On November 12, 1860, it was a very dull day for Lin Haijiang, who had moved his family back to Guangzhou, and Lin Haijiang went back to his parents' house, Lin Haijiang knew that his father was said to have agreed to marry the Shen family, don't look at him as the head of the empire with infinite scenery outside, but on the issue of marrying a daughter-in-law, Lin Haijiang himself has no right to speak, Lin Hanlin has taken the rectification of Lin Haijiang as his way to find a sense of achievement.

Don't look at the scenery outside your kid, when you enter the Lin Mansion, your kid is a dragon for me, a tiger for me to lie down, Lao Tzu's territory Lao Tzu has the final say! Many people have heard of Lin Hanlin's declaration, but no one has the courage to tell jokes about the Führer's family, so Lin Hanlin's declaration has still become a topic that can only be understood but not passed on.

Through the foreign trade of the Chinese Empire and the investment in shipping in the United States, Shen Tianfu, who had made a lot of money by transporting arms between the north and the south, was buying land in Mexico under the guidance of Lin Haijiang, while Shen Tianfu, who was already rich and rivaled, was preparing a dowry for his daughter.

For his marriage, Lin Haijiang did not take this matter to heart at the beginning, the Shen family is a big family, and it is rumored that it is rich and rivals the country Lin Haijiang only smiled slightly, he can have instructed the intelligence department to pay attention to the Shen family's huge wealth in the empire, but it is only concerned about the political wind, and it is not too deep to understand nuclear control, because at the beginning of the empire, excessive control will make these big families afraid of being embezzled, which will affect their continuous investment in the economy.

However, when Lin Haijiang learned of Shen Tianfu's marriage, he found that this marriage really had to be concluded, because the equipment of the Hainan shipyard had been generally installed in place, and some of them had begun to be commissioned, plus the 30,000-ton docks in the Imperial Fortress, now Lin Haijiang already has five 30,000-ton docks, but the docks located in the Imperial Fortress can only be used to repair ships, and do not have the ability to manufacture 10,000-ton warships.

And the Hainan shipyard Lin Haijiang is worried about how the imperial finance can come up with a large amount of money so that it can be put into operation as soon as possible, when it comes to operation, orders are needed, the larger the order, the better, preferably tens of thousands of tons of warships, because the Imperial General Administration of Scientific Research has made a breakthrough in the research of heavy oil boilers and steam turbines, in addition to the new alloy ratio technology shared by Prussia, in terms of technical reserves and shipyard equipment, Lin Haijiang believes that Haikou Shipyard is fully capable of manufacturing warships of more than 10,000 tons.

But this is only a technical and theoretical guarantee, the shipbuilding technology of the world's naval powers is booming, and if they want to get orders from overseas, they will borrow chickens and lay eggs like Prussia, and Lin Haijiang knows that he is completely hopeless.

However, Shen Tianfu's dowry, 20 million imperial silver dollars, it can be said that almost all of the imperial silver dollar coupons issued before were recovered by Shen Tianfu, which also made the empire's new currency policy appear more firm, the imperial silver dollar in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupation area and the Qing court occupation area of the lake color and variegated silver has reached one to one point two, and the convenient silver dollar coupon is to break the ancient practice of cheap silver and expensive coupons, the equivalent of coupons and silver, and many places are even more difficult to find.

The Imperial Silver Dollar Coupon instructed by Lin Haijiang actually uses the papermaking technology and watermark technology of the British pound, which is almost a watermark of the entire body, so the counterfeit banknotes have always been tried and never succeeded, which is also a major reason for the success of the Imperial Silver Dollar Bill.

With an average cost of 10 million imperial silver dollars, Lin Haijiang couldn't help but tremble with excitement when he thought about it, that was equal to the price of the sea trial after the installation and commissioning of the four Blitzkrieg-class warships!

Returning to the Imperial Administrative Center in Guangzhou, Wang Faren, who had just entered the office with an eager expression, also followed, put a document on Lin Haijiang's desk and said, "Your Excellency, the war in Europe has finally broken out!" ”

Lin Haijiang was slightly stunned, and then Wang Faren continued: "On the afternoon of Friday, October 1, 1860, the French Emperor Napoleon III suddenly declared war on Prussia, about an hour after the French Emperor declared war, the French General Staff Headquarters was immediately organized into the Rhine Corps, assembled in the Franco-German border area, the corps has a total of eight corps, about 220,000 people, by Napoleon III himself as the commander-in-chief, Lebouf as the chief of the general staff, Marshal McMahon, Marshal Bazin as the commander of the left and right flanks, France wants to preemptively seize Frankfurt, Prussia was forced to submit, but at the same time, the Prussian army also gathered three corps, about 520,000 men, with Wilhelm I as commander-in-chief and Moltke as chief of the general staff. Prussia, on the other hand, planned to concentrate on Alsace and Lorraine with superior forces, crushing the French army on the border line, and then attacking Paris to force France to surrender. ”

Lin Haijiang smiled slightly: "It seems that the strategic purpose between the two countries is very clear, and the staff officers who have worked hard to study and judge the intelligence of the General Staff must not have rested in the past few days!" ”

Wang Faren nodded and said: "It was the relevant information received yesterday afternoon, and after systematic interpretation and analysis, it is now formed and submitted immediately after forming a strategic summary." ”

Lin Haijiang opened the file and took a look, as in history, the war began with the French army attacking the Prussian army in the Saarbrücken area on October 9, 1860, but ten years earlier!

Regarding the detention of Prince Athena on the French side, Wang Faren asked Lin Haijiang to send the French back? Or do you want to detain it so that you can blackmail Napoleon III for something? However, when Lin Haijiang thought that once Napoleon III lost the Franco-Prussian War, then the so-called Prince Athena would become penniless at the same time and lose his political status, and Prince Athena, who was generally good-looking, did not fall into Lin Haijiang's eyes!

You must know that the concubine selection system in Europe is far less perfect than that in China, take the Qing court as an example, first of all, it is necessary to strictly review the flag and age of the show girl, and those who are not in the flag want to participate in the draft is more than ascending! If you want to escape the draft, you are also asking for hardship, and the show girl does not ask for the appearance of a sinking fish and a goose, in other words, she can't be selected if she is too beautiful, because as long as the emperors of all dynasties are lascivious, they are equivalent to most of the faint monarchs.

However, the selected show girls are all pure blood, with good facial features, appearance for the five blessings, no genetic history in the family, well-proportioned body, no body odor and so on 79 items of examination, if it involves the selection of concubines from the show girls of the year, it is even stricter, the only difference is that it is not in the very beautiful show girls are eliminated.

From the perspective of human eugenics, it is far more complicated and serious than that of Europe, and it seems that it is useless to keep such a foreign girl, and she still has to provide for it, and if she does not provide for it, it is easy to attract abuse from the outside world!

In the past, Lin Haijiang thought that the so-called international image and national image were pure nonsense, and Lao Tzu could do whatever he wanted, what did it matter to others? Now that it was his turn to be the head of state, he realized that what people think is not determined by their brains, but by their buttocks.

If the Chinese Empire wants to stand above the world, it must have a great power demeanor, and force is only one of the aspects, the relationship between countries and interpersonal relations in this world is actually almost the same, if you do a hundred good things, no one may remember you, but if you do a bad person, people will remember!

"Give them the money to go back to China, right?" Lin Haijiang expressed his opinion to Wang Faren in a soliciting tone, but Wang Faren said expressionlessly: "I know, I'll go do something right away!" ”

Lin Haijiang sighed helplessly, how could he not have expected that Prince Athena, who he had captured with great effort and luck in the Indochina Peninsula, would become worthless after the Franco-Prussian War? This is still a bit unpredictable, but letting go of Prince Ashana also made Lin Haijiang feel a sense of relief, at least for the time being, he could dissociate himself from the Franco-Prussian War.

But Lin Haijiang also knew very well that this could only be a good wish of his, and now the whole world was almost staring at the Franco-Prussian and Franco-Prussian countries, the Russians, the British, the Spaniards, the Austrians, the Dutch, etc., etc., the sudden provocation of the Chinese Empire and the Franco-Prussian War half a year later, some European countries, especially the United Kingdom, are keen to link this together, in an attempt to prove to Congress that the existence of the Chinese Empire is a great threat to the Empire.

Lin Haijiang, who knew nothing about this, devoted himself to the construction of basic industries and continued to sell arms to the north and south that were at war with the United States, and it can be said that the three-year wait finally paid off, and the huge profits of arms sales in the Chinese Empire almost made the whole world blush, but no one could have such foresight to hoard arms and wait for a country's civil war.

Lin Haijiang remembers very clearly that the American Civil War in history lasted for more than four years, and after a series of fierce battles on the Eastern Battlefield, the Western Front, and the Pan-Mississippi Battlefield, the Northern Union's political axe, which had an absolute economic and strategic advantage, finally won the victory.

However, Lin Haijiang continued to provide some experimental new weapons in the arms trade with the Southern Federation, and allowed them to purchase arms with in-kind debts, so the Southern Army fought desperately to obtain enough trophies to obtain the machine guns and cannons they urgently needed, and the Gatling machine guns equipped with a small number of Northern Army were not at all the opponents of the Imperial Type 1 general-purpose machine guns purchased by the Southern Army, and the oblique infantry firing queue has become synonymous with slaughter, and a large number of mobile artillery and machine guns have been invested. As a result, the trenches, which would have been used only in the First World War a few decades later, became the site of wrestling between the two sides.

It can be said that Prussia learned a lot of experience in the American Civil War to deal with Austria, and the Americans learned from the experience of the Prussians in attacking the mortars of various calibers used by the Austrians in the trenches how to coordinate these mortars of different sizes and calibers according to their firing range, so as to cover the infantry assault on the opponent's trenches.

Soon, in order to prevent the enemy from easily attacking their own trenches, a large amount of barbed wire was used on the position, and the assault became difficult, and the dense crowd attack was more vulnerable to the enemy's machine gun flank fire, resulting in very heavy casualties.

The American civil war has become a big quagmire, a big quagmire that completely entrusts the United States into a never-ending quagmire, in a sense, Lin Haijiang has achieved his goal, if the American civil war lasts for ten years? Twenty years? If China reunifies ahead of schedule and skips the warlord secession, will the future world pattern before World War I change dramatically?

On December 12, 1860, at the administrative center of the two provinces in Guangzhou, Lin Haijiang convened an imperial strategic meeting that included all the provincial administrative and military officials.

Li Anmin, Zhang Yunji, Hu Weimin, Jia Wuji, Lu Wei, Zheng Zhipeng, Wang Dongxu, Feng Guohua, Yang Tianhua, Du Haipeng, Tang Zhiqiang, Liu Quansi, Xu Dawei, Zhang Zheng, Gao Qi and others who attended the meeting were all members of the garrisons recalled from Hainan Province, Ryukyu Province, Imperial Fortress, Southeast Province, and Taiwan Province.

You must know that the position of chief of the general staff of the Imperial General Staff is still vacant, Li Anmin, who was transferred to the deputy chief of the general staff, is still in the rank of colonel, and the brigade commanders of various marine brigades and the captains of the capital ships are generally still lieutenant colonels. The army should throw all the worldly talk out of the clouds, and the iron army should have iron discipline, and this iron discipline should be extremely strict and selfless in Lin Haijiang's impression, and everyone from the general to the soldier should fulfill and carry it out, and the requirements for the imperial head of state and ordinary soldiers of the supreme military commander can only be said to be stricter.

If an army learns to be affectionate from top to bottom, then the combat effectiveness of this army may not be left! Lin Haijiang remembered that Napoleon once said a wise saying, a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, but among the 10,000 generals in reality, how many of them have grown up from soldiers?

In Lin Haijiang's opinion, the probability of a soldier being able to grow into a general is almost the same as going out to watch a meteor shower, and the probability of being hit by a meteor is basically the same.

Therefore, only by strictly demanding the internal construction of the troops, and purifying the internal class administrative functions of the troops, can the effective mechanism of a unit be guaranteed, and under the conditions of this mechanism, it is possible for a soldier to become a general!

In the face of this large-scale high-level strategic meeting of all administrative and military personnel convened by the Führer, it is clear to almost everyone that this is most likely a very clear signal that the Empire is ready to move into the country!

Lin Haijiang looked around at his subordinates, he was almost very familiar with the faces in the first two rows, Li Anmin, Zhang Yunji, Hu Weimin, Jia Wuji, Lu Wei, Zheng Zhipeng, Wang Dongxu, Feng Guohua, Yang Tianhua, Du Haipeng, Tang Zhiqiang, Liu Quansi, Xu Dawei, Zhang Zheng, Gao Qi and others are all his old team, especially Yang Tianhua and Wang Dongxu are all working hard with him from the Mediterranean.

In the next dozen rows, they are all outstanding students who have stood out from the international students in the past two years, and most of these hot-blooded young people are members of the two organizations of the Iron-Blooded Officers' Youth League and the Iron-Blooded Youth League, and it can be said that Lin Haijiang is very satisfied with the number of people attending today's meeting, a full 780 people, and these people will constitute the main body of the administration and military affairs of the Chinese Empire in the future.

Lin Haijiang believes that with the continuous expansion and development of the empire, there will be talents after all, ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, in the overall education and technical personnel of the people, China is not too far behind, Lin Haijiang believes that as long as through continuous efforts can regain the lost opportunity.

For the young people who participated in the last dozen rows, Lin Haijiang placed great expectations, and after the administrative officials from all over the country reported the basic governance situation, Lin Haijiang came to the front desk in warm applause, Lin Haijiang stretched out his hand to signal that the applause stopped and then said loudly and powerfully: "Everyone be quiet!" I don't need your applause and flowers here today, I ask you, the wonderful young people, to leave your enthusiasm to our motherland and the future Chinese empire! ”

After another round of warm applause, Lin Haijiang's passion also began to heat up, after all, this kind of personality cult that was almost crazy was equivalent to an overdose of stimulant for Lin Haijiang.

After Lin Haijiang deliberately enjoyed his eager gaze and fierce applause, he said very calmly: "Comrades! At the beginning of the establishment of the empire, the enemy looked around, and we shared weal and woe, with a firm confidence in serving the country and the people, only then did the Chinese empire have today's hard-won good situation, we expelled the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France and other European powers, and took back most of Southeast Asia, and now except for one Britain still entrenched in Southeast Asia, it can be said that Southeast Asia is already under our control. ”

Lin Haijiang paused slightly and continued: "Southeast Asia is the great yard of our Chinese Imperial Navy, and there are only a handful of British people entrenched here, if we are willing, they will roll back to India with their tails between their legs at any time, as the head of the Chinese Empire, I can be responsible for telling you that wherever our imperial warships and cannons are within range, they can be the territory of our Chinese Empire. It is to get back all that we have lost in history! ”

Looking at the pairs of eager eyes below, Lin Haijiang put his hands on the table, leaned forward slightly, and said, "For this grand goal!" Starting from today, we will create a new page in history, and we will take the first step to unify China! ”

(To be continued)