There are no complicated shapes, no complicated decorations, just the crystal clear glass itself makes people feel the intention of the bottle maker. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 On the label on the outside of the info bottle is an oil painting of Aphrodite, not an overly literary style like Venus with a broken arm, Aphrodite in the picture is a statue, her face is more realistic and humane, wearing a bikini, her face is mature and beautiful, and her long fluffy hair is braided into a fluffy braid that hangs from the back of her neck to her chest. The gilded labels read 'Aphrodite' and 'Cyprus' and 'Gem Wines'. Cyprus is already recognized as the home of Aphrodite, so the name is very appropriate.

The inside of the bottle is a clear and transparent dark green liquor, fennel, absinthe and basil from Syria, Sudan and Iran, and the raw materials are all from the Black Sea and the Red Sea, and the herbs are soaked in the base wine and the extract is filtered out, and the finished product is put into the cellar.

After uncorking the bottle and pouring himself a glass, Wang Mingshan first smelled the rich aroma, and then took a sip. The taste of the wine is sweet and then bitter, and the strong aroma of herbs lingers on the tip of the tongue and nasal passages, making people want to stop. The winery that produces this bottle and the cellar where it is aged are located in Cyprus, and the cellar is filled with 10,000 bottles of vermouth. Five-year-old liquor has already received top reviews in Europe, and a decade-old vermouth that will become a decade old in a few years is the type that will be shipped on a large scale. Wang Mingshan felt very happy, in addition to Europa Bank, Aphrodite brand absinthe produced in Cyprus is also another contribution of his.

Grace, who was sitting opposite Wang Mingshan, also took a sip of dark green wine, and could see that she couldn't get used to this kind of high wine immediately, and exhaled slightly with her hand on her chest, Grace asked Wang Mingshan, "Honey, why do you want to retire?" ”

"Don't you want me to retire?" Wang Mingshan asked rhetorically.

"No, no!" Grace smiled, "You'll have more time with me after you retire, how could I not want to." It's just that I don't understand why you chose to retire at this time. ”

"A lot of people want me to retire and I think it's time for me to retire. What's more, the war between Italy and Ethiopia forced me to retire. Wang Mingshan listed the reasons he thought he had.

"What does the war between Italy and Ethiopia have to do with you?" Grace didn't understand this very much.

"I have some ties to Ethiopia, so I don't want to be seen as a stealer. The credit has been of no use to me, but it has been of great use to many people. Wang Mingshan replied slowly.

With Grace's cleverness, she completely understood for a moment that she couldn't. After a while, it dawned on her that the basis that Wang Mingshan did not directly say was that Ethiopia could defeat Italy and did not need special assistance from the Republic of China. Grace, as Wang Mingshan's woman, naturally has a kind of identification and obedience to Wang Mingshan. But after all, Grace obtained an Italian university degree through hard study, so Wang Mingshan's words strongly stimulated the common sense and patriotism of the Italian marquisess Grace. "Really?" Grace asked heavily.

Wang Mingshan didn't say anything more, he just picked up the wine glass and took another sip. The Italian Marquis Grace looked at Wang Mingshan with an expression of 'as long as China is good, even if the Italian flood is monstrous', so she got up angrily and wanted to go out for a walk. When she got to the door, she turned back and went upstairs to take her daughter, dropped the phrase 'we're eating out,' and walked away.

Looking at the closed door, Wang Mingshan was finally able to sigh freely. There are things that can be said and some things that cannot be said. The biggest reason for Wang Mingshan's retirement was that the recent Ottoman Empire's suppression of the Cretan rebellion had actually failed, and Britain, France, Russia, and Italy had all sent troops to Crete. Crete was to become independent immediately, or to follow European rules, first to self-govern within the Ottoman Empire, and then to achieve independence through a referendum with the support of the great powers.

When dealing with Russia, Britain and the two great powers of the Republic of China served the Ottoman Empire together, and when there were other interests, Britain and Russia joined forces. This matter does not involve the interests of the Minchao, and the Minchao naturally ignores it. The desperate Ottoman Empire made the decision that 'Lao Tzu can't keep it and won't hand it over to you bastards', and conducted secret diplomacy with Ziyang, the new chairman of the Minchao, asking the Minchao to buy Crete.

Wang Mingshan could understand with his toes how happy Chairman Ziyang must be at this time, and the expansion of territory during his tenure was definitely a great achievement for the president of the Republic of China. Zi Yang's actions could not be seen in his emotions, and the Min Dynasty first rejected the Ottoman Empire's sky-high asking price, making it clear that he was unwilling to come to this troubled waters. The Ottoman Empire made a very real request, asking the Ottoman Dynasty to give the Ottomans some more old warships and build a navy that could suppress Russia in the Black Sea.

There has not been much news about this recently, and Wang Mingshan will never think that the matter has been yellowed, and the central government has issued an order to Cyprus to cooperate with the domestic investigation team. Wang Mingshan is an old brother, and his contributions are incomparable, so Wang Mingshan bluntly chose to retire. It doesn't mean much to him to get more credit, but to make way for the younger ones will get more goodwill. Wang Mingshan will die eventually, and accumulating goodwill will be good for his children and grandchildren.

When this is done, I will probably be able to stay in Crete for a few days. Because he had no intention of returning to China, Wang Mingshan couldn't help but imagine the future of Cretan tourism. Ziyang, the new president in charge of this matter, did not know what Wang Mingshan, the founding brother of the People's Republic of China, was thinking, and he was desperately trying to suppress his inner anxiety and solve the problem as step-by-step as possible. The biggest reason for Yao Bang's resignation was frivolous, and no one in the central government dared to evaluate Yao Bang with the feudal saying that 'he is not like a human king', but in private, this sentence was applauded by the central comrades.

After he came to power, he paid great attention to uniting his comrades, and the purchase of Crete was discussed at the Standing Committee in advance. It is generally believed that not buying Crete will not make Europe more favorable to the Minchao, and buying Crete will probably make Europe more afraid of the Minchao. However, Europe's respect for the Minchao was based on their fear of the Minchao's armed force, and they did not look at the European countries at all, and the Minguo Central Committee decided to acquire Crete, which could be used as a high-class military port.

The Standing Committee reached a consensus, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued professional opinions on how to conduct diplomatic work. Since the Ottoman Empire wanted to drag the Minguo Dynasty further into the Mediterranean Sea by selling islands, it would divert the pressure of European countries on the Ottoman Empire. There is no need for the Min Dynasty to come back at a great cost, two old warships of 9,000 tons are enough for the fare.

The Guangfu Party insisted on intra-party democracy, and Ziyang believed that Yao Bang's failure was that he wanted to learn from Governor Wei Zedu's great power, and completely ignored the intra-party democracy that Governor Wei Zedu always adhered to. After going through the intra-party democratic process, Ziyang found that this system was really good, especially this kind of work that was easy to reach consensus. All sides have taken responsibility, all sides are united and cooperative, and if this matter is achieved, glory and merit, in the future all sides will naturally get the reward they deserve.

By 4 October 1905, all Ottoman fighting and non-combatants in Crete had left Crete. On October 10, the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire announced that the Ottoman Empire had completed the documents and procedures for selling Crete to the Ottoman Empire. European countries were in an uproar, and the Republic of China officially entered the Mediterranean Sea when it leased Cyprus for 100 years. After all, Cyprus is located in the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean, more than 40 kilometers from the Ottoman Empire, and the countries of Europe feel that it is still part of the Ottoman Empire. Crete is located in the south of Greece, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Next to it is the busy shipping line from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean.

In the first two days, the propaganda of the newspapers of various countries made the people of various European countries generally believe that China was approaching Greece, and the French newspapers were the first to revive the taste. The major French newspapers immediately published news in an attempt to turn the situation around, although the content was not quite different, and they all wrote a sentence from the French deputy chief of staff, 'The Chinese leased Cyprus with a large knife under the crotch of the Ottoman Empire; The Chinese bought Crete with a big knife under the crotch of their pants in Europe'. Such straightforward propaganda made French readers feel like they were waking up from a dream, and as the news expanded, large Europeans began to worry about the invasion of the Chinese, and many newspapers began to accuse the Ottoman Empire of being a traitor to Europe.

The Ottoman Empire, whose title of 'traitor to Europe' was even somewhat flattered, had been regarded as part of Europe for centuries. For Europeans, Asia Minor is the 'East' of Europe, the source of the turmoil that threatens Europe. Now that China is holding its knife under the crotch of Europe, the Ottoman Empire, which is not East enough, has become its own people in the eyes of Europe.

No matter how much trouble the outside world has, Wang Mingshan, who is in Cyprus, has already entered the retirement channel, and the organization has stopped his work and sent someone to conduct a comprehensive audit of his accounts. This seemingly ruthless approach is already a system, and Wang Mingshan, who voted to pass this regulation, is not worried. He finally had time to care about his son, whose fleet had grown from the existing ones that were being handed over for inspection to the ones being built on the slipway, with a total of eleven 20,000-ton iron ore carriers. Their fleet transported iron ore not only to Italy, but also to the Ottoman Empire.

In the northwestern Aegean Sea, the Gulf of Saros is not far from Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and there is a steel mill near the Mericich River that flows into the Gulf of Saros, where coal mines, limestone and other raw materials from the Balkan Thrace region meet with iron ore, and the steel produced is transported north by rail, through the main railway line of the Ottoman Empire to all parts of the Ottoman Empire.

The steel mills in the area have already started producing steel rails and are building the southern line of the 3B railway. It must be said that the second disease is not a big fool. Wilhelm II's favored southern route also led to the development of the Ottoman Empire through the mineral-rich Balkan Thrace region.

In November, the Bulgarian Railway, which was under the responsibility of the Republic of China, was finally completed, and on December 1, a train full of oil drums departed from Baghdad to Berlin with a warm opening ceremony in Baghdad.

It must be said that this train actually did not go directly to Berlin, the Bosbrus Bridge was not built, and the railway was not smooth. More practically, from June 1905, the oil-producing regions of the eastern Slovak People's Republic of Hungary began to send regular oil trains to Germany. Compared with the high-profile launch ceremony of the 3B railway, the oil transportation from Hungary to Berlin really went unnoticed.

The situation changed so dramatically that France immediately demanded that the British, Russian, and Italian troops on Crete not retreat, and that the governments of all four countries resolutely oppose the dirty land deal between China and the Ottoman Empire. Faced with the intransigence of the French, the British withdrew their troops, leaving behind a few officers. Russia wanted to withdraw its troops, but in the end it responded to the request of the French and remained on the island of Crete with French and Italian troops.

Ziyang, who got the news, immediately convened a standing committee, and the comrades of the Military Commission said that "I will definitely let the Italians understand that they are really tender and tender." The comrades of other departments had no opinion, and after Governor Wei Zedu made a speech that 'peace will be achieved if peace is sought through struggle, and peace will be perished if compromise is sought,' the Standing Committee democratically adopted this decision.

Ziyang understood at that time that Yao Bang really failed to understand the policy of peace, that struggle was not the same as actively choosing war, and that peace was not equal to unconditional connivance.