After four Yapian wars, on the Asian land, China's Shence Army successively defeated the British, French, Russian, and Japanese armies, and established the title of the world's strongest army.

However, with the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the Imperial German Army was soon praised by the Western world as the world's strongest army.

In fact, there is an ulterior political conspiracy hidden here. Because with the visit of German Prime Minister Bismarck to China and the signing of a huge arms purchase order of tens of millions of pounds with China, this made the traditional European powers feel nervous and uneasy, especially Britain and France, and felt a real threat, so the British and French news media threw out the news that Germany is the number one army in the world, with the intention of provoking China's Shence Army, causing confrontation and hostility between the Chinese and German armies, and then affecting Sino-German relations.

In the same way, there is also hidden behind the sour feelings of the Western world for the Chinese Shence Army to seize the first place in the world, and they do not want to see the victory of the Easterners, so even if the German Army bullied the French Army and brought shame to France, the French media still preferred to put the German Army on the first throne in the world.

Although Westerners are deceiving themselves, they cannot deny that in the Eastern Hemisphere, the Chinese Shence Army is invincible. In the periphery of Asia, China has an absolute military advantage.

The Fourth Epicene War ended so quickly that the British military did not have time to commit to the army, and the navy was defeated, forcing the British military to stop the war machine in time to avoid greater war losses.

However, Britain did not rest on its laurels, and continued to use Singapore as a base to continue its military infiltration into Southeast Asia and seize the sphere of influence with China. In South Asia, Britain is also using India as a springboard to infiltrate Gurkha (Nepal), Tsemangxiong (Sikkim), Bhutan, and even infiltrate Tibet for reconnaissance, and in Central Asia, it has even invaded Kokand and Aiwuhan, posing a military threat to Ili.

Similarly, there was a Tsarist Russia that was also acting with the British.

Although Tsarist Russia was hostile to Britain in Europe, it was in Asia. But they were able to cooperate with Britain because they all had a common enemy, a strong China.

Because of the loss of the Far East's access to the sea, Tsarist Russia was very angry with China and kept clamoring for the Eastward Crusade, but the gap between China and Russia's industrial capacity, economic capacity and military capacity was getting bigger and bigger, and China's Shence Army made the Tsarist army fearful, so the Tsar had not made up his mind to start a war with China, and during the Fourth Yapian War, Tsarist Russia had agreed to send troops with Britain. As a result, Britain was defeated too quickly, and Tsarist Russia was so frightened that it braked the wheels of war in time.

Today, Tsarist Russia, together with Britain, has militarily infiltrated Kazakh, Burut, Bukhar, Shank, and other West Asian countries, forming a huge encirclement of China with Britain.

This encirclement began in the Arctic zone of Tsarist Russia and the Arctic zone of Canada in the Americas, and then to the eastern part of Central and West Asia, then to the northeastern part of South Asia in India, then Singapore in Southeast Asia, the northern part of the Dutch East Indies, and finally connected with British Australia half the length of the world. constitutes a huge encirclement that encircles China within the map of East Asia.

Of course, Britain is also actively lobbying the Confederate States of America and the United States of America in North America to jointly build a blockade circle against China. Military, political, and economic containment of China.

Among them, the economic containment is mainly focused on restricting European exports to China in high-tech fields, because the British believe that China's rapid growth is caused by the loss of a large amount of Western technology and talent to China. Other European countries don't know what is going on, because of the British and their fears about China's rise. They also joined the ranks of encircling China.

In fact, what these countries don't know is that Britain restricts China in terms of high technology. It's just that you can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, because Britain has previously imported from China special steel materials and machine tool processing equipment for manufacturing large-caliber naval guns, submarines, fish radium that can be launched underwater, and new smokeless drugs such as ladder NT, all of which have been rejected by the Chinese military.

At that time, China and Britain had just resumed diplomatic relations after the war, and Britain imported sensitive military technology such as breech-loading rifles and Gatling machine guns from China, and China was very generous and did not restrict exports.

That's because the rear-loading rifle and Gatling machine gun are not high-tech, and even if they are not exported to the UK, it will not be long before the British military can successfully develop them from other sources or on their own.

However, the special steel materials and machine tool processing equipment for the manufacture of large-caliber naval guns, submarines, fish radium that can be launched underwater, and the new smokeless medicine of the ladder NT are not able to be developed by themselves in a short period of time or easily obtained from other channels, this is the black technology brought by Li Weiguo, and it will take at least ten years or even longer for the British to explore and develop it themselves, so the Chinese military will of course decide to consider its own strategic security issues.

The British will naturally hold a grudge if they can't get these high-tech technologies, especially the Benjamin government, because they want British citizens to promise revenge, and if they can't get China's high-tech military technology, it is equivalent to not being able to get the advantage of the next war.

In the face of the military, political and economic blockade of China by the entire Western world friends organized by the British, the Chinese Emperor Li Weiguo was not surprised, but excited, because it showed that the British had no way to take China, otherwise they would not have used such pediatric means.

Li Weiguo is not afraid, he knows very well the situation in Europe, Germany, France, Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Britain, Italy, these European countries are full of contradictions with each other, otherwise it would not be possible to break out the first and second world wars, you must know that the fuse of the two world wars is in Europe, and it has nothing to do with Asia, and Japan is just a soy sauce role in the eyes of the European powers.

At the time of the talks with Bismarck, in fact, China and Germany had secretly reached an alliance, after all, China and Germany were far apart, and there was no major contradiction in territorial and national interests, which was the most suitable situation for forming an alliance.

China needs to open up the European market through Germany, increase exports, and stir up contradictions among European countries, so that the European continent will be unstable and echo China's core national interests. Germany has placed tens of millions of pounds in huge arms purchase orders with China, and has relied heavily on China's military technology militarily, and hopes to use China's economic and military strength to help Germany break the blockade of the traditional European powers and help Germany rise.

China and Germany take what they need. Reciprocity, which is an alliance tied up by national interests, is the strongest.

Li Weiguo is using his invisible black hands to provoke a world war without hesitation when necessary, completely return the Western world to primitive society, and restore the glorious era of the East dominating the whole world.

Germany is Li Weiguo's hidden killer move, but Li Weiguo will not fully believe in Germany, after all, after Germany has risen to become a great power. In the future, we will also challenge the world hegemony, and sooner or later we will compete with China for world hegemony.

However, it seems that there is still a long time before that day comes, so Li Weiguo's current attention is still on the sea, challenging the world hegemony of the British Royal Navy.

The Navy's development plan for the next five years has already begun, with nine all-steel pre-dreadnought battleships that are not much different from the Chinese Navy's existing Dingyuan-class ironclads. It is enough to deceive the eyes of British spies and sinister the British at a critical moment.

Similarly, the nine cruisers that began construction at the major shipyards in the south were also protected from the previous domescent wrought iron warships. Upgraded to an all-steel special armored cruiser.

While the entire cruiser was built entirely of steel, the external armor was also upgraded to special steel for full protection, which was the once popular armored cruiser design in history, in the twenty years before the appearance of dreadnoughts. It is the most cost-effective main warship of the Navy.

Historically, this kind of armored cruiser was not only a maritime warship favored by the economically poor and industrially backward Tsarist Russia and Austria-Hungary, but also a maritime warship that sought to control the world's seas. Britain, France, Germany and other developed countries that have spared no effort to maintain maritime supremacy have spared no effort in large-scale construction, which is enough to show the great value of this armored cruiser.

Now that the Chinese Navy has mastered the technology of electric welding, it is natural to let this most cost-effective armored cruiser appear on the stage of history in advance, which is very important for the current Chinese Navy to compete with Britain for world maritime supremacy, and the use of armored cruisers to contain British capital ships in some unimportant sea areas will make the British Navy exhausted in all seas around the world.

This is a clever maritime strategy and tactic, using the fast speed of armored cruisers to constantly brush up on the "presence" in the world's seas, that is, to undermine Britain's maritime prestige there and to enhance the global influence of the Chinese navy. If the British Navy wants to counterattack, it can't be defeated by sending ordinary patrol ships, and it can't catch up with the main ironclad ships sent out, and the British main ironclad ships still have to guard against the main fleet of the Chinese Navy, so Li Weiguo is confident that he will use this tactic to turn the British Navy around and make them exhausted.

In addition to all-steel battleships and armored cruisers, Li Weiguo also focused on inspecting the development and construction of submarines during his inspection tour of Jiangnan.

During the Battle of Scarborough Shoal, Chinese submarines also had to rely on tugboats to quickly rush to the engaged waters, which exposed the serious shortcomings of the submarines' ocean-going performance.

Now that the Chinese Navy controls the entire western Pacific waters, ocean-going operations are inevitable in the future, and the tremendous war role of submarines must be reflected in the oceans.

Holland, the chief designer of the submarine, Plante, the chief designer of the battery, and the chief designer of the electric motor, set up a joint research and development team to be responsible for the development of ocean-going submarines.

The original displacement of only one or two hundred tons of Holland type submarine, was quickly redesigned and enlarged, the tonnage increased to more than 1,000 tons, these tonnage was allocated to fuel oil tanks, diesel motor cabins, weapons and ammunition compartments and staff rest cabins, used to improve seaworthiness, special steel materials and electric welding technology are very important for submarines, the use of electric welding of the pressure wall of the submarine is obviously more safe and reliable than riveting.

All this almost came naturally, the design of a new generation of ocean-going submarines went well, and the development and construction of the first experimental ocean-going submarine quickly began.

In the winter of 3971 (1872), Li Weiguo, the founding emperor of China, did not intend to return to cold Beijing after completing his tour of the southern regions, but decided to continue his southern tour, going to Luzon and Lanfang, where he spent the winter and returned to Beijing in the spring of the following year.

In later generations, Li Weiguo liked to stay in the north in the summer, the climate is cool, and go to the south in the winter, the climate is just as cool, and there is no need to be cold and hot all year round.

Now that he is the emperor, after completely settling down the government and the country in the first five years, Li Weiguo will naturally enjoy his happiness.

This time, Li Weiguo did not bring the harem concubines with him, because the Minister of the Interior had already greeted Li Weiguo, and when he arrived in Luzon and Lanfang, he naturally had thousands of selected beauties to accompany him.

This is already customary, an open secret.

With the end of the Fourth Yapian War, it was actually a military contest between China and Britain, Spain and the Netherlands, Britain lost its navy and lost its sea supremacy in the western Pacific, and Spain and the Netherlands, as British accomplices, also lost the Spanish Philippine Islands and the Dutch Borneo Islands.

Li Weiguo restored the Philippines to its former name, Luzon, and Borneo to Lanfang, which would become China's overseas dominions. According to the usual practice, the 500,000 Chinese in Luzon and the 150,000 Chinese in Lanfang will become the new bureaucratic class ruling Luzon and Lanfang, and as the bureaucracy of these two states, their families will naturally select some beauties of the right age to be sent to the palace, as Li Weiguo's harem concubines, and in the future, when they give birth to a prince, they will return to Luzon and Lanfang to become the supreme ruler.

This kind of royal system has become a common practice, but Li Weiguo did not go to these two places just to hunt for beauty and vacation, but also for a deeper strategic purpose.

First of all, the Luzon Islands, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, adjacent to the Qizhou Ocean (South China Sea), is a key strategic location for the ******** maritime oil transportation channel, especially Guam in the Pacific Ocean in the east, but also a springboard in the Pacific Ocean, connecting Asia and the Americas, the future US military will use Guam as a strategic base to contain China, and now Li Weiguo will naturally not let history repeat itself, Guam will carry out strategic construction, although it is not used to deal with the United States at the moment, but to deal with the British naval power in the Pacific, The Guam base is essential.

Then there is Lan Fang, the third largest island in the world, more than twice the size of the Luzon Islands, at 750,000 square kilometers. Its strategic location is more important, it is the southernmost node of China's Qizhou Ocean, facing Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, and it is the bridgehead for China's Shence Army to break through Southeast Asia into the Indian Ocean in the future, and it also needs to be vigorously built.

In addition, Luzon and Lanfang Island are also important raw material suppliers for China's economic and military development, and Luzon Islands are rich in various fruits, which is the world's largest fruit paradise and extremely important for foodie Chinese. At the same time, the Luzon Islands is also the most suitable for growing rubber, in the 19th century, when the artificial rubber technology was immature, the automobile industry flourished and the demand for natural rubber was huge, and Li Weiguo wanted to establish a huge rubber production base in the Luzon Islands to support the Chinese automobile industry to monopolize the global market.

Although Lanfang Island is huge, it is a pity that most of the area is a tropical rainforest, and there are millions of savages living there, and those savages are very ferocious, so it was not easy for the Republic of Lanfang to survive in a small area along the coast.

However, what really makes Li Weiguo pay attention is not the huge land area of the Republic of Lanfang or Lanfang Island, but the rich oil in the mainland shed area in the north of the island, which is one of the easiest oil areas in Southeast Asia, much shallower than the oil area of Chinese mainland, with an average of less than 500 meters, with the current Chinese industrial drilling capacity can be fully exploited, while the oil in other parts of Chinese mainland is generally buried at a depth of more than a thousand meters, which also makes Li Weiguo feel pain.

Dutch East Indies is an important oil production area, the other is located in the Sumatra region, is also a shallow buried rich oil area, but it is still under the control of the Dutch, although the Dutch have not paid attention to oil, nor have they developed it, but it is a matter of time, Li Weiguo came to inspect Lanfang Prefecture, is a field investigation, ready to annex the Dutch East Indies when there is a chance, because Li Weiguo has a feeling that when the British also discover the huge strategic value of oil, it is estimated that they will block the Gulf region and the Indian Ocean and Malacca routes, Curbing China's oil imports during the war.

If that happens, China, which will become more and more dependent on oil imports in the future, will be strangled by the British and threatened.

This was not the result Li Weiguo wanted to see, so he took precautions, first occupying Borneo (Lan Fang) in the Dutch East Indies, and then gradually annexing the entire Dutch East Indies. (To be continued.) )