After sending back to China the important news that Cheng Gong was going to declare war on Britain, Ye Lin has been pondering these days whether the establishment of the Triple Alliance of the East, Germany, and the Soviet Union has strategic value for the Chinese Communist Party, which has retreated to the six northwestern provinces of China. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

From a military point of view, after the establishment of the military alliance of East Germany and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union will certainly gain very much benefit from it. At the very least, many advanced technologies and processes of the Donghua Empire and Germany will bring the Soviet Union's military technology to a higher level.

Politically, the Soviet Union has since shaken off all kinds of blockades and sanctions imposed on the Soviet Union by the Western capitalist world, and the influence of socialism and communism on Europe, Asia, and even the whole world has become more and more extensive.

As an anti-Japanese democratic regime in northwest China, which also belongs to the socialist camp, it should be said that the stronger the Soviet Union, the better it will be.

However, Ye Lin knew that the Soviet Union's assistance to the Chinese Communist Party had not been large. Otherwise, the Soviet Union would only have to exert pressure on the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei would certainly not have dared to re-raise the anti-communist butcher's knife in such a blatant and unscrupulous manner.

Without coastal ports such as Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai, and Weigu, the normal trade between the Northwest government and the Donghua Empire would certainly be greatly affected.

Unless, Cheng Gongken put pressure on the Nationalist government in Nanjing, warning the Kuomintang not to affect the normal business of foreign trade and exports of the Donghua Empire.

can think about Cheng Gong's hardline attitude of insisting on refusing to meddle in domestic affairs, Ye Lin knows that Cheng Gong will definitely not agree to her wish.

Now it seems that we can only hope that we can send a high-level visiting delegation to the Soviet Union as soon as possible to obtain strong assistance from the Soviet Union through diplomatic negotiations of equality and mutual benefit.

Standing on the walkway outside the bridge of the aircraft carrier island, Ye Lin looked at the jet carrier-based fighter on the deck below that was carrying out catapult take-off operations, and suddenly felt an inexplicable helplessness in her heart.

With such a strong military strength in his hands, Cheng Gong was keen on fighting overseas, and did not take into account the feelings of the 40,000,000 Chinese compatriots in the Chinese mainland who were in the heat of the water, so it is no wonder that most of the Chinese people now have a lower and lower favorability towards the Donghua Empire.

Three days ago, German Crown Prince Wilhelm III secretly came to Crete, and Cheng Gong personally received and held a meeting.

Today, it was Cheng Gong who specially arranged for Crown Prince Wilhelm to board the aircraft carrier "Huo Quai", the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Donghua Royal Navy, with the intention of letting the courageless German crown prince feel the strength of the Donghua Royal Navy on the spot.

Cheng Gong led Crown Prince William to visit around the aircraft carrier, and Ye Lin, as an escort, was supposed to accompany Cheng Gong, but she used her bad mood as an excuse to make a little temperament and stay alone on the island to hide quietly.

Ye Lin didn't care at all about the content of Cheng Gong's conversation with Crown Prince William, and she was full of thoughts about what kind of method to use to persuade Cheng Gong to dispatch an aircraft carrier fleet of the Donghua Royal Navy to the mouth of the Yangtze River as soon as possible to coerce the Nanjing Nationalist Government and deter the pro-Japanese faction.

As for the upcoming joint attack of East Germany on the British mainland, Yellin believes that there is no suspense about the outcome of this war.

Donghua and Germany joined forces to attack the British Isles, and the Soviet Union used Pakistan as a bridgehead to attack India.

What's more, the current British Empire has long since fallen.

After staying by Cheng Gong's side for a long time, Ye Lin gradually understood the essence of the paper tiger of the British Empire more and more thoroughly.

Although Britain was the victor of the First World War, in essence, the decline of the British Empire was doomed as early as the outbreak of the Boer War.

In 1652, the first Dutch arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, and established a colony. Just like the Mayflower brought the colonists to North America back then. After more than 100 years of colonization, the Boers have become the main ethnic group in the region.

However, the Boers only lasted 140 years in South Africa. In 1795, the British fleet landed in Cape Town, and then, after years of war conflicts, drove the Boers to northern South Africa.

The Boers, who migrated to the north, established the republics of the Transvaal and Orange in 1852 and 1854, respectively.

With the discovery of the world's largest gold mine in the Johannesburg region of central South Africa in 1886, the contradictions between the British and the Boers became even more acute.

On October 11, 1899, the Boer War broke out. Although in June 1900 the British captured the Transvaal capital of Pretoria and annexed the Transvaal and Orange on 10 September, the war continued.

The British government invested 450,000 troops, suffered 100,000 casualties, and spent £223 million. Although the Boers suffered even more casualties and losses, almost to the point where all adult men were mobilized into the army, the British Empire could no longer afford to drag it out, anti-war sentiment was running high at home, world public opinion was strongly criticized, and even the elderly Queen Victoria died of anxiety.

On May 31, 1902, the British government and the Boers signed the Treaty of Frinikhin, which stipulated that Britain was the legitimate sovereign of the Boers, but recognized the freedom and property of the Boers, and allocated funds to assist the Boers in rebuilding their homes and establishing self-government.

Although the Boer War ended with a British victory, the British Empire was at an extremely disadvantage. The European powers unanimously condemned Britain's policy in South Africa, arguing that Britain's bullying of two small Boer countries for the sake of gold was a typical bully.

To make matters worse, France, Russia, and Germany sought to unite against Britain.

In 1900, France and Russia bypassed Britain and secretly carved up their spheres of influence in Turkey. This caused great panic in the UK. As a result, a series of political, economic, and military policies have been wrong.

Both the Covenant with the Americans and the 1902 Treaty of Alliance with Japan were the beginning of Britain's forced abandonment of the diplomatic tradition of "glorious isolation" (not getting involved too much in continental Europe) and "continental equilibrium" (separate alliances with continental countries to counterbalance their union). Immediately after that, it signed agreements with France and Russia to establish the "Triple Entente" military bloc, which was further involved in the political whirlpool in Europe.

This "Entente" war painting eventually dragged the British Empire into World War I. And it was from the First World War that the British Empire went into complete decline.

The tariff reform of 1902 economically improved the colony's position within the empire, and the Boer War gave the colonies the right to military autonomy. In 1901 and then in 1907, Australia and New Zealand became Dominions. This was the beginning of the Westminster Act in 1931.

Then, the British Empire miscalculated the strength of the Donghui Kingdom at that time and fought the wrong war at the wrong time, resulting in the British Empire losing Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, the Maldives Islands, the Chagos Islands, the Seychelles Islands, Africa, the Suez Canal, the Sevrus, the Strait of Gibraltar and other British colonies.

Although the British still held India, the British colonial system was largely on the verge of collapse. After the "Galaxy Incident", it means that the glorious history of the empire on which the sun never sets is gone forever.

Therefore, Cheng Gong insisted that the Boer War was the beginning of the decline of the British Empire. Ye Lin also agreed.

The Western world has always followed the law of the jungle.

Seeing that the British Empire was dying, if he did not take advantage of his illness to kill him, and wait for him to recover his breath and then try to seize the interests belonging to the British Empire, the price paid by the boundary would definitely be much greater than it is now.

The three strong men of Donghua, Germany, and the Soviet Union united to deal with the terminally ill old woman of the British Empire, and the outcome can be imagined. (To be continued.) )