In Zhongjing, in the bustling crowd, there are many secret agents from various countries, but these personnel can only get some peripheral news. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fundamental reason for this result is that the administrative system implemented by the Chinese Empire, Zhongjing belongs to the central administrative region, and there are troops stationed around it, and no one or other person is allowed to enter Zhongjing without receiving a pass order.

In order to prevent the people who really do the work from delaying their business because they can't get in, the departments have opened special offices in the outer areas of Zhongjing, so that the imperial family's control over Zhongjing has reached the extreme, and no one outside can enter Zhongjing.

This is a bitter pain for these agents, and even those who try their best to complete the task have no way to complete the task.

If it was in the past, maybe they would still be able to use their hands and feet on the heralds, but now, people's communications all rely on radio, and radio is a controlled item, and the people are not allowed to have it, and even if they do, what can they do? Without a codebook, you still can't decipher Telegram.

So, in the last year or two, these agents have been fighting mainly over the radio and the codebook. Of course, the Chinese, who have the advantage of the home field, have also won many victories, but those special agents are still thieves.

Inside the palace, although there is an undercurrent outside, there is always a tense and calm rhythm here.

After the Chinese New Year, Wang Sirui changed one of the palaces in the palace into a military hall, and ordered the engineers to build a huge sand table, which is a huge world map.

Of course, it is obviously impossible to depict the terrain and landforms of the world with a sand table. Therefore, this sand table is not a complete sand table, and only some large-scale terrain or rivers are marked on it.

However, the core position of this sand table is the national boundary of the Chinese Empire, and the local sand table is arranged in more detail, not only marking the number of garrisons in various places, but also the reserves and new barracks, and even the population of each region is also marked.

Tang Shaoyi came to the military hall as always, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tang Shaoyi is basically ranked above 10,000 people under one person, although he is not a soldier, but Tang Shaoyi is also qualified to participate in this level of military conference, of course, only Tang Shaoyi has this qualification in the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

There were not many people attending the meeting this time, Wang Shizhen, the premier of the empire, Xu Shichang, the minister of the military, Duan Zhigui, the chief of the army, Ye Zuqi, the chief of the navy, Wang Lin, the chief of the air force, Ma Sanru, the minister of security, plus a foreign minister Tang Shaoyi, here are all the people attending the meeting.

Just by looking at the identities of these people, you can know how high the level of specification and secrecy of this meeting is.

And this time, except for Tang Shaoyi, Ma Sanru and Emperor Wang Sirui, who knew the content of the meeting, the others had no clue about it, and they had just held a military meeting three days ago, mainly to discuss Cai Yi's plan to increase troops, and arranged the task, and held two high-level military meetings in three days, which had never happened in the past.

And there doesn't seem to be anything particularly big going on lately, which is where these people are depressed.

"It's about Europe." Seeing the confusion on everyone's faces, Tang Shaoyi reminded in a low voice.

"Europe?" Wang Shizhen was slightly stunned and frowned tightly.

I secretly said in my heart, is it going to set foot in Europe so soon? Now is not the best time, and the two major groups in Europe have not lost too much, at this time China is not suitable for landing in Europe at all, and the reinforcement plan just proposed by Cai Yi has been approved, and China has no ability to land in Europe in a short period of time.

The navy is still very weak, and it is impossible to reach Europe on the sea, but it is possible to reach Europe on land, but now the area under the control of the empire is still far from Europe, and whether it is Russia or other countries, it is obvious that they will not give a passage to the army, so the army can only fight all the way.

The original troops in the west have been transferred back more than one million, and now among the troops stationed in the west, two-thirds of the troops are composed of new soldiers, which is okay for defense, and if it is attacked, even Wang Shizhen himself does not have much confidence to ensure success.

Technical support? This seems to be too fast.

Wang Sirui has always instilled the idea of a world war in these ministers, so these ministers know very well what this war means, and they also know what to do to maximize their benefits.

Or is there already one side in Europe that can't hold it anymore? Is it time for China to make a move? It's too bad for China to do it. On the Japanese side alone, they have to work for a year or two. After all, millions of troops, that's not a joke.

Several people were guessing in their hearts, and Wang Sirui walked into the hall unhurriedly.

Strictly speaking, this meeting does not belong to a military meeting, but Wang Sirui always likes to put this kind of meeting here, and this hall is also Wang Sirui's favorite place this year.

"Let's talk about the situation first." Wang Sirui stood in front of the sand table and nodded towards Tang Shaoyi and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Tang Shaoyi bowed slightly, then turned around and walked to the European area of the sand table, picked up the baton, and lightly scratched on the sand table, but it was out of thin air and did not touch the sand table.

From the point of view of the front, the Allies have a greater advantage, but because the Entente has the help of the Americans behind them, the Entente can also compete with the Allies in the short term, and according to the report of the ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Europe, the current European battlefield is very likely to be in a stalemate.

In addition, the alliance and the Entente are also constantly courting us, trying to win us over, the conditions given by the Allies are to unconditionally help us to recover those cultural relics lost overseas in Europe, and we need to continue to attack from the west to the west from the Western Front, and the Allies will also organize troops to carry out an eastward crusade until we converge, and then the two forces will converge into one place and enter the core area of the European continent to fight together with the Entente.

We will send at least three million troops to fight in Europe, and the Germans will provide us with no less than half of the war supplies and supplies.

In addition, there is the question of the distribution of interests after the war, and the conditions given by the Allies at present are that East Asia will be ours, Western Europe will be Germany, Central Europe will be Austria-Hungary, Eastern Europe will be the Ottoman Empire, and West Asia and other regions will be jointly administered by the four powers. Tang Shaoyi first stated the conditions given by the allies, and then continued:

"Not to be outdone, the Entente also gave advantages that were difficult to refuse, first of all, Hong Kong and Vietnam would be returned to us immediately, and on the Japanese issue, the Entente countries would jointly exert pressure on Japan, and the possibility of directly sending troops to the war was not ruled out.

In addition to this, our naval fleet will have priority passage and supply rights around the world. After the war, they will jointly administer the territory of the Allied Powers. We need to send troops by land and sea to attack the Allied powers in Eastern Europe and West Asia, and the Entente will secure all the war materiel for our landing force at sea. ”

"Tsk, the Europeans are really brainy, they dare to have any idea, this is completely using us as free thugs for them, and they have to be controlled by others everywhere." After listening to the conditions of the two groups, Xu Shichang couldn't help but sneer, in his opinion, there is no good person on both sides, and this kind of condition is given by them?

Of course, if it were true, the Germans would obviously be more generous, and at least China would have access to the whole of East Asia. It's not the Entente's right of way, the right of supply, this thing is just nothing, you have everything when you give you face, and when you don't give you face, you're a fart.

As for Hong Kong and Vietnam, the Entente also looked up to them too much. Even if they don't give it, won't the Chinese Army have the ability to take it back by force?

"Your Majesty, it is not appropriate to break with Europe at this time, and our country should do its best to maintain the status quo, and it is not too late to make plans after the settlement of the Japanese question. Moreover, the attrition of the European powers is not serious now, and if we rush into it, we may become cannon fodder for the great powers. Wang Shizhen frowned tightly and thought for a long time before he opened his mouth to suggest.

"Yes, it is indeed not appropriate to break with Europe at this time, and we do not yet have the capital to start an all-out war with them." Wang Sirui also nodded, he wanted to follow the path of the Americans, and wait for the war situation to be clear before making a choice.

Although history has told Wang Sirui that the Entente will be the victorious side, but the Allied Powers in this era have China's technical support, and in terms of armored forces, the Allied Powers have an absolute advantage, as long as the Allied Powers can defeat the Entente on the European continent, then the Entente is basically impossible to succeed.

But for Germany, the brainless Wilhelm II, Wang Sirui is still a little unhappy in his heart, who made this guy very unkind to the Chinese? Who let this guy keep bringing the troubles to the Chinese?

But the answer is very clear, joining the allies, China's interests will be the greatest, because there is almost no German power in the entire Asian region, and those countries are also some small countries, as few as one or two divisions can solve the problem, more than just send a group army, China is fully capable of opening up several battlefields at the same time.

But this premise is that the Entente must maintain a disadvantage in Europe, and after China frees up its hands and participates in the European war, the Entente must be firmly suppressed by the Allies.

Otherwise, if China does this, it is very likely to follow the old path of Japan in World War II, of course, China's resources and industrial capacity are also destined to make the same choice even if China makes the same choice, it will not be the same result as Japan, but a major war is obviously inevitable, and casualties are also inevitable.