Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 673 Eventful Autumn

  The riots that occurred on the Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific brought the Ocean Kingdom, which had been silent for two years, back to the sight of international public opinion. As the problem was finally resolved, the international investigative team also withdrew from the island of Hawaii.

  However, the far-reaching impact brought about by this is not over.

  The Americans who felt hurt did not stop. Although many American cowboys are reckless, but Washington has many politicians with sober minds and grand strategic vision. They silently remembered this grievance in their hearts.

  The country of Fuso was also injured incidentally. More than 8,000 Fuso workers were forced to leave the island of Hawaii and set foot on the North American continent to start a new life. For them, this may be a good ending.

  The remaining 4,000 Fusang workers did not participate in the rebellion, but they were implicated by the former and will return to Fusang after the end of the employment contract. The hope of staying on this beautiful island is endless.

  For the big Fusang country, which is determined to be a powerful country with sound and color, such a loss of face is simply intolerable, and there is a lot of hatred on the book.

  The most important thing is the feelings of the British. Now London is not pleasing to the Ocean Kingdom at first glance, and it almost denounces the word "adverse son".

  London really has extremely complicated feelings about the grievances between the United States and the Ocean Kingdom.

  Citi, which is based on the North American colonies of the British Empire, is really a standard antagonist. It not only hooks up with its old enemy France, but also dares to shoot at the Lobster Army. Thinking of it, it makes London panic.

to be honest

  At the end of the 18th century, the British Empire never imposed such a strict technical blockade on any country. It strictly forbids the technology of Jenny Spinning Machine and all other industrial technologies to flow into the United States, trying to use hunger and backwardness to stifle this newly born rebellious son.

  After the founding of the nation, the North American continent was flooded with Scots, Italians, Germans, Mexicans, Balkan countries and even Ottomans.

  Oh... By the way, there are also black people. The racial composition is so complicated and the rationale is still chaotic. This makes Britain even more despised.

British people usually treat American diplomats like this: "Hey, man, that American cowboy with black fingernails is here again. I bet he will use his mouthful of garlic to express his opinions on governance of the world. I I’m afraid I have to accompany the gains and losses, because my groom John wants to go home early today."

  Board first, then buy tickets.

   Although the Ocean Kingdom established in Australia did not fight the British fiercely, this forced acceptance made London feel like it had eaten flies. From the bottom of my heart, I really don’t like it and can become a second adversary.

The image of Ocean Kingdom in the hearts of ordinary British people is pretty good. This is because their money has eroded many authoritative media, including The London Times. In the Royal Academy of Sciences, London, Cambridge and other famous universities, among the celebrities, there are Many authority figures who speak for the Ocean Kingdom have considerable influence.

  A clear understanding of this in the core power circle in London.

  If the United States is a big gun, then Australia's Ocean Kingdom is the second gun, and neither of these two adversaries can worry about it.

Regardless of the fact that the Second Cannon is now respectful to London, they pay more than six million pounds in tax each year, and keep saying that they want to join the Commonwealth. They look docile and respectful. This is all superficial. It's acting!

  London’s heart is clear, Er Pao Zi also said that when you turn your face, you turn your face, really unreliable.

  Meek and respectful will not say hello, saying that independence means independence?

   turned his head and attacked the white forces in the southern state. The killer was really a sea of ​​corpses and blood, which was unbearable.

  In the past two years, the power has expanded more and more, and there is a faint trend of the South Pacific bully, which makes London somewhat uncomfortable.

  Ten thousand steps back to say; Cannon is still a white country, and believes in Protestantism.

  What are these two guns now? Is it a white country or a Chinese country? And what is the freedom of religious belief?

  Anyway, London is very wary of the Ocean Kingdom, so it has become very friendly in its policy towards the Fuso Kingdom.

  London needs to help the kingdom of Sang go north to contain the power of Tsarist Russia, and it also needs to support a young man with sufficient fighting capacity to balance the situation in Asia, just like it did in Europe...

  1894, April

  Mainland Australia, Songjiang Reservoir

  Songjiang City, as a municipality directly under the Royal Family, has the same status as Red River Valley and Brisbane. It is one of the three municipalities in the Ocean Kingdom. As an important industrial city, it has a pivotal leading position in the kingdom’s economy.

  In the past few years, the Changchun Garden, located on the bank of the Songjiang Reservoir, has been expanding. There are many palaces and pavilions in the deep shade, which is like a royal style.

  The vast scenery here makes people feel refreshed. Every year, King Li Fushou brings a group of royal family members to vacation for leisure, ranging from one to two months to three to five months.

Therefore, in the vicinity of Songjiang Reservoir, dozens of large and small leisure estates have emerged in recent years. The large ones occupy dozens of hundreds of acres, and the small ones have 35 acres. The buildings built are extremely luxurious. What's more, the styles of all parts of the world have everything, making this a gathering place for aristocratic mansions. The people who can get a piece of land here are either rich or noble. The lowest rank is the viscount.

  Changchun Garden

  Li Fushou was wearing a Taoist robe and a black jade crown. He sat calmly on the couch and read the memorial in his hand, looking like a fairy-like spirit.

  After a long time

  He put down the memorial in his hand, frowned and thought about it, then sighed slightly.

In the past two years, with the rapid development of the Ocean Kingdom, the domestic strength has improved significantly, and the famine caused by the Civil War has finally been filled. The royal family has some small money in the hands of the house, not much...that is, five or six million pounds. The look of cash.

  There is no inflation this year. The pound is priced in gold, and 1 pound is constantly exchanged for 7.32238 grams of gold, so the currency value is very stable.

  The Federal Reserve Bank of the Kingdom is planning to issue Ocean Kingdom coins. This matter can no longer be delayed and needs to be implemented as soon as possible.

But 1894 was another unstable year. The riots in Hawaii at the end of last year continued to the beginning of the year. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom sent a lot of personnel to coordinate. The British pinched their noses to make the matter boring. It's much worse.

  Nowadays, the pretending mother is kind and filial to the child. It's impossible to say that the ship will capsize one day.

  Early 1894

  The eldest princess Victoria just turned 16 years old, she married the Ryukyu Kingdom and married her 28-year-old son Shangdian this year. The Ryukyu Kingdom was full of joy. The grand wedding was held for nine days.

The dowry products of the Ocean Kingdom include a 6,500-ton super-luxury cruise ship "Princess Victoria", 12 panamax-ton ​​bulk carriers, loaded with grain, cotton, steel, wool, spices, horses, cattle, sheep and pigs, and fine furniture silks. , Tea, porcelain and other objects, under the protection of 3,600 imperial guards, drove to the port of Naha mightily.

  The imposing manner of giving up to me and the size of the dowry made the 200,000 Okinawa people who went out of the city to greet them to be stunned. The sensory impact was so strong that they would never be forgotten in a lifetime.

  Naha is the capital of Okinawa. It is located on the south west coast of Okinawa Island, facing the Naha Bay of the East China Sea. It is the largest political, economic and cultural center of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

In the cheers of 200,000 people, the envoys were sent off to the envoy, Earl of Guangyuan, Wu Xuewen, and the Earl of Zhaoyuan, General Mo Rufeng, from left to right, accompanied Princess Victoria on the side of the cruise ship. The enthusiastic cheers reached a climax and firecrackers rang The world is endless for a long time.

  The Kingdom of Ryukyu sent 10,000 porters to carry the burden of dowry from the cruise ship to the Shuri Palace.

  It is said that in order to unload the cargo of these 12 10,000-ton ships, Naha Port has been busy for two months, and finally there are still three ships that cannot be unloaded because there is no place to put them.

  Li Fushou marrying his daughter so generously is also to make up for a trace of guilt in his heart.

  The king of the Ryukyu Kingdom Shangtai is also very prosperous. One hundred days after the elder son Shangdian married Princess Victoria, he announced to the world that he had renounced the throne for physical reasons.

  Shangdian thus ascended to the throne and became the new king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and Victoria was the queen.

   On February 15, 1894 (Jiawu Year of the Lunar Calendar), the Dongxue Party uprising broke out on the Korean Peninsula.

Thousands of peasants from Gufu and Taein on Dongxue Road rose up under the leadership of the leaders Quan Rongjun, Choi Jingshan, Jin Daosan and others. They quickly received responses from Dongxuedao believers across North Korea. The uprising quickly spread across the north and the south. The more trouble it gets, the bigger it gets.

   Seeing the rising momentum of the uprising, the Kingdom of Korea felt a little unable to hold down the coffin board, and hurriedly asked for help from the sovereign state, Daqing, hoping that Daqing would lead his troops into the DPRK to quell the rebellion.

   "The year of Jiawu, the eventful autumn!" Li Fushou sighed deeply, feeling quite melancholy.

  All kinds of latest news gathered in his hands;

  In 1894, the Dongxue Party uprising broke out in North Korea. The North Korean government army was retreating steadily and was forced to beg for aid from the Qing Dynasty.

Fusang believed that the time to start the war had come, and he was gearing up to prepare for the war from top to bottom. The Japanese Minister in China pretended to say to the Qing court, "Why doesn't your government quickly replace Han Kan? …My government will have no other intentions" and gave Mann. The Qing created an illusion that the Fusang Kingdom would not do anything to induce the Qing Dynasty to send troops to North Korea.

  Nowadays, the situation in East Asia has new changes every day. With conspiracy and deceit, the real purpose of Fusang people is to fight the Qing Dynasty.

Now the cabinet of Ito Hirobumi is facing impeachment by the parliament in a case of no confidence. After the Fuso Kingdom has found out that the Qing court is about to send troops to North Korea through its embassy in North Korea, it is like grasping the straw, and all military and political departments are operating at full capacity and preparing to provoke war. .

On the other hand, the ossified and stale Military Department of the Qing Dynasty and the Prime Minister’s Office are still a peaceful day of hello, me, everyone, and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Gu Yanchuan’s emergency report was criticized as "every time war will mess up the heart of the emperor, and his intentions are unpredictable, so he should quickly face the wall. Introspect, it is strictly forbidden to confuse the public with nonsense."

   Yes, you can’t wake up a person who pretends to be asleep.

  Li Fushou knew that the current situation was already a sharp edge, but he was anxious and couldn't help it.

  The international situation is also quite unfavorable to the Qing Dynasty.

  Naturally, there is no need to say in the United Kingdom. In order to prevent the old Russian Maozi from expanding its influence south, London is ready to let dogs bite people. It is a necessary step to indulge Fusang country into the Korean peninsula.

  At the beginning of April this year, the British Minister to the Qing Dynasty once asked Prince Gong, the Prime Minister of the Military Aircraft Department, whether he was confident of defeating his opponent once the Japanese and Qing war broke out?

  Prince Gong Yi hesitated with a guilty conscience. Regarding him, this disappointed the British and strengthened the attitude of supporting the rise of Fusang.

  Fuso Kingdom passed the Meiji Restoration in 1868, "leaved from Asia and entered Europe" and began to embark on the path of capitalism, and its national strength has grown stronger day by day.

  However, as an island country, it lacks resources and a small market, coupled with the strong remnants of feudal power in the country and the sharp contradictions during the social transformation period, Fusang is eager to seek a way out of external expansion.

  In 1887, the General Staff Headquarters of Fusang State formulated the so-called "Qing Dynasty Conquest Strategy", which gradually evolved into a "mainland policy" centered on aggression against China.

  The first step is to conquer Taiwan, the second step is to annex North Korea, the third step is to advance to Manchuria, the fourth step is to destroy China, and the fifth step is to conquer Asia, dominate the world, and realize the so-called "eight hung and one universe."

  The Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was an important link in the realization of the first two steps of the "Mainland Policy." It was a fateful battle.

  At the end of the 19th century

  Fusang has been paying attention to the Qing Dynasty. A friend in Shanxian pointed out that “the stronger the military of the neighboring state, the more unremitting the military of the state”.

  Since 1890, Fuso has used 60% of the national fiscal revenue to develop the navy and army. The morale of the whole country is high. With the goal of catching up with the Qing Dynasty, the emperor and the people have donated money to build new navy ships.

  At this time, Emperor Guangxu spent 5.5 million taels of silver on his wedding.

  The Empress Dowager Cixi had a sudden interest in repairing the garden. During the construction of the Summer Palace, the household minister Shangshu Weng Tonghe issued an order to prohibit the navy from purchasing arms, and spent nearly 20 million taels of silver to build the Summer Palace.

  Since 1891, the North and the South have suspended the purchase of foreign guns and ships for three years.

  On the one hand, it is tightening the belt and preparing for a national war, on the other hand, it is extravagant and extravagant. Not only does it not support the purchase of new ships, but it also prohibits the purchase of artillery shells.

  Every time I read this

  Li Fushou was itchy with hatred. The decayed and decaying Manchu Dynasty really couldn't support the wall with mud, it was rotten from top to bottom.

The British man Hurd presided over the Qing Dynasty customs for nearly half a century. He had such a vivid description: "I am afraid that China is still far from real reforms today. This huge and friendless giant sometimes suddenly jumped up and yawned and stretched out. We thought he was awake. I was ready to see him do a great career. But after a while, I saw him sitting down again, drinking a sip of tea, lighting up his pipe, yawning, and falling asleep again."

The 1st Opium War, the 2nd Opium War, and the Sino-French War that just ended in 1885, the Western powers repeatedly detained their troops. Although on the surface they launched a Westernization Movement, it seemed that they could make guns and cannons. Even matches cannot be produced.

Matches are called foreign fire, kerosene is called foreign oil, cigarettes are called foreign smoke, shovel is called foreign shovel, cement is called cement, and even the woven fabric imported from the United Kingdom has already squeezed the hometown out of it. The place where the cones stand is now called the foreign cloth.

This is the situation 30 years after the Westernization Movement. The iron produced by the Hankou Iron Works is not only of poor quality, but also at a much higher price than imported iron. The same is true for the guns built by the Jiangnan Machinery Bureau, not only of poor quality but also extremely expensive. It's a fool.

  People who don’t know the inside story feel pretty good. The 305mm cannon in the Qing Dynasty can be built. The industrial level is very strong. In fact, the teeth and blood swallowed are all superficial articles. The shady inside is deep.

  First of all the artillery steel is imported, and the machinery and equipment are also imported. Even the technicians who cast the artillery are highly paid foreigners. As for the artillery...

  Hey, look at India, who knows who uses it!

  (End of this chapter)