Although Russia was realized and colonized, the Russians were happy, only the royal family and the princes and nobles were unhappy, because they had lost too many rights, and the people who did business in many places were Chinese Han Chinese, and the Russians saw the Chinese Han people like slaves seeing their masters, and they had to retreat, because the Great Qing Dynasty driven by the Chinese Empire defeated them.

However, although it has been colonized to such an extent, Russia's national sovereignty has not changed, only it has been damaged economically and dignity, but in the imperial palace, there is one person who is happy, and that is Peter I, the Russian Tsar.

Although a lot has been lost, more can be gained, the factories of the Chinese Empire, the science and technology of the Chinese Empire, the knowledge and education of the Chinese Empire, these Chinese Empires have been arranged, and with the development of industry, Russia needs a large number of people and workers, so Peter I used the Chinese Empire as a guise to directly announce the abolition of serfdom, there were a little twists and turns, but the serfdom system was basically abolished, and these serfs became free people and ordinary people who could collect taxes.

Compared with the country's lack of money, the emperor and the princes earned a lot of money and profits from the cooperation of the Chinese Empire, and a lot of money was used to buy luxury goods shipped from the Chinese Empire, but there was still a lot of money accumulated in the princes, nobles and royal family of Russia.

With the release of 500 steam engine paddle steamers decommissioned from the Chinese Empire in the Caspian and Baltic Seas, Russia entered the era of industrial ship transportation, which did not need wind and could sail in any place against the wind and against the water, and with the arrival of steam engine parts, a number of ship transformation plants of the Russian Empire were established on the seaside, the Caspian Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Black Sea.

Russia's revenues sprung up with these factories and went to the next level, three Chinese imperial shipyards were established on three seashores, which were shipyards built by the Chinese empire to control the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, a huge fleet of five hundred sail warships, fifty experimental warships with steam engines is circling the coast of Africa, sailing towards the Aegean Sea, and through the Turkish Sea, into the Mediterranean, and eventually into the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caspian Sea.

These ships carried a quarter of the goods of the Chinese Empire, a quarter of the parts of the steam engine and the prototype of the steam engine, and a quarter of the fuel, coal, charcoal, food, wood, paint, cables, nails, and a series of shipbuilding materials, as well as some cannons, guns and ammunition, and a group of shipbuilders.

Yes, the overseas garrisons of the Chinese Empire, the garrisons of the naval divisions, the establishment of bases and naval bases along the coast of Russia, in order to ensure the safety of the trading ships of the Chinese Empire on this side of the sea or along the coast of Russia, as well as the safety of the goods of the merchants of the Chinese Empire, in the future, the Chinese Empire will deal with more Western countries and have to send a fleet to escort it.

The general person in charge of this task is Zhao Hui, Zhao Hui has been sitting in the position of the director of the water division for a period of time, he is not sitting, he is not standing, he is used to being wild, he can't stand the days of sitting in the deep palace hall from 9 to 5 every day to deal with official business, plus the exclusion of many old sailor officials, he has not learned the way to be an official in his forties, the former Penglai Prefecture Naval Inspector, the head of the First Fleet, the commander, It took half a year to be pushed to the Navy Military Academy by the Ruan Jin family in the Water Division to serve as a nominal principal.

In the Navy Military Academy, there is no fish in water, the culture is too poor, if you want to talk about war, he can say three days and three nights, if you want to say command, his wild road command, it is estimated that no one can beat him, but the new warship, different from the sail battleship, the steam battleship, even he can't fiddle with it, after studying hard for a year and a half, catch up with the title reform, after the title reform, he was named a marquis, he Lao Tzu posthumously presented the duke, and the title of the duke is Ruan Jin, who entered the advisory house.

There are Xiao Fei's family of people in the first line of the water division, there are a series of people from Ruan Jin, and a series of people left by He Jin, there are factions everywhere in Huaxia, and the old group of people left by Zhang Ying have retired one after another, or the new generation has emerged, and the people and horses of the Zhang family are still the faction with the most manpower in the first line of the water division.

The battleships broke through the huge waves of three or four meters and advanced in columns, with three British sail warships of two thousand tons in front of them, and the Spanish warships that supported the voyage in the back, all of which were small warships of five hundred tons, and they were guarded on both sides, about ten.

These thirteen warships were hired by the Chinese Empire through the British Viceroy and the Spanish Colonial Governor, and they were to lead the fleets of the Chinese Empire to the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Baltic Sea coasts.

Some of the warships brought were sail warships to be sold to Russia, some were sail warships to be sold to the Arshav dynasty, and the other part was needed by Turkey, thirty experimental steam warships donated by the Huaxia Empire, and each port of the Huaxia Empire would leave only thirty merchant ships of two thousand tons, ten experimental steam warships, ten sail warships, and twenty inland river steam paddle steamer transports of several hundred tons.

The huge fleet flying the red dragon flags of the British, Spanish, and Chinese empires is very dazzling at sea, because it is too large, even if there are more than 100 really small ships that cannot be launched to catch up with the steam paddle steamer transport ships of the Chinese Imperial Naval Division and the British Pilot Naval Division, most of these transport ships are placed on 3,000-ton merchant ships for transportation, and the total number of remaining warships and merchant ships is as high as 380, all of which are more than 1,000 tons.

The entire fleet was covered with sails, black smoke billowed from them, and their movements could be seen below the horizon thirty or forty nautical miles in the distance. When the fleet reached the Strait of Gibraltar, it was confronted by thirty sailing ships flying the Dutch flag.

In the face of the huge fleet The Dutch are still very arrogant, they don't evade it at all, they rush up obliquely, the British go up to negotiate, Zhao Hui looks at his flagship, this flagship is as high as 3,700 tons, and generally uses a steam unit of 6,500 horsepower, the speed is not inferior to the speed of the warships of the Chinese Empire, and the protection is also very good, under the iron plate of two or five millimeters, is a camphor wood board as thick as one foot, and the keel is made of the latest stainless steel of the Chinese Empire, which is forged by a water press weighing 3,000 tons. It is 129 meters long and 6.9 meters wide.

The bow of the ship had a 128 mm steel gun made of Chinese Empire, with a rotating turret, five meters behind each of which contained a 34-pounder gun with a half-open door, two such guns on the aft deck, and a 75 mm turret gun, with a total of 16 12-pounder guns on either side of the hull.

The cabin had forty guns below deck, and eight guns on the lower deck, all of which were 36-pounder guns.

The central bottom compartment of the cabin, the middle compartment, housed the ammunition depot and the grain storage depot, as well as the various boiler groups, where the protection was also the highest, with double 25 mm iron plate protection, and half-foot-thick sandwich camphor wood protection, and the cabin columns were arm-thick steel brackets riveted to the ribs on both sides.

Watertight compartments are also used throughout the area, and the watertight hatch doors are sealed with rubber pads.

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