"Your Majesty, look at how strong this ship plate is! Knock it twice and listen to the sound. I can't say enough about the materials used. They are all the best case-hardened nickel alloy steel. They are invulnerable! If you don't believe me, just hit it. Try the gun, keep it and it won’t break!”
"Your Majesty, look at how thick the barrel of this cannon is! It has a caliber of 280 mm. With a figure like me, I can fit it in with little effort! This cannon is not just one, but 12 in total! The enemy! If it comes from the front, we will hit it with 6 cannons! If the enemy comes from behind, we will hit it with 6 cannons! If the enemy comes from both sides, we will hit it with 8 cannons... ....It’s really foolproof!”
It was not Zhuge Weidao who was selling the battleship to Emperor Agustin on the battleship Hero, but Guo Xiaobao's father, the famous diplomat and the number one American diplomat in the Ming Dynasty, Mr. Guo Zhiqian. Although he is said to be an old man, he is actually not old either. He is in his forties, short and fat, with a dark face and a black face. He is exactly the same as Guo Xiaobao... he is definitely his biological son.
Moreover, he is also a self-proclaimed master, or else he is a famous diplomat?
After Zhuge Weidao and Guo Xiaobao invited the old man and Emperor Agustin on board the ship, they had no chance to talk at all. Guo Zhiqian took care of all the work of the battleship salesman, and he spoke well.
That Emperor Agustín... was the Mexican warlord standing next to Guo Zhiqian, dressed like a tall Napoleon. He should be able to understand Guo Zhiqian's Chinese that has a Tianjin flavor. After a while, I was moved by the words. I was about to ask the price, but Guo Zhiqian stopped me.
"Your Majesty, please don't ask about the price. We still have good things! Even if a Hero-class ship goes to sea to fight, it will be alone. Although there are also lone heroes, Napoleon taught us that fighting relies on a large number of people to win. It's safe to go out in groups to fight! So we, Daming, have prepared two anti-American packages for you...one for the ground and one for the sea, both of which are organized in groups to fight against the United States. All you need to do is buy our Ming Dynasty’s anti-American package, then the United States will never be an opponent!”
That makes sense! Zhuge Weidao and Guo Xiaobao, who were following behind, also nodded repeatedly, as if they had really heard Napoleon say this.
Emperor Agustin admired Napoleon the most - all of these American dictators were Napoleon's fans. Although he didn't remember Napoleon saying such a thing, he still felt that fighting a war depends on having more people!
But there are not as many people in Mexico as there are in the United States! Moreover, the population gap between the two countries is still widening... There is no way, Mexico's population growth mainly depends on childbirth, and it is difficult to give birth to only one child in ten months of pregnancy. So now there are less than 10 million whites, mixed races, and Indians in Mexico.
There is a steady stream of European immigrants coming to the United States. When the American Revolutionary War ended, the population was only 2.8 million. Now it is almost 20 million! If it continues to grow at this rate, it will exceed 100 million in a few decades.
For Mexico right now, the fact that its population is hundreds of millions less than that of the United States is not the most troublesome. The most troublesome thing is that the proportion of white people in the population is too disparate. The vast majority of the population of the United States is white, and they are mainly young and strong white people. There are only more than 2 million native white people in Mexico, and the rest are mixed race and Indians. Oh, and there are also some "Peninsula people", that is, white people who came from Spain. If Mexico's native whites, mixed race, Indians, and peninsula people can work together, they can give the United States a try.
But this is impossible. The dominant people in the Mexican Empire are native white people! Not to mention mixed-race and Indians, even the white people of the Peninsula who are as white as the native white people cannot get along with the native white people - in the eyes of the native white people, all the Peninsular people have their hearts set on the Spanish Empire! In the eyes of peninsula people, all native white people are rebels and traitors to the Spanish Empire. It is precisely because of their rebellion that the Spanish Empire is no longer great. Moreover, after the successful rebellion, this group of native white people also grabbed many industries and good positions belonging to the white people in the peninsula...
As for mixed-race and Indians, they regard native whites and peninsula people as foreign colonists... America belongs to the Americans! And they are the real Americans!
Of course, there are also many contradictions between mestizo and Indians, and between Indians who converted to Catholicism and wild Indians who did not convert.
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Chapter 208 Anti-American Package, Special Group Purchase
Therefore, Emperor Agustin could only rely on more than 2 million native white people. Even if more than 2 million people are mobilized, they can only pull out 100,000-150,000 troops. Among them, only 70,000 to 80,000 can go to the battlefield to fight the United States.
As for the 20 million white people in the United States, most of them are young and strong, so it is no problem to mobilize 1 million troops to go to the battlefield.
According to Napoleon's teachings, if one million beats seventy or eighty thousand, you will definitely win!
The United States, which has the advantage of strength, especially likes to expand. When they were founded, they only had 800,000 square kilometers. Only 50 years ago, they have expanded to more than 5 million square kilometers... In the early years, they were thinking about Canada. As a result, the British father burned down the Presidential Palace, and it was impossible to go north, otherwise the White House would have gone too far. Therefore, the possible expansion direction of the United States is to the southwest, towards Texas in the Mexican Empire!
Do you think this Emperor Agustine can be in a hurry? Moreover, as a dictator, he has to call himself "Napoleon of a certain place" and pretend to be a military strongman. It is impossible to cede Texas to the United States!
If he dares to cede territory, why don't the various opposition groups below treat him as a national traitor?
Moreover, he cannot let the United States defeat him, otherwise how can he be the "Mexican Napoleon"?
Therefore, he could only follow Lian Ming's anti-American path. Even if Ming just attacked the Kingdom of Hawaii, he just pretended not to see it. He also promised to wipe Ming's butt and use 500 square kilometers of wasteland to resettle Kamehameha. The members of the dynasty and their followers... heard that the Ming Dynasty had the most powerful warships in the world for sale, so they followed Guo Zhiqian from Mexico City to the Port of Acapulco.
Now that I heard that there is an anti-American package, I became interested.
Seeing that Agustín was interested, Guo Zhiqian continued: "Your Majesty, let's talk about this anti-American package on the sea first. This package is called the "Heroes and Guards Package". The so-called heroes are hero-class battleships. We are now Right on top of the Hero-class battleship! The Hero-class armored cruiser...that's it!
The Warrior is the Warrior-class protected cruiser. It’s not here today, but have you seen that Port Arthur class? It is an upgraded version of the Lushun class, with similar displacement, power system, and armor protection. However, the artillery system has been redesigned. The Lushun class has too many guns, which makes it wobbly when fired, and the accuracy is low, so it has to be fired closer. In addition, when the Lushun class was built, case-hardened nickel alloy steel came out, so it could only be piled with wrought iron, which was heavy and took up space. The Warrior class upgraded its armor and used case-hardened nickel alloy steel that was light in weight and had good protection, freeing up space. The space can be used to install twin 155mm naval guns. So it uses the same artillery layout as the Hero-class, equipped with six twin 155mm turrets. This firepower, this protection, this speed, there is no need to mention it. Although it is a cruiser, it can defeat a dozen battleships below the Hongwu Emperor!
The escort is a escort-class large destroyer, which is not here today... But don't underestimate the destroyer. Although it is called a destroyer, its strength is no less than that of an ordinary third-class cruiser. It has a standard displacement of 2,000 tons, a speed of 256 knots, 2 twin 155mm main guns, and 10 single 75mm anti-aircraft/anti-torpedo dual-purpose guns. In addition, it has heavy mine firepower. The configuration... there are a lot of torpedoes, all 450mm mines, which are amazing!
Don't buy this "Heroes and Guards" individually. It's not cost-effective to buy it alone, and it won't create a synergistic effect. If you want to buy it, buy it together... And we, Ming, are also your true friends in Mexico. Therefore, an anti-American package was launched in a targeted manner. A package includes one hero-class ship, one hero-class ship, two warrior-class ships, and three guard-class ships. Among them, the hero level has the top configuration, 10.88 million; the hero level has a high-end firepower enhanced version, 7.66 million; the warrior level has an economical version with 2.22 million, which is enough, and at most it can be upgraded to a radio station in the future; the guard level also has an economical version. , 880,000 is enough. How come the original price of a package of seven boats is 25.62 million! You can buy two portions at a time, and then invite President Simon Bolivar of Gran Colombia to do a group purchase together. If you buy three portions together and get a 10% discount on the group purchase price, there is no problem... If Buy five copies and get an additional half discount. How many copies would you like? "
Chapter 208 Anti-American Package, Special Group Purchase
