Chapter 118 Chinese Friends
All the conditions proposed by Keynes were immediately accepted without reservation by the German government. These five conditions proposed by the British, together with the "principle of repayment in kind" and the "European foundry plan" proposed by the Germans, became the so-called "Keynesian Plan". At the end of 1923, it was accepted by countries such as Britain, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg that required Germany to pay war compensation.
The French accepted the "Keynes Plan" in principle in December 1923, because the French right-wing government resigned at the end of November - because France was more isolated on the Ruhr issue than it had been historically, the "national group" "He also stepped down more than six months earlier than in history.
The newly appointed Foreign Minister of the "Left-Left Alliance" government was Aristide Briand. Under his auspices, France quickly accepted the "Keynes Plan", and the French and Belgian armies were also adopting the "Keynes Plan". 》The withdrawal will officially begin on April 1 (the withdrawal will be completed within one year).
The Ruhr issue has now come to a relatively satisfactory conclusion.
But the currency war is far from over! What was caused by the huge claims against Germany was only the first round of the currency war. It ended with Germany's "conditional surrender" and the pound temporarily overwhelming the dollar.
But the dollar and the United States still have a huge advantage, and the pound's victory is only temporary.
The struggle between the pound and the dollar has nothing to do with Colonel Hersman for the time being. His role in the "German Expert Committee" was very short-lived, and he had withdrawn at the end of the Ruhr issue, as if he was a passerby.
After the Ruhr issue finally came to a satisfactory conclusion, Hersman and Chloe took their 3-year-old son Rudolf on a journey to Moscow.
He and Chloe were there to visit their old friend Lenin - who was terminally ill and would soon leave his country and people forever.
"After the first stroke, Comrade Lenin's health deteriorated. In May 1922, he suffered a second stroke, which left him partially paralyzed on the right side. In March last year, he suffered a third stroke, and he has been bedridden since then. , and couldn’t speak. By the end of last year, the situation had worsened, and it seemed that it wouldn’t last long..."
On a Junkers J.23 passenger plane belonging to Lufthansa Airlines (a chartered flight) flying to Moscow, Vasily Huang introduced Lenin's condition in an unusually solemn tone. He was also a "Chinese Red Army" whom Hersman met in 1917 and 1918. He studied in the "Special Technical School" that specialized in teaching guerrilla warfare knowledge in 1919, and later participated in the Hungarian War and accumulated rich experience on the battlefield. . After the fall of Budapest, he was sent by the Soviet Red Army to study in Baltica (a Soviet-German military exchange program). He received training at the Riga Military Academy (formerly Danze Military Academy) and also learned aviation skills in the aviation training class of the military academy. flight. After that, he returned to the Soviet Union to serve as an instructor at the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Military Academy (later Frunze Military Academy). In early January 24, he returned to Berlin and brought Hessmann the news that Lenin would die soon.
In fact, Hessman already knew the news - after the implementation of the New Economic Policy, the Soviet Union was not as airtight as before. The Stasi agents were able to collect some information, including Comrade Lenin's condition.
This was a big deal in the Soviet Union! Moreover, while Lenin was seriously ill, there were already signs of a power struggle within the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union...
"Is he going to die soon?" Chloe just put little Rudolph to sleep and came over to join the discussion.
Vasily Huang nodded and sighed: "Yes, I'm leaving soon. And I'm leaving too..."
"You?" Chloe looked at the Chinese man in front of her. He looked good and didn't look sick.
"Are you leaving the Soviet Union?" Hersman seemed to have thought of something. "Are you going back to China?"
In the blink of an eye, he has been living in this world for almost 7 years. It is already 1924...China is ushering in a thrilling era!
"Haha, you know this too!" Vasily Huang smiled, "Yes, I am going back to China and meet Ren Fuchen, a Chinese division commander in the Red Army (because Hesmanti sold many weapons to the Red Army, which made the Red Army The casualties in the early days were relatively small, and Ren Fuchen also survived and was promoted from regimental commander to division commander) and returned to China together. Ludwig, did you know that the Chinese revolutionary Dr. Sun Yixian has decided to cooperate with the Chinese Bolshevik Party. A military school is opened in Guangzhou to train revolutionary officers. I will serve as the deputy director of education of this military school, and Comrade Ren Fuchen will serve as the vice president. "
Vice principal and deputy director of education of Whampoa Military Academy? Sounds very promising! Hessman nodded slightly, "Vasily, do you need my help? Instructors and weapons, if there are not many, I can think of something."
When Hessmann said this, he was already considering sending military advisers to Guangdong. Germany has a history of exporting military consultants, and even after its defeat in World War I, this special "labor export" business did not stop. The dispatch of foreign military consultants can not only solve the re-employment problem of some retired officers and non-commissioned officers, but also take the opportunity to train the team so that the General Staff can always keep abreast of the latest war patterns.
However, the German army is now acting more cautiously, and "labor export" is divided into two parts: legal and illegal. The legal part is under the responsibility of the General Staff Political Department, which sends military advisers to foreign legal governments. The illegal part is under the responsibility of the Intelligence Department, which has established a "civilian labor export agency" - the Teutonic Warrior Company, which specializes in sending military advisers to foreign "illegal armed forces". Sun Yat-sen's army is not under the jurisdiction of China's legal Beijing government, so it is naturally an illegal armed force. Sending military advisers to support Sun Yat-sen's business is of course under the jurisdiction of Hessman.
"We will send instructors, weapons... We have plenty of guns and ammunition, and we can also transport them to China." Vasily Huang said thoughtfully.
China in this era is suffering from an arms embargo, which was initiated by the Americans. It is said that this is to prevent the Chinese from fighting a civil war with imported weapons, but countries that really want to ship weapons to China can always find a way.
"Maybe you can get some planes over there," Vasily Huang thought for a moment and said, "Dr. Sun also has a small air force and an aircraft workshop, but there are no advanced aircraft. In addition, you can also send a few flight instructors to China."
The Soviet Union has now introduced several aircraft production lines from Germany (Baltic). FK-BF has also developed three military aircraft based on the actual situation of the Soviet Union. However, these aircraft must be equipped with the Soviet Red Army first, and Vasily Huang can't get them at all. Moreover, the Soviet Red Air Force General Administration has a very heavy task of training pilots, and currently cannot spare instructors to go to China.
"That's easy," Hersman smiled and nodded, "It's just some planes, just to make friends... I will let the representatives of the Economic Promotion Company sell CL-5 to Dr. Sun. As for the instructors, let the Civil Aviation Flight School send someone."
CL is the code name of the German ground support attack aircraft in World War I. During the war, a total of two models were produced, the CL-3 of Hannover and the CL-1 of Junkers.
After the BMW 101 radial engine was put into production, FK-BF developed a two-wing, two-seat light attack aircraft with a wooden fuselage, named CL-5. There is not only the army type CL-5A, but also the navy type CL-5B.
This aircraft is one of the three military aircraft exported by FK-BF to the Soviet Union. Its performance is not excellent, but it is more practical.
Among them, the army type CL-5A can carry 4 small 25 kg bombs and three machine guns. The maximum level flight speed exceeds 220 kilometers and the maximum range can reach 420 kilometers. The navy type can carry two 50 kg bombs. In the case of no co-pilot, it can choose to carry a 150 kg armor-piercing bomb!
Hersman asked the Economic Promotion Company to get more than a dozen to Guangzhou. It doesn't matter how much it sells. The main thing is to make a good relationship, and there may be opportunities for further cooperation in the future-historically, the Weimar Republic government has cooperated with the Chinese Nationalist Government.
However, Vasily Huang and Ren Fuchen's trip to China had a consequence that Hirschman had not expected...