Chapter 151: Piercing the Great Qing Dynasty 2
"If you use an H-class battleship to fight 'Yoshino', will you go down with one shot, and this Funny Pyrene cruiser will be immortalized in the artillery fire???"
Thinking of such a heroic and hot scene, the young man who was boiling with chicken blood felt very excited!
Then the question arises, even if only the "Byrne" (Bavarian) class at the end of the First World War is bought. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The nine battleships in the battleship formation of the navy under the command of Mi Ji also belonged to nine different classes, and they were already completely messy.
If they can't be repaired in time after the naval battle, then these cutting-edge weapons will become disposable consumables!
In this way, the cost is too high, and tens of thousands of tons of warships are lying in groups in the harbor......
[System prompt: To configure all the crew, you need to pay 20% of the tonnage of the ship!] 】
Chicken: "Nima............ I knew it! ”
[System Prompt: Activate the Cruiser and Battleship Tech Tree to get a free shipwive!] 】
"Isn't it 'Ship Girl'? Why did you change it to 'ship wife'? "The young man of the second cargo was made by the system
Could it be the Ship Witch? You still need to do a divination before going to sea???
By the way, I asked weakly: Is it blonde and blue-eyed? Are you tall? How much do they have cups?
[System Prompt: The similarity between this time and space and the original time and space is more than 90%, strengthening the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal!] 】
Seeing this, the chicken began to check the history of this plane.
It turned out that after the Thirty Years' War, the people of the Netherlands could not stand the baptism of the HRE artillery fire, and fled to North America and occupied the area of Canada.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Portuguese royal family dragged their family to their own South American colony, which was later Brazil.
Spain was the last European relative to run away, moving to Mexico and North and Central America.
In this way, the United States had three more European neighbors who were bent on raiding the surrounding area.
Fearing the threat of Uncle Sam, Spain allied with the Netherlands.
And in order to get a number of islands in the Caribbean Sea, the domination of the matadors in Central America was reversed.
The United States works with like-minded Portugal, which has always coveted Colombia and Venezuela.
These three original European territories were all sold to a next family, that is, the France of the Sun King Louis XIV!
The deal was handled by French Prime Minister Richelieu's successor, Mazarin, and the French territory became the largest in Europe.
But this land sale was a win-win situation, and the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal avoided the decline of later generations because of the move.
The European aristocracy that sat on the lands of Canada, Mexico, and Brazil paid the cost of nearly a hundred years of time.
However, because of the avoidance of the subsequent wars, especially the rejection of Napoleon's pot of porridge, the economy has developed considerably.
Today, it has become a world-class power that is only subordinate to Britain and the United States, but can sit on an equal footing with France and Germany.
"Very good, so the GDP ranking of the Qing Dynasty can be moved back a few times!"
Anyway, Lafayette and the puppy don't care about this, or repairing the garden is the first priority in the world~!
[System Prompt: Attention!] Note! Three new foreign travelers! I've traveled to this plane! 】
“………… It's good, the pit digging is getting bigger! "There are no other traversers, and the chickens feel like something is missing.
The big pineapple had just given himself three thousand tons of silver, and he didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.
Is this a curse? The Curse of the Big Pineapple or the "Curse of the Black Pearl"?
By the way, Lao Tzu wants to exchange the battleship for gold, and he has to give it a few good names!
For example, the "Death Knight", "Demon Hunter", "Abyss Lord", "Dark Ranger", ......
It is estimated that after listening to these strange ship names, Old Man Li will have a vacuum~!
The chicken carefully calculated, the sixth-level patrol + sixth-level battle patrol + the ninth-level battle column requires a total of 380 tons of gold!
This is the price before getting the main battleship of World War II, and if you have a full crew, you will have to pay an additional 76 tons!
It adds up to 456 tons...... Looks like it's still a tractor number!
Gold is not a problem, the problem is that if there is no dock, the gold fleet that Lao Tzu spent a lot of money to build is a one-time luxury!
Such precious gold can be used for other purposes, and it is a bit wasteful to consume it.
Let's discuss it with Big Pineapple and see what other blueprints of the capital ship the alliance has.
Once you have the details, you can find a European shipyard to copy it.
Although the model may be very old, it is still affordable to spend money!
[System Prompt: Any weapons and equipment that appear beyond the end time cannot enter this time and space!] 】
However, the "Soviet" class battleships (Type 23), which are incomparably majestic and comparable to the H-class, were born before 1941.
The Kronstadt-class battlecruisers (Type 69) with a displacement of more than 36,000 tons also had a 1940 model.
It's really not good, Lao Tzu can still play with the miraculous sea guerrilla - the armored cruiser "Rurik"~!
The second generation of Rurik is equipped with four 254-mm main guns, eight 203-mm secondary guns, and 20 120-mm secondary guns.
Even if there is only one, if it encounters the main force of the combined fleet during the First Sino-Japanese period, it can finish the malaria horizontally and vertically; Finish malaria vertically, malaria diagonally......
In short, under the gaze of N arrogant petrels, 100% fancy malaria can be achieved~!
Before firing the cannon, you have to put on a low posture and take the initiative to wave the flag to the other party: The boat is not good, please ask for light malaria~!
"The seniors are above, please be worshiped by the juniors!" The chicken, dressed in a suit, bowed to the end to Old Man Liu, and knelt down.
The old man with a gray beard in front of him is Liu Kunyi, the general of the Hunan army, the governor of Liangjiang, and the minister of trade in Nanyang!
Among the eight governors of the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Zhili is also the minister of Beiyang, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, so it naturally belongs to Li Hongzhang.
The governor of Liangjiang is also the second minister of Nanyang, and has jurisdiction over the three provinces of Jiangshu, Yuhui and Jiangxi, and the capital is Jiangning, which is the Nanjing of later generations.
It's not difficult to enter this governor's palace, as long as you spend enough money, a thousand taels of smashing down is enough to make the watchdog nod at you.
The only unpleasant thing is that the streets are full of all kinds of ragged zombies (pigtail people), and you can still hear the title of fake foreign devils!
Walking through a broken road full of dirty water, stepping on a foot of thin mud, if you glance at the corner, there are still people drowning in the open ......
"Don't be formal, please take a seat, Liche (the word for the chicken) has been studying overseas for many years, and I must be very proficient in Taixi's affairs, and I want to find someone who understands to ask for advice or two!"
Old man Liu, who was dressed in a casual gown, received the visitors amiably, but he did not have the slightest appearance of a governor.
Since he started to run foreign affairs, because of shallow knowledge and cultural differences, Old Man Liu always feels powerless.
"If the predecessors have any ambiguity, you might as well say it directly, and the car will know everything and say everything!"
"That's good, then the old decay has to be blunt, I don't know what my ranking is in the world today?"
“…… The strongest country in the world today is naturally the British Empire, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and has its own colonies on all continents!
The United States of America followed, followed by France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Austria-Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy......
If the younger generation is not mistaken, my Daqing should be ranked eleventh, and maybe it can be tied for tenth with Italy, a small European country! ”
Saying this is all to give Lafayette face, and if it continues to develop, Japan will come from behind!
"Shhh...... Really? "Old man Liu is obviously not satisfied with this term, our Qing Dynasty is a vast land and a wide range of soldiers!
"This is Japan's fiscal revenue and expenditure this year, which I got through a relationship, and my predecessors may wish to read it, and it will definitely be an eye-opener!" The chicken took out a pre-written fold
Old man Liu took it, opened it and looked at it, and was shocked at that time, the content inside was extremely shocking.
In 1893, Japan's budget revenue was 88.04 million yen, and the actual final account was 113.77 million yen, equivalent to 75.85 million taels of silver.
Now one tael of silver can be exchanged for about 1.5 yen, which is only 12.82 million taels less than the same period of the Qing Dynasty (88.67 million taels of silver)!
At the end of the 19th century, Japan had only 1/30 of China's land and 1/10 of its population, but the revenues of both sides were almost equal.
There is only the financial income of the Japanese side on the excerpt, and the old man Liu, who reads the newspaper, naturally knows about the situation of the Qing Dynasty.
“…… You can't tease the old decay like this in the future life, how can there be such an income in the land of Dongying projectiles? The adults on the other side obviously didn't believe the numbers
The dignified Qing Dynasty is not as good as the Taixi countries, even Japan can reach such a level, and it is really unreasonable to catch up with the Qing Dynasty in terms of income.
"Japan is learning from the British, and it is financially clean and efficient, and it is working together to achieve industrialization. And as far as I know, they don't have a word of incorruptible silver! ”
What is Honest Silver? It's the original fire consumption (i.e., county planning and the like)!
For example, the annual agricultural tax target of a county is 50,000 taels, but the county magistrate feels that it is not enough to eat, so he adds "two cents of fire consumption" on the basis of this index.
That is, let the farmers pay 20% more tax, and if they pay more, the gray income of 10,000 taels will go to their own hands!
In the Yongzheng period, this master engaged in the return of fire consumption to the public, and turned all additional taxes such as unified planning into regular taxes.
Turn officials' private accounts into public accounts, and fire consumption into the subsidies they deserve, and this subsidy is called raising incorruptible silver!
For example, Old Man Liu's official residence is a product, the annual salary is only 180 taels, and Lu rice is 180 taels, but these are all small heads, because the incorruptible silver is as high as 16,000 taels!
In the Qing Dynasty, 1 tael of silver was equivalent to about 200 yuan now, and the governor's annual income was more than 3 million!
But don't expect that if you have a lot of silver on the top, there will really be mud on the bottom and it won't be stained, quite the opposite.
If the lower side is not greedy, you will not be able to honor the above, and you will not be able to keep your own chair.
If a magistrate doesn't come out with 10,000 taels of silver, you just wait for the position of the magistrate to vacancy!
Therefore, the county magistrates of each of the following counties are racing against time to make "contributions" to the governor~!
Old man Liu was not interested in the matter of his own pocket, and asked instead: "If one day, I am at war with Japan in the Qing Dynasty, who does Liche think will be killed?" ”
"Japan will win, and the Qing Dynasty will lose!" Do you still need to think about this? Special heels know the result!
"Oh? How so? Don't say empty words to prevaricate the old man! Old man Liu was even more unhappy with this answer
"As far as the younger generations know, Japan has newly organized more than 200,000 Western-style armies, which is far from being comparable to the Huai Army of our Qing Green Battalion. The navy is changing with each passing day, new ships are emerging one after another, and the victory and defeat have been decided before the two armies fight! ”
"I have the help of the Beiyang Naval Division, which is the largest fleet in the East, and has two invincible ironclad ships as the screen, which can be described as a strong ship with sharp guns, crisscrossing the sea, and few opponents! How can Liche increase the morale of others and destroy his own prestige? ”
"The predecessors didn't know that the total tonnage of the Japanese Combined Fleet has exceeded 40,000 tons, and our Beiyang Naval Division is only 32,000 tons.
Besides, the two ships of Zhenzhen and Ding are outdated in Taixi, even if the two ships can resist in front of them, the other small ships will not escape!
The Japanese fleet has all been equipped with new rapid-fire guns, and the rate of fire and projection firepower are several times that of our Beiyang naval division.
As for other aspects, presumably the predecessors can also know a little, how can a group of people who eat, drink and have fun be able to defeat the army of tigers and wolves? ”
Of course, the two of you try to fight hard, this Lao Tzu has no half-dime relationship, you continue, don't stop!
"Shhh...... This ......" Old man Liu never expected that this would be the result after the comparison
Where is this? Come on, this guest officer, the shop will give you some fierce food to serve!
"Early next year, all the new cruisers ordered by Japan in Taixi will be in place, and the combined fleet will be officially formed.
In late summer and early autumn, it is a great opportunity to get started, and the first battle at sea can defeat the Beiyang Naval Division, and the second battle can lay the victory!
After that, under the cover of the navy, 200,000 elites can land from Dagukou and go straight to the capital division! ”
“…… Don't be alarmist in the next life! Old man Liu immediately thought of the group of British and French "tourists" from decades ago
Not only did they capture the capital division, but they also robbed the Old Summer Palace, and burned it with fire after robbing, which is really a shame for the country!
If the opponent's 200,000 Western-style army all went ashore, it would be difficult to win the battle even if it mobilized troops from all over the country.
"I'm afraid that everyone else will report good things, happy events, and happy things to you, right? If it was as I said, I would have swept away the floor long ago! ”
The First Sino-Japanese War was related to the geopolitical affairs of the Far East and determined the future status of regional hegemony and great powers.
Which side can win depends on which side is faster, more accurate, more ruthless, and more able to kill the other side!
Mrs. Liu blushed and muttered for a long time before she spoke: "If what Liche said is true, how should I deal with it?" ”
"If you have money to pay, if you don't have money to borrow, prepare for war as soon as possible! Japan is already in full swing and has entered the countdown to the war.
Our Qing Dynasty should get rid of laxity and slackness and be ready for battle. If Japan's plan to "leave Asia and join Europe" is finally completed, then ......"
"What will happen?" Mrs. Liu was anxious to know the final result
"If the younger generation is not wrong, Japan has already spent more than 100 million taels of silver to rectify its armament! Once they win, they will double this amount, that is, 200 million taels of silver, and let me pay a big compensation! There is a way, there is no other day! ”
"What's the explanation?"
"Did my predecessors know what the Japanese flag looked like?"
“……… I see! ”
One or two of the five scumbags of the war are enough, and the whole country is the five scumbags of the war, so this battle cannot be won!