After determining the main economic development direction in the future, Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi, who has been without interrupting, said: "President, since the founding of China, most countries in the world have not recognized our new regime, only Germany is the first to recognize our new country. (eng.com_)"

Tang Jian's face was solemn. This situation was already as expected by him. Because he had a secret agreement with Germany before, it was not very strange that the Germans first recognized the Chinese regime.

Tang Shaoyi continued: "But, President, do you know? The second person who admits China is actually Japan!"

"Japan?" Tang Jian asked, wasn't it cruel enough to beat the Japanese before? The Japanese actually cried and pretended to be compassionate. Speaking of which, Japan is also an Eastern country in the Far East that recognizes the Chinese regime!

In this way, only the two countries, Germany in the West and Japan in the East, recognized the Chinese regime.

"In addition, there is an important situation, that is, the Russians seem to have signed a certain agreement with the British, but we still don't know what kind of secret agreement Russia and Britain have signed." Tang Shaoyi said with some concern.

Tang Shaoyi said that here, Tang Jian had already guessed the difference in his heart. The rise of China must have threatened Britain's dominance in the Far East. Moreover, after the founding of China, it will definitely regain the Northeast within a certain period of time, and it has even claimed to the outside world that it will not refuse to recognize the Outer Mongolian.

Russia's Far East Pacific Fleet has been completely lost and cannot compete with the Chinese Pacific Army. Without naval support, Russia is afraid that Tang Jian will raise troops to the northeast. At that time, the Chinese army will advance together on land and land, and the Russian infantry and cavalry in the northeast will be threatened. In this case, the Russians urgently need a foreign aid that can curb China, while Britain is just right.

Thinking of the complex situation in Europe at this time, it is not difficult for Tang Jian to guess the purpose of the British, that is, to curb China's development and avoid threatening its interests in the Far East. At the same time, to crack down on China can also achieve the goal of curbing Germany.

Tang Jian saw clearly the open and secret struggle between Britain and Germany.

At this time, the Europeans controlled 80% of the world's regions, and Britain's colonial power was the strongest. British colonies were spread all over the world, with a total population of 400 million. Germany did not participate in the competition for the colonies until after the national reunification in 1871, so it had to follow the old imperialist countries such as France, Russia, and Britain to pick up leftovers.

Finally, the Germans were frustrated and angry to find that they were blocked by the vast British colonies in almost all parts of the world, and that the Germans would obviously not be satisfied with this, and it demanded an empire commensurate with their growing economic strength.

At the same time, Britain, who regarded itself as the "Empire of the Sun", found that although it could maintain its economic advantage in traditional colonial territories, in Latin America, the Middle East and the Far East completely lost to combative German businessmen.

It is precisely because of this that the relationship between Britain and Germany has become particularly tense. Both countries have tried their best to strengthen their naval power to protect merchant ship routes and merchant ship transportation. The naval arms race has further exacerbated the tension in the international situation.

This is why the Germans collaborated with Tang Jian, who was not very powerful. On the one hand, the Germans wanted to use Tang Jian's triple-mounted technology to enhance their naval power and catch up with Britain. On the other hand, the largest colony of the British was in the Far East. The Germans wanted to use a gradually stronger China to curb the British's power development in the Far East.

Of course, the competition between European powers on colonies was not limited to Britain and Germany. In the postscript of the nineteenth century, almost all European powers were involved in this battle for absolute dominance, in one region after another—Britain and Germany in East and Northwest Africa, Britain and France in Siam (that is, today’s Thailand) and the Nile, Britain and Russia in Persia (now Iran) and Afghanistan, Germany and France in Morocco and West Africa—conflicts one after another.

Yan Fu, Bafeite, and Tang Shaoyi saw that Tang Jian was in deep thought. When they knew that Tang Jian was thinking about the international situation at this time, they did not disturb him. Instead, they sat quietly aside, waiting for Tang Jian to pull back his thoughts from the thoughts.

However, at this time, Tang Jian's thoughts were getting farther and farther away. Tang Jian clearly remembered that in the 1871 French-Prussian War, the German Iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck, who had a smart political mind and clever diplomatic tricks, wanted to isolate France in order to prevent the French from revenge, so he used diplomatic means to sign a military alliance agreement with the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1873.

Because France wanted to regain the Alsace-Lorraine region in the city in 1871, while the Russians clashed one after another with the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Balkans. By 1882, the two alliances became the Three-Nation Alliance due to Italy's joining. The purpose was to defend and protect Italy from the French attacks, because Italy and France had sharp conflicts in Tunisia.

Since then, a military alliance group in Europe has been formed.

However, the German Emperor William II, who was very fond of merit, gave up Bismarck's suggestion and eventually became a sharp opposition to France. Therefore, in 1894, when the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 was held, the French-Russian League was officially established. This covenant was to oppose the Three Kingdoms Alliance and jointly resist Britain's struggle for the colony.

However, Britain was a little indifferent to the two alliances at that time. He was devoted to building his intercontinental empire, had no time to take care of continental affairs, and maintained a neutral attitude at the beginning.

However, this attitude of Britain began to change quietly after the founding of China. China and Germany had a secret agreement before. Tang Jian once vigorously provided advanced technology to Germany, and Germany secretly helped Tang Jian during the Chinese Civil War.

It is precisely because of this that Britain began to take precautions against the rise of China. What Tang Shaoyi said just now shows that Britain and Russia have formed an alliance, that is, the Three Kingdoms Agreement has been formed.

This is three years ahead of the history of the alliance between Britain and Russia in 1907. In history, it was because these two major military groups had unfathomable cracks due to uneven colonial distribution, which eventually led to World War I.

Now in this parallel space and time, history has been changed due to Tang Jian's intervention, which led to the formation of the Three Kingdoms Agreement in advance. Does this mean that the First World War will break out early?

Tang Jian sighed. Since history has changed tremendously because of his "butterfly", the things that followed have become unpredictable. Therefore, Tang Jian was not sure when the First World War would break out, perhaps in advance or postponed.

After thinking about it, Tang Jian gave Yan Fu, Bafeit and Tang Shaoyi the results he analyzed through the British-Russian Alliance.

After hearing this, Yan Fu and Tang Shaoyi were stunned. After all, they were people of this era. There had never been such an unprecedented world war in history before, so the two of them were always skeptical.

However, Tang Jian's thorough analysis of the world situation to the interests between countries was reasonable, which made the two dare not completely reject it, because if Tang Jian continued to develop like this, the First World War is likely to break out.

It’s easy to say about Bafete, because he and Tang Jian came from later generations. The World War was a real thing. At this time, the question in his heart was not whether World War I would break out, but speculation on when World War I would break out.

However, the four people agreed in the end, that is, no matter when the World War broke out, the most important thing in China now is to develop the economy, vigorously support heavy industry, and lay a solid foundation for future world wars.

Next, Tang Jian said: "At the same time, we have to guard against another country!"

Tang Shaoyi said: "Is it the United States?"

Tang Jian nodded: "That's right, it's the United States! The United States is located in North America and far away from the European continent. Its development environment is extremely superior, peaceful and peaceful. Unlike Europe, the rain of war always covers it. Moreover, the domestic raw materials are rich and the market is vast. The industrial economy adopting new technologies has achieved rapid development. Although he does not have the ambition to dominate for the time being, he has to be careful!"

Tang Shaoyi nodded deeply and admitted that he had been in the United States for a few years and knew very well about the situation in the United States. However, what surprised him was that Tang Jian had never been to the United States, so why was he more familiar with the industrial economy than he did?

Tang Jian said: "Okay, that's all for today's matter. I believe everyone here has a clear plan for the future in their hearts!"

The three of them nodded solemnly and prepared to get up and leave.

At this time, Yan Fu said: "President, the preparations for the National Business and Commerce Conference have been almost completed. Representatives from all provinces have gathered in Wuhan. The business conference can be held in three days."

"Well, okay, I understand!" Tang Jian turned around and sorted out the documents on the table and said.

"Report to the President, the British envoy is here to visit!" At this time, outside the door, Tang Jian's presidential secretary gently knocked on the door and said.

"Oh, is it that British envoy?" Tang Jian asked.

The secretary replied: "He turned out to be a member of the British Conservative Party, named Winston Churchill. He will come in the afternoon. His entourage just came to inform me."

"Churchill? What a familiar name?" Tang Jian searched for information about the British envoy in his mind. "Is it the British Prime Minister Churchill during World War II in history?"

"Is there any information about him?" Tang Jian asked.

The secretary looked up the information and said, "Yes!" Then he took out a document from the database next to him, "This is the information sent back by the CIA's office in the UK. President, please take a look."

Tang Jian took the information and opened it and saw: "It's indeed this Winston Churchill!"
Chapter completed!