While Togo Heihachiro and others were being taught the history of "Nanhua's difficulties in starting a business" on the train, the two armored ships of the Second Fleet near the sea had already been ordered to set off - the destination, Haizhou.
"What is our goal?"
As the car drove towards the factory, Zhu Xianhai said in a calm and extremely calm tone.
"It's to let them know, don't be shameless. If negotiations with Haizhou fail, go to Dagokou to negotiate!"
Surprisingly, Zhu Xianhai was not angry at all. Liu Kunpeng and other nearly a hundred Nanhua businessmen were arrested. This was not good news. They had been responsible for recruiting immigrants.
This behavior of the Manchus was certainly not that simple.
I had always thought that what policy did Zhu Xianhai hold towards the Manchus? It was to make a fortune in silence, and while doing business with them, he would also do business with the Kingdom of Heaven. However, official contact should be avoided as much as possible, in order to ensure immigration.
"Your Majesty, if this happens, the conflict between us and the Manchus will be inevitable. Will this affect the next step of immigration?"
Compared with other things, immigration is the most important. Even Sun Hu, the chief of staff, also knows the importance of immigration.
"A conflict is about to break out, but..."
Zhu Xianhai frowned and sneered.
"If we don't give them some color, they will imprison our people today and ban immigration to our side tomorrow. If they want to beat them, they will have to beat them painfully! After being beaten several times, they know that foreigners are not willing to
He is easy to mess with, but we have to let him know that we are not easy to mess with!"
While sneering, Zhu Xianhai didn't mind if the navy landed in Taku to do something. He knew the temper of the Manchus very well.
The treaty is clear!
As long as you are beaten, signing a treaty is very easy. The purpose of sending a warship over this time is for negotiation.
However, Zhu Xianhai was curious, who made them dare to arrest people from Nanhua, even if they were Qing people? Now they are still... well, they can be regarded as foreigners.
Chinese people who came back from abroad.
"It's your own fault. Haven't the Kingdom of Heaven always wanted to buy our warships and sell them to them? There are also obsolete weapons that France wants to buy. We can't favor one over the other in the Kingdom of Heaven..."
Zhu Xianhai couldn't stand the feeling of being looked down upon. Now we, Nanhua, were involved in European affairs, but "we, the Tatars," actually dared to arrest our people. Can Zhu Xianhai not be angry?
On the way to the shooting range, when Zhu Xianhai was angrily talking about how to deal with the Manqing and make them pay for their actions, a very strange idea suddenly came to his mind - the future history books
Here, will South China also become a great power?
Well, essentially speaking, Nanhua is different from other great powers. Even if Nanhua's army arrives there, it cannot be equated to an invasion. After all, Nanhua is also China...
Thinking of this, Zhu Xianhai felt relieved. When he arrived at the shooting range, preparations had been made. Two mortars were placed in a row, and several soldiers stood beside them.
"It's Type 64 and Type 65 mortars."
These two mortars have always been South China's trump card. The former even changed the course of the Civil War. The famous 4-inch mortar once brought a nearly devastating blow to the Union Army during the Civil War.
That is, after the Civil War, armies from various countries introduced them one after another. However, they all used monkey iron-thick wrought iron body tubes, wooden tubes or fire plate time fuses, with a range of only about 1,500 meters. This was also the beginning of mortars.
The reason for its widespread popularity is its short range. But it has largely replaced the old-fashioned mortar.
"Yes, Your Majesty, what we have improved this time is the artillery shells. After switching to smokeless propellants, the maximum range of the Type 64 and Type 65 has increased by 50%, exceeding the 4.5 kilometers. Smokeless propellants, even now
It can be called a miracle!"
Miracle!
This miracle was created by Zhu Xianhai. At his prompts, Nanhua tried to use celluloid, that is, camphorated nitrocellulose, to make smokeless propellant. The test results were very successful. After many tests and adjustments to the formula, the arsenal began to use
The new propellant was first applied to rifle ammunition, and then began to be applied to other weapons. The changes brought by smokeless propellant to the performance of weapons are disruptive, and the performance of many weapons has been greatly improved as a result.
"The Prussian Krupp cannon has a range of only 3.5 kilometers. Since the war broke out, they have suppressed the French artillery. We can use mortars to suppress them."
Sun Hu said with a smile.
"Of course, the most important thing is to practice new tactics. We have been summarizing the battle with the Afghan army in the past few months, but that battle happened too fast, and the tactics we trained before were not used at all.
, this time, we can have a good training in France."
Zhu Xianhai nodded and said.
"In this battle, fighting is secondary, troop training is primary. Our purpose is not to win this battlefield for the French, but to conduct a demonstration of strength in Europe, so that we can jump to the world stage.
to participate in the world game, if we just set our sights on South America..."
After thinking about it, Zhu Xianhai said.
"We won't be able to participate in the world game for at least the next twenty years."
One of the most typical examples is the American imperialists. In the 1890s, their economic strength surpassed that of Britain, Germany and other countries and became the number one in the world. But what about their international influence?
almost none!
Even if they defeated Spain in 1898, so what? It was just a small and weak European country, not a great power at all.
"In this case, Your Majesty, there is no need to go to France in person."
Once again, Sun Hu persuaded.
"After all, now that Nanhua has been decided, His Majesty needs to be here in all aspects."
In fact, from the beginning, after Zhu Xianhai made the decision to personally lead the expedition to France, he encountered opposition from everyone. After all, in the Chinese tradition, personal expeditions by imperial commanders have never had good results, let alone China.
The French emperor got three. If the airship troops hadn't arrived in a hurry, the emperor would probably be a prisoner now.
As the king of a country, how can he easily take risks? Throughout the ages, those emperors who took their own actions have never had any good results!
As ministers, of course they must do their best to dissuade the emperor.
Facing the dissuasion from his ministers, Zhu Xianhai shook his head and said.
"Going to Europe...I have my own ideas. After all, some things always need to be done!"