Chapter 491: Roosevelt also had to strike first
"Someone, pull Duretta out and kill him!"
After learning that Duretta was Princess Marika's lover, Li Weiguo was furious and ordered the guards to push Duretta out and shoot him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Seeing that Duretta was pulled out and about to be shot, Princess Marika suddenly knelt down and begged Li Weiguo, hoping to spare Duretta's life.
Li Weiguo's face was expressionless, and he just said lightly: "If you want him to live, you have to die!" ”
Princess Marika's face turned pale at once, and after some struggle, she replied: "If I offend Your Majesty, you can punish me, please spare Duretta, I am willing to take all the responsibility." ”
Li Weiguo snorted coldly: "You know that you are not alone, you represent the entire Bukhara Khanate, and you take responsibility for pushing the Bukhara Khanate to war and destroying lives, even so, do you still have to insist?" ”
Princess Marika glared at Li Weiguo, showing anger, she was annoyed that Li Weiguo deliberately used the Bukhara Khanate to suppress her.
But she couldn't watch her lover being shot, at this moment she had lost her mind, and she didn't care about anything for the sake of her lover.
"I insist!"
Looking at Marika's firm expression, Li Weiguo sighed in his heart.
If it is a princess who can sacrifice herself for the country, then Li Weihui respects her, even if he knows that she has a lover before, he will not blame her. Anyway, this is a political marriage, and feelings can be slowly cultivated later. There are many such women in Li Weiguo's harem, and Li Weiguo can slowly cultivate a relationship with them.
But now this Marika, she can do anything for her lover, such a woman, Li Weiguo has no interest in cultivating feelings after training.
So, Li Weiguo came to Dureta again, and said what he had just said to Princess Marika after changing the protagonist, and then told him again.
In the end, Duretta, like Princess Marika, is willing to give back her own life.
Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, the bloody plot in the TV series really made him run into it, this is a 1 in 100 million probability!
Well, Li Weiguo admitted that he didn't have much interest in that Princess Marika, so he used the topic to play.
However, seeing that the two of them love each other so much, Li Weiguo also sighed a little.
"Let them go!"
Hearing Li Weiguo's relief, Princess Marika and Duretta were surprised and delighted.
Wu Peifu, who had not spoken at his side, frowned at this moment and said: "Your Majesty, if you let the two of them leave, I am afraid that it will damage the majesty of the royal family, please think twice, Your Majesty!" ”
Li Weiguo said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, our relationship with the Bukhara Khanate will not change because of a princess." As for the majesty of the royal family, it is necessary to consider it. ”
In many cases, ordinary people can make any decision very freely, but the imperial family represents the face of the Chinese Empire, and many things cannot be handled like ordinary people.
"Do you have any good suggestions?"
Li Weiguo asked Wu Peifu, for this warlord in history, Li Weiguo did not look at each other with colored glasses, the times create heroes, in that era of cannibalism, everything Wu Peifu did was not wrong.
Wu Peifu saw that Li Weiguo really wanted to let go of the pair of mandarin ducks, so he pushed the boat down the river and proposed: "Your Majesty can find another woman to replace Princess Marika, anyway, it is rare to see outsiders in the harem, and when this tense period is over, even if the outside world knows the truth, it can only praise Your Majesty for his generosity, affection and righteousness, and sympathy for this pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, but it will become a popular story." ”
Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Then you can do this matter!" ”
Out of confidentiality, and Wu Peifu is an insider, Li Weiguo did not find someone else, and directly let Wu Peifu handle the matter with full authority.
Wu Peifu was immediately very happy and hurriedly took the errand. In his opinion, this is a common secret with the emperor, although there is a certain risk (accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger), but the risk means the benefit, Wu Peifu believes that this is his opportunity to soar, so he will do it all.
Three days later, Wu Peifu returned on an errand, and he secretly sent Princess Marika and Duretta away to live in seclusion overseas.
At the same time, Wu Peifu also found a candidate to replace Princess Marika, a total of three women, all of whom are beautiful and fragrant. One of them is Wu Peifu's cousin, Wu Peifu is selfish in this matter, he hopes that Li Weiguo can take a fancy to his cousin, so that Wu Peifu will soar in the future.
This is human nature, but Wu Peifu did not only let his cousin participate, but also looked for two innocent women with the same national beauty for Li Weiguo to choose.
This is Wu Peifu's cleverness, if he only asks his cousin to replace Princess Marika, then Li Weiguo will not trust Wu Peifu from now on, but will alienate him, and even do not rule out killing people.
Everything about Wu Peifu is under the surveillance of the Security Bureau, so Li Weiguo naturally understands everything, he knows that this is Wu Peifu's careful thinking, this is also human nature, and Li Weiguo will not blame.
In the end, Li Weiguo still chose Wu Peifu's cousin Chen Meiling, in addition to Chen Meiling's true net worth, the country is beautiful and eye-catching, and more importantly, Li Weiguo wants to reuse Wu Peifu, the upcoming world war, if more historical bosses like Wu Peifu can participate, the Chinese Empire's winning rate will be higher and more stable.
And if Li Weiguo promotes Wu Peifu for no reason, he will be criticized, but if Wu Peifu is a relative of the emperor, it will be another matter.
"Minister Wu Peifu thanks Your Majesty Longen, and is willing to go to the soup for Your Majesty!"
Wu Peifu is also a human spirit, so he naturally understands Li Weiguo's intentions, so he is grateful from the bottom of his heart.
In this way, Wu Peifu stayed in the Western Theater and was transferred from the squadron leader of the Tiger Commando to the Western Theater Command as chief of staff, and concurrently served as the commander of the Eighth Town Division.
You must know that the Eighth Town is the most elite unit in the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, the trump card of the trump cards. Anyone who serves as the commander of such a unit will have a bright future in the future, and may enter the central system of the imperial court in the future.
At the same time, the rebellion of the Bukhara Khanate was also put down.
Due to the swift action of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, they took control of the situation in the Bukhara Khanate before the intervention of the British and Russian intervention forces, and captured Prince Mahturm, which made it difficult for the British and Russians to make waves in the Bukhara Khanate.
Unless Britain and Russia immediately went to war with the Chinese Empire, they could only watch as the Bukhara Khanate became a vassal state of the Chinese Empire.
Obviously, Britain and Russia are not in the same heart.
Although the Tsarist Empire was interested in controlling the Bukhara Khanate, the British Empire was focused on the Kuwait crisis, and the reason why the British Empire intervened in the Bukhara Khanate was mainly to put pressure on the Chinese Empire, hoping to use the Indian Demilitarized Zone incident and the Bukhara Khanate incident to bargain with the Chinese Empire, and finally exchange for the Chinese Empire's abandonment of Kuwait.
This is the great power game between China and Britain, and Li Weiguo wished for the idea of the British Empire, so that the special envoy in charge of the negotiations between China and Britain and Kuwait began to make concessions to the British Empire, so that the British Empire could see hope, so as to achieve the goal of further delaying time.
At the same time, as Japan held a naval parade and sent invitations to the world's major maritime powers, the clock of the First Sino-Japanese War also turned rapidly.
Japan, as an Asian country, is now isolated and has become the watchdog of the European and American powers in Asia.
A naval parade, most of which were attended by European and American countries, but there were no faces from Asian countries, made the Japanese emperor feel lonely.
Therefore, knowing that the emperor still sent an invitation to the Chinese Empire and its neighboring countries.
This is a means of punishing the heart, and you must know that the naval parade can only be attended by sovereign countries, and most of the countries surrounding Asia have already become vassal states of the Chinese Empire, and they have no diplomatic rights. Knowing that the emperor had sent invitations to the Chinese Empire, he had sent invitations to Korea, the Ryukyus, Siam, Annam, and other countries, which was clearly provoking trouble.
However, the Chinese Empire agreed, which was a big surprise to the Emperor, and even Britain and the United States and other countries were very surprised, not knowing what the Chinese Empire was pretending to be.
Meanwhile, in a secret sanatorium in the United States, Roosevelt visited Grant.
At this time, Grant was terminally ill, and the doctor said that he would die soon.
Roosevelt wanted to take advantage of Grant's last life to get his hands on more power, connections, and funds, so he needed to use and squeeze everything out of Grant.
"I want to marry your daughter and make her the most glamorous first lady!"
Grant squinted, looked at Roosevelt for a long time, smiled slightly, and asked rhetorically, "Say, what do you need me to do?" ”
Roosevelt saw that Grant had seen through his mind, so he went straight to the point and said: "I need all the military power, you know, there are a group of generals and departments who still only listen to you." ”
Grant said: "When you become president, they will naturally listen to you!" ”
Roosevelt said: "The problem is that I want to start a war in advance, and they don't support me!" ”
Grant naturally knew about this, and he disagreed: "We still need military preparations, and now we have no certainty of victory against the Chinese Empire, and we don't even have half of the chance of winning!" ”
Roosevelt insisted: "Have you ever thought that the industrial and economic development of the Chinese Empire is much faster than ours, when we are running, people are riding bicycles, when we are riding bicycles, people are already riding motorcycles, and when we have motorcycles, people are driving cars...... We have been catching up behind the Chinese Empire, but we have never been able to catch up, but the gap is getting bigger and bigger. ”
Grant was obviously pondering, and after a while said, "Your words are very reasonable, but have you thought about it, let's do it first, if we fail, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
Roosevelt said: "I have thought about it, and I have thought about it for a long time, and I believe you also understand that the Chinese Empire will not allow us to develop slowly and one day surpass theirs." By all indications, the Chinese Empire has been too low-key lately on the Japanese issue, the Kuwait issue, the Indian question, the Balkan issue, and even the Bukhara Khanate, and I think they are hatching a great conspiracy. ”
Grande nodded and said, "It's a bit abnormal!" As the Chinese saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, what did you guess? ”
Roosevelt said: "I think the Chinese Empire wants to do it, because I find that the overseas assets of the Chinese Empire are being sold under various pretexts. ”
Grant is obviously aware of the seriousness of the problem, and the sale of overseas assets of the Chinese Empire can only show one point, the Chinese Empire is really going to do it.
"What is the attitude of the Rockefeller consortium?"
"They're waiting for you!"
"So what are you going to do?"
"Sneak attack! First defeat the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire, so that the Chinese Empire will lose the initiative in the Pacific theater in a short period of time, so that we will have three more years of development, and if we plan properly, we will have an 80% chance of victory. ”
Grant's eyes lit up, and he asked again: "Has Britain, France, and Russia been notified?" What is their attitude? ”
Roosevelt smiled bitterly: "Their intelligence agency is too stupid, and it is estimated that it has been infiltrated by S.H.I.E.L.D. of the Chinese Empire, so I didn't reveal any intentions." ”
Granette nodded and said appreciatively, "You did the right thing, you are better than me in this regard." Before you took over the CIA, we in the United States were infiltrated by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Chinese Empire. It was you who reborn our intelligence department and inflicted heavy damage on the American headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Chinese Empire. ”
Roosevelt was proud of this incident recently, he personally smashed the American headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Chinese Empire, which can be said to have fought a beautiful turnaround.
It was precisely because Roosevelt smashed the intelligence system of the Chinese Empire in the United States that he was able to keep many secrets of the American military and make it impossible for the Chinese Empire to grasp the strength of the American military.
"You go for it, your choice is not wrong, I am old and too conservative! You're right, the Chinese Empire is developing too fast, we will never be able to catch up, we can only interrupt their development speed in this way, otherwise the longer it drags on, the less chance we have! ”
With Grant's approval, Roosevelt was finally relieved that the biggest obstacle in the country had been lifted, and no one would oppose his plan.
"I'll win!"
"Then I'm waiting for your good news!"
Roosevelt and Grant looked at each other and laughed.
A matter involving the survival of more than 80 million Americans, the decision was made by just two people.
Back in the White House, a secret military meeting was held again, this time, no one was opposing Roosevelt's proposal, apparently Grant greeted those who objected, and from then on Roosevelt would completely replace Grant as the real master of the White House, the supreme leader of the United States.
"Carter, how's the plan going?"
"Mr. President, the plan is going well, and after years of hard work, we have finally found a covert route from Antarctica to the South Pacific, and with the help of the typhoons from south to north in the fall, our fleet will appear in Guam or Pearl Harbor without even noticing. The question is, whether you are going to attack Guam or Pearl Harbor, we can only attack one of these two places, after all, the Chinese Empire has a radio system, and if one is attacked, they will immediately be on alert. ”
Roosevelt asked, "Where is the main force of the Pacific Fleet?" ”
Carter replied, "According to the pattern of previous years, it will be at Pearl Harbor in the fall and winter!" ”
Roosevelt then said, "Then attack Pearl Harbor!" (To be continued.) )