Volume VIII 1243 Smoke Bombs of the Zhiyuan

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In the late Qing Dynasty, the imperial court had a headache when it heard the three words of diplomacy, on the one hand, the foreigners were too arrogant, and on the other hand, the imperial court was too lacking in such talents, and they were basically illiterate about various laws and regulations of the West.

What's even worse is that until the final demise of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, he did not let go of the vanity of the Celestial Empire in his heart, and many officials who ran diplomacy negotiated with European powers, not according to the public law of all countries, but in the Forbidden City.

When Cixi Lafayette was in power, diplomats had to listen to the Empress Dowager for whatever they wanted, and sometimes they knew that what the Empress Dowager said was not reasonable, and saying it would make Westerners laugh or misunderstand, but who dared to disobey Yi's decree? Do you want a head, do you want an official position?

Therefore, in the decades of the late Qing Dynasty, whoever did diplomacy was unlucky, and he was splinted every day, and the foreigner queen mother did not give a good face.

Don't look at Shen Baozhen's practice of running a shipyard and running a school, he is very hard-working, but once he encounters this kind of negotiation work, his first thought is to shirk to Beijing.

"Send a report, send a report quickly! Remember, you must write about me being stunned! The training ship docked and lifted me off the ship."

When Shen Baozhen was carried off the boat by a bamboo chair, he grabbed Ri Yige with one hand and Yan Fu with the other and said in a low voice: "During this time, all the other classes have been stopped, and all the sailing ships in the shipyard and the academy can be used by you to use all the students to go to the sea for training, and find out the situation well! I don't have to worry about the emperor."

Lord Shen can't rest assured that the emperor is not at ease, but the little emperor Zaichun may not know his filial piety Shen Baozhen, and Zaichun is completely crazy at this moment.

The current Zhiyuan and those entangled enemy ships are not at all combat, the two sides are as afraid as a wolf with a stalk, Vinya ordered the fleet to keep a distance, and the Zhiyuan is not willing to waste precious shells, the two sides are just dragging and consuming, as if they are waiting for something.

What are you waiting for? Xiang Ying knew very well that everyone was waiting for the arrival of the night. Only when darkness comes, will the two sides have an excuse to withdraw their troops, otherwise they will have to remain in such a stalemate.

It was much safer in wartime, and under the protection of several sailors, the little emperor began to visit this magical battleship carefully.

Xiao Lotian and Xiang Ying analyzed the charts in the command cabin and deduced the next battle plan, until four o'clock in the afternoon, when Xiang Ying issued a new order.

"Order the boiler room, stop burning white coal, and take out the coal blocks we specially prepared and burn them!"

"What are you?" Xiao Letian asked puzzled.

Xiang Ying poured a cup of coffee for the prime minister, "Prime minister, just look at it, you will understand in a while"

The boiler room received the order and immediately began to replace the coal, and in just over twenty minutes, Xiao Letian watched the chimney of the Zhiyuan begin to emit black smoke outward, and the thick smoke rolled out of the sky to pull out a pitch-black smoke belt, the sailors on the deck shook their heads, and the air was full of ashes.

"Hehe, I asked Kailuan to prepare some miscellaneous coal with high sulfur content, which is to use him to paralyze the enemy's order, reduce the pressure of the boiler, and reduce the speed of the ship."

"Prime Minister, since we want to fool the enemy, we have to take the initiative to show weakness, what can deceive the enemy more than the failure of the boiler of the Zhiyuan?"

At half past four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, General Wennia on the Diamond discovered the anomaly of the Zhiyuan, and the obviously faint smoke belt suddenly billowed in smoke, and the speed of the Zhiyuan was also reduced a lot, which made him extremely excited.

"Hahaha! God bless the Tsar, God bless Russia! That damn battleship must have a boiler failure if it breaks down, I'll just say, there is no perfect technology in this world, and anything that is too advanced cannot be examined."

"Prussia is not Britain and France, and their industrial strength is the same as that of our Tsarist Russia, we can't build such a warship, how can they build it? Even if they do, there are many hidden dangers! Sure enough, God bless us, Ula!"

The soldiers on the Diamond were boosted by the captain, and there were excited roars and the sound of Ulla Viva everywhere.

"Captain, let's rush up and kill the enemy warships while they are malfunctioning!

"Fart! The enemy is a boiler failure, not a main gun failure, what are you rushing up for? Are you going to be bombed again? Don't you see that the battleship is just slowing down, and it's not losing power, so let's go up and ask for trouble?"

"You remember, this naval battle has given us a big warning, our first task in Asia is to save the Far East, not to fight bravely! Don't underestimate these Orientals, we should be careful."

"Remember, from now on, try not to attack the ships of the Ryukyus on the sea, and modify the course so that we don't get too close to the main island of the Ryukyus, I heard that the battery there is very powerful, let's not touch that nail!"

"Keep your distance and wait until it gets completely dark, and then we'll go north to join the big army, and I'll never see this battleship again in my life."

Xiao Letian looked at the Russian fleet that was getting farther away, he and Xiang Ying looked at each other and smiled, knowing that these ferocious polar bears were finally scared, and the plan was in perfect progress.

At this moment, Jae Chun's shout suddenly sounded outside the command cabin: "Master! Look at the East! There is a big island!"

Everyone looked in the direction of Zaichun's finger, and sure enough, there was a trace of land at the end of the southeast direction, and when they looked back at the nautical chart and then looked at the location of the Zhiyuan, people could be sure that it was Taiwan.

"That's Taiwan Island! This is an island that has not been developed in the Qing Dynasty until now, but unfortunately we don't have time this time, next time I have a chance, I will definitely take you to the island to have a look."

Jae-chun ran back to the command room, lying on the nautical chart, carefully studying the topographical map of the island of Taiwan: "Islands that were not developed in the Qing Dynasty?

Xiao Letian shrugged his shoulders, "God knows what the people in Beijing think, since the Qianlong period, Fukangan is the big celebrity of Fuhui's maiden family, after he put down the rebellion of Lin Shuangwen in Taiwan, he should have developed this treasure island, but I don't know what you think, and then this island was actually closed."

"Until now, there are still three major prohibitions that have not been opened by the imperial court, the first is to prohibit the people of the mainland from crossing the sea to Taiwan, the second is to prohibit Taiwan and Han people from entering Fanjie and contact with ethnic groups such as the Gaoshan people, and the third is to prohibit private people from making iron tools."

"Think about it for yourself, with these three prohibitions, do you still expect this island to be developed?"