Emperor Richard stayed in the Imperial Palace in the City of Philadelphia, which had hundreds of palaces in large and medium-sized cities of the empire, with different architectural styles, and were only used by His Majesty the Emperor and the direct descendants of the imperial family.

In every palace

There are exclusive private areas for the emperor, including the imperial study, the reception hall and the dormitory, and the larger ones also contain gardens, verandahs, small lake rockeries and other facilities, every grass and tree are top-notch materials, displaying a variety of priceless cultural treasures, reflecting the luxury of the imperial family.

The Philadelphia Pavilion is a medium-sized Baroque castle building, which was converted from an ancient castle with a history of more than 15 billion years, and has a European architectural charm.

Early in the morning

In the curtain of the dormitory, Emperor Richard woke up surrounded by two young and beautiful white girls, bathed straight away, and immediately felt refreshed.

He was still in good health, his body was very well controlled, and after breakfast, he strode to the imperial study in good spirits.

"Weichen and others greet Your Majesty and wish Your Majesty good health."

"Aiqing is exempt from courtesy, flat body."

Emperor Richard walked past Zheng Huaien, deputy director of the Imperial Secretariat, and others without pause, and walked straight into the spacious imperial study.

The deputy director, Viscount Zheng Huaien, hurriedly waved his hand, signaling the first secretary and the second senior secretary to go to their respective departments, and he followed up in the imperial study with a humble look with the sorted materials under his arm.

At this moment, the tall figure of His Majesty the Emperor stood by the window, condescendingly looking at the central square that was gradually becoming lively in the distance, and asked when he heard the sound behind him; "Tell me, what are the international trends in the past few days?"

"Wechen obeys." Zheng Huaien didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly put a pile of documents under his arm in his hand and held it, opened it and began to report;

"Your Majesty;

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion in the mainstream of European society about Britain's large-scale transfer of troops to South Africa, especially in Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries.

It was mostly sympathetic to the Boer regime in South Africa, opposed to British oppression, and even more opposed to war.

In particular, German public opinion jumped even higher and spoke the most fiercely, which is closely related to the pro-Dutch stance of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Germany is also the European country that most fiercely criticized the Tang Empire for adopting war methods in the East Indies.

Kaiser Wilhelm II told the media present during his inspection of the Kiel Canal;

"Britain and Tang are the countries with the most vast territories and colonies in the world, and they are still hungry."

Now they were in the East Indies and the other in South Africa, trying to unite and carve up the few remaining overseas colonies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is highly immoral and must be clearly opposed. ”

"I strongly appeal to the international community to intervene to stop this bullying and banditry."

"Everyone knows that South Africa has endless gold and diamonds, and the East Indies have spices, coffee, tobacco and cocoa, which are indispensable to European society, and they are all rich in resources."

"I strongly appeal to the righteous nations of the European continent to unite against this aggression."

The actions of the German government seriously hurt relations with Britain and Tang, and the Reich government also made a series of tough reactions.

Including but not limited to the passage of the "Trade Sanctions Act against Germany" in the United States, the tax rate on German industrial products in the entire American region has been greatly increased from the original average tax rate of 21.6% to the current average tax rate of 88.7%.

Measures such as reducing personnel exchanges and cultural exchanges between the two countries, restricting the outflow of science and technology and technological technology, restricting German immigration, restricting financial loans to Germany by international consortiums, restricting the export of important raw materials such as gold, silver, copper, and saltpeter to Germany, and lowering the level of bilateral diplomatic dialogue.

A total of 11 German merchant ships have now been seized in the Imperial Province of Clouds and Suez City, and various amounts of contraband have been seized from these German merchant ships, including human trafficking and ammunition transport.

The German side lodged a strong protest against this and demanded that the Reich treat the seized German ships reasonably, abandon the practice of fabricating charges, and truly maintain transatlantic bilateral relations.

On the port of Rhodes side of the Suez Canal, the British side also made many difficulties for German merchant ships, and there were already 37 German merchant ships stranded in Rhodes Port, and many ships had to turn around and return to Europe.

But we also found that the Germans are also smart.

They now entrust their goods to French merchant ships, Italian merchant ships, or buy them in cash from places such as Paradise Province, so as to avoid the joint attack of Britain and Tang and provide a large amount of materials for the construction of colonies in German East Africa and the German Jiaodong Peninsula.

Overall

Due to the momentum between Germany and France and the confrontation between the two major military blocs, the formation of a unified power in Europe is completely unrealistic.

The murmur coming from Europe today is nothing more than the restlessness of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and other countries, and it does not affect the unanimous position of Britain, France, Russia, and other countries, let alone the military operations that the empire is advancing.

On the one hand, the Germans vigorously criticized the neo-colonial actions of the Empire, and on the other hand, they frantically expanded their colonies in Asia and Africa, and even ran to the Pacific Ocean in search of unclaimed islands, and their appearance became more and more ugly.

Fortunately, the Reich had already seen that it had already taken all the Pacific islands into its pockets and established an irrefutable and clear territorial status, which allowed the Germans to return in disgrace.

so far

European opposition to Britain's massive troop build-up in South Africa and the Empire's expansion and colonization of the East Indies remained rhetorical and did not see any substantive action.

The main contradiction in the world today is still the confrontation between the two major military blocs in Europe and the ever-escalating arms race, and the outbreak of wars in the hot Balkans at intervals is very likely to become a source of trouble that provokes an all-out war in the whole of Europe.

In this regard, former German Prime Minister Bismarck once predicted when he was dying; "Sooner or later, some guy in the Balkans will provoke a war all over Europe, and this time will not be far off."

Twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great, Prussia was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Jena. Twenty years after my death, the crown of Wilhelm II will not be kept. ”

Due to the huge influence of former German Prime Minister Bismarck, his prophecy on the occasion of his death went viral in Europe, slapping Kaiser Wilhelm II in the face.

According to reliable sources

When Kaiser Wilhelm II heard these words, he angrily slashed his beloved English marshal's uniform to pieces with his sword, and screamed in his mouth; "Damn old thing, you've made me the laughing stock of all of Europe."

According to the movements of the German Royal Navy, a new round of construction of the main ironclad ships is about to start, and this has aroused the high vigilance of the British Royal Navy, vowing to "never sit idly by and watch the Germans become stronger".

British Prime Minister Robert Cecil has recently written to His Excellency the Imperial Prime Minister with the intention of reconciling the unified position between the two countries......"

Robert Cecil?

If Emperor Richard is not mistaken, this man is the Conservative leader of the Cali Party, the 49th Prime Minister of Britain, and a strong expansionist colonialist.

Think about it

When the Tang Kingdom was established in 1846, it should have been the 31st British Prime Minister Robert Peel in power, who was a good old man with a lot of amiable spirits, very typical British gentlemen.

Standing at the height of Emperor Richard today, he already knew it clearly;

Britain not only has a war plan for a large-scale invasion of South Africa, but also a plan to unite European countries to invade the Qing Empire, which will be implemented at the end of this year and early next year at the earliest.

The world's old powers have never raised troops out of anger, just like the Tang Empire, which has coveted the East Indies for 10 years, and the invasion plan is by no means improvised.

What is lacking is just an opportunity.

The Tang Empire once urgently halted the Tang Dezhao government's expansion and colonization plan for the East Indies due to the expansion of North America, and postponed it for as long as 9 years.

its purpose

It's just to concentrate on completely digesting the new territory of North America, which is like eating, you can't overstuff too much food, and sooner or later it will come out of trouble.

Plans for expansion into the East Indies have always been in place, and when the time is right, such as the current international crisis in South Africa, it can be reactivated.

The same is true of the plans of the British colonists, who are no longer satisfied with their current position in the Qing Dynasty, and try to control this rich and vast land of China more deeply and grab more benefits.

The British saw very clearly the decaying rule of the Qing Dynasty, which was a backward feudal regime riddled with holes, and had long been in turmoil.

As long as you kick it hard, it will collapse with a bang......

This contains the global colonial interests of Britain, France and other countries, and is also an important part of the global strategy of these old colonial empires, which cannot be contained like a rolling wave.

Simple metaphor

It's just that a group of robbers have long been aiming at the stupid son of the landlord's family, and they just want to find a suitable time to start.

This is a robbery operation in which Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and other major powers in the world jointly participate, and the Tang Empire can not participate, but it cannot be stopped.

Because of this

It will inevitably arouse the deep misgivings of the major European powers about the joint efforts of the Chinese countries on both sides of the Pacific, and what will inevitably follow is a new round of global confrontation, that is, an all-out confrontation between the white world and the Chinese world.

Emperor Richard didn't dare to gamble, because the Great Qin Empire on the other side of the Pacific Ocean was not of the same heart as him, but was strictly guarded everywhere, but was very close to the European bandits.

It's a laughable situation, and the best thing to do is to go with the flow.

The sleeping hundreds of millions of people in Shenzhou need to wake up with a strong sense of shame and pain before they can spontaneously overthrow the rotten feudal rule and usher in a new day of fully embracing the world.

The only thing the British did not expect was that the war lasted so long because the resistance of the Boers in South Africa was so fierce and the losses inflicted on the British army were so heavy.

In order to make it a little more difficult for the British, the Imperial Security Directorate has stockpiled large quantities of weapons, ammunition and food in several locations in South Africa through secret channels.

This included 32,000 brand-new German-made rifles, 160 German-made Krupp light field guns, plenty of ammunition, warm clothing, shoes, and canned food for long-term storage.

In the difficult latter stages of the British blockade, these weapons and supplies were undoubtedly like opening treasure chests, giving the stubborn Boers great confidence to continue fighting.

In a way

The empire is the country that supports the Boers the most, and it belongs to the kind that does good deeds without leaving a name, which is definitely interesting.

The Boers can use these weapons and ammunition to kill some more Brits, and export their evil anger to the people of Shenzhou, who are about to face a deep disaster, can it be regarded as revenge in disguise, right?

(End of chapter)