Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

There were no secrets in the capital city, and the conversation on the North Sea had reached the ears of General Xie and the others in just half a day!

They had always thought that Cai Bixia was here to talk about the new special area, but they never thought that Ci An would be talking about arms with them right by the North Sea!

Iron-armored battleship s and airships were new things that no one in the Qing Dynasty had heard of, especially that airship. Xiao Letian's hot air balloon in the Beijing back then had already caused a sensation in the entire empire.

Being able to fly in the sky, that was simply a godly skill. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the legend of the Eastsea Hidden Dragon spread all over the country!

But in just five years, Xiao Letian actually said that the hot air balloon that could be upgraded to an airship could already be used for battle!

The current Qing Dynasty had been forced open to the public. Although the citizens were still ignorant, the Empire's high officials were able to come in contact with new things on the outside.

As Qing Dynasty had always been pressed to the ground by the foreigners, their continuous failures had long made them lose their confidence!

However, these people will not reflect on their own problems, they will not wonder if their own system, culture, economy, science, education... A series of shortcomings of one's own.

After encountering an enemy that was difficult to defeat, the Manchu dynasty began to believe in weapons-only theory!

That's right, the reason the enemies are strong is because they have Gun cannons, not because we have problems with ourselves, our emperor is fine, our eight flags are fine, our civil and military officials are fine!

The foreigners were all evil monsters, so it was normal to get some weapons.

Such thoughts could not only deceive ordinary people, but they could also deceive themselves. These Eight Flags and civil and military officials were really ruthless … He had even lied to himself!

They very naturally accepted the weapon theory, because this argument could cover up their other shortcomings. It was precisely under the influence of this idea that Xiao Letian's Qing Dynasty walked down the road of no return in his previous life with regards to purchasing large quantities of weapons!

Gun cannons, Southern Sea, from the army to the navy, all of them were purchased. Although they had invested in a few machinery bureaus, they were already at the end of the empire, so even a small amount of production capacity could not change their fundamentals!

The Qing Dynasty was still like that now, repeating the old tone of "weapons-only", thinking that everything in the Upper Sky was good. The only thing missing was the new weapon used by the foreigners!

As long as he could buy back the new weapon from the foreigners, even if he could make up for the shortage of the wooden bucket, the other wooden planks would naturally remain intact!

Weapons theory had already become mainstream in the imperial court, so the imperial government would pay close attention to any trade in arms!

When Cai Bixia came to the capital, he actually didn't talk about the Concession District, but instead, talked about the arms. This weapon must be very extraordinary, to actually be able to affect Ci An!

Er Mao and Ci An were secretly discussing about the details of the military sale. When Ci An turned around, he would punish Da Sixi, Xiao Sixi and Man Shun to slap each other!

The three chief eunuchs who followed Zai Chun out of the country kneeled on the stone road and slapped their faces for an entire hour, their faces were as swollen as a pig's head!

The reason for being punished was also very new. It was actually because the three of them didn't have enough knowledge from the west, so they didn't learn anything proper when they went to Europa!

If he couldn't give His Majesty a good suggestion, he would naturally be punished!

Zai Chun had gone crazy for a long time as well. On the North Sea, he whipped the eunuchs and smashed three ice carriages to pieces!

If the empress dowager and the emperor had lost their composure like this, then this contract was really an incredible one. If they carefully investigated it, they would have scared the six out of their wits!

What nine lousy airships would cost five million silver taels, and what's more, the naval plans cost several tens of millions of silver taels!

Yi Nan and Yi Xuan were furious when they heard this number, they immediately thought that Xiao Letian was blackmailing them. Great Qing finally had a bit of a surplus on her side, and this rebel wanted to fish for money?

"No, not even a silver coin!"

But no matter how much they cursed, just cursing wouldn't solve the problem. They had to properly study these two contracts!

After calming down, the two of them started to get their advisors to find information about the Franco-Prussian War. With the memory of General Liu, it seemed like that lousy airship had appeared during the war. What exactly did it look like?

Not to mention the fact that the Qing Dynasty had no information about him, in this world, as long as he was involved with Xiao Letian, they would pay attention to him!

There were so many wars in Europe that they had no interest in, but they had to pay attention to the war that Xiao Letian had gotten involved in from the start to the end!

The newspapers and the information shared by the East Crossing Folk Lane were found out. When the two princes saw the detailed reports of the war between military officials and airships, they were dumbfounded!

Xiao Letian did not lie, this Xiao Letian really made a army that could fight in the sky!

In the skies above Paris City, these airships had coordinated with the ground troops and completed many tactical missions. They even carried out emergency rescue missions with the Red Cross!

Beneath the spindle-shaped airbag was a suspended power cabin, which was also equipped with personnel and weapons. This design didn't even need to be described as setting up a cannon. Even dropping a bomb from the sky wouldn't be enough!

"Heavens, this kind of weapon is widespread. All the walls of our Great Qing are useless!"

"No one can stop them. At that time, they can bomb whoever they want. What should we do?"

There was no other way. The two princes thought for a moment. They should ask for directions first. The Chinese people were merchants of their own country. Businesses were definitely only interested in profit!

Contact them and see if you can get one or two for the Xishan camp!

Ci An would never have thought that the arms contract that she tried his best to stop would actually move the hearts of the two princes of the old school, and that they would actually send Yi Kuang to actively contact the Chinese!

Er Mao and Cai Bixia did not say anything after receiving the invitation card. "Go, we'll accept this invitation card!"

"General Cai... "Let's talk slowly. There's no need to worry. There's no need to say that we'll be able to negotiate an arms contract worth a million silver taels in one or two days!"

"We're not in a hurry. Send a telegram to the leader to see what godfather thinks!"

When Xiao Letian received the telegram, the person was no longer in Singapore, he was riding on the fast boat towards Borneo, and Brunei Area had already sent three telegrams asking the Leader to come and observe the situation.

The first stable oil well in Brunei was already out!

This was a good thing! Xiao Letian could no longer sit still and immediately indicated that he would head to Borneo!