419: Crazy British
Recently, Zhongjing has not been particularly calm, the Sino-Russian war is a major event that affects the whole world, and the intelligence agencies of many countries have infiltrated here, but because Zhongjing is a new political capital, and Wang Sirui's positioning of Zhongjing is too strict. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Even ordinary residents of their own country, if they want to come to Zhongjing to do business, they can only go to the reception points of various departments on the periphery, those institutions and offices located in the center and the imperial palace, and they cannot enter without a letter of introduction.
Although it may sound frustrating, this practice goes a long way to ensuring that some secrets within the empire are not stolen, and that the country's residents can find a place to do things.
Moreover, Zhongjing is the office of the central government, and ordinary people do not have anything to do here, most of them are officials from all over the country who enter Beijing, and those officials want to do things, basically in the office hall can also be done, if the contact is good, there will be a record in Zhongjing, and when the time comes, you can also directly enter the interior with the certificate issued by various places.
And this kind of active defense method, which is almost frenzied, has made the great powers suffer a lot, and they have also bought some grassroots civil servants in various places, but those people have no access to some high-level secrets at all, and it is even difficult to get hold of the secrets of various places.
As for buying high-level officials in various places, this was indeed tried at the beginning, but unfortunately, the bribes are not as many as the people who have been arrested, here, the Chinese Empire does not care whether you are a foreigner or not, as long as you are bribing government officials, or ordinary civil servants, once caught, you will be arrested for engaging in espionage, and refuse to extradite countries, and directly deal with them in accordance with the laws of the Chinese Empire.
Over time, countries were greatly restricted in their espionage activities, which also led to very little information available to them in the Chinese Empire.
On this day, however, a number of great envoys received a piece of news, one that frightened them enough, especially the British and French ambassadors.
"Are you sure this news is true?" Sa Daoyi frowned tightly, looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, and asked.
"Basically, it can be determined that a friend of mine saw with his own eyes that his company wants to do business in the Chinese Empire, and the goods are already on the way, but the approval of the customs entry procedures is very slow, if the normal procedures are followed, when the goods arrive, the customs entry procedures will not be completed, so he wants to conduct public relations with an official of the Ministry of Commerce, and he just happened to see Premier Wang and Mu Mo walking out of a small courtyard one after another, and I also sent someone to inquire, that small courtyard is the home of a clerk in the Prime Minister's Office." Smith said with certainty.
Now that all countries are at a critical juncture, they are also particularly concerned about some of Zhongjing's actions, and if Mu Mo visits the Prime Minister's Office normally, then it will not attract the attention of these people.
But Mu Mo and Wang Shizhen chose to meet at night, even if they met at night, but the place where they met was neither the Prime Minister's Mansion nor Wang Shizhen's official residence, but the home of an ordinary clerk in the Prime Minister's Office, the meaning of which is somewhat intriguing.
If you want to say that there is nothing greasy in this, I'm afraid no one will believe it.
Thinking of the purpose of the recent increase in espionage activities in various countries, Sa Daoyi also felt a deep headache for this, all countries have increased their manpower and financial resources, but they have found nothing, which has made them anxious, and when they are having a headache, it is suddenly reported that the Germans secretly note to the Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire.
It would be okay if everyone didn't make any progress, anyway, they were all on the same starting line, and no one was afraid of anyone, but now the Germans have made substantial progress, although they are not sure what the purpose of their meeting is, but it will definitely not be ordinary cooperation.
'Damn the Chinese! Sa Daoyi cursed secretly in his heart.
The Chinese are too strong in scheming, and the means they use are simply overwhelming. Even from a long time ago, they began to be calculated, especially the United Kingdom, which has been calculated by the Chinese Empire like a fool.
Now just thinking about it, Sa Daoyi feels very blushing, the Chinese are short of a navy, and his side took the initiative to send them a fleet, but who could have thought that the Americans secretly stabbed them in the back?
Originally, countries thought that the two dreadnoughts that the Americans were building were their own plans, but when they tried the sea, they found a large number of Chinese soldiers on the warships, and many Chinese participated from beginning to end. After the sea trials, the two dreadnoughts were not assigned to any of the U.S. Navy fleets, but disappeared from the United States.
It wasn't until their fleet met in the South China Sea that the British reacted in hindsight, and in addition to the 40,000-ton naval fleet promised by the British, the Americans actually undertook nearly 60,000 tons of warships, and those two dreadnoughts were built for the Chinese Empire.
With this experience, the Americans can be said to have accumulated enough experience and technology in the construction of dreadnoughts, and after their own dreadnoughts are launched, their performance will definitely surpass that of all countries in the world, which is tantamount to forcing all countries to continue to increase investment and research more advanced dreadnoughts.
The fleet has been successfully reunited, and the British have provided them with a lot of convenience, so even if they want to refuse, they can't refuse.
However, before the British could get their hands dirty, a hammer was heard again on the battlefield in the north, and the armored forces came out of nowhere and swept through the Russian army, and everywhere they went, they were invincible, and the Russians were not their opponents at all.
This set of combination punches almost completely stunned the British, but the British had just sobered up, and the Germans came again, and Sadaoyi deeply felt that Britain's hegemony was being severely challenged, but the British were a little helpless in this regard.
In order to allow Britain to continue to maintain world hegemony, the British had to temporarily stop cooperation with Japan in order not to anger the Chinese, but secretly, the British promised the Japanese that they would build two dreadnoughts for them to meet the challenge of the Chinese Empire.
But all this is done in secret, and no formal agreement has been signed, and the British have a bottom line, that is, to wait for the British to get the tank technology before making the agreement public.
This combination made the British very passive, but the other powers were happy to see the jokes of the British, and the more serious the challenge to the British, the easier it was for other countries to rise.
Is it really that easy to be a world hegemon? Once Britain completely loses control of the Far East, then Sa Daoyi even dares to guarantee that the other powers will definitely rise up and besiege it.
"Find a way to get the content of the conversation between the Germans and the Chinese, and make another application, tomorrow I will officially note the Chancellery." Sa Daoyi said viciously.
It's too passive, but whether it's passive or not, this time, Sadaoyi has to find a way to destroy the good things of the Germans, once the Germans get this technology, then they will definitely find a way to stop the Chinese Empire from transferring technology to other countries, and once the Germans become the only country in Europe with tank technology, then the consequences are unimaginable.
Speaking of which, we have to mention the poor secrecy work of the Germans, the Germans' work attitude is rigorous, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it with a tendon, but the secrecy work of the Germans is as steady as a dog as always, and many of their plans can be stolen by foreign countries long in advance, and the Germans themselves do not know about it.
Especially after the beginning of World War II, before the German blitzkrieg attack on France, the French believed too much in their Maginot Line, so they did not work hard in this regard, but after the fall of France, the British were shocked and immediately put great energy into doing it.
Then there was everything that happened next, the plan to land on the British Isles was known in advance by the British, so there was sufficient preparation, and the Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses, so it was never able to carry out this plan.
There are many more examples of the same, innumerable, as the British are now convinced that the restless restlessness within the Germans, apart from the analysis of the international situation, is largely due to intelligence from within Germany, but at present the signs are not strong, but the Kaiser does not stop it, and is even brewing it.
War seems to be going on sooner or later, which is inevitable, but the British are not ready, then, disrupt the plans of the Germans, delay the outbreak of war, if possible, get the technology of tanks, directly build a strong armored force, maybe then directly occupy Germany.
But how can tank technology be so easy to obtain? So far, they have only heard two accurate information, there are two tank manufacturing plants, one is the industrial park in Beiping, where the former main force, now basically no longer produces tanks, mainly Ford E cars.
The other is a chariot factory in Luoyang, but Luoyang adopts closed management, that is, the factory can move freely, where you can get everything you need, your family will live there, but you are not allowed to go out at will, and it is impossible for outsiders to go in.
There is only one way for outsiders to want to get in, first write to the insider, and then wait for the insider's reply, agree on the time to enter, and then the insider's person goes outside to pick up, and the insider must take it to get in, and it has to go through several audits in the middle, which is very troublesome.
And although the people who live inside also find it a little troublesome, after all, there is an army stationed there, and there is no safer place in the whole country than there, and it is also very convenient to live or something, so they don't care about these problems.
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