"You said your minister wasn't in the office?"

Jérôme. Bonaparte looked at the Secretary of State of the Admiralty standing in front of him with a look of surprise, but he did not expect that he would hear the news that the Secretary of the Admiralty, Dicko, was no longer working in the Admiralty in his "lifetime".

It's like the sun coming out in the west!

"That's right!" Secretary of State of the Admiralty to Jérôme. Bonaparte replied.

"What a miracle!" Jérôme. Bonaparte turned to Valevsky beside him and teased: "It is a good thing that our busy minister has learned to combine work and rest!" ”

In Jérôme. Vallewski, who did not hear disgust in Bonaparte's tone, also nodded, among all the departments of France today, Dico is a well-deserved king of volumes, and he single-handedly led the entire French Navy to achieve high efficiency involution, becoming the most efficient department among all departments, so that its efficiency even exceeds that of Jérôme. Bonaparte's single-handed control of the Ministry of War.

"No...... Your Excellency the Minister is not resting! As for the consul who misunderstood his meaning, the Secretary of State of the Admiralty immediately explained.

"And where is he now?" Jérôme. Bonaparte asked, looking at the secretary of state suspiciously.

After the explanation of the Secretary of State, Jérôme. Bonaparte then understood.

In order to complete the original Jérôme. Bonaparte casually gave the task, and Dico, then Minister of the Admiralty, and the Marquis d'Alay, assistant to the Minister, had now gone to the Vincennes district in the east of Paris, where Dicoeur had built a test site specially for testing qualified armor plates.

"It's been a long time, and Your Excellency our minister just transferred the office space!" Jérôme. Bonaparte was sincerely admired for Dieco's spirit of overtime, and there had never been a man so dedicated to the service of the navy as Dicco, and he had reason to believe that Dicko would be able to make the French navy great again: "In that case, let us also go to Vincent!" ”

Jérôme. Bonaparte and Walevsky summoned the Secretary of State of the Admiralty to go with Vincent.

After a period of jolting, the carriage finally arrived at 9 p.m. in the Vincennes district in the eastern suburbs of Paris.

In this endless wilderness, a deafening shelling sound was heard from afar.

The horse, which had been subjected to the sudden bombardment, was briefly panicked, and it was able to raise its head in order to flee, and the coachman tightened the reins with his strong arms, and then whipped the frightened horse fiercely.

The horses were at last quiet, and Jerome. Bonaparte pointed to the noise coming from ahead with a gloomy face and asked, "What is going on?" ”

The state secretary explained awkwardly: "It may be that the experiment has begun!" ”

"Experiments?" Jérôme. Bonaparte was a little puzzled as to what kind of solid line could be used for artillery, and just by listening to the sound of artillery, he could tell that this cannon should be a 50-pounder gun.

Most of these guns were used as siege guns or guns on warships, unless Dick dismantled the ship's guns for experimentation.

This absurd idea appeared in Jérôme. In Bonaparte's mind, it spread like grass.

According to Dicko's stubborn personality, maybe he can really do such a thing.

Due to the loud sound of the explosion of the naval guns, Jérôme. Bonaparte and others had to go to the test site on foot.

When Jérôme. After Bonaparte and the others covered their ears and arrived at the test site, the sound of naval guns stopped.

Led by soldiers, Jérôme. Bonaparte came to the presence of the Admiralty Dieck and the Assistant Minister to the Marquis of Alai, who at this time had Dico and the Marquis of Alai, and a Jérôme . The guys Bonaparte didn't know had smiles on their faces.

If you don't look closely at the dark circles around their eye sockets, they look like energetic guys.

Jérôme. Bonaparte's arrival surprised Dico and the others, and they hurried to Jérôme. Bonaparte saluted with a question mark.

"This is ......" Jérôme. Bonaparte asked, pointing to the guy standing next to Dick.

"Your Excellency!" Jérôme. The middle-aged man pointed to Bonaparte and hurried to Jérôme. Salute Bonaparte!

"Your Excellency, this is Pierre. Armand. Giyes, now working as the designer of the armored floating casemate! "Minister Diko hurried to Jérôme. Bonaparte explained.

Jérôme. Bonaparte looked the designer in front of him up and down, with a slender figure, black hair, black eyes, and a resolute and sharp look in his eyes, as if nothing in the world could defeat him, which is the temperament of a person who has fought with the waves since childhood.

"You're from Maasai?" Jérôme. Bonaparte asked Pierre. Armand Avenue.

"I am!" Pierre. Armand replied briefly but proudly: "I grew up in Marseille and we all grew up fighting the waves! ”

"You can see it!" Jérôme. Bonaparte rushed to Pierre. Armand nodded in the affirmative, then turned to ask Dico, "How are you going?" ”

"Your Excellency, we succeeded!" Diko excitedly to Jérôme. Bonaparte responded: "Our armored version can already withstand the attack of about 24 pounds of coastal defense guns, which means ......"

Before Dico could finish speaking, Jérôme. Bonaparte immediately said: "This means that the French fleet can attack the batteries at close range!" ”

"That's right!" Minister Diko nodded, and he said in a high-spirited manner: "As long as the qualified armor plate is installed on our gunboat, we can launch an attack on the fortress at close range. Nelson's words are destined to become history, and warships can also have the ability to fight fortresses! ”

Jérôme. Bonaparte applauded Minister Dicoeur and exclaimed: "Mr. Minister, you have opened my eyes to a whole new era!" You are ushering in an era, an era that belongs only to you! All the ideas of naval warfare in the past will change dramatically, and the authority of the past will be completely subverted! Seeing you, I see the hope and future of France! See the times when France was able to hold the trident as much as his sisters! ”

Jérôme. Bonaparte did not hesitate to praise himself, the transformation of the ironclad ship is indeed an important opportunity for overtaking in the French corner, as long as it can be narrowed to the distance from Britain, even if only the British tail lights can be seen, it is considered a great progress.

Jérôme. Bonaparte's approval made the three people present a little overwhelmed for a while. Armand immediately responded "candidly" to Jérôme. Bonaparte: This is only experimental data, and it will take at least nearly a year before it can be completely successful.

"I can wait! France is ready to wait for you! "Jérôme. Bonaparte gently encouraged them, "I hope that you will continue to work hard to develop more defensible and powerful warships for France!" ”

"Yes!" Dick and the others said in unison that they understood.

After the experiment, Jérôme. Bonaparte alone took Dico to the office.

In Dico's office, Jérôme. Bonaparte first harshly criticized Dico's behavior of not caring for his body, and Dicoe could only criticize Jérôme. Bonaparte replied that he would correct it.

Jérôme. Bonaparte also knew that it would be very difficult for Dick to correct himself.

Immediately, Jérôme. Bonaparte began to get into the main topic he had to do.

"What are you going to do about the Hawaiian Kingdom's disciplinary actions?" Jérôme. Bonaparte asked Dico.

Dico looked at Jérôme in amazement. Bonaparte, he never imagined that an island nation that was entirely indigenous would make Jérôme. Bonaparte was interested.

According to missionary information, the population of the entire island nation is probably less than 80,000.

What if it were a country recognized by Britain and France? (In this day and age, the United States of America is not a person)

How many countries have been recognized by Britain and France, and in the end they have not been killed.

"I plan to use five third-class battleships to cooperate with the Far Eastern Regional Fleet to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Hawaii!" Minister Diko to Jérôme. Bonaparte reported as he took out a map of the Pacific region and pointed to the Kingdom of Hawaii on the map: "The warships will surround the port of Honolulu and then strike a devastating blow against them!" ”

"How many men are you going to use to take this place!" Jérôme. Bonaparte said, pointing to the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

"Attack?" Minister Diko did not seem to have thought about attacking the capital, and in his opinion only a symbolic punishment was needed.

"We have used so many resources, so naturally we want to carry out a war of annihilation!" Jérôme. Bonaparte said to Dico.

"But on the British side...... Dicko was not worried that the French Republic would not win against the Kingdom of Hawaii, but he was a little worried about the attitude of the Kingdom of Britain.

"Don't worry! Kingdom of Britain, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will settle down! "Jérôme. Bonaparte assured Dico that he would settle the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"In that case! I would like to be able to lead two battalions of "Zuaf" troops! "Diko vs. Jérôme. The Lion Bonaparte opened his mouth.

The Zuaf unit can be said to be the pinnacle of light infantry in the whole of France and even the whole of Europe, and every Zuaf soldier has the ability to be one to ten, especially when combined with the Minie gun, the accuracy and shooting distance are higher.

"You're really a lion's mouth!" Jérôme. Bonaparte shook his head and responded: "France has only 9 battalions of Zuaf soldiers, so it's not okay to give you a quarter at once!" ”

"How about a battalion!" Dick lowered the request again.

"I want to think about it!" Jérôme. Bonaparte glanced at Dico, and he saw at a glance that Dico's careful thinking was that he wanted to use the officers of the Zuaf battalion to help him train the ship-based landing force.

As the predecessor of the French Marine Corps, the ship-based landing squadron had a big gap in combat effectiveness compared with the "Zuaf" battalion, not to mention the Far Eastern Fleet in its early days.

"I can draw two battalions of the "Zuaf" unit for you, but ......"

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