Chapter 483 The confrontation between the Chinese and American navies
With the end of the British general election, British Liberal candidate Yao Bizar Henry Campbell and Sir Nenan defeated the Conservative candidates named Se Belford and became the new British court.
On February 15, King Edward VII of England signed an order to appoint Sir Henry, Campbell and Sir Nenan as the new British minister and ordered him to form a new government cabinet.
Sir Henry was ordered to form a new government and appointed Marquis of Lance Dorn as the Minister of Foreign Affairs to deal with foreign relations on behalf of Kimberley. At the same time, Lord Fisher, the first Secretary of the British Navy's Maritime Affairs, was also dismissed, and Sir Edward and Semore were scathed.
The removal of Lord Fisher caused some emotions to the British Navy, but it was in line with the interests of the noble House. All the British ships were controlled by Fisher, and even the keys of the treasury were almost transferred by him. Fisher wanted to modernize the Royal Navy, worked tirelessly and actively, and implemented a series of drastic reforms.
These reforms were criticized and agreed with. He supported the education of officers, modernized equipment by actively eliminating used ships that he called "the garbage dump of wealthy guards", and agreed with the core crew system that could quickly enter the war-in-war state. He strengthened the strength of the fleet around the local area by reducing overseas garrisons. Through this series of unremitting efforts, Britain's dominant position in the naval competition was consolidated. Therefore, Fisher was respected by the British Navy, but Fisher made the old guys in the noble house spend too much money on the navy. Not only did he prevent the naval arms race between Germany and Britain, but instead made the competition level and scale larger. Therefore, Fisher's removal became a foregone conclusion.
Henry also knew Fisher's achievements in his heart, but he had no choice but to be responsible to the nobles, so he could only stop Sher.
However, although Fisher was removed, it does not mean that the British government does not pay attention to the navy. On the contrary, the stimulus of the German Navy made the Henry government pay more attention to the naval development. Therefore, the appointment of Sir Edward and Sir Semore, as the Marshal of the Navy, shows the importance of Britain. Let a Marshal of the Navy be in charge of naval affairs. It has to be said that only the British have the courage and courage.
The British Marshal was in charge of naval affairs, so naturally the more it would be better. Under the advocacy of Sir Semore, the British Navy continued to follow Lord Fisher's route.
However, it is no longer a single construction of advanced warships, but it is also beginning to increase in number to cope with Germany's increasingly urgent naval pressure.
Henry Xiang formed a new government thanks to the full support of the Australian Patton Group. Therefore, according to the agreement between the two sides, the Liberal Party will allow Australia to be autonomous after it comes to power. However, in order to safeguard the dignity of the British Empire, Henry demanded that Australia, like Canada, have complete autonomy, but it still belongs to the British Empire Federation.
In addition to fulfilling his promises, Henry's more important thing is that he saw China's continuous infiltration of Australia. This way of peaceful evolution is the most dangerous, but Britain cannot turn against China, nor can he sit idly by and watch Australia be annexed by China. Therefore, he can only use the framework of the British Empire Federation to cover Australia. In this way, China cannot boldly annexed Australia.
While the Henry government was dealing with Germany, it did not forget to deal with the United States. After all, the United States, like Germany, relied on its strong industrial ability and economic strength, was a warning from the British to challenge Britain's hegemony. However, Britain could not deal with the United States and Germany at the same time, after all, it could not fight on both sides. Germany's threat to Britain is far greater than that of the United States. Therefore, the Henry government focused on Germany and focused on pacifying and making small moves on the United States.
Henry's little move was placed on Cuba Island in the Caribbean.
, under the supervision of the US authorities, Cuba convened a constitutional conference to formulate the constitution. The United States forced Cuba to accept the amendment proposed by US Senator Rat as an appendix included in the Cuban Constitution. The amendment stipulates that the United States has the right to send troops to interfere in Cuba's internal affairs, which is seen in the Prat Amendment.
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However, just after the US team returned to the United States, the British Atlantic believed that Cuban opposition leader Max sent five hundred troops of arms and supplies to support him in reprimanding the rule of the Palma government.
Gomez was originally a native of Spanish descent in Cuba. Since the Spanish-American War, the United States has carried out military occupation of Cuba, and his cigarette plantation was forced to be converted into a sugar plantation. Originally, there was nothing, growing tobacco and sugarcane make money. However, the United States controlled Cuba's foreign trade, and all sugarcane had to be transported out by American dealers, or simply sold to an American at a low price.
As a result, Gomez became increasingly dissatisfied with the Americans. Later, Cuba convened a congress, and Gomez originally wanted to take this opportunity to ascend to the Cuban leadership and lead the Cubans to escape the fate of the colony. However, when the Americans pointed fingers at the Republic of Cuba, Gomez saw through the truth. Cuba was only nominally independent, but was actually a colony of the United States.
The double dissatisfaction in politics and economy led Gomez to the path of opposing the government. Originally, he was a big farmer, with many black slaves and Chinese contracted workers. With the support of some like-minded farmers with him, Gomez pulled a "United**" to resist.
The reason why it is called "United**" is because Gomez's troops are composed of whites, Chinese and blacks from all over the world. Due to the rise of Emperor Qin China, Chinese people around the world have truly raised their heads and become human beings. Although they were contract workers in the past, their status increased, making whites no longer discriminate against Chinese. If the contract period was not over, they would even treat Chinese as whites. At the same time, since the United States dominated Cuba and black slaves were liberated, the black slaves under Gomez also gained freedom, so they could no longer treat their own army in the previous methods. Therefore, Gomez's army became a "United**" composed of many people.
When the British approached Gomez, Gomez thought that his opportunity had come. With the British supporting him, what else would he be afraid of?
So, the fully armed Gomez army immediately attacked the Vanna Presidential Palace where the Parma government was located. The less than 500 troops easily defeated the Parma security forces, and took the Presidential Palace before the arrival of the Cuban National Defense Forces and captured President Parma alive.
Then there was the long-time military confrontation, and Gomez's army could not resist the counterattack of the National Defense Forces. At the same time, the National Defense Forces were unable to take action because the president was hijacked, so the two sides started negotiations. Gomez held high the slogans of expelling the Americans, safeguarding the Cubans' own rule, and truly gaining freedom.
These slogans, under Gomez's speech, immediately incited all Cubans. The Cubans sympathized with Gomez and believed that what he did was right. In the end, the National Defense Forces turned to Gomez's side, and the President of the Republic of Cuba Parma stepped down.
The new government was soon formed and a new government of the Republic of Cuba was established with Gomez. The new government quickly declared that Cuba was an independent country and did not accept the coercion of the US Pratt amendment Act.
The slogan of the new government was supported by the Cuban people, but it gave Americans a headache for a long time. A few months later, the Americans finally found a suitable excuse. The new Cuban government did not accept the friendship of the United States. Instead, it wanted to cut off the supply of candy in the United States. When Uncle Sam heard that Cuba was about to cut off their milk candy, he angrily agreed to the US team to give the Cubans some advice.
In this way, the US government sent troops directly to Cuba for the most boring reason. Under the giant ships and cannons of the United States, the Cuban Wehrmacht was defeated in less than a day. Then early the next morning, the American Stars and Stripes were inserted onto the top floor of the Presidential Palace in Havana.
The Gomez government had to go into exile and asked for help from other countries around the world. It even sent Chinese people to ask for asylum from the Chinese Emperor Qin government, but was rejected by the Emperor Qin government.
The UK is Gomez's biggest supporter. After the Gomez administration went into exile, the British government carried out solemn protests and criticisms against the US government. The Sams in the United States also knew that it was the British who were behind the scenes. British-US relations were not good at first, but this time they fell to freezing point.
Ignoring British and American dog biting dogs, in China, Zhang Yunfei really became the Supreme Emperor of the Asia-Pacific region. Without the threat of war, Zhang Yunfei began his political reform. According to Zhang Yunfei's idea, the imperial system cannot last long, especially the IQ of the people is constantly improving. Although the people will always respect and love the founding emperor Zhang Yunfei, this can only affect two or three generations. Will the people in the future respect Zhang Yunfei as much as they respect Zhang Yunfei?
Of course, if Zhang Yunfei's descendants are all wise monarchs, that's a different story. However, the possibility of that situation is very, very low, so Zhang Yunfei must adopt the most secure plan to let his descendants enjoy respect and love forever, which is also considered that he has not traveled through time in vain!
Zhang Yunfei's plan was to imitate the British implementation of a constitutional monarchy. In his opinion, a country like Britain that only has interests and a British royal family under a constitutional monarchy can last for hundreds of years without decline. So in China, this country where human feelings are greater than the law, and the royal family without threats, it is enough to survive with Zhang Yunfei's remaining power.
Moreover, Zhang Yunfei had long come up with a dual insurance plan. In addition to adopting a constitutional monarchy to keep the royal family away from the center of the political whirlpool, Zhang Yunfei will also establish a constitution, determine the successor of the royal family, and become the emperor who is specifically responsible for national education and technology.
As we all know, the future time will be a world of strong education and a world of strong science and technology. The emperor specializes in education, so that everyone in the world is the emperor's students and students of the emperor. If the words "Love the motherland, be loyal to the royal family, study hard, and be progressive every day" are written from the first chapter of the primary school textbook, so that the people will accept the idea of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism from a young age, then they will naturally not cause trouble for the royal family in the future!
Furthermore, the continuous progress of education and technology can naturally enable the royal family to establish the image of a wise ruler in the hearts of the people and gain the support of the people.
The most important thing is that as long as the royal family does not involve areas such as politics and business money that are likely to cause national evil, they can always do their best to do anything, and the Chinese royal family will survive forever.
Of course, this is only part of Zhang Yunfei's political reform. There is still a long way to go to truly complete the constitutional monarchy. At least now, even if Zhang Yunfei delegates power, his rights cannot be left!
Therefore, Zhang Yunfei could only do it step by step, first establishing a constitutional monarchy, and then Zhang Yunfei would delegate power step by step so that rights could be transitioned smoothly.
The first step to delegate power is in the cabinet. Zhang Yunfei has handed over the full power of internal affairs to cabinet Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi, and all internal affairs will be decided by Tang Shaoyi.
However, the problems that followed also arise. Zhang Yunfei delegated power in internal affairs, like the UK, had two or two political leaders, and formed a cabinet to drive the country to obtain the six countries.
Today, China is completely controlled by Zhang Yunfei's Imperial Party members. Zhang Yunfei's Imperial Party is completely loyal to Zhang Yunfei, and will only be loyal to the royal family in the future, not a real political party.
Therefore, according to Tang Shaoyi's suggestion, Zhang Yunfei should form a political party with clear goals.
However, it is very easy to establish a political party. As long as Zhang Yunfei nods, his subordinates will create a political party. However, it is difficult to establish a political party. What goal should they set?
Zhang Yunfei thought about this for several days, but racked his brains and still had no thoughts.
At this time, General Tian Renjie, Chief of Staff of the Cabinet, met with him.
Seeing Tian Renjie's hurried look, Zhang Yunfei asked, "What's so anxious?"
Tian Renjie came to the neighboring place, and after he hurriedly saluted, he replied: "Your Majesty, something happened!"
Zhang Yunfei's eyes tightened, but he did not immediately ask, but returned to the back of the Yushu case, sat down slowly before asking: "Tell me!"
The more you encounter big things, the more you cannot be anxious. Zhang Yunfei always advises himself like this, now he is completely like a wise emperor, and he is calm in front of Mount Tai.
Tian Renjie hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Royal Navy and the US Navy have a military confrontation in the Pacific!"
"What?" Zhang Yunfei said in a moment: "Military confrontation?"
"Yes!" Tian Renjie said: "Your Majesty, this morning, Lieutenant General Yi Suifeng led four heavy cruisers of the Royal Navy to patrol the Bering Sea. When passing the Aleutian Islands on his way back, our naval surveying ship stayed there for a while, but unfortunately, he encountered an American cruiser. The US Navy asked our navy to leave immediately and hand over the surveying drawings!"
Zhang Yunfei frowned and said, "The Aleutian Islands are the territory of the United States. We are obviously going to attract US Navy alert when we stay there."
Then he smiled and said, "But, I guess that boy Yi Suifeng went there on purpose. Surveying and mapping? Hand over the surveying and mapping drawings? According to his personality, it would be very worthy of Americans if he didn't put the national flag of the empire on the Aleutian Islands!"
Tian Renjie nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise! Yi Suifeng will naturally not hand over the surveying and mapping drawings, otherwise it would mean that the Empire is afraid of their US Navy? Our four heavy cruisers are there, and the American cruisers will naturally have no choice but to deal with Yi Suifeng and the others!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "Yes, soldiers should be wild! Although we are wrong, we cannot weaken the majesty of soldiers. Let the rest of the matter be handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!"
Tian Renjie smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, the key is that after Yi Suifeng and others returned to Pearl Harbor, a battleship and six cruisers of the US Navy ran to the coast of Hawaii to demonstrate.
Zhang Yunfei asked with interest: "Interesting! Did the Americans really get the courage of the bear heart? The commander of Pearl Harbor Fortress didn't fire a few shots to scare them away?"
Tian Renjie said: "Of course, Americans dare not bring warships close to Pearl Harbor Fortress. They have been anchored outside the range of Pearl Harbor Fortress guns. They just don't leave!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "I understand! You said that our navies between us have been in conflict, which means that the fleet of Pearl Harbor has been driven out to drive them away, but they don't leave, right?"
"That's true!" Tian Renjie said: "Your Majesty, Yi Suifeng and others saw that the US Navy was blocking their doorsteps, so they naturally could not stay honestly and go out to drive out the US Navy. However, the US Navy stayed there and did not leave, and almost broke the fire several times. If General Lin Jianzhang had not arrived in a hurry, he would have started fighting! Now, the US Ambassador to China has already protested to Liang Cheng! Premier Tang Shaoyi said that he can solve this matter, but he can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. If he wants to solve the problem, he must solve the problem as soon as possible! Otherwise, this kind of confrontation problem will become more and more serious day by day, and he might get out of the fire one day!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "Shaochuan is right! Something will happen there sooner or later! You have to think of a solution!"
Tian Renjie said: "Your Majesty, I suggest we officially annex Hawaii!"
"I have been thinking about annexing Hawaii for many years!" Zhang Yunfei said: "But have you ever thought about the consequences? Now Hawaii is blocking between us and the United States, and the United States can tolerate our existence in the Pacific Ocean. Once Hawaii is annexed by us, it means we have a showdown with the United States! Because there is no barrier on the west coast of the United States, we can attack all the western coastal cities of the United States from Hawaii. Can the Americans not be anxious? He will fight us desperately!"
Tian Renjie said: "But, now Hawaii has been actually annexed by us! It's just a name!"
Zhang Yunfei said: "The problem lies in this name! Hawaii is not Chinese, Americans have to endure it! Americans have always had to find a reason to fight! Therefore, even if we have a huge navy in Hawaii, as long as Hawaii is not Chinese for one day, Americans will not start a war against China! Their navy has to passively defend us! Judging from their current actions, they obviously can't help it, at least their navy can't help it! But no matter how angry they are, it will be useless. They must obtain the consent of the American people to send troops!"
Chapter completed!