Chapter 610: No Friends Between Nations
The scene at the French embassy naturally and quickly reached Watson's ears, and Song Fuhe's outburst allowed Watson to be sure that there was nothing wrong with the news he had 'heard' before. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The French did abandon the Quang Nam country.
And why did they suddenly change the policy they had been adhering to for years? I don't know why.
That's something you can think of with your heels.
But it undoubtedly added a lot of trouble to Watson.
Now his negotiations with the Chinese are both refreshing and cumbersome.
In areas where the Chinese are willing to spit out, the talks will go very well, such as the issue of Bangladesh.
Watson could feel the sincerity of the Chinese representative on the other side, who was the cousin of the Chinese emperor and his aunt and grandmother, the biological grandmother of the Chinese emperor. The emotional reaction of such a noble person clearly represents the true attitude of China.
However, although the Chinese will not take advantage of the fire to rob 'India', they have set their sights on the South Seas at this time.
The Chinese were very honest, and Huang Song showed his greedy face in the face of Watson, and they wanted to swallow the whole East Indies and Malacca in one gulp.
While the war doesn't have to start right now, China needs a response from the UK, such as a pledge not to intervene. It's like China is letting go as neatly as Bangladesh is.
This, of course, is very much not in the interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The situation in the South Seas that is most in line with the interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain is China, Spain, and the Netherlands, and this kind of quasi-war readiness stage is now unprovoked.
Within two years, a Spanish and Dutch detachment each arrived in Manila and Batavia. The slightly tense situation in the South Seas has largely stifled the energies of Spain and the Netherlands.
Each country has a limited number of warships, and as Spain and the Netherlands deployed more warships in the South Seas, fewer warships elsewhere have been deployed.
From London's point of view, this is the best situation right now. It contained Spain and the Netherlands and suppressed China. It's a wonderful balance both in terms of proximity and long-term consideration.
Any movement that destabilizes the situation in the South Seas is detrimental to the interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Although London never burdened Watson in this regard, his aura would undoubtedly have become even brighter if he could have ensured that the situation in the Far East would remain stable during the war.
Unfortunately, the Chinese are clearly aware of this, and this agreement makes it very difficult for him.
"There is no eternal friendship between nations, only eternal interests. Mr. Watson was so confident in the Netherlands that the Dutch would be the most trusted partners of the Kingdom of Great Britain? "It is true that guaranteeing Dutch interests in the Far East is a major prerequisite for Anglo-Dutch relations, but does Britain really want to protect them at all times?
Huang Song didn't believe it.
As envoy plenipotentiary, Watson had the right to deal with all these things. He once thought that he would accomplish this task smoothly, but now he was anxious like a woman who was about to give birth, hoping that God would come down and let him complete a back and forth message with London in an instant.
Watson was scared. Yes, he was afraid. He was afraid to take on the responsibility.
Plenipotentiary, it's nice to say. But after the dust settles, he is also solely responsible for the agreement he signed. To abandon the shackles on China on the South Sea issue would be tantamount to giving up the Netherlands, a traditional ally of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
That's too much pressure.
Today he blurted out the Kingdom of Great Britain's support for the Nanyang issue to China, and perhaps in the blink of an eye, he was sitting on the crater of a volcano in London, swallowed up by the surging 'public opinion' and not even a dregs left.
But will he be able to get the news back to England and await London's decision?
In contrast, the distressed Watson's wife, who shocked many important port cities in China, such as Penang, Singapore, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai and Nanjing, and shocked half of China, lived a much happier life.
Although there are no balls or salons in China, this strange country has countless beautiful customs that are very different from the Western world. Even the mountains and rivers here have a completely different flavor.
After obtaining the complete set of design drawings for the flying shear bow sailboat, Mrs. Watson no longer cared about the negotiations, and spent her days touring the city of Nanjing with a group of European noblewomen in China, and eagerly awaiting the day when the glazed pagoda of the Great Bao'en Temple was opened.
She was full of longings for this architectural marvel as early as England.
When he came to China, Watson's greatest wish was to see the Old Summer Palace, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, and the Forbidden City, the Imperial Palace, to see the Great Glazed Pagoda of the Great Bao'en Temple. As for the Great Wall and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which are the most worthy of the mouth of some European scholars, she has no interest in the slightest.
Women, what attracts people's attention is beauty in addition to wealth.
Mrs. Watson looked forward to the day when her husband could take her to the top of the Great Glazed Pagoda and take her to the top and enjoy the beauty of Nanjing.
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"Stand upright."
Almost the entire Juche tribe fled to the Kazakh Dayuz people in China, grazing on the southern pastures of Lake Balkhash, grazing on one side and concentrating the elite on the other side to receive relatively strict military training in hot weapons.
The Fu Han army provided them with 20,000 sabers, 10,000 muskets, 50 large and small mortars, as well as 2,000 cuirasses and 2,000 handcuffs. The latter were gathered together by Abiris Khan of the Great Yuz to form an elite personal guard, each armed not only with a cuirass, but also with two handcuffs.
In the final ravages of Dzungaria, the Dayuzi Division, which was greatly injured, had to learn how to skillfully use flintlock muskets, line up entire columns, and lay out neat wall-mounted cavalry formations, all of which required special training from instructors sent by China.
"Smack!" With a bang, the black leather boots scattered and glowed in the sun, and the three neat soldiers standing in the three columns stood with their legs side by side, looking at the sergeant major in front of them without turning their eyes.
"Gun on the shoulder!" The sergeant major roared and kicked the soldier next to him. These grass birds, who had just made a clear distinction between left and right, didn't even know how to carry a gun. "Like him, like him, see clearly, keep the musket close to your shoulder."
The black barrel with a metallic sheen was pointed straight at the sky. Sergeant Major saliva spray.
Everything has to start from scratch. Even if there were some of these big Yuzi herders who could shoot muskets, their movements would be a disaster for an army.
Not far from this small training ground, a team of people was staying there, and Potemkin looked at the big Yuzi people in training with a facial expression, and his mood was not greatly touched.
All the swearing against China had been vented before he came.
Now he is watching the Chinese practice with Russian prisoners of war, and he can also look at all this calmly.
What's more, the Chinese are only arming and training the Yuzi people.
These Kazakh tribes took the initiative to get in touch with the Chinese when the Chinese forces had just entered Ili, and if it were not for the retreating Tatars and a few thousand Russian cavalry, Potemkin believed that the bastard Abiris would use Yongyao's head to show merit in front of the Chinese.
Abilis Blind Cat Bumped into a Dead Mouse, and now Big Yuz is much more closely related to China than Middle Yuz and Little Yuz.
"Whoa." Dozens of Kazakh herdsmen standing in front of the sergeant major hurriedly followed suit.
Because of life, it is difficult for these Kazakhs to maintain a large army for a long time. Nomads, hiding soldiers among the people is the only choice for Dayuz Abiris Khan.
And the absolutely precious musket in the Kazakh steppe, although Abiris knew that his choice was a very bad decision, he had no choice but to divide half of the musket among the tribes below. And how the clan leader below will organize the team, that is what he can't restrain
Chen Ming doesn't care about this.
The initial task of the instructor corps sent out was to train the 'standing army' of the heads of the various departments, and the army combat requirements could reach the level of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the cavalry combat could at least send out the wall columns.
All instructors use Chinese to express training slogans and tactical terms, and every Kazakh must memorize the meaning of each Chinese phrase.
These Kazakhs, who have not even established their own language standards, will be dyed with Chinese colors little by little in their military training.
When they were conquered by the Celestial Sect thousands of years ago, the Arabic alphabet became their earliest script. Historically, after being conquered by Russia, they used the Cyrillic alphabet to record their problems.
Chen Ming hopes to see that the Kazakhs in a hundred years can throw all these away, and the whole nation, whether it is written or written, will use square Chinese characters.
Just like North Korea now, the official language is Chinese. "Hunmin Jeong-in" was completely abolished, and books, writing, and the Korean language were withdrawn from all aspects.
The de-Koreaization is much sharper than the sticks of later generations.
"What's wrong? Are you all dumb? How do you tell you, shout out loud, so that you shout out loud, do you know or not? Again. ā
The sergeant major angrily lowered his musket again, and one of the interpreters of the gang was already proficiently shouting in Kazakh. The reviled Kazakh herdsmen were not dissatisfied. They were able to come out and carry guns, which was the grace of the nobles of the tribe, not only to be able to have an extra share of money every month, but also to bring muskets and muskets home, which was a very good thing to increase the prestige of their 'family'.
Everyone's faces were in shock.
"Your Excellency, the Chinese gave Abiris a full 10,000 muskets." At noon, Potemkin and his entourage stayed in this tribe and had a good meal. Potemkin calmly watched as the tribal leader flattered the group of Fu Han Army officers who accompanied him, and treated him indifferently towards his own military rank and status, which were far higher than those Chinese and officers.
That's the change, the change very clearly.
The defeat in the war cost the Slavs of their dignity and dignity in the land.
There's nothing hard to understand about that.
Just like Dzungaria, everything depends on war.
But some Kazakhs themselves do not hide the news is still easy to receive. "Abiris released half of his musket to the tribe below, and his own tribe has the remaining musket. The Chinese also gave them fifty artillery pieces, as well as two thousand cuirasses, which were also owned by Abilis half and half himself.
So Abilis now built up a thousand-strong personal guard, all armed with cuirasses. ā
In the inhospitable Kazakh steppe, the combat effectiveness of cavalry is much greater than that of short-distance frontal battlefields, where heavy firepower is inconvenient to move, and the value of cuirasses naturally increases a lot.
Hearing that Aberys, an incompetent fool, had 10,000 muskets and 2,000 cuirassiers, the gloom in Potemkin's eyes became even thicker. This is not good news!
"However, if Abu Ben hears the news, he will be even more upset, right?"
With such strength and the support of China behind him, the pressure on the Central Yuz would not be easy when the tribes of the Great Yuz drove their cattle and sheep to the west of Lake Balkhash.
What's more, Yongying no longer dares to take it with him on the edge of Lake Balkhash, and the Tatars will also move westward, and the interests of Zhongyuzi will be greatly damaged. After all, Xiao Yuzi is far away in the Caspian Sea, and after Da Yuzi fled to Xinjiang, their land and their pastures were all occupied by Zhong Yuzi.
In the afternoon, the tribe's gun-wielding herders continued their training. The modern army is a low-cost army with high consumption, a cannon fodder army, and the only way to strengthen such an army is to train, long-term and long-term high-standard training.
These Kazakh herdsmen, of course, could not meet the latter requirements, but as long as it was within the allotted time, the sergeant major did not relax a little.
"One more time, listen to me, gun on the shoulder!"
"Gun on the shoulder!"
When Potemkin stepped out of the tent and rolled over and mounted on horseback, the fifty Kazakh herders who were training not far away finally roared together and finished the whole action at the same time.
When Potemkin's blonde hair shiny in the bright sunlight rushed to the camp of the Chinese and Russian troops in the distance, the sergeant major nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, get shot." Here we go again, on the gun - shoulder! ā
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"Dig out the paper bullets!"
"Pull out the bullet!"
"Filling the Gunpowder ......"
"Stupid, don't break the whole paper ......"
"Don't shake your hands, it's all ......"
More than one person bit the gunpowder into his mouth, and the bitter and astringent gunpowder powder tasted unpleasant.
In the end, only two-thirds of the fifty men succeeded in firing their muskets.
"Again, refill gunpowder. I repeat, you're going to bite into the bottom of the bullet, and there's a tip there. "As long as you don't have a stupid person, you can see the difference, even if you don't use your eyes, you can notice it with your hands, but the main thing is nervousness.
The sergeant major was expressionless, and on the battlefield it was an unforgivable mistake. But now it's the training ground, and the training ground is where someone is allowed to make mistakes.
"Pour out the gunpowder!"
"Turn off the ignition pool!"
"Gunpowder poured into the barrel!"
"Reload!"
"Poke down!"
"Take out the poke strip."
"Aim!"
"Shoot!"
There was a loud "bang......", and the whole small playground was filled with gunsmoke.
"Clean the barrel!"
In the afternoon sunshine, the 50 Kazakh herders began their own training cycles. Potemkin and his party, who came to rest in the tribe at noon, were like swallows skimming the water, making a ripple, but then they all dissipated.
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The further he went inland into Xinjiang, the more the haze in Bojiangjin's eyes became thicker. What did he see?
In Yili, the color of the Heavenly Sect has faded and is almost invisible.
Large numbers of Chinese are busy in the fields, not growing the necessary food, of course, but peppers, summer cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, and cowpeas.
Seriously, the Ili River Valley is very fertile, and the Fu Han army that occupies it does not need to be specially garrisoned, but in the past two years, the Han people have migrated to Ili for a long time, and the grain produced here can easily supply the entire garrison army.
Potemkin also saw tall iron-making furnaces and 'isolated' factories that were turning Ili into a munitions production site Chinese no longer a mere hoarding point...... (To be continued.) )