The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 307

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The people of Jiaoben in the East even began to worry. Hans and the Celestial Empire were getting closer and closer, and the economic exchanges between the two countries were getting deeper and deeper. The number of products shipped from Hans increased every year. Hans’s products had gained an excellent reputation in the Celestial Empire with their excellent quality and moderate prices.

Compared with the products of countries such as the British Empire and Gaul, Hans’ products had advantages in both quality and price. Therefore, wherever Hans’ products were sold, the products of the British Empire and Gaul would immediately become unsalable and could not be sold!

As the quality of Jiaoben’s products had always been inferior to that of the old Western powers, they took the price route and tried to seize the market with lower prices. After all, the people of the Celestial Empire were still relatively poor. If the quality difference of the same product was not particularly large, but the price difference was very obvious, then they would most likely choose the cheaper product.

In addition, the foot basin also belongs to the East Asian Confucian cultural circle, so they have a deeper understanding of the culture and needs of the Chinese people. This allows their products to gain a large share in the Chinese market and sell a lot of products even though their quality is not as good as that of Western countries.

It can be said that if there is no huge market in China, the industrialization of the foot basin will be completed. Because there is no market to dump goods, their economy will not be able to support it and will collapse.

Over the years, the foot basin has been working hard to introduce advanced Western technology, trying to improve the quality of its products, so that its quality can be close to or even exceed that of Western countries.

In this way, they can rely on the huge price advantage and the selling point of cost performance to completely squeeze out the products of Western countries and dominate the huge market of China.

The foot basin people have a good dream.

As long as they continue to suck blood from China, it will only take fifteen years.

With the blood sucked from China, they can improve their own industry, establish an industrial system that is not inferior to that of Western developed countries, and completely enter the ranks of industrial powers!

With a strong industry as a guarantee, the foot basin can arm a well-equipped and well-trained army, and then launch a war against the Celestial Empire, nibbling and digesting the Celestial Empire bit by bit!

As long as the Celestial Empire can be eaten and thoroughly digested, the territory of the foot basin will expand by tens of millions of square kilometers, and it will be able to obtain hundreds of millions of people.

They will become a superpower comparable to the Eagle Sauce and the Sun Never Sets!

At that time, relying on their vast territory and inexhaustible human resources, they can even launch a war against the whole world and conquer the whole world!

This strategy has long appeared in the foot basin.

As early as the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era, he had made such an attempt, and then he was defeated by the Ming army and was honest for more than two hundred years.

However, with the victory of the foot basin in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, their ambitions began to swell again.

Now there are many militarists in the foot basin who are constantly advocating the strategy of eight 纮一宇, trying to annex the Celestial Empire and dominate the world based on the Celestial Empire!

However, their dreams were soon shattered because of the disruption of an opponent they did not expect.

Starting from 1921, Hans, who had recovered from the war, began to sell a large number of goods to the Celestial Empire.

At first, these goods were only circulated in the north of the Celestial Empire. Because the Fengtian warlords had a good relationship with Hans, Hans’ products were initially circulated in the areas controlled by the Fengtian warlords.

However, good things are easy to form word-of-mouth reputation, and this is the case with Hans’ products.

Because of the advantages in price and quality, Hans’ products quickly defeated the products of other Western European countries. When facing the products of Foot Basin, Hans’s quality is great, but the price is only a little higher, so the cost performance advocated by Foot Basin people is not worth mentioning in front of Hans’ products.

So, of course, Foot Basin’s products came in the competition with Hans.

This trend began to emerge in 1921. In 1922 and 1923, it not only did not disappear, but gradually expanded. Hans’ products were not only popular in the north, but also began to appear in the south and central regions. By 1924, Hans’ products had reached almost every corner of the Celestial Empire. Even in the areas controlled by the Ma family army in the northwest, these cheap and good quality products could be seen. With

Hans’ dumping, the losses of the British Empire, Gaul and Foot Basin were all very heavy. The

British Empire had markets in South Asia and Africa, so their losses were still controllable. Gaul’s own industry had not yet fully recovered, and their own labor force was still short, so there were not many industrial products exported. Although they were squeezed out of the Celestial Empire’s market, the losses were not very heavy. The only one who suffered the most was Foot Basin!

This situation amplified the voices of military adventure within Foot Basin. Many young soldiers began to advocate launching an invasion of the Celestial Empire in advance to eliminate the Celestial Empire, especially the Northeast Army, in order to destroy the way Hans’ products were imported into the Celestial Empire.

However, the foot basin was not ready for war at this time. If they went to war, they might not only face the Celestial Empire, but also Hans behind the Celestial Empire.

When thinking of Hans’s powerful strength, the foot basin felt a little uncertain, especially when Hans and the Eagle Sauce were very close, if they took action against Hans, the Eagle Sauce people might come to copy their old bottom at any time.

Therefore, the foot basin could only swallow its anger, hold back its anger, and then step up negotiations with the British Empire.

The British Empire wanted to restore the alliance between the British Empire and the foot basin before 1921. The foot basin certainly had this demand, but the foot basin wanted to obtain the mining rights of the Australian iron ore owned by the British Empire.

This request was rejected by the British Empire. They could not tolerate the foot basin reaching out to their back garden, so the negotiations between the two sides fell into a deadlock, and there was no progress for several months.

At this time, stimulated by the visit of the Hans fleet to the Celestial Empire, the foot basin government finally made up its mind and must form an alliance with the British Empire as soon as possible in exchange for the British Empire’s support.

With the British fleet in Europe to contain Hans’ main force, it would be much easier for them to attack the Celestial Empire!

So, when the British fleet came, the Foot Basin government held a secret meeting with the British representatives, and the two sides signed the Japan-UK Alliance Agreement, confirming the alliance relationship.

The Celestial Empire was not aware of the news of the alliance between the British fleet and the Foot Basin, but for the Beiyang government of the Celestial Empire, the visit of Hans’ fleet was just in time.

“General Lütjens, could you please send your warships to visit the north?”

After Zhang Zuolin met Lütjens, the commander of the Hans Fleet, he immediately invited him to go north.

Lütjens was confused and asked curiously,”Go north? I remember that your country doesn’t seem to have any seaports or ports in the north, right?”

The Celestial Empire originally had its own seaport in the Northeast. Vladivostok, the Russian bear’s city, was once their territory.

However, when the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil in the late Qing Dynasty, the Russian bear took advantage of the situation and took it away in a series of unequal treaties.

Also taken away was the Celestial Empire’s seaport in the Northeast.

Originally, the Qing government did not care much about the cold and bitter Northeast, and they did not have a navy at that time, so they did not even think about retaining any seaports. As a result, almost all of the long coastline in the Northeast was taken away by the Russian bears.

Although Zhang Zuolin’s Northeast Army originated in the Northeast, his navy was not established until he conquered Liaodong. Lütjens had not heard of any information about the Northeast Army’s seaports in the Northeast, so he was puzzled by Zhang Zuolin’s request.

“Well, it has always been there, that is our ancestral land!”

Zhang Zuolin hesitated, obviously not wanting to explain the matter thoroughly. Lütjens saw the other party’s expression and probably guessed something.

The other party must have used some dishonorable means to regain access to the sea, but why did they invite their fleet to the north in such a hurry? What on earth was this for?

“Mr. President, although I am the commander of the fleet, I do not have the power to mobilize the fleet at will. If you really want this fleet to go north, I suggest you send a telegram directly to Bolin and ask for Bolin’s opinion!”_Feilu reminds you: Three things to do when reading-