Chapter 61: The Navy

After the military parade, various countries proposed to send ministers to Guangdong to establish legations.

Manchu officials loudly objected, protested!

At this time, Wang Bo had not yet torn his face with the Manchu Dynasty, and the taxes that should be paid were still paid in full, and Guangdong was still nominally controlled by the Manchu Dynasty.

As for these "two and six" (Cantonese for insignificant identity) sent by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Wang Bo only regarded them as transparent, and told the delegates of various countries that they could send envoys to Guangdong, but they could not send troops, and all the security of the legations would be guarded by the guards of the Fuxing Army.

Britain, France, Russia, the United States and other countries were naturally unwilling, and after some negotiations, Wang Bo placed some more orders, and the representatives of these imperial powers left satisfied.

There is no way, his strength is not strong enough now, he can only use money to smash a road, anyway, most of his money is earned from foreigners, and the wool is from the sheep, and it is a big deal to earn it back later.

Warships ordered in various countries are being built, shipyards are being built in the Pearl River Delta region, and all plans are proceeding in an orderly manner.

At this stage, giant ships and artillery are highly respected by all countries, but Wang Bo knows that the development of history in the future and the emergence of aircraft carriers in the future will surprise all countries that believe in giant ships and artillery, and the naval pattern will also change.

At present, many people have begun to experiment and build airplanes, but they have not yet been fully formed.

Wang Bo sent people to find these people, and if they didn't want to come, they would be kidnapped and kidnapped, and they would slowly explain clearly after they were brought over. He can provide a lot of money to these people to develop airplanes, and he can also come up with a lot of ideas that are ahead of his time to attract these talents.

Aircraft carriers, submarines, missiles, and other ideas, Wang Bo proposed them to his R&D team. He doesn't know scientific research, but there are professionals here, he just needs to guide the researchers, let the researchers have a general research direction, and let them operate the rest.

In order to build a naval base, Wang Bo sent his army to garrison Hainan Island. Outside of Hainan Island is the vast South China Sea, with large and small islands all over the sea, which is of great strategic significance.

Remembering the clamor of the small countries around the South China Sea in later generations, Wang Bo ordered the navy to sail all the movable gunboats out to sea and set up monuments to register all the islands in the South China Sea, no matter how big or small.

Garrison Hainan, the French troops in the territory of Viet Nan next to it became nervous. A few days ago, France's forces in Guangzhou Bay (now Zhanjiang City, Guangzhou) were in some conflict with the Revival Army, and they had been peeping at Guangzhou Bay for a long time, but they did not expect that such a powerful figure as Wang Bo would appear and disrupt all their plans.

Now France can still let their warships cruise on the surface of the sea to demonstrate, taking advantage of the fact that Wang Bo's navy has not yet been formally formed, but once the warships ordered by the Baissance Army return, the entire pattern of the South China Sea will change accordingly.

Moreover, the Renaissance Army has begun to slowly penetrate into Guangxi, and it will not be long before the Gulf of Tonkin will completely become the sphere of influence of the Renaissance Army, and then the French colony of Viet Nan will be in danger.

Seeing that the situation was not in their favor, France ordered a fleet to be stationed in the South China Sea to threaten the Revival Army.

The Navy of the Renaissance Army has not yet been formed, and its maritime strength is weak, so it can only endure this evil breath and wait until the navy is established and its combat strength is formed.

At the end of 1891, the warships ordered by Wang Bo from England, Germany, and the United States finally came to the waters of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong!

On this day, the dock was crowded with people. Among them were students, workers, ordinary citizens, people from all walks of life, ministers from various countries, representatives of Li Hongzhang's Huai lineage, and officials sent by the Manchu dynasty to investigate the situation, and all walks of life.

The officers and soldiers of the guard division of the Fuxing Army looked solemn, and they were all armed with guns to maintain order at the scene, there were too many people at the scene, and there were many people at the scene, not only to prevent the occurrence of chaotic incidents, but also to protect their commander Wang Bo!

The Manchu dynasty was now eager to arrest Wang Bo and put him to death. This decaying Manchu dynasty must have been staring at it all the time, and secretly sent countless killers to assassinate Wang Bo.

As the saying goes, open guns are easy to block, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent.

For safety, the guard division surrounded a large open space near the dock, and also isolated the crowd fifty meters away, and snipers were also arranged in various high places around it, and there were countless secret guards in the crowd, watching people's every move.

Wang Bo, dressed in a tunic suit, walked to the temporary viewing platform on the pier under the escort of the guards. His suit is unique in this era, and it has already aroused enthusiasm among the people, and many people are vying to imitate it.

Moreover, Wang Bo usually asks the royal tailor to make a lot of 21st century clothes according to his design from time to time, both men's and women's clothing, these avant-garde clothes are deeply loved by both Chinese and foreigners, and foreigners even specially report that Wang Bo is the world-class fashion designer who can wear clothes and lead the forefront of fashion in contemporary times!

Suddenly, someone in the crowd pointed to the sea where the water and the sky met and shouted: "Look! Here it comes! ”

I saw a small bow appear on the sea, and as the tugboat slowly moved, a majestic giant ship appeared in front of people's eyes.

All of a sudden, cheers erupted, and the people on the dock were all excitedly waving the small flag in their hands, which was the latest naval flag designed by the Renaissance Army.

The military flag of the Beiyang Navy Division is the "Flying Dragon Playing with Pearls" picture, a five-clawed green dragon with its head up, the beads are red, and it is inlaid in the center of a triangle with a yellow base. The yellow color represents the Manchu people, and the flying dragon symbolizes China.

Wang Bo originally wanted to make military flags with dragon patterns, but when he thought of the Manchu Dynasty, he immediately disagreed with it, which was one of the dynasties he hated the most, and he hated it even if it had the slightest connection.

He thought of the national flag in the real world, waved his hand, and immediately decided that the naval flag was rectangular, divided into two parts, the upper half of the sevenths was red as the base, and the upper left corner was a golden five-pointed star, and the word "seventy-one" of the same color was printed under the star; The lower half is blue and white.

Red means that the revival of China is not afraid of sacrifice, the five-pointed star represents the revival army, the yellow symbolizes the meaning of the Chinese people of the yellow race, and "July 1st" is the time when the revival army was established. Blue and white symbolize the ocean.

The army flag is also rectangular, the upper half of the five-sevenths is also red as the base, the upper left corner is a golden five-pointed star, and the word "seventy-one" of the same color is printed under the star; The lower half is green, symbolizing the earth.

Although the Air Force has not yet been established, the flag has also been predetermined, and the upper half is the same as the army and navy, and the lower half is sky blue, symbolizing the sky.

The procedure for the replacement of warships was very successful, and Wang Bo announced on the spot the appointment of the deputy commander-in-chief of the navy, and he naturally held the post of commander-in-chief of both the army and the navy.

The newly appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the navy was named Huang Hanqian, who was one of a group of young people sent by Wang Bo to Germany to learn naval military knowledge when Li Hongzhang ordered warships from England and Germany in 1885.

When he ordered warships from England, Germany, and the United States, he took a group of young people to England to learn naval knowledge, and now he is only twenty-five years old, which is very young, but the current revival army needs such enthusiastic and energetic young people.

Huang Hanqian took over the naval flag from Wang Bo, and the Navy of the Fuxing Army was officially established!

The audience burst into thunderous applause, and everyone shouted excitedly.

The French who had had a slight conflict with the Baistera Army in the South China Sea frowned, but now the Baister's troops have penetrated into Guangxi, and the troops are being deployed on the border of Vietnam, where the friction between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger, and there was a brawl between the soldiers on both sides a few days ago.

Now that they have such a large fleet at sea, they may not be able to withstand a small fleet sent to the South China Sea, and they are thinking about how to report to China and apply for more fleets to come over to protect France's interests in the South China Sea.

The representative sent by the Wa State had a gloomy face, as if the whole world owed him money and had not repaid it, with a dead face, staring closely at Wang Bo in the center of the viewing platform, this was a powerful figure with an inexplicable hostile attitude towards their Wa State. They had sent countless intelligence agents to gather information about this man, but they could not find out why this person was so hostile to the Wa Kingdom.

The Manchu officials were like ashes, as if their father and mother had died in the family, and they stared at Wang Bo through gritted teeth, this unfamiliar dog slave, although the current Guangdong is still under the control of the Manchu court, but everyone knows that Guangdong has long been divided by this person.

And I also learned from the intelligence that more and more soldiers in the revival army are cutting off the braids on their heads on the orders of this person, which is the rhythm of rebellion!

Nowadays, there are more warships in front of me than the Beiyang Naval Division, which makes the revival army of tens of thousands even more powerful, and I am in danger!

Subsequently, Wang Bo convened a meeting of all the admirals and officers, and after deliberation and discussion, it was decided to divide the purchased warships and the warships built by himself into two fleets, namely the South China Sea Fleet and the Pacific Fleet.

At present, there are three naval bases, Hainan Base, Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang) Base, and Guangzhou Base.

The South China Sea Fleet is stationed in Guangzhou Bay, with a sub-base of Hainan Island, and has a wide range of defense tasks in the South China Sea.

The Pacific Fleet is based in Guangzhou, and its defense covers all defense missions north of Nanao Island in Chaozhou City.

Wang Bo planned to take the island of Taiwan and use it as a base for the Pacific Fleet, but now was not the time to do it, and the Chinese people still had expectations for the Manchu Dynasty.

Now the southern part of Guangxi has been taken over by the Fuxing Army, and half of Guangxi belongs to Wang Bo's Fuxing Army and political axe, and the whole of Guangxi is in his pocket, as long as the time comes, Liangguang will completely become Wang Bo's base.

The combat effectiveness of the two newly formed fleets has not yet been fully formed, and it will take time to run in, and the vast South China Sea is the place where they train. (To be continued.) )