The outbreak of war in Liberia immediately captured the attention of the world.

China and Germany fought fiercely there, and the fierce battle was not good, but it made the European and American powers tremble together.

At the presidential palace in Washington, Cleveland summoned Jace, the chief adviser to the advisory group, to seek explanations for the war in Liberia and other issues.

Jace of the advisory group first said: "Judging from the current situation, Germany has compromised with the Chinese Empire in the Peace of Constantinople, and since it has ceded the colony of Liberia to the Chinese Empire, it shows that at the present stage, Germany cannot compete with the Chinese Empire, at least it is not willing to go to war with the Chinese Empire immediately." ”

Cleveland nodded and said, "We have to find a way to force the German Empire to go to war with the Chinese Empire, otherwise we will never be able to get rid of the control of the Chinese Empire." ”

So far, the United States is still under the control of the Chinese Empire, but this is not the result that Cleveland wants, and even most Americans want to get rid of the control of the Chinese Empire, because in their eyes, the United States at this time is not a sovereign country at all, but a semi-colonial country, and more than eighty percent of the wealth created by the American people every year is handed over to the Chinese Empire, which not only makes the ordinary American people angry, but the entire American capitalists also complain, but the military strength of the Chinese Empire is too strong, The current United States is simply not capable of competing on its own.

However, if the Chinese Empire and the German Empire were to go to war in an all-out manner, the war would inevitably be protracted, and the Chinese Empire would inevitably relax its control over the United States because of the war, and even ask the American military to assist in the war.

Jace understood Cleveland's feelings, so he said, "Mr. President, you are right to consider freeing the United States from the colonization of the Chinese Empire, but I don't think it is necessary to force the German Empire to go to war with the Chinese Empire at this stage. ”

Cleveland frowned and asked, "Why?" ”

Jace explained: "Just because I don't think the current German Empire is capable of holding off the military attack of the Chinese Empire!" You should think clearly, if a full-scale war breaks out when the German Empire cannot defeat the Chinese Empire, then the German Empire will face complete defeat, and then there will be no more national military strength in the world that can compete with the Chinese Empire, then the result will inevitably be that the Chinese Empire will unify the whole world, and the whole of Europe and the United States will be enslaved by the Orientals. ”

Cleveland didn't believe it, and said: "The German Empire should have the strength to counter the Chinese Empire, even if it can't win the Chinese Empire, at least it should be okay to protect itself." Otherwise, the Chinese Empire would have used force against the German Empire a long time ago, and the ultimatum issued was canceled, and the Peace of Constantinople was signed, which was enough to show that the Chinese Empire could not yet take the German Empire. ”

Jace snorted coldly and said, "That's just a superficial phenomenon!" According to my understanding of the national strength of the Chinese Empire, the gross domestic product of the Chinese Empire is probably more than 80 billion yuan, while the German Empire is overestimated at 10 billion yuan, a difference of eight times. In terms of military spending, the German Empire's military expenditure last year reached 5 billion yuan, accounting for half of the gross national product, while in contrast, although the Chinese Empire's military expenditure last year was only 10 billion yuan, twice the military expenditure of the German Empire, it accounted for only 12.5 percent of the gross national product. ”

Cleveland suddenly remembered the CIA report some time ago, when he was also shocked by the madness of the German Empire, and military spending, which accounted for up to 50% of the national economy, would seriously drag down the development of the national economy. Even with such a high proportion of military spending, it is only 5 billion yuan. Looking at the military expenditure of the Chinese Empire, which only accounts for 12.5% of the gross national value, is as high as 10 billion yuan, which is exactly twice the military expenditure of the German Empire.

This disparity shocked Cleveland at the time, and he felt a huge disparity.

And just now, Cleveland forgot about these things, and didn't remember them until he was reminded by Jace at this moment.

"You mean, the military expenditure of the Chinese Empire began to be twice as much as that of the German Empire, so the German Empire could not win! But sometimes the war is not necessarily directly related to the amount of military spending, even the Chinese Empire has had many times in history, such as the Song Dynasty's military expenditure was a hundred times that of the Mongol army, but it was still destroyed by the Mongol army; The 2 million army of the Ming Dynasty could not defeat the 100,000 Qing army, and in the end it was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, in the war with the Chinese, we must not use common sense to judge. ”

Hearing Cleveland's statement, even Dr. Jace, who claims to be eloquent, was speechless.

But Jace quickly reacted and persuaded, "Mr. President, I can't dismiss your views. It is true that the economy and the scale of military spending cannot determine the final victory or defeat of the war, but for the time being, your point of view only applies to those last imperial courts in Chinese history, and conversely, none of the founding emperors in Chinese history are fuel-efficient lamps, just like the current Chinese Empire Guanghua Emperor Li Weiguo and his Shence Army. ”

Cleveland was embarrassed, he knew that this was Jace's euphemism, saving him face.

"So what do you think? We can't always be enslaved by the Chinese Empire! ”

Jace thought for a moment and said: "At present, the attitude of European and American countries is actually very clear, they do not want the Chinese Empire and the German Empire to go to war in an all-out way, and they want to maintain this balance. Because whether the Chinese Empire wins or the German Empire wins, the rest of the world will be united. ”

Cleveland frowned: "The German Empire should not have the ability to unify the whole world, we should be able to have room for maneuver." ”

Jess shook his head and said, "Mr. President, you may not understand that with the advent of airplanes as a means of rapid transportation, there is no such thing as a world unification. In ancient times, the reason why no powerful country could realize the dream of unifying the whole world was because of the backwardness of transportation, and a soldier could not complete the world until he died of old age, but now with airplanes, warships and trains and other means of transportation, the army can travel around the world, so as long as it is a military power, there is the possibility of unifying the world. ”

After a pause, Jace continued: "At present, I think the United States should be patient, after all, the German Empire is also trading colonies for a short respite, which shows that when the overseas colonies of the German Empire are completely encroached upon by the Chinese Empire, it is time for the Chinese Empire to attack the German Empire itself, and then it is the final decisive battle, and it is also our only chance to get rid of the control of the Chinese Empire." Until then, we must not allow the Chinese Empire to doubt it. ”

Cleveland understood what Jace meant, and he couldn't help but sigh, it was his dream to be the president of the United States, but there was a emperor in charge of his head, which made him very unhappy. He didn't want to miss any chance to resist.

"Well, then bear with me, since the German Empire is our last hope, then we should strongly support them."

Hearing Cleveland say this, Jaston smiled wryly, but he didn't persuade again, and any more persuasion would make Cleveland go crazy.

Next, Cleveland and Jace talked for a while, focusing on how to secretly help the German Empire, and it can be seen that although Cleveland can't resist starting a war against the Chinese Empire, he is unwilling to be honest, and wants to secretly block the Chinese Empire, otherwise he will be angry to death every day.

The United States has a large number of resources that the Chinese Empire needs, such as oil, mineral resources, agricultural products, timber, etc., which are sold to the Chinese Empire at low prices, in exchange for various industrial products produced by the Chinese Empire.

In order to suppress the United States, the Chinese Empire did not allow the United States to develop high-tech industries, so today's United States has become a country dominated by exporting resources, and the world's second-most powerful American industry before the world war has been completely stifled.

Of course, legally, the Chinese Empire still allowed the United States to develop national industry, but the problem was that the competitiveness of American national industry was too weak. Taking steel as an example, the cost of steel produced in the United States is higher than the cost of importing steel from the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire forced the United States to pay protection fees, which made the American local steel companies bear huge taxes, but the Chinese Empire also signed a large number of unequal treaties with the United States, so that the steel of the Chinese Empire was exported to the United States without tariffs, which eventually led to the collapse of a large number of American domestic steel companies, and even if a few survived in the end, the shareholders became Chinese Empire businessmen. All the money earned went to the merchants of the Chinese Empire, and the Americans were only paid low wages.

The situation in the United States today is like the last years of the Qing Dynasty in history.

The only difference is that the Qing Dynasty was bullied and divided by the world's powers, while the United States was only bullied by the Chinese Empire and only colonized exclusively by the Chinese Empire.

Cleveland was not reconciled, and although he was the president of the Chinese Empire, and could even be re-elected until death, Cleveland was not satisfied with the status quo.

With the covert support of Cleveland, some government officials and military officials began to collude with American businessmen to secretly smuggle some valuable intelligence, technology or equipment stolen from the Chinese Empire into the German Empire, so as to help the German Empire improve its national strength, especially the German Imperial military.

Among them, the Cleveland family consortium played a special role, they took advantage of the convenient channels given to them by the Chinese Empire to inject a large amount of secret funds into the German Empire, and some weapons and equipment that the US military had just acquired from the Chinese Empire could even be secretly smuggled into the German Imperial military.

The United States is doing this, and other European and American countries are doing similar things at the same time, but the scale is different.

In fact, no matter how the Chinese Empire controls the United Nations, it cannot avoid the fact that the Chinese Empire is an Eastern country and a yellow country, while Europe and the United States are Western countries and a white country.

When the international pattern became the dominance of the Chinese Empire and the strong rise of the Eastern Empire, it actually threatened the entire Western world.

Then even if the countries of the Western world are infighting, they will invariably start to guard against the Chinese Empire.

The current confrontation between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire has in fact gradually evolved into the final confrontation between the Eastern and Western worlds, and the moment the British Empire and the United States became colonies of the Chinese Empire, they have already awakened the entire Western bloc countries, so it is no accident that the Western bloc countries secretly helped the German Empire against the Chinese Empire.

A war in Liberia has caused an international undercurrent.

But there is one awkward country in this country, and that is Russia, whose territory is now all in Europe, but European countries have never regarded Russia as a European country.

Of course, there are contradictions in national interests and even hostile estrangements caused by religious beliefs, but the recent sudden outbreak of civil war in Russia has also become one of the reasons for the further exclusion of Russia by European countries.

Since the revolution in Russia a few years ago, when Ryning and his revolutionary army forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate, a new chapter in Russia's history has begun. At that time, Lenin and his revolutionary army were not strong enough, so they had to compromise with the Russian aristocracy.

However, as the strength of Liening and his revolutionary army continued to consolidate, the balance of power between the two sides gradually tilted in the direction of the revolutionary army.

The Bolvik revolutionaries and the bourgeois revolutionaries had a fundamental contradiction, which was irreconcilable, and the two sides soon broke out into violent conflicts, and the Bolvik revolutionaries continued to carry out land movements in the cities and villages against serfdom, which touched the interests of the Russian aristocracy, and after many bloody conflicts broke out between the two sides, they finally went to civil war.

Not the October Revolution, but the December Revolution, not in 1917, but in 1905, a full twelve years ahead of schedule.

With 700,000 troops, Liening and his revolutionary army swept away the combined forces of the bourgeoisie and serf owners with 2.7 million troops, and in less than three months, they unified the whole of Russia and established the Soviet Federal Republic, or the Soviet Union for short.

The creation of the USSR, all too sudden, shocked the whole world.

At that time, when the Chinese Empire and the German Empire were in tension, China and Germany were negotiating in Constantinople, and the Soviet Union happened to be between China and Germany, and the Chinese Empire did not intend to provoke the Soviet Union and prevent the Soviet Union from falling to the German Empire and adding enemies to itself. Similarly, the German Empire did not want to provoke the Soviet Union, and even had a special friendship and secret relationship between Hitler and Starling, which allowed the Soviet Union to successfully escape under the tiger's mouth of China and Germany and have a chance to survive.

In fact, the special relationship between Hitler and Starling was known to the intelligence services of the Chinese Empire for a long time.

It stands to reason that the Chinese Empire had judged that the Soviet Union was an ally of the German Empire and should have sent troops to intervene in the Russian Civil War at a critical moment to prevent the Soviet Union from succeeding.

However, in the end, the Chinese Empire only mobilized a large army to the Sino-Soviet border, but did not do anything.

There was obviously a secret deal, because on the very day of the success of the Soviet Revolution, Starling made a secret visit to China on behalf of Liening.

Li Weiguo received Starling at the Wuhan Imperial Palace in Greater Kyoto, and the two even had a closed-door meeting at one point, during which no one knew what happened, apparently reaching some kind of ulterior deal.

After the meeting, Li Weiguo even made an exception to take a photo with Starling, which was published in the Central Daily of the Chinese Empire the next day.