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Chapter 1281 Ying lost its deer, and the world pursued it (first update. Please subscribe)

"boom!"

After a gunshot, accompanied by the barking of the hounds, a group of hounds ran towards the distance like lightning, and soon brought back a hare.

After withdrawing the cartridge from the shotgun, Emperor Zhu put the shotgun on his arm and continued to walk forward, talking while walking.

"Negotiations are not realistic at all. The Boers may be conceited or proud, but they have overlooked one point... The British Empire is also conceited and proud, and even the dignity of the empire will not tolerate them sitting at the negotiating table after failure superior!"

Ordinary people can't understand this kind of dignity at all, but only imperialists can deeply understand imperialists. On this point, Emperor Zhu can understand the British. Of course their positions are different, but they But there are also some common positions and views.

And this understanding is built on this basis.

"Whether the Boers' initiative to attack or their temporary advantage on the battlefield will only make Britain intensify and put more troops on the battlefield, and will even attack with overwhelming troops if it fails to achieve its goal. After all, the Empire ...the empire cannot be challenged!"

"This seems to be somewhat similar to Emperor Sui Yang's conquest of Goguryeo."

As an associate minister, Fang Zhanbo participated in the compilation of imperial history textbooks. Due to changes in historical views, he re-edited the history including Emperor Sui Yang's conquest of Goguryeo. Therefore, in the history books of Ming Dynasty, he did not accuse " Sui Yangdi's great success", but analyzed the inevitability of conquering Goguryeo from the perspective of Goguryeo's threat to the Sui Dynasty's Northeast Asian hegemony and national security.

"The hegemony of the empire cannot be challenged. A successful challenger will only attract thousands of imitators. This is the burden of the empire. In order to avoid being bitten by wolves, the safest choice for the empire is to put the first one at any cost. A challenger bites and shatters to warn other ambitious challengers that in this world of the jungle, this is the only way to survive!"

When he said these words, Emperor Zhu sighed inexplicably in his heart, why did he sigh?To put it bluntly, it is because one day, the empire will succeed Britain to establish its own world hegemony. At that time, the burden of the empire will also appear on the empire, and at that time, the role will change.

This is the inevitability of the development of history. Today, the empire can try its best to shed the blood of Britain. In the future, there will be no other opponents who will use the same method to make a fuss about the Ming Empire, and use the empire's battleground to amplify the blood of the Ming Empire. ah!
"Your Majesty, the British and the Boers are now continuing to pursue their respective South African policies through economic and diplomatic means, but they have failed. In order to remove obstacles and achieve their goals, both sides seem determined to resort to war. The British and the Boers have already It is swords drawn and knives crossed. Now that Milner takes office, the situation will become more tense. Although it is reported that Milner and Kruger will hold a negotiation on the issue of foreigners in Bloemfontein in June. However, the issue of foreigners, Tariff issues, railway issues, these are fundamentally unresolved issues, I think that the war between the two countries has been going on for almost a month or two!"

"It should be summer!"

Emperor Zhu thought for a while, and then said.

"A chance! For Kruger and other Boers, taking the initiative to use military victories to force Britain to make concessions at the negotiating table is their only chance. Therefore, the Boers will definitely go to war. The current negotiations, It’s just that Kruger and the snake tried their best to delay the time. Because the Boer militia can’t fight without horses, and horses can’t fight without grass. It’s still winter in South Africa, and there is nothing on the grassland except stones, sand and dry bushes None, and even if there were some hay reserves, they're almost gone. So they're waiting until September, until the first spring rains, until the South African moors are green..."

In war, weather has always been a consideration, at least in this day and age.In fact, even after 100 years, history will also tell people that the weather that determines the final outcome of the war is also one of the most important reasons.

After a short pause, Emperor Zhu spoke again.

"One year, from the Johnson incident last year to this summer, the Boers have been preparing for a full year. They have almost completed the initial preparations. The rest depends on what reason they choose to start the war."

Going to war... What reason do you need?

For Emperor Zhu, all of this is not important at all, the only important thing is that the empire will stick to its position - fight to the last Boer!

When this idea came up in his mind, Emperor Zhu saw a sika deer appearing in front of him. He immediately loaded two deer bullets, and then aimed at the sika deer. The sun was shining on the deer. Looking at the deer, his lips The horn flicked slightly, and the trigger was pulled.

The moment the gunshot fell, the deer fell, and Fang Zhanbo immediately complimented him.

"Your Majesty, good marksmanship."

When the hounds barked and ran towards the prey, a thought suddenly popped up in Emperor Zhu's mind - Ying lost his deer, and the whole world chased it.

……

Almost every day is a countdown. For the high-level empire, whether they are civil servants or generals, they are there every day to prepare for the war, pay attention to when the war in southern Africa will break out, and give it a proper time. fire.

Of course, for the vast majority of ordinary people, they are still enjoying peace and a prosperous life under the rule of the empire. War... The war seems to be far away from them. As for the tension in Africa, there is no such thing as any People will care about it.

However, even so, there are still very few people in some factories in the empire who are aware of the threat of war.

"Could it be that war is about to break out?"

Once again, Cheng Tianyu was looking at the factory's first quarter production report.

As an engineer, he can see from the report that the factory's output has been continuously increasing since the fourth quarter of last year, and the production scale has more than doubled by now.

"It's overproduction right now."

"what?"

The colleague's surprise made Cheng Tianyu answer.

"I'm talking about the output of our factory. Our designed output is 30 rounds of rifle ammunition per day. In the first and second quarters of last year, we only maintained normal output. Look at the present, not only has it exceeded the designed output, it even exceeded the first quarter of last year. The night shift began to increase in the fourth quarter, and the current daily output is... 60 rounds."

"Didn't I just say, it's the normal update of the ammunition depot. Anyway, I think this is a good thing for us. The production of the factory has increased, and everyone's income has also increased a lot. This is a good thing,"

"Good thing... I hope."

Cheng Tianyu said while drinking coffee,

Coffee smells good and tastes bitter, and people who are used to drinking it don't care about this, but what he cares about right now is not this at all. As an engineer, he may not have thought about this issue further, but One thing that was certain was that he was vaguely aware of the danger.

Danger, what kind of danger would it be?

Cheng Tianyu is not clear, perhaps, this is a kind of intuition...

(End of this chapter)