Chapter 1044, foreshadowing
In the afternoon of the same day, Wu Tingfang and Gu Weijun came to the President's residence and reported on the content of their negotiations with Germany this morning.&&
When Wu Shaoting heard that the Germans decided to improve their diplomatic ranks with China, he was also very happy. Not long ago, he received a message from the South Asian Theater Command that the 24th Division had successfully contacted a general in Myanmar. The two sides were negotiating that China would support the general to restore national sovereignty and expel British and French colonial rulers. He believed that the news that the Germans raised their diplomatic ranks with China would inevitably lead to this China-Myanmar cooperation, which is the best opportunity to improve all foreigners' impression of China in the past hundred years.
Regarding the German government's concentrating industrial forces to assist China in completing excessive industrialization, although this is something that the Chinese dream of, for Wu Shaoting, it is just a smile. China's current industrial progress has entered a state of full-scale development. The war has stimulated the expansion of the military-industrial market, and the military-industrial industry has driven the derivation of surrounding affiliated industries.
Wu Shaoting can confidently believe that even without the help of the Germans, China can also achieve excessive industrialization by itself. Of course, having the help of Germany will naturally greatly reduce this excessive time and improve the quality of China's industrialization. Why not do it?
However, when Wu Tingfang mentioned the third part of the aid plan for China in accent, Wu Shaoting frowned and picked up the translation of the plan and read it carefully. In the translation, the Germans clearly wrote that the Germans assisted China in various political and social reforms, but did not explain too much of the purpose of these reforms, and even if there were, they were just a brief introduction.
"Why are the Germans suddenly so interested in our Chinese internal affairs and social system?"
"First of the People, this is also where we feel very sudden. The Germans open 500 million imperial marks in one breath, and help China complete industrial overproduction. This is not a small trick. There is no free lunch in the world. The Germans must have other plans to do this. I think it is very likely to be hidden in this third part." Wu Tingfang said in a very serious tone.
Wu Shaoting fell into deep thought. He turned the plan over the title page, took a look at the list of members involved in the formulation of the plan, and suddenly stopped at the two names of the German Empire, Holvig, Prime Minister of the German Empire and Hindenburg, the Grand Marshal of the Army. As early as when he was studying in Germany, he often heard about the influence of Hindenburg and Holvig on the German Empire when he was intern in the Macedonian Legion. These two were typical promoters of German militarism and did enough preliminary preparations before the German Empire participated in World War I.
Although Hindenburg himself officially retired in 1903 and did not return to the army until the outbreak of World War I. However, during his retirement, he also continued to seek military development of the German Empire, believing that only a strong military force could ensure that Germany and Britain, France and other countries were equally divided.
As for Prime Minister Holvig himself, his greatest diplomacy during his term was to issue a "blank check" to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, inducing the Austro-Hungarian Empire to start a war with Serbia. It can be seen that Holvig never intended to consider the fundamental interests of the Allies, and only hoped to use all means to win the greatest victory for the German Empire.
Because of this, later Western historians have mixed opinions on Holvig himself, and many historians who oppose Holvig have always regarded the "blank check" incident as evidence of criticism.
After thinking about this, Wu Shaoting suddenly felt that the entire German aid plan was so unreliable, especially the outline plan proposed by Holwig, a cunning guy. Although he cannot be 100% sure of Germany's purpose now, considering the "world policy" that William II has always been keen on and why Hall and Hindenburg's militarist concept, it is not difficult to guess that the German Empire would not allow another powerful country to go hand in hand with it.
In other words, Germany is likely to use the opportunity to transform Chinese society and national ideology through the third part of this aid plan to subtly insert some things that are beneficial to Germany. For example, to create a fanatical atmosphere of pro-Germany in China, and to promote the personality cult of German Emperor William II, and to override this personality cult over the head of Chinese. Even when the time is ripe, the Germans will even develop a set of tricks of "honorous emperor" to make William II the honorary emperor in the Far East, and directly overshadow the Nanjing central government in political popularity.
Of course, Wu Shaoting is not sure whether Germany will do this, but no country will hope that another country will transform its social system and national framework. This is the most obvious truth.
At this time, Gu Weijun spoke seriously and said: "First of the People, no matter what, the assistance of Germans is very important to us, not to mention that they are the first Western country to improve their diplomatic hierarchy, which has a very important political impact on our China. Perhaps we can take another way to reach this cooperation."
Wu Shaoting had an idea in his mind, and even if Gu Weijun didn't say it, he knew how to deal with Germany.
Germany thinks it is the "big brother" of the Allies camp. It often regards itself as a noble person and regards other countries too simply, or deliberately uses some aid programs to confuse the public, thinking that other countries will only focus on aid and ignore the hidden risks. However, William II or Holvig obviously missed one thing, that is, political reforms in other countries will never be able to be separated from the influence of this country.
"This is deliberately delayed for a few days before going to the Germans to finish the matter."
"First of the People, are you going to agree to them?" Wu Tingfang asked hurriedly.
"Yes, I promise them. But it's one thing to agree now, and it's another thing not to cooperate at that time. In short, we must get the money and industrial materials first." Wu Shaoting said lightly.
"So that's it, I understand." Wu Tingfang nodded suddenly and said.
"Although we can do this, the Germans are definitely not stupid. In short, we must not take it lightly, the head of state." Gu Weijun said with some concern.
"I know this. As long as I win this world war, no one can affect the development of our Republic of China anymore!" Wu Shaoting said with great momentum.
Chapter completed!