At the end of another year, the Cabinet Government is nervously counting the tax revenue increases and fiscal deficits for the year, and everyone's hearts are filled with joy and excitement like a tidal wave.

The British bowed their heads and surrendered the four British concessions in China except for Tianjin, Canton, and Shanghai, and at the same time announced that the security powers of the three concessions of Tianjin, Canton, and Shanghai [United Concession] would be returned to China, and that the concessions of Tientsin and Canton would be returned for the next three years.

A joint tribunal was established in the Shanghai United Concession to abolish British consular jurisdiction and remove the extraterritoriality of all foreigners in China. The whole country is cheering!

The 'victory' of the Sino-British negotiations added an indelible glorious joy to China at the end of the fourth year of the new Qin Dynasty. This moment will be etched in the history books of China.

And the British will be so 'nested', naturally because of the great change in the situation in Afghanistan. The British, in order to completely tie China to their own warships, even made concessions to the interests of Indochina.

In addition to the negotiations on China, China and Britain also signed a secret treaty that did not notify Siam at all -- to maintain Siam's independence and not allow any third country to stir up trouble in Siam.

Liu Xian received a lot of benefits from Siam, although he had not yet informed his master. But his original plan to take Siam as a confinement also went bankrupt. The French disappeared in Indochina, and China filled the place of France, not wanting Siam to return to its original trajectory.

China and Britain also reached an agreement with Burma that China would get the northern part of Burma, the Salween and Irrawaddy River basins, in exchange for China's acquiescence to Burma's outcome.

Liu Xian agreed. The Salween and Irrawaddy river basins are the main producing areas of jadeite in Myanmar. If you get here, it's acceptable to give up when other places are occupied. After all, China's strength is not yet up to the next level.

Under negotiation. Both sides have a tacit understanding of the Taiping army in southwest Yunnan. It seems that Shi Dakai and others do not exist at all.

At the same time, China and the UK agreed on a framework for Hong Kong. As for the free trade port proposed by Liu Xian, the United Kingdom agreed in principle. The two sides will hold a new round of talks on concrete matters in the second half of next year. The person in charge of the Chinese side has already been decided. It's Zeng Jize.

In just one year, the British have backed down so much. Liu Xian couldn't help but sigh after receiving the treaty message. In this diplomatic matter, one wrong step will have to pay an unimaginable price to make up for and redeem it.

Last year's Whitehall certainly couldn't have imagined that this year would be like this. Their situation in Afghanistan is so bad!

In the middle of summer this year, in July, 25,000 anti-British Afghan rebels encountered a brigade of the British colonial army near Kandahar, and the Battle of Maiwand, which shook the world. The Afghan rebels had an advantage in strength and firepower, and as soon as the battle began, they first suppressed the artillery and cavalry on both flanks of the British colonial army with artillery fire to cover the infantry advance. After that, the cavalry closely cooperated. Taking advantage of the momentum, he launched a fierce attack, and the British colonial army was defeated, and only the reinforcements arrived to avoid total annihilation. Later, the Afghan rebels marched to Kandahar, and the British army in Kabul was also surrounded by 100,000 rebels. But the Afghans still resisted, and the British colonial army was beaten everywhere and ran into walls everywhere. If it weren't for the loss of face as the world's largest power, Liu Xian thought that the British might have fully withdrawn from the tenacious country of Afghanistan.

The Russians used what little strength they had left to provoke Afghanistan. Gave the British a thump!

Now Britain, in order to stabilize the situation in the Near East, Central Asia, and the Far East, and to continue to crucify the giant of Russia, they need China's help. in Asia. Only China has the strength to help them.

In the same year, the Sichuan troops mobilized another 2,000 troops into Tibet, and Liu Xian directly turned the 5,000 troops into a brigade. Liu Shengzao served as the brigade commander of the major general.

Liu Mingchuan continued to sit in Sichuan, Liu Changyou, Zhang Shusheng and other well-known Xianghuai cadres. After the completion of the training and study in the advanced class of the military academy, they were arranged to the northeast and northwest respectively. Including Liu Songshan and others, a large number of former Qing celebrities gathered on the frontier. At present, the Qin army has formed 22 infantry divisions, 6 cavalry divisions, 2 artillery divisions, 1 central guard division, 1 marine division, plus 14 independent brigades, and 25 local garrison battalions.

Wei Ming has swept through Inner and Outer Mongolia. Although the Russians sold a lot of arms to the Outer Mongolian Ministry of Banners, with the experience of Inner Mongolia, there were not many Mongolian princes who really dared to raise troops against the Qin army.

The title of land is important, but there is no neck on the head always wants. And Liu Xian's treatment is not low, at least he can live the second half of his life comfortably. Therefore, the situation in Outer Mongolia is calmer than that in Inner Mongolia. Although there are still some Mongolian bandits breeding in the grassland, without the support of Mongolian civilians and the backing of many Mongolian princes, they are grasshoppers after autumn - there are not a few days to live! It's not as good as the peers in the original time and space!

Then there is immigration and domestic construction.

The latter involves the Northeast and Inner Mongolia, and the entry is considered to have reached the naturalization standard line, but it is very difficult to complete.

Shanxi's tree planting and river projects have been launched, and the railway, which has been extended to Henan, has also officially put Shanxi on the work process.

The implementation of the Grand Cross Project is relatively smooth, and it is more smooth than Liu Xian imagined. In his old impression, the Chinese people were very reluctant to railways and trains at first. Among them, there are many reasons, and destroying feng shui and disturbing the underground spirits of the ancestors are the most commonly used excuses. However, Liu Xian underestimated the ability of the Great Qin officials to 'see the wind and steer the rudder'.

What destroys feng shui and disturbs the ancestors' underground spirits to be unpeaceful, how many of these conditions are really wanted by the common people? It was not a large number of squires whose interests were damaged by land requisition, but countless conservative officials who obstructed it, that made the construction of the railway so difficult.

And now? The conservative and conservative officials of the Great Qin officialdom are definitely not a small number, but those who dare to do things in secret and add fuel to the fire are almost non-existent. Why? First, Liu Xian's own political tendency is clear; The second is the old prestige and deterrence of the Military Intelligence Department.

Now the people have passed on the Ministry of State Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau as Jinyiwei and Dongchang. Ordinary people talk about the color change. The officials have too little understanding of these two parts, so they are rumors that they are all soldiers, thinking that there are scouts around them. There are few people who are tired of being crooked and looking for their own death.

The local gentry dared to resist the decline of the late Qing dynasty, because they were part of the power structure, and the local officials were inextricably linked to them. But for a Great Qin who has just seized the world by force, is full of vitality, and the sun is rising in the east, he does not dare to make too many small moves, lest the court kill chickens and monkeys, raid his home and destroy his door. This is the deterrent power of the new dynasty, the new forces.

The construction corps has been expanded to eleven people. The fruits of the labor of millions of laborers are abundant, although it costs a lot of money.

If the country builds railways and remediates rivers, the local government will be responsible for manipulating the official roads. The establishment and role of local government functional departments in this regard is very important. Moreover, the latest "Traffic Law" promulgated by the National Dynasty stipulates that roads of grade 3 or above built by individuals have the corresponding right to collect fees. It is possible to form a joint operating company with the relevant state departments to collect toll fees under the state regulations in the specified year.

This regulation directly set off a road-building frenzy in China this year.

Then there is the development of domestic industry and commerce. As of the date of the statistics, excluding the large-scale state-owned industrial and mining industries, there will be a total of 13,835 new-type enterprises registered by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce with a cost of more than 100,000 yuan registered nationwide, of which 6,200 have increased this year. Among them, two-thirds of them have registered capital of 1 million Chinese yuan, nearly 30% of them have 5 million Chinese yuan, and more than 700 have 10 million Chinese yuan capital. If this were to be converted into silver dollars, it would be 100,000 silver dollars.

There are 59 companies with a registered capital of more than 100 million yuan. Most of them are joint-stock joint ventures.

Liu Xian has put the establishment of a stock exchange on the agenda!

Japan's economy is in disarray. The Ministry of Finance and Huaxia Bank's operation in Japan was a great success, but the Japanese government maintained the situation because of the intervention of Britain, France, and the United States, especially the United States. This situation made Liu Xian's face ugly.

Not because of the failure to do everything, but because of a change in the attitude of Americans. They are clearly stepping up their support for Japan, and why? It is not Japan's retreat in Hawaii, but the United States' desire to use Japan to block China in East Asia.

China has risen to become a chess player on the chessboard of the Pacific. If the White House does not see the potential threat from China, then their standard is too low.

Washington does not want to give the Pacific another master. The British can still accept the existence of zài, but China, it is exempt.

Uncle Sam's appetite isn't big these days. The United States is still in the stage of 'hard work'. So they don't want to face Chinese pressure head-on. As for Japan, China is an absolute power, and China's navy is getting stronger step by step, and the United States does not want the spearhead of China's navy to be directed at the North Pacific.

Therefore, in the eyes of Uncle Sam, Japan's status has been sharply improved. They became a trump card for the United States to deal with the potential threat from China. As long as the Japanese government in Tokyo remains, it is unlikely that China will shift its main energies to the Pacific. There is no possibility that their navy will enter Hawaii.

Just like the German coastal defense navy, what the Americans want to see most is that China's navy looks like this. Offshore Navy, with defense as its main purpose. The vast Pacific Ocean is Americans' swimming pool.

Fortunately, the second group of troops returning to Japan gave the Japanese Tokyo government army a hard blow in Fukuoka. The First World War wiped out all the calculations of the Fukuoka government army, and annihilated the government army of more than 3,000 people at an extremely small cost!

It makes Liu Xian feel happy! (To be continued......)