The Chinese Empire was so hateful that it comprehensively oppressed the European and American powers in the political, economic, and military fields, causing panic in the entire Western world and forcing it to compete with the Chinese Empire in all fields.

By the end of 3979, at the beginning of 1880, the Chinese Empire was militarily unprecedentedly powerful, with a standing army with a total strength of more than 1.5 million, equipped with the most advanced weapons in the world, especially the logistics troops, which were completely mechanized, all transported by trucks, and the war-ready roads and railways extended in all directions, so that the Chinese Imperial Army could be delivered to all parts of the country within ten days, so that European and American countries were beyond reach, especially the Tsarist Russian Empire, seeing that the Chinese Empire's rule over the Far Eastern States was becoming more and more solid day by day. Angry and jumped high.

The Imperial Chinese Navy has the world's only all-steel battlefleet, completely crushing the most advanced ironclad ships currently equipped in Europe and the United States, slinging the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and the naval battle of the Solomon Islands directly shut up the navies of all countries in the world, who dares to underestimate the Imperial Chinese Navy?

Whether it is the army or the navy, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army is known as the strongest in the world, and there is no one, which makes the military of European and American countries collectively silent, even if they are not convinced, but they dare not stand up for it.

Similarly, economically, the Chinese Empire ranks first in the world's total GDP. In 1879, the Chinese Empire continued to rank first in the world in total steel production. According to the economic data of the global industrial power released by the Chinese Empire in 1879, the Chinese Empire ranked first in the world with an annual output of 9 million tons of steel and 17 million tons of pig iron. In 1879, the Confederate States of America, the second largest country in the world, produced only 3.5 million tons of steel and 5.8 million tons of pig iron, which was three times worse than that of the Chinese Empire.

The German Empire ranks third in the world, after the United States, with 3.49 million tons of steel and 5.1 million tons of pig iron; The British Empire was reduced to fourth, with only 3.98 million tons of steel, more than Germany, but only 4.1 million tons of pig iron, lagging behind Germany in total.

The Russian Empire made great progress, surpassing France for the first time to rank fifth in the world, with 2.21 million tons of steel, while France had only 1.59 million tons, and had not yet recovered from the Franco-Prussian War. Next up are Italy, Austria-Hungary and Japan, all three of which produce single-digit steel, especially Japan, with a measly 20,000 tonnes.

Of course, if you compare with the data of the same period in history, the steel output of China's Qing Dynasty in 1879 was less than 1,000 tons, which shows that Japan can have an annual output of 20,000 tons of steel, which is already very strong.

It's a pity that in this time and space, the Japanese have the Chinese Empire on their heads, and they are destined to be a tragic and bottom-of-the-line fate!

Steel has always been an important criterion for judging the strength of industrial countries, especially in the period from 1840 to 1950, the total production of steel is the only criterion to measure the strength of a country. Because during this period, wars were used between countries to test whether they were strong or weak, and whichever country had the most total amount of steel could insist on having the last laugh.

The total amount of steel in the Chinese Empire is almost equal to the total steel production of the entire European and American countries, and on the day the data was released, it immediately scared European and American countries.

Originally, every ten years, the British Empire would publish steel data for the world's industrial countries. This is because since 1840, when Britain first completed the Industrial Revolution, the total steel production of the British Empire has been the largest in the world, so of course the British should publicize it well, take out the steel data of the British Empire to show off, and make other countries envious and jealous.

However, with the completion of the five wars between China and Britain, the British Empire was defeated by the Chinese Empire, and both military and economic hegemony were lost.

In this way, how can the British Empire still have the face to show off its own steel production data, isn't it waiting to be slapped in the face by the Chinese Empire!

As a result, the British Empire did not publish the Global Steel Data Sheet on the original release date of June 1879. This matter was immediately known to the Chinese Empire, and as the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Li Weiguo certainly guessed the mentality of the British.

Since Britain is ashamed to open its mouth, let's let the Chinese Empire release it!

Slap in the face, that's a must drop!

The Chinese Empire wants to slap the British in the face, and the kind that will listen to it immediately!

As a result, the Chinese Empire released the steel industry data of the world's major powers for the British before the end of the year, which not only slapped the British in the face, but also made the faces of other European and American powers hot.

After all, the total steel production of the entire Western world is not as large as the annual steel output of the Chinese Empire, which makes all countries embarrassed!

European and American countries complained almost in unison: "The Chinese Empire is so shameless that it humiliates us like this, we hate them!" ”

Not only in steel, but also in the economic field, there are many places where the Chinese Empire has surpassed European and American countries in an all-round way.

For example, in the telecommunications industry, the emergence of the telephone is more convenient and fast than the telegraph, but the telephone invented by the Chinese Empire has applied for patents all over the world, which allows European and American countries to buy telephone and exchange equipment from the Chinese Empire, which is a huge market, government agencies need to be equipped with telephones, major companies and factories also need to be equipped with telephones, and rich people will also match telephones in their own homes, this is a huge consumer market, the Chinese Empire, as the first country to eat crabs, raised the price of telephones and exchanges very high, At the same time, every time a telephone is used in Europe and the United States, the Chinese Empire has to extract 30% of the patent royalties and telecommunications franchise fees charged by the telecommunications service companies of various countries.

Another example is the pharmaceutical industry, the Chinese Empire's special drugs Da Huan Dan and Xiao Huan Dan sell well all over the world, supporting the successful development of liquid injection formula, not only can be taken orally, but also through drip and needle injection, making it a must-have drug for major hospitals in Europe and the United States. In the past, the output of special drugs in the Chinese Empire was low, and even the domestic could not be satisfied, so the price abroad was higher than gold. Today, the Chinese Empire has expanded production in an all-round way, not only to meet the daily needs of the domestic people, but also to export to Europe and the United States on a large scale. Governments in Europe and the United States attach great importance to special drugs, the government and the military have hoarded on a large scale, and private hospitals compete with each other, although the price of special drugs has decreased, and it is no longer as expensive as gold, but the price is still 20 times higher than the cost, and the sales volume is 100,000 times that of the past, and the money is naturally more, making the Chinese Empire the only supplier of global pharmaceutical units, coupled with the relationship of patent rights, making the Chinese Empire monopolize the global pharmaceutical industry.

There is also the automobile industry, the Chinese Empire has the world's most advanced internal combustion engine technology and the best quality steel, so the quality of the cars produced is the first, the most cost-effective, exported to Europe and the United States, welcomed by the majority of consumers, the Chinese Empire's automobile brand is the first, so that the local automobile industry in Europe and the United States is struggling.

As for other industries, although there are no windfall profits in the telecommunications, medicine and automobile industries, they are also cost-effective, and basically have cost-effective advantages with similar products in Europe and the United States, and can earn foreign exchange through exports.

The Chinese Empire's super high position in the economy, especially in trade with Europe and the United States, has a huge trade surplus with European and American countries, which makes European and American governments quite painful.

The surplus meant that a large amount of gold, silver and money flowed out of Europe and the United States every year, and eventually flowed into the pockets of the Chinese Empire. In the long run, the wealth of European and American countries will continue to be taken away by the Chinese Empire, which will cause the Chinese Empire to become richer and the European and American countries to become poorer and poorer.

The trade deficit of Europe and the United States alone has filled them with hatred for the Chinese Empire.

And then there is the fact that politically, the Chinese Empire and the German Empire are actually in a state of alliance, which makes the French eggs, the British eggs, and the Russians. However, Germany is not a peaceful country, and pursues a policy of annexing neighboring countries on the main road, invading Africa at sea, and competing with European countries for African colonies. If you don't beat the Germans, all the countries in Europe and the United States will be unhappy, and if you beat the Germans, you are worried about the attitude of the Chinese Empire, and the result can only be that all the countries in Europe and the United States are hurting.

In particular, when the Chinese Empire and the German Empire jointly built a world railway across the Eurasian continent, it stimulated the nerves of European and American countries and forced them to make a confrontational decision.

Prior to this, Britain, the United States and Japan had already formed a military alliance, which was undoubtedly aimed at the Chinese Empire. However, in order not to provoke Germany and avoid pushing Germany completely to the side of the Chinese Empire, the British Empire declared its neutrality between Germany and France, and also refused to form a military alliance with Tsarist Russia.

However, the aggressive political and military tactics of the German Empire forced the British Empire to reconsider.

Considering the strategic pressure of the Tsarist Empire on the German Empire and the Chinese Empire, Britain decided to unite with Tsarist Russia against the Chinese Empire. However, there were many problems between the British Empire and Tsarist Russia, especially acute territorial disputes. In West and Central Asia, as well as in the case of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, especially the latter, the Russo-Turkish War was an embarrassment for the British Empire.

Although the Ninth Russo-Turkish War was a war provoked by the Chinese Empire in order to break up the Anglo-Russian alliance, in fact, the long-standing contradictions between Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire reached a critical point.

The Eighth Russo-Turkish War, also known as the Crimean War, in which the Tsarist Empire was defeated, made the British fight for a good time. By the time of the Ninth Russo-Turkish War, the British were busy fighting the Chinese Empire in the Fifth Sino-British War, and had no time to take care of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and France was also eyed by Germany, and did not dare to send troops to help the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Thus, the Russian Imperial Army overwhelmed the Ottoman Army both strategically and tactically during the Ninth Russo-Turkish War.

The two sides invested 1.3 million troops in the decisive battle, using rear-loading rifled guns, rear-loading artillery, and Gatling machine guns and other large-scale killing weapons, so that the casualties on both sides were very heavy, and finally the Tsarist Empire paid a huge price of 150,000 casualties, and the army directly attacked the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

However, after all, the Tsarist Russian Empire was an agricultural country, and the dividends won by the reform of serfdom were originally used to deal with the Chinese Empire, preparing to recover the Far Eastern Primorsky Prefecture occupied by the Chinese Empire.

And the Ottoman Empire was defeated, with more than 100,000 casualties, three years of fighting, so that the Ottoman Empire completely collapsed, the war of the industrial age, fighting is the consumption of steel, the Ottoman Empire was also tired and vomited blood, if it was not for the fact that it had to defend the capital, the Ottoman army would have collapsed long ago.

Although the Russian Empire has paid more than 100,000 casualties, and the consumption of military supplies is about to collapse the economy of Tsarist Russia, the British Saul government is still worried that the Ottoman Empire will not be able to hold on, so it has to send a British Royal Navy detachment to the Sea of Marmara, putting on a posture of not hesitating to break up, which makes the Russian Empire just change its friendly attitude towards the British Empire and disappear in an instant.

Faced with the intransigence of the British Empire, the Russian Empire was forced to abandon its plans to march on Constantinople and accept the Russian-Turkish armistice, soon signing the Treaty of San Stefano.

However, the British Empire faced the threat of the Chinese Empire and urgently needed to cooperate with the Tsarist Empire, so Thor was ostensibly helping the Ottoman Empire and preventing the Tsarist Russia from attacking Constantinople, but secretly colluded with the Tsarist Empire and betrayed the interests of the Ottoman Empire.

In the end, the treaty was very beneficial to the Russian Empire, and for Turkey it was a completely subordination alliance with no room for manoeuvre. The treaty stipulates that Turkey recognizes the full independence of the three countries of Montenegro, Serbia and Romania; Recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina's autonomy but its retention; the establishment of the Great Bulgarian State and the possibility of the presence of Russian power in Bulgaria; return southwestern Sarabia to Russia, and incorporate Kars, Batumi, Ardahan, and Bayazit into Russian territory; Amend the rules for passage in the Bosphorus to allow the passage of warships from countries bordering the Black Sea such as Russia.

This treaty made the Ottoman Turks angry and scolded the Russians for their shamelessness, and at the same time chilled the betrayal of the British Empire.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire thought of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, and the two countries had to go through the Ottoman Empire to build a world railway, so the Ottoman Empire turned to the Chinese Empire and the German Empire for help.

When the news reached the Forbidden City, the Chinese Emperor Li Weiguo immediately convened a pre-imperial meeting to discuss countermeasures.

"Your Majesty, the British nominally help the natives, but secretly hook up with the Russians, so it can be seen that Britain and Russia may have a secret agreement, and the possibility of targeting the empire is extremely high!" Li Hongzao, who returned from a visit to Europe, said in high spirits that his trip to Europe had been an eye-opener, and he had met with high-level European officials, grasped a lot of information, and learned more political capital.

"This is a mistake, if we help the Turks, then we will be dealing with the Russians, pushing the Russians to the side of the British, and ultimately having a serious impact on the homeland security and international political landscape of the empire." Li Hongzhang immediately said, rejecting Li Hongzao's opinion.

These two people look like brothers, but they are natural rivals, and they are uncomfortable if they don't quarrel for a day, which really makes the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty dumbfounded.

But this time, Li Weiguo is on Li Hongzao's side, and he agrees with Li Hongzao's point of view.

The outcome of the Ninth Russo-Turkish War is actually a reproduction of the Sino-Japanese War in history. It's just that Britain would not give Tsarist Russia a good face in history, forcing Tsarist Russia to spit out the fruits of victory. But now that history has changed dramatically, Britain is even more jealous of the Chinese Empire, so it has to make peace with Tsarist Russia in advance, which leads to the fact that Britain will inevitably betray Turkey in exchange for Tsarist Russia's favor.

Historically, Germany, France and Russia intervened in Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula to the Qing Dynasty, and now Li Weiguo also wants to intervene in Tsarist Russia and return the occupied Ottoman territory.

However, the Balkans are Europe's medicine keg, and Li Weiguo must think about one thing, that is, to ensure that the medicine keg will break out at a specific time and detonate World War I, which is the fastest way for the Chinese empire to weaken the overall power of Europe, and there is no room for error.

Thinking that the damned American devils in later generations deliberately left the fishing dao problem behind and wanted to create a medicine keg for the Sino-Japanese war, Li Weiguo suddenly had an inspiration, and he just took this opportunity to design a medicine keg on the Balkan issue.

Right! That's it!

If the horse has no night grass and no fertilizer, the country will not be strong if it is not dark! (To be continued.) )