Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 1038 Core Idea

   "Anything else going on in North America?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, at the request of the Imperial Army Department, a military skills competition will be held in the entire army. Recently, the North American garrison has strengthened various actual combat and military skills drills, which has caused great unease in the United States and Japan, and the performance is uncertain. After the war in North America has come to an end, the Empire's intentions are being inquired through various channels."

   "Hehe... Let the foreign affairs department do a good job of clarifying doubts, don't worry about the imperial army, let go and continue fighting."

   "Wei Chen understands and sends a clear signal as soon as possible."

"Well, Kaizhi, you have to remember that the two countries, the US and Japan, are not fuel-efficient lamps, especially the Americans have a vast territory and a solid industrial base. There is no country that poses the most serious threat to the hegemony of the empire." Speaking of which, Li Fushou stared at Gu Kaizhi's face and instructed with a serious expression;

   "In the geopolitical competition between countries, any sympathy or intolerance is a crime against the nation and the country, and it is a serious crime that cannot be forgiven.

   The outbreak of the Second U.S.-Japan War interrupted the U.S. strategic attempt to rapidly expand its economy by taking advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of the World War and get rid of the many shackles imposed by the Wool War, which is of great significance.

  Many people in European and American political and economic circles may be troubled by the appearance of the current world war or the second US-Japan war.

  With time, you will be able to figure out the taste.

   But so what?

  Once a precious historic opportunity is missed, it will not come again and again. The United States has lost the best opportunity to rise and wasted too many opportunities given by history.

   Judging from the comparison of the bilateral economic power between the Ocean Empire and the United States when the Wool War broke out, the difference was very obvious.

At that time, the population of the United States was as high as 88.9 million, and the population of the empire was more than 64 million. The economic scale of the empire was 74.1% of that of the United States. In the field, the U.S. has the overall strength.

   After the Empire won the Wool Wars, the situation changed dramatically.

  The population of the Empire has grown to more than 76 million people, and the population of the dismembered United States has plummeted to more than 59.7 million, and the population of the Empire has overtaken.

In the economic field, the overall size of the empire surpassed that of the United States for the first time, and then surpassed Germany to become the world's largest.

  After the six years of peace, stability and development after the war, the population of the empire has grown to more than 97 million people, and there is a chance to break through the 100 million population mark at the end of this year and achieve a historic leap.

In North America, the first and second U.S.-Japan wars broke out in a row. The development of the national economy and population growth were greatly affected, and the rare historical opportunity was missed. Years of wars have discouraged foreign immigrants. So far, the total social population is still 6,000. The scale of more than six million people wandered.

   If you count the losses of this ongoing war, the total population of the American society is already less than 66 million.

The United States has just carried out its third general mobilization for the war, and the overall social and economic development that has just recovered has once again shifted to wartime. The repeated wars have already interrupted the normal pace of social development in the United States, causing serious harm now. I can't see it yet, it still takes time to observe.

   But to be sure, the impact will never be optimistic.

You are working in the center of the empire, and you will be exposed to some extremely secret shady in the future, including but not limited to Britain and the empire supporting the separatist forces in the south of the United States, extremists and white supremacists, and maybe some other insider stories, which may violate the The governance philosophy you have always upheld.

But from an international geopolitical point of view, a weak and non-dominant U.S. country will have a more moderate and less aggressive foreign policy, which is in the interests of Britain, France and the empire, and in line with the needs of the current international order. This is enough. .

Understand? "

   These remarks are serious and sincere, focusing on establishing the central idea of ​​national interests. The position of the secretary of the royal family is equivalent to the internal minister. The family must maintain a high degree of consistency with the saint in this regard, otherwise there will definitely be major problems.

Gu Kaizhi carefully digested the confession with a serious expression. After a while, he clasped his fists and saluted, "Reporting to the sage, Kaizhi is determined to follow in your footsteps throughout his life, to be loyal to the royal family and the nation. The people of Fanguo are not of our race, their hearts must be different, Kaizhi will never be a woman's kindness when he should start, and it will be laughable and generous. Please enlighten the Holy Spirit."

"Very good, Kaizhi, you have been working by my side for a long time, and I still understand your temperament. You are very considerate in everything and have a great view of the overall situation. But it is also because of this that you lose your decisiveness, so your strength is precisely you. We need to reflect on our shortcomings.”

   "The Holy One mentioned the point, Kaizhi is very grateful, but he is just conscientious and conscientious."

   "Well..." Li Fushou responded.

   Just a few points. As the head of the imperial secretariat, Gu Kaizhi has a lot of important things to decide in the future. If he can hand in a satisfactory answer sheet, he will hopefully be in charge of the court in the future.

   If not, it is at most the qualifications of a cabinet official or finance minister.

   After explaining the core essence of state-to-state relations, Gu Kaizhi will follow this concept in specific affairs in the future, and it will be up to Gu Kaizhi to implement it one by one.

  If you have to ask for instructions in everything, isn’t Li Fushou too busy?

   He has now started to decentralize power intentionally or unintentionally, cultivate greater independence of the cabinet, parliament and the royal secretariat, get rid of the bad habit that they want to ask for instructions, and improve their autonomy.

   He outlined the outline and explained it to Jianzhi, but did not ask any specific matters. Seeing that Gu Kaizhi was still standing by and wanted to report, he frowned again and asked, "What else?"

"Reporting to the sage, the top secret military intelligence report from the Political Intelligence Bureau; it seems that the German Imperial High Seas Fleet has a major operation recently. Due to the high level of secrecy, no specific military action plan has yet been detected. But what is certain is that this military plan It definitely exists, the purpose is to break the blockade of the British Royal Navy on the European continent, and it must be implemented within 2-3 months."

   "Understood, let's explore again."

   "comply with the purpose"

  Gu Kaizhi bowed to take orders, and then left in a hurry.

   He also needs to hand over affairs with the former head of the secretariat, Cai Tinggan. The affairs involving the secretariat are innumerable, and there is no way to complete the handover in ten days and a half months. In addition to the current affairs, he is really busy and overwhelmed.

  Li Fushou didn't need to read the secret report of the Political Intelligence Bureau to know what the Germans were planning?

   Could it be that the Battle of Jutland will go ahead as scheduled?

The rise of the Ocean Empire out of thin air has had a significant impact on the development of the navy in the current era. The advanced radio rangefinder was first used in naval battles, and has proved its irreplaceable value in the previous naval battles that defeated the U.S. Navy.

  It has been more than ten years since the invention of distance radio ranging, and related advanced technologies have flowed into Britain, France, Germany and other countries, and have been equipped with first-line naval ships.

   Fortunately, the first generation technology was supplied to Britain, France and other countries, and the Germans also obtained the first generation of radio ranging technology, which could not shake the advanced position of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire in this field.

The radio range finder equipment used by the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire has developed into the second-generation ranging radar, and is linked with the main gun drive motor equipment of the ship. The real-time ranging is more accurate, the response speed is faster, and the artillery fire is more powerful. .

  -related cutting-edge technologies, and technical blockades are still imposed on Japan, the United States and other countries.

How could this cutting-edge technology flow into Germany? It can only be blamed on the defection of German technicians. The Germans are really jealous of this cutting-edge technology. They have been planning to steal related technology for a long time, but they finally succeeded. .

   There is no other shady inside, no one knows.

   (end of this chapter)