Chapter 321 The Extraordinary Peace

Prince Amanula went to Dushanbe once secretly and had a secret agreement with Zhao Bingjun about the Chinese Empire's support for Amanula to replace the throne and change it to the vassals of the Chinese Empire. After their changes, this document was sent to Dushanbe to request abolish and destroy it once, but was rejected by Zhao Bingjun. Zhao Bingjun also recently asked for instructions on whether he could do something about it in order to provoke a certain chaos in Afghanistan to make profits. But I have always rejected it.

Afghanistan is not suitable to restrain too much energy now. The direction of the empire is always on the stability of the West. The provinces in Western Xinjiang are vast, equivalent to more than four or five provinces in the mainland. Such a large area will contain a lot of troops. The work of the two religions and the work of promoting Chinese is not a simple matter. In a critical period when stabilizing Western Xinjiang to ensure its influence on the Middle East in the future, too many consolidation is much more important than further expansion.

The empire's land area is so large that even emperors of all dynasties could not imagine. Although this can greatly satisfy the vanity and expansion ambitions of the Celestial Kingdom in China, such a large territory also requires more time to slowly digest these places. Just as our ancestors were only in Shanxi, Henan, and slowly fought for land from various Hu to the north, chased Baiyue to the south, Bashu to the east, Dongyi to the west, and Qiang Rong to the west...

Martial arts are secondly, the key is to slowly consolidate these lands. What supports this consolidation is the greatest thing of this nation - tolerance and pastoralization.

In this era that can determine the direction of the world situation in the next few centuries, I have also added the country's powerful machine, an increasingly important course in modern times. The Beijing Institute of International Relations sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire is constantly cultivating talents in this field for the Empire. The Ministry of Education, Propaganda, Immigration, Naturalization and other departments have supported the empire two other important support points.

The implementation of tolerance and naturalization at the current stage is already good. All ethnic forces have achieved autonomy to a certain extent. With the help of hundreds of thousands of troops in this area, Zhao Bingjun's education system has gradually established administrative systems, education systems, etc. in a good place. A considerable part of the military expenditure has also been allocated to four Chinese companies and an American company to pilot wiring and set up small-scale cable broadcasts in this area. This is a model for the first use of new and cheap technologies. You should know that these things have not yet been set up in China, including the establishment of cable radio stations, personnel selection, program content production, topic selection, etc., which are all very novel attempts. The Beijing Propaganda Department even sent a Shangshu Tongzhi and a Shishang to Dushanbe to inspect the actual situation in this area and accumulate technology and experience for popularizing radio across the country in the future.

This thing is too important for publicity and education, especially for Mandarin education. China has a vast territory and many dialects. It is often difficult for northerners to understand what the southerners are saying. Even in a province, even in a prefecture, there are many dialects, and various language systems are very mixed. In the past, due to restrictions on conditions, it was impossible for the whole nation to promote Mandarin teaching. Only a pronunciation that everyone can understand in the officialdom was maintained. After the radio, the promotion of Mandarin by the national people became possible.

In publicity, the role is even greater. Radio is more instant than newspapers. It can quickly convey the meaning of Beijing to every corner of the empire, which plays a crucial role in maintaining the stability of a huge empire. Therefore, when Zhao Bingjun proposed this plan because it was necessary to use military expenditures, I almost jumped up and immediately expressed that I would allocate a certain amount of funds from the treasury to pilot a small-scale household registration in Western Xinjiang. After the time is ripe and the cost is reduced year by year, it will be promoted nationwide.

This is part of naturalization. To put it bluntly, it is also a macro aspect, and it is also missing from the third son of the emperor Puxia who is about to be sent to the south. He is somewhat interested in soft pure political fields such as economic control and political control. He has been in the CPC Office of the Bide Academy for half a year. I think he is more interested in politics and economy. He always has a natural avoidance for the army and strong control methods. Perhaps because of natural character problems, he is completely different from his second brother Puying. Puying is more interested in controlling the army. This is also the main reason why I asked Puxia to go to the south to deal with the issue of Siamese prisoners of war.

Today's negotiations can almost be said to be different, and both sides are further adjusting their positions based on the other party's reaction. Anyway, the British and Indian troops in Siam are still under supervision, and the other party is still anxious.

Just for the sake of cultivating Puxia, I also instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs if the other party’s conditions are no longer in other difficult places to accept, and let the United States send people to go south with Puxia to preside over a handover procedure, and on the same day, a statement supporting Pope Benedict XV's peace plan is made to make a statement for the next stage of the empire's strategic direction adjustment.

The current quasi-war state of the empire is about to end. After training a large number of military personnel at all levels, the current political structure of the empire is very different from before the war, and the empire's strategic goals have been basically achieved. What remains is the sub-war state with the consolidation of the West as the main and pioneering as the auxiliary. There is also the navy's fleet construction and defense system construction. After accumulating enough maritime fleet resources, the navy must also develop a certain amount of aircraft carrier strength. Outside the islands must also build some airports to station in the aviation force. These parts of the affairs will be led by General Lin Taizeng, who has faded out of the front line for a long time, while Liu Buchan entered the Navy as the general to be responsible for the development of the fleet. The navy will usher in an era with relatively light war missions.

The army has long been pacified in the east, and the three directions of the south, west and north have entered the consolidation stage, and there is no task of large-scale combat, and the size of the army does not need to be reduced. With the expansion of the empire's territory, the huge territory naturally needs to maintain an army unit of more than 2 million people. However, the air force needs to make a jumping development. It is far from enough to have only one air force at present, and the candidates for the air force commander must also consider it. The air force should have about a thousand standing military forces within ten years. This can stimulate industrial development while also cultivating a group of aircraft design and manufacturing companies with strong enough strength for the empire. At the same time, such a scale is enough to complete the national air defense and other special tasks. After the previous airship troops were all handed over to the General Logistics Department, they did not need to develop anymore. The airship scale in the civil aviation field was also appropriately controlled.

These things were discussed with me and carried out slowly. The cabinet needs to consider economic issues for planning things. Although the monetary policy in the past two years is not as tight as in previous years, the cabinet of long-term constructive things of course needs to be economically prepared.

The conversation with Pu Xia was very wide, and I seemed to be deliberately cultivating him. I didn't want to talk about so many things at first, but I unknowingly raised the topic very broadly, as if this young son would never come back when he went there. Pu Xia seemed to have realized something, and he was much more cautious when answering the questions.

This slowly returned to the situation where the monarch and ministers reported the right report, and I lost interest in talking. After asking him to be careful on the land, handle the relationship with the army and other aspects, I asked him to go back and make some preparations.

This child is not young anymore, but he doesn't seem to have the intention of looking at any girl, and I don't have the interest to point out marriage for him. After all, I am also advocating an atmosphere of freedom of marriage and setting a royal role model for the increasingly open people's wisdom in the country.

The negotiations on the next day soon came into contact with substantive content. After the Americans gave China a step to the Pope's peace initiative, the two sides reached an agreement. The United States sent a delegation headed by Watson, the third son of the Chinese royal representative Puxia, to Siam to preside over a ceremony of exile and partial release of prisoners of war. The British among these prisoners of war were released on the spot after swearing that they would never be enemies with China forever, including Lieutenant General Zigvofi, the highest rank. The Indians were all exiled to the Pacific islands and atone for their war crimes in the form of labor, of which 5,000 were exiled to Hawaii. The remaining nearly 70,000 were all handled by China. The Navy Department meant that it could be used for the construction of airports and ports on the outer islands. As for the various seized baggage weapons, they were all seized.

In this way, the final stage of the Siam Battle, which was directly intervened by the United States, finally came to an end after a diplomatic battle. The United States won its reputation as an international mediator and peace defender, while China won a group of cheap labor and direct benefits on the battlefield.

Both sides also determined President Taft's visit to China on the same day. The president, who was born in the army, will set off for China on the 10th next month and arrive in Beijing around the 25th. The itinerary proposed by China and the United States has also been comprehensively confirmed. The most important of these is that he had talked with important cabinet officials on the first day of the visit and the next day, as well as the parade of the three armed forces on the day of arrival.

This is also a reflection of the military's will. After the military believes that after the United States has shown a not-so-friendly situation, the military needs to show its strength in front of him, the planned air fleet flight performance, army military divisions, armored force parades, and naval formation escorts that started from the ocean of Guam. The military has made careful arrangements and preparations, striving to leave the impression of a strong China on the American military president.

I originally wanted to say something like this, but Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang even insisted on it, and I was not inconvenient to object too much, so I decided to do so, which also helped to give the American press the impression that China on the other side of the ocean is definitely not a role that can be easily provoked.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also issued a statement on the same day, announcing that His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire and his cabinet were carefully considering the direction of peace and basically affirming the peace plan of Pope Benedict XV. China calls for world peace. The wars that have been carried out have been self-defense wars, and has been committed to liberating the weak nations around Asia from the rule of the colonists. This has played a positive role in maintaining an equal human order and a peaceful international environment. Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire is authorized to call for the establishment of a peace day in the year, on which day all wars should stop.

In order to avoid further expansion of war and the need to resolve international disputes, China calls on all peace-loving countries in the world to establish an international organization to resolve international affairs, and based on the resolutions of previous international conferences in The Hague, compile international law norms that all countries should abide by and implement, in order to establish a mechanism and international organization to avoid international disputes. In order to show the sincerity of the royal family and government of the Chinese Empire, China will allocate a ten-square-kilometer area in Shanghai to permanently provide plans for future office use of this international organization, international parliament, international arbitration court, etc., and the Chinese government will announce the plan to the world later.

The publication of this statement did not immediately elicit a strong enough reaction, which was expected. My goal was to stand at a commanding height first, and the Shanghai Road did not receive a decree for landing. Now that the European war is in its climax, no one in power will consider peace.

Especially His Majesty William II, he faced the most powerful Germany in history, which surpassed his father and grandfather. His more than two million troops were launching a shocking and historical record offensive in the core areas of France. The Battle of Verdun and the Battle of Marne-Seine were supported by the air force and artillery, and the galloping of tanks, and the British and French troops were in an unsupported situation when they were attacked on both sides.

The Battle of Verdun finally ushered in its climax more than ten days after the beginning of the Battle of Verdun. On July 12, while China and the United States were negotiating for so-called peace and compassion, Prince William, the German commander of the Battle of Verdun, issued an order for a general attack at the base of Saarbrücken. At 0:00, nearly three thousand artillery fired suddenly, and the strongest voice of the artillery troops since the war began. The Germans poured the rain of the shells into the positions of the French who were looking forward to rain in this hot summer.

After four hours of artillery bombardment consumed more than 700,000 shells, heavy siege cannons began to sweep the fortifications. More than ten 16.5-inch howitzers used the sound of cannons and the subsequent suffocating muffled sounds of heart-suffocating sounds of the French to ruins. Various high-explosive bombs and mortars shot out of the shells began to launch a destructive attack on the trench defense line that the French had run for a long time. With bursts of explosions and flying dust, the entire section of trench dug by the French turned into flat ground.

The British plan was to break through the flanks of the German Fourth Army on the Somme generation and put pressure on the German Northern Corps, forcing the German army to mobilize troops from other battlefields to ease the already difficult battlefields of Paris and Verdun. This combat mission will use tanks, and all the troops will be composed of the British Expeditionary Force. Half of the 44 divisions in the UK have arrived on the west coast of France and will transport all the remaining troops within half a month. The naval battle situation in the North Sea is still in a stalemate, and the Germans are obviously not satisfied with the status quo. Once they have achieved sea control, it will be difficult to transport them to France in the future.

Therefore, according to the plan, the British army will launch the Somme Battle in early August, and the French army will make a cooperative move. With the addition of new British combat forces, the entire balance of power will also be transformed in favor of the Allies.

The British country has also begun to adjust the global battlefield. With the loss of the Indochina Peninsula, the British Army and Navy urgently need to take action to improve increasingly low morale and the new civilian level of the army. Therefore, the former commander of the British Expeditionary Force, who looked down on the bloody suppression of Dublin commanded by General France, was marked by the Royal British Army's plan of global revitalization, and France was also appointed as the governor of Ireland.

They then removed the pre-war inadequate preparations for commanding the Battle of Gallipoli, the stupid General Hamilton of the war commander, demoted him to commander of the Army's native Northern Theater without a war, and Hamilton felt insulted and refused to carry out the appointment and retired from the Army.

Lieutenant General Alanby was transferred to Egypt, where they tried to launch a battle to directly attack Turkey through Arabia and to win the support and cooperation of the Arabs. Britain also had a long-term operation in the Arab world. Although the Arabs had a lot of slandering the United Kingdom on the Jewish issue, the Saudi king should not miss this opportunity to attack their common enemy, the Turks.

In this way, the whole world and His Majesty's expectations became further and further.
Chapter completed!