1896 was a tragic year for the British!

Also, for the Spaniards. It's also tragic for the Dutch!

Seeing that there was no hope of resistance, the Spaniards even had the idea of simply selling off the colonies in the Pacific, and contacted the Germans and Americans for this purpose, but after learning the news, the Reich issued the most severe warning, regardless of whether the Americans or the Germans bought the Spaniards' Asian colonies, the Reich would never admit it.

If the United States and Germany try to forcibly control these colonies, then the Reich will not hesitate to start a war!

Any country that thinks it can outperform the British and defeat the Imperial Navy in Asia can give it a try.

Faced with the threat of war from the Empire, the Germans with a few sampans in the navy immediately shrank when they saw that the momentum was not right, and the Americans were very tough, but in the end they still did not dare to risk war with the Empire to buy these Spanish colonies in the Pacific.

After all, the performance of the Imperial Navy in the South China Sea naval battle was so shocking that it defeated the British Royal Navy, although it only defeated a detachment of the British Royal Navy, but this detachment had at least one-third of the strength of the British Royal Navy.

And in addition to the Imperial Navy and the French Navy, what country's navy dares to say capable of defeating the East India Fleet?

The Americans were also afraid that the imperial warships would come to San Francisco one day, so after some arguments, the Americans, after receiving the Chinese's promise to support the United States to seize Cuba, although unwilling but still gave up the plan to seek Spanish Pacific colonies.

Since they couldn't get the colonies in the Pacific, Cuba just couldn't afford to lose them, so the Americans simply followed the empire, made a casual excuse at the end of March, and then declared war on Spain.

This excuse is still very bad, learning from the example of the sinking of the Imperial Jinhua, but the US Navy is not large, but it is reluctant to sink a capital warship in order to get an excuse to go to war, they randomly find an American merchant ship, and then sink it in a Cuban port.

This was followed by a declaration of war on Spain and an invasion of Cuba!

At this time, the situation in the world is already completely chaotic!

Even the Russians wanted to take advantage of the chaos, and they began to increase their troops in the direction of Central Asia, but when they saw that although the empire launched large-scale envoys in India and Burma, it still maintained a large number of war-ready troops in Central Asia and Lake Belga, they also gave up the plan to make a big deal with the empire, and instead aimed at Afghanistan and Iran.

While the British were anxious about India, the Russians did not hesitate to send troops to Iran!

The French are also ready to move, the main fleet has begun to assemble, once the British Royal Navy's home and Mediterranean fleets are weak, then the French are estimated not to let go of this most rare opportunity in two hundred years!

As long as the navy can annihilate the British, Britain will be a fart at that time, and Europe will not be their France the boss!

It seems that overnight, the position of the British as the world leader is beginning to be lost, the French and the Russians are the most direct response, and even the Boers in South Africa are taking the opportunity to make trouble, wanting to drive the British out and then monopolize the gold mines of South Africa.

The Americans, on their part, also took the opportunity to send troops to Cuba without taking the British into account at all!

Under such a predicament, the British were first in turmoil, causing all this, and the Prime Minister Earl Roseberry, who was clamoring to clean up the empire and curb the expansion of the empire, had to resign and end his term of office early under huge pressure at home and abroad.

Subsequently, the Earl of Salz became the new prime minister of the British, and as soon as the old statesman who became prime minister for the third time came to power, he began to push for negotiations with the empire to try to end the war that had already made Britain lose face.

He said that there is no need for the British to sacrifice for the benefit of others!

We must not sacrifice our India for the sake of the Philippines of the Spaniards!

In April, the first secret talks between China and Britain began, and this time faster than any previous one.

The British simply sold Spain outright, recognizing the Empire's sovereignty over all Spanish colonies in Asia and the Pacific.

The only demand of the British is, stop this damned war immediately, right now!

As for the question of Lower Burma and Malaysia, the British made a proposal that was of great interest to the Empire: they recognized the Empire's Trusteeship of the Dutch Indonesian Islands, but the Empire wanted to return Lower Burma and the Malaysian Peninsula to the British.

In this regard, Lin Zhe hesitated, but only hesitated for a moment, and soon agreed to the conditions of the British, although the British wanted a truce, but if the empire really wanted to cut meat from the British, occupy Burma or Peninsular Malaysia or even Singapore, it is estimated that the British are really desperate.

And for the empire, it is not easy to occupy Burma directly, and it is estimated that the occupation will also be directly annexed by the Ning Kingdom, although Malaysia is very important, but it is because it is important that the British will not give up easily.

Moreover, Lin Zhe also knew that Dutch Indonesia was quite rich in resources, and there was a strategic resource that the future empire desperately craved: oil!

At this time, in the Far East, the oil resources that were easy to exploit and the oil resources that were relatively rich in reserves were basically in Dutch Indonesia, which was the Dutch.

This gets an Indonesian word, at least for the next fifty years the empire does not have to worry about the strategic security of oil.

As for Singapore, it's a big deal to start another war in a few years to avoid it, and now that Britain has gone downhill, they can't keep a strategic place like Singapore for long.

In addition, the Empire did not want the war to be prolonged, and to some extent, the Empire marched into India to force the British to negotiate, not to say that it really wanted to seize India.

Neither side wanted to prolong the war, so the negotiations lasted only a few days, and then an agreement was quickly reached and ratified by both countries.

When this armistice agreement was signed, it scared other countries again, you must know that the Americans were still fighting in Cuba, the Russians were still fighting in Iran, and the French were still formulating various naval plans to try to sneak attack the British home fleet.

But I didn't expect that as soon as the world situation became chaotic, China and Britain signed an armistice agreement.

A discerning person looks, Nima, the British sold Spain and the Netherlands, and then exchanged for peace!

In this war, although the British lost face and some warships, in fact the losses were not large, at least Lower Burma and the Malaysian Peninsula returned to their hands.

On the other hand, the Chinese Empire has gained a large number of colonies, and all the Spanish colonies in Asia and all the Dutch colonies in Asia have been completely taken into the pocket of the Empire.

At this time, the empire can already proudly say: from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, from Central Asia to Alaska, the empire is the boss! (To be continued.) )