The battle between the British and the Spaniards ended, the British lost a corner of the colony, the situation was unfavorable, but finally did not lose much face, the Spaniards promised to compensate for the loss, and bought a colonial port and a piece of area with money, and the Chinese Empire was not without gains, and the Bengal region finally wiped out a large number of people who were not Han people, the population of the Chinese, and vacated a large number of areas for the Chinese to live.

Some people migrated from China and Yunnan, Guizhou, Yunnan Prefecture, and even Guangzhou Prefecture, and at the same time some people migrated from Southeast Asian states, with a small population of about 3 million people, with Dhaka as the center, expanded a lot of territory, and gained a firm foothold, although Dhaka was not within the scope of the Spanish colony, but belonged to the Bengal region, and the British management in this area was also very weak.

After the war, the Indians and the British had completely withdrawn from the area, except for some Bengali clans who still lived and lived in the Spanish colonies and Bengal.

In general, the Chinese Empire has basically gained a foothold in this region.

There are too many domestic affairs, the Chinese Empire is too huge, and the official system of the Chinese Empire cannot adapt to such management, so many areas are actually herding management, that is, the administrative power is decentralized, the Chinese Empire only manages the core area, and the other governors manage their territory, and the administrative system adds a governor's palace to the officials at all levels, which is equivalent to the core area, the central cabinet, and the emperor's structure, but the sovereignty is much weaker, and the management must also copy the structure of the management body of the core area.

The core area is fully under the management of the central cabinet, and the governorate is fully under the management of the governor, but the governor is under the management of the cabinet and the emperor, which is equivalent to a feudal official with great power, but most of the officials of the governorate and the core area are arranged by the cabinet officials, and the governorate has the right to arrange and transfer its own, which is equivalent to the way of communication between officials of the provinces and central ministries and departments in later generations.

In fact, in Bangladesh, except for the previous major wars, which were arranged by the Privy Council, the wars here were initiated and arranged by the Viceroyalty of Southeast Asia and the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and only need to be reported to the Privy Council and approved by the Privy Council.

Since the governor serves in a different place, he does not serve wherever his own governorship title is, and he is subject to the central assignment.

Therefore, although the governors had great power, they did not want the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty to become a vassal town and warlord, and the army was not managed by them, and the army was also lost every two years, and even some places did not have garrisons, and some were only local garrisons, and the local garrison was also lost every three years, and the military commanders were even more than a year old, basically did not give much military power to the governors of the governors.

After the invention of the telegraph, the movement of the central capital division for the army was basically changed from being obtained in half a month or even three months to basically knowing what was happening in the local area in a day or two.

In the remote ravine, overseas, it is only half a month to get the news of the place through the clipper, so the central government has a very solid foundation for local rule.

Zhang Qiang has also heard a little about the things here, and then he won't do it for a while, because he has more things to do, and he is not as busy as the cabinet, responsible for specific affairs and deciding the general direction, but he still cares about many big things.

After inspecting the various bases of the naval fleet, the construction of the entire steam engine warship was started, and after equipping the seven fleets with more than 100 steam warships, the shipyards of the Chinese Empire began to upgrade and integrate, and all the shipyards with a construction capacity of less than 1,000 tons and even 1,500 tons were all opened and sold to domestic merchants, so some joint large shipbuilding enterprises and private shipyards appeared in the country, and a lot of 2,000 tons were sold one after another. Twenty of the 2,000-ton shipyards of the Chinese Empire were sold to private merchants, two local governments and merchants became joint ventures, and the remaining ten were consolidated into three large shipyards.

The construction of warships of 2,500 to 3,800 tons was started, and the sail power was abolished, and all new marine steam engines were used.

The new type of marine steam engine is also provided by three large steam engine shipyards, and can maintain the cruising speed of the ship at least ten knots, can run thirteen or fourteen knots of combat speed, and the maximum speed is sixteen knots, which is much more powerful than the sail warship.

The failure rate of the steam engine has been reduced to 8 to 15 percent, and the largest tonnage of 3,800-ton ships loaded with high-quality coal can run more than 8,000 nautical miles, of course, at cruising speed, which can only run 1,000 nautical miles at a speed of 16 knots, and can only run more than 5,000 nautical miles at a combat speed of 12 to 14 knots.

If charcoal or firewood is used for burning, the power of the steam engine is not enough, and perhaps even the largest warship can not be driven, but the warship of more than 2,000 tons can be driven, but the speed is only seven or eight knots, and it cannot run far, at most more than 800 nautical miles.

After the Chinese Empire's steam engine warships were replaced with first-generation experimental warships, 256 were reinstalled, and more than 140 second-generation steam engine warships were reinstalled, and the warship ownership rate of each fleet was about 60.

The original more than 800 sail warships have basically been transferred to overseas bases, or trained sailors and crews for the Naval Academy.

The military academy of the Chinese Empire is no longer the huge military camp-style military school outside Jinling City, it has long been the kind that has blossomed everywhere, each army has its own military school, and it is not all in the same place, the navy, or the naval academy, is already one in Jinling, one in Hangzhou, one in Fuzhou, one in Guangzhou, and even one in Saigon, Annan Prefecture, and Yanjing has a general colonel.

After building so many new warships, the Chinese Empire's naval division steam engine warships finally had a certain scale, and after learning about the naval battles between the Spanish and the British, the Chinese Empire inspected and improved its own steam engine warships at one time, and carried out many drills to adapt to the future steam engine era of sea battles.

Having said that, Zhang Qiang was also surprised after learning about the battle between Britain and Spain, but he didn't expect that the British had also developed to the level of steam engines, and it seemed that they had already reached the experimental link.

I remember that the British businessman Charlie Ding once bought a steam engine offshore merchant ship, so it must have been at that time, two years ago, the appearance of the steam engine and the steam engine installed on the ship were brought back to the UK, with the speed of British research and imitation, they should also come up with the finished product, this time the two battleships that the British came were steam engine battleships.

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