Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Xiao Letian's trip to Europe could be said to have ended in complete victory. This was a trap that had been laid out since 1865, and it took a whole six years to complete.

The Chinese were tied to the rising Prussian war chariot with little strength, betting everything they had on the Franco-Prussian War.

In these six years, Xiao Letian used all the resources in Asia to squeeze out almost all of the wealth in the Qing Dynasty. He released countless hidden inflation notes to carry out this national destiny gamble.

Qing Dynasty, Japan, Russia, England, United States, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Austria … Of course, there was also the target France who was killed in the end.

Xiao Letian had to contend with more than ten countries for an enormous and complex diplomatic breakthrough, and at that time, not a single country in the world escaped and joined in.

This was an extremely large project, and even Xiao Letian himself felt like he was in a dream.

Such a success was too difficult to achieve, and in his hands, it felt unrealistic!

The Yellow Gold franc that had been extorted from the France had turned into the Chinese foreign exchange reserves and were left in the European banks.

Xiao Letian could use these gold standard francs to buy equipment, resources, technology, arms and weapons … Including Silver!

However, he could not take it with him, not even a single gold coin!

It looked like he was at a disadvantage, but Xiao Letian was not like that. Accepting the rules of the game, in exchange for obtaining a large piece of land from the Luzon, was enough to change the Chinese strategic territory.

These new territories were not something that could be bought with just 1.2 billion francs. Xiao Letian had made use of this rare historical opportunity to make a killing.

The development of the Western Australia could be slowed down a little, but buying all the colonies in Asia from the Spanish could be considered a huge bargain.

Not only was the channel from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean under the control of the fire from the Chinese naval gun, Xiao Letian's power could also continue to extend to the east.

Don't forget Guam! At that time, Guam was still in the hands of the Spaniard. This strategically important island was currently a Spanish colony!

The array core of the first island chain was the Ryukyu, and the second island chain was Guam!

The American seal chain made from the Pacific Ocean, with just a glance, Xiao Letian broke two of them!

The third island, with Hawaii as its core, was in a state of confusion, with Britain, France, and the United States unilaterally declaring their sovereignty over Hawaii.

But it was because of the struggle between the three parties that Hawaii was still under the rule of the primitive emirate.

The third island was too far away. Before the Chinese Iron-armored Ship team reached scale, they should still use peaceful means of communication.

However, the third island chain was also ultimately in the possession of the third island chain, only when the third island chain was in the possession of the Chinese and the United States could truly split the Pacific Ocean equally.

The secret agreement between Xiao Letian and the Queen basically set the main overseas territories of the Chinese people in the future.

From Fusang all the way down to Western Australia, the Borneo, the future of the Luzon and the Java Islands, New Guinea... It will all become Chinese territory.

Viet Nam had been ceded to the Chinese, causing the South Sea to become the inner seas of the Chinese race. The strategic security of the Brunei's oil fields was protected.

To the west, the Chinese people used the chain of islands in the Southern Indian Ocean to gradually expand to Madagascar and the Mauritius!

To the east, the Chinese warships have already completely taken control of the second island chain and infiltrated the third island!

In such a vast land with countless resources, the Chinese had finally completed the mission to outflank the mainland from the sea!

Everything was thanks to the winter night of 1864, the meticulous arrangement of the little cyan girl who had teleported to the depths of the Taihang Mountains. After six years of painstaking efforts, she finally managed to break the sky through the Great War of Universal Law with a single stab!

The Cosmic Bag above the head of China's National Aura finally had a hole pierced in it. The repressive National Aura gushed out!

Could it be that there really was such a thing as heaven's will? This purchase of land from the United Kingdom was not part of Xiao Letian's plan in the first place.

This was entirely because of the British encirclement and blockade, preventing the Chinese from taking away the war reparations. That was why Xiao Letian was forced to use his trump card.

In the process of retreat, try to exchange some benefits with the UK!

Thanks to Xiao Letian's knowledge that he had accumulated over two lifetimes, he was very clear on how many of the most worthless wasteland in the world possessed endless amounts of treasures, and how many of them held extremely strong strategic positions.

The issue of resources was something most people could understand. After all, the people of this era had yet to explore the mines.

But does the Queen not understand the importance of strategic positions?

It was a good question. The value of a strategic location was not that easy to determine. The value of any land had to be on a par with the technological level at that time.

For example, Guam, a resourceless island in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, was not at all a strategic location in an era when aviation technology was not yet developed.

This was because the Military experts at that time calculated their strategic value based on the military technology that they already had.

What is the speed of the steam battleship burning coal? How much is the endurance? How long can ammunition storage last?

Gas turbine warships burning oil and heavy oil, how much speed, how much power, ammunition reserve?

The values of weapons of war under different technical conditions varied, and Guam could control most of Southeast Asia with a squadron of B-52.

But why don't you put an old Iron-armored Ship to burn coal and try again?

This was the difference between the era and the technology. Different geographical locations would have different values with different levels of technology.

What Xiao Letian wanted was to buy at the cheapest possible moment, and then wait for the era's technological breakthrough.

Drinking French blood nourished Chinese national destiny! This feeling was simply too great. It seemed that he had to drink a few more cups of wine for tonight's banquet.

However, there were still some small matters that he had to hurry up on before he could drink!

In the basement of the embassy, with the arrival of the envoy to Europe's Chef Dazzling Spring, Liu Dadao was already tightly tied to a pillar, not a single strand of good meat left on his body.

With the arrival of the bearded man and the second violinist, Xiao Letian had dug out the biggest Qing Dynasty spy beside him. That day, the soldiers had secretly arrested Liu Dadao, who was cooking.

No one would have thought that Liu Dadao was actually still an iron man, who had stayed for an entire night without admitting it. Until the second day when Xiao Letian went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the time when the Princess Cissie went to Buckingham Palace, Liu Dadao was still bitterly simmering his punishment.

Pushing open the iron door of the basement, the stench of blood assaulted his nostrils, Xiao Letian walked in with his eyebrows furrowed.