Chapter 464: A New Battleship

In this world, the Qing government was forced to cede Taiwan after its defeat in 1894, and Japan has been colonizing for 50 years. During this period, they successively implemented different policies in three stages, from the initial general colonial power oppression, to the assimilation system in the middle period, and then to the imperial people in the later period, step by step to transform the people of Taiwan into inferior citizens of Japan.

Especially in the middle and later periods, Japan adopted the method of rewarding daily chemicals, superficially implementing the same work and rights and responsibilities of the Japanese and Taiwanese people, from the initial respect for the beliefs and traditional customs of the Taiwanese people, to the thorough respect for Japanese Shintoism, believing in the emperor, wearing kimonos, speaking Japanese, living in Japanese-style houses, and giving Japanese names.

A series of gradual measures, led to the defeat of Japan in the war, and the defeat of the Kuomintang to retreat to Taiwan, its extremely low level of rule made many Taiwan people very nostalgic for the original Japanese rule. In particular, Japan's unprecedented economic achievements have made these people who have been raised with a Japanese-style education more and more psychologically unbalanced. As a result, a whole new group was born, and they have a very beautiful name in the Internet age - daily miscellaneous.

Among them, the leader is Li Dengshen, who served as a president.

After a long period of colonial rule, it will leave a deep impact, just look at the later daily miscellaneous, Hong Kong Can, and cents, you can know that it is really not necessarily washed clean for several generations. I don't know how much it will cost to completely eliminate such negative effects.

Yang Hao is just a rich man in the 21st century, and his political influence is agreed to be zero, so he can only stare at the types of people who are jumping around.

However, in the second plane, he can carry the same disaster on the heads of the Japanese. Divide the island of Kyushu. The Japanese people above were completely cut off from the main island for so long. That's because of this intention.

The Japanese will never be able to tame. No matter how good you are to him, you can't guarantee a bite in the future, Yang Hao is not so virgin, he is a thorough Great China ist, and pursues the concept of "if you are not of my race, your heart will be different". In the case that the Japanese cannot be completely wiped out, we cannot endlessly let future generations and countless people keep reminding this hypocritical nation that is very good at pretending to be modest. After much consideration, this strategy of cultural transformation and division of the population was chosen.

The efforts of the Tsuguò Navy completely destroyed the industrial base of Kyushu and the facilities of coastal residents, disrupting their normal order. Cut off communication with the main island. In the Guanmen Strait battlefield, the army continued to destroy its vital forces and completely disintegrate its remaining fighting spirit. The stick volunteers were thugs, and they ruthlessly suppressed and eliminated the hard bones who dared to fight on Kyushu Island. The continuous propaganda of the various wrong measures since the Meiji era has made the remaining Japanese realize that it is very wrong that they once supported the expansion of the government and the army, and they should feel very repentant for this.

A few axes were chopped over, and the fighting spirit of the Japanese people on the entire island of Kyushu was suppressed to the extreme. The staunch Yamatoists of the major feudal lords were ruthlessly eliminated, leaving the soft bones who were willing to cooperate, and were selected to be the backbone of the formation of a new leadership system, cooperating with the Chinese propagandists in brainwashing and indoctrination from top to bottom.

Compared to the water mill work of the Japanese assimilation of Taiwan Island in this world. Yang Hao took the aftermath of many victories over the great powers, and took China's cooperation policy with Korea, Luzon, and Boni as an example. The Japanese in Kyushu were repeatedly instilled with the concept of "the same language, the same species".

The core idea is that most of the Japanese on Kyushu Island actually came from China, and after more than a thousand years of intermittent war, Chinese people fled across the sea to Japan countless times, and then gradually became what they are today.

However, the things in the bones must not be changed, otherwise how could the Japanese still learn Chinese characters in Chinese and sing Chinese words with various Chinese products until the Meiji era? So much so that when the Southern Song Dynasty fell, the entire Japanese vegetarian memorial service was as if the ancestors and relatives had died. Everyone has the same bloodline in their bones.

Because of such a relationship, Zhu Yuanzhang listed Japan as a country that is not to be requisitioned; Only in the past dynasties have so many great Confucian monks come to Japan to teach culture, and the most recent one is Zhu Shunshui.

Although in the past two hundred years, due to the great decline of Chinese culture due to the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, fortunately, a saint finally descended from heaven and gave birth to a great master like Yang Hao. In just a few years, a decaying and declining old empire has been reborn and re-emerged.

According to the general law, China always wants to use its strong national strength and culture to support its neighboring vassal countries and friends. Japan, as one of the best, must be given priority!

What's even better is that in order to enter a new era, Japan itself has diligently explored, and has not hesitated to pay the price of countless women all over the world. Twenty years of construction since the Meiji era, but it has not been able to catch up with China's achievements in the blink of an eye. What does this mean? Japan is on the wrong track!

The current government of Emperor Meiji and a large group of feudal lords and nobles has fundamentally mistaken the powerful line. It is simply arrogant and ridiculous to expect the Japanese archipelago, which is small in its country and poor in its people, to invade and encroach on Korea, China, and Russia little by little, and to vainly attempt half of Asia and the Pacific Ocean with the land of four islands! The result? The extremely rotten Qing troops couldn't defeat it, and Yang Hao only used the power of one finger to press it, and completely defeated the military force that gathered the entire Japanese generation!

Therefore, the Japanese must introspect, they must change their thinking, and they must return to the right path of progress together with a strong China. Although Japan has no resources, it has a large number of excellent, intelligent and studious people, and a large number of sailors who are good at sailing and sailing, and they are hardworking and willing to work hard.

This is incomparable to others in the current North Korea, Luzon, Boni, and even the entire Southeast Asian Chinese cultural circle. Japan should seize this opportunity to occupy a front-row seat and strive to become the second most powerful nation after China.

However, such an idea is difficult for the bigwigs in Tokyo to agree with, so it is necessary to implement a series of policies on the island of Kyushu as a "special zone", and after success, it will be in stark contrast to the Honshu government and prove that their course is correct.

In short, it is such a set of high-sounding and content-rich truths. Specifically, on the premise of not touching Japan's religious beliefs and not changing their respect for the emperor, they will widely implement Chinese language education in the same way as China, and promote improved clothing and lifestyles with Chinese characteristics.

With the huge amount of modern books, newspapers, magazines, radio and film materials obtained from this world. A new type of education in China that is in full bloom. Mentored by thousands of volunteers. All a generation of outstanding Japanese young people were dragged to China to study abroad, and they began to train them in their teens, creating a group of pro-China "Japanese traitors".

The key is economically, and we must truly implement the policy of "Sino-Japanese cooperation." In the past, the introduction of advanced agricultural and fishery techniques has made Japanese farmers and fishermen rich; Build a large number of small-scale, low-tech processing plants and family workshops in Japan, so that they can participate in the downstream production of China's large industrial system, obtain stable orders, and earn rich returns that were not possible in the previous half century.

As for the greedy upper echelons. It's actually easier to deal with. As long as they are given some dry shares in overseas mining enterprises, and at the same time enjoy the full power of taxation in the ruling areas, and monopolize the operation and supply of goods in the special zones, they will earn much more than before.

With the size of today's China, the Japanese piggybacking on the island of Kyushu are just adding a remote province. Compared to the inland areas where transportation is inconvenient, Kyushu Island, which is surrounded by the sea, is actually much easier to build, and most of the problems can be solved simply by the tilt of shipping, marine fishing, etc.

The Japanese of this era were far from having the spirit of the mid-to-late twentieth century. With the exception of a very small elite at the top, the vast majority of the population is blindly obedient and ignorant. Basically, they still follow a hierarchy that has existed for thousands of years. Obeying the orders of the feudal lords and nobles, he lived honestly and in abject poverty without complaint.

As long as the upper strata of Japan are well grasped and the young backbone elite is grasped, it will be easy to manipulate the lower strata of the people. With the strength of today's China, a little spilling something between your fingers is enough to greatly improve the living conditions of the Japanese in Kyushu.

Yang Hao would like to see that after a few years later, after the initial completion of the renovation of Japan's Kyushu Island, little by little changes will continue to be fed back to the upper layer of Honshu Island, so that they can clearly see the gap between the two aspects, what kind of reaction should it be at that time?

On this issue, Yan Fu also had speculation, he judged from the perspective of the Chinese, thinking: "Since it has been proved that following China will lead to a good life, then why not simply invest in it, change the previous policy line, integrate into the Chinese cultural circle along the way, and obtain a rare opportunity to make progress together?" ”

Yang Hao sneered at this: "It is absolutely impossible for the Japanese to do that. Don't forget that as early as the Sui Dynasty, what was written on the letter of state they sent envoys to China? 'The Land of the Sunrise of the Emperor of the Land of the Sunset of the Emperor of the Emperor of the Sunset of the Emperor of the Emperor of the Land of the Sunrise of the Emperor of the Emperor of the Sunrise of the Emperor of the Land At that time, the Japanese didn't even have decent clothes, and the Yiqiē civilization was not much better than the tribal savages, so they dared to be arrogant and arrogant, and they were called the same as the Chinese emperor. In the more than 1,000 years since, have you ever seen a Japanese person truly obey? Not at all! ”

It was impossible for the Japanese to bow their heads to China as a vassal state, and they were obsessed with annexing Korea and attacking the mainland, completely ignoring their own shallow roots and cultural defects, and the basic conditions for ruling the continental empire.

Then even if they see that the Japanese in Kyushu are developed, they will only envy, envy and hate, and then change their ways to get the same benefits, but they will never really be humbly taught. Even if they make a modest appearance at the beginning, it is just to get enough conditions at the minimum cost, and when they have eaten enough and grown, they can turn around and bite you hard.

Yang Hao never thought of bringing all the Japanese people to get rich, his only purpose was to create a Japan with great differences and isolation, just like North and South Korea in this world, or East Germany and West Germany. As for whether they can be reunited in the future, it depends on China's wishes. Don't forget, until now, the Korean Peninsula is still two small imperial courts.

With this established national policy, then the Japanese are now running over and pretending to be effective, how can Yang Hao agree? Aren't you going to leave Asia and join Europe? Then go down this road of no return unswervingly!

In the months between late 1898 and early 1899, Japan was once again at the heart of Asia. The black hand of the great powers' brutal partition failed to fall very smoothly, and the Japanese had to die hard after being sternly rejected by Yang Hao.

Fortunately, at this time, Yang Hao did not sit idly by and watch them really be swallowed up by the powers, in order to prevent the countries from really getting the permanent outpost in Japan, he clearly expressed his opposition to the arrogant style of the powers. As Japan's friendly neighbor for thousands of years, China's cultural brothers, separated by a strip of water, must not sit idly by and remain indifferent to the bitter division of Japan

Well, the day before rejected Japan's request. Turn your face and say what brothers and friends. It seems shameless. However, it is a must-have for mature diplomacy.

In order to strengthen its persuasive power, the Chinese Navy worked tirelessly to once again mobilize the army to kill the past, and pushed it through with an unprecedentedly strong lineup. At the same time, the countries received a note from the Chinese government that if they dared to take military action against Japan, China would not rule out the use of force to send reinforcements. We have a reserve of several million, ready to pull out a volunteer army.

The foreign devils angrily scolded the Chinese for being shameless, but they also knew it. The new government under the leadership of Yang Hao is not as stupid as the previous Qing government, and as soon as it is accused, it quickly reflects on itself and punishes diplomats. This set of flexible diplomatic strategies was originally "taught" by Yang Hao, how could he give up halfway because of outsiders' irresponsible remarks?

Based on this understanding, and looking at the Chinese Navy's unabashedly thick and strong artillery, no one dares to guarantee that once they start, the Chinese will not really open fire. This risk. Can't take it.

The situation is at a stalemate. The Great Powers could still use Japan as a temporary base for stationing a small number of naval forces. But it was far from being able to divide the colonies so that a large number of troops could be deployed. Because of this uproar, the original monopoly market was stirred up, so under the indulgence of the Chinese Navy, many Kyushu smuggling ships began to sail to Honshu and Shikoku in large quantities, blatantly seizing the Japanese market with Chinese products.

Most of the Japanese were squeezed into the cracks, unable to come out of the two ends, and sat in the city all day long, but there was no way at all.

The British were secretly relieved that, in any case, they had turned China's attention back to the east, so that for at least for a while, they would not have the strength to continue south to threaten the British colonies. However, the loss must have been eaten, and Britain's greatest ally in the Far East has been lost since then. It has become completely impossible to manipulate the political situation in the Far East at will.

However, to think that the British are suffering from this is too underestimating the belly of the world's number one pirate country. In March 1899, when Sardor was withdrawn and Dou Nale went into battle as the new diplomatic leader of Asia, the British battleships with all main guns finally completed a series of sea trials and quietly launched their services.

Different from the history of another time and space, the new generation of all-main gun battleships that appeared several years in advance, the British built as many as four as soon as they came up. At the same time, four upgraded "Sovereign-class" follow-up ships were completed, with a total of eight high-speed, rear armor, and large main guns, which greatly enhanced the strength of the British Royal Navy.

On March 18, at the Portsmouth Military Port, two "Bellerophon-class battleships" full of colorful flags were moored majestically on the wharf, and a group of British naval bigwigs were all present, Admiral A.H. Hopkins personally presided over the commissioning ceremony, and countless British high-class people came to watch the ceremony.

In the face of two majestic warships with 10 45x barrel 305mm guns, Admiral Hopkins was full of ambition and made a series of sonorous and powerful speeches. After that, he and a group of naval dignitaries boarded the "Bellerophon" and visited all kinds of advanced equipment with great interest.

This type of new battleship, the displacement of 18,800 tons has reached an unprecedented level, the main gun range is as high as 17,200 meters, the most important thing is the use of a new turret structure, so that the overall fire projection ability has been greatly improved, and the bulletproof and anti-strike ability has also been qualitatively changed. The use of a new steam turbine system, reaching an unprecedented speed of 21 knots, and the use of a preliminary firing command system, the original combat distance from less than 3,000 meters, sharply increased to more than 7,000 meters!

The layout of the main guns on the front and the back on the left and right ensures that there are excellent firepower coverage of 8 main guns in each direction on the left and right, and can threaten the enemy ships on the other side, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

After understanding the performance of the battleship, His Excellency the Admiral stroked the stout main gun with great interest, and asked the chief commander William. Sir White: "With four advanced battleships, plus four upgraded 'Majesty-class', can we destroy the Chinese Navy in one fell swoop?" ”

Mr. Sir groaned solemnly for a while, and replied solemnly: "I'm afraid it's a little difficult. We know for sure that the displacement of the Chinese battleships could reach 30,000 tons! With only 9 main guns, it must have a sufficiently thick armor. With the current 12-inch main gun, the threat is obviously not enough. We should at least wait until the latest 50x main gun battleship enters service to guarantee complete victory! ”

His Excellency the Admiral felt very disappointed, and he was still counting on his tenure to sweep away the humiliation of the previous years in one fell swoop. Now if he wants to continue to wait for the new main gun battleship to enter service, wouldn't it be another year to wait? At that time, the Chinese may launch a new generation of battleships, will the British Empire have to follow the Chinese's ass all the time?

The enthusiasm was extinguished by cold water, and the rest of the visit became boring.

However, His Excellency the Lord of the Admiralty did not expect that his angry complaints would become a reality. In the shipyards of Far East China, a new generation of larger battleships has quietly completed the hull assembly of the first two ships, and is in full swing to install the ship's interior equipment and deck equipment.

This is the "Guangxi-class battleship" that has been finalized after several tosses, and it is also a product that completely follows Yang Hao's "multi-turret doctrine" idea - a behemoth with four triple 14-inch 356mm/50L main guns and a full load displacement of up to 47,650 tons! (To be continued......)