While a major political change in the central political hierarchy of the empire was brewing for a long-term future, a large-scale anti-British uprising broke out in Pakistan in South Asia.

After the end of the Battle of Sanduao, Britain has been actively trying to change its navy, buying more aircraft carriers in order to regain the leadership of the British Imperial Navy in the world, as we all know, the navy is the most expensive military in the world, and it is not a realistic goal for the financially strained British Empire to regain naval supremacy in a short period of time, but Britain still resolutely did so, in order to solve the financial shortage, Britain on the one hand strengthened its control over the Asian colonies, At the same time, new taxes and assessments were greatly increased, which further led to an upsurge of anti-British sentiment in the colonies.

Unlike the non-cooperative boycott movement of the Indian readers, Pakistan's proximity to Afghanistan, China, and Iran gave its tribes more access to weapons and ammunition, and the anti-British colonial reading movement adopted more radical military means, while the British also consistently supported Indians more on the Indo-Pakistani issue, and favored military suppression and conquest by force in Pakistan.

Even if the Asian League had not been involved in the Kazakh and Korean wars, the arrogant British Empire would not have been soft on the Pakistani region it ruled, not to mention that China was at war with the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union at the same time, and the main military forces were deployed in the northwest and northeast, and Britain took the opportunity to carry out a large-scale military suppression in Pakistan, concentrating its military forces in South Asia in this region.

The military clashes between the British and the local Islamic Reading Group resulted in massive casualties, which in turn completely angered other Islamic countries within the Asian League.

The British Empire made two mistakes on this issue, one is to underestimate the determination of the Chinese Empire to fight it, after hundreds of years of Eurocentrism, in the face of the re-rise of the Chinese Empire, the British still maintain the arrogant Caucasian theory of God's superiority, in fact, this is also a worldwide problem, although China is the world's deserved first power in terms of military and economic strength, but it is still far from the real world hegemony, and even to put it mildly, Britain remains the most influential country in the world, followed by the United States, while China is only on the same level as France, Germany, and the Soviet Union in terms of influence and international standing.

Britain's current policy toward China is very contradictory; on the one hand, it is well aware that China's military and economic strength surpasses that of Britain by a lot, and on the other hand, it is deeply mired in the traditional Anglo-Saxon theory of Caucasian superiority, and many people look down on China and Asians.

Britain has never had a shortage of good visionary politicians, but in all fairness, in its House of Lords and Houses of Commons, the vast majority of politicians are still very vulgar, very secular, and lack real political vision.

Britain actually did not realize that China was very willing to have a frontal military conflict with it, so as to teach it a hard lesson and completely defeat the so-called British Empire.

This was a very important miscalculation by the political circles of the British Empire and the society of the country as a whole.

Second, Britain's understanding of the Asian League is very shallow, and it evaluates the Asian League with the supremacy of strength, always believing that it is a vassal of the Chinese Empire, which is similar to the British Commonwealth dominated by it, which is actually a very serious miscalculation.

It is undeniable that China occupies the sole supreme leadership position in the Asian Union, but within the Asian Cooperation Alliance, the member states are in fact very equal.

During this period, the Arab world countries accounted for the majority of the seats, especially like Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, these are members with strong anti-British sentiment, except for the Kingdom of Iran, which China has long supported and co-opted, other countries are not strong in military strength, but they have a very good strategic position, have a very important voting power within the Asian League, and the right to put forward bills.

Britain believed that China was now at war with the Soviet Union at the same time, and that the military forces deployed in South Asia and West Asia were very small, and they could not afford to deploy troops to South Asia, which was a good opportunity for the British Empire to take the opportunity to strengthen its rule over the South Asian colonies and eliminate the rebel groups in South Asia.

On December 20, 1940, when the Sino-Soviet war was still in urgent progress, the Council of the Asian League passed a strong new resolution in Yanjing -- "demanding that Britain cease military operations in Pakistan and other Asian colonies, The League of Asia reserves the right to take full-scale military action against Britain if Britain continues to engage in military expansion and bloody repression in Asia, killing innocent people in Asia. ”

On the surface, the Asian League only stated that it "reserves the right to take full-scale military action against Britain", but this is indeed because China's main military forces are concentrated in the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union, and the Central Asian Army Group organized by the Asian League is also deployed in the Kazakh region.

King Ibn of Saudi Arabia. On the eve of New Year's Day, Saudi Arabia flew to Yanjing by special plane to meet the emperor. In fact, Saudi Arabia represents the collective opinion of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other Islamic members of the Asian League, and strongly asks the Chinese Emperor to give more military support to their Pakistani brethren, send troops to form a southern coalition of Asian alliances, and severely punish Britain.

This is the current situation of the Asian League, except for China, the quasi-world hegemon, the other member states have no strength to compete with world powers like Britain, and even together they can't beat Britain, if you want money, except for Iran and Brunei, Saudi Arabia is not very rich now.

At this stage, the world oil price is still very low, Saudi Arabia, Iraq's oil exploitation is not very much, the current oil exporters are still the traditional United States, the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Iran, followed by Brunei, because Brunei's oil is mainly exported to China, and for China, the cost of importing oil from Brunei is the lowest.

In general, the hatred of the Asian League member countries towards Britain has always been very strong, and they want to go to war, but they basically don't have much money, and they don't have much real military strength, so they can only continue to ask China to send troops, and all they can do is to give all the support they can.

Emperor Song Biao was still very cautious about this, and it was not until New Year's Day that Crown Prince Yuhua personally sent the Saudi king back to China, and Emperor Song Biao made up his mind to recall Xue Yue and Liu Yazhao from the battlefield and set up the Fourth Staff Bureau to prepare for a new war in Tajik Autonomous Province.

In addition to Xue Yue and Liu Yazhao, Emperor Song Biao also sent his son-in-law Su Bin to the Fourth Staff Bureau again to prepare for the formation of a new Tenth Army as the main force in this decisive battle.

Before New Year's Day, the total number of the imperial navy, land and air forces had expanded to 10 million, an increase of 3.7 times compared with the 1937 period, and the military expenditure increased by 5.5 times compared with 1937.

After the New Year's Day, Emperor Song Biao also flew to the three provinces of western Xinjiang by special plane to inspect.

After the Sino-Soviet War, the empire unified the territory occupied by Central Asia into Xijiang Province, whose territorial jurisdiction extends to Lake Balkhash in the north and Afghanistan in the south, which is also an important basis for the empire to participate in Central Asian affairs and trade in Central and Western Asia, with the development of population policy and local economy, Xijiang Province was renamed Ili Province, Kyrgyz Autonomous Province, and Tajik Autonomous Province in 1935, that is, the three western Xinjiang provinces in the imperial territory, plus the Kashmir Autonomous Province, Altai Province, Xinjiang Autonomous Province, and Tibet Autonomous Province occupied by the empire. It is also collectively known as the Seven Western Provinces.

Compared with the other western provinces, the economies of the three western provinces have been developing very rapidly in the past decade because of their close proximity to Central Asia, rich local mineral resources, good natural environment, and the large-scale infrastructure investment plan formulated by the empire to stabilize the western region and West Asia.

For the three provinces of western Xinjiang, the empire has always adopted a policy of population migration from within and out, encouraging Tajik, Kyrgyz, and Kazakh people to move to the north, Mongolia, and the Far East, and at the same time encouraging Chinese to move to this region, which complicates the local population and is conducive to the control of the central government.

In terms of the division of provincial districts, the imperial prime minister assigned the northern part of the traditional Kyrgyz region, including the Bishkek region, to Ili Province, the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan to the Kyrgyz Autonomous Province through political consultations, and the Faizabad region of Afghanistan on the east side of the Red River tributary to the Tajik Autonomous Province.

In a series of adjustments, the central political axe of the empire effectively disrupted the population situation of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, so that the native population of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan could only barely maintain a proportion of half, and could not form the basis for tending to reading.

The capital of Tajik Autonomous Province is Duseybin, a new industrial city built with the financial support of the central government.

Emperor Song Biao flew to the three provinces of Western Xinjiang to inspect the first stop is the city of broken leaves, after remembering Li Bai's hometown city, he flew to Tangara again, the Fourth Staff Bureau of the Central Military Department of the empire is temporarily located here, in the jurisdiction of the military region, this place belongs to the Almaty Military Region.

The Central Defense Force stationed in Tajikistan Autonomous Province is the 45th Armored Division, which belongs to the integrated armored division sequence of the elite main force of the empire, formerly known as the 10405th Tank Regiment from the Fourth Armored Division, which was expanded into a division after being stationed in Xijiang Province, and has been included in the scope of special combat divisions since 1930, representing the highest level of armored forces in the empire, and the Tenth Army that Major General Su Bin is responsible for preparing is based on this division.

After the Battle of Kazan in the northwest, the 221st and 222nd Transport Divisions of the Air Force were immediately transferred to Xinjiang Province and Lanzhou Air Base, responsible for transporting supplies and troops to Tajikistan.

The Altai Army Group has just completed its organization work, and its original military appointment has been cancelled and it has been transported directly to Samarkand, the capital of Uzbekistan, through the Central Asian Railway; because the Central Asian Army is stationed in the Kazakh region and is responsible for encircling, suppressing, and clearing out the Bolshevik military forces, it is impossible to transfer it to the south, and now only the newly formed Tenth Army and the Altai Army can be deployed to the Fourth General Staff, and the Eighth Army, which originally belonged to the Northern Coalition Army, will go south at the end of the month and will also be under the command of the Fourth General Staff.

This means that the Northern Coalition will only have about 800,000 troops in the future, but fortunately, the degree of mechanization is high enough to deal with the British colonial army in Pakistan.

Xue Yue and Liu Yazhao came to pick up the plane together, and on the way to accompany Emperor Song Biao to the military headquarters, Xue Yue, as the temporary commander-in-chief of the Northern Coalition Army, briefed the Emperor on the current preparations of the Northern Coalition Army and the reaction of the British army during this time.

The whole of Britain was in an uproar about the Reich and the Asian League's military intervention in Britain, and the British who were indulged in white nobility and Anglo-Saxon superiority were surprisingly angry, and the high profile and excitement of the media made the Conservative Party axe leave no room for maneuver, and Chamberlain's Conservative Party and the Conservative Party had no choice but to take loud and severe rebukes and intimidation, although they tried to negotiate with the Reich through other channels, but at the same time they were also mobilizing troops on a large scale, Pose for the benefit of the colonies and the British Empire at the expense of a world war.

In this regard, Xue Yue's evaluation is that the fox is fake and the tiger is mighty.

He did not deny the combat level, equipment, and military quality of the British army, but it was irrational for Britain to travel thousands of miles to South Asia to fight a large-scale war with China.

Although the empire is facing difficulties in fighting on three fronts, as long as the war ends quickly in the Soviet Union, it is expected that by May next year, the imperial army will be able to transfer a large number of four army groups to the south, and the navy will be able to fight a decisive battle with Britain at any time.

Xue Yue didn't think the British would have a better way.

On the surface, Britain can draw a large number of troops and materials from India, but with the degree of cooperation of the Indians, as well as India's industrial level and foundation, the possibility of wanting to be the main force to support this war is extremely low.

Once the British Navy was defeated, it was only a matter of time before the Army was defeated in South Asia, and the Empire would then be able to sweep away all of Britain's colonies around the world.

From this point of view, the combat strength of the British Navy determines the name of the United Kingdom, but the most dangerous place for Britain is precisely the navy on which it relies to dominate the world.

If the British Navy wanted to fight the Empire's aircraft carrier fleet with its battleship formations, it would certainly be the most ridiculous decision, and in terms of the total strength of the aircraft carrier fleet, the Imperial Navy was more than five times that of the British Navy.

With the Imperial Navy's new 50,000-ton aircraft carrier entering service next year, the naval gap between China and Britain will widen further.

On the way to the headquarters, Xue Yue talked about all his ideas, although he did not have many troops in his hands, he was still very confident in winning the British.

This ambition and spirit are very good.

Emperor Song Biao was very approving.

The emperor's car drove through the main roads of the city, and in the eyes of Emperor Song Biao, Du Saibin was only a medium-sized new city in the empire's territory, and the whole looked very new, with most of the buildings built in the last two decades.

In the intervening years, the empire had been considering the relocation of the West Asian Council branch of the Council of the Asian Union from Almaty to Dussabin, and now it seems that this could be done, and the geographical location of the city of Dussabin in the whole of Central and Western Asia was well suited as a center for political meetings and diplomacy.

Different from Xinjiang Province, Tajik Autonomous Province and Kyrgyz Autonomous Province are very rich in water resources, and the per capita water resources of the two regions are at the upper level of the world, and they have great potential for development in agriculture, animal husbandry and industry, and agriculture and animal husbandry, textile industry, and mining industry are the main pillars and driving forces of economic development in the two provinces in the past two decades.

With the exploitation of Tajik oil, the petrochemical industry in Tajik Autonomous Province has also developed very rapidly.

For many people, one of the more peculiar places is that in the local council election of Tajikistan Autonomous Province, the SPD and the Tajik People's Party are the two major political parties in the province, and the Liberation Party cannot even rank in the top three seats here.

Here, the Tajik People's Party (TPP) and the SPD have adopted a coalition government strategy to exclude the more extreme Islamic Renaissance Party, which is also a covert arrangement made by the Central Cabinet.

The situation here also seems to show that the Chinese liberation doctrine of the China Liberation Party is not very applicable to every province in the country.

The SPD has the advantage of being more focused on the lower middle classes, and always has a more reliable and stable figure on the ballot, especially in the border and less economically developed provinces.

Generally speaking, Song Biao was very satisfied with the situation in the Tajik Autonomous Province, the empire was a country with very flexible policies and institutions, and for such autonomous provinces, the rights allocated by the empire were relatively large, while for Guangxi and the four northern provinces, although they also had the name of autonomous provinces, the actual authority of this province was not much different from that of other provinces.

As for the Tajik Autonomous Province and the Kyrgyz Autonomous Province, they are actually reluctant to secede from the empire, and they only need to compare it with the nearby regions of Afghanistan, India, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to know the advantages of remaining within the empire's borders.

As a result, the province must adopt a bilingual system in education, and Chinese scores are the most important indicator for many people in the region, which will determine whether they can receive the best higher education.

Twenty years ago, when Xijiang Province was established, the economic scale of Xijiang Province was far inferior to that of India, and even far inferior to that of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

In terms of the economic scale of the Tajik Autonomous Province alone, it is already equal to three-quarters of India, but if you compare this province with the inland provinces, and then compare it with the three eastern provinces, the three provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the pillar regions of the empire's economy, such as Beijing, Tianjin and Luan, it is too far behind.

At least in the eyes of Emperor Song Biao, the city was equivalent to a county on the eastern coast of the empire, but even so, it was already one of the most prosperous industrial cities in Central Asia.

After arriving at the military headquarters, Emperor Song Biao, accompanied by Xue Yue and Liu Yazhao, inspected the Tenth Army that was being formed.

Now open almost any newspaper in London, you can see opinion articles related to the imperial [***] affairs, in short, the Chinese [***] affairs are very strong, but they were still defeated by the British Empire in the Opium War, and the British Empire only sent a few small ships that year.

In short, you will think that the British are ridiculous, but in the long history of mankind, such ridiculous things have always happened, from the 7th century BC to the 21st century, it seems that mankind has never really progressed.

The fact is that Emperor Song Biao seemed very casual, and he didn't even feel that there was anything to be nervous about the possible outbreak of the Sino-British war.

According to Xue Yue's assumption, once China and Britain go to war, even if it is not certain whether it can deter Britain's will to fight after annihilating the British Indian colonial army, or completely anger Britain, the Southern Coalition should annihilate the Indian colonial army as soon as possible, because the key to this decisive battle is not the army, but the navy, as long as the imperial navy defeats the British army, it can completely extinguish any British intention to fight a decisive battle in India.

With this in mind, Xue Yue hoped to recruit troops from Iran and Uzbekistan on a large scale, expand the total number of troops of the Southern Alliance, and force Britain to deploy more troops to defend India before the decisive battle, which had the advantage of forcing Britain to increase army spending.

Once the naval decisive battle was ahead, it was more difficult for the British colonial axe to maintain a long-term policy in India because of the large number of land forces.

Although this strategy would put the Southern Coalition in a stressful position in the short term, Xue Yue and Liu Yazhao insisted that the price was worth it, at least strategically, to pull Britain into making an incorrect decision.

After listening to Xue Yue's proposal, Emperor Song Biao thought for a long time and did not give any reply, he felt that it didn't matter which strategy he adopted, the most important thing now was the decisive battle between the navies.

The British Empire was not ready for a real decisive battle, its fleet was scattered in large numbers at various naval bases, and the First Fleet of its headquarters had not yet set sail for India, and the existing military forces of the British Navy at the Indian naval bases and Singapore were no match for the Imperial Navy.

What does Britain really think, whether it wants to fight or not, and how does it fight?

Song Biao felt that Britain was still in a very chaotic state, of course, if the Imperial Navy first gave the British Navy's Strait Colonial Fleet a devastating attack in the South Pacific, Britain would suddenly wake up and really swear to fight the Empire.

It was a very chaotic time, and the British did mobilize their forces to violently suppress the uprising in Pakistan, but under the auspices of the Central Military Intelligence Department of the Reich, there were also new uprisings in Malaya, Assam, and Burma, which was very embarrassing and troublesome for the British.

Emaciated camels are bigger than horses.

The British Empire is still one of the world's second largest naval powers after the Chinese Navy, but the problem is that the main forces of the fleets of the two sides are at opposite ends of the world, and the British Navy, which knows that it is unlucky, is reluctant to go to Asia, and the Imperial Navy has no reason to go to the Atlantic.

From the moment he got on the plane, Song Biao has been thinking about the real intentions of the United Kingdom, to be honest, he can't guess, and he doesn't know what the United Kingdom is thinking now?

With a big deal of intimidation, this thing is over?

If Britain thinks so, then it is really a big mistake, China itself really does not matter, but it is Iran, the member countries of the Asian Union that were once colonized by the British, and China is just the leader of the Asian League, and it must come out to fight this battle and demand that Britain handle this matter according to the collective opinion of the Asian Union.

Diplomacy.

Diplomacy.

Britain must be asked to think clearly, if you want to fight, you should be serious, the empire is not afraid that you are serious, it is afraid that you are not serious, and even the strategic intentions are vague so that the empire does not know why, if you don't want to fight, then you should act in accordance with the initiative of the Asian League and show a sincere attitude.

So after Xue Yue put forward his opinion, Emperor Song Biao did not make any statement, he was good, Xue Yue was good, they could only wait now, the reason why Song Biao wanted to personally inspect the Tajik Autonomous Province was not to be idle and idle, not to be nervous, not to mention that he was facing a great enemy, and he had to sit in charge in person, but to tell Britain through his actions that the empire really wants you to act in accordance with the resolution of the Asian League this time, otherwise you can really only go to war.

The Asian League is the most sharp foundation and weapon for the empire to dominate the world, and it is definitely not a political vase of the empire, the empire is really sincere to do a good job in the Asian League, as a long-term intercontinental alliance organization, to safeguard the collective interests of the empire and the whole of Asia, which means that the empire cannot only obtain resources, markets, privileges and interests from the Asian League, but also assume its own responsibilities and work.

The empire may not be the world's policeman yet, but at least it is really the Asian police, and it is the Asian special police.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the member states of the Asian Union want to look to the empire and give the empire all the privileges and interests it wants, to base for base, port to port, to open the market, to sell resources, to sell gold, to sell oil, is to hope that at the critical moment, you, the Chinese Empire, can rely on its strength to support us and help us deal with all kinds of disobedience......

It's a relationship of interconnectedness, each taking what he needs.

The empire wants to fight the Soviet Union, everyone supports you to fight the Soviet Union, and now everyone wants to fight the United Kingdom, and your empire can pat its ass and watch from the wall?

Britain just hasn't figured out this problem now, really doesn't know the seriousness of the situation?

It thinks that China will not go to war with these small Islamic countries for the sake of their interests, that it is not worth it, and that it cannot afford to hurt them, but in fact it is really wrong, just as China thinks that the United States will not go to war with China for the sake of Taiwan and Taiwan.

In any international organization, you have privileges and special responsibilities at the same time.

Emperor Song Biao actually warned Britain in another way, or hoped that Britain would rationally negotiate with him to solve the problem, even if this issue was more difficult through negotiations, it was not that China did not want to defeat Britain, it was indeed that military spending was very tight, in case of a big fight, the whole world would be completely chaotic, and if the empire wanted to deal with Nazi Germany in the future, I am afraid it would not be so easy.

How could China go to war with Britain directly, and it was not a small-scale campaign, starting a large-scale Sino-British war, will Britain help Germany later, or join forces with Germany?

There are a lot of problems here.

Therefore, after Song Biao arrived in Tajik Autonomous Province, he not only inspected the troops, but also continued to take a special plane to Afghanistan and Iran to visit.

Iran still has money and equipment over the years, and it not only has to bear some more military spending, but also has to go to war with the imperial army and navy.

Seeing such an itinerary for the Chinese Emperor, Britain must have realized the seriousness of the problem, and Prime Minister Chamberlain was also 10,000 unwilling to go to war, but he had no way to meet the collective demands of the Asian League, and war was already the only choice between China and Britain.

(To be continued)