Chapter 560: An ultimatum to Lie Ning
Lishan, also known as "Lishan". The pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info is a branch vein on the north side of the Qinling Mountains, stretches for more than 20 kilometers from east to west, the highest altitude is 1256 meters, and the mountain is like a horse in the distance, so it is called Lishan. Lishan hot springs gush out, the scenery is beautiful and colorful, since the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, it has become a treasure land for imperial amusement. Since the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, it has always been a tourist attraction, and many palace villas have been built, attracting tourists of all generations. There is known as one of the "Eight Views of Guanzhong", "Lishan Evening Shine"; the "beacon tower" of the princes of the beacon fire show; Commemorating the old mother's hall of Nuwa mending the sky, etc.
Of course, in Li Weiguo's impression of Lishan, there is also a military pavilion to commemorate the Xi'an Incident, but now there is no more, and it is impossible to appear again in the future.
Since Li Weiguo decreed that Chang'an would be changed to Xijing and become one of the eight major capitals of the Chinese Empire, Chang'an's local government institutions and institutions could only be upgraded, with six perfect ministries and the authority to run part of the capital.
Similarly, as an imperial state, after Chang'an became Xijing, it naturally had imperial palaces and royal gardens.
The Daming Palace, where Li Weiguo lived, was restored in accordance with the one-to-one ratio of the Daming Palace in the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, this can't be regarded as Li Weiguo's too extravagant, building a Tang Dynasty one-to-one ratio of the Daming Palace, the project is huge, and the cost is expensive. However, at that time, the industrial overcapacity of the Chinese Empire was overcapacity, and there was a momentum of economic crisis, so Li Weiguo decided to move the capital to Wuhan, the capital of Kyoto, with the purpose of "spending money", and spending a lot of money, to help domestic factories and enterprises consume excess inventory and production capacity, and provide more jobs and income for the people.
Since ancient times, the emperors of all dynasties have set up their capitals in Chang'an, and they will set Lishan as a royal garden.
However, the capital of the Chinese Empire was in Beijing at the beginning of the founding of the Chinese Empire, and Chang'an at that time had become an ordinary city for hundreds of years, and Lishan became a national tourist attraction.
When Li Weiguo said that Chang'an was set up as the accompanying capital, the local imperial court also tried to re-incorporate Lishan into the category of imperial gardens, but the Chinese Empire was a democratic country, even if it was the emperor, it could not forcibly occupy the national public facilities, and the local government wanted to spend money to buy the entire Lishan from private hands, but the result was also because the asking price was too high.
If you want to buy the whole of Lishan, don't even think about it without a billion yuan.
Although Li Weiguo is rich, the Chinese Empire has strict laws, and officials and the imperial family cannot compete with the people for profit, so even if he is the richest man in the world, he can only look at it and not touch it. (Li Weiguo's personal fortune and more than 10 billion yuan are much stronger than the Rothschilds, the legendary richest man in the world with assets of six billion dollars.) With the defeat of the United States, 1 yuan can be exchanged for 17.4 new dollars, and the dollar assets of the world's richest man have been directly pitted and shrunk by more than half. )
The hot springs in Lishan are very famous, and Li Weiguo often brought his concubines to take a bath when he was in Chang'an. However, because it is not a royal garden, every time it comes, it will cause a sensation among the local people, scrambling to Lishan Hot Spring to see the emperor's demeanor, when there are inevitably some prodigal sons who want to see the emperor's beautiful concubines.
Therefore, Li Weiguo and his concubines rarely came.
This time, Li Weiguo came to the Lishan Royal Garden again, but he didn't come to take a bath, but to look for the hot springs where Meng Hao's grandfather stayed before he disappeared.
There are many hot springs on Lishan, and according to the clues provided by Meng Hao, five hot spring locations are roughly locked.
Li Weiguo, Hua Hengfang and others stood beside the hot spring, Mingyue led his subordinates to guard the surroundings, and inside and outside the hot spring, there were professionals to detect and inspect.
After living for several days, he didn't find anything, which made Li Weiguo feel very unhappy.
"Dig hard, I don't believe there is no passage down there!"
Hua Hengfang was more anxious than Li Weiguo, and finally found some clues, but so far he hadn't found anything, and this one hit him.
Li Weiguo said: "We can't just stare at these five hot springs, it is also possible that we have misjudged or been misled, and sent people to find all the hot springs up and down Lishan, and then dig them one by one!" ”
The entire Lishan was sealed off by the government, but all places with hot springs were carefully inspected and excavated three times, but unfortunately there were no clues.
Li Weiguo was very puzzled, according to scientific analysis, the blood moon in the secret language should be a gimmick of the ancients, and it may not have to be discovered on the day of the blood moon, as long as there is a scientific basis, you can find the entrance to the underground palace.
However, it turns out that Li Weiguo is wrong, not everything can be explained scientifically, and sometimes scientific ability is limited, after all, there is no satellite reconnaissance in Li Weiguo's hands now, and there is no deep precision geological detector, so he knows that there must be a problem with Lishan, but he can't find it.
"It would be nice to be able to analyze the sediment in the hot springs!"
Hearing Li Weiguo say to himself, Hua Hengfang asked rhetorically: "Why did Your Majesty say this?" Could it be that there is a mystery hidden in the mud and sand? ”
Li Weiguo said: "Think about it, Meng Hao's grandfather disappeared in the hot springs, Li Li disappeared in Weishui, one is on the mountain, the other is at the bottom of the river, and there must be a connecting secret passage in the middle." There can't be a living person in the dungeon, so who will control the mechanism? If there is a passage under the hot spring, then the sediment in the hot spring will flow into the underground palace along the passage after opening it once, but now we look at all the hot springs, all of them are filled with water and sediment, and the passage is also refilled with water and sediment, if we can find which hot spring is the sediment from Weishui, we can determine the passage of the underground palace. ”
Hua Hengfang quickly figured out the key to it, and suddenly his spirits were lifted.
"Your Majesty is wise, the minister will find a way to collect hot spring sediment and Wei cement sand for comparison, and strive to get the answer as soon as possible!"
Li Weiguo nodded, now there are no more clues, so he can only wait.
With the conclusion of the armistice agreement between the Chinese Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire jointly launched a large-scale campaign against the Tsarist Empire on the Eastern Front in Europe, so that St. Petersburg had the capital to fight against the German-Austrian forces.
The Chinese Empire provided a large number of automatic rifles, heavy machine guns, artillery, tanks, airplanes and other advanced weapons and equipment to the Tsarist army, and even the German Empire had never obtained such a complete range of weapons and equipment. Therefore, the Tsarist military was so happy that they even forgot for a moment that the Chinese Empire had just taken away more than 9 million square kilometers of their land.
In the face of the invasion of the German-Austrian coalition forces, on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, the Tsarist Russian army quickly armed 500,000 people, all of whom were equipped with Chinese equipment.
The Tsarist Russian army did not directly engage the German army, but first concentrated these 500,000 well-equipped troops to fight more than a million Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman troops in Moldova.
As the former European military police, the Tsarist Russian army already had numerical superiority and land superiority, and now it has received military assistance from the Chinese Empire, and the combat effectiveness of these 500,000 Russian troops has exploded in an instant.
Don't look at the fact that Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire combined have more than 2 million troops, but these two countries are poor countries in the first place, with backward military equipment, and their combat effectiveness has been exposed to big problems in the Balkan War. The world war lasted for three years, and even economically developed countries such as Britain, France and Germany faced economic collapse, not to mention the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, whose economies had actually collapsed, all thanks to the assistance of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire.
Obviously, when the Chinese Empire learned of the joint attack on the Tsarist Empire, it immediately warned the three countries to stop their operations, and at the same time cut off all aid to them.
Without the military and economic assistance of the Chinese Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire could not hold on at all, and in less than half a month they were short of food and weapons and ammunition, but the two countries were attacked by 500,000 elite troops of Tsarist Russia, and in the Moldovan campaign, in less than three days, the two million armies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were defeated.
If the Tsarist Imperial army pursues the victory, it will definitely be able to annihilate the two million troops, and even directly hit the capitals of the two countries, but unfortunately the Tsarist Empire has no time, and they must immediately return to the division to reinforce the Polish battlefield, because there is a million German elites who have broken through the Polish positions defended by the two million Tsarist Russian troops.
The actual combat effectiveness of the two million Tsarist Russian troops is already very weak, because their weapons and ammunition are extremely scarce, almost several people use a rifle and a dozen bullets, and in the face of the German Empire's aircraft strafing and tank crushing, they can hold out for more than half a month, which is already a miracle.
From the very beginning, the Tsarist Russian army knew that it could not fight a head-on battle with the three million German-Austrian forces, so they chose to avoid the important and light, first concentrate on the elite to attack the weakest fighting Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary, defeat the armies of these two countries, and then return to the division to fight the German Imperial Army.
Although the Tsarist army had the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, it was still short and failed to form a strong combat effectiveness, and it was okay to deal with armies like Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and it was necessary to be careful against the German army.
As a result, the Tsarist Russian army ordered the Russian army to focus on defense on the Polish battlefield, delay time, and strive to wait until the Chinese Empire intervenes to force Germany to withdraw its troops.
This was inevitable, and the attitude of the Chinese Empire towards the German-Austrian dispatch of troops to Tsarist Russia was very tough, and a warning was issued to the three countries.
Austria-Hungary is the dog leg of the German Empire, and what attitude Germany has, what attitude Austria-Hungary is. The Ottoman Turkish Empire was different, now that Tsarist Russia was defeated, the Ottomans bordered the Chinese Empire, but they did not dare to offend the Chinese Empire, and after the defeat of a million Turkish troops on the front line, the Ottoman Empire immediately declared a truce with the Tsarist Russian Empire.
The German Empire has been withstanding the political pressure of the Chinese Empire, trying to capture St. Petersburg in a short period of time and destroy the Tsarist Empire, but unfortunately the Tsarist Empire was not stupid, not fighting a decisive battle with the main German army, but using delaying tactics, yes, Wilhelm II's plan failed.
A month later, the German army in Poland fought hundreds of fierce battles with the Russian army, but failed to achieve its strategic objectives, so Wilhelm II considered that it was not the time for a showdown with the Chinese Empire, so he ordered the withdrawal of the army.
At the beginning of December 1897, the European part of the world war was completely over, the Allies won the final victory, Britain, France and Russia were defeated and surrendered, of which Britain and Russia surrendered to the Chinese Empire, France surrendered to Germany and Italy, and Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire only made cameo appearances.
In the entire European theater, the biggest winner was the German Empire, which annexed four-fifths of the territory of the French Empire, and the other fifth was occupied by Italy, excluding Corsica, of course, because Corsica was occupied by the Chinese Empire.
The Italian army did not make any achievements in the entire European war, mainly because the Italian army's combat effectiveness was low, and at the same time, the Italian king was two-faced, secretly colluded with the French Empire at the beginning, and after being forced to go to war, it was also not actively fighting, so that the French Empire could transfer the main elite troops defending Italy to the Franco-German battlefield.
The German Empire knew this very well and could not give anything to Italy, but because the Chinese Empire suddenly sent troops to occupy the British and French islands of Corsica, the German Empire felt frightened, so it compromised with Italy and ceded part of the territory of France near the Italian side to Italy to strengthen the German-Italian alliance.
The Chinese Empire was not a European country, but it exchanged the greatest benefits for the greatest benefit with the smallest sacrifice on the European battlefield, occupied the entire British Empire, and seized the French island of Corsica, strategically completing the encirclement of Europe, but became the biggest winner.
But apart from the European theater, the world war was not over.
In Asia, the Chinese Empire was still at war with the Japanese Empire, and the Knowing Government, which had taken refuge in the mountains, was still rebelling against the Chinese Empire.
In North America, the United States was still resisting, and the Roosevelt administration, which had also taken refuge in the mountains and deserts of the west, refused to surrender and continued to fight against the Chinese Empire.
In South America, the Confederation of Colombia and the Brazilian Empire are still attacking Argentina, Chile, Peru and other countries, and the military equipment of both sides is rudimentary, but the fighting is still brutal.
In Africa, as Britain and France surrendered one after another, their colonies fell into chaos, and the Chinese Empire, the German Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy were all vying for territory, and although the armies of the three countries did not shoot at each other, they always supported proxy forces to attack the other two countries in order to gain territory.
Lenin of Yekarinburg, who has been so distressed lately that he has not been able to sleep all night.
Since learning that the Tsarist Russian Empire had given all the territory of Asia to the Chinese Empire, Liening has been worried all day long, he knows very well that the Chinese Empire will definitely come to take over Yekarinaburg, but Liening does not want to hand it over, so war with the Chinese Empire is inevitable.
Whether he can defeat the Chinese Empire's million-strong army of the Western Expedition, Lie Ning has no bottom in his heart, after all, he only has more than 400,000 people in his hands.
But if you don't fight, you give up, and then the fruits of Liening's business in Yekarinburg will be in vain.
Liening tried to send people to contact the Chinese Empire, wanting to attach himself to the Chinese Empire and ensure the independence of Yekarinaburg, but unfortunately the Chinese Empire directly rejected it and issued an ultimatum to Liening.
"You are limited to withdraw from Yekarina Fort within 24 hours, otherwise you will be killed!" (To be continued.) )