Outside the door, Yan Shao kept his head down and paced back and forth outside the door.

Seeing Yan Shao like this, she forcibly suppressed the worry in her heart, Caterina stood up from the bench and whispered beside Yan Shao. "Don't worry, the doctor in charge this time can be said to be the most experienced in all of Asia, and nothing will happen..."

"Yes..."Surrounding Yan Shao, Lu Ying and Da Yue Xun also kept persuading, hoping to make Yan Shao relax as soon as possible.

It's also strange to say, although other people's 'harem', no matter how harmonious they are on the surface, they are definitely bloody in secret, but the situation on Yan Shao's side is obviously much more stable, even if several people can't be said to love each other, there are few contradictions, and they have never calculated anything with each other in private.

Don't talk about the ordinary 'palace fighting drama', even if the competition is jealous, it is pitiful.

One of the reasons why it will be like this is probably that Yan Shao and the four of them have always lived together, although this makes Yan Shao very tired every time, but the five people live together, and it is difficult to hide anything from each other in private, so it is naturally difficult to calculate anything.

What's more, although they are the president's wives, they don't stay at home every day, with fine clothes and fine food, or attend a party or something like other wives, and they are idle and bored every day. For example, Elanor has to be busy with the group's affairs every day, especially after the group's own business has expanded to the world, and the number of domestic employees alone has reached hundreds of thousands or even millions.

As a result, Elaline is busy and busy every day. It's hard to have the heart to calculate anything else—————— in fact, she won't even know that she's pregnant, on the one hand, she's almost desperate, but on the other hand, it's not because she's too busy with work. Relationships that make menstrual periods often chaotic.

As for Katarina, although she may be less busy than Elaline, she is also one of the busiest people in the country, especially after the size of the Secret Service Bureau has expanded to hundreds of thousands of people.

It can be said that she and Elanon, if they have to make a ranking of the busiest women in the world one day, can definitely be included in the top five and can definitely occupy the top two positions.

As for Lu Ying and Kaoru Otsuki. While that may be an exaggeration, the reality is that their abilities don't match their looks, of course. They don't have the ambition or ambition that women often have, and that's probably the only thing to be thankful for...

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Although Caterina, Lu Ying and others had been doing their best to comfort Yan Shao, Yan Shao's expression had never improved, and his brows were even more furrowed.

But it's no wonder that Yan Shao is worried. Don't say anything else. Elanon's age was still a little too old after all. Yan Shao remembers that there are older mothers in later generations, of course, before this, the gynecology doctor in the hospital has explained very clearly to Yan Shao, the so-called older women refer to women who give birth to children for the first time after the age of 35, Yan Shao and Elano first met in 1903, when Yan Shao was 20 years old, Elaline was 17 years old, and now a full 14 years have passed. Yan Shao is thirty-four years old, and Elano is also 31 years old...

Although Elaline has been well maintained over the years. Although he is over 30 years old, his appearance has not changed much compared with when he was 17 years old, just a little more mature, and the same is true for his figure, just a little fuller than back then, if you don't know, 18 or 9 may be a bit exaggerated, but in your early 20s, I believe that few people will not believe it...

It's just that although there is a 4-year difference between 31 and 35, and Elano is not much different from when he was young, after all, he is only 4 years old, and no one dares to guarantee that everything will really go well. And although there has been a caesarean section in this era, the technique is not very mature after all, and the medical technique is not as developed as in later generations, even something like penicillin has not been produced, if there is really any accident...

The first recorded caesarean section in human history was in 1610, when the wife of a German cooper was accidentally hit while pregnant, causing the uterus to be in an improper position and unable to give birth to a baby. As a result, she was admitted to the University Hospital in Wittenberg. Unfortunately, the woman died 25 days after the operation, the cause of death was hemorrhage and infection, but the baby lived for 9 years. Since subsequent caesarean sections failed to save the life of the mother or the fetus, most midwives refer to caesarean sections as premeditated murder.

Even in the early 19th century, with the development of technology, the mortality rate of women was still as high as 75%, and the famous French obstetrician Maurisius in the 17th century even believed that "performing cesarean section is equivalent to killing the mother", and there was a coalition against cesarean section in Paris at that time.

Even in the late 19th century, the mortality rate of this method was still as high as 58%, and the reason why the mortality rate could be reduced is difficult to say because of the progress of medical technology, because the reason why the mortality rate will be reduced is entirely because the doctor who performed the operation performed a large number of excisions on the maternal organs, and even if the person was preserved, the mother basically said goodbye to fertility after that.

Although the medical profession has not given up on this progress since then, the mortality rate is still high, even if Yan Shao has trained a group of the most professional doctors in China today, and in order to let them accumulate enough experience, he has also let them practice medicine outside for a long time, but he is still very worried...

There is no way, even if he is much more mature than more than ten years ago, Yan Shao still can't become that kind of heroic character after all.

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Although they didn't know what was going on in the operating room, the people in the lobby knew that today was definitely not a place to make noise. Although the opportunity to meet like today is really rare, and it seems like nothing for colleagues to talk to each other, but...

If Yan Shao came out of it at any time, he saw that they were chatting happily about something they didn't know, even if they wouldn't have a seizure on the spot. I'm afraid I'll write it down in my heart.

If this is really the case, they can only pray that Yan Shao will forget about it, otherwise...

Hehe...

They don't need to be counting on anything in this life. After all, the people present are either high-level government officials, or celebrities, and they are also extraordinary celebrities, and they usually have no less contact with Yan Shao, and they still have some understanding of Yan Shao's character.

From a certain point of view, Yan Shao is actually a very generous person, even if someone offends him. He may not be obsessed with it, and he will soon forget it.

However, Yan Shao is a person who holds a lot of grudges. If he thinks it's nothing, then of course it's nothing, but if he remembers, then...

So even though dozens of people had gathered in the lobby. But these people only got together in twos and threes. talked about something in a whisper, even Song Jiaoren, Feng Guozhang, Jiang Baili and others.

For a while, whether it was in the lobby or in the operating room, the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

However, looking at Yan Shao's frowning appearance, Caterina always felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, so after thinking about it, Caterina had to find a way to talk about business to divert Yan Shao's attention.

Thinking of this, Caterina tugged at Yan Shao's collar. After concentrating Yan Shao's attention, he stood in front of Yan Shao and said softly. Recently, Tang Li and her sisters put forward a plan, planning to send some people to infiltrate the interior of neighboring countries to carry out the hidden plan. paving the way for something to come..."

Sure enough, her words immediately attracted Yan Shao's attention, and after listening to Katarina's words, Yan Shao's eyes rolled slightly. "Lurking? Paving? ”

"That's right," Caterina nodded. According to our analysis, in the future, China may have a war conflict, first of all, Japan, followed by Britain, France, and the Netherlands, which have a large number of colonies in the Far East..."

Yan Shao bowed slightly, indeed, these countries are the most likely to have a conflict with China next. No way, in such an era, it is difficult to make the country strong if it is not expanded like other regions. After all, this is not a stable era, and it is common for powerful countries to attack each other, and it is even more common for weak countries to be bullied. In Yan Shao's time, although there were often wars, to be precise, wars never stopped, but at least there was a stable order, an alliance of the five most powerful countries in the world.

Although these five countries themselves are full of contradictions, they can at least unite in the face of things that may pose a threat to them, and as long as these five countries take the same position, then it is impossible for any country on the earth to pose any threat to them, let alone shake the international order...

Compared with the present, Yan Shao's country, although it is not a happy world, at least it is much more stable than it is now, and it also gives a small country the opportunity to develop into a rich country.

But now, given the possible trade barriers, and a variety of other reasons, expansion is the only possibility. Why do Americans want to support free trade, isn't it because the colonies of this world have been almost divided up by the European powers, and what they want to get, they can only grab it from the hands of the European powers, such as the weakened Spain, but this is too difficult, after all, neither Britain nor France is easy to bully, especially Britain, even if the industry is not as good as the United States, but its huge navy is still not something the United States can compete with, so free trade has become the only choice, Only in this way can they sell their goods to areas controlled by other powers at minimal cost.

As for China, it is a little worse than the United States after all, both in terms of strength and industrial capacity.

It was not much at this point, for the American powers, as well as the British and French powers, needed large quantities of cheap goods to help them in the war effort, or to make up for the gap that had been left in the transition of industrial capacity to the munitions industry.

But when the war is over, the situation will probably be reversed.

However, relying on its own ability to absorb domestic demand, it is obviously unrealistic for China to become more and more industrially capable, and the only way is to snatch colonies from other countries and follow the same path as the United States in the past.

In this way, conflict becomes inevitable.

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Seeing that Yan Shao had finally focused his attention, Caterina smiled slightly in her heart. Then he continued. "So after some discussion with Tang Li, we decided to send some people to Japan and other surrounding areas to pave the way for our future plans............... There's still nothing wrong with the Japanese side. Because before this we had already begun to send some people to the Japanese, although it has only been a few years now, but it has already achieved some results, and then we just need to continue to increase our efforts and be patient, and the war between us and Japan can be said to be inevitable, since this is the case. We need to be more prepared so that when we come to a conflict with Japan, we will have a better chance of winning..."

"Didn't the original preparation be enough?" Yan Shao asked with some curiosity. After all, the Special Affairs Bureau had already sent some people to Japan, and the plan had already been carried out.

"It's not bad......... Yes. Shaking her head, Caterina replied. The problem is that most of the people we send are lurking in the people. There are too few people who can enter the military and politics. Although we now have some contacts with some of the Japanese politicians, the problem is that we can't expect them to be willing to cooperate with us after the outbreak of war, so we need to prepare for both, even if it won't work for the next 10 or 20 years. ”

Hearing Caterina say this, Yan Shao nodded in agreement, and he agreed with Caterina on this, that is, there must be a war between China and Japan. Because one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers. Asia is so small that it can only have one dominant country. It's as if there is only one United States in the Americas.

Obviously, with the character of the Japanese, it is impossible to admit defeat without even fighting, so the only way is to completely subdue the Japanese through war. Only in this way can Japan be willing to be Yan Shao's dog, and become a help and helper for China to dominate Asia and contend with the European and American powers——————.

But the problem is that in this era, apart from Japan, there is only one Thailand that still has some support, and as for the other countries......... Either they are still in a colonial state, poor and white, and it will take some time to start supporting, or some countries in the South Seas, not to mention the poor and white, even if they are supported, it is difficult to say how much help can be helped...

As a result, there are many fewer options for Yan Shao to choose from, and in fact, only two countries, Japan and Thailand, have some effects.

The current international situation is that whites are far stronger than yellows, and even if Europeans have fought a suicidal war, their strength is still much stronger than China's, not to mention the existence of the United States next to it.

If we want to break this situation, unite the yellow race in other regions, and expel the forces of Europe and the United States from East and Southeast Asia, Japan will be an excellent help.

Thankfully, despite the twisted personality of the Japanese, there are some good guys in Japan, such as Miyazaki, who can work with.

If you can convince these Japanese people, and then choose a character like Miyazaki to work with, things can undoubtedly go a lot smoother...

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"What are you going to do?" After thinking about it, Yan Shao asked directly.

"It's very simple, first of all, we select some people from the Special Affairs Bureau, and after a series of training, arrange for them to be sent to Japan, and then find a way to let them blend into Japan's military or political circles, in a short period of time, we don't have the idea of going to war with Japan, so we can have enough time for them to climb to a high enough position, so that when we really have a conflict with Japan, they can play a very special role..."

"In addition to Korea, at the moment Korea has just been annexed by Japan, and there are still a lot of resistance elements in Korea itself, we can completely support them to help them survive in Korea, and even allow them to retreat into our territory if necessary, so that even if they can't play any special effect, when we fight the Japanese in the future, they can also play a lot of special roles, even..." We can train a group of Koreans to come out and let them blend into Japan. From a certain point of view, this may be much more successful than arranging people ourselves, after all, there will always be some loopholes in the identity of the arrangement. In peacetime, it may be nothing, but in wartime, the Japanese will inevitably find out that there are internal problems with them, and then these loopholes may become a little fatal, and those Koreans, their identities are public, and they can be checked by the Japanese. There will be no problem with this..."

"North Koreans?" Yan Shao frowned slightly, in later life, he was very tired of these Smecta sticks, not to mention...

"Can it work? For the Japanese. It's hard to think of them as your own..."

"That's right." Caterina nodded, agreeing with Yan Shao's statement. "But that's just for now, since the Japanese have annexed Korea, they will inevitably find a way to make Korea completely integrate into themselves. So this distinction is believed to be only temporary. In a few years, unless they allow North Korea to rebel against them, they will only have to make some changes, and this kind of thing may take decades to solve, but they have to do something first, so we just need to pick some North Koreans, even if they will be ostracized at the beginning, etc., I believe that after some time, in order to show that they treat North Koreans equally. It's going to be a show, and that's all it takes. It is possible that they will blend into the middle and upper echelons of the Japanese military and political circles, although this is not very likely, but after all..."

"Okay." Yan Shao nodded. "But it's better to have a one-line contact with them, so that if something goes wrong, no one else will be contacted..."

"Don't worry." The corners of Katerina's mouth curled slightly. "Could it be that I don't know what to do..."

Hearing Caterina say this, Yan Shao also smiled, indeed, if even she didn't know what to do, then Yan Shao really couldn't find anyone who knew the Tao.

But just as he was about to nod, he suddenly remembered something.

"Speaking of which, it's best to contact some people within Japan recently, well, it's like a figure like Miyazaki, there are too many radicals in Japan at the moment, and in addition to that, there are Anglo-Americans, although there are not no pro-China, but the number is too small, and if we have a conflict with Japan in the future, when the war is won, there will definitely be some agents inside Japan..."

Originally, Yan Shao wanted to say that under the pretext of uniting the yellow race, driving the whites out of Asia, and making Asia an Asian Asia, he contacted the pro-China faction in Japan, but thinking that Caterina in front of him was also a Caucasia, in the end Yan Shao could only keep silent.

Not knowing what Yan Shao was thinking, Caterina nodded slightly, and then continued. "In addition to this, there are regions such as French Indochina and Burma, and even Thailand..."

"Since those parts of Burma were colonized by the British, the resistance has not disappeared, but because the British are too strong, it is difficult for these resistances to succeed, or rather......... It has never succeeded, and the same is true of French Indochina, although this time the Vietnamese sent a lot of people to Europe to help the French fight, but the French still treated them differently, and the Vietnamese had nothing to do about it, if we could first contact their internal resistance groups, then ......... In the future, when we push our forces into these areas, we will be able to get their help..."

This is for the future, although China is now at peace with the Great Powers, and even very close allies in Europe, but in fact, everyone knows that when the war is over, this special relationship will disappear completely in a very short time...

There is no way, because a strong China will inevitably threaten the interests of Britain and France in East and Southeast Asia, and conversely, these places have always been the traditional sphere of power of China in the past, and China would not have ceded these areas to the great powers if it were not a last resort.

Now that China is strong, it is inevitable to ask for it back. It can be said that the conflict between the two sides is inevitable, and China has an excellent advantage in this regard.

First, there's the issue of distance.

For example, Vietnam, Burma and other places are extremely far away from China, while Britain and France are in Europe thousands of miles away, even if the Suez Canal has been opened, Britain and France can reach Asia from Europe in a shorter time than in the past, but it is still much longer than China.

If something does happen, maybe it's over. Britain and France were unable to send troops.

Thirdly, there is the issue of strength, although the strength of Britain and France is stronger than that of China today. But after experiencing the European war, I believe that Britain and France will take a long time to recover, and China, although it has also experienced the European war and has also paid a lot of casualties, it is far worse than Britain and France, even if China really has any moves in Southeast Asia. I'm afraid Britain and France won't be able to stop it.

The last and most important point is also the most important.

Although it is no longer within the scope of China's power, China has been influencing it for thousands of years. This long period of time is definitely not something that can be worn out in just a few decades. Moreover, colonists like the British and French were usually unlikely to take into account the ideas of the locals, so the local revolt was continuous, and at the same time, they were expecting someone to free them from the British and French colonization...

Historically, these people were looking forward to Wilson's [Wilson's Fourteen Points], which even included the famous Ho Chi Minh in later generations. This person is also a representative of the patriots of Vietnam. At the same time, he was also the revolutionary leader of Vietnam later. At the beginning of 1919, when the Versailles Peace Conference was convened, Ho Chi Minh took the name Nguyen Patriot and on behalf of the Vietnamese patriots in France, he submitted a memorandum to the delegations of various countries, setting out the famous eight demands for the rights of all nationalities. Calls on the French Government to recognize the freedom, democracy, equality and self-determination of the Vietnamese nation. However, the Paris Peace Conference ignored the colonists' demands for independence, and Ho Chi Minh and other Vietnamese had asked to meet with Wilson. But he was rejected three times in a row, and he was only given ten minutes after the last time.

After meeting Wilson. Ho Chi Minh said he was not asking for money or military aid, he only wanted President Wilson to speak to the French president on behalf of the colonized Vietnamese. According to some rumors in the aftermath, Wilson said to his assistant at the time, "That fool thought I would consider that request." ”

Of course, this is only a story that has been passed down to future generations, and the veracity of which is not clear, but one thing is certain: Wilson did reject Ho Chi Minh's request, and the series of subsequent encounters in Germany have shown that the so-called "Wilson Fourteen" is nothing more than a way to seek benefits for the United States.

And then...

In the original world, people like Ho Chi Minh seemed to have only one choice, but in this era, they have one more choice, a better choice than the Americans, that is, China...

Compared with the United States, China obviously has more advantages, whether in terms of culture, ethnicity or interests. Naturally, small partners like Vietnam or Japan always seem to be a little restless, but Yan Shao's understanding of this is that you are not strong enough.

As long as you are strong enough to make them afraid, they will become as well-behaved as dogs, not the unfamiliar white-eyed wolves of later generations. Of course, this is only temporary, and when you are weakened, they will definitely relapse into the old disease, but this is the common sense of the world, because you can't ask for unconditional loyalty, all you have to do is make yourself strong forever, strong enough that other countries can always submit to you, that's all...

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After that, Yan Shao and Katarina talked about many things, so much so that Yan Shao even temporarily forgot about Elaline in the operating room, seeing this scene, Lu Ying and Otsuki Kaoru, who couldn't interject, although they were a little disappointed, but they were also a lot happy, but what Yan Shao and Katarina were talking about, they didn't hear it because of the distance—————— it wasn't that they weren't curious at all, but after a long time in Yan Shao, they also knew that it was best not to inquire, and it would be troublesome if they knew more. That's one of the reasons they didn't make it up.

But...

It's still better not to get up, it's nothing for Lu Ying to arrive, but Kaoru Otsuki...

You must know that Yan Shao and Caterina were talking about dealing with the Japanese just now, of course, and France, when Elinois was still in the delivery room, Yan Shao and Caterina were discussing how to deal with France, which was more or less...

If Elaine, who was in pain in the delivery room, told Yan Shao about the conversation between Yan Shao and Katarina, I don't know what Lu Dao would think.

Caterina has no psychological burden on this, although she is a Spaniard, but Spain's overseas colonies have been almost taken away by the United States, especially the Philippines and Guam, even if China's external expansion is unlikely to threaten Spain's interests, but can help teach the United States a lesson—————— as a Spaniard, although it has been gone for many years, but the things of that year are still a shame for many Spaniards.

And...

As I have said, there is no conflict of interest between China and Spain, on the contrary, Spain is very geographically located, so there is a lot of room for cooperation between China and Spain. If Spain can recapture Gibraltar one day in the future, it can even control half of the Mediterranean—————— and the other half will naturally depend on Suez.

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Just when Yan Shao and Caterina were muttering there, the door of the delivery room was suddenly pushed open, and then a female doctor came out of it, looking very young, only in her 20s...

"How's it going?" Seeing that the doctor came out, Yan Shao hurriedly greeted him with an anxious face. Behind Yan Shao, Caterina and Lu Ying also followed.

Seeing Yan Shao and Caterina standing outside the door, the doctor smiled. "It's a girl, mother and daughter are safe..."

Hearing such news, Yan Shao breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly walked in, and soon, Yan Shao saw Elaline lying there with the child in his arms.

Seeing Yan Shao and them come in, Eleno smiled despite his pale face.

Seeing that there was indeed nothing wrong with the people, Yan Shao's heart finally fell, but after he walked up to see the child, he said something that made Elanon's face suddenly darken.

"Why is this kid so ugly, like an old man..." (To be continued......