"Your Majesty, the German Empire has secretly begun to prepare for war!"

In the Zhongxing Hall of the Wuhan Palace, Mingyue, Director of SHIELD, is reporting on the foreign situation to Li Weiguo.

Mingyue was the last director of SHIELD, but because she was a woman, she had just taken over the position of former director of SHIELD, Cheng Kun, and she lacked control over SHIELD. Many SHIELD veterans were not willing to let a woman ride on them, so they often disobeyed the emperor.

After Li Weiguo learned about this, he severely punished a group of SHIELD officials. After all, Mingyue was the director appointed by him personally, so he naturally had to protect him.

However, Li Weiguo also knew that Mingyue was only the commander of the Imperial Army of the Forbidden Palace, and was more loyal but had insufficient intelligence control capabilities. Therefore, Li Weiguo later transferred Tang Jianzhang to the Director of S.H.E.L.D., and Mingyue served as deputy director to learn experience.

Some time ago, because the American secretly built a new submarine, the Chinese Empire S.H.I.E.L.D. failed to grasp the information in time. Li Weiguo was furious and demoted Tang Jianzhang to the United States. Before Tang Jianzhang came back, Mingyue took care of the big and small affairs of S.H.E.L.D.

After years of study, Mingyue has already known the operation of SHIELD, so Li Weiguo is relieved to let Mingyue come to take care of SHIELD.

At this moment, when Li Weiguo heard the German Empire secretly snorting his troops.

"What a Bismarck!"

Li Weiguo admired Bismarck very much at the beginning.

Bismarck, the iron-blooded prime minister who studied in history textbooks, led to Li Weiguo having a very good impression of this famous person at the beginning. However, with the changes in history, the special medicine of the Chinese Empire made Bismarcko live until now.

This is true that it is to be old but not dead, and it is to be a thief. The German, which existed in Bismarck, was much stronger than that of Germany without him. The entire German Empire was even faster than in history. This made Li Weiguo feel scared. He knew very well that the power of the German nation was, and if he could develop it, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Think about the fact that Germany after World War I was almost broken in history, but Hitler made Germany almost dominate the world in World War II twenty years later. Japan, which also suffered a crushing defeat in World War II, became the world's second largest economy in the 1970s and 1980s. If the United States had not done anything bad, Japan would have surpassed the United States to become the world's number one economy.

As the saying goes, a pitiful person must have something hateful, and a warlike nation must have something that scares the world.

And Russia, the undefeated Xiaoqiang, made Napoleon defeated and Hitler fell into vain. These historical lessons always stimulated Li Weiguo's nerves and reminded him not to underestimate these countries. None of them is a fuel-efficient lamp and need to be extremely vigilant.

"Your Majesty is wise, and the intelligence shows that it is true that after Bismarck and William II had a fight, Germany began a secret military mobilization."

Mingyue said with a smile, looking at Li Weiguo with her eyes full of respect and tenderness.

As a beautiful woman, Mingyue is still unmarried. She has dedicated everything to this country, and she has also dedicated everything to the man in front of her.

Unfortunately, Mingyue is not a person who likes to express her feelings, so she would rather stay by Li Weiguo like this. Even if she is just a nanny, it doesn’t matter. As long as she can watch him step by step to the peak of his life and share his joys, sorrows, sorrows, and happiness, she will be satisfied.

Li Weiguo sighed: "The German Empire secretly mobilized wars, indicating that they had already seen our intention to start a war! This is very dangerous, because there is more than just a smart man from Bismarck in this world. Someone in the Allies will soon notice it!"

Mingyue said: "In the eyes of my ministers, in today's world, the hero is His Majesty. Even Bismarck is considered at most half a hero!"

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Don't underestimate a large number of heroes from all over the world. There are many strong people hidden in places you don't know. They are just lurking, and they encounter the change of the wind and clouds."

Mingyue didn't believe it: "Your Majesty has always had the power of divination and divination. It's better to count one divination to open your eyes!"

"Don't believe it!" Li Weiguo suddenly became interested. He would not miss any opportunity to pretend to be a B.

"When Roosevelt of America is considered the greatest enemy of the empire, with him, the stronger the future America will be, the greatest threat to the empire in a short period of time."

"Not to mention Bismarck of the German Empire, as long as he is alive, it will be difficult for the German Empire to make strategic mistakes. William II's shortcomings will be filled by Bismarck, making the core cohesion of the German Empire unprecedented. Even if Bismarck is gone, there will be a guy named Hitler to come to power in the future. He is a person who is more dangerous than Napoleon and will be the biggest and strongest enemy the empire faces after it resolves America."

"The British Empire, although it is an inconspicuous island country, has so many talents. At present, Ross is only one letter short of his name, but his ability is not bad at all. Look at what he did after he came to power, he is the second Grant and Roosevelt, the future dictator of Britain. In addition to him, Chamberlain, who commanded the Boer War, has no worse ability than Ross. If he and Ross join forces in the future, it is possible for the British Empire to rise again."

"Let's talk about the Tsar Russian Empire. Although Tsar Nicholas II's ability is not very good, in the future, there will be a man named Lenin and a Stalin. They will do an unprecedented revolution that sensation the whole world and rewrites the human social system. Even I am not sure that I will definitely defeat the future Russia."

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Li Weiguo was eloquent and talked about his future history.

Mingyue next to her was shocked when she heard it. She knew that Li Weiguo had the ability to predict like a god, and she had said to Li Weiguo as if he were gods.

At this moment, Mingyue wrote down the names and nationalities of these people one by one in her heart, thinking that one day in the future, and at least she would eliminate these potential enemies in advance for the Chinese Empire.

Li Weiguo didn't know what Mingyue was thinking. If he knew that Mingyue would mobilize the capable force of SHIELD in the future, he would chase and kill the people mentioned today, making history messy, and eventually even Li Weiguo himself could not predict whether those historical events would be born in the future, so he didn't know what he would think.

This is a later story, so there is no need to explain it in detail.

It is just said that Li Weiguo is worried that Germany's secret war mobilization will arouse the alertness of the Allies and affect the effect of the Chinese Empire's war against Japan in the next Sino-Japanese War.

Mingyue suddenly made a good suggestion.

"Your Majesty, why not use other events to attract the attention of the Allies! For example, another large-scale arms race?"

Li Weiguo thought for a while and nodded, "It is indeed a good suggestion to use the arms race to attract the attention of the Allies. However, it is probably the naval arms race to deeply stimulate them."

After a pause, Li Weiguo continued: "However, the next-level fearless battleship of the Navy is still under design and cannot be started in a short period of time!"

According to the development rules of the Chinese Empire naval equipment, it is carried out in five steps. The first step is to theoretically design the drawings and related theoretical parameters of the first-class warship in the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The second step is to start the construction of the model according to the drawings and test the detailed parameters of the first-class warship. The third step is to officially start the construction of the first-class warship in the shipyard. The fourth step is to complete the construction of the sea trial stage. If the pass is qualified, the fifth step is to serve the first-class warship stage.

In the past, the two steps of design drawings and model testing of the Imperial Chinese Navy were almost not much time, and it could be completed in a few months or a year or two.

But now it is different. The tonnage of warships designed by the Imperial Chinese Navy is getting bigger and bigger, the caliber of the main gun is getting bigger, the aviation requirements are getting faster and faster, and the armor requirements are getting stronger.

For designers, just these key parameters, they had to perform huge calculations. In this era, there were no computers, and they all rely on abacus to calculate.

Taking the next-class fearless battleship currently being designed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences as an example, a giant ship with a displacement of 50,000 tons is equipped with a larger caliber 432mm naval gun (17 inches), and the flight reaches 27 knots. The armor strength must be able to withstand 432mm armor-piercing bombs fired from 10 kilometers away.

These key data require huge calculations as much tonnage and space as each should occupy.

In the past, warships had small tonnage, so these data were calculated in a few days or even months. But now the tonnage reaches 50,000 tons, which is much more difficult to calculate.

In particular, the Chinese Empire's navy's new equipment has been continuously launched on ships, such as telephone systems, radio telegraph systems, sonar systems, automatic loading machines systems, ammunition automatic transmission systems, air conditioning systems (wealthy means willful), refrigeration systems, etc. The wiring projects of various pipelines are more difficult than building a 100-story building. It is conceivable that without a computer, it depends entirely on manual calculations. If a number is wrong, it has to be pushed down and recalculated. This design time is too late, and it will not be possible for a year or two.

In the past, the Imperial Academy of Sciences could bring out a newly designed warship for the Navy every year and hand it over to the Navy shipyard to build directly. Basically, the first-class battleship could be completed in three years.

But now it takes more time. If the Navy wants to build a new first-class warship, designers will need to start designing two years in advance.

In short, in later generations, if there are more equipment, the research cycle will naturally become longer.

At present, the Imperial Chinese Navy requires the construction of the next-class fearless battleship. The Imperial Academy of Sciences and the General Administration of Shipbuilding have been working for a year and a half. The design drawings have not been completed yet, but the Furious Class battleships are almost completed. The shipyard is about to make room, but it has not received new orders from the military.

Mingyue then smiled and said, "This is easy to deal with! You only need to publish the performance indicators of the next-level fearless battleship, and just leak a part of the drawings to overseas spy intelligence agencies. If they still don't believe it, they just need to start construction of several fearless battleships with mature technology in the shipyard, and don't be afraid that they will not be fooled!"

"is that so?"

Li Weiguo thought for a while, then nodded, and finally agreed with Mingyue's proposal.

He did what he said, and Li Weiguo did not drag on the slut. He immediately called the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Wang Kaitai, Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhang Peilun, Minister of the Lifan Academy, Minister of the Navy, Minister of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Xu Shou, Minister of the General Administration of the Shipbuilding Administration, Fu Xuexian and other relevant ministers for a meeting.

At the meeting, Li Weiguo told the story of Germany's secret war mobilization that might attract the attention of the Allies, and proposed to build stronger fearless warships and launch a round of naval ship-building arms race to attract the attention of the Allies.

Navy Minister Lin Jiyun naturally applauded and agreed. If he obtained a stronger battleship, the naval power would increase significantly. Nothing would make Lin Jiyun happier than this.

However, the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the General Administration of Shipbuilding said that the newly designed fearless battleship is still under calculation and cannot be left to the shipyard for construction.

The final solution is to continue to build four additional battleships with rage, namely the Western code-named rage class battleships. Use rage class battleships to impersonate the latest level of fearless battleships.

The Lifan Academy and the National Defense Information Department under the Ministry of War are responsible for dispersing the news, confusing the Allies, and stimulating the Allies to research and build more powerful fearless battleships.

The next day, the Information Department of the Defense Department of the Ministry of War of the Chinese Empire threw a heavy blow at a regular press conference, announcing that the Chinese Empire officially started construction of four Type 8 (unnamed) fearless battleships in the 18898.

The basic performance parameters of the Type 8 battleship announced are normal displacement of 434oo tons (no full load mentioned), equipped with four triple-mounted 12 432mm main guns (17 inches, no diameter mentioned), fast enough aviation (no detailed aviation mentioned), enough to withstand the attack of the world's strongest artillery shells (no armor thickness mentioned), and are equipped with various advanced equipment, including sonar, radio, telecommunications and other systems (these are no longer secrets, and are directly disclosed).

Some data are released, some data are not released, and they are real and false, but instead make all parties feel mysterious and will try their best to collect relevant information and attract the attention of their intelligence personnel.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire's Lifan Academy also sent a message to the personnel stationed in China from European and American countries, telling them that this is the most powerful battleship in history built by the Chinese Empire, an invincible battleship. Its powerful artillery can sink any country's battleship, its strong armor protection can withstand the attack of any country's shells, and its high navigation can avoid the attack of any country's fish and radium.

The Chinese Empire is about to have such an invincible battleship, so I hope that European and American countries will no longer engage in arms races with the Chinese Empire, and will do their duty to maintain world peace from now on.

This attitude of the Chinese Empire suddenly made the governments of European and American countries feel confused and puzzled.

European and American countries feel that the reason why the Chinese Empire asked to stop the global arms race was probably because the Chinese Empire itself had no money to invest in such a large-scale arms race, otherwise it would be impossible to call on all countries to stop the arms race together.

However, since the Chinese Empire wanted to build a Type 8 battleship that could crush the navies of various countries, it was clearly intended that countries recognize the Chinese Empire's world hegemony.

Naturally, the United States and the British Empire would not agree, both of them wanted to control the world's oceans.

The British Empire believed that the Chinese Empire could no longer afford the arms race, so it tactfully begged for mercy from European and American countries to end this large-scale arms race.

Therefore, the British Empire said it would not stop building warships, and also said that the British Empire Navy would also build more powerful fearless battleships.

Similarly, America has the same attitude, and even the German Empire expressed disagreement.

Therefore, the navies of European and American countries summoned experts to start building confrontational battleships based on the basic data of the Type 8 fearless battleships of the Chinese Empire.

For a time, European and American countries launched the strongest fearless battleship plan, vowing to completely use the arms race to drag down the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!