Chapter XXXIV: The Reason for the Strength of the Navy

In the large and crowded auditorium, except for Huo Shan's words, everyone was firmly attracted by the content of his speech! No one had ever dissected the navy so clearly before!

Huo Shan, who had completely fallen into his own thoughts, did not notice the quiet atmosphere in the lobby, took a sip of the tea on the table, and then said: "Talent! A large number of naval talents are the soul of a powerful fleet. After all, no matter how good a warship is, it is controlled by people! And a navy with strict training and its own fine traditions can bring into full play the combat power of warships to 100 percent, or even higher! And a navy with lax military discipline and negligent training will not be able to win a naval battle even if it is given a powerful warship! The four great sailors of the Qing Dynasty are a model among them, and if a fleet controlled by a person who only knows how to fight for power and profit, but does not understand naval warfare at all, then his fate is predictable!

Ignoring the sāo movement from the crowd below, Huo Shan continued: "The last factor, 'bases and shipping lanes all over the world', you can just look at the current Britain! The Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, and the islands of the Cape of Good Hope and the Malvinas Islands, these strategically important sea lanes, are almost all under the control of the British Navy! The straits and islands were like the bones of the British navy, and the sea lanes were their meridians, the mighty warships were their flowing blood, and the wealth brought to Britain from all over the world was the nourishment they needed, all of which together constituted the world's greatest power!"

"I am talking about this today to tell you that our own Chinese navy is still far from the century-old navy of those European powers, and I hope that you can study hard here and strive to become a qualified naval talent that a nation needs as soon as possible! Live up to the ardent expectations of the country and the people for you!" After finishing speaking, Huo Shan took a step back, stood firmly, raised his right hand, and saluted a solemn People's Army military salute!

"Salute to the instructor!!"

I don't know who shouted, and more than 1,000 people in the auditorium stood up in unison, solemnly and respectfully, and raised their right hands!

Looking at the respectful eyes of the audience, Huo Shan knew that he had won the hearts of these naval soldiers!

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It has been two days since the Naval Academy left Saipan, and the passenger ship loaded with coal and supplies did not stop on other islands, but went straight to Honolulu in the Hawaiian Islands, where Master Huo was very interested! Not only because of its important geographical location, but also because of Honolulu, but also because of the fundamental source of the Chinese revolution, Sun Yat-sen's Xingzhong Society, was established here, of course, the current father of the country is still a 14-year-old child, and he is going to school in Honolulu.

"Huo Wolf, there are a lot of Chinese in Honolulu! How about your intelligence bureau have arrangements here?" Huo Shan suddenly turned his head and looked at the young man beside him and asked.

"Hehe, how could it not be, the young master's ambition, we know very well, this place is already under our control, as long as the young master gives an order, the Hawaiian kingdom above will immediately collapse, and the entire Hawaiian Islands will also become our territory!" Huo Wolf replied confidently.

"Hehe, that's a good job! The geographical location of the Hawaiian Islands is really too important! As long as we control it, then we will be able to control the entire North Pacific Ocean! Block all threats from the eastern ocean, especially the United States!" Huo Shan squinted his eyes and said slowly.

"Young master, don't worry! Our military intelligence bureau will definitely not take it lightly!"

Huo Shan nodded wordlessly, looked at the undulating waves in the distance calmly, and after thinking for a while, he continued: "We Chinese, since the eighteenth century, have been living in Honolulu! They planted sugar cane, bananas, and pineapples here, cut down the sandalwood here and shipped it back to China, and the hard-working Chinese have made outstanding contributions to the development of this archipelago, and now there are nearly 100,000 of our compatriots!" It's our land, but now it's overrun by a bunch of shameful natives and whites, and I don't want the non-Chinese population to grow in the slightest, you know?"

The young master's eyes narrowed, and Huo Wolf's heart felt a slight chill! Although he was in charge of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and he was also a long-term leader in killing people, but compared with his young master, this cruel method of genocide that often cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even more, it was still too far and too far behind!

Huo Shan looked at him, his face was a little pale, he sighed long, and said slowly: "Huo Wolf! Since the destruction of Yashan in the Song Dynasty, we Han people have been suppressed for too long! Although the Ming Dynasty recovered, the Qing Dynasty soon raised the butcher's knife again! Yangzhou Ten rì, Jiading Three Slaughters, again and again, annihilated the blood in the bones of the Han people! Until modern times, the country was weak, and our compatriots overseas had no strong economic strength, but they had allowed some filthy natives to wantonly slaughter like pigs and dogs, and did not dare to rise up and resist! Every time I thought of those dead compatriots, it made my heart ache! These bastards who killed my Han compatriots should be killed! Even if they have been dead for hundreds of years, I will kill all their descendants! In the future foreign wars, what our army needs is not benevolence and righteousness, but killings like Bai Qi, Wu Zixu, and Ran Min! A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye! If anyone can't do it, I will not hesitate to remove him from my army! I often say these words to Huo Shi, Huo Hu, and Huo Long, these generals who directly command the army, and I also say it to your intelligence bureau today! But I don't want to say the same thing a second time, I want to see the results I expect to see!"

"Yes, understood! The Military Intelligence Bureau will definitely follow all the instructions of the young master!" Huo Wolf stood up and quickly replied in a cold sweat. Now, he realized that although the young master was young, when he lowered his face and narrowed his eyes, his majesty was really amazing!

In fact, Huo Shan did not say many things just now, such as his foreign policy, it is not blindly killing, after all, the entire Southeast Asia has a population of nearly 55 million, excluding women and children under the age of six, and the remaining men also account for half of the total population, that is, more than 20 million, so many people He can't kill them all. For example, the five countries of the Indochina Peninsula are all subject states of China, especially Annam, who speaks Chinese and uses Chinese surnames, and has always been China's territory in history! As long as the landlords, merchants, and nobles of these countries are eradicated from the top of the state consciousness and the land is distributed to the poor peasants, then these peasants, who will not rebel as long as they have enough to eat, will become staunch supporters of their own rule, because only they can protect the land they have been given and protect their interests! I believe that after twenty or thirty years of education, after the next generation of Han people who identify themselves as Han people grow up, then the entire Indochina Peninsula will become China's eternal and inseparable sacred land!

Of course, it is impossible for the natives on those islands in the South Seas to use such a generous policy! Because these fellows who believe in Islam are full of rebellion and killing in their bones, the Shaanxi and Gansu rebellions that happened in northwest China a few years ago and eventually caused the tragedy of tens of millions of Han people being killed, he never wants to appear on Chinese soil again, so in order to be able to occupy the rich Nanyang Islands forever, he can only be ruthless to clean up these guys once and for all, and prevent future troubles!

"It's still a good time, no matter how many people you kill, you won't be criticized by much public opinion!" Huo Shan thought secretly in his heart. Of course, this situation is also due to the backward conditions of communication and the fact that the Western countries, which occupy the leading position in the world, are also playing this game of killing! Think of the tens of millions of Indians who disappeared in the western United States, and the concentration camps of Britain during the Boer War, killing and war are really the easiest means to reduce the population and stabilize the rule.

"The simplest means are often the most effective!" Huo Shan thought secretly in his heart.

As the passenger ship got closer and closer to Honolulu, his mood was not as urgent as before!