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Lord Filscher, the Minister of the Admiral of the British Empire, was very happy to make a long-awaited announcement to the world that the first naval power had been preparing for a long time, of course, this news was currently only in the high-level meeting of the British Cabinet, but another news from the Far East still made Fisher ponder for a long time, because it is said that China has appeared a new type of aircraft capable of replacing airships and hot air balloon technology, and in Beijing and Guangzhou, British intelligence officers have obtained similar information, but there is still nothing more concrete.

Soon, news of aircraft from the United States also reached the United Kingdom, but soon Fisher lost interest in the aircraft, because reports from the authorities and the navy positioned the function of the aircraft on reconnaissance, which obviously coincided with the function of the airship force that the Royal Navy had completed its formation, and the airship had been confirmed to be a stable aircraft in the past few years.

Even the large-scale airship bombing that appeared in the Far East war, although the actual combat effect was good, after the army and navy began to equip the army and navy with anti-aircraft weapons, the slower airships only needed a small number of anti-aircraft weapons to deal with it, and the British Ordnance Commission had even finally agreed to accept two anti-aircraft weapons that fired special bullets against hydrogen airships, so the British soon turned their attention to other, more important and troublesome things.

The Far East Asia Free Trade Port has become an important point of interest for the sale of British products overseas, of course. Every British top brass understands one thing. But. With the rise of China's light industry, in less than a decade, the sales volume of British goods in the entire Far East Free Trade Port has faced a rapid downward trend.

The cotton cloth and spices produced in India have been completely defeated from the trading port, and the cotton yarn, silk and primary chemical products from China, South China and South Asia have occupied an absolute advantage in terms of price and output, and have even begun to compete with British goods for the markets of Central Asia and Africa in the west.

The problem is only now that it really erupts. A large part of the economic crisis that has just ended, although the trade in the Far East has been shrinking, but before Britain was mired in the Boer War and the African crisis with France, and German industrial products swept through the European and even British markets, Britain had to deal with the crisis from German steel and coal, abandon the original free trade policy, and formulate protective measures with high tariffs.

It was only after resisting the trade pressure from the Germans that the Balfour Cabinet, under the strong reminder of the Indian Governor Blackwood, began to pay attention to the trade problems in the Far East. Earlier, Britain reached an agreement with China on mutual tariff protection, but in exchange of interests. The two sides promised each other a 10 percent tariff increase.

It is this 10% tariff that was not too high, so that Indian products have lost the most slight price advantage in the huge trade free port in the Far East, Governor Blackwood told the country, although India is rich in human resources, but the entire Indian industrial industry is completely concentrated at the lowest level, foreign trade products are mainly the British colonial government plundered the local jute, silk and other textile products, but the processed sacks, gun clothing, ropes and other products are sold to the South Asian market, The profit is even worse than selling jute raw materials directly.

After gradually losing the competitiveness of the Asian market, British businessmen had to consider selling these Indian products to Africa and West Asia, but the progress was slow, and it was difficult to make up for the loss of the Far East market, so the Indian Governor Blackwood, under the appeal of a large number of British businessmen, had to report to London, hoping that the British government would come forward to negotiate with China.

On December 3, 1905, although the British general election was fiercely contested, the Balfour cabinet, after careful consideration, finally submitted a request to the cabinet of Zhou Ruidong of the Beijing government through Minister Bauer of the Beijing government to negotiate a settlement of the tariffs of the South Asia Free Trade Port, but Bauer, who received the telegram, was obviously not interested in this mission...... Trying to get the Beijing government to interfere in free trade competition in South Asia is an almost impossible diplomatic task for Power, who is familiar with China's national politics, unless he ...... The Belfort cabinet can come up with a bargaining chip that satisfies the Chinese.

The problem is that the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party are fighting for the general election, and the Liberal Party has made a big fuss about the inaction of the two Conservative Party in the economy, and in just two Conservative Party cabinets, the British Empire has completely lost its daunting titles such as the first economic power and the first scientific and technological power, and the United States, Germany, and China have surpassed the economic scale of the United Kingdom, which has obviously greatly hurt the self-esteem of the empire on which the sun never sets.

In this form, the Balfour cabinet is obviously already a little precarious, even if it can come up with chips, Beijing is like a human spirit, and it will recognize a cabinet that will step down in a few days! Therefore, Bauer immediately made up his mind, and just went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to blow the wind first, but the specific negotiations will wait for the results of the domestic election to come out!

It's just that he went to the stall where the wind was blowing, but he unexpectedly heard a news from Foreign Minister Chen Jitong that surprised him - China is discussing with Germany the feasibility of investing capital to build the Berlin and Baghdad railways!

This news immediately made Bauer realize the urgency of burning his eyebrows, and the British minister to Germany, Lubet, did promise Germany some additional benefits during the Boer War and Sino-French negotiations, the most important of which was to agree to Germany's expansion into the Middle East, and the most important key point was the construction of the Berlin and Baghdad railway across Europe and Asia.

After obtaining this agreement, Kaiser Wilhelm II did not immediately publicize the matter, but immediately secretly negotiated with Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and now the Chinese have appeared in the circle of this plan, which is obviously a confirmation that Sino-German relations are developing rapidly, and Bauer even began to seriously consider whether China and Germany will take this opportunity to conclude a military alliance in the true sense, these two Eurasian powers, to expand abroad. Western Asia is clearly a target worth considering...... Especially. China has already acquired a permanent overseas base in the Gulf of Aden!

Wait for Bauer to look around. And when the news finally reached London, the Balfour cabinet had already completed its historic mission, losing the new general election, and then the Conservative Party's earlier bad performance affected several elections. Campbell? Sir Bannerman took the helm of Britain with a more centrist philosophy.

The news that Minister Power sent back home apparently also attracted the attention of the new prime minister, however. Henry? Campbell? Prime Minister Bannerman apparently considered that he did not have much leverage in his hands, so he just let Power continue to mediate with China on the tariff issue, and as for the Germans being advancing to the Baghdad railway, although this means that Germany's overseas expansion is accelerating, but in the overseas issue, Henry? Campbell? Prime Minister Bannerman's first task is to deal with the enormous aftermath of the Boer War...... The Boer War had become a veritable burden to the British Empire.

On January 2, 1906, the British Minister to Germany, Lubet, after receiving instructions from London, immediately began negotiations with Germany on interests in the Middle East, and at the same time. Wang Li, the Chinese minister to Germany, secretly called on German Foreign Minister Schleier and exchanged views with Germany on cooperation in oil exploration in the Middle East.

With the arrival of Chinese cars in Europe. The automobile industry in Germany, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom has also begun to grow rapidly, which makes the value of oil resources appreciate rapidly, and Germany, as a country with rich oil resources, has obviously become a new problem affecting the rise of Germany, and Wang Li's visit is obviously very appropriate.

Just a few days later, China and Germany signed a series of cooperation agreements, Germany will participate in China's overseas exploration activities in the Ottoman Empire in a cooperative capacity, and British Minister Lubet's diplomatic representations in Germany were quickly rejected because of the increase in Germany's interests in the Middle East, and Kaiser Wilhelm II made it very clear to Britain that the established agreement that has been reached, Germany will complete it within its own capabilities, and there is no need for the British Empire to intervene in it.

This news was immediately interpreted by Britain as saying that Germany may have reached some kind of agreement with Austria-Hungary, the Ottomans and even the newly joined China, and the new head of Bannerman was obviously very dissatisfied with this result, and the British Empire's interest needs in the Middle East in the past were mainly concentrated in the ports, and the weakening of the Ottoman Empire's control in the Middle East obviously gave Britain more room for interests...... However, if Germany had built a railway to Baghdad, it would have meant that the German Empire would have access to Guò land routes, threatening Britain's vast African interests in Egypt and even in the Nile Valley!

Earlier, Britain threw out the interests of the Berlin and Baghdad railways for the sake of South Africa's interests and in order to attract Germany to give up military intervention in the Boer War, but as the current prime minister, Prime Minister Bannerman obviously did not approve of it! After just one month, the British finally became convinced that they could no longer change Wilhelm II's mind, and London immediately began to put pressure on the Ottoman side...... After all, the Ottoman Empire was the most important passage for Europe to the Middle East!

When Qin Kai returned to Beijing from the frozen Liaoyang, it was already late January, and Europe was now caught in the game of interests of various countries, and he naturally knew that there was no possibility of resolving the disputes in Africa and the Middle East, and the Balkan Peninsula was a big explosive keg that was being held in the hands of various countries, and Germany, Britain, France, and Russia had no possibility of giving up their external expansion, and the only thing that could organize each other was only the fear of the alliance between their opponents.

This is undoubtedly the best era for China, a stable Asian situation, China has already formed a situation of dominance, surrounded by small countries...... That is, those jungle countries and British and French colonies in South Asia, and the price of seizing those lands is obviously unbearable compared to the sacrifice of development time, and ...... Big countries always need small countries to set off, and it is not impossible to stay.

Two days later, the Fourth Congress of the Baath Party was held in Beijing as scheduled, and Zhou Ruidong, on behalf of the Prime Minister's Cabinet, briefed the party on the state of affairs, and the new premier, who was born in the army, very sharply laid out the contradiction between the problem of governing and the problems within the party, and the corruption of officials and the inaction of officials, which are still the contents of the cliché, but the new cabinet still handed over a very good report card.

In just two years, the General Administration of Corruption, the National Police, the National Security Bureau, and the party's supervisory team have handed over more than 500 cases of corruption and malfeasance to the court system, and all the closed cases have been published in the national mainstream media in accordance with the resolutions of the National Assembly.

Since 1887, the large-scale construction of railways, highways and other infrastructure has lasted for 17 years, and China has grown from an agricultural country with only 4,000 kilometers of railways and 1,000 kilometers of second-class highways to a huge railway and highway network that spans all provinces on the mainland and overseas provinces, and the total length of railways in the country has reached an astonishing 73,000 kilometers.

But compared with the whole of Europe or the United States, China's development for more than ten years is obviously not enough to catch up, but considering that China's current railway network has covered more than 85% of the country's population, this news still makes Qin Kai quite satisfied, Greater China now has a population of 550 million, accounting for nearly one-third of the world, linking this huge productive force, it is bound to break out a Chinese miracle that shocks the world!

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