The main thing is money, there is no military spending.Cixi had money in her hands, but it was absolutely impossible for Cixi to take the money out of the treasury of the Forbidden City to fight and stop the plan to repair the garden.Therefore, the plan to attack China was temporarily stopped.It can be said that this era is an era of slow swallowing, the high efficiency of President Meng is his biggest reliance, every country, from wanting to fight, to start preparing, to the end of preparation, to start fighting, at least two years to start, unlike President Meng, nothing, say that you dare to fight President Meng without preparation, without mobilization, the whole country, a high degree of unity, whether ideologically, or economically, President Meng has truly achieved the political system of President Meng in the world can be said to be a four-like, the primary stage of socialism, Feudalism, capitalism, militarism, are a bit similar, and they are not like, in short, President Meng is most like a new type of warlord, the super warlord President Meng has no political experience, but he has a flexible mind, anyway, how to fit, how to develop fast, how to come, how to promote the cult of personality, how to come, in short, it is to firmly grasp all the power in his hands Compared to the composition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although President Meng has never used the power of religion, However, the Huacui Party and government organizations at all levels in Huaguo have been built on a high degree of obedience to President Meng and an extreme personality cult from the very beginning, and do not need to rely on the power of religion.It's like worshipping the Bodhisattva, and the more it spreads, the more miraculous it becomes, even when a woman gives birth to a child, she has to worship President Meng.These situations, the Central Committee of Huaguo, the Huacui Party, and President Meng are all very clear, President Meng did not correct them, and President Meng thinks it is very good.Combined with the last war with the British, President Meng decided to expand the connection between Guangdong and Hong Kong, build bridges, and build cities.President Meng's plan is to expand the territory of Hong Kong, and in this life, he will definitely not be called Shenzhen.Instead, it is to expand the original territory of Hong Kong, build bridges to connect the two sides of the strait, build large military fortresses, and forts, but there are no artillery, and if there is no artillery, the forts must be made out first, whether it is bought or built by oneself, there is nothing wrong with planning first.President Meng carried out two huge highway construction projects in Hong Kong, almost at the same time, both of which were connected to Guangzhou, and the two ends of Guangdong were mainly for military preparation, and rapid movement was necessary for logistics and supply.One is the highway plan from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, when the goods from overseas will be disembarked directly from Hong Kong, and then go to various places through the railway from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, and transfer the road, with the design speed of the Hong Kong-Guangdong railway, the efficiency will be much higher than the railway of this era, and the traffic capacity is also much higher.The Hong Kong-Guangdong Railway, under the design of American engineers, was built, no longer dogmatically according to the construction of the past railway, and even cut corners in order to save money, make use of the existing conditions as much as possible, take care of the science and technology of this era, and make the fastest railway.The construction of the two roads began almost at the same time, starting from the thawing of the frozen soil, Qian Hu and others went up to the construction site, hundreds of various construction machinery, also on the road one by one, and the tense road repair movement began.The Nanyang Alliance Treaty Organization, Britain, China, France, the Netherlands, and Spain, also began to operate, and the French government issued a statement to China that if China sold arms to Guangxi Vietnam again, it would turn its face.President Meng made a compromise and accepted the protests of France, as did Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain, France invaded Vietnam, the Netherlands invaded Indonesia, Spain invaded the Philippines, and Britain invaded Malaysia.The great powers of the sea power were all busy, and the last decades of the nineteenth century were the last opportunity to colonize, and now there was basically no vacant land, and the spheres of influence had been formed.Especially Britain, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, is not blown out, President Meng can't fight with Britain for a long time, it's not mainly military, it's mainly economic, if he offends both the Qing court and Britain, he doesn't have to do anything.The British spheres of influence in Oceania are: Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Nauru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Barbados, Kiribati.The British spheres of influence in the Americas were: Canada, Belize, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Grenada, Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda.The British spheres of influence in Asia were: India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Burma, Brunei, and Yemen.If you offend the Qing court, President Meng will lose the domestic market, and if you offend the United Kingdom, President Meng will not be able to trade in this world.After President Moe's reparations to the British, he did not return the warships and transport ships that captured the British, and confiscated the merchants' materials, which can be regarded as a purchase in disguise.Of course, the loss of Britain is definitely not to the point of 10 million taels worth of Chinese dollars of Qing official silver, at most about two million taels, President Meng is equivalent to paying five times the loss of the United Kingdom, even if it loses Hong Kong, the loss of the United Kingdom is less than five million, how to calculate, President Meng has at least doubled the loss, but President Meng is still very happy.More than twenty large and small battleships of the British army were obtained at once, including a medium cruiser, which was already the top in this era.The length of the ship is 9997 meters, the width is 1849 meters, the draft is 696 meters, and the displacement is 6901 tons.12,000 horsepower, 183 knots, normal coal load of 400 tons, maximum coal load of 1,100 tons.The staffing is 480 people.4 94-inch 35-diameter main guns, 8 47-inch 45-diameter rapid-fire guns, 6 6-pounder guns, 4 3-pounder guns, and 10 1-pounder guns.President Meng named this warship Hong Kong 187301, replacing the Danzhou 187201 shipside ironclad ship and becoming the flagship of the Chinese Navy, and Huaguo officially has its own naval fleet.President Meng transferred Xuan Da Niu to the deputy commander of the Navy.The Chinese Navy had one of the first ironclad ships with guns next to the ship, which came from the United States.The rest were captured by the British.In total, eight British light cruisers, two medium cruisers, and thirteen frigates, which were captured for the second time.Captured in Tianjin were 7 frigates and 2 light cruisers.In this way, the Chinese Navy has a total of two medium cruisers, ten light cruisers, twenty frigates, and the number of warships has reached thirty-three, which can already rank in the top ten in the world t1706231537: