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Queen Liliukalani was very satisfied with Zhang Wei's generosity, you know, the Americans only gave her $4,000 a year for expenses, so the good and the bad can still be compared.

Now Zhang Wei not only gave her the tax revenue of the entire Hawaii Island, but also gave her an additional 500,000 yuan in cash every year, which is a huge amount of money for the native Hawaiians.

Each got what they wanted, and both parties were happy.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Wei took a plane back to Beijing.

By the time Zhang Wei returned to the palace, it was already the early morning of January 21, that is, Chinese New Year's Eve.

Being able to come back before the Spring Festival, Xiao Yuer and others are still very happy.

After a short rest, in the morning of the same day, a brief cabinet meeting was held with Lu Weimin, Zheng Daoyou, and others in the conference room of the palace.

Now that the whole empire is on holiday, only the necessary duty personnel are left in the departments, and there is not much to do.

Zhang Wei and Lu Weimin also discussed Canada's war plan, the establishment of the Southern Theater, and the idea of preparing to drive the United States to South America.

Lu Weimin expressed his opinion, regarding the Canadian war, we must be prepared with both hands, if the Canadian government can realize its mistakes, pay reparations, apologize, and cede land to the Chinese, then occupy Ontario and eliminate him next time; If the Canadian government insists on going its own way, believing that with the protection of the British Empire, it can ignore our Xia Empire, then there is no need for it to continue to exist, and take the opportunity to eliminate Canada at one time, and now that Canada's population is still relatively small, there is no need to worry about Canada as much as the United States.

Zhang Wei thought about it carefully, and felt that Lu Weimin's opinion was very reasonable, but he had too many scruples before and complicated simple problems.

Lu Weimin very much agreed with the establishment of the Southern Theater, but suggested that the navy of the Southern Theater should be strengthened, and more garrisons or mercenaries should be sent to maintain local law and order.

Zhang Wei agreed with Lu Weimin's opinion, if the Southern Theater was listed separately and the navy of the Southern Theater was established, it would no longer be controlled by the agreement, so that the Lanfang-class battleships and Lanfang-class battlecruisers could be sent to the Caribbean Sea to carry out missions.

Lu Weimin completely has a negative attitude towards the idea of driving the United States to South America to establish a state, South America is also the direction of the empire's future expansion, which is now the empire's back garden, and no country can be allowed to develop and grow in South America, which is tantamount to cultivating its own enemies, and after taking Mexico and the West Indies and other places, it is necessary to find an opportunity to completely eliminate the United States, and cannot leave future troubles.

Zhang Wei sighed that Jiang is still old and spicy, and compared with them, he still doesn't think about it comprehensively enough.

Subsequently, the two had a discussion about the war plan for 1909.

Lu Weimin very much supported Zhang Wei's idea of occupying the Indochina Peninsula and Burma first, and seeking a foothold in the Middle East and Africa.

Moreover, the Indochina Peninsula and Burma were the traditional spheres of influence of the Chinese and had to be included in the imperial rule.

At the same time, Lu Weimin proposed to reorganize and redress the troops in 1909, and Zhang Wei asked him to go back and come up with a detailed plan before discussing it.

Subsequently, Li Zhaoshui reported on the process of handing over the battleship to the British.

According to the meaning of the Navy, there was an imminent war with Canada, and there was no need to deliver the battleships to the British, which was an act of the enemy; At the same time, Germany, France, Italy, the Russian Empire, etc., expressed the idea of buying Xia-class battleships to see when they would be delivered.

Li Minmin reported on the development of the navy of Britain and Germany in the past two years, and the Xia-class battleships are again of epoch-making significance, and the new battleships built by all countries in recent years with reference to the Lanfang-class battleships have once again become obsolete, and the appearance of the Xia-class battleships has once again promoted the competition of the world's navies.

Zhang Wei expressed his thoughts to everyone, the empire has more and more advanced battleships, and the purpose of selling them to the enemy is to let the enemy always follow behind the Xia Empire's ass, spend huge sums of money to buy battleships or build battleships, so that their competition will be white-hot, so that they will be more lively when they fight, and they will never pose a threat to the empire.

For countries that are willing to buy Xia-class battleships, as long as they can deliver battleships within 1 month after paying the money, only 2 can be delivered per month, on a first-come, first-served basis, and there are still 7 places.

As for the countries that want to produce their own, it is still the old practice, as long as they buy 2 or more battleships, the Xia Empire will be equipped with a full set of design drawings and manufacturing drawings, if they have accessories that they can't produce by themselves, they can import them from the Xia Empire at a low price.

Finally, Zhang Wei emphasized again that the form of payment must be the paper money of the Xia Empire, or gold, or silver, and the paper money of any other country is not accepted.

Li Zhaoshui said that he would contact the naval attachés of various countries stationed in the Xia Empire to convey the meaning of the empire to them and ask them to make arrangements as soon as possible.

Zhang Wei asked that before the 20th day of the first month, he should hand over the work summary of each department last year and this year's work plan to himself, and he would review it in detail at that time, and he did not want to be cheating.

Hua Guoqiang of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Yuan Shikai's request for more support from the empire.

Zheng Daoyou meant that he could not continue to indulge Yuan Shikai's inflated ambitions, and he had to knock it out, otherwise he would probably do something unfavorable to the empire; Sometimes Yuan Shikai pretends to be a tiger under the banner of the empire, especially this time when he proposed to abolish any treaties signed by the Qing court, which shows that his ambitions have been extremely inflated.

Lu Weimin said: "Your Majesty, this is not good, if he really abolishes all the treaties signed by the Qing court, it is obvious that he is the enemy of the world, and wants to drag the empire into the water, and the empire has not gained any benefits, and the empire has become a tool of his Yuan Shikai, so the general staff is opposed." ”

Zhang Wei said: "I am not ready to be an enemy of the world now, if he Yuan Shikai insists on going his own way, the empire will not continue to help him if there are any consequences; As I have said before, the empire will only have commercial dealings with the Chinese empire in the future, and the government will not interfere in its actions and decisions. However, if the empire still supports him to abolish the reparations of the "Xinchou Treaty" on the premise of sufficient benefits, I do not want the Chinese empire to continue to become a cow for Western countries and continue to pay reparations, which is also an act of the enemy, and this matter is still discussed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will definitely do this well, but how many benefits does Your Majesty mean?" Hua Guoqiang asked.

Zhang Wei said: "According to the convention, the empire must obtain at least one-third to one-half of the benefits, otherwise it is not willing to help in vain, you know, the abolition of the "Xinchou Treaty" has to face many countries, and the pressure of the empire is also very great, and it is necessary to obtain certain benefits." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Hua Guoqiang replied.

Seeing that everyone had nothing big to report for the time being, Zhang Wei then announced the dismissal of the meeting and went back to the backyard. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.