A new page has been opened in history. China's imperial power has also undergone new changes.

For many fart people, there seems to be little change except that the prestige of the new emperor is far less than that of the old emperor. But for Chinese officialdom, for politicians around the world, China's political change is no less influential than changing the emperor. China's imperial power is undergoing a major erosion.

During the more than a year of Emperor Liu's illness, the cabinet completely controlled government affairs, grasped the financial power, and the joint parliament could directly restrain the military. In the army, nationalism is vigorously propagated on one side, and the people holding the gun on the other side are always strong, not to mention that they are the Chinese defense forces that are most admired and supported by the people.

The emperor was still the supreme leader of the whole country and the supreme commander of the army, but the 'war' status of the General Staff was greatly strengthened, and Liu Xian's 'imperial power' was more and more similar to that of the Meiji era. It's just that within China, he has a high prestige that the Meiji can't catch up with.

Liu Xian has always firmly controlled the military power and political power, but this power is based on his great prestige, when the person on the throne changed from Liu Xian to Liu Sheng, the new emperor did not have the unrivaled huge prestige of his own Lao Tzu, and the power in the hands of nature evolved from a military and political decision-maker to a military and political communicator.

In the past two years, Liu Xian has given the government too many rights and opportunities during the transition of the two cabinets. Now that Liu Sheng wants to take the power back from the cabinet, he will shake the entire Chinese political arena, and he still has his old son behind him.

Liu Sheng is very self-aware and acquiesces to the current political pattern of China, with the support of Huo Guangcheng inside and the support of the Air Force outside. With the support of some of the powerful army and navy generals, Liu Sheng's throne was soon secured.

However. Something is lost, it's lost forever. There is no way to get it back.

"Ta Kung Pao" was less than a month after Emperor Xiao Liu sat on the dragon chair. An editorial was published: "When the New Year's bell rings, China has completely lost a better future!" ”

Ta Kung Pao, the birthplace of Chinese nationalism in recent years, has always maintained a strong enthusiasm for foreign affairs, repeatedly advocating China's struggle for world hegemony. It is also for this reason that the name of "Ta Kung Pao" is very loud in the whole white world, and people all over the world who want to understand China and Chinese politics will not miss "Huaxia Daily" and "Ta Kung Pao" in their hands!

Liu Xian conferred the title of earl on Wang Luying's eldest brother, not a nobleman, which can be regarded as compensation for his inability to identify himself.

So the influence of Ta Kung Pao is unquestionable. After more and more secrets were buried forever with the passage of time. It is no wonder that Wang Qing finally chose Ta Kung Pao.

Now "Ta Kung Pao" has finally sung down China's future, just like the Chinese media, which have been suffering from 'phobia of inheritance' since the second half of last year, have finally opened their mouths to conclude that after the change of emperor, China's attention will be focused on China's domestic and peripheral Greater China circle, and it will definitely reduce its international external competitiveness. It is undoubtedly tied up in the battle for hegemony on the earth.

China will certainly be one of the most powerful powers on earth, but it will not be able to reach the glory of the British Empire in the previous century. That is to say: China's dream of world hegemony is shattered!

Not many people know that they have the impression of Emperor Liu, who is as thin as dry wood and is dying. At this moment, the weight has increased from 135 pounds to 143 pounds. That's just a month!

Although he is more than 1.8 meters tall, 143 pounds is still thin. But as long as you look at Emperor Liu's ruddy face now, you can understand that it will not take many days for his body to return to its normal state. Emperor Liu's own body is still tough.

Mid-February. The royal family revealed a message to the outside world, and the emperor hoped that one day he would see the Old Summer Palace repeat its former glory. The royal family will invest another 1 billion yuan to speed up the construction of the Old Summer Palace. At the same time, the Chinese royal family, together with the Chinese government, proposed to Britain and France to recover the looted cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace, and then publicly solicited exquisite cultural relics from the whole world, including the Chinese people, at a large price, so as to decorate the Old Summer Palace in the future.

Then the Chinese royal family officially announced to the whole country that after the restoration of the Old Summer Palace, the Old Summer Palace will be opened to the whole society step by step as a park and museum.

That is, when the British, French, German, and Austrian powers strengthened their armaments, the Chinese royal family and government not only did not have the intention of strengthening their armaments, but also fed back to the people and mobilized the people to repair the Old Summer Palace on a larger scale.

Everyone is well aware of one fact -- whether it is a subject country or a feudal country, it is an independent force after all. It is an independent force that will have its own interests and economic needs, and they can maintain their own pace with China's interests in a relatively balanced or even disadvantaged state, but all this has a guideline, just like the current big wave also has a certain 'bottom line' for Germany, and these regions are different from the colonies after all.

China can reap the benefits of one period and one period from its subject countries and feudal countries, because China has also paid its own 'protection'. This is a relative equilibrium, in case the balance is broken one day, the injured party will be born dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction accumulates more and more, and accumulates more and more, until it completely jumps back!

China's biggest problem now is that there are too many younger brothers to take care of, and the subject countries are fine, but most of the feudal countries are still in a state of 'blood transfusion'. Emperor Liu is very interesting to his son, but is Emperor Liu interesting enough to his brothers? These are all factors that counterbalance China's pace.

It can be said that by the time of 1911, Western countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, and the United States had already let go of half of their hearts about China. It is extremely unlikely that they will completely ignore China, but as far as the spearhead of war is concerned, the British and French troops will certainly not unswervingly point directly at China. The Germans are like a giant magnet that is attracting them.

Moreover, the great changes in China have also had a great impact on the situation in the Middle East. -- The Balkan League was formed!

Since the 14th century, the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula have been under the rule and oppression of the Ottoman Empire for a long time. By the 19th century, Greece, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria had gained independence or autonomy, but still some lands and people were under Ottoman rule.

It is not for nothing that the territory of Turkey in Europe is only so lost. Hundreds of years of rule have not been exchanged for assimilation in any sense, and the Ottomans are a cultural waste.

While the Ottoman Empire was slowly moving towards a military revival with the support of China, Greece, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, etc., were also supported by European powers, mainly Britain and Austria-Hungary, and then the revived Russians also appeared in Serbia and Bulgaria in recent years.

The subsequent outbreak of the Italo-Turkish War accelerated the establishment of an anti-Turkish alliance among the Balkan countries.

Then, when the conflict between Britain and Germany became public, and when it was rumored in China that the emperor might be ill, Germany's younger brother Austria-Hungary finally swallowed its appetite and annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, two provinces with mostly Serbs and Croats, which were also German and Austrian support for Italy. According to the Treaty of Berlin, the two provinces were administered by Austria-Hungary, but they were still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire. Incidentally, Serbia's expansion in the region was also hindered, and since the fall of Tsarist Russia, Serbia, which has developed rapidly economically and militarily, has become the leading brother of the Slavs, especially among the South Slavs in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary annexed these two provinces as a base for their expansion into the Balkans. Serbia is very unhappy about this. The government of St. Petersburg protested to Vienna about this, and Serbia even mobilized its troops. The people of Poland and Herzegovina also opposed the rule and enslavement of Austria-Hungary and strongly demanded the union with Serbia, which was of the same ethnicity.

Austria-Hungary, relying on the support of Germany, refused to convene an international conference and amassed troops on the Austro-Serbian border to threaten it. In May 1910, the Ottomans were the first to back down, and with the support of Germany, signed an agreement with Austria-Hungary to relinquish the nominal suzerainty of Poland and Herzegovina at a cost of 4 million pounds, which made Germany and Austria-Hungary more assertive towards St. Petersburg and Serbia.

In recent years, Germany has been at odds with the government in St. Petersburg over the issue of Northern and Eastern Europe. The St. Petersburg government increasingly showed its inclination towards Britain and France.

In June, Germany sent a threatening note to St. Petersburg: asking the St. Petersburg government to induce Serbia to recognize the fait accompli of the annexation of the two provinces by Austria-Hungary; If St. Petersburg continues to support Serbia, Germany and Austria will impose strict economic sanctions on St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg was forced to back down and put pressure on Serbia to abandon its mobilization for the anti-Austrian war and to stop all anti-Austrian actions. On 11 July, the Cypriot government was forced to announce the cancellation of the protests, and a crisis that had almost led to war was subsided.

But this was like a rehearsal for a war, and the Bosnian crisis further deepened the contradictions between St. Petersburg and Germany, Austria, and Serbia and Austria, intensified the competition between the German-Austrian alliance and Britain and St. Petersburg in the Balkans, and also caused more and more gunpowder to accumulate under the feet of the Balkans.

Serbia hated Austria-Hungary, Serbia hated Germany, so Serbia did not deal with pro-German Bulgaria, but Serbia and Bulgaria, as well as Romania and Greece, easily reached an alliance in the face of the Ottomans.

In the second half of last year, Serbia and Bulgaria signed the Treaty of the Serbia-Bulgarian Union on August 13 after many negotiations, in which the two sides pledged each other's independence and territorial integrity, and if one of them was violated by another country, the other side should give full support; On September 29 of the same year, Bulgaria and Greece signed the Treaty of the Greek-Bulgarian Defense Alliance. The treaty provided for the assistance of the two parties with all their armed forces in the event of an Ottoman attack on the territory of one of the parties to the State party or undermine rights under the treaty or fundamental principles of international law. In October, Negoro of Men, and Seybeau and Paoya reached an agreement to jointly fight against the Ottoman Empire. Thus, a Balkan alliance with Serbia at its core was formed.

In May 1911, the Balkan War broke out! (To be continued.) )