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Chapter 190: Visiting Britain and France (1)

Of course, the Ottoman Empire also understood that there was no morality between countries, and the East China ** may not be able to bring any help to the Ottoman Empire, but there is always one more way?

Li Sanjie also responded very positively to the Ottoman Empire's initiative to pull the country, saying that the East China ** is also willing to establish diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire, and introduced the Ottoman Empire in detail the origin of the East China ** and its development experience after landing in China.

In fact, the Ottoman Empire began to pay attention to the East China ** after the Far East War. However, all the information about the East China ** was basically obtained from European countries. There are both official channels and rumored news from the people, so it is also mixed and uneven. In addition, some people in the Ottoman Empire have figured it out by themselves. Now Li Sanjie has introduced the origin, development experience, achievements, systems, etc. to the Ottoman Empire, which has given the Ottoman Empire a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the East China **.

Of course, the legendary experience of East China ** has also aroused the interest of many Turks, so it also asked many questions to Li Sanjie, and Li Sanjie also answered them carefully one by one.

However, a young officer asked Li Sanjie a question, which is what kind of national system will East China adopt after unifying China? Should it follow the traditional Chinese political system or imitate the systems of European countries?

This question surprised Li Sanjie, but he still responded very seriously. After unifying China, East China will definitely not need to follow the traditional Chinese political system, because the experience of more than 60 years has proved that the traditional Chinese political system cannot adapt to the development of the times, cannot make China prosperous and strong, and will only hinder China's development and must be abandoned. However, it will not imitate the system of European countries. This is because the culture, tradition, history, national conditions, etc. of the East and the West are different, but it will absorb the excellent parts of the European national system, and then formulate the national system of East and West based on China's national conditions, culture, tradition, history and other factors. In short, East China is also in the exploration stage, but it will definitely be able to find a national system that is suitable for China's national conditions and in line with the development trend of the times.

After hearing this, the officer was also thoughtful and then asked Li Sanjie, if there is a very popular and wide-ranging historical tradition or custom that will hinder the development and progress of the country, what should the country do?

Li Sanjie thought this question was quite interesting, but he still answered that if it hinders the development and progress of the country, no matter what tradition or custom it is, it should be abandoned. When necessary, it can even use the power of the state to force it.

The officer nodded and thanked Li Sanjie. Li Sanjie felt that the officer was a little interesting and wanted to ask his name, but there were too many people asking questions and they were forgotten as soon as others interrupted.

When Li Sanjie finished his visit, the Ottoman Empire also promised that it would organize a mission to visit East China ** as soon as possible to formally negotiate the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two sides. Before establishing diplomatic relations, the two sides could contact diplomatic personnel stationed in Germany.

Just when Li Sanjie visited the Ottoman Empire, Xu Jichao also completed his visit to Italy and returned to Germany. As soon as he returned to the apartment, the left-behind staff reported to Xu Jichao that Britain and France finally officially sent an invitation to the visiting delegation from East China through the embassies of the two countries in Germany yesterday.

At this time, East China ** had been visiting Germany for more than a month, and it had also fairly achieved many visit results to the outside world. For example, the two sides reached a new trade agreement, East China ** sent students to Germany, and military cooperation. Of course, the details of military cooperation will not be announced. However, both Britain and France have a large number of intelligence personnel in Germany, and of course Germany also has intelligence personnel in Britain and France, and have also heard some news, such as Germany purchasing military technology from East China ** and asking East China ** to formulate a naval development plan, etc.

Generally speaking, if the two countries enter deeper military cooperation, it proves that the relationship between the two countries has entered a very close stage. Even if they have not formed an alliance, they are not too far from the alliance, and most of them will go to an alliance. This result also made Britain and France feel huge pressure, because Britain, France and Russia signed an agreement, which strategically formed a siege of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the three countries are trying hard to pull Italy, trying to completely block Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

However, if East China ** joins the Allies, it will break the strategic siege of the Allies over the Allies. Once a war breaks out, East China ** can attack Russia's Far East from the East and restrain Russia's power. Then Germany and Austro-Hungary Empire can do their best to deal with Britain and France on the Western Front. Britain's military power is mainly at sea, so on land mainly relying on France to resist the attacks of Germany and Austro-Hungary Empire; and at sea, East China *** navy can directly cut off Britain's maritime lifeline, and even attack Britain's colonies in Asia, weakening Britain's war capabilities.

Under such a situation, Italy has a great possibility of turning to the ally, and France will face military pressure from Germany, Austria and Italy, and France cannot resist it at all. Once France is defeated, even if Britain can rely on its strong naval power to ensure that its homeland is not occupied, it will not be able to affect the situation on the European continent. Moreover, if Germany, Italy, Austria and China concentrate their naval power, it can still fight with Britain.

Although Britain and France can support Japan to fight against East China, Japan is too small to limit East China at most, but it is powerless to prevent East China from supporting the allies in future wars. Therefore, it can be said that once East China joins the Allies, the Allies have almost no chance of winning in the future wars. The only way is to bring the United States into the Allies, but this requires giving up much benefit to the United States.

However, Britain and France are old empires after all, and their experiences are not comparable to newcomers like Germany and Japan. After calming down, the elites of the two countries began to seriously distinguish the current situation. The previous assumptions were based on the addition of East China's allied countries, but East China's allied countries have not joined the alliance. Although it is said that if the two countries enter deeper military cooperation, they will most likely go to alliances, but there are still one or two exceptions.

Moreover, from Germany's standpoint, of course, it is hoped to form an alliance with East China as soon as possible. However, so far, the two countries have conducted mutual visits, but it is still a partnership and has not really formed an alliance. This shows that either East China is not interested in forming an alliance, or the conditions offered by Germany cannot satisfy East China. Since this is the case, it means that Britain and France still have a chance. Even if they cannot bring East China to the east, they can at least stabilize East China and keep East China neutral in future wars.

So after consultation, Britain and France finally decided to send an invitation to the visiting delegation of East China **. This is the first step to make good intentions and also to test the attitude of East China **. If East China ** accepts the invitation, it means that East China ** is also interested in improving relations with Britain and France, and then there is still a chance to save them. On the contrary, if East China ** refuses the invitation, it means that the crisis is really coming, and Britain and France must prepare early.

Of course, doing this makes the two countries feel disgraceful. After all, both Britain and France were defeated by East China in the Far East War and forced to cede land for compensation by East China to pay compensation. This is a huge shame for Britain and France. Now Britain and France are still going to take the initiative to invite East China to visit, which obviously believes that they are at a disadvantage. Moreover, East China was originally visited Germany this time, and there was no plan to visit Britain and France. Britain and France invited East China to visit their country while visiting Germany, not only to have a clear desire for East China, but also to put themselves behind Germany. However, compared with national interests, losing face is nothing.

At the same time, Britain and France also made another decision, which was to actively pull the United States to prevent accidents. The two countries are not sure that they can stabilize the East China **, and they must be prepared for both. Although pulling the United States requires giving up a lot of benefits to the United States, it is always better than losing the future war.

After receiving the invitation from Britain and France, Xu Jichao was also a little surprised. He did not expect that the two countries could really put down their figure and invite themselves to visit. However, this also shows that the strengthening of the relationship between East China and Germany has indeed put a lot of pressure on Britain and France. He had to put down his figure and release goodwill to improve relations to East China. However, the final decision was still at home, so Xu Jichao immediately reported to the country.

One day later, Xu Jichao received a domestic reply, and could accept invitations from Britain and France, but must be ranked behind the Netherlands and Belgium. This is not because East China ** intends to be lazy or despise Britain and France. Moreover, before visiting the Austro-Hungarian Empire, East China ** has received invitations from the Netherlands and Belgium. After visiting Italy, Xu Jichao will visit the Netherlands and Belgium. Although the national strength and status of Britain and France are far greater than that of the Netherlands and Belgium, everything has to come first and then. You can't let Britain and France go to the front line. This is a basic diplomatic principle. Not to mention that East China ** and Britain and France have no friendship, even if they have friendship, they cannot do this.
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