The new battleships are not as good as the British, but relatively speaking, the Spanish warships are still very attractive, more realistic, durable, and huge, the sails are more powerful, the mast is more towering, the artillery is compared with the British technical breakthrough, and it has also begun to be dominated by flowering shells, and the Spanish artillery is a little unable to let go, most of them are still solid shell artillery, still adhere to the original layout, there are more artillery, and it is relatively large, which inevitably affects the speed and combat effectiveness.

Compared with the excellence of the British, the Spaniards were very happy, and did not learn the lesson of being defeated by the British, and built and built large battleships with little ability, even if they were in debt, which made the surrounding Western countries look hot and laugh.

The Spanish warships still follow the rules of the first-class battleships and second-class battleships of the sail era, although they have absorbed the benefits of the transformation of the Chinese Empire's clippers, and the speed and combat effectiveness have been improved a lot, and the speed and combat effectiveness can reach the speed of seven or eight knots in the usual smooth sailing, and when sailing fast, ten knots is no longer a problem, twelve knots, and even fourteen knots can also work, compared with the speed of the Spanish warships thirty years ago, the speed has increased by 1 knot to three knots, and the speed increase is much smaller than the average speed increase of three knots to five knots in the UK.

Of course, their speed on the flying clipper ship is not slow, the speed of 16.5 knots, the speed of ordinary drifting across the sea can also reach the speed of 12 knots, which greatly improves the speed of an era, but their flying clippers are not as fast as the British and Dutch clippers and have much combat effectiveness, or only based on message transmission, and the tonnage is relatively small.

Compared to the British's iron-made wooden keel, the hull is much stronger and more durable.

The British have a stubborn side, always thinking that steel things will not be better than the hard-to-find marine keels or ribs, so they still have scruples about the use of steel, compared to Spain's friendship with the Chinese Empire at that time, or Spain's repeated two-faced at that time, the British were much more arrogant, so they did not get much technology in the steel of the Chinese Empire, which is one of the reasons why the British did not use steel keels and ribs.

In terms of steam engines, both sides have not completed the real marine technology, and they are still tinkering with the people, some scientists themselves tinkering, in this regard, the academic atmosphere in Britain is much better than that in Spain, and the Dana is basically from England and Rome, Milan and other places in Italy.

As Russia and the Chinese Empire abandoned their previous suspicions and cooperated to obtain the railway, the Western European countries were greatly shocked, and sent personnel to see the construction of the railway by the Chinese people and engineers from the Qing Dynasty, and the charcoal train that transported materials from the transportation railway line to the frontier of countless materials, and then continued to transport materials in this way with the extension of the railway.

The huge volume of material transportation made Britain and other countries look greedy, but they were still in a hostile state with the Chinese Empire, as well as India, and other European countries had no contact with the Chinese Empire, and had also been at war with the Chinese Empire before, and there were many hostile countries or Russia, Turkey and other countries between the two sides, and there was no way to contact the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, at present, it is Russia that can enjoy the benefits of the railway, and the Turkish side because of Russia's onslaught on the Caspian Sea corridor, the original planned construction because the Caspian Sea corridor is not smooth, Russia's obstruction, the construction can not continue, but the construction in Turkey and the corridor for a while, as soon as the war began, the construction personnel of the Chinese Empire retreated.

Turkey has no choice, they have fought with Russia repeatedly, Russia is more powerful than Turkey in terms of size and cohesion, Turkey is a multi-ethnic country, there are not many nationalities in Russia now, the Turks are mixed-mouthed, culturally backward, just like they just came out of the barbarian tribal era, and Russia is more aristocratic, and has close exchanges with the West, the Slavs are actually a variant of the Germanic people, a kind of Western ethnic transformation, more able to integrate into Europe.

And Turkey is also from Asia, the ancestors were once the enemies of the historical dynasty of the Chinese Empire, in fact, they are also a kind of Han people, but their appearance and customs later changed, and after they came to the West, they were infiltrated and changed by the Western Roman Empire, and gradually became the Turks of the current Western face.

If it is said to be a later life, some people are going to say that blood relationship, blood is thicker than water, this argument was very reasonable when Zhang Qiang was a child, just like brothers, how you hate it is a family, but later found out that this is a betrayer who has gone away and has become a foreigner, or that people who do not want to be Chinese are bullied in other places, looking for a kind of help, if their hearts are still towards China, then help is not impossible, but many people, many people's descendants are thoroughly enjoying the good of foreign countries than the bad, Helping foreigners fight the Chinese, but when the foreigners bullied them, they came back to the Chinese to comfort them, planted their motherland and brothers and sisters, and had sinister intentions, so after understanding the matter, Zhang Qiang hated them deeply.

He sympathizes with the wanderers who are outside for various reasons, their hearts are still Chinese, but for the vast majority of people who go out and give up their Chinese identity, they regard them as enemies, because they will only do what the enemy does, and what the enemy does not want to use to hurt China, they will do it, and even do it more so, betrayal and harm, this is their good action to repay the motherland.

The most hateful thing is to consume the resources of the motherland, and also to put the motherland in a difficult situation morally and in general righteousness, so that the motherland has a hard time to speak, and it will hurt the motherland more than the enemy.

In the Qing Dynasty and Russia, Turkey built railways to make the Chinese Empire deeply affected these three countries, the railway may be because of the cost, the income is far away, but the income of other aspects is because of the trade surge, income soared, which is other European countries, especially Spain, which used to have far-reaching influence in the South Seas, and firmly dominated the trade rights of the country is very jealous, the British returned, and after two years of temptation, the Spaniards also came.

Spain's warship of more than 3,000 tons is like a hill slowly leaning on the dock of Guangzhou Mansion, the hull is shiny and reflective copper, and the steel skeleton in many places on the ship is very dazzling.

Most of the main body of Spain is still wood, but some of the hull supports are iron, plus his hull is very large, the tonnage is high, compared with the largest tonnage warship of the South China Sea Naval Fleet of the Chinese Empire moored in the corner of the military port in the distance, the warship of more than 2,700 tons has a huge hull and a height of six or seven meters, which makes the Spanish battleship look like a big man like Yao Ming facing a big man like Wang Zhizhi, or a boxing champion like Tyson, high and low, with clear body hierarchies.

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