After Zhang Tao couldn't make the decision himself, he could only report to his superiors and let them make decisions.
The decision made by the superiors was unexpected. They fully agreed with Liu Hai's request to purchase bullet production equipment.
After receiving the information from above, Zhang Tao thought about the intention of the above, and immediately he understood that bangs have important strategic value for the current plane, which cannot be compared with a bullet production line. As long as bangs are there, then the country is equal to
Possessing endless means of production from another planet.
If bangs continue to develop and grow, it will become a dumping ground for goods.
Now the people above are not afraid of the bangs developing, but they are afraid that the bangs will develop slowly.
After Zhang Tao figured it out, he contacted Liu Hai and informed him that his superiors had agreed to sell a bullet production line to Liu Hai.
After Liu Hai received Zhang Tao's reply, he immediately contacted Zhang Tao for an on-site inspection.
Naturally, Zhang Tao would not refuse Liu Hai's request, so the two of them entered the deep mountains and old forests of the Dabie Mountains three days later.
They wandered deep into the mountains for nearly four or five hours before they discovered an arsenal in a mountain col.
After Zhang Tao's introduction, Liu Hai learned that this arsenal was built during the third-line construction decades ago.
However, as time goes by and the country's strategic environment in the world improves, this arsenal gradually becomes unsuitable.
Now many devices have been sealed. If Liu Hai didn't want them, I'm afraid they would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey to activate them again.
Liu Hai and the others entered the arsenal, and Zhang Tao introduced to him the current status of the bullet production line to be sold to Liu Hai.
Liu Hai was satisfied after personal inspection. Although this equipment was old, it was well maintained. As long as it was powered on, it could start production immediately.
Moreover, this production line has undergone certain improvements and can produce 10 million rounds of bullets every month, which can be said to be second to none in the Qing Dynasty.
After Liu Hai accepted this bullet production line, he placed him near Nanjing in the Qing Dynasty plane and established a military factory invested by Liu Hai privately.
As time went by, Liu Hai's side developed a large industry. With the help of endless mechanical equipment in the modern plane, Liu Hai finally built a relatively complete small industrial foundation in the Liangjiang area in early 1894.
By this time, Liu Hai had already completed preliminary preparations for the war.
After the Spring Festival of the Sino-Japanese War, Liu Hai returned to Hyundai again and took over the two Maxim Gorky-class heavy cruisers that Russia was responsible for renovating.
These two heavy cruisers can be said to be the most powerful weapons in Liu Hai's hands. Their displacement is much worse than that of the Iowa-class battleships. Even the muzzle of the main gun is only 180 mm, which is only the same as that of the Iowa-class battleships.
The secondary battery is equivalent.
However, these two heavy cruisers were equipped with "Sunzhi" anti-ship missiles by Russia.
The maximum range of the "Sunburn" anti-ship missile is 120 kilometers and the minimum range is 10 kilometers. This only refers to the powered flight segment. If its unpowered flight segment is added, it will drop from supersonic flight to lower flight.
Speed, and it will glide for a certain distance. In fact? The maximum range of the "Sandfly" is more than 120 kilometers? The maximum range of the improved version can reach 240 kilometers.
The reason why Russia installed such advanced weapons on these two cruisers is to export weapons.
Although Russia does not know what China needs these two cruisers for, but as long as it needs to prepare ammunition? Then this is a steady stream of long-term business.
And when Liu Hai was getting ready, the back of the Qing Dynasty also began to boil. As time came to the year of Sino-Japanese War, Japan now, ever since it was insulted by the Beiyang Navy and Nanyang Navy south of Ryukyu, the whole country has worked together.
Develop the navy.
It can be said that Japan now has devoted all its national power to the possible war against the Qing Dynasty in the future.
If you look at a set of data, you will know how well prepared Japan has been in recent years.
Shipbuilding: 1890? The first domestic warship built in Japan made of all steel was launched.
Guns: In 1880? Domestic "Murata-style" rifles were produced. In 1883, domestic mountain cannons and field cannons were successfully developed.
Ships: The fleet adopts a rapid-fire gun configuration.
Medical care: During the Sino-Japanese War, the Hiroshima Army Hospital had nearly 2,000 medical staff. During the war, it could recruit 54,020 wounded people. The medical team equipped on the battlefield could perform surgeries, intravenous infusions, and warhead removal at any time.
Food: In 1877, military cans were put into production. Canned meats include "boiled beef", "roast beef", "dry beef", and various canned fish and vegetables.
Propaganda: Internationally? Because the Qing government lacked an international vision, was conservative, and was stubborn in its outdated vassal system, Japan spared no expense in placing soft-text advertisements in major media around the world (the price of a Reuters article was 600 pounds), and successfully promoted itself.
He was portrayed as a messenger of justice who liberated the Korean people, so much so that the world's mainstream media at that time evaluated the Sino-Japanese War as a "clash between civilization and barbarism." The New York News said: "China's defeat will mean that millions of people will change from ignorance to autocracy."
and liberation from dictatorship.”
It can be seen from this that Japan had already planned for the war in the Sino-Japanese War of 1994 and was fully prepared.
Looking at the Qing Dynasty, it was so confusing that I had nothing to say.
Just a few days ago, Liu Hai got the news that Li Hongzhang had deposited millions of taels of silver in a bank opened by the Japanese.
Moreover, Li Hongzhang's son actually opened three trading companies in Japan. With such huge benefits, Li Hongzhang didn't know why, but he believed in the Japanese so much. It was really baffling.
What's more important is that the artillery shells manufactured in Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau have reached the point of being beyond damage.
Liu Hai experienced this personally, not what he read in history books.
Some time ago, because the price of buying artillery shells from the British was too high, Liu Hai decided to purchase a batch of artillery shells from the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau, the only company in China that can produce artillery shells, to replace the artillery shells produced by the British.
As a result, after the batch of shells arrived, Liu Hai was so frightened that he pissed himself when he tested them.
It wasn't that these cannonballs were too powerful and Liu Hai was frightened, but that the power of these cannonballs was simply terrible, and many of them couldn't even be fired.
In the end, Liu Hai had no choice but to order someone to open the shells to see what was going on. As a result, it turned out that they were supposed to be equipped with black powder, and many of the shells were actually filled with cinders.
If such a cannonball could go off, it would really be a miracle.
Now, Liu Hai no longer has any hope that the Beiyang Navy will win this year's war.
In order to prepare for war, when time entered 1894, Liu Hai returned to the modern dimension several times to place large-scale orders for army weapons from Zhang Tao.
The main ones are orders for Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, Type 60 and Type 80 mortars, and then the 155mm howitzer.
Then there are bullets and artillery shells of various specifications. These reserves are enough for Liu Hai to carry out several large-scale wars. Especially the Yihua-class battleships, the number of 406 mm caliber artillery shells used is enough to send all British warships to the bottom of the sea.
The amount of equipment ordered by Liu Hai is very large, and can equip almost 150,000 people at a time.
After having these equipment, Liu Hai simply let go of his hands and recruited another 150,000 strong men from the Liangjiang area in the name of recruiting civilian husbands.
On the surface, these strong men are for the logistics transportation of the army. In fact, they have also conducted military training on a certain scale. Once a war breaks out, these people are equipped with weapons and can directly form a combat force that cannot be ignored.
Liu Hai is desperately preparing for battle here, but over there in Beiyang there is still a peaceful scene of singing and dancing.
Li Hongzhang simply did not believe that Japan would launch an attack on him, because he believed that he had the Beiyang Navy. Except for the Nanyang Navy, any naval power in the Far East was not enough to resist this powerful force, which ranked eighth in the world.
But he didn't know that the crisis was quietly approaching.
In early 1894, the Donghak Party Uprising, which shocked China, Japan and North Korea, broke out in North Korea as scheduled.
To talk about this uprising, we have to talk about the Donghak Party. After 1890, North Korea had a theoretical thought, which was "Donghak Tao".
The so-called Dongxue Dao is actually a religion with a strong theoretical color. It is very similar to Hong Xiuquan's "God Worship Society". It was founded by Choi Jiyu of North Gyeongsang Province in June 1860. He claimed to have been inspired by God and was taught mantras.
, came to the mortal world to preach and save the people. He synthesized the theories of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and wrote various spoken mantras. Because his teachings included the purpose of opposing Japanese pirates and foreigners, they spread very quickly among the common people.
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On January 15, 1894, due to excessive expropriation and corruption in Gubu County, Jeolla Province, believers in Donghak Road took the opportunity to call on the peasants to launch an uprising and soon occupied Baeksan Mountain.
In March, they established a base in Baishan, organized the peasants into an army, and formulated a struggle program of "assisting the country and securing the people, exterminating the Japanese barbarians, and wiping out the powerful", and spread it to all directions.
Soon farmers, slaves, Confucian scholars, and Dongxue Dao believers from all over the country rushed to Baeksan. The scale of the rebel army expanded rapidly, and soon controlled Jeolla Province, Chungcheong Province, and Gyeongsang Province. They successively defeated the officers and soldiers sent by the Seoul court and gained momentum.
There is no difference in time.
On April 28, the rebel army captured Jeonju City and directed their troops towards Seoul. The King of Korea, Emperor Gaozong Ri Xi, was in a panic. On the one hand, he requested reinforcements from the Qing government, and on the other hand, he played a conspiracy and pretended to sue for peace with the rebel army.
The rebels retreated in exchange for time to call for reinforcements.
Unexpectedly, the leader of the rebel army, Quan Quanzhun, was inexperienced and believed Gaozongde's lies and agreed to withdraw his troops and negotiate peace.
They did not expect that this was a delaying tactic by the King of Korea. After reaching an agreement with the rebels, they requested reinforcements from the Qing court.
As the suzerain state of Korea, the Qing Dynasty was naturally obliged to receive requests from vassal states to quell rebellions.
At that time, North Korea was the only remaining vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. Although this subordinate relationship gave the declining Qing Dynasty some face, once North Korea was in need, the Qing government had to send troops to assist.
The Qing government had no choice but to send Lieutenant Governor Ye Zhichao and Taiyuan Town Commander-in-Chief Nie Shicheng to lead more than 2,500 elite Huai Army troops to land in Yashan, North Korea on June 6, 1894, and set up camp there in preparation for suppressing the peasant uprising in North Korea. At the same time, according to 1885
The Sino-Japanese Tianjin Treaty was notified to Japan.