At this time, the attendant handed over a red box secret memorial. The emperor took out the telegram from it and handed it to Li Junwei. Li Junwei read it and smiled coldly: "These bastards can climb along the way."

The red box secret song came from Ceuta, but it was not a diplomatic song, but a secret song from the Military Intelligence Agency, and the source was a certain count of the French Navy.

You should know that when France's new naval was established, it was supported by the empire, and many of its equipment and even shipbuilding equipment also came from the empire. The empire had many connections in the French navy, not just naval factors. After the French Revolution, the French royal power was severely weakened, civil rights ideas soared, and imperial power could be dangerous.

France is divided into two factions: the Imperial Party and the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is the main driving force for external expansion and the absolute enemy of the Empire. In order to deal with this group of people, the Empire chose to cooperate secretly with the Imperial Party. Even the current French Regent had secret contact with the Empire.

The Red Box Secret provided two messages, one is a list of candidates for European Combined Fleet ships, and the other is a confidential message.

The news is already very confident. Britain, France and the Netherlands took advantage of Japan's declaration of war and followed the trend and prepared to establish a military alliance, and the name of this alliance has been confirmed.

"The European Security Agreement, this shitty name, um...will we call it the Euro or the Engagement?" Li Junwei looked at the emperor and asked on his own initiative.

"Whatever you think is right?" The emperor didn't care.

"It's better for the emperor to decide." Li Junwei said with a smile.

"Oyo." If it were other things, the emperor would give in a few more humble back and forth, but in such things, the emperor would not give in because he knew that King Yu would never obey him.

This is King Yu's philosophy in the center of the empire. He can take over power on a large scale, but he will avoid special powers such as military power as much as possible. However, one thing is that he will never raise hope. Li Junweisu has a very calm view of things like fame and has a common view with his father.

That is, when you stand at the peak of power and have taken charge of the fate of others, your reputation will not be perfect. No matter how you avoid it, how to maintain it, or whether you have the final say, you have no choice but to decide. Therefore, King Yu never cared about his reputation, and even intends to manage his own infamous and infamous.

Notoriousness will make some sluts afraid, while notoriousness will reduce the psychological expectations of the people. Some bad things happen to others and will be regarded as major events, but if it happens to King Yu, it is a temperament factor. Considering the merits he established for the empire, no one will say anything. But when some people deliberately stigmatize King Yu, it is not easy to deceive the people.

But the emperor's reputation was maintained by King Yu, not only by reputation. King Yu has always done his own thing, but the praise he received after he accomplished his work must be enjoyed by the emperor. This is Li Junwei's philosophy of life and an important reason why he can gain all his trust from his brother.

"Then it's Oyo." Li Junwei shrugged.

"The diplomatic system has not sent any news yet. Should I observe whether this Euro-York has become a reality?" Pei Yuanqi carefully looked at the words of the secret memorial. Although the person who provided the information was confident, Pei Yuanqi still chose to be more cautious.

Li Junwei shook his head: "There is no need. Even if there is not now, this organization will be born in the future."

The European Union initiative was very early. Around the time of the Great Alliance War, European countries discovered that the influence of the empire had penetrated into Europe. Among them, people with insight proposed that Europe must unite to fight against the threat of the empire. However, how to unite, each country has its own calculations. Louis XIV is determined to conquer Europe and reach unity, while weak countries hope to establish an alliance that exists normally.

Because of France's existence and the European civil war continued, the so-called Euyo had no capital to establish. It was not until after the French Revolution that France and Britain completely reconciled and jointly explored the outside world that Euyo had a basic framework. However, Britain and France were still very weak at that time, while the Netherlands had no plans to establish Euyo.

At that time, European countries did not dare to confront the empire at all. Europe was divided into three factions, one represented by Sweden and Prussia, actively cooperated with the empire, introduced advanced technology, carried out political and economic reforms, and enriched the country and strengthened the army. The other faction, led by Russia, kept a distance from the empire, but also carried out reforms to enhance the country's strength.

Britain, France and the Netherlands belonged to the third faction in the early days. They believed that if they sat on the expansion of the empire, Europe would be in danger, but united and actively confronted would lead to suppression from the empire. Therefore, the three countries united many European countries and chose a smarter path, advocated the League of Nations, and hoped to let the empire sit on the same table with them, only quarreling and not fighting.

The core principle of the League of Nations is actually to divide the sphere of influence of the world's major powers. This has been achieved because the sphere of influence of various countries is defined, while the empire's global interests are recognized, it gives European countries appropriate space to explore, so Europe and the empire have entered a long period of peace.

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But the empire took the lead in establishing the Eastern Alliance, scattering the main countries within its sphere of influence together, and establishing an all-round alliance system covering politics, strategic security and economic and trade. Over the past few years, this system played an important role.

Politically, the Eastern Allied countries joined the League of Nations and were in line with the Empire on various issues of the League of Nations. Every time the Empire spoke, advocated and proposed plans, it responded enthusiastically. Economically, it formed the world's largest economy, which was very exclusive and prevented the commercial expansion of rising European countries in the East.

In terms of military, because the major countries in the South China Sea form alliances with the empire, their power in this direction can be reduced, reducing military spending and ensuring the security of all countries.

Obviously, Europeans also hope to have their own alliance, but they lack common interests and do not have an absolute position with absolute strength without the empire. More importantly, Britain, France and the Netherlands are still worried that establishing alliances will lead to a comprehensive confrontation with the empire.

Therefore, even though the three countries jointly dealt with the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, they still dared not establish an alliance on this ground. Instead, this time, the Three Kingdoms war against Japan gave the three European countries a legitimate reason.

Pei Yuanqi nodded helplessly, handed over the list to the attendant, and said, "Go to the conference room and prepare."

The emperor replied: "Come Navy Commander Lord Zhao."

"It seems that the Navy wants the lion to speak again this time." Li Junwei quipped.

"For us, it is also an important reason to invest in the Navy. At least the House of Commons will not all oppose it." The emperor also smiled. Suddenly, the emperor changed his words and asked, "Where is Zhaoyu now and how is his work at hand? It seems that he hasn't seen him for more than a month. He was not here when he went to his house a few days ago."

Li Junwei said: "It's either in Beijing or in Shanxi."

The emperor had no choice but to look at Pei Yuanqi. Pei Yuanqi smiled: "I arrived in Datong yesterday. The eldest son's work focused on the purging of the coal mine industry. In the near future, there will be another bloody storm."

After Li Mingxun's death, Li Zhaoyu devoted himself to the nationwide purge and anti-corruption campaign. Starting from the Imperial Tobacco Corporation, he gradually deviated to other state-owned assets departments. Before going to Beijing, he directly took the post of Pei Yuanqi's state-owned assets group, which was to take full action.

Su Ri'an was with him throughout the whole process, purged heavy industry in Beijing, followed the clues and went to Shanxi. Now Li Zhaoyu is an absolute hot topic in the imperial press, setting off one climax after another in the imperial public opinion field.

The emperor thought for a while: "Yuanqi, third brother, please intervene and let him complete his work in Shanxi before September. I don't care what the next step of work will do, but people must move around Shenjing."

"I understand, I will ask Zhao Longcheng to send the information from the Navy to Zhaoyu." Li Junwei already understood the emperor's meaning and said immediately.

Pei Yuanqi was obviously half a beat slower, but when he heard King Yu say this, he immediately reacted.

The two generations of emperors of the Empire had extremely strict control over military power. The important positions and systems in the imperial army were all held by the royal family and nobles, or they were new military meritorious officials. The emperor could accept the expansion of civil rights political forces in the judicial and administrative fields, but he would never allow him to accept military violent institutions such as the army and the inner guard.

The reason why Li Zhaoyu devoted himself to the process of purging vested interest groups was that these vested interests really hurt the interests of the empire, and the emperor wanted him to inherit his position in the future as an isolated minister.

This is also a necessary experience for the inheritance of the imperial throne. Before inheriting the throne, the emperor also cleaned up Shangtun and purged a large number of vested interests. If he did not even have the awareness of offending people, he would not be qualified to participate in the competition for the throne.

But this article does not apply to the army. The royal family never participates in the offending of the army. They are always allowed to do other people. Instead, they are merciful to the army. The emperor must take control of himself or the people he trusts. Obviously, this time when Japan declares war on Europe and the empire's navy may get rid of the concealment of the previous decade and gain a lot of investment. This kind of good thing naturally cannot be left to outsiders. Li Zhaoyu, as a child of the royal family, is more suitable for doing this.

This also reflects the emperor's attitude towards Li Zhaoyu. Of course, the three people who discussed this matter with the emperor had actually understood the emperor's wishes long ago.

When the group arrived at the conference room, Zhao Longcheng had arranged for people to prepare everything. On the solid wood conference table, two rows of ship models were placed, one row of advanced warships belonging to the Imperial Navy and the other row of advanced warships belonging to European countries. At the end, there were several slightly shabby ships piled up, and even the models of the warships could not be called. It was the water power of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The Military Intelligence Agency has provided a list of thirty-seven ships, which of course are only candidate ships for the Joint Fleet, and the UEFA organization is now unable to decide which ships to send, for the reasons that are quite complicated.

Just by which country's navy is the main force and who will serve as commander is enough to make the three countries' struggles break the ground.

Seven of the thirty-seven ships are certain. Five of the seven ships are actually five coal ships and one supply ship. All coal ships are commercial ships, while the two warships belong to the United Kingdom. This is a fleet originally in the East, including two ironclad ships, one supply ship and one coal ship. It is a fleet of British visits to Persia and India. If it were not for the outbreak, the fleet would have started returning two months ago.

The other coal ships are commercial ships active in the Indian Ocean. They are registered in some small European countries, but are actually British merchant ships. This operation is mainly to carry out coal transportation activities through the Suyinshi Strait. This type of coal ship mainly replenishes British coal for the busy route from London to Gibraltar, Suyinshi Canal, Malacca Strait to Shenjing. Two of them serve the Imperial Navy.

Welsh coal is the best coal in the world, and the Imperial Navy is also an important partner of British coal. Of course, it is also used in commercial activities. Although British coal is generally expensive, its high quality is still a necessity in marine trade. Especially for the large number of cruise ships or mixed passenger and cargo ships active on East and West routes, British coal will be used to enhance passengers' navigation experience.

"This is Prince Rupert among the Prince-class ironclad ships. It is a large ship with a displacement of 7,000 tons. Its predecessor was a wooden sail battleship. After the war on the succession of the Spanish throne, the ship cut a deck, draped iron armor, and upgraded to an ironclad ship.

Three masts were maintained, equipped with twenty-four sixty-eight-pound smoothbore guns and eleven 110-pound smoothbore guns. This is a traditional ship-side cannon ironclad ship, with a technical level of about thirty years of the empire. It is the product of steam power and ironclad ship-making in the British Navy.

The other is the Athena ironclad ship, with a displacement of 4,000 tons. It is the highest representative of the technical level of British warships. It is sponsored by British merchants. It uses a duplex steam engine and is designed with an armored fort. It is an ironclad ship with a waist gun room. It is equipped with two 110-pound smoothbore guns and four seven-inch rifled guns.

In terms of design concepts and technical standards, it is equivalent to the level of the empire about 35 years, and some technologies are more advanced. However, the combat effectiveness is not very high." Zhao Longcheng personally introduced.

Li Junwei smiled and said, "Longcheng, this is a good time to ask for money. If you say that the other party is so weak, the emperor will give you less money."
Chapter completed!