Commander Qi originally sat down, but when he heard Vice Chief Yang say that his submarine was a "hairy thief" and "stealing chickens and touching dogs", his face turned red, and he slapped the table and stood up, although he was still standing upright, he had already roared:

"Lord Yang, you can insult me, but please don't insult my submarine force!"

"Huh?" Vice Chief Yang also widened his eyes and slapped the table, "What do you want to do?" Want to defy the chief? And 'your submarine forces', the submarine forces are opened by your family? Besides, am I wrong? The submarine is not stealing chickens and dogs, but can it stand up to the sky? ”

Commander Qi's face was red and white, his chest trembled with excitement, and after a while, he took a deep breath and said:

"Okay, you said it was stealing chickens and dogs, that's stealing chickens and dogs! You touch your conscience, you old men who sit in the office of the Admiralty and report plans all day long, where do all the fake data on your desk come from? Where did all the pseudo-clear maps we hang in front of us come from? Aren't those girls from the submarine force driving submarines at night and sending agents to the other side of the shore to get them?

"Don't forget why we're sitting here today! The twelve girls who were locked up on the other side, didn't they know that they were safe and comfortable as ordinary people? Don't they like to stay at home at night and weave sweaters? Don't they like to sit in the cinema at night and eat rice and melon seeds? Don't they like to spend the moon in the park with their lovers at night? Why? Because they have to drive a submarine to the Yangtze River at night to steal chickens and dogs! …… For the Ming Dynasty and the Holy One, go up and steal chickens and touch dogs! ”

……

There was silence all around, and a generous speech, including the Foreign Secretary, the two Imperial Historians, and the Vice-Admiralty, sat there dumbfounded, and no one had anything to say.

Wow, Xiaoqiang couldn't help but close his eyes and praised in his heart: That's right! …… Qiuyun, you have such a chief, it's worth it.

The soldiers present all looked excited, obviously impressed. The two marquis glanced at each other and smiled.

Factory Supervisor Shen Rongxuan's face was still unshocked, but he threw an appreciative look at Commander Qi.

After a while, Foreign Minister Xu Yuanzhen smiled, stroked his goatee and said:

"Well, well, it can be seen that General Qi is a man of temperament, a loyal and courageous man, and the old man admires it very much! Hehehe! ”

Several civil officials were stunned, looked at each other, and said "hehe" twice.

"Lord Yang," Xu Yuanzhen said with a smile, "This old man is going to say two words to you, whether it is a submarine or a warship, although one is on the water and the other is underwater, isn't it all for the sake of Daming and Shengshang?" There is nothing to be disgraced or disgraced. Submarines and submarines, naturally they have to be submarine, that's the characteristic of people! For example, when we talk about saving people, isn't it just about taking advantage of the characteristics of submarines? Hehe. Speaking of this rescue, don't quarrel with the two of you anymore, we are sitting here tonight, not to discuss the future of the submarine force, but to discuss the issue of rescue. Not only do we have to discuss how to rescue them, but we also have to discuss whether to rescue them. If this is not discussed first, it will be in vain to discuss it in detail. ”

Although Vice Minister Yang is in the navy, he is Xu Yuanzhen's man. At this time, Old Man Xu pretended to say a few words, although he was unhappy, he couldn't help it. Who let Commander Qi stand on the commanding heights in a few words?

"For the Ming Dynasty and the Holy Seed, I went up to steal chickens and touch dogs", loud and loud, the classic mess, which makes people have nowhere to refute it.

But everyone also heard it, Minister Xu still said the same sentence, first of all, the question of "whether to do it", and then the question of "what to do".

This was also the tone that was set at the beginning of the meeting.

Xiang Xiaoqiang has always been very depressed, why are several Wenchen led by Xu Yuanzhen like wearing a mask, and they are determined to oppose the rescue by force. It's a bit too much to say that this old man is like Qin Hui, after all, I don't know anyone else. If you want to say that he doesn't look like it, but he is clearly like taking the benefits of the Qing Dynasty, yin and yang, and he must oppose it to the end.

However, Shen Rongxuan, as the supervisor of Dongchang and the host of the meeting, should have a neutral position, but it can obviously be seen that he is also inclined to rescue by force. Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't understand this.

It is understandable that the military generals advocate armed rescue, but Dongchang has nothing to do with this matter, and it is completely okay to stay out of the matter.

Including the two marquis, it can be seen that they are also inclined to rescue, their royal relatives, obviously the highest status, or "representatives of the royal family", but they are very low-key, unlike the military generals of Wenchen, who should say it, scold it when it should be scolded, and beat it when it should be beaten (God, what kind of atmosphere is this).

And what kind of "His Majesty's personal adviser", who should also have come to listen on behalf of the emperor, but he sat there from the beginning, wilting, and did not say a word.

Xiang Xiaoqiang has not been in the society for a long time, and there is a lack of understanding of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and tonight's meeting seems to be covered with a layer of fog, and there are too many places that cannot be understood.

The meeting lasted until almost ten o'clock, and several bigwigs on both sides became more and more noisy, but there were many yawning people who sat with them. Jiang Meilu couldn't speak at this level, she was still watching the battle with dripping eyes in the first half, and in the second half she yawned a few times, holding her forehead, and the tip of the pen was lightly tapped on the notebook, her expression was dull, and she didn't know where she was. The same is true for many others.

The Foreign Secretary and the Minister of Propaganda are in unison, arguing that it is neither advisable nor feasible to rescue by force. The two imperial historians helped beat the side drums one by one, and there was also a deputy commander Yang on the military side as internal support. Dongchang wants to save people and it is difficult to make a clear statement, and the generals can only have the upper hand on military and technical issues, but the two ministers spread out and said that all politics, military, economy, and diplomacy are involved. The generals of the military simply can't say anything about them.

……

Roughly speaking:

First, politically speaking, it is extremely inappropriate to rescue by force, and it is very easy to trigger a large-scale conflict with the Qing Dynasty.

At present, the two sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties are in a state similar to the "Cold War", and the two sides are hostile but maintain a tacit understanding to maintain the status quo. Although it is often you who shoot down one of our reconnaissance planes and I sink one of your patrol boats, they are always limited to the level of "conflict," and no one makes a big deal out of it. Because the army is separated by a Yangtze River, it cannot clash.

On land, the Qing army was strong, and on the sea was the Ming army. Although the Qing army was slightly inferior to the Ming army in terms of quality and equipment, it had always made the Ming Dynasty tremble due to its huge strength. If it weren't for the Yangtze River defense line, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars, I really couldn't sleep well (after World War I, everyone was very superstitious about such a thing as "defense line").

To tell the truth, Nanjing was under the muzzle of the Qing army's guns, and it was booming. The three major military ports of Lushun, Weihai and Qingdao in the Qing Dynasty were also under the guns of the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty.

But everybody didn't move.

What's even funny is that the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty emperor, the Ming Tombs, was held in the palm of the Qing Dynasty's hand, and the Qing Dynasty did not dig it. The Ming Dynasty also paid a large sum of money to the Qing Dynasty every year, entrusting the Qing Dynasty to protect and repair it on its behalf, making it the same as a hostage.

In other words, maintaining this "balance" is related to the security of the Ming Empire and the lives of 80 million people in the Ming Dynasty. Unless we are fully prepared, have the certainty of victory, and have the determination to fight the war to the end and win it, any attempt to break this balance will absolutely not be allowed politically.

Sent a commando team deep into the political center of the Qing Dynasty - the area of Beijing and Tianjin, and fought on the edge of the emperor's bed, blowing up the railway (otherwise there would be no way to stop the train), and bloodbathing the train (the Qing soldiers escorted thousands of people, and they couldn't win if they didn't kill to three digits).

If you do this, you will not immediately upset the balance, but there is a great danger that it will be upset.

……

Second, even from a purely military point of view, the hope of success is extremely slim.

Even if the submarine can dive into the Bohai Sea, as long as the land commando team starts working and rescues the prisoners, the Qing side will be able to react to what is going on. During the time they fled to the sea, the Qing army had ample opportunity to re-blockade the Bohai Strait and catch turtles in an urn.

The two major military ports of the Qing Dynasty, Lushun and Weihai, were located in the south and north of the Bohai Strait. If you want to close the door, you can do it in minutes.

It is said that the blockade is easy to pass, and that is the usual state. When the time comes, a large number of destroyers will cruise in the strait, and there may be cruisers coming to the town.

At that time, if you wanted to dive out, you really had to have the courage and skill of the German captain.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty could send battleships to disperse the Qing ships. But that would be tantamount to war.

Besides, the area around Beijing and Tianjin is an important place for the Beijing division, and it is the place where the Qing Dynasty is the first class defense, and there are heavy troops stationed nearby, and the highways extend in all directions.

In this way, in order to save twelve submariners, it is likely that twelve more submariners, one submarine, and one commando will have to be put in.

There may even be a war.

……

In a word, just for a couple of submariners, it's not worth it. Far from worth it.

In the end, the meeting resulted in the rejection of the rescue plan by force.

As for whether to carry out a diplomatic rescue and how to save it, hehe, we will discuss it another day.

……

Xiang Xiaoqiang was named by someone to come to the meeting, but he didn't say a word in the end. And when he saw the last sigh of relief and relief from those few civil servants, he knew that the so-called "diplomatic rescue" was probably not enough.

In other words, he will never see Qiu Yun again.

Xiang Xiaoqiang and the others slowly walked out of the building. Outside, the cold, damp air swept into my clothes. He couldn't help but shudder, and his whole heart seemed to freeze.

The surrounding officials laughed and laughed, as if they had forgotten the verbal swords they had just had in the meeting, and returned to a harmonious atmosphere, pulling and pulling, and wanted to treat each other to supper.

Xiaoqiang looked up at the clear Milky Way in the sky, took a deep breath, and asked himself silently: Is this the Ming Dynasty that I yearn for?

A long sigh of pain erupted from the lungs, spewing out a long white mist. Tears began to ooze from his eyes.

His legs were numb, and the long stairs of the East Factory seemed to be headless.

……

Suddenly, a big hand was placed on Xiang Xiaoqiang's shoulder.

For no reason, he thought it was Shen Rongxuan.

Looking back, it turned out to be Zheng Gongyin, Marquis of Changping.

"Oh, Master Hou."

Xiaoqiang was startled, hurriedly cleaned up his mood, bowed his body, and said respectfully.

"Xiao Xiang."

Marquis Zheng looked at him with a smile, and he smiled and sighed for a while.

"Xiao Xiang, you're a little hungry, hehe, let's go, go to my place for supper."

……？！

Xiang Xiaoqiang was stunned, what's wrong? Hey, this is the Marquis of Changping!

“…… By the way, I would like to introduce you to another person. ”

Marquis Zheng said with a smile.