Yang Feng guessed right, the main reason for the British hesitation is that they don't know his attitude, now this guy is very important to the situation in Europe, if he falls to William, then the Ottomans as his ally will definitely fall to Germany, Hamid II has hooked up with William, coupled with the stimulation of the victory in the Balkan War, it would be strange to say that the Russians have no idea about the territory they snatched from them!

In addition to the Ottoman Empire, Spain, another quasi-power that has been getting closer and closer to China and Germany in recent years, it is difficult to guarantee whether it will join the Allies, if Canovas sends troops to France, then it is not only the Germans who face a two-front battle, not to mention that the Spanish naval strength even exceeds that of Italy, and the four perfect battleships across Gibraltar are very fatal.

In addition, there is Sweden, in fact, Sweden at this time, can already be regarded as one of the great powers, although the scale of the navy and army is not too large, but the terrifying military production capacity is chilling, Bofors steel has an annual output of more than three million tons, and specializes in the production of high-performance alloy steel, the subordinate arsenal is currently the mother factory of most of the main battle weapons in European countries, regardless of the British, French, German and Russian soldiers from machine guns to cannons, at least half of them are authorized from it, Or it is developed with its product as the parent type.

Not to mention the Young's shipyard in Gothenburg, where a full ten docks for building battleships can scare people to death, and there are five docks that can build 50,000-ton tankers, with an annual shipbuilding capacity of more than 400,000 tons, and this one shipyard alone can support the navy of a medium power, in addition to automobiles, oil refining, and especially importantly, a large antimony factory, which is currently the largest in Europe and second only to China in the world.

And as soon as Sweden joins the Allies, then the Russian Baltic Fleet will never come up with it, even if you don't add the German fleet in the port of Kiel. The Swedish Navy alone will be able to block the Baltic Sea, and those six shallow-water versions of small battleships and a large number of destroyers will form a steel line of defense in the Baltic Sea.

So the British didn't want to take the risk, they wouldn't go to war unless they were sure that China would not join the Allies, and if necessary, they couldn't get involved in a hopeless war at the expense of the Allies.

Fortunately, at this time, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement from Emperor Yang, which was still not enough to make the guarantees that the British needed, but at least it had already given them a sense that Yang Feng was ready to continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

"Your Excellency, the principles of myself and the Chinese Government have never changed, and the Chinese nation is a peace-loving nation. We do not want to see any war, although the misfortune of Queen Elizabeth is sad, and the crimes of the murderers are outrageous, but in any case this is not enough to justify war, let alone turn into a great war in the whole of Europe, and Her Majesty went to Belgrade for the sake of peace, and if it becomes a great war in Europe because of this, then it is believed that her spirit in heaven will not be able to rest in peace. Yang Feng sat on his throne solemnly and said.

"Your Majesty, you mean to oppose the Austro-Hungarian Empire's use of force against Serbia." Sa Daoyi asked tentatively.

"I am against the act of resorting to force!" Yang Feng said shamelessly.

"Then if Austria-Hungary invades Serbia. What will you and the Chinese government do? Sa Daoyi asked again, he had to get Yang Feng's personal promise in this matter.

"I oppose the act of resorting to force." Yang Feng sat there and continued to repeat.

Nima, don't just object, come up with something practical! Sa Daoyi sneered in his heart. Of course, you can't say this, you must know that this is an emperor's majesty.

Yang Feng looked at him, and then said lightly: "If Austria-Hungary and Serbia unfortunately go to war, and lead more countries to get involved in the war. The Chinese government will strictly abide by the principle of neutrality and will not export any military supplies to the belligerents, as for the enterprises owned by me. We will also strictly comply with the laws of the country in which we are located. ”

This is more practical.

Sa Daoyi knows very well that this is equivalent to Yang Feng's promise that he will not join any party, and he will not favor any side, as long as he stabilizes him, then the Ottomans, Spain, Sweden and these countries can rest assured, as for his promise to abide by the principle of neutrality, it is a fool to believe his nonsense! If the European powers really want to fight, with the style of a profiteer, then they must not desperately make money, although they say that they will not sell military supplies, but what is military and what is civilian, how can it be so easy to distinguish.

Just like steel, crude oil, and even machine tools, he said that he sold them to civilian use, who could help him? Besides, these things are also very much needed by the Entente, especially Russia, which has the worst technical strength in it, and now even the armor steel is purchased from Sweden! There is no need to care about this kind of detailed thing, this is true with Yang Feng's personal promise.

With this guarantee, Sa Daoyi is relieved, but for the sake of insurance, he feels that it is better to give Yang Feng a little sweeter, and use this as an excuse for the two sides to sign a treaty or something, at present, there is still a dispute between China and Britain, which is nothing more than the demarcation of the Sino-Burmese border, and the demarcation of the Tibetan border, to put it simply, Jiang Xinpo, who was completely lost in history, and Zhe Mengxiong, who has now been lost.

The British meant to sign a permanent demarcation agreement between the two sides, to give China as much benefit as possible on the issue of the demarcation of the Sino-Burmese border, and at the same time to establish the current Indo-Tibetan border in written form, but Yang Feng was not very interested in this, it was obvious that this was not enough benefit for him, the Jiangxinpo area was originally in the hands of China, and the penetration of the British had long since stopped, although Myanmar, which was accused by them, still had ideas about this, But this idea can only continue to be maintained in the face of China's powerful military power.

The British merely established in writing that they would no longer have any ideas about this area, which was not a substantial benefit to China, and since they wanted to sign a treaty of friendship, they had to at least take something practical, not to mention that they would return the suzerainty of Zhe Mengxiong first.

Although that small place is not worth mentioning to Emperor Yang, it can at least be used to pre-operate, so as a bridgehead to attack India, he has managed the Tibetan area very well over the years, this guy gave Zhao Erfeng a full 100,000 army, and equipped with anti-altitude sickness drugs, and then imitated his practice in Xikang to change the land and return to the stream, the obedient chieftains got to the interior, rewarded a piece of land as a nobleman, and the disobedient disappeared directly.

For this reason, Emperor Yang also specially recruited a full 400,000 migrant workers from Sichuan to build the Sichuan-Tibet Highway from Chengdu to Lhasa, Kirin Automobile specially developed high-horsepower trucks for this highway, and now is building the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, and even this guy is ambitious to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, although he also feels a little too imaginative, but fortunately, this project does not need to be too urgent, from now on he can always be repaired in ten or twenty years.

The famous Zhao Butcher spent three years turning the entire Tibetan area into China's Qinghai, former Tibet and later Tibet provinces, as for how many bones and blood this guy stepped on under his feet, no one cared about this, that place was so far away that it was almost forgotten, and no one would care.

Although the land has now been reclaimed and repatriated, there are still three divisions stationed in the front and rear of Tibet, one of which is stationed in Shigatse, one division is stationed in Lhasa, and another division is stationed in dozens of military stations along the highway to ensure the safety of the road.

In Yang Feng's plan, once the British were attacked in the future, then the army would march from Yunnan and Houzang respectively, especially the Yadong Pass, which is the most important chokepoint, and if it could be taken back in advance Zhe Mengxiong or another name, Sikkim, it would undoubtedly completely open up this road.

First of all, the highway that has been built to Shigatse is extended forward, there is a three-year effort enough to repair to Zhemengxiong, and after the start of the war, with the support of the Sichuan-Tibet and the Qinghai-Tibet highway that will definitely be opened at that time, not to mention the operation of maintaining an army should be enough, so that you can kill from Zhemengxiong, no longer need to worry about the barrier of the Himalayas, directly enter the Ganges Plain, and at the same time kill the British Navy on the southern front and land in Chittagong, with the Ganges channel as the support to attack north, These two north-south routes could cut Bengal and Assam out of India in the shortest possible time.

However, his request made Sa Daoyi very difficult, after all, Zhe Mengxiong signed a treaty with the Qing Dynasty government back then, and it was clearly stipulated that the suzerainty would be transferred to them, and if it was returned, it would be very ugly on the face, and Yang Feng could think of it, and he could also think that the Himalayas were the most important gap, and once it was handed over to China, it would mean that the door to Tibet would be handed over.

"Trust, Your Excellency, trust is mutual, I trust the British Empire, so I left tens of millions of pounds worth of assets in the UK, then I think the British Empire also needs to show trust in me with practical actions, if we are suspicious of each other, then what is the basis of our friendship?" Looking at his expression, Yang Feng said lightly.

Sa Daoyi smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Majesty, such a thing must be decided by the cabinet and the parliament. ”

"Then let's act, we don't have much time, the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum is only forty-eight hours, and now twenty-four hours have passed, and if their army has entered Serbia, then peace in Europe will be irretrievable." Yang Feng said. (To be continued......)