It was July 21, the sixth year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhuge Weidao, who had finished his one-month wedding leave, although he had lost a little weight, was still in high spirits and followed Navy Minister Zheng Guoan into the Chancery Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
I have to say that Zhuge Weidao's body is really strong!
This half-month vacation is really more tiring than working overtime on "997"! One Natalie, one Fairy Nalan...and one Queen Mother Zheng, all three women had to cope with it.
Among them, the "output" to Natalie was even more important. With the joint efforts of Zhuge Weidao, Natalie, and Nalandili, Natalie finally stopped menstruating and was still pregnant for eight days. A happy pulse was diagnosed before.
And that's not all yet, he still has a lot of career matters to deal with - the marriage leave is provided by the Admiralty, but he has to attend the meeting of the military division. I don’t know if it’s because Ming Dynasty is now at a critical crossroads, and the “peaceful national policy” that has been implemented for more than a hundred years may undergo fundamental changes. Therefore, the meetings of the Military Division were held very intensively during this period, with eight meetings held in one month.
The issues discussed also cover a wide range of topics, including economy, politics, diplomacy, military strategy, science and technology, trade, investment... almost everything is involved. Zhuge Weidao was just a "substitute" and could not take the initiative to speak. He could only wait for other military advisors to ask him questions. When he had no questions to answer, he could only listen carefully.
After listening to several plenary meetings of the military division, Zhuge Weidao had already discovered that the military division had actually realized that changes were coming!
Perhaps the military strategists did not realize that the European powers headed by the Ming Dynasty and Great Britain were bound to have a fight between dragons and tigers... But those sophisticated military strategists had long realized that in the past hundred years or so, the East and the West had been relatively harmonious. The relationship is no longer sustainable.
So they also began to prepare for a possible break in the future (which is inevitable in Zhuge Weidao's view)!
At the same time, they also began to discuss how the future conflict between Eastern and Western civilizations or world war will occur?
When they began to discuss the conflict between the East and the West, they often threw Zhuge Weidao a lot of questions - the reason why Zhuge Weidao could become a candidate strategist was not because he had super high IQ and EQ, but because of his After suffering a head injury, he suddenly gained the ability to "predict the future"!
Although the Zhuge family's military advisors have always maintained an image of being "capable of making calculations" to the outside world, those veteran military advisors who have obtained military advisor positions through various operations all know that they do not have the ability to predict the future... and then... As the gap between historical evolution and the records in the "Book of Heaven" left by King Wu Zhong became larger and larger, the old military advisors were also confused about the future.
After all, these military advisors only glimpsed some history on another timeline from various "heavenly books" they obtained, and did not understand the evolution of the entire history. They did not even know that King Wuzhong's "prediction" was actually a period that took place in a parallel universe. true history.
So it is difficult for them to deduce the changed history...
Zhuge Weidao knows the truth, and he also knows the complete history of another timeline until 2022, and also knows the internal logic of the evolution and development of that period of history, so he truly has the ability to "predict".
Although his "prediction" may not be completely accurate, the reference value is still extremely high. Moreover, when Zhuge Weidao talked about these historical issues, he was very righteous... obviously he had the "talent" from his ancestors.
Such a "talented" Zhuge was even too important to the confused military division. So you guys have to ask Zhuge before he is sent out as a Taoist!
In addition to answering questions for the veteran military advisors in the military division, Zhuge Weidao also had to organize his own "Flying Printing Group" - this task was crucial to him and Daming.
Once you mess up, not only will your candidate military adviser not know when he will become a regular, but it will also strengthen the British Empire's hegemony in the West and India... That will be more gain than loss!
Therefore, Zhuge Weidao visited the Navy Airship Field several times these days, and personally boarded a "Feitian III" reconnaissance bombing airship driven by Ling Zongjun, ascending to an altitude of several hundred meters, traveling at a speed of one hundred miles per hour. I flew to Tianjin and then transferred back to Beijing. The whole process was smooth and comfortable. If it weren't for the fact that the airbag above the head was filled with flammable hydrogen, this airship would still be very safe.
The next day, Zhuge Weidao got on the airship again, flew to the Navy Department's shooting range outside Beijing, and dropped as many as twelve 100-kilogram training bombs!
If there is a real battle, these iron lump bombs will be filled with 15% to 75% safety explosives according to different uses-that is, explosives with trinitrotoluene as the main material. Moreover, the pylons can be replaced and more small bombs can be installed, such as twenty-four 50 kilogram bombs or forty-eight 25 kilogram bombs.
If the largest 100kg armor-piercing bullet is used, even the Sovereign Class and the Hongwu Emperor Class may not be able to withstand it... The hit rate may be a bit low, but it can still blow up enemy ships parked in the port!
Even if they can't blow up the enemy ships in the port, these airships can still throw a few mines down! If hundreds of airships can be gathered together, one or two thousand mines can be dropped a day, which means tens of thousands of mines can be dropped in a month!
In addition, if an anti-personnel bomb with a charge of 30% hits the head of an infantry group, it will explode into a large area! Even if the bombs don't hit anyone, they can scare them to death! How could the Asan infantry of the British Indian Army not be afraid of bombs dropped from the sky?
Although Zhuge Weidao knew very well that the method of airship bombing was not the mainstream of history, but there were no good anti-aircraft weapons at the moment, so it might be possible to achieve good results. So after inspecting the Ming Dynasty's airship force, which was "the best in the sky", Zhuge Weidao became more confident.
After finishing the above two major events, on July 19, Zhuge Weidao sent his pregnant wife to the Xishan Villa with great fanfare, letting her rest there and wait for childbirth. The next day after arriving in Xishan, he also took Natalie to Xishan Palace and visited Queen Mother Zheng who was cultivating herself there.
So today he came directly from Xishan Palace and went out early in the morning. Now he was feeling a little sleepy while sitting in the Chancery Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and yawned non-stop.
Just as he was feeling sleepy here, Lin Zexu, who was sitting in the main seat in the middle hall, suddenly smiled and spoke to Zhuge Weidao: "Zheng Shangshu, are your naval advisory group ready?"
Lin Zexu and Lin Zhongtang looked very excited and couldn't wait.
However, no matter how anxious he was to see the British suffer misfortune, he still had to wait patiently for the navy and army to gather together the manpower of the advisory group. After more than a month of piecing together, the two advisory groups together amounted to almost 1,500 people. One hundred people!
In order to ensure that these 1,500 people could perform meritorious services, the Navy and Army Departments spent a lot of money. Not only did it support the Jin Empire with a batch of machine guns and artillery, but it also provided ten airships and twenty inflatable armed rubber boats in one go... Now it can be considered that the three armies of the sea, land and air are complete! If Emperor Daoguang is really unwilling to "print", this advisory group can bully an Anglo-Indian army.
When Zheng Guoan heard Lin Zexu's question, he turned around with a smile and looked at the sleepy-looking Zhuge Weidaofa and asked, "Brother Daozi, how are you preparing?"
Zhuge Weidao immediately cheered up and said with a smile: "Shang Shu, the naval advisory group is ready and can set off to Central Asia at any time to help the Kingdom of Jin run its navy!"
Zheng Guoan looked back at Lin Zexu.
Lin Zexu smiled and said: "Okay, let's set off in three days!"
