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Russia and Turkey signed the Treaty of San Stefano, and Turkey was betrayed by the British, and its heart was very hurt, and it secretly asked the Chinese Empire and the German Empire for help.

Li Weiguo convened a pre-imperial meeting, and after careful study, decided to take action, pull Turkey, take the opportunity to encircle Turkey, and strengthen the influence of the Chinese Empire on Turkey.

Soon, Li Weiguo issued a holy decree and sent it to the Chinese Imperial Legation in Constantinople through an encrypted telegram, ordering the envoy in Turkey to contact the Ottoman Empire, test the bottom line of the Ottoman Empire, and what benefits he could get from the Ottoman Empire after helping the Ottoman Empire.

At the same time, Li Weiguo also personally summoned the Russian ambassador to China and lodged a solemn protest against the "Peace of Santo Stefano" and demanded that the Russian Empire revise the "Peace of Santo Stefano". The Imperial Chinese Embassy in St. Petersburg also presented the credentials of the Chinese Empire to the Tsar, conveying the solemn and solemn attitude of the Chinese Empire on the position of the Treaty of San Stefano.

The sudden move of the Chinese Empire shocked and angered the Tsarist Empire.

"Damn the Chinese Empire, is it easy to bully when we are the Great Russian Empire!" Tsar Alexander II suddenly flipped the table and clamored for war with the Chinese Empire.

The ministers of Tsarist Russia hurriedly persuaded them to be calm and calm, because now that the Tsarist Empire had just finished fighting the Russian-Turkish War, and its national strength was seriously consumed, it was really not suitable for a war with the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also very dissatisfied with the Peace of San Stefano and directly pulled the German Empire out of the Russian Empire to put pressure on the Russian Empire to revise the Peace of San Stefano and the previous Treaty of Berlin.

For this reason, German Chancellor Bismarck even stood up to adjust, claiming to be an honest intermediary, hoping that the Russian Empire would seriously consider it.

"Damn the Austro-Hungarian and German empires also jumped out to make trouble!" Alexander II almost turned his back on the two countries, the Great Germans and Austrians.

The minister Sergei also realized the seriousness of the problem, so he said: "The Chinese Empire and the German Empire are building the World Railway, which is probably the reason why they stood up to help the Ottoman Empire." The problem has become tricky, I don't know what the attitude of the British is, if they can stand up and help us, they should be able to withstand the pressure of China, Germany and Austria. ”

Alexander II shook his head and sighed: "Do you think the British can suppress the Chinese Empire or the German Empire?" I'm afraid that even Austria-Hungary is not a bird to the British now! ”

This is a fact, with the British Empire losing the Fifth Sino-British War, the empire on which the sun never sets has become a joke in the mouths of Europeans, and the sea power has been seriously weakened by the Chinese Empire, and it cannot suppress the German navy at all, and Austria-Hungary has the support of Germany, so naturally it will not bird the British.

Sergei suddenly frowned and said: "If the British can't suppress the Three Kingdoms, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to resist the political pressure of the Three Kingdoms alone, especially the military pressure, although the Imperial Army has already hit the capital of the Ottoman Empire, but it is exhausted, this war has exhausted the resources that the Empire has reserved for many years, and we really can't fight anymore!" ”

Alexander II naturally understood this truth, if before 1840, the Tsarist Russian Empire could also rely on military strength and food resources to carry out large-scale feudal wars, but after the Industrial Revolution, the armies of various countries around the world entered the Iron Age, using new rear-loading rifles and rear-loading artillery, the war mode became a war of resource attrition, frantically devouring steel resources, which made the industrial strength of the backward Tsarist Russian Empire more and more unbearable, and the three-year Russian-Turkish War squandered the war resources reserved by the Tsarist Russian Empire for twenty years. This made Alexander II very painful, and finally understood that the war of the industrial age could not be consumed at all!

If it was just an Austro-Hungarian Empire, then Alexander II did not care about it at all, because the little industrial strength of Austria-Hungary was not as good as that of Tsarist Russia. But in addition, the German Empire and the Chinese Empire are different, especially the Chinese Empire, which has just released the data of global industrial countries, and the steel production of the Tsarist Russian Empire is not as much as a fraction of that of the Chinese Empire, and the huge steel production of the Chinese Empire directly scared Alexander II.

I can't afford to mess with it!

Although Alexander II was not convinced, he had to admit that the current Tsarist Russian Empire could not defeat the Chinese Empire at all.

Do we have to give in?

Alexander II smiled wryly and waved his hand helplessly.

Sergei understood the attitude of the tsar, and although he was also very unwilling, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The Russian Empire chose to give in, but it also deeply resented the Chinese Empire, the German Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A seed of hatred was planted, just like after the First Sino-Japanese War in history, the intervention group of Germany, France and Russia forced Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula to the Qing Empire, which made Japan hold a grudge and took Tsarist Russia as an imaginary enemy.

Now China, Germany and Austria have intervened in the Russian Empire to redefine the Treaty of Berlin, made major amendments to the Peace of San Stefano, driven Russia out of the Balkans, and forced Russia to spit out the annexed northwestern Balkan territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were under the rule of Austria-Hungary. Originally, the Ottoman Empire was forced to cede the island of Cyprus to the British Empire, but now after the treaty was amended, the Ottoman Empire sold the island to the Chinese Empire for 2 million yuan, which made the British suddenly vomit blood.

The revised "Treaty of Berlin" and the "Peace of San Stefano" made the Chinese Empire, the German Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire the biggest winners, and the Tsarist Russian Empire fought hard for three years, losing more than 100,000 troops and 180 million rubles in military expenditures. When Tsar Alexander II learned of the treaty, he was so angry that he fell ill.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was a defeated country and the biggest loser, although it lost a large amount of territory, but compared to the huge losses that were colluded by Britain and Russia before, and then cooperated with the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, although the territory was still lost, but at least decent, the Chinese Empire spent money to buy the island of Cyprus, which is better than giving it to the British for nothing.

Most importantly, the Chinese Empire and the German Empire pledged to the Ottoman Empire military protection and economic assistance from now on, which was the happiest thing for the Ottoman Empire.

The pattern of the Balkans changed, and the British Empire completely lost control of the Ottoman Empire, and instead became an enemy of the Ottoman Empire.

But what made the British Empire most nervous was that the island of Cyprus was acquired by the Chinese Empire, which gave the Chinese Empire a foothold on the Mediterranean coast of Europe, and from then on the British Empire's Mediterranean Fleet would have to face the huge challenges and threats brought by the Chinese Empire's navy entering the Mediterranean.

The whole of Europe also panicked, and the military bases of the Chinese Empire managed to enter the Mediterranean, and in the future the influence of the Chinese Empire will undoubtedly cover the whole of Europe. The Chinese Empire's meddling in the "Berlin Treaty" and the "Peace of San Stefano" actually opened the door to meddling in European affairs, and in the future, the shadow of the Chinese Empire will appear in major and minor affairs in Europe, and the influence of the Chinese Empire will accelerate the penetration into Europe.

This is the situation that the British Empire is most unhappy to see, but unfortunately the Saul government is powerless, the first all-steel battleship of the Royal Navy of the British Empire has not yet been commissioned, and it cannot defeat the Chinese Imperial Navy at all, so it can only watch the Chinese Imperial Navy enter the Mediterranean.

However, the Saul government is not muddy, and it still has some temper and means.

The Suez Canal was in the hands of the British Empire, and if the Imperial Chinese Navy wanted to enter the Mediterranean Sea and reach the island of Cyprus, it would have to pass through the Suez Canal.

When the Imperial Chinese Navy sent two battleships, the Hurricane and the Hurricane, to the Red Sea to cross the Suez Canal to the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean, the British saw an opportunity to start making things difficult.

The British claimed that the Suez Canal had a shallow draft and was not large enough to navigate the 10,000-ton battleships of the Chinese Empire. If the Imperial Chinese Navy had to pass through, it had to report confidential information such as the tonnage, draft, and speed of the battleship, and it had to be boarded and inspected.

"These Britons are bold, right, I think they dare to board the ship to check!"

After receiving the report from the British, Rear Admiral Wen Haifeng, the captain of the Hurricane, was immediately furious, and if he had not been stopped by the captain of the Hurricane, Rear Admiral Wu Aihua, I am afraid that he would have immediately led the battleship to bombard the Suez Canal.

That's right, today's Imperial Chinese Navy is, who let them win the British Imperial Navy, go sideways all over the world, and hit you? Who dare to care?

"Brother Wen is angry, don't be impatient, don't be angry with the British, let them check it!"

Wen Haifeng was stunned for a moment, looked at Wu Aihua in confusion, and asked, "Brother Wu, you don't have a fever, right?" How can such a thing be said? If the British are allowed to board the ship for inspection, won't the secrets of our warships be exposed? The British are our enemies! ”

Wu Aihua suddenly smiled mysteriously: "Just because they are our enemies, we have to let them check, that is, to let them know the performance parameters of our Hsiungfeng-class battleships." ”

Forehead......

Although Wen Haifeng didn't understand, he was also a shrewd person, and he quickly thought of a possibility, and suddenly asked, "Is there any inside information?" Brother Wu, you can't hide it from your brother! ”

Wu Aihua smiled slightly and said, "Okay, you are not an outsider, then I will reveal a little news to you." Okay, you have to keep it secret, if you spread the word and let S.H.I.E.L.D. know, then I can't protect you! ”

It was also related to the China S.H.I.E.L.D., and the cliff was highly secret, Wen Haifeng suddenly became interested, nodded and said, "I understand!" Don't worry, we have a door in our mouth, and it won't leak out! ”

So Wu Aihua told Wen Haifeng the reason, it turned out that before leaving, Lin Jiyun, Minister of the Imperial Admiralty, specially explained to Wu Aihua that when passing through the Suez Canal, if the British took the opportunity to inspect the battleship, they would directly disclose it to them.

Wu Aihua was also opposed to it at first, but soon he learned that the Chinese Empire was building more powerful battleships, and the Xiongfeng-class battleships were outdated, so there was no need to worry about the British knowing. In turn, it was a good thing to deliberately let the British know about the Hsiungfeng-class battleships. Because if Britain started to build new all-steel battleships, it would be highly secretive, and the intelligence officers of the Chinese Empire might not be able to obtain accurate data. However, if the British have read the data of the Hsiungfeng-class battleships, they will study the advantages and disadvantages of the Hsiungfeng-class battleships, and then build targeted all-steel battleships, so that the Imperial Chinese Navy can completely reason backwards from the Hsiungfeng-class battleships and roughly estimate the performance indicators of the new British battleships.

Of course, there are some secrets, which Lin Jiyun will not reveal, because Wu Aihua's level cannot be known.

But even the news revealed was enough to shock Wu Aihua and Wen Haifeng.

"It turns out that there is this kind of Tao in it, since this is the case, then I am relieved!" Wen Haifeng suddenly smiled, no longer entangled.

The British had expected that the Imperial Chinese Navy would refuse to board the ship for inspection and then make a detour to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. Unexpectedly, the other party agreed, so the British immediately sent naval experts and officers to board the most advanced battleships of the Chinese Empire, the Hurricane and the Hurricane, to inspect it, which was actually to spy on intelligence.

The Hsiungfeng-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were indeed technologically advanced, which shocked and delighted the British experts and British naval officers and men who boarded the ships.

Soon, the intelligence was transmitted back to London, and the British naval department was jubilant, finally seeing with their own eyes the interior of the most advanced warships of the Chinese Empire, and with the intelligence parameters obtained from the French, the British Sea Secretary Fisher had almost mastered all the performance parameters of the Hsiungfeng-class battleships.

Thor even came to the Admiralty in person to inquire about the situation, but he was puzzled.

"The Chinese know that there will be leaks, so why do they agree to our inspection?"

"I can't figure it out, maybe it's because they're too arrogant and too lazy, after all, if you don't go through the Suez Canal, you have to spare the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and if you walk for a few more months, it's not only tiring, but also a huge loss to the warship."

"Do you think it's possible that the Chinese Empire already has more advanced warships, so it doesn't care about exposing the indicators of the Hsiungfeng-class battleships to us?"

Fishel nodded and said, "It's really possible!" Don't forget that the Chinese Empire has done similar things before, such as selling us Gatling machine guns knowing that we are enemies, only to secretly deploy more advanced Bloody heavy machine guns. They claim to be building Hsiungfeng-class ironclad ships, but in fact the Hsiungfeng-class are all-steel battleships. ”

Salton frowned and said, "I have a bad premonition that the Chinese Empire must have developed some kind of killer weapon, just waiting for us to be fooled and beat us with a stick!" (To be continued.) )