Iron Dynasty

The Ottomans and Persia have a thousand-year grievance and can be described as undead enemies, and both countries have ambitions to dominate Central Asia.

That's true, but before their conflict was only small-scale, but this time the problem seems to be a bit serious. It is said that the Ottomans have received a lot of advanced firearms from Europe, are training a huge army, and the scale of the conflict is also expanding. .

Pang Yukun explained.

Then what do you think it should be? Let the empire send troops to support it? Xiao Ming wanted to deliberately test Pang Yukun.

Now that the empire mechanism is very mature, he needs everyone to use their talents, not everything needs to be planned by himself.

After pondering for a while, Pang Yukun said: There is obviously a shadow of the West in the conflict between the Ottomans and Persia. Although they were defeated in Asia and chose to sign an armistice agreement, they will not give up any opportunity to hinder the growth of the empire.

Xiao Ming nodded slightly. Pang Yukun's analysis was in place. International relations are often cooperative and confrontational at the same time. It will not be a pure relationship between enemies and friends, and the eternal bond is just interests.

For example, the armistice agreement this time, he only agreed because the cost of continuing the war was much higher than signing the agreement.

And what he wants has already been obtained through the agreement, why bother to obtain it through war when it is laborious and costly.

But I don't think it's appropriate to send troops to help the old Persian officials. Pang Yukun continued: As the so-called snipes and clams compete for the fisherman's profit, the Ottoman threat to Persia is the fundamental reason why we can easily get oil from Persia. Ottoman, then Persia will become the hegemon of Central Asia, and at that time, I am afraid they will not give us free oil extraction.

Xiao Ming laughed. In the past, Pang Yukun was only good at internal affairs, but these remarks are enough to show that he has put a lot of effort into international politics during this period.

Pang Shoufu is worthy of being Pang Shoufu. There are some problems that I can think of. European countries thought that using the Ottomans could weaken Persia and affect our oil production, but they never thought that this would only make Persia more dependent on us. Xiao Ming said lightly. .

So the Ottoman country still needs to exist, but for Persia, we must also provide technical and financial support to maintain the regional balance in Central Asia. Pang Yukun stroked his beard.

That's it. After you go back, you can organize material support for Persia. Our oil field has just produced oil. I don't want any oil field to have an accident. Xiao Ming urged.

Pang Yukun answered yes and turned to leave.

After Pang Yukun left, Xiao Ming came to the world map and carefully looked at the territory of the empire.

As time passed, his sense of crisis became more and more serious. Now that Xiao Yi is sixteen years old, and he is entering the middle-aged stage of his life, how much time does he have left to protect the empire he built with his own hands? ?

His eyes swept across North America, Tsarist Russia, Europe, Africa, South America and other regions, and he sighed slightly.

He used to be confident that he would be able to rule the world in his lifetime, but now he finds more and more that he may not be able to achieve this goal.

The world is too complicated, with various cultures, religions, and races, and some conflicts between them cannot be reconciled. Even in the contemporary world, the source of conflict is these three.

So after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to accumulate wealth for the empire as much as possible while he was in power, just like the contemporary western world plundered the world, and left a big killer for the empire that could save lives.

In this way, even if the empire declines, no country dares to invade, and even if he cannot eliminate the Western powers, he will try his best to weaken them.

It was for this purpose that he promised Henry that a chaotic Europe would give the empire the opportunity to extract European wealth.

Looking at Tsarist Russia and North America from Western Europe, Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed. Compared with Britain, France and other countries, he actually avoided Tsarist Russia and the United States the most.

Coming from a contemporary age, he naturally knows that if these two countries are given a chance, they will grow into terrifying monsters.

At the same time, he believes that Europe will definitely find solutions on these two issues, and he has already seen the British conspiracy in the matter of disrupting Central Asia.

However, playing with him, the British Queen Victoria is still a little tender, not to mention that he is from modern times and is used to various international struggles, just the information in the technology spar is enough to find many similar cases.

With his eyes slowly firming, Xiao Ming walked out of the imperial study with his hands on his back. After the victory in the Nanyang War, he had a period of confusion for a while.

But now he has a clear idea of ​​what to do next.

Strategically, he will continue to squeeze the living space of European countries, and financially, he will formally internationalize the golden dragon of the empire and become a hard currency that circulates in the world like the contemporary dollar.

In industry, he will gradually establish a complete industrial system, obtain cheap resources from all over the world, and produce industrial products.

In business, he wants to achieve economic colonization of Europe, completely control the European market, and let Europe experience the taste of exchanging millions of clothes for a car.

But there is still a long way to go to realize these ideas, because squeezing the living space of Europe means that there may be constant conflicts with European countries.

For the Golden Dragon to become the world currency, it is necessary to have a huge gold reserve, or to control the currency used for oil settlement like the contemporary United States.

As for industry and commerce, Europe will not let him slaughter its own market so easily. In the future, I am afraid that some technologies will be exchanged for the market.

He was thinking when the phone in the imperial study rang.

Turning around to go back to answer the phone, Lin Wentao's voice came, Your Majesty, the first tank in the tank factory has officially rolled off the assembly line, and the officer is hereby ordered to report to the Emperor.

Well, I'll go over now. Xiao Ming showed a faint smile.

Generally speaking, a country can produce cars, and there is basically no problem in producing tanks, so when the first car using an internal combustion engine was produced, he asked to establish a military factory for the production of tanks.

It turned out that he was right, and after more than a year of preparation, the first tank rolled off the assembly line smoothly.

After greeting Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming informed his special car to take him to the tank factory.

Since he got a car, his travel safety has improved a lot, and the fast speed of the car also allows him to easily go anywhere.

So he traveled a lot more frequently during this period, which was a good thing for him, but for some officials, it was like a mourning test.

Because he sometimes dealt with a large number of officials during the sudden government inspection, which made the officials tremble one by one, and officials around Qingzhou did not dare to be careless, for fear of being attacked by the emperor.