Saigo has to admire Ito Hirobumi, such preferential conditions have been negotiated, it is not easy, everyone here knows that Britain's face, look down on any country, and is not willing to sell its best and most advanced warships to any country, Rao is a big rich man like Qing Guo, willing to spend a huge amount of money, and it is difficult to get the latest warship manufacturing technology from Britain, Yoshino has almost bankrupted Japan's treasury! And there was a cruiser as advanced as the Yoshino, Rao is Saigo never understood the navy, but he also understood that the two most advanced cruisers for the increase in the strength of the Imperial Japanese Navy were by no means one plus one equal to two, but a multiplication, or a tenfold increase! In that case, how can you not make Saigo Congdao so excited. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Emperor Meiji's hand couldn't help but tremble slightly, obviously, he was very happy and excited, "In this case, the imperial navy will be strengthened again!" Taige, I really don't know what to say! The Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Kingdom has always been the most feared thing in my heart, and for countless nights, I have been having an almost identical nightmare, dreaming that the Beiyang Naval Division would break into Tokyo Bay and fire at Tokyo! Emperor Meiji's tone was very frightened and gloomy, and the ministers in the palace couldn't help but feel the back of their necks fluttering, and Saigo hurriedly leaned down to apologize, "Not being able to let Your Majesty sleep peacefully is a shame for the Imperial Navy and an incompetence of the ministers!" ”

The representative of the military department, Ito Youheng, also leaned down to plead guilty, so that Jun Shang could not sleep at night, which was definitely the greatest shame for the soldiers of the empire! The Emperor shook his head, "These can't blame the soldiers of the empire, and the Qing, the Beiyang Naval Division is indeed very powerful, so powerful that I have nightmares at night, and I haven't said it before, because I am afraid that the Qings will blame themselves, our subjects, our soldiers, have contributed their best efforts!" Taiko," Emperor Meiji said resolutely to Hirobumi Ito, "we must seize this opportunity, this opportunity to catch up with the Qing Kingdom's Beiyang Naval Division!" ”

"Hay!" The five ministers leaned over and said yes, and Ito Youheng, the representative of the military department, said with a sneer, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, the Beiyang Naval Division is just like Li Hongzhang, they are all old and frail tigers, their strength is slowly weakening, and they can no longer scare anyone, the current international warship technology is changing with each passing day, and the Qing Dynasty has been stagnant for three years!" Three years was enough time for us to catch up with the Beiyang Naval Division, whose warships were large, but their firepower and speed were far inferior to those of the Yoshino. The military department and navy are fully confident that they will defeat the Beiyang Naval Division, which is already dying! ”

"Please don't forget that the Qing Kingdom has already begun to research and manufacture warships!" Seeing that the emperor's eyes seemed to glow with fanatical light, Ito Hirobumi frowned and said, "If they build their own warships, it will be unpredictable, and our intelligence agencies have not been able to obtain very accurate information in Mawei Port!" ”

"It is impossible for the Qing country to have any ability to build warships on its own, it's not that I'm despising them, Taige," said Ito Youheng, a representative of the military department, "Military technology is not an ordinary science at all, which requires an extremely long period of scientific and technological precipitation, according to the characteristics of the Qing people's consistent love of face, if there can be any technological breakthrough in Nanyang, there will be no news at all now, there is no news now, and judging by intelligence, it is not clear that the country is imitating some warships according to the French warship technology, These warships are completely incapable of actual combat role, moreover, Britain's naval technology is the best in the world, no country can catch up, our Japanese military policy, is to vigorously develop the navy, we cannot compete with the Qing Army's hundreds of thousands or even millions of land forces, but as long as we develop a good navy and defeat the Qing Beiyang Naval Division, then the 10,000-mile sea frontier will definitely be the territory of our Imperial Japanese Navy in the future! ”

"The Governor said," Emperor Meiji nodded, "the navy is indeed the most important link, so Taiko," he said to Ito Hirobumi, "does the treasury still have funds?" ”

Hirobumi Ito shook his head, "In the past, the subjects donated funds for the Yoshino, and at that time, the donated funds were enough to buy two Yoshino, but then the other surplus money was used to buy the Sankei ship, etc., so the treasury has no other reserve funds for the purchase of this warship, if you want to buy this warship like the Yoshino, then, the cabinet will have to allocate funds to the parliament again, otherwise you will not be able to buy this warship." ”

Emperor Meiji looked at Hirobumi Ito, "If Britain is willing to pay in installments, then this amount should not be a large amount, Taiko?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty," Ito replied.

"My inner treasury can provide another part of the money," Emperor Meiji said immediately, "two hundred thousand!" ”

"Your Majesty!" The representative of the military department, Ito Youheng, exclaimed sadly, "You have already paid too much for this country!" The ministers are incompetent, but they can no longer let His Majesty be embarrassed! He gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty has given so much for the country, and the subjects will not be moved, I think, Taiko," he turned to Ito Hirobumi and said, "I can let the subjects donate again!" They'll be sure to donate! ”

Saigo feels that it is inappropriate, and it is impossible to squeeze the people's money by donating money all the time, but at present, he is clear as the Minister of the Navy, the cabinet is now a little stormy, Ito Hirofumi Rao is very shrewd and capable, and he is also modest, but he is not a god, and he cannot properly solve Japan's domestic economic problems.

Two years ago, Japan had such very conspicuous economic problems as a financial crisis, inflation, rising prices, and rising unemployment rate, and the reason for this could only be explained by the fact that military spending was particularly huge and affected other constructions, and this reason explained everything, and the excessive increase in military spending, and most of the navy's funds were used through the purchase of warships, which had no effect on the domestic economy and had no growth in the domestic heavy industry, so the increase in military spending had no effect on the development of the domestic economy, and the domestic funds were withdrawnUnable to build more infrastructure, unable to develop the economy, national income is not increasing, but decreasing, Ito Hirobumi can only strive to maintain the development of heavy industry, which is extremely lacking, and agriculture is sucked too much, and the peasants' incomes are pitiful, and they are unable to create and expand the domestic market.