While Tohoku was intervening behind the scenes for the domestic situation, the situation in the world had also changed dramatically.

In World War I, the limelight of the United States' entry into the war is becoming more and more obvious, and the US Congress has already opened hearings on this, and it is very likely that the United States will declare war on Germany in the near future. This was a good thing for the Entente countries such as Britain and France, but it was a great bad thing for the Central powers such as Germany. After several years of war, the industrial base of the West was severely damaged, and the original industrial center became a ruin. On the contrary, the United States, which was not threatened by war, developed extremely rapidly with its loose political system and the huge market of the world war, and the goods made in the United States were already flooded with Western Allies and Entente powers.

If the United States is completely like an Entente power, if nothing else, it will be difficult for Germany and other Allied powers to purchase those advanced military supplies from the United States. Coupled with the collapse of the internal system of the ally Austria-Hungary, millions of troops died on the battlefield, so that the Austro-Hungarian royal family was about to lose control of the country, if it were not for Germany behind the suppression, I am afraid that the Austro-Hungarian Empire would have collapsed long ago. Under these circumstances, Germany urgently needed a new supplier of military supplies to restore Germany's decline. And looking around the world, it turns out that most of the industrial countries are allies of the British. It was extremely difficult for Germany to find one that had nothing to do with Britain.

At this time, the German ambassador to the Far East brought good news, and the rise of China made the Kaiser see an opportunity. Although China's national strength is weak, its large population, vast territory, and abundant resources may not be able to become another source of military supplies for the German Empire.

It's just that the strict Germans really don't look down on the Type 16 rifles produced in China. Although the Type 16 rifle is inferior to the rì 38 in terms of shè and jīng degrees, its Z92 mm caliber results in much greater lethality than the rì 38 rifle. Moreover, the Chinese Type 16 rifle is also compatible with German rifles in terms of ammunition caliber. For Germany, the Type 16 rifle is really not good, which also reflects the weakness of the military industrial capacity in Northeast China. The fact that the Northeast was able to defeat Rìben shows that their troops are still very strong in combat effectiveness. Therefore, the German ambassador wanted to try to get China to join the Allies. Then in the Far East, the two thorny countries of Russia were contained.

Unfortunately, Feng Yong, who knows history, knows that Germany will eventually fail. His butterfly effect changed things in the world...... But at most, it can be regarded as changing the small trend of history, and under the habit of history, the general trend is still difficult to change. After all, the balance of power between the Central Powers and the Entente has been formed, and the Allies have no chance of turning the tables. Even if China joins the Allies...... It's just that there will be more defeated countries. Therefore, in any case, Feng Yong will not join the Allied Powers. Although he will not join the Allies, this cannot prevent Feng Yong from paying attention to the Germans, German technology is the world's best, especially in the war, German technology is updated very quickly, if it weren't for the fact that Britain has brought too many allies...... Punch the master to death...... I am afraid that Germany has now become the king in Europe.

The German ambassador after the establishment of Běi Jīngzhèng Fǔ...... Feng Delin and Li Jun have met with him, but unfortunately the general direction of Běi Jīngzhèng Fǔ's policy towards Germany has already been set, and it is difficult to change it no matter how much the German ambassador lobbied. After a long period of negotiations without results, Germany also extinguished the idea of enlisting China as a military ally. Now Germany is facing increasingly tense situations, while China has given up on unifying the whole country and settled down...... Concentrate on regaining strength. So the German emperor began to consider the possibility of trading with China. After all, although Germany is now at a disadvantage on the battlefield, it is not surrounded by Britain and France. Moreover, the Entente advantage was fully established only after the United States entered the war, and now it has only a slight advantage.

Popular in later generations - a sentence...... If you are not afraid of a god-like opponent, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate. Germany are awesome, but he is so poor at choosing his teammates. Italy, not long after the stroke, defected. The tense internal relations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were tense, and the trend could be said to be difficult to protect itself. Turkey, itself just emerging from turmoil and political instability, has limited support for Germany.

As for the olive branch extended by Germany, the Northeast of course firmly grasps it. Northeast zhèng fǔ began to negotiate with the German ambassador, Germany contributed technology, and China contributed money and manpower to build a military industry in China. Of course, these are secret treaties. After all, the German-side has limited power at sea and has poor escort capabilities. If they do business with China for military supplies with great fanfare, they cannot guarantee that China's supplies will be safely transported to Germany.

At a time when Germany was providing technical support to the Northeast for the supply of supplies, the situation in Russia was becoming more and more difficult. The struggle between the tsar's courtiers and the serf nobles in the country had reached its final stage, and the two sides had changed from the struggle for power to the rule of the army, and the tsar's rule became more and more turbulent, and more and more ordinary people were displaced. The country's finances are extremely tight, factories are shut down, and the market is on the verge of being paralyzed. In this state of peace, instead of stopping the war, the Tsar Zhèng Fǔ intensified his efforts and constantly strengthened the forces at the front. This, together with the policy of silent militarism, has intensified Russia's internal contradictions, and major turmoil may break out at any time......

The war with the Northeast did affect his reputation, but the status of a great power has been established, not to mention that the country is an island country like the United Kingdom, for an island country. No matter how important the army is, the Combined Fleet has never been defeated since its inception. Therefore, the Western countries did not despise this because of this war. Orders from the Entente are still coming to the entente. After all, there is always a price to be paid for sending a fleet to escort the ship, and this and the order for military supplies is a good choice. This greatly restored the economy of rìben.

The Prime Minister's Office.

The temple is not very good-looking. Since the armistice with the Northeast, he, as a military prime minister, is not very in line with the interests of the Great Rì Empire. After all, the economic power was directly taken into the hands of the emperor, so that the prime minister had much less influence in other aspects, after all, the military had a military department outside of the zhèng fǔ, and the prime minister had no decision-making power, and it was difficult for him to interfere in economic construction because of the limited solution. When he became prime minister, he was not as free as he was when he was the governor of North Korea.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, we have just received a document from the Ministry of War, and the people of the Special High Division have successfully contacted the Beiyang Governor's Mansion in China. Beiyang Feng Guojian has agreed to accept the emperor's aid, and at the same time hire the emperor's ** people as instructors to train the new army. The attendant handed him the document in his hand.

"What do you mean?" Masaki said in a deep voice.

"Your Excellency Wu Shuai hopes that Your Excellency the Prime Minister will be able to handle this matter personally. Wushuai believes that the turmoil in the southern part of China has a lot to do with the běi jīngzhèng fǔ of China, and there must be a yīn conspiracy among them. His Excellency Wushuai hopes that His Excellency the Prime Minister can stir up the situation in China and disrupt the yīn plot of the China Běi jīngzhèng fǔ. ”

"Yo Xi!" The temple is Zhengyi's brows furrowed, and his mood became cheerful. In addition to his own military ability, his militaristic ideology inherited from Yama Prefecture Aritomo is naturally the reason why Yamaguchi Aritomo values him, after all, he hopes that his successor can smoothly implement his policies and let the army continue according to the blueprint he formulated. Because of the war with the Northeast, Rì Ben lost nearly 200,000 troops, of which almost half were the most sharp troops. After the end of the war, although the Northeast also asked the rì side to redeem the captured soldiers, it was not that simple.

The Northeast has a very high price for those soldiers, and only one point at a time, which makes Rì Ben very angry but helpless. After all, it is not in the interests of the imperial empire to go to war with běi jīngzhèng fǔ again for the sake of prisoners of war. Moreover, the policy of prisoner redemption in the Northeast is higher than that of their retraining of recruits, and in this situation, the idea of redeeming soldiers is weakening. But those officers will not give up, and there are already a number of officers who have been ransomed and bought back to China. China has not thought about how long to imprison those officers, these officers are destined to be difficult for China to use, and what remains is only some ordinary labor, which can be sold for a large sum of money, which can employ a lot of labor, and this transaction will of course be counted in the Northeast. What's more, the military service system is complete, there are many military schools, and it is quite easy to replenish officers. This invisibly reduces the value of the officers here.

Now that China is struggling to develop its basic economy, the demand for labor has increased dramatically, the war in the south has caused a large number of people to flow to the north, and the běi jīngzhèng fǔ is operating in secret, and more and more people are choosing to go north to escape the war.

Beiyang Feng Guoji reacted quickly, and he ordered that the population should not be moved to the jurisdiction of Běi Jīng, after all, the loss of population is equal to the loss of power.

With the support of Rì himself, the Beiyang direct line was much more emboldened, and originally just wanted to eliminate Zhao Qi and Zhang Xun, and the idea of suppressing Xu Shuzheng and Yan Xishan also became a time to solve all the warlords in Beiyang. After all, only by unifying the entire Beiyang will the direct power really swell to the point where it can confront the Northeast. Moreover, the elimination of internal hidden dangers can make Beiyang's strength more concentrated and used. As the saying goes, Mr. Bi is like this inside.

Zhao Tong's Yu army plus Yang Aiyuan's Jin army, with a total strength of nearly 50,000 troops, and occupied the power of the terrain, but they were still beaten by Wu Pei and had no power to fight back. Zhang Xun's situation is worse than Zhao Qi's, almost the entire southern Anhui has changed hands, and Beiyang Zhang Xiaozhun has once again come to Hefei City. Unlike last time, last time it was a straight line attack, with a clear goal, and he wanted to capture the thief and capture the king first, but this time he swept most of Anhui and came to the city again. With Beiyang as logistics, Zhang Xiaozhun has no pressure, just thinking about the war, and the natural effect is extraordinary.

Although Zhang Xun got in touch with arms smugglers in Northeast China. But after all, it is in the name of smuggling, and the speed is naturally not fast. In addition, in this era, the road is much slower than the sea. After all, the railway is not developed in the first place, and the Anhui and Shandong railways have been cut off. This made the military supplies that Zhang Xun was looking forward to delayed, and he naturally lacked the courage to fight on the battlefield.

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