Chapter 110 Why is it Hiroshima and Nagasaki again? (Luo Luo, please pursue reading, please pursue reading!)

Longzhongzhuang, Beijing Institute of Technology Building, conference room.

Eighteen "Zhuge Liangs" gathered together in one room. Everyone was wearing a silk scarf, a crane cloak, and a feather fan in their hand. Each one was really more mysterious than the last!

Zhuge Weidao, like other Zhuge strategists, now pretends to be "Zhuge Liang". He is still waving his feather fan gently in the middle of winter. Not to mention how proud he is - he has now truly entered the decision-making level of the Ming Empire.

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Even though his current military rank is still lieutenant colonel, his position can be promoted to captain of a cruiser. But the Ming Empire has such a system at the moment. Even if the members of the core group of the eight major families are white men, they still belong to the decision-making circle of the Ming Dynasty.

The Zhuge family's military strategist group undoubtedly has the most say among all the family's core groups - after all, these Zhuge strategists are able to make calculations, and they can also lead other aristocratic families to make a fortune together.

Zhuge Weidao knew at a glance that if this system continued to develop, the eight great families would most likely evolve into a deep state, hiding behind the scenes and controlling everything.

"Fellow strategists, I am already 76 years old this year. I will be 77 years old on the first day of the Lunar New Year the day after tomorrow. In a blink of an eye, I am old and it is time to step back from my position. Moreover, I also want to go back while I can still move around.

Once in Europe, I will meet old friends for a while, and by the way, I will represent the Ming Dynasty to discuss naval arms control with various countries. So after the New Year, I plan to resign from the position, and then lead an arms negotiation delegation to France."

The old man Zhuge Weijiu opened his mouth with explosive information, which instantly interrupted Zhuge Weidao's thoughts. He looked up and found that the other military advisors were also a little surprised, and they all turned their attention to the man who actually controlled the Ming Dynasty as the Right Prime Minister.

An old prime minister who has been in power for more than thirty years.

"Great Military Advisor, you are about to retire. Which of us can take over as right minister?"

The person who asked the question was Zhuge Weiyi, the Minister of the Navy. Judging from the interested look on his face, he must have been addicted to the idea of ​​becoming prime minister.

Zhuge Weijiu stroked his beard and said: "I told Zheng Yiguan (Zheng Guozhong) about this, and it's hard for the world to stop talking. Now is the time when everyone needs to work together, so our Zhuge family and Zheng family can't continue

Monopolizing the phase has to be done by others. I, the Zhuge family, will take the lead in this matter, and let Yu Shaoquan be the next right minister. He is not too young, and he should be the one in a few years.

If you retire, you, Lao Shi, will take over the position when the time comes. In addition, Yu Shaoquan’s Household Department will be taken over by Zheng Shiguan (Zheng Guoan), the Secretary of the Navy, and the Ministry of Navy will be given to you, Lao Shi."

After hearing what the great military advisor said, Zhuge Weidao also sighed a little. Of course he knew what the old man meant by "the long mouth of the world"?

The New Ming Dynasty has implemented compulsory education for so many years and opened so many universities, which of course has opened up the people's wisdom. Of course, the people of the world, especially the knowledgeable people in the world, are dissatisfied with the long-term monopoly of politics by the eight aristocratic families!

In the past two years, the economy of the Ming Dynasty has not been very prosperous. In short, it seems that the positions of the left and right prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty are either Zheng or Zhuge.

So Zhuge Weijiu and Zheng Guozhongcai discussed letting Yu Shaoquan, Yu De's uncle, known as "Old Master Yu" Yu Quan (Shaoquan's nickname), take over, and at the same time move the Zheng family's Admiralty Secretary Zheng Guoan

The position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs was vacated for Zhuge Weiyi to take over.

Zhuge Wei paused for a long time. Seeing that no one objected, he said to Zhuge Weiyi again: "Old Shi, last time we Gongdao Guang Emperor tested the British, and the result was a paper tiger who was strong on the outside but weak on the inside! Continue.

Now it’s time for the British to invade Japan to find out our background. Japan is an island country and has no land border with the Ming Dynasty. If it wants to provoke a provocation, it must be at sea. We can’t be like the British and be tested by others.

Paper tiger!”

"How is that possible?" Zhuge Weiyi said with a smile, "Our Ming Dynasty Navy already has ten 'Hongwu Emperor' class ships in service! How can the Japanese Navy be our opponent?"

Zhuge Weijiu shook his head and said: "We not only want to win, but we also want to win beautifully, win quickly, win big, and win quickly! We want all the countries participating in the Versailles Naval Peace Conference to know that I am invincible!

Lao Shi, I heard that the Japanese Navy has four Four Heavenly Kings ships specially designed to deal with our iron-clad ships. Each of the Four Heavenly Kings ships is equipped with a 320 mm caliber cannon. Our Hongwu Emperor class cannot let them

We can sink one, not even severely damage it! If the navy is embarrassed when attacking the Japanese navy, not only will the Japanese Congress fight more and more vigorously, but Western countries and even the Rakshasa Kingdom will side with Britain and oppose us."

Zhuge Weiyi almost laughed out loud after listening to the words of the military advisor: "Great military advisor, your words are too unprofessional. The Four Heavenly Kings ships are simply useless junk ships. It is not good for a ship of more than 4,000 tons to be equipped with 155mm cannons.

?Even if it cannot penetrate the armor of the ironclad ship, it can still bombard the targets on the deck. But those little Japanese have to stare at our eight or nine thousand ton prince ship, and they have built a 320 mm cannon, one for each ship.

And there are still two Heavenly Kings ships in the front, and two Heavenly Kings ships in the back. Could it be that in a war, the two bows are facing the enemy, and the two ships are facing the rear. Hahaha, are you kidding!"

As he spoke, the man couldn't help it anymore and burst out laughing.

But having said that, these four "Tenno ships" named after the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings are indeed rubbish. The weird design of small boats carrying cannons greatly reduces the density and accuracy of firepower, and the hit rate must be appallingly low.

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Don't go up against the Ming Dynasty's older generation "Prince"-class ironclads (named after the Ming Dynasty Prince's royal number). That would be too much of a bully. Just use three or four thousand tons of cruisers to deal with them, and that's pretty sure.

As for the Hongwu Emperor class, isn’t shooting the Four Heavenly Kings like target shooting?

Zhuge Weijiu turned to look at the Chief of Naval Staff Zhuge Weiyong again. Zhuge Weiyong smiled and said: "Brother Ten is right, the Japanese navy is definitely not our opponent, and it doesn't need three major fleets to gather together. One Beiyang Fleet can do it."

The Japanese navy was easily dispatched."

The Ming Dynasty Navy has three major fleets: Beiyang, Nanyang, and Mainland. Among them, the Nanyang Fleet, which is responsible for sea control and defense in the Nanyang Islands, South China Sea, and Malacca Strait, is the absolute main force. Seven of the ten Hongwu Emperor-class ships in service are under the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Fleet.

Next. The Beiyang Fleet is weaker than the Nanyang Fleet, but stronger than the mainland fleet. It has the remaining three Hongwu Emperor-class ships to support sea control and defense in the Ryukyu Islands, around the Japanese archipelago and the North Pacific to the waters near New Manchuria. And the mainland

The fleet is a fleet that looks after homes and homes. It is packed with a bunch of old ships and only operates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

"Brother 108, you are also a navy man, please tell me." After Zhuge Weijiu listened to Wei Yong's opinions, he thought of Zhuge Weidao who was really good at calculating and wanted to hear his opinions.

Zhuge Weidao was not as optimistic as the two of them. He frowned and said: "Since the main force of the Japanese navy is not our opponent at all, they will not easily leave the port and die. They will probably huddle in Wugang to protect their ships and avoid the war. At the same time, they will send out

Light boats and armed merchant ships engage in a sea-attack attack battle! Ten brothers, fifty-one brothers, tell me, if the Japanese navy adopts this tactic, how should we break it?"

"This." Zhuge Weiyi is a shipbuilding expert. After hearing Zhuge Weidao's words, he immediately thought of a disguised attack ship, "Daozi, you are right! Although the Japanese have built crappy ships like the Four Heavenly Kings, which are small boats that can carry big guns, but

Most of their naval admirals studied in the UK, and their navy consultants were all hired with high salaries from the UK. They probably don’t really think that they can rely on the Four Heavenly Kings to fight us in a fleet battle. I think most of them secretly built many attack ships, which they usually wear

Merchant ships, they will suddenly set up their artillery and open fire when they get close to our merchant ships!"

"How to deal with this?" Zhuge Weijiu asked.

Zhuge Wei said with a dark face: "To deal with raiding ships, the usual way is to organize an escort, that is, to gather the ships into a team and escort them with cruisers or destroyers. The firepower of the cruisers and destroyers should be enough to deal with the raiding ships.

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Zhuge Weidao said again: "What about the raiding ships laying mines on our route?"

"Well." Zhuge Weiyong's face turned even darker, "I'm afraid the loss is inevitable!"

At this time, Zhuge Weidao saw the confident look on Zhuge Weidao's face, and knew that he had a solution, so he shook his feather fan and asked: "One hundred and eighty, if you have any clever tricks, please tell me!"

Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "As long as the Tokugawa shogunate surrenders, won't all problems be solved?"

"But how could the Tokugawa shogunate surrender so quickly?" Zhuge Weijiu said, "If their navy does not go out, and the attack ships can defeat the battle and achieve results, they may have the idea of ​​​​selling for a price. Unless we

A large-scale landing! But Japan can mobilize an army of millions, so the landing will be difficult."

"No need to land!" Zhuge Weidao shook his head, "Grand Military Advisor, do you know the situation in Nagasaki City and Hiroshima City?"
Chapter completed!