Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

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? "

"Don't waste your time. Let me tell you, the money spent on covert battles is more than ten times the money spent for hot battles!"

The Director Wang looked at Xiang Ying with a deep gaze: "A battleship would cost millions of silver taels, and a single cannonball would cost ten thousand. You are the Captain of the Zhiyuan Warship, you know this better than me …"

"It's the same for the navy and army. Without a mountain of gold and silver, you can't even think about fighting. This isn't an ancient era. Once you've used up a single steel knife, you can use it again …"

"In this era, cannonballs and guns are all consumables. Even if you have supplies that are like the sea, you can use them up just like that!"

"However, our analysis cannot be limited to hot wars in a short period of time. Wars are not normal after all. There are even fewer large-scale national wars. More often than not, there are skirmishes between humans, including in times of peace …"

"At this point, the place where the money is spent is out of sight! How much does it cost to buy a spy? How much does it cost to train an assassin? "How much does it cost to build an intelligence network?"

"To tell the truth, in my opinion, Gladstone Black's £2,000,000 is not much. These political parties engaged in open rivalry and covert warfare would consume much more money than the army, wouldn't it?"

Xiao Letian nodded his head: That's right, the most important thing is that there is no end to dark battles, and it will never stop, and the hot battles can be stopped, the armies still rely on deterrence to protect their country most of the time!

"I initially prepared 4 million pounds to bribe Benjamin's political enemy, and wanted to borrow the British's own hands to eliminate him. This can be considered unstoppable, but I underestimated Gladstone's ability, this is a true elite politician!"

"In the end, the reason why Britain is so powerful is all because of their strong talent pool. War is fought by people, economy is developed by people, and politics is operated by people!"

"I still underestimated the world's greatest talents. If Gladstone can make me lose two million, then in our eyes, she's a shameless villain. But in the eyes of the British, she's a national hero!"

"Don't be angry. Since they are able to scam us, they must have the ability. We should respect and not resent those who are capable!"

"I will personally solve Gladstone's problem. I will personally go meet with him!" This is an expert! None of you can go up, you can't win! "

After a long while, Sima Yun suddenly laughed and said, "We will definitely support the leader's decision, but I am just a little confused." Did he have to bet the treasure on Ge Lasi? Don't we have a fourth plan? "

The people talked amongst themselves, they admitted that Xiao Letian's words were reasonable, and the various plans were well thought out, the first plan was to cause a stir in the media, and accumulate everyone's hopes.

The second plan was to rope in the aristocrats, compete for resources, and the third method was to support the opposition to attack Benjamin.

Now that the problem was, could there be a fourth method, or a third method, that would have to be adjusted to allow that greedy old man to replace Benjamin? Is there no other more suitable candidate?

Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Don't look at me like that, there really is no other suitable candidate.