Strategic deception is the psychological tactic of the Chinese Empire against the British, and there are relevant professionals in charge of this work, both official and non-governmental, to ensure that the European and American powers and potential hostile countries are strategically deceived in order to achieve the goal of misleading the enemy and protecting the interests of the empire.

After many secret investigations, the British Navy found nothing suspicious, so it believed that in order to quickly control the world's seas and seize maritime interests with the British Navy, the Chinese Empire was stepping up the construction of a number of all-steel battleships with ocean-going navigation performance, which could not only meet the requirements of long-distance cruise, but also be able to fight autonomously and achieve regional sea supremacy.

As a result, the British developed targeted measures and began to develop all-steel battleships.

However, when the British were preparing to build all-steel battleships, they found that high-strength steel plates were far more difficult to rivet than wrought iron plates, and the red-hot steel nails were easily driven into the iron plates and melted together, but they were not so easy to nail into the steel plates, and they needed to be repeated many times before they were barely wedged in.

As a result, the British had to improve the riveting process technology in order to achieve a connection between steel plates and steel plates, which led to a sharp increase in the cost of building all-steel battleships.

The British, having passed the budget, found out that the first all-steel battleship they intended to design and build turned out to cost 12 million pounds to build. Although the British Empire recently had to compensate the Chinese Empire with a huge amount of 200 million pounds, coupled with the impact of the pound sterling being attacked by illegal banknotes and currency depreciation during the previous war, the 12 million pounds at this time was only equivalent to the purchasing power of 4 million pounds before the war, but the Queen Elizabeth-class ironclad under construction only needed 800,000 pounds, and the cost of building an all-steel battleship was 5 times that of the ironclad, which made the British Empire a little unbearable.

Now that the British Empire is financially strained, it has given the equivalent of 200 million pounds of gold to the Chinese Empire, which has made the British Empire lose the ability to live on the gold standard. The pound sterling is still not directly convertible into gold, and the common people have just recovered their economy and production from the war, and they simply cannot spend too much money on the large-scale construction of ships for the navy.

As a result, the government of the British Empire, which felt poor for the first time, had to approve the construction of only one all-steel battleship for experiments and research.

It was only at this moment that the British understood how far they were from the Chinese Empire. You must know that the Chinese Empire had already begun construction of all-steel battleships five years ago. built nine ships in one go, that financial resources, that ability to build ships, directly threw the British three streets!

Once the world's first industrial power, now the glory no longer exists, and the arrogant psychology of the British people has slowly changed, as if they feel that the empire on which the sun never sets is about to decline, and it will never return to its former glory.

"What? Saul is visiting China? ”

The Times suddenly broke the news, which shocked the whole world.

The European and American powers were stunned. China and Britain have just finished fighting, Britain makes people bruise and swollen, and they lose only their underwear, and the hatred of the Chinese empire in Britain is serious, and as a result, Saul actually plans to visit China at this time, which is really a broken mess!

Public opinion from all walks of life has expressed their views one after another, some criticizing and some approving it. From a different standpoint, it is natural to have a different point of view.

"It's been less than two months since the end of the war. The blood of the soldiers of the British Empire on the battlefield has not been washed away by the rain, and the wounds of the wounded in the hospital have not yet healed. "The British daily began to lash out, as a homegrown daily newspaper. The mood of the British people must be taken into account.

"This is normal, since the founding of the Chinese Empire, China and Britain have fought a local war every five years, and the two countries are like children fighting, and they are reconciled the next day after the fight. I believe that this time is the same, there is no need to make a fuss. The German mainstream media responded dismissively.

"Saul's visit to China is the right choice, the rise of the Chinese Empire is an unstoppable tide, and whoever stands in the way of the Chinese Empire will be knocked to the ground. Peace between China and Britain contributes to peace throughout the world, and the British should be aware of this. The French press tried hard to persuade them, glad that they were not involved in the fourth and fifth Sino-British wars, otherwise they would have been beaten out.

In the Chinese Empire, the news of Saul's visit to China has also spread to everyone, and the major domestic media have not forgotten to express their views, speculating about the purpose of Saul's visit to China.

"The British have finally been convinced by us, and this trip must be here to show goodwill!"

"Thor must have a secret to tell, maybe he's here to steal the Empire's advanced technology!"

"I just don't know if Thor will kneel when he meets His Majesty the Emperor? If he doesn't kneel, we'll beat him until he kneels!" ”

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Public opinion gossip was flying all over the sky, but as the diplomatic department of the Chinese Empire, it was slow to respond.

It was not until the regular press conference that the media asked the Imperial Government to confirm the news of Saul's visit to China that the press spokesman of the Imperial Court responded.

"Regarding the recent reports that British Prime Minister Saul is about to visit China, the Imperial Government has not yet received relevant applications."

"The Chinese Empire is peace-loving, but since Britain has taken the initiative to provoke five Yapian wars against the Chinese Empire one after another, we are skeptical of the sincerity of the British government, and we need to listen to its words and watch its deeds before making a decision."

Obviously, the Chinese Empire actually declined Saul's request to visit China.

In fact, Saul was very cautious, he did not send a formal application to the Chinese Empire to visit China, but took the initiative to blow the wind through the British media to test the tone of the Chinese Empire. As a result, the Chinese Empire politely refused, so that Saul knew that he could not visit China for the time being, but he did not lose face.

Subsequently, the British Ministry of Information came forward to clarify that the relevant reports were untrue, and the British Prime Minister had been busy with work recently and had no plans to visit China.

This farce ended with this, and it was actually a diplomatic war between the Chinese Empire and the British Empire.

However, Saul was keen to visit China, and he wanted to improve the relationship between the British Empire and the Chinese Empire, and make it less hostile. Saul wants to revert to the high-tech trade deals in Sino-British trade, which were previously strictly prohibited by the Chinese Empire from exporting to the British Empire, especially in the area of military technology, which was very strict in terms of export restrictions.

Saul learned from British intelligence that the Chinese Empire had adopted an advanced welding technique that allowed steel plates to be easily welded together. This technology was applied to the Hsiungfeng-class battleships of the Chinese Empire several years ago. Helped the Chinese Empire win the Pacific War.

So far, the British Empire urgently needed this welding technology, otherwise the construction cost of all-steel battleships would be too high, and the riveting process was prone to problems in high-intensity naval battles, such as rivets falling off, causing water ingress, etc.

Of course. The British lacked too much technology, and the Chinese Empire had entered the era of the big bang of science and technology, with many high-tech inventions of all kinds, which made the British extremely envious and jealous.

For example, with the continuous increase in the production of the Chinese Empire in this regard, the drugs are sold all over the world, and the cost of a pill is only a few cents, but the price is as high as more than a dozen yuan, in some places abroad. Local officials and local snakes even monopolized the right to sell, raising the price several times, and in some backward areas, such as Ethiopia in Africa, the price of a pill sold to the king was as high as one tael of gold.

These factors have invisibly turned the special medicine of the Chinese Empire into a miracle drug, which has no price and is frantically snapped up by people all over the world. After all, this special medicine is currently a life-saving drug. With a special drug, it is equivalent to an extra life, who cares about the price!

Technicians from European and American countries secretly studied the ingredients of these special drugs. It's a pity that they were sad, they couldn't have imagined that from the very beginning, Comrade Li Weiguo, who was more cunning than them, deliberately added a large number of herbs that only the Chinese Empire had in the medicine, such as ginseng, snow lotus and other traditional Chinese medicinal materials, which made European and American technicians completely blind. Because in Europe, traditional Chinese medicine is not recognized, and Europeans only recognize chemically produced Western medicine.

Not only in the military and medical fields, but also in other fields, a large number of students have graduated with the training of the Chinese Empire in recent years. Creating more and more scientific and technological inventions, the number of college students graduating each year in the Chinese Empire is equivalent to the number of graduates in other countries in the world combined, and with the growing population and richer people of the Chinese Empire, this advantage will become even greater, making it difficult for European and American countries to match.

The most prominent is in the field of telecommunications, the Chinese Empire took the lead in realizing the telecommunications revolution, five years ago the telegraph line has covered all parts of the country, even the roof of the world in the western frontier has also been connected to the telegraph line, the nearest far from the Chinese Empire mainland Alaska has also achieved telegraph communication.

This is only a small part of the telecommunications revolution of the Chinese Imperial Academy, with the successful development of the telephone set by the Chinese Imperial Academy of Sciences, as well as the switch for the telephone console, the telephone has been realized by the common people, and the use of the whole country has been popularized.

First of all, a month ago, the Beijing Telegraph Office of the Chinese Empire was renamed the Telephone and Telegraph Bureau, and the huge telephone server could connect 5,000 telephone lines and 100 sets of telephone connections at the same time.

Three days ago, the Shanghai Telephone and Telegraph Bureau was also announced, and Li Weiguo personally called back to the Forbidden City in the palace and talked to Empress Fu Shanxiang on the phone.

"Your Majesty, when do you plan to return to the palace, the concubine is ready to welcome you!" Fu Shanxiang said solemnly, obviously a little dissatisfied with Li Weiguo running to Jiangnan to flirt with girls.

"There are still some state affairs to deal with, and I will go back after a while!" Li Weiguo said with a weak heart.

"I made an excuse and came back immediately, the concubine has something to tell you!" Su Sanniang's voice suddenly came from the phone, she is not only Li Weiguo's wife, but also Li Weiguo's sworn sister, she is not used to Li Weiguo's problems, let her seize the opportunity to repair Li Weiguo.

Before Li Weiguo could answer, there was another person over there.

"Sister, don't be so fierce, it will frighten the baby! Your Majesty, the concubine misses you! Come back soon! Shen Ziyanjiao's scream followed.

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly and chatted with Shen Ziyan for a while, but soon the seventy-two concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards heard that His Majesty had called, and they all came to say goodbye.

"Your Majesty, the concubine misses you so much!"

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten my old love when you have a new love! Concubines don't follow! ”

"Your Majesty, it's time to come back and make a little monkey together!"

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The concubines greeted each other one by one, coquettishly, and their voices made Li Weiguo have goosebumps all over his body. However, Li Weiguo is not ungrateful, even if he is only politically married to many women, he still tries to give each other a love, and tries to accept them, maintaining a harmonious family relationship.

made a phone call and chatted with each concubine, and then a large group of little princes and princesses came, and they greeted Li Weiguo one by one. As a result, after hanging up the phone, I realized that I had been on the phone for more than four hours.

Li Weiguo is also drunk, and the disadvantages of having many women are reflected at this moment. Children, in particular, now number more than a hundred. Usually, Li Weiguo can recognize who is who when he talks to them face-to-face in the palace, but when he makes a phone call, Li Weiguo finds that many voices are unrecognizable.

However, Li Weiguo is still quite satisfied, who has Lao Tzu Niu B. There are dozens of daughters-in-law and more than 100 children, and in the future, one out of every ten people in the world will be the bloodline of Lao Tzu's descendants.

Ha ha!

Li Weiguo is a little excited every time he thinks of this, what does Genghis Khan have, the descendants of Lao Tzu are going to completely crush you!

With telephone, communication is more convenient, and even if Li Weiguo is accompanying the palace, he can know the major and minor events happening all over the country at any time.

However, the cost of the telephone is still very high, and even the citizens of the Chinese Empire who have entered a moderately prosperous society cannot afford it. Moreover, the Imperial Chinese Government gave priority to meeting the needs of the military, and the telephone lines were given priority to the laying of various major theaters and border military regions of the Chinese Empire to ensure that the country could carry out military mobilization in a timely manner and protect national security.

But it didn't take long for the research team of the physics department of Danfu University to invent a new communication protocol, which integrated the original telegraph lines and telephone lines of the Chinese Empire, and the telegraph and telephone calls would not affect each other.

This invention was immediately taken seriously by the imperial government, and Li Weiguo personally ordered that the inventor be rewarded with 500,000 yuan. Because the Chinese Empire had already completed the laying of telegraph lines, if it was possible to use ready-made telegraph lines to make calls. It will save at least five years of time for the popularization of telephone lines throughout the country, and save 200 million yuan in line construction costs.

As a result, the Chinese Empire instantly entered the telephone age from the telegraph age, and each telegraph office only needed to replace a new exchange to realize the sharing of telephone and telegraph.

Again, there is no need to prioritize the supply of the military. Because the military has long had telegraphs and lines, it is only necessary to change to a telephone to make calls.

As a result, the imperial treasury was tilted in favor of civilian telephones, and state-run telecommunications companies were set up throughout the country to set up telephone lines in major cities. Many wealthy citizens bought telephones for the first time, which is much more convenient for discussing business or greeting relatives and friends.

Similarly, although there are many citizens who can afford to buy telephones, they cannot afford to use them, because the telephone bill is very high, which is related to the telephone bureau, after all, all the telephones are manually transferred through the attendants of the telephone bureau, and the cost is placed there, and it is impossible to reduce it.

However, Li Weiguo also planned to set up public telephone booths in major cities, so that citizens can make calls through public telephone booths when they encounter emergencies. The public telephone booth adopts a coin-operated system, one dollar of silver coins each time, and the price is also very high, but ordinary people cannot call every day, one dollar of silver is equivalent to five days of wages for ordinary people, it is still completely acceptable, if it is a big thing or a small situation, it is quite cost-effective to spend a silver coin to make a phone call.

European and American countries have seen the great achievements made by the Chinese Empire in the field of telecommunications, especially the emergence of telephones, which has made governments all over the world crazy, and they have sent telegrams to the personnel of various countries in China to negotiate with the Chinese Empire and introduce telephone systems and technologies.

Li Weiguo, who had already wanted to ruthlessly knock down the European and American countries, immediately ordered the relevant departments to negotiate with the countries and took the opportunity to put forward various additional conditions, such as Britain could introduce a telephone system, but it was necessary to extend the protection of the Chinese Empire's patented technology from the current 20 years to 50 years, and Britain was not allowed to imitate and upgrade the telephone and telephone exchange system without the permission of the Chinese Empire. Britain needs to purchase at least 50,000 telephones and 500 telephone exchange systems from the Chinese Empire, and the construction of British Telecom requires the participation of the China Imperial Telecommunications Company.

This kind of overlord clause made the British burst into tears, but they couldn't beat the Chinese Empire, and they couldn't develop a telephone system, so they could only let the Chinese Empire slaughter.

The other European and American powers were similar, and the Chinese Empire treated them separately according to the situation, signed various agreements and additional conditions, and would never give up until all countries were stripped of their skin.

As a result, a telecommunications revolution in the Chinese Empire led the whole world into the telecommunications era. However, all countries in the world have paid a high price, and all countries have been cut like leeks by the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire basically forced countries to sign a patent protection period of at least 50 years, that is, for 50 years, all countries had to pay the Chinese Empire for the use of telephones. As the telephone became more widespread, more and more of this royalty would flow into the pockets of the Chinese empire.

It is foreseeable that in the next 50 years, all European and American countries in the telecommunications industry will be leek fields, which will be cut by the Chinese Empire one after another, until the expiration of 50 years of patent protection. (To be continued.) )