The British Parliament passed a bill, ordering the Chinese army and Chinese to withdraw from Japan by June 1, 1879, otherwise, Britain would increase its military aid to Japan.

This news, like a big stone, made Emperor Hua a little breathless.

"Why should they order us? Do the British really think they are the world police? If you want to fight, just fight! China is not afraid of them!" Timothy Li said very rarely.

puff!

Catherine almost pissed off, and Timothy Lee either didn't speak, but said something amazing.

In fact, Catherine had not experienced the era when Timothy Li formed the Clinsmann business with Emperor Hua. Timothy Li was just a translator of Emperor Hua. Emperor Hua generally encouraged Timothy Li to express his opinions, but he rarely listened to Timothy Li's opinions.

After hearing Timothy Li's words, Emperor Hua did not speak out.

Seeing that Emperor Hua was not concerned about her husband's words, Catherine quickly pulled Li Timothy and signaled him not to talk nonsense anymore and beat the British? He was almost crazy.

Anyone with a little bit of international common sense knows that the British were dominant in the late 19th century!

It really caused the Royal Fleet to be dispatched. Where is the small fleet in China that can only serve defense missions in the nearshore area enough for others to fight?

The cute CEO fell into deep thought again. This is not good to be the boss. When it comes to major problems, no one can rely on them. They can only make decisions and make decisions on their own.

In fact, Emperor Hua knew how to establish good relations with the British. If he gave in, he would give in and give in. If he gave in, Emperor Hua could do it. The key is that he could not satisfy the appetite of a top industrial power like Britain. How much does it have to give?

One hundred million?

Two hundred million?

Billion!

Others may not be able to see each other, and the British have a big appetite.

What kind of country was the British Empire in the 1880s?

The world overlord, the two strong standards, cruisers cruise the entire world, other European powers, France was dissatisfied, Russia was dissatisfied, and it was also dissatisfied, and it was the world's strongest industrial country.

The arrogant British people simply don’t believe that China will challenge them in the future. Although they don’t take China seriously, fighting in the mainland is not what the British hoped, because the British also knew that they could not defeat the unified and powerful China on land, and China was too big.

Looking at the lineup of the British Navy during the Battle of Jutland, it would be impossible to defeat five Japanese of the same period.

Without a corresponding industrialization foundation, it is impossible to maintain such a large navy as Britain.

Dingyuan Zhenyuan is undoubtedly excellent among ironclad ships, but it is far from being favored by Britain. And more than ten years later, the ironclad ships have been replaced by more powerful battleships.

Even during World War II, if the Japanese were not panic, they used take-off planes to bomb the Prince of Wales and counterattack, and simply fought with warships, only Nagato and Muro could use the entire Japanese Navy.

But these two ships were in Japan. They really sank as much as they were in the past.

This is the British Navy that has experienced the Great Depression and weakened.

If the British lose, it is also because of pride and concept, and it is definitely not the strength of the navy.

In that era, there seemed to be no precedent for aircraft to annihilate the moving fleets. If we were simply competing with surface ships, even during World War II, Britain seemed to have never thought that it would lose.

As for strategic games, it seems unrealistic for Britain to support two small East Asian countries to deal with the powerful Russia during the Meiji Restoration and the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty.

And the support is not like this. If it is really a strategic support, look at the British-Japanese alliance, the British borrowed money to sell things.

But at that time, the British were good at raising prices.

The Dingzhen two ships saved a lot of money by ordering in Germany.

The UK's idea is probably to sell you the broken ship that I don't need to be high, and I will make a fortune and then develop industrial shipbuilding.

If China seeks a large number of warships from Britain at this time, buys people and buys them, and is slaughtered at a price of ten times or twenty times higher than the production price, and then gives up the protection of the rights and interests of small neighboring countries. Not to mention allowing the British to come and continue to sell opium, they must also restore a series of unequal treaties for foreign trade during the Qing Dynasty. These are the bottom line of the Emperor of China and are impossible to do so.

Therefore, the contradiction between China and Britain is almost irreconcilable.

However, China and Germany do not have much intersection of interests at present, so it is difficult to climb the emerging German tree.

Since modern times, the rise and fall of great powers have been closely related to the development of the navy.

For hundreds of years, the rise and development of almost every major power, from Spain to the Netherlands, from Britain to the United States, has been closely related to the strength of the navy and the consolidation of maritime power.

In human history, Britain is undoubtedly the best sample to understand the close connection between the navy and the fate of the country.

Britain, which once had the world's strongest navy and the largest colonies, has projected a huge and far-reaching influence on modern and modern human history and civilization.

Although the glory of the British Empire's "sun never set" ended with the loss of its maritime hegemony, the history of the British navy from small to large is the best place for Chinese countries to learn from.

Located in a corner of Western Europe, Britain is an unbiased marine island country.

From ancient times to the medieval times, Roman legions, Germans, Nordic vikings... crossed the English Channel one after another and stepped into Britain, forming the English nation through mutual collision and integration.

Before modern times, nightmare that was easily attacked by mainland China had a deep "continental mark" on Britain's foreign policy.

Britain actively intervened in mainland politics and spent almost all its enthusiasm and energy in the dream of establishing a "cross-strait empire".

In the early 16th century, with the end of the Hundred Years of War in Britain and France and the establishment of the Tudor dynasty, the British who had no choice but to part with the mainland began to develop clearly in the direction of "island nations".

At this time, the great geographical discovery was shifting the focus of Europe's economic and trade from the Mediterranean to the "Western Europe-Atlantic".

In order to deal with foreign invasions, the Tudor monarchs began to form and strengthen a regular navy and consciously turned their vision overseas.

The British Navy, officially established in 1546, found a catalyst for development in the battle for wealth with the maritime power Spain.

In 1588, the Spanish monarch, who was angered by the British naval pirate-like robbery, dispatched a huge "invincible fleet" to flatten Britain in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, the British Navy, with the backbone of the pirates Drake and Hawkins, was not afraid of powerful enemies. It changed its traditional platoon tactics and adopted long-distance artillery battles to defeat the "Invincible Fleet" in one fell swoop.

This was the first decisive battle for the British in the journey to seize maritime hegemony. As the British Fuller said in his book "Military History of the Western World", this victory "was like a whisper, sending the secret of the empire into the British's ears: even small countries with extremely limited resources and power can still win and defend huge overseas territory as long as they control the ocean."

After that, the British embarked on the road of colonial expansion with confidence and strong desire for maritime power.

By the first half of the 17th century, Britain, backed by the navy, continued to expand its overseas trade scale and actively penetrated into India and the Americas, basically establishing its status as a European power and the prototype of the British Empire.

As Spain declined and in order to compete for maritime hegemony, Britain successively competed with two important emerging maritime countries, the Netherlands and France.

Since 1652, Britain and the "maritime coachman" the Netherlands have fought three large-scale naval battles in succession. Although they have won and lost each other, the Netherlands, which made profits through re-export transportation trade, was deeply hit and eventually exhausted the country's vitality.

France is the most powerful country on the European continent. From the late 17th century to the early 19th century, Britain fought with it for more than 100 years.

Among the seven major contests, except for the 6th France has a slightly superior position, Britain has achieved major victories.

The Vienna Treaty in 1815, which declared the end of the Napoleonic War, marked the complete victory over France on the ocean.

In the nearly century after this, no country's navy was able to challenge the Royal Navy and dared to challenge the British Navy.

By the end of the 19th century, Britain established a colonial empire spanning three oceans, spread across five continents, covering an area of ​​33.5 million square kilometers, and a population of about 400 million.

Whether it is population or reserve funds, the current strength of China, even if it multiplies by ten, may not be the opponent of the British. The Emperor of China will not be blindly arrogant and think that the Chinese army is really stronger than the British army. The last time he fought on the Guangdong battlefield, they were all miscellaneous troops of the British and had little reference value.

If a country is positioned so that it neither has to defend itself on land nor is tempted to use land to try to expand its territory, it can gain an advantage by focusing its targets towards the oceans compared to countries with the continent as part of its borders.

As an island country surrounded by sea and without direct land threats, Britain can concentrate on developing and maintaining naval power, turning the English Channel into an insurmountable gap, and then adopting a flexible "alliance-check and balance" foreign policy to block and attack opponents.

Based on the maritime advantage that Britain has won, it achieved an orderly cycle of the three major elements of naval, colonial and overseas trade: the powerful navy promoted and protected colonial cause and overseas trade; the vast colonies provided naval bases spread all over the world and directly served the fleet; the huge profitable overseas trade not only provided abundant resources for naval construction and expansion of colonies, but also led Britain to take the lead in carrying out the first industrial revolution and became the "world factory" in the 19th century.

However, Emperor Hua did not believe that Britain had the ability to dominate the world hegemony at this time.

In the late 19th century, major Western capitalist countries completed the second industrial revolution one after another, and Britain's economic advantages quickly narrowed.
Chapter completed!