Chapter 948: Japan Can 'Sell' Anything
The British in the city of London were very excited, and the battle of the pyramids and the Battle of Aboukir played a huge role far from one plus one equaling two, but one plus one is greater than two.
In particular, the Battle of Aboukir was not a battle of the pyramids that only withstood Napoleon's attack, but a complete victory.
The French lost three third-class sail battleships and one cruiser, the British did not sink one except for two capital ships that were seriously damaged, and also captured a third-class sail battleship of the French, and throughout the battle, more than 600 French sailors were taken prisoner, and they were so happy that they didn't know how many British people slapped tables and chairs loudly. The tavern was full every day, and the Englishmen in it were all excited, talking, and making the boss make a lot of money.
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And in Buckingham Palace, which at this time was not really a palace, but the private residence of the British royal family, which George III bought the mansion a year before the birth of his eldest son in 1761 and used it as a private residence for his wife, Queen Charlotte. Over the past 30 years, 14 of King George III's 15 children have been born here.
When the chamberlain won a great victory for the British Royal Navy at the mouth of the Nile, not only defeating the French Mediterranean fleet, but also completely blockading its main force in Alexandria, George III, who had been King of Great Britain and King of Ireland for thirty-eight years, seemed to be calm, and only nodded lightly to indicate that he understood, but his trembling hands revealed the excitement in his heart at this time.
A huge map of the Mediterranean hung on the wall of her dormitory, and George III stared at the location of Alexandria. By now the Ottoman army should have launched a powerful counterattack against the French army entrenched in Alexandria on land......
If the young man, who had been bringing bad news to Britain since two years ago, died in Egypt as he expected, George III would have been filled with excitement just thinking about it!
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But in Nanjing, the geographical location of Great Britain and the size of Japan, which is very similar to that of Great Britain in the east, is in a mood of eagerness and hesitation.
Japan's only embassy in foreign relations, it is the center of Chinese politics and has been operating here for more than a decade. The cash-shy Japanese settled in Nanjing, a Dutch embassy that they bought, and the model was typical of European architecture, but the color was not the snow-white of the previous days, but like most of the buildings in the city today, blue-gray, which looked dark and quaint.
Zhu Jin hurriedly walked out of the embassy, his face was full of excitement, and he didn't even see the guards at the door greeting him. He had just received a notice from the Duke of Xu Guo that Marshal Chen Quan, the general logistics officer of Chen Han, was 'finally' free to see him. This is a big man at the top of the Chinese pyramid.
If you want to count the most powerful people outside of the Great Emperor of China, in addition to the imperial family such as the Emperor Taishang and the King of Song, you must count the cabinet ministers, the governors of the metropolitan governor's office, and the president of the Imperial Yuan. Among them, Chen Quan, who is the second marshal of the empire, is definitely one of the great names - in fact, the third marshal, because the first marshal is not Chen Erbao, but Chen Ming.
It's just that Chen Ming is the emperor, and the military rank of this marshal has been weakened invisibly.
According to the law, the emperor of Chen Han was 'born' to be the marshal of the imperial army, and concurrently served as the governor of the Dadu Prefecture. In addition, there are four governors in the Metropolitan Governor's Palace: left, right, front, and back. It's the governor, and it's no longer the deputy governor. It's not good!
Chen Quan was not only the rank of marshal, but also the first of the General Logistics Department, and one of the four giants of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion [except for the emperor].
With the title of Duke Xu Guo, he is also the former governor of the Dadu Governor's Office, and he is definitely a hot figure in Chinese politics.
It's been five days since Zhu Jin sent the posts that he asked to meet, and now he finally waited for the summons.
Zhu Jingan is not purely Japanese, as can be seen from his surname, he has Han Chinese ancestry. His ancestors were Zhu Zhiyu and Zhu Shunshui in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhu Zhiyu died in Japan, and his grave was also in Japan, although most of the early heirs stayed in China, but there was also blood in Japan, but the last words before his death: "I can no longer serve in the Han soil, and I have no shame to report the ...... of the restoration cause." "The descendants of Zhu Shunshui, who regarded themselves as emperors and Han people, have been Japaneseized under the influence of the general environment in the past hundred years. In the final analysis, this Zhu family is already of an alien race. The descendants of the Zhu family who stayed in Japan may not marry Japanese women in every generation, but Zhu Jin must have far less Han blood in his blood than the Japanese.
Twenty or thirty years later, Zhu Jin still lived in the Mito Domain with a Japanese-style name, and now the reason why he has restored his Han name is not because he is proud of the Han family blood flowing on his body, but more for the convenience of walking in China.
This is normal, and the Japanese are quite xenophobic. Just like Wang Pingbei of the 'Sanye' family, it is understandable.
Zhu Jin was very aware of Xu Guogong Chen Quan's influence in Chen Han.
He was the leader of Chen Han's General Logistics Department, and he had a deep-rooted influence in this department, and everyone who knew anything about China's military and political affairs knew how powerful the General Logistics Department was in the whole of China.
Chen Quan's age is not young, more than sixty people, and he is three or four years younger than Chen Hui, the king of the Song Dynasty, but he is still in good health now, and he still sits firmly in the position of director of the General Logistics Department of the National Defense Forces.
The Embassy in China, as a subordinate existence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Shogunate, Zhu Jinqing is also the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Shogunate. The Japanese shogunate is now following many of China's examples, at least formally, to complete its own political innovations.
And Japan's attention to China can also be seen from Zhu Jingan's position. But compared with the real weight, Zhu Jingan, who is the vice minister of foreign affairs of the Japanese shogunate, seems to be only one level shorter than Chen Quan, and he is not a fart in front of Chen Quan.
When Chen Han was preparing to fight a New American War with Spain, the Japanese were eager to take an active part. They can send their own regular army to give China a hand, and as long as the Chinese government pays for the military, Japan can 'sell' everything.
It's a pity that Chen Han bluntly refused.
The Tokugawa shogunate was still at a loss, and the 'friendship' between China and Japan had not been distant, so why did it isolate Japan all of a sudden? And there are not even many standing teams and security teams.
This doubt was not until the details of the Americas were reported to China and to Japan. It was not until the Japanese upper ruling class appeared on the battlefield in the Americas that the upper echelons of the Japanese ruling class understood why Japan had been isolated so early.
And Japan saw the Mini rifle and hexagonal cannon with their own eyes, but after the leak of the West Sea was exposed, China's latest musket, the powerful musket, was shamelessly stolen by the Russians.
I don't know if this matter has spread to Europe, but in the Eastern world it has caused a lot of uproar. However, Japan, Siam and other vassal countries also got a chance to get the Mini rifle in the open.
This is really an epoch-making weapon.
The front-loading smoothbore gun compares to it, like primitive people and feudal soldiers armed to the teeth.
Then the Japanese rekindled their enthusiasm because not only the Americas were attracting them, but India was also attracting them. This time it was the Maharaja of Tamil Nadu from Madurai, located in the southern part of the Kingdom of Mysore.
Madurai has been the capital of King Bomdiya [Tamil Nadu] since more than 600 years ago, and now the indigenous Indian princes there are a little frightened, and they prayed to China for protection, because after signing a peace treaty with the British, the Tipu Sultan of Mysore began to sharpen his knives to the pigs and sheep, and for the Mysore royal army, Madurai was the pig and sheep to be slaughtered.
But China, acting in the 'big picture', did not accede to Madurai's request. Madurai was really facing the threat of the Mysore army, and they thought of the Japanese in desperation.
Since China can form a standing force and a security force composed of Japanese people, and Madurai has money, can they also organize a security force composed of Japanese samurai?
As I said before, anything can be sold in Japan today for the sake of money.
The top brass of the Tokugawa shogunate were shaken, and the golden stripes were so charming. However, the Tokugawa shogunate was not completely blinded by gold, and they were still well aware that they were holding the mountain of China on their heads.
In such a matter, Japan must obtain China's consent.
How to get China to agree to this matter as soon as possible has naturally become the first priority of the Japanese ambassador to China.
Zhu Jingan received training from Japan seven days ago, and then he spent two days 'formulating' a plan for tackling key problems. This is the top priority of the General Logistics Department.
The continuation of the War of the Americas and the transportation to the heavenly world took up too much of China's transportation capacity. If Japan wants to get Madurai's 'bodyguard' order, it must consider a transportation problem - at this time, the only 'person' who can squeeze out a fleet of at least 10,000 people with a transportation capacity of at least 10,000 people is the General Logistics Department of the Chinese Imperial Court.
Others, immigration offices, transport companies, etc., are all not worth mentioning. Their ships have been used in the Americas and the Heavens, as well as China's strong 'domestic demand'.
Zhu Jin couldn't forget the order Edo gave him to finalize everything within half a month - the shogunate felt that China would not stop them and prevent them from earning this extra money. It should take no more than 20 days!
Zhu Jingan began to seek to meet Chen Quan, hoping to develop a deeper friendship with the Wehrmacht. Of course, Madurai could not provide the weapons needed by the Japanese security forces, and if this security force could really be successfully established, the source of weapons would only be China.
All of Japan's military-industrial systems are now working hard to make Mini rifles, and they can't satisfy their own appetites, but they are not interested in greeting the Indians. As for the large number of smoothbore guns eliminated by the Japanese regular army, they can be used to arm the Japanese police. Moreover, the Japanese are going to India to eat meat and gnaw bones, so how can they not pay a toll to China?
That's the boss of Japan. Without China riding behind it, the British fleet in India dared to drive directly to Edo Bay to fire artillery? Q: Are you afraid of Japan?
They are afraid. The Japanese samurai who have broadened their horizons are no longer turtles with only a small one-third of an acre of land in Japan. They were well aware of the gap between themselves and the British, and they also knew that when the Japanese samurai went to Madurai, they were fighting against the British.
But until today, Zhu Jingan has never been allowed to get started.
There were too many guests outside the Xu Guogong Mansion. Perhaps it was because of the leakage of the news in the past few days that Chen Quan deliberately 'promoted' Zhu Jingan. Anyway, now Chen Quan finally agreed to meet with Zhu Jingan.
Zhu Jingan also knows that this may be really big. Because Chen Han's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the cabinet did not show any antipathy to Japan's business.
In the end, it was only Mysore who was unlucky. Who made that Tiepu Sultan mad? What does he want to do when he signed a peace agreement with the British and connected the Marathas with the British?
His heart can be punished!