Xiao Letian's trip to Europe ended with a complete victory. This was a game that had been planned since 1865 and took six years to finally complete.
With their small strength, the Chinese people were firmly tied to the chariot of Prussia's rise, and they gambled all their resources to fight for the Franco-Prussian War!
In six years, Xiao Letian mobilized all the resources in Asia and drained almost all the floating wealth on the market of the Qing Dynasty. He issued countless hidden inflation banknotes to make this huge gamble on the national destiny.
The Manchus, Japan, Tsarist Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, the German states, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria... and of course the final target of strangulation, France.
In a huge and complex diplomatic breakthrough, Xiao Letian dealt with more than a dozen countries, and every powerful country in the world at that time joined in.
This is such a huge project. Even Xiao Letian himself is still in a dream and doesn't know how it was successful!
Such success is so difficult to come by, and it still feels unrealistic after you get it!
The gold francs extorted from France became the Chinese's foreign exchange reserves and remained in European banks forever, and he could only get the right to use the money.
Xiao Letian can use these gold-standard francs to purchase equipment, resources, technology, arms and weapons...including silver!
But you can’t take it away, not even a single gold coin!
It seems that he is at a disadvantage, but Xiao Letian does not settle accounts like this. Accepting the British rules of the game can be exchanged for large tracts of land in Luzon Island and Western Australia, which can already change the Chinese strategic map.
These newly added territories cannot be bought with 1.2 billion francs. Xiao Letian took advantage of this rare historical opportunity and took advantage of it!
The development of Western Australia can be slowed down a little first, but buying the entire Asian colony from Spain is a huge deal.
Not only is the entire waterway from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean under the fire control of Chinese naval guns, Xiao Letian's power can even continue to extend eastward.
Don’t forget Guam! At this time, Guam was still in the hands of the Spanish. This strategically important island was now a Spanish colony!
The first island chain is Ryukyu, and the second island chain is Guam!
The blockade chain built by the United States from the Pacific Ocean was broken twice just before Xiao Letian's eyes!
The third island chain, with Hawaii as its anchor, is currently in a chaotic situation. The United Kingdom, France, and the United States have all unilaterally declared sovereignty over Hawaii.
However, it is precisely because of the competition between the three parties that Hawaii is still under the rule of the original chiefdom system.
The third island chain is too far away. Before the Chinese armored fleet reaches a large scale, peaceful trade should still be the main means of penetration.
But the third island chain must eventually be captured. Only with the third island chain can the Chinese and the United States truly share the Pacific equally.
The secret agreement between Xiao Letian and the Queen basically finalized the main overseas territory of the Chinese family in the future.
From Fusang all the way south to Western Australia, Borneo, Luzon, the Java Islands, and New Guinea... will all become Chinese territories.
Vietnam was ceded to the Chinese, turning the South China Sea into an inland sea for the Chinese, and the strategic security of Brunei's oil fields was protected.
To the west, the Chinese influence gradually expanded to Madagascar and Mauritius through a series of islands in the southern Indian Ocean!
To the east, the Chinese warships have completely controlled the second island chain and penetrated into the third island chain!
With such a vast sea power and countless resources gathered, the Chinese finally completed the outflanking of the mainland from the sea!
Everything is inseparable from the careful arrangements of the young angry young man who traveled to the depths of the Taihang Mountains on the winter night of 1864. After more than six years of hard work, he finally pierced the sky through the French Popularization War!
The bag of heaven and earth that was buckled on the head of China's national destiny was finally pierced, and the suppressed China's national destiny suddenly burst out!
Is there really God's will in the dark? This land purchase transaction with the UK was not originally in Xiao Letian's plan.
This was entirely due to the British pursuit and interception of the Chinese, which prevented the Chinese from taking away the war reparations, which forced Xiao Letian to take action.
In the process of making concessions, try to exchange some benefits with Britain!
Thanks to Xiao Letian's accumulation of knowledge in his two generations, he knows very well how many of the least valuable wastelands have endless treasures and how many have very strong strategic positions.
Most people can still understand the issue of resources. After all, people in this era have not yet explored for minerals.
But doesn’t the Queen of England understand the importance of strategic location?
This is a good question. The value of strategically important land is really not easy to judge, because the value of any piece of land must be equal to the technological level at that time.
Take Guam, for example, a resource-free island deep in the Pacific. In an era before aviation technology was developed, its strategic location was not important at all.
Because the military experts at that time calculated strategic value based on the military technology they already had.
What is the speed of a coal-burning steam battleship? How far is the battery life? How long will the ammunition reserve last?
What is the speed, endurance, and ammunition reserve of a gas turbine battleship that burns oil and heavy oil?
War weapons under different technical conditions have different values. Putting a squadron of B-52s on Guam can control most of Southeast Asia.
But you put an old ironclad that burns coal and try again?
This is the difference created by the times and technology. Different geographical locations, supported by different eras and different levels of technology, have different values.
What Xiao Letian wants is to buy when it is the cheapest, then wait for technological breakthroughs as the times develop, and finally wait to receive dividends!
Drinking the blood of the French nourishes the national destiny of the Chinese people! This feeling is so good. It seems that I must have a few more drinks at tonight's dinner.
But before drinking, there are some little things that need to be done quickly!
In the basement of the embassy, as the envoys came to Europe, Liu Dadao, the imperial chef of the Qing Dynasty, was tied to the pillar, without any trace of flesh on his body.
The arrival of Big Beard and the second fiddler allowed Xiao Letian to dig out the biggest Manchu spy around him. On the same day, officers and soldiers secretly arrested Liu Dadao who was cooking.
No one expected that Liu Dadao was still a tough man. He endured the torture all night without confessing. Until the next day when Xiao Letian went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Princess Sissi went to Buckingham Palace, Liu Dadao was still suffering from torture.
Pushing open the iron door of the basement, the smell of blood and stench assaulted his nostrils. Xiao Letian frowned and walked in.
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