European countries saw the oil shortage in the United States and realized that the gasoline industry was profitable, so they accelerated the development of the oil industry.

Lin Fei won the trade war with the United States and forced the United States to return the students, the next step is to wait for the students to return, but it will take three months for these students to return to China, and it is only December 1898, the students will return, I am afraid it will be February 1899, February 9, 1899 is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, if Ling Xue comes back in time, she can catch up with the New Year.

Since this time, Lin Fei first used force against Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and then waved his troops to Guangxi and Yunnan, and fought a lot of battles, so Lin Fei decided not to attack Sichuan and Guizhou for the time being, and left some more time to digest and absorb all parts of Southeast Asia and Guangxi and Yunnan.

Lin Fei won the trade war with the United States, and then won Guangxi and Yunnan, it stands to reason that Lin Fei should be very happy, but Lin Fei has been frowning for a long time.

Now there are three women around Lin Fei, Xiyun, Lu Xian'er and Ruan Fubaojiao, Xiyun and Ruan Fubaojiao are as delicate as hair, and Lu Xian'er is thick and leafy.

Lin Fei's sorrow was seen even by Lu Xian'er, who had the biggest nerves, and Lu Xian'er couldn't help but ask: "Brother Feidi, are you unhappy about something?" Lu Xian'er is very interesting to call Lin Fei, he is a unique "Brother Feidi", the reason why he is called like this is to use "Feidi" to express respect and "brother" to express intimacy.

Lin Fei said worriedly: "What worries me is the Qing court. ”

Lu Xian'er sneered, "What is there to worry about in the Qing court, is Brother Feidi still worried that the Qing court will win against us?" ”

"We occupied Yunnan and Guangxi, although these two provinces are remote barbarian lands in the eyes of the Qing court, but after all, they are Qing territory, and it is really strange that we occupy the territory of Qing State in this way, and Qing State is indifferent."

Lu Xian'er pursed her lips and said disappointedly: "It turned out that it was because of national affairs, it was boring and boring, I thought that Brother Feidi missed Sister Xuefei, I don't know what Sister Xuefei looks like, hehe......"

Lin Fei thought well, the Qing court would never give up, they couldn't watch Lin Fei take Yunnan and Guangxi.

On December 4, news suddenly came from the Chinese Imperial Embassy in Beijing that the Qing court, after more than a month of preparation, was about to send troops to attack Yunnan and Guangxi.

This time, the Qing court divided its troops into two routes, attacking Guangxi and Yunnan respectively, of which the troops in the Yunnan direction were the new army trained by Zhang Zhidong, and the troops in the Guangxi direction were the new army trained by Yuan Shikai.

At this time, the Qing court had two elite troops, one was the new army trained by Zhang Zhidong, and the other was the new army trained by Yuan Shikai.

Zhang Zhidong led his troops from Hubei, first into Guizhou, and then from Guizhou into Yunnan, while Yuan Shikai's troops, starting from Tianjin, took a British transport ship into Guangdong, and then from Guangdong into Guangxi, basically following the same route as Nogi Noshinori's Japanese army.

These two troops not only attacked on their own, but also gathered Qing troops from various places to attack together, among which Zhang Zhidong's division would lead the Qing court in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou provinces to practice bravery, and Yuan Shikai's department would lead the Qing court in Zhili, Shandong, and Guangdong provinces, with a total estimated number of about 1 million.

In order to attack Lin Fei, the Qing court actually gathered a million people, and Lin Fei thought about it carefully, it seems that he has not been attacked by a million enemies.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers is not strong, after all, there are one million people, and so many people are lined up for the Huaxia army to kill for a while, let alone fight.

So Lin Fei didn't dare to be careless and began to prepare for war.

The first thing Lin Fei has to do is to figure out the march route of Zhang Zhidong and Yuan Shikai, Lin Fei now only knows the general march route of Zhang Zhidong and Yuan Shikai, but in terms of the details of the march route, Lin Fei does not know, whether it is from Guizhou into Yunnan, or from Guangdong into Guangxi, there is not only one way, especially to attack Guangxi, Guangxi has always been easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it is very important to know the exact route of the Qing army.

Therefore, Lin Fei instructed the ambassador to the Qing State to do everything possible to figure out the route of the Qing army's march.

The next thing Lin Fei has to do is to find out the equipment of Zhang Zhidong and Yuan Shikai's department, some time ago, Lin Fei once received a secret report from the embassy in Qingguo, saying that Yuan Shikai's training troops have replaced a batch of new weapons, and the situation of new weapons, Yuan Shikai kept it a secret, and it is difficult for the outside world to know.

Because Lin Fei used a large number of weapons that transcended the times in several previous wars, which greatly inspired the weapon designers of this era and stimulated the development of the military industry in various countries around the world, all countries in the world have produced a number of equipment that did not exist in Lin Fei's era, the most obvious example is the French airship.

These two things are related to intelligence work, Lin Fei's intelligence agency at this time was full of talents, both the agents trained by Wang Yao at the beginning, and the agents trained by Chiyo Shizuka later, the agent training methods of the two, one is American-style, the other is Japanese-style, and these two methods learn from Lin Fei's strengths and weaknesses here.

In order to support the intelligence work of the Qing State, Lin Fei sent a large number of agents to the Qing Embassy.

Lin Fei transferred the 15th Division, the main force of the Eighth Group Army, to Yunnan, the 16th Division of the main force, to Guangxi, and transferred the four reserve divisions, including the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, and the 100th Reserve Division, the main force of the First Group Army, to northern Vietnam, so that they were ready to rush to the aid of the Yunnan Theater and the Guangxi Theater at any time.

Lin Fei was actively deploying troops, and Tsiolkovsky suddenly came to Lin Fei, Lin Fei had already issued a green card to Tsiolkovsky at this time, and Tsiolkovsky had already joined the Chinese Imperial Nationality.

Tsiolkovsky was just an ordinary university professor in China with a mediocre status, but when he arrived in the Chinese Empire, Lin Fei gave him extremely high courtesy, and Tsiolkovsky happily joined the Chinese Empire nationality.

Tsiolkovsky rarely came to Lin Fei's office to look for him, but this time he came suddenly, which made Lin Fei feel very surprised, Lin Fei asked Tsiolkovsky to sit down and asked, "Mr. Tsiolkovsky, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

Tsiolkovsky said with a smile: "I came this time to tell you that our airship has been successfully developed. Although Tsiolkovsky was the father of rockets in Lin Fei's era, and was also responsible for the development of rockets under Lin Fei, he also had a deep knowledge of the development of airships, so he was also responsible for the airship program.

"Really, great!" Lin Fei stood up excitedly, although in his heart, airships were not as valuable as airplanes, but after all, they had an air force.

Tsiolkovsky smiled and didn't speak, with an expression of "Of course it's true, how could I lie to you", Lin Fei sat down again, and said suspiciously: "Mr. Tsiolkovsky, wouldn't it be good if you could give me a call on this matter, why do you want to go there yourself?" ”

Tsiolkovsky was in a dilemma, "Because, Your Majesty, I have a small request. ”

"What a request, but it doesn't hurt to speak."

Tsiolkovsky nodded gratefully and opened the conversation, "When I was very young, I dreamed that one day I would be admired by thousands of people, like a magnificent mountain......"

Tsiolkovsky hadn't been on the point for a long time, Lin Fei couldn't help frowning, and secretly scolded, is there any biographies of people in our time that says that the father of modern rockets is a verbose person?

Lin Fei coughed lightly and interrupted Tsiolkovsky, "Mr. Tsiolkovsky, if you have any requests, just say it directly." ”

Tsiolkovsky also realized that he was too wordy, and smiled ashamedly, "I hope that Your Majesty will name our airship after me." ”

In the Western world, it is not uncommon to name weapons and equipment after oneself, such as the Maxim heavy machine gun, the Colt revolver, etc., and even the Zeppelin in Lin Fei's era was named after the designer Zeppelin.

It stands to reason that Tsiolkovsky's request is very reasonable, Lin Fei has no reason to refuse, and there is no need to refuse, but Lin Fei has concerns, that is, if Tsiolkovsky is named this type of airship, it will definitely cause unnecessary trouble.

This type of airship has extremely strong combat effectiveness, can be called the king of airships in this era, this type of airship will inevitably attract the attention of all countries in the world, and the name of the airship will naturally be concerned, so that the name Tsiolkovsky will be widely known, and the world will definitely be aware of Lin Fei's "search for world talents" plan.

The "Searching for World Talents" plan is a plan secretly carried out by Lin Fei, although the Western world has heard of it, but it knows very little, and Lin Fei has never admitted this plan in public, once the Western world is alert to Lin Fei's plan because of the airship, then the Western countries will definitely tighten the population exit policy, and when Lin Fei wants to search for talents from the Western world, I am afraid it will be impossible.

Tsiolkovsky was a little unhappy when he saw Lin Fei's uncertain attitude, "Your Majesty, is there anything wrong with naming this type of airship after me?" Or do you think that my contribution to the development of the airship is not enough for me to name the airship after myself? ”

Lin Fei hurriedly shook his head and smiled: "No, no, no, I didn't mean that, I meant ...... Alas, forget it......" Lin Fei did not voice his concerns, because he was afraid that Tsiolkovsky would be disgusted when he heard about his plan to "search for world talents".

Tsiolkovsky forced him to ask: "Then Mr. Lin Fei, did you agree to name the airship after me?" (Eleven red envelopes, speed plus group - 423214695)