Chapter 384 Global Strategy

After the signing of the Treaty of Beijing between the Chinese Empire and the Spanish Empire, in order to consolidate the vested colonies first and prevent other countries from taking advantage of Spain's weakness to loot and encroach on Spain's other overseas colonies, the Chinese Empire gave up its military campaign to continue to occupy the Spanish American colonies, and turned to the policy of boiling toads in warm water and encroaching on the Spanish colonies step by step.

This is mainly because the Chinese Empire was unable to occupy all the colonies of the Spanish Empire in the Americas in a short period of time, at this time the First World War ended, and all European countries were freed from the quagmire of war.

With the end of the European turmoil, the Netherlands, a rich country, has become the meat of the mouths of European countries, and the Chinese Empire has not yet reached the Dutch East Indies in close Southeast Asia, so the current strategic purpose of the imperial government is to lock in the Dutch Republic.

Although the Chinese Empire was gradually developing on the capitalist road due to moderate bourgeoisie, it did not want to see the Dutch capitalist country compete with the Chinese Empire.

Just as the Chinese Empire secretly helped Charles I of England to fight the civil war, it was also out of fear that Britain would complete the bourgeoisie and become a huge competitor of the Chinese Empire.

With the acquisition of two huge colonies of Mexico and Peru from the Spaniards, the imperial government plundered the wealth of Spanish immigrants and the indigenous people of Spanish descent in the colonies, accumulating more than two billion silver dollars. Among them, Mexico City's wealth of up to 500 million silver dollars and Lima's wealth of up to 300 million silver dollars topped the list.

These two world's first and second largest sources of gold and silver fell into the hands of the Chinese Empire, and it was foreseeable that the Chinese Empire would gain a stronger economic backbone. The Spanish Empire relied on these two colonies to become the world's largest power, and it was arrogant for more than two hundred years. At this time, the Chinese Empire was also a world power, and after obtaining these two colonies, it would far surpass the Spanish Empire and become the world's number one and only superpower.

From the moment the Shenwu Emperor Deng Haonan signed the jade seal on the Sino-Western Treaty of Beijing, he knew that the Chinese Empire would become the only superpower of the United States in the near future, and this time may be five or six years, or more than ten years, in short, Deng Haonan believes that it can definitely be done in his lifetime. The strength of the United States came from the war wealth in World War I and World War II, and now the First World War, as Deng Haonan called it, has ended, and the Chinese Empire has far surpassed the former through means such as colonial plunder, opium arms export, and power trade.

Now, although the First World War is over, Deng Haonan is calculating European countries in the imperial study every day, planning the Second World War.

As a ruler, Deng Haonan has fallen into a game of controlling various processes in the world at this time, just like the main god, transforming the world created by him and creating a new world order of the Chinese empire.

In the imperial study, Deng Haonan called a group of civil and military ministers to study how to carry out the next strategy.

"How is the Suez Canal operating?"

"Your Majesty," replied Wang Chengen, "Since the canal was in operation, the empire has been able to make a large profit from the collection of river crossing fees every year, and the profit has reached 30 million silver dollars last year, and all the funds invested by the empire in the Suez Canal have been returned. The profit in the first half of this year has already exceeded 20 million silver dollars, and it is estimated that the annual revenue will be even higher"

Deng Haonan's face was full of joy, and the ministers were also happy, but Qian Qianyi said: "Your Majesty, although the empire has withdrawn the funds invested in the canal, the fortifications built by the empire near the canal, as well as the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed there, are also a lot of expenses."

The cost of stationing 120,000 troops is as high as more than 20 million silver dollars per year, which is really not a small expense.

Deng Haonan nodded and said: "What Aiqing said is that the cost of stationing alone is as high as more than 20 million, if a war or conflict breaks out, the war cost surges, and the canal profit will not be left, and it will have to be pasted upside down."

Lin Feng said: "Your Majesty, having said that, the military purpose of the empire to seize the Suez Canal has been achieved. The canal now became a gateway between Europe and Asia, and the Imperial Navy could send its forces to Europe in three to six months, which was incalculable in a military sense."

Liu Hu added: "For the sake of today's plan, Wechen believes that it is better to solve the Egypt and North African problems as soon as possible, and incorporate all the territories of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in North Africa into the imperial colonial system, so that the empire has a vast North African colony as a strategic depth, and it can easily guard the canal."

Chen Yaoming said: "Although Minister Liu's construction is good, the strength of the Ottoman Turkish Empire is still very strong, and there is a saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and it can be seen from their war against the Russian Empire that once a war is started with them, it is estimated that it will be difficult to be good." If the Empire takes North Africa, then the Ottoman Empire will fight to the death of us. Although the empire is powerful, it can't be restrained by the Turks, you must know that the empire's current strength has deeply made all countries in the world jealous, especially those European foreign countries, who can't see anything on the surface, and secretly have listed the empire as the first potential enemy. ”

Deng Haonan understood what Chen Yaoming meant, at the end of World War I, which country stood up first to start a war would affect the nerves of all countries. In particular, the countries of the world are now deeply jealous of the Chinese Empire, and if the Chinese Empire takes the lead in starting a war, its effect may become the public enemy of all countries in the world.

This is obviously not the situation that Deng Haonan is happy to see

"The current situation of the empire is very delicate, it can intimidate and dominate countries, but it can also frighten countries, and things will be reversed"

Deng Haonan said: "Send a message to the Egyptian Zhutun Army Headquarters, telling Li Yan to be careful and not to provoke the Turkish Empire."

Qian Qianyi said: "Your Majesty, the Turkish Empire is now the queen who listens to the government, and the relatives are in power, as long as we don't take the initiative to touch them, it is estimated that they will not do anything drastic." After all, there is still a contract between us, and the Turkish Empire may not dare to break its promise and give us an excuse"

Lin Feng smiled and said: "Back then, the Turkish Empire took advantage of us, but it was disrupted by the sudden southern invasion of the Russian Empire, which made us take advantage of the fastest and fastest huge loophole, and made a cheap bargain in the negotiation contract. ”

Liu Hu said with a smile: "If it weren't for their lack of kindness, it is estimated that they would not have been able to give us a bargain."

The biggest advantage was to give the Chinese Empire ownership of the land in the area through which the canal flowed, so that the Chinese Empire built castles and fortresses there, and legalized the garrison, which slapped the Turkish government in the face.

Deng Haonan said at this time: "I know that the empire's current stalls are too big, and military preparations have not kept up with the pace of territorial expansion, so it is not suitable to make a punch now. However, the strength of the empire is obvious, as long as the empire does not make the first move, other countries do not have the courage to provoke us. Therefore, I hope that you Aiqing can start from the internal contradictions of each country, let them fight among themselves, and then the empire will defeat them individually."

At this time, Deng Haonan knew that the Chinese Empire was already somewhat on the cusp of the storm, and it was easy for other countries to unite, just like the situation of the Six Nations against the Qin State.

Lin Feng said with a smile: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that the empire will not move, and soon their countries will focus their attention elsewhere."

Qian Qianyi said: "The Russian Empire and the Turkish Empire are both unable to keep up with human resources, so it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to conduct large-scale military battles in a short period of time, but it is not ruled out that they will carry out some small-scale wars, and the Weichen Empire will sell some weapons and equipment to the Turkish Empire while the two countries are not fighting, so that the Turkish Empire will be grateful to the emperor, and at the same time stimulate them to start a war again." ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said: "This is a good idea, now the Ottoman Empire is suffering in weapons, if they are provided with a batch of advanced weapons, it is estimated that the Turkish military will soon be unable to sit still, but after all, we and the Russian Empire are still within the framework of the Allied Powers, and we cannot directly export weapons to the Turkish Empire."

Liu Hu said with a smile: "What the emperor said is that we can resell other countries to the Turkish Empire with fake hands"

Deng Haonan said: "This plan is feasible, Liu Hu, you can start arranging it."

"Wechen obeys the order"

Having decided on the matter of inciting the Russian Empire and the Turkish Empire to war again, the attention turned to the rest of Europe.

The first to bear the brunt was the Netherlands, because in the Far East, the Dutch East India Company still occupied the Dutch East Indies, like a nail in the heart of the Chinese Empire.

"It's not very easy to deal with the Dutch," Chen said: "The Dutch are very strong at sea, and although they were lucky enough to take out the Spanish fleet in a sneak attack, the Dutch navy is actually not weak. It was, and now the Netherlands is clearly on guard against the Imperial Navy, and the large-scale construction of large capital battleships has begun in its country."

Deng Haonan nodded, this was something he expected but unexpected.

Originally, the Netherlands only dominated the world in terms of the number of third- and fourth-class battleships and cruisers, and it was not until the First Anglo-Dutch War that it was attacked by large British warships and suffered losses, and during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, large-scale construction of large capital ships began.

However, with the rapid growth of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Tianqiong, the lead ship of the Tianqiong-class first-class sail battleship, made a big show at the Navy's international ship viewing ceremony some time ago, which caused the Dutch Navy to wake up in advance, and the Dutch Navy began to build large warships on a large scale.

Similarly, the construction of a certain number of large warships began for the major maritime powers of Europe, and even the Spanish Navy, which had been reduced to a second-rate naval power.

In the entire world of naval affairs, a large-scale naval arms race has begun.

However, at this time, Britain, France, Spain and other countries did not have money, and the construction of large ships was small. However, the Dutch were wealthy, and their advanced shipbuilding technology and dockyard capabilities were very strong, so the Dutch navy expanded very quickly.

According to the time when the 20 first-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were in service, the Dutch Navy would also have a main fleet of equal size and number at that time.

This is something Deng Haonan never expected, but he is not worried.

"I thought that against the Netherlands, we had to start by land"

Lin Feng and the others hurriedly asked, and Deng Haonan continued: "France defeated the invincible Spanish Army, and now it is shaking across the European continent. Coupled with the fact that France has acquired two rich lands, Alsace and Lorraine, France's national power will soon be restored. How about instigating them to invade Holland from land, according to the character of the French? ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, and said in surprise: "The emperor is shengming"

Liu Hu said: "The emperor's eyes are like a torch, the Netherlands is a small country, next to France, but it controls dozens of times more wealth than France, and the French are not tempted."

Chen Yaoming said: "What about England across the Netherlands? Intelligence shows that the navies of the two countries have confronted each other several times. When both sides saw each other, they asked each other to lower their flags at half-mast to salute, and the smell of gunpowder was already very strong. ”

Qian Qianyi asked: "But Britain is now in a civil war, how can it have the energy to clean up the Netherlands?" ”

Chen Yaoming said with a smile: "The British Navy did not participate in the civil war, and if you are idle all day, something will soon happen."

Deng Haonan nodded with satisfaction, and secretly said that their analysis was good, and they were generally in line with the historical process.

So he said: "I also believe that the Dutch will soon be unable to jump, and the British and French will definitely teach the Dutch a lesson, but in order to make sure that they do something to the Dutch, we need to give them some more eye drops."

Everyone understands that the eye drops are to create contradictions between several countries, so that the contradictions between them will expand and aggravate, and then instigate war between them.

As long as they fight, then the Chinese Empire can profit from the fishermanship, get rid of the Dutch East Indies in one fell swoop, and completely occupy the Far East

"Let Britain end the civil war as much as possible, and when necessary, let Li Yan send troops to help" Deng Haonan said: "Only by ending the English civil war can Charles I be free to deal with the Netherlands, as for France, it can be temporarily indulged, if France becomes the first power in the European army, other European countries will not have the energy to care about external affairs." ”

After finalizing the strategy towards Europe, Lin Feng asked about the established strategy for the South Asian subcontinent and the American colonies.

The strategy for the South Asian subcontinent was set at the Beijing Peace Conference, and the territorial dispute between Gujarat and Rajput was deliberately left behind by Deng Haonan.

With the signing of the Treaty of Peking, it would not be long before Gujarat and Rajput would compete for the disputed territory, and the Chinese Empire would only have to pay lip service to incite other countries to intervene. And Persia and Afghanistan are both backers of Rajput, and they will not sit idly by and intervene at the first opportunity.

When the time comes, when the South Asian subcontinent is a pot of porridge, when the vassal states are exhausted, it is the time when the Chinese Empire comes out to clean up the mess.

The South Asian subcontinent is not the focus, because although there are many countries there, their combat power is not strong, and they are not taken into account by Deng Haonan, who is still thinking about the American continent.

"The Mexican and Peruvian colonies in the Americas were the main economic sources of the empire for a long time, so the empire had to migrate there on a large scale, and at the same time make every effort to mine the gold and silver mines there to replenish the imperial treasury."

Lin Feng asked, "Then the emperor means that the Americas have temporarily stopped colonial wars and will no longer expand?" ”

"The colonial war was suspended, and the Spanish colonies elsewhere had no oil and water for the time being, and there was no need for us to rush"

Deng Haonan pointed to the world map and said: "Expansion is still needed, but it is limited to North America, we only occupy some small places on the Pacific coast, and there are still quite a lot of borderless lands that we need to control."

At this time, the French had not yet had the time to occupy the vast savannahs of central North America, and the British had only established a few small settlements along the Atlantic coast, so the Chinese Empire needed to complete the de facto control of these borderless lands before the British and French could free up their hands.

"What should the emperor do to the Indians in North America?"

Liu Hu suddenly asked: "There are still quite a large number of Indians in North America, and the preliminary estimate of Wechen is no less than a million, maybe more. These natives now have a different view of the Empire, and the number of people who have immigrated to the Americas is still too small to suppress them."

Yes, the Indian tribe has always provided a lot of gratuitous help to the American troops of the Chinese Empire, but after the Chinese Empire took over Mexico, it did not give them the territory belonging to the Indians, which made the Indians feel like they had just driven away the wolf and then came in with the tiger.

Deng Haonan said: "Ignore them for now, for the time being, they don't dare to compete with the empire, wait until the number of immigrants in the empire reaches saturation, and then drive them to make room for now, our focus is to occupy the entire North America before the Europeans, and nothing else matters." ”

"What the emperor said is," Lin Feng said, "Compared with the Europeans, the Indians will still cooperate with us."

Deng Haonan smiled and nodded, noncommittal about this.

The overall tone has basically been set, and all the ministers have a bottom in their hearts and know how to do it in the future.

The Imperial Council was in full swing, and by the time it was over, it was already past lunchtime. Deng Haonan then left them to dine in the palace together, and the ministers felt the emperor's grace.

However, just as he was eating, Qian Qianyi, the first assistant minister of the cabinet, suddenly fainted.

Deng Haonan hurriedly sent the imperial doctor to treat him, only to know that Qian Qianyi had been working hard for the past few days, but he didn't know that he was already a seventy-year-old man and couldn't withstand this kind of toss.

Deng Haonan ordered someone to send Qian Qianyi back to his home to recuperate, but he was worried about another thing in his heart. X