Britain and Germany went to war in South Africa and the Middle East, and Britain's allies, France, Germany's allies, Italy and Austria-Hungary, all expressed their support for their allies, but none of them sent troops to fight, because each country wanted to control the intensity of the war and did not want this local war to turn into a world war.

The relationship between China and the Qing State became very delicate under these conditions, and the Qing State seemed to have a premonition that Lin Fei was going to attack him, and on October 4, the Guangxu Emperor issued another edict, in which the Guangxu Emperor ordered the allocation of 1 million taels of silver to strengthen the defenses of the main passes.

Emperor Guangxu also wrote in the edict that the locations that need to be strengthened and defended, Lin Fei broke out in a cold sweat when he saw these places, these locations include the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River, etc., all of which are the most dangerous places in the Qing Kingdom, Lin Fei wants to overthrow the Qing court and liberate the entire Qing Kingdom, it is necessary to conquer these dangerous places, if the Qing State strengthens the defense of these places, then Lin Fei will inevitably pay a huge price.

Lin Fei decided to create a false impression that China and the Qing were very friendly to the Qing State, and then confuse the Qing State and make the Qing State relax its vigilance, so that it would be much easier for Lin Fei to overthrow the Qing court.

If you want to confuse the Qing court, the Empress Dowager Cixi's birthday celebration on November 12 and the public memorial ceremony in December are the perfect opportunities for Lin Fei.

At this time, it was already the middle of October, Lin Fei decided to give a big gift to the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was familiar with history, knew that the Empress Dowager Cixi liked rare treasures the most, and after her death, she brought ten favorite treasures into the coffin for burial, these ten treasures include: the huge night pearl, the light emitted is said to be able to illuminate ten meters away at night; Jade watermelon, emerald green jade for watermelon skin, red agate for watermelon pulp, and black gem for watermelon seeds, natural, lifelike, as well as jade cabbage and so on.

Lin Fei is not a luxurious king, so he doesn't care about these things, he naturally doesn't have these things in his palace, where can he find these rare treasures?

It was Nguyen Phuc Baojiao who gave Lin Fei an idea, there are treasures in the Vietnamese palace, although Vietnam is a small country, but after all, it is a dynasty that has been inherited for hundreds of years, how can there be no treasures?

Lin Fei then asked Ruan Fu Bao Jiao to go back to Vietnam to get the treasures, Lin Fei carefully selected three pieces of them - pearl Xia Wei, coral treasure tree, agate golden Buddha, these three treasures can be called the treasure of the Vietnamese Imperial Palace, to Cixi, Ruan Fu Bao Jiao was reluctant, Lin Fei persuaded her: "I can't bear the daughter-in-law can't catch the hooligans, these things are given to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the entire Qing Kingdom will be ours in the future." ”

After choosing a gift, the person who gave the gift is also very important, according to the convention, this gift can be handed over by Liu Yongfu, the Chinese ambassador to the Qing State, but Lin Fei felt that this was not solemn enough, so he decided to send his concubine to offer treasures, who to send, Ling Xue is a small family jasper, Xiyun is everyone's lady, and Ning Shuang is a wild queen, these three are not suitable, Lu Xian'er...... Hehe......

Only Ruan Fu Baojiao is the most suitable, the princess and the empress, and her aura is not weaker than that of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

So Lin Fei sent Ruan Fu Baojiao to give gifts to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Empress Dowager Cixi heard that Lin Fei sent Concubine Jiao to give gifts in person, and met her in person in Kunning Palace, and she laughed very happily.

On November 12, the 65th birthday celebration of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the 60th birthday celebration of the Empress Dowager Cixi, just in time for the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, wiped out all the good mood of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

The Great Birthday Celebration was held in the Summer Palace, from the Forbidden City to the Summer Palace, on both sides of the street in the middle of dozens of miles, a large number of scripture altars, theaters, color halls, archways were built, just for the Empress Dowager Cixi to visit, feast the eyes, these buildings will all lose their role after the Great Birthday Celebration, and they will be demolished.

The entire Great Birthday Celebration cost more than 30 million taels of silver, which almost spent a year's financial revenue of the Qing Kingdom!

Empress Dowager Cixi's birthday celebration was so extravagant, in stark contrast, Lin Fei had never held any birthday celebration in Huaxia.

On the third day after the Empress Dowager Cixi's birthday celebration, Rudolf? The diesel engine manufacturing team led by Diesel successfully manufactured a diesel engine, and Diesel had already successfully manufactured a diesel engine before, but in Huaxia it was just repeating its own invention, so the construction speed was very fast.

With the assistance of Huaxia engineers and Lin Fei's key technical points, the Diesel I engine produced by Diesel has a power of 60 kilowatts, which is decent, and it is neither top-notch nor bottom-tier in this era, but this type of engine is enough to drive a car with a full weight of about ten tons.

If you want to use this type of engine to drive a tank, you can barely do it, the first tank in human history, the British "Tank", weighs 28 tons, uses a gasoline engine, the power of the gasoline engine is 77 kilowatts.

Diesel told Lin Fei that there was still a lot of room for improvement in the power of his engine, because when he developed diesel engines in Germany, the diesel quality was very poor, which was far from that of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Fei asked Diesel how much he could increase the engine power, Diesel replied that it was at least 80 kilowatts, Lin Fei asked the time again, Diesel replied three months, Lin Fei shook his head heavily, three months is not good, the time is too long.

Lin Fei then decided to use the Diesel 1 engine to produce a batch of trucks, and during the production period, Diesel continued to improve the engine, producing the Diesel II engine, and then using the Diesel II engine to produce larger trucks and tanks.

Larger trucks should be able to load tanks into it, because the maximum travel of tanks is very short, and the maximum travel of tanks in the early days of World War I was less than 50 kilometers, which means that the initial tanks can only be used for battlefield fortifications, not for long-distance attacks.

Lin Fei put the automobile production line in an industrial zone in the northern Philippines in order to facilitate the transportation of the produced cars to Taiwan, which would be one of the main bases for attacking the Qing court.

Lin Fei's automobile production line uses the method of assembly line operation, which can produce about 20 vehicles a month, which is pitifully low compared to Lin Fei's era and the United States and Germany at the same time, after all, it is the initial period, and the production speed will gradually increase in the future.

The time came to the beginning of December, the first batch of trucks were produced, this type of truck itself weighs about five tons, can carry five tons of goods, the truck is divided into the front part and the cargo compartment part, the front of the car is about 2 meters long, the cargo compartment is about 8 meters long, and the width is about 3 meters.

In order to increase the load capacity of the truck, Lin Fei even used lightweight aluminum alloy in the non-critical parts of the truck (cab, cargo compartment guard, etc.).

With a load capacity of five tons, it can carry about forty heavily armed fighters, of course, it will be crowded to carry so many fighters, after all, the size of the cargo compartment is not so large, and twenty trucks can carry eight hundred, and these fighters can quickly detour back to the enemy's weak position, giving the commander more means of destroying the enemy.

On December 3, Kang Youwei, the Qing ambassador to China, sent a message to Lin Fei that the Liugong Island public memorial ceremony would be held on December 20, and he hoped that Lin Fei would attend as scheduled.

Lin Fei immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare to go to Liugong Island, but he didn't expect Liu Daming, deputy commander of the navy, Li Mingming, chief of the general staff of the army, and others to advise one after another: "Your Majesty, you must not go to Liugong Island, the people of the Qing court definitely have bad intentions and want to attack you on Liugong Island." ”

Lin Fei smiled happily: "You don't have to worry, because there is another person who will also go to Liugong Island to participate in the public memorial ceremony with me, and with that person, we don't have to worry about the people of the Qing court doing something to me." ”

Liu Daming said angrily: "Is that person Lord Deng?" Your Majesty, can you have a good impression of Lord Deng, although he is your father-in-law, he is a member of the Qing court after all......"

"Of course that person is not Lord Deng."

"If it's not Lord Deng, who else can it be?"

Lin Fei smiled mysteriously, and then said leisurely: "That person is Emperor Guangxu!" ”

Everyone was stunned, "Emperor Guangxu! He was going to Liugong Island too. ”

Lin Fei smiled and nodded, and continued: "Emperor Guangxu not only has to attend the public memorial ceremony, but also has to review the naval fleet with me, and then the Qing warships and our Huaxia warships will be reviewed together, and Emperor Guangxu wants to use this move to show that the relationship between the Qing Kingdom and China is close." ”

Everyone was relieved, since Emperor Guangxu dared to go to Liugong Island, then Lin Fei had nothing to be afraid of, the Qing court was a little different, with Lin Fei's skills, it was easy to capture Emperor Guangxu alive, and the Qing court would not be crazy enough to sacrifice Emperor Guangxu to kill Lin Fei, right?

However, Lin Fei's security work still could not be relaxed, Lin Fei sent five hundred frogman commandos to the island in advance, and the Qing army searched and guarded at the venue of the public memorial ceremony, Lin Fei also sent troops from Tianjin to mobilize a thousand elites, and set up camp on Liugong Island, and the naval fleet sent two emperor-class cruisers - Xia Yu and Shang Tang to Liugong Island to be on alert in advance.

Lin Fei personally took the dynasty-class battleship Xia Ship to Liugong Island, escorted by merchant ships, Qin Emperor ships, and Han Wu ships, Lin Fei's surroundings, there were three hundred sniper team elites, Lin Fei's side, there were thirty Blood Phoenix Special Forces elites led by Yu Ningshuang, and finally in front of Lin Fei, there was one last barrier, that was Lu Xian'er.

Lin Fei didn't want to take Lu Xian'er, but Lu Xian'er's words made Lin Fei change his mind, and Lu Xian'er told Lin Fei: "I will protect Brother Feidi, whether there are bullets flying over or crossbow arrows flying over, I will be the first to pounce on it and block it." ”

Lin Fei was very moved, so he took her with him.

Lin Fei went to Liugong Island this time and brought almost 2,000 troops, where is this to participate in the public sacrifice ceremony, this is simply to take down Liugong Island and take it as his own rhythm.