Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1129

[Chapter 1118 Goal]

“Ottoman and Persia have a thousand-year grudge and can be said to be eternal enemies, and both countries have the ambition to dominate Central Asia.”

“Indeed, their conflicts were only small-scale in the past, but this time The problem seems to be serious. It is said that the Ottomans have received a lot of advanced firearms from Europe and are training a large army, and the scale of the conflict is also expanding,”

Pang Yukun explained.

“Then what do you think we should do? Let the empire send troops to support?” Xiao Ming wanted to test Pang Yukun deliberately.

Now that the empire’s mechanism is very mature, it needs everyone to use their talents, instead of having to plan everything by themselves.

After pondering for a while, Pang Yukun said: “This conflict between the Ottomans and Persia obviously has a shadow of the West. Although they were defeated in Asia and chose to sign an armistice agreement, they will not give up any opportunity to hinder the growth of the empire.”

Xiao Ming Nodding slightly, Pang Yukun’s analysis was very accurate. International relations often involve cooperation and confrontation with each other. It will not be a pure friend-enemy relationship. The eternal bond is nothing more than interests.

For example, he only agreed to the armistice agreement because the cost of continuing to wage war was much higher than signing the agreement.

Moreover, what he wants has been obtained through agreement, so why bother to waste people and money to obtain it through war.

“However, I don’t think it’s appropriate to send troops to help the Persian veteran.” Pang Yukun continued: “As the saying goes, the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman’s profit. The Ottoman threat to Persia is the fundamental reason why we can easily obtain oil from Persia. Once we help Persia, it will suffer a heavy setback. Ottoman, then Persia will become the overlord of Central Asia. By then, I’m afraid they will not allow us to exploit the oil fields for free. “

Xiao Ming laughed. In the past, Pang Yukun was only good at internal affairs, but these words were enough to show that he was. During this period, a lot of effort was put into international politics.

“Pang Shoufu is indeed Pang Shoufu. There are some issues that I can think of. European countries thought that using the Ottomans could weaken Persia and affect our oil exploration, but they never thought that it would only make Persia more dependent on us.” Xiao Ming said lightly. .

“So the Ottoman country still needs to exist, but we must also provide technical and financial support to Persia to maintain the regional balance in Central Asia.” Pang Yukun stroked his beard.

“That’s it. After you go back, organize material support for Persia. Our oil fields have just produced oil. I don’t want anything to happen to any of the oil fields.” Xiao Ming warned.

Pang Yukun said yes, turned and left.

After Pang Yukun left, Xiao Ming came to the world map and carefully looked at the empire’s territory.

As time goes by, his sense of crisis becomes more and more serious. Now Xiao Yi is sixteen years old, and he is entering the middle age stage of his life. How much time does he have left to protect the empire he has built? ?

He sighed slightly as he scanned North America, Tsarist Russia, Europe, Africa, South America and other regions one by one.

He used to be very confident that he could unify the world in his lifetime, but now he increasingly realizes that he may not be able to achieve this goal.

The world is too complex, with various cultures, religions, and races. Some conflicts between them are irreconcilable. Even in the contemporary world, the origin of conflicts is these three.

So after thinking for a long time, he decided that during his reign, he would try his best to accumulate wealth for the empire just like the contemporary West plundered the whole world, and left a life-saving weapon for the empire.

In this way, even if the empire declines, no country will dare to invade openly. At the same time, even if he cannot destroy the Western powers, he will try his best to weaken them.

The conditions he agreed to to Henry were for this purpose. A chaotic Europe would bring opportunities for the empire to extract European wealth.

Looking from Western Europe to Tsarist Russia and North America, Xiao Ming narrowed his eyes. Compared with countries such as Britain and France, he was actually most taboo about Tsarist Russia and the United States.

Coming from contemporary times, he naturally knew that once these two countries were given a chance, they would grow into terrifying monsters.

At the same time, he believes that Europe will definitely find ways to deal with these two issues, and he has seen the British conspiracy in disrupting Central Asia.

However, the British Queen Victoria is still a bit naive when it comes to playing tricks with him. Not to mention that she comes from modern times and is used to all kinds of international struggles. The information in the technology crystal is enough to find many similar cases.

With his eyes slowly firming up, Xiao Ming walked out of the imperial study with his hands behind his back. He had been confused for a period of time after the victory in the Nanyang War.

But now he knows what he wants to do next.

Strategically, he wants to continue to squeeze the living space of European countries. Financially, he wants to officially internationalize the empire’s golden dragon and become a hard currency circulating around the world like the contemporary US dollar.

In industry, he wants to gradually establish a complete industrial system, obtain cheap resources from all over the world, and produce industrial products.

Commercially, he wanted to realize the economic colonization of Europe, completely control the European market, and let Europe have a taste of exchanging millions of pieces of clothing for a car.

However, there is still a long way to go to realize these ideas, because squeezing Europe’s living space means that there may be constant conflicts with European countries.

For the Golden Dragon to become the world’s currency, it must have a huge gold reserve, or control the currency used for oil settlement like the contemporary United States.

As for industry and commerce, Europe will not let it dominate its market so easily. In the future, it may have to exchange some technology for the market.

Just as he was thinking about it, the phone in the imperial study room rang.

Turning back to answer the phone, Lin Wentao’s voice came, “Your Majesty, the first tank of the tank factory has officially rolled off the production line. I have been ordered to report this to the Emperor.”

“Well, I will go over now.” Xiao Ming showed a faint smile.

Generally speaking, if a country can produce cars, it will basically have no problem producing tanks. So when the first car using an internal combustion engine was produced, it asked to establish a military factory to produce tanks.

Facts have proved that he was right. After more than a year of preparation, the first tank successfully rolled off the assembly line.

After greeting Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming notified his special car to pick him up and take him to the tank factory.

Since he got a car, his travel safety has improved a lot, and the fast speed of the car allows him to go anywhere easily.

As a result, he traveled much more frequently during this period, which was a good thing for him, but for some officials, it was like a funeral.

Because he would sometimes deal with a large number of officials when he suddenly came to inspect government affairs, which made all the officials frightened. Officials around Qingzhou did not dare to be careless for fear of being attacked by the emperor.

(End of chapter)