1937.

In the era of the empire, this year the empire expelled Italian troops from East African colonies without any effort, ensuring the victory of Ethiopia, and expelling Soviet and German forces from Spain in a bloody battle, making the empire in the international world

The reputation has increased dramatically.

From the sudden rise of the Sino-Japanese War in 1911, to the World War I and the Sino-Soviet War, to the East Africa War in 1937, two things must be recognized worldwide. One is that China has become the world economy again.

The largest country, and the second is that China is also the largest military power in the world.

China has the world's most powerful army and air force, and also has a navy second only to Britain and the United States. By 1938, the Imperial Central Navy will officially become one of the world's strongest navys equivalent to Britain and the United States.

In terms of steel output alone, the output data of the Chinese Empire in 1936 was equivalent to the sum of Germany and the United States. The total installed power capacity of the empire was about 1.4 times that of the United States. With the further development of industry, the empire's urbanization rate was already

To reach 52, under the promotion of the land limit bill, more than 30 farmers have more than 50 acres of arable land, while less than 7 farmers have less than 10 acres of arable land.

The empire's agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and fishery are the largest in the world, and the empire's industrial scale is the world's first. The empire's university education and the total number of college students cultivated each year have surpassed virtues and ranked first in the world.

In the face of this huge empire of 19.5 million square kilometers, the world has become even smaller.

The Chinese Empire has become the well-deserved first empire in the world.

Britain and the United States may not accept it, and Japan may not recognize it, but facts are facts, and facts cannot be argued.

After the end of the East African War in 1937, the world political situation changed greatly. The conflict between Britain and the United States, the Soviet-Germany, and the German-French contradiction all gave way to the contradiction between China and Europe and the United States.

Neither Britain nor the United States can accept this situation, but it is extremely difficult to unite and restrict China. In addition, the camps of evil countries such as Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan and Italy must also find ways to restrict China while continuing to increase cooperation with China.

, use China as much as possible to restrain the Soviet camp.

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Liu Gengyun can basically write an autobiography after his experience in Africa.

Very interesting thing.

As a retired army lieutenant general and former dean of the Far East Military Academy, after the East African War was basically over, Liu Gengyun took advantage of the opportunity to build a military school for East Africa to check around. As a tourist, he also went to some other places, such as British colonization.

The dominant island of Socotra.

This island is located in the Gulf of Aden, directly opposite the sharp corner of Somalia, just at the junction of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. It has a very unique geographical location. In the territory of the British Empire, it is a very important naval base, but in these years

The status began to decline because there was a lack of suitable port conditions here. With the arrival of the era of battleships, the British navy was increasingly stationed in Northern Somalia.

Coupled with the rapid decline in the British Empire's strength, even in Northern Somalia, the British Navy had only retained a few cruisers.

The reason why Liu Gengyun wanted to visit Socotra is because a fellow villager from Hunan was selling medicinal materials, gums, dates, etc. The businessman was named Liu Pingqiu, and he belonged to the same clan as Liu Gengyun, and it was through Liu Gengyun's relationship with him.

The royal family supplies dragon blood, and this dye is used to make red red in palace clothing.

Liu Pingqiu is also very interesting. He ran a salt merchant business in his early years. Later, he heard that importing Nanyang timber made money, so he followed his fellow villagers to Nanyang to import timber. There was a lot of turnover in the middle, and he went to Socotra Island for no reason.

This is how Chinese businessmen are. If there are no Chinese people in this place, there will definitely be a unique business.

The island has a small population, with a total population of only more than 40,000. In just seven or eight years, Liu Pingqiu has already had a wealth of millions here and has run a port in the local area.

Liu Gengyun visited this island for a few days and was very interested soon because the 70 animals and plants on this island are rare species that are not outside, which is very wonderful, especially the desert roses and dragon blood trees, which are all around the world.

They are all unique and strange things.

What really makes Liu Gengyun feel strange is the location of this island.

As a senior military commander, he soon realized that the island was in a good position, and even if he exchanged the entire Ethiopia for this island, he could do so.

The Imperial Navy has two large bases in the Indian Ocean. One is located in the northern part of Madagascar. This area accounts for 1/10 of the entire island and belongs to the imperial overseas autonomous province. The port of Anziranana here is an absolute world.

The natural good harbor is surrounded by mountains and the waters are deep and calm. The main force of the Imperial Indian Ocean Fleet is stationed here; the second is the Andaman Islands, in order to compete for this island, from the initial port rights to the final territorial ownership, between the Empire and the United Kingdom

After thirty years of struggle, competition began since World War I. Until today, there are still agreement restrictions between China and Britain. The Imperial Navy cannot station its main ships here, and can only maintain a small number of cruisers and destroyers.

Both areas are places where there are not many people and indigenous people, especially the Andaman Islands. In the early days, there were only some British colonists and a small number of Indian residents. After more than 20 years of continuous development, the Andaman Islands have completely become

An overseas province of the empire, with 43,000 permanent Chinese residents, mainly fishing and port operations.

When he arrived at Socotra Island, Liu Gengyun realized that if he could station a naval force here, the empire would have a triangular naval port base in the Indian Ocean, guarding the entrance to Malacca and the exit of the Red Sea, and also guarding the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean.

aisle.

Although the UK once purchased Socotra from Yemen, it failed and now it is illegally occupied. The empire is supporting the merger of North and South Yemen, which is also a great threat to Britain's occupation of this place.

Of course, Liu Gengyun did not come here publicly, so he came here to play for two days as a private person. However, near the port, he was surprised to see that the only two cruisers in the British Navy were preparing to evacuate, and the naval camp was also being revoked.

Liu Gengyun was very keen to realize that Britain was unwilling to have too fierce conflicts with the empire here. If the empire insisted on Yemen in the north and south, it would be difficult for Britain to stop it, and the return of Socotra Island was also something that Britain could not resist.

Today's Chinese Empire is a very terrifying country, or even a very terrifying country, and only China itself cannot feel it.

Today, even the most conservative British politicians must admit that the Chinese Empire is indeed too hateful and terrifying. With the current strength of Britain, there should be no direct collision with China. With China's anti-colonial position, once China is in the

The British conflict is completely out of control, and the British Empire will likely lose the diamond in India.

What kind of empire is this?

This is a vast empire with 19.5 million square kilometers. It has the largest mineral resources in the world, the largest population in the world, the largest industry and agriculture, the most powerful army, the air force, and the most upcoming and

Britain and the United States are the world's strongest navy.

Do you think Britain doesn't want to maintain an absolute advantage in the navy?

It can't even suppress the United States, so where can there be any way to suppress China?

After the Great Depression, China's shipbuilding industry has already jumped to the world's first place. With its interests in the Asian League and South America, China not only has the world's first tonnage of warship manufacturing, but also has the world's first tonnage of warships exported to the outside world.

China's central government's total fiscal revenue is four times that of the UK, the navy's military expenditure is jumping from 75 in the UK to 135 in the UK, and the military budgets of the Army and Air Force are 3.5 times and 3 times that of the UK, respectively.

At the London Navy Conference, Chinese Navy Chief of Staff Chen Jiliang said that as long as China is willing, China's naval military budget can be doubled, and it has no impact on the national economy and central finance. The Chinese Navy does not have any technical obstacles.

There are no obstacles in shipbuilding capabilities. If the naval competition must be launched again around the world, China is not afraid of any country at all, but there is no need for this.

The last sentence "We don't have such demands at the moment" is a very critical sentence. This is more worrying than the crazy nature of Japan, and it can force Britain and the United States to make concessions more willing.

After a tour of Socotra Island, Liu Gengyun became increasingly aware that China is likely to seize this island as a naval and air force base. Compared with the navy, the air force needs this base more, based on the large patrol aircraft that China particularly prefers.

The surrounding 1,500 kilometers will be patrolled by the Air Force and Navy Air Force.

Returning to Ethiopia from Socotra Island, Liu Gengyun couldn't wait to generate electricity to the Central Military Department, proposing to negotiate with the UK, use Southern Somalia to exchange for the ** of South Yemen with the UK, and negotiate with Southern Yemen, no matter what method is used

To ensure the right to garrison the Socotra Island and immigrate to this island, it will force this place to gradually become a special autonomous state - if it cannot be bought.

The Central Military Department was naturally very interested in this and immediately negotiated with the UK, and the UK was also very interested.

What Britain is most interested in is not Somalia, but China's statement, which means that the conflict of interest between the two sides will not become fierce. As long as it does not become fierce, as long as China does not express its support for India**, this is what the UK wants to see most.

The situation to come.

After several negotiations, the two sides finally reached a good agreement. The two sides traded through the alliance of international affairs. China handed over the custody rights of South Somalia to the UK, the UK merged North and South Somalia, and the UK recognized the best freedom of the entire Yemen Kingdom.

Subsequently, the central cabinet government sent a special envoy to negotiate with the Yemeni royal family. The United Kingdom had tried to buy Socotra from Yemen, but it was rejected, but that was because Britain was simply extortion rather than real purchase, while China offered it.

It has a very high price and promises to absorb the Kingdom of Yemen to join the Asian League, and is protected and supported by the Asian League.

In the end of December 1937, China and Yemen continued to reach an agreement, and China invested 27 million yuan to buy the governance of Socotra Island, while the territorial rights still belong to the Kingdom of Yemen. The Chinese name of Socotra Island is designated as Rose Island.

,In the Kingdom of Yemen, the island's status is a special autonomous state.

Therefore, Liu Gengyun's trip to Africa is enough to write an interesting autobiography.

In the vast world of the Indian Ocean, there are many Chinese businessmen who are richer than Liu Pingqiu. The most famous of them is Huang Wanqiao, a Fuzhou businessman who claims to have half a Madagascar. This person was originally an engineer at the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Factory.

We designed a patented ship that sets seafood processing machinery on fishing boats, called the marine fishing processing boat.

However, this kind of patented ship has not been well sold, so Huang Wanqiao borrowed money from his relatives to build a ship, recruiting fishermen to go fishing, and made a lot of profits over the past ten years. France resold Northern Madagascar to China.

After the ownership, Huang Rongxing, who was a little powerful, switched to the Indian Ocean with the support of the Fujian merchant gang, and borrowed more than 6 million yuan to purchase more than 20 processing ships, becoming the fishing king in the Indian Ocean.

Once you have a foundation and stand out, it will be much easier to make money and profits. It has also entered the vision of the Central Cabinet Ministry of Commerce and the World Chinese Business Association. It is precisely with the strong support of the central government for Chinese businessmen in the Indian Ocean and Africa,

Wandafone Marine Fisheries Company has become a bridgehead for the Empire's deep-sea interests. It has always been supported by Far East Bank and Bank of China to fund its expansion of deep-sea fishing in the Indian Ocean and expand its business scope to the South Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, supplying 300 dried seafood every year.

Ten thousand tons, producing fish meal, seafood powder and fish glue nearly one million tons.

It only took Huang Wanqiao 16 years to buy the first processing ship to become the king of deep-sea fishing in China today. The annual output of his Wanda Fong Sea Fishing Company is almost equivalent to that of Norway and Japan. The combined production of two major marine fishing powers in Japan

sum.

Drink water and never forget the well digger.

Huang Wanqiao, which was developed and successful with the support of the empire, has largely played the role of the Chinese business leader in the Indian Ocean. The empire's interests are in East Africa, and some soft developments in South Africa and India are also dominated by Chinese businessmen such as Huang Wanqiao and Liu Pingqiu, and Huang Wanqiao is in North

Madagascar has invested more than four million yuan to build Huacheng, build fishing ports, recruit fellow villagers, and promote schools and purchase land for the children of Chinese who have moved to North Malaysia.

Wandafone is like a ** Kingdom in the Overseas Autonomous Province of North Malaysia. There are tens of thousands of local employees, and they are mostly fishing processing. African sandalwood is imported from South Africa and East Africa, and after processing, it is sold back to China.

In order to transfer ports, import machinery, electronics, electrical, chemical and other products from China, and then sell them to Africa to obtain price difference. There are also some basic industries in Hong Kong that produce graphite products, as well as ship manufacturing and maintenance.

Huang Wanqiao is of course a very important Chinese businessman, just like a pearl in the empire's territory.

While the central government was still negotiating the final war reparations with the Italian envoy, Song Biao was preparing to meet Huang Wanqiao in the name of the royal family, thanking Wanda Fenghai Fishing Company for providing seafood to the royal family for the past three years.

Royal royal supplies are the most competitive area in Chinese business. Basically, all suppliers lose money and make a lot of money, but as long as they obtain this qualification, they are allowed to promote in the name of Royal royal supplies, and capitalists from all industries are naturally flocking to them.

After the Far East Consortium evacuated the fishery industry, the Royal Family's Royal Supply and the Central Government's exclusive fishery company have been competing fiercely between Nanyang Fishery Corporation, Taiwan Fishery Corporation, and Wanda Fenghai Fishery Corporation. Finally, out of a special support mentality, the Royal Family

Wandafong Sea Fishing Company was chosen, while the central government chose Nanyang Fishing Company. Far East Fishing Corporation, a subsidiary of Far East Consortium, sold it to Wandafong Company in a basic share exchange agreement, making Wandafong the world's largest marine fishing company.

, the Far East Consortium holds about 1/3 of its shares in Wandafone.
To be continued...