It was a real closed-door meeting, and there was no one in the meeting except Liu Buyun and Sir Fisher! There are so many things in this meeting that you can't see the light of day, and it is even possible to reach an agreement not to be violated in a few days, this is a closed-door meeting! The biggest advantage of this kind of meeting is that the agreement between the two sides is unknown! Either party can choose to break the contract at the right time! without having to bear moral condemnation! This is a double-edged sword that can attack the opponent or hurt yourself! But at the same time, because no one is going to witness this, both parties can show their true selves, you can go loud and you can curse, no one cares about you, feel free!

The fundamental reason why Xu Jie chose Liu Buyun is that Liu Buyun is a naval officer and politician! In terms of qualifications, Liu Buyun is not as good as Ding Ruchang. In terms of birth, Liu Buyun is not as good as Lin Taizeng, and he is related to Lin Zexu. But it is he who can make both those who graduated from the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Academy and the children who once studied in the United States obey his orders, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the actual governor of Beiyang, and he can even squeeze out Lang Weili without authorization. This fully illustrates Liu Buchan's skill and political ability! Yang Yonglin is a true naval leader, and Deng Shichang is a fierce general. Lin Yongsheng is calm. These people are all talents, but they are not suitable for this kind of closed-door meeting, because the two sides are discussing sea power and politics, which must be done by professionals, and Liu Buyun because of his own ability and own status, so he will take the first move of the British!

"Sir Fisher, are you feeling the glory of the British Empire?" When Liu Buyun walked into the conference room. He saw Sir Fisher wandering with his back to him in front of a map of the world. The colonies of the British Empire keep this vast empire under the sun all the time! Is it enough to say the name of the empire on which the sun never sets? Through and through! The most vast empire in history, it may not be an exaggeration to say that there is no one before or since! On this map, coastal cities mark the Royal Navy's overseas bases and fleet numbers.

"Since the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The British Royal Navy has been crisscrossing the seas for 300 years and has laid such a great foundation, do you know what the road is for? Why can't the equally or even more powerful Spanish navy, the French navy, and the Dutch, who once had half the number of merchant ships in Europe, be able to do it, only the British Empire? Fisher didn't look back, and continued to speak to the map.

"Because the British Empire is an island country, every Englishman has a natural affinity for the sea in his bones from the moment he is born! We consider the sea our home. as our life. We are stubborn and tenacious in guaranteeing our sea power! No matter who the opponent is, as long as he dares to touch the sea, then he is our enemy! The Spaniards wanted to attack England. As a result, the Armada was wiped out, and the Dutch tried to maintain their maritime trade, but eventually lost their navy. The navy of the great Napoleon the Great could only be besieged in the ports of France! The enemies of the past have fallen one by one, and the future. The British Empire still has new enemies. As a result, they will fall one by one. Without waiting for Liu Buyun to answer, Fisher said categorically. The tone is full of pride and strength!

"That's only one aspect, but the reason why the British Empire can really dominate the seas is that Britain is never deep in the land! The war with Spain was only at sea, and the battle against the Bourbons was also a land battle, but it was fought in the colonies after gaining superiority at sea. And what about the Napoleonic period? Except in Spain, the only real battle for the British was Waterloo! The British did have a navy like no other in the world, but what about the Army? Liu Buyun smiled and continued.

"Don't get caught up in a land war. Not fighting a decisive battle on land not very close to the land power is the fundamental reason why Britain is invincible! Britain's pocket army could not achieve a landslide victory. Just like in the face of Napoleon's empire back then, the real reason for its defeat was because of the rout in Russia and not because of what General Wellington's British expeditionary force did in Spain. Am I right? After Liu Buyun finished speaking, he poured himself a cup of black tea. Wait for the other person's reaction.

"We're talking about sea power, why do you want to talk about the army? Don't you think you're a little off topic? Fisher finally turned his head and said with a frown, his eyes full of doubt and wariness. He would never think that the person Xu Jie sent to contact would be a person who couldn't even grasp the topic! Combined with Liu Buyun's record and ability, it is at least a lieutenant general level! Why is today's performance so weird?

"I don't digress, because I represent China, and China not only has a vast sea territory, but also a vast land territory. With more than 13 million square kilometers of land territory, any country that wants to negotiate with him must take into account his powerful army. Now you understand what I'm saying, right? China needs a navy to get out of the country, but if it is a country bordering us, we can solve it with the army. China has never lacked geniuses in the army, and in the face of Genghis Khan's cavalry, even the extremely weak Southern Song Dynasty may have shown stronger combat effectiveness than Europe back then, right? Liu Buyun's round face was still smiling, but the words he said made Fisher feel creepy!

Discussing the Navy with the British Empire of World War I? That's a joke, the double strong standard is real! In terms of tonnage, the British Navy in 1918 was twice the size of the German Navy! What is being negotiated? It's about strength! Both sides clarify their advantages, and after gaining the approval of the other side, come up with a mutually acceptable plan for the division of interests, if you just talk about the navy! What capital did the Chinese Republic have to divide the sea power of the Far East with the British Empire? You can say this to the Germans, you can say this to the Italians, but you must not say this to the British! Because this is a declaration of war, as soon as such words are spoken, then there is no need to talk about it, just light up the weapon! And Xu Jie didn't want to have a head-on conflict with the British Empire, so he had to find a breakthrough from somewhere else!

After pondering it carefully, Fisher finally figured out what the other party was trying to express. That is, Huaxia admits that it cannot be compared with the British Empire in terms of navy at all, but at the same time, Liu Buyun also emphasized that the problems of the Far East cannot be solved by the navy alone! The entire southeast peninsula borders China, and if you take the land route, the Chinese army can still reach the Malay Peninsula and even Singapore! What can Britain do if it has a strong navy? The army can't do it, so isn't it Burma, Thailand, or Malaya all within the range of the Chinese army?

Thinking of this, Fisher couldn't help but have another contempt for the pocket army of the British Empire! (The British Army says it's lying down again!) The British Army was no longer the same force that Lord Wellington had been able to compete with Napoleon's French army in comparable numbers, nor was it the army that had fought in the Opium Wars. Now it has degenerated to the level that it takes several years to fight a Boer! All kinds of deflated and deflated things emerge one after another!

Now there is such a saying in Europe, although the army of Tsarist Russia is no longer the European steamroller of the past, but at least on the battlefield and the Chinese army has been fighting, although it has been defeated, but it still has the strength to fight back in the face of the well-equipped Chinese army. Although I lost, I still had some face, and I could find all kinds of excuses! But what about the British Army? The British, who had been beaten by the Boers in South Africa, finally won the final victory by smashing them with pounds! This victory is more humiliating than the defeated Russians!

The Boer War was over, and the British decided to take good care of their own army, which even the Boers could not beat, so how could they fight against the powerful German army? The French are finished, the European continent will become German, the British will have no way at all, since they have to deal with the Germans wholeheartedly, then there will not be too much land in the Far East, once China has finished fighting the Russians, then there is no comparable strength on the Far East land. Liu Buyun is telling the British that even if there is no navy, China still has an absolute advantage in Southeast Asia!

Britain's current ally, France, is a land power, but how many troops the French can send to the Far East is a problem, and France, which is also facing the threat of the Germans, still cannot distract from the Far East, that is to say, on the southeast peninsula, Britain and France, the two old powers, have no way to solve the land problem! I have to say that Xu Jie's choice of breakthrough point for Liu Buyun is very good, and what a lack of morality to discuss the army issue with a naval minister! Especially during closed-door meetings, there is not even a clerk next to him, how do you ask Fisher, a man whose mind is full of sea, to answer questions on land?

Let today's talks fool around and leave it to the Army guys? Don't be funny, let's not talk about whether the army has the ability to fight with the army of the Republic of China in the far East. If this matter is reported today, the face of the Navy will be lost to grandma's house! In just a few words, Liu Buchan forced Fisher, an old naval bureaucrat, to a dead end, and the offensive and defensive momentum of the two sides was immediately reversed!

But is Fisher the one who is tied up? The person who can climb to the position of Secretary of the Navy of the British Empire is definitely the best among the people, if he is directly killed by this problem, then he is not alone, but the entire British Empire, and the current British Empire is not a corner of the British Empire in 2010. The sun never sets on the empire, and in the face of such a predicament, they will naturally not sit still, that is not the style of the British!

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