87_87379 "Since you Li Zhongtang responded, then I said, simple!" Exchange reparations for battleships! ”

Sitting on a hard bench and talking for a long time is also a burden for Li Dacheng now, it is said that in a month, the wound should also heal, but the bad thing is that Li Dacheng used scorching shrapnel to stop bleeding at that time, and the burn festered and became inflamed, making the wound difficult to heal.

"Huh...... Kids, are you kidding? ”

After a heavy pause on the hookah on the coffee table, Li Hongzhang was also angry, there were still nine warships of foreign countries resting on the sea at the mouth of Dagu! Isn't it adding fuel to the fire to talk about the battleship at this time?

"Jokes?

More than just a joke!

The battleship that Lao Tzu said is not a small ship of three or five thousand tons, but a giant ship of at least ten thousand tons or more, which the British and the Germans both sent this time.

Let's just want these two, the price is as they go, and it will come directly from the compensation!

After these two ships arrived, they were renamed Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, what did Li Zhongtang think? ”

Li Dacheng set his sights on the battleships of the British devils, and made these two things, but he was eyeing Little Japan, and rebuilding the Beiyang Fleet was Li Dacheng's idea for Li Hongzhang.

"Calm down the second ship! Alas......

Even if the British agree to this, Germany, Japan and Russia will not agree!

Besides, such a warship, we can't raise it at all, we can't repair it at all, and it was in disrepair all year round before calming, and it is useless to buy such a warship in the navy at this time! ”

The warships of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to calming the two ships. All of them had a displacement of less than 5,000 tons, not that the Qing Dynasty had no money to buy battleships, but that the battleships were not suitable for the Qing Dynasty, which was bent on defense, and Li Hongzhang did quite scientifically in the matter of purchasing ships.

"It's useless!

In addition, let the British be responsible for building a dockyard for us to repair the warships. How about the British businessmen providing machinery for repairing warships, and the first dock was placed in Weihaiwei?

We want at least two of these giant ships, if someone is willing to sell more, we are not afraid, it's nothing more than the Qing Dynasty, and the loss is just a number. Thirty or fifty years and not enough! ”

Li Dacheng's words made Li Hongzhang's brows raise again, this Li Ershen is really not simple, he doesn't need to buy a giant ship, this trick is very vicious to Japan and Russia!

The price of a battleship. Li Hongzhang knew very well that he had also asked the British side at the beginning, a battleship was at least five million taels of silver, but the price of silver had fallen in recent years, and it was not possible to build a new giant battleship without seven or eight million, and seven or eight million was only the money it would cost to buy a battleship. A year's maintenance and repair costs are worth a cruiser.

If the Qing Dynasty has this thing, Little Japan will have to have it, at least two more ships. If you can't get it, you have to have three, four, five or six ships, Japan is small, the money is spent here, and it can't be used there, and Lao Maozi is the same, recently Lao Maozi's army has entered the three eastern provinces. If they want to occupy the three eastern provinces, such a giant ship is also a problem for them.

Even if it occupies the three eastern provinces. Lao Maozi also sent a few more ships or built a few more warships equal to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty is a broken temple, and now it is not afraid of wind and rain. But Japan and Russia are not! Such a poisonous plan, I'm afraid that this guy came up with it, and this guy dared to provoke the court to use such a strategy, right?

"Although the idea is good, the British may not let us get our wish! Even if the British nodded, the court ......"

The plan is a good plan, but some of them are too taken for granted, and the Qing Dynasty does not understand people? No! There are many people in the Qing Dynasty who understand, but many ideas have not been implemented!

Don't talk about others, Li Hongzhang has many ways to change in his heart, but many things in the Qing Dynasty can't pass the pass of the Queen Mother Lafayette! Even if you cross Lafayette, there are still countless people waiting below! It's hard to do things in the Qing Dynasty! It's hard to climb!

"How do you know if you don't try in the middle hall?

The British are now going through the Boer War, and the warships they sent are not the most advanced, what is the biggest problem facing the British army and the government today?

Military spending is tight!

The British have a lot of ships, and secondly, they are experiencing a war, and what can be sent to the Qing Dynasty is not the main warship, according to my estimate, such a 10,000-ton giant ship should be a battleship that is not up or down, as long as the price we pay is high enough, what deal can't be discussed?

As long as we partner with the British, we will use the cash of the indemnity money for the purchase of ships as much as possible, and the indemnity of other countries will be pledged by various taxes, and it will not hurt to have a larger amount.

Of course, the purchase of ships is a digression, and now we have to talk about the contract indemnity, and after the contract is signed, we will perform the contract with the British.

With these two or more giant warships, one can drag Japan and Russia into the chasm of the arms race, the second can deter the Germans who lease Jiaoao, and the third can increase the aspirations of the Chinese people.

As for the imperial court, what else do they have to say when things are like this? Some words are just a rhetoric, if we say that the British forced us to buy this huge ship, what can the court say?

The indemnity, naturally, cannot be 100,000, half is our bottom limit, and there is no cash, let's reduce the price by at least half, and we can exchange it for at least two giant warships and several large docks, things have reached this point, the court will talk about anything else, let them talk about it? ”

Whether the British giant ship comes or not is not the key, the price is not the key, whether it is sold or not is not the key, the key is the interests of the British in China, the key is the interests!

Why did Britain forcibly lease Weihaiwei, and not to contain Germany in Shandong? Why did the British forces enter the three eastern provinces, and did they not see the ambitions of Tsarist Russia in the three eastern provinces? And why should Britain support little Japan? Or to contain Germany and Russia.

It doesn't matter to the British whether they supported the Qing Dynasty or Japan, after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the British obviously took care of Little Japan, why, Beiyang fought too much! It's too cowardly!

To contain Germany and Russia, instead of supporting Japan, it is better to support the Qing Dynasty, and in the first battle of Jingu, the interests of the British may be lost, but the biggest loss is still Japan and Russia. The losses of the British in the Jingu area are not worth mentioning at all compared to their interests in China.

Since the army of the Qing Dynasty played a brilliant role in the battle of Jingu, since the Russian army entered the three eastern provinces. Since the Kaiser was ambitious, he preferred the Manchu court, which was a colonial landlord, rather than Japan, a neighbor of the Qing dynasty.

This is the trick that Li Dacheng wants to play, why let Gui Shun show favor to the foreign devils in the embassy area before the war in Jingu, there are only more than 100 foreign devils from various countries in the embassy area of Beijing, and in the first battle of Jingu, Li Dacheng killed thousands of them. The contrast between the two sides is very different, but the overture is much more useful than a few hundred diplomatic envoys, and it is much more useful than killing and injuring tens of thousands of foreign devils, and this overture shows that Gui Shun is a civilized man, not an uncivilized barbarian in the colony in the eyes of the great powers. With this prerequisite, there is also a basis for cooperation between the two sides.

The British, Hurd, and the minister to China, Zhu Erdian, are both China experts, which is also the basis of cooperation, and the matter of exchanging indemnities for warships seems to be to help Li Hongzhang in peace talks, but in fact it is to let the British give up Li Hongzhang and cooperate with Gui Shun.

Gui Shun will not participate in the formal peace talks. But in the peace talks with the British, Li Hongzhang still had to bring Gui Shun, which could be regarded as a handover. The overall situation of the capital is still in the hands of Zhenwei Army, and Li Hongzhang cannot afford not to do this.

Friendship with the British now, friendship with the Germans in the future, vertical and horizontal, to put it bluntly, the British are enemies after all. Although the Germans were dominant, their power in the Qing Dynasty was limited. Li Dacheng's final partner was not the British but the Germans. The interests of the British in China were too great, and Gui Shun's cooperation with the British in the future could only make their influence deep-rooted, so it was better to choose the Germans as the object of cooperation.

After the First Battle of Jingu, presumably German politicians will look at the Far East issue more objectively, and after several large battleships enter the establishment of the Qing Navy, it should not be too difficult to cooperate with Germany in Shandong.

Li Dacheng's plans, Li Hongzhang may be able to see some of them, but to see them clearly, it is impossible, what Cheng Cheng Li Hongzhang sees, it doesn't matter to Li Dacheng, as long as he cooperates.

"Oh...... Let me think about it! ”

The matter is big, Li Hongzhang can't help but start to face this Li Ershen general, this kid is too weird, I thought he was a junior, I didn't think about it, but he was a master here.

"In the middle hall!"

Li Dacheng didn't force Li Hongzhang either, he supported the armrest with his right hand, adjusted his sitting posture, and talked for only ten or twenty minutes, most of the white silk shirt on his body was red, and the injury on his body was really haunting!

"You're okay with this injury, right?"

Li Hongzhang took the tobacco in his hand, did not directly travel to the world, but cared for Li Ershen, this demonic descendant is still of great use to him, and it is a pity to die.

"If you can't live, you will die directly in Jinmen, if you don't die at that time, you won't die now, and I won't die for a long time in the future!"

Although the injury is serious, Li Dacheng has confirmed that he will not die, the ulceration and inflammation caused by the burn, he has survived, this is the most fatal level, after this pass, the healing of the wound is only a matter of time.

Most of these wounds that are oozing blood now are shrapnel abrasions, and if the main wounds are not healed, he will not survive, and naturally it will be impossible for him to sit here.

"That's what I want!

is worthy of the name of Li Ershen, not to mention anything else, the ruthlessness on your body alone is enough to make foreign devils jealous!

But you kid is too ruthless, there were a lot of casualties in the battle of Jingu, right? ”

Li Ershen's ability is extraordinary, but there are also things that make Li Hongzhang jealous, this person is too ruthless, far beyond the ruthlessness of ordinary ruthless people, Li Hongzhang, who has read all the world's affairs, feels a little frightened.

In the first battle of Jingu, although the battle on the battlefield was fierce, compared with the back hand of General Li Ershen, that fierceness was really nothing.

From Dagukou to the Military Grain City, from the Military Grain City to Lijialou, in these two areas, this Li Ershen will leave at least 100,000 corpses and let them rot in the hot weather.

said that there is no time for this, Li Hongzhang doesn't believe it, this should be his military strategy, a murderous and vicious military strategy, if it weren't for the hundreds of thousands of corpses, there would be a big epidemic in the Jingu area? I'm afraid it's impossible, right?

If there is no pandemic, can foreign devils stop in Jinmen? I'm afraid it's impossible, right?

Such ferocity and viciousness are beyond the acceptable range of ordinary people, and Li Hongzhang, who experienced a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in his early years, also felt a little trembling.

"In the first battle of Jingu, the casualties should be about four or five hundred thousand, which is still acceptable.

If according to the situation of foreign devils, the city must be slaughtered, the Jinmen is lost, and the entire Zhili will lose the barrier, let the foreign devils wreak havoc in Zhili, and the autumn harvest will be delayed again, with at least one million casualties and more than one million casualties, and four or five hundred thousand casualties, in exchange for the stability of the Beijing division and Zhili, it is worth it!

In the First Sino-Japanese War, the whole country was in a state of depression, with four or five hundred thousand casualties, and it was worth fighting the blood and fierceness of a country!

Don't hide it from Lord Zhongtang, I originally had the heart of the Zhili Zhuangding, and I did do it, but this group of Zhili Zhuangding didn't have time to participate in the war.

In my estimation, after the first battle of Jingu, the Jingshi will inevitably fight, I never thought that the pace of foreign devils can be dragged down by the plague, the loss of four or five hundred thousand in the war, the plague may also bring hundreds of thousands of losses, after all, there are still more than one million casualties, a bloody battle inside and out, we only earned some blood and fierceness.

The country is weak and the people's hearts are difficult to use! ”

Li Hongzhang's words caused Li Dacheng to look back at the Jingu War for the first time after the war. For the ministers of the Qing Dynasty, for the great powers, maybe it's right?

But for Li Dacheng, the first battle of Jingu was just the beginning of the battle, a small test, after this battle, Li Dacheng saw the weaknesses of the Qing Dynasty, and most of the future wars will not be fought on the battlefield, but there is still one opportunity to take advantage of it, that is, the plague in Jinmen.

Since the devils of the great powers are here, they always have to bring something back, and in a big war in Jingu, two countries may not accept it, their army will not accept it, the government will not accept it, and the people will also be dissatisfied.

Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries are the same, the war is not just said to be fought, after the war, each other will have to bear the pain of the war, the Jingu war has affected the people of the Qing Dynasty, the people of other countries, also have to suffer this kind of suffering, the war will not be cheap to any party participating in the war, Li Dacheng will not be cheap theirs, as for human nature, for Li Dacheng, it really doesn't matter, for the war, it doesn't matter! It's just the beginning.

The battle of Jingu was a good fight for the Qing Dynasty, but in Li Dacheng's eyes, there was too much difference, at least 300,000 dead and wounded, in exchange for less than 100,000 dead and wounded. (To be continued).