Xiao Letian took a sip of strong tea, closed his eyes and relaxed his nerves. "Hey... Actually, the Western Region doesn't need more cannons at this moment. Agubai's main force has been exhausted, and it will never be possible again!"
"The elite man who was thrown to the bottom of the box has lost all his artillery. He doesn't even have a few foreign guns left. What kind of cannons do he need? Is this enough for him now?"
"Does the head of state mean not to give it anymore?" Wang Ju asked.
"No... we still have to give it, but we can no longer give these field artillery pieces. We have to know what Zuo Jigao is thinking!"
"In the final analysis, the supplies he asked me for are to secure the Western Region in the future and to guard against Rakshasa ghosts!"
"Hey...even if he leaves 100,000 Hunan troops in the Western Regions, the border guard strength is far from enough. How can national integration be so easy?"
"Those military camps, fortresses, and checkpoints on the border can have one or two more artillery pieces, and they can rely less on human lives!"
"The more powerful the firepower, the less pressure they will have to rule in the future. Whether it is to defend against foreign enemies or to prevent future civil strife, more powerful firepower is needed!"
"Send a telegram to Zuo Zongtang! His future strategy for the Western Region is defense, just hold on! Find a way to send them a batch of fortress artillery..."
"It doesn't matter if the rate of fire is slower, but it needs to have a long range, great power, and durability... The Eighty-Eight Cannon is completely designed for field combat, against cavalry and infantry regiments!"
"We won't need this kind of weapon to defend the Western Region in the future!"
Director Wang scratched his head when he heard this, "Fortress cannon? We don't have many of them... From the Luzon Colony to Borneo, and then to Annan, the application forms for fortress cannon are more than a foot high!"
"Coastal defense can't do without giant artillery. Now give it to Zuo Jigao? The people below will have objections!"
Xiao Letian waved his hand, "It's none of your business. Of course I know I have opinions. Just do your job... Tell them that coastal defense is difficult, but at least we still have a navy! This year Germany will hand over our two Zhiyuan-class ironclads. In Asia Our naval strength will only become stronger and stronger!"
"The pressure on defense will not be too great. On the contrary, it is the Western Region! There are thirty to forty thousand Cossacks stationed in the Ili Valley! They are all tigers and wolves, waiting for the opportunity to invade!"
"On the borders of the Tianshan Mountains, the Altai Mountains, and the Pamir Plateau, there are only a few mountain passes that can pass through the army. As long as we build the permanent fortress from a high position, Tsarist Russia's cavalry will never be able to rush in!"
"In the future, a fortress cannon may be able to stop an army of ten thousand Rakshasa ghosts! Zuo Jigao left all his old men behind to guard the border in the Western Regions. Are we still reluctant to part with a few iron guns?"
"Let it be made clear to the German and American engineers in the industrial zone that you should not hide your secrets and do everything you can to teach more of our Chinese apprentices!"
"Send me the order from the head of state! If any Western teacher trains a qualified engineer who can work alone, we will reward them with 10,000 silver dollars!"
"Train ten, and I grant them the status of permanent honorary Chinese citizens. I recognize their dual nationality!"
"Train twenty, and I will personally grant them the title of first-class baron!"
"Old Wang, just listen to me. Although those Europeans may sound avant-garde in what they say, but deep down their desire for a title is like a pervert seeing a beautiful woman. It cannot be suppressed!"
"Who in Europe doesn't want a title? Those wealthy American businessmen who don't want to marry the daughter of a run-down European noble family?"
"They will swoop on you like flies if you smell the slightest bit of nobility! People are all vain, and foreign devils are even more evil!"
Wang Ju laughed after hearing this, "This is a good idea, or the head of state has a way. After you awarded the black American man the honor, the white people in the United States and Europe were so excited that they were anxious. In recent years, a large number of European and American scientists have come!"
"You can buy horse bones with thousands of gold! Build a golden platform and the foreign devils will come naturally!"
The black person Wang Bureau was talking about was Jim, the black technician who first came to the Bohai Bay with the American clipper ship and stamped silver coins for Xiao Letian on the sea to forge Mexican silver dollars!
This northern black man who had experienced the American Civil War, by helping Xiao Letian make 'counterfeit money' day after day and then training workers without hiding his secrets, was finally given the lowest status of baron!
Black people can be knighted. This news has already exploded among European and American engineers and scientists!
A title! This is a title! His status suddenly changed and he became a noble!
At first, people didn’t think the Chinese aristocrats were very valuable. They thought that in a run-down warlord country on the west coast of the Pacific, even if it had an aristocratic system, it was not recognized by all countries. So what if there were six nobles and eighteen nobles?
But I never expected that the international status of the Chinese would grow day by day in the later period. Prussia and Britain began to recognize the national status of the Chinese one after another. In the end, they even defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War!
As soon as the armistice treaty is signed, France will naturally have to recognize the national status of the Chinese. In this way, many European countries will have to submit credentials to the Chinese!
A Turkish warlord in East Asia suddenly became a powerful maritime country that could obtain reparations from France! Now when people look at the title, it means real money!
Countless scientists and engineers who were frustrated in Europe and the United States, or whose salaries were too low to support their families, began to buy shipping tickets to venture to the distant East!
Nowadays, the number of foreign technical personnel in Guangtanggu Northern Special Zone has exceeded 500, and Ryukyu Island is no less than this number!
There are a lot of people, but white Europeans are still very arrogant at heart, and they always want to hold back. They don't really want you to make the Chinese stronger!
To deal with such people, it is impossible without using strong medicine. Xiao Letian took advantage of the fact that in today's world, when European and American people still admire the feudal aristocratic system, he might as well trade his title for technology!
Wang Huaiyuan laughed loudly, "Okay, I will have people draft administrative documents right away. This matter should be handled as soon as possible... But I still have a problem. Even if we give a batch of these fortress cannons to Zuo Jigao, what will happen?" Luck?"
"Our current fortress guns are all transported by water. Do you want to transport dozens of tons of big guns to the Western Region?"
Xiao Letian shook his head helplessly and said, "You! Is this something you worry about? What we reward is real money and a real title!"
"Those foreign devils have to run errands for us! Can't the fortress guns be transported? Let them find a way. The worst case is dismantling them into prefabricated parts like building blocks and assembling them in the Western Regions!"
“Let technical professionals handle technical issues!”
Wang Ju patted his forehead, "Haha...I'm tired and confused, I'm tired and confused...I really need to change my habit of doing everything myself!"
"By the way... I told you yesterday that our old friend has grown old and has always wanted to see you. You have to arrange a time?"
"Ouch..." Xiao Letian quickly put down his tea cup, "I'm so tired and confused, how could I forget him! Make arrangements immediately, I'll host a banquet for him tonight!"
