"Why?" Emperor Yang groaned, although he is now full of ambition to dominate the world like a mustache, but the Chinese people are still kind after all, and there is an essential difference from a war maniac like him, and it is always a bit unreasonable to join the war without a reason.

"Have there been any recent cases of Chinese citizens being bullied and killed in the territories of Britain, France and Russia?" With an expectant look on his face, he asked Zhang Quan, who was waiting for him to come up with an excuse for going to war.

His Excellency the Foreign Secretary shook his head without hesitation, at this time, the Chinese hated to be regarded as an ancestor outside, especially in the colonies of Britain, France and Russia, whether it was a Chinese businessman or an expatriate, it was okay if they didn't bully others, how could anyone dare to bully them, last time a Chinese businessman was robbed and killed in India, the Indian Governor personally apologized to the Chinese Consul General in New Delhi, and then there were more than a dozen suspects hanged alone, and now even the robbers know that they can't rob Chinese.

"So have any public opinion insults us in these countries recently?" Yang Feng asked again.

"No, the whole Entente is glorifying your virtues and the friendship of the Chinese people, and although occasionally there are tabloids that make similar statements about sensationalism, the result is that they are severely attacked by governments, and it is said that the French are still calling on the Holy See to make you a saint." Zhang Quan said with a smile.

"Huh?" Yang Feng didn't expect it to be so difficult for him to find an excuse to start a war.

"Forget it, if you can't find it, make your own!" He said depressedly.

"Build your own?" Zhang Quan didn't quite understand.

"Of course, remember that when we want to beat anyone in the future, it is good to have a reason, but there is no reason to make it ourselves, for example, if a Chinese citizen is killed, a soldier is missing in the territory of the other side, and a Chinese ship is attacked by the enemy's submarine, even if they don't have a submarine or they are bombed by anti-China elements. All in all, if you want to have it, there must be, and your Ministry of Foreign Affairs doesn't have to worry about this problem, just leave it to the Attendant Office, they have more experience in this area. Emperor Yang said casually.

Since he said this, there is no need for Zhang Quan to ask more, in the end, this is just a trivial matter, with the prestige of the emperor's majesty in the eyes of the people, he said that he would not have any objection to beating anyone.

Creating a pretext for war is naturally more appropriate to hand over to Yuan Chief, but in view of the fact that he has been tossed by His Majesty the Emperor in recent years, the pro-German and pro-British forces in the country are basically evenly matched. Therefore, His Excellency the Chief Saloon thinks that this excuse for war should be stronger, for example...

"Your Majesty, what is your reason for saying that if one of our warships is blown up in a Russian port?" Yuan Shikai asked cautiously.

"How?" Yang Feng asked.

"The destroyer Cheonan is now in Manila, if this destroyer is accidentally exploded and sank, and a few sailors die, then we can say that the Russians did it because of the anti-Chinese elements, because we have sold arms to the Germans all these years, although the upper echelons of the Russian army have a friendly relationship with us because of the rubber business. But those low-level soldiers who don't have much oil and water are still very dissatisfied with us, and it makes sense to say that they bombed our destroyers out of anger, so that we don't have an excuse to go to war against Russia and the entire Entente? Attendant Yuan said sinisterly.

I have to say that the Maine incident in which he changed his hand for a vest is indeed feasible, and the fact that the Russian soldiers in the Philippines are not friendly to China is public. So far, nearly 100,000 people have died, all of them on Chinese-made weapons, and the Chinese merchant ships that deliver arms from Pannay Island to Medan are flying through the sea every day, and even the Chinese fleet in Panai Island has provided them with protection. The Russian warships did not even dare to investigate, the relationship between them was indeed not good, and the Chinese rubber merchants there would only engage in transactions with the Russian officers even if they colluded to make money transactions. It is impossible for ordinary gray animals to get benefits, so it is difficult for the lower ranks of the Russian army to be friendly to the Chinese.

It is also theoretically reasonable to blast a Chinese warship out of resentment, and besides, this kind of thing can only fool the domestic people, there is no need to make it too complicated, it is almost enough, anyway, as long as there is such a thing, whether it is done by the Russians or not, it can only be done by the Russians.

"Yes, but it's better not to kill our soldiers." Yang Feng nodded and said.

"How about finding a few North Korean and Vietnamese sailors?" As a federal empire, there are a certain number of soldiers in China's naval and land armies, among which the proportion of soldiers in the two most populous member states, Korea and Vietnam, is basically maintained at about five percent.

"Yes, it's just the Tianan, this name..."Emperor Yang groaned for a while, and said with some astonishment: "When did there be a Tianan in our navy?" ”

"An ocean-going destroyer that was commissioned just the year before last was given such a name because of the victory of the commemorative medal Gao Yuan in blocking the Japanese army in Tian'an." Yuan Shikai said.

The next plan was very simple, Han Wen, the captain of the destroyer Cheonan, which was visiting Wèn in Manila, received a local Chinese businessman in his captain's room, and soon after the businessman left, the captain was happy to give most of the sailors a holiday, leaving only more than 20 people on duty on the ship.

However, just two hours later, when the Chinese sailors who came ashore were holding the Ji girl from Russia and Japan looking for fun, suddenly a huge explosion dispersed their joyful singing and dancing, and when Captain Han rushed out of the courtyard with his men, the scene in front of them directly stunned them, and the destroyer Cheonan, which had been docked at the dock, was slowly sitting on the berth with the light of fire.

Immediately after that, the news that the destroyer Tianan of the Chinese Navy had sunk in the Russian colony of Manila, killing six sailors and injuring ten sailors on board, quickly shocked the world, and the Chinese mainland was immediately overwhelmed with anger, and almost all the newspapers pointed the finger at the Russian garrison in unison, because they were the only ones capable of doing such a thing, and they had the motive to do so. Then these newspapers began to list all kinds of unfriendly behaviors of the Russian garrison on Luzon Island towards the Chinese over the years, like beating Chinese businessmen on a daily basis, this kind of thing does happen from time to time when the Russians drink too much, humiliating Chinese diplomats, and when the Chinese consul general in Manila attended the banquet of His Excellency the Governor, there was indeed a Russian guard who spat on him, in short, all all the trivial things were summed up, and it became the hostility of the whole Russia to China.

Then, combined with the huge loan that the People's Bank of China gave to Russia not long ago, the Russians were immediately linked to ingratitude and wolf-heartedness, and for a time the whole of China was condemned against Russia, including the old hatred in history, and the sound of war was heard endlessly.

Under these circumstances, the Chinese Government naturally cannot but express that the Chinese Foreign Ministry has formally lodged a protest with the Russian Foreign Ministry, and at the same time demanded that the Russian side hand over the murderers involved in the attack within 48 hours, otherwise it will not rule out declaring war on Russia.

Originally, the Entente countries who were still waiting for China to join their group to end the war were all stupid, and everyone knows the rules these days, although the Tianan ship was blown up and sunk by Russian soldiers out of anger, but judging from the unanimous reaction of Chinese newspapers and radio stations, it is obvious that there is something greasy in this. To be honest, this matter is not a big deal, the Tianan ship is not sinking to the bottom of the sea and cannot be checked, now the sea water has just not reached the deck, find a few divers to go down first to see if the internal ammunition accidentally exploded or let people plant bombs outside, this is the normal procedure, and now as soon as it comes up, it is undoubtedly aimed at the Russian garrison, and if there is no conspiracy, then it is called hell!

However, by this time, Britain and France, including Russia, had not yet thought about China joining the Allied Powers, because just after the Tianan explosion, the train selling arms to Russia was still entering Russia normally, and it was obvious to Britain, France, and Russia that Emperor Yang was trying to blackmail this time. Taking advantage of the fact that the Entente is now waiting for him to enter the war, he will get his hands on the Russian colony in the Philippines, after all, Yang Feng has long been notorious in this regard, and he has extorted more than one million square kilometers of land from the two major groups in this way since the start of the war in Europe, and it is not surprising that he will finally get another Philippines.

And Britain, France and Russia are indeed not sure whether the Cheonan was blown up and sunk by the Russian garrison, at this time all kinds of ideas in Russia are very chaotic, and the large number of casualties in the war makes Russia have no restrictions when recruiting troops, and all kinds of people are mixed in the army, including the garrison on Luzon Island, there is no lack of hatred of the tsarist government, and it is not surprising that these people have sunk Chinese warships for some purpose to block Nikolai.

And once China determines that Russia did it, it will definitely not be possible to join the Entente in the future, then it will definitely join the Allies, these chaotic parties that have been fed by the Germans are completely possible to do so at the request of their behind-the-scenes bosses, in fact, after the explosion, the Russian governor in the Philippines did think so, and in Manila, they wantonly searched for the rebels, causing hundreds of innocent people to suffer disasters.

Therefore, the first thing that the Entente thought of was not to prevent China from joining the Allies, but to go to Emperor Yang first to see what he wanted to do this time, if he really wanted the Philippines, then Nikolai really had no qualifications to refuse, he was now overwhelmed by the two enemies inside and outside, how could he still have the energy to erect another strong enemy who could kill him for a colony.

Although the rubber plantations in the Philippines can be said to be like mountains of gold, they are not a life-threatening place after all. (To be continued......)