In the conference room of the Prime Minister's Office, Li Enfu put the information he had just sent from Germany on the table, and said with a smile: "This Wilhelm II is really interesting, what do you mean by him?" ”

"What else could it mean. [ I want to: super fast update ]" Tang Shaoyi, who had just returned from Europe not long ago, smiled: "You haven't been to Europe recently, it's all messed up there." Germany was trying to build ships with Britain, and Britain probably saw the threat, and recently began to repair relations with France, but France was desperately trying to curry favor with Russia because it was lagging behind in building battleships and because the pressure on land began to increase sharply, and when I came back, I heard that France had promised to help Russia manufacture 200,000 rifles and provide military aid. ”

"Two hundred thousand." Zhao Long's eyes were straight, and he pouted and said, "Is the tsar still quite rich?" How good would it be to ask us to redeem it? Save the pressure warehouse! ”

"Hehe, the tsar is not poor." Tang Shaoyi smiled and explained: "When I was in Germany, I heard that the Russian royal family is said to be the second richest royal family in the world, and the gold accumulated over the past few hundred years should exceed 1,500 tons, and I heard that there are a large number of diamonds and jewelry, according to the current market value, there should be between 20 and 2.5 billion blue coins." ”

Tang Shaoyi's words made the conference room silent, everyone was a person who had seen the world, but when they heard that Nicholas II actually had 1,500 tons of gold in his hands, they were all dumbfounded!

Hua has been robbing and looting for so many years, and just established a thousand tons of gold reserves a few months ago, but people are good, there are 1,000 and 5 private individuals alone, which is more than the entire country!

It's really envy and jealousy!

"You say, is our emperor rich? Or did Nicholas II have money? After Long Guozhang finished breaking his fingers, he suddenly thought of a question.

"It's hard to say." Chen Ping touched the scum, squinted his eyes and smiled: "I estimate that our emperor should also have two or three hundred tons of gold in his hands, and if you add the antique jewelry left by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I think it should not be bad." ”

"By the way" Atsuhiko "You are the Minister of Finance, doesn't the emperor announce a list of assets to you every once in a while?" Revealed? Long Guozhang did not give up, and entangled the Minister of Finance Liang Dunyan again.

Liang Dunyan smiled bitterly and waved his hand, he knew Li Mo's private wealth figures, and he also knew that after Li Enfu exchanged all the gold he collected in one go, Emperor Li had relied on the three major gold mines to regather more than 500 tons of reserves not long ago, but the royal property was also highly secret, so he quickly shook his head and said that he didn't know. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

"Stop, don't guess! Look at you like this, I thought I had walked into a bandit's den when I spread it! Li Enfu scolded with a smile and stopped: "Nicholas II is rich" but he does not have the ambition of the emperor, if he learns from the emperor to use all the money for national construction, even if it is his own factory, Russia will not be outrageous with his own design but to find France and the United States to order. ”

"That's, how can Nicholas II compare to the emperor, I just asked, thinking that if we can get this money back, how many battleships will be transformed!" Long Guozhang knows that mistakes can be corrected.

"Stop!" Li Enfu hurriedly blocked the topic that was getting farther and farther away: "The emperor has dragged the sick body to Huludao for your battleship" So don't give me a tongue to chew here all day long, and hear you mention the word "build a ship" again, don't blame me for letting people coax you out. ”

"Okay, okay." Long Guozhang nodded and smiled, the four planned super battleships are finally about to kick off, at this time he doesn't dare to offend the Prime Minister, although the money is self-raised, but the account still has to go to the Ministry of Finance" hurriedly coughed twice: "Let's continue to talk about why William II supports us!" ”

Long Guozhang, who turned his face more than turning the book, caused a burst of laughter from everyone, and Speaker Rong shook his head with a smile and said: "According to me, William II should have been frightened by the British ship-building counterattack" and wanted to find an ally.

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"Allies? No way! Zhao Long frowned: "Before, the emperor was a provide-type battleship and a telegraph, and he signed a secret agreement, how could his attitude change all of a sudden?" ”

"What's impossible?" Chen Ping agreed with Rong Kui's words, and said: "It's not clear whether I'm scared or not, but Germany didn't look down on us before" because he didn't feel the pressure, but now that Britain is dealing with it with all its might, it must be a lie to say that he is not worried! ”

"Germany is not stupid" I guess they should also smell the smoke of gunpowder, so they are happy that Australia has a problem, if they can provoke us to fight with Britain again, then not only will Australia be contained, if they can make a second Boer, then Britain will not even be able to build battleships! ”

"Yuanshou is right, the Kaiser must have ulterior motives, trying to provoke us, by the way, selling personal favors, and estimating that the United States and France would like us to fight with Britain again!" After Zhao Long finished speaking, he raised his eyebrows at Long Guozhang and said with a wicked smile: "Old Long, your navy can fight again." ”

"it, there's not a battleship, is this what a war looks like?" Long Guozhang vomited. Water, although he would like to play with the British Navy again, but the British are not stupid, from them do not draw warships from the Far Eastern Fleet. Judging from the mobilization of several cruisers in the country, it shows that Britain did not want to fight either, or would have sent battleships long ago.

"Alright." Li Enfu waved his hand, interrupted the discussion of the Jia family, and said to Tang Shaoyi: "Shaochuan, if you want to continue to pressure the Australian government and the United Kingdom, you must tell them unmistakably that we do not want to fight or interfere in the affairs of Australia's autonomy, but the rights of the Chinese in Australia must be protected!" ”

"Yes."

"Old Dragon, although you don't have a chance to fight, you still have to be careful, and is your escort fleet ready?"

"Prime Minister, don't worry." Long Guozhang licked his lips, raised his wrist to look at his watch, and said with a smile: "Those bunnies have probably set off!" ”

Long Guozhang was right, in the Truk base, two full light cruisers were slowly getting up, followed by four Defense-class destroyers, and the Kunlunshan-class No. 2 ship Tianshan, which had just returned to the base after completing its round-the-world voyage.

Located in the Truk Islands in the Bactria Province (Micronesia and the Marshall Islands) of the Chinese Empire, the Truk Base is the largest island in the archipelago, and the name originates from the Malay word for meaning, mountain towering into the sky".

The island is triangular in shape, with an atoll more than 30 kilometers in diameter in the middle, and six shipping lanes in the lagoon for large ships to enter and exit, making it an ideal natural marine mooring.

In the center of the lagoon, there are 12 volcanic islands that rise from the bottom of the sea like cliffs, 300 meters low and 500 meters high, which defend the entire lagoon and the waterway.

To the east, Gilbert and the Marshall Islands are bounded by Truk, to the south by Guinea and the Solomon Islands, to the west by Guam, Ryukyu and Luzon, and to the north by the Ogasawara Islands.

Historically, Japan occupied the area, and it also became the headquarters of the Japan Combined Fleet, which is known as Gibraltar in the East. ”

Such a treasure land, Emperor Li will naturally not give up after the whole of Micronesia is in his hands, although it is not like Japan and Ben are surrounded by enemies, but if you unfold the chart, you will find that Luzon, Guam, Truk, Wake Island, Nauru and Hawaii, if they are connected in a line, then a huge levee facing the southwest Pacific Ocean will be formed, and all the flood beasts will be kept out of the levee.

Although there is no force that can threaten China's control of the Pacific, the United States has always been a great threat, as long as it chokes these places, no matter what happens in the future, the Southwest Pacific will always be surrounded by China's palm.

Therefore, after taking control of this place, Li Mo immediately made this place one of the main naval bases, and with Guam at the back, the two places became the main military ports of the Nanyang Fleet.

The natural environment has forged Truk's reputation, but any fortress will be breached, so Li Mo has been strengthening the construction here, striving to build it into an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the southwest of the Pacific.

After several years of construction, today's Truk Harbor is no less than a Guam base hundreds of nautical miles away, not only are there a large number of heavy shore guns on the small islands that rise out of the sea, but also an air base has been established on the island, with ten reconnaissance airships and more than 20 seaplanes, in addition to two 50,000-ton dry docks, and the first floating dock built has also been sent here.

In addition to these ground defenses, Truk Island has been almost hollowed out by the Construction Corps, a large number of underground fortifications and warehouses are scattered all over the island, these areas where large quantities of crude oil and ammunition are stored are almost all wrapped in tens of meters of cement, and in the deep waters of the lagoon, a submarine base has been established for the first time, and four Gray Spine shark-class ships belonging to the Second Fleet usually train between here and Guam.

The soldiers in the base were all standing on the dock, their eyes full of envy as they warmed up the boilers and steam turbines of the two brand-new light cruisers with full barrels.

Jiang Haoran and Meng Dong looked excited, but they didn't expect to be promoted from a destroyer to a light cruiser captain for a year, and it was only two months after they came to Truk for sea trials with two Yangtze River class ships, and they received combat missions.

Patrol and protect the waters off the coast of Northwest Australia and stop any naval vessels that try to get close!

Anything simple and clear, but it also made the two faintly feel pressure, although the Australian Navy is not afraid, but it is British territory, does this mean that it is possible to fight with the British Navy again?

When they were against the British Far East Fleet, the two were just destroyer captains, and now they are .......

"It's time to let Britain know that China is different!" Standing in the bridge of the Yangtze River Gundam, looking at the sister ship Huanghe beside him, Jiang Haoran took a deep breath: "Inform the base, the first pilot patrol fleet is ready, and I request to set sail."