1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Minister, Japanese Ambassador Hioki has arrived and is in the reception room." The secretary pushed open the door and said to Lin Anmin who was sorting out the documents.

"Got it, let him wait." Lin Anmin just glanced at his watch and said without raising his head.

"Yes." The secretary nodded and closed the door.

Lin Anmin was sorting out the records of diplomatic affairs with Britain in recent years, including not only the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South China and the Huaxia Empire, but also the archives of the local Arab consulate.

Because the matters involved were more important and the confidentiality registration was high, Lin Anmin could not find a few people to help. He had been busy for two days, scanning the documents ten lines at a time, and finally figured out the general situation.

"Found it, I didn't expect it to be in the appendix of the 1914 archives. Did the British find it so early?" Lin Anmin adjusted his glasses and found a clue.

In 1914, the British Consulate in Basra issued a notice to the Basra Municipal Government of the then South China Empire.

It said that the British army would conduct large-scale exploration activities in the near future. The exploration area was close to the border area. In order to prevent attacks from local tribes, the exploration team was protected by a regiment of British troops. I hope the South China Empire will not misunderstand.

The local government immediately took action, including dispatching personnel for investigation, military mobilization, and intelligence exploration, and reported the situation to Borneo.

After all, large-scale exploration near the border is generally no different from espionage. The exploration team may get "lost" at any time and "accidentally" slip into a place they should not go.

Moreover, this exploration team also brought a regiment, a whole regiment! Even if the British adopted a small regiment system, there would be at least 7800 soldiers. You told me that it was to prevent tribal attacks? Who would believe it!

But later, whether it was reconnaissance, surveillance or intelligence theft, it was said that the British's purpose was indeed to explore...

The British were exploring oil, mines, and planning railways. Not long after, the British expanded the port of Mahshahr, not far from Basra, and planned oil storage facilities.

Everything was going in the direction that the British had discovered an oil field and were preparing to develop it.

The Nanhua scouts found that the escort of a regiment was not enough. The local tribes were too martial, and even the children of the tribes in the wild would attack the British.

Due to the ubiquitous attacks, the British progress was not fast, and they suffered a lot of casualties.

Nanhua watched for a while, but there was no new discovery, so it was left unresolved. After all, the local tribes not only attacked the British, but also the scouts of the Nanhua Empire.

In the final report archive, a stolen exploration intelligence was mentioned, which stated that the British came to conduct railway exploration in response to the Russian-Polish railway being built by Russia.

In 1916, the railway built by the Russians in Persia was just completed. It was a standard-gauge railway mainly used to transport troops.

It can be seen that the Russians have always been obsessed with Persia. After all, if they took Persia, they could reach the Persian Gulf directly and border India, and the situation in Russia would be revitalized.

If World War I had not broken out, perhaps the Anglo-Russian competition would have started again.

Nanhua also only regarded it as a form of cooperation and confrontation between Britain and Russia. Seeing that the British did not engage in any small conspiracy later, it did not intervene.

Now it seems that this is the problem.

"In 1914, we were not unified yet, and the British had already discovered the problem?" Lin Anmin took out a top-secret plan from his suitcase and compared it.

In 1914, the Great Railway Plan was not implemented, but the preliminary preparations were already underway.

Nanhua carried out large-scale exploration activities in the Mesopotamian Plain under the guise of oil extraction. They talked about oil exploration, but in fact they were conducting preliminary exploration work for railway construction.

Due to the geographical location factors with Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian Empire, after comprehensive consideration, Nanhua chose the longer northern line.

The northern line starts from Baghdad and extends northeast to the border. This section has been built. There were still many workers in the Arab Production and Construction Corps at that time. The construction was not difficult and the cost was not high.

In the plan, this railway will also extend eastward from the border, passing through the Caspian Sea, and then continue to extend northeast to Turkmenistan, and finally reach the Western Regions through Tajikistan or Afghanistan, connecting with the Grand Railway, but this is a long time in the future.

Such a railway is longer, crossing the northern part of the Zagros Mountains and passing through a wide mountainous and hilly area. The construction is difficult and the cost is high.

However, after crossing this section, you can reach the edge of the Caspian Sea, and then you can go along the flat area on the edge of the Caspian Sea and bypass the Alborz Mountains. The total mileage is longer, but the construction difficulty is low and the construction period is shorter.

However, at this time, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan were both territories of Tsarist Russia, not British protectorates like Afghanistan. At that time, the six armies thought they had to prepare for war with Britain and Russia at the same time.

Lin Anmin was thinking about the possibility of the British and Russians agreeing, or the possibility of the British agreeing, and the Russians would definitely agree. Such a railway would greatly facilitate the Russians to further invade Persia or Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Transportation also evaluated that if the southern route was chosen, it would not only cross the steepest part of the Zagros Mountains, but also cross a large area of ​​desert. Although this would shorten the journey and strengthen the control over Persia, the construction and maintenance costs would be ridiculously high.

The construction of a railway in the mountains is nothing more than the project of opening mountains, bridges, and digging tunnels. After the construction is completed, the maintenance cost is the same. As long as geological disasters are not occurred, there will be no big problems like 1.

What about the desert? Especially through a salt desert, it can be said that it is eroding railway roads and rails at all times. It is said that it is no problem in a long -term geological disaster, and the maintenance cost is higher than the sky.

The British should have discovered that Huaxia was a little careful when the Huaxia Mesopotamian railway was built. A narrow -rail railway was built on the southern line planning for troops. At present, one standard railway is still being built.

"Hey, I am Lin Anmin, find Her Majesty." After Lin Anmin compared the map, he probably had speculation. He picked up the phone and called Liu 1 Ming's office directly.

"His Majesty, I found an appendix, about the British's information about the railway exploration of the British in 1914, and compared the recent British map of British in Persia, there was a speculation."

"The British are likely to guess that we want to build a railway directly connected to the Arab and Western Regions, which is in line with our interests, just like the Germans want to build the Baghdad Railway."

"In 1914, we touched the British when we carried out 1 -step railway.

"However, because in our plan, this railway has not intended to work in recent years, so we didn't care, but the British mistakenly thought that we knew them."

On the other side, after hearing these words, Liu 1 patted his head, and the 1 sailing of the intelligence department made him faint.

He knew the British's construction of railways, but this railway was far from the final route planned by the Ministry of Communications, so he also subconsciously ignored the British response.

"But I have a question why the British did not protest directly to us. Instead, they just issued a notice to the local government, which is not in line with the style of the British."

Lin Anmin asked a little puzzled.

"Isn't this simple? The British are afraid that we will fall towards the Germans. In fact, if it is not that we exist, the war will start."

"After the second Moroccan crisis, Germany is already actively preparing for the war, and the British have noticed how much."

"The British should not be sure of our thoughts, and at the same time, they are afraid to remind us directly, will we let us fall to Germany and attack India."

"Fortunately, because of planning, we did not make a misunderstanding reaction."

After thinking about it, Liu 1 understood the British thoughts.

Huaxia knows that this railway plan is just looking at the railway drooling, but there will be no too radical thoughts.

Because it was the British Empire, which dominated the British Empire, who dominated the world for more than 200 years, although not so that Chinese people would give up their resistance, not many people would feel that they could defeat the British Empire.

However, their own families know their own affairs. The British expansion has reached the limit. The British 6th Army is unsatisfactory. They also have to respond to the challenges of the allies. For the South China Empire, the British are actually bottomless.

Building a shipping railway is one test, telling Nanhua that the British see through your thoughts, and we can talk about it.

If Nanhua goes to talk, the British control the opportunity, and the war has not yet begun. The British energy is quite abundant and can get more right to speak on the railway issue.

If Nanhua does not have this idea, it will naturally not find the small actions of the British.

This is a small misunderstanding that is afraid of each other. As for why the British now come out and say, it should be that Britain is really about to be unsatisfactory.

"Let people send the documents, I send a copy of them for Xu Hui, and open a meeting in two days to see if I can talk to the British about the railway." Liu 1 Ming rubbed his eyebrows.

I do n’t know if this is good or bad, but now I can only think about the benefits. After all, this suspicion 1 appears, unless one party has lost its interest points or abilities, otherwise it is suspected that it cannot be eliminated.

Persia used to be India. For India, the British were not so generous.

"Understand, I waited for someone to send it." Lin Anmin said, hung up the phone, and frowned at the map.

"It's really troublesome ... Xiao Li sent this document to His Majesty's office, and he was secretly secret." Lin Anmin sealed the document, and then shouted to the microphone of the direct secretary.

The secretary immediately opened the door and came in. He carefully packed the sealed file into the file box and put it on a seal.

"Minister, the Japanese are still waiting for the guest room, you see ..." It's all going out. The secretary holding the box suddenly remembered the Japanese who had drank 1 morning tea in the guest room.

"I know, I will go right away." Lin Anmin looked at a watch with a watch, ten o'clock at 10 o'clock.

In other words, the daytime has been drank in the guest room for two and a half hours.

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