"The Ottomans and Persia had a thousand-year-old feud and were undying enemies, and both countries had ambitions to dominate Central Asia."

"That's true, but in the past their conflicts were only small-scale, but this time the problem seems to be a bit serious, and it is said that the Ottomans have received a lot of advanced firearms from Europe, are training a large army, and the scale of the conflict is also expanding."

Pang Yukun explained.

"So what do you think you should do? Let the Empire send troops to support? Xiao Ming wanted to deliberately test Pang Yukun.

Now that the imperial system is very mature, he needs everyone to use their talents, rather than everything needs to be planned by himself.

After a deep sigh, Pang Yukun said: "There is obviously a shadow of the West in this conflict between the Ottomans and Persia, although they were defeated in Asia and chose to sign an armistice, they will not give up any opportunity to hinder the growth of the empire." “

Xiao Ming nodded slightly, Pang Yukun's analysis is very good, international relations often cooperate and confront each other at the same time, it will not be a pure friend or foe relationship, and the eternal bond is just interests.

For example, this armistice agreement, 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, so why bother to get it through war at the expense of the people.

"But I don't think it's appropriate to send troops to help the old Persian ministers." Pang Yukun continued: "The so-called snipe and clam compete for the benefit of fishermen, the threat of the Ottomans to Persia is the fundamental reason why we can easily get oil from Persia, once we help Persia defeat the Ottomans, then Persia will become the hegemon of Central Asia, and at that time, I am afraid that they will not give us the oil fields for free." “

Xiao Ming laughed, Pang Yukun was only good at internal affairs in the past, but this remark is enough to see that he has put a lot of effort into international politics during this time.

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

"So it is still necessary for the Ottoman state to exist, but for Persia, we also need to 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 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 advised.

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, and now that Xiao Yat was sixteen years old, and he was entering the middle age stage of his life, how much time did he have left to protect the empire he had built?

His gaze swept over North America, Tsarist Russia, Europe, Africa, South America and other regions one by one, and he sighed slightly.

He had been confident that he would be able to dominate the world in his lifetime, but now he found himself increasingly aware that he might not be able to achieve this goal.

The world is too complex, with all kinds of cultures, religions, and races, and there are contradictions between them that cannot be reconciled, even in the contemporary world, where conflicts originate.

So after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to accumulate as much wealth as possible for the empire during his reign, just as the modern West plundered the world, and left a life-saving weapon for the empire.

In this way, even if the empire falls, no country will dare to invade brazenly, and at the same time, even if he cannot destroy the Western powers, he will try his best to weaken them.

The conditions he promised Henry were for this purpose, a chaotic Europe would give the empire the opportunity to extract the wealth of Europe.

Looking at Tsarist Russia and North America from Western Europe, Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, compared to Britain and France, he was actually the most taboo in Tsarist Russia and the United States.

Coming from a contemporary age, he naturally knew that once these two countries were given a chance, they would grow into terrifying monsters.

At the same time, he believed that Europe would certainly find a way to disturb Central Asia on both issues, and he had already seen the British conspiracy in this matter.

However, playing conspiracy with him, this Queen of England Victoria is still a little tender, not to mention that he is from modern times and is used to seeing all kinds of international struggles, just the information in the scientific and technological hedron is enough to find many similar cases.

His eyes slowly firmed, Xiao Ming walked out of the imperial study with his hands on his back, he had a period of confusion after the victory in the Nanyang War.

But now he knows what he's going to do next.

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

Industrially, he wants to gradually establish a perfect industrial system, obtain cheap resources from all over the world, and produce industrial products.

Commercially, he wanted to achieve economic colonization of Europe, completely control the European market, and let Europe taste the taste of exchanging millions of clothes for a car.

However, there is still a long way to go before these ideas can be realized, because squeezing Europe's living space means that it may be in constant conflict with European countries.

To make the Golden Dragon the world's currency would require a large gold reserve, or control over the currency used for oil settlements, as is the case in the contemporary United States.

As for industry and commerce, Europe will not let it dominate its own market so easily, and in the future it will probably have to exchange some technology for the market.

He was thinking about it when the phone rang in the study.

Turning around and going back to connect the phone, Lin Wentao's voice came, "Your Majesty, the first tank of the tank factory has officially rolled off the assembly line, and the lower officials are 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 with an internal combustion engine was produced, he asked for the establishment of 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.

After greeting Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming notified his special car to pick him up and take him to the tank factory.

Since he had a car, he has become much safer to travel, and the speed of the car allows him to get anywhere with ease.

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

Because he sometimes comes suddenly, the government inspection will deal with a large number of officials, which makes the officials tremble one by one, and the officials around Qingzhou dare not be careless, for fear of being raided by the emperor.