.This Asian war, due to its grand scale and significant impact on the Eastern order, was also the first modern war between industrial powers after European military reform. It also implies the collision between Eastern and Western nations and cultures, so it has focused on all kinds of attention from the beginning.

In order to win the support of international public opinion, the three participating countries launched public opinion offensives.

Since the era of Zhenguo Army, the Chinese Empire has attached great importance to public opinion propaganda. The rise of Zheng Ying was first of all because he not only translated a large number of Western enlightenment works and philosophical works, but also wrote many works on nationalism and modern state organizations. He also established a propaganda department early, founded a ** newspaper, promoted national democracy ideas, and carried out cultural innovation.

According to Zheng Ying, ** is always the first in ideological and cultural circles. The Northern Expedition Army "is a propaganda team and a seed machine". The Northern Expedition was first a propaganda war and an economic war, and then a military war.

After a full decade of ideological and cultural accumulation and talent cultivation, when the Zhenguo Army went north in 1880, the new national ideas spread by Zheng Ying in China had taken root and sprouted among the advanced intellectual groups, and in one fell swooped.

For this Asian War, the Chinese Empire, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Propaganda Department, to various semi-official groups, and even civil forces, all exerted a strong influence on the European and American public opinion circles from their respective channels.

In Fleet Street, London, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Jewish media and some newspapers and magazines controlled by Chinese people, the history of invasion and expansion of Russia and Japan has been revealed.

Russia started from the Principality of Moscow, to the invasion of the Kazan Khanate, annexed Crimea, divided Poland, occupied Ukraine and the Baltic Sea, occupied Central Asia, massacred the Turkic peoples, and carried out inhumane massacres in the East. Finally, to the sea blue bubble five years ago, all the dirty and dark expansion history was revealed.

The Lushun massacre in Japan ten years ago, the inhumane massacre of North Korean righteous people, the invasive aggression of Ryukyu, and the secret actions of North Korea in the Year of the Sino-Japanese War were also revealed one by one.

Various daily newspapers, morning newspapers, evening newspapers, weekly newspapers, and monthly magazines all tell the story of the ambitious ambitions of Japan and Russia, two militarist countries, and deliberately launching military offensives that violate international law. Many articles have clearly or obscurely stated that the war carried out by China is a war between civilization and barbarism, a war between independent and unyielding nations' resistance to foreign aggression, a war between progress and regression, and a war related to democratic constitutional thoughts and the life and death of civilization in the East.

Such an organized, planned, and overwhelming propaganda offensive gradually began to overwhelm the opposition from Japan and Russia under the intentional or unintentional indulgence and even support of the British and American governments.

In the United States, the intensification of the economic crisis is pushing the prosperous economic miracle after the Civil War and the westward movement into the abyss of recession. In the midst of the world, China is like a savior sent by God to save the world. This rapidly rising Eastern power has raised national debts from Europe and the United States, absorbed a large amount of financial capital from Europe and the United States that has withdrawn from the industrial field due to economic downturns in a stable return, and waved the checkbooks in the other hand, purchasing equipment, drawings, semi-finished products, fine chemicals, optical components, military products, good-quality horses and horses, as well as various crop seeds and mining machinery, and has launched large-scale industrial and mining projects to recruit engineers with excellent skills from the world.

Against this background, as early as three years ago, the US Congress neatly abolished the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the increasingly close economic and trade exchanges between the two countries deepened the common interests of the two countries. In addition, the Theodore Roosevelt administration also intends to direct public opinion to help China, and the power of the Chinese and Jewish groups is also very strong, which immediately sparked a craze for China in the United States.

There are obviously several times more Americans coming to Chinatown to consume. Many young people laughed and laughed, held the flag of the Chinese Empire, posted posters supporting China, delivered speeches supporting China, and organized fundraising in various blocks.

Many scholars have suggested that compared with the two militaristic expansion countries of Japan and Russia, China has been a moderate major country since ancient times, and is more tolerant, which is closer to the values ​​of the United States.

Chinese scholars simply pointed out that China had already had a republic system three thousand years ago, and Duke Zhou and Duke Zhao were the earliest two-party system, and the riots of the Chinese people were actually the pioneer of the French great power, and China was the pioneer of the democratic republic in the world. Even during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, China established an oriental version of the power check and balance mechanism, namely the three provinces and six ministries system, the emperor and the literati shared the world, and adopted the imperial examination to select civil servants, establishing a civil servant system earlier than the United Kingdom.

This has attracted great interest from American scholars who have always been proud of their democratic Republican and the two-party system, and has set off a craze for Sinology in this young and fashionable country.

Chinese culture, Chinese history, Chinese traditions, the Chinese emperor, the establishment of this imperial legend, and even the legendary experience of this young emperor, the magical suppression of rebellion... Especially when the emperor's inauguration speech was published, many American critics unanimously agreed that this was an outstanding work shining with the light of humanistic thoughts and ideals throughout.

The whole United States began to be fascinated by the country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and the overly young emperor. Many passionate American youth ran directly to the Chinese Embassy and asked as volunteers to participate in the war. Many retired American officers even came to ask, "Do you need experienced white officers?" and "Do you young Napoleon want to form a foreign corps?"

This North American power was suddenly fascinated by this mysterious country in the East. It contains sympathy for the invaders, regret for the sharp contrast between the glorious history of the past and the reality of today, the superiority of its own wealth and freedom, and sympathy for these people directly threatened, and even for the Western Pacific that is occupied by those two aggressive countries, especially the authoritarian regimes with a strong serfdom like Tsarist Russia, which poses a threat to the commercial interests and democratic freedoms of the United States, which is mixed together, making many Americans almost subconsciously tie the future of China in this war to the future of the United States.

In the early days of the war, taking advantage of the victory of land and sea, representatives of the Chinese Treasury Department conducted the second phase of China-North American War bonds in New York and Boston, with a total amount of 500 million US dollars. This time the term was "post-war reconstruction", and the development rights of western territories as compensation for breach of contract, which immediately detonated the entire American business community. Americans have equated the western part of China with the western part of the United States, remembered the gold rush of that year, and the oil discovery in California. Tides of orders surged, and the interest rate determined by the Dutch-style bidding method was only a mere...5%, which is simply an incredible miracle.

In order to compensate for the shortcomings of domestic production capacity, the Chinese Empire's business delegation directly made large-scale purchases in the United States, but also attached conditions, that is, to ensure the victory of the war, in addition to products, the recipients also had to provide relevant industrial technology transfers so that domestic production could be expanded.

Faced with terrifying orders and being tragically damaged by the economic crisis, many companies in the struggle in the American business community still have ideas.

With the close integration of the economic interests of the two countries and the one-sided atmosphere of social public opinion, the trend of the United States has finally turned to China in an all-round way.

At Harvard University, when the professor loudly announced with the latest telegram that China had won the Ryukyu Battle, the students cheered as if their country had won the war. Chinese students were invited by various fraternities and student unions to deliver speeches and attend the party, becoming celebrities on campus.

In response, a commentator in the London newspaper industry commented: "... In this way, the 18-year-old Chinese emperor did what King George III spent his whole life dispatching tens of thousands of troops: he conquered the rough and straight cowboys on the other side of the ocean without any bloodshed."

In California, on the west coast of the United States, the California oil fields invested by the Chinese Empire, the Rothschild consortium and local merchants have been confronting the Standard Oil Company of the US oil overlord Rockefeller, and maintaining its exclusive position on the West Coast. Originally, the oil products in the Japanese and Russian Far East were mainly purchased from California through small oil fields and refineries run by local American merchants around. Now these people have joined forces to refuse to sell oil products to the Japanese and Russians, and sell the oil products to the Sino-UK-U.S. oil companies with countless large oil fields in Ohio, Arizona and Pennsylvania did not dare to blatantly supply oil to Japan and Russia in the face of domestic public opinion. Japan and Russia could only rely on the oil products from Baku, Russia and transport it to the Far East by train.

As a result, this triggered a chain reaction.

In the past, due to the conversion of Siberian railways to military use and the car strips were tight, Japan and Russia's Far East mainly rely on the United States. Now the United States cannot supply it, so it can only transport oil from Baku, Russia. When the conversion of oil from Baku to Japan and Russia, it reduces the liner for transporting oil from Western Europe, and European oil is in short supply.

Seizing this gap, the Borneo oil fields controlled by China were quickly transported to Europe through the Suez Canal with a huge fleet, occupying their foothold in the British, French and other markets.

The transportation of oil to the Far East occupied Russia's precious train wands and also affected its efficiency in transporting personnel and materials to the front line. Finally, the Russians did not use fuel machinery as widely as China, and their use of oil was mainly used for lighting. In addition, many trains in Siberia used fuel power (historical facts), so the impact was not obvious.

In other parts of Asia and even Africa, there are many eyes silently paying attention to the progress of the war.

In India, the Congress Party, which represents the power of Indian nationalist elite, was already brewing an anti-British independence movement (another time and space broke out in 1905-1906). This time, China's war against Japan and Russia was regarded as a struggle between people of color in the East against white civilization, and it was a struggle between Asian races and European races.

Due to the existence of the Sino-British alliance, the Congress Party even launched a public opinion offensive in India without any hiding, calling on the Indian people to support China in fighting aggression, and openly raised the banner of China and India working together to promote the rejuvenation of Asian civilization.

Regarding Japan, the Indian Congress Party hated and called it a "traitor of Asia". Many radicals of the Congress Party even began to contact China and asked whether to accept volunteers from India. After receiving a positive answer, the radicals of the Indian Congress Party, led by Tirak, immediately began to recruit volunteers, and their true intentions were well known to everyone: it was nothing more than to use this war to cultivate their own armed forces.

In response to this, the British colonial authorities watched coldly and secretly made many tricks.

In Nanyang, some intellectuals among the indigenous people observed the progress of the war with complex emotions. They had heartfelt fear and inferiority for European colonists, but envious, jealous and hated the Chinese people who belong to Asia. But over the years, as the Chinese Empire became increasingly powerful, especially the Chinese clan and social forces integrated in Nanyang, which were deeply rooted and had a powerful fleet, these indigenous people also began to fear the Chinese.

This time, on the one hand, they hoped to see the failure of European colonists, and on the other hand, they did not want China, which represented the interests of the Chinese, to win, and their emotions were particularly complicated. The upper class also began to differentiate. Some people proposed to unite with Western colonists and take advantage of the Chinese Empire to take care of themselves and even lose their battles to reap the wealth of the Chinese people; some people suggested that the Chinese should use the power of the Chinese to drive away Western colonists, and the two factions argued endlessly.

The French are complex.

As a nation with a nationalist tradition and a strong sense of superiority, the French were very resentful of the past when they were defeated by the Zhenguo Army twice and lost most of the Indochina colonies; but on the other hand, they were also wary of the Russians and the French vengeance of the Germans getting closer and closer. Once Russia turns to Germany, the alliance against Germany established by France will collapse, and even the most arrogant Gauls have to admit that they cannot defeat Germany independently, let alone Austria and Italy.

They are Russia's largest creditors, but they also understand that once Russia completely defeats China, it will move towards a fierce opposition with Britain, which will prompt Russia to turn to Germany. France will be the first to face the danger of national destruction on the mainland.

This made the French's neutrality particularly entangled and painful.

French bankers were worried about the huge franc debts that Russia had undertaken, and on the other hand, they had to provide further credit for Russia's purchase of French arms and supplies.

While watching the changes in the battle situation, they were also alert to the reaction of the Germans.

In France, politicians and political parties quarreled with each other, and the French parliament almost became another battlefield of the Asian War. The French speech, which was full of patriotic passion, inspired fierce confrontation between the left and right camps in the French parliament. On the newspaper, the left and right wings were spitting saliva, each standing on the commanding heights of patriotism and nation, accusing each other of betraying France's glory and traditions and trying to destroy France. Brownge's followers and French radical left wings broke out in many street conflicts.

The French army, fearing that Germany has taken action against France without worries, has canceled its vacation and has handed over heavy troops on the border. Germany has also taken tit-for-tat measures to deal with this, and many domestic militants are also clamoring to "give them another lust."

night.

Chinese Empire, Beijing, Dongjiaomin Lane.

In the British Embassy, ​​the thick curtains in the ambassador's office still cannot cover the lights.

The British Ambassador to China Zhu Erdian took out a good Cuban cigar, cut it carefully, lit it with fragrant wood, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, exhaled, and said slowly: "Jazz, the situation in China is changing very quickly..."

Aston, the British Embassy Counselor in China, noticed something in the ambassador's words and frowned and said, "Sir, do you mean...worry about the interests of the empire in China? Or worry about the future of the Sino-British alliance?"

Zhu Erdian was silent for a while and said, "Sir, I have to admit that with my more than 30 years of diplomatic experience, I still made some mistakes in judgment against this little emperor. I originally thought that in order to stabilize the rule, this new emperor would sing high-profile on the one hand and win the support of the people, and on the other hand, he would seek support from the British Empire to stabilize the external situation. The empire in China, and even the interests of the entire East Asia, and the order in the Far East can be guaranteed. But now it seems..."

He sighed, with a complicated look: "This man is so confident. Judging from his performance in dealing with a series of situations at home and abroad, he is even more tough and confident than his father. It's really terrible... What kind of royal family is this? He just sent away a Napoleon, and now there is another Peter the Great. The most terrifying thing is that this man is less than twenty years old and can already see people's hearts and have such incitement. Such a person, the 450 million people commanded by such a man, is such a terrible force, and what will it bring to the entire Far East? It's really trembling if you think about it..."

"The most terrifying thing is that although I have been in contact with him many times, I can't grasp what he is thinking at all." Zhu Erdian sighed, "Although the old emperor is very cunning, at least in terms of diplomacy, I can generally grasp his ideas. But this child has changed too much from what I knew before, and it is too strange and unreasonable... No matter how talented he has, he is just a newly grown child. Whether it is diplomacy, internal affairs, or modern military art, what it requires is the accumulation of experience, the expansion of connections, scientific analysis, and calm judgment. How is a child possible? It is too unreasonable and too illogical... The situation in this country has been stabilized by him, and even achieved important victory to the outside world. How unreasonable is this."

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