The British political arena, which has been arguing for a long time, finally had a very consistent reaction when a certain news came.

On January 10, the China-Germany Economic Cooperation Agreement was drafted in Beijing and will be submitted to the emperors and prime ministers of the two countries for formal approval.

In the treaty, the two countries formulated a crucial business principle: that is, Germany provides construction loans and necessary technology to build mines, refining and infiltration facilities, while China guarantees exports to Germany.

This cooperation agreement covers metal materials that are scarce in Germany such as nickel, slight, antimony, copper, tin, and other important agricultural and animal husbandry products, including cotton, raw silk, tobacco, and white sugar. Germany uses gold marks or gold to pay for goods and construction loans, and sells necessary equipment and technical processes for construction to China, while China ensures that a sufficient quantity of goods is provided in Germany at preferential value and ensures transportation.

The main content of the treaty includes four parts: First, the trading framework for bilateral economic cooperation between China and Germany. That is, China and Germany adopt an import and export difference settlement system, that is, the governments of both sides uniformly calculate the import and export trade between the two countries, and directly transfer the trade difference between the two sides every six months. Germany provides 500 million gold marks to China, equivalent to 27 million British list of ten-year interest-free loans for the reconstruction of the Chinese Empire. The trade difference settlement between China and Germany is carried out every six months. If China exceeds the amount, it will directly offset the loan repayment amount. If Germany exceeds the amount, it will increase the loan amount.

Second, China Tank will give priority to opening up mineral projects in the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Annan and Guangxi to Germany. Germany will provide explorers and technical assistance to China for joint exploration, and provide China with relevant equipment, processes and solutions for mining and smelting. Germany has the right to purchase all the products of these mines at a price of 20% lower than the market price in the next 20 years. In addition, in order to facilitate the transportation of ores, Germany will purchase bonds for China's relevant railway and highway construction projects and send technical personnel to assist China in completing transportation engineering survey, design and construction.

In addition, Germany helps China improve metal smelting technology. In the next twenty years, Germany will have the right to purchase one million tons of high-quality ship anthracite from China at a price lower than 150% of the market price every year (Germany does not have high-quality marine anthracite), 20,000 tons of copper ingots, 50,000 tons of raw rubber, 10,000 tons of corrosive alloy, 50,000 tons of tin, 50,000 tons of quinox, 50,000 tons of thimble, 3,000 tons of antimony, 3,000 tons of black crow sand, 1 million tons of crude oil, 200,000 tons of white sugar, 1 million bags of cotton yarn (480 pounds per bag), and 100,000 tons of tea... To ensure compliance, Germany needs to pay preferential prices to

〖China provides high-quality processing machinery and conducts production process guidance. If the supply in the first year is insufficient, it should be supplemented in the future: Third, China will build joint ventures, build refineries, smelting heavy oil, diesel, gasoline and other by-products in various chemical companies under the German and French consortium. Germany will carry out technical cooperation with China in urban electrification construction, power generation and transmission, fertilizers, manufacturing, metallurgical processing, railway and highway construction, agricultural machinery, etc.: Fourth, China and Germany will encourage private trade activities and strengthen exchanges in personnel, funds and technology.

In response to such cooperation, the two governments will work together to coordinate. The first Chinese business procurement team to Germany will be held in early February, and the large-scale business inspection team to China will also set off at the same time, and will carry a large number of samples and materials with them.

The "China-Germany Economic Cooperation Agreement" was released and attracted worldwide attention.

The British Daily Na's reaction was the strongest.

Mortonlian, a mysterious author who has become an important topic of talk in the streets and alleys in the UK, published the third article.

"…When the Conservative Party's gentlemen who insisted on the free trade were still delighted by the signing of the Sino-British alliance, the author had almost clearly seen the rise of the second Eastern Germany under the protection of the British Empire. Finally, on this day, the signing of a treaty made the Conservative Party's gentlemen lose face: when they were celebrating for the sake of "China's allies, defeating Russia," China had already shaken hands with the Germans.

"… As we all know, Germany's industry has to rely on Britain to a large extent, and France, which has become an ally of Britain. Germany's iron ore and 25% of its consumption, most zinc and copper consumption, and all trunks, croaks, all need to be imported. Germany's grains and cotton can only meet 80% of its needs. They also lack the best quality ship-purpose anthracite and have almost no oil resources.,...

"British controls the vastest territory in the world. New Caledonia and Rhodesia, the world's most important iron ore mines, belong to Britain and France. The main minerals in Canada, Thadebery, Canada, is part of the British Empire. The bells and zinc imported by Germany come from Australia...

"By firmly controlling these nutrients that are crucial to the German economy, Britain has also secured its own security in certain Chengdu. However, on this day, the system began to fundamentally shake. The Chinese Empire, the allies of Britain, with its vast territory and abundant resources, will provide another resource channel for the military powers on the European continent, which can allow German industrial and military machines to expand freely without control...

Morton turned his pen and turned to the Eastern "alliance" who recently made the British people feel complicated:..."………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

This is the beginning of the two major German empires in the East and the West working together to achieve dominance of the international order. The Germans' industrial standards, education, military science, basic scientific capabilities, China's rich resources, population, vast land, favorable geopolitics, and their powerful advantages in the army and navy respectively. This marriage is almost certain that from the moment he was born before the world, the traditional British order has profoundly shaken." "...The author has no intention of questioning the legal and reasonableness of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire for commercial cooperation, nor has it possessed some innate intention for these two powerful empires.

But I would like to remind you: When the British gentlemen are singing and dancing in a wealthy and luxurious manor, the two strongest neighbors are heading for unity."

Mortonlian's articles were like pouring oil on a bonfire, which immediately triggered widespread controversy among the British government and the opposition. The British middle and upper classes, who had been obsessed with the power of the British Empire for a long time, began to turn their attention from the international situation to various complex colonial issues, labor-management issues, and fiscal and taxation issues within the British Empire, for the British hegemony, which had always been regarded as restless, suddenly seemed to be on the verge of collapse, which shocked many people and could not help but truly start a certain kind of worry.

Compared with this, another treaty seems not that dazzling, but in the eyes of some far-sighted British elite politicians, it has a more profound significance.

On January 15, representatives of China and Germany drafted the "Sino-Germany Cultural Exchange Agreement" in Beijing.

The agreement has five articles and thirty-two terms, and its main contents include: The German Empire will invest 300 million marks in Beijing to establish the "China-German Cultural Exchange Special Fund" to mainly purchase China's railway bonds, municipal bonds and high-quality Moss bonds and equity. The Chinese government will invest the corresponding 100 million Huayuan to purchase Huayuan bonds and stocks issued by German outstanding enterprises, and all dividends will be used for China-German cultural exchange projects.

Its main projects include: German universities receive 200 visiting scholars sent by the Chinese government for academic exchanges every year, and the special fund provides basic living subsidies: 1,000 Class A students provide all tuition, basic living subsidies and transportation fees from undergraduate to graduate graduation from the special fund. In addition, the German government will also receive 2,000 Class B students every year, and the special fund will bear their undergraduate fees: 3,000 C students, and German enterprises and professional schools will conduct three-year training of senior factory and mine technicians. The primary and re-examination selection of all the above personnel is the responsibility of the Chinese side, and the final examination and candidates are the responsibility of the German side.

In addition, China accepts 200 German visiting scholars, 1,000 Class A students, and 2,000 Class B students every year. The scope of the candidates is provided by Germany and is determined by China.

In the name of the German Emperor, within three years, no less than 1,000 German university teachers, well-known engineers and technical experts were invited to China to give lectures and take positions, and the salary was half of the responsibility of both China and Germany.

In Zheng Yu's view, in this world, what determines the growth and growth of power between countries, is ultimately the country's culture, and this culture comes directly from education.

Compared with the great powers with nearly 100 compulsory education accumulation, although China has carried out education construction with unprecedented strength, neither the level nor the total resources are comparable.

Although Zheng Ying and other time travelers used their advantages of foresight to establish a political and economic intelligence network covering both home and abroad, and used various means including money to dig up many well-known inventors in another time and space history from abroad, this advantage is gradually weakening as time goes by.

The accumulation of powerful education systems, excellent industrial civilization accumulation, mature modern education systems, and social culture that encourage innovation and criticism all determine that their development will never be interrupted by the poaching of some "excellent elements".

Although the job-changing of these historical celebrities has brought a leap forward to the development of specific technologies in China in some fields, it has also brought a domino effect in Western society. Although China tried to monopolize the monopoly of certain important technologies through patent registration, on the one hand it was a patent protection period, and on the other hand it has become more and more enthusiastic about the research and development of other elites of the great powers. Soon, either inspired by these inventions or by some people’s alternative approaches, the patent barriers established by China in many fields were broken through one by one. The pace of innovation and progress of the great powers, under the primordial of huge profits, also opened certain doors in advance and pointed out certain directions under the guidance of China's guidance, and made more rapid and direct progress than in history.

As for confidentiality, although Zheng Yu attaches great importance to it, he never believes that a country can rely solely on confidentiality to maintain its competitive advantage. The long-term development of a country depends on innovation after all. Only by continuously innovating and surpassing in all aspects of natural sciences and social sciences can a nation be continuously pushed forward.

Zheng Yu has always been upset about the cultural characteristics of "China's traditional worship of authority and believe in the words of saints, and likes to use a certain mystical ideological system to comfort me. He is always upset about the "hexie" culture, such as conservative, lacking the courage to break the rules, and lacking the courage to challenge teachers and "authority", even in this unrecognizable history, it still subtly ruled almost all the Chinese people's thoughts and behaviors.

Zheng Yu doesn't think he is an omnipotent superman.

For culture, he can only rely on the sorting of the institutional framework and the influence of the tone of public opinion, and then maintain an open attitude and use Western culture that is the first to enter the modernization ranks to carry out continuous impact, so as to destroy the dominance of the traditional monarch, minister, father and son culture in education and even all fields.

In terms of educational resources, although China can use the teacher system to "batch" to cultivate new primary school teachers, the serious shortage of university educational resources has led to a serious shortage of middle school and university teachers. This time, after occupying Japan, Xu Fan even dug up a lot of academic elites from several famous Japanese universities and enriched them into several Chinese universities. On the one hand, it promotes cultural exchanges, and on the other hand, it also supplements the lack of university educational resources.

On the contrary, as the first country in the world to promote compulsory education, Germany's university education was at the top level in the world. The University of Leipzig, University of Göttingen, etc. were all the pearls of the global academic circle at that time, and its status even surpassed that of Harvard and Yale in later generations. Germany's social sciences and natural sciences were at the absolute top level in the world at that time in almost all fields. According to a French professor at that time, "Germany is no exception to be the leader in all fields of science. The scientific achievements made by Germany have far exceeded the sum of other countries in the world.

This is an indisputable fact. Germany's scientific advantages are comparable to Britain's advantages in trade and sea."

In Zheng Yu's view, through the international student plan, the use of the excellent university educational resources of Germany to help China train talents in batches is a quick way to avoid the Chinese people from returning to the arrogance of "the country of the heaven" after a brief awakening, and it is of great significance to broaden the horizons of the Chinese people and promote the country to further open up civilization and open up.

But for many British political elites, this is undoubtedly a dangerous sign.

Since 1885, Britain has consciously opened up educational resources to China.

The famous British universities, Oxford, Cambridge Cardiff, Essex, Edinburgh, King's College of London, London School of Political Science and Economics, Imperial College, Manchester University, and even the Sanhurst Military Academy, Greenwich Sea School, etc., have all recruited a large number of Chinese students.

Even several public schools that have always been open to the British Empire system that focus on cultivating the loyalty of the British colonial elites to the United Kingdom, such as Eaton, Harrow, and Rodin Girls' Schools, have made exceptions to recruit many students from upper-class families in China.

The British's achievements are significant: in China, the upper class of the legal profession from the Supreme Court to the top royal lawyers in the country, and the barristers almost graduated from the Oxford Law Department, or the top students in King's College, Queen Mary's College, and Cambridge: the economics industry, especially the central Ministry of Industry and Commerce and Finance, can be seen everywhere, and a group of British gentlemanly returning elites who come to the UK, mostly from Cambridge, Manchester University, Edinburgh or the London School of Political Science and Economics.

In the Chinese Navy, most veteran senior officers have experience in studying in the UK, and the Chinese Navy School still has retired British naval officers and has even become a naturalized Chinese.

In major universities in China, there are countless British scholars engaged in teaching or research as academic exchanges or direct recruitment. Major universities, and even some boarding high schools established by China imitating the British system have very close exchanges and cooperation with the British education community.

Through such cultural infiltration, the elites in the British government and the opposition have always believed that China will eventually turn to Britain in a subtle way and become a vassal and captive under the civil and military power of the British Empire.

But from this moment on, Germany has undoubtedly become a strong competitor to the British in terms of its influence on China. In response, British Ambassador to China Juerdian visited several major pro-British factions in the Chinese government as a si person, including Prime Minister Liu Dingyi, Central Bank Deputy Governor Sun Dosen, and Deputy Minister of Finance Li Dengyun, but they have never been able to do so. These people also expressed concerns about the recent trend of Sino-UK relations, but they did not think that China will abandon Britain and turn to Germany from then on. Their general opinion is that the purpose of this war in China is to restore its traditional sphere of influence in East Asia. As long as this goal is achieved, China will turn its attention to domestic construction and will not be instigated by Germany to make enemies with traditional ally Britain.

Several senior Chinese officials who have been studying in Yinggu for many years have been moved and promised that they would never allow the Golden Dragon Sun-Treading Flag and the St. George Cross Flag to become hostile in the future." However, they also meaningfully stated that Germany has expressed enough goodwill to China, but Britain, as an ally, was pulled over by the French and tried its best to obstruct China's rebellion. Now there is a public opinion trend of distrust of China in the UK. "It is really regrettable...,.

In addition, several people also proposed that with the current national strength, military strength, and civil spirit of the Chinese Empire, some traces of colonialism that European countries have remained in China, as well as the large number of Chinese national treasures that were looted by the former Qing Dynasty, British and French coalition forces in Beijing and the land they seized, and the land they have been pride in the hands of museums and "collectors" between Britain and France, this will become a thorn in the hearts of the Chinese people. For example, the tariff negotiation system in certain fields, the land lease, the super-national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises, etc., the existence of these things will continue to damage China's relations with relevant countries, and ultimately will not benefit the fundamental interests of these countries.

Zhu Erdian knew this very well.

Obviously, these opinions represent a certain intention of the Chinese government. Faced with these increasingly confident Chinese politicians, although Zhu Erdian still had a signature reserve and calmness on the surface, he felt a little bitter and desolate in his heart. He had thought that with the usual calmness and etiquette of the Chinese hero who was no longer alive, he would have certain trump cards, and China also had a great possibility of becoming the unexpected final winner of this war. But he never expected that this victory would appear in such an overwhelming and dramatic appearance.

As for the financial means that have always been regarded as a killer by the British side, it seems that there is little deterrence to China. Although it is not clear about the real financial situation of China, Juerdian also believes that with the support of the United States and the Jews, China has wiped out the main force of the Russian army in one fell swoop with its defense first and then offensive skills in the far-reaching interior, and then divided the Japanese army in Liaodong and North Korea and disintegrated it, especially recently, it has captured Ukraini and Chita. Unless the Chinese are too greedy, the war will no longer turn into a protracted war of attrition.

After the Chinese mobile fleet wiped out the Japanese-Russian joint fleet, its strength not only did not decline, but also gained the strengthening of captured ships. With the completeness of the Chinese naval education system, these captured warships can have combat effectiveness at most six months to one year, and new Chinese ships will also be put into service.

Even if the British ignored the threat from Germany and mobilized the main fleet from the local area to the Far East, it would take at least six to eight months. At that time, even if the Royal Navy really took action, it would probably not be able to gain any advantage.

Jurden thought about it over and over again, and then repeatedly discussed with Aston, and finally made suggestions to Whitehall in London: Given that the situation in the Far East is difficult to reverse, it is recommended that the imperial authorities immediately express goodwill to China to avoid China's complete reversal. On the other hand, they will step up their understanding of the Far East issue with the United States and France, encourage them to provide certain assistance to Russia, promote Russia and China to continue to fight, consume China's national strength, and at the right time to stimulate the anti-war sentiment of the Chinese people and promote their internal differences of opinions. At that time, the British Empire appeared as the masters and financial supporters to gain the friendship and dependence between China and Russia on Britain.

But at this moment, a new bombshell was reported in Beijing...
Chapter completed!