On the morning of October 28, at the invitation of Emperor Guangxing, King Rama V visited the Old Summer Palace, which had been restored for most of the time before the war, and Liu Yun summoned relevant cabinet officials to discuss the Siamese request for assistance.

Each dignitary in attendance had a copy of the document on hand, with no title, no page number or date, and a striking red seal on the top right of each page: Top Secret Grade, Destroyed After Reading.

1. I would like to ask your country to send a military advisory group of a considerable size to assist in the planning of our national defense affairs. We hope to receive sincere assistance from the Advisory Group in the following aspects:

A. Proceeding from actual combat, we should reorganize and train a new-type army on the existing basis.

B. Expand and train a new-style navy in accordance with China's actual bearing capacity.

(c) To create and train a capable and effective aviation floating force.

D. Build a more efficient national military mobilization system.

(e) Reform of military academies.

2. A list of the first batch of weapons that wish to purchase a certain number of sophisticated weapons from your country at a suitable price:

A. 240 light machine guns of 7.92 mm caliber

B. 120 heavy machine guns of 7.92 mm caliber

C. 1,000,000 rounds of general-purpose rifle ammunition of 7.92 mm caliber

D. 96 six-centimeter mortars and 30,000 rounds of six-centimeter shells.

There were 48 7.5-centimeter mountain guns and 20,000 rounds of 7.5-centimeter shells.

F. 24 nine-centimeter howitzers and 10,000 rounds of nine-centimeter shells.

12 large-caliber heavy guns of more than 9 centimeters and 5,000 rounds of large-caliber shells.

There are 4 100-ton torpedo boats and 2 500-ton torpedo boat destroyers, which are equipped with torpedoes and shells

There are 5 small planes and 1 small airship

A number of communication equipment

3. We hope that your country will provide the following support for the construction of construction projects and equipment:

A: Chao Phraya Estuary New Coastal Defense Forts Group Construction Project (Attachment: Chao Phraya Estuary New Coastal Defense Forts Group Plan Letter of Intent)

B: Sattahip Naval Base and Base Defense Facilities Expansion Project (Attachment: Letter of Intent for Sattahip Naval Base Expansion Plan)

C: Thonburi Ordnance Repair Station Expansion and Reconstruction Project (Attachment: Letter of Intent for the Expansion and Reconstruction of Thonburi Ordnance Repair Station)

Ding: Construction of the fire yao plant and iron factory in Thonburi (Annex: ...... ）

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4. If you wish to send military students to your country, the composition of the first batch of students is as follows:

A. 16 members of the Army Infantry Section

B. 8 members of the Army Artillery Section

C. 4 members of the Marine Engineering Department of the Navy

D. 4 members of the Naval Guns and Artillery Section

E. 4 students in aviation learning

F. 3 students who studied communication intelligence

5. I hope to send more non-military students to your country, and plan to send the following government-funded non-military students to your country next year:

A. 18 students in liberal arts (Chinese, politics, law, business management, international business, etc.).

B. Science (Agriculture, Electricity, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, etc.) 16

C. 10 police specialists

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Baron Chen Siguang, the foreign minister who had just returned from Japan and had returned home in the middle of the night last night, was the first to read the stack of documents, and the first thing this diplomat who was known for his pro-German remarks was: "Siam is available." ”

General Zhong Xiahuo, Chief of the General Staff, pressed the table tightly and shouted: "Damn Siam has not been willing to make an official statement until now, since the First Sino-Japanese War, the Zionists in Burma and Annam have all taken refuge in our country, and it is this Siam who has been hesitating, are we afraid that we will not be able to eat it!" ”

"Siam is a small country and a widow, and it has to be cautious because it exists between Britain and France, but since I have sincerely asked for help, I should take this opportunity to gradually integrate it into the ASEAN system as an empire within Indochina. Siam and France are the most hostile, then you can meet with Siam, east and west to attack French Indochina, after the fact, Khmer, Laos still belong to Siam, Annam restored, still our vassal, the great ASEAN system can be expanded to the South Seas, and then with Annam, Siam as a base, the east can be slightly Luzon, the south can go down to Malaya and the islands of Java, the west can receive Burma, look at India, East Asia and South Asia, all of which are in the hands of our Great Chinese Empire. ”

Chen Siguang's tone is not small.

Zhong Xiahuo said disdainfully: "Now is not the time to play with this kind of guy, we should take advantage of the opportunity of Russia's civil strife, stop withdrawing troops, go out of war without declaring war, go out of Baikal on the right, Altai on the middle, and Balkhash on the left, and pour the strength of the whole country to seize all of Central Asia and Siberia in one fell swoop, and drive Lao Maozi all the way across the Ural Mountains. Now hurry up and go to Germany, encourage them to start a war against Russia together, we will fight to the Ural Mountains for the time being, it doesn't matter if they think they can eat Moscow, it's a big deal to take the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea as the boundary, by the way, and the Ottoman Empire, isn't he a two-hundred-year feud with Russia? Drag him in, north and south of the Caucasus to the Volga, he will eat whatever he wants, and if their weapons are not good enough, we will sell the whole ship......"

Defense Secretary Hook couldn't help but interject: "During the war, we imported a total of 200 million pounds of machinery, munitions, petroleum, chemical materials and other war materials to Europe and the United States. ”

"So what? Didn't £60 million of them go to buy machines? Wouldn't it be possible to start building your own machine if you have a machine? ”

"How can the factory start without funds?"

"Do you need money to start a factory? It is enough to have workers and raw materials! The factories in the country are managed by the state military, the raw materials are distributed by the state, the products are collected by the state, and the workers ask for money for what they do, and they are directly issued with rice, white flour, coats and underwear, which is affordable! Look at what the factories are like now? Prices are soaring, wages are steady, workers' families are hungry, and strikes and rebellions are not one or two......"

"What are these words! It's good to have a little economic common sense! ”

"Lao Tzu just has no economic common sense, Lao Tzu just wants to beat Maozi back to his hometown in Europe, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, 40,000 people can't afford to raise an army of millions, just 1 million! Lao Tzu can use a million people to beat Lao Maozi back to his hometown! ”

"Do you want to starve a million people to death on the road?"

"The Russians can't starve to death, so why should they starve us to death?"

"Will drawing an arrow on the map solve the problem?"

"There shouldn't have been a truce in the first place!"

Liu Yun couldn't listen anymore.

"Whatever the noise, get back to the point!"

Zhong Xiahuo was quite obedient, Hook had nothing to fight about, and there was no sound in the small conference room for a while.

Usually used for the so-called five-phase meetings (i.e., pocket cabinet meetings of the prime minister, the prime minister, the foreign minister, the finance minister, and the military minister), this small meeting room is more homely than the majestic and open cabinet chamber, with rococo-style openwork sofa covers, rosewood wavy coffee tables, warm-toned wallpaper and soft light from electric crystal chandeliers, which still seem to be unable to resolve the violent atmosphere that permeates this secret room with no sunlight behind the curtains hanging after a brief conflict.

"Hook, you are solely responsible for the affairs of the military advisory group, do you have any ideas?"

"My personal opinion is that a competent investigation team should be sent to Siam first, and after a full assessment, the number and composition of the investigation team should be decided, and the composition of the investigation team should include army and navy generals and relevant experts from military academies......"

"That's it, Zhong Xiahuo, you have to assist Hook in this matter."

"Yes." Zhong Xiahuo deserved reluctance.

"The affairs of arms and construction projects must be completed with the assistance of His Excellency the Minister of Labor and Soldiers and His Excellency the Minister of Industry, and we must ensure the quality of the arms and construction projects, and although they have not yet progressed to the level of allies, we must focus on the future and firmly lay the foundation for Sino-Siamese cooperation."

"Understood." Hook replied crisply.

"Please rest assured, Prime Minister." Zhang Jian said.

"Please also ask Your Excellency the Minister of Military Affairs to handle the affairs of military students, and try to meet the requirements of the Siamese side as much as possible."

"Yes."

"The affairs of non-military students are the sole responsibility of His Excellency Minister Wen, please."

"No problem, just leave it to me." The Minister of Culture and Education, Luo Sulan, did not seem to be affected by the forced resignation of her husband, Zhang Zhigao, as prime minister, and her radiant eyes shimmered from time to time as if she could see through the scheming of others, but it was not unpleasant......

"This document in everyone's hands, each of them keeps the part related to himself, and the rest is handed in, and today's matter is absolutely not allowed to be disclosed to the outside world without my consent."

After Liu Yun finished speaking, he nodded to Qianhua, who was a confidential secretary on the side.

Qianhua, who was dressed in a black and white dress, calmly accepted the unnecessary documents in everyone's hands, bowed her head, bent her chest, fair skin, delicate nose and seductive lips, and the atmosphere in the secret room suddenly became much lighter.

"So, there is no need to discuss the matter of Siam, it's still early, how about it? Let's talk about the topic you just talked about? Zhong Xiahuo was still unwilling.

"The war is over, we must seize the time to recuperate, Your Excellency, war is not the only purpose of the country's existence, there are still a lot of internal and economic problems in the country that need to be solved urgently." Luo Sulan said politely.

Zhong Xiahuo ignored her existence and said to himself: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, now that the withdrawal of our troops from the Chita side has not yet begun, the Russian army on the opposite side has long been disheartened, and there is a chaotic situation in Russia, it is a good time to seize Siberia, you can send troops to attack on the one hand, and provide economic and military assistance to the national rebel army and revolutionaries on the other hand, and dismember Russia is about to take advantage of now!" ”

"Why do you want to dismember Russia?" Hook asked Zhong Xiahuo rhetorically.

"What?" Zhong Xiahuo didn't wake up all of a sudden.