The Third Reich: The Return of the King

The meeting at sea did not last long, only about half an hour, and because it was held on the cruiser Haiqi of the Celestial Empire, outsiders did not know what the two were talking about.

It was only after the meeting that it did not take long for Nanyue to secretly send some of its diplomats to Hans, and the two sides signed a large number of contracts, covering military, industrial, agricultural and other aspects.

But these are all things later, so let's not mention them for the time being.

Mainz continued his journey north, and soon arrived at the capital of the Celestial Empire, ready to begin his visit to the Celestial Empire.

The Beiyang government was very nervous when it heard that the revolutionary government in the south was going to send troops to intercept the Hans delegation.

Most of the navy of the Celestial Empire is the foundation left by the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty realized the importance of the navy after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, so after the defeat purchased a lot of warships from abroad, although these warships have not been able to reach the level of the Dingyuan ship and the Zhenyuan ship in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, and the tonnage is only more than 4,000 tons, which belongs to the category of light cruisers.

Compared with the already possessed battleships and armored cruisers in the footbasin, the naval strength of the Qing Dynasty lagged far behind.

However, this is also a helpless thing, the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the subsequent invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition signed the Xinchou Treaty, these two treaties greatly hollowed out the Qing Dynasty's finances, so that a large part of the Qing Dynasty's financial revenue had to be used to repay debts, and there was no money to buy expensive warships, and the footbasin because of the hundreds of millions of taels of silver harvested by the Shimonoseki Treaty, there were enough funds to purchase from foreign countries, which achieved take-off.

Before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the last cruisers purchased from the sun never set were the Haiqi and Haichen ships, all of which went south to join the revolutionary government in the south during the national defense movement, and the Beiyang government in the north seriously lacked the main naval ships in its hands and had no strength to confront the south.

Moreover, compared with the Qing Dynasty, the power of the central government during the Beiyang government period has greatly declined, and they have been unable to maintain effective rule over the country, so the financial revenue is far behind that of the Qing Dynasty.

Besides, the navy is of little help to these warlords, and you can't expect to drive naval warships to land and bombard others, right?

Against this backdrop, the Celestial Empire's navy had a fifty-year vacuum, which ceased to develop after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

When the Beiyang government heard that the revolutionary government in the south wanted the navy to intercept Hans's delegation, they had no means to help except pray in their hearts, so many people thought that this visit was going to be ruined!

As a result, the Hans did not expect to break through the obstruction of the southern rebels and come to the north.

This made the Beiyang government overjoyed, and they held a more grand reception ceremony to welcome the European guests from afar!

At this time, the person in power of the Beiyang government was none other than Zhang Zuolin, who was a warlord.

Originally, in history, it should have been Cao Kun, a direct warlord, who occupied this place at this time, but history has changed a little here.

Zhang Zuolin, who was supported by Mainz's weapons, relied on tanks, planes, and artillery that were an entire era ahead of other warlords in the Celestial Empire, and was almost invincible when fighting other warlords.

Although the Northeast Army is not very good at using tanks as a weapon, the appearance of tanks on the battlefield of the Celestial Empire is already a foul level, the attack of this bullet, the speed of running is also not satisfied, and its own firepower is also extremely fierce, for the warlords around the country who lack artillery, this kind of is their natural enemy, and they don't know how to deal with these iron bumps!

Even a big warlord like a direct warlord suffered a big loss in the face of the tank troops of the Northeast Army, not to mention that the Northeast Army was also equipped with an air force, although the number of fighters was not large, but in an era when others didn't even know what the air force was, or even what an airplane was, their fighters were simply invincible, and at this time, the warlords in the Celestial Empire did not have the corresponding air defense weapons at all!

As a result, they were completely at a disadvantage in the face of the armored forces and air force of the Northeast Army.

Zhang Zuolin relied on these two sharp weapons to successfully get out of the customs, took Beiping, drove away the direct warlords here, and successfully controlled the Beiyang government!

It is precisely because I have seen the power of these weapons provided by Hans and enjoyed the great benefits brought by these weapons that the Northeast Army attaches great importance to the distinguished guests of Hans who come from afar!

As soon as Mainz and the others disembarked at Dagukou, they were personally greeted by Zhang Shaoshuai.

Major Marshal Zhang not only came by himself, but also brought a whole division of cavalry troops, and escorted the German delegation to Beiping all the way.

After arriving in Beiping, Zhang Zuolin organized 200,000 people to welcome him along the more than 50-kilometer-long Chang'an Avenue.

Looking at the crowd of welcome procession, the members of Hans's delegation were dumbfounded!

When have they met?

This meeting feels like welcoming the country's leaders, which is too grand!

"General, I'm really sorry, we lack heavy industry in our country, and the cement plant has not yet been built, so the road is not very smooth, if you come back in two years, we promise that you will not be bumped on such a road!"

Zhang Shaoshuai is just 2 years old this year, which is the age of high spirits.

And with his father's ascension to the throne of the president of the Beiyang government, his status has also risen.

In Zhang Shaoshuai's view, after his father retires, the position of president must be reserved for himself, so from now on, he will already regard himself as the master of this country.

It is precisely because of this that at this time, when facing foreign guests, especially important foreign guests, Zhang Shaoshuai will pay special attention to it, hoping to make the foreign guests feel at home, so as to leave a better impression on the foreign guests.

As a native of the Celestial Empire, Mainz can certainly understand this kind of thinking of the other party.

Because of the fiasco caused by the Opium War, the Celestial Empire sank for hundreds of years, and in the hundreds of years, they were invaded by foreign enemies again and again, pressed to the ground and beaten again and again, and after the fighting, they were exploited and oppressed, and they were slandered and discriminated against by Westerners!

Such a tragic encounter made the people of the Celestial Empire themselves have serious doubts about their own culture and even their own race, and many people have a feeling of white supremacy, subconsciously thinking that they are not good, and then try their best to please foreigners, in exchange for the recognition of foreigners.

It's like a humble person hoping to be recognized and performed by others.

This kind of sick thinking has not been completely eliminated until 100 years later, let alone this era!

Mainz knows that in the 20s of the 20th century, it was the time when foreigners invaded on a large scale and the self-denial within the Celestial Empire was the most serious, and in this context, he, a Western foreigner, had a status in the Celestial Empire that exceeded 99% of the Celestial Empire's people!

Therefore, some of these people who were mobilized by the Beiyang government to welcome him were forced, but some were also voluntary.

In their opinion, it is a very proud thing to get an official visit from the defense minister of a foreign country or a big country!

This can be seen from Zhang Shaoshuai in front of him!

Mainz sighed in his heart, both to his disappointment with Shaoshuai Zhang and to the lament of the problems of the Celestial Empire.

He can't solve this problem, and he doesn't have the energy to solve it, he can only hope that a great person will appear in the Celestial Empire itself, so as to save this country and save this nation!

PS: In the afternoon, I watched an absolute drama of "Xeno-Invasion", and I watched 11 episodes in one go, and the wall crack is recommended!_

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