Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 116 Simulated Assassination
According to the arrangement of the German side, tomorrow they will leave for Berlin to meet with German Kaiser Wilhelm II.When discussing the military alliance of Germany, China, and Russia, compared with the kind Germans, the Russians are just white-eyed wolves. In order to compete with the British for the Indian Ocean, they can only please the Germans in Europe.In fact, Guan Xuqing saw all this clearly, but it is still necessary to improve the relationship with Russia through the Germans.After all, they really can't afford to offend these northern wolves now.

Although I know that this is only a temporary relief of relations with Russia, I still have to go.Otherwise, when Russia was using troops, it would be unbearable for the Qing Dynasty to come out to make trouble.

Finally, the train to Berlin stopped, and the person who greeted Guan Xuqing at the train station this time was actually Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, which Guan Xuqing did not expect.Germany has never welcomed a guest so grandly, but this time it was actually a guest from Asia.

The Qing Dynasty has close cooperation with Germany in many fields, including a shipbuilding contract worth 10 billion marks with Wilhelm Naval Shipyard, an arms purchase contract with Krupp worth 3 million marks, and The contract for the purchase of equipment worth 2 million marks signed by the Mauser Works, the Levo Works and the Gruson Works, the contract with Siemens for the laying of telegraph lines in [-] provinces of China and the contract for ordering ten high-speed steam locomotives, etc. wait.It can be said that without the large number of orders from the Qing Dynasty, Germany's industry has shrunk by at least two-thirds.Therefore, even the German emperor dared not treat this Far East guest seriously.

What's more, the Qing Dynasty today is not the Qing Dynasty 20 years ago.Even Germany needs to introduce the technology of hand grenades and mortars from the Qing Dynasty, and even needs to learn from the Qing Dynasty how to improve the Saxon ironclad ships.

You must know that "Zhenyuan" and "Dingyuan" were both produced in Germany and sold in the Qing Dynasty.But now the Qing Dynasty has refitted these two ironclad ships to be much stronger than Germany's own two Saxony ironclad ships, especially after replacing the main guns and part of the protective armor, saving space and installing a power steam engine, today's The speed can already reach 17.4, which is more than one notch faster than the German Saxony ironclad ship which is only 15.5.

Moreover, today's German troops in the Far East still need continuous logistical support from the Qing Dynasty!

After finally waiting for Alexander III of Russia, the summit meeting of the three countries officially began.Alexander III has always been worried about the treachery of the Qing Dynasty three years ago and turned to put a knife on himself, but William II has always played the role of peacemaker in the middle.Hope to form a military alliance of the three countries.

Guan Xuqing actually knew very well that Russia is currently unable to fight against Germany, which is why it so hopes to form an alliance with Germany.But they didn't want to let Daqing go, so the two-day meeting actually didn't discuss anything at all. The only thing that made Alexander III feel rewarded was that he finally figured out that Daqing was really powerless to harass them during this time.

However, Germany failed to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty, and the emotions expressed can even be described as loss.

"The Chinese naval soldiers are also very professional. They completed anchoring, depth setting and other tasks in just a few minutes. You can enter the combat state in the shortest time. Although I don’t want to admit it, the quality of these Chinese navy is indeed not inferior to our excellent soldiers. And I also very much doubt that there is a fleet in the Far East Pacific that can threaten them. If the Chinese become our staunch allies, then our colonies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean will be like gold coins in a bank safe, which can be completely guaranteed, instead of spending a lot of military spending to maintain the peace of distant colonies like now , It also left the local coastal defense in a completely undefended state." The local German media reported so.

After the two-day meeting ended, Guan Xuqing returned to Wilhelmshaven, although as expected, nothing could be discussed under Russia's intervention.However, the ability shown by the Qing Dynasty has already convinced Germany, and no country can refuse such a massive order.

Just as he was returning to the station, he suddenly thought of something when he saw the serious Jin Yiwei.I can just take this opportunity to take a good look at these courtiers who have been studying in Germany for so many years and will be reused in the future.

Guan Xuqing, who originally planned to return to China tomorrow, suddenly changed his mind, and said to Zhang Yu beside him, "Notify the Zhenyuan, we will leave tonight, I want to see, what is the ability of that madman Wang to enter my prison under your strict defense?" Cabin."

"Cha." Zhang Yu still had that stern face.

At around 2 o'clock in the morning, Guan Xuqing and his party hurriedly boarded the Zhenyuan under the cover of night.In the eyes of outsiders, he left Germany early because the Triple Alliance was not negotiated.

But only Guan Xuqing knew that this was just to test the abilities of Wang Feng, who was studying special operations, and Zhao Bingjun, who was studying spy techniques.

With such a sudden early departure and the nervous and swift cover of the Imperial Forest Army, everything seemed very neat and tidy.When all the accompanying officials were waiting to board the Zhenyuan, Guan Xuqing had already entered his cabin.The Zhenyuan ship slowly left the pier, everything seemed to be very fast, let alone a stranger entering the Zhenyuan ship, even a mouse would have to spend a lot of time to board the Zhenyuan ship.

Just as Guan Xuqing was thinking wildly, there was a commotion outside the door and Zhang Yu's voice filled the entire corridor outside the cabin.

"What's the matter?" Guan Xuqing walked out of the cabin and asked.

Zhang Yu said with embarrassment: "Return to the emperor, maybe that Wang Feng has already boarded the Zhenyuan. The brothers who were on patrol just now found the two brothers in charge of guards of the second company of the Royal Forest Army passed out on the deck."

"Oh? Hehe, it's interesting! Search for me, search him out for me, there will be a lot of rewards." Guan Xuqing said excitedly.

"Cha." Zhang Yu turned around and said to the other imperial guards: "Leave a squad in the third row for me to guard the cabin, and the others will follow me."

Only then did Guan Xuqing slowly return to the cabin. It seemed that Zhao Bingjun, who had been studying as a spy in Germany for the past few years, had to be underestimated. He made a temporary decision to leave Germany ahead of schedule. It took less than two hours from the decision to boarding the Zhenyuan ship. .

It is indeed not easy to grasp the first-hand information and inform Wang Feng in such a short period of time.And Wang Feng is not bad, but somehow he managed to get on the warship.It was not easy, but Zhang Yu's purposeful defense also made it impossible for Wang Feng to enter the cabin where Guan Xuqing lived.After all, he is only one person, and there are nearly 200 people in the Imperial Forest Army on board.No matter what, he couldn't enter Guan Xuqing's cabin. If he did, he really didn't know whether to say his ability was strong or the Yulin army was too weak.

(End of this chapter)