1825 My New Daming

Chapter 8 Ben Zhuge is the best at reading physiognomy! (Seek collection, ask for monthly pass, ask for recommendation, ask for follow-up reading)
"Really?" Zhuge Weijiu was still skeptical. He habitually pinched his fingers, shook his head and said, "It seems that Brother [-] is in trouble. Brother One Hundred and Eight had no choice but to pretend to have amnesia to gain sympathy for Gula I's heart-wrenching conditions."

"Isn't it?" Zhuge Weiyi, the tenth master of the Zhuge family, also began to pretend to pinch his fingers, "Shouldn't Nicholas' goal be to regain the Balkans and take Constantinople? How could the British agree to this?" ?The British own a large oil field in Ploesti, Moldavia, and the British will never let the Raksha country control Moldavia. If the Raksha country dares to invade Moldavia, the British will definitely Interfering."

"That's right," the thirteenth master of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Weijia, also counted his fingers and said, "The British also have huge interests in the Suez Canal and India, and they also have interests in Egypt. How could they allow the Raksha Kingdom to rush out of the Black Sea? If such a thing really happens, Rakshasa and Britain will definitely fight, and we will win without a fight."

Master Zhuge also pinched his fingers for his filial piety, and said solemnly: "Brother [-] is the best at coaxing people, as long as he is not really stupid, he will definitely be able to coax the Tsar around."

Seeing that the four great military advisers of Zhuge's family looked capable of pinching and calculating, Zhuge Weixue felt envious in his heart!When can I have this ability?It's a pity that it's not easy to be a military adviser of the Zhuge family, you have to pass multiple assessments, and every child of the Zhuge family has one chance in a lifetime. I'm still young, so I'm not in a hurry to try my luck, I'd better accumulate a few more years.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weixue provoked a big brother, and complimented him: "The second brother, the eighth brother, the tenth brother, and the thirteenth brother are really clever, and the British guy has indeed offered favorable conditions enough to attract the tsar. A sealed telegram was sent, saying that the British ambassador Thomas Staunton was willing to transfer the relevant manufacturing technology of the Sovereign-class ironclad ship in exchange for the marriage of Grand Duchess Natalie."

While talking, he took out another copy of the telegram from the folder and handed it over.

Zhuge Weijiu took the two copies, then took out his reading glasses and put them on, read the two copies carefully, and then gave them to his three brothers to read.

After the two of them finished reading, Mr. Zhuge shook his feather fan and said, "Isn't it just shipbuilding technology? Why don't you transfer Hongwu Emperor-class technology to the Raksha people? The [-]-ton ironclad ships will soon fall behind. And the stronger the Raksha people's navy, the stronger their desire to expand in the direction of the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. As long as they fight with the British, Our fisherman's profits will be great."

While talking, he looked at his tenth brother Zhuge Weiyi: "Old tenth, you are the shipbuilding assistant of the Ministry of the Navy, do you think you can give me this Hongwu Emperor-level technology?"

"Of course I can," Zhuge Weiyi smiled and nodded, "This is a big deal. The Raksha people can't build Hongwu Emperor-class super ironclad ships if they don't upgrade their shipyards, steel factories, and gun factories. If the Raksha people use If we use our Hongwu Emperor-class technology to build iron-clad ships, we will naturally let us help upgrade shipyards, steel factories, and gun factories."

The thirteenth master of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Weijia, manages the family business, and immediately said with a smile: "Haha, this is a few million dollars, no, at least tens of millions of silver dollars!"

Grandpa Zhuge Weijiu nodded: "Okay, that's it. Brother 88, go and generate electricity for Brother [-] so that he must bring Natalie to Daming. To achieve the goal, you can transfer Hongwu Emperor-level technology For the Raksha people, you can also help them upgrade their shipyards, steel factories, and gun factories."

"Yes!"

In the Winter Palace, Zhuge Weidao woke up early in the morning and felt that the pain on his head was a little lighter. While getting dressed, he thought about going to Natalie to visit the Winter Palace with him after changing his medicine, when he saw Guo Xiaobao He walked in with a letter.

Seeing that Zhuge Weidao looked good and was putting on his clothes standing in front of a large floor-to-ceiling mirror, he hurried forward and handed over the envelope: "Brother Daozi, I just received the urgent telegram from Prince Wu's Mansion in Beijing."

"What, a telegram?" Zhuge Weidao turned around with a strange expression on his face, "Wired or wireless?"

Obviously, his memory still hasn't recovered.

"Brother Daozi, keep your voice down!" Guo Xiaobao was taken aback by Zhuge Weidao's question, so he hurriedly leaned into his ear, and said in a low voice, "Wireless telegrams are confidential. The embassy doesn't have them."

"There really is a wireless telegram!" Zhuge Daoxin said: "It seems that the ancestor is a senior engineer, and he left a lot of good things! I don't know how many years he is an old man? Is there any black technology in the future?"

Zhuge Weidao thought about it in his heart, and then he opened the telegram copy and read it.There are not many words on the telegram copy, but the meaning is very clear.Just two things, one is to bring Natalie back to Daming, and it must be brought back!
The second is to transfer the manufacturing technology of the Hongwu Great Emperor-class ironclad ship to the Raksha Kingdom, and can also propose to assist the Raksha people to upgrade the shipyard, steel factory, and gun factory.It also looks like a must!

Zhuge thought for a while, and then asked: "Did you bring the Hongwu Emperor-level materials?"

"I brought it here. Everything you need is here." Guo Xiaobao brought a handbag. He opened the bag on a small desk, took out a stack of documents from it, placed it on the small desk, and then Said to Zhuge Weidao, "The full load displacement of the Hongwu Emperor class exceeds 150 tons. It uses two three-cylinder vertical steam engines, three shafts and two rudders, and the normal ventilation horsepower is [-], which can support the speed of [-] knots. When strong ventilation The horsepower can reach [-], and the speed can reach [-] knots! The main guns of the battleship are four [-]mm caliber Taiping four-type main guns, equipped with covered turrets and electric loaders, and other Twelve [-]mm caliber Taiping four-year rapid-fire guns."

Guo Xiaobao talked about the various technical parameters of the Hongwu Emperor class like a cannonball. Zhuge Weidao listened and compared it with the British monarchy class in his memory.Except for the relatively small caliber of the main gun (the Sovereign level has four 343mm main guns), all other statistics are better than those of the Sovereign level.However, the shortcoming of the small caliber of the main gun should be compensated by the high rate of fire brought by the electric loader. Moreover, the armor that can be equipped on a warship of more than 1 tons will not be too strong, and the power of a [-]mm armor-piercing projectile is enough. up.

Although Zhuge Weidao felt that the Raksha Empire should not need such an advanced iron-clad ship, since Da Ming had come up with such a good thing, he should be able to help him exchange for Natalie.

After introducing the paper data of the Hongwu Emperor class, Guo Xiaobao would like to talk to Zhuge Weidao about the foreign policy and expansion direction of the Raksha Empire and the United Kingdom.Natalie Pavrovna's voice came from outside the door: "For the sake of Taoism, can I come in?"

Zhuge Wei said "Please come in", the door was pushed open by Natalie's maid, and then Natalie came in wearing a court dress that exposed half of her breasts, followed by a A middle-aged man with a medicine box.

"Why, are you better?" Natalie saw that she had put on a straight Ming-style woolen military uniform and was standing there energetically, with a stack of documents in her hand, as if she was ready to go to work. Her hanging heart finally let go.

"Fortunately," Zhuge nodded to Natalie for Dao, "the memory has recovered a little."

Of course, these words are deceptive, Zhuge Weidao did not find the memory of his new physical body at all, but the memory he originally had can be used to some extent, so he can still fool people.

Natalie seemed a little disappointed, but she still squeezed out a smile: "For the sake of reason, Dr. Sedonov will check the wound for you, then wash up and have breakfast. Also, after lunch today, Nikolai Pavrovich You will be summoned in Peter's Hall. Ivan Fyodorovitch will be there with you, remember who he is?"

Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Remember, he is Nikolai Pavrovich's most trusted general."

This Ivan Fedorovich's surname is Paskevich. Mr. Zhuge, who is very familiar with the history of Rakshasa Kingdom, of course knows his background.He is the field marshal of the Raksha country, and he has not yet become a marshal. After he finishes the Raksha-Iran War and the eighth Raksha-Turkish war, he will be promoted to the marshal.

"By the way," Zhuge Weidao asked, "Natalie Pavlovich, what is General Paskevich's position on your marriage?"

Natalie said: "He wants me to go to the UK. He thinks that sooner or later we will go with Britain and France to support the Greek Orthodox struggle. If I marry the Duke of York and Albany now, then when the Greek War of Independence is over, I will It is very likely that he has become the queen of England or even the queen mother. This is very beneficial to the distribution of Rakshasa's interests after the war."

Trouble!
The Greek War of Independence is now being fought!
This time, maybe I really want to become the British royal wife!

Zhuge Weidao heard what Natalie said, and he knew that Natalie was about to fly. The Greek War of Independence has been fought for several years, and it went smoothly at the beginning. The army of the Turkish Empire was vulnerable. The heroic Greek people beat their teeth everywhere.But I didn't expect that there was also a bull on the other side of Turkey. The bull was named Muhammad Ali, the governor of Egypt in the Turkish Empire.Egypt in this era is terrible. It is a place where the emperor made his way. Therefore, there are a group of capable people who have seriously thought about the future and destiny of Tianfangjiao civilization. The military leader Muhammad Ali from Albania is one of them.After this Ali seized the throne of the governor of Egypt, he began to reform with determination, and carried out the "Nawu Movement" in Egypt, and he really trained a new Egyptian army with considerable combat effectiveness.So when I saw the boss, the Turkish Sultan, let the Greeks beat him up, it was almost over.This Muhammad Ali finally couldn't sit still, and volunteered to go to Greece to suppress the rebellion.The Sultan, who was cornered by the Greeks, had no choice but to let Muhammad Ali lead the new Egyptian army to play.

As a result, once the Egyptian governor, who had engaged in the "Navy Movement" and still had some Bonapartists under his command, made a move, the Greeks would fail immediately, and they were about to die.So they had to send people to Western Europe to ask the creditors for help—their military expenses for their rebellion were all borrowed from capitalists in Britain, France, and Bavaria, and they were still usury!This rebellion is about to create pornography, and that is the "Greek debt crisis"!

Greece is gone, isn't it in crisis?
So at this time, it is not the IMF that is going out, but Britain, France, and Bavaria are going to send troops to intervene!
But how come the Rakshasa Empire is less involved in fighting Turkey?

Even if you don't ask Rakshasa to send troops, they will fight without asking.Therefore, among Thomas Staunton's diplomatic missions, in addition to promoting the marriage of the crown prince and Natalie, he also discussed with Luo Sha the issue of sending troops to aid the independence of Greece-the independence of Greece cannot be equated with the demise of Turkey!

Therefore, how much the Raksha Kingdom can take has to be negotiated first.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao asked again: "Natalie Pavrovna, before the Tsar summoned me today, is he going to summon Baron Stendon first?"

"Well," Natalie nodded, "he will summon Staunton first, and Staunton will come to show me the portraits of York and the Duke of Albany. If I am still satisfied, Nikolai Pavlovich will I will inform you of my marriage contract with the Crown Prince of England. But you can rest assured that I will never be satisfied. But."

She only said half of what she said, and the other half was that Nicholas I must marry her to the British crown prince, so she couldn't help it.Of course, Zhuge Weidao can still be a British royal wife.

"I see." Zhuge Weidao suddenly turned his head to look at Guo Xiaobao, "Baozhi, have you brought the check?"

"Take it, take it." Guo Xiaobao asked nervously, "Are you going to take the Grand Duchess with you? It's an ice age in Petersburg now."

It's not easy to run!

Zhuge waved his hand for Dao, "No, it's not time to run yet. I want to bribe some of the tsar's attendants and let them leave the portrait of the old British crown prince in Peter's hall. Natalie Pavrovna , do you know who Baozhi should give money to?"

Natalie said: "This is a trivial matter, you don't need to pay, I just go to say hello and give a few gold rubles. But what's the use of you leaving the portrait of the British crown prince?"

Zhuge Wei said: "I want to show this short-lived ghost! I am the best after Zhuge Wu Zhong Wang! Also, Natalie Pavlovna, can you arrange for the tsar's son Alexander Nicholas Grand Duke Jevic attended the summons in the afternoon?"

(End of this chapter)