After a day of rest, the German ambassador Henry finally met the young ruler of the Han Kingdom in the Han Palace, Yan Xueyi only briefly talked to Henry about some things, and did not really discuss the cooperation between the Han Kingdom and Germany, although Henry is the German Ambassador Plenipotentiary to China and has high power, but when the problem rises to the national level, Henry has no power to make decisions on behalf of Germany at all. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

What Henry probably wants to do most at this time is to transmit everything he saw in the Han Kingdom back to China, so that Germany can really understand the Han Kingdom, and finally reach a cooperation between the two countries, especially the airship technology that the Han Kingdom has, once Germany gets this airship technology, Germany can build a huge airship, form an air force, and then suppress the British navy, the whole world will be open to Germany, and Germany will develop rapidly without any obstacles.

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On September 7, the Emperor's Palace in Tokyo

It is said that the palace was completely destroyed by the air force of the Han Kingdom, and the Meiji Emperor had no place to live, so he could only temporarily stay in the "Imperial Palace".

In the palace, Emperor Meiji looked at the members of Kuroda Takakiyo's cabinet below with angry eyes, but the members of Kuroda Takakiyo's cabinet lowered their heads and did not dare to reply.

"The navy is gone, the shipyard is gone, even my palace is gone, but you haven't found out who the enemy is, what's the use of me asking you?" Emperor Meiji said angrily.

Can Emperor Meiji not be angry? Not only was the battleship sunk, but most of the naval officers and soldiers also died in the air raids, and the Yokosuka shipyard did not even have the workers with the shipyard, and the most angry thing for Emperor Meiji was that his home was actually blown up, which was his own face, and his face was swollen.

As for the ordinary people who died as a result of the air raids, they were no longer in the scope of the Meiji Emperor's consideration, and the number of people was still too much for the small territory of Samoto, and the ordinary people were just a bunch of consumables.

"Your Majesty, Weichen guesses that this airship should not be Britain, France, or Russia, after all, at this time, our country and these three countries are in an alliance relationship, and they will attack China together, and these three countries should not use airships to reduce our country's strength, this airship is more likely to be China's, and only China has a reason to attack our country." As prime minister, Takakiyo Kuroda had to break this "deadlock" and said cautiously.

"Are you kidding? How could the backward China build such a powerful airship, if it could be built, then I said that this empire should be able to build it, and now you can build such a big airship? Emperor Meiji's question, Kuroda Takashi was speechless.

Kuroda Takakiyo's speculation is very reasonable, but unfortunately the people present, including the Meiji Emperor and other cabinet members, could not believe this answer, in their eyes, Shina has always been a country that is even more backward than the original country, how could it be possible to build such a large airship, and everyone present will not believe such a speculation, nor dare to believe such a speculation.

"Well, you can't find out who the enemy is, so you have to find a way to fight the airships, and what if these airships come again?" Emperor Meiji asked his ministers again.

At this time, the Minister of the Navy Saigo replied from the opening of the road: "Your Majesty, there are two methods for the minister, the first method is to make a large elevation angle artillery, this kind of artillery is called anti-aircraft artillery, as we all know, the airship is filled with hydrogen, hydrogen is a flammable and explosive gas, as long as the anti-aircraft artillery can hit the airship, it can burst the hydrogen filled with the airship, the airship will fall from the sky, if the anti-aircraft artillery is loaded on the battleship, the battleship will no longer be afraid of the bombing of the airship." ”

"Good!" Emperor Meiji and other cabinet members said that Saigo's first method was very good.

Hearing others' praise for him, Saigo Congdao smiled slightly, and continued: "Although the first method is good, we can only be in passive defense, with the territory of our empire, how many anti-aircraft artillery do we need?" The best defense is to attack, and the only thing that can fight against the enemy's airship is the airship, and our empire also needs to quickly build this kind of airship, as long as we can make such an airship, the empire can become the world's top power. ”

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

Emperor Meiji applauded Saigo in approval, and the other cabinet members also applauded Saigo.

Subsequently, Emperor Meiji issued an order to manufacture anti-aircraft artillery as soon as possible to prevent enemy airships, and more importantly, to study the manufacture of airships, saying that the empire must have its own airships.

For the order of the Meiji Emperor, Prime Minister Kuroda Takakiyo could only accept it with a wry smile, the wealth looted in Korea in the previous years was basically used to develop the economy and navy of the country, and some time ago tens of thousands of troops were mobilized to attack China, and the finances of the country were already exhausted, and more importantly, this time it was bombed by the enemy's airships, and suffered heavy losses, which required a lot of money.

Now that Emperor Meiji has given an order to manufacture anti-aircraft artillery, he said that the country is so large that I don't know how many empty guns will be needed to meet it, which is a huge expense.

Anti-aircraft artillery is nothing, the most important thing is the airship, can the airship be played by instinct, I am afraid that the cost of an airship is more than that of a state-of-the-art warship, with the current finances, how can it be possible to support the development of a take-off boat.

No way, this is an order issued by Emperor Meiji, Kuroda Takakiyo can only accept it as prime minister, even if he cries poverty to Emperor Meiji, the only way for Emperor Meiji is to reduce the imperial family's expenses for the development of airships, the imperial family has reduced their expenses, and the ministers have to donate part of their salaries, and finally call on the people to donate money, but how much money can the people have? It's good not to starve to death, how can there be money to donate.

Headache, really a headache, this is the state of Kuroda Takakiyo at this time.

In any case, Kuroda Takakiyo still tried to do everything arranged by Emperor Meiji, originally thinking that the local area of Samoto would be quiet for a while, but he didn't expect the enemy's airship to come again a few days later.

On the morning of 7 September, the bombing formation of the Dahan Kingdom Air Force returned to Shandong Yaxi Air Base.

After a day's rest, at noon on 8 September, the Air Force bombing formation set off again loaded with ammunition.

In the early morning of 9 September, the Air Force bombing squadron arrived in Osaka and launched a bombing campaign against Osaka.

The bombing formations of the Air Force did not aim to kill or injure people, but their main purpose was to completely destroy the industry in the air. (To be continued.) )