Since Japan and Russia have already started a war, it means that these two countries will not have the strength to interfere with Lin Fei for a long time to come.

Lin Fei saw the war between Japan and Russia, and happily returned to Dayu City, as for the outcome of the war between Japan and Russia, it was not Lin Fei's concern, and Lin Fei didn't want to care, but Lin Fei still instructed the agents to report the progress of the battle at any time, once the battle was one-sided, Lin Fei had to take action and support the weak side, just like when he helped the Netherlands deal with Britain in Pontianak.

When Lin Fei returned to Dayu City, the first thing he did was to learn about the formation of the Airborne Forces and the development of computers.

In terms of the formation of the airborne troops, due to the accident of Yu Ningshuang breaking his leg, the training was more cautious, the high-altitude platform parachute was temporarily stopped, and the parachute was also returned to the factory for redesign and testing.

In terms of computer development, Ling Xue encountered a lot of difficulties, many of which could not be solved, Lin Fei was not very proficient in computer science, and he could not help Ling Xue, so he could only give Ling Xue spiritual comfort.

Two years ago, that is, on April 16, 1897, the Qing court formally agreed to Lin Fei's four requirements for ending the war between the Chinese Xia and the Qing in the Nanyang World War.

It was now 1899, and Lin Fei's strategy of economic occupation and financial control had begun to bear fruit, and all the provinces south of the Yangtze River and along the Yangtze River, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, and Anhui had all kinds of factories and businesses opened by Chinese merchants.

Lin Fei also supported these Chinese merchants to build roads in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Fei had always wanted to build a railway, but for the conservative Qing officials and common people, the railway was unacceptable to them, they believed that the railway and the roaring train would disturb the mountain gods and river gods and bring disasters.

Fujian Province, the closest to Taiwan, once built a railway, but just piled up the roadbed, put down the sleepers, and had not yet laid the railroad tracks, a nearby village suddenly caught fire, burning more than a dozen people, the fire was actually caused by a peasant woman's carelessness in cooking, but the angry villagers thought that it was the Chinese businessmen who built the railway that angered the god of fire, bulldozed all the roadbed, dug out the paved sleepers, and burned it down.

When the officials of the Qing court heard about this, they not only did not punish the people who caused the incident, but ordered the Chinese merchants to compensate 500 taels of silver, equivalent to 10,000 Chinese coins, to be used as sacrificial silver to appease the anger of the god of fire.

In two years, on the basis of the official roads of the Qing court, the Chinese merchants widened the road, strengthened the roadbed, and even paved the road with solid cement, so that the transportation capacity of the carriage was improved a lot, and the ore was transferred more quickly, and the Qing court was also happy to see this.

In fact, the Qing court officials would not have thought that Lin Fei ordered the Chinese merchants to strengthen the road in order to prepare for a rapid march, and at this time the United States already had a large number of cars, and Lin Fei, as a traverser with insight into the direction of military development, had no reason not to equip his army with a large number of vehicles.

Lin Fei's idea is this: to equip the whole army with heavy-duty trucks and turn the whole army into a motorized force, but the biggest problem in this way is that the production of automobiles in this era is quite low, and Lin Fei now has 16 main divisions, each with 15,000 people, a total of 240,000 people, and if one truck for 20 people is needed, more than 10,000 trucks will be needed, which is obviously unrealistic.

For Lin Fei, the biggest difficulty in the development of automobiles is the engine, the internal combustion engines imported from Germany are all large internal combustion engines, which can only be applied to airships, submarines, artillery tractors, these big guys, small internal combustion engines are regarded as core technologies by Germany and the United States, and are resolutely not sold.

Lin Fei could only buy cars made in Germany and the United States and imitate them, but the effect of imitation has not been ideal.

The internal combustion engine for automobiles can't be solved, and the internal combustion engine for tanks can't be solved, Lin Fei knows that after defeating the Qing court, the land that was plundered by Tsarist Russia must be recaptured, and those lands are vast plains, which are the most suitable for armored troops to charge.

Lin Fei's expansion of roads in the Qing Dynasty aroused criticism from people of insight in the Qing Dynasty, including Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong, etc., who were keenly aware that the roads expanded by Chinese merchants were particularly suitable for the use of the Chinese army, so they wrote to Emperor Guangxu and suggested that Chinese merchants be prohibited from building roads.

Emperor Guangxu also issued an edict to restrict Chinese merchants from building roads, but there were policies and countermeasures, and local officials were very supportive of Chinese merchants building roads, the reason was very simple, as soon as the road was repaired, some people would go, and local officials could collect money, who would have trouble with their own money bags.

Compared with road construction, Lin Fei's financial control methods did not arouse the vigilance of people of insight in the Qing Kingdom, after all, there were too few people in the Qing Kingdom who understood the economy.

In order to control the financial lifeline of the southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Fei specially set up a bank, the name of this bank, which has no political color - Dafu Bank, in order to reduce the vigilance of the Qing officials.

At this time, most of the Qing people were peasants, the vast majority of the peasants were tenant farmers and poor peasants, a small part were rich peasants and landlords, tenant farmers and poor peasants had no deposits, and rich peasants and landlords were not accustomed to keeping their money in banks, they preferred to dig a cellar and hide all their money in it.

Therefore, Dafu Bank is mainly opened in various cities, providing deposits, loans and exchange services for businessmen, in fact, there are banks in the Qing Dynasty very early, at this time there are many money banks, ticket numbers, and silver numbers in the southern provinces of Qing Dynasty, these banks are small operations, in front of the wealthy Dafu Bank, completely unable to compete, Dafu Bank provides higher deposit interest rates, lower loan interest rates, lower exchange fees, and easily destroyed these small banks.

After two years of painstaking operation, Lin Fei has basically controlled the Yangtze River basin and the financial lifeline of the provinces south of the Yangtze River, in this process, businessmen from Britain, France, Germany and the United States are Lin Fei's biggest competitors, but they have one natural shortcoming, that is, they are not people in the Chinese cultural circle, they don't understand what people in the Chinese cultural circle think, what they want, and they have a European face, which makes the Qing people have a grudge against them.

In order to make his people better integrate into the Qing State, Lin Fei even suggested that people who worked in the Qing State should wear a fake braid and wear the clothes of the Qing State.

In terms of public opinion preparation, Lin Fei has been actively implementing the strategy of "peaceful evolution" since he formulated it, and the people of the Qing Dynasty have a good impression of Lin Fei when they see the wealth of China and their own poverty.

The conditions for road transportation, finance, and public opinion were ripe, and Japan and Russia had started a big war again, so there were only two things left in front of Lin Fei: first, prepare troops for the comprehensive overthrow of the Qing court and formulate an offensive plan; Second, to provoke the European countries to go to war so that they could not interfere in China.

After more than four years of study and training, Li Mingming, He Kaisheng, Li Tianqian and others were already excellent staff officers, and it was good to leave such a thing as attacking the Qing State to them.

Lin Fei put his main energy on the research and development of new equipment, and the new equipment that Lin Fei planned to develop was tanks and automobiles.

More importantly, the appearance of tanks, which are not afraid of bullets, on the battlefield will give an absolute shock to those timid and cowardly Qing troops, and the Qing army is very likely to throw their guns and flee, and the battle to overthrow the Qing court will be much easier to fight.

In the development of tanks and automobiles, the most important thing is the power plant, that is, the internal combustion engine, and the miniaturization of the internal combustion engine is the focus of Lin Fei's work.

Lin Fei's internal combustion engine talents are relatively few, so Lin Fei set his sights on the world, intending to look for talents around the world, and there is really one person who has entered his field of vision, this person is the inventor of the diesel engine in Lin Fei's era, Rudolph? Diesel

Rudolph? Diesel is a genius, the internal combustion engine of this era is still a gasoline engine, and Diesel thought of using diesel to develop a diesel engine, the gasoline engine is very different from the diesel engine, the gasoline in the gasoline engine is ignited by the igniter, and the diesel in the diesel engine is compressed by high-pressure air.

In Lin Fei's era, almost all weapons and equipment used diesel engines, because diesel engines were powerful, diesel costs were low, diesel engines had high combustion efficiency, and diesel engines were more fuel-efficient.

At this time, the Huaxia refinery, while distilling gasoline from oil, can also distill a lot of diesel, but these diesels cannot be used, and can only be used as industrial fuel with residue.

And if you put Rudolph? It would undoubtedly be a great thing for Diesel to come to Huaxia and let him manufacture diesel engines for Huaxia.

What is even more beneficial to Lin Fei is that Rudolph? Diesel was easily recruited to Huaxia, because at this time he was bankrupt, after he invented the diesel engine, although he got a lot of technology transfer fees, but he used the money to do business, he lost a mess without business acumen, he was extremely hit, at this time he was recuperating in a sanatorium in Germany, for Diesel , as long as he was given a large sum of money, he would come to China.