Xiao Lotian stretched out his hand and pressed it, and motioned for Hyotaro to sit down, "Of course there is a plan, in fact, we have already deduced the current situation before we set off, and we have made a lot of preparations step by step......"

"Let's learn the scriptures like Tang Seng now, basically step by step, step by step! If you want to achieve the final result, you have to break through all the way, Borneo is a difficulty, the Suez Canal is another difficulty, and now we are in Europe, but I didn't expect Britain to pose a big difficulty!"

"I was afraid that the British would secretly hack us, so I asked Pierre to go back to Europe early and had a wonderful media war, as well as that series of Oriental Chinese reports......"

"My goal is to increase our popularity, to first circle the European people with countless fans who love us...... Don't ask me what kind of fan this fan is, it's not a fan of eating anyway!"

"When we have a certain mass base, our every move will be eye-catching, and Britain will not be too ugly to deal with us, and will not be too black, after all, their government also has to be greased and whitewashed, and it has to be faced!"

"This is our first solution! At the moment, the effect is still very good!"

"The second strategy is to do everything possible to gain friendship with the British aristocracy, because Britain is not monolithic, and they are also divided into many forces within themselves!"

"Aristocrats, capitalists, major parties...... Each power has its own demands, and our enemy appears to be Britain, but in fact its roots are still in these hardcore colonialists, represented by Benjamin......"

"For Britain, we have to learn to dissect him, unite a part, fight a part, this is the key to breaking the game, before I approached us to have the Tongzhi Emperor in our hands, this is a very good card, a good card to get closer to the British aristocracy!"

"It's a pity that I didn't expect that the British came to this hand and actually separated Jaechun, and I can only find a breakthrough from other places!"

"We can fight for the power of the aristocracy, and at the same time we can win the support of Benjamin's opposition party, why did I let the prince go back to Gladstone? Because the Liberal Party is now the most popular contender for prime minister, and Gladstone is likely to replace it!"

"Seriously, if you can buy Gladstone's support for more than two million pounds, I don't think it's much!"

"It's not much?" Xiang Ying couldn't sit still, "More than two million pounds, that's twenty battleships! There are not so many battleships in the whole Qing Dynasty!"

Xiao Lotian waved his hand, "Your account is wrong, the cost of the British first-class capital battleship is about 100,000 pounds on the surface, but that is only the price of the hull......"

"Timber, iron, cables, sails...... Coupled with the labor of the shipyard, these costs are probably concentrated together, which is about 100,000. But if the battleship wants to form combat effectiveness, it needs more weapons!"

"Cannons, muskets, training officers and soldiers, all kinds of shells...... Massive ancillary supplies! These costs add up, and a capital warship can't get off without 250,000 pounds!"

"That's also ten warships, and a line is not a small number!" Jin Sanshun worked hard to settle the accounts in his heart, and he almost broke hands.

At this time, Wang Ju smiled: "Don't think so about the problem, let me ask you, in the history of mankind, did the hot war spend more on military spending, or did the cold war spend more money?"

"Don't bother, let me tell you, the cost of a dark war is more than ten times that of a hot war!"

Wang Ju looked at Xiang Ying with deep eyes, "Hot War thinks he is a gold-swallowing monster, a battleship is millions of taels of silver, and a shell costs ten thousand taels, you are the captain of the Zhiyuan, you know this better than me......"

"The navy and the army are all the same, if you don't have gold and silver, you don't want to fight, this era is not an ancient time, you run out of a steel knife, he uses it, captures it and then uses it......"

"In this day and age, shells and guns are consumables, and even if you have logistics supplies like the sea when the war really starts, you will run out when you say it's used up!"

"But we can't just look at the short-term hot wars when we analyze the problem, after all, wars are not the norm, especially large-scale national wars are even rarer, and more often than not, there are small-scale conflicts between human beings, including peacetime ......"

"At this point, the money is spent in the invisible place! How much does it cost to buy a spy, how much does it cost to train an assassin, how much does it cost to build an intelligence network?"

"To be honest, in my eyes, Gladstone's black two million pounds is not much at all, and the open and secret struggle between these parties does not cost much less than the army?"

Xiao Letian nodded, "Yes, the most important thing is that there is no end to this kind of thing, there is no end, eternal life will never stop, and hot war can be stopped, and the army still relies on deterrence to protect the country most of the time!"

"I first prepared four million pounds to buy Benjamin's political enemy, and wanted to destroy him with the hands of the British themselves, which is also considered to be a razing of the enemy, but I underestimated Gladstone's ability, this is a real elite politician!"

"Britain can be strong to such a point, in the final analysis, it depends on their strong talent reserves, wars are fought by people, the economy is also developed by people, and politics is run by people!"

"I still underestimate the world's talents, since Gladstone can hack me by 2 million, this is a shameless villain in our eyes, but in the eyes of the British, it is a national hero!"

"Don't be angry, since people can trap us, they have the ability, and we should respect rather than resent the capable person!"

"Gladstone's problem, I'll solve it myself, I'll personally go and meet him for a while! This is a master, none of you can do it, you can't fight!"

There was silence in the cabin, and for a long time, Sima Yun suddenly smiled and said, "We will definitely firmly support the Führer's decision, but I'm just a little puzzled...... Do we have to bet on Gladstone? Don't we have a fourth plan?"

People are talking about each other, they admit that what Xiao Letian said is reasonable, and the various plans are also very precise, the first plan is to carry out media hype and accumulate popularity.

The second plan is to win over the aristocracy and compete for resources, and the third way is to support the opposition to attack Benjamin.

So the question is, is there a fourth way, or can the third way be adjusted, so that the greedy old man has to replace Benjamin?

Xiao Lotian smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Don't look at me like that, there really is no other suitable candidate, it makes sense for me to choose Gladstone!"