Yan Xueyi returned to the Han Palace, and Cao Wenbin compiled the recent major events at home and abroad into a document and submitted it. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The Intelligence Department headed by Cao Wenbin is still directly under Yan Xueyi, and Yan Xueyi will invest a lot of money every year to accelerate the development of the Intelligence Department.

At present, the peripheral members of the Ministry of Intelligence have spread all over the Chinese Empire, and there is no way to hide anything important about what is happening in the empire, but the development of the Ministry of Intelligence in China is only to maintain its current scale, and most of the eyes of the Ministry of Intelligence have shifted from domestic to abroad, vigorously developing foreign intelligence channels, and many foreigners have been attracted by money to serve the Ministry of Intelligence.

In particular, when the Chinese Empire was at war with Russia, knowing that it would not be defeated in a hundred battles, the Ministry of Intelligence made great efforts to collect intelligence in Russia, and a large amount of information was collected, and then the Ministry of Intelligence would send the information that the military could use to the military.

Yan Xueyi flipped through the documents submitted by Cao Wenbin.

The first clause of the document is the succession of Benjamin Harrison as president of the United States.

Don't look at the United States now, as a reborn, Yan Xueyi knows that although the United States is not strong in military strength now, at most it can be regarded as a second-class power, but the industrial strength of the United States has surpassed that of Britain, and it is still growing rapidly.

The United States is a country that needs serious vigilance, and if given the opportunity, the Chinese Empire can deal a fatal blow to the United States and nip it in the bud.

After Benjamin Harrison succeeds to the presidency of the United States, the United States will undergo tremendous changes, first of all, the expansion of the United States' territory, in the course of this year, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington have become states of the United States, and next year Idaho and Wyoming will join, making the United States territory increase rapidly.

The increase in land, population, industrial strength, and national strength formed a virtuous circle, making the overall strength of the United States quickly catch up with the most powerful country in the world, the United Kingdom.

Britain does not yet know that its younger brother, the United States, now has such strength.

Another caveat is that during Benjamin Harrison's tenure, in January 1893, the U.S. military stationed in the Hawaiian Islands instigated a coup d'état by the opposition in the Kingdom of Hawaii, overthrowing Queen Liliukalani of Hawaii and establishing a pro-American Republic of Hawaii, and subsequently declared Hawaii a U.S. protectorate.

On February 15, 1893, the Harrison administration sent the Hawaii Treaty of Annexation to the U.S. Senate for consideration, and although the U.S. Senate did not agree to the treaty because U.S. President Harrison was not re-elected in the presidential election, Hawaii still became a state of the United States.

The Hawaiian Islands are composed of 132 islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with a land area of 16,700 square kilometers, located at the "crossroads" of the Pacific Ocean, and are the sea transportation hubs between Asia, the United States and Oceania.

In the future, the Chinese Empire will compete with other countries for world hegemony, and of course such an important strategic place as Hawaii cannot be occupied by the United States, and while the United States has not yet begun to act, Yan Xueyi instructed Cao Wenbin's intelligence department to launch an operation against the Hawaiian Kingdom, and in the future, with the cooperation of the Pacific Fleet, directly take Hawaii.

Turning over the first article, the second article of the document is also of great importance to the Chinese Empire.

The second article of the document describes that Western countries have once again increased their investment in the research of new airships.

Britain added 10 million pounds, France added 8 million pounds, Germany also invested another 5 million pounds in research on airship technology, and other Western countries Italy, Austria-Hungary, the United States, Spain, the Netherlands and even Russia also invested more or more money in airship research.

In the past, there was a naval arms race, and now there is another air force arms race, and you must know that the funds required for the research of airships are not much less than those of naval warships, and once the new airships are successfully studied, the role of airships seems to be no worse than that of warships.

However, according to the analysis of the intelligence it has gathered, the Western countries have studied airship technology alone, and almost no two or more countries have joined forces, and they have all done their own thing, which shows that although the Western countries have many alliances, they are not close enough and have a lot of vigilance against their allies.

If many countries join forces and invest a lot of money and manpower together, the new airship can be developed faster, but if each country goes it alone, it will take more time, and the Chinese Empire will have more time.

In addition, Western governments have increased their investment in the airship industry, which has also made the airship industry explode, the government has increased its efforts to study airships, and some businessmen have also followed the trend to invest in the study of airships.

Yan Xueyi is not concerned about the West's vigorous development of airships, airships play a very big role, but airships have a deadly nemesis - airplanes, even if they are only equipped with a machine gun, they can destroy more than ten or even dozens of airships at one time.

At present, only the United States and the Chinese Empire can produce helium in large quantities, and it is expected that most airships in Western countries will use hydrogen, so it will be easier to eliminate such airships, and a little spark can scrap an airship.

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Article 8.

Britain and France sent large quantities of supplies, including advanced weapons, various machinery, and other supplies, to Russia from the mainland of both countries in order to help Russia.

The Russians thought it was profitable, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Russia made a request to Britain and France for Britain and France to help Russia develop its industry.

Russia's industrial strength is very weak, and the industrial strength of the four provinces of the Chinese Empire was stronger than that of Russia, and Russia's industrial strength was basically between the second and third rates.

Now that there was such an opportunity to develop industry, the Russians hastened to make demands to Britain and France: "We in Russia have paid a terrible price for Britain and France in holding back the Chinese Empire, and we need Britain and France to help Russia develop industry." ”

Britain and France discussed and decided to help Russia develop its industry, and if Russia's industrial strength increased, it could further increase Russia's military power.

So in March, the number of industrial machinery sent to Russia by Britain and France increased considerably, and some British and French technicians followed into Russia.

There are so many things abroad that can attract Yan Xueyi's attention, and then Yan Xueyi's eyes turned back to China.

There are also a lot of messy things in the country, either literati protest against the ban on foot binding and braiding, or the former Manchu Dynasty officials and officers who surrendered to the Chinese Empire are privately linked, and there is an intelligence department to keep an eye on, and once there is a problem, they will be taken down directly.

In addition to those bad things, it was in the southern Sichuan region of Siqi Province, that is, the southern Sichuan area where Yuanhe City and Yongyi City are located, that an incident happened that attracted Yan Xueyi's attention.