Camp on the Amu Darya River, where the Emperor of Jin Dynasty traveled.
"Hahaha... Great Britain is nothing more than this. Mingying must have a battle. This is a battle between dragons and lions. The intensity will definitely exceed the Napoleonic War. Maybe I, Dajin, can take this opportunity to change my destiny! Hahaha!"
The one who is counting the future international trends with his fingers is of course Fat Daoguang from the Kingdom of Jin. Today is already December 12th. The wind and snow around Hinduku Mountain stopped the day before yesterday. Zhuge Weidao, Zheng Guoxian, and Mu Junen have already returned on the first airship returning from Peshawar. Amu Darya camp. Moreover, he also brought back the good news of the great victory in Peshawar and the highly praised memorial by Wu Zhenzhen.
According to Wu Zhenfa's memorial, he took the lead, risked his own guns and bravely killed the enemy, fighting back three rounds of fierce attacks by the British-Indian-Sikh coalition with one man for a thousand, and killed thousands of enemies with his own hands. It's a real "killing of thousands"!
Under the leadership of General Wu, 3,000 Golden Heavenly Soldiers and 2,000 Peshawar warriors defeated 30,000 enemy troops with 5,000 men in the decisive battle of Peshawar on November 28, killing prisoners. There are more than six thousand enemies! Corpses were strewn in the east and south of Peshawar City, and rivers of blood flowed! At the end of the battle, the enemy general Hugh Gough returned in tears and led 20,000 defeated troops to retreat to Mardan and the Khyber Pass, barely maintaining a retreat route for the British and Indian troops entering Afghanistan. The Jin soldiers' own casualties were only three to four hundred, of which less than two hundred were killed... It can be said to be an unprecedented victory!
After receiving Wu Zhan's memorial, Emperor Daoguang calculated with his fingers and divided it by two. He was sure that Prince Wu had indeed won a victory in Peshawar that was enough to make the Kingdom of Jin feel proud!
After all, the opponent is the arrogant British Empire!
"Your Majesty, my servant He Shen congratulates your Majesty and congratulates Your Majesty on this unprecedented victory. I am confident enough to go to Europe. I am sure to get a reward of 20 million silver dollars from your Majesty."
Heshen and Zhongtang, who were about to leave for Europe to "ask for rewards", immediately smiled and promised Daoguang that the price offered by the Kingdom of Jin was 21 million, and the fraction of one million could be wiped off, and they could get up to two Ten million, that would be considered an unprecedented success.
Of course, the British army must also withdraw from Afghanistan and Peshawar, which is the benefit Daoguang promised to his half-brother Dost Muhammad Khan. The latter has become the emir of Afghanistan and naturally wants to try to unify Afghanistan. Peshawar, under British protection, was the biggest obstacle to his unification of Afghanistan.
"Your Majesty, your servant Mu Zhang'a also congratulates your Majesty and Daikin... But I think that since we have won this point, why not continue our efforts to annihilate the British and Indian troops deep in Afghanistan in one fell swoop, and then take advantage of the situation to enter India? , to fulfill Emperor Gaozong’s last wish!”
"Your Majesty, your servant Sai Shan'a also thinks that India has great potential! If I, Dajin, can conquer India, then it will be especially easy to restore it to its former glory!"
After listening to Mu Zhang'a and Sai Shang'a's suggestions, Emperor Daoguang turned back and looked at He Shen.
He Shen smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the current situation is that dragons and lions are fighting, surrounded by wolves... Although lions are weaker than dragons, they still have to kill one or two wild wolves. It’s a piece of cake. The reason why I, Dajin, was able to win the Battle of Peshawar so smoothly this time, half of the credit must go to Ming Dynasty. If there were no Ming Dynasty airships, no Ming Dynasty machine guns, no Ming Dynasty barbed wire, there would be no How can we win so happily with Ming Dynasty’s airborne method and Bagua machine gun array? And the reason why Ming Dynasty has given us so many benefits is not to use us to test the reality of Da Ying? Now Da Ying’s external strength and internal incompetence have been exposed to Ming Dynasty .The battle between dragon and lion is about to begin! After all, we, Daijin, are just one of the wolves!"
"Well said!" Daoguang smiled and nodded, "Having an elder in a family is like having a treasure, and having an elder in a country is like a treasure! He Shen, when it comes to analyzing the international trends, no one in Daikin is better than you. How can you do that again? Tell me, among the wolves in this world, besides me, Dajin, who else is there?"
"Hey!" He Shen agreed, "Replying to the emperor, I think that in today's world, the Ming Dynasty is the strongest and the British have the most extensive influence. In fact, it is like a strong dragon fighting a fierce lion. For a while, it is difficult to distinguish between them. And this The battle between the dragon and the lion gave the second-class powers in the world the opportunity to rise. According to what the slave saw, the second-class powers in the world include France, Rakshasa, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States, and Spain. , Japan, Turkey and our Kingdom of Jin... all have the opportunity to rise through the dragon-lion struggle. Among them, France and Rakshasa may even become the hegemons of the European continent! Prussia and Austria have the opportunity to unify them. Germany and the United States may take advantage of the world war to absorb talents and capital from the European continent. European powers such as Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain also have the opportunity to expand their power. Turkey may receive assistance from the United Kingdom after losing Greece and retain its remaining territory. . As for our country and Japan, they can wait for the price. As long as they seize the opportunity, they can change their fate against the odds!"
He Shen's mind is still very clear. Although Daikin scored a huge victory in the beginning, among the second-tier powers in the world, Daikin is still at the bottom in terms of real strength!
Daoguang twirled his beard and asked: "Heshen, can I, Daikin, have no choice but to rub shoulders with Japan?"
Heshen smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, although the people's livelihood of our country, Daikin, far exceeds that of Japan, our national strength is indeed only comparable to that of Japan, or even worse. Because among all the second-class powers, we are the only one. Japan's industrial base is the worst. Although our land is vast and our resources are rich, we have no seaport to introduce technology and export products, so industrial development is extremely difficult. Although Japan has a seaport, it has not developed industry. The resources needed, and the Ming Dynasty, which is close to Japan, is not willing to sell resources to Japan at low prices to help them industrialize. Therefore, although the Japanese work hard and do whatever it takes to raise capital for industrialization, they still cannot develop. Without an industrial foundation, naturally It can only be the bottom country among the second-class powers. But Japan’s national population exceeds 30 million, while our national population of Daikin is only more than 3 million, only one-tenth of Japan’s. And Japan’s industrial ratio Our Daikin is still stronger...and if our Daikin wants to surpass Japan in terms of national strength, we have to solve the problem of access to the sea."
In fact, there is a difference between the "poor" in Daikin and the "poor" in Japan. The "poor" in Daikin means "poor" in which one has no worries about food and drink, raising children, housing, and children going to school. There are fewer people but more resources. However, due to underdeveloped transportation and backward industry, resources cannot be monetized and the country cannot industrialize, resulting in "poverty" with a small economic aggregate.
The "poor" in Japan refers to the "poor" who can hardly afford to eat. There are many people but few resources, and industry is limited by resources and the market cannot develop. More than 30 million people can only struggle under the poverty line. However, thanks to the "spillover" effect of the Ming Empire and the need of Western countries to support Japan and restrict the Ming Dynasty, Japan can still reluctantly establish some industries, especially heavy industry. Therefore, although Japan's people's livelihood is very poor, its national strength still exceeds that of Daikin.
And Daikin is at the bottom among the great powers!
Daoguang sighed and said to Mu Zhang'a and Sai Shan'a: "Do you understand? Although I, Dajin, won the battle of Peshawar, we must not be arrogant... We are two people after all. One of the poorest countries among other powerful countries! We are in today's situation entirely because Ming Dynasty gave us guns and airships. And their purpose of giving us guns and airships was never to make us strong and take over India. , just to let us explore the bottom of Britain. Now that their goal has been achieved, they will not be so generous in the future.
Moreover, both the Ming Dynasty and Great Britain were world empires, and their ships were slow to turn around... The war between them was not something that could be fought just by fighting. And as long as they don't start a war, we won't be able to invade India in a big way. Otherwise, we will challenge the UK alone! "
"Your Majesty!"
Daoguang nodded and said to Heshen: "Heshen, go back to Bagua City to make preparations and set off after the New Year."
"Hey, this slave takes the order!"
