Of course, Lin Fei would not look at the peace between Britain and Germany, so he instructed Zhu Minxiang, commander of the Saudi Arabian Dispatch Army, to choose the most appropriate time to secretly blow up several sections of the Baghdad Railway.

At a time when Britain and Germany were at loggerheads over South Africa, Britain and Germany began to argue over the right to build the Baghdad Railway.

Britain first pressured the Ottoman Turkish Sultan to cancel Germany's right to build railways, and then used public bidding to redistribute the rights to build railways.

The British proposal was strongly opposed by Germany, and the Ottoman Turkish sultan was in a dilemma, so he had to use the right to build the railway to Germany, which had been sold to Germany, and could no longer change the name, and rejected the British proposal.

Seeing that the Ottoman Turkish Sultan could not be coerced, the British resorted to the Kuwaiti sheikh and signed an agreement with the Kuwaiti sheikh, which stipulated that the Kuwaiti sheikh could not sell land to other countries without the consent of the British.

An important purpose of Germany's construction of the Baghdad Railway was to enter the Persian Gulf, and Kuwait has the best ports around the Persian Gulf, and the Baghdad Railway will inevitably end in Kuwait.

But now, Kuwait could not sell the land to Germany, which made Germany angry, and Germany immediately sent troops, casually found an excuse, to punish the Kuwaiti chieftain, and Britain immediately sent troops in Kuwait to protect, and the two sides again saber-rattling.

In fact, in Ottoman Turkey, there is another important force, that is, Russia, but unfortunately Russia is deeply involved in the war with Japan in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, the Russian army originally thought that the Japanese army was vulnerable, but when the fight started, it was found that neither side could eat anyone, and the war was stalemate.

It was against this background that Lin Fei's subordinate Zhu Minxiang prepared to blow up a section of the Baghdad Railway, which would spur Germany into a war with Britain.

The blasting operation has not yet been carried out, and something suddenly happened in the Qing Kingdom!

On July 28, the Qing government suddenly announced the establishment of the Daqing Bank, the official issuance of the Daqing dragon coin, and the promotion of the use of the Daqing dragon coin in various southern provinces, the Daqing dragon coin is also paper money, which can be exchanged for silver.

When Lin Fei got the news, he felt an unprecedented shock, finance is one of Lin Fei's important means to control the southern provinces of the Qing State, and now the Qing State has established a bank to break Lin Fei's financial control.

With the national strength of the Qing State, it is simply unable to set up a bank on its own, not to mention other aspects, even people who understand the operation of banks cannot find much, could it be that the Qing State formed a bank with the support of the great powers?

Lin Fei smelled a strong aura of great powers from this action of the Qing Kingdom...... Sure enough, a few days later, Chiyo Shizuka sent news from Beijing that Qing Guo established the Daqing Bank, with the support of Bank of America and Citibank, Bank of America and Citibank, which are the two largest banks in the United States in this era, and the United States has long coveted the control of Qing Guo's finance, and finally took action at this time.

Lin Fei was not afraid of this newly-born Daqing Bank, after all, his Dafu Bank had the strong backing of the Huaxia Empire.

Lin Fei then secretly instructed Fu He, the president of Huaxia Bank, to start a trade war with the Qing Daqing Bank, the bank has three major functions, deposits, loans and exchange, in this regard, Lin Fei instructed Fu He, the loan interest rate of Dafu Bank is lower than that of Daqing Bank, the deposit interest rate is higher than that of Daqing Bank, and the exchange fee is lower than that of Daqing Bank.

However, what Lin Fei did not expect was that Daqing Bank actually adopted administrative measures to force a large number of merchants to deposit money in Daqing Bank, if they did not deposit money in Daqing Bank, the merchant would face a huge tax three times higher than that of other merchants, and if the exchange business was not carried out through Daqing Bank, the merchants' caravans would not be allowed to pass through the checkpoints of Qingguo.

In this way, if the merchants want to save money, they can only deposit it in the Daqing Bank, and if they want to exchange it, they can only go to the Daqing Bank, and what is more terrible is that the merchants of the Chinese Empire were the most affected, and the Chinese merchants remitted money through the Dafu Bank when they bought industrial raw materials such as ores, and now the Qing State has come up with such a policy, forcing the Chinese merchants to take out the money from the Dafu Bank and put it in the Daqing Bank.

Lin Fei ordered Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao to lodge the strongest protest and the most solemn representations to the Qing court, demanding that the Qing state change this policy.

On 10 August, the Qing state ordered Kang Youwei, the ambassador to China, to negotiate with the Ministry of Commerce of the Huaxia Empire to demand an increase in tariffs.

Faced with a series of aggressive moves by the Qing state, Lin Fei realized that the Qing court had realized the depth of its control, so it began to take measures to get rid of its control.

On 15 August, Emperor Guangxu issued an edict ordering all provinces to speed up the training of new troops, to reduce a large number of green battalion soldiers, and to use the surplus military expenses for training new troops.

In fact, the Qing court has long wanted to dismantle the green battalion, but unfortunately the interests involved are too wide, and they have not been able to make up their minds.

On September 6, two warships purchased by the Qing State from the British sailed into the port of Tianjin, these two battleships were British-produced cruisers, and they were the same class ships of the Japanese Yoshino, and the Qing State had sent a purchase request to the British since the end of the World War in the South Seas, and now two years have passed, and these two warships have finally entered service.

The Qing State ordered the two warships to be "Zhiyuan" and "Jingyuan", which was the same as the name of the battleships of the Beiyang Fleet in those years, and the same name was used to name different warships, which was not uncommon in Western navies.

The pipe belt of the Zhiyuan ship is Deng Shichang, and the pipe belt of the Jingyuan ship is Ye Zuqi, Ye Zuqi is also a member of the Beiyang Fleet in Lin Fei's era, the pipe belt of the Jingyuan ship, after the sinking of the Jingyuan ship, he carried a teaspoon for life, and the teaspoon was engraved with the Qing Imperial Navy - Jingyuan, whenever Ye Zuqi saw this teaspoon, he felt that the sunken Jingyuan ship was still by his side, which showed his loyalty to the Qing court.

In addition to the two cruisers, the Qing also purchased eight small torpedo boats from the British, each torpedo boat was equipped with eight torpedoes, the torpedoes were British white-headed torpedoes, the Qing country's naval strategy was already very obvious, based on coastal defense, fighting wolf pack tactics, using torpedo boats to sacrifice their lives to attack, and knock out large warships.

While the Qing State expanded its army and navy, it still wanted to maintain friendly relations with Lin Fei, and the Qing State sent a number of cultural exchange groups to visit China, and the content of the exchanges was mostly the way of Confucius and Mencius, ancient classics, these things only accounted for a small part of Lin Fei's education system, but in the education of the Qing State, it was all.

Lin Fei did not turn away the Qing cultural exchange group, but was very polite to them and instructed the cultural and educational department to receive them.

Qing Guo also instructed Kang Youwei many times to explain the Qing policy to Lin Fei, saying that a series of actions of Qing Guo did not mean to target Lin Fei, and Qing Guo was only carrying out internal reforms.

Of course, Lin Fei saw that the Qing Kingdom was confusing himself, and Lin Fei did not say anything, because Lin Fei was also making the final preparations for a full-scale attack on the Qing State at this time, and Lin Fei was not fully prepared at this time, so he could not attack the Qing Kingdom immediately.

Lin Fei's preparations included, manufacturing cars and tanks, preparing a large amount of food, including all kinds of canned meat, secretly sending surveyors, drawing a map of the Qing State, etc., after all, the Qing State was so big, and it was not possible to attack the Qing State and overthrow the Qing court in an all-out way.

Although Lin Fei prepared a beheading operation, the beheading operation could not guarantee the complete surrender of the Qing provinces, so many high-ranking Manchu officials, for their own money and status, would definitely fight Lin Fei to the death, and the beheading operation could severely deter the Qing court.

Lin Fei preliminarily estimated that it would be about next year, that is, in April 1900, that is, after these preparations were completed, so now Lin Fei would not tear his face with the Qing State in order to confuse the Qing State and achieve the suddenness of the beheading operation.

The international situation is becoming more and more treacherous, Japan and Russia are fighting in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, Britain and Germany are facing off in South Africa and the Middle East, France, Austria-Hungary and Italy seem to be neutral, but in fact one is ready to help Britain and the other two are ready to help Germany, and the United States is far away on the other side of the ocean, but waiting for the opportunity and preparing to seize the maximum benefits.

And Huaxia and Qingguo, one wants to swallow Qingguo, and the other desperately tries to get rid of Huaxia's control.

The time soon came to mid-September, when the war between Britain and Germany in the Middle East was already on the verge of breaking out, and Zhu Minxiang felt that the time was ripe and sent agents to secretly blow up a section of the Baghdad Railway.

The incident occurred on September 19, and this bombing, also known as the "919 explosion", shook Britain and Germany.

Germany first accused Britain of sabotaging the German railways by brutal means, while Britain retorted and accused Germany of deliberately blowing up the railways and blaming Britain.

Britain and Germany were already sitting on the powder keg, this explosion directly blew up the two countries into the sky, the German army suddenly launched an attack on the British army in the Middle East, the British army fought back, the two sides fought in Kuwait, and the Kuwait War broke out.

At 10 a.m. on 25 September, the British army in South Africa launched an attack on the Boer garrison, and the Boers and Germans fought back, and the South African War officially broke out.

Lin Fei learned the news of the outbreak of the war through the Huaouxin Bridge, and was very happy, but in addition to being happy, Lin Fei also had a trace of regret, that is, Germany and Britain did not break out in the war on their own soil like the First World War in their own era, and the war broke out in the colonies.

However, even if it erupts in the colonies, it can also attract the energy of the two countries, so that the two countries have no time to look eastward.