The Yongping military exercise gave a great shock to various forces at home and abroad, and the combat effectiveness of the Zhili New Army, which was formed in just eight months, surprised observers from various countries. Subsequently, the Qing Empire announced the construction of the new army of 36 towns, which stimulated the major powers.

The military reform of the ancient Qing Empire once again attracted the attention of all countries, just as the Qing Empire's construction of the first modern navy in Asia 30 years ago gave the attention of all countries.

Minister Komura Shoutaro also promptly reported the course and results of the Yongping military exercise to the General Staff Headquarters of the Qing Imperial Army, saying that the reform of the Qing Imperial Army had already achieved initial results and would bring challenges to the Imperial Army in the near future. Prince Gong Chiren, chief of the General Staff, ordered the General Staff Department and the Strategic Planning Department to carefully study the strategy and tactics of the Zhili New Army, absorb the essence of the new army, and find out its weaknesses in case of emergency.

For Russia's Far East strategy, the new army of Zhili undoubtedly made the Russian Ministry of Strategy pay attention to and re-examine the Qing Empire, and the Russian Minister of War, the Supreme Commander of the Amur Military District, General Kuropatkin, said in his report to Tsar Nicholas II: "We must reconsider, because the Qing Army is much more difficult than we previously estimated." ”

When Tsar Nicholas II learned of this, he immediately convened a royal council to discuss the sustainable surname of the Asia Project. However, the ministers of the Russian [***] side still believe that the biggest enemy of Russia in the Far East is the Zoben, and that it will take a long time for the Qing Empire's standing army to be built, and it will still not be a big threat in the short term.

At this time, Russia was planning an operation in Korea in order to seize control of Korea. The contradictions between Russia and Ben in Korea tended to intensify to the verge of intensification. However, the economy was no longer able to support the war, and Russia did not dare to turn against it head-on because of supply difficulties, and the two sides kept no military conflict breaking out, but both wanted to control the North Korean regime, so they each supported a group of North Korean officials to attack each other.

The mentality on the German side is more complicated. On the one hand, the German General Staff wanted to open up a colonial field in the Far East, and the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island in Korea had already opened the door to Korea. However, compared with the interests of the old imperialist powers Britain, France and Russia, the interests in China are much worse, and the German base camp hopes to open up the Chinese market. Britain, France, and Russia relied on force to open the door to China, and for this reason, the German side also believed that in the future, it would be necessary to use force against China to solve the problem. However, a group of German nobles led by Hannagen and Generals Stanley helped the Chinese Qing Dynasty to train a powerful army force, which was not conducive to Germany's long-term strategy. On the other hand, since the Sino-British flag-pulling incident, Germany has been recognized by the Qing Empire, and Sino-German relations have entered a honeymoon period, which is very important for Germany to attack the dominant position of Britain and France in China, and the German side hopes to continue to maintain it. Therefore, this Yongping military exercise, the German political axe is both happy and worried.

France, as the Big Three of the Far East, has been moderate-dominated since the establishment of the French Third Republic, and its attitude towards the Qing Empire has been tepid.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Britain used the strategy of blocking the Russian navy from going south to the Pacific Ocean failed, and the British Liberal Party collapsed, and the newly ruling British Conservative Party faced Germany, France, and Russia in the Far East to confront Britain, and began to change its attitude toward China without any strength. After the Yongping exercise, Vice Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, commander of the British Hong Kong fleet, sent a telegram back to Downing Street, saying: "The Qing Imperial Army is undergoing qualitative changes, and the Zhili New Army is well-equipped and well-trained, and there may no longer be a one-sided situation in the First Sino-Japanese War in future land operations." ”

Walter's telegram further strengthened the British authorities' stance on China, after the Gutian case in Fujian, China, in August, in which the British authorities had been harassing the Qing Empire's prime minister, Yamen, and together with the United States, had privately executed 25 Zhaiists on the grounds of consular jurisdiction, and another 20 had been severely punished.

However, the British and American consuls did not end there, and planned to use the topic to play. On the issue of the negotiation of compensation, they have to make every inch of progress, instigating the temporary British envoy Bao Kele and the new British envoy Dou Nale to be very critical, and still not letting go of some people who had participated in the teaching plan, with the result that the matter of the negotiation of compensation has not been resolved for a long time.

The British political axe believes that the Qing Empire's prime minister, Yamen, has already made great concessions, and if Britain and the United States blindly pursue the matter, I am afraid that it will affect the relations between China and Britain that are being restored. In view of the undesirable consequences of the delay in the pending course of this lesson plan, which affects Sino-British relations, the British Foreign Secretary instructed the ambassador to China to quickly close the case.

Dou Nale, Tian Bei, and other British and American ministers and consuls should have delayed for a while to hammer the Qing political axe in order to obtain certain benefits, but in view of the strength displayed by the new army in the Yongping military exercise, the British envoy finally sent a note to Prime Minister Yamen: "I hereby allow the foreign minister of my country to send a telegram, on the grounds that the church is unwilling to accept compensation, etc., and to send a corresponding note to your minister to check it, and the case can be settled." ”

The United States, on the other side of the ocean in the Far East and the Asia-Pacific region, is now too busy to take care of itself because of the gold run crisis, so it only makes a slight comment on the army reform of the Qing Empire, and it is not even as concerned about the Dengyun-class battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division as it did some time ago.

With the entry into force of the agreement between the US political axe and the international financial predator group headed by the Rothschild family, on December 3, a European banking group shipped more than 10 million ounces of gold coins (300 tons of gold) back to the United States, and a total of $205 million of funds were injected back into Wall Street in the United States, so that the Dow Jones index stopped falling on the same day and began to rise rapidly. By the end of December, the stocks of the major banks on Wall Street in New York had quickly recovered to their pre-crisis levels, and the bonds of the major banks held by Bank of America, in which Wang Chenhao had invested, had also appreciated, with $25 million doubling several times in just a few months, reaching a market value of $90 million.

Tang Shaoyi sent a secret telegram back to the new army yamen in Zhili, and reported the operation to Wang Chenhao.

"Husband, you're stealing your own fun again!"

With a light call, Wang Chenhao suddenly smiled and turned his head to look, only to see Li Youyi, who had just removed her makeup, coming over. She wore a long, supple black evening dress on her head, and let a few strands of hair fall apart. Wearing a pale gold embroidered robe, covered with a translucent gauze of the same color, he dragged it all the way to the ground. The loose robe could not hide her plump and graceful figure, her chest was bulging, and the spring light was faintly visible inside.

Wang Chenhao stretched out his hand and hugged her into his arms, sniffed the already ripe and tempting fragrance from her body, and said with a smile: "The thing I handed over to Tang Shaoyi has been successful, and now we are rich enough to rival the country." ”

"Great!" Li Youyi excitedly took the initiative to offer a fragrant kiss, and then said: "I want to build a big garden!" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled: "No problem, it's enough to build a Summer Palace." But before we can do that, we have an important task. ”

Li Youyi asked, "What task?" ”

Wang Chenhao suddenly laughed evilly: "Of course it is to create people, is there a more important task than this?" ”

Li Youyi was stunned for a moment, and then her face was full of delicate redness.