Chapter 179 Military Exchange (1)
After receiving domestic instructions, the trade negotiations between East China and Germany came to an end. East China accepted the requirements of Germany to transfer military technology and design warships, but added 10 items to the technology transferred by Germany to 27 items. Because East China believes that although Germany's requirements can be agreed, it only requires Germany to transfer 17 items, which is a loss. Therefore, after negotiation, another 10 items were added.
But after receiving the request from East China **, Germany did not even make a single joke and immediately agreed. Because Germany did not expect that East China ** would agree to Germany's request. It is necessary to know that military technology is the highest level of technology in any country and will not be transferred easily. Moreover, Germany requires the most advanced military technology in this era. Therefore, Germany estimated that the best result is that East China ** agreed to transfer half of the transfer, and even if only one-third of the technology is transferred, Germany would think it would be satisfactory. And East China ** actually agreed, so it would not make Germany ecstatic. Not to mention that East China ** has added 10 more technologies that require Germany to transfer. Even if there are 20 more, Germany would agree, and it would not think it would lose.
Since both sides agreed with each other's conditions, the matter was easier to handle later. Both sides immediately began to determine the terms one by one, and finally formed a complete agreement clause, and then signed the contract, which also completed a major task of East China's visit to Germany.
During the negotiations between the two sides, other work was also proceeding in an orderly manner. As soon as the New Year's Day holiday ended, Gu Hongming took a cultural team to tour. In the German education and cultural circles, one Gu Hongming whirlwind was blew one after another. Wherever they went, they were warmly welcomed by universities and education and cultural circles in Germany. Every speech by Gu Hongming was filled with audiences and it was hard to get a ticket. Many people came from other places to listen to Gu Hongming's speech.
Of course, Gu Hongming's speech is indeed informative. When East China ** and Germany signed a trade agreement, Gu Hongming gave 12 speeches in Germany. Although the contents are all about promoting Chinese culture, revealing and criticizing the shortcomings and limitations of European culture, the angles, perspectives and positions of choices are different, so none of them is repetitive. It can be said that each speech has new content, so many people are chasing the scene and listening to Gu Hongming's speeches.
Although the others in the cultural group were a little dissatisfied with this, first of all, their level was not sufficient. Gu Hongming's speeches were conducted in German and quoted many European allusions. Their words were humorous and interesting. Others really couldn't do this. Secondly, they were also persuaded by Yan Fu, deputy team leader Yan Fu, who was generous in character. Although Gu Hongming stole the limelight from everyone, he represented China after all. Therefore, the greater his honor, the more light he actually brought to everyone's faces.
On the other hand, according to domestic instructions, Xu Jichao and Li Sanjie also decided to visit the Austro-Hungarian Empire; after ending their visit to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Li Sanjie would visit the Ottoman Empire by sea from the Austro-Hungarian Empire; while Xu Jichao visited Italy and then returned to Germany, and the next visit to Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and other countries.
Germany was also very satisfied with the visit arrangements of East China **, because East China ** uses Germany as its base to tour Europe, which is obviously regarded as the most important and special country. The two countries visited first, one is Germany's closest ally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the other is Italy, one of the members of the allies, which can also give Germany a lot of face.
As for East China's visit to the Ottoman Empire, Germany had no objection, because Germany is actively working to Lalong the Ottoman Empire, so Germany also gave East China's great support for visiting abroad.
Besides the international students, only members of the military team remained.
Military exchanges are one of the important contents of East China's visit to Germany this time, and are on par with trade negotiations. In Germany's view, military exchanges with East China are better than trade negotiations. In addition to hoping to obtain East China's military technology, Germany also hopes to understand the detailed process of the Far East War.
The Far East War was the largest and most technical war that has occurred so far, and it also has a battlefield on both sea and land. Therefore, after the war ended, it naturally became a war focused on research by the military forces of various countries. It was a powerful country like Germany, the United States, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy.
However, the Far East War has just ended, and the details of the war have not been announced yet. Other countries of course know very little about the overall situation of the Far East War. In fact, it is the countries that participated in the war. Excluding countries like Britain, France and the Netherlands that participated in the war in the later period, even if they were Russia, which participated in the war throughout the war, Japan did not have all the detailed process of the war. This is because after the East China** participated in the war, the Far East War was actually divided into two battlefields. East China** was a war with Japan and Russia respectively. Therefore, both Japan and Russia only knew the situation of the battlefield they participated in, and the battlefield on the other side could only be known in exchanges after the war ended.
But even so, both Japan and Russia only know their own tactical trends, and the military strength, tactical arrangement, strategic ideas, etc. can only be inferred from the war after the war is over. However, due to insufficient relevant information, this inference can only lead to some correct results, and some results are far from the facts.
Only East China is the only country that can grasp the details of the entire process of the Far East War. This is not only because East China participated in all the battlefield wars after it participated in the war, but also East China Captured a large number of Japanese and Russian soldiers on the battlefield, including middle and senior officers, as well as a large number of documents and materials. Through interrogation of the prisoners and analysis of the data, East China Capturing basically understands the forces, arrangements, strategies and other situations of Japan and Russia, and even before East China Capturing the war, eighty or ninety percent of the situation of the Russo-Japanese War.
Germany is still concerned about the details of the Far East War, because the three members of the Allied Power, Russia, France and Britain, were participants in the war, and they were Russia and in-depth participants in the war. Germany hoped to fully understand Russia's war through the Far East War. In addition, the Navy of East China almost completely defeated the Expeditionary Fleet dominated by the British navy. This result made Germany respectful, and William II was even more envious and jealous. The German Navy naturally wanted to know the details of the East China defeating the Expeditionary Fleet. Therefore, before the visiting delegation set off, Germany also made a special request to the East China, hoping that in this military exchange, the East China could provide all detailed process information about the Far East War.
East China ** did not refuse Germany's request. After all, it was not very useful to keep these materials in hand. It would be better to exchange some technology with Germany. Therefore, East China ** also specially compiled a [Far East War Information Collection], which had more than 800 pages and was equipped with more than 30 maps, which recorded the entire process of the war in detail. Of course, the parts that did not want Germany to know came up with other plans to get over it. After the visiting delegation attended the Christmas dinner, it was handed over to the German General Staff.
After receiving this information, Germany was naturally ecstatic. However, since the information was written in Chinese, the German General Staff immediately arranged for people to translate it. Fortunately, the relationship between Germany and East China has recently increased in recent years, and the demand for Chinese talents has also increased greatly. Many people who are proficient in Chinese have trained many Chinese translations. Everyone divided the information into dozens and worked together overnight. In just one week, the translation of this book [Far East War Information Collection] was completed and printed. After the New Year's Day holiday, the first batch of 300 books were released.
However, Germany certainly knew the value of this material, so William II ordered that the material be listed as the third-class secret in Germany. Only officers above major generals are qualified to read. Only generals can borrow it and read it, while others can only read it in the reading room. Of course, William II himself also left a book and read it carefully. At the same time, the military team of the visiting delegation also took two hours a day to answer relevant questions.
During this period, the main tasks of the military team were to visit arsenals, shipyards, ports, barracks, soldiers training and exercises, etc., and had three discussions with the German General Staff. The main discussion was on the establishment, tactics, weapons, etc. of the army, but they were only discussed in general and did not have any profound discussions.
Three days later, the first group of readers had read it and had basically understood the entire process of the Far East War. Therefore, the two sides began to have a second-level exchange, which is the summary of the Far East War by East China. The content in this regard is some records in the [Far East War Information Collection], but it is not detailed. After all, the summary of such a large-scale and protracted war cannot be completed in a short time. Moreover, the impact of the Far East War on Asia and the world will take at least 10 years, or even longer to show. The summary mentioned by the military team now represents the results of the summary of the Far East War at this stage. In addition, after reading the [Far East War Information Collection], the German side must have his own ideas about this war and is included in the scope of exchanges.
The exchange was conducted in two parts: the army and the navy. This is because in the Far East War, in addition to the later battle of the People's Army landing in Japan, the war on the land and sea line basically belongs to two battlefields. Although the results of the war on the land and sea line will affect each other, such as the Battle of Takama when East China was just participating in the war, annihilated the navy of Japan and Russia in one fell swoop, thus controlling the maritime power and cutting off the connection between the Japanese mainland and the Far East battlefield, which also reduced the pressure on the land battlefield. Even the battle of the People's Army landing in Japan was completed by the Marine Corps. However, after landing in Japan, due to the insufficient military strength of the Marine Corps, several divisions were drawn from the army to the Japanese mainland, which led to the coordinated combat of the navy and the army. However, there was almost no real interaction between the two battlefields on the land and sea line.
Chapter completed!