Valley Emperor

When Chang Zhenchuan arrived at the South African port, when he was going to set up an embassy in Europe, he also tried to understand the current situation in Europe through the many Thai and Western barbarians in the South African port.

Although Chang Zhenchuan is the current Deputy Director-General of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has to be said that he has never been to Europe before, and in fact most of the officials of the European Department have never been to Europe.

In fact, most of the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have never been abroad in their entire lives, not even Nanyang.

There is no way to do this. The traffic is lagging behind these years, and the empire has always paid little attention to foreign affairs. Over the years, the biggest role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is...

All right! Actually it doesn't work!

Since the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most of the time it is a decoration, and it is recognized as the number one unpopular yamen within the empire.

Because the Empire has no foreign affairs at all.

Even after fighting with the Portuguese for a few years, when the truce was finally negotiated, it could not be called a negotiation, because the imperial study directly formulated the conditions, and then asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to give it to the Portuguese. of the kind.

That is, in recent years, after the empire completely controlled the coast of the Indian Ocean, it controlled a large number of surrounding colonies and traded with the local indigenous people. The establishment of diplomatic missions in indigenous countries in Northeast Africa.

In this way, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has found a sense of presence.

The establishment of the European embassy this time can be regarded as the biggest event since the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The pressure on Xu Zhenchuan is also very great, and before going to Europe, he also needs to understand the situation in Europe in more detail.

He also learned about the situation in Europe through various channels before, and I dare not say too much, but I still know some basic information. Anyway, he is also a professional diplomat. Even if there was no European foreign affairs in the past, he still needs to know. Know.

In the minds of Xu Zhenchuan or the vast majority of Datang people, the concept of Europe these days is relatively vague, because Datang has only had more contact with the Spanish and Portuguese in these years, and these two countries are both The global colonial powers are not weak, so the Tang Empire took these two countries as representatives of European countries for granted.

Outside of these two countries, only the Ottoman Empire needs to be concerned.

The rest of the messy countries, the empire basically did not pay much attention to it, they were just a group of barbarians, and they didn't even have an ocean-going navy, so they were not worthy of the Tang Dynasty's attention.

The same is true for Xu Zhenchuan. Before, he did the most research on the Spanish and Portuguese. As for England, he can only say that he has a little understanding, knowing that this country is now headed by women.

The supreme ruler is Elizabeth I, and the War of the Roses broke out a hundred years ago. It is said that this matter has a great influence in Europe.

But when he saw the War of the Roses, he just left England behind!

There were quite a few battles, but they were all small-scale battles involving hundreds of thousands of people. At the final decisive moment, the King Protection Army had assembled 10,000 troops.

Just think of the unification war of the empire that year, the imperial army was hundreds of thousands, and the army of puppet people on the opposite side was also hundreds of thousands. Large-scale battles of hundreds of thousands of people have been fought several times.

As for battles with thousands of people, there are countless!

Not to mention the empire, even the big names of Fusang before the return of Beihai Province fought a lot of battles with thousands of people, and occasionally large-scale battles with tens of thousands of people. When the empire landed in Fusang, those The daimyo joined together and organized an army of tens of thousands of people to try to resist the imperial division, and the result was naturally mixed.

In this war of seizing the throne in England, the total number of troops participating in the battle is estimated to be 10,000, and one of them is only a few thousand. In the decisive battle, it is said that the loser lost 1,000, while the victor only lost two Hundreds of people……

In the eyes of Xu Zhenchuan or anyone from the Tang Dynasty, a battle of this scale is a decisive battle to seize the throne.

Even the Portuguese had a native population of less than one million, but in the few years they fought with the Tang Dynasty, tens of thousands died. Although most of them were the natives they recruited, it was still tens of thousands.

Without these tens of thousands of casualties, would the Portuguese surrender?

Impossible!

Although it is said that the Rose War was more than a hundred years ago, it can also be judged that the general national strength of England is small and the country is weak.

Not worth mentioning!

Maybe England in later generations will be the world leader, but now England is just an inconspicuous new seafaring country, and even the navy can only rely on pirates to make up the numbers.

It is impossible for Xu Zhenchuan to attach great importance to it.

When Xu Zhenchuan went to Europe this time, he only paid attention to three countries: Spain, Portugal and the Ottomans.

However, since Hawkins met with the title of the Queen's Plenipotentiary Envoy, he naturally met with him. After all, although England is not very good, it can barely be regarded as an emerging seafaring country, and the Empire is a relatively important trade partner in Europe. It is also possible that the Empire of the Future could have a consulate in London.

However, after seeing Hawkins, Xu Zhenchuan changed the idea that he didn't pay attention to it at first!

Instead, he saw it as an opportunity, an opportunity to break the Spanish and Portuguese blockade of the Atlantic without costing the Empire a single soldier.

Although the empire is strong, it is still difficult to put a large number of troops in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean can be said to be the base camp of the Spanish and Portuguese, and they have the advantage of distance.

Therefore, it is very necessary for the navy of the Tang Empire to continue to weaken the Spaniards and Portuguese before launching an overwhelming sweeping offensive on the Atlantic Ocean.

But this weakening can only be limited to sea, not land

Because the Tang Dynasty also counted on Spain to be able to unite with France and other European countries to resist the attack of the Tartars.

Therefore, not only cannot be weakened on land, but on the contrary, one or two must be supported.

The Empire's foreign policy towards the Spanish and Portuguese is very complex and contradictory. On the one hand, it wants to support their ground capabilities, but at the same time, it wants to weaken their maritime control, and at the same time, it wants to continue to maintain maritime trade relations with them. .

This kind of strategy of supporting and weakening while doing business at the same time has led to the Datang Empire's series of seemingly contradictory foreign policies in the face of Europe.

Now, the country of England has allowed him to see the opportunity to implement this strategy.

England and Spain and Portugal have huge conflicts. They can fight without provoking themselves. At the same time, after the fight, the situation is controllable.

Because in terms of England's strength, it would be good to be able to develop a navy that has always been more reliable. At most, it is to find some trouble for the Spaniards and Portuguese at sea, but it will not affect the situation on the mainland too much.

"This is a chess piece that I brought up by myself!" Xu Zhenchuan said to his subordinates after sending Hawkins away, "But what he said about buying a steam battleship is absolutely impossible!"

"However, steam battleships cannot be given to them. Ordinary sailing battleships can be bought. In this way, you can go to the navy and ask if you can buy some ordinary sailing battleships for these Englishmen!"

If you want the English to make trouble with the Spaniards and Portuguese, and weaken their maritime control, it is not enough to just talk about it, and you have to give them a bit of leverage.

Besides, Xu Zhenchuan is also thinking, anyway, the empire is now fully entering the era of steam and steel warships. I heard that the navy has not built wooden warships with pure sails for several years, and the newly built warships are all sails. Steel battleship (not pure steel).

This sale of some sailed wooden warships poses no real threat to the Empire's navy, but it can put some pressure on the Spaniards or the Portuguese.

And you can make money, which is the best of both worlds!

The admiral of the African Squadron, after receiving the question from the foreign affairs official, answered simply no problem!

As long as it is not a new-style steam-steel warship~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is just a traditional wooden sailing warship, the navy does not oppose it, not only does not oppose it, but also supports it.

Even the generals of the navy took the initiative to find Xu Zhenchuan and said that the navy has many wooden sailing warships that have served for many years and are about to retire. If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is convenient, they can also help to sell one or two. Benefit fee!

The navy took the initiative to come to the door, and it was also being cleaned up, because the navy did have a large number of old wooden sail battleships that could not be processed in batches.

The Datang Navy has now fully upgraded to steam and steel.

At the beginning, the main ship was only converted into a steam-engine battleship, but after all, that thing was only a transitional product. Basically, twenty years after Xuanping, the Navy began to build a new steam-engine battleship on a large scale.

Although the construction and service of the new battleship in the navy was not very smooth, the Hebei battleship was a failure.

However, on auxiliary warships such as cruisers and frigates, the development is extremely smooth.

So far, the Navy has already served two large-tonnage sail steel cruisers with a total of twelve large tonnages. The first eight early cruisers are relatively common, but the latest cruisers that have been in service in the past two years are even more effective in combat. surpassed the Jiangnan-class battleship.

This is the new-generation cruiser of the navy, the Hangzhou-class cruiser. The standard displacement has already reached 1,600 tons. This tonnage has already surpassed the early Jiangnan-class battleships, and the combat power also surpassed the early Jiangnan-class battleships.

Of course, you get what you pay for!

The cost of Hangzhou-class cruisers also exceeds that of Jiangnan-class battleships!

This makes many admirals in the navy both love and hate!

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