Isabella pushed down the bedroom cabinet filled with expensive antiques without any hesitation.
The sound of the shattering of those precious instruments did not make Her Majesty feel better at all.
James was the nail that was inserted into the British Empire for four years. When Wensley Churchill initially proposed the idea of taking advantage of the chaos to fish, Isabella thought for a long time before she decided to use her spy ace.
.Originally, I thought that the Japanese would take the blame and that they would benefit themselves. If it goes well, James would be sent back afterwards. Now, I will lose my wife and the army.
When I thought of this, a bottle of high-quality red wine with just aged years turned into pieces again.
At this time, Isabella's palace manager pushed the door and entered the room. The old man saw the mess in the room and didn't even move his eyebrows. Isabella rarely loses her temper like this, especially after becoming the queen. This is still the first time.
Once. But the old housekeeper watched Isabella grow up and had long known that this young lady with a good character and noble character would occasionally burst into anger like this.
It is precisely because of the trust of the closest old servants that Isabella indulged in her emotions so much. After all, the Queen's hysteria and other things are not good to spread. This perversion can only be released in this bedroom.
He was secretly buried in the depths of the palace by old servants.
Isabella must be the holy, noble and perfect knight, she is the guardian and symbol of the empire, so she must respond to people's expectations and become what people want to see.
Seeing the old housekeeper come in, Isabella took a deep breath and calmed down her mood. Soon, the violent ups and downs on her chest began to slow down.
"What's going on?"
"My ambassador to Langyabo in the Netherlands sent a telegram back saying that Lin Youde intended to secretly share with us the technology of the new electric torpedo."
Isabella smashed the expensive Persian glass in her hand to pieces.
"That kind of thing, we..."
"Your Majesty!" The gentle butler suddenly raised his tone and interrupted Isabella's words. At this time, the relationship between the two seemed to have suddenly changed from the queen and the minister to the elder and the younger generation, "Miss Wensli Churchill is waiting in the office.
You seem to have something important to talk about.”
Isabella's mouth trembled slightly, and finally, she took a deep breath again.
"I understand. She also came to persuade me to accept Lin Youde's show of goodwill, right? I sometimes really envy her if I treat profiteering as the only truth in the world."
In fact, Isabella also knows that this time the British Empire is in the wrong hands. Although international affairs are bigger than fists, the problem is that the current British Empire's fists are already in the heyday of the mid-19th century.
It's not that great. Although it's still worth fighting alone, the situation of being beaten up by a crowd should be avoided as much as possible.
Moreover, the electric torpedo in Lin Ji's hand is like a killer under the current technical conditions. The best torpedoes in this era are only a little range, which is equivalent to a bayonet in naval battles, except for night battle sneak attacks and burning boats.
There is no good way to use it besides attack. If the range is short, the amazing failure rate and poor hit rate have become the fatal point of this new weapon.
However, Lin Ji's electric torpedoes are different. They have long range and high accuracy and are crazy about power. As long as they are covered by a large fleet, they can easily complete the "great cause" of making a small move for a big deal. The British Empire, which relies heavily on maritime hegemony, can easily achieve the "great cause" of exerting a small amount.
What I fear most is that the enemy - such as Germany - has this new weapon of killer level, but I don't have it.
If Lin Youde refuses to show goodwill now, Lin Youde may regard this as a signal that the relationship with the British Empire has broken down. Lin Youde can make very few choices after that...
Isabella could not mobilize enough troops to destroy Lin Ji before Lin Youde and the Germans completed contact and consultation. After Lin Youde and Germany alliance or even worse situations occur, Isabella must bear the responsibility for the new situation if she wants to use force.
The danger of a total war breaking out in Germany.
Although Isabella believes that there must be a war between England and Germany, Britain is not ready yet.
Isabella's plan is very simple. He uses the economic power of the British Empire to weaken Germany's war potential through arms races, forcing Germany to take the initiative to seek war when it can no longer play. In this way, he does not have to take on the responsibility of taking on the battle and win morality.
Advantages, while reducing losses during the war with Germany.
Lin Youde definitely took tough measures after calculating this point. Isabella knew this very well, which was the biggest reason why she couldn't help but lose her temper.
The biggest mistake Isabella made in making decisions was to underestimate Lin Youde's courage. In the past so many years, she had two people who absolutely did not want to be an opponent. One was Bismarck from Germany, but he had already died.
The other is her mother, Emperor Victoria, now...
Now I should add a Lin Youde.
But Isabella always has a premonition that she will meet with this Oriental man sooner or later.
These are not what Isabella has to worry about now. Lin Youde killed a British man. The most important thing is to maintain the alliance and secretly accept electric torpedo technology while suppressing criticism from domestic radical forces.
Isabella started to have a headache when she thought of these.
"Lin Youde... You walk a tightrope like this, sooner or later you will have to explain yourself to it!"
The old housekeeper raised his eyebrows to pretend that he didn't hear it.
**
The news that the British surrendered really made Lin Youde breathe a sigh of relief.
He was actually very worried that the British would be so angry that they would be beaten up. In that case, although they would not be worried about their lives, the fate of relying on others would be inevitable. Is it better for me to make the decision on my territory now? Although my strength is insufficient, I always have to walk on tightropes and play.
Games are better than being controlled by others everywhere.
Now the British will not be able to fight for the time being, and Lin Youde can free up his hands to deal with Japan.
In early November 1901, Lin Ji completed the organization of three Japanese Mixed Associations for the Restoration of the Republic at a lightning speed, and combined with the Japanese diaspora troops originally organized by the Nanyang Army, they formed a 15,000 Japanese troops.
The resumption of the Kuomintang army officially launched the banner of "lifting Japan and revitalizing East Asia."
Of course, this Restoration Army is just an air and has no weapons, let alone training. The only ones that can really fight are the Japanese and Okinawa wings that were originally organized by the Nanyang Army.
What Lin Youde wanted was the posture of 15,000 people, to boost his reputation and restore Japan's real main force, the navy.
Lin Youde's naval forces, including two armored cruisers mainly from the Qing Dynasty, as well as the old battleship Victory captured from the Russians, and the Russians were blocked in the port after the defeat.
The two armored cruisers are indeed not strong.
The only thing worth mentioning is the two sea-shaped ships. After returning from the north, they entered the market for half a year, dismantled almost all the secondary guns, replaced the generators, and were extremely advanced based on the technical level of 1901.
Torpedo launch tube.
As an opponent's joint fleet, it was far from the strength of the previous space-time Japan-Russia naval war. In the past space-time, the joint fleet did not complete the so-called Six Six Fleet (six battleships combined with six armored cruisers to cooperate in combat,
Later, the construction of the 88 Fleet's idea was developed. The main ships were purchased from foreigners, just like the Qing navy. For example, the two 7700-ton armored cruisers, Kasuga and Rijin, which were delivered after the war, were both from Italy.
It was purchased by people, and it was something that Argentines ordered from Italians but had no money to make up for the final payment...
However, in 1901, the Japanese Six Six Fleet had completed most of the time. Although the Mikasa, the flagship of the fleet, was still lying in the British dock, the Joint Fleet now has three ships, Asahi, Shikishima and Hatsuse.
The former dreadnoughts, plus Fuji and Yashima ordered from the UK, the Japanese Navy had as many as 5 battleships alone, and the armored cruisers were basically formed. Although the number was less than that of Lin Youde, they were all large tonnage.
New ship.
After Lin Youde calculated this, he felt that he could only count on the outstanding performance of the Crab troops in a sea decisive battle with the joint fleet. Then the problem came: Lin Youde's torpedoes were not enough.
The weapons like the war crab do not have the ability to dive deep. The ship-borne gods actually pose a considerable threat to them. When attacking the Russians, it was purely because the Russians were too careless and could not expect that there would be any further attacks on the Japanese.
The same good luck. So it can be predicted that in the battle with the joint fleet, the distance between the Crab troops launching a torpedo attack will definitely be further than when they attacked the Russians. In addition, the Japanese deliberately avoided after discovering the intention to attack, Lin Youde's hands
This little torpedo may be difficult to destroy the main force of the joint fleet.
So in November 1901, finding a way to deal with the joint fleet became one of the main tasks of the Helangya Polyn Base Camp. Another almost equally important thing about the base camp was to establish the "Base Special Section".
Lin Youde transferred several of his own students from various departments of Lin Ji to form the first generation of backbone of the special department, and then transferred a group of capable people from various systems such as police, military, intelligence and even commercial operations to hand them over to these backbone.
, So Lin Ji's secret police took shape.
Interestingly, Lin Youde also stuffed Qiu Jingxiong, who showed keen intuition in previous events, into the special department. In the last time and space, Lin Youde had no idea that this person had this talent, just as if he didn't know that Chen Tianhua could still be
Like the intelligence leader, he fell in love with the fun of introducing historical figures into different trajectories - it felt a bit like God.
A few days after Teko was established, Victoria, who almost became Lin Youde's second goddaughter, found him.
**
"Improve the authority of the technical experimental unit?"
After Lin Youde casually flirted with the thick stack of reports submitted by Victoria, he frowned and stared at the girl who submitted the report.
Although Sophie is there, Lin Youde knew that this report must have nothing to do with Sophie. She probably pulled Victoria over to support the scene, so she looked like "I really want to go back for an experiment."
"I think it's not enough to just secret police and counter-espionage agencies like TCO. It is necessary to build a force that specifically covers the defense and protection of important places."
"The military police are already preparing..."
"In addition, this army should have the ability to dispatch my compatriots to rescue immediately after discovering them."
Lin Youde was startled.
"Rescue immediately or something... do you mean... on a global scale?"
"Of course, I can do it with my rocket vehicle."
Yes, Lin Youde thought that with the current development speed of cheating, it might be possible to do it in a few decades.
Lin Youde and Victoria stared at each other for more than ten seconds, and finally gave in: "Okay, I'll write an order. But who is the leader of this army?"
Victoria was stunned, then looked at Lin Youde with inexplicable gaze and asked back, "I... can't do it?"
For a moment, Lin Youde hesitated. After all, Victoria had not yet put on her small notebook, but a voice in her mind told him that she could not bear to leave the child and could not trap the wolf.
"Okay, but you have to give me an action brief every month. If it is detailed, it is fine if it can be done. In addition, since it has been upgraded, this army should have a more stylish name..."
Victoria didn't say anything, it seemed that she had given the naming rights to Lin Youde.
Lin Youde thought for a long time and finally made a decision: "It's called 'Landbeer', I will draw the army badge for you later."