Chapter 1324 Declaration of War and Protest
The Germans and Chinese people know about the closed-door meetings of the Allied senior leaders, and the Chinese people know about the closed-door meetings that so many senior leaders gather together and hold closed-door meetings. They even have reports in some newspapers. This is easy to know, but no matter how you know, the next news will not work.
The differences in races have put China's intelligence collection work at a disadvantage in the West, and China's intelligence is more broad-based. On the trend, there is very little information at the top. The difference between yellow people and white people. Although there are some ethnic minorities in China, which are very similar to Westerners, China's rise has been too short. Even if we find some cultivation, we are just slowly accumulating strength, not finding information.
The establishment of an intelligence system is not overnight. Even if you are employed, you, a stranger, must take a long time and various preparations, and you cannot even be anxious. If you are a little bit out of order and are suspected by the other party, it means that you will be shattered by several years or even more than ten years of hard work.
Germany is better on intelligence issues, and the information from the top leaders is still known. The decades of arrangements are not a joke. No matter what method it is, it can always enter a certain field. However, no matter how you extend your tentacles and even understand most of the other party's actions, if this intelligence rises to the high-level meeting of the Allied Powers, it will not work.
Those who can attend the meeting are all middle-level and powerful figures in various countries. There is no traitor among them, and there will be no news. The leak of the high-level meeting in 1914 was not because of these senior management, but because of the leakage of the mobilization forces and other channels. If China and Germany had not responded quickly, they would have almost suffered a big loss.
This time, the Allies focused on finance and were preparing to hack China's wealth. In the middle, there were very few lower powers used, and a country's financial control could easily solve the problem. A foreign exchange ban order could prevent foreign exchange from leaving and leave a fixed wealth. Just mobilize some domestic troops, which is inconspicuous in the background of the war, and China did not realize that the Allies were ready to extend their hands to them.
In case, the Allied Congress completed all preparations as quickly as possible, and began to implement it. First, before Christmas in 1915, the United States declared war on China in the name of the Russian alliance, and immediately frozen all China's property in the United States, as if it was an agreement. Two hours after the United States made such a move, Britain also made the same decision. Three hours later, it was France. As for Russia, it had long declared war on China, and China had not much property in it. As for Chinese, Russian environment, and chaotic society, there would be no Chinese who would be interested in coming to Russia. Even if there were, it would be cleared out in several years of war.
The intelligence department finally discovered these actions, but trade deals with countries are not something that can be stopped. Chinese products are dumped into the world, and most of the products are in foreign trade. However, a small number of products cannot be directly sold. This is a very valuable and profitable product. These products plus funds are all over the United States. The losses of these products will definitely make China feel hurt, including various medicines worth $1 billion and stockings worth $2 billion.
It is really difficult for a country to be prepared for it. The bank rejects the exchange rate of its account. During the war, if the Americans want insurance, they will not be able to make a lot of trouble if they stop for a few days. As for things and people, they will be even more unlucky. Those who come to the United States to do business are all ordinary people, not intelligence personnel or special forces. Even if it is impossible to resist, it is not a waste of sacrifice to the other party's enemy in the other party's country.
Americans are seeking money. When they finally discovered it, the Chinese intelligence department could only urgently notify some departments, such as special departments to avoid them. The rest were not taken care of so much and only let them do as the Americans told them, and the rest were left to the domestic negotiations.
The sudden declaration of war has made China confused. Why did it declare war without any signs? China did nothing, which made the United States and Britain angry and resentful. If Russia had to declare war, it would have declared war long ago. The war has been fought for almost two years, and Russia has almost been tortured, so it declared war.
Because it involves 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 blocked all the companies and sales outlets in various countries in China, and sealed up products from China. Especially the United States, the territory is quite large, and the National Guard is quite unsatisfactory. But even so, it is spread throughout the United States and some trading companies and representative offices, and it is almost cleaned up in two days, and everything is taken away by the Americans without exception.
Among them, there are 15 fields including medicines, chemical fiber supplies, stockings, fashion, etc. If you include representative offices and head offices, the losses will be even greater. So fast and so clear, China still doesn’t know what the United States wants to do. For the sake of money, it is indeed the United States, and it is indeed the world of merchants. Only the United States does such unscrupulous approaches.
In fact, even if the United States does not take action, China is looking for fighter jets to participate in the war. To be honest, China has supported Germany for almost three years. To be precise, it was supported after the war began. The previous transactions gave Germany the capital at the beginning of the war. This capital directly created Germany's advantage. Even in three years, a series of possible problems in Germany were eliminated by China's help.
The First World War in history was fought four years ago. In this era, the First World War began earlier and started in 1913, a year earlier than in history. However, by the end of 1915, not only did there be no sign of stopping, but the bigger the two sides became more and more intense. Germany's losses were always controlled within a certain range. On the contrary, the Allies, because Germany was strengthened a lot and did not actually keep up, they suffered huge losses. Not to mention that Britain and France, the earliest participating in the war, were beaten very badly. Even the United States, which finally participated in the war, had lost millions of troops on the European continent.
At this time, the Allies did not choose to fight against the Allies, but instead focused on China. Is this a joke? Are they so confident and able to fight against China's powerful strength? Just for such a little money.
The Northwest Military Commission, almost all the military committee members at home gathered together, including some diplomatic senior officials to deal with this matter together, and everyone did not understand. In fact, most people fell into a misunderstanding. They calculated the price of goods, but did not set it according to the sales price. China's production costs were quite low, especially medicines and stockings.
The price of sulfonamide drugs is one dollar or two, because they are relatively broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs and have good efficacy for many diseases. Some special diseases and even the only effective drugs, their special efficacy is destined to be high. When saving lives, not to mention 1 dollar, even hundreds or thousands, some people can afford it. However, the price of sulfonamides is enough to produce more than a thousand pills in large-scale production in the northwest. This is the gap, and the cost is almost negligible.
As for stockings, if this thing is made of silk, the price is very high. Silk ensures the pricing power of stockings. Chemical fibers, nylon and other types can control silk very thinly. In terms of performance, it is much more powerful than silk. This has led to the best-selling of stockings, socks for $2 per day and stockings for $10 per day. This is almost every woman’s dream. Even if she doesn’t have to eat, there are many women who are willing to buy a piece of stockings and go home. They are capable, and even make a beating.
These two kinds of things are expensive in the United States, and the domestic cost is only one percent, or even one thousandth. The United States counts 12 billion, and the cost in China may be only one or two hundred million. This is already a high saying. It was only after a long time that China realized that these things are of high value.
It’s nothing that the goods were sealed. After China and the United States declared war, China never had this channel anymore. This is a key point for selling products to the United States. At most, it is through smuggling channels. Although the price is even higher, the quantity is destined to be insufficient. After China declared war, it had cut off the possibility of obtaining funds from the Allies.
This is something China has known for a long time and is hesitant. Every day it drags on, it means a lot of real money and silver. They also hope that this time it will continue, but this day will always come. Now, as it enters the third year of war, it has finally come.
The United States always has to fight back. China cannot turn a blind eye to the declaration of war between the United States and other countries. In fact, at the first time when the United States, Britain and France declared war on China, China also declared war on them. The two sides were already in a state of war. This military meeting was not a discussion. Why Britain, France and the United States declared war on China? No matter what it was, it was an irreversible result. What they need to do now is how to deal with the current war.
China has not made comprehensive preparations for war, or to be precise, it has not made necessary military preparations. As for war, there is no need to prepare. After the war started with Russia, China was actually in a state of war. Now it is just a fire on this basis. With a slight adjustment, the domestic field army can complete the preparations for war. The General Staff only needs to make plans. The General Staff takes action urgently. As for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when receiving the order, it raised a solemn protest to the Allies. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!