Early the next morning, when the gate of the Tang Mansion slowly opened, Tang Jian walked out wearing a tweed coat. Behind Tang Jian was the presidential guard led by Chen Chusheng.1(1)

It turns out to be sunny after the heavy snow!

Tang Jian looked around and saw that the whole of Wuhan was covered in silver. The place where he saw it was white. The winter sun shone brightly under the reflection of the remaining snow.

Tang Jian waved his hand, got on the president's special car, and headed straight for Wuhan Airport.

While developing military aircraft, Ouyang Yanqing improved and built aircraft that could take passengers in order to facilitate the travel of Tang Jian and other Chinese military officials. However, this aircraft was relatively small, and the pilot could only take three people.

Even so, Tang Jian was still very satisfied. After all, this was a successful attempt. With such a small flight attendant aircraft, large flight attendant aircraft can be developed in the future and military transport aircraft can be developed, which is a great help to the long-range combat of the Chinese Navy and Army.

At this time, the snow on the Wuhan Airport runway had already been cleaned up. Tang Jian did not stop at all and boarded the plane and flew towards Fuzhou. In Fuzhou, the major generals of China's sea, land and air were already waiting.

With a roar, five planes soared out and flew to the southeast. Gradually, the huge figures of the five planes shrank into a black dot in the air, and then disappeared into the clear blue sky after the snow.

In the afternoon, five planes landed in Fuzhou's military airport in turn. At the airport, senior generals of the Navy, Army and Air Force welcomed their young president in the cold wind.

Tang Jian got off the gangway, Ye Zugui, Cheng Biguang, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun and others stepped forward one by one. Tang Jian shook hands with everyone and said hello one by one, then waved his hand: "Get into the house and say!"

At this time, a warm dinner had already been prepared in the lobby of a villa in Fuzhou. The dry firewood in the fireplace was crackling and a warm feeling filled the entire hall.

Tang Jian led the way into this large restaurant first. After Chen Chusheng took the tweed coat that Tang Jian took off and handed it, everyone began to sit down in an orderly manner.

Soon, more than a hundred senior generals of the Chinese Navy, Army and Air Force were filled with the entire restaurant. Tang Jian sat in the main seat. After everyone sat down, Tang Jian said, "Haha, today is the first day of the New Year. I'll pay a New Year to everyone!" Tang Jian bowed to everyone.

The generals smiled and returned a greeting to Tang Jian.

Tang Jian continued: "Today is the first day of the New Year. It was a good day for everyone to reunite, but I hurried from Wuhan to gather everyone together, surely I didn't come to have a reunion dinner with everyone. Since everyone has eaten their own reunion dinner, it should be a good meal! Haha."

Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became alive, and the cold air that had just been stained at the airport dissipated.

"Although it's not for a reunion dinner with everyone, don't be reserved. This time, I want to gather you all to discuss the recent international situation with you, and talk about what attitude China should take to face it. Come on, don't just watch it, eat it and drink it." Tang Jian took the lead in raising his glass and toasted everyone with a glass.

After drinking a cup, Tang Jian suddenly felt his hair and pores open. Just now, he was blown into a popsicle by the cold wind on the plane.

Since Tang Jian spoke and raised his glass first, the generals returned a cup and started chatting with the generals who were familiar with him. Of course, the focus of the generals talking about was all about the tense situation in Europe.

After three tours of drinking, Tang Jian coughed lightly and asked: "Since the victory of the War against Japan, there has been no war in China and has developed rapidly in a stable environment for four years. However, since entering 1911, the smell of gunpowder in the air has become stronger and stronger, and the source of gunpowder is Europe. Does anyone know more about the recent situation in Europe? Share it with everyone."

Duan Qirui stood up, held his wine glass to greet everyone, and said: "In 1907, after Britain and Russia ended their colonial dispute, they signed the 'British and Russian understanding'. In the same year, France, Britain and Russia jointly formed the Three Kingdoms Agreement because they were threatened by Russia's power in the Ottoman Empire, which officially competed with the 'Three Kingdoms Alliance' concluded by the German Empire, Austria-Hungarian Empire and Italy more than 20 years ago. Since then, Europe has been divided into two major camps. On the issue of colonies, the conflict between the two major camps is becoming more and more intense, and a situation of melee across many European countries may break out at any time. And this contradiction has not been reduced at all, but has become more and more intense."

Tang Jian nodded and said, "Yes, German Emperor William II recently invited China to join the Allies, but I flatly rejected it. Europe is like a huge powder keg. As long as the temperature exceeds the limit, a big explosion will occur soon. At this time, the alliance with Germany will undoubtedly cause fire to burn." Feng Guozhang said, "Although that's the case, once the European war spreads, China will inevitably suffer, and the fire will always burn on us. Once the situation is out of control, the president must also be clear that China cannot survive alone. After all, European countries and the Far East have a tangled relationship of one or another."

"At that time, since we can't keep ourselves alone, we can only fight head-on. China is not a soft persimmon at this time. It's not something that anyone can pinch if they want." Tang Jian snorted coldly: "But before we need to, we don't need to mix up this imperialist plunder war too early. After all, China is in Asia, and Asia and the Pacific region are the scope of China's power to develop, not the Atlantic."

Tang Jian paused and said, "Of course, the contradictions between Western European countries are not unfavorable to the development of China. Just like now, European countries are busy fighting for hegemony on the European continent and the Atlantic, and have no time to take care of the Far East. This is why China has not interfered with foreign forces in recent years. Haha, I still want to take advantage of the years to get back the land seized by the great powers during the Qing Dynasty. The European wars are densely covered, so where do they have time to take care of the colonies in China? Also, hasn't the expansion and preparations of European countries also promoted the development of China's economy? Now there are many military factories in China, but some of them still cannot supply the strong purchasing power of European countries."

"Haha, I feel that our China is a bit like an arms dealer." Cao Kun joked.

As soon as Cao Kun finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter. Of course, it was not the title of "arms dealer", but the huge profits obtained by China in recent years through arms trafficking.

In recent years, China has been selling the military that is about to be eliminated by the military, but it is very advanced science and technology for European countries, such as tanks, aircraft, and the first generation of m14 technology. When European countries imitate it, China's technology has been innovated again, and more advanced and more powerful weapons will be manufactured quickly. The development of weapon technology in European countries is far from keeping up with the weapon technology innovation of Huaxia Technology.

Tang Jian smiled and said, "It's not like an arms dealer, but you must become an arms dealer. This arms are profitable. When the great powers invaded us, they smuggled opium and plundered various minerals and other raw materials. I wonder how much wealth was revealed to Europe. At this time, can't we just make money by using arms dealers? European countries have collected countless wealth from various continents since the era of navigation. They are all rich. When will they wait until they are not slaughtered?"

Everyone laughed again and agreed with Tang Jian's idea of ​​making China a "arms dealer".

Tang Jian looked around the generals, and a curve appeared on the corner of his mouth. The generals present may not know, but as an authentic time traveler, Tang Jian knew very well how the United States sold arms in World War I and World War II, earned high profits, and made a fortune in the war, thus becoming a superpower after World War II.

Tang Jian was very familiar with the contradictions between European countries. In order to unify Germany and compete with France for European hegemony, Prussia broke out in the French-Prussian War with France from 1870 to 1871. As a result, France was defeated, Prussia won a great victory, and finally established the German Empire.

However, the contract for the French-Popular Armistice was extremely harsh. Prussia stipulated that France ceded the Alsace and Lorraine to Germany, and also demanded compensation of 5 billion francs, which made France resentful and extremely unwilling to accept the outcome of the war.

After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France wanted to take revenge, reclaim the Alsace and Lorraine regions, and annex Germany's Ruhr mining area. Germany wanted to continue to weaken and curb France's development, and then seize the territory of France and other countries, and establish a "Central European Empire", which made the contradiction between Germany and other neighboring countries increasingly fierce.

Among them, the most essential contradiction is that the emerging capitalist power led by Germany was dissatisfied with reality and wanted to re-dividate its sphere of influence. Although imperialism emerged in the 20th century, in the Bismarck era, Bismarck participated less in the competition for colonies in view of the establishment of the unified German Empire.

Later, in view of the rise of domestic merchant forces, merchants asked the German government to compete for overseas resources and markets. Therefore, after William II, the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck was dismissed. The German emperor believed that there were too few German colonies and insufficient raw material production and commodity markets, so he abandoned Bismarck's policy of fighting far and near on the European continent, and began to implement the "world policy", demanding the re-division of the global scope of strength.

So this violated the respective interests of the old colonial powers, Britain and France, and then the countries began to join forces, which directly led to the formation of two imperialist military aggression groups. Although Tang Jian knew that his original space-time war broke out in 1914, he was not sure whether this space-time war would break out early. From the current situation, the smell of gunpowder in Europe is getting stronger and stronger, and the First World War is still about to break out!

That's why Tang Jian was so hastily summoning the generals to come. Tang Jian's purpose was to prepare for war in advance, in case of every need!
Chapter completed!