Now that the Qing court has collapsed and the imprisonment has been lifted, the Eight Banners have integrated into society and are on their own, as for the integration of the Eight Banners into society, there is no problem at all, the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have been completely assimilated by the Han people after living together with the Han people for more than two hundred years, no one can speak Manchu, no one knows Manchu, they live the festivals of the Han people, and they eat the food of the Han people.

After dealing with the problem of the Eight Banners, the next thing to deal with is the Manchu officials, during the Qing court, a large number of officials were left in the country, these officials were corrupt, Lin Fei had no intention of appointing them, so Lin Fei ordered all the officials of the Qing court to be cleared and confiscated the personal property of the officials, so that Lin Fei obtained a lot of wealth and put this wealth into production and construction.

Lin Fei officially banned the historical title of "Qing State" and replaced it with "Chinese Empire", and the Qing State officially became history, and in every future history textbook, the Qing Dynasty would be followed by an additional parentheses, in which "1644-1901" was written.

After the liberation of the Qing court, the Chinese Empire obtained all the territory of the Qing court, since then, the territory of the Chinese Empire has increased to 12.59 million square kilometers, in this era, second only to Britain and Russia, ranking third in the world, the British mainland area is not large, but there are large colonies in Asia and Africa, among which India, South Africa, and Myanmar are the largest.

The territory of the Chinese Empire consisted of three major parts, the first part was the territory of the original Qing State, the second part was the territory of the South Seas, and the third part was the territory on the Indochina Peninsula.

The first was officially called the "main land of China" by the Chinese Empire, because most of the places were on the mainland except for Taiwan Island, Hainan Island and the Ryukyu Islands, the second was officially called the "Nanyang Islands of China" by the Chinese Empire, and the third was officially called the "territory of the Chinese Peninsula" by the Chinese Empire.

The islands of the South Seas include Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, Sulawesi, Borneo, Java and Sumatra, of course, the Chinese Empire still has some mines in Western Australia, but these mines are not officially recognized by the Chinese Empire, so they are not counted in the territory of the Chinese Empire, and the reason for not recognizing these mines is mainly because Lin Fei does not want to attract the attention of the British.

The territory of the Chinese Peninsula included Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, which were nominally only vassal states of the Chinese Empire, but Lin Fei set up governors in these places, and the power of the governors far exceeded that of the local kings, especially Vietnam, the Vietnamese Emperor Nguyen Phuc Chao, who was almost a puppet of the Chinese Empire.

The territory of the Chinese Empire reached 12.59 million square kilometers, and the population reached about 450 million, of which the territory of the former Qing Dynasty, that is, the "main land of China", contributed 400 million people, and the territory of the Nanyang Islands and the Chinese Peninsula contributed 50 million people.

Lin Fei has been a lot more at ease since he had the Huaxia Zhulu, because the Huaxia Zhulu provided 400 million Chinese at once, and in the Huaxia Empire, the Chinese are no longer a minority, even if the Filipinos and Indonesians want to make trouble, Lin Fei can rely on the 400 million Chinese to easily pacify them.

If the scale of the Filipino and Indonesian rebellion further increased, or even established a regime with the intention of independence, Lin Fei could kill them all and then move the Chinese to them.

Although Lin Fei has the main land of China, Lin Fei has no intention of moving the capital, because all of Lin Fei's industrial centers are on the territory of the Nanyang Islands and the China Peninsula, the main land of China, at this time, except for the arsenal left by the Qing court, the number of factories is very small, so Lin Fei still puts the ruling center in Dayu City.

The fall of the Qing Dynasty gave great shock to all countries in the world, especially the Russian Empire, the Japanese Empire, the Mongol Empire and the Korean Empire.

The same is true for all Western countries, especially the United Kingdom, as soon as the Chinese Empire was established, a behemoth beast appeared in northern Burma, and this giant beast may swallow Burma.

Britain then encouraged Japan and Russia to continue to send troops, and promised to provide a large amount of money and technical assistance to the two countries.

Britain is very helpless, now we are against the submarines of the Chinese Empire, there is no certainty of victory, marching from land is the best choice.

Russia retorted: "Can't you march by land?" Don't forget, the Siamese Empire can border Vietnam of the Chinese Empire, you can send troops from Siam to directly attack Vietnam, Vietnam is the non-ferrous metal processing center of the Chinese Empire, conquer Vietnam, the war potential of the Chinese Empire will be greatly weakened. ”

Britain was speechless by Russia, and Britain did consider sending troops from Siam, but the Siamese Emperor Chulalongkorn said that he would not agree to anything.

Chulalongkorn was one of the more capable monarchs of this era, and the countries around Siam, including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaya, and Burma, were all colonized by the West, but Siam remained independent.

This is because Chulalongkorn was a very enlightened monarch, he was inclined to the West, learned a lot about the Western political system, economic system and culture, and tried to transform Siam into a country like the British, so the British could gain a lot of money without relying on war and conquest.

When Chulalongkorn opposed Britain's use of Siam to send troops to Vietnam, it was not easy for Britain to use force against Chulalongkorn, and once Britain used force against Chulalongkorn, Chulalongkorn would be desperate to join the Chinese Empire, and Britain's life would not be easy.

Chulalongkorn wanted to be in front of Britain and the Chinese Empire, and the two sides would take advantage of it, and neither of the British nor the Chinese Empire would be willing to move Siam easily.

For Lin Fei, the Siamese issue was nothing at all, and what really worried him was the threat to the northeast of the Chinese Empire.

In July 1901, the Chinese Empire expelled the Japanese army from the northeast and confronted the Russian army across the Songhua River, which was not too wide to become an extremely stable barrier, and the Russian army could cross the Songhua River at any time and attack the northeast region of the main land of China.

The Korean Empire is adjacent to the Northeast, and a large number of Japanese troops and Korean troops are in Korea, which can attack the northeast of China at any time, and the Japanese army was driven out by the Chinese Empire, and they want to regroup and recapture the northeast of the Qing Dynasty.

Because of these threats, it is difficult for the Chinese Empire to develop and build, just imagine, the Northeast region of the Chinese Empire is always ready to fight, most of the capacity of the Chinese Empire will move to the Northeast region, and the capacity of transporting materials for the main land of China will inevitably be greatly reduced, and the materials cannot be transported into the main land of China, so what is there to talk about developing industry.

If the Chinese Empire wants to develop, the threat to the Northeast must be lifted.

In July 1901, Lin Fei decided to spend two months repairing the railway from Mukden to Jilin, which was already mid-October 1901, the railway had been repaired, and all kinds of strategic materials had been hoarded for more than a month, and the time was ripe to attack the Russian army.

In mid-October, the Jilin section of the Songhua River had not yet frozen, so Lin Fei decided to wait another month, waiting until mid-to-late November, when the Jilin section of the Songhua River would be frozen, and then Lin Fei's armored division would be able to cross the river easily.

Speaking of the armored division, it is now October 1901, and according to Lin Fei's industrial capacity, it can produce 70 plundered artillery chariots a month, and the plundered artillery chariots have been produced at this rate since June 1900, that is to say, the number of plundered artillery chariots can now reach more than 1,000, but in fact, the number of plundered artillery chariots is only 600.

Lin Fei organized the 600 plundering artillery fighting vehicles into three armored divisions, namely the first armored division, the second armored division and the third armored division, of which the first armored division was stationed in Jilin, the second division was stationed in Beijing, and the third division was stationed in Andong, one against the Russian army, one against the Mongolian army, and one against the Japanese army in Korea.

The reason why Lin Fei only made 600 plundered artillery chariots was entirely because the combat effectiveness of the plundering artillery chariots could not satisfy Lin Fei, especially the fact that the track life was only 80 kilometers, which doomed the invading artillery chariots to be unable to complete long-distance independent operations.

Therefore, after Lin Fei manufactured 600 plundered artillery and combat vehicles, he decisively ordered the Ministry of Industry to stop the production of the plundered artillery and combat vehicles, and the spare production capacity was used to improve the plundered artillery and combat vehicles, and strive to increase the track life of the artillery and combat vehicles to 160 kilometers.

In addition to the life of the tracks, there are also a series of improvements such as speed, fire control system, and communication system, and strive to form a generation gap for artillery combat vehicles in various countries in the world after the improved model comes out.

Lin Fei really wanted to apply electronic computers, after all, the accuracy of mechanical computers could not catch up with electronic computers, but Ling Xue's computer development was still in the stage of tackling key problems, and the entry of electronic computers into service was far away.

In addition to improving the Raiding Artillery Chariot, Lin Fei also set out to build the first generation of infantry fighting vehicles, Lin Fei's enemies already knew how to use long-range explosive delivery devices against the Raiding Artillery Chariots, and the infantry coordinated tactics were very important, so the infantry needed a weapon to support their operations.

The military concept of equipping infantry fighting vehicles separately for infantry is unique in the world, and at this time, countries around the world are still immersed in the development of artillery fighting vehicles.

Lin Fei wanted to wait for the Songhua River to freeze, but the Russian army would not let Lin Fei get his wish, and on October 20, the Russian Songhua River Fleet attacked the Songhua River Fleet of the Huaxia Army on a large scale, and the war between China and Russia broke out again. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)