Chapter 431: Friendship with Russia

After spending a huge amount of money, the fleet ordered from Britain was finally delivered, and the personnel selected by the Chinese Navy were quite well trained in Britain, and then, driving their own warships back to China, and soon, the naval warships ordered in France, Prussia, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries were also delivered and used, and the mighty Chinese warships returned to Weihaiwei Port and Mawei Military Port, so that the number of Chinese Navy warships increased dramatically, due to the fact of discrepancies, now, China has ordered eight battleships, Eighteen cruisers, eight heavy cruisers, with a total tonnage of 140,000 tons, plus the American warships already in use, the total number has reached an encouraging level, and in the ranking of world naval power, it has jumped behind Britain and France, and is not much different from Russia, temporarily ranked fourth,

The Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom immediately launched large-scale military training, and the intensity of naval training was amazing, with Peng Yulin as the commander of the North Sea Fleet, and Zuo Zongtang as the commander of the Nanyang Navy Fleet, enriching the number of officers and men, formulating strict military regulations, and so on.

Among the battleships ordered, there were many gunboats, battleships, cruisers, gunboats, large and small ships cooperated, forming a fleet sequence that was appropriate at that time.

Not only that, the Chinese government also quickly set up three large-scale ocean-going ship construction plants in Dalian, Qingdao, Mawei and other places, and introduced a large number of skilled workers from the Netherlands, France, Britain and other countries.

The large-scale construction of the navy was completed against the background of hostility against Russia, China has always identified the Russian tsar as an enemy, and has been clamoring loudly at home and abroad to fight with Russia, and the construction of all naval fleets is nominally to defend against possible expeditionary attacks by the Russian navy, so China's exaggerated expansion has not attracted special attention from Britain.

The Chinese side has also drawn up a naval battle plan, called "A" defense, believing that once Russia invades, it will cooperate with the navy and army to attack the northeast region with its naval fleet, or attack China's Tianjin, Dagu, Dalian and other areas with its Pacific fleet.

In this plan, the British were specially invited to guide the plan, and more than a dozen British experts and more than 30 French experts were hired; anyway, many people were hired, and the Chinese officials were very humble in asking for advice.

By the spring of 1868, the entire focus of the Chinese government's military defense was war preparations, and the contradiction was the Russians, and the British and France took very friendly actions, and in March 1868, Japan's large-scale armed downfall began, and the armies of the southwestern feudal clans gathered together to attack the Tokugawa family, the shogun, the highest authority, under the banner of the king's reign and the king's admiration.

Luo Yang still can't take care of Japan, because Japan is still very weak and chaotic, and it is not the target of Luo Yang's attack, because this little gourd is not worthy, and Luo Yang's target is Britain and France.

After thinking about it repeatedly, he set the target of Britain, because Britain was the world's largest naval power at that time, and it was also the richest, most industrialized, and most colonialist country in the world.

When talking with Zhang Suimou and other confidant officials, everyone had already made up a lot of knowledge of world history, economy and politics, and they all felt that France should be chosen as the target, and in this case, Britain would generally not intervene, although France claimed to be the world's largest army, but their army came to China for a decisive battle, and they also worked on expeditions, and their combat strength was greatly affected.

"If you want to play, we will play big, we don't have so many opportunities, Britain will definitely not miss the opportunity, once our army and France are decisively decisive, Britain is bound to send troops, we must pull Britain down, let our Chinese nation control the whole world, with our justice and morality to make the world friendly and harmonious."

"Actually, wouldn't it be okay to honestly manage our own affairs." Zhang Suimou was worried about foreign wars and could not predict them.

"There has never been an absolute certainty in the world, and the British invaded the Qing Dynasty with thousands of troops, is it necessarily certain?" Luo Yang said a lot of truths, and finally, confirmed this principle at the core level,

China wants to be the boss of the world, challenge the current old world order, and pull Britain and other countries down, as for Britain and other Western countries' advanced science and technology, economic development, and high degree of industrialization, which is the direction of the world's development, Luo Yang simply ignored it.

In fact, in the face of Britain and France, it is difficult to judge who the first target is, each has its own pros and cons, in the end, Luo Yang chose the United Kingdom, after the news is true, it was regarded as a great success by many officials of the former Qing Dynasty,

Zhang Zhidong and other diplomatic officials quickly received instructions to immediately conclude a peace treaty with Russia, the contents of which: First, the territorial changes in the former Qing Dynasty involved Russia, which were recognized by the current Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom Government, and as for the demarcation and demarcation of the northwest region, personnel from the relevant departments were immediately dispatched to deal with it, but the Chinese government said that everything was negotiable.

Under the premise of the rapid change of attitude of the Chinese government, the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom government signed a series of treaties with Russia, as well as many intergovernmental memorandums of understanding.

Tsarist Russia was very satisfied, because, to the maximum, they got what they wanted, with the new treaty documents, the Forbidden City's own interests, and after the aggressive strength shown by the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom, the two countries faced each other severely, and after that, the Chinese government suddenly changed its attitude and generously made concessions, which made the Tsar extremely excited, because he and his court ministers also knew that the current military strength of the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom was not a joke, and the only country that could defeat the American modern fleet with its army was China,

The smoke of war suddenly disappeared, and China sent several diplomatic delegations to visit Russia, saying that it would establish a strategic partnership with Russia forever, and also hinted to Russia that the reason why China was so provocative was because of the instigation of Britain, and now, China has bought all the warships and other materials ordered back to its home, and it no longer has any handle in the hands of Britain, so it is absolutely unwilling to follow Britain's interests and make enemies with its strong neighbors.

For centuries, Russia and Britain have been adversaries and enemies, especially in the nineteenth century, after the defeat of Napoleon, Russia and Britain were the two poles that dominated the Vienna system, and later, the war on the Crimean Peninsula was essentially a competition between Britain and Russia for the world, until 1902, Britain also colluded with Japan to establish an alliance against Russia in the Far East,