Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

As soon as this remark came out, all the civil and military audience in the audience nodded their heads in agreement.

"I have already considered this point, because Thailand is similar to Myanmar. There are many snakes, insects, poisonous ants, and the weather is humid, mostly woods. The German army is extremely uncomfortable, so the Thais took advantage. But Thailand has few troops and weapons. Being backward, it is still no match for Germany. I suggested that the emperor only need to send the Wangfeng special forces who have been trained in Burma for a long time, plus a division stationed in Burma to easily solve Thailand. In addition, they can justifiably collect military expenses for borrowing troops from Germany. "Feng Xianghua said loudly.

Guan Xuqing's eyes lit up, how could he forget Crazy Wang, this war madman, the Sino-Japanese war has been fought so fiercely in recent months, he must have driven him crazy long ago.Letting him go to Thailand at this time must be a tiger. In addition, if Germany occupies Thailand, then Japan's zero tariffs should be able to exchange Germany's interests in Thailand with Germany. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Haha, good! Not bad, let me clear up a division and a special force of tens of thousands of people to go back and forth for thousands of kilometers. I should charge more military expenses. Xianghua, I will let you negotiate with Germany on this matter. Quickly draw up a charter and show it to me." Guan Xuqing said with a smile on his face.

"Cha." Feng Xianghua said still sternly.

Guan Xuqing nodded in satisfaction, turned his gaze to Peng Yulin, and said, "Yulin, send a telegram in the name of the Ministry of War. Let Wang Feng come back."

"Cha." Peng Yulin bowed his head and said.

A week after the signing of the Treaty of Tokyo, Japan's first year's reparations finally arrived.Almost all warships were used in this Sino-Japanese war, and nearly 10 divisions and 25 troops were used in North Korea and Japan.The expenditure on military salaries is very large. Fortunately, in the few years after the Sino-British Burma War, the economic development of the Qing Dynasty has been relatively stable, especially after the customs duties were regained from the British, the increase in tax money was almost doubled.

In addition to spending 6000 million silver dollars to increase military pay, the rest were all invested in the construction of the Navy and the Gun Bureau.After the Sino-French War, technicians hired from France with high salaries finally used Qing Dynasty's unadvanced shipbuilding machines to manufacture Qing Dynasty's own ironclad ships after several years of hard work.

The first ironclad ship made by the Qing Dynasty itself has been launched, and it was built in imitation of the main ironclad ship Elegance, which was knocked down by the Qing gunboat during the Sino-French War.But it was much more practical than the French Elegance at that time.

Compared with the elegant 6000-ton displacement, the self-made ironclad ship of the Qing Dynasty has a displacement of 7000 tons. There are four 4mm main guns in the front and rear, 380 32mm secondary guns in the left and right sides, and 180 16mm cannons.It is characterized by fast rate of fire and fierce firepower.This is adhering to the consistent design of warships by French designers. From the firepower, it is not difficult to see that the designer of this warship is French.

The main defensive armor is 254mm thick, although it is nearly 345mm thinner than the 100mm thick steel plate of the "Zhenyuan" class.But it is much better than those ironclad ships made in the UK, and the speed of 17 knots can ensure that it can easily escape when encountering an enemy battleship of [-] tons.

Since everything from design to manufacture is done in the rebuilt Mawei Naval Port, the manufacturing cost is actually not that much.The manufacturing cost of an ironclad ship is 500 million silver dollars, and the cycle is half a year.

After paying 6000 million silver dollars in military pay, Guan Xuqing invested another 5000 million silver dollars in the navy to manufacture 10 sister ships of the same level. The ironclad ship that had already been launched was named "Southern Army".Incorporated into the Nanyang Fleet, and the ten sister ships launched in the future will be numbered from one to ten, such as Nanjun No. [-], Nanjun No. [-]...

It's not that Guan Xuqing didn't want to build a few more ships at a time, but the current Mawei Shipyard can only build ten ships at the same time, and the shortage of technicians and manufacturing machines is also the biggest obstacle restricting the development of the Qing Dynasty's shipbuilding industry.

For the remaining 1 million silver dollars, more than 1 gun bureaus were opened in Shandong, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai and other places to increase the production of guns.

At the same time, the Ministry of War urgently notified the order that all 100 million reserve soldiers across the country are ready to turn into professional soldiers. Of course, those who don't want to can also withdraw directly.However, after successive victories against France, Britain, Russia, and Japan, there has been a craze for joining the army across the country.

Everyone is proud to join the army, so how could they give up such a good opportunity.What's more, the military salary after joining the army is enough to support the family!This makes all soldiers who join the army have no worries.

"Sure enough, it's easy to do things with money. Once Japan's indemnity is in place, the navy has developed, the army has also developed, the gun bureau has also been established, and the most important thing is that the officers and soldiers who died for the country were also issued. "Guan Xuqing lay on the recliner in the Hall of Mental Cultivation and closed his eyes.

Standing in front of Guan Xuqing was Li Zhen, Minister of the Household Department, who was slightly fat.

"The emperor is wise, and the scheduling is orderly, so the country can be peaceful and the people safe." Li Zhen flattered.

Guan Xuqing closed his eyes and continued: "It's not that I'm wise, but that my Qing Dynasty's financial situation has been good in the past few years. This is all thanks to you."

"Everything is ordered by the emperor, and the minister is just following orders, how dare you take such greedy achievements!" Li Zhen said truthfully.

Although the finance minister of the Qing Dynasty was not very capable, he was diligent, studious, honest, and extremely clean, so Guan Xuqing has been using him until now. After all, Guan Xuqing of later generations studied finance.So you can also call him directly.

"Don't be too humble. You have done a good job in the past few years. Now my Qing Dynasty is developing rapidly, and there are many places that need money. Although the tax revenue has increased a lot in the past few years, the expenditure has also increased a lot. .I want you to go back and make a list of places with more expenditures every year. I want to see if I can reduce it." Guan Xuqing opened his eyes and looked at Li Zhen and continued: "Since ancient times, the national treasury has to be filled except for open source. It’s about throttling, and now my Qing Dynasty is opening up new sources of income, but throttling is also necessary!”

"Cha." Li Zhen replied with his head down.

Competition in East Asia Chapter 169 Sino-German Relations

After learning that the Qing Dynasty was willing to borrow troops, Germany immediately promised to help the Qing Dynasty build two 2000-ton battleships at a cost of [-] million silver dollars.Since the Qing Dynasty sent troops to Thailand, the logistics of the German army in Thailand had sufficient guarantees.

In today's world, all agreements, alliances are fragile.The interests are eternal, although there is a strong military alliance between the Qing Dynasty and Germany.There are many complementarities between the two countries. For example, the Qing Dynasty needs to purchase German weapons, equipment, and warships, and Germany needs to train army generals for the Qing Dynasty.Germany, on the other hand, has made great strides in the development of its heavy industry through the sale of weapons and warships, and has also stabilized its position in the Far East through the Qing Dynasty. It is not difficult to see from this Sino-Japanese war that the Qing Dynasty is already thriving in East Asia. .Even its military capabilities in the entire world cannot be underestimated, so Germany must rely on this ally who has no conflict of interest with itself if it wants to accomplish its grand cause.

Now the whole situation has been reversed. First of all, the light weapons of the Qing Dynasty no longer need to be purchased from Germany.Whether it is a Hanyang-made rifle or an old Mauser-like sleeve, their performance and quality are not inferior to the new German Mauser, and the production capacity has also been greatly improved.Even the Qing Dynasty was able to design and manufacture weapons such as grenades and mortars that surprised the whole world. God knows what more terrifying weapons they will invent in the future.Secondly, after a large amount of capital was invested in the shipbuilding industry, the shipbuilding technology of the Qing Dynasty was also continuously improved. Although the first ironclad ship "South Army" of the Qing Dynasty built by imitating the French ironclad ship "Elegance" was not as good as Germany and the United Kingdom [-]-ton battleships made in Italy, but compared with the warships built by other countries such as Russia, Austria, France, etc., it is already much stronger, and the horror is that the financial resources of the Qing Dynasty can allow dozens of such warships to be put into construction at the same time.With such a terrifying development speed, it is only a matter of time before we get rid of our dependence on German warship manufacturing.

However, Germany has become more and more dependent on the Qing Dynasty, because there is no such a large number of orders in the world except the Qing Dynasty.When Germany first received a large number of orders from the Qing Dynasty, stretches of small arms manufacturing factories sprang up spontaneously, but after losing the large number of orders from the Qing Dynasty, they closed down one after another.This is undoubtedly a devastating blow to Germany, which is developing at a high speed. The economy determines the speed of a country's military development.Without a strong economy to back it up, Germany's military capabilities also faced strong resistance.However, Germany, which wanted to obtain more resources through outward expansion, plunged the infantry of its two field divisions into the swamps of Thailand. Now that it has the help of the Qing Dynasty, how can it not make William II happy!

From the map, Thailand is sandwiched between Myanmar Province, Vietnam Province, and Vietnam Province in the Qing Dynasty.Since Germany entered the Gulf of Thailand from the South China Sea of ​​the Qing Dynasty and directly captured Bangkok, most of the resistance forces in Thailand are now concentrated in the woods near Vietnam and Myanmar.General Liu Mingchuan of the Southeast Group Army has long been teased by the Sino-Japanese War and lost himself. He has repeatedly sent troops to Japan but was dismissed by Guan Xuqing. He only regrets that there is no war in the Southwest, and even wants to actively seek out the British stationed in Malaysia in the south. Man, this half-life general feels sad when he doesn't fight, especially when others are fighting.

Now he doesn't care about helping Germany or anything else, as long as there is a war, he is happy.Even if only one division needs to be sent out, he has to lead the team himself, willing to be a division commander.

"Your Majesty, General Liu has called to lead the team to Thailand." Feng Xianghua said to Guan Xuqing with the telegram.

Guan Xuqing put down the memorial in his hand, raised his head and said to Feng Xianghua, "Nonsense, how important is the southwestern half of the country. There are British troops in India in the west and Malaysia in the south. If he wants to leave, who will guard the gate of the southwest country for me? You Draw up an excuse to refute him, and just send any division there. It’s just pretending. Could it be that our Qing soldiers are really used as cannon fodder for the Germans?”

"Cha, but Your Majesty, I have an idea and don't know whether to say it or not!" Feng Xianghua said hesitantly.

"Oh? Tell me!" Guan Xuqing looked at Feng Xianghua with great interest.

Feng Xianghua raised his head and said seriously: "I have been in Germany for many years, and I know a thing or two about Germany's temperament. Germans are serious, cautious and meticulous in their work. They are good partners for cooperation and full of ambitions. Today, Germany and our Qing Dynasty are on the same level. There is no conflict of interest, so everyone can get what they need. There is no conflict. Once Thailand falls into the hands of the Germans and borders the Qing Dynasty, the situation will be different. The minister is worried..."

Guan Xuqing frowned, thinking about it carefully.

"Go on." Guan Xuqing nodded.

"I think that Thailand is rich in resources, and the four seasons are like spring. Like Vietnam and Vietnam, it can become the granary of my Qing Dynasty. Germany also values ​​​​this and will send troops to plunder. Now that the attack is frustrated, I need the assistance of the Qing Dynasty. It is better not to charge German military expenses but to share Thailand equally with Germany. Although it is said that the benefits are shared equally, after all, Thailand is surrounded by my three provinces, Myanmar, Vietnam, and North Vietnam, while Germany is thousands of miles away. Qing is beneficial, or if we tear up the alliance agreement with Germany in the future, Thailand is also a fat in my mouth." Feng Xianghua said coldly.

Guan Xuqing looked at Feng Xianghua, who was spitting, and nodded secretly.Sure enough, he was right about the person, it seems that this talent is really indispensable in order to complete his grand plan and hegemony in the future.

"That's right, you're right. But Germany has basically controlled Thailand. It's just that they asked to borrow troops when they saw that the Thais in the woods had no other choice. How can Germany agree to share Thailand with us?" Guan Xuqing continue to ask.

"At first, I didn't expect that General Liu took the initiative to invite Ying. If only one division was sent to assist Germany in the future. After Thailand surrendered, the Qing Dynasty did not share Thailand's capital with Germany. I thought it would be better to send 3 to 5 divisions to take Thailand. Eat up all the rest. Then we can have a good discussion with Germany on this issue." Feng Xianghua said excitedly.

"It's a way, not bad. By the way, where is Wang Feng? We still have to rely on this lunatic in the woods!" Guan Xuqing asked.

"I've already arrived in Tianjin, and I can enter the palace this afternoon." Feng Xianghua answered truthfully.

"Okay, I want to see him this afternoon. You make a note and tell Liu Mingchuan that he will fight the battle and let him train the team well. Wait for my order." Guan Xuqing ordered.

"Cha." Feng Xianghua turned and left.

Guan Xuqing walked to the map and looked at Thailand, which was sandwiched between Myanmar and Vietnam.Sooner or later, this granary also belonged to the Qing Dynasty, and the confidence that burst out in his eyes made people have the urge to worship.Maybe there is nothing in this world that he can't do, only what he can't think of...

Competition in East Asia Chapter 1 Special Forces of the Qing Dynasty

"I see the emperor." Wang Feng knelt on the ground.

I haven't seen him for more than a year, and I'm stronger than when I first came back from Germany.It seems that training during this time in the field has been considerable for his growth.

"Pingshen, it's been a hard journey." Guan Xuqing smiled and helped Wang Feng up.

"As long as there is a war, what does this matter? Your Majesty, are you going to have sex with the Thais?" Wang Feng jumped up happily.

"Haha, you fought the battle. Don't worry, let's talk about how your special forces training is going?" Guan Xuqing pushed Wang Feng down on a chair.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I can't guarantee anything else. I just say that even my classmates in Germany may not be as good as our Qing soldiers." Wang Feng said with bright eyes.

"I heard that you selected 365 people, and now there are only 312 people left?" Guan Xuqing frowned and asked.

Wang Feng frowned and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, there were several accidents during the field survival training, and 53 people were unfortunately killed during the training. But the rest are the elite among the elite!"

Guan Xuqing frowned into the word "Chuan", and said slowly, "Have the families of the martyred soldiers received compensation?"

"It's all handled properly."