Since the past dynasties, there have been 3,000 beauties in the emperor's harem, 72 concubines in the three palaces and six courts, and thousands of palace maids and eunuchs.

Now in the era of the Chinese Empire, there are only about 100 female officials and palace maids in Wang Chenhao's harem, and the huge palace looks extremely empty.

Wang Chenhao abolished the system of seven divisions and three courtyards of the Manchu Qing Dynasty Internal Affairs Office, but in order to maintain the royal prestige, the newly established Internal Affairs Department only set up five departments: the Internal Health Department, the Ni Dance Division, the Imperial Dining Room, the Division Bureau, and the Tai Hospital. Among the five departments, except for the Internal Security Department, which is part-time by Wang Yunqing, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, the other four departments are each in charge of four full-time female officers.

Wang Chenhao wanted to reduce the establishment of the Internal Affairs Office as much as possible, and made Li Dehai the Minister in charge of the Internal Affairs Office with full powers. However, Li Dehai, the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, faced all kinds of difficulties from the civil and military officials of the central government of the empire, so he had to add some young women to enrich the palace.

These young women come from all over the country, all of them are dignified and beautiful, and they have their own strengths in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, rap, riding and archery. But this is only their surface, in fact, they are all directly or indirectly related to the civil and military officials of the imperial political axe, some are immediate family members, and some are collateral cousins, and the purpose of their entry into the palace is just to think that one day they can fly on the branches and become phoenixes. Of course, the most important thing is that their parents and uncles hope to rely on them to get in touch with the emperor and become the emperor of the imperial party.

Li Dehai naturally did not dare to offend the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, so he arranged the young and beautiful women they recommended to be on an errand in the palace. At first, Wang Chenhao dismissed the original eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and the newly established departments were in urgent need of manpower, and the maids and maids brought from Wang Chenhao's original residence were basically female officials or stewards, so Li Dehai had an excuse to arrange the women recommended by the officials to work in the palace on the grounds of recruiting palace maids.

At the beginning, the women who entered the palace from special channels were all arranged by Li Dehai, and Wang Chenhao had just ascended the throne and was busy with government affairs and did not notice it. But there were more than 200 beautiful women in the palace, and they were soon noticed by the queen and several imperial concubines, and the woman's sense was very sensitive, and the queen and the imperial concubines soon discovered that the purpose of these women entering the palace was to get close to the emperor and take the opportunity to invite favor.

Is this worth it?

Queen Li Youyi was in charge of the harem and immediately ordered an inquiry, but was prevaricated by Li Dehai. At first, Li Youyi thought that Wang Chenhao was thinking about the barren silver harem when he became the emperor, so he was very angry.

The queen was unhappy, so naturally someone would report to Wang Chenhao, so this matter attracted Wang Chenhao's attention.

Wang Chenhao immediately ordered an inquiry, and the Homeland Security Bureau had been secretly investigating the matter, so after Li Bing reported to Wang Chenhao, Li Dehai was found out.

In the imperial study, Li Dehai kept kneeling on the ground, explaining his innocence with a handful of snot and tears.

"Your Majesty, you have to believe in Wechen, Wechen promises to confiscate a penny from them."

Wang Chenhao also knew that Li Dehai was not short of money at all, and since Li Dehai became the housekeeper of Wang Chenhao's mansion, Wang Chenhao gave him generous treatment and various rewards that were enough for him and his whole family to live for a lifetime. And Li Dehai himself is also an honest person, otherwise he would not be able to be a housekeeper.

However, there are no absolutes. With Wang Chenhao becoming the emperor, Li Dehai's power has also increased, and he has become the head of the Internal Affairs Office.

Of course, no one is perfect, Wang Chenhao's subordinates can be said to have all kinds of people, and Wang Chenhao is too lazy to study some things that do not affect the overall situation. After all, there are more things like this on the earth, and Wang Chenhao can't be busy.

"If the money is confiscated, the Independent Commission Against Corruption will definitely investigate. But I've been cutting back on the harem staff, and you've recruited hundreds of women for me. However, these women are all family members or crony relatives of powerful officials in the country, and I have to worry about sending them away now. ”

Li Dehai hurriedly said: "Weichen should die, it was Weichen who made the emperor embarrassed." But Weichen was also forced to be helpless, although Weichen was covered by the emperor, but if these officials made some small moves in private, the emperor couldn't do anything about them, but Weichen would be miserable. ”

Wang Chenhao sighed, although now that the dynasty has changed, the comprehensive reform of the Chinese Empire has made brilliant achievements, and it seems that it has stepped into a civilized society, but after all, the reform time is too short, and more than ninety percent of these people under Wang Chenhao are deeply affected by the habits of feudal bureaucracy, and it is not an exaggeration to say that their old ideas are deep-rooted. But Wang Chenhao still has to rely on them to maintain the empire, and their contribution to the country is greater than the negative impact of their old habits, so Wang Chenhao has to tolerate these shortcomings of the two.

Li Dehai saw that Wang Chenhao seemed to sympathize with him, so he said: "Weichen should have been tougher, but Weichen thought about it in turn, these officials not only want to invite favor with the emperor, but also show their loyalty to the emperor, they sent their daughter into the palace to invite favor to the emperor, which also shows that they want to be closer to the emperor." ”

Wang Chenhao suddenly glared, and said unhappily: "I want to be related to Zhenpan, and when the time comes, after becoming a relative of the emperor, I will show off my power outside, bullying men and women." If you look at the group of emperors and relatives of the past dynasties, the relatives who can't be beaten by the eight poles can also be powerful and blessed on the heads of the people, so isn't this country chaotic? ”

Li Dehai saw that Wang Chenhao was angry, and hurriedly changed his words, and said: "Your Majesty, you are naturally extremely sage, but the minister thinks that the royal family is thin now, and the emperor has to spread out more branches and leaves, such a huge imperial wealth, and more trustworthy people to help you take care of it." ”

Wang Chenhao smiled bitterly: "You are very good at thinking about me, you got more than 200 beauties at once, you want to be tired to death!" ”

Li Dehai was stunned for a moment, and then said in a panic: "Weichen doesn't dare, he just wants to please the emperor, and he has no other thoughts." ”

Wang Chenhao nodded, Li Dehai's loyalty is still remarkable.

Li Dehai saw that Wang Chenhao was not really angry, so he said: "The minister thinks that Your Majesty might as well let these beauties stay in the palace, and the emperor will be lucky if he meets someone he likes, and if he doesn't like it, he can stay in the palace to appease the hearts of the officials." ”

Wang Chenhao said: "If I don't like any of them, then won't their lives be over?" ”

Li Dehai said: "Since ancient times, when you enter a wealthy family, it is as deep as the sea, not to mention the palace. What official doesn't understand this? Since they dared to send it to the palace, they were already prepared in their hearts. ”

Wang Chenhao couldn't help sighing, this era is like this, women's lives are sent back and forth like goods. This phenomenon cannot be eliminated in a short period of time, and it may change in three or four generations.

"Let's put this matter aside for now! Now the queen is angry with me, thinking that I have brought so many women in to prepare for the silver pleasure, and you have made me very unhappy. ”

Li Dehai thought so much at the time, but now he knows that Wang Chenhao was unhappy because of this. Li Dehai knew that in the entire harem, the queen was Wang Chenhao's most cherished woman, and now making the queen unhappy is equivalent to making the emperor unhappy.

"The minister must find a way to explain to the queen clearly, this matter is purely the fault of the minister."

Wang Chenhao thought for a while and said, "I have already thought of a way. ”

Then, Wang Chenhao told Li Dehai his method, and Li Dehai immediately cried and said, "Your Majesty spares your life!" If the queen doesn't come to intercede with Weichen......"

Wang Chenhao smiled: "Then I can't save you!" ”

After speaking, Wang Chenhao shouted, and two guards came in from outside the hall and dragged Li Dehai out.

Wang Chenhao continued to review the official documents, and about half an hour later, the voice of the queen asking to see came from outside the hall.

Wang Chenhao smiled, knowing that Li Youyi would come over to intercede for Li Dehai.

Sure enough, after Li Youyi came in, she immediately asked why Wang Chenhao wanted to kill Li Dehai.

Wang Chenhao had already prepared his words, so he counted Li Dehai fiercely.

"This Li Dehai brought in so many women behind my back, he really me off, and it was really not enough to vent his anger if he didn't kill him."

Li Youyi pleaded repeatedly, but Wang Chenhao was indignant and deliberately made a posture that he had to kill Li Dehai.

So, Li Youyi had no choice but to come up with a killer weapon, and said coquettishly to Wang Chenhao: "I know that you are to blame, for the sake of Li Dehai's loyalty, you can spare him this time." ”

Wang Chenhao pretended to be aggrieved and said, "Do you know how uncomfortable it is for me to be wronged by you? ”

Li Youyi then coaxed Wang Chenhao and said: "It's all my fault, I'm tired of you being wronged, as compensation, how about people serving you tonight?" ”

Wang Chenhao's heart jumped suddenly, he was happy, but he was still indifferent, Li Youyi said again: "Okay, then how do you say I should compensate you?" Anyway, it's my fault, I will rely on you for whatever you say. ”

"Really?"

Wang Chenhao's face suddenly showed joy, Li Youyi's heart sank, and she felt as if she had been fooled, but she still nodded and said: "People are also the queen of a country now, so naturally they will not break their promises." ”

Wang Chenhao looked around, and the palace maid retreated more than ten meters away, so he whispered in Li Youyi's ear: "How about we have a dragon and two phoenixes tonight?" ”

"Don't!"

Li Youyi immediately glared, all along, Li Youyi refused to serve Wang Chenhao with other women. Among the women around Wang Chenhao, they were all forced by Wang Chenhao to be semi-forced to go crazy on a bed, but Li Youyi was the only exception, because Wang Chenhao did not dare to force her.

Now Wang Chenhao took the opportunity to make this request, and Li Youyi immediately objected.

"How about we play a few more tricks?"

Wang Chenhao couldn't make a move, so he retreated to the next best.

"Don't think!"

Li Youyi is also opposed, as a typical ultra-traditional woman, Li Youyi's education in the way of being a woman has always been a way of surname love, and other ways are regarded as prodigal women, so she is against it again.

"You're not sincere, who just said that no matter what I asked, I would agree to come, what kind of dignified ......?"

"You know how to bully me!"

"And you agreed?"

Li Youyi was silent, and Wang Chenhao smiled evilly: "If you don't say it, I'll take you as a default!" ”

Li Youyi glared at Wang Chenhao and said word for word: "I have been planning for a long time!" ”

Wang Chenhao still smiled evilly, waiting for Li Youyi's reply.

Li Youyi and Wang Chenhao met each other and confronted each other for a few minutes, and finally Li Youyi was defeated, stomped her feet, threw herself into Wang Chenhao's arms, waved her fists to vent her anger, and said vaguely in her mouth that she had been planning for a long time.

That night, Wang Chenhao got what he wanted, but Li Youyi didn't talk to him for the next few days, obviously angry. However, the husband and wife did not have an overnight feud, and soon Wang Chenhao changed the law to please her, and soon the matter was revealed.

As for the daughters and ladies sent in by the officials, Wang Chenhao handed them all over to Li Youyi for management. And Li Youyi didn't give them a chance to get close to Wang Chenhao, she and Wang Chenhao asked for the rights of the Internal Security Division, and organized these daughters into a female soldier company, which started training at six o'clock in the morning and ended at six o'clock in the evening, and the training content and intensity were not weaker than those of the regular army, so that these young ladies were so tired every day that they no longer thought about inviting the emperor to pet.

After Li Youyi consulted with several other imperial concubines, she changed the name of this female soldier company to the Women's Yulin Army, and since then she has shouldered the security and defense of the harem.

Wang Chenhao learned that Li Youyi and the others treated these daughters like this, and he had to sigh that once a woman was jealous, she was not easy to provoke. Therefore, Wang Chenhao not only did not stop it, but vigorously supported it. Wang Chenhao personally designed a red women's military uniform, ordered the General Logistics Department to make a batch of military uniforms, and ordered Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry to develop a batch of lightweight weapons and equipment that female soldiers could carry.

At first, the training was in charge of Wang Wenqing, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army. But this group of daughters didn't buy it at all, Wang Wenqing knew that they were all women who belonged to the court, and maybe one day they would fly on the branches and become phoenixes, but he didn't dare to offend. As a result, there was no improvement in the training.

In response to this problem, Li Youyi soon got help from Concubine Ning. Concubine Ning's best friend, Salina, the lord of Horqin County, has not returned to Mongolia since Wang Chenhao laid off the palace personnel, but has been staying in the capital. Her father, Khan, was a member of the Senate and had his own residence in Beijing.

Yun Tong proposed to Li Youyi that Sarina be responsible for training this women's army, and she would definitely be able to train these delicate daughters and ladies into excellent soldiers who could shoulder the palace guards.

At the same time, Yun Tong also made a statement to Wang Chenhao, saying that a good relationship with Salina's father, Prince Khan Korqin, Borzigit Haiming, is very important for the stability of Inner Mongolia. The descendants of the Borzigit clan, a golden family, have a strong influence on most of the Mongolian princes and nobles in the Mongolian desert, which is also the main reason why the Manchu political axe frequently intermarried with Horqin. Mongolia's loyalty to the Manchus for hundreds of years is proof enough.

Wang Chenhao always has lingering palpitations about Shalina, because there are some secrets between the two of them that are not easy to publicize, and Shalina is even more stubborn than Qiao Yuying, and she has never given up the idea of beating Wang Chenhao into a pig's head. Although Wang Chenhao has now become the emperor, Shalina seems to have no chance, but every time she sees Wang Chenhao, she makes it clear that she will not give up.

Since Yun Tong officially moved into the Forbidden City as Concubine Ning, Li Youyi, Luo Xier, and Qiao Yuying have already known the cause of Wang Chenhao's feud with Shalina. In this regard, the women always laughed at it, and every time Wang Chenhao was proud, they always used this matter to hit Wang Chenhao.

This time, Wang Chenhao opposed letting Shalina be the commander of the women's army at first, but Li Youyi and Yun Tong took the lead in asking Wang Chenhao to put state affairs first, but they also had a little selfishness. At this time, Li Youyi's daughters were already a little spoiled by Wang Chenhao, and they had gradually sprouted feminist ideas in their hearts, and they wanted Shalina to enter the palace, just because they wanted to have good cards to deal with Wang Chenhao when Wang Chenhao put on a machismo to bully them.

In the end, Wang Chenhao weighed the pros and cons and believed that this was the critical time to deal with the Mongolian issue, and it was a good way to win over the support of Prince Korqin, so Wang Chenhao agreed.

After that, Sarina entered the palace as a female officer of the Internal Guard Department and became the commander of the women's army. Shalina knows kung fu, and she is the county lord, without Wang Wenqing's concerns before, she immediately cleaned up this group of delicate daughters and obeyed them.

In this way, the first women's army of the Chinese Empire was born, which became a beautiful scenery in the emperor's [***] team. And these trained daughters and ladies have become determined to become strong supporters of the future imperial feminist movement and become idols of imperial women.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ negotiations with Inner and Outer Mongolia are ongoing. For the princes and nobles of Inner Mongolia, Wang Chenhao mainly tried to win over, supplemented by military threats. After three months of negotiations, the 36 Banners of Inner Mongolia declared their obedience to the central political axe of the Chinese Empire and swore allegiance to the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao. However, the princes and nobles of Inner Mongolia insisted on not participating in the war between the central political axe of the Chinese Empire and the banners of Outer Mongolia, to which Wang Chenhao also agreed.

As for Outer Mongolia, Jebtsundan and Handa Dorji and others were initially stubborn, but soon discovered that the Russian Empire could not guarantee that it would send troops to Outer Mongolia. In this way, Jebzundan and others did not dare to be tough with the Chinese Empire anymore. Soon, the position of the Tsarist political axe on the issue of supporting the foreign [***] position became less and less firm, and the Russian envoy in Kulen demanded that Jebzundan and his Mongol army must hold out for half a year before it was possible for the Tsarist army to reinforce. So Jebzundan and others decided not to trust Russia too much, and soon they learned from the retinue of the Russian envoy that Tsarist Russia was not ready for a full-scale war with the Chinese Empire at this time, and the Tsarist political axe hoped that the reading time of Outer Mongolia would be delayed until 1902, when the Trans-Siberian Railway of Tsarist Russia was built, and would fully support the foreign [***] establishment.

After Jebzundan and others got this inside story, they immediately panicked, and originally planned to publicly announce the reading power in April, but now they can't get the guarantee of the political axe of Tsarist Russia, and Jebzundan and others think that they can't defeat the million-strong army of the Chinese Empire at all.

As a result, Jebzundan and others decided to temporarily abandon their reading power and show their loyalty to the Chinese Empire from the beginning, and their demand was that Wang Chenhao promise not to pursue their previous actions and maintain the same conditions of treatment between Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. As long as Wang Chenhao agrees to their request, then they will welcome the Chinese Emperor's [***] team back to Kulen and no longer mention the matter of reading power.

At this time, the political axe of the Chinese Empire was gathering forces in the Lanzhou Military Region, the Yanjing Military Region, and the Fengtian Military Region, preparing for war. The three major military regions gathered the strength of 20 towns to form three group armies.

The expedition of 300,000 troops to Outer Mongolia was not to look down on the tens of thousands of troops in Outer Mongolia, but to prevent the intervention of the Central Asian Army of Tsarist Russia.

According to the war games of the General Staff, once a war with Tsarist Russia began, the 300,000-strong army on the expedition to Mongolia would need an astronomical amount of supplies. The General Staff plans to end the war within three months, recover Outer Mongolia and prevent the Russian army from intervening, after deduction, not to mention other supplies, all kinds of bullets for combat use alone will need 1 billion rounds, all kinds of artillery shells need 1 million rounds, and other kinds of food, medicine, ordnance and other materials will cost 230 million dragon coins, the key problem is that the railway to Kulen has not yet been built, and after the 300,000 troops go to the Mongolian desert, the supply is too difficult.

To this end, the General Staff Headquarters has ordered the General Armament Department to quickly purchase a large number of trucks and military jeeps, amounting to 10,000 units, but the production capacity of the Tianjin Automobile Factory is limited, and it has been working overtime 24 hours a day, but it will take at least half a year to complete the order of 10,000 units. It will take two years to build the railway to Kulun, and although the Ministry of Communications has ordered priority to build the northern and western Xinjiang railways, it will take another year and a half.

As a result, both China and Russia have a problem of insufficient time for strategic preparation.

Based on this situation, Wang Chenhao decided to accept Jebtsundan's conditions after consulting with the officials of various cabinet ministries.

Wang Chenhao and his imperial political axe officials all understood that Jebzundan was just a delaying tactic, and once the Tsarist side was ready, Jebzundan would re-read his strength.

But for the time being, the two sides reached a temporary settlement and chose to shelve the dispute, which was beneficial to the Chinese Empire.

On April 5, 1900, under the supervision of representatives of Russia, Britain, France and other countries, the cabinet of the Chinese Empire reached an agreement with Jebtsundan and agreed to the conditions put forward by Jebtsundan, so the two sides reconciled.

Half a month later, the Eighth Army of the Chinese Imperial Army went to Kulen to station, this army was purely composed of Zhili and Shandong, the Eighth Army under the jurisdiction of the eighth town and the sixteenth town, for Wang Chenhao when the backbone of the Beiyang Army, well-equipped, strong combat power. After the Eighth Army marched into Kulen, it built large fortifications on the spot, and at the same time, the Eighth Army carried a large amount of supplies, and its self-sustaining strength reached eight months. The General Logistics Department also guaranteed to replenish the Eighth Army every three months, and always allowed the Eighth Army to maintain its self-sustaining strength for eight months.

In this way, the Eighth Army is like a nail, directly poking into the heart of Outer Mongolia, firmly nailed to Kulun, once the war breaks out, the Eighth Army will quickly capture the city of Kulen and occupy the core area of Outer Mongolia.

Outer Mongolia gave up reading, but Jebzundan and others were not idle, but secretly invited Russian [***] officers to help the Outer Mongolian army train, and at the same time began to hoard weapons, ammunition and food.

Regarding Jebu Zundan's small actions, Wang Chenhao specially instructed Feng Guozhang, commander of the Eighth Army, to hurry up the construction of fortifications and ignore all other matters.

Feng Guozhang knew his task, and the transfer to the commander of the Eighth Army was hand-picked by Wang Chenhao, and he was able to be appointed by the emperor, which represented the emperor's respect and supreme glory for him. Therefore, Feng Guozhang strictly obeyed Wang Chenhao's orders and concentrated on building fortifications.

In this way, the Outer Mongolian problem was calm on the surface, but in fact it was a turbulent undertide, and both sides were seizing the time to prepare for war, and the smell of gunpowder in the sky above Kulen became stronger and stronger, and when the concentration reached a certain level, one spark would be enough to set off a war for the whole world.

The tense atmosphere in Outer Mongolia frightened the people here, and not all of the princes and nobles of Outer Mongolia supported Jebtsundan's idea, and not all of them supported Reading. Once the war broke out in Outer Mongolia, it was the princes and nobles who suffered first.

The Sanyin Noyan and Kobdo tribes in Uriya Sutai did not agree with the reading force, but the Zasaktu Khan and Chechen Khans were the strongest in Outer Mongolia, and they supported all the decisions of Jebtsundan, so the Sanyin Noyan and Kobdo tribes did not represent submission.

However, on the surface, the Sanyin Noyan and Kobu Duo tribes succumbed to Jebu Zundan, and secretly the two of them sent people to contact Feng Guozhang, saying that they supported the political axe of the Chinese Empire, and they would fight back if necessary.

Feng Guozhang was overjoyed by this, and immediately sent a secret telegram to the General Staff, and reported to Wang Chenhao through the General Staff.

Wang Chenhao knew that the division of interests among the various ministries within Mongolia was obviously unbalanced, and the jurisdictions divided by the Manchu Qing Dynasty when they were in the Central Plains had not changed for hundreds of years, so that the distribution of water and grass and population among many Mongolian tribes was already very uneven. Some places have few grasses and beautiful waters, and some places have many places, but most of the areas have become deserts, and the Mongolian flags are still very united on the surface, but in fact there are many conflicts between the various ministries.

Wang Chenhao was very happy about the secret surrender of the Sanyin Noyan Department and the Kobu Duo Department, so he ordered someone to secretly send some rewards to the two of them, and promised them that if Jebu Zundan rebelled in the future, the two of them would get favor from the central government anyway.

At the same time, Wang Chenhao also ordered the Homeland Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency to expand the infiltration of Outer Mongolia and the Mongolian banners, and strive to win over more princes and nobles to support the imperial political axe.

The agents of the Security Service and the CIA then launched a covert operation, and in order to take into account the influence of international public opinion, these important figures were also on the assassination list, but they were not touched for the first time, but they were cleaned up against their wings.

Jebzundan and the others noticed that their men were constantly dying unexpectedly, and they didn't care about it at first, but soon the number of people increased, which immediately aroused their alarm.

Jebzundan and others knew that this was done by agents of the Security Bureau and the CIA, but their methods were so clever that they did not leave any evidence at all. Jebu Zundan and the others knew that the other party was assassinating their own personnel, but if they couldn't produce evidence, they could only suffer dumb losses.

Hangda Dorji then decided to retaliate, he organized a group of dead soldiers to ambush around the important members, and confronted the agents who came to assassinate, and the two sides broke out many times, causing a lot of noise in the city of Kulun, and many civilians were affected by casualties, which soon evolved into a large number of people fleeing from Kulen.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ said that the Matsukata Cabinet did not agree to form a military alliance with the Tsarist Empire in the end, and when this decision was made, there were two opposing factions in the Matsukata Cabinet, one side supporting the United Russia to contain China, and the other side opposing it, and supporting the continuation of the salary.

Most of the officials who supported the alliance were right-wing militants, and they believed that Russia was about to go to war with the Chinese Empire over the Mongol question, and that this was an opportunity for Russia's re-emergence. They believe that after the alliance with Russia, the military strength of Russia and Russia will far surpass that of China. The two sides can flank China on land, and form a huge joint fleet of Russia at sea, which is enough to destroy the naval fleet of the Chinese Empire.

Right-wingers oppose the transfer of more than one million pounds of war reparations to China this year, believing that if this money is not given to China, they would have been able to increase the strength of the army by one division or purchase a battleship. The latter is a combat ship that the Imperial Chinese Navy urgently needs to replenish, because the Third and Third Fleets of the Imperial Chinese Navy is about to be completed, and the number of main warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy will far exceed that of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which is a huge threat to the Navy.

In the face of the strong cries of the right-wingers, the Matsukata Cabinet consulted the opinions of many veterans, and finally Masamu Matsukata withstood their pressure and insisted on continuing the policy of recuperation.

Matsukata's Cabinet handed over a cheque for the war indemnity of £1,250,000 to the Imperial Chinese Consulate General in Yue (which had a bad relationship and was downgraded to consular diplomacy) and assured the Chinese Empire that it would not and would not attempt to challenge the military power of the Chinese Empire for the purpose of peaceful self-preservation.

Matsukata's Cabinet undoubtedly made the right decision, for it soon became clear that Russia and China had chosen to compromise on the issue of foreign affairs, rather than the one that Russia had told him that Russia was going to intervene by force.

It was only then that the right-wingers shut up, because they almost got on the Russian pirate ship and made a mistake. Once Russia had formed a military alliance and Russia had not intervened in the Chinese Outer Mongolia issue by force, it would have been isolated in the face of a powerful military blow from the Chinese Empire.

Obviously, the current strength of the Chinese navy far exceeds that of the Chinese navy, and the alliance with Russia will inevitably offend Britain, and Britain will freeze all the warships built and the officers it has trained in Britain, and it may also be subject to joint military and economic sanctions from China and Britain. If that happens, it will be in grave danger, and even the development achievements made in front of it will be ruined.

The correct decision of Matsukata's Masayoshi cabinet helped him get through a dangerous situation, and he was almost fooled by Russia. Obviously, Russia's purpose in fooling Yue Ben is to let Yu Ben contain China for a period of time, and Russia will take advantage of the time when China will concentrate on dealing with Yu Ben to hurry up preparations for war.

However, sooner or later, a war between the Tsarist Empire and the Chinese Empire broke out, and the Matsukata Cabinet did not have a stalemate with Tsarist Russia because of this, but the two sides did not mention the matter of forming an alliance, but continued to exchange ideas on how to unite against China in the future.

Of course, Russia is trying to use this to contain China and distract China. In the same way, he also wants to use Russia to divert China's attention in order to maintain the momentum of rapid economic recovery in order to make a comeback.

The fact that the two sides have walked together with each other in a purposeful manner is a major hidden danger to the future national defense and security of the Chinese Empire.

In the same way, the eyebrows between Russia and Russia could not escape the detection of the Chinese Empire.

The information sent back by the CIA of the Chinese Empire from the intelligence stations between Ben and Russia confirmed that Ben and Russia had some tacit paramilitary alliance.

In response to this situation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire continued to put pressure on the European and American powers to reduce their economic aid and capital investment in the capital. At the same time, he also briefed the British about the secret collusion between the British and Russia, so that the British could put pressure on the British and even take certain measures.

However, the Chinese Empire would not count on the great powers, and would rely on itself for everything.

The Imperial Chinese Admiralty has always paid close attention to the development of the strength of the Imperial Navy and the Tsarist Russian Navy, and the Second Fleet of the Imperial Navy, that is, the Pacific Fleet, has always seized the time to train and improve its own combat quality.

Once, when Wang Chenhao was inspecting the navy, he told all the officers and men of the navy: "I would rather have a cannon with 100 rounds than a cannon with 100 shots!" ”

In addition to encouraging the officers and men of the navy to train their skills the one hand, it is for the purpose of taking advantage of the battle and completing the combat mission at the minimum cost, and on the other hand, it is out of economic considerations. The navy is a machine that eats money and burns money, and every cannon shot out is money and silver, just imagine, a cannon with 100 shots of 100 rounds hits the enemy ship, and the enemy's 100 guns of 100 rounds of 100 shells hit 100 shells, and the number of bullets on both sides is the same, and their own consumption is a hundred times lower than that of the other party.

Wang Chenhao's sentence contained profound truths in politics, economics, and military affairs, and immediately became a training dogma for the officers and men of the navy, and even added a sentence to the textbook of the naval officer school.

The officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy worked training, and the officers and men of the Navy had to fire live ammunition frequently, and no good shooter was obtained by luck and book dogma, but by shells. Only by constantly conducting live-fire training can we train gunners who can hit 100 shots.

To this end, the Admiralty's annual training program includes a live-fire training opportunity once a month, with each live-fire firing as a base. After the shooting is completed, the officers and soldiers and the cadets will spend the following month to complete the experience and wait for the next live firing. As a result, through continuous live firing, summarization, and re-firing, and resuming, until you become an excellent shooter with a high hit rate.

With the remote control to control the target ship, the live firing is closer to the real situation, helping the officers and soldiers and the trainees to grasp the combat essentials in the actual combat background more quickly.

These training methods helped the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy to rapidly improve their combat capability, so that the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy quickly brought the officers and men of the British Navy closer to the level of combat quality, and in some fields, the British officers and men who had not participated in actual combat were even inferior to the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

(To be continued)