Unlike the Chinese Territory, which has a huge army, as an island country, the entire Saar Empire has less than 300,000 troops in total, and these people are still distributed in vast colonies and cannot be brought together at the moment. This is also the reason why the Saar Empire
Due to the use of local people for rule and management in the colonies, and due to the Sar Empire's over-reliance on the navy for many years, their army's combat effectiveness can only be considered barely adequate.
Under such circumstances, even if the Saar Empire supported the Persian Empire in starting a war with the Chinese Territory, it would not be able to gain any advantage. Not to mention the invincibility of the army, even if the navy's strength in the Eastern Continent was compared, the Saar Empire's Eastern Continent Fleet would not be able to gain any advantage.
any advantage.
When Earl Thompson saw that Marquis Salborsley didn't say a word, he couldn't help but leaned over and whispered something.
"Not only that, we are also willing to give the technology of naval mines to your country for free as a testimony of the friendship between our two countries." Seeing the two whispering, Wu Qiong smiled and dropped another bombshell.
"What?" Marquis Salborzli was completely stunned. His intuition told him that the Chinese leader was not sending such huge benefits just for the war of the Persian Empire.
Marquis Salbotsiri cleared his throat, sorted out his chaotic thoughts and said, "I think your country is willing to give up such huge benefits not just for the sake of friendship with our country."
Wu Qiong smiled and said: "The Prime Minister is really smart. All I need is a statement from your country."
"Statement?" Marquis Salborzli was even more confused: "What statement is actually worth a strategically important seaport and a new type of weapon."
Wu Qiong said slowly word by word: "I want the Saer Empire to recognize the Chinese Territory as one of the great powers, which means that your country recognizes the Chinese Territory as a great power."
Hearing Wu Qiong's words, both of them took a breath. Great power status, this is a status that all major powers dream of.
On Wangxiang Star, there is the title of "Great Power" for the country. The status of "Great Power" is the status agreed upon by the ideologies among the major powers. There are six seats in total.
Originally, the six countries were the Saar Empire, the Nantes Empire, the Yaman Empire, the Kingdom of Habfsburg, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Cossack Empire. These six countries were all ranked among the top countries in the world in terms of navy and army.
Great power status has many benefits. First of all, the colonies occupied by great powers will be recognized and respected among the great powers. If a secondary country provokes great power status, other powers will not intervene to support the provocative country.
In addition, the great powers have considerable say in the international arena, and can even influence the change of political power in a region or the rise and fall of a dynasty. At the same time, great powers may attack other non-great powers and seize colonial rights. Not only can other great powers not be allowed to stumble secretly,
We must at least support the other party in terms of public opinion.
Although this is just an unspoken rule that has been agreed upon internationally, all countries will abide by it, because the most powerful countries in the world are the beneficiaries of this unspoken rule. If they break the rules, other powers will also use it.
The same method is used to deal with you, so they will consciously maintain this rule.
Becoming a great power is actually very simple. It only requires two conditions. The first condition is to completely surpass the great powers in terms of military and economic strength. The other condition is to defeat one of the great powers.
In the last Sino-Colombia war, the main force of the Cossack Empire's navy disappeared overnight. This reduced the Cossack Empire's naval strength to a freezing point and was kicked out of the ranks of the great powers by default. Since then, the Boston Empire has been hoping to
can be replaced.
The Boston Empire has met the first condition, but the economy of the Chinese Territory has also surpassed that of the Cossack Empire. They also meet the second condition. Originally, this great power seat should have been directly taken over by the Chinese Territory, but because it has not been able to obtain the Saar Empire
recognition, other powers chose to turn a blind eye.
The reason why the Chinese nation has not yet become a great power is because in addition to meeting those two conditions, there is another condition that must be complied with to join a great power, which is that it needs to be recognized by the world's most powerful country, that is, the most powerful power.
If the Saar Empire now recognizes the great power status of the Chinese Territory, the Chinese Territory can expand its colonies around the world. As long as it does not conflict with other great powers, the great powers will have no reason to interfere, and they cannot even secretly fund those being attacked.
countries, at least on the surface, cannot.
The Marquis of Salisbury and Earl Thompson carefully discussed the gains and losses. Although they were more inclined to recognize the status of the Boston Empire, the Boston Empire was militarily weak and could not meet the second condition, and the Thrall Empire could not break the rules for them.
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Now the Chinese leader is asking for the status it deserves and has put this matter on the table. If the Saar Empire still suppresses the Chinese leader and refuses to recognize its status, although the Chinese leader will still be unable to obtain a seat among the great powers, this matter
This incident will greatly damage the international image of the Saar Empire and leave an impression on other countries that it does not abide by the rules.
Such consequences are not the most important. The most important thing is that if the Chinese leaders are angered, they may lose control of the Aden Port.
And this is not just a matter of losing a port. This incident will have a series of consequences. First, once the Port of Aden is controlled by the Chinese Empire, the shipping route between Tamsui Port and the mainland of the Saar Empire will be greatly lengthened.
After such a situation occurs, the exchange of news between the mainland of the Saar Empire and the colonies on the Eastern Continent will be too slow, which will put Tamsui Port and the mainland in a situation where they cannot support each other, just like a big dragon in Go being intercepted.
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Once this happens, the colonies of the Saar Empire in the Eastern Continent and even the Kingdom of Jhansi will become abandoned by others, and the sphere of influence of the Saar Empire will shrink from the Eastern Ocean to the southern subcontinent. Such a loss will be a huge loss for the Saar Empire.
This is something that your empire cannot tolerate.
But now that the Chinese fleet is so powerful, even if the Saar Empire attacks with all its strength, even if it can win, it will be a miserable victory. In this way, the Saar Empire, which has suffered too many fleet losses, will be surpassed by the Nantes Empire and the Yaman Empire.
No country has benevolent thoughts towards another country. Although the Nantes Empire and the Saar Empire are now united as friends to the outside world, if the Saar Empire declines, the Nantes Empire will definitely be the first to capture the Saar Empire's colonies and conquer them.
If you swallow this character in one gulp, then the only thing the Saar Empire will lose may not be the colonies east of the Port of Aden.
If the Boston Empire's status as a great power is recognized, the Saar Empire will not gain any benefits. On the contrary, it will face economic invasion from the other side, and it will also offend the Chinese leader.
If the status of the Chinese Territory is recognized as a great power, the Saar Empire will have no pressure on the Boston Empire's army. If the Boston Empire makes any small moves, it will just give the Saar Empire an excuse to turn its back and impose a trade embargo on it.
Even if the Saar Empire, a white country, has prejudices against regimes of color like the Chinese Territory, it cannot endanger the interests of its own country. What’s more, no matter how powerful the Chinese Territory is, its main force is in the Eastern Ocean, away from the Saar Empire.
Thousands of miles away, but the Boston Empire is on the other side of the Tempest Ocean, posing a greater threat to the Thrall Empire.
Such an obvious difference made the two of them think that the advantages of recognizing the status of the Chinese Leader outweighed the disadvantages after repeated consideration. They quickly made a decision. The Marquis of Salisbury raised his head and said: "I agree with your proposal, we will
We will issue a statement agreeing with the Great Power status of the Chinese Territory, but we want the Chinese Territory to make a guarantee that your strength will not invade the Procellarum and the Mediterranean."
Wu Qiong nodded and said: "Of course there is no problem. These two places are thousands of miles away from our homeland. How could we go to these two places? Such a high-investment and low-return colony is not what we want. We are willing to put it in writing
We have made a formal guarantee that we will never enter the areas of the Procellarum and the Mediterranean Sea.”
The Marquis of Salisbury nodded and said: "That's good. After the formal document is drafted, our two countries will sign a memorandum. I hope we can have happy cooperation in the future."
Wu Qiong said: "It will definitely be a happy cooperation. We hope to have more mutually beneficial cooperation with the Saar Empire."
Earl Thompson smiled and said: "From now on, we are both powerful countries and must take care of each other. I hope that your country can be established as soon as possible."
Wu Qiong smiled and said: "Even if we don't break away from the Lanfang Empire, we are still a great power. Why bother to establish another country?" Wu Qiong will not fall for the little trap in Earl Thompson's words.
A few days later, the Chinese Territory and the Saar Empire signed a "Memorandum of Understanding". The Saar Empire recognized that the Chinese Territory had replaced the Cossack Empire as a great power, and the Chinese Territory promised not to invade the Tempest Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, and recognized the Gulf of Aden as a
Colonies of the Saar Empire, and at the same time, the Chinese leading troops that were already approaching the Sinai Canal were immediately stopped and were not allowed to enter within 50 kilometers of the Sinai Canal.
The signing of this memorandum of understanding not only marked the Chinese nation's entry into the ranks of great powers, but also marked the Saar Empire's final abandonment of the Persian Empire, which no longer had any hope of external assistance.
Just when the Chinese army was busy taking over the territory of the Persian Empire, starting to plan railway lines and cities, and starting to immigrate, Jabni, the deputy foreign minister of the Istanbul Empire, found Badra and asked for cooperation with the Chinese army in the Central Continent.
The top military leader Zhang Zhonglin met.
Naturally, he should be more polite to his allies. Zhang Zhonglin immediately met with Jabuni in the living room. Seeing Jabuni, Zhang Zhonglin asked strangely: "Why did Mr. Jabuni come here? I remember that all the arms that my country promised to sell to your country have been
Now that it’s in place, does your country plan to buy another batch of firearms or a battleship?”
Jabuni hesitated when he heard Zhang Zhonglin's words: "I came here this time to seek help from allies. Since the First Gordon Legion of the Persian Empire has very advanced equipment, our country failed to attack the Persian Empire and was defeated under the city of Bakhtalan.