At the beginning of 1901, everyone believed that Lin Youde was going to be the king of the Northeast. However, they did not expect that not long after the Russians retreated, the Nanyang Army also began a major retreat.
In this regard, domestic public opinion has praised Lin Youde for not coveting personal interests and fighting for the country in the Northeast. But in fact, Lin Youde did so entirely out of his own interests: in the last time and space, Mao and Chiang Kai-shek fought for the Northeast after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
It was so joyful because the Northeast was the heart of the country's heavy industry at that time. If you occupied the Northeast, you would have food and guns to fight with. But the problem was that it was the Northeast in 1945, and the heavy industry in the Northeast was the same as that of Russia and Japan.
Fifty years of operation are closely related, but now, in 1901, Russia has only occupied it for six years before being defeated. Japan has not had time to say anything. This Northeast is not as important as later generations.
In this time and space that Lin Youde changed, China's industrial base in the late Qing Dynasty was in Nanyang, and it was in his hands.
What is the benefit of occupying the Northeast in this case? Although Maozi was defeated in the north, his strength was not decisively weakened; in the south, Japan squatted in the direction of the Korean Peninsula, and Yuan Shikai and the Manchu nobles squatted in the direction of Beijing and Tianjin, and then separated by a river
On the Shandong Peninsula, Sun Wen's revolutionary army still squatted.
So Lin Youde retreated decisively.
At the beginning of the Nanyang Army's retreat, Yuan Shikai still didn't believe that Lin Youde had vomited the duck he had eaten. When the Nanyang Army's brigade all boarded the ship in Dalian Bay, Yuan Datou was shocked to realize that he had missed the opportunity to trap tens of thousands of Nanyang Army's elite soldiers.
A great opportunity in the Northeast - he could have withdrawn his troops first and left Lin Youde with the responsibility of defending the territory. But after Lin Youde took the lead, the Beiyang Army was pinned to the Northeast and unable to move.
In the final analysis, Yuan Shikai's thinking is still to use the army to occupy and scrape land to make money and then support the army. How could he understand Lin Youde's advanced concept of issuing currency and using paper to scrape land - this set of ideas was later adopted by Brother Kaishen and his four major
My family played it before, but it turned out that I couldn't play well enough and lost it.
At the same time as the north retreated, Lin Ji in the south lifted the state of general mobilization and spent more than a month transforming from a wartime system to a normal production and management system. Then a long report was sent to Lin Youde's desk.
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"Having been fighting for half a year has pushed our development schedule back so much?"
Lin Youde tapped the last page of the report on the table with his pen, and asked his chief manager with a surprised look on his face.
Du Qifeng responded without changing his expression: "Yes, Brother Lin. In half a year, we consumed a lot of silver. This silver should have been used to purchase machinery and equipment and build factories. The printing volume of Nanyang tickets also greatly exceeded our original amount in this half year."
The plan is to adopt prudent monetary policy to prevent inflation..."
"There is no need to worry about that. The extra Nanyang bills printed will be circulated to places that do not originally use our bills. Coupled with the foreseeable market expansion in the next year, the threat of inflation is not great. The issuance strategy of Nanyang bills is temporarily unchanged.
Move. In addition, I have read all the reports you mentioned, and what I want to know is, is this delay inevitable?"
"Yes, it cannot be avoided."
Lin Youde didn't speak and just stared at Du Qifeng. Du Qifeng responded to Lin Youde's gaze with a straight face. After a while, Lin Ji's big boss sighed.
"War really delays economic construction." Lin Youde shook his head and sighed, and finally decided not to think about it.
Right now, he still has many important things to be busy with.
For example: How to ensure that the great powers who are stimulated by the excellent performance of rx78 do not crush Helang Yabo in anger to avoid future troubles.
**
France, Office of the President of the Republic.
A detailed technical information sent back from Holland was placed on the desk of the President of the Third French Republic. Along with the information was a personal letter from Lin Youde. At the end of the letter, Lin Youde wrote in French: "To
The great conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte pays his highest respects.”….
Of course, there are many ambiguities in this information, as well as a lot of false information, and the key content of the electromagnetic gun has been hidden. But this is enough to make the French feel very lucky for their decision to marry Josephine.
According to Lin Youde's plan, this information will allow the French to imitate something that is far inferior to the rx78 in performance within a year but can still crush the current mainstream Shenji air combat armor.
This is part of Lin Youde's package plan. Now that the French have something in their hands, they will not let the British crush them. Lin Youde: I took the degraded version and you took the prototype. This is definitely intolerable.
Similarly, the Americans also received similar information. The scientific research strength and industrial machinery of the American Empire will soon be invested in the development and production of new armor. In this case, they will never let the British Empire annex the Netherlands.
Langyabo. Originally, Lin Youde and the Americans worked together to leverage the alliances between the traditional powers. How could this be possible when they lost their allies and still allowed the established empires to behave?
In Lin Youde's plan, this information should also be stolen by the all-pervasive British agents, so that the British Empire could also gain something. In this way, the noble Queen of England would have no reason to risk offending the two powers to attack Helang Yabo.
He had an idea. Little did he know that the British Empire was really powerful at this time. The agents did not embarrass the junior numbered 007 at all. The scientists of the British Empire may not be as talented as Lin Youde's two red-eyed little sisters, but they are still
Extraordinary.
**
London, Buckingham Palace, Queen's Chamber.
Isabella frowned as she looked at the design displayed by the Royal Society of Science.
"This thing is really ugly. Can't it be made as beautiful as the Chinese prototypes?" Finally the queen truthfully expressed her feelings.
The scientists of the British Empire looked at each other, and finally the Queen's intelligence chief answered on his behalf: "This is just a conceptual design, Your Majesty. For the real finished product, we will invite the best craftsmen to create an appearance that matches the noble status of each goddess.
.”
Isabella nodded and gestured to the scientists to start explaining.
"Dear Your Majesty the Queen," the scientist wearing a fashionable wig began to eloquently say, "After receiving the initial experimental data of Her Excellency Sophie Tesla from the Americans, we began to study the conversion of Shen Ji's power into electrical energy.
The research on this topic has been going on for more than three years now, during which I received the help of Miss Wensley Churchill from the Primrose Society..."
"Winsley of the Primrose Society?" The Queen frowned and interrupted the scientist's report. She turned to the current Prime Minister, Lord Privy Seal, and Conservative leader Robert Cecil who was waiting on one side. "That 'Independent Conservative'
'Wen Sili?"
"That's her." Cecil nodded with a wry smile, "Just like you, she was born with a noble status and the talent of a goddess, and she also has a troublemaker who is related to a wealthy American. She criticizes our policies in Congress almost every day.
and the Second Boer War. But there is no doubt that Miss Churchill was a staunch patriot. In fact, Sophie Tesla’s original experimental data in the United States was provided by Miss Churchill’s American relatives.”
"Well, that's it." The Queen seemed to have lost interest in the name that suddenly appeared. She pursed her lips at the scientist, signaling "continue."
"With the help of Miss Churchill, we obtained the Boer Goddess captured in the Second Boer War as an experimental subject..."
"Didn't she oppose the second Boer War?" Isabella couldn't help but ask again. This time Robert just shrugged.
"His Majesty?"
"Sorry, please continue."
"Thanks to the help we received, we were able to reproduce Miss Tesla's experiment and complete the electric core. But judging from the existing information, this core must be quite different from the one in the hands of the Chinese. Fortunately,
Yes, after analyzing the intelligence at hand, we believe that the Chinese rx78 design concept is a bit too avant-garde. This is probably because they lack the ability to mass-produce high-performance guided amplification wings, and our British Empire has no such concerns
.”….
The scientist pushed up his wig, which was tending to slide down, and tapped the blackboard with the design drawings on it with the thin wooden stick in his hand.
"Our design combines the electric core with the traditional Shenji flying armor. The electric power provided by the electric core carried on the rear will be used to drive the electric motor connected to the load-bearing components of the armor. The electric motor drives the propeller to provide thrust, allowing the new armor to
It has achieved thrust that was unimaginable in the past. At the same time, we copied the Chinese Sycomi skeleton, so the electric motor on the back can deflect 150 degrees."
"Well, to be honest, I don't quite understand these details. Just tell me what the advantages and disadvantages of this thing are compared to the big Chinese ones." Isabella never pretends to understand, and
She likes to get right to the core.
"First of all, it is much lighter than the Chinese design. We repeatedly studied the Chinese part design drawings collected from the power steering workshops of various countries, but we were unable to figure out the technical principles of the engine they used on the rx78, so we retired.
The next best thing is to use propellers for propulsion, but because our products are much lighter and can use guide wings to assist maneuvers, they are not much worse than the Chinese in terms of maneuverability.
"Secondly, it is easier to control. Our spies personally heard the judgment of Your Excellency Josephine, who was in charge of the rx78 test, that most of the Chinese new things may not be able to be used proficiently, while most of the designers in our design empire can
Can master it.
"Third, due to the insufficient performance of the electric core, a considerable part of Shenji's power cannot be converted, but this has become an advantage. It means that Shenji equipped with new armor can still use most guided weapons, while the Chinese
It seems that once the thing is equipped, it cannot exert the power of the original guided equipment - the basis for judgment is: Your Excellency Josephine did not activate the special functions of her war hammer and shield once when using rx78.
"In the end, it was cheap - and I mean, relative to the empire's deep pockets, it was cheap."
"It sounds like everything you said is good."
"Well……"
"I hate reporting good news but not bad news."
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. The shortcomings are also obvious, because the engine on the back has a propeller, and the rotation range is far inferior to that of the Chinese. There is still a certain gap in mobility, and there is no comparison in terms of maximum speed; and our country's existing technology, electric motor
There are still some shortcomings in stability and sustainability. The propeller for propulsion has become a Achilles heel in defense. In melee combat, we are very afraid of the spread attack of energy-based shooting weapons. Finally, and the most important point, we cannot
To copy that magical shooting weapon, we don’t even know how it works.”
"So we just use gunpowder weapons to make up for it?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. We believe that the six-unit Maxin can effectively offset the Chinese's firepower advantage. The disadvantage is that the number of ammunition is limited. After all, our new armor is not like the Chinese, which weighs 3.5 tons.
.”
"...Why has no one ever thought of mounting a machine gun on the Shenji armor before?"
Everyone in the butler's room looked at each other, and finally the Minister of War spoke: "Your Majesty, someone has thought of doing this. However, the Knights of the Round Table rejected it on the grounds that it was not in line with tradition and not elegant enough."
"Oh? Well, I think I should meet this hotshot guy who proposed mounting machine guns on armor. Who is he?"
As soon as the Queen finished speaking, everyone turned to look at Prime Minister Robert.
Robert smiled bitterly again.
"It's Wensley Churchill, my noble Majesty. Moreover, when she unofficially participated in Spain's counter-insurgency war in Cuba, she was already flying into the sky with a machine gun."
**
Germany, Berlin Palace.
Wilhelm II, the ruler of the new German Empire, sat at the top of the huge reception room, and his beloved wife, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, sat on a smaller chair next to her. Both of them looked very serious...
.
“The defense of the former Dutch East Indies has been strengthened,” the person who was making the report was Alfred von Tirpitz, Minister of the Navy of the New German Empire. “The strength of the Far East Fleet has also been strengthened, and the newly deployed naval god
Ji is already in place."
The Kaiser was famous for doting on the new empress, so even a powerful veteran like Tirpitz did not dare to neglect him. He usually paid attention to doing things to please Wilhelmina to prevent being blown away by the wind. This time, the original load was strengthened.
The plan for the defense of East India was originally based on this intention.
But now, everything has changed.
The Kaiser and the Empress were obviously not very interested in the report of the famous naval admiral. They only nodded slightly to show it. The veteran could only return to his seat angrily, sit down, pick up the tea cup and start stirring it with a spoon.
stop.
Since it was not a formal government meeting, most of the participating imperial bureaucrats did not bring documents, but the atmosphere at the scene was still breathless.
Finally, the Kaiser spoke: "Has the information that Britain and France obtained about the Chinese's new weapons been confirmed?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." The new Foreign Minister Bernhardt is also in charge of Germany's foreign intelligence affairs, so although the Kaiser did not specify the subject of the question, he still replied immediately, "Furthermore, our spies have confirmed that the Queen of England has summoned
According to the way Miss Isabella used to do things in the past, she would summon the scientists at the palace only after they achieved results. In addition, after the summons, the British blocked their royal alchemy workshop, so I think
, Britain has come up with a design plan for a new type of aircraft that can cope with the Chinese."
"Hmm." The Kaiser responded, and at the same time nervously tapped the armrest of the throne with his diseased and atrophic left arm.
I don't know how long it took before the Kaiser spoke again, breaking the embarrassing silence in the hall.
"Does anyone have a plan to deal with this?"
"Your Majesty," the Foreign Minister was the first to speak, "The wife of the Commander-in-Chief of the Nanyang Army Haihui Chen is a pure German and a German citizen. We may be able to reach a secret agreement with Lin Youde through this road and use Germany's advanced alchemy
technology and casting technology in exchange for their cutting-edge achievements in electricity and other disciplines. Under the current situation, countries such as Britain, the United States, and France will definitely be quite wary of Holland and will no longer allow them to introduce the advanced technologies of the great powers at will.
For technology, they can only turn to the New German Empire. I think this plan is very feasible."
"Kowtow to a Chinese?"
The Kaiser's lukewarm words stopped the Foreign Minister from further expressing his views, and the whole hall fell into silence again.
The one who broke the silence was a half-century-old man sitting at the end of the table who was dressed in a way that seemed incompatible with the Junker nobles in the hall.
"Your Majesty," Dr. Wilhelm Kondra Röntgen respectfully addressed the Kaiser, "please allow me to introduce a young person who I think will be of great help in dealing with the current situation."
"Okay, doctor, please."
Then the heavy and intricately decorated door of the hall slowly opened, and a tall blonde girl walked into the magnificent reception hall with her head held high, looking at the dignitaries in the room with a little interest with her red eyes.
"Let me introduce you to this man, who is a genius in mechanical and electrical power that I discovered among the refugees who fled into our country from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is also an outstanding alchemist and the youngest doctorate from the University of Würzburg.
Dinan von Porsche.”
While the old scientific master introduced it, the royal guards moved a huge blueprint into the hall.
The Kaiser stood up, and all the important ministers of the new German Empire in the room stood up.
"The era of goddesses ruling the sky will eventually pass," Porsche patted the design behind her with her leather-gloved hand, not afraid of the sharp gazes of several high-level goddesses in the room that seemed to pierce her thin body.
, "In the future, electrified steel and fire, unfailing sky fortresses and invincible land overlords will be the protagonists of future wars." **According to the rules of hot-blooded comics, when the current enemies are almost equal, the world must be arranged.
The foreign masters made a concentrated appearance. Of course, the current enemy will still be entangled for a while, but this kind of collective pose of strong men is still very interesting.