The geographical location of Afghanistan is too special, and it is the core part connecting Eurasia. [This article comes from] This situation has led to the fact that even if the resources here are not sufficient, it has become a place that military strategists have fought for since ancient times.

Whoever pinched this place was equivalent to pinching the key to Eurasia. The British wanted to fight for it, and the Russians in the early years were also salivating about it.

The first British-Arab War was caused by the fact that after a long battle at that time, Mohammed had unified Dost, Afghanistan.

Although Russia did not directly provide Afghanistan with support for military forces in the first British-Arab War, it was a lot of assistance in weapons, equipment and training.

Those who attacked Britain in Afghanistan naturally had their old partners in Europe, such as France and Italy. However, these countries did not directly send troops to help Afghanistan, but adopted a curved way to save the country.

That is to use the hands of Russia to constantly send weapons and ammunition to Afghanistan. The purpose is to prevent Britain from opening up the core line of Afghanistan, the Eurasian continent.

The failure of Britain's three conquests to Afghanistan has to be said to have the shadow of various countries behind it. In fact, if Russia tried to conquer Afghanistan, the results would be the same.

Later Soviet Union thought of conquering Afghanistan. But what he encountered was exactly the same as Britain. In other words, the only difference was that more countries were cheating on him.

At that time, this kind of action had changed from implicit to explicit. For example, when the CIA carried out the cyclone operation in 1979, it provided weapons, ammunition and funds to the Afghan jihadists. In order to curb the Soviet Union, the United States even took out its most advanced fim-92 spike missile at the time.

On the one hand, other Middle Eastern countries provided a lot of financial assistance, and on the other hand, they provided venues for the United States to train Afghan guerrillas in those places. According to rough statistics, at that time, at least 100,000 guerrillas were trained.

This ultimately led to the Soviet Union having to withdraw from Afghanistan after paying more than 20 billion US dollars, more than 10,000 casualties and nearly 800 elite agents.

"Afghanistan became the wound of the Soviet Union's continuous bleeding day and night." This is the folk proverb of that year. What it said was the fact at that time. The Soviet Union was constantly transfusion of blood to the battlefield of Afghanistan, but it could not defeat the pawns arranged by the various countries in Afghanistan.

Even though the world later entered a unipolar and the United States, which believed that it had no opponents, paid eleven years in Afghanistan, with US$323.2 billion and thousands of casualties, the final choice was to withdraw from Afghanistan.

As for why the Americans retreated, perhaps we can see what helicopters and tanks that were blasted by 40 fires. There are also a large number of bars, 107 rocket launchers...

"Dawud, my brother! You are the royal family I value the most. I don't want your eyes to be just one place. What we need to see is the world, and what we need to see is how to make Afghanistan rich." Zahir said to his cousin with great thoughts.

But he didn't notice that his cousin had a faint anger in his eyes under his preaching. It seemed that he felt angry at his cousin after his opinion was denied.

"The strength of Afghanistan requires you and mine to cooperate with each other. If we don't want to become a pawn of a big country, we must make ourselves stronger. Otherwise, we will always be pawns of others. Just a poor person who is abandoned after they use up..."

Dawud didn't listen to these words at all. Of course, it was natural that he couldn't listen to them. In history, this prince took advantage of the opportunity of Zahir going abroad to treat his illness and launched a coup with the support of the Soviet Union and directly became the new leader of Afghanistan.

Of course, he was directly overthrown by the Afghan People's Democratic Party, which was supported by the Soviet Union after being used by him. Even apart from a granddaughter, no one survived the whole family.

Perhaps this incident hit Zahir too hard, which led to the king's refusal to participate in Afghan politics. He would rather refuse the Afghan People's Democratic Party invited him to restore the throne, and chose to go into exile in France for more than 20 years.

"The reason I chose Japan is, on the one hand, because they are not controlling India now. Then they are even more unable to control us. And they want to march into Europe and fight against the Soviet Union, which is always inseparable from us..."

Zahir slowly said this to his cousin: "So we can talk to the Japanese about cooperation in exchange for the capital we need to enter modernization."

"Although we are not rich in Afghanistan, we still have some resources. As far as I know, what the Japanese lack now is resources. Our resources can be replaced with them with the industrial machine tools we need..."

While talking, Zahir suddenly found that his cousin was looking at him with his mouth wide open.

"Dawud, what's wrong?! Why look at me with such a look?!" Zahir looked at his cousin inexplicably and said, "Is there any problem with what I'm talking about?"

"Your Majesty. You just said that you would let the Japanese pass through our territory to attack the Soviet Union?! Is that true?!" Dawud came to his senses and asked his brother.

"Yes. Is there any problem with this?!" Zahir was a little puzzled. Japan's attack on the Soviet Union did not suffer any losses to Afghanistan.

"Your Majesty, have you never thought that once the Japanese fail, we will encounter revenge from the Soviet Union?!" Dawud said anxiously: "At the beginning of the establishment of the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France and other countries formed a coalition of fourteen countries, and they could not defeat the Soviet Union. If they knew that we let the Japanese attack them through our borders..."

"What does this matter?! We don't just attack the Soviet Union by ourselves." Chahil said with a smile: "The Soviet Union is mainly facing the German offensive now. I believe that once the Japanese choose to start from us to attack the Soviet Union, Germany will definitely not stand idly by."

"In this case, it would be great that the Soviet Union could survive." Chahil smiled and said, "My brother, you still haven't seen the essence of these things clearly. Indeed, there were fourteen-nation coalition forces attacking the Soviet Union at that time. But how many of these troops were the elite troops they sent?! How many other countries except those Tsars were the former subordinates and the Japanese?!"

Dawud didn't speak, and was silent for a while before saying, "Your Majesty. What you said is really too big. I can't make a judgment for a moment. Please give me some time to think..."

Zahir didn't say much, and smiled and waved Dawude down. Zahir watched Dawude's back disappear outside the palace gate, and his face gradually became gloomy.

"His Majesty the King, am I right?! His Highness Prince Dawud has been deceived by the Soviets. What he sees now is the good of the Soviet Union. He has no longer considered the interests of Afghanistan..."

In the shadow of the palace, a figure walked out in stiff English while speaking to Chahil.

This is a thin Japanese man, wearing an Arab robe and a beard on his face. His eyes were bright and he had a cold and cruel smile on the corners of his mouth.

"Qingyin Qingqi, I think your immediate boss sent you here to me, right?! Tell me. What can you Japanese give me?!" Zahir's face looked very bad and he roared at the man in a low voice.

And this man is the leader of the Japanese spy who once dominated Shanghai - Qingqi Qingyin!

"I think we can give you all you need. Your Majesty." Qingqi Qingyin did not have any emotional fluctuations at Zahir's anger, but saw him smiling and said, "You need Afghanistan to become an industrialized country. We will help you achieve your wishes."

"You lack geologists, it doesn't matter. You can send people to our Greater Japanese Empire to study, and our empire's Co., Ltd. is willing to work with you to develop minerals in Afghanistan..."

"In terms of factory, we can operate in a joint venture manner. As long as you agree to cooperate with us, our Great Japanese Empire will agree to give you a loan for your country construction. Of course, we will issue this loan in kind..."

Zahir closed his eyes and listened quietly to Qingqi Qingyin's words. It was not until the spy leader finished speaking that he said: "I will not send troops to assist you in the Soviet Union, and our cooperation is limited to the economic side. I will lend you the road. But we will not be involved in other things anymore."

Zahir is a smart man. He knew that this kind of war was not something that had not yet developed and could be mixed with poor Afghanistan. No matter whether it was victorious or failed, Afghanistan would have no benefits.

Instead, the one who came forward and was beaten must be a small country like Afghanistan. Zahir didn't want to be the one who was shot to death. In his opinion, maintaining neutrality and fully developing himself is the path Afghanistan must take.

"Your Majesty. We know your concerns. But we know the difficulties you are facing now." Qingqi Qingyin was not angry at all and said with a smile: "Your reform must have caused huge debate and opposition in Afghanistan. I believe there are many tribal leaders opposing you, right?"

Zahir had a gloomy face and didn't say a word. Anyone who came to Afghanistan would definitely know this situation. This matter cannot be concealed. In order to oppose Zahir's reform, the tribes have launched several unsuccessful military coups.

"Do you have a way to solve this problem?!" Zahir looked at Qingqi Qingyin's smile and was not angry. He knew that this Japanese was not a fool.

Since he proposed this matter, he said that they must have a solution. Zahir is very interested in knowing whether these solutions can satisfy himself.

"The prosperity of our Great Japanese Empire came from the Meiji Restoration." Keiyin Haruki suddenly talked about the seemingly unrelated Japanese history, but saw him telling him to Zahir: "Your Majesty, the Great Japanese Empire was not strong at that time. Our situation was even more dangerous than your current situation."

"At that time, His Majesty the Emperor did not have much force, and most of the force was concentrated in the hands of various vassals and shogunate." Haruki Keiyin paused and said, "Fortunately, several vassals supported the reform, so His Majesty had enough troops and warriors to eliminate those vassals and shogunate who opposed the reform."

"But the question that follows is how to appease those vassals?! The centipede insect is dead and does not die. The only way to use thunder means is to receive continuous counterattacks. If these people keep making trouble, then reform will not be carried out..."

Zahir looked at Qingqi Qingyin with a little interest, and it was obvious that Qingqi Qingyin's words had successfully attracted him. This situation was exactly what Zahir was facing now.

He has powerful power to suppress domestic opposition voices. But blindly suppressing is definitely not possible. If it is suppression, the louder these voices will be. In the end, it is likely to cause huge, nationwide bloody conflicts.

This is something that Zahir doesn't want to see, but has to face.

"His Majesty Meiji made a bold decision at that time: to establish a noble house!" Kyuki Keiyoshi bowed slightly and said softly.

"At the same time, these vassals are divided, on the one hand, they are opposed and divided into the army and navy. At the same time, the royal family is allowed to enter the army and serve, and the royal family is tried to expand the influence of the royal family in the country and the army. A large number of officials who support the reform have been promoted, and some commercial interests are given to those nobles..."

Keiyin Haruki expressed all the core contents of the entire Meiji Restoration. In fact, the Meiji Restoration seemed to be a very good national revolution at that time.

But in the long run, this innovation is incomplete. The entire country is still controlled by vassals and nobles. Although the emperor's authority and reputation have greatly improved, the influence of the nobles has not diminished.

The consequence of this incomplete revolution, or compromise revolution, was the gradual militarization of Japan after World War I. The nobles such as Nishimotoji Komaru saw the crisis and tried to suppress the voices of the old-style nobles in the army.

However, this suppression led to a strong rebound in the army. During that period, the Japanese cabinet continued to rotate like a lantern and even the prime minister was assassinated for a while.

The subsequent emperor did not want to force the army to go crazy. If the army went crazy, the entire Japan would fall into bloody conflict. Therefore, the cabinet could only compromise the old nobles of the army under certain circumstances.

"Qingqi Qingyin, what do you mean is that I can set up a house for these tribe leaders to participate in the sharing of rights?!" Zahir said thoughtfully, while Qingqi Qingyin smiled and shook his head.

"It's not that simple, my Majesty. You also need to clean up the private soldiers from the nobles. This is the most important thing." Qingqi Qingyin smiled and said, "The threat of those private soldiers is too great. Only by transforming them into the army of the Kingdom of Afghanistan is safe."

Zahir suddenly understood what Qingqi Qingyin wanted to express. These private soldiers would be sent to the battlefield. Their seats in the parliament were determined based on the degree of private soldiers sent by major clans.

At the same time, imitating Japan's methods allows these large clans to have a place in the army. I believe this is also the position these clans are willing to get.

Of course, in order to assure the hearts of these clans, they will bring their own troops to the front line. Will they go to the front line? Who can guarantee that they will survive?!

By then, if you integrate these troops yourself, it will be the new Afghan army!

"Our Great Japanese Empire will train you a group of new officers, who will practice on the battlefield. At that time, you can completely clear all obstacles and implement the reforms you want to implement..."

Keiyin Haruki bowed deeply to Zahir and said softly: "This is the sincerity of our great Japanese empire..."

Zahir's face turned blue and red for a while. It was sunny and sunny. To be honest, the Japanese took Zahir's fatal hole. Now Zahir's reform has indeed encountered great difficulties.

Zahir himself was not sure if he wanted to overcome these difficulties. Those big clans were holding a large number of private soldiers. They were forced to rebel in anger, and even Zahir could not bear it.

He had considered the aristocratic parliament mentioned by the Japanese. However, he did not dare to do this without suppressing the ability of these aristocratic private soldiers. Otherwise, if these aristocrats had power and had private soldiers, he would have to be puppets.

It is possible that any nobleman who wants to take the position of King Afghanistan, he has to get out of office.

"This matter made me think about it..." After a while, Zahir said: "When can you decide the decision arrive in Kandahar?!"

"Two weeks at the latest!" Kyuki Kyoto knew that Zahir was already moved, and he smiled and said, "General Ishihara has set off. I believe he will arrive in India soon. He will come to Kandahar to meet you..."

Chahil nodded and waved his hand to Qingqi Qingyin. Qingqi Qingyin bowed tactfully, turned around and left quietly.

At this time, the convoy of Dawud, who had left the palace, was slowly entering a small courtyard outside Kandahar. This courtyard was home to an old man who looked very kind.

The old man can't tell his age. You can say that he is in his sixties or seventies or in his early fifties. The old man has a long beard, wears a robe that is common to Arabs, and has a headscarf on his head.

It seems to be no different from ordinary Arabs. The only difference is that the old man's spices seem to be well made, Prince Dawud often comes here in person to buy spices.

"Sir, my cousin just asked me to talk to the palace." At this time, Dawud sat on the sofa in the house with the old man in this yard.

"My cousin obviously wants to trade with the Japanese. He is willing to give up the road to Afghanistan for the Japanese to pass in exchange for the Japanese to do some trade with him..."

Before Dawud finished speaking, the old man's face suddenly turned blue. But he immediately recovered.
Chapter completed!