When a butterfly instigates its wings, it affects not only your enemies, but also your allies, the international situation is ever-changing, and the two sides may be allies today, and tomorrow, the two sides may become potential enemies, such as the United States and the Soviet Union in World War II. In this plane that has crossed over, Xu Jie's appearance not only brought a better future to Huaxia, but at the same time, the international situation has also undergone some changes, which Xu Jie did not expect!

The British actually agreed with the French in advance on the issue of colonies and the division of interests! Historically, this should have started around 1904, and now it's only April 1901! When Xu Jie heard the news, he subconsciously felt a little bad-! It takes a lot of courage and determination for Britain and France, who have fought for global hegemony since the time of the Sun King Louis XIV, to put aside their old suspicions and sit together to deal with a common threat! This meant that the two sides could tolerate many aspects of the other, such as the French recognizing the British supremacy at sea. The British, on the other hand, had to tolerate France's unpopular ally, Russia!

Historically...... The immediate cause of the alliance between Britain and France was the growing power of Germany and its younger brother Austria-Hungary. The old feud between France and Germany had reached the point where it had to be settled by a war, and the conflict between Britain and Germany was not only due to the growing naval strength of the German Empire, but to the fact that this emerging empire was putting pressure on the British Empire on all fronts! …。

In terms of national strength, Germany's gross industrial production has long surpassed that of Britain, only behind the United States in the world's second, from 1873 to 1913 for 40 years, the Germans maintained an average annual industrial growth rate of 2, while the British at that time was only 2% per year, and the French were even lower, only 1! By 1913, Germany's GDP had reached 1, ranking second in the world, while Britain was 1 cowardly French.

And if we look at it from the industrial sector, Germany's advantages are even more obvious. In 19NO, the Germans were already far more productive than the British in steel and pig iron. In terms of steel, the Germans were 13 NO tons, while the British had only a pitiful 7.6 million tons. In terms of pig iron, the Germans were 14.8 million tons, while the British were 10.2 million tons! By 1913, Germany's steel production surpassed that of Britain and France combined, and in this year the Germans produced 19.33 million tons of pig iron and 19.3 million tons of steel! Such a powerful production capacity can only be matched by the United States!

This is just a contest between primary industrial goods, let's take a look at Germany's capabilities in the three emerging industries of machining and chemicals, electrical appliances and optics. In 1907, German industrial manufacturing had reached an unrivalled level in Europe! If you have to express it in numbers, then German industry can be described as 1.12 million machine tools! In the chemical industry, in 1907 there were 270,000 employees in the German chemical industry, and more than 90% of the world's dyes were produced in Germany! The total number of employees of Siemens Electric also reached 1.42 million in this year, and more than 50% of the world's electronic products came from Siemens! And in terms of optics. 1. Before the war, German optical products were unique in the world. "madewnGerman is all over the world, and it is a guarantee of quality! …。

If a country's industry becomes strong, then the demand for raw materials and the desire for overseas markets will be extremely inflated, for the simple reason that so many industrial products are simply not digestible by themselves! In order not to keep the product backlogged, in order to earn more money, the only thing the Germans can do is even export, export, re-export! At the same time, as a resource-poor country, Germany has to import a large number of primary products and raw materials from abroad! To this end, the Germans formed the second merchant fleet in the world, and the total imports of the Germans in 1qU3 with the support of a strong domestic industrial and merchant fleet amounted to 10 marks. And the total export volume reached 1,009.7 billion marks! Germany accounted for 1 of the world's trade volume that year, second only to Britain's 158. Compete with the British for raw material origin and product market, the British can endure it! …。

In the eyes of the British, the proximity of a country that had already suppressed the British Empire in all respects was already quite uneasy for the British. To a certain extent, Germany at this time had given the British the impulse and reason to do so

At the beginning of the 20th century, the world completely followed the principle of a law of the jungle, everyone was competing for limited resources, and they did not think about whether they needed to cooperate for a win-win situation, they only thought about how to defeat their opponents and determine their own status, even if the Germans were not so sharp, the British would be jealous, not to mention that several things that Germany did stimulated the fragile nerves of the British! ! …。

The expansion of the German High Seas Fleet and the insistence on building a railroad to Baghdad brought Britain and Germany inevitably into opposition! If the question of national power, market and resources has made Britain and Germany potential adversaries...... Then these two things have made it inevitable for Britain and Germany to do it! You and the British are just grabbing the market and resources, and you have to build a navy that is enough to threaten the British!

This has challenged the bottom line of the British, and the British's double-strength plan is not a joke, it is to be real! The British wanted to position the tonnage ratio of the capital ships of Britain and Germany at 2t1, but the Germans said that it must be 16 to KO, but what if they didn't talk about it? The result of neither side backing down is that everyone builds ships together and plays an arms race!

And the impact of the Baghdad railway is no worse than that of the naval arms race! In Xu Jie's time, people's first reaction when they think of the Middle East is that the Middle East is a good place, oil is everywhere, and you can make money by digging a pit! (During the Cold War, 70Rl to BOR in the Middle East oil fields were self-blowout wells!) In other words, dig a mouthful of oil and it will come out by itself! No pressure at all. Daqing, the largest in China, is a medium-sized oil field in the Middle East! At the beginning of the 20's, although the oil of the Middle East was not as popular as it was in later generations, people knew that there was oil in this place! The British and French have long coveted places like what is now Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and it would take little effort to deal .........with a Turkish empire that had already collapsed.

As a result, just when the British and French were about to slaughter the fat sheep, the Germans said that they could not stand by and decisively joined the feast! The Germans told Turkey that I could help you train the army and help you build a railroad, and this temptation was much greater than that of the British and French. The Turkish government began to tilt towards Germany, which in turn led to the warming of bilateral relations, and the benefits to Germany were also increasing! And this inevitably offends the British.

More importantly. Turkey is located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe, and if the British want to connect with their Southeast Asian colonies in the Far East and their colonies in South Asia, the shortest route must be to cross the Indian Ocean, cross the Red Sea into the Mediterranean Sea and from the Atlantic Ocean to Britain. But if Germany gains a foothold in the Middle East, you may be able to avoid it by going to the Indian Ocean, but if you cross the Red Sea, can you avoid it? Didn't the British bother to fix the Suez Canal in vain? Also around the Horn of Africa! This is unacceptable to the UK!

So, when Germany showed interest in sea power and the Middle East, the British said, "Needless to say, young man, get ready to show your weapons!" And the Germans were also very confident in themselves, and after a few months of defeating France, Wilhelm II said that within one year the German soldiers would be able to return home! Even before the war, they said that they were ready for war, and the sooner they went to war, the better it would be for them, and when both sides were ready for war, then war was inevitable! …………。

On the one hand, in the eyes of the British, as long as the Russians' access to the Far East could be locked up and not pose a threat to their sea power and colonies, Vladivostok had become the territory of the Chinese Republic, and the Russians did not even have a port in the Far East, let alone compete in the Pacific Ocean. So from this point of view, the purpose of the British has almost been achieved...... If Russia loses again this time, the goal will be completely achieved!

As for the second reason, the contradictions between the Russians and the Germans are actually irreconcilable. On the one hand, it was because of Germany's own fear and distrust of Russia, before the Franco-Prussian War, the Russians gave Europe the impression that it was a backward but powerful country, and that European steamrollers were not called in vain! This, combined with an alliance with France, made the Germans themselves feel insecure.

On the other hand, there is the Pan-Slavism that Russia is pursuing at this stage! This is not just a blockade for Austria-Hungary that wants to occupy the Balkans. It caused a lot of trouble for the Germans. At that time, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia had done one thing, that is, the three countries divided Poland, but the Poles were actually Slavs, when the Russians sacrificed the banner of their pan-Slavic ideas. It had a certain influence on the Poles under German occupation, and the Russians' coveting of the Balkan territories made Germany have to terminate the Three Emperors Alliance after thinking twice, and then firmly stand on the side of Austria-Hungary ..........

And after Europe is gradually divided into two hostile alliances, its impact is not only in Europe, but also gradually expands to the world, and the result of hostility to the Chinese Republic is not what Xu Jie wants to see!

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