After listening to the report on relevant affairs, Li Fushou waved his hand to let Gu Kaizhi retreat.

As the old powers of the Western world, Britain and France have a traditional sphere of influence throughout the world, and they play a traditional leading role on the world stage.

As a rising star, the Ocean Empire ranks among the top in the world in terms of economic and military power, but due to its short time and slight lack of international political influence, it temporarily ranks third in the world after Britain and France.

In today's world, the only countries that can build a global colonial empire are Britain, France and the Ocean, and they don't think of a fourth person.

Over the past 200 years, Britain and France have actively participated in global affairs, expanded their power and influence, and established global influence step by step.

In this regard

The Ocean Empire is only a beginner and is still very immature.

In post-war global affairs, the Ocean Empire should actively participate in and exert its unique influence, especially in the international affairs of the Pacific region, and should play a leading role rather than being at the mercy of European powers.

The core interests and fundamentals of the Ocean Empire are in the Pacific Rim region, and to put it mildly, its position as the hegemon of the Pacific Ocean has been more stable in the post-war world structure.

Britain, France, Italy, Germany, the United States, and Japan, whether it is Britain, France, Italy, Germany, the United States, and Japan, have been engaged in continuous wars in the past few years, and their national strength has been greatly depleted.

On the other hand, the Ocean Empire

After the introduction of the Goldjoy Settlement Act, its importance in the field of international trade and finance has increased rapidly.

Especially after the victory of the battle in Ukraine in the west of the Eastern Front, the country's prestige has risen gradually, and Jinyang's position in trade settlement has improved significantly, accounting for 39.2% of the world's total trade, surpassing the British pound to become the world's largest settlement currency.

The political, military, and economic spheres have always complemented each other and have a strong linkage effect.

With the trade-off, the Ocean Empire further consolidated its political, economic, and military superiority in the Pacific Rim. Grow into a world power that is hard to shake.

The first to realize that the Ocean Empire was a threat to the British Royal Navy, and small movements were frequent, making unfriendly noises.

Having struggled to maintain a blockade of the German High Seas Fleet, the British also began to look at the post-war world landscape.

They were surprised to find;

The Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire had swelled beyond containment, taking the Pacific and Indian Ocean Rim regions under firm control and establishing a comparative advantage.

In order to deal with the German High Seas Fleet with all its might, Britain from 14 years ago greatly removed the capital ships of the Third Fleet stationed in the Indian subcontinent and returned to the mainland to strengthen the blockade of the German fleet.

Today

The Royal Navy's Third Battlefleet stationed in Calcutta was weak and became a regional fleet dominated by old warships and cruisers, and its strength fell by more than two notches.

And the British Far East Fleet, with only a few old cruisers as the main force, was reduced to an existential fleet.

Such naval strength, let alone competing with the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, is far inferior even compared to its subordinate Indian Ocean Fleet.

For almost two years

The Fuso Navy tightened its belt and developed the "King Kong" class battleships of the post-dreadnought standard, and its strength has jumped by a large margin, and it has already surpassed the fleet strength of Britain, France, and other countries in the Pacific region, ranking second.

Such a situation is difficult for the British Royal Navy, which has always been a threat in the world's seas and has suffered huge losses in two major naval decisive battles, the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of the North Sea, to accept it.

Suffering from the fact that the main forces are currently used in Europe, they are temporarily unable to take into account the Asia-Pacific seas.

As a result, the British Navy was seriously psychologically unbalanced, and various conspiracy theories followed, pointing the finger at the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, with all kinds of provocations and dissatisfaction.

In response to this new situation, Li Fushou once convened a special imperial meeting to unify his thoughts;

The British are habitual offenders when it comes to backstabbing allies, so they should properly handle the relations between the two countries in line with the principle of cooperation in competition and competition in cooperation, and always be vigilant.

Small things don't have to be on the platform, and when it comes to issues of principle, stick to the bottom line and don't give an inch.

For example, in March, in the Trench Fortress area on the Red Sea's Great Hanish Island, there was an incident in which Major Romney Kestner, the commander of the British garrison, seduced the wife of a fortified officer.

After the incident, the officer wounded Major Romney-Kestner with a gun drawn and chased him all the way to the British barracks, nearly killing him instantly.

This caused an uproar, and the relationship between the British garrison and the garrison of the Imperial Fortress was extremely tense, and the two sides were tense, almost fighting, and causing a stir.

For more than 20 years, the Red Sea Trench Fortress on Great Hanish Island has received a small number of British troops, reflecting the close and friendly relations between the two countries.

Originally, in order to enhance military mutual trust, the joint stationing of troops on the important coastal defense front was also a compromise made by the Ocean Empire when it was weak, in order to avoid British suspicion.

This included the Red Sea Trench Fortress, the Madagascar Naval Base, the island of Mozambique and later the Panama Canal Zone, the Strait of Malacca Fortress, the Strait Province, the Norfolk Naval Base in North America, and many more, which were basically naval bases under the Oceanic Empire where British troops were stationed.

Its personnel composition, the largest infantry battalion and the least infantry company, most of them are between three or four hundred to one or two hundred, symbolic military presence.

Take, for example, the Red Sea moat fortress on the island of Great Hanish;

In peacetime, the garrison of the island is maintained at about 4200~4600 people all year round, and in wartime it reaches tens of thousands.

A battalion of British infantry of several hundred men was stationed outside the fortress, in the barracks next to the pier on Great Hanish Island, and the actual effect was slightly none.

After the "British officer's mistress scandal" broke out, in order to maintain the overall situation of friendship between the two countries, the British and foreign navies each handed over the officers involved to the military justice department for severe punishment in line with the principle of "taking care of their own children."

However, the British garrison on the island was inevitably squeezed out, and from the supply of supplies to the time of leave, there were more than a dozen frictions between the officers and soldiers of the two sides in the local towns, so that there were major fights.

In the end, the British had to withdraw the infantry battalion.

It's easy to evacuate, but it's hard to return.

In the Panama Canal Zone, the local British newspapers stood on the moral high ground and openly expressed their dissatisfaction with the local Chinese government's exclusion and suppression of the indigenous people, and stirred up trouble everywhere.

Panamanian officials retorted that the British had done so cruelly and bloodily in the colonies that they did not deserve to be a civilized country.

The two sides fought a verbal lawsuit, and this public opinion war fell to the participation of both the "Times" and the "World Journal", and began to expose each other's shortcomings, and the fight was very unpleasant.

The French newspaper Le Figaro pointed out this pointedly;

This is a new contest between Britain, which represents the order of the old era, and the ocean empire, which represents the order of the new era, both trying to stand on the moral high ground and blame each other in order to gain a first-mover advantage.

As a matter of fact

This is a new round of running-in between the old and the new imperialists, and it is just some tentative actions to accurately position themselves in the post-war order.

With a lonely and poignant tone, Le Figaro unveils the truth about a series of frictions between the Ocean Empire and Great Britain.

Whether admittedly or not, France suffered a heavy blow in the world wars, was heavily indebted, and was no longer able to compete in the world.

If you want to say miserable, no one is worse than the French!

Like a meteor falling, the former "usury empire" is no longer mentioned, and after the outbreak of the world war, France's hundreds of billions of francs of foreign loans have lost their principal and interest, and there is almost no money to be returned.

But who can be blamed for this?

Statistics show; The top 4 countries in France in terms of foreign loans are Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Germany. In pursuit of high profits, the French loan sharks, regardless of national interests, provided large franc loans to the enemy camp, and finally reaped the bitter consequences.

In order to win this life-threatening war, France almost emptied his family and borrowed a large amount of gold loans, and his strength plummeted.

Report of the Governor-General of the Channel of the United Kingdom;

After winning the Second East Indies War, the Ocean Empire took over Sumatra from the Dutch and carried out a new round of ruthless cleansing of the local indigenous population.

Including but not limited to sending a large number of young indigenous men to the European battlefield, the army officers and soldiers wantonly plundered the local indigenous young women, bullied and oppressed, and there were a large number of indigenous laborers in some Chinese plantations, and the living conditions were worrying......

As a result of these inhumane measures, the indigenous population has been decimated to less than 170,000 people, mostly on plantations and farms scattered throughout Sumatra......

The report from the Governor's House of the Straits was full of pity, without mentioning that the English and French merchants were the main force in sending indigenous labor to Europe, and in the process earned a great deal of blood and tears, and made enough money.

Not to mention that after arriving in Europe, these indigenous populations, who were originally laborers, were incorporated into the army by the British and French governments and sent to the battlefield, and eventually became cannon fodder.

On the contrary, he looked compassionate and openly criticized the relevant policies of the Ocean Empire, which inevitably caused a new round of war of words.

Towards the end of the world war

There are more and more frictions between Britain and the Ocean Empire, and problems that were originally invisible have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, quietly influencing public opinion, affecting international perception, and also affecting the glorious image of the Ocean Empire in the limelight in Europe......

In terms of friction, the British can be said to be the originator, and their reputation has long been stinking on the street.

But you can't deny that these methods are very useful, although they are done.

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