International public opinion was very unfavorable to the British Empire, but the British Empire still decided to launch the Boer War because the British Empire had lost its Yapin trade income and colonial plundering income. It urgently needed funds for a large-scale arms race with the Chinese Empire and could not lose South Africa's gold income anymore.

Only the Allies Group is still supporting the British Empire, Grant has completely delegated power to Roosevelt, and Roosevelt judged that the Boer War will eventually be the British Empire to win, so supporting the British Empire can also get a share of South Africa in the future. After all, South Africa's gold and diamonds are too tempting. Roosevelt thought that the moment was the best time to invade South Africa, but considering the actual situation of the British Empire, Roosevelt finally held back and could not lose the big picture for the small.

In the White House Presidential Office, Roosevelt routinely reported to Grant.

But Gran was particularly uninterested, and he would only attract his attention as long as the Chinese Empire participated.

"The whole of Europe is in chaos. Is there any movement in the Chinese Empire?"

Roosevelt replied: "At present, the Chinese Empire has only announced humanitarian assistance to the Boers, allowing citizens of the Chinese Empire to voluntarily go to South Africa to participate in the war of aggression against the British army!"

Grant snorted coldly and said, "Li Weiguo is planning to intervene in South Africa again. If it is not as expected, the Chinese Empire may send troops to occupy South Africa. The British Empire may not be the one who picks peaches in the end!"

Roosevelt frowned and said, "Is there such a possibility? At this time, if the Chinese Empire sends troops to South Africa, then they have made a series of propaganda to support the Boers' resistance, which will be invalidated in an instant. People in Europe will see the true face of the Chinese Empire. Is this possible?"

Grant said: "You are still young and rarely come into contact with the political level before and do not understand the dirty things here. Of course, the Chinese Empire would not have sent troops to fight at the beginning, as it would provoke a full-scale war between the entire Allies and the Allies. Although the Allies currently have the advantage, they are not absolutely sure to completely defeat our Allies. I believe that the Chinese Empire will not be stupid enough to detonate a world war unless they are absolutely sure to win, but the variables in the war are too great, which is not without an example of a capsized ship in the gutter."

After pausing, Grant continued: "The Chinese Empire will not intervene rashly. They will only participate in the war at the initiative of the Boers after the Boers and the Global Volunteers were defeated by the British Empire. With the Boers' active invitation, European countries will not say anything even if they are dissatisfied. Our Allies Group can only default to letting China and Britain fight in South Africa. Both the Allies and the Allies strictly adhere to neutrality to avoid detonating a world war."

Roosevelt frowned and said, "If that were the case, with the strength of the British Empire's army, he could not defeat the Chinese Empire at all, and he would inevitably lose the South African colony. However, would the Boers be so stupid that they would lead the wolf into the house?"

Grant sneered: "When people are desperate, will they still care about those? If the Boers cannot defend their gold mines, do you think they will hand over the gold mines to their enemy, the British Empire, or to their ally the Chinese Empire?"

The two evils are of little importance. If the Boers really couldn't defend the gold mine, they would probably rather hand over the gold mine to the Chinese Empire than to the British Empire.

Roosevelt smiled bitterly, as if he understood the strategic intentions of the Chinese Empire.

"Then in this way, we must ensure that the British Empire wins, otherwise the gold mine will fall into the hands of the Chinese Empire. We are already economically inferior to the Chinese Empire. If we lose the gold mine, it will be difficult for the British Empire to have the confidence to confront the Chinese Empire."

Grante said: "If one day the Chinese Empire is driven off from the altar of the world overlord by us, the British Empire will become our enemy, and we will use this method to deal with the British Empire. But now, we have to help the British Empire fight against the Chinese Empire."

Roosevelt immediately understood: "I understand. I will do my best to arrange this matter to ensure that the British Empire wins the Boer War."

Grant smiled and said, "You can't give in vain. Once you succeed, you have to let the British Empire spit out half of the gold mine and the diamond mine mining rights."

Although they are allies, there will always be no profit between countries and no time to get up early.

Roosevelt suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, our telecommunications system must be reclaimed. Recently, our intelligence shows that using telecommunications equipment from the Chinese Empire is easy to be eavesdropped by the Chinese Empire. Many of our intelligences were leaked like this before."

Grant smiled slightly and said, "It seems that you are really concerned about things, and I am very happy. However, I have known this for a long time. The reason why I didn't take action is that I didn't want to alarm the enemy."

Roosevelt asked curiously: "What are you going to do?"

Grant said mysteriously: "Since I know the channel for leaks, when the war breaks out, I will be so fierce that the Chinese Empire will be severely punished at a critical moment. I will make them pay a heavy price for long-term monitoring and eavesdropping of our intelligence."

Roosevelt agreed: "This plan is very good! But I think I should make use of it now!"

Grant frowned immediately. He didn't want to be seen by the Chinese Empire too early, but Roosevelt was his heir, so he asked patiently: "Tell me your reasons!"

Roosevelt sighed and said, "It's not because of the Super Fearless Battleship that we use battleship cruisers to pretend to be battleships. Once the Chinese Empire finds out, the consequences will be unimaginable. So, to be on the safe side, I want to take advantage of this opportunity to release a smokescreen so that we can have more time to prepare."

Grant closed his eyes and pondered. After a while, he opened his eyes and said, "So, our steam turbine technology is not yet up to standard?"

Roosevelt smiled bitterly and said, "I encountered a bottleneck and the power could not be greatly improved. I don't know what high-tech technology the Chinese Empire adopted could actually allow battleships with a displacement of nearly 50,000 tons to run at a speed of more than 25 knots. We worked hard for a long time and could only increase the power required to 22 knots."

Grant asked back: "Is it possible that the Chinese Empire deliberately exaggerated and strategically deceived us?"

Roosevelt shook his head and said, "Analysis from the past, the actual data performance of the Chinese Empire has always been higher than that of the public data performance. At the same time, we didn't know that once we saw the battleships of the Chinese Empire running at a speed of more than 30 knots. According to the proportion of armor and power distribution, their super fearless battleships can indeed reach more than 25 knots."

Grant was immediately unhappy and smashed the table hard, saying, "Damn the Chinese Empire, why are their citizens so smart? Our Western civilization is clearly ahead of the Chinese Empire in technology for hundreds of years, but they have surpassed it in just twenty years. It's so hateful!"

Roosevelt sighed: "Is there a way to try it? Let's find a way to sink a warship from the Chinese Empire near the sea, and then secretly fish it out and study it."

Grant frowned and said, "How can we sink the super fearless battleship of the Chinese Empire?"

Roosevelt said: "It is not necessary to sink the Super Dauntless Battleship. It is enough to be a destroyer. According to our speculation, even if the steam turbine used by the destroyer is not as powerful as the battleship, the principle should be the same, and what we want is the principle."

Grant immediately stood up and paced back and forth.

"The risk in actively attacking the warships of the Chinese Empire is too great! If you are not careful, it will detonate the world war!"

Roosevelt also knew this very well, but he seemed to have no better way. After all, America was ten years later than the Chinese Empire in steam turbine research and development, and there was no superhuman guidance from Li Weiguo and other superhumans. Of course, the R&D speed was very slow.

But as the contradiction between the Allies and the Allies continued to intensify, the clouds of war seemed to be getting closer and closer, and Roosevelt seemed to feel that there was no more time and had to take risks.

"We can take advantage of the Boer War to attack the small and medium-sized warships that patrol the ocean by the Imperial Empire Navy, and secretly sink them without any mistakes. Before the Imperial Empire Navy reacts, we can secretly salvage the water and transport it back to the country for research."

Grant was very nervous, and it was difficult for him to judge this decision.

"Can you come back to study through the third country and the warships?"

Roosevelt smiled bitterly and said, "You don't know? This is how we get the steam turbine technology now!"

Grant was stunned at first, then patted his head and smiled bitterly: "Look at my memory! I forgot!"

A considerable part of the steam turbine technology currently mastered by the American Navy is imported from the Chinese Empire through third countries and then secretly conducted research.

For example, five years ago, the American Navy commissioned Chile to import two light cruise ships from the Chinese Empire. The American Navy sent professional engineers to the Chilean Navy shipyard. Taking advantage of the opportunity to repair the warships, they visited and studied the steam turbine equipment and technology used on the warships.

Although the warships exported by the Chinese Empire to the Chilean Navy were all castrated versions and their performance was greatly reduced, American experts still found some clues from it, which made the steam turbine technology subsequently developed by the American Navy have improved to a certain technical improvement.

However, the more the American Navy saw the technological achievements of the Chinese Empire in this regard, the more envious, jealous and hated it. In the end, Roosevelt came forward personally and proposed to Grant that he planned to get an active battleship of the Chinese Empire Navy for research.

"Mr. President, please rest assured that if we are not 100% sure, we will not do it easily!"

"Mr. President, we now need to know the secret of the steam turbine of the Chinese Empire. The life and death of our American Navy is all in your mind."

It is indeed life and death. If the Chinese Empire learns that the so-called super fearless battleship of the American Navy is just a super fearless battle cruiser, then once the war begins, the American Navy will be very passive and will undoubtedly lose the decisive battle.

However, if the action fails, it will inevitably be furious by the thunder of the Chinese Empire. America may be forced to start a war, and the ending will be the same.

Grant is confused!

Pacing back and forth, hurting!

In the end, he took a gamble and nodded.

He wouldn't choose this if there was any other way.

Roosevelt was immediately overjoyed and promised Grant that there would be no problems.

At the same time, a military competition is in full swing at the Sydney Naval Base in the South Capital.

On the Royal ** cruise ship Guanghua, Li Weiguo personally attended and watched, and a large number of officials accompanied him.

On the distant sea, a formation consisting of 4 battleships, 2 battleships and 3 light cruisers is conducting live-fire training on the sea.

20 kilometers away from the fleet, two retired Xiongfeng-class battleships are advancing in formation at a speed of 20 knots.

There was no real personnel operating on these two retired Xiongfeng-class battleships, but some dummies wearing enemy uniforms. The reason why the warships could still sail was that they were led forward by two other battleship cruisers with thick steel ropes several kilometers long.

In the past, the target ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were often fixed float targets.

During live-fire training, the main gun aimed at these targets, and most of the practices were artillery hit accuracy. As for the shell's armor-piercing ability, armor-piercing ability, and killing ability of the damaged personnel, it could not be evaluated.

As the Chinese Empire became richer and richer, it built batches of large warships, early iron-clad ships, armored cruisers, former fearless battleships, etc. The steel used by these warships was not corrosion-resistant. After more than eight years, they were basically decommissioned one after another.

As a former fearless battleship of the Imperial Navy, the Xiongfeng-class battleship was retired from the front line and served as a first-class coastal defense ship for five years. Not long ago, it was finally completely removed from the naval military and officially retired.

However, the steel of the Chinese Empire was so cheap that no scrap iron company was willing to acquire this batch of Xiongfeng-class battleships. Even if the Chinese Empire Navy reduced the price to a cent, no one was interested in it. The reason was that the demolition cost was higher than the cost of scrap iron. After all, as the world's largest steel power, the steel quality of the Chinese Empire was changing with each passing day. The steel used by the Xiongfeng-class battleships was long outdated and worthless.

There was no choice but to apply as a training target ship to sink the Xiongfeng-class battleship.

For this reason, some members of Congress who didn't know the inside story even scolded the Navy for prodigal sons, who once forced to stop it, which made the Navy very embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, live ammunition shooting is about to begin. Bring you earplugs."

Although Li Weiguo was not on the exercise warship, in order to improve the viewing level, the Guanghua battleship was very close to the acting fleet.

This time, there were two super fearless battleships in the exercise fleet, Thunder. The two ships escorted Li Weiguo to Australia together and temporarily joined the Australian squadron to participate in live-fire training.

You should know that the Thunder-class battleship is equipped with a main gun of 381 mm and 50 times the diameter. Such a giant gun fires with unparalleled power, and it is deafening within a hundred kilometers.

The entourage was worried that the sound of firing for a while would blow Li Weiguo's ears, so he kindly suggested.

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said, "No, I am not that fragile! But let those officials who have never experienced it, let them take them with me!"

"Your Majesty is not afraid, so we are ministers, of course we are not afraid!"

"I won't bring it!"

"I won't bring it anymore!"

When the accompanying officials saw that Li Weiguo did not bring earplugs, they were embarrassed to bring them, so they refused.

Li Weiguo was also still childish, so he wanted to see how they made a fool of themselves in a while, so he didn't persist.

"Your Majesty, it's beginning!"

Someone specifically reminded Li Wei of the National Highway.

Within a few seconds, a ball of flames that cost dozens of meters long suddenly spewed out from the gun gun of the main gun of the Thor battleship No. 1.

The next moment, a loud bang came.

Even though Li Weiguo was mentally prepared, his ears were numb in an instant.

Huh!

Huh!

...

A large group of civil servants were instantly scared to death.
Chapter completed!