"Are you owed China to balance Asian interests?"_ Manstein is an excellent commander and a strategic expert. What he said will not be aimless. As a visionary general, he never talks about some suggestions meaninglessly. Whenever he proposes, he comes to the moment he should act.

"Our cooperation with China should be traced to the late 19th century, when under the instruction of His Excellency Bismarck, we had sent an inspection team. "We became China's second trading country." Ribin Troop was indeed prepared. "For Britain, France and Russia at that time, we had no ambitions for China. At that time, we just hoped to win over China and enhance China's strength. Of course, doing this was to combat the interests of the above-mentioned three countries in the Far East."

The gentlemen present did not interrupt Ribin Tropp. They may not understand China, but they had some impression of China-Germany cooperation in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Germany's rise in Europe was much later than that of Britain and France, and friction was inevitable when they caught up. At that time, Europe and Africa had basically been divided up. The Second Empire had many difficulties in participating in the division of the world and supported China for strategic purposes. Just like Japan after Britain's desperate armed reform, the Second Empire still hoped that China would become stronger and at least suppress Britain's expansion in the Far East in some ways. Unfortunately, the Qing government was not allowed to go to the forefront, and the Qing government did not understand what international relations were. As a result, the cooperation of good wishes changed its tone.

"As a contractor in China, our Lupp Company is responsible for building a series of fortifications near the Port of Lushun and Dagu Fort. At that time, the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty ordered the main battleships "Dingyuan class, iron armored ships, as well as "Jingyuantang", "Laiyuan, and armored cruisers" from Germany. In addition, the German instructor helped Zhang Zhidong establish the "Self-Strengthening Army" and assisted Yuan Shikai to cultivate the "New Army". Ribin Tropp's expression was painful. We really don't understand the Chinese. It is hard to imagine that the most powerful fleet in Asia would be defeated by the "Combined Fleet". Due to some reasons, we finally seized Jiaozhou Bay and got into evil with it."

Later, because of the "Boxers (Boilers) and the murder of our missionaries (Caozhou lesson plan also known as the Juye lesson plan), the Chinese female emperor Cixi declared war on the world under pressure. Our army and the coalition forces set foot on China's land together, Ribin Tropp seemed to see his head of state twitching. He didn't understand why, and continued to tell the story: "Because of the stupidity of the Qing government, China's first modernization efforts came to an end."

Xu Yang had to interrupt: "That was not a glorious history. Skip."

Only,"?"

They seemed to hear the displeasure of the head of state?

Ribintroup skipped very well, "my country's aid to China is not limited to the military, but also expanded to the field of industrial and technological exchanges. Engineers from Siemens and Krupp helped China establish modern power plants and steel factories, such as the Hanyang Iron Factory. Engineers from Siemens installed China's first batch of electric lights in the Summer Palace, and the first water plant in Beijing used Germany's motors and water cycles."

It has to be said that Germany and China had a friendly relationship during Bismarck's period, but the relationship changed after William II came to power. Compared with Bismarck's political wisdom of planning a country, William II did not know how to hide his ambitions. William II was too rough and directly ruined the friendship between Germany and countries around the world. It was not easy for Germany at that time to stand enemies everywhere.

On the eve of World War I, our country's relations with China became alienated again. At that time, Germany was isolated politically by the atmosphere created by the British mystical intention. The most obvious example was the establishment of the British-Japanese alliance and the signing of the agreement between Britain and France and Russia. Because of this, our country planned to prepare for the German, China and the United States alliance in Ka-Nian, but this suggestion could not be achieved. "It can be heard that Ribintrop was very regretful about this. He looked around everyone present, "Until the Qing government was kicked over by the uprising, we established diplomatic relations with the new Chinese government officially established in the old Kou Nian. At that time, our country gave the country's provisional government such as Wanmake, and stated that it could return Shandong's railway rights to China."

"Later, our country was trapped in the quagmire of European war and basically had no ability to take into account the interests of the Far East. Therefore, we communicated with China and negotiated to return Jiaozhou Bay to China, hoping to restore diplomatic relations with China. At the same time, our troops in Jiaozhou Bay could not guarantee safety, which is one of the main reasons why our country chose to return Jiaozhou Bay to China. When we expressed our willingness to return Jiaozhou Bay to China, Japan threatened China not to accept this return. In August of the old year, Japan joined the war and became a member of the Allies, began to attack Germany's concession in China, occupy Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay."

"When World War I broke out, Sun Yat-sen, the head of Guangzhou government in the south of the Republic of China, strongly advocated that China's Baofu, under the instruction of Britain, wanted to fight against Germany and wealth, but was blocked by Japan for two years. After receiving the guarantee from Britain, the United States and France, Japan agreed to continue to retain its former colonies and rights in China after the war, but it agreed to China declare war on the Second German Empire in August. After that, the Chinese team seized German and Austro-Hungarian merchant ships anchored in various Chinese ports and recovered our concessions in Hankou and Tianjin."

"What we find difficult to understand is that the Allies do not regard the commitment to China as respect. They have promised that China can recover Germany's loan territory and sphere of influence in China after the defeat of the Second Empire. But it is obvious that the commitment of the Allies is a shameless and despicable lie. They condoned Japan to replace our country through the Treaty of Versailles and occupy Qingdao and Shandong Peninsula.

China is very angry about this. We can imagine what kind of humiliation this is. In fact, China has also lost patriotic luck.”

"Jump to the next paragraph." Xu Yang's tone was dull, "What I want to know is the recent, my minister, is the recent. Do you understand?"

Ribintrop was shocked. As a qualified diplomatic employed person, he had to recall the exchanges between countries in detail before the country made major decisions. Of course, this was also one of the necessary procedures. He heard the unhappiness in the tone of the head of state, but he still had to continue to speak, and he really endured huge pressure to continue to explain. From this point of view, is he a person who abides by principles?

Xu Yang did not stop it anymore. The necessary procedures may be uncomfortable to hear, but the rules are rules. Even if he is the head of state, in this case, he can only show dissatisfaction and cannot stop it. Of course, unless he wants to clear Ribin Troop, there is no need to stop it.

The detailed narrative is simply a copy of "The Rise and Fall of the Country", and Ribin Troop is still rumoring, it is hard to imagine how long he has prepared for this meeting.

"From the old Shaonian flagship, China is our largest trading partner in the Far East. At that time, my country's trade volume with China was the Hongnaiyi Empire Mark, while our trade volume with Japan was 200 million. my country's oil and fat industry raw materials rely almost entirely on the export of soybeans from the Northeast. my country's industry also has a large demand for tin sand, antimony, manganese, tin, bristles and tung oil produced by China."

"Due to the impact of the Great Depression, the Sino-German trade ratio decreased slightly. Although China's industrialization process during this period was in trouble due to the conflicts of various interest groups, my country's industry, importers and exporters and defense forces all wanted to gain benefits from the development of China's industry. However, the later Sino-Japanese conflict caused this beautiful wish to be setbacks. Japan "after the Fengtian Incident, it established a manzhou-defeated figure, and many important transactions were tilted from China to Japan."

Oh, we sent a large number of military instructors to China, and the trade volume on military ordnance is even greater. Our country is under great pressure from Japan,"

Germany has always attached great importance to trade from China, and many rare resources are basically dependent on China, which is also the basis of Sino-German cooperation. At the same time, Germany is still very eager to support a strong allies in the Far East to share the pressure from the Soviet republics. The problem is that support has never been effective.”

"In fact, Japan is very clear about the purpose of our country's support for China. We have enough reason to believe that the reason why Japan took the risk of invading China without any preparation is to replace China and become our support object."

Ribin Tropp's new statement stunned many people present. They thought carefully that it was really like that. Japan became stronger with the continuous support of Britain and the United States during World War I. After World War I, Japan got rid of Britain and the United States and it was bound to find new aid. Germany, which was technically ahead of the world in all aspects, is indeed a good goal? Also, compared with Britain's vital interests in Asia, the German Third Reich seemed to have no threat, and Japan and the United States had no such concerns in the competition for the Pacific and the German Third Reich.

Japan may be very powerful in Asia, but it cannot be put to the forefront when it comes to the world. Not only are countries in the world aware of this, but Japan itself is also very clear about it.

"So," Xu Yang was very careless, "What do you mean?"

Ribintrop did not hesitate, "My head. I mean, Japan will not face Germany head-on until it has gained enough benefits. They are a nation that is patient. In fact, Japan has been patient with China for a full two thousand years and has not taken action until China weakens. At present, the strength of Germany in all aspects will make Japan worry."

Xu Yang was a little serious, "Your opinion is that you don't need to use a reaction mechanism to stimulate Japan again?"
Chapter completed!