Just as the Chinese Navy was actively developing its destroyer plan, something big happened in Europe shocked the whole world.

At the end of 1878, in order to strengthen comprehensive strategic partnerships with the Chinese Empire, Bismarck personally held a telephone conference with the Chinese Empire Emperor Li Weiguo.

The meeting lasted for six hours. After Bismarck's proposal was approved by Li Weiguo, the Chinese Empire then ordered Li Hua, a plenipotentiary representative to Berlin, to sign the "Sino-Germany World Railway Plan" with the German Empire.

According to this plan, the Chinese Empire would build a railway between the capital of the Chinese Empire and Basra along the Persian Gulf before 3990 (1890). At the same time, the German Empire would also build a railway between the German capital Berlin and Basra before 1890, and finally the railway between China and Germany was connected in Basra.

This is a railway that combines the core interests of China and Germany, politics and economy in all aspects. The railway spans the entire Eurasian continent, with a total length of 24,788 kilometers, and a middle route through ten countries.

Among them, the Chinese Empire built the longest railway, but only an agreement was reached with Aiwuhan, Persian Empire and Ottoman Empire to build the railway from Beijing to Baghdad. Although the German Empire built a short railway, it needed to negotiate with seven other countries, and the negotiations were relatively complicated.

At this time, the Chinese Empire had completed the fifth phase of railway construction plan, with the total railway mileage of the country reaching 130,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world. The total mileage of the American railway ranks second in the world, reaching 102,000 kilometers in 1870. However, due to the civil war, a large number of railways were destroyed. By 1879, it only increased by 4,000 kilometers to 106,000 kilometers. The third place in the world was the German Empire, which reached 34,000 kilometers in 1879, followed by 29,000 kilometers in France, 18,000 kilometers in the Tsarist Russian Empire, and 17,000 kilometers in Britain.

The total railway mileage of Britain and France not only did not increase within ten years, but decreased on a large scale, all due to war relations. The British Empire suffered a crushing defeat in the fifth Sino-British and Yassan film war, losing Australia, Malaya and Bangladesh, and lost more than 10,000 kilometers of railways into the total railway mileage of the Chinese Empire. France lost a crushing defeat in the French-Prussian War, losing a large number of railways in Alsace and Lorraine, and was incorporated into the total railway mileage of the German Empire.

The Russian Empire's railway mileage increased the fastest because the Russian Empire built the Siberian Railway with the intention of opening up the Asian continental shelf to reach the Far East and seizing the coastal harbour occupied by the Chinese Empire.

However, compared with the first Chinese Empire and the second American Alliance, both countries have exceeded 100,000 kilometers. The total railway mileage of the Tsarist Russian Empire is not even a fraction of the Chinese Empire, and the gap is huge.

In the eyes of the people of the world, the railway gap between the Chinese Empire and the United States is not very large, but only the insiders know that the gap is huge.

You should know that the United States of America is located in the American continent, with most areas being plains, and railway construction is easy. The Chinese Empire is different. The terrain is complex and there are all kinds of terrain, especially in the central and western regions. The mountains are dangerous, and it is difficult to get the Sichuan road up to the sky. It is also known as the roof of the world. The northern Xinjiang, which is covered with snow all year round, is ten times more difficult than that of the United States. Even in this case, the total railway mileage of the Chinese Empire is still more than tens of thousands of kilometers in the United States, which shows that the Chinese Empire is powerful in railways.

At the same time, although the railway area in the United States reached 100,000 kilometers, it did not achieve national coverage, especially in the southern states of the United States. There were no railways at all, and the national railway coverage rate reached only 45%. In contrast, the railway coverage rate in the Chinese Empire had reached 80%. As long as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Far East Railway were opened, the goal of connecting railways across the country would be completely achieved.

The reason why the Chinese Empire jointly built a world railway with the German Empire was, on the one hand, considering the political factors of the strategic alliance between China and Germany. Wherever the railway went, it would be the sphere of influence of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, increasing its global influence. On the other hand, it was economic considerations. The Chinese Empire is now the largest economy in the world, the first in GDP in the world, and the German Empire is now the largest economy in Europe, the first in GDP in Europe and the third in the world. The Sino-German economic alliance will achieve a global GDP of 75%, which is the economic dominance of the world.

The last aspect is military infiltration. Once the railway between China and Germany is built and connected to the entire Asian continent, from the easternmost part of Asia to the westernmost part of Europe, whether it is military delivery or material supply, the two armies of China and Germany support each other and can dominate the Eurasian continent in military terms.

Therefore, as soon as this grand plan was proposed, Li Weiguo immediately agreed, and countries around the world, especially Britain and France, immediately felt a huge threat.

The British Empire had just been beaten up by the Chinese Empire, so naturally there was no courage to protest to the Chinese Empire. The Second French Empire was still counting on the Chinese Empire to help France build the strongest navy in Europe, and it was not afraid to touch the bad luck of the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, the British and French empires targeted the German Empire and put a lot of pressure and protests on William I.

The Tsarist Russian Empire also joined the ranks because the German Empire would build a railway through Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, which was equivalent to helping the Ottoman Empire. Now Russia and Turkey are engaged in the ninth war, and obviously do not want Germany and Turkey to approach.

Faced with the strong interference of Britain, France and Russia, the German Empire was tough and did not defeat the Three Kingdoms at all.

At this time, the German Empire had a strong army, and the navy had eight ironclad ships and eight dome cruise ships built by the Chinese Empire, which were stronger than the British Empire's fleets in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, so the British protests did not work.

As for France, although the French Navy has more than a dozen ironclad ships, its grade is too low and it cannot threaten the German Navy at all. The French Army has long been afraid of being beaten by the German Army and dare not be arrogant.

Finally, it was the Tsarist Russian Empire. Germany and Russia had insurance treaties and did not invade each other. Bismarck was another big fool. Tsarist Russia quickly believed that Germany had no hostility to Russia. Moreover, before the 20th century, most of the Tsarist Russian Empire's industrial and military technology came from Germany's help, and they did not dare to offend Germany.

As a result, the so-called interference of Britain, France and Russia did not work at all. The German Empire quickly signed an agreement with the Ottoman Empire, and Germany established the Asia Minor Company to be responsible for building the railway from Berlin to Constantinople. As for the railway from Constantinople to Baghdad, the Ottoman Empire was also a fence-broken man. He was worried that it would anger Britain and France, but he did not dare to agree immediately. He only stated that the Ottoman Empire would consider whether there was a need for construction.

Compared with the international pressures that Germany has been under, the Chinese Empire is simple. It bypasses the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and builds directly from the railway node in Ili Prefecture to the Aiwuhan border. Aiwuhan also paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty 1840, and was later secretly divided by the Tsarist Russian Empire and the British Empire. However, neither the Tsarist Russian Empire nor the British Empire announced the annexation of Aiwuhan, which gave the Chinese Empire an excuse.

When the Chinese Empire's special envoy negotiated with Aiwuhan Khan, although Britain and Russia put pressure on it, the effect was very bad. The British were not confident enough. After losing the fifth Sino-British War, the entire Himalayas became the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire's team occupied the commanding heights and directly looked down on the entire Indian continent. Moreover, the treaty stipulated that within 200 kilometers of the southern foot of the Himalayas was a demilitarized zone, which was the most painful thing for the British. If the Chinese Empire forced the railway, the British could not stop it, unless the war started again.

Obviously, the British do not have the courage yet.

As for the Tsarist Russian Empire, it was quite painful. The Russian army in Central Asia was still going to war with the Ottoman Empire. After finally saving some money, they planned to go to war with the Chinese Empire, but they all went into the Russian-Turkish war. The frustrated Tsar wanted to announce the annexation of Aiwuhan, but Britain disagreed, and the Chinese Empire disagreed even more. Faced with the powerful national and military strength of the Chinese Empire, the Tsar could only protest twice.

The last level is the Persian Empire, a weak empire that reaches its roots. The Chinese Empire can use force to coerce or economic means to make it surrender.

With the Silk Road as a bargaining chip, the Chinese Empire and the Persian Empire were repeatedly bargained, and finally a large number of Persian Empire officials received huge bribes. The Chinese Empire successfully seized the rights to build and operate railways in Persia.

The Persian Gulf has oil resources that the Chinese Empire urgently needed. Now the automobile industry is booming around the world, and the use of internal combustion engines is prevalent all over the world, which has also accelerated the plunder of oil resources by European and American countries.

Five years ago, oil smelting was just the patent of the Chinese Empire. Now, European and American countries have successively established petroleum smelting factories, and can also produce gasoline and diesel on their own.

In this way, the oil in the Persian Gulf became the fat in the eyes of the great powers of various countries. Although the Chinese Empire had long since produced a large amount of land in the Persian Gulf to exploit oil, the British had an advantage in this region, seized a large amount of land to exploit oil, fought a price war for oil and refined oil prices with the Chinese Empire.

This is another oil war between China and the UK. Without gunpowder, they were all carried out in secret.

However, the British were very distressed. They thought that blocking the Persian Gulf and controlling oil would severely hit the oil and automobile industries of the Chinese Empire. However, they found that from when they began, a large amount of oil was also produced in the Dutch East India.

The Chinese Empire could obtain enough oil from the Dutch East India, and it was cheap and short. The surrounding waters were under the control of the Chinese Empire Navy, which was very safe.

The British plan to blockade the oil transportation lines of the Persian Gulf to control the Chinese Empire instantly broke the city!

This Damn immediately made the British people very angry and brought the Dutch to scold them.

The Dutch were lying down and shouting bitterly. It’s not our fault. If we don’t give the Chinese Empire oil, they will destroy us in minutes!

Li Weiguo's foresight prevented the Chinese Empire from being cut off from the oil supply line by the British Empire. After learning about this, the civil and military officials of the empire admired Li Weiguo even more.

This is not a human, this is a god! Do you dare to worship the statue of Li Weiguo at home?

The British will not give up. Politically speaking, once China and Germany build the Eurasian world railway, it will affect the entire Eurasian political structure, and the influence of the Chinese Empire will enter Europe effortlessly. Economically, once the Eurasian railway is built, the trade volume will definitely increase dramatically, and countries in Central Asia, West Asia, Southern Europe and Western Europe will benefit and be influenced by the Chinese Empire. The value of the Suez Canal, which the British Empire finally built, was instantly reduced by half. Want to charge a high crossing fee? Dreaming, is it good if someone doesn't walk your Suez Canal, it is cheaper and more convenient to go directly to the Sino-German world railway. If you are looking at the military influence, once Germany provokes the European war, once the Chinese Empire's army joins the war, it can enter Europe from Asia in one and a half months.

The British people were so frustrated that they would never allow the railway to be built.

Historically, Britain and France launched World War I the day after signing the Baghdad Railway consent contract with Germany. It can be seen that the British and French attached great importance to the construction of the Baghdad Railway in Germany at that time, and even launched World War I. The Baghdad Railway built by the Germans today is part of the world railway, which brought the Chinese Empire in. It can be seen that this railway has an unprecedented threat to Britain and France.

Britain and France discussed secretly and quickly reached an agreement that if the construction of the world railway cannot be stopped in the end, it will be completely destroyed before the world railway is completed, and even a war will be launched.

As a result, China and Germany built this world-class railway, which invisibly laid the hidden dangers of the world war.

The Germans didn't know about this, but Li Weiguo, who was far away in the Forbidden City, knew it very well.

Laying the powder keg for the world war is exactly what Li Weiguo likes to do the most.

If there is no war in Europe, the overall strength of the Western powers will not be weakened. Then the Chinese Empire will waste more time if it wants to dominate the whole world.

In history, the United States was the world's number one in terms of economic strength and military strength before World War I, but America is still not the world's hegemony, because Europe's heritage is very strong, and this is the reason why a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Therefore, it was not until the United States had completely lost the foundation of European countries after two world wars that it became the world's hegemony.

From this we can see that if you want to be the world overlord, you must first mess up Europe.

While Li Weiguo was applying eye drops to Europe, he was also actively preparing. The last two domestic areas, the Roof of the World and the Far East, must be completed as soon as possible.

In the fifth Sino-British and Yabo War, the Chinese Empire suffered a great loss of the blockage of the railway in the Western Xinjiang. Three years have passed since the war started. Under the continuous urging and supervision of Li Weiguo and the military, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been progressing rapidly. It was originally started in 3967 (1867) of the Yuan Dynasty and planned to open the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in 20 years. Now good news has been heard in front of the front, and the most difficult Fenghuoshan frozen soil tunnel has been opened, which means that the 550-kilometer frozen soil will be completed in the next three years. It is expected to be opened to traffic in the 3980 (1880) of the Yuan Dynasty and will be completed 7 years ahead of schedule.

Once the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is opened, the Chinese Empire will no longer have to worry about the logistics supply on the border of the Western Xinjiang.

As for the Far East Railway, although it was also a railway project issued by Li Weiguo, the Far East was also a large area of ​​permafrost, which was difficult to build, and the construction period reached twenty years. However, there was no war in the Far East for many years, and the Chinese Empire had a very small population in the Far East, so the military did not need to rush to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway as fast as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Chapter completed!