Chapter 282 Persian Dynasty

These days, Hu Chuyuan and Qu Hongji began to contact frequently through new telecom calls, and jointly made the most important new decision in Qu Hongji's cabinet - to include the Republic of Smantia into the imperial territory and officially establish a new autonomous state of Suffian.

This is a very special setting, and it appears for the first time in the empire.

This decision was delayed for two years before it finally appeared. The key is that Qu Hongji was worried that the Mongols used such a setting to require the establishment of a Mongolian autonomous state.

In the past two years, Qu Hongji and the State Military Commission have been working to strengthen the military arrangements in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Tibet and other regions, and secretly "pruning" the possible separatist forces.

This is a calm decision, and the whole international community is slow to respond, even unresponsive and dare not make any response.

In the final analysis, China's national strength is too strong.

At the end of April, Hu Chuyuan's family departed to Yanjing Zizheng Park. On May 3, he also officially became the third prime minister of the empire.

During this period, a large number of middle-aged officials in Chinese politics have grown up, or the direct officials cultivated by Hu Chuyuan over the years are getting stronger and stronger.

After five years, Hu Chuyuan's control over China has not weakened, but has become stronger and stronger.

Xie Yuanqi, Ding Bingqian, Yang Shiqian, Xu Shichang, Sun Zongyuan, Li Xiling, Ye Dachen, Mei Ruding... and others began to serve as cabinet ministers, Yang Shiqian served as the interior minister, and Sun Zongyuan served as the foreign minister.

Ouyang Geng, who has been re-elected as foreign minister for two terms, became the secretary-general of the Sino-US Strategic Cooperation Committee, and replaced Niu Yugeng as the president of the Central University of Political Science and Law.

On May 17, Kaiser Wilhelm II officially visited China.

After many years, Hu Chuyuan and William II met again. At the Yingtai State Guesthouse, Hu Chuyuan also held a large-scale welcome ceremony and state banquet.

Hu Chuyuan was very positive about the proposal of further deepening cooperation between China and Germany in the economic, cultural and educational fields. However, Hu Chuyuan firmly rejected the proposal of William II to resume Sino-Russian territorial coordination negotiations led by Germany.

China and Russia have nothing to talk about, and it is even more impossible for China to return its existing territory to Russia.

There is no need to consider this at all.

Although William II felt the strength of China during his visits to Tianjin and Shanghai, he still firmly believed that Germany would be much stronger.

After Hu Chuyuan refused to renegotiate the territorial issues between China and Russia, William II ended his visit to China ahead of schedule and returned to China hastily.

After all, Kaiser Wilhelm II is still such a person.

His conceit and arrogance have always affected the Germans. He has made Germany rise rapidly and plunged Germany into some kind of unextricable quagmire.

On the night of the day when William II was sent away, Hu Chuyuan sighed silently in his heart that if Germany could make more use of the international situation, especially the vast space of Sino-German cooperation, to achieve economic transformation, Germany would still have great room for development.

Perhaps, Germans will always be Germans.

Perhaps, each nation has its own advantages and shortcomings.

After the end of William II's visit to China, the possibility of easing between China and Germany was also squeezed out by William II, and the world situation began to further intensify. Germany continued to build larger-scale main battleships regardless of its national strength, forcing Britain to increase the size of battleships at the same time, and it was It has always maintained twice the size of Germany.

Russia, which originally intended to concentrate funds to strengthen its navy, was also forced to enter the naval competition, and France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire also swelled in this vicious cycle.

Not only the navy competition, but also the army in a large-scale competition. At the same time, Germany has to maintain its advantage in mechanized troops, which gradually overwhelms the German economy.

In the chaos of this regiment, Sun Zongyuan began to visit Europe as the foreign minister of the third cabinet. Under the coordination of the United Kingdom, he signed a new cooperation agreement with Portugal, providing Portugal with a national debt of 250 million pounds, which eased the conflicts between China and Portugal due to Africa.

On this basis, China, Britain, Spain and Portugal have reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation plan on economic cooperation. The capital of China and the United Kingdom began to pour into the Iberian Peninsula on a larger scale, and invested in the entire modern industrial and agricultural system in Portugal and Spain.

When Sun Zongyuan visited Europe intensively, Hu Chuyuan also personally went to Tehran to visit Persia.

Persian.

During the Palevi dynasty, Persia was renamed "Iran" and now it has always been Persia.

Persia is a big concept, including Afghanistan, Turkmen, the Caucasus, and even parts of the Ottoman Empire. The existing king of Persia, Ahmed Shah, is actually a Turkmen.

It can't be said to be Turkmen yet, because Turkmen belong to a huge tribal system at this stage. When they develop independently from Iran, they can eventually become reading Turkmen.

Tehran.

It is called "at the foot of the mountain" in ancient Persian. Its rise is to some extent thanks to the Mongols. It was the Mongols who destroyed the nearby ancient city of Rey that scattered people hid in Tehran, which was still a small village at that time, and gradually replaced Rey as the terminus of the Silk Road.

Now, its re-emergence is thanks to Hui people, and even more thanks to Hu Chuyuan's Fukang Consortium, CITIC Bank, Fuguo Heavy Industry, Taigu Consortium... CITIC News Agency.

After so many years of development, Tehran is very different from before. The beautiful city has taken on a new look, and novel and strange buildings and Chinese buildings can be seen everywhere.

There is such a Chinatown in Tehran.

Because there are too many Chinese people who come here to do business every year.

Hu Chuyuan crossed the street in his car. Through the window, he looked at the outside world and enjoyed the beautiful exotic scenery.

The person accompanying him is his wife Wu Shuzhen. The person sitting in the co-pilot's seat is not the ambassador to the Kingdom of Persia, but Ma Baorong, the top person in charge of CITIC Bank here.

In China, especially among the Hui people, Ma Baorong is a very common name, but in Persia, the name is very deterrent.

Because Ma Baorong is the general manager of the Persian branch of CITIC Bank, and CITIC Bank is the only banknote issuing bank in the Persian kingdom.

When he first came to Persia, Ma Baorong was only 27 years old, but now he is 40 years old. He can speak fluent Persian and Turkmen.

At the age of 32, he helped CITIC Bank become the only bank in the Kingdom of Persia and maintained this privilege until now. If nothing unexpected happens, it will continue for decades.

Through the street, Hu Chuyuan easily saw two banks, namely the Persian National Bank and the Bank of Tehran, which are the sub-banks of CITIC Bank here, which are beneficial to the business of CITIC Bank.

These two banks are located in all major cities in Persia, accounting for more than 50% of the deposit and loan business in Persia. Their parent bank, CITIC Bank, is the only legal treasury bond sales agency in the Kingdom of Persia and a royal financial adviser designated by the Kaika royal family.

You may not see it in Tehran, but you can see another very large bank in the counties and towns of Persia - the Persian Agricultural Credit Bank, which is a bank controlled by CITIC's Persian agricultural credit cooperatives.

CITIC has monopolized the financial industry of the whole Persian kingdom.

When the car arrived at the summer palace arranged by the royal family, Hu Chuyuan almost finished reading the information in his hand.

He put together the information books provided by the National Intelligence Agency and suddenly said to Ma Baorong, "Manager Ma, you have worked hard all these years."

Hearing this, Ma Baorong was a little stunned. Then he hurriedly got out of the car, opened the door for Hu Chuyuan, and said, "Prime Minister, this is what I should do."

Hu Chuyuan led Wu Shuzhen out of the car and looked at the summer palace in front of him from a distance, but told Ma Baorong, "You are the big shopkeeper of our Hu family. Just call me the owner."

"Oh, oh!"

Ma Baorong agreed repeatedly, and he was happy and immediately said, "Big master, I won't accompany you in. I'll go back to the city first and cooperate with the minister to arrange the rest of the trip for you."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and saw Ma Baorong leave. Then he and Wu Shuzhen, accompanied by Shang Yunxiang and others, entered the luxurious summer palace of the Persian Kaijia royal family.

Li Cunyi is old. This kind of trip and task of going abroad is too hard to bother him.

Over the years, the head of the Secret Service is Shang Yunxiang.

Hu Chuyuan's identity is also very different. The Kaijia Dynasty paid special attention to his visit, and the accommodation arranged was as noble and luxurious as possible.

There will be a formal itinerary tomorrow. After entering the palace, Hu Chuyuan, accompanied by the special envoy of the Persian royal family, enjoyed the scenery in the summer palace with Wu Shuzhen.

In the evening, he found a spacious council hall and asked Liang Qichao, Tang Shouqian and others to sort out the information.

Unlike in the past, this time, the Secretariat also added a special adviser, Mr. Ha Dingheng, a domestic expert in religious politics, and is also the main think tank of the new Islamic reform movement in China.

Everyone gathered together to talk about the Persian issue.

China's influence on the Persian Kaiga dynasty is very amazing. It was under China's persistence and intervention that the Kaiga royal family was forced to let the more open young Prince Ahmed inherit the throne.

Also under the intervention of China, the Persian Dynasty has now entered a stable constitutional monarchy, maintaining the basic characteristics of the unity of church and state. The king is both a national leader and a religious leader, but the king does not directly manage state affairs, but adopts a cabinet system, sets up a national council, and the states elects members to enter. Political participation in the National Assembly.

In the past decade, the Fukang consortium has dominated the long-term development of Persia, comprehensively transplanted Chinese experience, promoted the joint-operated agricultural model in Persia, invested in infrastructure construction, and developed the petrochemical, metal smelting, mining, machinery, textile and other industries in Persia.

Persia's coal mines, iron mines, copper mines, zinc mines, oil and natural gas resources are extremely rich. The three large iron ores that have been mined so far have reserves of more than 1 billion tons of rich ore. The coal mining volume is about 11 million tons per year, and the total amount of zinc reserves ranks first in the world.

From 1901 to the present, the Fukang consortium has invested a total of 377 million pounds in Persia. In addition, British-funded consortia such as the Sigu Consortium and Jardineconsortia have continuously introduced other investments from the United Kingdom. In just ten years, the gross national product of Persia has been second only to Italy, ranking eighth in the world.

Military, Persia has completely followed the path of China, basically copying the settings of the Chinese navy and army. Almost all equipment has been introduced from China. At present, licensed Jiangnan rifles are also produced in China.

At present, the main military officials of Persia are trained at Lanzhou Army Academy.

The main employees of the Fukang consortium in Persia are all returnees, and almost all the military advisers and economic advisers sent by China to Persia are also returnees. It can be said that this is a special bridge between China and Persia.

Although Britain is also a protectorate of Persia, it is China that can really control Persia, especially after the end of the Far East War. With a comprehensive victory over Russia, China's influence in Central Asia has become particularly strong, even comparable to that of Britain.

As a balance, the tacit understanding between China and Britain is that China "protects" Persia, while Britain "protects" Afghanistan while continuing to share protection privileges.

The current economic strength of Persia is indeed very good, and it also has its own navy. Of course, it is basically the old ships eliminated by China. It is also the largest naval power in West Asia. At least there are two Junquan-class battleships.

Everyone sits together. First of all, we should discuss whether the situation in Persia can continue to be so stable.

To be precise, with the development of the Persian economy, whether China's control of Persia will gradually get out of control. Liang Qichao talked about another question - the current economy of Persia is indeed very good. However, is the Fukang consortium a little too much? According to the information provided by the National Intelligence Agency, although Persia also has Some national capitalists, to put it bluntly, are a group of buyers, and they are all buyers of the Fukang consortium.

Hu Chuyuan is also worried about this problem.

At this time, Ha Dingheng answered in depth - basically no problem, especially in such a country.

This is a country of the unity of church and religion.

Basically speaking, as long as the average wealth of the people is good, the status of religious leaders is stable, and the military strength is solid, it is unlikely that there will be great turmoil.

At present, the national economic development of Persia is very good. There are 17 divisions in the army. The analysis report provided by the National Intelligence Agency shows that there is no out-of-control of the army for the time being.

The current capitalists in Persia are all buyers, all buyers of the Fukang consortium, relying on the Fukang consortium to make a fortune.

In the long run, once the investment is gradually successful, the practice of the Fukang consortium will still gradually cash out in the stock market, retaining some of the main core assets, and the rest of the funds will be withdrawn on a large scale to find a more suitable new market with a higher return on investment.

Of course, Persia has Persian problems.

In the long run, the development of Persia is still easy to be limited... That is the problem of Islam. No matter how Persia's capitalism develops, it is difficult for its future to surpass the framework of the Islamic world, or even beyond the framework of Persia.

At this point, Persia and Japan are completely different.

From the perspective of the total import and export volume of the country, Persia has always been in the position of trade deficit with China, and military orders account for 30% of the total imports. Of course, this situation will be maintained for a long time.

In terms of military strength, there are two mechanized divisions among the 17 divisions in Persia, but the overall combat level is not high, and the quality of the soldiers is average. Therefore, when many good weapons are in their hands, the effect is relatively common.

Of course, compared with the Ottoman Empire, the combat effectiveness of these 17 divisions is still considerable.

Compared with the Ottoman Empire, the economic strength of Persia is much stronger.

Hu Chuyuan came by train and saw a lot of things in Persia all the way. He basically had a feeling that if there was a war in West Asia, it might not be a big name to rely on the Ottoman Empire, but the strength of the Persian Kingdom is still good and can provide some help.

The scale of the cavalry in Persia is not small, and it can also play a very good role as a second-line force.

Therefore, the garrison in Iraq should still be dominated by mechanized troops. At present, we should hoard military strategic materials in Persia and Iraq to deal with larger-scale wars.

(to be continued)