Cyprus made a sunny impression on General Li Weiren of the Liberation Army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoDuring the few days of my visit to Cyprus, the weather was outrageously sunny. The blue sky and white clouds are so vivid that Li Weiren even gave birth to the illusion that the sky here is different from other places.

From the time of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Guangfu army liked the situation of the enemy guarding the city wall. The ancient city of Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, is very well preserved, and surveyors sent by the Liberation Army have planned the ancient city into a museum and scenic area. Living inside the city walls would make the Restoration Army feel uneasy. Li Weiren, who is good at modern fortresses, feels especially strong.

The admiral came to Cyprus to see what was new, and secondly, to make some practical suggestions for the defense system of the Cypriot port, but Li Weiren was attracted by the city of New Nicosia on the sand table. Governor Wezedu demanded that every city have at least two large green parks. The domestic approach is quite perfunctory, that is, to enclose the land and plant some trees in it. Some cities simply enclose swamps and boast that we still have natural lakes.

Those forest parks were indeed refreshing, but that was about it, until Admiral Li Weiren went to Gotham City. After seeing the central park with his own eyes, he realized that the green park in the city could be built like this. It can be seen that the designer was impressed by New York's Central Park, and the situation seen on the drawings is almost identical.

Central Park is surrounded by a wide parking lot, and outside the parking lot is a wide 10-lane road. Residential areas, financial districts, business districts, cultural districts, as well as various government and social institutions. It is a simple combination of mature Chinese urban design and American Central Park.

There are also many mountains on this island of more than 9,000 square kilometers, which makes the railway around the island very uneconomical. With the exception of Nicosia, which is located in the center, the whole of Cyprus is made up of a ring road and roads connecting the various regions.

"It's beautiful!" Li Weiren made an evaluation. Of course, it's not just the urban design that's beautiful, the island left an army base for a division, and a port design large enough to accommodate a fairly naval force. Gold and silver from Europe will be stored here, as well as a large number of banknotes and bills. Ordinary bank security is simply not suitable.

On the fifth day of his arrival in Cyprus, a fleet from North America arrived in Cyprus with a division of troops. Also on the same day, a convoy of convoys from Port Sudan crossed the Suez Canal to bring large quantities of food and supplies to the port.

"Uncle. Hello. Wei Kun personally led the team, and after seeing Li Weiren, he immediately stepped forward to greet him cordially.

Li Weiren is Li Yifang's distant cousin and Wei Kun's true uncle. Seeing such a promising nephew, Li Weiren was also very happy, "I heard that you are doing a good job in East Africa, continue to work hard." ”

"Uncle, if you want me to continue to work hard, you have to do something. These empty things are useless to me. Wei Kun also smiled.

"Oh? How is it real? Li Weiren felt that his nephew had really grown up, and what he said made people have to care.

Wei Kun replied without hesitation: "If you go to the UK, let the British make a decision quickly." Either the Suez Canal will be widened to allow for larger ships. Either don't occupy the pit and don't, and obediently let us dig a new canal to come out. ”

Li Weiren frowned, he thought for a moment and then asked Wei Kun, "Why do you think I'm going to England?" ”

Wei Kun said with a smile: "We have all deployed our troops here, and it is only far from the Suez Canal." There's a good chance you're going to the UK, or the British guys are going to have to talk to us. Either way, I'd love to hear from you. These Brits see that the situation is not right, so they pretend to be dead dogs. No matter what we talk to them in East Africa, they don't pretend they hear. If it weren't for the fact that our strength in East Africa was too weak to fight, I would have really wanted to fight the Egyptians and create something to advance the negotiations. ”

The nephew showed a face that did not hesitate to solve the problem by starting a war, and Li Weiren did not know what to say. If the Suez Canal could be navigated by battleships of more than 20,000 tons, the navy of the Restoration Army would be able to travel freely between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, and would no longer have to travel thousands of miles around the Cape of Good Hope. Thinking of this strategic possibility, Li Weiren asked: "Can you in East Africa complete the excavation of a new canal?" ”

"Of course!" had the opportunity to recommend his own ideas, and Wei Kun immediately became energetic. He asked the secretary to take out the map and compare it to it. It was on the eastern side of the Suez Canal, which the British had excavated, and Wei Kun thought that a completely new canal would be dug there, without passing through several other lakes, directly into the deeper estuary of the Red Sea. "In the future, it can be dredged continuously according to the size of the navigable ship. Uncle, we in Sudan will be able to export 4 million tons of alfalfa a year in the future, and this export alone will require a more reliable canal, and it will be in our hands......"

Looking at his nephew's energetic expression, Li Weiren knew that if he didn't interrupt, Wei Kun would have to talk a lot. When Li Weiren was young, he also had such a time and had such an impulse. The current Li Weiren doesn't hate Wei Kun, but he doesn't like to waste energy on this kind of thing. Li Weiren didn't have to do these details for a long time, he just needed to make a decision to decide whether to do it or not. Once it is determined that he wants to do it, it will be Wei Kun's turn to play with his life. So Li Weiren waved his hand and interrupted Wei Kun's words, and he said, "I'll think about it." ”

"I'm going to keep pushing. In case there is a chance for you to speak for my side of the matter, I would like to ask you to support me. Wei Kun responded.

Li Weiren sighed in his heart, the children now are really very different from Li Weiren when he was young. In Li Weiren's young age, many things were talked about by young people, and it was good to say that it was useless, and it was the norm to be reprimanded by the elders after saying it. It's the elders who decide everything.

Wei Kun quickly put aside the problem of the Suez Canal, a division of troops was less than 20,000 people, and Wei Kun brought 30,000 people this time. Most of them are black brothers, a small number are Japanese, and the Chinese who are really responsible for leading the team are technicians, and the number is very small. At this time, the Turks of Cyprus had moved away, and most of the Greeks had moved away under persuasion and inducement, and less than 20,000 people remained, most of whom were old men and women who refused to leave their homes. The army sent the old man and the old lady to live in the ancient city of Nicosia, and the young men were scattered and integrated into the whole labor force. The children are sent to school to start learning Chinese.

"Grain from Cyprus is brought from East Africa, and the main food is not staple food." Wei Kun came up with his plan. Tiny Cyprus is divided into soil and water conservation areas, viticulture, olive and fruit growing areas, and pasture growing areas. As a soldier, this almost simple and crude planning made Levi easy to understand and very relatable. So Levi also asked the question, "Who do you grow so many things to sell to?" ”

This question did not stump Wei Kun, but made Wei Kun smile proudly, "Turkey, Europe, are our markets. And Cyprus can't have such a small population, I think with the arrival of financial institutions. It's not unusual to have millions of people on this island. How much is the consumption of millions of people, you know best, uncle. ”

He is the son of the Governor! Li Weiren secretly admired in his heart. Qi Rui's ability to show in military affairs has convinced Li Weiren. And Wei Kun's courage in construction really has Wei Ze's style. When Governor Wezedu came up with a design that looked ridiculously grandiose, no one dared to openly oppose it. When those designs become reality, it seems that the population that appears out of thin air fills those cities and factories.

Those huge cities do have huge problems in their operations, but in order to solve them, society really progresses. And regardless of all the complaints about the city, what Li Weiren sees is more and more people pouring into the city. Make the already prosperous city more prosperous. So Li Weiren decided to support Wei Kun in his heart.

Without a general in charge, Li Weiren left Cyprus and went to London, England. One of his tasks was to negotiate with Britain on security issues in North America, hoping to resolve Britain's concerns about the Minchao.

Bypassing the equally sunny Spanish peninsula, the humid weather in the North Sea surprised Li Weiren, who was on the British Isles for the first time. He had also heard that it was rainy in the UK, but what surprised Li Weiren was the gloomy weather in the UK. Whether it's Asia, North America, or the Mediterranean, the weather tends to be sunny. And the weather in the UK gave Li Weiren a gloomy feeling.

Forests, gloomy skies, sparse raindrops, and city buildings all look dim and even gray. Those bright colours seem to naturally dim and turn grey in England.

"No wonder the British like to travel to Italy." Li Weiren remembered the knowledge about Britain and the popular trend of British travel. Compared to the UK, sunny Italy is really full of flowers and colors.

It was in a gloomy hall, illuminated by a dim light bulb, that the meeting began. Li Weiren was not afraid that the British would not be close to the Liberation Army, and he said bluntly: "The Republic of China does not want to maintain too large a force in North America, nor does it want the north and south to fight at the same time. That being the case, negotiations between our two countries are very necessary. ”

"Does the Liberation Army think it can win two wars at the same time?" The British side is very keen to grasp the point.

"You can win, but it's very expensive. Too big we didn't want to try. Moreover, I do not think that there is any desire between your country and Japan to seize each other's past. If the UK has one, please make it clear now. Li Weiren said with a smile.

"Huh!" The British delegate on the opposite side laughed mockingly at such a silly question. Who is going to have enough to say that they have their own ambitions for China's territory? It's not that everyone is pretending, but no one really wants to fall into the fate of the United States.

With a negotiable basis, China and Britain discussed the North American border. The British delegates felt that the Chinese side was sincere, so they asked a question that seemed very unnutritious, "Your Excellency, how is the Republic of China going to maintain peace on the border?" ”

Li Weiren looked at the British and felt a little uneasy in his heart. Although he didn't want to say this, Li Weiren had no other way, it was an organizational order. After taking a steady breath to ease his emotions, Li Weiren said: "We are going to build a great wall on the border between China and Britain. Especially in New England. ”

"Really?" The question of the representative of the United Kingdom blurted out. Li Weiren's eyes widened at the sight of all the British delegates. To Li Weiren's surprise, what he saw in the eyes of the British delegates was neither uneasiness nor doubt. The faces of the Britons showed a certain level of joy and genuine anticipation.

At this time, Li Weiren was stunned. He wondered if the Brits in front of him were funny. The Great Wall of China represents one thing, and there is a huge difference between the inside and outside of the Great Wall. Although China's actual frontier has long since surpassed the Great Wall, the Liberation Army does not have any city wall dependence. However, the Great Wall has a deep cultural meaning, which is the rejection of hostile forces, and it is the denial of alien races.

Maybe that's how the British see the Great Wall, right? Li Weiren had to make some explanations, otherwise it would have been too difficult for him to adapt to the British expression. Perhaps the British, when they saw the Great Wall, also felt that the Great Wall meant their distance from China.

But Li Weiren was not a roundworm in the stomach of the British after all, and he did not know that when the British learned that China had plans to build a great wall on the border, their first reaction was that they were really interested. Building a long wall was a method that ancient military strategists could think of. Historically, China built the Great Wall's defense system in response to the world's ulcers on the Mongolian Plateau. In England, the Romans also built a 'Great Wall'.

The British are also a world military power, and having been a-stirring stick in Europe for so many years, Britain knows very well that for a modern military country, a Great Wall high on the ground represents more of a defensive sincerity. At best, that thing can cause a little trouble for the attacking side. If the countries on both sides of the Great Wall have the sincerity of peace, the Great Wall can make the boundaries clear on both sides.

"If this Great Wall is completed, what are you going to do later?" The representative of the United Kingdom asked with interest.

"We will have border guards on the Great Wall, and we hope that the UK will have that in place. Ensuring that borders do not misjudge the situation is the key to avoiding war. Although Li Weiren was surprised, it did not reduce his shame about the construction of the Great Wall, which showed more meaning than reality. And the British seem to understand this.

On the question of the Great Wall, the British did not raise objections. When they learned that the Great Wall was still some distance from the border line, that is, that the boundary survey had its own model, the British did not object.

Seeing the relaxed expression of the British, Li Weiren was unhappy in his heart. Of course, he also wondered if the British were abnormal, so he continued: "When I came from Cyprus, the people from the East African Administrative Region told me that they had been hoping that your country would be able to dredge the Suez Canal, or that a new canal would be built by the East African Administrative Region. I don't know what your opinion is? ”

At this time, the expression of the British Yankee immediately became very serious, and the chief British negotiator spoke quickly, almost word for word: "We oppose unilateral changes to the status quo of the Suez Canal!" ”

Doesn't it seem that the British are still quite normal! Li Weiren laughed secretly in his heart. However, judging from the performance of the British at this time, and judging from the policy that Governor Wei Zedu did not want to tear up his face with the British, Li Weiren felt that Wei Kun's plan was probably going to fail. Anyone can understand that the move to change a strategic waterway will inevitably lead to fierce conflict. Purely for the sake of an East African administrative region, the Min Dynasty would not have invested such a big price.

"Is China just letting the United States wreak havoc in the Caribbean?" The representative of the United Kingdom also raised his own questions. It can be seen that they have been preparing for this question for a long time. Because the British recited the names of the countries invaded by the Americans. After reading the book, the British delegate asked again: "Is China just allowing the United States to wreak havoc in the Caribbean?" ”

"Our army, after four years of war, has begun to enter a state of war weariness. Let our army defend against the attacks of the Americans, they can do it. Let our army run after the American army throughout the Caribbean, and our army can no longer accept it. Li Weiren replied.

"How can your country's army be war-weary?" The representative of Britain showed a completely disagreeing expression.

Li Weiren shook his head, "Our country has a population of 800 million, half of whom are men, that is, 400 million. Of these 400 million people, about 1 in 10 people are between the ages of 18 and 22. That's 40 million. We mobilized 10 million in the North American War as active and reservists. That's 25%. Do you think that 25 per cent of young people are happy with war? ”

This figure made the British side look very ugly. Logically speaking, this numerical algorithm is not an exaggeration. However, there are 40 million young Chinese who are most suitable for war. The population of the United Kingdom is 40 million. From the UK's point of view, it's hard to look at it as crying poor.

Negotiations and discussions lasted for a week, during which the two sides had a frank exchange of views on the points of conflict between the two countries and the points of common involvement. After this exchange, both sides felt more secure on their own. The British side, in particular, got a very interesting answer. Britain asked the Chinese delegates what they were going to do next, having gained dominance in the Pacific.

The answer of the Chinese representative Li Weiren was very interesting: "You think we have gained the dominance of the Pacific, but in our opinion, we have only obtained the world's main grain-producing regions. If anything, it is that the food supply problem that has plagued China for thousands of years has been solved in our generation. Since it is unlikely that we will be short of food in the future, it is enough to learn from Britain so that it will no longer have territorial claims on other countries. ”

The British did not expect to receive such a high evaluation from the Minchao, and of course they would not be happy because they were shy. The British side felt that this explanation, although it sounded unreasonable, did not seem like nonsense. China's decades of conquest in the south and war in the north should be enough.