www.biquge.info As expected by the British Empire Cabinet, Zhao Dutian really couldn't give up this temptation, although the main naval force of Europe was greatly damaged, but the ammunition of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan of the Han Empire could not be manufactured by themselves, and they had already become a bunch of 'scientific research supplies' in the high-intensity war, and at this time they were also used by Zhao Dutian, and the weapons on it were dismantled as a research and development sample of new weapons!

The fact that the epoch-making weapon of the Maxine heavy machine gun appeared so early is inseparable from the weapon samples on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan!

I believe that with the passage of time, in a few years, Zhao Dutian will be able to equip his army with rapid-fire guns and large-caliber howitzers close to before World War I, and even mature mortars may be really installed!

As for the ironclad ship, Zhao Dutian is not in a hurry to carry out research and development, although the weapons of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan have been dismantled, but the overall hull is still intact, and after the Han Empire has completely eaten the weapons above, as long as it is refitted, the two big ironclad battleships can gallop the ocean again!

From the sail battleship to the steam ironclad battleship, there are quite a lot of technical thresholds, and without a physical reference, even with the technical reserves of the British Empire, it is impossible to study the clue without ten or twenty years!

Therefore, although the sea power in this world now seems to be a rivalry between the Han Empire and the British Empire on the surface, in fact, it is only a matter of time before the British Empire completely loses all its sea power!

This is also the reason why Zhao Dutian devoted his main energy to land combat weapons!

If you want to dominate the world, you can't just have a navy, Zhao Dutian's previous life in the British Imperial Navy before World War I had a 'double standard', that is to say, the number of battleships of the British Navy before World War I was more than twice the number of battleships of the world's second naval power!

This line is the foundation of Britain's maintenance of world hegemony!

Even during the First World War, it was not broken!

It's a pity that no matter how strong the navy is, the army can't stop the German army......

Coupled with the popularity of Dreadnought-class battleships during World War I, a large number of former Dreadnought-class battleships owned by the British Empire were eliminated overnight, leading to the myth of the so-called 'shuanggui standard' shattered......

However, even so, after the end of World War I, the British Empire, which suffered a great loss of national strength, was still able to maintain the grasp of world hegemony, until World War II, when the massive popularization of aircraft carriers completely eliminated battleships, and the British maritime hegemony was eliminated in a real sense, and finally even the British crown of the Indian colony could not be kept......

Without India, Britain will naturally be unable to maintain its status as a world-class power and will be reduced to the younger brother of US imperialism......

Zhao Dutian knew very well that with the help of the British Empire, he wanted to land in Europe several times easier, at least there was no problem with transportation at all!

In this era, there is no radar system of later generations, and even countries that do not have the right to control the sea can use broken ships to deal a fatal blow to the enemy's maritime transportation system!

Obviously, the number of ships of the British can definitely bring the transportation lines of the Han Empire to a halt in Europe!

The Han Empire wanted to get involved in Europe, there were only two ways, one was originally planned by Zhao Dutian, to land from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is estimated that many people will die, replace the Manchu Empire, and then spend decades integrating this behemoth!

With the military strength of the Han Empire, it is not difficult to defeat the Manchu Empire, but the difficulty lies in how to integrate the population strength of the Manchu Empire!

Zhao Dutian did not dare to deal with the Han people with the treatment of indigenous Indians and whites, not to mention his inner reluctance, and using a high-pressure policy to target hundreds of millions of people is itself a kind of death......

The collapse of the Yuan Dynasty empire has taught Zhao Dutian this lesson, the Manchus can oppress hundreds of millions of Han people with millions of people, not because their butcher knives are sharp enough, but because they know how to use their strength very well!

Using the traditional method of imperial examinations, giving the elite of the Han people a shortcut to the sky, greatly co-opting the gentry system that occupies the mainstream in Han society, stabilizing the people of the world, and the rule of the Manchu Empire over the Han people is basically stable!

The peasants will always play the role of cannon fodder in the uprising, and without the premeditated and assistance of the literati, the rebellion will not be successful!

The heroes who have been able to succeed in the low-level uprisings in the past generations have gathered a large number of literati around them!

In a feudal society with low education popularity, the preciousness of intellectuals has been raised to an incredible degree!

In fact, the reason why Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty was able to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty and occupy the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains was precisely because he attached importance to the Han people!

And the reason why Kublai Khan's descendants threw away the Yuan Dynasty was because they did not inherit Kublai Khan's purpose and belittled the Han civil officials without authorization!

The Han cultural class, which can't hold these knives, is an important bargaining chip that determines the world invisibly!

The so-called winning the hearts and minds of the people win the world, does not mean to get the support of those ignorant farmers, the peasant class, as long as it is not in a state of dying of starvation, will never pose any threat, even if it is really starving to death many peasants, as long as there is no real heroic leader, it is only a matter of time before those mobs are exterminated!

Those who win the hearts of the people win the hearts of the people win the world, and the hearts of the people here refer to the traditional Chinese gentry class and even literati and other intellectuals.

Governing localities is inseparable from literati, establishing a legal system is inseparable from literati, and administrative executors must rely on literati!

You can't let a group of generals who can only kill people and fight wars govern the place, right, how many people are there in the world who are truly both civil and military?

Such a school in one state and one county, without the assistance of intellectuals, is simply a mess!

The world is full of profits, literati and other intellectuals are not exempt from vulgarity, as long as the temptation of the imperial examination is given, the Manchu Empire can easily buy the loyalty of a large number of literati!

In the final analysis, the character of the literati is based on the situation that their own lives can guarantee!

Of course, there were also many literati who were not afraid of death, and then they were really slaughtered by the Manchus......

Anyway, the literati have it, as long as the supporters are enough!

The Manchu Empire that used the imperial examination to envelop the people of the world, it seems that the riots are continuous, but the world is still as peaceful as Mount Tai, Zhao Dutian has already learned the ruling foundation of the Manchu Empire through Jinyiwei, and the rule of hundreds of years has already formed the inertia of the literati class, the Manchu Empire has cultivated many Han gentry with common interests, Zhao Dutian wants to overthrow the Manchu Empire, and he is not only facing those children of the Eight Banners!