After Jia Liwen and Li Zhongtang negotiated the arms purchase, they immediately sent a telegram to report to China.

For this purchase list, the most happy is the army, because this material needs the cooperation of the army, of course, a large part of the profits will be left to the army.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the army will raise the materials on the list, and they will be shipped to the Far East in less than a week."

Looking at Marshal Cadnar, who was extremely excited about eating meat, Admiral Yagill, who was the Minister of the Navy, could only show envious eyes. At a time when the Navy is working hard to raise money for the construction of new ships, it is simply impossible not to envy such a procurement list.

However, because the sale of warships by the Navy is very political, the sale of warships is not a purely economic issue (compared to the sale of weapons by the Army).

Of course, Carlo understands Admiral Yagill's red thoughts, but it is rare for the army to encounter this kind of quick money, so Carlo is not easy to let the army take out some of it. Besides, the army needs to be used next, and the army will not be too harsh.

"Admiral Yagill, wait a minute."

When the admiral tried to leave, Carlo stopped him.

"Your Majesty, what else do you have to say?"

Faced with Admiral Yagill's questioning, Carlo spoke. "What do your navies think of the confrontation between the two navies in this war in the Far East?"

In the face of the king's questioning, Admiral Yagil, as the head of the navy, also paid attention to this question before. It has been a long time since a naval war broke out in the world, and it is natural to look forward to a naval battle between the two countries in the Far East.

And the Italian Navy has another advantage, that is, it knows the real combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Naval Division very well, who let so many Italian advisers in the Beiyang, how can this close observation of the opportunity be missed.

So Admiral Yagill is very confident. "Your Majesty, according to the understanding of our Admiralty, the Chinese Navy is slightly inferior to the Japanese Navy in terms of strength in terms of warships. As for the comparison of the capabilities of the officers and men of the two sides, since we have not obtained much information about the officers and men of the Japanese navy, we can only get general information, but in light of the information we have learned, the Japanese side still has the advantage in the capabilities of the officers and men of the two sides. So this war should be the Japanese side with the naval superiority. The best choice for the Chinese side should be to rely on its geographical advantages to hold the first line of the Bohai Circle, and then let the army open up the situation. ”

True, the Italian Navy's judgment has a lot to do with the naval strength of both sides. At present, the main warships of the Beiyang Naval Division are still centered on the four Yuans, two Dingyuan-class armored ships, and two Venice-class armored cruisers Zhiyuan and Jingyuan.

You must know that in this era of rapid technological change, these four warships are all products of the 80s, and the age of the ships has been more than ten years. The Yangwei, Chaoyong, Jingyuan, and Pingyuan ships are all small ships of two or three thousand tons. On the other hand, in Japan, the Sankei ship is not to be mentioned. In particular, two 10,000-ton cruisers purchased by Japan from the United Kingdom, the Yoshino and the Akitsuzu.

These two 10,000-ton ships are the consequences of Carlo's butterfly's instigation, its single ship has a full load displacement of 10,900 tons, equipped with 4 254 mm guns, 6 152 mm tubes, and 6 120 mm tubes, which can be said to be armed to the teeth, and the speed of this class of battleships is not weak, it can run a maximum speed of 185 knots, and the armor is also good, it is a very representative masterpiece of Britain. Of course, this did not make Japan empty its pockets, and the cost of 1.09 million pounds is indeed not cheap.

In the eyes of the Italian Navy, the Chinese Navy cannot occupy an advantage at all, and the two 10,000-ton ships are a difficult problem that it cannot solve, and it can only base itself on defense and use the advantage of the Bohai Sea inner line to consume the opponent. Of course, this is the prestige of the Qing Army, which Italy does not know.

Admiral Yagill didn't know, but Carlo didn't. In terms of army equipment between China and Japan, the Qing army actually has an advantage. But one is an old-style army and the other is a new-style army.

So after thinking about it, Carlo decided to put an end to the topic.

"Your navy has prepared a number of warships, mainly small shore defense armored ships, cruisers, torpedo boats and other ships, and someone may come to buy them."

That's right, Carlo is already preparing for the response after the defeat of the Beiyang Naval Division. Although the effect of self-incitement caused the Beiyang Naval Division to be much stronger than in history, the consequence was that the Japanese Navy was even stronger.

So there is no need to think about the outcome of the next naval battle, in the case that the personnel of the warship are inferior to the other party, what to use to win the other side.

It is true that the strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet is much stronger than in history, but Carlo is not at all worried. Because the strength of the Italian task force was not something it could resist, the firepower of the three Turin-class battleships could sink them all.

As for when Italy will play, it will depend on the timing. Only when the other party is at the end of the mountain can the appearance of Italy make the other party more grateful to themselves.

Some people may ask, why didn't they debut earlier, and how to say that Qingguo is also Italy's largest overseas market. To say this is to be too ignorant of diplomacy, where every country will compete for the best interests. Being able to push Italy to a direct end in the Sino-Japanese War was already Carlo's greatest ability as a Chinese in his previous life.

Italians have their own needs, Carlo can't just go his own way, and he can't do it, he's the king of Italy and needs to take Italy's interests into account.

As for whether the Qing Dynasty would give up Italy's help because the price could not be negotiated. However, there is also such a possibility, if this situation occurs, then the Qing court can only be blamed for having no eyes, and it deserves to lose money and cede land.

However, although the high-level officials of the Qing court were said to be unbearable in later generations, through understanding, Carlo knew that these people still had basic political literacy.

It's not like later comedians came to power and turned the whole country into a comedy that was amusing to the people.

And after explaining to the Admiralty Minister and asking him to prepare a batch of warships, Carlo waited for the next news.

In Japan, Nagasaki, the temporary base of the Combined Fleet, the Navy is making its final mobilization, and they will next need to cut off the sea and land transportation of the Qing army in Pyongyang.

That's right, for the current Qing army and the Japanese army, sea transportation is the most important supply route for both sides.

Of course, the Japanese Navy had a more important task, that is, to seize the sea supremacy in the Yellow Sea and drive the Beiyang Naval Division back. To this end, the staff officers of the Japanese Combined Fleet had already drawn up a perfect plan. They needed to stir the nerves of the Qing court, so that the Beiyang Naval Division had to come out to fight.

Now is the pre-departure training stage for the Japanese Navy, and after that is over, the Japanese Combined Fleet will need to set sail.

In the afternoon, the Japanese Combined Fleet, led by the flagship Matsushima, went to sea.