The Prime Minister's Office in London is much inferior to the Government House in Calcutta.
But in this ordinary building, decisions affecting the entire world are made every day.
In this building, there is a quaint conference room with teak floors.
Prime Minister Temple, who was tall and thin and wearing a neatly starched blue-black tuxedo, tapped the table lightly.
Interrupted debate among cabinet members.
After taking office, Temple allowed the Great Empire to end the Crimean War as the victor.
His tough attitude in handling foreign wars earned him the reputation of an iron-blooded prime minister.
He knows how to cater to public opinion.
The Industrial Revolution not only brought economic development.
The entire journalism industry has also undergone a qualitative leap.
Machine-driven printing equipment has made newspapers cheaper and cheaper.
This allowed workers in those factories to read newspapers.
With the development of local education in the Great Empire, the literacy rate has naturally increased year by year. Many ordinary people can read newspapers independently.
Temple recognized this acutely.
So he would privately cater to the tycoons who controlled the publishing industry.
This allowed him to gain the support of these new types of capitalists.
The people like a prime minister who is tough on the outside world, so Temple will show his iron-blooded side to others.
In the past year, the Great Empire has been confronting the Renaissance armies all over the world.
Although neither side declared war, and there was no direct contact, this confrontation actually took place.
Let’s not talk about the Indian incident. The Renaissance Army must be behind it.
In the Nanyang region, the Renaissance Army vigorously supported the Chinese and occupied land from the natives everywhere. A large number of Chinese people poured into the Nanyang region with arms and occupied a large amount of land.
They operate farms and mines, and occupy almost most of Nanyang's export sources.
The Great Empire now cannot even manage the Chinese in its own colonies.
Not to mention those small Chinese countries that have become independent.
The Great Empire's policy of trying to use Chinese and native people to check and balance each other in the Nanyang region also completely failed.
The interests of Japan, North Korea, and European countries have now been completely excluded by the Renaissance Army.
It would be fine if these places were relatively close to the Renaissance Army.
But they actually reached out to the Americas.
The Crimean War contained the main force of Tsarist Russia, and the Renaissance Army took the opportunity to successfully seize Tsarist Russia's interests in the east and cut off one of the heads of the double-headed eagle.
And then took advantage of the situation to seize Tsarist Russia's territory in North America.
Originally, Tsarist Russia's expansion in North America had been curbed by the Great Empire.
The method they used was to suppress the fur trade in Tsarist Russia.
Tsarist Russia's expansion in North America relied entirely on the pursuit of profits by fur traders.
Without the superficial benefits, the Tsarist Russians would naturally stop moving forward.
The British expansion here was basically the same.
But after the Fuxing Army took over the place, their management methods were completely different.
Temple has studied Baath Army immigration policies.
They don't need to be driven by any kind of profit at all.
Because this country has serious overpopulation.
According to the report of the intelligence personnel arranged by the Great Empire in Shanghai.
Now the population of this large eastern country has reached nearly 50 million.
This is nearly twenty times the population of the Great Empire itself, and even more than the population of all the colonies combined.
Their land area is also very vast, formerly exceeding 15 million square kilometers. This is still the territory under their direct jurisdiction.
Those so-called vassal states are not included in it.
In fact, calculated this way, the Renaissance Army controls more land and population than the Great Empire.
Who made this behemoth suddenly appear? Such a superpower should kill it at all costs from the beginning.
Temple scolded all the previous ministers to the Qing Dynasty.
Temple also studied the system of the Baath Army. Although they did not implement a monarchy, their power was highly centralized.
Their president can make all kinds of important decisions by himself, which makes them very efficient.
Their soldiers enjoy special treatment, so they firmly support their country, and at the same time, they fight extremely bravely.
They attach great importance to the development of industry and even spend huge costs to introduce talents and technology to establish their own industrial system.
It took them three to five years to initially establish an industrial system, while the Great Empire took hundreds of years to achieve what it has today.
They can use a decree to allow the people below to participate in immigration.
Because their people have needs in this regard.
There is no need for furs or gold in the immigration destination, as long as the land there can be cultivated.
Their people seem to care a lot about owning their own land.
The Great Empire has a lot of empty land, but no one wants to go there, so they can only throw the prisoners there like garbage.
For a place as big as Australia, it took more than a hundred years for hundreds of thousands of people to immigrate.
According to the information obtained by intelligence personnel of the Great Empire, hundreds of thousands of people from the Renaissance Army migrate to North America alone every year. And this number is still growing.
At this rate, their strength in North America will soon surpass that of Britain and even the United States.
Temple could still accept the expansion of the United States in North America because, after all, it was still a country founded by the Anglo-Saxons.
But Temple found it difficult to accept that yellow people occupied North America.
These white people felt that the New World was discovered by them and should belong to them.
Temple is a racist at heart.
And the Donghua country that suddenly appeared in America.
Ordinary people don't understand, but as the prime minister of the Great Empire, he has an intelligence network all over the world. There are "Lawrences" of the Great Empire all over the world.
Temple naturally knew that this so-called Donghua Kingdom was actually a country established by the Chinese.
And behind this is the shadow of the Renaissance Army.
Now this Donghua country has caused a great sensation in Europe and has become the focus of major newspapers.
Some newspapers said that the Donghua Kingdom represented the Indians, who adopted a policy of bloody revenge against the local white people.
Some people say that the Donghua Kingdom destroyed local Catholic churches and prohibited local people from practicing Catholicism.
Even the Papal States came out to speak out. The Archbishop of the South American District of the Papal States called on European Catholics to form a crusade and go to South America to participate in the war to annihilate Donghua.
Temple would not believe those rumors like ordinary people.
The Imperial Fleet in South America had already sent the information back. This was actually a nail inserted by the Renaissance Army into South America with the help of local Chinese and Indians.
Moreover, Temple also knew that the Renaissance Army had established a Western Pacific Company in Mincheng City to specialize in developing islands in the Pacific.
However, the main business of this company is land reclamation in the eastern part of Papua.
Because this place is too remote, no country has come to colonize and develop it.
Not only is it remote, the natives on the island are also very primitive and savage.
Coupled with the harsh environment, there are virgin forests everywhere.
That’s why it’s called the “Adventurer’s Forbidden Land.”
But these Chinese are developing here.
Temple has spent time overseas, and he knows that developing a place like Papua requires a lot of human lives.
No more than half of those who participated in early development will survive.
Just like the early European immigrants to the Americas. Most of the people either died on the ships or died locally due to diseases and conflicts with the locals.
Temple had a map of the world in his mind. He connected the series of actions of the Renaissance Army and could easily discover the purpose of the Renaissance Army.
Pacific Ocean!
They want to bring the Pacific Ocean into their sphere of influence.
The book "On Sea Power" was written by an American, but the spirit of "On Sea Power" was born in the Great Empire.
As the current helmsman of the Great Empire, Temple has long been a thoroughgoing sea power theorist.
This is an era of domination through the sea.
Even a long-established road power like Tsarist Russia knows that it must vigorously develop its navy and find excellent ports for its navy, and will not hesitate to fight with powerful countries for this purpose.
Temple has realized that the Ba'ath Army's development of Papua may be just a front.
Their real destination is Australia.
Although Britain has been involved in Australia for hundreds of years, there are only a few hundred thousand people in Australia now.
Such a small number of people can only control the most elite corner of the southwest.
Most of the Australian continent is still virgin territory.
Temple could not imagine that if hundreds of thousands of Chinese immigrated to mainland Australia every year, it would not be long before hundreds of thousands of white people would be submerged.
The Great Empire will never admit defeat when faced with challenges. It doesn't matter if the Spaniards have an invincible fleet. I can defeat you even if I support the pirates.
Napoleon was very powerful, and the whole of Europe trembled under his cannons. But in the end, he was pinned to the ground and beaten wildly by the Great Empire.
Now that the Renaissance Army was born out of the former Manchu Qing Dynasty, it had long been defeated by the Great Empire.
Temple participated in planning the First Opium War that year.
Temple believed that if he could defeat the same group of yellow men once, he would be able to defeat them a second time.
The cabinet members all fell silent. Temple cleared his throat, which had become hoarse from smoking a cigar.
"Everyone, what we are discussing today is how to curb the development of the Renaissance Army."
While speaking, Temple's eagle eyes scanned everyone, giving people a sense of oppression.
"Everyone, I have just shown you the materials. You should be able to see that the Renaissance Army is developing too fast. In addition to industrial production, their comprehensive strength will soon catch up with us. So we must discuss a
It is a practical and effective method that can be implemented in the long term to weaken the Renaissance Army."
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, why don't you consider launching a war? After all, we have defeated them before. As long as we defeat them, we can split them up or restrict their development." said the Minister of War.
This is a fat, bald, gray-bearded old minister who once commanded the anti-French war and is very prestigious in the army.
Temple shook his head slightly and said: "Lord, the current Renaissance Army is no longer the original Qing Dynasty. Their current standing force has exceeded 500,000 people, far more than us. And their army weapons and equipment are not at all
They are no worse than us. If we want to defeat them on land, we definitely cannot rely on the army of our Great Empire alone."
"As for the navy, Mr. Navy Minister, please answer everyone, can our navy guarantee the defeat of the Renaissance Army's navy?"
Temple put the question to the Admiralty.
The Minister of the Navy quickly replied: "Prime Minister, and ministers, our Great Empire has the most powerful naval fleet in the world, and we definitely exceed the navy of the Renaissance Army in terms of numbers."
"However, according to the intelligence about the Battle of Manila sent back by our East Indies Fleet."
"In addition to the four cruisers and several light cruisers purchased from us, the Renaissance Army Navy also built a new fleet of eight ironclad ships. They call themselves Jianghe-class frigates. Although the tonnage of this kind of warship is not
It is large, but it uses a breech-loading gun and is the first to use a turret structure. It is difficult to imagine that a country with zero navy can build such an epoch-making warship out of thin air."
The British have always believed that the Manchu navy was not considered a navy.
"Our intelligence personnel once thought that Prussia transferred technology to them, but this was later denied. In fact, Prussia's current ironclad technology was obtained from the Renaissance Army, and Prussia paid a high price."
"In the end, we can only say that they must have given birth to a shipbuilding genius."
"At that time, the artillery on their eight warships was not able to destroy the Spanish fleet. We learned from the Spanish prisoners who were released that there was a special weapon on the warships of the Renaissance Army."
"Sailors who have experienced naval battles described it as a kind of mine that moves in one direction at high speed in the water. Our shipyard has also started related research, but has not yet solved the power and balance problems. This kind of mine only needs one
It can make a wooden battleship obsolete."
"So, if we launch a naval attack on them, we will inevitably suffer huge losses, at least until our ironclad ships form combat effectiveness."
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After hearing the description of the Navy Minister, everyone fell silent.
"Okay, starting a war directly is not in the interests of the Great Empire. We and the Renaissance Army will both lose in the fight. Napoleon III on the opposite side will definitely laugh his head off." Temple said, and he revealed the key to the problem.
The Renaissance Army is not the only competitor of the Great Empire.
If war doesn't work, then we have to use other methods.
What the Great Empire is best at is causing trouble for other people.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I think we can start with the French and Russians. Haven't the French always wanted to have more colonies in the Far East? They have already set their sights on Annan, so we might as well express our support for Napoleon III.
"The Minister of Foreign Education stood up and said.
"Didn't the Renaissance Army say that Annan is their vassal state? If the French attack Annan, then the Renaissance Army will still ignore military control?"
"So much territory of Tsarist Russia was occupied by the Baath Army. Can they be convinced?"
"Now Prussia seems to be developing too fast through the Prussian-Danish War. We might as well give Tsarist Russia another push to let them recover as soon as possible. After Tsarist Russia recovers its strength, the first to retaliate should be the Renaissance Army."
"Since Donghua in South America is related to the Renaissance Army, we can promote the encirclement and suppression of Donghua by South American countries. As long as we let them know that we support this matter, they will be happy to eliminate Donghua. In addition, we
You can also take the opportunity to sell some weapons."
"Another place is North America. They have now organized many private pioneer teams to penetrate into the east. Then we can also send more people there in the form of private forces. Civil wars due to land issues will not cause
A full-scale war between the two countries. I think the Renaissance Army should think so too."
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These proposals from the Foreign Secretary were very much to Temple's liking. He smiled slightly, as this was the way the Great Empire had always done things.
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