"The Ottomans and Persia have a thousand-year grudge, and they are enemies that will never end. Moreover, both countries have ambitions to dominate Central Asia."

"It is true, but their conflicts were only small in the past, but this time the problem seems to be a bit serious. It is said that the Ottomans received many advanced firearms from Europe and were training a huge army, and the scale of the conflict was also expanding."

Pang Yukun explained.

"Then what do you think should be done? Do you let the empire send troops to support?" Xiao Ming wanted to deliberately test Pang Yukun.

Now the Empire mechanism is very mature. He needs everyone to use their talents, not to plan everything himself.

After pondering for a moment, Pang Yukun said: "There is obviously a shadow of the West in the conflict between the Ottomans and Persia. Although they were defeated in Asia and chose to sign a ceasefire agreement, they will not give up any opportunity to hinder the growth of the empire."

Xiao Ming nodded slightly. Pang Yukun's analysis was very good. International relations often cooperated and fought against each other. It would not be a pure relationship between enemies and friends, and the eternal bond was nothing more than interests.

For example, the reason why he agreed to this armistice agreement was because the cost of continuing to launch a war was much higher than signing the agreement.

And what he wants has been obtained through an agreement, so why bother to get it through war when it is exhausted and the people are hurting money?

"But it is not appropriate to send troops to help the Persian ministers." Pang Yukun continued: "As the saying goes, the fisherman is profitable. The threat of the Ottoman to Persia is the fundamental reason why we easily get oil from Persia. Once we help Persia to severely defeat the Ottoman, Persia will become the overlord of Central Asia. At that time, I'm afraid they will no longer mine the oil fields for us for free."

Xiao Ming laughed. In the past, Pang Yukun was only very good at internal affairs, but this statement was enough to show that he had put a lot of effort into international politics during this period.

"Pang Shouji is worthy of being Pang Shouji. Some problems can be thought of as I can think of. European countries think that using the Ottomans can weaken Persia and affect our oil extraction, but they never thought that this would only make Persia more dependent on us." Xiao Ming said lightly.

"So it is still necessary for the Ottoman country to exist, but we must also provide technical and financial support for Persia to maintain regional balance in Central Asia." Pang Yukun stroked his beard.

"That's it. After you go back, you organize material support to Persia. Our oil field has just produced oil. I don't want any oil field to be in trouble." Xiao Ming reminded.

Pang Yukun responded and turned around and left.

When Pang Yukun left, Xiao Ming came to the world map and looked at the territory of the empire carefully.

As time goes by, his sense of crisis is getting heavier and heavier. Now Xiao Yi is sixteen years old, and he is entering the middle age of his life. How much time can he have left to protect the empire he built?

He glanced at North America, Tsarist Russia, Europe, Africa, South America and other regions and sighed slightly.

In the past, he was very confident that he could unify the world in his lifetime, but now he is increasingly finding that he may not be able to achieve this goal.

This world is too complex, with various cultures, religions, and races. Some contradictions between them are irreconcilable, even in the contemporary world, these three are the origins of conflict.

So after thinking for a long time, he decided to accumulate wealth for the empire as much as possible when he was in power, just like the contemporary West plundering the whole world, and leave a killing weapon for the empire that can save its life.

In this way, even if the empire declines, no country dares to invade brazenly. At the same time, even if he cannot destroy the Western powers, he will try his best to weaken them.

The condition he promised Henry was this purpose, a chaotic Europe would give the empire the opportunity to extract European wealth.

Looking at Tsarist Russia and North America from Western Europe, Xiao Ming narrowed his eyes. Compared with Britain, France and other countries, his most taboos are Tsarist Russia and the United States.

From the present, he naturally knew that once these two countries were given a chance, they would grow into terrifying monsters.

At the same time, he believed that Europe would definitely find ways to deal with these two issues, and he had already seen the British conspiracy in disturbing Central Asia.

However, when he was involved in conspiracy with him, Queen Victoria of England was still a little tender. Not to mention that he was used to various international struggles from modern times, the information in the technology crystal is enough to find many similar cases.

His eyes slowly became firm, and Xiao Ming walked out of the imperial study with his hands on his back. After the victory of the war in Southeast Asia, he had a period of confusion.

But now he has made it clear what he wants to do next.

Strategically, he would continue to squeeze the living space of European countries, and financially, he would formally internationalize the empire's golden dragon and become a hard currency circulating in the world like the contemporary dollar.

In terms of industry, it must gradually establish a complete industrial system, obtain cheap resources from the world, and produce industrial products.

In business, he wanted to achieve economic colonization of Europe, completely control the European market, and let Europe taste the taste of using millions of clothes for a car.

However, it still takes a long way to realize these ideas, because squeezing Europe's living space means that there may be constant conflicts with European countries.

To make Golden Dragon a world currency, you must have huge gold reserves, or control the currency used in oil settlement like the contemporary United States.

As for industry and commerce, Europe will not just let it slaughter its market so easily. In the future, some technology will probably be used to exchange for the market.

He was thinking, when the phone in the imperial study room rang.

Turning back and answering the phone, Lin Wentao's voice came, "Emperor, the first tank in the tank factory is officially offline, and the subordinate is ordered to report to the emperor."

"Well, I'll go now." Xiao Ming showed a faint smile.

Generally speaking, if a country can produce cars, there is basically no problem in producing tanks. So when the first car using internal combustion engines was produced, he asked to establish a military factory for producing tanks.

It turned out that he was right. After more than a year of preparation, the first tank was successfully removed from the line.

After greeting Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming notified his special car to pick him up and drop him off to the tank factory.

Since he has a car, his travel safety has improved a lot, and the fast speed of the car can also make him easily anywhere.

So during this period, he traveled a lot more frequently, which was a good thing for him, but it was a pity for some officials.
Chapter completed!