The distant mountains are red in the evening, and the red mountains in Beijing Xiangshan in autumn are dyed all over the forest, reflecting the sunset on the horizon.

This is one of the few royal gardens near Beijing that is still kept by the royal family for their own use, after Emperor Liu returned to Beijing from Chengde, people have always been stationed in Xiangshan, so that the queen mother and concubines in the palace, many of them have also packed up and come here. ZN Sea can now be said to be the territory of Emperor Xiao Liu.

Emperor Xiao Liu often came to Xiangshan to greet his father, but except for a few old ministers, he could hardly see the ministers who came to hold the old emperor's feet. It seems that the old emperor really can't take care of politics anymore. But no one knew that the telegraph line from Beijing to Xiangshan was actually busy all day long, but Liu Xian did not delay in Xiangshan at all, and he knew everything about the court, the cabinet, and even the world.

Emperor Liu's chamber has been updated, and except for a few old men, the rest are all hairy guys in their twenties and thirties.

A three-story building, this is Emperor Liu's residence in Xiangshan, Emperor Liu, who came out of the ZN Sea, was not willing to live in an old-fashioned palace-type building, he lived in a villa-style building.

The room on the second floor of the small building is the telegraph room, and the adjutant sent by the attendant room will come to pick up a telegram every half an hour, and if an urgent message comes, the director of the telegraph room will personally send it to Liu Xian.

It was time to deliver the telegram again, and an adjutant was sent to wait at the door, and a black briefcase was quickly brought by the adjutant to Emperor Liu's chamber. Now the title of the head of the old emperor's chamberlain is still held by Ji Xiliang, who has been retired for several years, but the actual presiding officer is Xu Shichang, a good friend of Yuan Shikai, Minister of National Security. The official path is still very smooth. Xu Shichang, who is only fifty-five years old, could not stay in Liu Xian's chamber all the time, but he just let him out. Then it will be a cabinet member.

When Xu Shichang walked into Liu Xian's office, Emperor Liu happened to finish reading all the official documents on the table.

"Huh. Kikuto, you're really accurate. ”

Liu Xian didn't say much wordy, took the black briefcase handed over, took out a few documents from it, and looked through them one after another. Compared to the heavy weight in the telegraph room, the briefcase has lost much weight now. Because these things have to be passed through the chamber first, Liu Xian no longer cares about the ordinary court decisions and affairs. He had no intention of using his son as a puppet. Xu Shichang had already withdrawn from the door, together with Sun Lutang, the captain of the guard, and others. Wait for a summons that may be issued at any time inside.

Ten minutes later, Liu Xian closed all the papers, paced back and forth in front of the desk with his hands behind his back for a few steps, and then walked to the corner and looked at the big globe that visited in the corner.

The efficiency of the MIA is still very high, and as soon as the Italians make a move, the news immediately returns to Beijing, and the CIA has indeed done a very good job of the operation there. The development of things was also completely expected by the center, and even exceeded expectations, better than the center expected. Because the British didn't go into the water personally, didn't? They simply pushed the Italians into the war with the Ottomans. The next one should be Austria-Hungary, but the Germans are still hesitating.

The Italians concentrated more than half of their capital ships. Their accession would put a lot of pressure on the Ottoman Empire. Who let the Ottomans invest in the army all these years, Abdul. Hamid II had to pay for his prejudices. And, in the end, it was the Ottomans' own cowardice that provided time for Italian intervention. After the offensive of the Balkan coalition was crushed, the Ottomans, who had considerable superiority in land warfare, did not immediately make a strong counterattack. Instead, they turned to the five European powers behind the Balkan alliance to find a diplomatic way to resolve the conflict, which made the Ottomans unwilling to fight. The reluctance to change the existing international situation is unmistakable.

It was also a stupid decision. The Ottomans wasted more than a month of precious time in vain, allowing the Italians to come to an agreement with the British. The Italians mobilized more than half of their capital ships, including three powerful dreadnoughts - the Italians' first dreadnought, the Sardinia, known as the Mediterranean steed, Dante, the first dreadnought other than China to carry a triple turret onto a warship, which could reach a speed of 23 knots. Finally, there is the super-dreadnought of Count Cavour, which has just been built in Italy. A large ship weighing more than 22,000 tons, planned to be built in 1909, a total of three, as well as the Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci, the Count of Cavour was the first to complete sea trials.

With three powerful battleships leading a fleet of dreadnoughts, including battleships and armored cruisers, and as many as eleven capital ships, this is definitely not something that the Ottoman island defense chain can resist.

Istanbul's last line of defense, the Dardanelles, will be completely exposed to the fire of this fleet.

"Electric ......" Liu Xian summoned the attendants outside the door, and an order was soon sent from Beijing to Istanbul. Liu Xian's cerebral cortex was flooded with new memories because of the actions of the Italian navy, and his memory of the most beautiful battle fought by the Ottomans, that is, the Turks, in World War I seems to be somewhat similar to the current pattern!

I remember that Kemal showed his edge in that war, won great popularity, and laid the most solid foundation for his political career after the war.

Liu Siam beckoned his attendants to send a telegram to the General Staff, if the Italians forced their way into the Dardanelles and landed with a large number of troops, what kind of organizational skills would be needed for this operation? This is a topic, Liu Xian wants the General Staff to seriously consider it, and bring it into himself!

Then Liu Xian just waited patiently, waiting for the reaction of the Ottomans, waiting for the result of the next battle!

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In the primeval jungles of northern Myanmar, the heat reigns over the land, and the heat is everywhere, even in the primeval forests where there is almost no sunlight, people cannot feel a trace of coolness. On the contrary, the humid environment here is more stuffy and makes people more susceptible to illness.

Deng Hua led his family's patrol team through this primeval forest. They can avoid the deadly insects, but they can't avoid the heat and heat that are everywhere.

Sweat had already soaked Deng Hua's clothes and trousers, and in order to walk safely in the primeval forest, the cuffs and trouser legs had to be tightened, which added to the pain caused by the heat. But since the patrol members have the high salary of the Deng family, they also have to endure this unbearable pain for ordinary people.

Sweat dripped from Deng Hua's face, and Deng Hua didn't scream at all. No matter how difficult these days are, can they have a hard time in the army? The Deng family in Hanzhong has taken root in the special forces of the National Defense Force since the second master of Deng Kai and Deng of the previous two generations. The target of the Deng family's enlistment in the army has always been the special forces, not the field army on patrol.

Naturally, the Deng family also recruited a large number of soldiers who had retired from the special forces. The Deng family is sure that they will not lose money by contracting this large area of primeval forest, and the patrol team is the foundation that the Deng family trusts and relies on the most. The land under the Deng family's concession is more than 300 square kilometers, which is larger than half a county in the interior, and there are many precious timber growing in the forest, but this is not the reason why the Deng family has invested all their money. What really made the Deng family devote themselves to it was the jade deposit contained in this forest.

A village was not far away, and all the patrolmen mustered up their courage and quickened their pace, wanting to rush back to the village as soon as possible and drink a few bowls of herbal tea to relieve the heat.

During this patrol, Deng Hua's management area did not find any anomalous conditions, that is, signs of illegal logging and a small number of traces of Burmese hostile elements. This made Deng Hua completely relieved. Ever since last month, they teamed up with three surrounding development companies to organize patrols to encircle and suppress the rebels that had been circling the surrounding area, and the Deng family had been worried about the enemy's return. But now it seems that the rebel force that was driven away seems to have been frightened by the powerful firepower and combat power in the hands of the four patrols, and it has been more than half a month, and there has been no retaliation.

To say that living in the primeval forest, the four development companies here, except for the patrol of the Deng family, the other three are not at all the opponents of the indigenous people. Those opposition can single-handedly cross the endless primeval forest, while the three patrols outside the Deng family can only rely on the strength of the group to survive in this primeval forest. If they hadn't even relied on a compass in their hands, they themselves might have gotten lost in the primeval forest.

"Keep it up! Everyone's working hard! Don't be left behind! Don't be anxious for those ahead! Stay in formation! Be vigilant! ”

Deng Hua stood under a tree, taking off his hat and cheering up the team members. Falling behind in a tropical primeval forest is a terrible thing. Even though 60% of the Deng family's patrol team is composed of veterans, and the elite of them are retired special forces, many of whom have been specially trained to survive in tropical rainforest areas and primeval forest areas, but people are social animals, and no one wants to leave the group if they can do a little.

After walking for another twenty minutes, the village in Deng Hua's mouth was clearly visible. This is the easternmost settlement site of the Dengjia Wubei Development Company, where more than 200 Chinese and more than a dozen docile indigenous families live. They cannot be called villages, but loggers' settlements. All of them earn their income from the lush forests around them.

Like the other villages, the village was on high alert, with a sentry at the entrance and a lookout post. The sentry saw his patrol from a distance, so when Deng Hua led the patrol members to the village, the village head had already prepared herbal tea for the patrol team to relieve the heat and food to replenish their physical strength.

Deng Hua sent a security telegram to the mine in the village telegraph room. He and his fifty patrol members were allowed to rest here for three full days, starting now.

The strength of one nation inevitably infringes on the interests of other peoples, and the jade mines and vast forests of precious trees in northern Myanmar are the best illustrations of this truth. (To be continued.) )