"Money is not a problem, what can be solved with money is not a problem!" Liu Changcai replied to De Mons with arrogance: "The question is how to get this matter right!" De Mons, I'll have fifty thousand pounds ready for you at once, and if you need more money, I'll help you figure it out, you need to go back to Europe!" ”

If you want to support the Polish Revolution, it is impossible to stay in Shanghai, and now De Mons is almost a useful candidate in Liu Chang's hands, so De Mons just hesitated: "My business in Shanghai?" ”

"No problem!" Liu Chang told De Mons that everything could be assured: "I will help you take care of them all!" ”

As long as Liu Chang's words are enough, De Mons said cautiously: "This is what you promised, I have a business of several million silver yuan in Shanghai, and I will lose a lot when I go back to Europe this time, you can hand over 50,000 pounds to me, and I will advance the rest of the money......"

He had already drawn his blueprint on the table: "If I smuggle arms, I will find a fast sailing ship, and he will run faster than any Russian anti-smuggling ship, except for steamboats, of course, but I will choose some sea areas that are difficult for steamships to enter, and the scale of the trade is not much, that is, dozens of revolvers, or a dozen barrels of gunpowder, or some truncated rifles or cavalry guns!" ”

Although the load capacity of such a fast sailing ship is not optimistic, it is very convenient to transport these easy-to-transport arms, and even hundreds of revolvers, cavalry guns or other firearms can be transported at a time, but Liu Chang quickly put forward his own suggestion: "Use as little revolver as possible, this thing consumes too much money!" ”

"Nope! For the first transport, a batch of revolvers must be transported in. This makes the Russians nervous, and that alone is enough! ”

De Mons is more familiar than Liu Chang with the fact that Poland is now a powder keg that can explode with just a little spark – even if the Russians are now implementing unprecedented easing in Poland. But everyone knows that even a slight backlash from such a policy can trigger a powerful crackdown.

The Poles were also very confident. They thought that they had fed the whole of Russia by their own power, and therefore the whole of Russia should revolve around Poland, and they responded to the Tsar's pass with a poisoned dagger: "Although you think we support the Polish Revolution, I am an arms dealer and I want to make as much money as possible, so turning Sparks into a prairie fire is what I like to do!" ”

"A successful arms dealer is one who provokes a war and then tries to maintain as much balance as possible between the two sides of the war to make it prolong. Also make the biggest profit possible! ”

Liu Chang listened to what Demons said after speaking, and finally smiled: "Very good idea, I have to admit that I am lucky to know you, by the way, pick a good manager to take care of your business, you don't have much time!" ”

"Just let Lord Rusya do me a favor!" De Mons quickly thought of a candidate for the manager: "But I'm afraid I have to say hello to Your Majesty." Otherwise, Lord Rusya would not be overly merciful! ”

"Rusya?" Liu Chang was taken aback: "Your choice is really unexpected!" ”

De Mons smiled: "Because the person who knows you best is your opponent, I have confidence in my vision!" ”

It was enough to have this sentence, and Liu Chang agreed: "De Mengs, please take a trip, your business." And Rusya, I'll take good care of them! ”

The meaning of his words naturally prevented Rusya from doing anything when dealing with Demons's business, and Demons smiled: "When I am most free, I am driving a fast sailing ship at sea, transporting tons and tons of munitions to the warlords, thank you for giving me another opportunity to experience this freedom and sunshine, and I hope that the war in Poland will burn throughout Russia!" ”…,

"Burn all over Russia!" Liu Chang smiled: "As long as the wildfire is blazing, I don't care what happens in the future, let's have a drink!" ”

"Cheers!"

For the arms aid operation planned by Liu Chang and De Mons, the Polish Provisional Government later spoke very highly of it: "In the war against violent Russia, we received great assistance from international friends, such as the Chinese people and their greatest king, who provided 6,275 rifles, 875 pistols, 38 cannons, 950 barrels of gunpowder, and a large quantity of other war materials to Poland to resist the Russian army, and this batch of materials played a crucial role in our initial anti-Russian war." ”

However, during the Sino-Polish war, the Polish side claimed that De Mons was a black-hearted profiteer: "The puppet Chinese government and the unscrupulous arms dealer De Mons ostensibly supported Polish independence and freedom, but in fact they cooperated with Tsarist Russia to suppress the massacre of the Polish people, for example, the rebel army had asked De Mons to provide 15,000 rifles, but De Mons only provided 1,200 rifles, and all of them were retired firing rifles, but they asked us for the price of new guns, although they were attacked by the rebel generals, But Demons stepped up in disguise! ”

The Chinese side said something completely different: "Our support for the Polish revolution is selfless, all arms shipments are carried out in extremely dangerous situations, almost all arms are only charged at cost, and sometimes even given away free of charge, Poland's independence and freedom are the inevitable result of our support, we must mercilessly criticize the ungrateful Polish government, but for the Polish people, we must fight for it!" ”

Contemporary war historians such as Wu Hongchuan and Bai Siwen also have their own different views, they believe that this arms aid was not the original intention of the thieves, but the natural choice of some people of insight in the thief army, but the thieves were greedy for the merits of heaven and forcibly took all the achievements as they already have.

It's just that what Demons and Liu Chang are thinking about now is just wanting to make the wildfire blazing, and they didn't think about the impact their actions would have on European history: "This wine is good!" I'm honored! ”

De Mons knew that Liu Chang usually didn't drink, and it was a great honor to be able to drink a small glass with him now, so he had a feeling of fluttering: "Your Majesty, I have another suggestion, would you like to hear it?" ”

"Say it!" Liu Chang is as kind as flowing: "I can grant you another 20,000 pounds!" ”

"Thank you!" De Mons whispered, "Ottoman! ”

Liu Chang immediately patted his thigh, and he exclaimed, "Count De Mons, what do you need?" ”

"You don't need anything, your carte blanche is enough!" Demons's mouth was wide: "I alone is better than 300,000 male soldiers!" ”

"If I can talk about the Ottoman Empire, then I can hand over one of China's most important railways to you!"

"That's true!"

"No lie!"

De Mons and Liu Chang were both excited, and without asking for instructions, De Mons helped Liu Chang open the wine cabinet and took out the bottle of sweet and greasy wine: "Let's have another glass!" ”

"One more drink!"

Liu Chang was also unexpectedly happy: "That's right, it's the Ottoman Empire!" ”

He felt that he was blind under the lamp, how could he forget the Ottoman Empire, the enemy of Tsarist Russia.

The Russo-Turkish War was arguably the longest war in the modern history of the world, Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire had a sense of rivalry from the time it was founded, the Ottomans captured Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople, and Tsarist Russia presented itself as the heir to Byzantium and New Rome, but at the beginning, the two sides were not in direct contact until the First Russo-Turkish War in 1676.

The Russo-Turkish War can be said to be the main theme between these two powers, from 1676 to the present 1859, in less than two hundred years, there have been nine Russo-Turkish wars, each Russo-Turkish war on both sides of the national effort, sometimes the two sides of the war even more than a million troops, until both sides have to stop, an average of twenty years there is a Russian-Turkish war. …,

Not to mention the Sixth Russo-Turkish War in 1792, the Seventh Russo-Turkish War that lasted for six years from 1806 to 1812, the Eighth Russo-Turkish War from 1828 to 1829, and the Ninth Russo-Turkish War in the just-concluded Crimea.

I have to admit that in these battles with the Ottoman Empire, the Russians have the upper hand, and in the early days of the Crimean War, they even completely suppressed the Turks and gained the upper hand in the strategic situation, but the Ottoman medieval empire was not as conservative as the Qing Dynasty, he also had an elite but small guard, and the weapons equipped with this army basically maintained the level of the same era in the West, and every time the Russian-Turkish war could Russia bear the pain.

Just like the next Russo-Turkish war, that is, the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, although Russia successfully won, but in several positions attacked, the price paid by the Russians cannot even be described as a sea of corpses and blood, achieving the prestige of rapid-fire rifles and promoting another reloading of rifles around the world.

The last Russo-Turkish war, that is, the eleventh Russo-Turkish war, was the First World War, these two centuries-old enemies launched another bloody battle in the Caucasus Mountains, and finally ended with Turkey seizing the Caucasus Mountains and advancing into the South Russian steppe, but the end of this Russo-Turkish war was the death of these two empires with the longest history and the most extensive area in the world.

It's just that Liu Chang also knows that now the war in Crimea has just ended, although the Ottoman Empire is the final victor in this war, but its army has suffered a heavy blow, and the whole country is burdened, and it is not easy to mobilize the Ottoman Empire to send troops.

In this matter, he could not hope for De Mons alone. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )