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Time flies, 4 months later.

Mid-March 1883

Red Fort, Sky Tower

Li Fushou dealt with official business for a while, and felt a little hungry in his stomach, so he asked the maids to bring some refreshments, wiped his hands clean with hot towels, picked up a piece of glutinous plum blossom cake and ate it, and asked casually; "Is Miss Chrissy on duty today?"

"Back to my lord, Miss Chrissy is on duty in the side room." The handmaid replied.

"Oh, tell her to go down, ask her to get ready for the massage room, and I'll be over in a moment."

"Yes."

After the beautiful maid retreated, Li Fushou ate some more refreshments, and then returned to the desk, where there was a confidential document he had just read, which was the battle plan submitted by the Kalimantan Theater of Operations, and he opened it and signed the order;

It was agreed to carry out the battle plan, and the main force of the Perfume Gri-La Division was stationed in Machen and was ready to support at any time.

After signing, Li Fushou lay back on the back of the chair, reached out and pinched the center of his eyebrows, and really felt that the pen in his hand was heavy.

When the order for this battle is issued, it will set off a sea of corpses and blood.

On the way forward to open up living space, the rights and interests of some people must always be harmed, such as the natives of the East Indies, such as the Dutch, such as the southern states, this is a two-choice question.

War is inevitable unless we rest on our laurels and do not develop.

in accordance with the reported battle plan;

The battle of the provincial capital of Central Kalimantan will be officially launched on April 11, and there is less than a month to prepare, and plans to attack the towns heavily defended by the Dutch by land and sea, and eliminate them point by point like checkers.

The strength of both sides will exceed 50,000 (including more than 20,000 indigenous troops under the command of the Netherlands), which will be a severe test for both sides.

From the end of last year to the present, the world has changed......

Since June 1882, the French expeditionary force has conquered the city in the Kingdom of Vietnam, invaded Hue, the capital of the Kingdom of Vietnam, King Nguyen Phuc Thanh surrendered, signed the Treaty of Hue, recognized Vietnam as a French protectorate, and all internal and foreign affairs were under the administration of France.

The whole kingdom of Vietnam was so excited that they refused to recognize this humiliating treaty, deposed Nguyen Phuc Thanh, appointed his son Nguyen Phuc Ngh as king, and urgently sent a special envoy to the Qing court to ask for help.

At the same time, the French expeditionary force that invaded the northern part of Vietnam really fought more than a dozen bloody battles with the Black Flag Army led by Liu Yongfu, and the French general Li Weili was killed in the battle, but with sharp firearms, the French army also repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Black Flag Army.

The Qing government then declared war on France, and immediately sent an expeditionary force to aid Vietnam into Vietnam, fulfilling the obligations of the suzerain, and deploying defenses in the vicinity of Bac Ninh, Shanxi, and Xinghua near Tokyo (Hanoi).

After entering 1883, the French army relaunched the offensive, and the Vietnamese Expeditionary Force and the Black Flag Army were defeated, and the situation was critical.

It just came at this time

Gu Yanchuan, the new governor of Liangguang, sent a new army of 4,000 people into Vietnam to help in the battle, and achieved a great victory in the battle of Xinghua Province, killing 187 French soldiers and wounding more than 400 people, curbing the momentum of the French expeditionary force's onslaught.

Suffering this major defeat, the French retreated to the important positions of Shanxi Province, licked their wounds and regrouped their armies in preparation for another offensive.

in the East Indies

The Aceh War carried out by the Dutch colonists on the island of Sumatra entered the 11th year, due to the deployment of a large number of troops to Borneo, the situation of the Aceh Kingdom, which had been strongly suppressed, collapsed, the resistance movement was reactivated, a large area occupied by the Dutch was captured by the rebels, and the Dutch colonists could only retreat to important towns, and the situation was very bad.

meanwhile

The Borneo peace talks in Singapore are in their fourth round, and the two sides are too far apart to break down at any time.

The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies kept sending troops to Borneo to strengthen the defenses of Central Kalimantan Province as much as possible, and the Queensland troops stationed in the Machen area stepped up preparations for war.

In the Afghan region

The British Empire was so dissatisfied with the frequent clashing of guns and casualties on the northern border of Afghanistan that the British Empire issued a sternly worded diplomatic note to the Russian Empire, ordering the opposing army to stop provocations and take responsibility for all the serious consequences arising therefrom.

Given the unquestionable dominance of the British Empire over the world, it was able to strike at Tsarist Russia in the Balkans, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Black Sea periphery, and finally succumbed to it under tremendous diplomatic pressure.

Britain and Russia sent diplomatic representatives to hold talks in Kandahar, and the two sides agreed to disengage in northern Afghanistan, bounded by the 300-kilometer-long Wakhan Corridor, which belonged to the Qing court, the area north of the Wakhan Corridor belonged to Tsarist Russia and Central Asia, and the south belonged to the British-ruled Afghanistan.

South america

The four-year "Guano War" from 1879 to 1883 came to an end, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia pecked each other, and finally settled under the mediation of the British.

The big winner of this war is Chile, which not only won the rich guano resources and saltpeter deposits, but also has a long coastline and multiple outlets to the sea, officially won the title of "South American Little Overlord" and embarked on a new journey of rapid development.

Three South American countries entered the post-war reconstruction at the same time, taking this opportunity, Australian Queensland's high-quality and low-cost wool products and agricultural machinery products landed in the markets of the three South American countries, which once caused the United States to be dissatisfied, but under the strong policy of free trade of the British Empire, it could only turn a blind eye.

It's not that you're willing to compromise, it's that you can't do it.

It was a surprise to get the South American market, and the original development of the South American market was proposed at a meeting, and there is a story in it......

Second half of 1882

The wool textile deep processing base located in Songjiang Town has been put into production one after another, woolen wool, wool and blended fabrics, wool shawls, top hats, socks, carpets and ready-to-wear and other products have been produced one after another, and began to supply the market in large quantities.

After preliminary test marketing and marketing, the high-quality and low-cost Australian wool products were soon sold in the Far East and North American markets, and entered the European market, including the United Kingdom, and the sales momentum was very gratifying.

North American-based Normandy Import & Export and its partner Higgins & Co. found that a large proportion of the wool products sold to North America were purchased by South American countries, including Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, which is rich in wool.

Argentina is a world-renowned agricultural and animal husbandry country, isn't the wool produced at home fragrant?

The reason is very simple, although Argentina is rich in wool, but does not have the ability to deep processing, the export of soybeans to import oil, the export of wheat to import flour, the export of wool and the import of wool products are routine operations.

In this day and age

Such examples are not uncommon, the huge Manchu Empire could not even make matches, and had to import them from abroad, so matches were called "foreign fire".

The Manchu Empire itself was an important producer of cotton, but it was beaten by the weaving cloth imported from the British, and these high-quality and low-cost cotton cloth were called "foreign cloth", and the hand-woven cotton cloth was called "homespun cloth".

The same is true of Argentina, a land of abundance blessed by God, where the seeds only need to be sown to reap unimaginably abundant harvests.

In this beautiful country, far from world disputes, there is no threat of war, no pressure to survive, no urgent need for competition between countries, most of the land in the country belongs to a small elite class of white landlords, and ordinary people can get a worry-free life as long as they work.

It was a world where the pace of life was slowed down, and the landlord class had no incentive to develop industry, as did the people.

Argentina's distance from the rest of the world has greatly influenced the perception of the country, it is hidden at the end of the Atlantic, it is one of the most remote countries in the world, and the distance to East Asia is simply the end of the world.

After eliminating the regional threats of Brazil and Paraguay, the closest country that could threaten Argentina was the United Kingdom, 12,000 kilometers away, a distance that created a great deal of cultural isolation and national inertia.

Therefore, wealthy Argentina is one of the largest buyers of wool deep-processed products in Queensland, second only to the United States.

Originally, Li Fushou agreed to the plan to develop the South American market with the attitude of having dates and not playing with dates, so who knew that the effect was unexpectedly good, and the sales of wool deep-processing products and agricultural machinery products were better than in the United States.

In the region, there is simply nothing to compete with.

The United States, the world's industrial power, has almost no wool deep processing industry, and the sheep raised on American farms are mainly meat sheep, and the sheep raised are used for food, and there is a blank in the field of wool deep processing.

The United States has been importing a large number of woolen and woolen products from France and Italy for many years, and now the imports are turning to Australia, but this cannot affect the anger of the US government at the level of Queensland's entry into the South American market.

The Monroe Doctrine has always preached that North and South America are Americas of the Americans, and that they are extremely hostile to foreign forces.

The British diplomatic representative, who was mediating the guano war between the three South American countries, was unexpectedly forceful, and after consulting London, sent an official diplomatic note to the United States government.

He expressed his anger and strong protest against the US policy of obstructing free trade in South America, urging it to make a reasonable decision in the interests of the people in the region and to put an end to acts of interfering with free trade, otherwise he will bear the consequences.

The majesty of the British Empire could not be trampled upon, and the power to react further was reserved.

In view of the strong reaction from London, the Americans decisively coaxed.

Li Fushou dared to play 100 guaranteed votes, he really didn't make any persuasion or work for this, but London stood up to support the Australian colony, so he had to admit it.

It's good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, this is really true.

Why did London react so strongly?

In Li Fushou want to come...... The United States didn't know what was wrong, it touched the mold of the British Empire, and Queensland reaped the benefits.

In addition to the global free trade policy that the British Empire is fully pursuing, it is also because the global hegemony of the British Empire does not allow for provocation, and in the end, it is due to Britain's complex and tangled feelings towards the United States.

London and the British-American-dominated American political circles love and kill each other, cooperate closely and have all kinds of stabbing knives, all kinds of contempt and stabbing each other, which is really complicated to say.

European region

The German-Austrian-Italian alliance formally signed in 1882 exerted strong military pressure on the French Third Republic, the old enemy of the German Empire.

Taking advantage of Tsarist Russia's high dependence on French capital, the two countries had frequent high-level interactions, which further warmed up relations and warmed up for the establishment of a close military alliance.

While the British Empire was guarding against Tsarist Russia from reaching its tentacles into the warm Mediterranean, it showed an ambiguous attitude towards the further warming of Franco-Russian relations, and secretly gave the green light to the approach of the two sides.

March 1883

In a question in the Upper Parliament in London, British Prime Minister William Yurt Gladstone openly expounded on the current foreign policy and openly expressed serious dissatisfaction with the German-Austrian-Italian Triple Alliance in Europe, believing that such a move would upset the lasting balance of power on the European continent and be detrimental to the current peace and stability of the European situation.

Kaiser Wilhelm I ignored the concerns of London and insisted on promoting the treaty of alliance by ignoring the concerns of the three countries in concluding the treaty of alliance, which played an extremely bad role as an example, and violated the tacit agreement between the two sides to promote peace in Europe, and should bear the main responsibility.

The Prime Minister's remarks were published in the newspapers, causing an uproar in Europe, and Germany angrily issued an official diplomatic note, accusing the London boss of the imperial mentality of being a stranger, brazenly interfering in the situation in Europe, and interfering in Germany's internal affairs, which is an extremely irresponsible approach.

The two sides were engaged in a war of words and swords, and relations deteriorated sharply.

The world is full of beacon fires and gunsmoke.

All kinds of thoughts poured into Li Fushou's mind, he shook his head with a wry smile and stood up, leaving all geostrategic considerations behind, and strode towards the apse.

The Queensland forces represented by the Red River Valley have not yet been able to appear on the world stage alone, so we must uphold the principle of quietly entering the village and not shooting, and then talk about the benefits.

I have to decide on the two provinces of Borneo, and the province of Central Kalimantan is not impossible to touch, depending on whether the war ahead is smooth.

Now...... Of course, it's a combination of work and rest!

Stepping on the thick woolen carpet and walking silently, Li Fushou came to the back hall, and the beautiful maid standing on one side bowed and saluted, and he walked into the room without stopping.

In the corner of the wall here, there is a gluttonous bronze incense burner that swallows the heavens and swallows the sky, and a warmth comes to the face, and the curtains around it are heavy, exuding a heart-beating fragrance.

Come here

Several beautiful maids in short clothes stepped forward, helped Li Fushou untie his wide clothes, changed into a wide linen robe, and then led the way forward.

Turning the hallway, I came to a separate room with sandalwood incense, where the smoke was steaming and the temperature was three points higher.

In the middle of the room, the bathtub made of a thousand-year-old huge sandalwood stands out, about ten meters long, more than 4 meters wide, the center of the trunk is hollowed out to form a huge bath, the hot water mist sprinkled with petals is pervasive, the surrounding polish is polished to the eye, and the original tree nodules are retained below, which is more simple and natural.

In front of the log bath, on a tray-shaped log sculpture made of logs, Chrissy wears a charming costume of an Egyptian belly dancer, posing in a seductive pose that is enough to spew nosebleeds, and the dim candlelight reflects on the dark skin, like a stunning human sculpture.

"Hey...... Chrissy, are you mistaken? ”

Li Fushou couldn't help laughing, this abrupt sentence seemed to puncture the ball, and immediately destroyed the carefully created atmosphere.

Chrissy reluctantly sent two big white eyeballs, and then in the sound of Egyptian belly dance drums, she changed her posture flexibly, and explained in stiff Chinese; "Master, I know that Chinese food pays attention to color, flavor and shape, so I had the idea to do the same with a massage that relieves your stress."

"Uh...... You've got a heart. ”

Li Fushou was only moved for two seconds, then took off his wide Hanfu and jumped into the hot water, splashing everywhere......