The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Anderson Leo didn't like the current atmosphere in Dulin City very much. Although he was old, his eyes were not blurred and he could still see many things clearly.

For example, on the way out of the Navy Club, he saw many people with obvious spy temperament walking on the street, especially near the Garden Palace. People carried them into the carriage, and those who were injured should all be members of some secret departments of the government, including the navy.

He remembered that a similar situation had happened in the seaport city of Bata before. A large number of spies filled the streets and alleys of that city. Secret struggles and killings were completed in the alleys. The last corpses and wounded were carried onto the carriage. Disappeared forever, as if it never existed.

As a traditional navy soldier, he hates this kind of sneaky department very much, but he is also very clear that the kingdom cannot do without this kind of department, so when the navy established its own intelligence department, he did not object, but voted for it , and even took the initiative to assist the person he hated so much in convincing members of Congress.

Thinking of this, Anderson Lehman's bad mood just now became much happier, because the person he hated and even hated finally died. This is definitely the news that made him the happiest in the past ten years.

When he heard the news a few days ago, he still felt that someone was joking with him, but after repeated confirmation, he realized that his greatest wish these years had actually come true. This illusory feeling of a dream come true made him feel unreal even now, after all, a cunning guy like Hoover Hansen didn't look like the kind of person who would die in an assassination.

In the past so many years, he had imagined killing that guy countless times in his mind, from strangling to death with his hands, to poisoning him to death, etc., but he finally held back his hatred and let that guy The guy survived and continued to serve the Royal Navy, because he knew very well that this guy's survival would be helpful to the development of the Royal Navy.

It is precisely because he hides his emotions cleverly that even the closest adjutant around him does not know that he is not only disgusted with Hoover Hansen, but also hates him, because Hoover Hansen Sen's massacre of the colony not only negated everything he had done as the admiral of the Paradise Port Fleet, but also caused his two unknown illegitimate sons and illegitimate daughters to die in the massacre.

Just like most of the senior generals of the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England, Anderson Lehman also served as an adjutant in the colonies of the Mozambique continent in the early days, and then served as an admiral in the colonial navy. After accumulating a certain degree of merit, he became a certain Admiral of the fleet in a small harbor town.

Among his contemporaries, Anderson Lehman was definitely the best one. He graduated from the Royal Naval Academy at the age of eighteen with the first place, and became the chief adjutant of the Colonial Governor directly. Later, by virtue of his outstanding performance in some affairs, he successfully won the appreciation of the generals of the colonial navy, was recruited into the navy, and became a captain of the first fleet of the colonial navy.

Afterwards, he made outstanding military exploits in several campaigns against pirates. At the age of twenty-four, he took over the Colony's Third Fleet, and in the second year, he served as the third fleet's port city of Polygia. The admiral and mayor became the first admiral to hold both military and political positions.

In the following years, not only did he build the Third Fleet into the strongest fleet in the colony, but he also built Polysia, which was originally a small city, into one of the largest seaport cities in the colonies of the Kingdom of England.

Moreover, in the past few years, he has also successively published a large number of papers on naval construction and maritime strategy, which were published in the official residence newspaper of the Naval Academy, and a large number of suggestions were adopted by the navy. Hoover Hansen is very similar to him. They are all-rounders of strategy, tactics and politics.

When Anderson Lehman was thirty-two years old, he was transferred back to the country from the colonies, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general based on his merits. He also served as the chief of staff of the First Fleet, becoming the youngest lieutenant general and the youngest Number five in the Navy.

According to normal procedures, he should have continued to accumulate merits, and finally became the youngest admiral in his forties.

However, the various riots and uprisings that broke out in the colonies in the second year became a major turning point in Anderson Lehman's life. Polyxia, which he governed before, became one of the cities where the riots originated and was replaced at the beginning of the riots. Hoover Hansen, who was in his position, was suppressed, and during this suppression, more than half of the residents of Polycia were killed or injured. A pair of illegitimate children he stayed in Polycia to wait for two years before taking over And his mistress died at the hands of Hoover Hansen's specially formed riot army.

At that time, when Anderson Lehman heard the news, his first thought was to avenge his children and impeach Hoover Hansen, but Hoover Hansen obviously had a better game and thought of it at the beginning Andreessen Lehman was going to get in trouble for himself, so pre-empt it.

Before Anderson Lehman’s impeachment papers were handed in, a series of unfavorable news spread to the Kingdom. These news were all spread by Hoover Hansen, and there were a lot of specious rumors that Anderson Lehman served as the When the mayor and the admiral deliberately condoned the development of those anti-colonial forces in the city, they even accepted bribes from these forces to facilitate their development, which is why the current riots occurred.

Although the navy did not believe this at all, the people were already boiling over this matter, and Congress even directly impeached Anderson Lehman with no confidence, although in the end because of the navy's strength and the fact that the so-called evidence was too much False, the impeachment failed, but Anderson Lehman has been greatly affected and is no longer suitable to be the Chief of Staff of the First Fleet, and was finally arranged by the Navy to teach at the Naval Academy.

On the contrary, Hoover Hansen, who stepped on Anderson Lehman to power, gained the attention of the hawks in the navy during the process of suppressing the colonial uprising. The number three in the Navy might have been able to ascend to a higher position were it not for the fact that he was not of noble birth.

On the other hand, although Anderson Lehman's official career has been affected, his talent is here after all. Even if he has entered the Naval Academy, commonly known as a nursing home, he can still shine. Naval military system has helped the dissertation proposal, and won a Congressional Commendation, became a college professor.

In the third year, when the Dean of the Naval Academy retired, through the relationship accumulated over the years, he appointed Anderson Lehman as his successor, and for more than forty years later, Anderson Lehman served as the Dean of the Naval Academy, He has cultivated nearly 80% to 90% of the high, middle and low-level generals of the Royal Navy, which has actually expanded his influence virtually.

A few years ago, the Chief of Logistics of the Navy retired due to physical illness. Through his influence, Anderson Lehman obtained this civilian position that did not seem to have much status.

Although there are not many generals of the older generation in the navy, these people are in high positions and know how bad the relationship between Anderson Lehman and Hoover Hansen is. Logically speaking, the two should not be placed in the same military system, but the logistics that Anderson Lehman is in charge of seems not to be an important organizational unit, and it is impossible to affect the actual naval generals who hold military power, so those talents have no Blocked when Anderson Lehman originally wanted the position.

It's just unexpected that Anderson Lehman didn't ask for this position casually. After taking up the position, he immediately carried out drastic reforms to the entire logistics department, which not only increased efficiency, but also made the accounts of the logistics department much clearer. , and relied on this account to find out many navy moths.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to clean up the navy's moths, Anderson duly thought of Congress and the Navy to come up with a proposal for the reform of the Navy's budget. In this reform proposal, he used a lot of facts to explain the shortcomings of the current Navy's budget statistics and the other side. And according to each side, some subtle reforms have been carried out. Through these reforms, not only can the Navy's annual budget funds be reduced by more than 30%, but it will also be of great help to the overall command and mobilization of the Navy.

This proposal is almost perfect. Once implemented, it can solve the major problem of the Navy's current oversupply of troops, and it can also save the Congress a considerable amount of expenditure every year.

So when the proposal was passed, Anderson Lehman, who knew the proposal best, naturally became the main executor and manager of the proposal.

Afterwards, through the reform in the proposal, the navy's original large and small fleets were integrated together, and the control of the ocean was also improved, and the military expenditure of the navy was also reduced a lot. There was even a year when the military expenditure in the year before the budget appeared. The case of running out.

It is also for this reason that Anderson Lehman's influence on the navy has increased day by day, and he has become one of the most core figures in the navy.

For the students of Anderson Lehman, it is a happy thing for their chief to re-enter the decision-making level of the Navy, because everyone knows that as long as you have talent, no matter what your background, Anderson Lehman will spare no effort to make him Recommended to a suitable position, there will not be too much unnecessary suppression, but for some other people, the appearance of Anderson Lehman seems sad, these people are Hoover Hansen and his direct descendants.

Although Hoover Hansen is considered to be a high-ranking and powerful man in the navy, he was not born as an aristocrat after all. As the No. 3 person, his authority and influence are obviously much weaker, not even as useful as the honorary title of Navy Hero.

Although Anderson Lehman hated Hoover Hansen, he was not in a hurry to attack Hoover Hansen directly, but pointed out some mistakes in the strategic plan submitted by Hoover Hansen in a very formal way, Publicly vetoed Hoover Hansen's various proposals.

It would be fine if he vetoed Hoover Hansen by using his own identity in an indiscriminate way. Once or twice, the high-ranking navy might approve his influence, but after a long time, he would definitely side with Hoover Hansen. .

However, his vetoes to Hoover Hansen’s proposals all follow formal procedures, and the reasons for the vetoes are extremely sufficient, and the loopholes in the proposals he finds are also very correct. The overall structure of the navy will not be affected, but after a long time, it will cause the navy to fall into a state of division.

In addition, despite Anderson Lehman's conscious guidance, the upper echelons of the Navy can feel that the loopholes in these proposals are a big trouble for them, but they can faintly increase Hoover Hansen's influence and power in the Navy.

In this way, the trust of Hoover Hansen in the high-level navy, which is dominated by aristocratic origin, is not as almost obedient as before.

Hoover Hansen also felt this. He knew very well that if he continued like this, he might be completely marginalized within the Navy. Therefore, while he still had certain power and influence, through lobbying and exchange of interests, let The general's political plan he submitted was approved, and he also won the support of the navy, becoming the first senior naval general to formally enter the political arena.

Hoover Hansen's approach did work. Although Anderson Lehman had great influence in the navy, he had much less influence in politics. If there is no accident, when Hoover Hansen starts to run for the House of Representatives with the support of the Navy, the suppression of Anderson Lehman on him will no longer exist. , Gradually expand their power in the military and political circles.

Of course, Anderson Lehman could see Hoover Hansen's plan very clearly, but he couldn't do anything, because the high-level navy had already had a profound conversation with him. If he did anything else at this time, Then I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to obtain the support of the high-level navy in the future.

For this reason, the high-ranking navy, who knew their enmity very well, forced Anderson Lehman to arrange a long vacation to prevent him from making trouble when he couldn't help but campaign for Hoover Hansen again, so he could have some time during this period. Empty to stay in the Navy Club for a long time.

Although Anderson Lehman was tied up by the top navy, he didn't do anything, because he knew very well that if Hoover Hansen succeeded in the election, he would still want to take revenge on Hoover Hansen through normal means. Fer Hansen is almost impossible, unless he violates his own principles of life and uses other means.

Therefore, during his vacation, Anderson Lehman also did some things secretly, such as deliberately leaking the political plans of some admirals, which attracted the attention of the Congress and the royal family, and he also collected some useful information to prepare for the occasion. When the time is right, the secret goes to Congress.

With these materials, it may not be possible to convict Hoover Hansen of some situations, but at least he can peel off the layer of naval hero skin on him and make him lose the greatest protection.

But what he didn't expect was that before he could make a move, he received the news of Hoover Hansen's death, which made him feel inexplicably empty while being surprised.