Of course, in fact, since the Sino-British naval war, in addition to increasing the garrison on the border, the conflict between Britain and France in Asia has actually been limited by the geopolitical terrain to a large extent, but after China opened up Bengal into the Indian Ocean, the British and French territories in Asia have become secure, and China has become a decisive influence.

Qin Kai is well versed in the core of the colonial economy, at this point, the British economy has embarked on a path of failure, commercial interests all over the world, but also means a huge commercial cost, the small defects of the homeland are ultimately doomed to the fall of the British Empire, and China to make full use of the opportunity to rise, the contest of military power and national strength will be the only way.

Of course, Qin Kai naturally did not intend to shed blood for the interests of white Europeans, and after some bargaining, Wang Li reached a final deal with the British Minister Lubet, and China insisted on mediating the African dispute through diplomatic channels, and the assurances given by China to the British also greatly surprised the British.

Qin Kai authorized Wang Li to sign a secret arms agreement with Britain, hoping to reach a reasonable agreement on the military strength of the two countries in the Far East within a year, and the strong man in the Far East made it very clear to Britain that China was willing to control China's military strength in the Far East within the scope of the treaty, and to avoid unnecessary arms confrontation and competition between China and Britain in the Far East, and China promised to agree with Britain on the status quo in the Far East and even in the Indian colonies.

Soon, London fully recognized the agreement reached by Minister Loubey, even with the powerful British Empire. I don't want to go on another pointless expedition seven years ago. War against China. There is no benefit to the Empire, and there is no chance of victory, and more importantly, although the Indian Ocean Fleet was finally reorganized three years ago, the British Empire has long been powerless!

The arms race in the Atlantic was in full swing, and although the cost of manufacturing warships in the British Empire was generally lower than that of competitors France, Germany, and the Russian Empire, it was a super deal to place an order of 6-8 ships at a time in the face of the Admiralty. The latest Dreadnought-class battleships cost nearly £950,000 each, and each round of shipbuilding plans corresponds to a huge expenditure of £6 million to £8 million.

What's more, the British Empire's battleship formation is not only battleships, supporting battle cruisers, large cruisers, destroyers, supply ships, each battleship launch means 3-5 auxiliary warships and form a unique formation with it, in the past 5 years, the Royal Navy has successively issued orders for 5 types of battleships, including the Dreadnought, and nearly 30 capital warships.

And these main warships, with the Royal Navy's goal of comprehensively suppressing the second and third opponents in the world of naval power, seem to be a little insufficient, in this fierce situation. London can no longer afford to have an arms race with a powerful China in the Far East! Now, China has come up with a big plan that will allow both sides to breathe a sigh of relief. It was so much that the British could not refuse.

On 10 February, Wang Li, the minister to Germany, informed German Foreign Minister Schleier of the results of the agreement between China and Britain, of course, for the treaty on the limitation of the navy, which had not yet entered the substantive stage, according to the secret agreement between the two sides, it was naturally not within the scope of the announcement, and Britain finally agreed to abandon the settlement of the Gisanja conflict by force, which had reassured Germany and France.

After less than a week of negotiations, the two agreed to wait for the Chinese Navy to send relevant military representatives, and immediately launched the next comprehensive discussion, and the two sides quickly reached an approximate 1:2 of naval tonnage in the Far East, which means that with China's current status quo of 200,000 tons of main warships and 80,000 tons of auxiliary warships such as destroyers, The British Indian Ocean Detachment will be able to deploy a 100,000-ton main fleet and a 40,000-ton auxiliary fleet.

At the end of February, when the initial intention of the Sino-British naval arms limitation treaty was reached, Qin Kai sent a secret telegram to Chen Bo, although the ambassador to Britain proposed to the British side that if the total tonnage of the British navy exceeded 1 million tons, China would automatically obtain an additional agreement to increase the total tonnage of the navy to 500,000 tons...... In the face of this new provision, the British were somewhat surprised.

However, considering that the British Empire is now reducing a large number of old warships, even after 10 Dreadnought-class battleships are listed, the total tonnage still maintains a downward trend, and it does not exceed 700,000 tons at present, and if the British Empire's naval tonnage exceeds 1 million tons, then even if the Chinese Navy has 500,000 tons, it will not cause much trouble, so it took almost no too much effort for the two sides to reach the final preliminary intention.

The speed of the negotiations in London, compared with the negotiations being conducted in Berlin at the moment, is almost completely on two extremes, in a whole month, the French and the British in Berlin have been cursing each other for shamelessness almost all day long, for every inch of land in the Nile Basin, the two sides are almost gritting their teeth to fight for an inch, after nearly a month of negotiations, the only result obtained by the two sides is to agree that the armies of the two countries will temporarily disengage and withdraw 5 kilometers back from each other.

As a result, without waiting for the news of the withdrawal of the two sides to be confirmed, the French once again received the news that a British army had circumnavigated Guisanja and explored westward, which immediately set off a round of mutual abuse and bickering, and then, in order to show a tough attitude, the ministers of the two sides directly did not attend the negotiations for the time being, but appointed a consular counselor to continue the negotiations.

Beijing, Qin Kai heard the news from Berlin, and he also laughed, the pressure of the combination of Germany, France, Austria and other European powers and the diplomatic means they moved from it finally made the British Empire unwilling, but had to sit in the quagmire of this negotiation, this kind of negotiation of interests was not something that could be negotiated casually, not to mention that when a group of Europeans were preparing to sit back and enjoy the benefits in Africa, everyone would think about getting a little benefit from this incident, especially the French.

Maybe in the end the British will be able to get the French to make concessions, or maybe not...... But this has already brought about an unimaginable change in the conflict of interests of African countries, and the French advance into the middle of Africa, since they have gained benefits, will inevitably prompt France to ...... Or Germany and Italy will try it further, and that's what they want to see the most.

Of course, it is also possible that history will continue to follow the old trajectory, but the necessary preparations have been made for a change in history, and the British are under increasing competitive pressure from Europe, which will make the great empire go down the road faster and faster...... However, Premier Qin was still a little apprehensive when he thought of the fearless era that he might soon enter.

No matter who it is, even if it is a traverser like Qin Kai, imagine facing 35 ships, or even more than twenty or thirty thousand tons, plus the former dreadnought competition that he detonated, the British have significantly exceeded the number of dreadnought battleships and Vulcan-class battle cruisers, and the number of these capital ships alone will easily exceed one million tons at that time.

The addition of 500,000 tons to the Sino-British naval limitation treaty is based on this consideration, after all, battleships are not something that can be cultivated in a day, and this vast project, if you don't plan it early, it is obviously not possible! Of course, I also have other plans, but it all depends on the country's industrial capacity and the growth of national strength.

On March 14, 1999, Beijing announced that on May 11, it would jointly bid for 43 newly explored overseas mining areas, compared with the overseas mining bidding four years ago, this time there were three new changes, one was that the Ministry of Commerce announced that the government would only participate in the form of independent directors and would not participate in the actual operation, and that the government would participate in the form of 50% of the shares in accordance with the provisions of the constitution on the state-owned resources, and that all mining companies would be required to be listed on the Guangzhou stock market and the Shanghai stock market if they wanted to be listed.

The third point, which also makes the entire domestic and foreign banks ecstatic, is that the new government allows the introduction of overseas capital to participate in the operation of resource minerals for the first time, of course, domestic capital can also participate in the bidding, and this news immediately caused a big shock in the domestic business community!

The new government has been operating smoothly for 10 years, and the industry under the Nanyang system has actually risen in more than ten years, and the theory of Qin Kai's so-called coal-iron complex and the elaboration of the theory of national wealth have been compulsory subjects in new schools in China in the past ten years, and the huge industrial value of resource industries has long been understood by domestic capital.

The copper, coal and petroleum industries in Borneo, Sumatra, and the Philippines, which were opened four years ago, have given birth to a number of large-scale non-governmental mining consortia, and the number submitted by the Intelligence Department to Qin Kai shows that the assets of several consortia, such as Guangzhou He's, Zhejiang Li's, Singapore's Chen's, and Ningbo's Zhang's, have reached the level of tens of millions, while dozens of private companies engaged in maritime trade and shipping in China still make huge profits despite the giant Mawei Shipping.

Therefore, the introduction of private capital to speed up the country's industrialization and upgrading, is already a big problem in front of Qin Kai, and how to guide capital, to be honest, although Qin Kai is well versed in the laws of the market economy, but when it comes to the policy at the national level, the only thing he can do is to give full play to the ability of operators, and even introduce more diversified management methods, foreign capital, is obviously a plan to try.

By April, when all eyes were on the National Assembly for a new five-year development plan in Beijing, Europe was completely stunned by a report. (To be continued......)