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

The current world trend is basically discussed by Britain, France and the United States. As old Western powers, Britain and France have traditional spheres of influence all over the world and have huge influence, and 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 strength, but due to the short time and a slight lack of international political influence, it temporarily ranks third in the world after Britain and France.

In today's world, the only three countries that can build a global colonial empire are Britain, France and the United States, who do not think of being a fourth person.

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

in this regard

The Ocean Empire is just a beginner and is very immature.

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

The core interests and basic structure of the Ocean Empire are in the Pacific Rim. To be honest, its position as the Pacific overlord is more steadily in the post-war world pattern.

Whether Britain, France, Italy, Germany, the United States and Japan have been in constant wars in the past few years, and the national strength has been greatly lost. Many previously wealthy creditor countries have transformed into debt-ridden debtor countries, and the huge wealth accumulated over a hundred years has been exhausted.

On the other hand, the Ocean Empire

After the launch of the Jinyang Settlement Act, its importance in the fields of international trade and finance has increased rapidly.

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

The political, military and economic fields have always been complementary and have a strong linkage effect.

One rises and the other falls, and the Ocean Empire further consolidated its political, economic and military advantages in the Pacific Rim region and grew into a world power that is difficult to shake.

The first thing I realized was that the Ocean Empire threatened the Royal Navy, and it made frequent small movements, making unfriendly noises.

As the British struggled to maintain the blockade of the German high seas fleet, the British also began to focus on the post-war world pattern.

They were surprised to find it;

The strength of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire has expanded to an uncontrollable level, and has included the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions in a firm control and established a relative advantage.

In order to fight the German high seas fleet with all their might, Britain has greatly removed all types of main ships in the third battleship in the Indian subcontinent from 2014 and returned to its homeland to strengthen the blockade of the German fleet.

To this day

The Third Battleship of the Royal Navy stationed in Kolkata was weak in strength and became a regional fleet dominated by old battleships and cruisers took on the main ranks. Their strength was reduced by more than two levels.

The British Far East Fleet only had a few old cruisers as its main force, and it became an existence fleet.

Such a naval strength, let alone compete with the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, is far inferior to its subordinate Indian Ocean fleet.

In the past two years

The Fusang Navy tightened its belt and developed the "Kingang" class battleship standard for the dreadnoughts, and its strength has increased significantly. It has surpassed the fleet strength of Britain, France and other countries in the Pacific region, ranking second.

This situation makes it difficult for the Royal Navy, which has always been a powerful force in major sea areas around the world and has suffered huge losses in the two large-scale maritime decisive battles between the Jutland Naval Battle and the North Sea Naval Battle, and it is difficult for the British Royal Naval Navy to accept it.

Due to the current main force used in Europe, it is temporarily unable to take into account the Asia-Pacific waters.

Therefore, the British Navy had a serious psychological imbalance, and various conspiracy theories were introduced, pointing to the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, with all kinds of provocations and dissatisfaction.

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

In terms of back-sting allies, the British are routine offenders, so they should properly handle relations between the two countries and always be vigilant based on the principle of cooperation in competition and competition in cooperation.

There is no need to exaggerate small matters. If you involve matters of principle, stick to the bottom line and don’t give in.

For example, in March, the Tianchai Fortress Area on the Great Hanish Island of the Red Sea, Major Romney Kestenner, the local British battalion commander, seduced the wife of the fortress officer.

After the incident broke out, the officer drew his gun and injured Major Romney Kester, and chased him to the British military camp, almost killing him on the spot.

This incident caused an uproar, causing extremely tense relations between the British garrison and the Imperial Fortress garrison. The two sides were tense and almost fought, causing a stir.

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

It was originally intended to enhance military mutual trust and jointly garrison troops on important coastal defense fronts, and it was also a compromise made by the Ocean Empire to avoid British suspicion when it was weak.

This includes the Red Sea Natural Cutter Fortress, Madagascar Naval Base, Mozambique Island, and later the Panama Canal District, Malacca Strait Fortress, Strait Province, Norfolk Naval Base in North America, etc., which are basically the naval bases stationed by British troops at the Ocean Empire.

Its personnel composition is the largest infantry battalion with the least one infantry company, mostly between three or four hundred and one or two hundred, and it has a symbolic military existence.

Take the Red Sea Fortress on Dahanish Island as an example;

During peacetime, the island's garrison maintained at around 4,200 to 4,600 people all year round, and during wartime, it reached tens of thousands.

The British infantry battalion with hundreds of people was stationed outside the fortress, and the actual function in the military camp next to the Great Hanish Island Pier was equal to nothing.

After the "British Officer Missionary Scandal" was exposed, in order to maintain the overall friendship between the two countries, the British and Western navies, in accordance with the principle of "management of their own children", each sent the officers involved to the Military Law Department and severely punished them.

However, the British troops stationed on the island were inevitably excluded. From the supply of daily necessities to the holidays, officers and soldiers of both sides had more than a dozen frictions in local towns, and even fought.

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

It is easy to withdraw, but it is difficult to return.

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

Panama officials retorted, listing the British's oppressive behavior in the colonies, with cruel and bloody means and no one deserves to claim to be a civilized country at all.

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

The French Le Figaro pointed out this to the point;

This is a new battle between Britain, which represents the order of the old era and the Ocean Empire, which represents the order of the new era. Both attempt to accuse the other from the commanding heights of morality and gain a favorable position in the first place.

In fact

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

Le Figaro, with a lonely and bitter tone, uncovered the truth about a series of frictions between the Ocean Empire and Britain.

Regardless of whether it is admitted or not, France suffered heavy damage in the world war, was burdened with heavy debts, and the past ended gloriously, and was no longer able to participate in global competition.

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

It was like a meteor falling, no one mentioned the former "wealth empire" again. After the outbreak of the World War, France's foreign loan principal and interest compensation of hundreds of billions of francs fell, and there was almost no return money.

But who could blame this?

Statistics show that France's top four major foreign loans are Tsarist Russia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Germany. In order to pursue high profits, French usury lenders ignored national interests and provided a large number of franc loans to the enemy camp, and finally suffered from their own losses.

In order to win this life-threatening war, France almost emptied its assets and borrowed a large amount of Jinyang loans, and its strength plummeted.

Report of the Governor's Office of the British Straits;

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

Including but not limited to sending a large number of young indigenous men to the European battlefield, military officers and soldiers plundered local indigenous young women, bullying and oppressing, and there are a large number of indigenous workers in some Chinese plantations, and their living conditions are worrying...

The above inhumane measures have caused the local indigenous population to drop sharply. It is estimated that less than 170,000 people are mostly in plantations and farms spread across Sumatra. They are generally older. While enduring heavy labor, they cannot marry, have children and reproduce. There is no hope and no future...

The report from the Governor's Office of the Straits was full of pity, and it did not mention that British and French merchants were the main force in delivering indigenous labor to Europe. In the process, they earned a lot of blood and tears and made enough money.

It is not to mention that after arriving in Europe, these originally labor-oriented indigenous populations were incorporated into the army by the British and French governments and sent to the battlefield, and eventually became cannon fodder.

Instead, he looked compassionate and publicly accused the relevant policies of the Ocean Empire, which inevitably caused a new round of verbal wars.

As the World War is coming to an end

There are more and more frictions between Britain and the Ocean Empire. Invisible problems appear like mushrooms after a rain, quietly affecting public opinion, international perception, and the glorious image of the Ocean Empire in Europe...

In terms of friction, the British are the founder of the country and their reputation has long been bad.
Chapter completed!