"The Germans protested again?"

Looking at the memorial in his hand, Li Weiguo felt helpless.

It was both surprising and reasonable.

After all, the Chinese Empire had cheated the Germans of a huge sum of money before. As the buyer, he found that the goods he had just purchased had been reduced again, so it was understandable to protest.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Bismarck personally called and made a strong protest, saying that the empire should not help France and the Tsarist Russian Empire build fearless battleships, which would pose a huge strategic threat to Germany and China. I hope we should consider this matter carefully." Zhang Peilun replied.

Li Weiguo smiled slightly. France and Tsarist Russia have not yet agreed to join the British-US-Japan Agreement, but have unilaterally signed a military agreement with the British Empire, which is obviously aimed at the German Empire in Europe, which is the core interests of Russia and France.

Therefore, the German Empire was subject to the greatest strategic threat. If a war broke out, Tsarist Russia and France would not attack the Chinese Empire first, but the German Empire.

Strategically speaking, Li Weiguo deliberately used the disaster to storm the West and used the German Empire to disrupt the situation in Europe.

The Chinese Empire formed an alliance with the German Empire on the surface to deal with the threat from Britain, the United States and Japan to the Chinese Empire. In fact, the Chinese Empire itself was not afraid of the alliance between the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan.

The German Empire was brought together was just to destroy the balance of European power, let Europeans fight infight, and consume the overall strength of the entire Western world.

Only in this way can the Chinese Empire finally clear obstacles to the Western world and accelerate the domination of the world.

After all, the German Empire was just an ally used by the Chinese Empire to cheat money and sell it out!

"Then give them the information on the construction of battleships between France and Russia!"

Li Weiguo put down the memorial in his hand and made a decision quickly.

This is also a countermeasure that he had already thought of.

After all, the battleships built by the Chinese Empire for the French Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire were lower in overall performance than those built by the German Empire. Sharing the battleship data of France and Russia with the German Empire was actually the German Empire who took advantage of it and obtained a free piece of information about the enemy with a real degree of 100.

Sure enough, when Zhang Peilun went back to inform Bismarck of Li Weiguo's decision, Bismarck immediately stopped protesting, but instead praised the Sino-Germany allies and other words.

A diplomatic storm passed like this.

For such diplomatic confrontations, the Chinese Empire had to deal with dozens of them every day, and ordinary people were handled by Zhang Peilun and Lifanyuan. They would only come to ask Li Weiguo for instructions unless they were major diplomatic incidents.

Compared with administrative officials, military officials come to ask for instructions more often.

As soon as Zhang Peilun left, two military giants Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun came together to report to Li Weiguo for any incident.

As for the Chinese Empire's Air Force Commander Zhuang Jiuxia, he was excluded from the Navy and Army, which was actually the discrimination against the Air Force by the Navy and Army.

After all, the army speaks based on fists. At present, the Chinese Imperial Air Force has no mission and has not participated in any war. No one knows how strong it is. Therefore, it is reasonable to not be favored by the two major systems of the Navy and Army.

This time, the two giants of the Navy and Army came together. Without the share of the Air Force Commander Zhuang Jiuxia, he obviously did not intend to take him to play with him.

"Your Majesty, I think it's too wasteful to establish an air force alone. How about you put the air force into the army's command?"

Zhang Xiaoliu and Li Weiguo were closest to each other. After visiting, they made a straightforward request.

Lin Jiyun immediately stopped and opposed: "Why should I assign it to your army? Please give the Air Force to our navy!"

Li Weiguo was stunned, thinking that the two guys came to ask for equipment and military pay again, but in the end they came to divide the air force.

What kind of wind does this suck?

"Okay, why do you need to annex the Air Force?"

Li Weiguo suddenly turned dark and thought to himself: Your uncle, if you don’t give me a reasonable reason, you will kick you two to death!

Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun looked at each other, and then they all reported reasons.

It turned out that not long ago, during a routine annual military exercise by the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire on the Mongolian grassland, the Red Army troops were repeatedly attacked by the Blue Army troops and suffered heavy losses. Later, the Red Army troops were forced to get anxious. A reconnaissance battalion rented a hot air balloon. The scouts looked down at the entire exercise area from the air. Not only did they find the Blue Army's sneak attack troops successfully ambushed and eliminated it, but they also knew the military deployment and military dynamics of the entire Blue Army troops and fought a turnaround.

Afterwards, at the exercise summary meeting, the commander of the Red Army introduced the huge military uses and functions of the hot air balloon, which attracted the attention of the Army Committee.

After that, Zhang Xiaoliu began to equip various troops of the army with hot air balloons or air balloons, but he soon found that hot air balloons and air balloons were not as good as airships. They carried more people, had long range, had long air stagnation, and were not easy to be shot down. So he borrowed airships from Air Force Commander Zhuang Jiuxia. This borrowed them and he did not intend to return them. He even wanted to annex the Air Force and make the Air Force an affiliated reconnaissance force of the Army.

At another military meeting, Zhuang Jiuxia and Zhang Xiaoliu had a quarrel and demanded that the airship troops be returned. Zhang Xiaoliu was cheating but refused to return it. Instead, he shamelessly prepared to use the Military Commission to "borrow" more airships from Zhuang Jiuxia.

Zhuang Jiuxia was immediately furious, and Lin Jiyun tried to fight. As a result, he soon discovered the wonderful uses of the airship. In addition to detecting the enemy situation at sea, he could also observe the bounce points of the cannons of each ship from a high altitude to help naval naval guns fire. With the help of airships to help compare the projectile points, coupled with advanced optical shooting sights, the accuracy of the cannon volley was greatly improved.

Lin Jiyun was also jealous. The person who persuaded the fight quickly became Zhang Xiaoliu's accomplice, wanting to divide the airship troops of the air force.

However, no matter how strong Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun are, it is impossible to truly divide the air force. After all, the Air Force is a new soldier group that Li Weiguo chose to establish. Their ranks and ranks are in line with the Army and Navy. Strictly speaking, Zhuang Jiuxia's status is the same as that of Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun.

If you want to talk about the only advantage, perhaps it is that Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun are old, especially Zhang Xiaoliu, who is from the emperor's servant, so who dares not give face?

Zhuang Jiuxia was also deeply trusted by Li Weiguo. He was extremely powerful and could not be beaten by anyone. He disagreed with the Military Commission "lent" airships to the Navy and Army for use. No one in the Military Commission could do anything to him.

So Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun came to meet Li Weiguo together, intending to persuade Li Weiguo to issue a direct order to assign the Air Force to the Army or Navy.

In fact, this is also a struggle in the military system. Originally, the army and the navy did not deal with each other, and there have been constant struggles from ancient times to today.

However, when the Chinese Empire secretly established an air force and stood alongside the army and the navy, the battle between the army and the navy seemed to ease, and the spearhead was unanimously directed at the air force.

This time, the navy and land are going to divide the air force. The deep explanation is that the power struggle has reached a **.

Li Weiguo was so smart that he could see through the essential root of the problem at a glance.

After the birth of the Air Force in history, it was originally subordinate to the Army, that is, the Army aviation forces of various countries during World War I. During World War II, aircraft carriers showed off their might, and thus had naval aviation forces. It was not until the Cold War that the Air Force truly became an independent branch, and in the 21st century it became the most powerful branch, surpassing the navy and army.

Now looking at the postures of Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun, we want to establish the Army Aviation and Naval Aviation of the Chinese Empire in advance!

The idea is good, but the method is wrong, so this wind cannot last!

Li Weiguo suddenly lowered his face and said, "General Zhang, General Lin, you two are very capable! You dare to annex the Air Force I established? I will rush to you tomorrow to take care of my Imperial Army and the Queen's Fire Phoenix Army!"

Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun were both stunned, looked at each other, and immediately fell to the ground, kowtowed one after another.

"Your Majesty forgive me! I dare not!"

"Your Majesty forgive me! I am afraid!"

Li Weiguo snorted coldly and said, "Today is not a pilgrimage, nor is it a day for worshiping ancestors. There is no need to kneel down and worship!"

"I am guilty, please be kind to your Majesty!"

"I have no intention of offending Your Majesty. Please forgive me!"

Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun were sweating profusely. They knew that they had angered the emperor's re-scaling, so how could they dare to get up? Just kneel down and admit their mistakes!

"Then you kneel down and reflect on yourself!"

Li Weiguo didn't even look at them at once, and began to review memorials, one after another.

Time just ticked and an hour passed in a blink of an eye.

Since the founding of the Chinese Empire, Li Weiguo gradually abolished the kneeling ceremony. During peacetime, civil servants performed 90 degrees of bowing ceremony, military officers performed 90 degrees of bowing ceremony, and military officers performed knight ceremony, during the march and combat, civil servants remained unchanged, while military officers performed one-handed soldiers saluting. In addition, there will be kneeling ceremony only during the ceremonies, festivals or sacrificial ceremony, which are limited to officials and civilians are not restricted.

Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun hadn't kneeled like this for many years. In addition, they were frightened and could not guess the emperor's thoughts, so they were sweating profusely, and their legs were numb and their knees were severely painful.

"It's all you, you are arrogant! Now I'm killed by you!" Lin Jiyun stared at Zhang Xiaoliu with his eyes, showing his expression, but did not make any sound.

"Your uncle, you encouraged me to come to see Your Majesty. Now something happened, I'm just blaming me!" Zhang Xiaoliu immediately glared back.

The two of them stared at each other and blamed each other.

Li Weiguo occasionally glanced at them and felt very happy when he saw the two of them.

Damn, it’s time to kill your mighty, otherwise your tail will be overwhelmed!

Li Weiguo deliberately slapped the two of them, otherwise other civil and military officials would say that the emperor would be unfair in the future.

"You two are addicted to kneeling, aren't you?"

"I am guilty!"

"Crime? One of you is the Minister of the Army and the other is the Minister of the Navy. What crime can you be guilty of?"

Li Weiguo said something unhappy and continued to review the memorials.

Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun looked at each other and said with a bitter face.

"I know my crime, but I should not be greedy for the airships of the Air Force!"

"I am guilty of the same crime! Please give me kindness!"

Seeing that the two of them sincerely repent, Li Weiguo said, "If you know you are wrong, get out of here. I will summon Dutch envoys in a while, and I will not have time to pay attention to you!"

Zhang Xiaoliu hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, why don't you scold us harder! It's not good for the dragon body to hold your breath in your stomach! Or you'll beat me up!"

Lin Jiyun was stunned and secretly scolded Zhang Xiaoliu, you are such a bitch! Are there anyone who is scolding and getting beaten?

At this time, Li Weiguo immediately picked up a book on the table and smashed it towards Zhang Xiaoliu, and cursed: "Xiaoliuzi, get out of here! I don't want to see you again within three days!"

"Yes, yes, I'll get out now!" Zhang Xiaoliu was so happy that he was hit by the book, and he immediately got out of the hall with a mercy.

Lin Jiyun stood there on the spot immediately.

"Where are you squeezing the corpse? Get out! I don't want to see you within three days!"

Seeing that Lin Jiyun was still in a daze, Li Weiguo was about to smash the book with another book. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Jiyun quickly retreated.

Outside the hall, Lin Jiyun scolded Zhang Xiaoliu for being troubled, and he had to be scolded and beaten.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaoliu smiled and said, "I said Xiaoyunzi, you don't understand this! Your Majesty beat you, that is close to you, Your Majesty scolds you, that is your love for you. When we first entered, Your Majesty called me General Zhang, that was angry. When we left, Your Majesty called me Xiaoliuzi, that was the anger. Do you understand?"

"I understand you! Also, I warn you Xiao Liuzi, please stop calling me Xiao Yunzi in the future!" Lin Jiyun glared.

"Xiao Yunzi, I won't call you Xiao Yunzi anymore!" Zhang Xiaoliu said immediately with a look of needing a beating.

The two guys came happily and returned home in disgrace. They failed to divide Zhuang Jiuxia's air force, but were scolded. The news soon spread among the civil and military officials, and they immediately said joy, which showed that the two of them offended many people on weekdays!
To be continued...