Katsura Taro, in the original history, was one of the nine elders of Japan, a disciple and heir of Aritomo Yamagu. Today, when Okubo Toshitsu was silent, he was the representative of the entire Japanese army. As a soldier, he resolutely opposed the peace. This is not only because of the sense of shame, but also because the first target of the Japanese government in Tokyo after the peace talks must be the Japanese Navy and Army, which has a scale of more than 300,000. Reducing the size of the army, cutting back on the army's spending, and then keeping the army firmly within the framework of politics are all things that Katsura Taro wants to know with his toes.

Therefore, for the sake of his inner dignity and the status of the army, Katsura Taro firmly opposed the peace. In order to achieve his goal, Katsura Taro directly pulled out his benefactor, the family of Yama Youpeng, who had a favor with him in the early years, to play cards.

"The change of Jiaxu [Jiaxu in 1874], the blood feud is not shared. How many Yamato warriors died under the guns of the Chinese? Entering the Imperial Palace is a shame that Japan will never be able to wash away. To rebel and compromise with the Southwest is to compromise with China, to betray the Imperial Palace of Japan.

"A Japanese man in his thirties roared angrily, the blood vessels in his head and neck bulged, and the whole person's emotions were uncontrollable.

"Heaven punishes the thief!"

"Heavenly punishment!"

"Heavenly punishment!"

On the day that Akiyama arrived in Tokyo, a long-planned march and petition was also launched in Tokyo. Veterans and poor werewolves with only one life left were the initial workhorses of this parade. The leaders were the descendants of the Navy and Army officers who died in the Sino-Japanese War, such as Oyama Iwa, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Saigo Komichi, Katsukaishu, and Akamatsu Norira.

As soon as the march began, Tokyo quickly became crowded. The Japanese are very fond of exaggeration and agitation, and there are some die-hards. Those who insist do not agree with the peace. Now someone has initiated, just a few words. Many people will rush out, shouting the names of the high-ranking officers of the Navy and Army who died in battle. A huge march began.

The procession passed in front of the gate of the Ministry of the Army, and the soldiers guarding it looked nervous, but Katsura Taro, who was standing at the window, looked calm.

"Your Excellency, this march will certainly bear fruit. With such a fuss, It's not good for His Excellency Ito to make eye contact with Southwest again, right? One of the officers whispered behind Katsura Taro.

"After all, they are all loyal and good relics. Using them today, shame, shame. Even if the goal is achieved, there is no joy at all. ”

Katsura Taro shook his head and sighed again. Looking at the procession that was about to disappear from sight in the distance, my mood was unusually heavy.

Everything that happened in Japan reached Liu Xian's hands on the same day. Liu Xian didn't care much, and shook his hand to let people pass the news to Saigo Takamori and Ito Hirobumi, not to express any of his intentions, but just to reveal his existence. For China, for Emperor Liu himself, the procession was clear for Chiguoguo's malice.

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In the Persian Gulf, forty or fifty miles inward from the port of Kuwait, rows of large oil storage tanks resemble towering giants. With hundreds of kilometers of oil pipelines throughout Kuwait, this barren land is exuding the charm of money.

Since the war subsided last year, the Kuwait Development Corporation has invested more money in the construction of oil pipelines and oil storage tanks, and three battalions of the National Defense Force have taken full control of the whole of Kuwait City. Not a single hint of the city or the surrounding area escaped their eyes.

At this moment, the dock has been completely blocked by the Wehrmacht, and more than two dozen brand-new domestic military jeeps are polished, and the huge 12.7 mm heavy machine guns are coldly pointed in every direction that may be dangerous.

This thing is not an armored vehicle. But on the land of the Middle East. Such a military jeep is much more powerful than an armored one.

Just look at this vigilance of the Chinese, and you will know. The 10-day oil shipment has started again. It takes three days at a time. Such a high level of security is very tedious, but for the sake of safety. The Chinese have to do so. Even in order to prevent the enemy from coming underwater to cause sabotage, they will also lay steel wire fences and arrange frogmen on duty under the sea surface in the dock area every time the oil tanker is about to arrive. It's an exaggeration anyway!

The war on the peninsula calmed down, but the people of the peninsula did not have a complete calm, and they began to rebel against the power imposed on them by the Ottomans. They attacked and attacked all the foreign peoples, including the oil fields, oil wells, and exploration personnel.

Kuwait's Great Burgan oil field was not damaged in the slightest by the tribal coalition forces on the peninsula, but two convoys and a pipeline maintenance station were repeatedly attacked by these fragmentary resistance forces, 17 Chinese workers were shot dead, and 20 vehicles and a pipeline maintenance station were completely destroyed.

Seeing the suffering of the Chinese, Britain, France and other Western countries lashed out at China through newspapers, ridiculing China, directly equating China with the devil of greed. As a result, within two days of rejoicing in Western Europe, three exploration teams of the British, French, and Belgians and two oil fields were attacked in the same way.

At the same time that Britain, France and other European countries themselves slapped their faces, an extreme zongjiao organization Holy Moon appeared in the Middle East. Holding high the banner of the Qur'an, they demand independence, not accepting any violation of sovereignty, and the highest goal is to drive out all foreign invaders and establish their own country!

This foreign invader included China, Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, ...... and even all foreigners active in the Arabian Peninsula. Therefore, the Middle East has not withdrawn from the eyes of the world because of the subsidence of the war, on the contrary, because of the Holy Month, the Middle East has always been active in the pages of newspapers all over the world.

Because there is the largest oil sea in the world, more oil than the Gulf of Mexico; Because it is not very far from Eurasia, because the location where the Persian Gulf is located is the center of the entire Eurasian continent.

A thick awning was erected on the deck of the light cruiser USS Oak, and the officers and sailors of the British Royal Navy lay idly on the railing, drinking coffee while watching the two Chinese Navy warships slowly sail towards the harbor.

"Lieutenant Colonel, look! What kind of ship is behind that? Suddenly, a voice broke the soft dullness. The sailors looked in the direction from which the sound came from, as four huge ships like hills slowly passed in front of them behind the fleet. Everyone gasped.

The giant ship, the sailors of the British Empire have seen a lot. Although the largest warships do not exceed 20,000 tons, the tonnage of cruise ships, cargo ships, and passenger ships has long reached 30,000 or 40,000 tons.

No matter how big these four mountain-like ships are, their tonnage will not reach 20,000 metric tons. To the astonishment of all the British, the appearance of these four huge ships was so strange!

Almost all of the buildings above deck have been eliminated, and there is only one tower, except for three huge chimneys. The individual bridges are flat at the back of the deck, and the bridge is a wide, closed deck with dense pipes from the front to the bow. Judging by their size and layout, these four Chinese tankers are completely new oil carriers of a new design.

"Bring my camera. Just go! Lieutenant Colonel Edward ordered. Directly told him that he should take a picture of the appearance of this new oil tanker and send it to London, although the photo of this appearance of the oil tanker is likely to have reached Whitehall, after all, such a long distance from China to the Persian Gulf is too exposed. But Edward still wants to shoot it!

Looking at the high hanging waterline and the overall shape, the tonnage of such a tanker will reach at least 30,000 tons when fully loaded. That is, such a tanker can carry at least 10,000 tons of oil. In the era of 1900, such a large carrying capacity completely destroyed all the tankers of the British. What's more, the oil load of 10,000 tons is only Edward's general estimate, and it should actually be more than his estimate.

"God!" After Edward took seven or eight photos in a row, he snorted. Four giant ships make one trip, three times a month, that is, 12 giant ships, which can transport at least 120,000 tons of refined oil or crude oil to China, which is not much lower than the total carrying capacity of the current oil tankers in the whole of the United Kingdom. Although the oil transportation industry of the British Empire has only just bloomed a crisp little green shoot. With the powerful shipbuilding capacity of the British Empire, it will be able to surpass the total carrying capacity of China's oil tankers by the end of this year at most. But China's strength lies in the land, and Britain's strength lies in the sea, and who would compare China's maritime power with the British Empire.

"I really should let the idiots in the country come and take a look." Edward, a proud naval officer, could not accept the defeat of any comparison, pursed the corners of his lips, and looked at the four oil tankers in front of him, not knowing whether to envy or worry. Although the empire has obtained the right to develop the Ghawar oil field, how to apply them seems to have fallen behind the Chinese.

The current British Empire is building luxury cruise ships, and its investment seems to be far more than that of oil tankers. China, however, has quietly challenged the new giant cruise ships, and they are more pragmatic, and all their investment is in exchange for practicality.

Not only the British sailors, but also the Wehrmacht and company representatives in the port were smitten by the four giant ships that docked at the port. Every ton of crude oil and refined oil shipped back to China is lovely money. The more you ship, the more profitable it is for your development company.

It was only a moment of distraction that cheers rang out all over the port.

All four tankers stopped at the berths, the tarps on the decks were pulled open, and the containers of uniform specifications were revealed. This is the domestic supply of Kuwaiti troops or companies. The invention of the container is undoubtedly an attack on the traditional maritime hegemony of Europe by the emerging China.

This kind of transport equipment, which the Chinese call containers, and the container ships, are all ideas that His Majesty the Emperor of China came up with. It can be loaded and disembarked quickly, and can load more cargo in a limited space. As soon as it appeared, the old mode of transportation in the Far East was quickly overthrown, and the two major shipping groups controlled by the Chinese government and the China Royal Transport Corporation in the hands of the Chinese royal family all used this method as quickly as possible, and then forced a backlog of old transport ships. Now the entire Chinese sphere of influence of shipping, container transportation has accounted for 70% of the total share. This invention also quickly had an impact on the transportation industry in the West. (To be continued......)