Chapter 438: I took off my pants but didn't do it
Just as the Pacific Fleet was desperately piling up daily necessities on BB63 and preparing to go south to meet Maozi's Pacific Fleet, a very interesting piece of information was sent to Wang He's desk again.
"It is reported that Tsar Nicholas II has been informed of the arrival of a fleet of the Great Song Royal Navy in the South Pacific, and he has issued an order to the commander of the Pacific Fleet to postpone its northward journey, saying that the fleet will wait for the army to be assembled before launching an attack on the Great Song army entrenched in the Far East." At the enlarged meeting of the Provisional Executive Committee, Wang He recited this information gathered by the Jewish brothers who had traveled through the congregation.
"Uh-huh, which play is Maozi going to play, do you really have to wait for the army to be assembled? How is it possible that they will be able to resume traffic and gather troops in the Far East in a short time when they have been bombed by us at the railway junction on the eastern shore of Lake Belga? Hao Dajian has already analyzed the effect of the bombing through the aerial photographs brought back by the "White Swan No. 1", and after the 45-ton large aerial bomb was smashed, it was enough for Mao Zi to work for a while just to repair the roadbed.
"I'm afraid that after our mentally handicapped aura has failed, it's not just the John Bull family whose IQ has skyrocketed, but the polar bears also seem to have sensed the purpose of the opium cow trying to use them as guns, after all, the Dutch have lost almost the entire Far East fleet for this." Zhao Yi said.
"Hehe, the international environment at the end of the nineteenth century was really complex and changeable, and this time I'm afraid that the polar bear is holding back and wants to ask for something more from John Bull." Lu Xiangyang said.
Only 40 years have passed since the Crimean War, which later historians called the "First Modern War", and in the war in which modern military equipment such as steamships, explosive shells, rifles, telegraphs, weather forecasts, field hospitals, and railway supplies appeared for the first time, the polar bears, who had not yet escaped serfdom, were defeated. That defeat not only cost Maozi 522,000 men and 800 million rubles, but also led to Tsar Nicholas I committing suicide by poisoning in despair, and finally the "Peace of Paris" forced by Britain and France to sign made Maozi lose the right to own a fleet in the Black Sea.
No matter how big Mao Zi's nerves are, he will never forget the painful lesson forty years ago, John Bull ignored the provisions of international law that neutral countries do not allow warships of belligerents to enter the harbor and dock, and kept giving the green light to the Pacific Fleet of Tsarist Russia along the way, obviously wanting Tsarist Russia and the Great Song Empire to engage in war as soon as possible.
But Mao Zi pinched his fingers, Lao Tzu wanted an ice-free port in the Far East and a large area of land that could connect the port to the Russian border, could John Bull let himself succeed? Obviously not!
Once I rolled up my sleeves and fought with the Great Song people, and the Great Song people compromised with the British and ceded some of their interests, wouldn't I have to face the situation of being beaten by you again? Hmph, anyway, it will take a while to repair the Siberian Ring of Lake Berga Railway, I might as well wait for the conflict between you and the Great Song people to intensify, as the so-called step back and open the sky, polar bears are not only stupid and black.
"Damn, what are we going to do now? BB63 can't go to the South China Sea? Luo Can didn't know how to deal with the sudden change in the situation for a while.
"Consumed, what else can we do, now in this situation, do we have to take the initiative to dry the hair ourselves? As long as Hans doesn't sit up, it will be difficult to ease the conflict between Maozi and John's Bull, and maybe in a few days John's Bull will come to beg us and Maozi to do it again. Wang He said.
"Then let's take a look first, where are we fighting with Maozi, it's a little bit like this. But once Maozi's fleet is in the South Pacific waters, the most headache has to be John Bull, who has been focusing on stirring up for hundreds of years, and always has to think about balancing this and that, and it is not impossible to go back and beg us again. Zhao Yi said.
Mao Zi's step back suddenly calmed down the South China Sea, which was already full of gunsmoke, and the people didn't care about the progress of Mao Zi and John Bull's bargaining, but just tried to teach Hans black technology in order to speed up the arms race between the powers.
Zhao Lang's book "History of Weapons" written by O'Connell, the "director team", is a popular science book that relieves boredom sold in supermarkets. Although there are many military weapon drawings in the book, they are all sketches and lack key data, so they have little practical effect on traversing the crowd and climbing the tech tree.
But some of the sketches in the book can drive Hans crazy, such as the Led Zeppelin, such as the large-caliber railroad howitzer. In the spirit of the mentality that whatever armament you use to fight in Europe will not affect us, then you dare to send anything to Hans!
The British are already a lot ahead in aircraft building technology? It's okay, we're going to give you a flying machine that flies much higher than their planes! Do you have a preference for large-caliber artillery? Let's take a look at this sketch, how about the Emma howitzer of 305 mm caliber? What, the caliber is too small!? Then look at this, how about the "Big Bertha" of 420 mm caliber?
Do you also want steam turbine technology? No problem, as long as the price is right. Well, you've noticed some secret weapon we've tried in West Borneo, it's Pandora's box, and it can't be easily opened! What? Give so much money, how embarrassing is this, who are the two of us, this is a lot of foreign information, well, as long as the money is in place, we will send you the information and the supporting equipment for production!
The purpose of the Interim Executive Committee is simple, as a person who also has a love of stirring, how can the traversal just watch you John Bull perform? Don't you want to play balance in East Asia, Lao Tzu will give you a balance on the European continent, and now Hans and the crossing of the crowd for a year of metallurgical technology has reached a level, as long as the steam turbine technology is in hand, it is the rhythm of the big ship into the water, we don't believe that you opium cow does not follow.
Airships, giant railroad guns, poison gas, and all the black technology used by the Germans in World War I were sold to Hans, almost without a sentence of "I'm optimistic about you, young man!" "That's it.
In addition to doing these things that led to an arms race in advance, the Provisional Executive Committee also realized that it needed its own strength to strike iron, and that they had to get Borneo's oil out of it as soon as possible.
Under the guidance of Morgan Sr., a group of Yankees with extensive experience in oil exploration and extraction have set off for East Manlaw in West Borneo. There is no talent to systematically learn this in the crowd, so you can only turn to the Yankees for help.
Since the seventies of the nineteenth century, Eagle Sauce has been the world's largest oil producer, and since 1870, Eagle Sauce has been extracting more than half of the world's oil production, and they have the most advanced exploration and exploitation technology.
Since the internal combustion engine was not yet widely available, the main application of petroleum at this time was still for lighting. But the elder Morgan had already realized that the engines of the Great Song people were running on petroleum extracts, not on coal extracts to provide energy as they portrayed to the outside world. Morgan Sr. had been seeking cooperation with the Great Song people on the manufacture of internal combustion engines, but he found that the Great Song people were shrewd businessmen, no less than their Jewish juniors. The negotiators sent by the elder Morgan did not take much advantage in the protracted tug-of-war with Huang Xiaolei.