"The United States has been slapped in the face by the Chinese Empire!"

The next day, the news was reported on the front pages of major newspapers around the world. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Reporters who are afraid that they will not be able to get the news will not let it go if they finally catch a big news and hype it.

Newspapers of various countries reported in detail that two heavy cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy suddenly intruded into the US Navy's live-fire exercise area and flaunted their military might. The Imperial Chinese Navy has only two 10,000-ton heavy cruisers, while the U.S. Navy in the Rhode Island exercises has more than a hundred warships, including more than a dozen battleships.

According to the strength of the American Navy, in the face of provocations, a dozen battleships could sink two heavy cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy with only one salvo of fire.

But it turned out that more than 100 American Navy warships were swept away by two heavy cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The eyes of the people of the world were shattered in instant surprise!

"The Chinese Empire is so arrogant that it forcibly invaded the military exercise area of the American Navy, which is too indifferent to the United States, and it is clear that it is bullying people!"

"I heard that it was because the Chinese Empire built a permanent fortification on Rhode Island on a large scale, which was clearly to prevent the United States from attacking and preparing for war!"

"What? Is this the rhythm of the war? What did the President of the United States say? ”

"You mean President Grant? This guy is so sad that he's lying in the hospital right now! It is said that he went to observe the exercise, but as a result, two warships of the Chinese Empire forcibly broke into the exercise area, and more than 100 US warships were so frightened that they did not dare to open fire, and finally evacuated the exercise area in a gloomy manner. ”

Poof......

People all over the world burst out laughing!

For a time, the United States was discredited, and the Imperial Chinese Navy once again became the focus of public opinion around the world, which can be said to be out of the limelight.

However, ordinary people watched the excitement, and the military brick-makers prepared bricks and expressed their opinions in major mainstream newspapers.

Piaget, a well-known Swiss international military critic, was the first to point out in the Swiss Federal Express that the construction of permanent fortress fortifications by the Chinese Empire in the Rhodes Island concession area was unprecedented, indicating that the Chinese Imperial Government had already believed that a war between China and the United States was inevitable, and that Rhodes Island would bear the brunt of the outbreak of the Sino-American war once a war broke out.

The U.S. Navy then conducted large-scale military exercises in the waters off Rhode Island, indicating that the U.S. military also intends to take the lead in recovering the Rhode Island concession in the event of war.

However, in the face of the forced intrusion of two warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy into the exercise area, the American Navy did not dare to attack, but was driven away. This shows that the United States is not yet capable of going to war with the Chinese Empire, or rather is not ready.

At present, world peace is due to the military confrontation between the Allied bloc and the Entente bloc, and both sides understand that once a war breaks out, the consequences will be unimaginable and the outcome will be unpredictable, so the two major military blocs have become more cautious and will not easily provoke a war.

However, if an event like Rhode Island were to happen again, the consequences would be unpredictable. The U.S. Navy may be able to endure it once, endure it twice, but it will be difficult to endure it three times, and once it goes wrong, it will detonate a full-scale war between the two major military blocs, and the end of the world is about to come.

Piaget's comments have attracted the attention of people all over the world, originally his previous words were very convincing, but unfortunately his last sentence was full of snakes, he said that the war is the end of the world, obviously people do not believe in the end of the world, millions of wars have broken out since ancient times, people are not still alive and well, when is the end of the world.

So, because the last sentence became a failure, almost all the people of the world laughed and soon forgot about it.

Of course, for the top leaders and the military of various countries, they do not forget, and even understand more deeply than Piaget.

Britain, the United States, France, Japan, and Russia held emergency meetings with the ambassadors of the other four countries in their respective capitals to discuss the Rhode Island incident and then give feedback to the top leaders of their respective countries.

This incident not only sounded the alarm bell for the United States, but also reminded Britain, France, Japan, and Russia that the four countries were a wake-up call. They were really worried that Grant's head was hot at that time, and he opened fire on the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, directly detonating the world war.

At the White House, Grant woke up and immediately delivered a State of the Union address, asking the American military to train hard and be ready to fight at any time, and at the same time ordered the military industry to step up the construction of warships, weapons and ammunition, and the huge American industry was quickly operational.

The construction of warships has been accelerated, military training has been strengthened, and the reserves of weapons and ammunition and other materials have been accelerated.

The authoritarian Grant government, which integrates the world's second-largest economy and mimics the military, political, and economic development model of the Chinese Empire, will burst into astonishing power.

Buckingham Palace, Queen Victoria and Prime Minister William had an in-depth exchange of views, and the Rhode Island incident should be taken seriously by the British Empire. The Chinese Empire was preparing for war, which, on the one hand, showed that the Entente bloc posed a major threat to the Chinese Empire, forcing it to make various preparations in advance. On the other hand, it also shows that the military power of the Entente bloc is not enough, otherwise the American Navy will open fire.

When war broke out suddenly, the British Empire should have been prepared in advance.

William agreed, and then called a parliamentary hearing to convey Queen Victoria's suggestion, and the noble parliamentarians were originally very conservative, but they believed that Queen Victoria would bring them luck, so they turned to support William.

All departments of the British Empire have also taken active action, although the total economic volume has slipped from the first in the world to the fourth in the world, and it is about to be surpassed by France, but the background is still there, once mobilized, the potential is still very huge.

The French Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, and the Japanese Empire also received notices from Britain and the United States to actively prepare for war.

Tsar Nicholas II inherited the throne prematurely, was still a student, studied secondary school, and held grudges.

Due to the indefinite extension of the delivery of the two dreadnought battleships built by the Tsarist Empire in the Chinese Empire, the total loss of 230 million rubles was caused, and the Tsarist Imperial Navy was delayed for more than three years, so that the Tsarist Navy did not have a dreadnought battleship until now, and it was directly reduced to a second-rate naval state. (Internationally, the Tsarist Russian Navy is called third-rate, the Imperial Chinese Navy is first-rate, and the British, American, French, and German navies are second-rate).

Nicholas II wanted to avenge his father, even though his father did not like him very much.

Thus, the Tsarist Empire intensified the daily training of the army, as well as the manufacture of equipment.

Because Tsarist Russia joined the Entente, it was previously excluded by Britain and France, unable to obtain high technology, and could only obtain limited technical assistance from the German Empire (Germany also guarded against Tsarist Russia), and now the Tsarist Empire and Britain, the United States and France have become allies, in line with the goal of jointly fighting against the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, Britain, France and the United States have opened up economic aid and technical support to Tsarist Russia, which has made the Tsarist Empire develop rapidly recently.

You know, the historical Tsarist Russian Empire is also very strong, in the case of the economic and technological blockade by Britain and France and other Western developed countries, Tsarist Russia created a super fleet that is enough to rival the British Imperial Navy (Pacific Fleet, Baltic Fleet, Black Sea Fleet), but in 1905 in the Russo-Japanese War was completely wiped out, since then the Tsarist Russian Navy has collapsed, and it was only improved after forming an alliance with Britain to join the Entente bloc in 1907, but unfortunately the world war broke out a few years later, The Tsarist Empire perished before it could develop well.

Now history has changed dramatically, in 1887, the Russian Empire joined the Entente bloc, received economic aid and technical support from Britain, France and the United States, so that the military strength of the Tsarist Empire developed rapidly, because it is the most populous country in Europe, and the development of China in the 21st century is very similar, GDP growth is in double digits, the fastest in the world.

Of course, the GDP growth rate is different from the total GDP, and the Tsarist Russian Empire was originally an agricultural country, and it suddenly transformed into an industrial country, and the growth rate was naturally very fast. However, even if the Tsarist Russian Empire grew by 100% per year, its economic aggregate was not as large as the total growth of the Chinese Empire by 1%.

For the Tsarist Russians, it was as happy as having walked for decades and suddenly having a bicycle, but if you look at the front, you will know that the British and Americans are riding motorcycles, and in front of the British and Americans, the Chinese Empire is driving sports cars.

This disparity was only felt by the Tsarist Russians when they switched from agriculture to industry, and they did not know what a gap was before.

However, Nicholas II didn't care about this, his second IQ thought that the Tsarist Russian Empire was omnipotent, and even against the Chinese Empire, it could win.

Under the strong leadership of Nicholas II, the civil and military officials of Tsarist Russia worked hard, the tsarist army intensified its training, various strategic materials began to be transported along the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Far East, the construction of battleships began in the shipyards, and with British and American technical help and economic assistance, everything was not a problem.

As for the French Emperor Napoleon III, he still did not forget his goal of dominating the land and sea, and the French army should not only pay attention to the construction of the army, but also strengthen the construction of the navy. The army was against Germany, and the navy was originally aimed at the British Imperial Navy, but now it is aimed at the Imperial Chinese Navy, striving to become the strongest in the world.

Of course, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

The French Empire's economy deteriorated, and since joining the Entente, the Chinese Empire's illegal money has also begun to attack the French financial market.

knew that it was the Chinese Empire that did it, but unfortunately it couldn't be beaten, so I could only endure it.

Although the French police have stepped up their crackdown on illegal banknotes, it is a pity that many Frenchmen secretly cooperated with the Chinese Empire in pursuit of huge profits and smuggled illegal banknotes into the country, which made the French Empire suffer.

Again and again, new versions of the franc banknotes were replaced, and it didn't take long for the high-fidelity franc banknotes to appear on the French market.

The Chinese Empire's counterfeiting technology has become miraculous, and France does not want to abuse it.

Of course, all the countries hostile to the Chinese Empire found the same illegal attacks, and they were also abused.

This was especially evident in the Japanese Empire, where the yen depreciated wildly, and the Japanese people had to carry sacks to buy things, and the wages of the workers were all settled on a daily basis, or even hourly, because no one knew how much prices would rise in the next hour.

In the face of this situation, knowing that the emperor was in tears, knowing that this was done by the Chinese Empire, but unfortunately he did not have the strength to start a war with the Chinese Empire for the time being, and if he could not defeat the Chinese Empire, he could only endure it first.

The Japanese Navy and Army frantically expanded their armaments, tightened their belts, and saved money to build warships, guns, and ammunition, preparing for a decisive battle with the Chinese Empire.

The entire Entente bloc moved and stepped up its arms build-up, aiming directly at the Allied bloc.

Every move of the Entente bloc is under the surveillance of the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D., and the telephone systems of many dignitaries have been tapped, so even if you don't know all about the Entente bloc's arms expansion plan, you still know a rough idea.

When Li Weiguo learned about it, he was not surprised, but very happy.

Li Weiguo's real goal is to make all the Entente bloc collapse the cauldron and expand the armament war, he wants to stimulate the other side through this means, to consume the wealth accumulated by the Western world for hundreds of years, and to return the entire Western world to the primitive era.

At the Imperial Council, Li Weiguo used only two words about the will to deal with the Entente bloc -- to expand the army.

These two simple words made the officials have a bitter face, but the generals jumped up and cheered happily.

Since then, the defense expenditure of the Chinese empire has risen from 15 percent of the current annual budget to 30 percent, doubling the national defense budget.

For the huge economic aggregate and fiscal budget of the Chinese Empire, 15% per year is quite a huge expenditure.

Taking Jianyuan 3988 (1888) as an example, with a budget of 1.025 billion yuan in that year, 15% of the national defense expenditure was equivalent to 153 million yuan, the actual income was 915 million yuan, and the deficit was 110 million yuan, of which the deficit was a temporary increase in the national defense budget.

As a result, last year's defense spending was as high as 263 million yuan.

In the same year, the total fiscal revenue of the British Empire was 2.76 billion pounds, which was equivalent to 240 million yuan at the exchange rate of 11.5 that year.

In other words, this defense budget is more than the total revenue of the British Empire for the whole year.

On the eve of the outbreak of the Yapian War in 1839, the British Empire's fiscal revenue that year was 10.3 million pounds, and the fiscal expenditure was 11 million pounds, of which 8.7 million pounds was spent on military expenditures, which were 73.95 million taels converted into Kuping silver.

In that year, the Qing government's fiscal revenue was 113.1 million taels (in the broad sense), the fiscal expenditure was 110.5 million taels (in the broad sense), and the surplus was 2.5 million taels (actually paid to the Ministry of Households), of which 13.5 million taels were spent on military salaries.

At that time, the military expenditure of the British Empire was equivalent to the annual fiscal revenue of the Qing Empire, which was 6 times its military expenditure, and half a century later, the feng shui took turns, and the military expenditure of the Chinese Empire was the annual fiscal revenue of the British Empire, which was more than 6 times its military expenditure.

As the Chinese Empire grows stronger, this gap will widen.

Now Li Weiguo has raised the defense budget to 30 percent, which shows what a huge expenditure it is.

Of course, most of this expenditure will be spent on the naval arms race.

Li Weiguo had already made a decision, he wanted the Imperial Chinese Navy to build super-dreadnought battleships in advance, which completely stimulated the nerves of the Entente bloc and dragged them to death.

As a result, the era of super-dreadnoughts came ahead of schedule. (To be continued.) )