After Major Rondebell, who was in charge of the divine calculation operation, made this report, there was a round of applause on the bridge of the Overlord.
Regardless of their thoughts, the military attaches and ambassadors to China from 12 countries all gave warm applause to Lin Youde, the organizer of this military exercise observation.
"Everyone," Lin Youde raised his hand and suppressed the applause, "Many people think that the Overlord is the strongest maritime warship today. I think this is due to the myth of the Overlord's Sky Eye system. In fact, your country has
We have mastered some technologies that are comparable to the Sky Eye system, such as the artillery casting technology of Germany and France, and the steam turbine technology of England. Today's visit is an activity carried out to eliminate everyone's inappropriate estimation of our strength."
After Lin Youde finished speaking, he looked meaningfully at Zhu Erdian, who had just been promoted to the plenipotentiary special envoy to China.
Zhu Erdian is still a fifty-year-old veteran after all. This trick certainly cannot sway him, but Lin Youde's goal has obviously been achieved.
Lin Youde held this kind of public drill as soon as his fleet arrived in Tianjin, not to eliminate misunderstandings between countries, on the contrary, he wanted to show his power. This set of Sky Eye systems and the accompanying fire control calculations are in his hands, Lin Youde
Whoever supports his faction can obtain relevant benefits. If he does not support it, he can only exchange it for the corresponding technology - all the military attachés and ambassadors to China present are well aware of this.
As for the fact that he deliberately stared at Zhu Erdian in the end, that was because Chen Tianhua reported that the biggest supporter behind Yuan Shikai was the British Empire, and Lin Youde remembered that in the last time and space, Zhu Erdian had a good relationship with Yuan Shikai. So Lin Youde made such an obvious move,
to warn the British to "be careful". At the same time, this action was also done to show the presence of Germany and France. The French have been hooking up with Lin Youde since the Battle of Okinawa to want the clairvoyance and fire control magic. The Germans have also continued to do something.
Hint: at an informal tea party, the German military observer in Langgabo, the Netherlands, tactfully told Lin Youde that the sister of German Queen Wilhelmina has now reached the age of marriage...
Unlike the representatives of the great powers who had their own evil intentions, the Chinese officials who visited the military exercise all looked miserable. Sheng Xuanhuai had been following Lin Youde's fleet since Weihaiwei, and he had a very intuitive understanding of the quality and mental outlook of this new navy.
He knew that it was basically impossible to poach the navy from Lin Youde at the moment. But now he actually observed the expressions of the military attachés after watching the main gun firing exercises commanded by the Sky Eye and the Divine Calculation. Sheng Xuanhuai, who did not understand military affairs, realized that this system
The value is far greater than Yuan Shikai and others estimated.
Lin Youde has a trump card that even foreigners will be moved by. This situation is not easy to handle.
When Sheng Xuanhuai thought about it, he couldn't help but shake his head secretly.
After the day's observation, everyone who came to visit went straight to the telegraph office. The report on the most advanced battleship in the world was delivered to everyone's desks as quickly as possible. At this time, the whole world realized that a new round of battleships was coming.
The naval arms race is about to begin.
The next day, the fleet anchored at Dagukou began to open to the general public. The Chinese people who always liked to watch the excitement gave Lin Youde enough face. Almost the entire Tianjin city came to see the "big iron ship that foreigners are afraid of".
Lin Youde pulled out the Navy Art Troupe, which had been trained for a long time, formed 20 cultural work teams, and put them among the gathered people to publicize the Battle of Okinawa, "Ren Yin Avenged", Tianjin Allegro, and Jingyun drums in the form of street performances.
Despite the excitement in domestic newspapers after the Battle of Okinawa, in fact, the common people had no real feelings about this victory. After all, most common people did not have the habit of reading newspapers even if they were literate. They could only listen to the newspapers in teahouses to catch up with the fashion...
But now, with the efforts of Lin Youde's work team and the momentum of the naval fleet artillery drill, the common people were immediately impressed. When the common people who came to watch the drill returned home, they would say to everyone they met, "The navy's artillery is so fierce."
"The land was thinned by more than ten feet with a roar." "The boss's iron ship, the navy, was blown up in just one pipe of smoke." "Japan was so scared that it surrendered. I think from now on, even the foreign devils will have to let us three
point".
And that night, the theaters in Tianjin changed their repertoire as if they had made an appointment, and began to perform "Kamakura Love", which tells the story of a good geisha living in Kamakura who fell in love with the promising young man Takakura-kun, but the war broke out.
Mr. Takakura was captured by the unscrupulous Japanese warlord and became a soldier. At this time, the glorious Chinese People's Volunteer Army liberated Kamakura, so the girl begged a kind-hearted Chinese officer to take her to the battlefield to find her lover...
Needless to say, this play was written by Lin Youde. The subject matter came from real stories collected and written by the war correspondent of the Political War Department. Lin Youde added some extra details and expanded it, and it became a grand war epic full of unforgettable love and justice.
The play was as successful as the previous one "Lin Hai Xue Yuan". It goes without saying that the young students were studying. There was no male student who came out of the theater who did not swear to be admitted to the military academy to "protect the country and punish the evildoers."
Most of the female students burst into tears.
The best thing is that although this new drama is much more artistic, it still maintains the level of "Lin Hai Xue Yuan" in its appeal to big bosses. In order to attract audiences with little education, Lin Youde deliberately set the Chinese officers in the drama as
He was born as a foreign coolie, but he turned around after the "big shopkeeper" rebelled, and gradually climbed up to the position of an officer by working in the military industry. In the play, Lin Youde never forgets to highlight this person's identity, and specially writes a lot of vulgar dialogues.
This move paid off as expected. Many "guanshangu" who listened to the opera particularly liked this character, and many of his lines quickly became popular among ordinary people in Beijing and Tianjin.
This play, which appeals to both refined and popular tastes, has become so popular that some theaters have begun to be unable to bear it.
In fact, many theaters in Beijing and Tianjin in this era were not elegant places. Rich people would invite famous actors and actresses to sing at home. The most popular people in the theaters were middle- and lower-level bannermen who were idle, and those who had worked for a day.
The short-shirted guests. Those short-shirted guests come to listen to the opera to kill time. After listening to a few paragraphs, they go home and hug their wives to sleep. It doesn't matter to them even if they listen to the same jokes for several days in a row.
Therefore, in the theater at this time, guests were all mobile, coming in and out, which was completely different from that of later generations.
This is great, people can only go in and out, they have to finish the performance before leaving. As a result, all the theaters are overcrowded, and the people selling melon seeds and tea can't walk. Even if they can't walk, they can't let people "live" like usual.
"Borrow light", I am listening to a play, I will glare at you if you interrupt.
The popularity of this drama gave Lin Youde enough momentum. He waited leisurely in Tianjin for a week, and only after he became a topic of public interest, took the train to Beijing leisurely.