Recently, there is a topic in Europe that is extremely hot, that is, the great empire of the East, the nobles are tasting the high concentration of the best cloud smoke, while talking about the great empire of the East, as for taverns and restaurants, you can also eat wine with cloud smoke, talk about the origin of this cloud smoke to relieve sorrow.

As for the doctors, they also changed the name of Yunyan, the secret medicine of the royal family, which is undoubtedly a good gimmick.

And some people with money are planning to go to the Qing country far in the east to pan for gold, newspapers in various countries and places, the description of Qing goods is extremely detailed, and the advertisements that do not cost money have also brought countless potential customers to Yang Meng.

The world's fourth largest port under transformation, comparable to the huge market of the total area of Europe, the open foreign policy, and the various materials needed by the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the huge supply of commodities, the huge demand of the Qing Dynasty is also an eye-catching figure.

With newspaper advertising, Yang Meng can clearly show the needs of the Qing Dynasty to European and American manufacturers, and those broken things such as pianos, bone china, and tableware before are basically losing money when they get here, and if they don't get it, it will be a bankrupt ending.

In the early stage of Yang Meng's public opinion offensive, England and France, as the main enemies, did not pay much attention, and after the wave of public opinion was formed, they wanted to contain it, but they were already more than willing to do it.

Not only businessmen and civilians, but also many politicians in both countries, even high-level dignitaries, from the newspapers. Once again, I learned about this great empire of the East. Many things. Different from the legend, Yang Meng, the foreign minister of the Qing Dynasty, used newspapers to let European and American countries have a detailed understanding of the great empire of the East thousands of miles away.

In the future, whoever wants to use some fallacies to trigger a war must also carefully consider the asymmetry of information, whether it is in the shopping mall, the battlefield or in the officialdom. are both valuable, Yang Meng's wave of public opinion, the main purpose is to offset this information asymmetry, everyone has a common understanding, and if you want to confuse the public, there is no foundation.

The huge market and open-mindedness alone have made the English government somewhat passive, and the Palmerston cabinet is seeking re-election as an excuse. It is to open up the Far East market, and Yang Meng came abruptly. Palmerston's cabinet is also embarrassed.

Unlike Bao Ling on Hong Kong Island, Palmerston's cabinet immediately sensed Yang Meng's threat to the British Empire, a good politician can change the rise and fall of a country, and an excellent diplomat can eliminate a war.

Whether as a politician or as a diplomat, the young Yang Butang of the Qing State has already begun to emerge, and at his current age, he may not be able to become the prime minister of the Qing State in the future, and it is definitely a nightmare for the British Oriental strategy to let such a young man master the great empire of the East.

I wanted to let Bao Ling teach this small-scale war of Yang Butang a lesson, and it ended in a fiasco, but just when the English government wanted to deal with it, the tide of public opinion caught them off guard again.

Coastal defense artillery weighing 20 tons is probably not common in European countries, right? And the 20-ton white copper cannon is undoubtedly a luxury for European countries.

The metal performance of white copper is better than that of bronze, and most of the artillery in European countries today is cast iron, and the number of bronze cannons is not very large.

The bronze cannon of the same weight, the power and the number of times used, far exceed the cast iron cannon, three twenty-ton white copper cannons, enough to threaten a fleet, such a giant cannon was placed in the Humen Fort, how many such cannons are there in the Qing Kingdom?

The view of the English military is that the Qing Dynasty has at least twenty or thirty white bronze cannons, and the Humen Fort is important to Guangzhou, but in the entire Qing State, the Humen Fort is just an ordinary fortress.

Of course, this is just a conjecture, compared to the bronze cannon, the British military, more worried about the Qing army that annihilated 2,000 marine soldiers, the number of Qing troops published in the newspapers, but it is complicated and unclear, some say a few thousand, some say tens of thousands, but the approximate number should be around 10,000 people.

Five-to-one annihilation of the enemy, such a battle in the European theater is not a battle in which the weak defeat the strong, in terms of combat effectiveness, these Qing troops should be much different from the imperial soldiers, even if they are poor, it is very likely that they are poor in military quality.

And then the next public opinion report, for the British military is a bad news, a large number of German-made firing guns appeared on the land of the Qing State, for European intelligence, England is quite aware, a few years ago, the German military, retired a batch of firing guns, the number of tens of thousands, it seems that this batch of retired firearms, is dispersed to the Qing State.

France and England have exported a large number of ordnance in the past few years, and a rough count shows that the number of flintlock pistols and firing pistols is about hundreds of thousands.

How many troops did the Qing State equip in these years? Could it be that the lion of the East is about to wake up?

Combined with this information, and then compare the intelligence of the Qing civil war, many things are still foggy, and the Qing country in the civil war did not have a large number of government troops equipped with firearms, and there are many questions in this.

Even more bad news came from France, and the French military revealed an even more surprising news, a few years ago, the batch of old coastal defense guns destroyed by France was actually not destroyed, and the destination was also the Qing Kingdom in the east.

This is no longer a surprise or a fright, for the British strategy in the East, this is bad news one by one. Palmerston's cabinet has fallen into passivity, complete passivity, and now it seems that it is not enough to send Ergin to lead the Canadian fleet to Qing Guo, the fleet will at least double in size, and the number of land forces will probably increase by ten times or dozens of times.

The war in India did not go well, and the Palmerston cabinet frequently focused on the territory of India and the Qing Dynasty. It will be difficult to seize the whole of India in a short time. Capture the coastal cities of the Qing State in a short time. It is less difficult than the war in India.

Just when Palmerston's cabinet was preparing to deploy a large number of troops to attack the Qing Kingdom, a shameful and angry bad news came from the east, Hong Kong Governor Bao Ling defected with money, and Bao Ling leaked a lot of secret information to French reporters before defecting, which was a heavy blow. It almost crushed Palmerston's dream of re-election.

Bowling's defection and leakage of information are all acceptable, but the most unacceptable is the loss of nearly seven million pounds, the military expenses of a war! This makes people feel embarrassed!

All of the above is not a big deal for a country's government, covering up and pretending is a project that politicians specialize in, and the most embarrassing and passive thing for a country's government is that all of the above are widely exposed, and there is nothing clean in the political circles, and once something is exposed, good things will become bad things.

Today's Palmerston Cabinet. tasted such suffering, and the Governor of Hong Kong died suddenly. Before his sudden death, he broke the scandal of politicians embezzling government assets with large sums of money, not only the public, but also the royal family.

Palmerston's cabinet is strong externally and internally, and the people's grievances may be smaller, but the royal family does not have much affection for Palmerston's cabinet.

In the face of such a passive situation, Palmerston's cabinet wants to start the eastern strategy again, this excuse must be carefully searched, and the recent actions should be low-key.

"Taichen, this is a good time for us, a safe period of three or five months, and you have to work with Uncle Ding, Mr. Wei, Fu Ze, and Yan Qing to prepare for the relocation of labor.

With Wuzhuang personnel as the mainstay, supplemented by refugees and hungry people from all over the Qing Dynasty, within three months, 300,000 Wuzhuang personnel, 500,000 strong men and their families must be allowed to go out!

England is facing huge pressure from public opinion, and there is no hope for a war in the near future, this time is the time for us to plot our position in Australia and the Americas, this time period is very short, and if you hesitate a little, the good time will be wrong! ”

Yang Meng's intelligence transmission is faster than that of European countries, and the reason is simple, that is, he has built an underground cable in India that almost runs across the continents of West Asia and North Africa, and it will take at least half a month or more for the news from England to reach Asia.

And Yang Meng wants to get the news from the European side, the intelligence of France only takes three days, and the intelligence of the English side is only seven days at most.

"Third master, now that it is an eventful time, we will send a large number of people overseas, will it be ......?"

The situation is as the third master said, it is extremely beneficial to the Yang family, but it is very easy to send millions of people at once, and it is very easy to have problems, recently Ding Taichen and Qin Ziqi exchanged a little, Qin Ziqi said, these plans of the third master are aimed at expanding the scale of the war, if some refugees and hungry people are sent, it is to reduce the burden on the Yang family.

But 300,000 Wuzhuang personnel are 300,000 troops! Before a big war, it's not a good thing to weaken your own forces.

"Have you talked to Ziqi?"

What Ding Taichen said is similar to what Qin Ziqi said a few days ago, in a crisis, you can't waste your arms.

Yang Meng's means, in the short term is a miracle effect, but in the long run it is more harmful than good, after exposing many hole cards, it will undoubtedly make the European and American powers prepare early, as far as the war is concerned, Yang Meng's means, undoubtedly expand the scale of the war.

Compared with the European and American powers, the Qing Dynasty basically did not have much combat power, and there were loopholes everywhere and weaknesses; Although the Yang family is strong, it is not the invincible existence of the United States, and now a Qing court is the biggest constraint of the Yang family.

Carrying such a big burden, fighting with European and American powers, at the beginning of the war, the Yang family was at an absolute disadvantage congenitally, not to mention the huge maritime gap with England.

Although the situation in England is passive, these things that Yang Meng broke out are not a pretext for the English government, especially the Palmerston cabinet, to start a war, a war of revenge, a war of commerce, a war of debt collection and even a war of religion.

These excuses are all available, and they can be used for large-scale national wars, and the current situation of the English government may be passive, but the situation of the Qing Dynasty or the Yang family will be even more passive in the future.

"Hmmm! We believe that a large number of Wuzhuang personnel have been sent in the near future, after all, the Wuzhuang personnel dispatched this time are mainly from the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet, and 300,000 Wuzhuang personnel are 300,000 troops, and the Wuzhuang personnel in these four provinces are stronger than the new troops you have deployed in various places, after all, these people have received at least five years of military training, and their combat power is also far from that of the recruits.

Dispatch laborers, the third master can support the refugees and hungry people in various places, and now the people who have no livelihood are not only millions, as long as the third master gives food, not to mention overseas, they can also break through the sea of swords and fires! ”

The disagreement is also for the sake of the Yang family, if you are too active now, you will be very passive in the future, you are used to seeing the world over the years, whether it is Qin Ziqi or Ding Taichen, you can predict the future situation.

"Isn't this a way back......"

What Ding Taichen said was very reasonable, but Yang Meng threw out the word back, and the insistence on Ding Taichen's face was slowly fading. (To be continued......)