Chapter 396 Chaos

The Russian fleet actually occupied Dili. Was the commander of the Far East Fleet stupid after being beaten by the Xinhua Army once? Even if you want to advance to the base, don't choose Dili? It's almost under the eyes of Borneo and Luzon!

When the news spread rapidly with the telephone line and occupied the main newspapers of various countries, not to mention Xinhua, even Europe and the United States were dumbfounded.

The most urgent thing is the Netherlands. After being bitten by Li Mo, the sea coachman finally realized what it was like to have a night of rain. The occupation of Dili means that the last Sumatra, Java and Guinea in the East Indies have lost contact. Britain, France, Germany and other countries have long been staring at it, especially the lack of Colonial Germany, even a remote place, is overjoyed. How could it give up such a good opportunity?

More importantly, when Witkhft announced that Dili would be temporarily under the trusteeship of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Xinhua immediately sent a note to the Dutch ambassador, asking the Netherlands to explain the provision of the island to Russia, and said that if there is no reasonable answer, it will reserve the right to take further action!

What is further power?

Everyone knows Li Mo's greed for Nanyang. Judging from the trajectory of the past few years, he is a madman, a more barbaric madman than the one in St. Petersburg.

For several years, his army has been waiting for him. Every day in the barracks everywhere, he has never stopped practicing. His fleet ran all over the Pacific Ocean like crazy. According to the report of the German naval intern in Xinhua, the average life expectancy of all kinds of warships in their hands will be reduced by 20%.

The railway line in his territory is being extended crazily, even more popular than the most fanatical era in the United States. The chimneys are increasing every day, and the machines in the factory have not stopped for a day. That country, which is deeply affected by opium and exploitation, finally burst into all its enthusiasm after several years of suffering.

Yes, their national strength is still very weak. Their manufacturing industry is just beginning. Only a few shipyards that have gathered most of the resources are not bad. Their domestic goods are not rich. They also need to purchase a large number of foreign machinery every year to meet the demand, but when a country with a population of 400 million gradually Wake up, what else can stop them!

Perhaps Russia is the only country that can stop the rise of Xinhua, because the long border that anyone will have a headache will contain too much energy of Xinhua. Therefore, after the initial chaos, almost all countries in Europe and the United States feel that Dili is a suggestion worth considering to give to Russia.

Nicholas II arrogantly said that if Europe abandoned Russia, he would immediately order the fleet to occupy Sumatra, because as a great Slavic and one of the leaders of the white world, he would not see Sumatra occupied by Xinhua!

On January 1, 1903, France convened a meeting of European countries to discuss the Dili issue. Finally, the Netherlands promised to sell East Timor to Russia after obtaining guarantees the security of other parts of its East Indian colonies.

A better ending, but the problem is that after getting a bargain, Nicholas II actually said that Russia was fighting for the honor of Europe, so Dili should be given to Russia, and even Dutch Guinea should be given to Russia as a reward.

This remark immediately caused an uproar in Europe, and the leaders of various countries were even more abusive, but after all, Russia and everyone were united on the issue of Xinhua. In the end, France paid 100,000 francs for Russia in the form of a loan.

When the news reached the United States, the New York Times became famous and mocked Europe unabashedly, believing that it was the usual arrogance of old Europe to put aside Xinhua's decision to belong to belong to Asia. They always like to isolate others and even ignore the opinions of the United States, so they think that the United States should take the initiative to participate in the world. The boundary order is under construction, instead of continuing to sit and watch like this time.

It seems to be responding to the comments of the New York Times. On January 10, Tang Shaoyi held a press conference in Shanghai, saying that Xinhua would not abide by the agreement, would not recognize Dili as a Russian trusteeship, and believed that Europe's decision was an isolation and ridicule to Xinhua!

is a serious hostility!

What's more unimaginable is that in addition to the Dili problem, Tang Shaoyi also released a film video for the first time, showing a clip of flying by mechanical force. Although it was silent, it stunned everyone.

Later, in order to prove the true surname of the picture to everyone, Xinhua also exhibited this double-winged wooden aircraft in the suburbs of Shanghai for the first time, and did a flight show for a few minutes. Although the height is only more than 30 meters, and the swaying is worrying that it will fall at any time, it does prove to the world that human beings use it. The dream of mechanical force flying into the sky can be realized!

Almost in an instant, the whole world was stunned by the news that human beings had wings! They were all reciting the previously unknown Adel designer and his design team who didn't know where he was. The previous Dili problem was submerged in countless amazing voices of envy and suspicion.

No one knows that when a photo arrived in Europe and the United States across the sea and was published in newspaper headlines all over Europe and the United States, in a corner, the Wright brothers were in a daze at the wooden shelf they had developed in the bicycle shed, because the plane above was almost the same as the one in front of them!

When the whole world was stirred up by the birth of planes, no one noticed that on January 30, the first ten days of the Lunar New Year, the Prime Minister of Xinhua published the famous Letter to the People of the Whole Nation in the Xinhua Newspaper, announcing that Xinhua, including Lake Berga, Vladivostok, Sakhalin and Kamchatka Peninsula. All Eastern Siberia has sovereignty, and based on a large number of detailed historical records, it proves the fact that it has been the land of China since the Tang Dynasty.

At the last moment of this declaration, the eloquence of the Prime Minister, who was not much worse than Li Mo, strongly protested against Russia's occupation and enslavement of New China in a very inflammatory tone, demanding that Russia must withdraw from Eastern Siberia by July 30, otherwise it will bear all the consequences.

As soon as this declaration was issued, the whole world stopped breathing and knew that Li Mo had decided to fight this war with Russia! European and American countries immediately put down their planes and began to strongly condemn Xinhua's expansionism.

In this accusation, Li Enfu quietly issued a national mobilization order and quietly began to recruit reserve soldiers with a total of ten divisions.

Reserve is an important embodiment of national force. Li Mo has paid great attention to this since the northeast. After unification, he has increased the construction of reserve forces. These young people who usually hold axes and iron picks and hoes must receive a certain amount of military training every year. Because of participation With training, you can get subsidies to generate income for your family, so many young people have joined it.

So when the conscription order was issued, 200,000 troops were formed in just one month, and the huge human resources advantage was finally reflected, but after all, they were not regular troops, and they could not even reach the strength of the National Guard, so they had to undergo half a year of closed strict training again.

However, in fact, everyone knows that this sudden large-scale requisition of the reserve is more worried about the lack of replenishment of the current troops. They are just reserves, and they may ensure the stability of the recovered land, but if they really want to be sent to the front line, it means that the war has been half lost!

But unexpectedly, when this "Book to the People of the Nation" was reprinted by all newspapers, the first to respond was the students. The students in the hot-blooded era took to the streets one after another to express their support for the Prime Minister's Office and His Majesty the Emperor's recovery of East Siberia, and they also signed up to join the army.

One hot storm after another began to brew. When the whole world was stunned by Xinhua's aircraft and the Letter to the People of the Whole Nation, it was Britain that calmed down first. The world's big brother suddenly announced that he would sell two second-class battleships that had just been launched to Ecuador.

Just as the world was stunned and another South American naval power was about to be born, Ecuador announced that it would sell the two battleships to Russia. Finally, Nicholas II sent the two battleships back.

Although the United Kingdom has an agreement with Xinhua not to provide a Far East base and does not support Russia, the battleships do not belong to the United Kingdom now, so there is no way to ask others how to deal with the battleships.

A few years ago, Li Mo used Chile and Bolivia to play a little trick, and now the British have returned it to himself. They really can't blame others. Fortunately, the Ministry of Intelligence and the General Staff have long predicted this result, so they didn't even bother to protest. On the contrary, they made a solemn protest against Ecuador!

But after all, Ecuador is too far away from Xinhua, and it doesn't care about this itchy protest at all. What's more, in their opinion, it's hard to say whether Xinhua can beat Russia with the support of the whole Europe.

While all countries announced that they would not intervene in the war, a ship of arms departed from the United States and France and continuously delivered to St. Petersburg. In the face of Xinhua's Letter to the People of the Nation, Nicholas II also scrambled to defend the glory of Europe and recruit a large number of soldiers again.

With the end of the Lunar New Year, several sharp-eyed European journalists suddenly found that the closed platform of Dalian and Huludao Shipyards, which belong to Northern Heavy Industry, had been quietly opened, and it was already empty.

Obviously, Li Mo continued to play the old tricks of a few years ago. At the beginning of the construction of the shipyard, he made the main large dry docks of the two major shipyards into a large closed platform more suitable for windy and snowy weather. The advantage of this is that it will not be affected by the weather, because if it is an open-air dry dock, the long winter will not only fall. Inefficiency, even the start of work will be affected by a big snowstorm.

Now he took advantage of this advantage and avoided all his eyes. When everyone thought that he would not let several warships leave at the time of ice and snow, but he did so, relying on an icebreaker to quietly take several warships out of the frozen sea. , disappear out of sight.

However, even if he plays tricks this time, all countries are ready, because everyone believes that these warships will never escape from the Chinese category.

On April 1, while the blizzard was still ravaging Siberia, the Siberian railway connecting Eurasia was announced to be completed. Nicholas II, who couldn't wait, immediately stuffed the soldiers waiting for cotton-padded clothes into the train and continued to be transported to the Far East.

When a thick smoke rolled out of the head of the locomotive, it also indicates that the chaotic world of news such as planes and mysterious warships began to gradually calm down.

Because everyone knows that it's the fist that speaks in the end!

(to be continued)