Chapter 298: The Imperial Five-Year Plan

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The defeat of the Far Eastern Fleet, the representative of the new generation of the Russian Navy, in the Battle of Okhotsk, was definitely an unbearable result for the Russians, who were immersed in one defeat after another! Admiral Simjesky, who was experienced in command, was blown to pieces by the enemy's caliber naval guns, which made the Russian navy realize that the larger the ship, the more powerful the artillery on it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The more powerful the artillery, the thicker the protective armor it is equipped with, otherwise it will not be able to fight with the enemy on the sea, judging from the performance of the battleship Zhenyuan in the Battle of Okhotsk, the only battleship that can defeat the battleship is the battleship, as soon as the battleship is reminded, Russia will almost mourn the whole country, because four of the six Nikolai-class battleships they built were towed away by the Chinese Empire as trophies.

On the night before, Nicholas I swore that Lin Haijun just wanted to scare the great Russian Empire, but just a day later, the Chinese Empire was tantamount to a slap in the face of Nicholas I!

In St. Petersburg, Tsar Nicholas I was furious in thunder, and how much precious porcelain and large mirrors have been broken? A cadre of ministers and marshals and generals all stood with their hands down, and the empire still suffered a crushing defeat for the second time? The most shocking thing was that Marshal Chekov actually led his army to surrender? Moreover, an army of previously captured surrenderers was formed, and the brutal Nicholas I was sworn in Nebuchu was the most intolerable of Nicholas I.

And the Far Eastern Fleet, which was equipped with almost all of Russia's finest newly-built warships in the Battle of the Sea of Okhotsk, broke up and fled at the last moment? Nicholas I did not understand that there were more warships on his own side than those of the Chinese Empire, and that they were the latest to be built? What reason could there be such a fiasco? For this reason, Nicholas I, who was so angry, ordered to shoot all the captains who escaped from the ship, and Nicholas I, who was ambitious and talented, did not understand the navy, and he was like a beast that had lost his mind in a rage!

The death of Admiral Simjesky and the treason of Field Marshal Chekov made him angry, and shooting all the fleeing captains seemed to be his only option, to the surprise of Nicholas I, the way of doing things in a hurry to attack and close forces was flawed, and the officers and sailors on eight warships launched a rebellion, and they drove the warships to the Chinese Empire to join Chekov, who was determined to overthrow the rule of Tsar Nicholas I!

In the face of another betrayal, Nicholas I ordered the execution of all the families of the sailors and officers who participated in the rebellion, which further exacerbated the complete shaking of the Russian naval power, and at the same time announced a larger expansion and naval shipbuilding plan, and the brutality and plundering of Nicholas I also provoked the anger and revolt of the Russian aristocracy.

Nicholas I did not realize what kind of impact his actions had on the Russian Navy, so that a hundred years later, the naval power under the vigorous development of Russia still could not become an ocean-going blue water navy, and was blocked at the doorstep by the huge naval power of the Chinese Empire. At the same time, it also lost the right to speak in the redistribution of the last world surname colony.

In the face of the victory in the Battle of Okhotsk, Lin Haijun knew that although Tsar Nicholas I verbally shouted fiercely, there was no Russian ally in Europe, and the Russians' poor reputation in Europe made it difficult for them to seek the assistance of allies after suffering heavy losses, especially the opponent was still a very unstable Chinese empire.

The imperial rulers, including Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, Wilhelm I of Germany, and Empress Victoria of Britain, were actually very envious of Lin Haijiang, the ruling head of the Chinese Empire. For the royal families of Europe, it is simply an unimaginable pain, the elbow system of the prime minister, the cabinet, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the aristocracy do not exist for the Chinese Empire, so it is extremely irrational for such an opponent who can affect the direction of the country's political development according to the personal habits and emotions of its head of state.

Lin Haijiang personally boarded the four Zhenyuan-class battleships that were towed back by the Russians at the Guangzhou shipyard, in addition to the power system and some layout needs to be adjusted, it can be said that the Russians really put a lot of effort into the construction process, Lin Haijiang planned to complete the final assembly and transformation of these four battleships in the Guangzhou shipyard, and install four twin naval guns of 260 mm and 40 times the caliber, so that the empire's Zhenyuan-class battleships reached six at once, and it can be said that the plundering of the Russians was extremely successful. However, Lin Haijiang also knows very well that this kind of plunder is also extremely lucky, it just so happens that the Russian army does not have a heavy army stationed in the Okhotsk shipyard at all, otherwise it can only be completely destroyed at most, and it is absolutely impossible to seize and tow it away as trophies.

However, Lin Haijiang knows very well that he has completely injured Russia to the home, no matter who loses four battleships that have entered the stage of weapon assembly, they are unbearable, this inability to bear is not only from financial and material resources, but also from the national honor, hitting the door to rob can be said to be Lin Haijiang's consistent practice, but this time it seems to be too ferocious, the Russians who have always acted as European gendarmes in Europe have really seen what the devil is, you scare me, I'll hit you without discussion! The Russians thought they were villains, and this time the Russians encountered Lin Haijiang, a bandit, and the fate was naturally conceivable.

The Chinese Empire dared to hit the Russians on their own soil? Burning the flames of war to the homes of the Russians, and also habitually looting, towing away the four battleships that were almost completed, the Russian Empire has become a laughing stock in Europe, while laughing at the Russians, the European powers have noticed the fact that the rise of the Chinese Empire is already unstoppable, and this emerging country also seems to be about to take back the land they once lost, for the Chinese Empire to abolish all the Manchu treaties, the European collective remains silent, in this world that speaks by force, If you can't beat people, you won't have the right to speak! If the opponent is defeated by force, but still always expresses opinions and protests, then in the end it can only bring humiliation on itself.

It can be said that this counterattack by the Chinese Empire against Russia was almost out of the whole world's view of the Chinese Empire, especially the Germans, who had been trying to establish a strong strategic cooperative relationship with Russia, also stopped contacting the Russians.

But now that the Chinese Empire, as an ally of Germany, has shown very strong hostility towards the Russians, the Germans can understand that the Chinese Empire will take the initiative to attack the Russians at a certain time when necessary, and the Russians absolutely do not have the strength and courage to fight on two fronts.

In Lin Haijiang's view, Okhotsk is also part of China's territory, because of the Treaty of Nebuchu and lost Okhotsk, and now he has abolished all the treaties signed by the Manchu Qing and the foreign powers, it seems that the European side is calm, but who can guarantee that there is an undercurrent surging under this calm?

Although the Russians were not reconciled to their own defeat, at this moment Nicholas I really did not have the strength to carry out the so-called revenge on the Chinese Empire, both the navy and the army, its military strength has far surpassed that of Russia, and the three huge defeats have made the Russians lose their greedy ambitions.

Lin Haijiang knew that since the Germans tried to contact the Russians to prepare for the complete strangulation of France, after the Battle of Okhotsk, the Germans no longer seemed to have any hope for the Russians, but in international politics, the relationship between countries is very delicate, and the powder keg of the Balkans will still be ignited at one time sooner or later, and before that, he must do everything possible to accumulate enough strength to participate in the last partition of the colonial powers of the world. For the last time, he exercised his power as a civilized person and showed his force, opening up the territory of the empire!

In the first five-year development plan, Lin Haijiang planned to build a rapid main trunk line connecting the provincial capitals throughout the country, conduct a unified census of the empire's land and farmland, adjust the population structure of the empire, popularize six-year compulsory education, and triple the output of strategic materials such as steel, coal, crude oil, grain, cotton cloth, and rubber.

In the military aspect, Lin Haijiang decided to run through the three high-grade highways and two railways into Sichuan before the end of 1868, although there are no cars, but the road construction is urgent, the stability of Sichuan is very important for the whole country, Lin Haijiang in the vigorous construction of the main purpose of the highway and railway into Sichuan is to level Tibet, although Tibet Province has not yet sent people to the imperial Nanjing political axe to deliver the table, but in Lin Haijiang's expectation this is also a matter of time, but Lin Haijiang can not tolerate the so-called autonomy like the Qing court, He wanted to firmly grasp both Tibet and Xinjiang provinces, and the land belonging to the empire must really be within the jurisdiction of the empire.

(To be continued)