Iron Dynasty

You are right, the enemy of the enemy is our friend, and we should go to the Ottoman Empire.

Yekarina also has this faint intention.

After pondering for a while, she continued: Not only that, we also have to contact Persia. Cambies will not be willing to surrender to the Eastern Empire forever, he is also an ambitious person, don't forget, in the era of Persia's strong , they have peeped at the territory of the Eastern Empire more than once.

Ivanov said: His Majesty's beauty and intelligence are unmatched. It is said that Persia can now obtain the support of the Eastern Empire by providing something called oil for free, but oil is extremely important in the Eastern Empire. will understand.

Igor said: Central Asia is the back garden of our Tsarist Russia, and the Eastern Empire must not be allowed to intervene. Your Majesty, the current situation in the UK may also be a dilemma that Tsarist Russia will face in the future. We must prepare in advance. No guarantee, France is teetering, maybe we can lead Europe.

Yekarina was a little excited, this was what she had been looking forward to, but Europeans had always been wary of Tsarist Russia, and now there is a bigger threat in Europe, maybe this is an opportunity.

She said: We need to send envoys to Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Prussia and other countries, Ivanov, to arrange this as soon as possible.

Yes, Your Majesty. Ivanov responded.

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Qingzhou.

After Xiao Ming reviewed Liu Chen's battle report, he sent Xiao Yi to Australia and the second prince Xiao Tong to Canada, and then he re-invested in the busy government affairs of the empire.

Your Majesty, it is difficult for Tangier to be self-sufficient, and it is difficult to become a bridgehead for the Empire to attack Europe. After all, the army is outside, and the daily consumption is huge, and the number of steam merchant ships is insufficient, and the sailing merchant ships do not carry much cargo and are slow. . Cui Shangan and Xiao Ming had some headaches when looking at the map research report.

Xiao Ming put down the battle report. He was mentally prepared for the situation facing the Imperial Navy. Even in modern times, such a long-distance war would be extremely exhausting, let alone now.

So he didn't even want to send soldiers to the British mainland to fight trench warfare, which was too impatient and irrational.

Now what he really wants to do is to use the power of the navy to defeat the British navy and blockade an island country like the United Kingdom.

Once this happens, a country as small as the United Kingdom, with little or no product, will soon collapse.

From then on, the country will be reduced to a country of no entry.

During the blockade, he could take advantage of the inherent contradictions in the United Kingdom to find ways to further weaken the United Kingdom and split it into four independent small countries.

In this way, the main force of this expedition to Europe is only the navy, and the army is only a supporting role, and does not need too many supplies. Furthermore, he does not need to transport all the supplies from China, and some supplies can be purchased directly from Europe. , with European urine, there must be countries willing to trade with him.

So he said: The problem of supply is easy to solve. First, find a way to buy it from European countries. Second, the colonies in British Africa are all under the control of the Empire. You can find a solution from these places. Don't forget, the minerals of the Empire. The company is exploring these places. Third, although the Africans do not like farming, the land is very fertile. It is completely possible to send some agricultural technicians here. The empire does not allow the sale of black slaves into the country, but this does not mean that it cannot be used. The African native black slaves can completely capture some to build plantations under the guidance of technicians.

Cui Shangan was stunned when he heard it. After a long time, he sighed in admiration: The emperor is still wise. It takes time to block the United Kingdom, and during this time, don't say that Tangier can be self-sufficient, and there may even be a lot of surplus food shipped back to the country.

That's the truth. Don't forget that we are a big farming country. As long as there is land, we can make its crops prosperous. Xiao Ming said.

Yes, I understand at the end. Cui Shangan looked excited.

After seeing Cui Shangan away, Xiao Ming called Pang Yukun and asked him to arrange for the technicians to go to Africa.

This time, Liu Chen made a lap along Africa. These captured colonies will take time to consolidate.

Hearing this, Pang Yukun said: Your Majesty, this is no problem. Except for the technicians, do you want to go over this farming machinery? Now the machinery factory has just released some agricultural machinery and construction machinery, and the lower officials are preparing to distribute them.

Hearing this news, Xiao Ming smiled. Needless to say, these machines were naturally powered by internal combustion engines.

He was also very interested in this, after all, it represented the improvement of the productivity of the empire, so he said: In that case, I will go with you to see.

After all, he asked Qian Dafu to prepare the convoy, picked up Pang Yukun in the outer palace, and the group went to the industrial zone.

When they arrived at the machinery factory, Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun entered the factory area accompanied by factory staff.

In the first five-year plan, the machinery factories of the empire have bloomed all over the empire. Outside Qingzhou, Kandong, Youzhou, Jinling, Lin'an, Guangzhou and other places have their own heavy industries.

Constrained by the population of the empire, Xiao Ming can only hope to make up for the current shortage of manpower by increasing productivity. After all, it is not easy to develop the empire's current vast territory with more than 100 million people.

Because of this, he now desperately wants to mechanize the empire as quickly as possible, both in industry and agriculture.

Your Majesty, this is the latest batch of improved harvesters, rice transplanters, and seeders. Lin Wentao pointed to the rows of agricultural machinery parked in the open space of the factory.

Xiao Ming touched the machinery with his hands one by one, and felt a little excited. These farming machines are basically the same as contemporary machines. Once they are put into agricultural production, the agriculture of the empire will be greatly improved.

Especially now that the empire belongs to manor agriculture, and a family of three often owns hundreds of acres or thousands of acres of land.

With these machines, the peasants of the empire will be able to cultivate more land and the land of the colonies will be more developed.

Have these machines been used practically in farmland? Xiao Ming asked.

I have used it. For example, this harvester can harvest ten acres of land in an hour on a flat area, and there is no problem with 70 to 80 acres a day. Lin Wentao said to himself.

Pang Yukun said with a smile: Seven or eighty acres a day is not bad, a small manor is enough to own one. It is said that after the news was published in the newspapers, the farmers who came to the machinery factory to inquire about purchasing almost stepped over the threshold.

That's good news, and it looks like the machine shop's profits are going to go up quite a bit.