The three-year Sino-German alliance was already very dissatisfied with Britain, and as a result, the Chinese Empire suddenly earned nearly $1.6 billion in military purchases from the pockets of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Turkey, as well as the military of other countries, which greatly stimulated Britain.

The $1.6 billion arms purchase order is equivalent to one-seventh of the world's gross economic product in 1904, 245 percent of the world's arms trade, and 15 times the British arms trade.

The British are envious and jealous, and such a huge military purchase order makes no one hot.

What made Britain angry was that the arms exports of the Chinese Empire had robbed Britain of more than half of Britain's traditional arms customers, and what made the British even more angry was that the Chinese Empire actually exported high-tech weapons and equipment to Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.

In six months, the British political axe sent dozens of consecutive notes to the Chinese Imperial Ambassador to Britain, and the British Ambassador to China even met with officials of the Imperial Chinese Foreign Ministry more than 100 times.

Sino-British relations took a sharp turn for the worse, and Britain stopped exporting high technology and equipment to the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire had already perfected various industrial constructions at this time, and Britain's high technology and equipment were no secret to the Chinese Empire, and in turn the high technology and equipment of the Chinese Empire were not available to Britain. As a result, the Chinese Empire subsequently terminated various technical cooperation with the British, including the joint development of steam turbines, hunting ships and other projects, and because the steam turbine technology and patents were in the hands of the Chinese Empire, Britain began to pay high patent fees to the Chinese Empire for the use of steam turbine technology. At the same time, there are also radio technology, internal combustion engine power technology, alternating current patents, etc., including warships, submarines, aircraft, airships, automobiles, and civilian enterprises, etc., and the British and private enterprises have to pay high patent royalties.

For this reason, the British political axe informed the military that it would no longer pay various patent fees to the Chinese Empire, as a punishment for the Chinese Empire's export of high-tech equipment to Germany and other countries.

As a result, the Chinese Empire will lose a large amount of technology patent fees in Britain every year, and the relationship between the Chinese Empire and the British Empire will become more and more cold.

The Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire temporarily tolerated the arrogance of the British, and on the one hand, the Imperial General Staff formulated a war plan against Britain for the next few years, and on the other hand, did not want the British to stop, and decided to secretly support and arm the rebels of the British colonies and create trouble for the British.

Because of the intensification of tensions between China and Britain, the Russian Empire originally wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan and Persia and avoid confrontation with Britain, because Russia simply could not fight the Sino-British alliance. But now that China and Britain have not signed an alliance treaty, and they have turned their faces because of territorial disputes, the Russian Empire does not want to withdraw from Afghanistan and Persia.

The main reason why Russia still dares to confront Britain is that Tsarist Russia still has more than one million army forces, and it doesn't care about Britain's army strength at all. And in the Afghan region, Tsarist Russia had great influence on Afghanistan, and when it came to inland operations, Tsarist Russia was not afraid of the British.

Thus, Tsarist Russia continued to support the Afghan Zahir dynasty against the British.

Afghanistan is a landlocked country in central Asia, with an area of about 652,300 square kilometers. Afghanistan is located in the heart of the Eurasian continent, which is not only a key point connecting the Eurasian continent and the Middle East, but also a necessary place for the major powers to enter and exit the east and west, and to the south and north. It is bordered by the Russian Empire to the north, the Chinese Empire to the northeast, India to the east and southeast, and the Persian Empire to the west.

In 1747, Ahmed, the chief of Abu Dari, Afghanistan, took advantage of the decline of Persia to establish the Kingdom of Afghanistan, which officially formed a unified Afghan state. It has gone through two dynasties: the Abu Darid dynasty (1747-1826) and the Barakzai (1826-1973). From 1839 to 1842, the British launched the first war of aggression against Afghanistan, but suffered a crushing defeat. From 1879 to 1880, Britain launched a second war of aggression against Afghanistan, forcing Afghanistan to sign the Treaty of Gandamak, Afghanistan lost its diplomatic rights and became a vassal of Britain, but because of Russia's strong opposition, Britain was unable to annex Afghanistan.

For the Chinese Empire, as early as the Tang Empire and the Mongol Empire, Afghanistan was once a vassal state of the Chinese Empire. Now, in order to deal with the British, the Chinese Empire meddled in Afghanistan as one of the means.

In March of the 4th year of Guanghua, the Chinese Empire established diplomatic relations with the state of Afghanistan at the consular level. Because Britain seized diplomatic power in Afghanistan, the Chinese Empire set aside the obstruction of the British authorities, which made the British political axe quite angry.

King Zahir III of Afghanistan was very excited about this, he thought that after Russia was defeated by the Chinese Empire, Britain would annex the state of Afghanistan, for which he also cursed the Chinese Empire, and now he was helped by the Chinese Empire, and he was immediately grateful.

On 12 March, Major Pang Wenbin, the special envoy of the Chinese Empire to Afghanistan, signed the "Sino-Afghan Military Exchange and Mutual Assistance Treaty" and the "Helmand Loan Contract" with Horst, the general of the Afghan protectorate.

The first of these treaties was that the Chinese Empire helped the Afghan Political Axe Army to form five mountain divisions, which were taught by officers sent by the Chinese Empire, and the five mountain divisions were all equipped with Chinese weapons and trained in accordance with the training regulations of the Imperial Chinese Army. The second treaty was because Afghanistan was relatively poor, and it could not come up with the funds for five middle mechanics for a while, so the Chinese Empire loaned 8 million dragon coins to Afghanistan, with the mines and customs duties in Afghanistan as security, with an annual interest rate of 2%, to be repaid in ten years.

After the treaty was signed, the whole country of Afghanistan was jubilant, and they all knew the strength of the Chinese Imperial Army. The Chinese Imperial Political Axe assured the Afghan State that half a year of training for five mountain divisions would be enough to defeat the British invading army, a move that immediately stimulated the British Political Axe.

The British political axe immediately lodged a solemn protest against the Chinese Imperial political axe, but the Chinese imperial political axe ignored the British on the grounds of maintaining peace in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the hub between Africa and India for the British, and the British have been invading Afghanistan twice in order to open up the Afghan corridor, and they did not hesitate to conflict with Russia, which shows the importance that the British attach to Afghanistan.

Upon learning that the Chinese Empire had helped the Afghan state train its army, the British authorities immediately put pressure on the Afghan king and threatened it with war.

The king of Afghanistan was backed by the Chinese Empire, and Russia also expressed its support for the Afghan political axe, so the king of Afghanistan suddenly stiffened his waist and directly rejected the British threat of war.

On May 3, 1904, Britain sent 30,000 troops from India from Islamabad to attack the Jalalabad area in eastern Afghanistan.

Horst, the general of the Afghan protectorate, led 20,000 national troops to fight fiercely with the British in the Amu Darya River for three days, but was defeated. The British army continued to march and arrived in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on the 9th.

The five mountain divisions that the Chinese Empire had helped Afghanistan train had just completed only two months of training, and because of the long distance, they had only received equipment from one division.

The king of Afghanistan could not wait, and immediately ordered the 1st Mountain Division to enter the battle.

11 It was said that the 1st Mountain Division, under the command of Horst, fought fiercely with the British army at the Helmand River, and the British still used the ancient tactics of thinking in a linear way, and the two sides fought with troops and firepower.

Under these circumstances, the 1st Mountain Division of Afghanistan, with the advanced Chinese weapons and equipment in their hands, actually suppressed the firepower of the British army and stopped the offensive of the British army.

The two sides suddenly became evenly matched, which was a shame for the British army, and for the Afghan army, it was an unprecedented first time.

As a result, the two sides engaged in fierce stalemate battles on both sides of the Helmand River, and the British army could not advance, and the Afghan army did not retreat.

The British authorities were shocked that the Chinese Empire had only helped the Afghan army train for less than two months, and that the combat strength of the Afghan army had been greatly enhanced. In fact, the British overestimated the training ability of the instructors of the Chinese Empire, and for these two months, the Chinese instructors only taught some basic platoon training and shooting, and did not have time to teach tactics.

And the Afghan army has always thought that the Chinese emperor [***] is extremely powerful, and what they teach will definitely be able to defeat the British army, so the Afghan army relies on spirit to fight. However, the British also used outdated linear tactics to fight, so that the two sides did not have to think about tactical issues at all, and relied on numbers, equipment and spirit, which obviously gave the Afghan army an advantage.

The British Indian authorities did not see the key to this, believing that it was all the credit of the Chinese Empire, so the Indian governor immediately transferred troops from all over India to Afghanistan to fight in the war.

The second batch of British reinforcements was assembled two months later, and arrived at the front line three months later, by which time the instructors of the Chinese Empire had urgently trained the remaining four Afghan mountain divisions and initially had combat capability, and at the same time, the Lanzhou Military Region of the Chinese Empire urgently transported the weapons and equipment of the four divisions of the garrisons in Tibet and Xinjiang provinces to Afghanistan and equipped them to the Afghan National Army.

In this way, the Afghan army, which had five medium-sized mountain divisions, with a total strength of 100,000 troops, engaged 120,000 British troops, and the two sides broke out large-scale battles on both sides of the Helmand River, which lasted from August 1904 to the summer of 1905.

In July 1905, the Afghan army completely drove the British out of Afghanistan, and after the last fierce battle between the two sides in the Amu Darya River, the British army retreated to India, and the Afghan army also abandoned the pursuit due to financial constraints.

In this way, Afghanistan got rid of the vassal rule of the British, but also because the war consumed a lot of national strength, especially the use of Chinese equipment is too expensive, so the Afghan State owes the Chinese Empire 30 million dragon dollars for weapons and ammunition, although politically it has gained reading power, but economically it is controlled by the Chinese Empire, and militarily the Afghan military is extremely dependent on and worships the Chinese Emperor, and is also controlled by the Chinese Empire in disguise.

The Sino-British game in Afghanistan was only one of them, as the contradictions between China and Britain deepened, the Chinese Empire also supported Bhamer in British Burma, and took advantage of the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Afghan War that Britain drew a large number of troops from India, resulting in the fact that the British army in Burma was weak. With the covert support of the Chinese Empire, Bamo formed a guerrilla force of 10,000 people, using the weapons and equipment provided by the Chinese Empire, and opened up dozens of guerrilla areas in Burma near the border area of Yunnan Province of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, a group of generals and officers under Bhammer also secretly infiltrated the Kunming region of Yunnan Province of the Chinese Empire, where they received systematic military training from the Chinese Emperor.

A year later, these officers and soldiers returned to Burma and quickly bolstered the Burmese guerrillas and liberated large areas of northeastern Burma.

In April 1905, the Burmese military and political axe was established, and Bhamer was the prime minister, officially opposed to the British-controlled Yangon political axe, and the two sides continued to break out large-scale battles, but neither could eat each other, and it became a protracted war, which greatly restrained the financial, material and human resources of the British army.

In India, the Chinese imperial political axe supported Lakshmi? With the secret help of the Chinese Empire, they quickly expanded from a few hundred to tens of thousands, and successively received weapons and equipment provided by the Chinese Empire, and began to establish guerrilla zones in northern India near the Tibetan Province of the Chinese Empire, attacking the British army everywhere.

In Singapore, as the first fortress in the British Far East, Singapore is the lifeblood of the United Kingdom. The Chinese Empire used the Chinese diaspora in Singapore to continuously steal information from the British army. The number and type of warships sent by Britain to the Far East, and the distribution of British army forces were accurately delivered to Yanjing, providing a reference for the Chinese Empire to further evaluate the British [***] strength.

In Hong Kong, the Chinese Empire made contact with the local Chinese in Hong Kong, and had a clear understanding of the strength and deployment of the British army and navy stationed in Hong Kong.

In the Tibetan province and the Yunnan border region, the Chinese Empire used Indian and Burmese guerrillas to attack and eliminate local British forces and regain the lands annexed by the British. On the one hand, guns and ammunition are distributed to the people on the border, so that they can have the ability to defend themselves. If they find that the British have crossed the border and looted, they can defend themselves and fight back.

On May 3, 1905, a small British force invaded the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan Province, and they planned to loot Chinese civilians in Xishuangbanna under the banner of exterminating Burmese guerrillas.

As a result, since the people of Xishuangbanna were given guns and ammunition by the political axe, they spontaneously organized a militia company. When the British army entered, they still wanted to loot the Chinese people as before, and loot them from house to house. As a result, they failed this time, and the British troops who scattered into every house were immediately shot and killed by the local people.

The British suffered heavy losses, with an infantry company killed two-thirds in less than half an hour, and the British immediately withdrew from Xishuangbanna, and soon assembled a wing to prepare for retaliation.

The militia in Xishuangbanna naturally could not defeat the regular army, and were quickly defeated and retreated, and just when the crisis was extremely serious, the 19th Brigade of the National Guard stationed in Yunnan rushed to inquire and quickly blocked the offensive of the British army, and drove the British army out.

The next day, the Chinese Imperial Political Axe lodged a solemn protest against the British Political Axe, which was extremely harsh, but the British Political Axe flatly denied it, and said that the British army was pursuing the Burmese guerrillas, and that the citizens of the Chinese Empire were hiding the guerrillas, but demanded an explanation from the Chinese Imperial side.

The quarrel between the two countries did not get faster and faster, and after a big quarrel between the foreign ministries of both sides, they both demanded that the other side be responsible for all the consequences of the incident.

After the Xishuangbanna incident, China and Britain downgraded their diplomatic ranks, from the current ambassadorial level to the minister level.

In Australia, the Chinese Empire immigrated to Australia on a large scale, and many of the former officers and soldiers who had retired from the Sino-Russian War entered Australia to work, on the one hand, to change the proportion of Australia's population, and on the other hand, to lead the Australian Chinese to rebel if necessary.

The Chinese Empire's migration to Australia had been going on for many years, and by 1905 the Chinese Empire had accelerated its immigration, with Chinese immigrants in the entire three western and northern Australian states, and the Chinese population had risen rapidly from 1% to 40%.

Due to Australia's vast land, white people mainly lived in the eastern and southeastern coastal plains, and they were not interested in the western and northern mountains, which caused the Australian political axe to never restrict immigration to the Chinese Empire. Although the British authorities have warned the Australian political axe many times, the Australian political axe officials suddenly soften whenever they see the huge kickbacks given to him by the Chinese, and they really can't resist the temptation, so they have not restricted Chinese immigration.

At this time, the Chinese Empire has successively established more than a dozen large-scale cities in western and northern Australia, in addition to mining uranium, a series of iron ore, copper mines, diamond mines, gold mines and other mines have been set up one after another, but it has been kept secret from the outside world.

In August 1905, Australia held its second parliamentary election to elect a new prime minister of Australia.

However, at the end of July, the results of the elections in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia showed that the seats in the state houses of the three states were occupied by Chinese-Australians, and although the governor's election was white, the state parliament was actually controlled by Chinese.

In the August parliamentary election, an obscure Mingzhu Party won the general election all at once, and the main members of the Mingzhu Party are all Chinese, although the Mingzhu Party put forward a white Australian Chávez as the candidate for prime minister, but the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party, and the National Party immediately raised serious concerns, they believe that Chávez has become a lackey of Chinese descent and cannot be elected prime minister. And several Australian parties argue that parliamentary seats are unfairly distributed according to population, because there are so many Chinese immigrants from China who already occupy half of the seats, and they are snatching the rights of white people.

The Australian Labor Party took the lead in refusing to recognize the results of the parliamentary elections and not recognizing Chavez as prime minister.

Australia's political election shook Australia, and many Australians in the east played signs to protest against the Chinese occupying parliamentary seats and demanding that the Chinese be expelled from parliament.

On August 15, large-scale protests continued to expand, and British Australians in the east raised slogans to expel all Chinese Americans, which immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Chinese in the west, and a series of clashes soon broke out between the two sides, with casualties on both sides one after another.

As the incident escalated, the Australian police and military gradually sided with the British, and the situation began to be unfavorable to the Chinese diaspora immigrants in the west.

Beginning on August 17, the Chinese Imperial Government sent a note to Australia, raising solemn concerns and demanding that Australia reasonably treat the rights of Chinese in Australia in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution. He also issued a threat, saying that if the Australian military and police tried to suppress the overseas Chinese in Australia by force, the Chinese empire would not sit idly by and would take action, and all the consequences would be borne by the Australian political axe.

The Australian political axe was immediately frightened, and immediately restrained the military and police from harming the Chinese community.

However, in the six states of Australia, three states were occupied by Chinese and three states were occupied by British, and the two sides were evenly matched, and the situation was stalemate for a while.

The turmoil in Australia naturally attracted the attention of the British Empire, and the British Empire was angry that the Chinese Empire threatened Australia's political axe.

The British political axe immediately made solemn representations to the Chinese Imperial political axe, demanding that the Chinese empire not interfere in Australian affairs, and at the same time, the British political axe supported the Australian Labor Party and asked him to take action.

On September 15, the Australian Labor Party abandoned the Ming Cook Party and elected Adams, the leader of the Labor Party, as the Prime Minister of Australia. On the same day, the Mingzhu Party refused to recognize Adams as prime minister and instead elected Holmes as prime minister.

The two sides elected their respective prime ministers and took office separately. The mutual refusal of the two sides to give in to each other has led to the sudden intensification of contradictions.

On the 17th, Adams declared Holmes illegal, and declared the parliamentary elections in the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Western Australia all illegal, and organized the military and police of the three eastern states to form an army of more than 30,000 people, preparing to march to the three western states and eliminate the Ming Cook Party in one fell swoop.

With the covert support of the Chinese Empire, Holmes, the leader of the Boiling Party, declared that the parliamentary elections in Queensland, Wales and Victoria were also illegal, and at the same time organized the Western Army in the three western states, with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops, to prepare to resist the attack of the Eastern Army.

On the 21st, the armies of the two sides met at Kanawa between South Australia and Victoria, and fighting broke out between the two sides, and the Australian Civil War broke out.

(To be continued)