readx;?“ Your Majesty, the German Empire is secretly preparing for war! ”

In the Zhongxing Hall of the Wuhan Imperial Palace, Ming Yue, director of the S.H.I.E.L.D. bureau, was reporting to Li Weiguo on the situation abroad. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mingyue was the previous director of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Bureau, but because she was a woman, she had just taken over the position of Cheng Kun, the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and her ability to control S.H.I.E.L.D. was insufficient.

After Li Weiguo learned about this, he severely punished a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. officials, after all, Mingyue was the director he personally appointed, so he naturally wanted to protect him.

However, Li Weiguo also knew that Mingyue was only the commander of the Imperial Forest Army of the Forbidden Palace before, and he was more than loyal but his intelligence control ability was insufficient, so Li Weiguo then transferred Tang Jianzhang to the director of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Bureau, and Mingyue served as the deputy director to learn from experience.

Some time ago, because of the secret construction of new submarines by the United States, the S.H.I.E.L.D. of the Chinese Empire failed to grasp the information in time, Li Weiguo was furious and demoted Tang Jianzhang to the United States.

And Mingyue has learned everything about the operation of S.H.I.E.L.D. after several years of study, so Li Weiguo is also relieved to let Mingyue take care of S.H.I.E.L.D.

At this moment, hearing that the German Empire was secretly armed, Li Weiguo suddenly snorted coldly.

"What a Bismarck!"

For Bismarck, Li Weiguo was very admired at first,

Bismarck, the iron-blooded prime minister who studied in history textbooks, caused Li Weiguo to have a very good impression of this big celebrity at first. But as history changed, the Chinese Empire's miracle medicine allowed Bismarck to live and not die yet.

This is a way to be old and immortal is a thief, and the Germany that has Bismarck's existence is much stronger than his Germany, and the entire German empire is spreading faster than in history, which makes Li Weiguo feel afraid, he knows that Germany is a strong nation, and if he is allowed to show it, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Consider that Germany was almost fragmented after World War I, but one Hitler allowed Germany to almost dominate the world in World War II twenty years later. Japan, which also suffered a disastrous defeat in World War II, became the world's second largest economy in the seventies and eighties, and if it were not for the United States, Japan would have surpassed the United States to become the world's largest economy.

As the saying goes, there must be something hateful about the wretched, and there must be something to be feared by the world among the warlike people.

There is also Russia, the unbeatable Xiaoqiang, let Napoleon fail miserably, let Hitler lie down, these historical lessons always stimulate Li Weiguo's nerves, reminding him not to underestimate these countries, none of them is a fuel-efficient lamp, and he needs to be extremely vigilant.

"Your Majesty is wise, intelligence shows that it was indeed after Bismarck quarreled with Wilhelm II that Germany began a secret military mobilization."

Mingyue said with a smile, looking at Li Weiguo with her eyes, full of respect and tenderness.

As a beautiful woman, Mingyue is still unmarried, she has dedicated everything to this country, and she has dedicated everything to the man in front of her.

It's a pity that Mingyue is not a person who likes to express her feelings, so she would rather stay by Li Weiguo's side like this, even if she is only a nanny, it doesn't matter, as long as she can watch him step by step to the peak of his life and share his joys, sorrows, and sorrows, she will be satisfied.

Li Weiguo sighed: "The German Empire's secret war mobilization shows that they have insight into our intentions to go to war!" This is dangerous, because Bismarck is not the only smart man in this world, and some people in the Entente will soon notice it! ”

Mingyue said: "In the eyes of your subordinates, in today's world, the hero is none other than Your Majesty, even Bismarck, at most half a hero!" ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Don't underestimate a large number of heroes from all over the world, in places you don't know, there are many strong people hidden, they are just lurking, and when they encounter the dragon." ”

Mingyue said in disbelief: "Your Majesty has always had the divine power of divination, it is better to count a hexagram and let your subordinates open their eyes!" ”

"Don't believe it!" Li Weiguo suddenly became interested, he would not let go of any opportunity to pretend to be b.

"Roosevelt of the United States should be counted as the biggest enemy of the empire, with him, the stronger the United States will be in the future, and the greatest threat to the empire in a short period of time."

"Needless to say, Bismarck of the German Empire, as long as he lived, it would be difficult for the German Empire to make mistakes strategically, and the shortcomings of Wilhelm II would be filled by Bismarck, making the core cohesion of the German Empire unprecedented. Even if Bismarck is gone, there will be a guy named Hitler who will come to power in the future, a more dangerous figure than Napoleon, and will be the biggest and strongest enemy that the Reich will face after solving the United States. ”

"The British Empire, don't look at it as an inconspicuous island country, there are so many talents. At present, Ross is only one letter short of Roosevelt's name, but his ability is not bad at all. You look at what he did when he came to power, he was the second Grant and Roosevelt, the future dictator of Britain. In addition to him, Chamberlain, who commanded the Boer War, was no worse than Ross in his ability, and if he joined forces with Ross in the future, it was possible for the British Empire to rise again. ”

"Speaking of the Tsarist Empire, although the ability of Tsar Nicholas II is not very good, there will be a man named Lenin and a man named Stalin in Tsarist Russia in the future, and they will do an unprecedented revolution that will cause a sensation all over the world and rewrite the human social system, and even I am not sure that I will inevitably defeat the future Russia."

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Li Weiguo's mouth is like a river, and he is happy, and he talks a lot about the history of the future.

Mingyue next to her was shocked when she heard this, she knew that Li Weiguo had a god-like prediction ability, and she herself was like a god for what Li Weiguo had said.

At this moment, Mingyue wrote down the names and nationalities of these people one by one in her heart, secretly thinking that one day she would definitely meet them, at least to eradicate these potential enemies in advance for the Chinese Empire.

Li Weiguo didn't know what Mingyue was thinking, if he knew that Mingyue would mobilize the elite forces of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the future, hunt down and kill these people mentioned today all over the world, and change history into a mess, which eventually led to even Li Weiguo himself not being able to predict whether those historical events would be repeated in the future, I don't know how he would feel.

This is a later story, and there is no need to elaborate.

Li Weiguo was worried that Germany's secret war mobilization would arouse the alarm of the Entente and affect the effect of the Chinese Empire's subsequent war against Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War.

Mingyue suddenly made a good suggestion.

"Your Majesty, it is better to use other events to attract the attention of the Entente countries! For example, would it be good to have another large-scale arms race? ”

Li Weiguo thought for a while, nodded and said, "Using the arms race to attract the attention of the Entente is indeed a good suggestion. However, I am afraid that it will have to be an arms race in the navy to be able to stimulate them deeply. ”

After a pause, Li Weiguo continued: "However, the next level of the Navy's dreadnought battleship is still being designed, and it will not be able to start construction in a short time!" ”

In accordance with the law of the development of naval equipment in the Chinese Empire, it is divided into five steps. The first step is the Imperial Academy of Sciences to theoretically design the drawings and related theoretical parameters of the first-class battleship, the second step is for the Naval Test Center to start building the model according to the drawings and testing the detailed parameters of the first-class battleship, the third step is for the shipyard to officially start building the first-class battleship, the fourth step is to complete the construction of the sea trial stage, and the fifth step is to enter the fifth step, the first-class battleship stage for the naval fleet to serve.

In the past, the two steps of designing drawings and building models for the Imperial Chinese Navy took almost no time, and could often be completed in a few months or a year and a half.

But now it is different, the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy are designed to be more and more tonnage, the caliber of the main guns is getting larger and larger, the sailing requirements are getting faster and faster, and the armor requirements are getting stronger and stronger.

These key parameters alone require a huge amount of calculations for the designer. In those days, there were no computers, and they all relied on abacus for calculations.

Take the next level of dreadnought battleships currently being designed by the Chinese Imperial Academy of Sciences as an example, a giant ship with a displacement of 50,000 tons, equipped with a larger caliber of 432 mm naval guns of 17 inches), a flight of 27 knots, and armor strength to be able to resist 432 mm armor-piercing shells fired from 1o kilometers away.

How much tonnage and space should be occupied by these key data requires a huge amount of calculation.

In the past, the tonnage of warships was small, and these data calculations were completed in a few days or even months. But now that the tonnage has reached 50,000 tons, it is much more difficult to calculate.

In particular, the Chinese Imperial Navy has continued to put new equipment on ships, such as the telephone system, wireless telegraph system, sonar system, automatic loader system, ammunition automatic transmission system, air conditioning system, rich is capricious), refrigeration system, etc., the wiring project of various pipelines is more difficult than building a 100-story building, it is conceivable that without a computer, it is all manual calculation, and if you make a mistake, you have to re-push and recalculate, and this design time will be over, and you will not be able to do it in a year or two.

In the past, the Imperial Academy of Sciences of China could give the navy a newly designed warship every year and hand it over to the naval shipyard for direct construction, and basically the first-class capital ship could be completed in three years.

But now it takes more time, and if the Navy wants to build a new first-class warship, the designers need to start designing it two years in advance.

In short, to use the professional terminology of later generations, that is, there are more equipment, and the research cycle will naturally become longer.

At present, the Imperial Chinese Navy has requested the construction of the next class of dreadnought battleships, and the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the General Administration of Ships have been studying it for a year and a half, and the design drawings have not yet been finalized, while the Fury-class battleships are almost completed. The shipyard was about to vacate space, but no new orders were received from the military.

Mingyue smiled and said, "This is easy to do!" It is only necessary to announce the performance indicators of the next-class dreadnought battleship to the outside world, and slightly leak part of the drawings to foreign spy and intelligence agencies. If they still don't believe it, they only need to start building a few Dreadnought battleships in the shipyard that are currently mature in the Imperial Navy, and they are not afraid that they will not be fooled! ”

"Is that so?"

Li Weiguo thought for a while, nodded immediately, and finally agreed to Mingyue's proposal.

Li Weiguo did what he said, and immediately summoned Wang Kaitai, prime minister of the cabinet, Zhang Peilun, minister of the Ministry of War, Lin Jiyun, minister of the navy, Xu Shou, minister of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Wei Han, director of the General Administration of Ships, Fu Xuexian, minister of finance, and other relevant ministers to the meeting.

At the meeting, Li Weiguo said that Germany's secret war mobilization might attract the attention of the Allied powers, and proposed to build stronger dreadnought warships and set off another round of naval shipbuilding arms race to attract the attention of the Allied powers.

Navy Minister Lin Jiyun naturally applauded with both hands in approval, if he gets more powerful battleships, then the naval strength will increase significantly, and there is nothing more pleasing to Lin Jiyun than this kind of thing.

However, the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the General Administration of Ships said that the newly designed Dreadnought battleship is still being calculated and cannot be handed over to the shipyard for construction.

The final solution is to continue to build four more Fury battleships, which are the Western codenames Fury-class battleships. Use a rage-class battleship to pass off as the newest level of dreadnought-class battleship.

The Imperial Court and the National Defense Information Agency under the Ministry of War were responsible for disseminating information, confusing the Allied countries, and stimulating the Allied countries to follow suit and build more powerful dreadnought battleships.

The next day, the Information Department of the National Defense Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Chinese Empire threw a bombshell at a regular press conference, announcing that the Chinese Empire had officially begun construction of four Type 8 unnamed dreadnought battleships in the first year of the First Sino-Japanese War.

The published basic performance parameters of the Type 8 battleship are normal displacement 434oo tons without mentioning full load), equipped with four triple 12 432-mm main guns 17 inches, not mentioned in double diameter), fast enough to withstand the attack of the strongest shells in the world at the moment, not mentioned armor thickness), equipped with a variety of advanced equipment, including sonar, radio, telecommunications and other systems, which are no longer secrets, directly disclosed).

Some data are released, some data are not released, and the truth is false, but it makes all parties feel mysterious, and they will try their best to collect relevant intelligence and attract the attention of their intelligence officers.

At the same time, the Imperial Court of China also sent a note to the personnel of European and American countries stationed in China, telling them that this was the most powerful battleship in the history of the Chinese Empire, and that it was an invincible battleship, with its powerful artillery that could sink the battleship of any country, its solid armor protection could withstand the shell attack of any country, and its high sailing could evade the attack of fish and radium from any country.

The Chinese Empire is about to possess such invincible battleships, so it is hoped that the European and American countries will no longer engage in an arms race with the Chinese Empire, and from then on they will keep their duties and maintain world peace.

This attitude of the Chinese empire suddenly made the governments of Europe and the United States feel confused and incomprehensible.

The European and American countries feel that the reason why the Chinese Empire wants to stop the global arms race is probably because the Chinese Empire itself has no money to invest in such a large-scale arms race, otherwise it would never be possible to call on all countries to stop the arms race together.

However, since the Chinese Empire wants to build Type 8 battleships that can crush the navies of various countries, this clearly shows that it is necessary for all countries to recognize the world hegemony of the Chinese Empire.

Naturally, the United States and the British Empire would not agree, both of them wanted to control the world's oceans.

The British Empire believed that the Chinese Empire could no longer afford to play an arms race, so it tactfully begged Europe and the United States for mercy to end this large-scale arms race.

Therefore, the British Empire said that it would not stop building warships, and also said that the British Imperial Navy would also build more powerful dreadnought battleships.

Similarly, this attitude was shared by the United States, and even the German Empire did not share it.

As a result, the navies of European and American countries have convened experts and began to build adversarial battleships based on the basic data of the Type 8 dreadnought battleships of the Chinese Empire.

For a time, European and American countries launched the most powerful dreadnought battleship program, vowing to completely drag down the Chinese empire with an arms race. To be continued. 8