Chapter 1324: Declaration of War and Protest

The Germans know this about the closed-door meetings of the high-level leaders of the Entente countries, and the Chinese also know that so many high-level meetings gathered together to hold closed-door meetings cannot be concealed, and even in some newspapers, there are reports, which can be easily known, but if you know it, the next news will not work.

The difference in ethnicity makes China's intelligence collection work at a disadvantage in the West, so that China's intelligence is more on the big picture, on the trend, and on the top of the hierarchy is very little, and the yellow race is different from the white race, although there are some ethnic minorities in China, which are very similar to Westerners, but the time for China's rise is too short, even if you find out some training, it is only slowly accumulating strength, not finding information.

The establishment of an intelligence system does not happen overnight, even if it is the employment of people, you are a stranger to the outsider, you have to take a long time, and all kinds of preparations, not even in a hurry, a little out of line, by the other party suspicion, that can mean a few years, or even more than ten years of efforts to fail.

On the issue of intelligence, Germany is a little better, the high-level information still knows some, the arrangement of decades is not a joke, no matter what the method, it can always enter a certain area, but no matter how much it stretches out its tentacles, and even understands most of the actions of the other side, but if this intelligence rises to the high-level meeting of the Entente, it will not work.

The people who were able to attend the meeting were the most powerful figures in the countries, and there could be no traitors among them, and there would be no news that the 1914 high-level meeting was leaked, not because of these high-level people, but because of the mobilization of troops and other channels. If it weren't for the quick reaction of China and Germany, they would have almost suffered a big loss.

This time. The Entente set their sights on finance and prepared to hack China's wealth. In the middle, there is very little use of lower-level forces, a country's financial control, can easily solve the problem, a foreign exchange ban, you can make foreign exchange can not leave, leaving a fixed wealth, and mobilizing a part of the domestic troops, which is very important in the context of war. Simply inconspicuous, China did not realize that the Entente was ready to reach out to them.

When it came to money, just in case, the Entente made all the preparations as quickly as possible and began to implement it, first of all, in the United States, before Christmas 1915. In the name of an alliance with Russia, he declared war on China and immediately froze all Chinese property in the United States, as if it had been agreed. Two hours after the United States made such a move, the United Kingdom made the same decision, three hours later. It's France, as for Russia. He had already declared war on China, and China did not have much property with him. As for the Chinese, the Russian environment, the chaotic society, there will be no Chinese who are interested in coming to Russia, and even if there are, they have been cleaned up in a few years of war.

These moves, the intelligence department in the end barely discovered, but with the trade between countries can not be stopped, can be stopped, Chinese products dumped into the world, most of the products, the use of foreign trade situation, but a small number of products are not allowed to be directly sold, this is very valuable, higher profit products, these products plus funds, a brain to the United States, the loss of these products, absolutely let China pain, This includes $1 billion worth of various pharmaceuticals and $2 billion worth of stockings and other products.

During the war, if the Americans want insurance, they will stop the exchange with foreign countries for a few days, and they will not be able to make many big waves, as for things and people, it will be even more impossible to run, and the people who come to the United States to do business are ordinary people, not intelligence officers and special forces, even if they are, it is impossible to resist, in the other party's country, and the enemy of the other party, is not a sacrifice in vain.

The Americans are seeking money, and when they finally find out, the Chinese intelligence department can only urgently notify some departments, such as special departments, to evade, and the rest will not take care of so much, only let them do what the Americans tell them, and leave the rest to the country to negotiate.

The sudden declaration of war has made China scratch its head, why did it declare war without any warning, and China did not do anything to make the United States and Britain angry and resentful, if it was Russia's matter, if it was to declare war, it would have declared war a long time ago, and the war had been fought for almost two years, and Russia was almost cruel before declaring war.

Because of the involvement of China itself, some news is easy to come back, China found that after the declaration of war, the United States, Britain, France and other countries almost with lightning speed, sealed all the companies and sales outlets in various countries, sealed the products from China, especially the United States, the territory is quite huge, and the National Guard is quite ineffective, but even so, more than 380 directly operated stores throughout the United States, as well as some trading companies and representative offices, were almost cleaned up in two days, everything was taken by the Americans, without exception.

Among them, it involves 15 fields such as medicines, chemical fiber supplies, stockings, fashion, etc., if you count the representative office and the head office, etc., the loss is even greater, so fast, so clear, China can not know what the United States wants to do, for money, it is really the United States, it is really the world of businessmen, such an unscrupulous approach, only the United States has made.

In fact, even if the United States does not do it, China is also looking for fighters to participate in the war, to be honest, China has supported Germany for almost three years, to be exact, it is supported after the start of the war, the previous transaction, so that Germany has the capital when the war started, this capital directly caused Germany's advantage, and even said that in three years, a series of possible problems in Germany have been eliminated with the help of China.

The First World War in history was fought for 4 years, and in this era, the First World War started early, in 1913, one year earlier than in history, but at the end of 1915, not only did it not show signs of stopping, the bigger the two sides, the more intense and fierce the two sides, Germany's losses have been controlled within a certain range, but on the side of the Entente, because Germany was greatly strengthened, there was no actual follow-up, but huge losses, not to mention the earliest Britain and France to participate in the war, were beaten very badly, Even the United States, which was the last to participate in the war, left millions of troops on the European continent.

At this time, the Entente did not choose to fight against the Allies, but instead focused on China, is this a joke? Are they so confident that they can stand up to China's tyrannical power? Just for that little money.

The Northwest Military Commission, almost all the military commissars at home gathered, including some high-level diplomats, to deal with this matter together, and everyone did not understand, in fact, most people have gone into a misunderstanding, they calculate the price of goods, not according to the sales price, China's production costs are quite low, especially medicines and stockings.

Sulfonamides, his price is one dollar two, because it is a relatively broad-spectrum antibacterial drug, for a variety of diseases have a good curative effect, some special diseases, even the only effective drug, his special efficacy, is destined to his high price, in the life-saving time, let alone 1 dollar, even if it is hundreds of thousands, there are people out. However, the price of sulfonamides, when it was mass-produced in the Northwest, was enough to produce more than 1,000 pills for one dollar, which was the difference, and the cost was almost negligible.

As for stockings, if this thing is made of silk, the price is very high, silk is made to ensure the pricing power of stockings, chemical fiber, nylon, etc., can control the silk very fine, in all aspects of performance, and much stronger than silk, which has caused the best-selling stockings, $2 a socks, $10 a stocking, this is almost every woman's dream, even if you don't have to eat, there are many women, willing to buy a stockings home, capable, and even into a dozen to buy.

These two kinds of things are expensive in the United States, and the domestic cost is only one percent, or even one thousandth, and the United States counts 12 billion, and the cost in China may only be one or two hundred million.

The goods were blocked, after the declaration of war between China and the United States, China no longer has this channel, and the sale of products to the United States is a key point, at most through smuggling channels, so that although the price is more expensive, but the quantity is destined to be small, China has cut off the possibility of obtaining funds from the Entente after the declaration of war.

This is also where China has long known and hesitated, every day of delay, it represents a lot of real money, and they also hope that this time will continue, but this day will come, and now, in the third year of the war, it has finally come.

In fact, at the first time when the United States, Britain and France declared war on China, China also declared war on them, and the two sides were already in a state of war, and this military meeting was not a discussion, why Britain, France and the United States declared war on China, no matter what the reason, it was an irreparable result, and what they need to do now is how to deal with the current war.

China has not made comprehensive preparations for war, to be precise, it has not made the necessary military preparations, and as for the war, there is no need to prepare for it, after the war with Russia, China is actually already in a state of war, and now it is just adding a fire on this basis, as long as it makes a slight adjustment, the domestic field army will be able to complete the war preparations, the general staff only needs to make a good plan, and the general staff will act urgently, and as for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while receiving the order, it has lodged a solemn protest to the Entente countries. (To be continued.) )