s: Asking for votes at the beginning of the month, please give me your support "The Chinese want Pacific colonies, which is a huge area."
William II frowned.
Tirpitz said: "Your Majesty, although these areas are not small, the land is barren, the living conditions are harsh, and development is extremely difficult.
Apart from providing us with some local products, they are almost useless to the empire.
Moreover, the Pacific colonies are isolated overseas. , far away from the mainland, and surrounded by Australia and Japan.
If we ever go to war with the Allies, these territories will not be preserved at all. " He looked at William II and continued: "If we can use these territories to bring China over, it will be very cost-effective.
Even if China continues to be neutral, if they provide our empire with an Asia-Europe supply line according to their conditions, our chances of winning will be will be greatly improved” "Well, what you said makes sense.
The Pacific colonies are indeed of little use."
William II pondered for a moment and said, "As long as we defeat the Allied Powers, there will be no colonies left."
As he spoke, he began to dance excitedly, and shouted nervously: "These guys from Britain and France are so fast.
They have taken over all the good places on this earth.
Even the little Belgium can occupy large colonies. .
And we in Germany can only pick up a little bit of the leftovers they left.
This is unfair.
The German Empire needs land under the sun.
We have the right and must acquire more and better colonies."
Tirpitz knew his temper and didn't try to persuade him.
He just waited quietly and let him get angry.
After being nervous for a while, William II calmed down and said to Tirpitz: "Alfred, I agree in principle to the Chinese people's request.
You go and talk to them.
Our offer is 200 million marks, which is the best."
Let them exchange them for submarines and aircraft.
The submarines they provide are relatively difficult to produce and require a lot of manpower and material resources.
Now we have to go all out to build battleships, but there are very few that can be used to build submarines.
If it works, let the Chinese help us build it.
They designed it anyway.”
Although Wei Er is a bit crazy and often has wild ideas, he sometimes comes up with some reliable and fantastic ideas, such as this time.
Tirpitz was overjoyed: "Your Majesty is so smart that the Chinese can help us build things like torpedo boats, submarines, and even destroyers."
The German Pacific Colony mainly consisted of the following parts.
The largest area is German New Guinea: it is mainly composed of the "Kaiser Wilhelm Territory" in the northern half of New Guinea island with an area of 181,650 square kilometers and the Bismarck Islands with an area of 49,700 square kilometers.
Among them, the largest islands in the Bismarck Archipelago are New Pomerania (New Britain, area 35,144 square kilometers) and New McClainburg Island (New Ireland, area 8,650 square kilometers).
In addition to Western Samoa, which covers an area of 2,934 square kilometers, other German-owned islands in the Pacific are also managed by German New Guinea.
For example, the German Solomon Islands include 490 square kilometers of Buka Island and 9,318 square kilometers of Bougainville Island; the Caroline Islands, including 702 square kilometers of the later Federated States of Micronesia, and 458 square kilometers of Palau; and the Northern Mariana Islands 464 square kilometers, Marshall Islands 181 square kilometers and Nauru 21 square kilometers.
The total area of the entire German Pacific Colony is about 245,918 square kilometers.
Although it is such a large area, its population is less than 500,000, the vast majority of which are indigenous people, and at least half of them are cannibals.
This land is a famous "green desert" with only trees and no crops.
Until the 21st century, it only had a population of 2.2 million, with an average of less than 9 people per square kilometer.
You can imagine how bad it is.
Students who have played the social game Victoria must know that the survival index of the Erdezi colony is extremely low, probably only better than the Antarctic and Arctic.
It takes a long time to colonize, and it is a rare bad land in the world.
There is nothing that can be done about it.
Who allowed Germany to rise too late?
By the time they had the ability to go out and grab territory, the good land in the world had already been occupied by other powers, so they could only pick up this kind of thing that no one wanted. of bad land.
The cost of development here is too high, and various tropical diseases are rampant, so forced development is totally worth the loss.
Germany was also preparing to develop it at the beginning.
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The first time they sent more than 3,000 people to the island, but two years later, only more than 800 people came back disgraced.
This loss rate scared the Germans to the point of peeing.
And apart from some animal and plant specialties, there is no profit here.
So Er Dezi didn't care much about this land and just left it there as a decoration.
In addition, in this era, islands were not paid much attention to, and the mineral resources inside were not discovered, so for Germany, this unprofitable territory was useless.
The most important thing is that this useless piece of land is still surrounded by the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
Germany only has less than 500 troops stationed on the island of New Guinea.
If a war breaks out, this place cannot be saved no matter what.
Instead of doing this, it's better to exchange it for something you need.
So with this idea, we hit it off with China.
Since the Chinese are willing to have this kind of bad land, then give it to them.
After some negotiation and bargaining, the two parties reached a transfer agreement, the Sino-German Hamburg Treaty.
China purchased all German Pacific colonies for 150 million marks.
This money was used as payment to China.
China promised to deliver 30 U-boats, 30 100 torpedo boats, and 4 lightning strike destroyers of the Shimakaze class to Germany within 2 years.
Of course, what was announced to the outside world was only the purchase of land.
As for the use of the money, only the top management of both parties knew.
When Kafur was securing the Pacific colonies in Germany, his deputy Lu Zhengxiang also achieved great results in Wuhan.
"Mr.
Wen, the Americans have agreed in principle to our purchase requirements."
That afternoon, after several days of negotiations, Lu Zhengxiang ignored his fatigue and hurried to the Presidential Palace to report the good news.
"Oh, the Americans really agreed."
Even Wen Desi was a little surprised by the Americans' reaction.
"Yes, Mr.
Wen, they agreed to trade the sovereignty of the Philippines with us."
Lu Zhengxiang's voice trembled with excitement.
These past few months were probably the happiest time in his life.
He had just regained a large amount of lost land from Britain and Russia, and had also seized more than 400,000 square kilometers of land from the mouth of the cow.
This is equivalent to two Hunan provinces.
When the treaty between China and Britain and Russia was officially signed, Lu Zhengxiang and the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs got drunk, crying, laughing, singing and dancing all night long.
I haven't been happy for a long time, and now good things are coming again.
If there are no accidents this time, another 300,000 square kilometers of land will be acquired, which is another two Shandong provinces.
Wen Desi laughed: "Hahaha, it seems that I still overestimated the integrity of the capitalists.
Sure enough, as long as there are enough profits, they can sell anything."
In fact, when talking to the Americans about buying the Philippines this time, Wen Desi also had the attitude of giving it a try.
At first, he just wanted to find the Americans to lease a piece of land, such as Palawan or Mindanao, as a supply port in the South China Sea.
He asked the Zentraedi Consortium to come forward and go to the US government to get information.
Unexpectedly, half a month later, classmate Balnazar came back with unexpected good news.
Balnazar and Lando jointly sent back a proposal and concluded: "If the conditions are right, the United States may take action against the Philippines."
Because at this time, the Philippines has not yet reflected much value.
Apart from jaggery, wood and some ores, it does not have any great output.
Instead, it needs to invest a lot of "stability maintenance fees" every year.
You know, the way the United States obtained the Philippines was not glorious.
When they were fighting Spain, they used the guise of "helping Philippine independence" to recruit Filipino rebels to help.
When Spain was defeated, they refused to admit their defeat.
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Instead, they sold the rebels and declared them wanted bandits.
Therefore, Filipinos were quite resistant to American rule, and various resistance movements were surging.
Before 1903, they never stopped.
What is even more unfortunate is that the resistance movement that had just ceased for a few years seems to have become related to the Anglo-Japanese alliance again.
Starting in 1909, these guys started making trouble again.
Moreover, the commotion was even more intense this time.
The guerrillas seemed to have been professionally trained.
They used various insidious, despicable and shameless tactics to make the local US military miserable.
Last year alone, more than 300 Americans were killed and economic losses exceeded US$50 million, which made the Americans very depressed.
Due to its geographical location, the Philippines is too far away from the United States.
It is separated by the entire Pacific Ocean.
The United States has to pay a huge cost to maintain its rule here.
But it is very close to Japan.
If the two countries fall out, it would be strange for the Philippines to be able to keep it.
Therefore, American capitalists during this period were very worried about investing in the Philippines, and the residents here were not friendly, so they would probably lose everything they invested.
Moreover, the President of the United States at this time was Taft.
This man was a typical spokesman for the consortium, safeguarding the interests of the monopoly consortium.
At this point in time, their attention is all on the Caribbean and Central America.
President Taft is focusing on gold-dollar diplomacy.
He is concerned about the oil-rich territories in the Caribbean and Central and South America.
The Philippines This kind of poor place is not in his eyes at all.
And the United States is in urgent need of support for its younger brother.
If the Philippines is exchanged for China's support, it will be a good deal no matter how you look at it.
Besides, if the Philippines is handed over to China, it will put China on the front line against Japan.
This is very profitable no matter how you look at it.
Of course, the most important reason is that the United States has only taken possession of the Philippines for more than ten years, and its rule is still unstable.
It has invested a lot of money but has no hope of getting back its capital.
The Americans no longer want to engage in this kind of loss-making business and are eager to stop losses. .
Therefore, the American branch believes that if we talk about the Philippines’ sovereignty deal now, the chance of success is the greatest, and we have the chance now.
If we wait until World War I begins and the strategic significance of this area begins to become apparent, the United States will increase its investment here and its rule will begin to stabilize.
They won't give up then.
So Wen Desi sent Lu Zhengxiang to talk with him with the attitude of giving it a try.
At the same time, he also asked Zenith Star and other vest companies to create public opinion in the United States.
As a result, after doing this, the Americans actually agreed.
After sending Lu Zhengxiang away, Wen Desi called in Wang Qi, the Minister of National Security.
He said calmly: "Before we officially take over the Philippines, the humanitarian relief supplies there cannot be stopped."
Wang Qi smiled and said: "Mr.
Wen, please rest assured.
Several rebel armies are currently in our hands, and the Americans have always thought that Britain and Japan were behind it
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