Ito Hirobumi smiled, "Your Excellency Roseberry, it's time for us to join forces against our common enemy. ”

Roseberry said: "You and I both know the situation of the Qing Kingdom, how could they build such an advanced ship?" ”

Ito Hirobumi said with a smile: "This ship should not have been built by Qing Guo, this ship is controlled by a person named Lin Yuan, but these are not important, the important thing is: Lin Yuan helps Qing Guo!" ”

Rosebury asked, "Who is this Lin Yuan?" ”

Ito Hirobumi smiled: "This Lin Yuan seems to have appeared out of thin air, and we don't know the details of him, but we can be sure that he is in Okinawa now." ”

"Although Okinawa has declared independence, the British Empire has not yet declared its recognition of the Ryukyus state, and I would like to rest assured Mr. Ito on this point that we will not recognize the independence of the Ryukyus, nor will we have any economic dealings with them," Roseberry said. ”

Ito Hirobumi sneered in his heart, and he naturally understood that the main reason why the British did not have economic contacts with the Ryukyus was because there were few people in the Ryukyus and the market was too small, but when Rosebury said this, it seemed that this was a support for Japan.

Hirobumi Ito smiled, "Your Excellency Roseberry, I thank you for not recognizing this Ryukyu country, but economically, I hope that your country can 'help' the Ryukyu country. Ito Hirobumi deliberately changed his tone when he said the word "help", and Rosebury couldn't help but look at him with a puzzled look on his face, not knowing why he was saying this.

Ito Hirobumi said with a smile: "Your Excellency Roseberry, you and I both know that if you want to win the war, you must have a strong industry, I think that Lin Yuan naturally knows this truth, I know the situation in Ryukyu very well, the people there make a living by farming and fishing, and they can't even make a decent piece of steel." ”

Roseberry rolled his eyes and smiled understandingly: "Mr. Ito wants our British Empire to help the Ryukyus develop industry, we sell them equipment, help them train personnel, so that their industrial base will be firmly grasped by us, and we will know exactly what they can build!" ”

Hirofumi Ito smiled heartily and said, "I just love talking to smart people like you!" ”

Rosebury also laughed with Da Lu, Ito Hirobumi said with a smile: "This is also good for you, I know that Mrs. Lu Daozun is a celebrity of the Rothschild family, the Rothschild family holds the largest financial capital in Europe, the Ryukyuan people want to buy your country's equipment, no money is not possible, this money naturally has to be borrowed from the Rothschild family, but if they want to borrow money, they must have a mortgage, then they can only use the country's tax as collateral, so that the economic power will also fall into the hands of your country." ”

Rosebury smiled slyly and said, "Mr. Ito, we are all smart people, what might as well be said to be more straightforward, what benefits do your country want?" ”

Hirobumi Ito said with a smile: "Since the Prime Minister is open and honest, I have nothing to say badly, and we hope to buy your country's latest warships at a reasonable price." ”

Roseberry said, "Lord Ito, do you come to me and use your mouth to take away our millions of pounds?" ”

Ito Hirobumi smiled: "Of course not, I have prepared a generous gift for the British Empire, first, I promise that in the next five years, the amount of goods imported into Britain will be doubled; Second. Speaking of this, he deliberately paused and said: "How many good things are buried under the ground in Northeast China, gold, coal, I believe that Your Excellency Rosebury will not be ignorant of the way, the Russians are eating whales there, don't you feel distressed?" ”

Roseberry smiled: "Okay, I promise, you will buy our warships at the lowest price, and the difference will be supplied by us to the shipyard." ”

"Our people are secretly entering Northeast China to investigate the details of these minerals, and in this regard, the Russians have already gone ahead of us, and the results of our investigation will be shared with your country," Ito said. ”

Roseberry nodded and smiled, "Okay, we're decided." We will choose an appropriate time to sign the specific legal documents of the economy and trade. ”

When Ito came out of Rosebury, it was getting late, and the attendant said, "My lord, find a place to eat." ”

Ito Hirobumi coughed twice and said, "No need, I have to visit a few more dignitaries, and the meal will be eaten in the carriage." ”

A silent net is quietly covering Lin Yuan and the Beijing ship.

After the capture of Okinawa, the Beijing warship was temporarily stationed at the Naha Military Port, and the ship's personnel went ashore in batches to go ashore for activities, and many of the officers and men on the ship were young people, and they felt very new in the world after the crossing, and although there were no high-rise buildings on the shore that they were familiar with, they still happily asked for leave to go ashore to play.

Lin Yuan, who returned to the Beijing ship, did not have the heart to rest, he was thinking about the direction of the strategic development of the Beijing ship, the Ryukyus is too small, not only has no industrial base, but the most important thing is that there are no various resources necessary for the development of industry, for example: the steel industry is the core of the military industry, from the transmission shaft of the aircraft carrier to the firing pin of the gun, and many key components of weapons and equipment must be made of steel, but there is no iron ore here in the Ryukyus.

Therefore, the Beijing ship must find a new base for development!

He used his computer to open a map, which was a map of China and its surrounding areas, which was drawn by later generations based on historical materials, and the map depicted the Chinese territory of Jiaqing for 25 years, when China and Outer Mongolia had not yet become independent, and more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land east of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers had not yet fallen into the clutches of Russia!

Once upon a time, we shamelessly proudly said: "China's version of a rooster stands in the east of the world!" "Our territory is not a sick chicken! We used to be a plump phoenix that was cut into skinny chickens by the enemy!

His eyes fell on a name: Vladivostok, these three words, on the maps of later generations, can only be marked in parentheses, because this place has another name - Vladivostok, this place, which later became the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet.

Looking further up, the Heilongjiang River meanders into the East China Sea (Heilongjiang flows into the Tatar Strait, in the historical materials of the Qing Dynasty, the current East China Sea is called the Southern Ocean, and the current Tatar Strait is called the East Sea), this boundary river between China and Russia in later generations is still China's inland river at this time, and the vast land to the east to the sea is still the land of the Chinese!

Lin Yuan's heart moved, and he secretly thought, "This is it!" ”