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Time flies, and 4 months later.

Mid-March 1883

Red Fort, Lingxiao Pavilion

Li Fushou had been dealing with official duties for a while, and felt a little hungry in his stomach, so he asked the maids to send some refreshments, wiped them clean with a hot towel, picked up a piece of glutinous plum blossom cake and ate it, and asked casually, "Does Miss Chris be on duty today?"

"Report to Master, Miss Chris is on duty in the side room." The maid replied.

"Oh, let's go ahead and ask her to go to the massage room to prepare. I'll go there later."

"Affect the order."

After the beautiful maid left, Li Fushou had some more refreshments and then returned to the desk. Here was a confidential document he had just read, which was a combat plan reported in the Kalimantan War Zone. He opened it and signed the order;

Agree to implement the combat plan, and the main force of Shangri-La Division entered Machen and was ready to support at any time.

After signing the letter, Li Fushou lay back on the back of the chair, reached out and pinched the part between his eyebrows, and really felt that the pen in his hand was as heavy as a thousand pounds.

The issuance of the order for this battle will bring about another sea of ​​corpses and blood.

In the development of living space, the rights and interests of some people are always damaged, such as the indigenous people of the East Indies, such as the Dutch, and the southern states. This is a multiple-choice question.

Unless you are determined to be self-contained and do not develop, war is inevitable.

According to the reported combat plan;

The Central Kalimantan Provincial Battle will be officially launched on April 11. There is less than a month left to prepare. It is planned to attack the towns where the Dutch are heavily guarded by the Dutch, and to remove them from the points like playing checkers.

The battle will have a size of more than 50,000 troops (including more than 20,000 indigenous troops under the Netherlands), which is a severe test for both sides.

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

Since June 1882, the French Expeditionary Force has conquered cities and territory in the Kingdom of Vietnam and entered the capital of Hue, the king Nguyen Phucsheng surrendered and signed the Treaty of Hue, recognizing that Vietnam is France's protector, and its internal affairs and diplomacy are all under the management of France.

The Vietnamese Kingdom was excited and refused to recognize this treaty that was humiliating and humiliated. Nguyen Phucsheng was dismissed and his son Nguyen Phuc Wu was appointed king. He urgently sent a special envoy to the Qing court for help.

At the same time, the French Expeditionary Force, which invaded the northern Vietnam region, actually fought more than a dozen bloody battles head-on with the Black Flag Army led by Liu Yongfu. French general Li Weili was shot dead in the battle, but with the sharp firearms, the French army also repeatedly damaged the Black Flag Army.

The Qing government then declared war on France and immediately dispatched the Vietnamese expeditionary force to enter Vietnam, fulfilling its sectarian obligations, and deployed defenses in the areas of Beining Prefecture, Shanxi Prefecture and Xinghua Prefecture near Tokyo (Hanoi), and was ready to fight.

After entering 1883, the French army launched a new offensive, and the Vietnam Expeditionary Force and the Black Flag Army were defeated, and the situation was critical.

Just at this time

The new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Gu Yanchuan sent a new army of 4,000 people to Vietnam to assist in the war, and achieved great victory in the battle of Xinghua Prefecture, killing 187 French troops and injuring more than 400 people, curbing the momentum of the French expeditionary army's fierce attack.

Due to this major defeat, the French army retreated to the important places of Shanxi Prefecture, licked their wounds and reorganized their troops to prepare for war, preparing for another offensive.

In the East Indies

The Aceh War fought by the Dutch colonists on Sumatra, and entered its 11th year. Due to the large amount of military force being drawn to Borneo to set up defenses, the situation of the Aceh Kingdom, which was originally suppressed, collapsed, and the resistance movement became active again. A large area of ​​Dutch-occupied areas were captured by the rebels. The Dutch colonists could only retreat to important towns, and the situation was very bad.

at the same time

The Borneo peace negotiations held in Singapore entered the fourth round. Due to the large gap between the two parties in the negotiations, this round of negotiations faces the worst situation of breaking down at any time.

The Dutch East Indies Governor's Office kept dispatching troops to Borneo, doing everything possible to strengthen the defensive forces of Central Kalimantan Province. The Queensland troops stationed in the Machen area stepped up preparations for war. The two sides were in a formidable manner against each other, and the war was about to break out.

In Afghanistan

The British and Tsarist Russian troops frequently broke out on the northern border of Afghanistan, and both sides suffered casualties. The British Empire was very dissatisfied with this and issued a stern diplomatic note to the Tsarist Russian Empire, ordering the other army to stop provoking and be responsible for all the serious consequences arising from it.

Given the unquestionable dominance of the British Empire around the world, it has sufficient ability to attack Tsarist Russia in the Balkans, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and around the Black Sea. Under huge diplomatic pressure, Tsarist Russia finally surrendered.

Britain and Russia sent diplomatic representatives to hold negotiations in Kandahar. The two sides agreed to break off contact in northern Afghanistan, with the 300-kilometer Wakhan Corridor as the boundary. The Wakhan Corridor belongs to the Qing court. The area north of the Wakhan Corridor belongs to Tsarist Russia Central Asia and the area south of the British rule belongs to the Afghan region.

South America

The four-year "Dutch War" from 1879 to 1883 came to an end. Chile, Peru and Bolivia have been pecking at each other. After the British mediation, the dust finally settled. Peru and Bolivia, who lost the war, ceded land and paid compensation, and never recovered.

The big winner of this war is Chile. It not only won rich bird droppings resources and saltpeter deposits, but also has a long coastline and multiple seaports. It officially won the title of "Little Overlord of South America" ​​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, Australia's high-quality and low-cost wool products and agricultural machinery products entered the markets of the three South American countries. This move once aroused dissatisfaction from the United States, but under the leadership of the British Empire's strong free trade policy, he could only turn a blind eye.

It’s not that you are willing to compromise, but that you can’t do it.

It was a surprise to win the South American market. The development of the South American market was originally proposed in a conference, and there is also a story here...

Second half of 1882

Various companies in the wool textile deep processing base located in Songjiang Town have started production one after another, and products such as wool wool, wool and blended fabrics, wool shawls, top hats, socks, carpets and ready-to-wear have been produced one after another, and have begun to be supplied in large quantities in the market.

After preliminary trial sales and marketing promotion, high-quality and low-priced Australian wool products were quickly sold in the Far East and North American markets, and entered the European market, including the UK, with a very gratifying sales momentum.

Normandy import and export company located in North America and its partner Higgins Company found that a large proportion of deep-processed wool products sold to North America were purchased by South American countries, including Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina, which produces wool a lot.

Argentina is a world-renowned agricultural and animal husbandry power. Isn’t the wool produced by itself fragrant?

The reason is very simple. Although Argentina produces a lot of wool, it does not have the ability to deep processing. It is a routine operation to export soybeans imported oils, wheat imported flour, and wool imported wool products.

In today's era

Such examples are not uncommon. The huge Qing Empire could not even make matches and had to be imported from abroad, so matches were called "foreign fire".

The Qing Empire itself was an important place for cotton, but it was beaten to pieces by the weaving cloth imported from Britain. These high-quality and low-priced cotton cloths are called "foreign cloth" and hand-woven cotton cloths are called "domestic cloth".

The same is true in Argentina, a rich land favored by God, and you only need to sow the seeds to obtain unimaginable rich harvests.

In this beautiful country far away from world disputes, there is no threat of war, no pressure to survive, and no urgent need for competition among countries. Most of the country's land belongs to a small number of white landlord elites, and ordinary people can get a life of food and clothing as long as they work.

This is a world where the pace of life has been slowed down. The landlord class has no motivation to develop industry, and the same is true for the people.

Argentina's distance from other countries in the world has greatly influenced the Chinese people's concept. It is hidden at the Atlantic Ocean and is one of the most remote countries in the world. The distance to East Asia is simply the end of the world.

After eliminating regional threats from Brazil and Paraguay, the closest country that can threaten Argentina is the United Kingdom, 12,000 kilometers away. Such a long distance has caused a large degree of cultural isolation and national inertia.

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

Originally, Li Fushou agreed to develop a South American market plan with a jujube or no jujube. But who knew that the effect was unexpectedly good. The wool deep-processed products and agricultural machinery products sold better than in the United States.

In this area, there is simply no product that can compete with it.

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

The United States has imported a large amount of wool and wool products from France and Italy all year round, but now imports are turned to Australia, but this cannot affect the US government's anger at the Queensland rivals entering the South American market.

Monroeism has always advocated that North and South America is the Americas of Americans and is extremely hostile to foreign forces.

The British diplomatic representative who was mediating the guano war in the three South American countries was unexpectedly strong. After asking London for instructions, he sent a formal diplomatic note to the US government.

He expressed anger and strong protest against the United States' policy of obstructing free trade in South America, urging it to make reasonable decisions that are in the interests of the people in the region, and eliminate acts that interfere with free trade, otherwise the consequences will be borne by one.

The majesty of the British Empire cannot be trampled on, and the power to react further is reserved.

Given London's strong reaction, the Americans were decisively cowardly.

Li Fushou dared to make 100 guarantees, and he really did not make any lobbying or work for this, but London stood up to support the Australian colony, forcing him to bear this affection.

It’s great to enjoy the cool under the big tree, and this is absolutely true.

Why did London react so strongly?

Li Fushou wanted to come... The United States didn't know what happened, but it touched the British Empire's bad luck, and Queensland took advantage of it.

In addition to the global free trade policy that the British Empire is fully promoting, it also means that the British Empire's global hegemony status does not allow provocation, and it is ultimately attributed to the complex and entangled feelings of Britain towards the United States.

London and the American political circles dominated by British Americans love each other, and they work closely together, and they are full of various ways to stab each other, looking down on each other and showing each other together. It really makes it complicated to say that.

Europe

The German-Austria alliance, which was officially signed in 1882, formed strong military pressure on the German Empire's old enemy, the Third Republic of France. Faced with the siege of the old enemy and the pressure of heavy troops, the French quickly approached Tsarist Russia, and bilateral relations officially entered the honeymoon period.

Taking advantage of Tsarist Russia's high dependence on French capital, the two countries' high-level interactions frequently have promoted the further warming of relations and warmed up to establish a close military alliance.

While strictly preventing Tsarist Russia from extending its tentacles into the warm Mediterranean, the British Empire showed an ambiguous attitude towards the further heating of France-Russia relations, secretly giving the green light to both sides.

March 1883

In a question on London's Parliament, British Prime Minister William Eult Gladstone publicly elaborated on the current foreign policy and expressed serious dissatisfaction with the European Union, Germany, Austria and Italy. He believed that this move would break the lasting balance of power on the European continent and be harmful to the current peaceful and stable European situation.

In the matter of the three countries signing an alliance treaty, German Emperor William I ignored the concerns from London and insisted on promoting the alliance treaty, which played an extremely bad demonstration role, which violated the tacit understanding between the two sides who had previously promoted European peace and should bear the main responsibility.

The Prime Minister's remarks were publicly issued in newspapers, which caused an uproar in Europe. Germany angrily issued a formal diplomatic note, accusing the idea of ​​the eldest London empire of being accusing the European situation and interfering in Germany's internal affairs, which was extremely irresponsible.

The two sides were having a lot of fun fighting, and the relationship deteriorated sharply.

The world is full of war and smoke.

All kinds of thoughts poured into Li Fushou's mind. He smiled bitterly and shook his head and stood up, put all the geostrategic considerations behind him, and took big steps towards the back hall.

The Queensland forces represented by the Red River Valley are not able to appear alone on the world stage. We must adhere to the principle of quietly entering the village and shooting guns, and then we will catch the benefits in the bowl.

I have to settle the two provinces in Borneo, and Central Kalimantan Province is not unavailable. It depends on whether the war ahead is going smoothly.

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

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

Here is a bronze incense burner of Taotie Swallowing Heaven, Fulu and Shou, placed in the corner of the wall. A warm feeling hits the face, and the curtains are heavy, emitting a heart-beating fragrance.

Come here

Several beautiful maids in short clothes came forward, helped Li Fushou untied his clothes, put on a wide macaque robe, and then led the way forward.

Turning around the corridor, I came to a separate room with sandalwood. The smoke evaporated and the temperature was three points higher.

In the middle of the room, a bathtub made of a thousand-year-old sandalwood is in sight. It is about ten meters long and more than 4 meters wide. The center of the trunk is hollowed out to form a huge bathtub. The hot water full of petals is filled with mist. The surroundings are polished to make people see. The original tree tumors are retained below, which makes it look even more ancient and natural.

In front of the log bath, on a tray-shaped log sculpture made of logs, Chris wore a charming costume of an Egyptian belly dancer and posed in a seductive shape that made people bleeding. The dim candlelight shone on the dark skin, like a stunning human body sculpture.

"Hey...Chriss, are you making a mistake?"

Li Fushou couldn't help laughing. This sudden sentence seemed to have pierced the ball, and immediately destroyed the carefully created atmosphere.

Chris had no choice but to send two big white eyeballs, and then, amid the sound of Egypt's belly dance and drum music, changed his movements and explained in stiff Chinese. "Master, I know Chinese food is about color, fragrance, smell, and shape, so I had an idea and thought of giving you a massage to relieve stress. "

"Uh...you're intent."

Li Fushou was moved for only two seconds, then took off his large Hanfu and jumped into the hot water, splashing water...
Chapter completed!