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Navy victory!

The people of Wuchang did not show much surprise at the news. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIt seems that for people, the victory of the rebel army is inevitable, and if it is defeated, it is abnormal.

After all, from the establishment of the rebel army to the present, it has not suffered a single defeat.

"The army has not tasted defeat for more than a year...... That's not a good thing. ”

After exclaiming, Zhu Yifeng looked at the battle report from Guangdong quite proudly, the battle report was only a few thousand words, and there was no topic such as "entrusting the master to Hongfu", and some were just a detailed report on the naval battle, which was detailed to how many shells were fired by each warship, how many hits, and the losses of each ship, which was a typical British-style naval combat report.

"But it would be nice if I could keep winning like this......"

Of course, this idea is just a thought.

One of the basic prerequisites for making up his mind to fight a war with a foreign fleet is the use of breech-loading rifled guns and picric acid, and this is what Zhu Yifeng decided to fight this battle -- to make up for the navy's lack of training by using technological superiority, and to preemptively teach those veteran naval countries a profound lesson through this technology.

Never play a peace!

It's more important to play a future!

After this war, even a powerful Britain will face up to the Governorship and the nascent Chinese Navy, instead of looking at itself and the Chinese Navy in an unequal light!

This one is to knock out the pride of the so-called white race.

Although these Caucasians are nowhere near as proud as they were decades ago, there are things that need to be prevented!

"Technology, technology is a good thing."

Yes, there is nothing better than technology, and the insight of more than 160 years beyond the times makes Zhu Yifeng very clear that as long as he can have a technological lead, he will inevitably win everything, and human history has proven this time and again. And now the results of the naval battle of Lingdingyang also prove all this.

"Ironclad!"

Looking at the praise of "Han Feng is good" in the naval battle report, I can't help but think that in the next few decades, the ironclad ships that crisscross the ocean, those ironclad ships with a speed of more than 18 knots and hundreds of millimeters of armor, that is, guns of more than 12 inches, are the future of the navy.

"Shi Si ......"

Looking at the report of Shi Si, the engineer of the Whampoa Dockyard mentioned in the uncomfortable notice, the corners of Zhu Yifeng's lips lifted slightly. This shipbuilding engineer from England actually wants to see a real ironclad, and now the first ironclad ship, the French Napoleon, should not have started construction yet.

"It is undoubtedly extremely unwise for the newly created Chinese Navy to build a wooden-hulled sailing fleet following the example of the British, and if the Chinese Navy wants to catch up with the European Navy, then it will inevitably need to find another way, and the ironclad ships are the only choice for the Chinese Navy to surpass the European naval power, and the only chance for the Chinese Navy to defeat the Royal Navy in the future."

…… Looking at Shi Si's report, at this moment, a thought even burst into Zhu Yifeng's mind.

Traitor!

This is a naked traitor!

No!

No, this is the quintessential internationalist warrior.

What kind of person would have such "feelings", and directly pointed out in the report that the Chinese Navy must consider building a navy on the premise of defeating the Royal Navy.

"If you don't want to be a general, a soldier is not a good soldier, and a navy that doesn't want to defeat the Royal Navy is not a good navy?"

After this exclamation, Zhu Yifeng stared at the report on the establishment of the "ironclad fleet".

"Build an ironclad fleet ......"

If the Chinese Navy can build an ironclad fleet ahead of other countries and seize the opportunity of this change, then there is no doubt that in the future, even the Chinese Navy will become a maritime force that the world cannot ignore.

Just as Germany tried to seize the opportunity of the "dreadnought" a few decades later, because the "dreadnought" eliminated all ironclads overnight and revolutionized the mode of engagement in naval warfare. And now in this transitional period when wooden-hulled sail warships began to transition to steam-ironclad ships, their revolution even surpassed the appearance of "dreadnoughts".

It is not only the wooden-hulled sail warships that have been eliminated, but also the tactics and naval ideas of the old era, etc., which can be said that even the huge Royal Navy will not necessarily have much advantage over the Chinese Navy starting from scratch at this time, at least in a sense, the two go hand in hand.

"That's right! That's right......"

After thinking about all this, Zhu Yifeng seemed a little excited, building a navy that could defeat the Royal Navy could be said to be one of the strongest wishes in his heart.

If there is anything he believes in as a traverser, it is that he believes that the navy is the future of China.

Only with a strong navy can China survive in this era of the jungle and gain its own overseas interests. In this era, a China without overseas colonies was destined to be only a second-class power.

"China needs colonies to house its surplus population, and it also needs colonies to provide China with resources that it lacks at home."

Thinking of this sentence from the bottom of his heart, Zhu Yifeng's eyes couldn't help but cast on the world map, maybe that map was not as accurate as it was a hundred years later, but it clearly showed him the situation of this world.

With the exception of Europe, the Americas, and the Far East, the British flag is planted almost all over the world, and Britain controls the world's largest overseas colonies, not just Britain. European countries such as France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands also had huge overseas colonies.

Get up and walk in front of this world map, and you can see the huge "China" from the map, except for the mainland...... Well, and vassal states.

Vietnam is not yet occupied by France, and Korea is still partial to the north, even along with Burma...... The southern part of Burma was already occupied by the British.

However, a vassal state is not the same as a colony.

China needs overseas colonies!

This is for the sake of China's long-term peace and stability.

At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not so much an anti-Qing uprising, but rather an inevitable result of the dense population in the Liangguang area, and even the "dispute between the Turks and the Turks", which was also a problem of population and land in the final analysis. In Hunan, Hubei, and in the north, the population problem has become a lingering shadow.

The contradiction between decreasing per capita land and more people and less land has led to the phenomenon of "overcrowding", when the population increases beyond the capacity of the land, a part of the population is squeezed out of the land and becomes a displaced person. And these displaced people cannot make a living through normal means and become homeless, which will become the root cause of serious disruption of social order, it can be said that the root cause of the so-called 300-year cycle of dynasties is "overcrowding".

In the process of the collapse of the social order system, large-scale social upheaval, frequent wars, and a large reduction in the population. The population decreases, the per capita land increases, the social wealth accumulates again, and the society begins a new cycle. This is one of the many reasons why China calls "a cycle of 300 years".

But Zhu Yifeng can't accept this kind of "reincarnation"!

Historically, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom claimed the lives of 100 million people, the prosperous area south of the Yangtze River turned into a red land, and the wealth accumulated by society for hundreds of years was almost exhausted, which can even be said to be one of the many reasons why China lagged behind the West in modern times.

"Population is the real wealth!"

Staring at the map in front of him, Zhu Yifeng muttered to himself silently.

Rather than using war and the death of hundreds of millions of people as the price of "ruling the world" with China, the solution of European countries is to emigrate to colonies, and since the 17th century, tens of millions of Europeans have crossed the ocean and established colonies around the world. In terms of demographic pressures, China needs colonies more than any other country, and this need is more urgent and intense.

If it is not possible to export China's surplus population abroad, what will happen even if the Manchus are overthrown in the future?

"Africa! Africa! ”

Staring at the vast continent of Africa on the map, except for North Africa and the coastal areas of South Africa, the vast central part of Africa is completely blank, where there are neither countries nor other European powers.

Although Africa had a long history of European footprints, the process of colonization of Africa by Europeans was relatively slow. On this map, although Australia has been completely occupied by Europeans, Asia has been invaded by Europeans for more than half of its time, and only the countries east of Siam are barely able to maintain their existence under the "shadow" of China, less than one-twentieth of the land in Africa, where there is almost no state existence, is occupied by Europeans. In fact, it was not until more than twenty years later that the Europeans began to accelerate their colonization of Africa, and it was a full thirty years before they began to truly colonize the African hinterland.

"African ......"

Staring at Africa on the map, Zhu Yifeng's eyes revealed a desire for "living space", yes, China, needs a broader "living space", as for Africa...... It should become the "Promised Land" for the Chinese!

Just like Southeast Asia!

Africa is too far away after all, colonization in the short term is not realistic, compared to Africa Southeast Asia is undoubtedly a more suitable place, although the Chinese have long penetrated into Southeast Asia, but have never established their own colonies there, and the colonies of Westerners in Southeast Asia have never been inseparable from the Chinese, always the Chinese help, the Westerners have consolidated their colonies.

This cannot but be said to be the sorrow of the Chinese!

This must change now!

Moreover, on the way to Africa, China needs to set up supply ports along the way, so Southeast Asia is destined to be China's first step in expanding its overseas colonies.

"This is ...... here"

Tapping his finger to a certain location on the map, Zhu Yifeng muttered to himself.

"Although the internal problems have not been solved yet, it is good to try it now, but in any case, we must first establish ourselves here, and then ...... step by step" (To be continued. )