The Chinese Empire in 1941 was truly eventful.

During this year, the Empire not only had to deal with the post-war affairs, but also seized the time to hold a new round of negotiations with Britain on the question of the Asian colonies and promote the process of decolonization of Asia, and the internal politics of the Empire was at a time when it was reinventing the old and laying the foundation for the next few decades.

Of these three things, none of them is simple.

Although Britain has now agreed to the three conditions of the second resolution proposed by the Asian League in May, and now there is only the question of which regions and countries will be autonomous or read power first, and the question of whether Britain's process of decolonization in Asia will take 10, 15, or 20 years, for China, how to balance and divide these new autonomous Asian countries is a new and huge issue, which will occupy half of the empire's diplomatic agenda in recent years.

Among these problems, the three most difficult are the partition of India and Pakistan, the partition of Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates.

The goal of the empire's dominant policy was to divide India under the colonial rule of the British Empire into five regions: India, Pakistan, Punjab, Assam, Bengal, and Gilkad, with Pakistan and Assam taking precedence, Punjab and Bengal being autonomous, and the Gilkad, which was dominated by the Kalwars, Mundas, Pumicans, and other tribes, being set up as Girkad, which was also autonomous.

The empire's investigation of India's resources is still very in-depth, and it has been coveting the Gilkad tribal region that accounts for more than 1/3 of India's overall mineral resources for a long time, and it is not considered at all to let this area continue to remain in the territory of India after reading, and at the same time, dividing India to avoid India from challenging the empire's dominance in Asia in the future is also the most realistic thing, while Britain is the opposite, they want to retain a more complete India to contain China, At the same time, however, it is believed that the ethnic conflict between India and Pakistan has made it difficult for the two regions to be fixed into a solid state.

In the midst of the ongoing disputes, the two sides gradually tended to choose another option, that is, to separate India into three main states: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, with Bangladesh adopting a federal system and integrating Bangladesh, Gilkad and Assam into one country, while China emphasized the inclusion of Orissa in this country.

This is the so-called third way - the Greater Bangladesh Vision.

The only controversy was over the ownership of Orissa, which should belong to India religiously and nationally, but geographically justified the Empire's insistence on including Orissa in Bengal.

The most important point is that Orissa, like the Girkard region, is also the most mineral-rich and belongs to a plateau region, adjacent to each other.

In fact, for the Reich, this problem was even more of a long-term challenge to the Reich than Nazi Germany, and the Reich did have a good chance of solving this problem now, so in addition to warning France and promising to give the required assistance, the Reich almost focused its main diplomatic efforts on this issue.

Divide India.

That's the most realistic job.

As for Europe, the Empire sent a military delegation headed by Admiral Liu Gung-yun to France urgently to provide military advice to France and assist France in defending against a possible German attack, and Britain was also closely following the matter, which was the main factor in the beginning of a compromise between the two sides on the question of India's reading power.

Nazi Germany is becoming a third party to the Sino-British negotiations, and although Germany is ostensibly not involved in the matter, their military actions are greatly detrimental to the focus of both China and Britain.

It's a fact.

With regard to the region, the advisory group organized by Wang Zhaoming has arrived in Tokyo and is responsible for coordinating the work between the Northeast Army Headquarters and the Provisional Political Initiative, as well as stabilizing the country's internal problems.

For many reasons, especially to consider the display of military strength of Europe, Asian allies, Japan, and the United States, the empire reorganized the Central Air Combined Fleet, with six Northeast-class aircraft carriers as the main body for a round-the-world visit, the first stop is the Ben, and then to India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and finally to Europe, if necessary, the Central Air Combined Fleet will be stationed in France for a longer period of time to deter Nazi Germany, or permanent in the Iberian Peninsula and Sweden, At the very least, Nazi Germany was warned not to involve the war in Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, where imperial interests were most extinct.

As for the Empire's investment and normal commercial interests in France, I am afraid that it really cannot be taken into account, and can only wait until after the war to settle the accounts.

In the Soviet occupation zone, there was a large-scale purge on the one hand, a separatist work on the other, and much more vigilance against Nazi Germany, which really could not be neglected by the Reich.

Eventful period.

It's really eventful.

The troubles of the world hegemon have always been many, because you are most involved in the interests of the world, and you have your interests in every place, and you must maintain order and protect your interests in every place.

What a hard job.

In order to prevent the world from moving into chaos, the Empire will also send Crown Prince Yuhua, accompanied by the Deputy Foreign Minister, to visit the United States, continue to strengthen Sino-American cooperation in anti-European expansionism and anti-Asian colonialism, and be ready to provide assistance to Britain and France if Britain finally decides to go to war against Germany in order to stop the spread of Nazi Germany's European expansionism.

…… July is usually the time for the royal family to go to Lushan or Chengde for vacation, but in this special year, Emperor Song Biao made a very sudden decision to deal with the possible upheaval in Europe, and he went to Europe to visit accompanied by Qiao Guifei and his eldest daughter, Princess Yuanyuan and his wife.

This was Emperor Hua's third visit to Europe since he ascended the throne, which happened to be an average of one visit every ten years.

During this visit to Europe, the Song Emperor did not hope for a solution, but only wanted to buy time, delay and temporarily prevent Germany from attacking Britain and France as much as possible, and at the same time continue this possibility of a Franco-German war, because the longer this period of time was maintained, the more beneficial it would be for the Empire, especially on the issue of negotiating colonies with Britain, the Empire obviously occupied more advantages.

Before arriving at Britain and France, the Song Emperor would give priority to Iran and Saudi Arabia, and then fly to Poland and Germany, where the Empire would maintain a semblance of rapprochement with the German-Polish alliance to ensure that the German-Polish alliance would not pose a direct threat to the Empire, and at the same time allow the Empire to have a better position of superiority in dealing with France and England.

Although the Song Emperor hated Nazism from the bottom of his heart, the national interests of the empire were always paramount.

In terms of itinerary, before the emperor visited Iran, the Imperial Central Air Combined Fleet had to arrive in the Persian Gulf to prove the strength of the empire to its allies in Asia, and to completely dispel those pro-Western Middle Eastern politicians, so that they understood that Britain, France, the United States and Germany did not have the strength to compete with China, and not to handle national political affairs according to the 19th-century worldview, which would not bring any practical benefits to themselves and would also make China feel bored, especially if China has made so many contributions to Asia.

The behavior of insatiable and ungrateful politicians and states is not easy for the Empire to accept.

Prior to this, the Central Air Combined Fleet arrived at the port of Yokohama on July 15 to be inspected by Admiral Chen Wu, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Tohoku National Defense Forces, and Mitsumasa Yonechi, Interim Prime Minister of Yoshimoto.

Unlike the period when it was sent to Europe and the United States for a round-the-world visit, the Central Air Combined Fleet also included four aircraft carriers from the Southeast Asian Fleet, a total of 10 aircraft carriers, six battleships, 22 cruisers, 24 destroyers, and more than 52 other auxiliary supply ships to Yokohama.

In this way, the Empire will show Yuben what a truly modern navy is.

After Wang Zhaoming arrived in Yueben, he adopted many special and useful methods: he invited the capital parties and responsible persons behind the main media in Yueben to the office for "consultations," and brought out two trucks of documentary evidence to be sent to the Seoul War Court as a condition for "shielding" them.

Wang Zhaoming also met with Emperor Showa at the first time, and demanded that the emperor take the initiative to admit his mistakes, fundamentally break the emperor's infallibility theory, demote the emperor to an ordinary criminal who made mistakes, and cooperate with the emperor's demands in exchange for the emperor's pardon and exemption from punishment and conviction.

In addition, Wang Zhaoming also summoned the heads of various consortia in the name of the Privatization Committee and gave them two choices, either to get out of the economic circles of the Privy Corporation, or to stay and accept punishment and discipline.

Compared with Admiral Chen Wu, who can only fight, Speaker Wang's wrist is much more insidious, and he pinched all the key points in this politics with great precision.

History is ridiculous and full of dramatic surnames.

It was against this background that the Imperial Central Air Combined Fleet arrived in Tokyo Bay in an unprecedented formation, demonstrating to the Chinese Empire as the conqueror of great strength and determination with its powerful military force.

After a three-day "visit," the Central Air Combined Fleet was split into two, one part remaining in Yokohama, while the other left the Pacific Ocean and sailed into the Indian Ocean, where it continued to the Persian Gulf after a visit to Mumbai, India.

On July 24, the Combined Air Fleet of the Imperial Central Air Force arrived in the Persian Gulf.

On the morning of July 25, Emperor Song flew to Tehran by special plane to visit the Kingdom of Iran.

This is the case with international diplomacy, where every link must be very cleverly arranged to show a strong enough effect.

This is the first visit of Emperor Song to Iran, and there have been two arrangements before, but in the end they were replaced by Prime Minister Gu Weijun before leaving, and this time, Emperor Song also wanted to see with his own eyes the palace of Gurestan in Iran, which Prime Minister Gu Weijun called the most beautiful palace in West Asia.

Over the past two decades, Iran has been one of the fastest-growing countries in Asia, with rich mineral resources, oil reserves and an abundant population that have laid a good foundation for economic development.

The empire provided Iran with a large amount of capital and political axe loans to expand its infrastructure, roads, railways, ports, and power plants were all covered by the empire's engineering companies, and Iran's own capital industry also grew with it, and the empire controlled Iran's financial industry on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also supported a large number of small and medium-sized capitalists and corporate employers for Iran.

The early Iranian capitalists generally came from the oil industry, and the main direction of the empire's oil policy in Iran was privatization, and the empire promoted the development of Iran's oil industry through cooperation with these local Iranian private oil companies and the way of supporting Iranian oil companies, and the empire's share of the Iranian oil industry was generally between 30% and 50%.

The influx of capital credit from China not only enabled Iran to develop rapidly, but also fostered the modern bourgeoisie itself, which was the dominant counterweight to the conservative and rigid forces within Iran.

Of course, there are still many people in Iran who want to get more benefits and less for the empire to get in return from Iran.

An important task of the Song Emperor's trip was to communicate with these people and determine what they really wanted.

In order to welcome the honor of Emperor Song's first visit, the Kingdom of Iran held a grand welcoming ceremony at the capital airport in Tehran. Mr. and Mrs. Pahlavi and Mohammed. Prime Minister Mossadegh personally greeted him at the airport.

As soon as he got off the plane, Emperor Song Biao felt the heat of Iran in July, and the enthusiasm of the Iranians, who had rescued Iran from British colonial rule and had given Iran great support for the past two decades.

Accompanied by Concubine Qiao, Emperor Song Biao raised his hand to thank the Iranians who had come to greet him, and walked down the gangway to shake hands with the high-ranking Iranian rulers who were waiting for him one by one.

King Reza Shah of Iran. The Pahlavis had visited the imperial capital twice, both of which had been entertained by the imperial family in the Central Palace, and Emperor Song Biao was no stranger to them. The Prime Minister of Mossa was really unfamiliar with Emperor Song Biao.

Although he did not like the strange words and deeds of this man, Emperor Song Biao seemed very happy to meet him, and after shaking hands with every Iranian official who came to greet him, Emperor Song Biao took a special car to greet him. The Pahlavi kings went to the palace of Gurestan together.

Tehran, the capital of Iran, is an ancient capital with a long history, and in modern construction, the Iranians have not demolished their historical buildings too much, modern and traditional Iran are well combined, the streets of the city are very spacious, beautiful, and full of Persian exoticism.

Except for the dry heat, Emperor Song Biao really couldn't find fault with it.

If he could, Emperor Song Biao definitely did not want to go through such a formal state visit, too much diplomatic etiquette made him feel too cumbersome. After inspecting the Iranian guard of honour accompanied by Shah Pahlavi, he continued to the Iranian parliament, where Chancellor of Finance, Chen Jin, who accompanied him on his visit to Iran, was responsible for delivering a speech on behalf of the Chinese delegation, while Emperor Song Biao only had to sit down and be a listener.

This was followed by a welcoming state dinner for the Iranian royal family, as well as a tribute to Sashah. It was not until about 3 p.m. that Emperor Song Biao was finally able to rest and stay at the palace of Gurestan with the visiting royal family.

In order to demonstrate his special admiration and respect for His Majesty the Emperor of China, Reza Shah. The Pahlavi family left the palace a week early and stayed at the Asrid Palace on the northwest side of Tehran, giving up the palace of Gurestan to His Majesty the Emperor Hua for a temporary stay, while the imperial court institutions and the Central Secret Service temporarily took over the security of the palace and the surrounding area a week ago.

During this time, Emperor Song Biao could live in the palace of Gulestan at a leisurely pace, receiving everyone he wanted to meet in Iran, and the specific administrative visits would be handled by the Imperial Minister of Finance Chen Jin and Vice Foreign Minister Chiang Zuobin.

As a deputy foreign minister from the military and the inner court, Jiang Zuobin can well represent the emperor's [***] ministry and the inner court's right to speak in the imperial foreign affairs department, which is why he can be responsible for accompanying the emperor on his visit to Europe this time.

After retiring from the military department with the rank of lieutenant general in the army, Jiang Zuobin has been in charge of exchanges on military defense and intelligence work in the Council of the Asian League, and has played a very important role; he is also very familiar with the situation in Iran, and has had very close contacts with the Iranian military and political circles during his time in the Asian League.

With Finance Minister Chen Jin and Vice Foreign Minister Jiang Zuobin in charge of the specific visit to Iran's foreign affairs, Emperor Song Biao will have a much easier time, he will rest for a day in the palace of Gulestan and continue to meet with Muhammad tomorrow. Prime Minister Mossadegh and other sects and political factions in Iran.

Iran is relatively easy to develop compared with other Islamic regions and countries, and a very important reason for this is that its internal tribal system was replaced by a normal state system more than a thousand years ago, and it can become a normal modern religious state, which is relatively easy to condense into a whole, while countries such as Libya, Afghanistan, and Sudan are more complicated, they are a large number of traditional tribes, and it is very difficult to integrate, and it is easy to put into the camp of conservative and extreme doctrines.

However, the traditional conservative Islamic states are very repulsive to Iran as a modern religious state, and the Iran-Iraq war and later the Syrian civil war are a continuation of this problem, in addition to the religious wars between Sunnis and Shiites.

This part of the Middle East is indeed very complicated.

The situation in Iran is relatively simple.

For the empire, it is a very important task to maintain the current state of secular moderate reformist power in Iran, because Iran not only has the oil that the empire needs, but also the largest copper reserves and lead-zinc reserves in Asia, and the country in which the empire invests the most in the Asian Security Alliance is Iran, and about two-thirds of the copper, lead and zinc of ammunition were produced in Iran during the Sino-Soviet war.

Iran's iron ore reserves also rank first in the Middle East, the four major iron and steel consortiums of the empire have iron ore projects in Iran, and the Far East consortium has a very close cooperative relationship with Iran's largest local consortium, Angulang Group, and jointly holds Iran's oil, chemical, steel and other pillar industries.

Under the long-term support of the empire, with the overall rapid development of Iran's national economy and industry and agriculture, the empire will export a large number of mechanical and electrical equipment, automobiles, ships, aircraft and ordnance equipment to Iran every year, and at the same time, in the financial industry, through the holding of the National Bank of Iran and the Bank of Tehran, the imperial financial oligarchs also firmly control Iran's economic bloodline, not only exporting capital to Iran, but also earning huge profits.

It is precisely because of Iran's great importance to the empire that the empire continues to maintain a relatively large military presence in Iran in the name of the Asian League, despite Iran's growing national defense capabilities.

The next day, Emperor Song Biao received Muhammad in the palace of Gurestan Palace. Prime Minister Mossadegh, this is also his first official meeting with Prime Minister Mossadegh, but this is not a very formal diplomatic meeting, on the contrary, Emperor Song Biao met with Mossadegh alone in a way that he is familiar with and is accustomed to, and did not arrange other diplomatic etiquette and itineraries, but arranged an hour to talk with Mossadegh to deepen the understanding between the two sides and listen to the real thoughts of the Iranian ruler.

Mossadegh was a very special Iranian, to be precise, he was one of the members of the former Qajar royal family, and his mother was Abbas of the Qajar dynasty. The granddaughter of King Mirza, his father was given the honorific title of Mossadegh by the royal family, a very high aristocratic title similar to "Hou Ye", and he inherited this honorific title.

From this explanation, it is also possible to understand why Muhammad. Prime Minister Mossadegh is anti-Pahlavi, he has never explicitly opposed the current king, but what he has done is indeed to constantly weaken the foundation of the Pahlavi dynasty, especially his plans to introduce Anglo-American and French forces to balance China.

The empire is the most important supporter of the Pahlavi dynasty, the empire in Iran, whether it is economic investment, or support for its national debt, the principle of non-interference in Iranian politics, including the fairness and preferential degree of investment credit are far better than Britain, France, the United States and other countries, on the surface, the prime minister of Mossadegh is hoping to get a better price from China by introducing competition from Western countries, in fact, he still wants to gradually weaken the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty, and finally achieve its goal of restoring the Qazar dynasty with the help of British and French forces.

The more this is the case, the more Emperor Song Biao wants to meet and talk to this person.

Theoretically, it was the actions of the apparently reformist Prime Minister Mossadegh that led to the forced end of the constitutional monarchy of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty and ultimately the abyss of religious rule.

On this morning, Emperor Song Biao met with Prime Minister Mossadegh alone in a very relaxed environment and invited him to drink tea in the rose garden of the palace of Gulestan where he temporarily lived.

The Silk Road allowed Iran to obtain tea from China very early, and their tea history is almost as long as China's, and there are also a large number of tea plantations in the country, with the development of Sino-Iranian trade, Chinese black tea has also re-poured into Iran, accounting for about 2/3 of the Iranian market.

In Iran, the most famous black tea is Qi Hong, there is also Yunnan Hong, Song Biao brought Wuyi Xiaozhong black tea from China for Prime Minister Mossadegh and other Iranian friends to taste.

Prime Minister Mossadegh is very thin and looks very old, in the eyes of Chinese, it is the type of fairy wind and bones, quite a bit of the tea guy style that southerners say.

He does prefer to drink black tea, but according to reliable sources, he never drinks Chinese black tea, he himself claims to only drink local black tea, and more intelligence shows that he likes to drink Sri Lankan black tea, including a lot of information can prove that this person is very Western, especially British and French, which is also related to his higher education in France and his long-term life in England.

To put it mildly, this person is actually more discriminatory against China.

(To be continued)