The Admiralty of the Great Ming Dynasty, now placed on Chang'an Avenue opposite the West Garden of the Imperial City, is a very wide compound, and there are two buildings with Chinese-style roofs in the courtyard. The buildings are not very high, with only four or five floors (five floors in the main building and four floors in the podium), one for the Admiralty Headquarters and the other for the Naval Staff under the Admiralty.

Zhuge Weidao is a military diplomat subordinate to the Naval Intelligence Bureau, and the Naval Intelligence Bureau is an institution subordinate to the Naval Staff, and its office is located on the third floor of the left podium of the Naval Staff Building, occupying a whole floor of the left podium, which is obviously a very important yamen - this is also a matter of course, because the Ming Dynasty has pursued the national policy of peaceful development for more than 100 years, so of course the Admiralty is "lacking merit in the five elements", and the departments in charge of operations below have no chance to make meritorious contributions. On the contrary, the Naval Intelligence Bureau is not an opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Therefore, the elite children of the eight families who are mixed with the navy have to work in the Naval Intelligence Bureau for a few years, accumulate some merit and then go to the army, which is easy to promote.

And Zhuge Weidao got the position of military attache of the embassy in the Rakshasa country with the rank of major, and also got a big project that his father began to arrange before his death, I really don't know how many people envy and hate...... But in the end, this errand became a joke!

Zhuge Weidao accidentally took a shot in the Winter Palace Square, and hit him in the head, and he was stupid. In order to bring the female Grand Duke back to the Ming Dynasty, he actually pushed Rakshasa and Daying on the road to marrying the king. And that's not all...... Zhuge Weidao, who was supposed to coax Natalie, the Grand Duke of Rakshasa back, to be the queen, didn't know if he really forgot his mission, or deliberately pretended to be crazy and stupid, and finally seemed to have slept with the Grand Duchess, so that the Grand Duke failed to pass the examination of the royal female doctor!

Although Empress Dowager Zheng, who "played from childhood to adulthood" with Zhuge Weidao, pulled him very righteously at a critical moment and covered up the past for him. But the people in the Naval Intelligence Bureau are all deaf and clear-sighted, and they all think that Zhuge Weidao is definitely going to defend the Arctic Ocean or simply retire and leave the Navy. But today, a well-informed person has let out the wind, saying that although Zhuge Weidao has done a lot of bastard things, the senior management of the Admiralty still thinks that he has merit and wants to promote him!

As soon as the news came out, the entire Naval Intelligence Bureau was in an uproar...... That's too messy, isn't it? Although the power of the Zhuge family is big enough, it can't do this! And the officers in the Naval Intelligence Bureau are either from families or nobles, and there may not be anyone who looks handsome than Zhuge Dao, but there are many people with better backgrounds than him! Zhuge Weidao is just a concubine of the marquis of the family, and now in the Naval Intelligence Bureau, there are many children of the descendants of the family or the sons of the side of the family.

None of them dared to imagine that they would be able to get promoted and make a fortune even after making a big mistake, so many people were already ready to make a move and wanted to ask Li Tiezhu, director of naval intelligence, for an explanation.

But before these people could start to act, something unexpected happened to them. At noon on the day when Zhuge Weidao and his assistant Guo Xiaobao returned to their office in the Naval Intelligence Bureau in a very low-key manner, the Naval Intelligence Bureau came to the distinguished guest! And not just one, but a group!

Among them, the highest-ranking is Lin Zexu, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then Zheng Guoan, the secretary of the Ministry of the Navy, Zhuge Weiyi, the armament squire, and Li Baoyi, the director of the Army Intelligence Bureau...... A large group of people, all with the adjutant's secretary, hurrahed and poured into the small hall of the Naval Intelligence Bureau.

And Zhuge Weidao, who had already hung up the rank of lieutenant colonel, took Guo Xiaobao, who had also been promoted to the next level and had become a captain, and also proudly followed Li Tiezhu, director of naval intelligence, into the small hall in front of everyone. At this time, those people who originally planned to ask Li Tiezhu for an explanation suddenly realized that something big had happened!

When the door to the synagogue was closed, a sign saying no one was allowed to enter, and two guards stood guard outside, a group of well-informed naval intelligence officers began to whisper to each other.

"Hey, Zhuge One Hundred and Two, what did your family One Hundred and Eight do? Why is there such a big movement? ”

"I don't know much about this, but I heard a few old men in the family say that they want to slap the British in the face, and it seems to have something to do with Jin Guo...... Did you see the white-faced scholar who followed Lin Shangshu just now? That's the ambassador to the country. ”

"Jin Guo? The affairs of the Jin Kingdom are also under the control of the navy? ”

"Liu Laoba, you didn't know that you had worked in the Jinguo Embassy? The affairs of the Jin Kingdom have nothing to do with the navy, but they have a lot to do with the Zhuge family......"

"Yes, yes, my one hundred and eight brothers also brought back a fairy from the Jin Kingdom, but it's beautiful!"

"Don't talk about fairies, let's get down to business...... Is our Ming Dynasty's national policy about to change? ”

"This national policy has been stable for more than 100 years, isn't it time to change it?"

"That is, now Britain is becoming more and more arrogant, and they still say that we are the Yellow Peril, and compare us with the Mongol Empire......"

"I'm afraid the national policy is not so easy to change, right? But...... I'm afraid that there will be more opportunities for my generation to make meritorious contributions! ”

"That's great!"

The national policy of the Ming Dynasty is indeed not so easy to change, even if Zhuge Weidao has persuaded some Zhuge military advisors in his military division test, but a group of old Zhuge who "Zhuge is only cautious in his life" will not be caught in the trap of Zhuge Weidao's words.

They were just a little interested in Zhuge Weidao's plan to encourage Daoguang printing, which could not only make trouble for the British, but also probe the British...... If the British Empire can't clean up the Daoguang, then the Ming Dynasty will naturally seek a larger sphere of influence.

If the British Empire retreats in the face of the Ming Dynasty's expansionist intentions, then the Ming Dynasty will continue to encroach on the British Empire's sphere of influence...... This national policy will change in the process of advancing and slowly encroaching.

......

In the small hall of the Naval Intelligence Bureau, a meeting that could finally change the cautious national policy that the Ming Dynasty had practiced for more than a hundred years was underway.

“...... Ladies and gentlemen, the world today is in the midst of a great change unseen in 3,000 years. The starting point of this great change was the Industrial Revolution, which began more than 100 years ago. Since then, steam-driven machines have gradually replaced human and animal power, and they are the power of sails on the ocean. This industrial revolution has greatly increased the productivity of the world, and at the same time, it has also brought the world closer to each other for the first time in history. Intercontinental travel, which used to take years at every turn, can now be reached by ship or train in a month or even one or two days. For example, the time to arrive in our country by steamship from the United Kingdom, through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean, and the Strait of Malacca, is usually within a month and a half! The time to cross the Pacific Ocean to the New World from China's southeastern coastal areas can also be controlled to about 20 days. The time to travel south from Luzon and Borneo to Australia takes only ten or a few days. And because giant ships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons have become very easy to build, navigation across the ocean has also become very safe, and the cost of sea transportation is low enough.

This means that the world's military powers can launch their armies and navies into places that would otherwise be out of reach with unprecedented speed and convenience...... Compared with the era of relying on animal power and manpower for military mobilization and logistical transportation, the difficulty of conducting an expedition across 10,000 nautical miles is even less than that of a campaign of 1,000 miles in the past!

Think about it, if the distance between us and the British Empire is not 10,000 nautical miles, but 1,000 miles...... What will happen between us and them? ”

Now Zhuge Weidao is a strategic-level military advisor!

Although his little abacus is not as good as the original Zhuge Weidao, and his IQ and EQ seem to be much lower, he has a strategy! His current words made everyone at the meeting realize that there must be a big war between Daming and Daying!