Thinking the same thing. Myth hasn't actually DONE anything for the last 4 updates.
shhh!
BTW what governing style are your sliders giving?
paternal autocrat
I anxiously await the many wars of expansion. You know, the wars that give that satisfying result of when your entire empire fills a single screenshot?
buwhahahahaha!
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Li Jishen had to sit down, he was dizzy. Events had suddenly begun moving at a whirlwind speed and Li Jishen could trace how Europe fell even deeper into its war. Indeed, the situation was one that perhaps warranted war elsewhere as well.
Firstly, a great many events occurred on the modernization front. An independent research group from the Academia Sinica made an incredible theoretical breakthrough, and believed that, with further work, China could begin producing electronic computers!
The cover page of the paper that was primarily responsible for the theoretical breakthrough.
Secondly, somehow the Annamese had managed to develop a Kampfgruppe doctrine independently of China, and even though Li Zongren’s Military Academy had a headstart on them! Not only that, but they even offered it to Li Zongren free of charge. Being a pragmatic man, Li Jishen took it without complaint, though he later arranged that China bestow several technological blueprints of some importance to Annam.
Annam certainly had some fine military theoreticians.
Lastly, five projects, including Li Zongren’s own Kampfgruppe project, were completed in the past three months and another five started. Li Jishen hoped that these projects, especially the naval ones, bore fruit soon as he wished to begin construction of a real navy to protect certain Chinese interests in Oceania and the Pacific.
Another round of modernization.
In Hyesan, in the north of the province of Korea, communist rebels took up arms in late May. Fortunately, a corps of the South Manchurian Border Army was nearby and was able to easily handle the rebels. Of interesting note was several correspondences to Soviet generals in Vladivostok. Li Jishen therefore immediately ordered the Sino-Soviet border closed pending a response from Moscow, which had thus far not been forthcoming.
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The communist rebels in Hyesan, before their defeat.
June 9th was a day Li Jishen wouldn’t forget; Europe stumbled and fell into another war as Germany declared war on the Soviet Union. Li Jishen hadn’t ever really believed that Germany would take this step, no matter how many speeches Hitler made. He almost wept, with joy.
Germany goes to war with the Soviet Union!
What seemed like barely a breath later, though it was actually two days, the United States of America joined the war alongside Great Britain and the Commonwealth against the Germans, though it did not formally join the Grand Alliance just yet. Li Jishen was stunned. Not only was the greatest democracy of the world finally joining the war, but it was suddenly very impolitic to push for claims in Burma.
Hitler had better watch his back, and Li Jishen better stop watching Burma.
However, the next day brought even more revelations. The Philippines took their master’s direction and also declared war on the Philippines. Li Jishen had shaken his head upon hearing this news, what could
they do?
The Philippines joined the war against the Axis as well.
simultaneously received with the news of the Philippines, it turned out South Africa, which had in 1939 voted against war, joined it! However, what was most perplexing was the target of their ire.
South Africa was more offended by Bulgaria than by Germany, strangely.
Li Jishen had been expecting a British delegation concerning the status of Hong Kong, but once he learned the news that America had joined the Allies had had to act quickly. Taking an airbrush, he hurriedly removed and signs that China was laying claim to parts of Burma or, indeed, any British possessions beyond Hong Kong. He, however, left those claims China had on the Soviet Union.
The hurriedly modified claims of the Empire of China.
There was a knock on his door and Li Jishen turned around from his map to see Li Zongren and Wang JingWei escorting three British officers into the room.