1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Your Majesty, the United Kingdom has issued a notice confirming that Edward VII has died. The cause of death is respiratory failure caused by pulmonary embolism.

The ambassadors and ministers want to know what specifications we should attend the funeral with." Secretary Wang took the obituary and walked into the office.

"I know, put it somewhere, I will deal with it later. Call the Prime Minister, I will go there later to discuss this matter." Liu Yiming was processing documents and said without raising his head.

"Yes." Secretary Wang nodded.

The site for building a nuclear reactor in Thailand has been selected, and the handling and transfer of various personnel and materials require Liu Yiming's personal approval.

Large nuclear reactors are directly related to the research progress of nuclear weapons. In the case of large-scale mass production of enriched uranium 235, if you want to make a breakthrough in nuclear weapons, you can only play with plutonium 239.

Metal plutonium does not require large centrifuges. It only needs to reprocess the reactor nuclear waste to obtain metal plutonium 239.

Compared with uranium 235, plutonium 239 has the advantages of being cheap, easy to obtain, and having a low critical value.

But the disadvantages are also obvious. Uranium 235 is very safe before fission begins, and can even be touched directly by hand, but plutonium 239 cannot.

The half-life of plutonium 239 is only 24,100 years, while that of uranium 235 is 700 million years.

It can be roughly understood as: the half-life can measure the radiation value of a substance. The shorter the half-life, the stronger the radiation and the greater the harm.

Therefore, the extraction of plutonium is very dangerous, or it is to fill it with human lives-because people need to separate plutonium from nuclear waste.

Nanhua has no production line and processing experience, so it can only let people go, close contact with radiation sources, and lead-containing radiation protection clothing can't stop it.

Fortunately, there are still a group of miners left, and this is enough for the time being to catch another wave of spies.

After handling the development documents, Liu Yiming took the impression of the emperor's office and stamped it on the document. The construction of a large nuclear reactor in Thailand was officially put on the agenda.

The infrastructure will be completed within two years, and it will be able to start when the nuclear fuel is enriched to more than 3%.

Picking up the obituary of the British Empire, Liu Yiming's eyes flashed, and he went out to the Prime Minister's office.

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"Prime Minister, His Majesty is here." The secretary reminded softly.

"Then let's do this first. You go down and prepare and make a plan. Starting next year, the steel production capacity will be increased by 30%, the mechanical equipment production capacity will be increased by 20%, and all factories will be ready for production." Xu Hui nodded and said to Li Ziyao, the Minister of Industry.

The Qing Empire pretended to be about to fight a decisive battle. People in Nanhua who knew the inside story did not think that the Qing Empire could achieve a tactical victory.

When the revolutionary army won, the industrial development would come. In order not to be in a hurry, Xu Hui began to make arrangements in advance.

"Your Majesty." When Liu Yiming came in, Li Ziyao had already left, and Xu Hui stood up to greet him.

The two sat down, and Liu Yiming changed to a comfortable posture before speaking.

"I want to talk to you about the funeral of Edward VII."

"What do you think?" Xu Hui's idea is to deal with it as a normal monarch's death. Although the two sides have an alliance, there have been many conflicts in recent years as Nanhua has grown.

It stands to reason that if there are many conflicts, the connection should be strengthened, but the Ansa gangs are all the same. They only drink wine and punish, and you take a step back and he takes a step forward.

In this case, Nanhua should be upright and let the British know that the situation has changed. It's not that I beg you, but that we will both benefit from cooperation.

But Liu Yiming came here specially, and he must have other ideas, so Xu Hui asked.

"The situation in Europe is getting more and more tense. Everyone knows that war may be unavoidable."

"But there are still some people who are fighting for peace. Their influence is not small, which can be seen from the recent peace talks."

"We need this war, the bigger the better. This is an opportunity for our rise, and it is also the best and fastest way." Liu Yiming did not hide anything and spoke frankly.

The First World War is inevitable, but it is also accidental.

The fundamental reason for the outbreak of World War I was that the dispute over interests could not be reconciled. But in fact, while the two sides were engaged in an arms race, they had been negotiating to try to get the other side to give up resistance and give up interests.

It is obvious that the two sides did not reach an agreement, so that a series of accidental coincidences occurred after a gunshot in Sarajevo, and the war broke out.

However, Liu Yiming is not sure whether these things will happen again. What is very realistic is that the military power of the Ottoman Empire is expanding rapidly and visible to the naked eye, at least on paper.

The most obvious point is that Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia did not abandon the Ottoman Empire to deal with the Bosnia crisis.

Even because they could not afford the war consumption, in order to ease the situation, the Tsar implicitly stood on the side of the Ottoman Empire in this matter.

Germany was very worried that if it supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire to annex Bosnia, it would cause the originally pro-German Ottoman Empire to join the enemy camp, and also chose to operate behind the scenes.

At that time, the Ottoman Empire already had more than 200,000 new-style armies trained by the Germans and hundreds of cannons. With the support of Britain, France and Russia, it chose to station troops on the Bosnian border and refused to allow the Austro-Hungarian Empire to send troops in.

Under the mediation of both sides, Bosnia still belonged to the Ottoman Empire and was still administered by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but in order to deal with the growing national unrest, it organized a movement and gave it limited autonomy.

Instead of annexing Bosnia, it gave it a certain degree of autonomy. Then Crown Prince Ferdinand should not have gone to Sarajevo for inspection (to take his wife to relax).

At this step, it has deviated from the development trend. Liu Yiming was a little worried. If the two sides really talked about something, such as dividing the Chinese area, it would be funny.

Therefore, Liu Yiming decided to work harder and tied them to the chariot.

First of all, it is to strengthen the British and South League contracts, strengthen the relationship between the two countries, and publicize it.

"So, what should we do?" Xu Hui asked curiously.

"Treatment of the funeral of Edward VII with the highest specifications, the British ambassador represents the government. As my personal representative, Hu Xihua went from Amsterdam to London to participate in the funeral." Liu Yiming said.

Xu Hui frowned. He hadn't heard of this operation. Is this reasonable?

"In addition to those words, the government has to emphasize our unbreakable friendship in addition to those words, and it faintly shows that South China is willing to cooperate with the United Kingdom to cooperate with regional stability and international order."

"This ... will it be too much? The British will not be polite." Xu Hui surprised.

Britain is the world's first powerful country. South China does this, which will only make people think that South China has become the younger brother and Ma Qian died of your British Empire.

The British are even more polite. He won't care whether you are polite. You dare to give it a rod. It dares to change a higher climbing up.

"It doesn't matter. What we have to do is to make the British more proud and more confident, so that they think that the Far East is stable and will not threaten its core interests."

"Only in this way can it be facing the Germans without thinking without thinking about compromise." Liu Yiming had already planned.

Next, the South China Association plays a clown with a jumping up and down, strengthening regional complexity, finding some enemies for themselves, and reassuring the British.

"If this is the case, according to the convention, the new king will hold the ship reading in June next year. We originally intended to send a big tour to improve the specifications?" Xu Hui thought for a certain feasibility.

Anyway, there is no consequences. The big deal is "deteriorating" again. In international affairs, there are normal things.

"George V, send the Arabia, remember to brush the Arabian ship name on the side of the ship, be big! Be eye -catching! Just preach sovereignty by the way." Liu Yiming nodded.

"Okay, paint with gray, white reflective fonts to ensure eye -catching." Xu Hui nodded.

The Arab class is still one of the most powerful warships in the world, and it is enough to get enough face.

"Then I will prepare" enemy ". I plan to have some disputes with the Germans, whether it is the island on the Pacific Ocean or Shandong."

"Speaking of Shandong, I am ready to verbally with the Revolutionary Army on the issue of Tianjin Wei, let everyone see the contradiction between us."

Liu Yiming also has to consider the so -called enemy. Only South China "cannot be born" and cannot threaten the Indian Ocean, can Britain relax the vigilance of South China.

The British Empire has three life -threatenings, fleets, routes, and India.

India is also the source of the Frenchism of the British Empire. The King of the United Kingdom also serves as the Indian emperor -although it is useless.

..............

In mid -November, after signing a series of traitors treaties and exited a large amount of land, the loan that Zai Xun thought was finally reached.

"Isn't it to pay in full? Why is there only two million and two?" Zai Yan couldn't help asking when he got the final receipt.

Zai Ze stood aside, smelly with a face.

You know, this is the loan he has done. Now his reputation is smelling. What about? With more than two million silver, he didn't know where to go.

"Brother Wang, more than two million, is the deduction of their Banana." Zai Yan said aside.

"Back deduction? Ten pumps? It is better to pay for the nineteenth five -five payment!" Zai Yan was furious.

Nine and 50 % off payment is only one million more than one million, and more than one million more.

If it was usually, it would be indifferent to his regent king. The Qing Empire had a tax of 300 million a year, and it would be crowded casually.

(Because of the excessive backward tax and corruption, at least the Qing Empire had the same amount of the same amount of taxes from the civilian pocket, and was divided.)

"20 million yuan, to Yuan Gong's six million, and then to the Army Ministry of 8 million, 14 million will be gone."

Zai Ze murmured to himself,

"Once the war starts, a town will cost 35 million a month, and the remaining money is not available at all."

"What can you do if you do n’t start a war? This money does not give so many people for a few months. If you fight, you can still grab a wave, and you can continue to borrow and lose, that is nothing. "Zai Yan vomited.

"It's okay, I have found out clearly that 70,000 to 80,000 rebels have combat effectiveness. The remaining 100,000 training time is less than March, and the combat effectiveness is worrying."

Zai Yan said with a bamboo,

"And do we have money, do they have money? The number of landlords in Jiangnan anti -taxation and donations are countless. They are all hearts to me. As soon as the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will eat the pot pulp and welcome the king."

The rest of the people nodded and agreed to this statement.

"Lord, I see, it is better to prepare for the constitutional constitution, so as to collect a wave of people's hearts." Zai Ze's eyes lighted up.

If everyone has no money, then this battle is to compete for the people's hearts. With the hearts of the people, the general trend will become.

Zaiyu didn't speak. He thought about it for a long time. The tea cup was lifted and put down. He didn't drink it. Everyone didn't dare to disturb, and looked at him.

After a long time, Zai Yan put down the tea cup and nodded with a sullen face.

"Establish a constitution! But! We cannot let others seize power, otherwise it will be no different from losing the war!" Zaifeng said viciously.

[Author's digression]: After thinking for a long time, I was stuck on the name...

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