"Oh?" After Lin Haijiang laughed, he said with an extremely disdainful attitude: "The Qing court is just a regime that exists in the land of China, it cannot represent the word China, China has five thousand years of civilization, no dynasty can represent China, for this land they are all passers-by, since the Ming Dynasty Yongle three years that is, in 1405, the eunuch Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty of China was sent by the imperial court to lead a huge fleet of seven voyages, as far as the east coast of Africa, Zheng He was ordered to lead the fleet to sail to the Western Ocean seven times, The route crosses the Indian Ocean from the western Pacific Ocean to the east coast of West Asia and Africa, passing through more than 30 countries and regions. His voyages preceded Columbus's discovery of the American continent 87 years ago, 92 years before Da Gama, and 114 years before Magellan. In the history of world navigation, he was opened up a direct route between the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. ”

Lin Haijiang's words made Dalhousie and Dumont. Ruseff was stunned and shouted ridiculously, but they could not refute Lin Haijiang's fallacy with examples.

Lin Haijiang disagreed: "In 1409, my Ming Dynasty set up the Xuanfu Division in the current old port and Indonesia, and Ryukyu has been a vassal state of my Celestial Empire since ancient times!" Naturally, these places belong to China. ”

Lin Haijiang looked at Dumont meaningfully. Rotherf said: "I warn you that France has a big nose, and Annam has also been my Chinese territory since ancient times!" ”

"What?" Dumont. Rousseff would have turned pale with anger.

Suddenly, Dumont. As if he was fishing for the last straw, Rousseff smiled at Lin Haijiang and said, "Then dear Mr. Lin, can you tell me where your China is?" ”

Lin Haijiang took a deep breath and said, "Dumont. Mr. Rousseff! What I am going to say today may be a joke to you and all the gentlemen, ladies and ladies here, but I can tell you in all seriousness that it is not a joke, and you may still be able to laugh today, but your children and grandchildren may not laugh again! ”

Lin Haijiang turned to Dumont. Rosseff said solemnly: "China is in the hearts of every Chinese, every descendant of the Yanhuang descendants, wherever there are Chinese, there will be the spirit of the dragon!" Wherever our Chinese Imperial Navy goes, within the range of the cannons, it is the inalienable territory of the Holy Spirit of our China, and whoever dares to challenge this bottom line will leave his corpse behind unless he crosses over the corpse of my Chinese Emperor [***]! ”

Lin Haijiang's Chinese theory made Dumont. Rotherf and Dalhousie were dumbfounded, and only today did they know that they did not know much about the Eastern Reader, and that the power of the Oriental Reader, though still weak, gave people a terrifying power, as if everything that stood in the way of this force would be shattered.

Dalhousie looked at Dumont. Rosseff, the two engaged in diplomacy naturally understand how terrible this awakening of national extremism is, and Lin Haijiang has gathered a large number of young people with the same ideals as him, and they are like endless wildfires.

The Qing Empire was so old and decaying that Dalhousie believed that without outside pressure, the vast Qing Empire would be replaced by Lin Haijiang within a decade, and China would have a new dynasty, or an avid scholar.

Dalhousie is extremely unoptimistic about Lin Haijiang's ultra-nationalist tendencies, but the maritime combat power of Lin Haijiang in Southeast Asia has exceeded the total of Britain, France, Spain, the United States and other countries, and if there are no more than two large fleets with at least 30 ironclad ships, it will not be possible to effectively restrain and suppress Lin Haijiang, but that is dozens of ironclad ships!

Even in Europe it is a formidable force to be reckoned with, and is the Empire willing to give up a part of European interests for the sake of the East? If war breaks out with Lin Haijiang, then Lin Haijiang will easily be able to cut off the route between India by virtue of his maritime superiority, and it will be the British Empire itself that will suffer huge losses in the end.

Dalhousie eventually decided to be more sensible, since Lin Haijiang had grown up under a policy of connivance, unless the empire was determined to solve Lin Haijiang once and for all at all costs, excessive hostility would do no good.

After the dinner, Dalhousie glanced at the steel behemoth in the night and was silent, at the end of Doge's Boulevard, in the living room on the west side of a small white two-story building. Ruseff poured a glass of wine for Dalhousie like a host, then looked at Dalhousie's wine cabinet and sighed: "It is said that the best wine comes from France, but it is a pity that there are not many people who know French wine." ”

Dalhousie shook the wine in the wine glass, slowly closed his eyes, and said, "How does it feel about the four-pot head that Lin Haijiang used to entertain us tonight?" ”

Dumont. Rousseff was slightly stunned and said, "Spicy, spicy!" It's like a burning flame, but after the spicy season, there is a mellow aroma left between the teeth, which is a strange feeling, but I am sure that people who drink this kind of wine regularly will become an alcoholic sooner rather than later. ”

Dalhousie laughed and said, "Dumont. Rousseff, you don't know this mysterious country, one of their former generals once said that the strong men were hungry for Hulu meat, laughed and thirsted for the blood of the Huns, they treated the enemy like they liked liquor, they could even eat the enemy's flesh and drink the enemy's blood to fight the enemy, they were outright fanatics, these people have no reason to speak of, I don't know if you have noticed, when Lin Haijiang spoke, the fanatical expressions of his subordinates? ”

Dumont. Rosseff nodded helplessly and said: "If we had known the hole cards of the Old Port forces, we would not have suffered such heavy losses, and if we couldn't get a huge amount of compensation, the empire would no longer be able to draw troops and fleets from the mainland to the East, we have paid too much for Crimea, and what we have obtained is only insignificant justice?" ”

Dumont. Ruseff gestured with his hand, and Dalhousie hesitated for a moment and said: "Although we are cooperating with Lin Haijiang, it does not mean that we cannot cooperate with the Qing State Political Axe at the same time, and now the Qing State Political Axe is forming a new Beiyang Naval Division to contain Lin Haijiang's Nanyang Naval Division, which will be a good opportunity for us to create an opponent for Lin Haijiang and sell all our backlog of weapons." ”

One mention of making money Dumont. Roself's eyes almost flashed, and their previous connivance with Lin Haijiang's forces seemed to be fundamentally wrong, because Lin Haijiang had developed faster than they expected, and had become a decisive strategic force. Neither Rotherf nor Dalhousie wanted to see it, but it happened again?

It is necessary to reach a basic strategic balance between the Qing political axe and the old port forces of Lin Haijiang, and take the opportunity to import a large number of weapons and equipment to the Qing political axe, which is to achieve the problem of strategic balance, and at the same time solve the problem of selling a large number of decommissioned weapons from the Crimean War.

Dalhousie & Dumont. Rosseff reached a simple synchronization agreement, first of all, the two of them gave priority to reporting to their own political axes about the huge impact of the old port on the imbalance in the oriental pattern, and asked their national political axes to authorize them to contact the Qing political axes and export arms to the Qing political axes in the name of exporting weapons left over from the Crimean War.

Dumont. Rotherff and Dalhousie changed the results of their strategic judgment and analysis of the forces in the old port just because of the huge cannons of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships, which was probably unexpected by Lin Haijiang, and Li Hongzhang also sent Zhenyuan and Dingyuan in Nagasaki to maintain and promote national prestige, which led to the Nagasaki incident.

Lin Haijiang's bravado also had the opposite effect, but this effect would not have any effect for a while.

Lin Haijiang, who also drank a lot of wine, rested early, in the middle of the night, the sleepy-eyed Lin Haijiang was woken up by Zhang Zheng, and Zhang Zheng, who had an anxious expression, explained violently: "Führer, just now our sailors ate crab roe in the typhoon shelter and several officers and sailors of the British ship Happy gunboat had a conflict, the British did not beat us, they shot, Li Xiaodong, the third-class gun captain of the Dingyuan ship, was shot and died, Wang Anshun, Li Fei and several others were injured, and the remaining five people were arrested by the Hong Kong police, I just went to negotiate, they did not let go, It is said that there are also people injured on the side of the British army, and the perpetrators must be held responsible. ”

"Grandma's! How many did they die? Lin Haijiang has always been good to Britain and France at the strategic level, and it can even be said that it is very good, not for anything else, but because he does not want to completely anger Britain and France, and as an emerging force, it is impossible to have enemies everywhere in the process of its rise, just as people need friends, and countries also need friends.

Zhang Zhengtie said with a blushing face: "The British are all wounded, there are no dead people, and our sailors have all their guns confiscated when they get off the ship!" ”

"Who let the confiscated guns?" Lin Haijiang's eyes widened, and Zhang Zheng naturally didn't dare to say that it was an order from you, the Führer, so he could only retreat and say: "It is an order from the fleet headquarters, and it is also carried out in accordance with the regulations on the management of hull guns of our Chinese Imperial Navy." ”

Lin Haijiang took a few deep breaths, he knew very well that reckless impulsiveness could not solve the problem, but this time he couldn't say that he was round no matter what, he had said a few times from the establishment of the empire to tonight, and he couldn't remember how many impassioned words he had said.

If, out of the best interests, Lin Haijiang believed that the British would definitely take the initiative to apologize and release him, and that he would be able to get the international political support he urgently needed from the British if he sacrificed this innocent gungun commander today.

But Lin Haijiang understands even more that if he really does that, he will become a person who says one thing and does another, which is the most despicable behavior he has ever had.

The overall benefit of sacrificing a soldier would undoubtedly be of great help to his upcoming operation in Hainan, and the result of Dalhousie's semi-public support was that the French side would not jump out to the worst extent.

And in order to breathe a sigh of relief, if you go to this opportunity, it is likely to completely turn hostile with the British side, triggering a series of unimaginable and unpredictable consequences? Which is more important? For the first time, Lin Haijiang found himself very hesitant.

While Lin Haijiang was thinking, Zhang Yunji, Hu Weimin, Wang Faren, Ma Jiang, Tang Ziqiang, Zhang Wei and others broke in one after another, and everyone saw that Lin Haijiang was thinking with a serious face, so they didn't dare to bother.

Only Hu Weimin said loudly with an indignant expression: "Führer! What are we waiting for? Zhenyuan, Dingyuan's cannons may be fired? ”

Zhang Yunji glared at Hu Weimin fiercely and said: "Those who talk about soldiers are not the actions of those who know the soldiers, this is a matter related to the life and death of our empire, how can it be child's play?" ”

Hu Weimin retorted coldly: "I do know very little about the arrangement of troops, but I know very well that if we don't fire artillery tonight, then it will not be so easy for the people's hearts and military hearts to be gathered in the future. ”

Hu Weimin's words made Lin Haijiang feel empowered, so he said coldly: "Fire a correction bomb at the Hong Kong Island Police Station, the front main gun is loaded with high-explosive shells, and shell the Hong Kong Island Police Headquarters for me, and all the warships live, and the auxiliary fleet surrounds the ships of the British Far East Fleet stationed in Hong Kong, warning them not to act rashly before the incident is handled, otherwise they will be sunk immediately." ”

Fifty-five-year-old Inspector of Police is a complete white supremacist, and his greatest pleasure every day is to abuse the black servants in his home, and at this moment, Stanley is frowning and directing a dozen Indian Asans to beat five unarmed and scarred Chinese sailors with batons.

Drag these yellow-skinned stinky pigs to the basement of the barracks, and treat them politely, otherwise they will think that they have also become superior people, Stanley is annoyed that he and his wife could not attend tonight's very important dinner, how can Stanley, who feels very good about himself, know that he is not even as good as a dog in the eyes of Lin Haijiang, and Stanley, who was kicked out of bed by his wife, held his mouth to let this group of yellow-skinned pigs know that he knows how powerful he is.

More than a dozen Indian Ah San on the side also grinned and laughed, as if they had also become white rats at this moment?

Just as Stanley swaggered towards the police headquarters, a sharp whistling sound sounded in the sky, boom! A huge flame rose into the air, and the main body of the three-story white verandah of the police headquarters was gone, and Stanley felt something hot run down his face.

In the light of the fire, there were mutilated corpses and severed limbs, and a dozen horses in front of the headquarters were missing, including his beloved Southern Cross.

"Oh my God!" How did Stanley, who was already frightened, know that this is the earth-shattering power of the 360mm Krupp cannon.

Looking at the huge explosion point, Lin Haijiang frowned and asked, "Why isn't it a correction bomb?" It was a high-explosive bomb just now, right? ”

Feng Guohua, who was standing behind Lin Haijiang, explained: "Führer, the effect of the smoke indication of the correction shell of the 360 mm Krupp cannon is not as clear as that of the high-explosive shell, especially at night, so the high-explosive shell has been used instead of the correction shell since the beginning of the training. ”

Lin Haijiang looked at the red signal flare rising in the direction of Hong Kong Island and nodded with satisfaction: "Go back and upgrade the first gun commander to a level, this cannon is like a divine help!" Luck accounts for seventy percent. ”

Lin Haijiang is a great expert in the navy, and no one dares to fool him in this regard, nor can he fool him, but the probability of the first hit of this large-caliber naval gun's artillery shelling on the shore is almost less than or equal to zero, and it is no wonder that the Führer is so happy.

Suddenly, Lin Haijiang turned around and asked very seriously: "The five soldiers arrested by our army are not within the area of the shelling killing?" ”

Wang Faren on the side hurriedly said: "Report to the head of state, not here!" ”

Lin Haijiang glanced at Wang Faren, he was very clear about the accuracy of this large-caliber naval gun and the effective killing range of shrapnel, this is not a rifle shooting at the head target at a distance of 100 meters, and the bullet deviation is not more than 10 meters, this is a 360 mm caliber naval gun, firing a high-explosive shell at a high angle at a distance of about seven kilometers, and a deviation of four or five hundred meters is not excessive.

Lin Haijiang looked at Wang Faren and didn't say anything, but Wang Faren was scared into a cold sweat and hurriedly sent someone to confirm whether the captured sailors were safe.

Dalhousie, who had just boarded the carriage, fell to the ground because of the fright of the horse in the explosion, he knew that the direction of the explosion was probably the direction of the police headquarters, Dalhousie wanted to strangle Stanley, a stupid pig with his own hands, when he learned about the conflict between the British army and the sailors of the Old Port, his first thought was to stabilize Lin Haijiang immediately, and then solve the problem in a relatively civilized way.

As long as he could save the few officers and soldiers who caused the incident and save the face of the British Empire, Dalhousie had even thought that certain concessions could be made in those places in exchange for a peaceful settlement of the incident.

If it were replaced by anyone, Dalhousie would be confident that he would be able to deal with this little accident satisfactorily, but in the face of Lin Haijiang, a guy with very human thinking, Dalhousie lacked self-confidence. Ruseff volunteered to act as a mediator, for which Dalhousie was grateful.

Just then Stanley sent someone to tell him that he had detained five sailors in Old Port, and when he heard the news, Dalhousie's head was about to explode, and he could only shout at the comer: "Go to your damned governor, and tell Stanley that fool that he is responsible for his own actions!" ”

As a result, at the moment of departure, the cannon of the Zhenyuan ship exploded!

The first thing Dalhousie said when he saw Lin Haijiang was to shout: "Your Excellency Lin Haijiang, do you know what you are doing? You are invading the territory of Great Britain, which is called the Empire of Immortality, and you are declaring war. ”

Standing next to him, Dumont looked like a dog. Ruseff was smiling and was about to speak, when Lin Haijiang suddenly pointed at Dumont. Roseff's nose was furious: "Get out of the way, do you want to declare war too?" ”

"Huh?" Dumont. Rousseff swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and forgot all the words he had thought of on the carriage on the way here.

(To be continued)