Chapter 323: Causing Trouble for the British and French
An "accident" accident delayed the birth of the hard airship of Western countries for at least one year, even if the hard airship of Western countries appeared a year later, Western countries also attached importance to the hard airship, thinking that the hard airship could confront the airship of the Chinese Empire, and began to vigorously manufacture the hard airship, but in a short period of time, the airship of Western countries could not confront the Chinese Empire. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Not to mention the latest Kunpeng-9 giant airship of the Chinese Empire, even the number of airships of the Chinese Empire is difficult for Western countries to catch up with in a short period of time, at present, there are hundreds of airships floating in the sky of the Chinese Empire, and Western countries still have a long way to go if they want to build so many airships.
After Britain built a hard airship, the Chinese Empire would sell a relatively low-level hard airship to Germany to help Germany develop a hard airship, so that the two camps in Europe would start a confrontation, and further turn it into an air force arms race, spending a lot of money from Western countries here, and when the fighter appeared, the airship in the sky was just a big fireball.
As the strength of the old empires, Britain and France are still too strong, and the strength of the two countries is the foundation accumulated by the two countries for hundreds of years, relying on the huge colonies behind the two countries, even under the ravages of the silver crisis, the two countries still have the strength to support Russia.
For this reason, Yan Xueyi, who knew the general trend of the future, deliberately formulated a series of plans to consume the strength of Britain and France, and the air force arms race was one of them, and the construction price of large airships did not seem to be much lower than that of warships.
In addition to the air force arms race, there is also the naval arms race, but this naval arms race is started by Britain itself, as Britain continues to build advanced warships, Britain's naval strength is getting stronger and stronger, and other countries will also follow the construction of advanced warships to guard their own countries' maritime borders.
Take Germany, for example, if Germany builds one battleship, Britain will start building more than three battleships the next moment, ensuring that the British Navy has an overwhelming advantage.
In the late 19th century, the British government's naval construction goal was "to make its navy powerful against the navies of the two great powers," that is, the British navy was stronger than the navies of the two countries in the second and third places combined.
However, Britain's large-scale construction of warships caused panic in other countries, and they also built warships, and the naval arms race began as a result, and with the rise of Germany, a new round of naval arms race will officially begin.
Then the economic crisis that can have a huge impact on the strength of Britain and France is the economic crisis, the silver crisis has weakened the strength of Britain and France a lot, but give the two countries a certain amount of time, the strength of the two countries will recover, recovery is not growth, and the strength of the Chinese Empire has been growing, and the gap in strength between the two sides is constantly narrowing.
If we create a few more artificial economic crises for Britain and France and even the entire Western world, it will weaken the strength of various Western countries and help the Chinese Empire catch up with Western countries.
From the very beginning, the Chinese Empire under the leadership of Yan Xueyi was to compare with the entire Western world, and in the end, the two had to be separated.
Britain and France have such strong strength, on the one hand, because of hundreds of years of accumulation, and on the other hand, because both countries have huge colonies behind them.
At present, the British colony covers an area of more than 30 million square kilometers, equivalent to one-fifth of the world's land area, accounting for one-half of the total colonies of the great powers, equal to more than 100 times the local area, and the colonial population is nearly 400 million, equal to nine times the population of its own country, the colonial scope includes all continents, it is the largest colonial empire in the world, the British flag flutters in the sky over the colonies, whether it is the eastern hemisphere or the western hemisphere can be illuminated by the sun, so Britain calls itself "the empire on which the sun never sets".
France is the second largest colonial empire in the world after Britain, with colonies covering an area of more than 10 million square kilometers and also spreading all over the world, with a colonial population of nearly 50 million.
You can't overly squeeze your own country, but you can plunder the wealth of your own colonies, and Britain and France have so many colonies, which is the foundation of the two countries' fortunes.
If the colonies of the two countries are to be thrown into chaos, the two countries will need to suppress the rebellion and greatly deplete the strength of the two countries.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance, Britain and France brutally oppress their own colonies, so from time to time there are rebels, but the rebels can only resist with cold weapons, and the next moment they are exterminated by the regular army equipped with firearms, or even killed by their former compatriots and now the lackeys of the enemy.
What the rebels lacked the most, one was weapons, the other was tactics, they wanted weapons, the Chinese Empire had them, they wanted tactics, and the Chinese Empire also had them, and a copy of "Guerrilla Warfare" was enough to make the rebels achieve something, so that the British and French colonies fell into chaos, and they had to mobilize large armies to suppress the rebellion.
As the rebels achieve certain successes, more people will join the ranks of the rebels, and with so many British and French populations, can they still be all soldiers?
Although the rebels would not overthrow British or French rule, they would greatly deplete the strength of Britain and France, and at the same time reduce the support that the colonies could give to their countries proper.
There are too many ways to reduce the power of Britain, France, and even the Western world, and they are full of flaws, and this is the opportunity of the Chinese Empire.
In the stage of rapid development, the Chinese Empire is unwilling to waste its strength to wage war with other countries, Russia is an exception, as long as the Western countries dominated by Britain and France are firmly held back, Britain and France will not have time to deal with the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire can develop with peace of mind, and when Britain and France have their free hands to deal with the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire has enough strength to deal with Britain and France.
The outbreak of the automobile industry and the airship industry requires the use of a large amount of natural rubber, and the price of natural rubber will rise accordingly.
In southern Africa, the British and the Boers have a huge contradiction, which may turn into a war at any time, of course, the Boers cannot defeat the British, if the Chinese Empire gives the Boers some support, it will make this war last longer, and the industry will also greatly deplete the strength of the British......
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