once again has been destroyed, sandstorms, haze, All kinds of natural disasters that should not have occurred in China have appeared in China one after another, which has greatly affected China.

Now, China does not have a population of 1.3 billion in later generations, and the land area it owns is much larger than that of later generations, but Mongolia and Siberia are destined to only be able to serve as reserve land, and the harsh conditions of high latitudes cannot carry a huge population, and more land can be used as greening and forests, and the cultivated land that can be developed is quite scarce, in this case, it is necessary to develop to the south, and the Indochina Peninsula in China's traditional circle of influence, and even the huge, natural resource-rich Southeast Asia, has become the preferred target, China has the ability to meet them and win them.

Since it has been decided to join the war, it will not join at any time, just like the United States, it must be adjusted and mobilized, although the northwest is a little stronger than the United States, and has always maintained a standing army of more than 2 million, but once the war starts, the northwest will need more troops. This takes time, of course, it may be a little compressed for recruits, but no matter how much it is compressed, it is impossible to compress it to half a year, or even three months, at least nine months.

There is also the economy, which has made appropriate adjustments, tilting towards the military industry, but it has not yet been completely tilted, Yang Yuanzhao single-handedly prepared a huge industrial base for the northwest, to a certain extent, once it completely turns to military production, the production capacity that bursts out is very terrifying, but this horror can not break out anytime and anywhere, it takes time to adjust.

The high-level domestic consensus was unified, the Kaiser's envoy could be discussed, the support for Germany could also be increased, and even the request to join the Allies could be accepted, which could only be secret for the time being, and it was necessary to give the Northwest a year like the United States to gradually turn the economy into wartime, and in the meantime, it was possible to fight Japan and Russia on a small scale, but it would not join the camp of the Allies with a clear banner.

When the German envoy arrived, what he finally got was such a reply, to be honest, he was very satisfied, and he did not expect it at all. That's right, Wilhelm II let him shoulder the task, to some extent, Wilhelm II is not sure whether he can convince the northwest this time, the northwest calculation he knows that if he can make money in two aspects, who will only make money on one side, joining the Allies is tantamount to giving the Entente an excuse, justifiably banning the products of the northwest from entering their respective countries.

Wilhelm II's order, more of a bargain, by the way, to deepen the relationship with the Northwest, is considered some kind of trick, in Wilhelm II's view, the Northwest should be possible to join the Allies, provided that the European war situation does not collapse, but whether it is a year or two, he has no way to confirm.

Now, after getting a positive response from the northwest, especially the direct alliance, it will only take 1 year to adjust to participate in the war, but in many aspects, after supporting Germany, the envoy is already very satisfied, and after contacting the German headquarters with a special encrypted channel and radio, this matter was immediately on the desk of Wilhelm II, and was immediately approved.

The reason why the German deputy foreign minister is not a minister is because the minister's goal is too big, you must know that the minister of foreign affairs is basically the focus of attention of other countries, but the deputy minister, Germany has a total of 7 deputy ministers, and the one sent is also the most inconspicuous.

In any case, Germany attaches great importance to this matter, but the northwest, but not as nervous as imagined, one year, just in the original military expansion plan, another level, as for the transformation of the military industry, considering that the first five-year plan is being rolled out, but the part of the production capacity that has been banned abroad has been converted.

Although many factories do not match well, Baotou's military supplies are not only guns, ammunition and artillery, but also include many non-weapon military supplies, which may be more important than weapons in a sense.

A large number of factories, under the order of the northwest, began to switch production, and the northwest is the core government department, in the first five-year plan is being implemented, the first five-year plan is being implemented, the focus and focus to wartime, even, in some cases, part of the resources of the north ocean are also included in the system.

Yuan Shikai has agreed, basically reached a verbal intention, the next to receive Beiyang is only a matter of time, a one-year buffer time, in addition to recruiting soldiers, to ensure that the northwest has about 200 divisions of troops, on the other hand, also in order to unify China, are ready to participate in the war, expand outward, China has not been unified, this is unreasonable.

The Northwest quietly joined the Allied camp, which was a major event in the future and in the history of the world, marking the expansion of the entire First World War.

At present, the First World War was fought more in Europe, and the core was the arrival of the plains of Western Europe, with France, Germany and Russia as the core region, and China's accession represented a real world war, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and even Australia, all of which would be involved in the war, and the flames of war would spread all over the world, and even in the later period, it burned to the Americas.

The First World War, in this time and space, finally lived up to its name, more countries were involved than in history, the war was more cruel, almost all the mainstream powers in the world participated in the war, the number of deaths and the damage caused by the war increased almost geometrically, and even the statistics were still above the World War II in history. (To be continued......)