"This Franco machine is one of the most powerful in the West. Its boats have many oars and the people can move quickly even if there is no wind. Each cannon is fired and the bullets fall like rain, making it invincible.
During the Zhengde period of the pre-Ming Dynasty, Wang Hong, the prosecutor of Guangnan, personally led the navy to fight against the invading Francois.
A hundred years later, I heard Mr. He and Luo introduce that Western weapons have developed rapidly over the past hundred years. At that time, the Francons only had one large bronze blunderbuss on the bow of the ship. Nowadays, a large Franconian ship can easily have several weapons.
Ten Franco machine cannons.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the red-haired people suffered from sea disasters, so they used giant ships to wander into the inland sea and plunder. The giant ships they built were as big as mountains and as solid as iron barrels. They were indestructible and could accommodate a thousand people on board. They were built with planks of wood.
It weighs hundreds of thousands, with two layers of huge guns in the middle, and twenty-four holes on each layer.
On the other hand, our navy's equipment is not only outdated, but its combat power is far inferior to that of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It has also been transferred to the north to defend Beidi.
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I heard that there are also many Han people in Guangnan who have joined the Franchi Kingdom to learn the shipbuilding skills. I want to send them to learn from them, find a place in Nanyang to create a fleet for maritime trade, and slowly train the people..." p>
After understanding Jia Lan's ambition, his anxious brows gradually relaxed.
But he still doesn't understand.
Regardless of Jialan's ambitions, private fleets are definitely taboo.
Although the Jia family is said to have originated in Nan Province, after so many years, its foundation has long been moved to Shenjing. Now it is necessary to build a new fleet in Guangnan, where the mountains are high and the roads are far away. What Jiao Da fears most is that something unexpected will happen but he cannot
Respond promptly.
And...are those two Westerners really safe?
Even with his identity as a Hedram warrior and his appreciation for his loyalty, Jiao Da, as a Chinese, still has a natural distrust of foreigners.
Especially after listening to Jia Lan's overview of the West, Jiao Da's feeling became even stronger. Even though Jia Lan had repeatedly assured him that the two gentlemen had no ill intentions, it didn't help.
In response to Jiao Da's complaint, Jia Lan could only respond with a wry smile. It was impossible for him to tell the other party that he had a plug-in and be able to detect whether the other party had malicious intent.
In fact, his trust in Hedram does not only lie in whether there is malice or not, but more importantly, he believes that Hedram is a rational person. What he can get by cooperating with Jialan is far more than plundering.
Much.
When he left Guangnan, he once had a conversation with Hedram.
"There are constant disputes among the Western countries, but I believe that your country's biggest enemy is not Germany in the south, but Lucia in the east."
Lucia, Russia too.
Seeing Hedram's expression of confusion, Jialan explained: "From the map, although Lucia is inland, it has been expanding externally. Its territory is as vast as our country, and it is the largest country in Europe.<
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Such a country with expansion as its national policy will never give up on acquiring the sea port it dreams of.
If your country is strong, you can still resist it. Now that your country is defeated, I am afraid that disaster is just around the corner."
Jialan's words may sound a bit ridiculous, but they are based on the history he knows.
The development of Lucia was like that of the powerful Qin. The Eastern countries regarded it as a backward country, but they never thought that one day Qin would dominate the world. The European countries also regarded Lucia as a barbarian country, but they did not expect that in the next few hundred years, they would all
Living in fear of the enemy.
Among the great powers in history, Lucia was the one that carved up the most territory in China.
From the 1859 "Aihun Treaty" to the 1881 "Ili Treaty" and then to 1913, the Lu State dismembered about 3.5 million square kilometers of China's territory through direct or indirect aggression, which is equivalent to the combined territorial area of 15 British territories.<
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Lucia is an extremely aggressive country.
Except for the Yi people on the eastern island, the Lu Kingdom is definitely the most ruthless country in invading China.
The sage once wrote a poem about this: "There are barbarians on the islands in the East China Sea, and all the hatred and hatred are in the mountains in the north."
Every word is filled with anger.
Jialan was not very familiar with world history. In the world of Red Mansions, the overseas information that could be obtained even in Shenjing was extremely limited. He did not know whether Peter the Great was in power in Lucia at this time, but according to Charlie, Buddha
Lanxi is now ruled by King Louis XIV. In Jalan's vague memory, Lucia should have passed the stage of a principality and embarked on the road of external expansion.
He clearly remembered why Peter I was revered as the "Great Emperor" in the Kingdom of Lu. One was because of his civil governance, that is, his successful internal reforms, which brought the country to modernization; the other was because of his martial arts, that is, opening up the Baltic Sea.
Haikou, build the new capital St. Petersburg.
Faced with Jialan's shocking words, Hedram remained very calm. He shook his head slightly and objected: "Lucia and our country are allies. The two countries are fighting against Bologna together. How can they break up and fight in an instant?" Jia Lan was startled.
Polonia, are you talking about Poland?
Sweden and Lu are still allies against Poland? This history is indeed beyond Jia Lan's expectation.
But it doesn’t matter.
There are no eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests.
Jia Lan calmly said the trump card he had prepared in his heart: "The exit to the sea."
It seems that he has somewhat followed Jialan's thinking.
"What do you mean, your Excellency, there will be a battle between Sweden and Lu in order to compete for access to the sea?"
Jia Lan nodded, and then said: "In the history of my country, there was once a country that swept the world. The strategy he adopted was called distant friendship and close attack, which means that he made friends with countries far away from him and attacked the countries close to him. In this way
Step by step, it cannibalizes the surrounding small countries, and finally dominates the world..."
What he cited was the example of Qin sweeping the world.
Lu's expansion methods were even worse than that of Bao Qin, and they implemented the policy of "purging people from key areas".
To put it simply, it means killing people, freeing up land, and consolidating the newly occupied areas by continuously building forts and relocating the native population to achieve control over the newly occupied areas.
It's bloody, but very effective.
In three hundred years, Lucia expanded from the small Principality of Moscow to a huge country with an area of more than 20 million square kilometers.
Hedram frowned and thought silently. The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed that what Jialan said was possible.
Poland does not have no access to the sea, but it only has a small corner. Once this access to the sea is taken back, Poland will have to face the pressure from Sweden in the north, Poland in the south, and Prussia in the west.
All at once, we faced three land powers.
In this case, it would be better to face Sweden alone...
Sweden has a long coastline on the Baltic Sea, and Hedram knew that there were several excellent ice-free ports not far from Sweden.
As for the integrity between allies, Hedram smiled. In the face of interests, integrity does not exist.