Liang Kun nodded. He was very satisfied with Xiang Ying's answer, but he continued to raise his own questions on behalf of the Army. {This site has a new URL, shorthand: ..com]
"Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent! War cannot be taken for granted. I admit the strength of the Zhiyuan, but we cannot ignore the shortcomings of the Zhiyuan, which is the disadvantage of quantity. We only have such a warship... If the enemy passes through the initial After a defeat, what should we do if we choose to give up entanglement and divide our forces to break out? How should the Zhiyuan respond?"
"Of course, I know this is a strategic issue rather than a tactical issue, so let's ask the Prime Minister to clarify our doubts!"
Xiang Ying looked back and saw Xiao Letian giving up the podium. Xiao Letian took a sip of water and stepped forward and said, "Yes, Liang Kun's question is actually the most troubled issue before we formulated the entire strategic plan!"
"What Xiang Ying just said is correct. If a naval battle is fought on the high seas, on the boundless ocean, with the firepower, defense and cruise capabilities of the Zhiyuan, there will be no problem at all in killing the Russian fleet. But the crux of the matter is that the enemies are not just stupid people, they are a group of living and thinking people, and they have the ability to think in the face of danger..."
"It is very likely that after an encounter occurs and the enemy suffers a certain amount of losses, they will choose to divide their forces and break into pieces to flee to Vladivostok... And our grand strategy is actually to avoid the enemy's rendezvous. !”
"Pierre has conducted countless data deductions. If we use the Zhiyuan to intercept in the Taiwan Strait, 65% of the enemy will eventually break through and join the Russian army in Vladivostok. If we choose to intercept in the Tsushima Strait, the enemy will 69% of the breakouts were successful..."
"If we choose to block the attack in the direction of Ryukyu, that is, in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, 74% of the enemy troops should be able to successfully break through by then... From the above, it can be seen that our success rate is indeed pitifully low!"
There was a buzz of discussion in the audience, "Such a low interception rate? It seems that at least 20,000 of the 30,000 reinforcements can successfully join forces. What impact will this have on the overall situation?"
"Yes, and the enemy who loses the naval battle will be even more crazy. It's hard to predict how many mistakes will be made in the Far East!"
"Quiet!" Wang Huaiyuan shouted as soon as he saw the chaos, and the buzz in the room was immediately suppressed.
Xiao Letian tapped the map with his baton and said coldly, "Yes, your worries are correct, so we have to set a trap for the enemy, a bait that they would rather take a bite of... That is the so-called Pacific Ocean The legend of the golden treasure island!”
Xiao Letian paced slowly on the stage with his hands behind his back, looking around at the generals. "There are many things you know, and there are also many things you don't know...Do we Chinese have any money now? Let me tell you the truth, we Chinese The clan has plenty of money!”
"China's ancestors have accumulated countless gold and silver treasures for thousands of years. It is enough for us to have three industrial revolutions in a row, let alone one industrial revolution!"
"China will always be a land favored by God and loved by God. We don't have to learn from the Europeans. If they want to carry out the industrial revolution, they have to rob and get the first start-up capital! But we don't have to. Our Chinese civilization has five thousand It has not been cut off for years, and the wealth of our ancestors has been accumulated among the people. As long as we are good at organizing, we will have inexhaustible resources!"
"Someone said that China has been invaded by aliens countless times over the past five thousand years, and a lot of wealth has been plundered... In fact, this idea is one-sided. War will indeed destroy a certain amount of wealth, but some wealth is War cannot eliminate it!”
"For example, physical gold and silver, art treasures, palaces and gardens, science and technology, etc... I will give you the simplest example and you will understand. During the years when the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongols ruled the Central Plains, there were indeed countless gold and silver The treasures flowed to the prairie and into the pockets of the Mongolian nobles, but do you really think that those gold and silver have nothing to do with China?"
"Don't be so narrow-minded. Don't forget that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolians in the bitter cold land in the north miss the warm and prosperous life in the south all the time. They need silk, tea, porcelain, salt, ironware... and want to get these products of the Han people in the Central Plains. They have two methods!"
"The first is to rob, and the second is to exchange gold and silver... In the long years, these two methods have been carried out alternately, but in general, the business model plays the main role. After all, it is impossible for every Mongolian They are all war mad!"
"So, the gold and silver held by the Mongolians in the Ming and Qing dynasties has actually been in a slow flow back to the Central Plains, and this flow back is irreversible!"
"Hahaha... Now you know why the Central Plains civilization has lasted for five thousand years, right? Because civilization is like a wealth magnet, which will attract the wealth of the surrounding lower cultures all the time... How many times did the Central Plains civilization The wealth that was destroyed by aliens and robbed will return to the embrace of the Central Plains civilization with interest within a hundred years..."
"Even those interests are alien lands! The living space of us Chinese has expanded from the Yellow River Basin to more than 10 million square kilometers now. Do you really think you won it in a lottery?"
Xiao Letian said with great pride, "It is precisely because I understand China's family background that I have the confidence to carry out various financial attempts. From the earliest privately minted silver coins to the current issuance of banknotes, all I have done is to collect scattered coins in advance." The gold and silver wealth of the people was mobilized in advance and protected..."
"The legend of the Golden Treasure Island in the Pacific is not false. I can tell you something. Because my ancestors left so much wealth, and because I have been carefully protecting this wealth, we do have a lot of people. The existence of Golden Island is the core wealth of our Rakuten Bank and the foundation of all currency issuance!"
"Proactively release information about the treasure island and use ten tons of gold as bait. The ultimate goal is to arouse the greed of the Russians, let them be fascinated by the light of gold, and make them rush towards our trap! "
"Alexander II is short of money now, and Tsarist Russia is also short of money. The abolition policy has caused Russia's financial collapse. Now in the City of London, the Russian national debt has almost reached the point where no one cares about it..."
"If ten tons of gold were sent by the Russians to the City of London for a loop, those shrewd bankers would be able to use these ten tons of gold to release twenty tons of gold bonds, and the financial credit rating of Tsarist Russia would be Get taller immediately!"
"A person who falls into the water will never let go of any life-saving straw!"
Now the hall was completely in a state of panic. The officers who were lucky enough to be exposed to this secret in advance could still hold their nerve to some extent, but those who heard about the top-secret plan for the first time were all dumbfounded. They really didn't expect that the Prime Minister's plan was like this. So big.
"Prime Minister! Prime Minister! So Sakamoto Ryoma's defection and the conflict with the Battou Team are all just a drama? Is this all part of our plan?"
"There is also the financial crisis in Jiangnan! In fact, you have predicted it a long time ago? Do you want to use this war to severely shear the sheep in Jiangnan?"
"Prime Minister! Tell us the truth. If we win, how much money can we defraud the Manchus, foreigners, and those Qing profiteers? How much money can we defraud the world?"
