"Prime Minister, I heard that a Shanghai-class destroyer belonging to the South China Fleet was sunk by the French in Saigon Bay! Now is a great opportunity! Xu Shoushan began to shout when he followed Tang Shaoyi into the Prime Minister's Office.

Qin Kai frowned, since he transferred this guy back to Beijing from the Pacific Fleet, this guy is obviously suffocated, and it seems that he has to ask someone to help this guy get another concubine...... Although this is somewhat incompatible with the new feminist movement that is emerging in China, it is necessary to let Xu Shoushan stop for a while.

"Yushan, sit down...... Sit...... I happen to have the best coffee from the Philippines here, just ...... to taste it" Qin Kai smiled slightly, and pulled Tang Shaoyi and Xu Shoushan to the tea ceremony in the middle of the living room, and in a blink of an eye, the guards on the side had already encountered a few cups of coffee with a strong aroma, "By the way, Yushan, didn't you go to the Beijing Naval Command Academy to study for three months, how do you feel!" ”

Hearing Qin Kai's question, the admiral who held the power of the navy showed a slightly embarrassed expression, picked up the cup and poured half a cup of coffee before grinning and said: "Prime Minister, let me go to the Navy Command College to learn what war theory, to be honest, I want to doze off when I see it, but I went to Tianjin Machinery Factory to visit the new steam turbine products of the Navy, which is much more interesting than learning theory!" ”

Hearing the lofty argument of this goods, Qin Kai also had to secretly despise it, and now among the senior generals of the navy, several generals from the Nanyang Naval Division are all characters who focus on actual combat, whether it is Lu Han, or Xu Shoushan, or even Chen Ying, Lu Zhiyuan, these are all battle-hardened generals, but. Qin Kai had obviously realized another point.

Naval tactics that are changing with each passing day. It is destined that the navy will be a service that pays attention to new ideas in the coming decades. Moreover, more importantly, Qin Kai has already understood very well that the national economy has become an overwhelming big thing, and the armament will remain low-level for a long time, and the task of the navy has shifted from expanding territory to serving the national economy.

Qin Kai smiled. directly filtered out Xu Shoushan's nonsense, but went straight to the topic, "Yushan, I called you and Shaochuan today, it's not for the little thing in Saigon Bay in South Vietnam, after the completion of this issue of naval subjects, although the fleet can't replenish new warships on a large scale for the time being, but raising such a large fleet has to be responsible for the future development of the country!" ”

Hear the words "responsible for the country". Xu Shoushan immediately burst out with great strength, and his eyes were almost about to pop out, and his gaze was scanned on the big map behind Qin Kai...... Where should you be next?

"Prime Minister. Didn't you take advantage of this fierce slap to the French in South Vietnam? Or, we can start from our base in Malaya and see the opportunity to eat the British Indian detachment, in which case the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean will be our world! Xu Shoushan smashed his mouth, revealing a pair of white teeth, and said unsatisfactorily.

Tang Shaoyi on the side looked at Xu Shoushan, a warmonger, with great disdain...... In the past 10 years, after land reform and light industry, the economy of the huge republic has finally begun to show its shocking potential, and in the event of a war with Europe, whether it is France or Britain, it will directly affect the economy of the country that cares most about it.

"Prime Minister, although the country's financial resources are still surplus, I firmly oppose any unnecessary military action under the current circumstances!" The finance minister, who was full of ideas about enriching the country and helping the people, immediately protested loudly against the construction of the warmonger Xu Shoushan...... However, in the end, he didn't forget to look at the biggest warmonger in front of him, Premier Qin.

Qin Kai smiled slightly, Tang Shaoyi's expression was very straightforward, and the meaning was also very clear, the huge navy was far more expensive than the army......

"Shaochuan, for a long time to come, the possibility of a large-scale war is not very likely, the country needs to recuperate, we have accumulated enough foundation, and now is the critical moment to fully lay the foundation of the country's economy, so ...... You don't have to worry! I have a big matter here, and I need you to come forward here and cooperate with Yushan to implement it! ”

This naturally caused Xu Shoushan's dissatisfaction immediately, this guy smashed his mouth, it was obvious that the two things he had just mentioned were vetoed...... The loss of a destroyer, although he did not participate in this matter, but when he thought about it with his ass, he also understood the trickiness in it, not to mention, Qin Kai didn't take it seriously at all just now, which illustrates a problem even more, this is obviously the ghost of Lu Gengtang, who replaced his temporary command of the navy during the period when he was assigned to the command college!

As for attacking the British Indian Fleet now, it was originally impossible, and the strength of the British Indian Fleet today is indeed not good, and it is very possible to eat the opponent with the strength of the Pacific Fleet, after all, although 2 Dreadnought-class battleships and 1 Vulcan-class battlecruiser were transferred from China, the number and overall quality of the Indian Squadron were completely suppressed by the Pacific Fleet.

Moreover, having controlled the Strait of Malacca, they were completely offensively defensive, while the British were facing the vast Indian Ocean, which needed to be fortified everywhere, and once a war began, the Pacific Fleet occupied all the elements of time, place, and people, and had the advantage of armament, as long as the command was appropriate, victory was a matter of course...... The only problem is that having defeated the British fleet is not profitable at all!

By provoking war again, the Beijing government will not only be infamous for breaking the treaty, but more importantly, there will be no transit port for the fleet to rely on along the coast from the Indian Ocean to the Arabian Sea, and now the country's vital overseas trade routes are facing collapse...... This consideration made Xu Shoushan, who was full of interest before coming, a little confused!

"Prime Minister, you came to me, you didn't want to arrange for me to study somewhere!" Xu Shoushan thought of this possible and arduous task, and a layer of hot sweat broke out on his head...... It's a lot harder than commanding a fleet!

Seeing this guy's strange expression, Qin Kai could only smile, "Yushan, you are wrong, we have now fully and directly used the power of the giant ship's cannon to speak, and now ...... We are going to use the cannons of huge ships to show our claim, and the Pacific Fleet is shouldering a heavy responsibility! ”

As soon as Xu Shoushan heard the cannon of this huge ship, the strength suddenly appeared, "Prime Minister, what do you say, anyway, where to fight, I pack the ticket, these dozens of ships of the Pacific Fleet can be rounded!" ”

Very good...... Qin Kai laughed, turned around and took out an official document from the copywriting behind him and handed it to Xu Shoushan!

On December 11, just after the Chinese government officially announced the launch of an investigation into the attack on a Chinese warship in Saigon Bay, the 1st and 3rd Pacific Fleets departing from Luzon and Singapore completely blockaded Saigon Bay.

On the same day, in the direction of Yang Xin Mountain on the border of South Vietnam, an army under the banner of the South Vietnamese Restoration Army suddenly appeared and launched a siege on Da Na Province at the northern foot of the mountainous area, and cut off the connection between Da Na and Cam Ranh in almost a day.

The sudden situation on the border of northern Vietnam, as well as the interception of sea traffic by the Chinese navy, almost immediately had an overwhelming effect on the situation in South Vietnam, and the Governor of French Cochinchina, Lo Mai, immediately felt the tremendous pressure, and on the night of the 11th, the Governor's Palace in Saigon was brightly lit, and more than 20 high-ranking colonial officials gathered here with anxiety.

"General Longville, will Chinese storm Saigon Harbor......" The shadow of the shelling of Saigon 10 years ago obviously still makes everyone who has experienced it palpitating, and now, Chinese has put the cannon barrel on Saigon in the open!

"The Chinese must be immediately made to fulfill the terms of the Sino-French Peace Memorandum, and their actions will make the Chinese lose the most basic credibility in the international community!" Sir Thaler, a white-haired executive, spoke anxiously to the Governor, who sat in the center with a sad face.

However, his Jian yì was immediately drowned out by the voice of the person next to him, "Lord Seth, one of the Chinese warships sank in Saigon Bay, and the photos they disclosed clearly show the situation of our warships firing...... Now the situation in Cochinchina is a little bad, and the Chinese have every reason to start a large-scale war! ”

"The explosion of the Chinese warship is clearly a conspiracy...... No, that's Chi Guoguo's conspiracy, isn't there a way to expose the cunning Chinese to the world? "Officials who think they are smart show what they know.

"What can we prove? Even if it turns out that the Chinese battleship exploded on its own...... Does this convince the Chinese of our evidence? ”

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Looking at the chaotic officials, the treacherous and cunning Governor Lu Mei obviously had his bottom line, that is, he could not lose France's most important colony in the Far East, and soon, after intensive consultations with Rear Admiral Longville, the commander of the Far East Fleet, the French bureaucrat who had controlled the entire Cochinchina for nearly 20 years finally had to admit something...... The French are about to lose Cochinchina!

"In the name of the Governor of Cochinchina, I have declared a state of emergency and immediately called up the servant army and controlled the supplies...... We want to make sure that Cochinchina can hold out to the support from home and from the UK! ”

Beijing, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Chinese Foreign Ministry Counselor Chen Jitong summoned the French consul Raynal and made sternly worded representations to the Frenchman, who had just arrived in Beijing for only one month -- the Chinese government has sufficient evidence that France deliberately provoked a war against China, so France must bear all the consequences of starting a war, including reparations and the outcome of the war!

Consul Raynal, apparently having not experienced the storm in Peking, fled back to the consulate with a dead face, and immediately conveyed a solemn warning from the Chinese government to the country that if the French could not give a satisfactory answer to the sinking of the Chinese warship, war would be inevitable! (To be continued......)