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    What does it feel like to lose half your life in a fight, go home tired and hungry, and prepare to replenish yourself with the fat and greasy meat that has been hidden for a long time, only to find a strong hungry wolf staring at the meat?  The invincible overlord, the British Empire, which dominates the seven seas, is now facing such an embarrassing scene.  In the panic of the European war, the Whitehall bosses, who were in urgent need of reinforcements, used a piece of paper to invite people to fight. However, after using the European war to sharpen their teeth and claws, the Wehrmacht assumed a posture of pressing harder and harder against the empire's traditional colonies after the war.  God did not invent the regret medicine, otherwise the Far East diplomats of the British Empire would not have to rush to wipe the butts of those idiots who agreed to China's entry into the alliance.

    ??????????????? Politics.

    Bernard sighed in his heart. He was not a diplomat like Zhu Erdian who actively interfered in the Far East, but even if Zhu Erdian came back, there wouldn't be much he could do in the short term.  The exhausted citizens are extremely disgusted with war. The huge consumption has forced the Royal Navy to sell off its main ships and start to reduce the number of ships. At this time, if anyone proposes to go to the Far East to fight a war with unpredictable outcome, it is estimated that the next day  Beaten into a pig's head.  .

    Unless, the British Empire¡¯s huge and prestigious fleet can fly to the interior of Central Asia.

    This is just a joke!

    Bernard bent down and saluted, maintaining his usual aristocratic demeanor, and then raised his head slightly, with his sight and the target forming a standard 30¡ã angle: "Dear President, please allow me to express my heartfelt praise to you on behalf of the British Empire.  China amazes me very much, I really can¡¯t believe that 7 years ago this was a barren sage grassland.¡±

    "Ambassador, you are so complimentary. These achievements are all due to the support of your country and friendly countries. We are probably not as good as you." Li Yuanhong also responded with some flattery, but this flattery was a bit harsh.  Nearly 2 million tons of crude steel per year is actually a lot. You must know that Japan's output last year was only 350,000 tons, Russia's output dropped to less than 100,000 tons due to the civil war, and even France only had a pitiful 2.1 million tons!  Although Britain's industrial capacity has not been destroyed, it is only 9 million tons. Only the United States leads the way with an unprecedented 40 million tons.  So according to China¡¯s steel production this year.  It can already be ranked fifth after the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy and France!  Such achievements in just seven years are commendable.  Even if steel output cannot directly represent manufacturing capacity, most of China's steel products are still primary products, and the output is produced by mass accumulation of steel-making equipment through the tactic of a sea of ????people, but it does release a signal that it is entering an industrial country!  Whoever wants to industrialize.  In fact, they all have to go through the road from roughness to precision, from quantity to quality. The Chinese are also taking such a road now.

    Seeing his wandering eyes, Li Yuanhong narrowed his eyes and deliberately joked: "To be honest with you, Ambassador, I actually have something to ask you. Do you think you can sell some equipment to our country? We are all allies, and we will definitely not agree on the price.  It will cause your country to suffer."

    ¡°Ahem, Bernard coughed twice.  Deliberately slapping his palms in front of his nose: "I'm very sorry, I don't like the smell of soot and dust."

    Yang Du, who was standing next to him, almost laughed in his heart. He was clearly not prepared for the proposal to buy machinery and equipment, but he was talking about coal ash.  Li Yuanhong is also a human being. How could he not see such an obvious interruption? He said to Donkey down the slope: "The steel is indeed good, but the coal ash is too choking. Even Nanjing can smell it when the wind is strong? Mr. Ambassador, it's not as good as us.  How about we walk and talk?¡±

    Bernard nodded, walked side by side, changed the subject, and asked: "We heard that your country is preparing to build dozens of warships. Is this true?"

    "Dozens of ships? Haha, we can't afford to build that many warships. It's just that the navy's equipment is outdated, so we just built a few cruisers to replace the old warships. We built two 20,000-ton ships, four 10,000-ton ships, and the remaining few are small ones.  Warship." The Republic of China Navy's shipbuilding plan was not hidden from anyone, and Li Yuanhong was even more generous, just changing the aircraft carrier into a 20,000-ton cruiser.  As long as they are not battleships, Britain can still tolerate China adding a few cruisers. After all, countries are now beginning to formulate huge shipbuilding plans. Even Japan, which is economically tight, is gritting its teeth to launch the Amagi-class battlecruiser plan, and the United States is even more reluctant.  A dozen capital ships will be built.  Not to mention a few cruisers from the Republic of China.  So I only paid attention to asking a few questions about the specific configuration of the 20,000-ton cruiser, and then told the purpose of today's visit: "Your Excellency, the British Empire is very concerned about your fleet's actions in eastern Central Asia. We want to know this time  How long will it take for the operation to be over?¡±

    "This." Li Yuanhong deliberately pretended to be embarrassed and looked at Yang Du. The latter walked up to Yang Du smartly and said, "Your Excellency, Ambassador, our Ministry of National Defense has discussed the war in the northwest. The ethnic groups in the northwest are complex. The activities of the poor party guerrillas are rampant.  , it is too early to talk about ending the operation."

    "Yes. It's too difficult." Li Yuanhong took the words and sighed with a sad face: "The war in the northwest is too expensive and the distance is long. Judging from the time consuming of many wars in the northwest during the Qing government, it will take at least three to four years to end. However,  Ambassador, please tell Prime Minister Lloyd George that as an ally, our country will definitely wipe out thePoor party, help General Kolchak regain his country!  No matter how difficult it is, we will never tolerate this matter!  "

    Three or four years?  !

    Bernard almost jumped.  An ally on the left and an ally on the right made his face a little white, his beard trembled a few times, and he finally understood the meaning of the slang term "climb up the pole".  The European war is over, who is still your ally?  If the British Empire had not been temporarily weak, I am afraid that the Royal Navy's Invincible Fleet would have blocked the southeastern coast long ago.  Said: "Our country supports your army's attack on the poor party, but we believe that too many troops in Central Asia will affect stability and unsettle all ethnic groups. We should be gentle instead of blindly abusing force."

    Yes, even the abuse of force was revealed.  Wang Anlan despises these British people very much in her heart. When they are needed, they will try their best to win over them and give them what they want. When they are not needed, they will cross the river and burn the bridges!  However, Li Yuanhong was well prepared and said: "The ambassador is right. In fact, we don't want to fight anymore. But we originally agreed to unite to fight the poor party. If we withdraw the troops, wouldn't it be a waste of all our efforts? It's inappropriate, it's really not right.  OK. In my opinion, we should send more troops! Since we want to fight, we must solve it completely to avoid a resurgence in the future."

    Bernard was a little speechless and couldn't understand China's Tai Chi-style conversation. He simply asked: "Your Excellency, the British Empire would like to know, once your army wins Andijan, will it continue to attack? Where is the next target?"  .¡±

    "Well." Li Yuanhong cleared his throat and saw that Bona's face was not good, so he pushed it aside and said: "I have fully entrusted the military to solve this matter, but one thing is necessary first. That is, we must cooperate with our allies to completely eliminate it.  The power of the Poor Party in the northwest ensures the security of our country¡¯s borders.¡±

    The ambiguous words made Bernard even more worried. Andijan is the limit of what Britain can tolerate, because it is the dividing line between China and Russia before the Beijing Treaty.  Now that all countries have decided to cancel the unequal treaties with China, the UK will certainly not be able to stand alone. Especially when Japan has not yet fully recovered, it would be unwise to rashly break up with China.  However, if the National Defense Forces continue to penetrate deep into the Uzbek and even Turkmen regions, this will inevitably lead to Russia being severely weakened. Without Russia to contain it, God knows whether Yang Qiu will continue to send troops south to threaten the security of Afghanistan and India.  Britain would never sit back and watch China expand in Central Asia, just as it would never allow Russia to expand southward.  But the problem is that Japan existed at that time and was able to arm Japan to attack Russia's black hands. Who will curb the military actions of the Chinese National Defense Forces now?

    Kolchak has too much time to take care of himself, Dutov may not be able to survive for several months without the support of China, and India will never be armed.  Do we really need to rely on Gurkha mercenaries to fight against hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops?  If they were really angered, would there be a firefight in the ** direction?  That would be really big trouble!  And on this matter, the attitudes of the United States and France are still very ambiguous.  France has difficulty in returning to the Far East because of its desire to dominate the European continent. The United States has long been dissatisfied with the Anglo-Japanese alliance.  They may not be willing to intervene in this matter, not to mention that letting them intervene in Northeast Asia will undoubtedly bring in a bigger wolf!

    The more Bernard thought about it, the more confused he became. This was simply an unsolvable mess.  Said: "Then the ultimate goal of your country is to defeat the poor party?"

    This is what Li Yuanhong was waiting for.  He smiled and said: "Isn't this an agreement between allies! Of course, our country does not want to go to war. We still think that countries should cancel unequal treaties and coexist peacefully."

    This sentence made Bernard stunned and understood.  Yang Qiu is still giving up on canceling all unequal treaties, and these places in eastern Central Asia were forced to cede by the "Beijing Treaty".  At the Paris Peace Conference, the British government was unwilling to touch this requirement, and even threw the ball on the Sino-Russian negotiations as to whether Russia should cancel it. It seems that this made Yang Qiu and the Chinese government very dissatisfied, and they wanted to force it back through military means.  In order to de facto control these areas, he may have prepared a speech to unilaterally announce the recovery of his homeland.  Bernard was about to continue talking.  While testing the bottom line of the Republic of China on the northwest issue, Cai E, who was also visiting the steel plant, came over and said, "President, good news, good news!"

    "Oh? What's the good news?"

    Cai E deliberately glanced at Bernard and said: "The Vice President sent a telegram. Three days ago, our forward battalion cooperated with the Russian Volunteer Army. They defeated the siege of the main force of the Poor Party in Chelyabinsk, annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, and captured  The baggage is countless.¡±

    After the translator quickly finished the news, Bernard¡¯s eyebrows gradually tightened.  He was not surprised about the Russian Volunteer Army. Yang Qiu used the opportunity of occupying Siberia to transform tens of thousands of Russian troops in the region into intervention forces. All countries knew it, but it was no small matter that the Chinese National Defense Forces entered Western Siberia again!  Eastern Central Asia is just around the corner. If they control the Ural region again, there will really be no armed forces in Central Asia that can compete with them, so I am anxious??¡°Your Excellency, I believe that military operations in Central Asia should be stopped as soon as possible to avoid causing a greater humanitarian disaster! Our government is already considering suspending the previous treaties, so I hope that both of us can make permanent arrangements in Central Asia as soon as possible.  Negotiate peacefully.¡±

    "This is a good idea." Li Yuanhong nodded in agreement in an official tone, but suddenly frowned and asked: "The northwest can be postponed, but the poor party troops in the northeast have seriously threatened the peace of the north of our country. Recently, someone has provided them with a large amount of arms. This is  Non-negotiable!" Honest people are rarely serious, so Bernard felt embarrassed to refuse.  He knew who was supporting the Far East troops of the Poor Party, so he nodded: "I will consult with the Japanese government as soon as possible and give you an answer."

    "That's good, that's good." Looking at his leaving figure, Li Yuanhong murmured a few words to himself and then turned to look at Cai E: "Songpo, will this mess be solved soon?"

    Cai E smiled faintly: "Don't worry, President. After Frunze's failure in Chelyabinsk, the Poor Party must consider retreating from Andijan! Otherwise, when Kolchak and Dutov gain a firm foothold and turn back south, they will  We will be completely surrounded and lose tens of thousands of troops in vain! As for the Northeast, the Vice President has already made arrangements."

    ¡°Doesn¡¯t that mean that Congress will immediately start a discussion on the division of new provinces?¡±

    "Yes!"

    Cai E¡¯s eyes are clear and shining. Recovering the country is the biggest dream of their generation of soldiers!

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