Downing Street, the Prime Minister's Office of the British Empire.

The new Prime Minister Saul had not slept for days, and he was overwhelmed by urgent telegrams from India, Singapore and Australia.

"If you know that this is the case, you should remove Benjamin later, and let Benjamin have a headache about these things."

Saul regretted it a little, he thought that as long as he came to power and sent a request for peace to the Chinese Empire, he would soon get the consent of the Chinese Empire, but he made a mistake, and this time the Chinese Empire became confident and rejected Saul's request for peace.

"It seems that we have to find a few countries to mediate together, and put pressure on the Chinese Empire together to make peace talks!" Defense Secretary Cook proposed.

Thor shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that no country can put pressure on the Chinese Empire now, at least there is no situation affecting the Chinese Empire in the countries around the Asia-Pacific region." Tsarist Russia was the only country that could put pressure on the Chinese Empire, but unfortunately it was at war with the Ottomans, and he would never be happy to offend the Chinese Empire at this time. ”

Cook thought for a while and said: "In addition to the Tsarist Russian Empire around the Chinese Empire, there are only Japan and the United States left, and Japan is our ally, needless to say, what about the United States?" Is it possible to exert influence on the Chinese Empire? ”

Saul shook his head and said, "The United States is not the opponent of the Chinese Empire for the time being, but their economic foundation is good, and they may be able to compete with the Chinese Empire if they develop at full strength for a few years." Improving relations with the United States is the only political legacy of the Benjamin administration, and it will be our task to use the United States to counter the Chinese empire. But now it is necessary to completely push the United States and the Chinese empire into hostilities. ”

Cook asked, "Do you have any good ideas?" ”

Thor sneered: "Since the Chinese Empire does not agree to peace talks. Then I'll see how big their appetite is and how much territory they can eat. We don't have much else in the British Empire, but we have a lot of territory. If it's really urgent, then the fish will die and the net will be broken. ”

After a pause, Saul continued: "I plan to transfer Hawaii to the United States, what do you think of this plan?" ”

Cook thought for a while before he understood, "Are you trying to use Hawaii to provoke the Chinese Empire and the United States to be hostile?" ”

"You guessed it!" Saul said confidently: "The Chinese Empire will never give up Hawaii, if the United States gets Hawaii, it will be equivalent to an additional barrier against the threat of the Chinese Empire in the Pacific Ocean, without this barrier, the west coast of the United States will be completely exposed to the military threat of the Chinese Empire." What would you do if you were Grant? ”

Cook suddenly laughed and said, "If I were Grant, I would definitely be willing to accept Hawaii." But that's it. The Chinese Empire was bound to break with the Grant government. ”

Saul nodded: "Only in this way will the United States completely fall to us, with the strong economic base and resources of the United States, plus the technology of the British Empire." The United States will rise rapidly in a short period of time. Become an important force against the Chinese Empire. ”

But Cook was still worried: "But in this case, what will happen to the future of our British Empire?" Even if the Chinese Empire is overthrown, another powerful America will be raised. ”

Saul said with a wry smile: "We lost the war with the Chinese Empire this time, and so far the Chinese Empire has not agreed to negotiate peace with us, but has privately released rumors, indicating that we want the British Empire to cede the entire Australia, Singapore, Hawaii and Bangladesh, so it can be seen that once these places are ceded out." Without Australia's iron ore, coal, wool and other resources, our British Empire would have been hit hard. Economic power no longer wants to compete with the Chinese Empire. ”

Thinking of this situation, not only Saul was sad, but the people of the entire British Empire were sad, knowing that today, they should not have provoked the Chinese Empire in the first place.

It's just that there is no regret medicine to take.

"I'll do my best to hold these places!" Cook gritted his teeth and said, his heart is also sad, can he keep it? The devil knows, he doesn't believe it himself anyway.

Saul nodded, whether Cook could do what he said or not, this attitude was still commendable.

"After my observation and research, I have found that the reason why the Chinese empire has achieved key victories every time has a lot to do with their strategic foresight. If we can't surpass the Chinese Empire in this respect, or match them, we will never want to win the war. ”

Cook nodded and said, "I also discovered that since there was Li Weiguo, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, every time we went to war with him, he would always give us an unexpected shock. For example, the rear-loading rifles and rear-loading guns during the 1860 War came out, such as the Gatling machine gun during the 1865 War, and then the 12-inch 50-diameter naval gun that restrained our Navy during the War in 1870. It was also one of the main culprits of the continuous losses and defeats of the Imperial Army. ”

Thor nodded in agreement and analyzed: "In other words, the Chinese Empire began to plot to prepare for the next war after the last war was fought. No matter how we prepare, the Chinese Empire always has the tactics and equipment to restrain us, and this is the key to their continuous victory. ”

Cook added: "Our intelligence agents have found out that all of this seems to be related to Li Weiguo, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, and many scientists and engineers of the Chinese Empire almost respectfully call Li Weiguo Li Teacher, and it is said that these miraculous weapons and equipment that changed the war have been instructed by Li Weiguo." ”

"Can you kill him?"

"This is very difficult, the security of the Chinese Empire is too strict, and it is difficult for our agents to approach, and even if they can get close, they must have the will to die to complete it."

"I remember that the emperor of the Chinese Empire had a lot of women, can you start from this aspect?"

"This aspect is even stricter, I heard that the eighteen generations of the woman's ancestors have been investigated clearly."

It is obviously not an easy task to assassinate the emperor of an empire. Especially since the Chinese Empire is an imperial country, it is even more difficult to start in this regard.

"Don't be in a hurry, if you don't work once, twice. If you can't do it in one year, it will be five or ten years, Li Weiguo is too young, if he lives another fifty or sixty years, we will be even worse. ”

Cook nodded suddenly, "I'll arrange it!" ”

Sauron reminded Cook again: "If necessary, you can beat the British royal family!" ”

Cook was stunned for a moment, and then understood, but shook his head and said, "The royal family will never agree!" ”

Sauron snorted coldly, "For the sake of the British Empire." They can't help but disagree! ”

"Got it, but ...... Hey, forget it. You decide! Cook didn't say much.

According to Sauron's plan, British troops around the world are still fighting tenaciously to prevent the military invasion of the Chinese Empire as much as possible.

At the same time, Sauron's secret envoy arrived in Washington. Hold a secret meeting with Grant. Privately transferred Hawaii to the Confederate States of America.

As a soldier, Grant knows too well the importance of Hawaii, and in the face of the increasingly powerful Chinese Empire, he has to be wary, so he knows that Hawaii is tricky, but he still agrees to Sauron's proposal, but Grant is not easy to get along with, so he took the opportunity to knock Sauron.

Ultimately. Britain not only wants to hand over Hawaii to the United States, but also shares Britain's most advanced military and civilian technology with the United States. This is also exactly what Sauron wants, in order to make the United States strong as soon as possible to resist the Chinese Empire, Sauron is also open, for the United States, Britain is completely asking for and taking, full support.

It is already an open secret in the world that Britain and the United States secretly collude, and the Chinese Empire is not unprepared for this, as early as before the outbreak of the war, Li Weiguo made instructions to occupy a military base in the north and south of the United States, and stationed heavy troops. Even during the war, the Chinese Imperial Military did not use the Chinese Imperial Shence Army of these two bases, which shows its importance.

Britain quickly transferred Hawaii to the United States, so naturally it could not hide the intelligence system of the Chinese Empire, and Britain's original intention was also very obvious, that is, to let the Chinese Empire know about this matter and provoke hostile relations between the Chinese Empire and the United States.

In the China Hall of the Forbidden City, Li Weiguo has been particularly refreshed in the past few days, and at the instigation of several female officials, he tried the thoughtful oil pushing service of the Indian sisters, and he fell again properly.

Being an emperor should be like this, otherwise wouldn't you live for nothing. However, the depraved will be depraved, and the major affairs of the country will not dare to delay.

Therefore, when he learned of the Hawaii issue, Li Weiguo immediately convened a meeting of the emperor to discuss countermeasures with the civil and military officials.

"This British devil just owes a beating, and he can't beat us by himself, so he secretly goes into the water with America."

"This America is also fucked, knowing that the Hawaii problem is the fuse of the war between the empire and the United Kingdom, but still dares to take a step beyond the thunder pool, it is really hateful."

"I heard that the American Civil War was coming to an end, the Lincoln administration in the South was about to collapse, and the Grant administration in the North saw that it could unify the United States.

"Grant is a white-eyed wolf that can't be raised, I don't know how much benefit he has received from the Empire, if it weren't for the Empire's support for him, they would have been wiped out a long time ago."

"Hey, this is the reality, there are no eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests, obviously Grant is not willing to divide America forever, so when the British support him to unify the United States, we become his enemies."

"I propose that the Imperial troops stationed in the northern part of the United States march on Washington at once, and with the combat strength of our army, there will be no problem in taking Washington within three days."

"That's a big fuss, Grant is not openly hostile to us, and our rash dispatch of troops to the United States will provoke hostility around the world, which is not in the core interests of the Empire."

"I also don't think there's a need to make a big fuss, since the British handed over Hawaii to the United States, we can just take it back, and if the United States dares to say a word, it's not too late to teach them a lesson."

After in-depth discussions among the civil and military officials, Li Weiguo finally adopted the attitude of seizing Hawaii first and testing the Americans.

Li Weiguo really wants to annex the entire United States immediately, but that is not realistic, now the Chinese Empire is at war with the British Empire, the huge Pacific Theater needs the navy to control, the Imperial Shence Army wants to occupy the vast area of up to 7.7 million square kilometers of Australia, it will take a lot of time to completely subdue the 10 million people in the region, as well as the Malayan Peninsula, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, the Western Frontier Battlefield, the Indian Battlefield, the Alaska Battlefield, etc., it can be said that the Chinese Empire is now at war on all sides, Enemies are made in all directions, energy is limited, and when the cannon goes off, it is worth knowing why the United States in later generations declined, isn't it that it fought a Vietnam War and was dragged down by a small Vietnam. Why did the Soviet Union collapse, wasn't it just that it fought an Afghan war and was dragged down by a slap-sized Afghanistan? We cannot use all the accumulated national strength on war, and this is a lesson of blood.

Since Li Weiguo is well aware of this bloody lesson, he will not become a war maniac, and perhaps one day the Chinese Empire will fall into the quagmire of war because of a small country with a big palm, repeating the mistakes of the United States and the Soviet Union in history.

Therefore, Li Weiguo decided to eat the meal one bite at a time, first cleaned up Britain and Japan, and then planned for the United States.

Based on this national policy, Zhang Peilun, Minister of the Imperial Court of China, sent a note to the US ambassador to China, solemnly expressing his concern for Hawaii and demanding that the United States not accept it privately with Britain, and that Hawaii belongs to the Hawaiian people. At the same time, through the ambassador of the Chinese Empire to the United States, he conveyed to the Grant government the solemn concern of the Chinese Emperor about this matter, and demanded that Grant immediately stop the act of undermining Sino-US relations.

But Grant ignored it and sent an elite U.S. military into Hawaii to take Hawaii from the British. At the same time, in order to prevent the Chinese Empire from garrisoning troops in the two military bases in the north and south of the United States, Grant even mobilized heavy troops to monitor, and the relationship between the Chinese Empire and the United States instantly became tense.

However, neither side made any major moves, and Grant had not yet made up his mind to completely fight the Chinese Empire, and he was well aware of the great military strength of the Chinese Empire. And the Chinese Empire has not yet taken action against the United States, because Britain and Japan are still resisting, especially Britain, even if it loses the Pacific War, it still has a huge overseas colony, a population of more than a billion, and more than 100 warships.

The British did something on the Hawaii issue, which really angered Li Weiguo, and then Li Weiguo personally issued an order, ordering the soldiers on all fronts to counterattack with all their might, giving the British the heaviest military blow, forcing the British to put down their noble heads and bend their arrogant knees to the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.) )