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"It's not far off!" , Chen Jialuo sighed, "The English and the French are fighting in Tianzhu, and the Spaniards have been entrenched in Nanyang for many years, if it weren't for the Dutch who were still in Taiwan!" At the moment, Macau is still under the control of the Portuguese! If we don't build a strong navy, it won't take a hundred years for these bandits to hit the door! Moreover, it is now the era when various naval powers are attacking and occupying colonies all over the world, and if we can catch up with this wave, with China's population of more than 400 million, it will not be a problem at all to get a piece of the pie from the vast and sparsely populated lands of Australia and North America.

"If it weren't for the chief helmsman's inform, Lao Dao would still think that the world is so big!" , Lu Feiqing shook his head and smiled, "The old man is already old, I'm afraid I won't see the time for us to fight with these robbers, but with the chief helmsman here, Lao Dao believes that they will definitely not be able to ask for benefits!" In this expedition to the South Seas, our army will definitely win! ”

There are a lot of things that the navy needs to prepare for the expedition, and it can't be done without two or three months of hard work, so Chen Jialuo didn't ask questions, and shifted his attention to Andu Lu, which will inevitably deal with various countries in the world in the future, and the training of diplomatic personnel is imperative.

"This is the manpower you have prepared?!" , Chen Jialuo looked at the staff of the personnel department with a good face, just asked a few simple questions, the manpower they prepared was useless except for being proficient in the Sulu Chinese, still holding the decadent concept of the Celestial Empire, and did not know how to fight for the interests of their own country, "Didn't Jingshi University open a related major?" Why don't you choose people from there? ”

"Well, it's easier for my subordinates to understand what the Sulu people say!" The staff of the personnel department hurriedly explained, "It is not easy to recruit students from Jingshi University, and secondly, they don't know the local dialect, so I'm afraid it's not easy to do an errand!" ”

"Words are but skills! The most important thing for a diplomat is to understand politics. Know how to protect our interests! Chen Jialuo was on fire for a while, and many of the rabbit diplomats in later generations were selected from major foreign language colleges, as for their performance, hehe.

The personnel department quickly learned its lesson, and recruited a few students from Jingshi University who were nimble and well-versed in the rules of modern foreign affairs. With an interpreter for them, it took less than a few days to find the north of Andu Road, and they demanded to return to Sulu immediately to change their credentials, and to dedicate the land and population to the Qing Dynasty to the Red Flower Society.

Looking at the record of the meeting between Andu Road and the foreign affairs department, Chen Jialuo smiled secretly in his heart, if there is a dispute on Sulu's side in the future, we can also throw out this document and slap it in the face since ancient times!

Soon discussed the follow-up plan with Andulu, and he returned to China as soon as possible to replace the credentials. When the new credentials arrived and the land donation procedures were completed, the army of the Red Flower Society immediately set off for Manila and drove the Spaniards out of the South Seas.

Seeing that the time for Andu Road to return to China was getting closer and closer, Yuan Changding finally couldn't bear it anymore, whether he had any information about the Red Flower Society's army entering Nanyang, since it was unstoppable, it was better to take the opportunity to sell it and leave a favor for the Red Flower Society. Maybe you may be able to achieve unexpected gains in the future.

Chen Jialuo's people from the intelligence department and Lin Tianhong listened to Yuan Changding's description of the Nanyang form together, and two or three hours of time were consumed. There was not much to gain, and the things he said were also inquired about during this time, and the current Spanish forces were mainly deployed in Manila City, and the acting Viceroy Archbishop Manuel Antonio Rojo had a mixed army of about two or three thousand European soldiers and native soldiers, and the navy had about two capital ships and dozens of small ships. The only harvest is that the Yuan family has been developing in the Boni country for a hundred years after all, and it is distributed all over the South Seas. When the time comes, you can just be the leading party.

Repairing the deck, replacing it with new rifles and cannons, and stockpiling all kinds of supplies for the ocean voyage, the Red Flower Society's navy accelerated its preparations after returning to Andulu. Chen Jialuo also devoted his main energy to the navy during this period, for which he plagiarized some of the later texts of the "Theory of Sea Power" and printed and published them, and for a time "whoever controls the sea controls the world" has become a topic of discussion in Fujian.

There is no doubt that the next 200 years will be an era of competition at sea. If Chen Jialuo wants China to become the hegemon of the world, it is indispensable to fight with the British Royal Navy, which is now invincible, in all corners of the world, and the current battle can be regarded as the first battle of the Red Flower Society's navy into the blue water!

In later generations, the navy was divided into four categories, inland river navy, brown water navy, green water navy and blue water navy, of which the blue water navy refers to the navy type that can extend the sea power to the ocean and deep sea areas and has the ability to conduct expeditionary operations

In later generations, only the navies of the United States, Britain and France had this capability, and China, Russia and India could only be called quasi-blue-water blue forces.

Now if the Red Flower Society and the army of the European military power are in a big war on land, Chen Jialuo will not worry at all, but he is not sure about the navy, after all, the Chinese have lagged behind the West since the Age of Discovery, and the construction of the navy needs a considerable long cycle, and the phrase of a century-old navy is not just talking.

Therefore, although he knew that the Spanish navy in Manila could not be compared with the navy of the Red Flower Society in terms of the number of warships, tonnage or artillery, Chen Jialuo still sent all the sea forces he could, even if the experience and tactical literacy of the navy at the moment were not as good as the Spaniards, they would be drowned in numbers.

Su Changquan was very dissatisfied with this, and shouted to the chief helmsman not to look down on people, but being able to command tens of thousands of horses to conduct cross-sea operations also made him excited, and he held this contradictory mentality to soak in the staff headquarters of the navy all day long, and discussed the battle plan carefully with the staff officers!

After another month or so, all the preparations of the navy were ready, Andu Lu also returned to Fujian with a new credential, and the intelligence department continued to send all kinds of latest information about Nanyang.

On this day, it was finally the day of the departure of the mixed expeditionary force of sea and land, Chen Jialuo took all the backbone of the Red Flower Society to the dock to see them off, and in the cheers of the crowd, the fleet set sail after firing the salute and embarked on the road of hegemony in the world! (To be continued......)