After Lin Yuan announced the news, public opinion in the world was in an uproar, and all countries expressed their shock, and the most shocked of them was not Japan, but the United Kingdom!

Since Britain announced that it would conduct an anti-dumping investigation on China's dyed textiles, it has gradually increased its pressure on Chinese goods, not only carrying out anti-dumping investigations on more than 10 categories and hundreds of goods, but also imposing retaliatory tariffs on more than a dozen goods, the so-called retaliatory tariffs are tariffs with tax rates far exceeding the reasonable range, for example: the price of 10 meters of cloth in the UK is 50 pence, but the tariffs may reach 50 pounds!

As soon as the retaliatory tariff is issued, the merchants who sell this kind of product must greatly increase the price of this kind of goods in order to maintain profits, but consumers have a psychological limit on the price of goods, and if the price of goods exceeds the psychological tolerance limit of consumers, consumers will not buy this kind of product, so merchants will not buy this kind of goods again.

The British originally planned to fight a trade war with China and wanted to defeat China with the huge market they occupied, so they announced a series of sanctions, but they did not expect China to announce that it would help North Korea to fight, which means that China will recruit a large number of troops, and these troops will definitely need to use daily necessities, so it greatly stimulated China's domestic production, and the people have money, and their desire to consume is high, so China's market was developed, and those goods rejected by the British were digested by Lin Yuan in China.

Seeing that the trade war could not contain China, the European powers began to ponder other tricks, and Lin Yuan convened a military conference to plan an attack on Korea.

At the meeting, Lin Yuan said: "I plan to attack the Japanese army in Korea from three directions, the easternmost is the current position of the Seventh Division, from where we will cross the Tumen River, the main combat force is the Seventh Division and the Second Division, as well as the 1st Independent Brigade and the 2nd Independent Brigade, and the 1st Division stationed in the vicinity of Vladivostok will also be put into operation, and I will organize your three divisions and two brigades into the First Front Army, and the commander of the army will be Comrade Xiao Yingwu, commander of the 7th Division." ”

"In the west of the Changbai Mountain border section, I decided to attack from Ji'an, the main force participating in the battle here is the third division, you have just been transferred from Hubei, and it will take a period of time to prepare, so you are not in a hurry to fight, and I have sent the eighth and ninth divisions back to cooperate with you in the battle, you are organized into the second front army, and the commander of the army is Comrade Ou Zhenhai, the commander of the third division."

"The westernmost operations are carried out by the Fourth and Fifth Divisions, and I will send the Tenth Division back to cooperate with your fighting, and I will turn you into the Third Front Army, and the commander of the army will be Comrade Xia Siming, the commander of the Fourth Division, and the main direction of attack is Anton, do you understand?"

Everyone nodded, and Lin Yuan continued: "My strategy is this, the First Front Army will first launch an attack on the Tumen River, and the goal is to capture the most important city in the northeast of Korea - Cheongjin, where the Japanese have built a large number of factories, which can produce a large number of weapons and equipment for the front line. ”

"At the same time as the First Front Army launched an attack, the Second Front Army and the Third Front Army temporarily stood still, making the illusion that they would not send troops, inducing the Japanese army to reinforce Kiyojin in the northeast, and if the Japanese army sent reinforcements, the Second and Third Front armies would attack the Japanese army again."

Lin Yuan paused after speaking, and then said: "Okay, the initial strategy of the war is like this, what else do you not understand?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, and Lin Yuan said, "Okay, let's start acting." Lin Yuan ended the meeting and thought in his heart: "This time I invested nine main divisions and two main brigades in Korea, with more than 300,000 people, and the ten divisions of the Japanese army are 300,000 people, and the number of both sides is equal, but our army's weapons and equipment are obviously superior, and there are navies and air forces to cooperate in operations, so it should not be a big problem to win." ”

"However, as soon as these nine divisions are withdrawn, the defense of the interior will be completely handed over to the newly formed troops, and the newly formed troops have fourteen divisions, most of them are new recruits, and their combat effectiveness is not very strong, and we need to be vigilant against Britain and other powers taking advantage of our lack of troops to provoke countries on the border to harass us."

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan couldn't help but think of a sentence in "The Art of War": "Go to the army to plan, and then fight to make friends." It means that the best way to restrain the enemy in war is to use strategy to thwart the enemy's strategic intentions, and the second best way is to defeat the enemy by diplomatic means. ”

"Now the major powers in the world support Japan, except for France in Europe and Ethiopia in Africa, the others are small countries like Switzerland, so there is little hope of using diplomatic relations to fight Japan, but I can use diplomatic relations to stabilize China's borders, so as not to catch fire in the backyard of a war in front of my door!"

Lin Yuan opened the map, looked at the various countries on the border with China, and thought: "Russia in the east and north is no longer to worry, we have recovered the vast territory of the Outer Northeast, and put the whole of Siberia into our pocket, Russia no longer has the strength to stir up trouble." ”

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan saw the Central Asian region bordering Xinjiang at a glance and thought: "These places are also controlled by Russia, will they use these places to stir up trouble in Xinjiang?" Probably not, Russia is already seriously injured, and it will not provoke any more incidents in the short term. ”

Lin Yuan looked to the southeast again, there are several countries bordering China, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "South Asia and Southeast Asia are the most dangerous for us, first of all, India, now India is a colony of the British, if the British really want to stir up trouble on the border, the Indians can naturally act as pawns." ”

"And Burma, which is now also a colony of the British, and like India, there is the possibility of attacking us, and further east are Laos and Vietnam, both of which are French colonies, of which Vietnam is still taken by the French from the Qing court, and it is part of China, and it will definitely be recovered in the future."

"Don't look at France as our ally of China now, but there is no such thing as a friend in international exchanges, and France may stab me in the back." Thinking of this, Lin Yuan immediately found the liaison officer and said: "Inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare a series of Sino-French cultural exchange activities, and notify the Ministry of Science and Technology to let them relax the restrictions on the transfer of military technology to France." ”

The liaison officer promised to go out, and Lin Yuan called Shen Wanqing again and asked, "Do Myanmar and India have our spy network?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Of course there is, our spy network is almost all over the world. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Let your agents secretly win over the nobles of Burma and India, it will be of great use in the future." Shen Wanqing agreed, Lin Yuan put down the phone and thought: "The border is basically worry-free!" ”