"Congratulations, Your Majesty, your plan has succeeded, the British have moved, and all countries in Europe and the United States have moved!"

Wu Yong, the secretary of the Ministry of War and the minister of military aircraft, came to congratulate Li Weiguo. As the Chinese Empire set off a new round of shipbuilding climax, the Royal Navy of the British Empire could not help but join the arms race, the United States Navy followed, and France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Austria and other countries also launched emergency plans, and they were all involved in this round of global naval arms race.

Li Weiguo is very happy, this is the effect he wants, dragging down the British Empire, just like the United States dragged down the Soviet Union, only this time Li Weiguo not only wants to drag down the British Empire, but also the whole of Europe. It is not only confined to the confrontation between countries, but has risen to a new level of confrontation between the East and the West.

As the sole representative of the East, the Chinese Empire will dominate the world and crush the entire Western world.

Perhaps at this point, Western countries have not yet realized that at least at present, Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Turkey and other countries are full of contradictions, and they cannot twist a rope to confront the Chinese Empire.

"I also got news from S.H.I.E.L.D., and it seems that the British are still unwilling! I want to fight the empire again! Li Weiguo snorted coldly, any country that dared to challenge the Chinese Empire would be ruthlessly destroyed.

Wu Yong smiled: "Even if the British don't fight us, won't Your Majesty fight the British?" ”

Li Weiguo nodded and did not deny it.

Unless the British Empire chooses to abandon its world hegemony and no longer be an enemy of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire must attack.

"However, Your Majesty really doesn't plan to take the initiative? Let the British develop naval power? Wu Yong asked, after all, he didn't know the direction of the future development of the world, so it was impossible to fully understand Li Weiguo's intentions.

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "War is only the last resort, if you can use peaceful means to drag down the British, it is the best policy!" Are you still worried about the Dreadnought-class battleships? ”

Wu Yong nodded and said, "Don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, the minister is indeed a little nervous!" Although the minister has already seen the advanced level of the dreadnought-class battleships, the war is very variable, and it is difficult to guarantee that the British will not come up with a killer feature! ”

"Rest assured, the British will never copy our dreadnoughts! Because they don't have steam turbine technology at all, with the existing ordinary reciprocating steam engine technology, if they want to carry 12 main guns, they have to install armor protection of the same tonnage, they are bound to greatly affect the speed. Wei Han calculated that if our dreadnoughts were replaced by our previous steam engines, they would only have a speed of 14 knots at most, and the British steam engine technology would be good if it was up to 15 knots in the sky, while we were actually 21 knots. If you think about it, once the two sides are engaged, with the same artillery and the same armor protection, we can easily seize a favorable attack position at 21 knots against them at 15 knots. Just like the Battle of Scarborough Shoal, our warships will crush the British warships and fight them until they fall to their knees and beg for mercy! ”

Wu Yong agreed: "The minister is worried that our steam turbine technology will be mastered by the British!" ”

"That's your military's business! If you can't keep it secret and leak the secret in advance, then you can collectively apologize for your crimes! Li Weiguo said lightly, his calm expression was full of pervasive coercion, which made people feel palpitations.

Wu Yong suddenly smiled bitterly, he knew that Li Weiguo would say this, so he shouldn't have asked more in the first place. This is stupid, if the secret is leaked, the people below him will have to apologize for their own crimes.

Of course, Wu Yong is very confident that the core secrets of steam turbine technology are placed in the strictest vault of the Ministry of War, and the heavy soldiers are really not afraid of leaking information day and night. But what if, people are afraid of what happens! Thinking of this, Wu Yong suddenly shuddered, don't ask this kind of question in the future, just make yourself uncomfortable!

"By the way, Your Majesty, the Telecommunications Bureau has successfully developed a new encryption code, please Your Majesty to specify the password master!"

"Great! With the encrypted code, the communication system will be much more secure in the future! ”

Li Weiguo thought for a while and said, "Let's use the Analects as a code masterbook!" However, it should be reformatted and printed separately, not sold on the market! ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Although the Analects are popular and not easy to arouse suspicion, military personnel will always attract the attention of enemy spies when they hold this Analects!" Why don't you just use His Majesty's quotes? Regardless of whether he is an official or a military general, a person of any profession holding His Majesty's quotations will never arouse suspicion, because this is His Majesty's powerful influence! ”

The quotations of His Majesty that Wu Yong refers to are naturally recorded by Li Wei Chinese, not to mention civil and military officials, almost every household in the empire has a copy, citing Li Weiguo's words as classics, reciting them every day and keeping them in mind.

For this kind of thing, Li Weiguo was also drunk at first, but it is still very necessary to look at the problem from the perspective of an imperial leader.

Of course, Li Weiguo will not engage in any Stalinist personality cult, and he must take it as a warning!

"The password master book can't always be just one set, it will be changed frequently during special periods and wars, you can see it!"

Wu Yong led the order and said: "In addition, radio technology has made breakthroughs again, and the effective communication distance has exceeded 1,000 kilometers, but the volume is a little large, and it is necessary to establish a large radio communication base station." The navy has already made a proposal and hopes that it can be prioritized. ”

The radio communication system of the Chinese Empire has been successfully developed, but the equipment is still relatively bloated. Li Weiguo saw it once, the circuit board was directly riveted to the wooden board, and a capacitor alone was the size of a beer bottle, and Li Weiguo was also drunk when he saw it.

However, the successful development of radio in the early 80s of the 19th century was more than ten years earlier than Marconi in history, and its significance to the Chinese Empire was extraordinary, and the most prominent manifestation was the navy. If the navy was equipped with a radio system, then there would be no need to use flags to convey orders in an engagement. In the event of heavy fog and gunpowder smoke blocking the view, the command can still be effectively commanded by radio, and the orders of the fleet commander are conveyed directly from the flagship to the ships without the baton mode, which greatly improves efficiency.

Of course, once the radio system is installed on a battleship, the superstructure of the battleship must be redesigned, there must be a radio communication room, a tall telephone pole must be built, and it must be well protected, otherwise it will be destroyed by a bullet, and the radio will be most likely to fail. At the same time, it is necessary to conduct training, and it is not a day's work for the flag language soldiers to become radio communication troops, and it is necessary to establish a special radio specialty.

Most importantly, keep it a secret.

"You can discuss it with Wei Han! Let's see how to change it, take advantage of the fact that the construction of this batch of dreadnoughts has just begun, and make timely modifications to the superstructure. As for funding, I'll say hello to the Ministry of Finance! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wu Yong suddenly said happily: "With the radio equipment, in the future, when the navy fights abroad, His Majesty and the General Staff can know the news at any time!" ”

Li Weiguo smiled: "Things are good things, but remember to keep them secret!" Every time we have one more killer weapon at this stage, we will have a better chance of winning a war in the future. ”

"You know!" Wu Yong said again: "In addition, the Beiyang Gun and Artillery Bureau is about to conduct a test firing of 330 mm guns at the Tongzhou Weapons Range in three days, and Liu Xue is trying to invite His Majesty to listen to it and make a scene!" ”

Li Weiguo was immediately happy, and said: "This Liu Xuezheng is quite kind, and he likes to watch the test firing scene of the large-caliber main gun when he knows me!" However, he previously told me that the 343 mm cannon would be successfully developed within three years, and now that two years have passed, how did he get 330 mm? ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Your Majesty wants him to surpass the British, French and American Paris cannons, but if we also develop a 343mm main gun, we will look up to them too much." Liu Xuezheng said that the 330 mm main gun he developed has reached 45 times diameter, and all of them are superior to their 343 mm 40 times diameter guns in terms of power, range, and cutting force. Didn't you, Your Majesty, also say that you want to keep a low profile? If you suddenly come up with a 343 mm 45 times artillery, or a larger caliber artillery, it won't scare them to death, and if they are afraid, maybe they won't dare to compete with us in an arms race, then Your Majesty's plan to use the arms race to drag down Britain, France, and the United States will be invalid! ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "I can see that you are protective of your son-in-law!" I haven't even blamed him, and you've started interceding for him! ”

Wu Yong suddenly smiled awkwardly.

Li Weiguo naturally doesn't really mind this, what he cares about is ability.

"Okay, tell him I'll be there on time! But don't let him make a big fuss, the Assassin organization has been rampant lately, and I can't let the guards around me work too hard, right! ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will do a good job of security!"

The two of them made up their minds, and three days later they went to the Tongzhou test range.

At the same time, the world's major newspapers were also frantically manipulating the issue of war between China and Britain.

"Seeing that it was 3981 years and 1881 AD, I don't know if the British Empire still has the courage to declare war on the Chinese Empire!"

The China Imperial Daily once again interviewed Mr. Zhang, a special military commentator.

Reporter: "Hello Zhang Juzao, what do you think of the current situation between China and Britain, and will it be rumored that every five years, the British Empire will go to war against our Chinese Empire again?" ”

"We see that the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire have experienced wars for hundreds of years, a small battle in three years, a major battle in ten years, and a decisive battle in twenty years, and so far, the two sides have fought nine wars with more than one million people. This is very similar to the current relationship between our Chinese Empire and the British Empire, one is to compete for territory and the right to access the Black Sea, and the other is to compete for colonies and world maritime supremacy, which is very reminiscent. However, I personally think that the previous four Sino-British wars only took 20 years, an average of once every five years, and now another five years are about to expire, but I think the British Empire may not be able to go to war! ”

Reporter: "May I ask why?" ”

Zhang Juza: "Because of their national strength and economic situation!" In fact, the British Empire could launch a large-scale war against China every five years before, and that was because the British Empire at that time was the first industrialized country in the world, with strong industrial strength, capital and army, so it dared to wage war at such a high frequency in such a short period of time! No other country has such confidence, because every war consumes a huge amount of money, material and human resources, and not every country dares to squander it like the British Empire. You see, the French Empire, the second largest in the world, only fought with us twice in ten years and stopped fighting, because France's industrial strength was far inferior to that of Britain, and it would take at least twenty years to recover from two large-scale wars in ten years. But Britain was different, they were much stronger than France, so Britain fought two more major wars with us in the next decade. ”

Reporter: "You mean that Britain is now broken and has no ability to fight with us again!" ”

Zhang Juza: "So to speak! Even the most powerful empire at that time, the empire that never set the sun, launched four large-scale wars against China in a row in 20 years, and its war consumption was unprecedented, almost exhausting the resources accumulated by their industry for hundreds of years. The most important thing is that we fought four times, but we didn't win once, and we had to pay compensation for the defeat, and the original sun did not set, and now we can see the sunset. With the transformation of the mode of modern warfare, the struggle is the consumption of industrial resources, our Chinese Empire has been winning and growing stronger in four wars, while the British Empire has been weakening, so I think that although the British want to fight now, it is a pity that they have no money and no resources, so they have to prepare for ten or eight years before they have the strength to launch the next war. However, the British can also give up their world hegemony and never fight with us again, but this is very unlikely. ”

Reporter: "You said that the British Empire has no money, but recently the British Navy has started to build 12 large battleships for our Chinese Imperial Navy, and I think they are still very rich!" ”

Zhang Juza: "That's because you think they're rich!" I think they just slapped their swollen faces and became fat, and they were forced to be helpless! ”

The next day, the conversation between the two was published in the Reich Daily, causing an uproar around the world.

As the fist newspaper of the British Empire, The Times immediately stood up to refute it.

"We in the British Empire are peace-loving! It's just not like the Chinese Empire! Our British Empire has powerful allies, the United States, France, the Russian Empire and Japan, which strategically encircle the Chinese Empire and destroy the Chinese Empire in minutes as long as the Prime Minister gives the order. It's just that our prime minister is sympathetic to the people and is unwilling to provoke a war! ”

The newspapers of the United States, France, Tsarist Russia, Japan and other countries have expressed their support, and the governments of the four countries are also shocked, don't start a war with the Chinese Empire at this time! You must know that your British Empire is a skinny camel bigger than a horse, and it has fought four major defeats in 20 years, and it has not collapsed, which shows that the foundation is strong! But we can't do it, we're tired and vomiting blood when we fight a war! I have to give ten or eight years to recover!

The German Reich Zeitung immediately came out and instigated: "If you have the ability, you can fight again!" Isn't your British Empire awesome! How to admit it! ”

When Saul saw the attitude of the media in the United States, France, Russia, and Japan, he knew that this was the attitude of the governments of the four countries. Although I was slightly disappointed in my heart, it was understandable that the British Empire had no money to fight at the moment.

However, when Saul saw the report of the Germans, he was so angry that he vomited blood. (To be continued.) )