C2090 Complex Prelude (1/2)
Xiao Letian stretched out his hand and indicated for Bing Tai to sit down. ”Of course there is a plan, but we've actually already deduced the current situation before we set out, and we've also made a lot of preparations, step by step …”
”Right now we are the same as when Monk Tang learned the sutras, each step is a hurdle, one step is a hurdle! If you want to achieve the final result, you have to go all the way, and Borneo is hard, and Suez Canal is hard too. Now that you are in Europe, I never would have thought that Britain would set up a big obstacle! ”
”I was afraid that Britain would secretly harm us, so I sent Pierre back to Europe in advance to have a wonderful media war, and that series of Eastern Chinese series …”
”My goal is to increase our visibility, and create countless fans who love us in the European people … Don't ask me what kind of fan this fan is.
”When we have a certain mass base, our every move will attract the attention of the masses. When Britain wants to deal with us, it will not be too ugly and too underhanded. After all, their government needs to be smeared with makeup and also have to be humiliated!”
”This is our first strategy!” From the looks of it, the results are quite good! ”
”The second strategy is to do everything in our power to gain friendship with the British aristocracy. This is because Britain is not as hard as they are, and there are many divisions within them!”
”Nobles, capitalists, major parties... Every power has their own demands, and although our enemies seem to be British on the surface, they are actually still those unyielding colonialist that are represented by Benjamin. ”
”For Britain, we must first learn how to dissect him, unite with each other, fight with each other, and that will be the key to resolving this. Before, I had the Tongzhi Emperor by our side, and that is a good card, a card to draw closer the relationship between us and the British aristocracy!”
”It's a pity that I never thought that the english person would actually be able to get away from Zai Chun. I can only find a way to break through from somewhere else!”
”We can fight for the strength of the nobility, and at the same time we can also fight for the support of Benjamin's opposition. Why do I have to send His Highness to see Gladstone? Because Liberal Party is currently the most popular contender for the position of Prime Minister, it is very possible that Gladstone will take his place! ”
”To be honest, if I could get Gladstone's support for more than two million pounds, I don't think it would be much!”
”Not much?” Xiang Ying could not sit still anymore. ”More than two million, those are twenty battleships! No one in the Great Qing Empire has so many battleships! ”
Xiao Letian waved his hand: ”Your calculation is wrong, a British level one main battleship would cost around a hundred thousand on the surface, but that's just the price of the ship's hull …”
”Wood, iron, rope, sail... In addition to the manpower of the shipyard, the capital was around a hundred thousand. But for a battleship to be able to fight, it needs more weapons! ”
”Cannons, muskets, training officers, shells of all kinds... A huge amount of supplementary materials! Adding up all the costs, a main battleship without 250,000 can't go down! ”
”That's also ten battleships. The number of ships is not a small number!” Jin Sanshun kept calculating in his heart, he was just missing the point.
At this time, the Director Wang laughed, ”Don't think like that. Let me ask you, in the history of mankind, how much military expenditure did hot wars have? or did the Cold War spend a lot of money? ”