Chapter 321 Tell William that we want not only to liberate India, but also the Suez Canal!
Daoguang has finally suddenly opened up!
For so many years, the rulers of the Dajin Kingdom thought that they could destroy either the Ming in the east or the Rakshasa in the west.
Therefore, Daikin's national policy is to guard against Daming and Rakshasa on the one hand. On the one hand, he also maintains friendship with the two families, and maintains a balance between the two families.
Sometimes there is a peace between the two families - Dajin never thought that he could provoke a fight between the Ming and the Rakshasa and then profit from it. Moreover, the emperors and ministers of the Dajin Kingdom who can pinch and calculate can figure it out, no matter how good Daming and Rakshasa are, they will not be so good as to join forces to divide Dajin.
With the efforts of several generations of Dajin monarchs and ministers, Daming and Rakshasa now have no intention of destroying Dajin, and the border between the three families is also very stable, the borders have been demarcated, and there is no controversy - anyway, Dajin will suffer a small loss. Moreover, Dajin also continued to "print" to curry favor with Daming, and then took the opportunity of being a mercenary for Rakshasa to curry favor with the Tsar. He even eased relations with Britain after defeating the Anglo-Indian Army that invaded Afghanistan. In the end, with the acquiescence of the three families, he turned Persia into his vassal. It can be said that it is definitely a win!
And just when Emperor Daoguang thought that he had broken Dajin's "trapped dragon situation", Zhuge Weidao gave him a slap in the face, "unveiling" the heavenly machine calculated by King Zhuge Wuzhong, the ancestor of the Zhuge family-the seal of the dead gold!
And the explanation is the truth!
At least in Daoguang's sound, it can be completely rounded.
I have been busy for several generations, and I still want to die! And he is going to die to the "third brother" who Dajin has never looked down on. That's not going to work! In order to have a Dajin Emperor after the unification, Daoguang couldn't care about the plastic brotherhood with Brother William, so he immediately asked: "Brother Dao, you say, how should this matter be rectified?" Do you want my Dajin Kingdom to open a big troop transportation channel for you? Bring him 180,000 elite soldiers to the Persian Gulf? ”
Daoguang is still very particular, only talking about the troop transport channel, not directly sending troops......
Zhuge waved his hand for Dao and said with a smile: "There is no need for a big troop transport channel, now in this way, you can just replenish some weapons and ammunition." ”
Daoguang frowned slightly, "Dao disciple, do you want my Dajin Kingdom to send troops?" This is ...... William is dead, and now William is not dead! William is a great half-brother I've never met! ”
Of course, Daoguang's refusal to send troops was not because he had feelings for William, but because he was very aware of the progress of the Anglo-Indian Army after the Battle of Peshawar! Although Daikin won the Anglo-Indian army by relying on the advanced weapons and equipment supported by the Ming Dynasty and the advanced "Bagua Machine Gun Array", the "British" in the "Anglo-Indian Army" was the second industrial country in the world, while the "India" was the world's second most populous country and the second largest agricultural country. Together, these two countries are the British Empire!
The strength of the British Empire is not something that Daikin can challenge at all, Daikin can take advantage of the British Empire's dozing off to touch the tiger's ass with the support of the Ming Dynasty, but now Da Ying has woken up. Previously, they relied on providing military aid and military advisers to make the Rakshasa Kingdom suffer greatly in the Battle of Adrianople, and lost the opportunity to capture Constantinople, which already shows their strength.
"There is no need for you to send troops now," Zhuge Weidao said to Daoguang with a smile, "Brother Daoguang, you are so good friends and righteous spirits, how can we force you to be a villain?" ”
"So what should I do?" Daoguang looked at Zhuge Weidao, gently turned the wine glass, and his face was full of kind smiles - at first glance, he was a kind person and a good man who had been engaged in the emperor's career for many years.
Zhuge Weidao said: "Of course you should tell Emperor William everything you can find out about the next military strategy of our Ming Dynasty." ”
"This ......" Daoguang was stunned for a moment, and immediately said with an innocent face, "But we have never inquired about the military strategy of the Ming Dynasty!" ”
Zhuge Weidao smiled and said, "Brother Daoguang, then you can count it...... Do the math, you can pinch it! What are we going to do next? ”
"Count?"
Zhuge nodded for Dao, "That's right! Pinch your fingers and you'll know everything! ”
"Alright," Daoguang put down his glass and smiled, "Then I'll forget it!" ”
As he spoke, he pinched his fingers and began to count, and after counting his fingers for a while, Daoguang nodded and said, "There is!" ”
"Tell me." Zhuge asked.
Daoguang said: "You guys, it is impossible to attack India itself in the next step. Because no matter how many hundreds of thousands of troops the Indian Empire has, with your eight thousand men in the Persian Gulf, it is also a white den to land. And the railways in India are ...... The railroad tracks are still very dense, and the army can be quickly moved. In addition, their 1st and 2nd Indian fleets also returned to defense. ”
"That's a good calculation!" Zhuge Weidao smiled and asked, "So where will I fight next?" ”
In fact, Zhuge Weidao himself didn't know how to answer.
His mission in going west to the Indian Ocean this time was to attract the main force of the British and Indian fleets to the western Indian Ocean in order to cooperate with the Tomorrow-Japanese coalition forces in carrying out the Malayan campaign plan.
The mission is now complete, but ...... Zhuge Weidao felt that he could do better. But he didn't know what to do for a while, so he simply asked for the opinion of this Daoguang Emperor who opened his eyes and "counted the world".
The current fat Daoguang is much more powerful than the thin Daoguang in history, and he knows the situation of the Western powers well...... Even Victoria's eight characters know!
"I'll calculate ......" Daoguang really pinched his fingers and counted it again, and it didn't take long to calculate it, "It's done...... Brother Dao, your next step is to fight the Su Yinshi Canal! Ling Zun wrote a book "On the Navy" before his death, and proposed that a sea power fleet must be aimed at controlling the key nodes of world shipping. The Suyinz Canal and the Strait of Malacca are undoubtedly the two most important shipping nodes in the world. Whoever masters these two nodes controls the choke point of trade between the East, India, and the West.
The Strait of Malacca looks like it is the Ming Dynasty, if you take the Suyinshi Canal again...... Then the trade between India and Britain will have to go around Africa, and although it is not impossible to bypass Africa, the cost will be much higher, and the difficulty of escorting will increase exponentially. Now India's industrialization has only just begun, and there are no raw materials and components from the British. So once the Suyinshi Canal and the Strait of Malacca are controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the losses on the African route are too great, India's industrialization process will be interrupted! ”
"Good!" Zhuge Weidao couldn't help but provoke a thumbs up, "That's good!" Brother Daoguang, you are too accurate! I came so far to rob the Suyinshi Canal!
Brother Daoguang, who is in India now? ”
Daoguang said with a smile: "He Zhongtang accompanied my son Xianfeng on a visit to India...... The aim was to mediate the conflict between the Ming and India. ”
"Then there is Lao and Zhongtang and ...... and Xianfeng's nephew! Zhuge Weidao said, "Ask them to go and tell Emperor Wilhelm that we will not only liberate India, but also the Suyinshi Canal!" ”
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The capital of the Indian Empire, Mumbai.
In the palace of Koh Chang, Emperor Wilhelm, who had once again embarked on the road of imperial conquest because of the bombing of Mumbai some time ago, suddenly heard the news that really frightened him from the mouth of Yi Wei, the "alternate Xianfeng" of the Dajin Kingdom who had secretly and hastily visited.
"You, what did you say?" Kaiser Wilhelm looked at the young Oriental boy in front of him, who was a little short and fat, and hurriedly asked.
Of course, this little fat man is Dajin's only alternate Xianfeng - now Daoguang is his precious son!
"Your Majesty the Emperor," the only candidate Xianfeng said to Emperor Wilhelm in a mouthful of curry-flavored English, "according to the reliable information heard by our intelligence services, the real goal of the Ming Empire is to occupy the Strait of Malacca and the Suyinshi Canal!" And this plan has been implemented for many years, from the time when the Suyinshi Canal has not been excavated, they have been planning in secret! ”