The British Parliament passed a bill ordering the Chinese army and the Chinese to withdraw from Japan by June 1, 1879, otherwise Britain would increase its military assistance to Japan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This news, like a big stone, overwhelmed Emperor Hua a little.

"Why did they order us? Do the British really think of themselves as world policemen? Fight if you want to! Huaguo is not afraid of them! Timothy Lee was a rare speaker.

Burst!

Catherine almost didn't die of anger, and Timothy Lee either didn't speak, or she spoke amazingly.

In fact, Catherine had not yet experienced the era when Timothy Lee followed Emperor Hua to form Klinsmann & Co., and Timothy Lee was just a translator of Emperor Hua, and Emperor Hua generally encouraged Timothy Lee to express his opinions, but rarely listened to Timothy Lee's opinions.

After listening to Timothy Lee's words, Emperor Hua did not say anything.

Catherine saw that the emperor was unimpressed by her husband's words, and hurriedly pulled Timothy Lee and signaled him to stop talking nonsense and beat the British? Nervous about it.

Anyone with a little bit of international common sense knows that the British were the dominant force at the end of the 19th century!

really provoked the royal fleet to be dispatched, where is the small fleet of Huaguo that can only serve as a defensive task in the coastal sea enough to fight?

President Meng fell into contemplation again, it's not good to be the boss, when it comes to major issues, no one can rely on it, so you can only rely on yourself to make ideas and make decisions.

Huahuang actually knows how to have a good relationship with the British, if he is soft, send money, and if he is soft, Huahuang can do it, the key is that he can't satisfy the appetite of a first-class industrial power like Britain, how much money does he have to give?

One hundred million?

Two hundred million?

Billion!

People may not be able to see it, and the British have a great appetite.

What kind of country was the British Empire in the 80s of the 19th century?

The world hegemon, the standard of the two powers, the cruiser cruises the whole world, the other European powers, France is not convinced, it is dried, Russia is not convinced, it is also dried, the strongest industrial country in the world.

The arrogant British did not believe that Hua Guo would be able to challenge them in the future, although they did not look at Hua Guo very much, but fighting in the interior was not what the British wanted, because the British also knew that they could not defeat the unified and powerful Hua Guo on land, and Hua Guo was too big.

Looking at the lineup of the British Navy at the Battle of Jutland, five contemporaneous Japan could not be defeated.

Without a corresponding industrial base, it was impossible to maintain such a large navy as the British.

Dingyuan Zhenyuan is undoubtedly excellent in ironclad ships, but it is far from enough to make Britain look at it, and more than ten years later, ironclad ships have been replaced by more powerful battleships.

Even during World War II, if the Japanese had not panicked and bombed the Prince of Wales with take-off planes and counterattacked, and simply used warships to meet the battle, the entire Japanese Navy would only have Nagato and Mutsu to be used.

But these two ships are on Japanese soil. That's a lot of sinking in the past.

This is the British Navy that has been weakened by the Great Depression.

If the British lost, it was also in pride and ideas, and by no means in naval strength.

In those days, there seemed to be no precedent for aircraft to annihilate an active fleet. If it was a simple fight for surface ships, even during World War II, Britain did not seem to think that it would lose.

As for the strategic game, during the Meiji Restoration and the Westernization Movement of the Great Qing Dynasty, it seemed unrealistic for Britain to support two small East Asian countries to deal with the powerful Russia.

And support is not such a support method, if it is really strategic support, look at the Anglo-Japanese alliance, the British borrowed money to sell things.

However, at the time of Westernization and Meiji, the British were good at raising prices.

The second ship of Dingzhen was ordered in Germany, saving a lot of silver.

The British idea is probably to sell you the broken ship that I don't need at a high price, and I will make a fortune and go back to develop industrial shipbuilding.

If China at this time asked Britain to buy a large number of warships, buy those that others wanted to eliminate, and slaughter them at a price ten or twenty times higher than the production price, and then give up protecting the rights and interests of the surrounding small countries, not to mention allowing the British to come over and continue to sell opium, and also restore a series of unequal treaties on foreign trade during the Qing Dynasty, these were the bottom line of the Chinese emperor, and it was impossible to do it.

Therefore, the contradictions between China and Britain are almost irreconcilable.

However, China and Germany do not have many points of convergence of interests at present, and it is difficult to climb the big tree of emerging Germany.

In modern times, the rise and fall of great powers are closely related to the development of the navy.

For hundreds of years, the rise and development of almost every great power, from Spain to the Netherlands, from Britain to the United States, has been closely related to the strength of the navy and the consolidation of sea power.

In the history of mankind, to understand the close connection between the navy and the fate of the country, Britain is undoubtedly the best example.

Britain, which once had the strongest navy and the largest number of colonies in the world, has projected a huge and far-reaching influence on modern human history and civilization.

Although the glory of the British Empire has ended with the loss of its maritime supremacy, the history of the British Navy from small to large is the best place for China to learn from.

Located in the corner of Western Europe, the United Kingdom is an out-and-out ocean island country.

From antiquity to the Middle Ages, Roman legions, Germanic peoples, Vikings, ...... They crossed the English Channel and set foot in Britain one after another, forming the English nation in the collision and integration of each other.

Before modern times, the nightmare of being easily invaded by the direction of the mainland left a deep "continental imprint" on Britain's foreign policy.

Britain was actively involved in continental politics, expending almost all of its enthusiasm and energy in the dream of building a "trans-channel empire".

At the beginning of the 16th century, with the end of the Hundred Years' War between England and France and the establishment of the Tudor dynasty, the British, who had no choice but to leave the mainland, began to develop in the direction of "island nation".

At this time, the great geographical discoveries were shifting the center of gravity of European economy and trade from the Mediterranean to the "Western European-Atlantic" direction.

In response to foreign invasions, Tudor monarchs began to build and strengthen a regular navy and consciously turned their attention overseas.

The British Navy, officially established in 1546, found a catalyst for development in the struggle for wealth with the maritime power of Spain.

In 1588, the Spanish monarch, enraged by the piracy-style raids of the English navy, dispatched a huge "Invincible Armada" with the intention of levelling Britain in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, the British Navy, with the great pirates Drake and Hawkins as the backbone, was not afraid of a strong enemy, and changed the traditional method of port warfare and adopted long-distance artillery battles, defeating the "Invincible Armada" in one fell swoop.

It was the first decisive battle of the British in their quest for maritime supremacy. As the Englishman Fuller put it in his book A Military History of the Western World, this victory "sent the secret of the empire into the ears of the British like a whisper: even small countries with extremely limited resources and power could still win and hold huge overseas territories if they controlled the seas."

After that, the British, full of confidence in victory and a strong thirst for sea power, embarked on the road of colonial expansion.

By the first half of the 17th century, Britain, backed by its navy, continued to expand the scale of overseas trade and actively penetrated into India and the Americas, basically establishing its status as a European power and the prototype of the British Empire.

As Spain declined, Britain competed with the Netherlands and France, two important new maritime powers, for maritime supremacy.

From 1652 onwards, England and the Netherlands, the "coachmen of the seas", fought three large-scale naval battles in succession, and although they won and lost each other, the Dutch profited from the entrepot trade was deeply affected and eventually exhausted the country's vitality.

France was the most powerful country on the European continent, and Britain fought with it for more than 100 years in the late 17th century until the early 19th century.

In all seven major contests, Britain won major victories, with the exception of the sixth, when France had a slight upper hand.

The Peace of Vienna of 1815, which marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars, marked Britain's complete victory over France on the seas.

In the nearly a century since, no country's navy has been able or daring to challenge the Royal Navy.

By the end of the 19th century, Britain had built a large colonial empire spanning three oceans, spanning five continents, covering an area of 33.5 million square kilometers and a population of about 400 million.

Whether it is the population, or the reserve funds, the current strength of Huaguo, is multiplied by ten, it may not be the opponent of the British, the Chinese emperor will not be blindly arrogant, thinking that the Chinese army is really stronger than the British army, and the last time it fought well in the Guangdong battlefield, it was a miscellaneous army of the British, and there was not much reference value.

If a State is positioned in such a way that it does not have to defend itself on land and is not tempted to use land to seek territorial expansion, it can gain an advantage by concentrating its targets on the seas as compared to a State with the continent as part of its borders.

As an island nation surrounded by sea and without a direct threat from land, Britain was able to concentrate its efforts and resources on developing and sustaining its naval power, turning the English Channel into an unbridgeable chasm and then using a flexible "alliance-counterbalance" foreign policy to blockade and strike at its adversaries.

On the basis of the sea superiority it had gained, Britain achieved an orderly cycle of three elements: a strong navy advanced and protected the colonial cause and overseas trade; The vast colonies provided naval bases scattered across the globe and directly served the fleet; The huge profits of overseas trade not only provided abundant financial resources for naval construction and colony expansion, but also led Britain to take the lead in the first industrial revolution and become the "factory of the world" in the 19th century.

However, the emperor did not believe that Britain had the strength to dominate the world hegemony at this time.

In the late 19th century, the major capitalist countries in the West completed the second industrial revolution one after another, and Britain's economic advantage shrank rapidly.

Emerging powers sought to expand their spheres of influence and began to challenge Britain's dominance at sea and in international affairs.