Looking at Haijing's back as he impatiently ran back to report the message to William, Emperor Yang smiled sinisterly. To be honest, airships were tasteless to him and were just worthless waste. Currently, Kunpeng Aircraft Manufacturing Company is in Yan.
Liangji is trial-producing a twin-engine heavy bomber. Although it is a bit exaggerated to reach the level of Liberator and Flying Fortress, it is still easy to reach the level of Martin B10. Who would use such a thing? It is slow and expensive.
It's an expensive airship. Helium is not cheap in modern times, let alone what he makes now!
But it is different for Germany. If William could build an air fleet, fly to London in a mighty manner, and drop hundreds or even thousands of tons of bombs towards the heart of the British, he would be happy to death.=
But in this case, napalm should be produced again. In fact, the technological content of napalm is not high. Both China and Germany are capable of producing it. The key is that the coagulant is not easy to produce. Although
It is possible to add rubber, but the cost would be terrible, and it would be difficult for William to transport the rubber produced in his Philippine colony back to Germany at this time. In fact, Russia is now thinking about the Philippines.
In this case, we can produce some polystyrene and sell it to him. We will treat it as plastic raw materials to the outside world and sell the plastic raw materials ourselves. This has nothing to do with the neutrality law. As for whether the Germans will buy it back to make disposable lunch boxes or solidification
Petrol bombs, this also has nothing to do with China. As for the production of polystyrene, it is very simple. In fact, this kind of thing has already been produced in China, but the scale is not too big. For William's sake, expand it.
The production capacity is absolutely fine, and if necessary, he can sell it to his uncle, so that his uncle can realize his ideal of spanking him!
Emperor Yang suddenly realized that his spring seemed to have really come. Of course, Emperor Yang's spring was usually other people's winter.
Just when Europe was being beaten to pieces and Paris was quickly turning into ruins, in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, representatives from various countries participating in the Congress of Petroleum Producing Countries unanimously decided to establish a coordinating body for crude oil production, called the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The abbreviation of the organization, the English name is opec, and the Chinese name is OPEC according to the transliteration. In view of the great contribution of His Majesty the Emperor of China to the world petroleum industry, the conference elected Emperor Yang as the lifelong honorary chairman.
Emperor Yang happily accepted the honor.
After the establishment of OPEC, the first thing was to announce that the crude oil exports of all OPEC member countries would be based on the actual conditions of each country. The OPEC Council would negotiate the FOB price. In addition, due to the reduction in Romanian crude oil production, the increase in China's crude oil demand, and the impact of the Mexican floods, various countries
Crude oil exports will increase by one-third on the basis of the original price. The possibility of continued price increases cannot be ruled out in the future, because the hurricane season on the Caribbean coast is coming, and production will be greatly affected by then.
When this news came out, the warring European countries almost vomited blood. Damn, the Caribbean hurricane season is coming, and it's only February, okay?
However, both Britain, France and Germany know very well that if they were replaced, the price would only rise even more. Taking advantage of the situation to make war fortune has always been their favorite thing to do, but now it is just replaced by these oil tyrants, and one third of them are not
It’s not much. The three countries were already prepared to raise the price of crude oil when this conference was held. Besides, it’s not shameful to let them make money now. At worst, they will find an opportunity to launch the warships after the outcome is determined.
Let them spit it out again in the past.
But another news that came out at the World Petroleum Conference in Mexico made the Allied Powers unable to sit still. The representatives of the Kingdom of Romania who attended the conference, the Minister of the Kingdom of Romania in the Republic of Mexico, and the Ministers of the Chinese Empire and the Ottoman Empire in Mexico jointly held a meeting
According to the contents of the private talks, disclosed by Mexican government sources, the Kingdom of Romania is likely to seek the protection of these two important countries that are not yet involved in the war.
This is absolutely impossible for the Allied Powers to tolerate. If Romania and China and Austria form an alliance, it means that they have obtained a powerful protective umbrella, a protective umbrella that they cannot offend in any case. Under the protection of this powerful protective umbrella,
The Romanians could ignore any threats from them and opened up the export of crude oil to Germany.
Trying to cut off Germany's crude oil supply is the main strategy of the Allied Powers, and the most important part of it is Romania. In fact, the British don't care too much about the Ottoman Empire's crude oil supply to Germany. After all, Imperial Oil is operated by British employees.
We operate two major oil fields, Kirkuk and Masjid Sulaiman, with an annual production capacity of 30 million tons. They are basically divided between China, Britain and France. Only a few million tons flow to Germany, and there are supply contracts for the next few years.
Still mainly in the hands of Britain and France.
Even if it is supplied to Germany in the future, it will only be three to four million tons per year at most. After all, the managers of this company are basically British. The Rothschild family and Crown Prince Victor still hold 45% of the shares.
Even if Yang Feng, Hamid II, and the King of Persia control 55% of the equity, it is not too difficult to stop the flow of crude oil here to Germany. Even if it cannot be stopped, it can be suppressed in one
Within insignificant numbers.
Germany's other major crude oil suppliers are the Americas, the Confederacy, Mexico and Guatemala. Don't worry about Guatemala's oil. Just send a division to Belize and a few warships can solve it. Mexico and the Confederacy's oil are basically exclusive supplies.
China used to export to Germany because the Panama Canal was not open and transportation was too difficult, but now it is different, and the North American oil pipeline is about to be built. If you think about it, Yang Feng will definitely not sell crude oil to others.
He himself is not enough in China!
Another more important point is the transportation issue. To transport crude oil from the Americas to Germany, large tankers are needed. Although tankers from neutral countries cannot attack, those who transport oil to Germany are their own tankers. The Royal Navy saw a tanker
Just one ship is enough. Yang Feng's current shipping capacity is very tight. Otherwise, he would not be able to build oil tankers in China. He will definitely not have time to help William. As for others, who dares to help, and whoever dares to help will kill him! The British Empire is in trouble
If you can't afford Yang Feng, can you still afford to offend others?
In this way, there is no need to care too much about crude oil in the Americas. What's more, as the war progresses, whether China, Britain or France, the demand for crude oil will definitely skyrocket. The current world crude oil production capacity is definitely not enough. Even if it is sold at a high price, it will be taken away from the Germans.
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But not Romania. It can be said that all crude oil in this country was exported to Germany in the past, and all orders in the next few years will also be in the hands of the Germans. Even the railways for crude oil transportation were built for Germany, and the investments were also made by Germans. As long as this country always
If neutrality is maintained, then all 10 million tons of production capacity per year will definitely flow to Germany. This is a terrifying number.
Therefore, Romania has obtained the protection of China and the Ottoman Empire, which means that the Allied Powers' most important strategy against Germany is completely bankrupt. This is absolutely intolerable, and Romania must be resolved before the formal covenant is signed.
Just as the German army broke through the second outer line of defense in Paris and began to ravage Paris with overwhelming artillery fire, even using the 420 cannon to blow up the Eiffel Tower into pieces, the two Russian armies stationed in Bessarabia suddenly
An undeclared war was launched against the Romanian troops guarding the border.
The Romanians who were caught off guard did not have time to put up any decent resistance, and were overwhelmed by the Russians sweeping in like a flood. The six Romanian divisions on the Russian border collapsed. More than 30,000 of them surrendered directly. As for the remaining
They completely let go of their sheep and fled southward over the mountains and plains.
This news shocked the world, of course, at least superficially. China and the Ottoman Empire, which had already started friendly negotiations with the Romanians in Mexico, strongly condemned the Russian army's despicable behavior of undeclared war in the harshest tone, and even
Both countries began mobilizing for war, looking absolutely furious, especially China. Foreign Minister Zhang Quan even summoned the Russian Minister to China and expressed serious protest to him in person!
Of course, these cannot change the fact that Romania was invaded, and at this time, China, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Romania have indeed not signed an alliance agreement, which means that China cannot declare war on Russia on the grounds of fulfilling its alliance obligations. As for Emperor Yang
This is easy to deal with if he is angry. Both the British and Nicholas know very well how to appease this angry guy.
In short, after defeating the Romanian army with only a few thousand casualties, the Russian army marched all the way south and attacked the Ploiesti oil field, the only target of this trip. They did not realize that they were actually Carol I who was sold.
After asking for help from the Ottoman Empire and being embarrassedly rejected by Hamid II, he finally had no choice but to declare war on Russia. At the same time, he hastily signed alliance treaties with Germany and Austria-Hungary, and then stationed in Transylvania.
A German army group and an Austro-Hungarian army entered Romania by train and quickly took control of the Ploiesti oil field ahead of the Russian army.
After learning that the German and Austrian troops had occupied this oil field, Britain and France successively declared war on Romania. At the same time, the Russian army that invaded Galicia dispatched a group army south to join the battle against Romania. The focus of the Eastern Front battlefield became Romania.
The Austro-Hungarian army, which had been compressed into the Carpathian Mountains, finally took a breather. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!