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Empress Victoria used her unique political skills and brains to transform several defeats of the British Empire in the Far East into a boost to her advantage, and successfully removed a large number of roadblocks such as Admiral Madham, as an ambitious woman, the most difficult thing for Queen Victoria to accept is that she is inferior to men, especially the unknown junior who has been defeated by an Eastern barbarian country many times in a row, and now this junior has threatened the money bag of the British Empire India, Taking this opportunity, Queen Victoria also submitted the fourth British Empire shipbuilding plan to the Parliament, which was immediately unanimously supported, India is not only the money bag of the British Empire, but also the money bag of most of the imperial nobles, the Chinese Empire has touched the final bottom line of the British Empire, and now almost all the shipyards of the British Empire are working day and night 24 hours a day!

Empress Victoria is determined to build the British fleet to dominate the world within two years, the British Empire is the first time that it has been forced to take the initiative to transfer to the wartime system, this union, as the initiating country of the British Empire, the ultimate goal is to successfully conclude an agreement, the Russians have difficulties on both the east and west fronts, so there must be a request to the British, the French who have just recovered are now giving priority to replenishing the army, it seems that the French have given up on the previous Napoleon III's great naval plan, If this was the result of the Chinese Empire's second heavy blow to the French, Empress Victoria believed that if the French had adopted this attitude, then France would have become the most loyal and reliable ally of the British Empire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Prior to this, Britain and France had already hyped up the theory of the threat of Germany's rise at home, and induced them through these public opinions!

Due to the rapid rise of Germany, coupled with the echo of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the German Empire also had the right to speak in Europe because of its victory over France, but Italy, which was originally preparing to join the Central Powers, was worried that the German Empire would suffer a crushing defeat in the second-line war, and Italy was in consideration of its own interests, and Britain and France promised to hand over Fum and Dalmatia to Italy after the war, and were willing to help it with 40 million French francs as a price, Italy finally joined the ranks of the Entente. The overall situation in Europe has taken a sharp turn for Germany and Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and the originally good situation has become quite unoptimistic.

In fact, in real history, in 1914, Austria and Italy spent 4,051,966 pounds and 3,237,000 pounds respectively to build new ships. If we add to the German figures, we can see that when war broke out, the Allies spent two and a half times more on building ships than on the Central Powers, and France and Russia together were about two and a half times larger than Germany. Therefore, it is nonsense to say that Germany's naval build-up was enough to threaten Britain. Since 1909, however, this has often been the object of propaganda. The real reason was not that the German navy threatened Britain, but, as Barfort complained to Mr. White, that the German merchant fleet was gradually stealing British business, and that German industrial production was about to surpass that of Britain, and that if this situation was allowed to develop, the British economy was likely to collapse.

Therefore, the British have always advocated that Germany is full of hostility to Britain at home, coupled with the rapid expansion of the German navy and army and the constant clamor of Kaiser Wilhelm I, which also set off a strong anti-German propaganda in Britain, and the German side is of course not to be outdone. This propaganda obscured the real cause of the dispute between the two countries, and that Germany had no intention of challenging Britain, let alone invading Britain, but ordinary Britons believed that the Germans were intent on invading Britain, and that the real reason was that the great expansion of Germany's overseas trade and the expansion of its merchant fleet had greatly threatened British commerce.

As Lin Haijiang had worried, once history changes, its impact will be long-term and interlocking, and this is where the real horror of the butterfly effect lies.

In 1866 alone, the total volume of German commercial trade increased fivefold, and the total tonnage of merchant ships increased by 370 percent, which was the main reason why the British could not tolerate the rise of Germany.

For Europe, it has become two major factions, whether it is Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany or Napoleon III of France, or Queen Victoria of Britain, who is aware of the possibility of war breaking out, so this secret alliance at Buckingham Palace in London, England is particularly important, and what makes the British most comfortable is that the Russians are not rushing to be the boss this time, but are willing to be the younger brother and the horse.

According to the statutes of the Allied Alliance, the Great War was planned to be launched in the autumn of 1868, and its goal was tentatively to defeat Germany and Austria-Hungary in Europe, with the Russian army pinning down the German army on the Eastern Front and a major counteroffensive against the Chinese Empire on the Western Front. In order to relieve Russia's dilemma of being pinned down by Ottoman Turkey in the Caucasus, the Entente decided to jointly attack Istanbul, the capital of Ottoman Turkey on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

After completely defeating the Ottoman Empire, the Allied Combined Fleet will go to Asia through the Suez Canal, join up with the previously arrived British Royal Navy Dispatch Fleet, and then first break the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, and then find the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire for a decisive battle, landing in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Quanzhou, Lianyunwan, and Dagukou, completely dismembering the Chinese Empire, and dividing it into seventeen areas under the supervision of the Entente countries.

For this grand strategic concept, Britain needed to mobilize not only all the reserves of the country, but also all the British subjects, France also needed to mobilize all the French colonies, and at the same time France and Britain also needed to support the Russians with a large amount of economic aid, because Nicholas I's representative Dulayev. For the first time, Duke Binovich informed Britain and France of the reality of Russia, and if there was sufficient assistance, Russia could arm an army of 2.3 million.

As an old European empire, the strength of the Russian Empire is indeed not to be underestimated, especially as the country with the largest number of reserve troops in Europe, there is no doubt that the mobilization of more than 2 million land forces for Britain and France are to look up to, although the generals of the Russian army lack strategic vision, middle-level officers have no sense of tactical synthesis, and the quality of tactically outdated soldiers is poor, but when the quantity exceeds a certain multiple of the quality, the quality will be completely submerged by the quantity.

If Russia can mobilize 2.3 million troops, then it should be the Chinese Empire that should be worried, but under the leadership of Britain and France, the order of this war is still carried out in the way of Europe and then Asia, the Russian army continues to hoard a large army in Moscow to bluff and prepare for a major counteroffensive, in fact, it is quietly defensive, and the main force of the Russian army is concentrated on the eastern front after the war by reducing the number of troops, once the war starts, the Russian army and the French army, the British army, the Belgian army, the Greek army, the Dutch army, the Spanish army, the Italian army, Encircle Austria-Hungary and the German Empire from six major directions, quickly intersperse and cut off the railway lines on which the German army depends, and separate the two heavy army groups of the German army in the east and west, so as to achieve the plan of destroying the main force of the German army!

Then, the main forces of the Entente countries participating in the war were in Asia, using landing warfare to cooperate with the Russian army's counteroffensive in the Far East, and after completely dismembering the Chinese Empire, the countries divided the interests in China equally, and restored order in Southeast Asia and the Indochina Peninsula.

For the whole set of battle plans proposed by Empress Victoria, the Russian representative Dulayev. Duke Binovich, with the full assistance hinted at by Empress Victoria, was the first to get a response from the Russian side, and this secret meeting was actually a large-scale spoils distribution meeting!

The presiding officer of the conference, Britain and its accomplices Russia, France, and a bunch of legs are now facing a discussion on how to re-divide the world's colonies, this plan is to strangle the rapidly rising Germany and Austria-Hungary, but the main interests are in Asia, so that Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Italy and other countries are tempted by the benefits that can be brought to them after the dismemberment of the Chinese Empire, in fact, to solve the problems of Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire did not do much good to the European countries, Germany was a new rising country, it did not have any decent colonies, and the Chinese Empire, which owned the whole of Southeast Asia and Indochina, and was rich in land and wealth, became the ultimate benefit point of this plan.

The secret alliance between Britain, France, and Russia, as well as Italy's eventual defection to the side of the Entente, although the Entente did its best to block the news, but after all, the impact and scale of the treaty were too great, so the Germans still got some relevant information.

The changes in Britain, France, Russia and other countries made Germany feel very nervous, and the only thing Wilhelm I could do was to prepare for war desperately, and the situation in Europe gradually turned out of control as the arms race in Europe intensified! Europe in this era can be said to be the so-called core of the whole world, Europe has the world's most developed and complete industrial system, and has almost all the world's advanced technology, and in 1867 for the whole world, the stability of Europe is related to the stability of the whole world.

Europeans are not afraid of war, because Europeans are accustomed to reaping huge benefits from war, according to the European way of thinking, the stronger the opponent, the more fruitful the results, whenever the European economy reaches a bottleneck, Europeans will look for a war as a breakthrough or salvation media.

(To be continued)