Matthew Gobert thought about the current situation and knew that it was impossible for the United States to launch a war with other countries, and those capitalists were now so closely connected with Liu Hai that they would never allow those in Congress to do whatever they wanted.
Since this is the case, it's better to help yourself now, take over the matter, and turn the big thing into a trivial matter, instead of causing a commotion in the city.
"Mr. Governor, I don't know about this matter. It should be the soldiers who acted arbitrarily! I hope that Mr. Governor will not politicize this matter after so many years of friendly exchanges between the two sides. We should be able to resolve this matter through friendly consultations."
A sudden conflict occurred.”
Liu Hai was relieved when he saw that the other party had relented. Liu Hai was not afraid of the other party's military pressure, but because Liu Hai had a lot of business dealings with the United States. The panacea he obtained were mainly sold all over the world through the Rockefeller family of the United States.
, and then transport the oil and iron ore he needs to Shanghai through this family.
If a conflict occurs, the final stage of the business will have a huge impact on his economy.
"Since Mr. Consul said so, I can let this matter go for the time being, but I hope that Mr. Consul will inform the US government so that it will never happen again from now on."
Seeing that Liu Hai could agree to resolve the matter, Matthew Gobert hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Mr. Governor, our government will never betray its trust. This incident must be an accident."
The subsequent negotiations between the two parties were in a friendly atmosphere. The consul also agreed to inform his government on the matter and promised Liu Hai that this incident would never happen again.
At the end of the meeting, Matthew Gobert personally sent the bangs outside the consulate, and then returned to the consulate with a gloomy expression.
He stayed in the consulate for a long time, and finally sent two telegrams to the country in succession.
A telegram was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, informing it of the naval battle that took place off the coast of Japan and the contents of his negotiations with Liu Hai after the naval battle.
The second telegram was sent directly to the Rockefeller Group, a large domestic conglomerate, telling them about this naval action.
Although this Mr. Matthew Gobert is ostensibly the consul of the Consulate in Shanghai, he is actually a member of the Rockefeller Group. This is to prevent unexpected turmoil from the Rockefeller Group's number one financial panacea.
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This time the arrangement of the Rockefeller Group finally came in handy.
After receiving the telegram from Shanghai, the old Rockefeller immediately became furious. He had no idea about the dispatch of a naval escort ship and transport ship to support Liu Hai's enemies.
In the old Rockefeller's view, this was simply a betrayal of himself.
You must know that the Rockefeller Group is now in an absolute dominant position in the country, and can even be said to control the domestic political trend.
However, no one informed the Rockefeller Group about this incident, which allowed him to see that a small group of people within the government were dissatisfied with the Rockefeller Group.
Faced with this situation, the old Rockefeller was determined to launch a strong counterattack. This kind of thing must not be allowed to continue. Otherwise, the Rockefeller Group would not be far from disintegration.
So a few days later, the representatives and senators in Congress who supported the Rockefeller Group collectively issued a question to the government, asking why they violated the principle of neutrality by selling weapons to belligerent countries and sending troops to directly participate in this war.
Commander-in-Chief Grover Cleveland felt dizzy after receiving a request from Congress asking him to go to Congress in person and accept questions.
At the same time, I am also very dissatisfied with what the arms consortium has caused this time. Do you have the ability? Now is the time when you are fighting against the Rockefeller Group. Why are you hiding and letting me, the commander-in-chief, give you a butt?
However, this matter is not without room for compromise. In the Black Palace that night, the leading student of T&T met with the leaders of various parties to discuss the political crisis. In the end, they reached an agreement on this matter.
Is it simply that some people in the Navy Department acted on their own initiative? Without the consent of the government.
So in a congressional inquiry a few days later, Commander-in-Chief Grover Cleveland placed all the blame on the side of the Navy Department.
These congressmen seemed to be very satisfied with the commander-in-chief's reply, so they let him go gently, and then pointed their finger at the Admiralty again.
The people in the Navy Department were also bachelors, so they immediately pushed out a deputy minister as a scapegoat. Then the matter slowly subsided.
The relationship between the United States and Liu Hai has returned to the honeymoon stage. In this incident, the only person damaged was the arms group, because the sale of weapons to Japan was jointly suppressed by the Rockefeller Group and the government, allowing them to be honest for a period of time.
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After the Japanese nation received the news of the naval battle between the Nanyang Navy and the American Navy offshore, they were overjoyed, thinking that they had finally dragged the United States into the war.
As long as the United States also supports their side, then with its strong industrial base, it can consume all the warships of the Nanyang Navy even if it is consumed.
In the end, they were just happy for nothing. A few days later, the ambassador in the United States sent back the news that the government had apologized to Liu Hai for the matter, and had dealt with a deputy secretary of the Navy to suppress the matter.
Prime Minister Yi Teng Bowen was extremely disappointed after receiving the news. Now they can say that except for the Geely Kingdom, they have no allies at all.
What made them feel even worse was that Rakshasa's Far East Fleet had also set off from Hessenway and arrived near Hokkaido, cruising non-stop. It seemed that they had a peep at Hokkaido.
What worries the government even more is that the troops in the Northeast and North Korea of the Qing Dynasty have already experienced a serious shortage of bullets. This has given the Qing Dynasty hope, and the Qing troops in the Northeast have launched several fierce attacks on it.
Although the training of the Qing army is really poor, and the weapons and equipment are not like the original Huai army, no matter how bad they are, they can still ensure the supply of weapons.
Therefore, the two sides are now evenly matched in the Northeast.
Ittō Hirobumi and others are a little confused now, because the exchange ratio between the two sides on the battlefield has reached 1:1. If this situation continues, the Qing army will be exhausted in a short time.
However, because the Nanyang Navy blocked the Tsushima Strait, their ships had no way to provide weapons and ammunition reinforcements to the North Korean army.
In the end, Hirobumi Ito came to the Gili Kingdom's embassy in person again and asked Gili Kingdom for help again, asking Gili Kingdom to immediately send the navy to reinforce, otherwise they would have no choice but to surrender like the Nanyang Navy.
Royce Mari, the Minister of Kyrgyzstan, was not angry at Itto Hirobumi's tone of half request and half threat. He had already seen that Japan was at the end of its rope, and now they could not rely on any country except Kyrgyzstan.
However, the minister still conveyed the request of the Japanese Prime Minister back to London.
Now London has had a heated discussion about this request and finally decided to send troops.
Because with the rise of Nanyang Navy Liu Hai, Ji Liguo felt that its power in the Far East was challenged. Originally, there was a problem with Rakshasa in the Far East, and now Liu Hai was entrenched near the Yangtze River.
This put Geely's interests in the Qing Dynasty under great threat.
Therefore, the Geely government decided to completely eliminate the hidden danger of bangs this time and ensure Geely's dominance in the Yangtze River region.
After the Kyrgyzstan government reached an agreement, it immediately issued an order to the Navy Ministry, requiring it to send an expedition fleet to the Far East to lift the Japanese blockade.
Secretary of the Navy Mills was well prepared, and he immediately organized a powerful fleet consisting of six battleships.
These six battleships even include four Sovereign-class battleships that have just been commissioned by the Geely Kingdom.
The Sovereign-class battleship was the most advanced battleship in the world at that time, with a displacement of 14,380 tons, a length of 125.1 meters, a width of 22.9 meters, and a draft of 8.4 meters; equipped with 4 343 mm naval guns, 10 152 mm naval guns, and 10 6
pounder gun, 12 3-pounder guns and 7 457mm torpedo tubes; main armor belt 356-457mm, longitudinal wall armor 356-406mm, gun mount armor 279-432mm, secondary battery turret armor 152mm, command tower
Mounting 305-356 mm, deck 64-76 mm.
If you look at the Sovereign-class power system today, you might laugh at its normal power of 9,000 horsepower. Six modern tank diesel engines (cutting-edge, such as the engine equipped with 99A) have a power of 9,000 horsepower, and the 11,000-horsepower
Safety plenum power doesn't seem like anything too impressive.
But at that time, considering the inefficiency of steam engines and coal-fired boilers, and the efficient water tube boilers had not yet been installed on ships, the power system of the Junquan class was probably the most advanced at the time. One of the evidences is that the Junquan class was the first in the Geely Kingdom
The first batch of ironclad ships with a speed of 17 knots, and its speed is the leader in the world.
The Sovereign class can produce higher power if you play hard. The speed of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan is about 15 knots. Ten years later, the maximum speed of the battleship "Suffren" of the Lanxi Kingdom is 17.91 knots, which is still not as strong as the Sovereign class.
During ventilation, it soared to 18.25 knots at 13660 indicated horsepower (of course, at 13660 indicated horsepower, the Sovereign-class boiler is at risk of blowing up, and there was an accident in which the boiler water pipe ruptured during the sea trials of the Sovereign).
Although the Navy Ministry has received news from East Asia and knows that Liu Hai will launch four giant ships, they do not believe the small information coming from the other side that these four warships have a displacement of more than 40,000 tons.
If it has such a large displacement, then its construction must be a huge project. It is impossible for even their most advanced shipyards to build such a giant ship now, let alone the backward Qing people, so they
I feel that sending 4 Sovereign-class battleships is enough to cope with the current situation.