"Whew!"

Tan Sitong had just drunk the tea in his mouth spurted out like rain, probably aware that this was a serious internal meeting, so he hurriedly raised his hand to apologize and found a rag to wipe the table in front of him. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

But his laughter scene not only did not make everyone feel strange, but felt very normal, because even Prime Minister Li Enfu touched his earlobe twice, and he couldn't cry or laugh.

"Wittheft occupies Dili?! Isn't he going to Vladivostok? Why are you going to occupy East Timor? Rong Kui was the first to break the silence, he didn't understand military affairs, but that didn't mean he couldn't read the map.

Although Sarawak still belongs to the British, no one can replace Hua's core position there, but few people know that in fact, the adjacent island of Sulawesi is also under the control of the Chinese army, and when the province was announced two years ago, it was also incorporated into the jurisdiction of the province of Borneo.

As the connection point between the South Seas and Australia, the strategic location of East Timor is quite important, and the military has also studied whether to occupy there, anyway, the establishment of Borneo Province has divided the Dutch East Indies into two halves, so there have been calls within the army to simply take East Timor, the Maluku Islands and the island of Guinea.

But considering that the expansion in the past few years is too much, there are not only Dutch forces on the island of Guinea, but also Britain, Germany and France, I am afraid that it will really become a public enemy of Europe after fighting in the past, and after the reunification of the country, I really need to breathe a sigh of relief, I didn't expect that he hadn't stretched out his claws, but Witteheft didn't do anything whimsically to occupy it, is he crazy?

Dili is currently a Dutch colony!

People are kind enough to add coal to you, and you are not grateful and swallowed East Timor in one gulp, and now that it is so remote that even the emperor has temporarily given up, what is there to occupy?

You want to occupy the Dutch half of Guinea, according to the emperor, where is the world's largest refined copper mine" and the words are burning that this is his book called "World Geography", although the existence of this book remains to be confirmed, because according to a few concubines asked in private, there is no book in the royal library at all, but there is a handwritten book of the world by the emperor himself, "but there are strange symbols in front of it, no one can understand it except the emperor, but this does not prevent everyone from trusting the emperor's ability to enclose!" So the Ministry of Resources has already sent someone to Cha Yafeng to secretly look for a few years, although it has not been located yet, but if you go to occupy it, you can logically find it slowly after declaring war on Russian annexation!

"What about the Netherlands? And what about the East India Fleet? When we robbed Borneo, we were not welcome, and the British were violent, how could they wilt when they met the Russians? This is the traditional virtue of the Tulip Country? Zhao Long shouted unceremoniously.

"What's the news in Europe?" Li Enfu waved his hand to make everyone quiet, frowning and continuing to ask: "Was it instructed by Russia, or was he improvized." ”

"From the current point of view, it should be Wiltheft who is good at making claims." Duan Fei continued: "The Netherlands have protested to Russia that their interests as neutral countries should be protected internationally, and it is said that the Netherlands has turned to Germany and France to ask Witheft to leave immediately. ”

"Ask Germany for France? Why not go to the UK? Long Guozhang on the side was puzzled, although the British Far East Fleet had been recuperating in India for two years, it had only replenished two London-class ships, "But this is not because Britain has no warships, but because Britain has been working the Dreadnought and follow-up plans in the past two years, and has not built any orders except for the completion of eight Edward VII-class. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

But even so, coupled with the three Sovereign-class ships stationed in Gapo, "Britain still has three old stars, two centurions and two London-class ten battleships, and it is still a maritime power in the region that is equal to China or even slightly superior", not to mention that they also hold the Strait of Malacca, why not go to Britain and seek the near and far?

"I'm afraid the Netherlands won't trust the British." Chen Ping lit a cigarette and smoked. Smiled: "Duan Fei's last incident caused Britain and France to spit on each other, and the French were angry and announced too many details of the concentration camp system implemented by the British in Boer, although the Boers established a ** country, but after all, they are descendants of the Netherlands "Originally, the Netherlands was a staunch opponent of that war, and now so many Boers have been killed" The voice of opposition to Britain in the Netherlands is very high. ”

"What's the use of asking France and Germany? It's better to come and beg our emperor, maybe the old man will kill the past and solve it for the Netherlands. Long Guozhang interjected depressedly beside him, "He really can't think of what the hell is Wittheft's subordinate bullying the army?" Are you panicking?

"And the British's reaction to the well?"

"Not yet." As soon as Li Enfu's words fell, Tang Shaoyi immediately said: "Britain is surprisingly silent this time, but the Russian Navy Minister has been visiting Britain recently. ”

"Britain wants to break the agreement?" Yan Fu raised his eyebrows.

"Not really, but we suspect that it is possible for Britain to hand over the two battleships ordered by Chile to Russia through a third country." Duan Fei took out the prepared documents, handed them to Li Enfu, and continued: "These two second-class battleships were purchased from Britain by Chile before the emperor's round-the-world visit, but Britain was afraid that Chile would transfer them to us to prepare for Russia, so they kept them in their hands, but recently the construction speed has suddenly increased, and we suspect that this is a sign that they are going to be sold." ”

"The second class battleship of the Speed class, also known as the Astute class.

”

Chen Ping's eyebrows jumped, remembering that McKinson came to Beijing not long ago to do business, and he and the emperor chatted with him about the two battleships, according to previous intelligence, these two second-class battleships under construction in Britain were originally purchased by Chile Constitution and "Ziyou", 12000 stewed displacement, equipped with two twin L45/254 mm main guns, and fourteen 190 mm secondary guns, the firepower of the secondary guns even exceeded the Duke class, and the speed also reached nineteen knots, although the armor was slightly thinner, But still two very good battleships, especially the efficiency of use per ton of displacement, almost perfect.

According to McKinson, according to the above armament standards, with China's current technology, unless oil-fired boilers and steam turbines are used, the displacement will definitely exceed 13,000 tons.

This is the gap, unnoticeable, but real.

If the intelligence department's analysis is confirmed, it will be alarming: "Let's not talk about how much impact these two battleships will have on the situation of the war, and does this mean that Britain wants to tear up the previous agreement?" After all, the bite of Britain two years ago is still a little painful, not to mention that South Africa has ended, and Britain has completed the test of the Dreadnought, and it is indeed capable of returning the slap.

Thinking of this," Chen Ping immediately asked, "Is this a guess by your intelligence department, or has you already heard the exact news?"

"It's speculation, because the sudden increase in the speed of construction has aroused the intelligence officer's idea, and it is said that other South American countries have already inspected these two battleships, so we will find it strange.

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"Which country?" Chen Ping continued to ask.

"It's Ecuador, and it is said to the outside world that it is to strengthen the navy, but according to the South American intelligence station, Ecuador simply does not have the strength to pay this money, and this is ordered by Chile, Ecuador is adjacent to Chile, and they have no reason to buy those two battleships for the sake of offending Chile.

Rong Yu was not interested in caring whether it was a pretense or not, but asked: "Chen Ping, what do you say this Witthoeft has in mind?" Why occupy Dili? ”

Chen Ping, who was thinking about the impact of the two battleships, temporarily ended the association and said with a smile: "My speaker, what other ideas can you have?" It's not like we're freaking out! Because we currently control most of the key waterways from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, unless the Russians are willing to make a detour through Chile and then go straight down South America into the U.S. protective ring and then cross the Bering Strait, where do you let them go to Vladivostok? ”

"Then he has to be able to cross the Soya Strait!" Long Guozhang pursed his lips, really looking down on Wittheft's guts.

Chen Ping nodded and said: "In my opinion, Witthoeft not only did not do anything wrong, but did it right, because he knew that if he rashly entered our waters, he would definitely be intercepted by us, and if it was light, it might be expelled, and if it was serious, he wouldn't want to be a prisoner this time." ”

"So if I were a Russian commander, in the case that Britain and France were unwilling to open a base to offend us, I would first find a forward base for the fleet, you must know that from Russia to the South Sea, it will take almost half of the coal to cross the Indian Ocean from the Red Sea" If there is no place to supply after coming, then there is no need to even fight" Watch them go out and become iron coffins. ”

"So, you think Russia won't give up Dili?"

After thinking about it, Chen Ping nodded heavily: "No!" ”

As Chen Ping spit out these two words clearly, everyone in the conference room took a deep breath. Gas, once Dili is occupied, even if Russia does not have the strength to build it into a military fortress, as long as it can provide an expeditionary fleet to arrive at coal, it will already attract attention, not to mention that Dili is still close to the island of Guinea and Australia, and it is unknown whether Britain will take advantage of Australia after the Australian referendum has not yet begun.

However, Hua is not the Manchu Qing Dynasty of a few years ago, although it has been dragged out by the seemingly bottomless pit of domestic construction for several years, but this is a country that is already intact after all, as the railway line extends, the chimneys continue to erect, and the roar of machines everywhere begins to converge into a movement, its crushed waist bone is gradually beginning to straighten up.

Moreover, as early as the end of the battle for the reunification of the southeast, the Prime Minister's Office and the military had been secretly accumulating strength for this war, and in order to produce enough cheap ammunition, the Ministry of Armament also transported the production line to Shikoku Island for the first time, and ordered the "day" himself to start work 24 hours a day with grain as a payment.

In order to ensure that the oil consumption is increasing, the Yanchang oil field is constantly expanding, more than a dozen oil wells drilled by Media Asia and Kuwait are desperately pumping out black liquid, and even the Gulf of Mexico oil company, controlled by Australia and Thomas Mining, is quietly transporting shiploads of oil inland for storage.

Chilean copper, Australian and domestic aluminum, several iron ore, barley, tin, crow, pin, manganese and other ore resources are also constantly entering the warehouse, or being smelted.

The synthetic ammonia factory has quietly changed from one to three, and the output is also expanding, and in order to reduce copper consumption, the Ministry of Science and Technology has been organizing many experts, and finally studied the copper-clad steel technology proposed by the emperor a year ago, which has greatly reduced the cost and cost of bullets, and also reduced the dependence on copper, so that a large number of copper bonds can be reserved.

The shipyard was working day and night, stepping up the construction of eight capital ships, and the arsenal began to work in three shifts while ensuring quality, just to keep the machines from stopping.

It is the busyness and diligence of these visible and invisible workers that make the material reserves more and more abundant, and the equipment such as artillery, armored vehicles, trucks, grenades, shells, and airships are constantly delivered to the soldiers.

Hua is already different, after launching in full force, it already has the ability to fight a large-scale war, but is that enough?

But at this critical moment, almost everyone remembered the emaciated but never bent back, so Tan Sitong immediately asked, "Where is the emperor now?" ”

"The emperor went to the flying club, and when he left, he asked me to tell you." Li Enfu breathed a deep sigh of relief, and his face was serious: "This time, we have no way out!" ”

After speaking, without waiting for everyone to react, he spread out the notebook in front of him, held the pen and looked at Chen Ping calmly and asked, "Say, what else do you need?" ”

The helmsmen of various departments also took out pen and paper and pricked up their ears, for fear of missing a word, because everyone knew that this would be the key to China and a war related to the fortunes of the country.

The emperor is right, there is no way back this time!

Even if there is an endless Arctic Ocean ahead, it must be filled with blood and life! Since you can't choose, it's better to take advantage of the fact that it will take some time to declare war, seize the opportunity later, and come up with great strength!

Looking at Li Enfu and the helmsmen of many departments, the military representatives also became serious, and Chen Ping changed his eyes with Long Guozhang and others under everyone's gaze, and slowly stood up.

The demand was enormous, from socks to boots, from sweaters to padded jackets, from coal to spirits to relieve tension and cold, from tobacco to high-calorie toffee, from flour to meat, almost everything was raised by military representatives and then finalized by discussion among the members.

Tao Chengzhang and other secretaries waiting outside the door may not have expected that this meeting of ministers from various departments lasted for two days and two nights.

Two days later, when the latter item was decided, looking at dozens of haggard-looking interior ministers and ministers, it became clear to the young secretaries and officials how difficult it was to manage and lead a country.

A crisp snapping sound with a flash of light recorded this moment, recording this group of men who were tired but still straightened their waists and were unwilling to bend!

This is a war that has gambled on China's future!

This time, there is no way back!