Chapter 289 The temporary lifting of the threat

The Germans have a lot of gifts. Electrification is their advantageous project, and of course it is also the most profitable project in China in the future. If such a huge country wants to go further in the initial industrialization, it will inevitably generate a large market share of industrial innovation. In addition to a small number of technologies such as radio, the Chinese in this regard needing technical assistance from the Germans without exception.

The textile industry is the second big head. China currently has nearly 1.3 million permanent troops. Over the years, the military uniforms and civilian textile markets have been divided by their own country, Britain, Germany, and the United States according to a certain proportion. This life demand, which was first driven by the army, has not only promoted the progress of China's textile industry, but also nourished a large number of foreign capitalists.

Mineral mining is a project that has always been stable. Industrialization will inevitably consume a lot of resources. When the UK and China are about to break, the UK will soon leave a large share in this country. The substitutes will be Germany, the United States, and Chinese local capital.

In terms of chemical industry, German engineers have already gone to Xi'an. Where, they will assist the empire's original factories and play a role in chemical weapons, which is part of the military cooperation between the two sides. In terms of civil use, two petrochemical industry companies have begun their locations in Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi and Xinjiang. Of course, it also includes the rubber industry. With the increasing development of automobiles and Southeast Asia having its own stable chassis, the empire's rubber industry has begun to enter its golden age.

The Germans also agreed to purchase tanks equipped with four divisions and paid a deposit of one-third in advance, which is nearly 40 million silver coins. However, there are still some problems in freight. I am afraid that with the dense spread of the war clouds, this batch of arms may not be able to reach Germany smoothly. This is all a story. From the moment, Germany itself is not unable to build tanks, and this 40 million is probably a political donation.

In the military, the General Staff of the two countries signed a military cooperation plan for Russia, that is, China involves Russia's land energy and attracts Russia's strategic defense focus with a stance of moving westward at any time. This is already under implementation, so Germany can devote its energy to the Western Front and launch an attack on France at the right time to attract Britain's military focus to repay China's help and avoid the British attack on China in Asia after the breakdown of Sino-British relations.

Of course, due to the urgency of time and sudden relationship, the cooperation between China and Germany has not been fully developed, including the military cooperation between the two navies of the two countries' navies in Asia one day in the future. In fact, it would be better if the Germans did not mention it. To be honest, the strategic cooperation between two military powers that are thousands of miles apart are easy to say, but once tactical cooperation is involved, it is actually far from as simple as expected, and there are not so many specific contents.

Therefore, if you can try more technically, you can try more. Whether the army will be invested in the German plan in the future and how large the scale of the investment is, it is still uncertain. If Germany doesn't mention it, we will be happy to do so.

The military conflict between China and Russia has not reached the level of cruelty. In fact, I have been controlling this point. If a war of nationwide swelling between China and Russia immediately breaks out, the security system of the whole world will collapse immediately, and the First World War, which I have been preparing for for a long time, will be fully launched within half a year. This war is an opportunity I have been waiting for for a long time. The territory of the empire must be expanded, the line of interests of the empire must be paved, and the system of the empire must be quickly established after the war. The empire will take advantage of this opportunity to complete the perfect transformation from a regional power to a world power. If everything goes well, China and the United States with unknown attitude will be the two masters in the future world. Therefore, in order to cope with the future situation, Europe must also pave the way.

In short, this is an opportunity for interests everywhere and crises everywhere.

And the military, industry, people's livelihood, people's intelligence, preparations for the change of the national system, and other things in all aspects have been laid out. Can the full outbreak of this war still give me a year and a half of time?

Currently, there is only one mediator in the low-intensity border war between China and Russia, and it is a mediator who has faced failure. I believe that from the bottom of my heart, the British people have extremely hope to immediately eliminate the disobedient and a bit rogue country in the East, but they must be strategically prepared again. There is no country in the world that can go to war against the two powerful countries of Germany and China at the same time. They must make a good choice, and I hope their choice will not be me. I am sure.

The origin of grasping was President Roosevelt, who was increasingly interested in international affairs. Of course, this mission was completed by Puxia, the third son of the emperor who was studying in the Department of Law of New York University in the United States. After telling President Roosevelt about his own helplessness after China started the war with Russia through private channels, Puxia, who seemed to be extremely peace-loving, made his request to President Roosevelt. For the sake of the empire and peace, President Roosevelt asked him to intervene in the mediation between China and Russia at the right time. He will guarantee in the name of His Majesty the third son of His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire that His Majesty the Emperor will respect the opinions of the United States very much. The right time is of course to hope that the United States will first send an observer to Beijing to wait for his instructions. Of course, President Roosevelt needs to give this observer certain authority.

My arrangement is to use the method of fighting and fighting and fighting to hold Russia up after achieving the initial strategic goal, and to drag it down until the revolution occurs. At that time, the emergence of the United States, the middleman, can well explain why I have undergone a 180-degree change in my attitude towards the Russian royal family. This can not only give the United States face, but also establish the authoritarian image of the United States in the national and military and political systems, which is very necessary for future political variables.

Of course, there is another purpose in doing this, which is to establish a certain political mutual trust with the United States when Britain is about to launch a side attack on the United States. If the United States stands on the side of Britain in the late stage of the war like real history, and my country also needs to make a change, this change will be justified.

These are all things to be prepared. In fact, the first phase of my goal of the westward plan has not been achieved. Although Wang Shizhen's troops should be able to achieve the goal within three months as long as I am willing. However, Russia's attitude is not clear yet. Whether they will fight against China in that land is still unknown.

Everything is still between the two. After choosing to cooperate with Germany, the morale of the imperial military has greatly boosted. The long-term swing policy has made them anxious. Now they have finally got a clear direction, which is a beneficial aspect. The disadvantages are also very clear. When the military's desire for war and expansion tendency is getting worse and worse, I must increase my efforts to restrain them from following my path. The whole country must have a guiding ideology, that is me, otherwise the empire will reach the point where it is today in Russia several years, and will be enemies on all sides.

With the British leaving Beijing sadly, the British Empire might have failed for the last diplomatic efforts. Although the emperor personally met and appeased their diplomats, and tactfully confessed to them about China's difficulties, failure was a failure after all, and they all looked a little listless.

No matter how they react, this is a matter of the future. The current priority is war and alertness, mobilization, reserve and accumulation of strength.

In 1910, China's intentions were not fully exposed, and the conflict between China and Russia seemed to be just a border war caused by the Siberian-Mongolia immigration issue. Although China's advancement in Central Asia will arouse some doubts, under the emphasis on the repeated Mongolian issues, I believe that this intention can be hidden for a while. Moreover, it will take a certain amount of time for each country to complete the general mobilization. Germany and Britain will be the first country to complete the mobilization.

By September 2019, when Tashkent was finally conquered and included in the territory of the Chinese Empire, this veil was finally unveiled.

On September 27, nine days after the Chinese army entered Tashkent, Britain and France announced an important military cooperation agreement at the same time. Britain will mobilize 15 divisions of army troops from the local area to enter France within this year. News from Europe shows that as early as June, at least five British army divisions had already begun intensive training in northern India. Judging from the battle reports of the Western Front troops, they were able to see British airships in the sky every now and then. Wang Shizhen asked Beijing whether it could fire on airships with the British Empire logo, which was of course rejected by me. As long as the British did not move, we would never fire the first shot.

Germany also began to assemble a large number of troops on the Western Front, and on the third day after Britain and France announced the joint defense agreement, it announced a new military conscription decree. The law was sprinkled with thousands of words, but it could actually be condensed into two words - "force". The German Empire had closed the door for its citizens to immigrate to the outside world, especially for young people of appropriate age.

Austro-Hungarian Empire and Bulgaria, Turkey followed closely behind, and they also announced the conscription decree, and the entire Europe was expanding its troops. They would not have thought that in a few years, the total number of soldiers in Europe would reach more than five times the current number.

If all the crises in the past were small fuss, then this year, almost the whole of Europe has begun to see the god of death slowly pulling out his sickle.

The Indian division continued to move northward and reported to the vanguard troops that as time went on, the Indian division under the command of British officers had entered and exited their horizons more and more frequently. If the court did not make clear instructions, the task of advancing westward to Dushanbe would be very difficult to complete, because Britain and Russia were allies after all. If Britain wanted to defend Dushanbe for Russia, then going to war with the British would be inevitable.

So the mission of attacking Dushanbe was temporarily terminated (actually, it should be called Bukhara, and for the sake of reading habits, it will be renamed Dushanbe. This example.) This is a new situation. In terms of the intensity of the UK's reaction, I seem to have underestimated the importance of the UK's Indian security. Moreover, by the second half of the year, as the issue of Siberia and Mongolian immigration gradually cooled down, this reason seemed to be no longer fooling people.

Therefore, it is still necessary to let the British see their strength.

On November 1, 1910, the army under Wang Shizhen approached the Russian army more than 400 kilometers away from Dushanbe, abandoned the city of Samarkand, and requested the order of advance from Beijing with a Ming telegram, and sent it to reporters of the accompanying newspapers. After more than a week of propaganda offensive, the Minister of the Imperial Army Department Zai was appointed as the new position - Prime Minister, Army and Navy. This newly established position is what the foreigners call the position of commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and all military affairs will be decided by him in the future in form.

With the addition of new positions, all troops across the country have also received orders, and all the names of each unit have been changed from the ranks of the military town cooperative battalion to the military brigade battalion company squad, regiment training, and militia have been changed to the reserve service titles. (It can be understood that for the sake of convenience of the later narrative, there is actually no need to change it.)

In order to celebrate Prince Chun Zai-chan's new appointment and celebrate the Imperial Army's capture of Samarkand, Beijing held a grand military parade on November 9. The Second Guards and Guards stationed in Beijing, plus the Imperial Army University in Beijing, the Baoding Army School in Kinki and more than 30,000 people participated in the military parade. Zai-chan and I were wearing military uniforms, equipped with royal ribbons, riding horses, and holding command knives to inspect the various military branches. The sky Army Air Force and the airship units also flew by at the right time. In conjunction with various light and heavy weapons on the ground, the spirited soldiers were in a frenzy.

In the south, four divisions, including the 219th Division and the 220th Division, 221st Division, and the 221st Division, plus the Guangxi Provincial Reserve Force, completed a long-distance raid exercise, and entered the Jiaozhi Kingdom, which was called the vassal state, which was the new independent vassal state in the Tokyo region of northern Vietnam. They joined forces with the country's army and were unified under the command of Fu Qi, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Of course, this was only nominal. Fu Qi, who was old, will soon retire, and the current command power actually fell into the hands of two young and powerful officers who had been specially cursed by the emperor - Cai E, the commander of the 219th Division of the Army who had just turned thirty years old, and Tang Jiyao, the commander of the 220th Division of the Army who was one year younger than him.

The Royal Army delegation headed by Wu Peifu, Minister of the Army, has entered Siam, and the Siam royal army has initially agreed to hand over about 100,000 troops to General Wu Peifu for command at the appropriate time.

Inspired by these actions, the Vietnamese royal rebel emperor in the central region also entered Hanoi and began to develop the issue of unification of the country that had been unable to reach an agreement with the Hanoi government. Of course, the main purpose was to take refuge.

In the southwest direction, Colonel Jiang Baili, deputy director of the Southwest Department of the General Staff of the Imperial General Staff, also signed a military cooperation agreement with representatives of Nepal in Chengdu. China will arm four army divisions for free within two years, on the condition that all officers at battalion level and above of these four divisions must be selected and sent to Nepal who have graduated from the Imperial Army University in previous years.

After this series of actions, the Military Service Department announced that the Empire would not adopt a plan for mandatory conscription for all people in the near future to respond to the rumors that China may join the ranks of mandatory conscription for all people and may expand the armed forces to more than tens of millions. The Military Service Department only said that the Empire had served in the army since the 18th year of the Guangxu period, or had been trained at all levels of regiments or militia organizations since the 18th year of the Guangxu period, and the country may be recruited into the army at any time. From now on, government officials at all levels should begin to count the list of military personnel under their respective jurisdictions in case of emergency.

The navy cannot be idle either. The Pacific Fleet and the German Empire Pacific Fleet in the Philippines practiced coordinated operations on the western side, and launched offensive and defensive drills on the Port of Manila, which was heavily defended. For a moment, this group of lively moments in Asia seemed to surpass Europe.

This of course triggered a great international riot. The clouds of war not only enveloped Europe, but also gradually spread to Asia. The entire Eurasian continent seemed to be about to enter the war soon.

But China quickly explained the reasons and purpose of this series of military operations to the world through a series of diplomatic activities: the combination of Prince Gong Zai Ying and Wu Tingfang Zhuangxi began their diplomatic offensive. Through press conferences in Beijing and diplomatic activities venues of various countries, Zai Ying vented his anger towards Britain. When China launched a retaliatory attack on the Mongolian people who were massacred, the UK had already expressed its position to us, but recently Britain's activities have exceeded the limits of the empire's tolerance, so the empire must respond.

Wu Tingfang used diplomatic rhetoric to convey a message to the UK. The Sino-Russian war hopes that Britain will go away. If Britain must intervene, I believe that some recent displays of strength will provide some reference for British decision makers.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately sent an ultimatum to Britain, hoping that Britain would constrain the Indian troops they commanded to the south of the 38th North latitude line before November 25. If there is any friction between the two sides north of the 38th North latitude line after November 25, the Chinese Empire would not guarantee their safety, and all the consequences arising from this will be borne by Britain. (Dushanbe is a little south of forty degrees.)

When I met the British ambassador to China that day, I made another statement. The recent activities of Britain near the Sino-Russian battlefield have made us very uneasy. I hope that Britain will not have to drive China to a hostile stance. If the UK can ensure a neutral stance between China and Russia, then China will ensure that it maintains a neutral stance in the conflict between Britain and any country.

For the UK, this must be a brand new information. China may still remain neutral in Asia and wait for Britain and Germany to decide the outcome? This is a situation they must have not imagined after the breakup between China and Britain. Judging from the recent military preparations of the UK, they must be mentally prepared to open the station at the same time as China and Germany. However, as my emperor's identity, I believe that I can make another unknown impact on their decisions.

Britain is also very clear that unless they can win over the United States, with his and French power, with the other ally Russia, it is impossible to defeat Germany and China on both the main battlefields of Eurasia at the same time. Where can they go, they should be able to give me a satisfactory answer.

Of course, the deadline for the ultimatum is just a joke. In fact, by November 20, I had issued the general offensive order. After three days of emergency marching, more than 110,000 of Wang Shizhen's more than 110,000 people began to attack Dushanbe, which had 17,000 troops. In comparison with the huge gap in military strength and the lack of preparation, the Russian army only supported for an hour and fifteen minutes before raising the white flag to surrender. At this point, the first phase of the westward advance was completely achieved. China officially occupied two important cities, Tashkent and Dushanbe. The next person was to consolidate this area and began to penetrate in the south, west and north.

On November 26, the news of the Indian division retreating south came from the front, and I let out a sigh of relief. The British indeed endured it. In order to calm their hearts, I wrote a letter in my private name to send it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to King George V, who had just ascended the throne this year, expressing my gratitude for Britain's neutrality and my helplessness on the issue of the British and German war. I also expressed my willingness to show my sincerity to engage in peace consultations with Russia with the mediation of Britain and the United States.

By this time, the British had no excuses. I just hoped to continue to deceive them. As for the fact that they could not deceive them, it didn't matter much.

After all, the main contradiction between the British is not in Asia. They have no market competition with China. China is even one of its important markets, nor does it have much conflict of colonial interests or sources of raw materials. In fact, from the heart, I am not willing to fight with the British, and I firmly believe that the same is true for the UK.

Therefore, after the UK lost the excuse of putting pressure on China, they did not continue to look for new excuses. In fact, they also hope that the newly eaten Russian land can feed my appetite. Perhaps China and Britain will have a day to join hands in the future. As His Majesty the Emperor of China wrote in the letter.
Chapter completed!