"This time, the Rakshasa Kingdom will definitely fail and must fail!"
In No. 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, looked solemn, obviously talking about an extremely critical thing.
He paused, then continued: "Only if Rakshasa fails to a certain extent, Austria and Prussia will stand firmly on our side. Because the defeated Rakshasa country not only cannot take Constantinople, but also If you can't hold Moldavia and Wallachia, you may even want to spit out part of Poland. For Austria and Prussia, that's a lot of money!
And a Rakshasa state defeated by the Turks would not frighten Austria and Prussia.
And once Austria and Prussia stand with us, those two little foxes of France, Louis XVII and Louis the Black, will at least be consistent with us on the surface. With Prussia, Austria, and France aligned with us, most countries in Europe other than Rakshasa will also stand with us. The Ali Pasha of Egypt and Mahmud II of Turkey should also know who is the ruler of the Western world! By then, the entire West will be united with us! "
"What about Rakshasa?" Robert Peel asked a little worriedly, "Will Rakshasa, like Japan, stand with the Ming Dynasty against us?"
The Duke of Wellington shook his head and said with a smile: "No, Rakshasa is different from Japan. Japan is ultimately a secondary civilization of the Chinese civilization. It will be conquered if it is really defeated by the Chinese dynasty.
But Rakshasa is a secondary civilization of Western civilization. Although we always say that they have a Mongolian soul, they always yearn for the West. If they had any hope of becoming the masters of the West, they would of course join forces with Ming to defeat us. On the contrary, let them join forces to destroy the West, which the Rakshasa people cannot do.
Moreover, we also have the trump card of Princess Victoria to give Nicholas I hope of falling into the arms of the West! As long as the Rakshasa does not join the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to reach Europe, and the flames of war will not be able to burn Europe, and we will be able to have a stable rear area. "
Zhuge Weidao never expected that after he "delivered the express" this time, he would actually return home on a Daikin HNA passenger airship!
The so-called Dajin Hainan Airlines is not the naval aviation force of the Dajin Kingdom, but an airline nominally engaged in the airship passenger transport business. Its name is Dajin Hainan Airlines - this is really unexpected, although the Ming Dynasty and Great Britain are the airship manufacturing capitals. Pretty good, but the first airline to engage in airship passenger transportation was actually born in the Kingdom of Jin in Central Asia.
It turns out that while Zhuge Weidao was busy promoting the world war, Fat Daoguang of the Great Jin Kingdom and his Admiralty Secretary Ping Xi Wang Wu Zhenxian were thinking about making money with the "Ming Aid Airship" in their hands.
There is nothing we can do about it. Emperor Daoguang is short of money in the Five Elements!
Although the previous "printing reward" operation was successful, the Kingdom of Jin can now receive an "annual gift" of several million rupees from the Indian Empire every year. But these millions of rupees are not forbidden to be spent!
In order to send troops to print, Daoguang expanded his Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers. As a result, the small army of one hundred thousand had to eat and use his, and he had to find ways to get equipment to arm the big guys - this is really a surprise every day. It's just a big expense to go out.
It’s really not easy to be the boss!
In addition, Ming Dynasty gave Daoguang a lot of good things before. But these things are not all free. Some of them are given away and some are "rented". For example, the airships of the Daikin Naval Air Force are "leased". Logically speaking, they should be returned after Daikin and Great Britain (India) negotiate a peace. But Daoguang and Wu Zhenfa were reluctant to part with it. They also wanted to use these airships to launch new "business"!
Therefore, Daoguang used part of the "yearly gifts" given by India to buy boats in installments and bought those airships. At the same time, another sum of rupees was spent to ask the Ming Navy Air Force to help train air crew and ground crew.
But for the maintenance of these 20-odd airships, plus two to three thousand air crews, ground crews, and "security," the annual fixed expenses alone are a lot!
If it doesn’t make a little profit, won’t Daikin Naval Aviation lose money?
In order to make money, Wu Zhenzhen had no choice but to go to sea and opened this "Daikin HNA" which looked unusual. Their business was really between Rakshasa-Daikin-India and Daikin- Is there airship passenger transport between Daming and Ming dynasties?
Anyway, Zhuge Weidao, who is currently sitting on a passenger-type Feilong III airship, doesn't believe it.
"Brother Daozi, my sister-in-law, this airship is not bad, right? It has been specially modified with insulation, heating, and oxygen. The seats inside the boat are all custom-made. They are especially soft and comfortable. They are also benches. You can lie down and relax for a while. . Riding this car is much more comfortable than riding a horse-drawn carriage when running long distances, and the speed is 80 to 100 kilometers per hour. It is stable. If you fly for 16 hours a day, you can fly 1,280 kilometers to 1,600 kilometers."
In the cabin of an airship, bragging to Zhuge Weidao about his own airship, it was the big shopkeeper of Dajin HNA, Ping Xiwang Wu Zhenfa!
When Zhuge Weidao, Natalie, Guo Xiaobao and others followed Nicholas I back to Petersburg, he was actually there too. He mysteriously entered the Winter Palace and happened to bump into him when he was leaving. Zhuge, who has a room, is the way.
After talking with Zhuge Weidao, I found out that Zhuge Weidao left the fleet midway because he had a new appointment, and was preparing to return to Beijing with his wife Natalie and his subordinate Guo Xiaobao to take up the post - of course, Zhuge Weidao also Before telling the truth to Wu Zhenfa, he had already sold the Hero, the Hero armored cruiser, the Yamato floating hotel, and the Musashi floating hotel. If he wanted to go back by boat, he had no choice but to Take the cruiser Lushun. The conditions on the Port Arthur are not comparable to those on the Hero, let alone those two "floating hotels". It would be okay if he was alone, but it was really inconvenient to bring Grand Duchess Natalie with him.
Moreover, there was a lot of noise about his "travel around the world", and there were probably many spies watching him. If he was found to have changed ships midway, the whereabouts of the Hero and the Hero would immediately become impossible to hide. According to the Tsar's plan, the delivery was kept secret and could not be made public until the appearance of the Rakshasa Mediterranean fleet led by Menshikov in the Aegean Sea.
Before that, the remaining ships of the Ming Navy's "Express Fleet" had to stay in the Gulf of Riga and continue to be guests.
However, Zhuge Weidao and Natalie had been away from home for several months this time, and they both missed their children, A Kong, Dili, and A Li, so they simply arranged to return home by land - anyway, he had a lot of missions That's done, and it's time to return to the position of Chief of Naval Aviation Staff.
On the Ming Dynasty, due to the "Hawaiian King Selection Incident", there have been quite subtle changes during this period, so that the preparations for the war have been accelerated.
"It's indeed good," Zhuge Weidao held a cup of hot coffee, took a sip, and asked, "My lord, are you starting a business now? Are you going to be the Minister of the Admiralty of Dajin in the future?"
Wu Zhenzhen gave a bitter smile when he heard this, "No matter what happens in the future, I am still the Minister of the Navy. It's just that our country of Jin has no sea, so the name of the Minister of the Navy is still not worthy of the name! By the way, Military Advisor Daozi, you can do calculations. You can do it." Calculate for me, when will our country of Great Jin have a real sea? Can we also have our own iron-clad ships?"
In fact, the Kingdom of Jin is not completely without sea. The Caspian Sea is also a sea!
However, Zhuge Weidao heard a little bit of Dai Jin's national policy from Wu Zhenzhen's words - Dai Jin probably still hasn't given up going south!
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao pretended to pinch his fingers, and then said with a smile: "Come on, come on, your Lord Daoguang and the Indian Crown Princess Victoria are incompatible. Once Victoria ascends the throne as the Empress of India, Emperor Daoguang and She must have a battle, and if she can win, are she afraid that there will be no ocean belonging to Dai Jin?"
