After the German expedition arrived in the Qing Kingdom, they asked the villagers about the demon law, and when the villagers heard it, they pointed to a broken Taoist temple on the hillside with their hands and said, "There is an immortal chief living there, you can go and ask him." ”

The German expedition team was overjoyed and came to the Temple of Broken Dao, and sure enough, they found an old Taoist inside, who was actually a charlatan, relying on a few tricks to coax the ignorant people, but they didn't expect the German expedition team to find it by mistake.

When Lao Dao heard that the Germans were going to learn demon law, he was immediately furious, "This immortal can only be immortal, not demonic." ”

The German expedition hurriedly asked the interpreter: "What is the Immortal Law?" ”

The translator was a Qing Guo man and replied: "It's a spell that is more powerful than demon magic!" ”

The German gave a thumbs up, "Amazing, then you can teach us the immortal method." ”

Lao Dao stretched out his hand, "Pay the tuition fee of one hundred taels of silver first!" ”

The Germans directly smashed a silver ticket of five hundred taels of silver, and the old Taoist put the silver ticket into his arms, and said, "Wait for a while, this immortal will visit the heavenly court, and find some gold pills for you", and then walked out of the Taoist temple with immortal steps, and when he reached the place where the Germans could not see, he ran away, only hating his father and mother for having two legs, and he didn't even want to cover the luggage in the Taoist temple.

The Germans waited until the sun had set, and when they had not yet seen Lao Dao return, they asked the interpreter with some suspicion: "Have we been fooled?" ”

The translator also hated the Germans, and said, "That great immortal may have eaten too much immortal wine in the heavenly court, and he has delayed it, so wait for some time." ”

This kind of waiting, the old way went out to talk about the Germans, and the charlatans in ten miles and eight villages all knew that this group of Germans was stupid and had a lot of money, and they all came to pit the Germans, and the Germans were cheated for 5,000 taels of silver, and then they understood, it turned out that we were deceived, and hurriedly put pressure on the county magistrate, and beheaded four or five charlatans, and then went back stupidly, but this matter has become a laughing stock in world history.

Chiyo Shizuka withdrew from the battlefield after the attack, rendezvous with the two Leopard-class high-speed transport ships, and then scuttled the two merchant ships, sinking the enhanced barrel guns into the sea, and as for the mustard gas shells, they were all gone, saving the trouble of dealing with them.

On March 26, Chiyo Shizuka returned to Dayu City, and Lin Fei hosted a banquet in the palace to welcome her, still with a calm and gentle smile on her face, as if she had not gone to kill more than a thousand people with chemical weapons, but went out to buy a bag of biscuits.

Lin Fei smiled: "Shizuka, you have made such a great contribution, how can I thank you?" ”

Chiyo Shizuka smiled softly, "Needless to say, thank you and the like, my sister and I still need you to take care of it." ”

The welcome banquet ended quickly, Shizuka took Mika back to her residence, but Lin Fei was worried again, although the German attack was thwarted this time, but it made Lin Fei feel a huge threat, that is, the Western powers are gradually stepping up their encroachment on the Qing State, if Lin Fei does not speed up the encroachment of the Qing State, it will be preempted by other countries.

Lin Fei wanted to fully encroach on the Qing State, mainly faced two major problems, first, the Qing State was too big, and lacked modern means of transportation and communication, and it was not easy to control it by himself, although Lin Fei had selected talents from all provinces of the Qing State for training and preparation for the future occupation of the Qing State, but the training of these people had not yet been completed.

Second, the great powers of all countries regarded the Qing State as a huge fat meat, and if Lin Fei wanted to swallow the Qing State, he had to face the interference of the world powers, including the allies of the Chinese Empire, Germany and Russia, and the Jiaozhou Bay incident, which had already shown Germany's ambition to annex the Qing State, and Russia had huge interests in the northeast of the Qing State.

Once he swallows up the Qing Dynasty, it will inevitably arouse the opposition of many countries, including Germany and Russia, and even cause all countries in the world to launch a world war against China again.

It is not possible to swallow the Qing country directly, it seems that there is only one way to encroach first, and then the whale to swallow, as for which direction to start encroaching, Lin Fei has doubts again, from the geographical location, he can only encroach on the southeast coast, Shandong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula, because other places are in the interior, and he can't get over at all, but these places are not easy to encroach on.

First of all, the southeast coast and the Shandong Peninsula, which have been operated by Britain, France, and the United States since the Opium War in 1840, have huge interests in these places, and if they encroach on the southeast coast, these countries will inevitably attack them en masse.

Besides, the Liaodong Peninsula is still garrisoned by Japan, and Russia is also eyeing it, and if it encroaches on these places, it will inevitably be attacked by Japan and Russia.

Lin Fei sighed, it seems that his way to encroach on the Qing Kingdom has been blocked, although now he is using the method of economic penetration and peaceful evolution to encroach on the Qing Kingdom, but these things are in the category of soft power after all, and soft power is not backed by hard power, so it is not strength at all.

Lin Fei was thinking about it, and suddenly noticed Vietnam on the map in front of him, Lin Fei suddenly realized, why did he forget about Vietnam?

Vietnam borders Yunnan and Guangxi of the Qing Dynasty, and if Vietnam is defeated, it will not be able to encroach on Yunnan and Guangxi, which are regarded as remote hinterland by the great powers, and there is no oil or water, and even if they annex these two provinces, they will not cause a fierce reaction from the great powers.

The great powers do not know the wealth of Yunnan and Guangxi, but Lin Fei knows, Yunnan has Xishuangbanna tropical rainforest, rich in tropical cash crops, but Lin Fei's whole country is in the tropics, do not need Yunnan's tropical cash crops, Yunnan's mineral resources, especially non-ferrous metal mineral resources are very rich, of which tin ore reserves rank first in the world!

Tin metal has an extremely huge application in the electronics industry, Lin Fei now has an electron tube, and the electronics industry is about to be rolled out on a large scale, and there is a great demand for tin ore.

Metal tin can also be used to make wear-resistant alloys, one of the most important applications of wear-resistant alloys is to make bearings, Lin Fei's large steam turbine has not been successfully developed, and the lack of excellent bearings is an important reason.

Although there are many tin mines in Indonesia, the quantity and quality are overshadowed by the tin mines in Yunnan.

Guangxi is also a place with extremely rich non-ferrous metal resources, in the era of Lin Fei, Guangxi was even known as the "hometown of non-ferrous metals", with a variety of non-ferrous metal minerals, and many metal mineral reserves are among the top in the world.

In the face of the temptation of huge interests, Lin Fei decided that the next step was to annex Vietnam, and then encroach on Yunnan and Guangxi, as for the method of annexing Vietnam, it was already in front of him, and the Vietnamese king Nguyen Phuc Zhao was ousted from power by his imperial sister Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao, as long as he supported Nguyen Phuc Zhao's restoration, he could control Vietnam.

As soon as he thought of Ruan Fu Baojiao, Lin Fei was very excited, I must catch this chick again.

At this time, it had been more than eight months since the end of the Nanyang World War, and the vitality of the Chinese Empire had almost eased up, especially in the farms and mines, a large number of Indonesians were used as slaves, and slaves did not need wages, did not need entertainment, and could be squeezed out of surplus value to the greatest extent, so the recovery speed of the Chinese Empire was very fast.

Just when Lin Fei was actively planning the plan to seize Vietnam, there was a sudden change in Europe, and on April 6, Sa Zhenbing suddenly sent a telegram to Lin Fei. During his visit to Britain in early April, McKinley proposed a coalition of nations to mediate international conflicts and avoid a catastrophic event like the World War in the South Seas, during talks with the British Prime Minister Earl of Salisbury.

As soon as it was proposed, it was echoed by Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, and even Japan, which was far away in Asia, intended to build an international alliance. This alliance of countries is like the United Nations in Lin Fei's era.

William? McKinley was the president of the United States in this era, he pursued an expansionist policy, launched the Spanish-American War, and occupied the Philippines, but at this time the Philippines had been occupied by Lin Fei, and he could no longer occupy it, so he took advantage of the opportunity of the World War in the South Seas to snatch Guam from Lin Fei's hands.

Now William? McKinley also intends to establish a coalition of nations to mediate international conflicts, clearly wanting to use this coalition of nations to safeguard its own interests and suppress the interests of other countries, and every country that joins the coalition of states, especially these major powers, thinks about the same thing.

Lin Fei immediately called back to ask Sa Zhenbing, did Britain invite the Chinese Empire to participate in the National Alliance?

Sa Zhenbing quickly called back, "The British Foreign Secretary has sent an invitation letter inviting my Huaxia Empire to join the National Alliance, whether we will join the National Alliance, please indicate?" ”

Lin Fei thought about it again and again, and decided to join this national alliance, and only by having his own people in it could he compete for various interests, Lin Fei immediately instructed Sa Zhenbing to agree to the British invitation request, and appointed Sa Zhenbing as the plenipotentiary ambassador of the Chinese Empire to deal with the matter of joining the national alliance.

On 10 April, representatives of China, Britain, and the United States signed a joint declaration in London, announcing the formal establishment of the League of Nations, which includes 53 countries, including China, Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Ottoman Turkey, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.

Originally, the Qing State had decided to join the National Alliance, but the Qing envoys found out that the Chinese Empire was also a member state, and they were immediately furious, believing that the Chinese Empire was built by the Qing rebellion and was not eligible to join the National Alliance, so they brazenly withdrew from the National Alliance.

What Lin Fei didn't expect was that the first issue after the establishment of the National Alliance was to stab him and Huaxia severely!