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Chapter 670 Rising on the corpse of a great country (second update, please subscribe)
When the train to Vienna started, a coded telegram was sent from the Paris train station to New York via the Atlantic submarine cable. A few hours later, the brief coded telegram was forwarded to the Yingtian Telegraph Office via the telegraph line on the American continent.

Soon, the telegram was sent to the palace and sent to Emperor Zhu's case.

"The four countries act at the same time!"

Looking at the telegram in his hand, Emperor Zhu showed a smile that was not noticed by outsiders.

Everything is under control.

"Your Majesty, it seems that they want to drag us into the water too!"

As the prime minister, Zuo Zongtang reminded.

"Drag into the water?"

Emperor Zhu shook his head and smiled.

"Since you want to fight the fire, you can't guarantee that you can stay out of it. Besides, it's too unfair for the three of them to eat such a piece of fat in Turkey. Their faces are full of oil, and we just stare at it?"

This is not a joke. The reason why the fire is not just to establish an "anti-British alliance", but more importantly, to eat a piece of meat on Turkey.

Otherwise, wouldn't the daimyo be wasting his time in vain?We never do business at a loss, how can we be so busy!
"Your Majesty means that we will send troops directly when the time comes..."

Zuo Zhongtang hesitated a little, and directly sent troops to join the battle. This is not a good thing, and it seems that there is not much return for the eyeballs.

Besides, in the eyes of many people, Daming's land is vast enough.From North America to South America.From Weekly to Africa to the Pacific.Such a vast land is almost a burden for Daming!

Why would it become Daming's burden?
In the final analysis, it is due to the small population and underpopulation that Daming Kong has such a vast land and cannot be effectively developed.

Because of this, in the eyes of many people, the most important thing for Daming now is to digest and absorb the occupied lands and immigrate from the country as much as possible to enrich the population of Daming.rather than expansion.

The expansion of any empire has its end, at least in every stage. Now the expansion of Ming Dynasty has reached its limit.

Under this premise, Zuo Zhongtang would of course seem a little hesitant. After all, Turkey...is too far away.

"Soldiers, they must be dispatched!"

Emperor Zhu laughed.

"Only when we send troops, they will feel at ease."

The reason why Emperor Zhu didn't directly participate in the partition of Turkey at the beginning was not because he didn't want to, but because he knew that France, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire would never let Daming stay out of it no matter what.

Even for the outside world, what Ming wants is to use the opportunity of declaring war on Turkey to achieve expansion in the Americas, but in reality?
How could Emperor Zhu have no idea about Turkey!

middle East!

That's the oil depot of the world!
Even if Daming owns oil fields in the southern Patagonia plateau, so what?Its output is far from comparable to that of the Middle East.

That big oil depot in the Middle East, but whoever travels through, who can't be jealous!
With the oil fields in the Middle East, Daming is equivalent to holding the world's oil pipelines!The most important thing is your own energy security!

Not to fight?
is it possible?
If you don't take advantage of the partition of Turkey to participate in that feast, you will regret it forever!
Only by participating in this carve-up feast, can you have the opportunity to make that big oil field your own.In the future, as long as you hold on to that oil pipe, the whole world must consider Daming's voice.

Of course, Daming would never lie flat on the oil field.But after owning that oil field, at least the security of Daming's own energy supply can be guaranteed.After all, oil was the country's lifeline for the next century.

"However, we will certainly not invest as much power in Turkey as they did. We are only participating in a symbolic manner. I have given Zhu Guozhong clear instructions. All we want is the desert in the coastal area of ​​the Persian Gulf. There are hardly many Turkish Army!"

Yes...it's just a desert!

The Turks' rule there is almost... in name only, and even the desert area has not many people, but there are the world's largest oil fields under the desert!

This is Emperor Zhu's real goal. Of course, all this cannot be told to outsiders at the moment. At an appropriate time in the future, the oil field will definitely be developed.

This is the greatest advantage of the traversers, if they don't take advantage of these advantages, wouldn't it be a waste of time?
"desert?"

Zuo Zongtang frowned. It took so much effort to get a desert, which seems to be a bit of a loss!
He thought for a while and said.

"Your Majesty, is this a plan for Brazil?"

The outside world doesn't know about His Majesty's plan, so how could Zuo Zongtang, as the prime minister, not know about His Majesty's plan—while the "New Crusade Plan" is being implemented, Daming will take the opportunity to provoke a war with Brazil in South America, and then Occupy Brazil.

Occupying Brazil is related to Ming's future national defense and security, and it is also to expand Ming's living space.

There is an end to Ming's expansion, but Brazil, a place that must be taken down, is a place where others sleep peacefully.

Brazil, you can't stay.

"Brazil?"

With a slight smile, Emperor Zhu said proudly.

"So, we only need the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf. The weak defense of the Turks there can't hold back our strength much. It is probably enough to invest three to five divisions, and for us, the ocean-going force projection, It is also a test, after all, our final decisive battle in the future will definitely be held in North America and the Americans, the ocean-going projection of troops, this is a problem that must be solved in the next few years!"

Dividing troops is of course a taboo for military strategists, but it also depends on who the opponent is. To deal with an opponent like Brazil, you don't need to invest too many troops at all, but dealing with the United States is different.After all, the North American Territory is too far away from the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and the local population is also very limited, and it has not yet exceeded one million.

Such an ocean-going decisive battle... is the real taboo for military strategists!
But for Daming, this is an unavoidable thing. After all, North America is also the territory of Ming, and it cannot be allowed to be occupied by the Americans.

"So, in the next few years, we will try our best to develop our shipping capacity and increase the tonnage of merchant ships. In addition to giving subsidies to shipping companies, we will also develop some merchant ships suitable for ocean transportation and manufacture several standard merchant ships."

While speaking, another world-famous Liberty Wheel naturally appeared in Emperor Zhu's mind.

The Liberty Ship is a large number of freighters manufactured in the United States during World War II. Although the Liberty Ship has a very simple shape, fast construction, and low price, it has a load capacity of nearly [-] tons.Of course, the most amazing thing is that the construction speed of Liberty Wheel is very fast. They are all built according to the style of assembly line, and some pre-fabricated parts are transported to the dock for assembly.

In the early days, each Liberty Ship took about 230 days to build, and then the construction speed continued to increase. In the end, it only took an average of 42 days to launch.The fastest record took only 4 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes from laying the keel to launching.

As far as this era is concerned, Liberty Wheel is the one that best meets Da Ming's needs.

After Emperor Zhu secretly made this decision, he discussed some other issues with Zuo Zongtang.

However, their topic has never been separated from the upcoming secret negotiations in Vienna. In order to facilitate this alliance, Ming not only spent two years, but also paid other costs, such as the transfer of Type 71 rifles to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Production rights, transfer of steelmaking technology to them, in a word, in order to reach a treaty, Daming also paid something.Of course, they also paid for these transfers. For Daming, technology transfer is also a big business, after all, it also involves contracts on equipment and other aspects.

But what?
These are also some of the agreements reached by the parties during the negotiations.

"Alliance of Four Emperors!"

After Zuo Zongtang left, Emperor Zhu said with a rather smug smile.

"As long as the Alliance of Four Emperors reaches an agreement, from then on, the general situation of the world will be fully controlled by Daming!"

What is the general trend!

This is the general trend, using a Turkey to leverage the general trend of the world.Then let the general trend of the world serve the rise of Ming Dynasty. This is exactly what Emperor Zhu planned. How could he be unhappy?

"The rise of a country must step on the corpses of other countries, and the rise of a powerful country must step on the corpses of several powerful countries. The dismemberment of Turkey is just the beginning..."

(End of this chapter)