Chapter 49: This Zhuge is a strategic-level strategist! (Please collect, vote for me, recommend, and read more)

The Admiralty of the Ming Dynasty is now located on Chang'an Street opposite the Xiyuan of the Imperial City. It is a very wide compound. There are two buildings with Chinese-style roofs in the courtyard. The buildings are not high, only four or five.

There are five floors in the main building and four floors in the podium building. One building is used by the Admiralty Headquarters, and the other is used by the Naval Staff Department under the Admiralty.

Zhuge Weidao is a military diplomat affiliated with the Naval Intelligence Bureau, which is an agency affiliated with the Naval Staff. Its office is on the third floor of the left podium of the Naval Staff Building, occupying the left skirt.

The entire floor of the building is obviously a very important yamen - this is natural. Since the Ming Dynasty has pursued the national policy of peaceful development for more than a hundred years, of course the Ministry of Navy is "deficient in the five elements", and the people below are in charge of combat.

The department has no chance to make meritorious deeds, but the Naval Intelligence Bureau has many opportunities to make meritorious deeds. Therefore, the elite children from the eight aristocratic families who work in the navy have to work in the Naval Intelligence Bureau for a few years, accumulate some merit points, and then go to the army. This will make it easier to be promoted.

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As for Zhuge Weidao, with the rank of major, he got the position of attaché of the embassy in the Rakshasa Kingdom, and he also got a big project that his father had started to arrange before his death. I don't know how many people were envious and jealous. But this job

In the end, it turned out to be a joke!

Zhuge Weidao himself was accidentally shot in the Winter Palace Square, and hit in the head. He was so stupid. In order to bring the Grand Duchess back to the Ming Dynasty, he actually brought Rakshasa and Daying to marry and share the throne.

There was a push on the way. This was not over yet. Zhuge Weidao, who was supposed to coax the Rakshasa Grand Duchess Natalie back to be the queen, didn’t know whether he had really forgotten his mission or was deliberately pretending to be crazy. In the end, he seemed to have tricked the Grand Duchess.

I slept with him so that the Grand Duchess could not pass the examination by the Royal Female Physician!

Although Empress Dowager Zheng, who had been playing with Zhuge Weidao since childhood, generously helped him at the critical moment and covered up the past for him. However, the people in the Naval Intelligence Agency were all smart and felt that Zhuge Weidao was

He must be going to defend the Arctic Ocean or simply retire and leave the navy. But today, a well-informed person has revealed that although Zhuge Weidao has done a lot of bad things, the top brass of the Navy still think he has merit.

I want to give him a promotion!

As soon as the news came out, the entire Naval Intelligence Bureau was in an uproar. Isn't this too chaotic? Although the Zhuge family is powerful enough, it can't do this! Moreover, the officers in the Naval Intelligence Bureau are either from aristocratic families or nobles, and they look better than

Zhuge may not be a Taoist commander, but there are many who have a better background than him! Zhuge is just a concubine of a noble family, but now there are many direct descendants of aristocratic families or descendants of aristocratic families who serve in the Naval Intelligence Agency

The direct descendant of the collateral line.

None of them dared to imagine that they could get promoted and make a fortune even if they made a big mistake, so many of them were already ready to go to the Director of Naval Intelligence Li Tiezhu for an explanation.

But before these people started taking action, something unexpected happened to them. At noon that day when Zhuge Weidao and his assistant Guo Xiaobao returned to their office in the Naval Intelligence Bureau in a low-key manner, it was just after lunch.

, the Naval Intelligence Agency has a distinguished guest! Not just one, but a group of them!

Among them, the highest ranking person was Lin Zexu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Zheng Guoan, the Minister of the Navy, Zhuge Weiyi, the Minister of Armament, and Li Baoyi, the Director of Army Intelligence. A large group of people and their adjutants and secretaries rushed into the small auditorium of the Naval Intelligence Bureau.

Zhuge Weidao, who had already achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel, and Guo Xiaobao, who had also been promoted to captain, also followed Li Tiezhu, the director of naval intelligence, in front of everyone.

Entering the small synagogue. At this time, those who originally planned to ask Li Tiezhu for an explanation suddenly realized that something big had happened!

When the door of the auditorium was closed, a sign saying no one should enter was hung, and two guards were guarding the door, a group of naval intelligence officers with good ears and eyes began to whisper to each other.

"Hey, Zhuge Baier, what did your family 108 do? Why is there such a big movement?"

"I don't know much about this. I just heard from some old men at home that they wanted to slap the British in the face. It seems to be related to the Kingdom of Jin. Did you just see the white-faced scholar following Lin Shangshu? That was the ambassador to the Kingdom of Jin.

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"The Kingdom of Jin? The affairs of the Kingdom of Jin are also under the control of the navy?"

"Liu Laoba, you didn't know that you worked in the Jin Kingdom's embassy? The Jin Kingdom's affairs have nothing to do with the navy, but they have a lot to do with the Zhuge family."

"Yes, yes, my one hundred and eighty brother also brought back a fairy from the Kingdom of Jin. It's so beautiful!"

"Stop talking about fairies and talk about business. Is our Ming Dynasty's national policy about to change?"

"This national policy has been stable for more than a hundred years. Is it time to change it?"

"That is, the British are becoming more and more arrogant now. They also say that we are a Yellow Peril and compare us with the Mongol Empire."

"I'm afraid the national policy is not that easy to change, right? But I'm afraid there will be more opportunities for people of my generation to make meritorious deeds!"

"That would be great!"

It is true that the national policy of the Ming Dynasty is not that easy to change. Even if Zhuge Weidao has convinced some of Zhuge's military advisors in his military advisor test, a group of old Zhuge "Zhuge is only cautious in his life" will not be fooled by Zhuge Weidao's few words.

Understand.

They are just a little interested in Zhuge Weidao's plan to encourage Daoguang to print. This plan can not only cause trouble for the British, but also find out the British's background. If the British Empire cannot deal with Daoguang, then Ming Dynasty will naturally seek greater success.

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If the British Empire retreats in the face of Ming's expansion intentions, then Ming will push forward and continue to encroach on the British Empire's sphere of influence. This national policy will change in the process of advancing step by step and slowly encroaching.

In the small auditorium of the Naval Intelligence Agency, a meeting that may ultimately change the cautious national policy that the Ming Dynasty has implemented for more than a hundred years is underway.

" Sirs and colleagues, today's world is in the midst of a major change not seen in three thousand years. The starting point of this major change was the Industrial Revolution that began more than a hundred years ago. Since then, steam has

Driven machines began to gradually replace manpower and animal power, and became the power of sails on the ocean. This industrial revolution not only greatly increased the world's productivity, but also unprecedentedly shortened the distance between countries in the world.

Intercontinental travel that used to be measured in years can now be reached within a month or even ten or twenty days by ship or train. For example, taking a steamer from the United Kingdom and arriving in China via the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean, and the Strait of Malacca

The time is usually within one and a half months! The time to cross the Pacific Ocean from the southeastern coastal area of ​​our country to the New World can also be controlled in about 20 days. The time to travel south from Luzon and Borneo to Australia only takes ten days or more.

A few days. And because giant ships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons have become very easy to build, sailing across the ocean has become very safe, and the cost of shipping is low enough.

This means that the world's military powers can deploy their armies and navies to places that were originally out of reach with unprecedented speed and convenience. Compared with the era of relying on animal power and manpower for military mobilization and logistics transportation, it now spans a period of time.

The difficulty of conducting an expedition covering thousands of miles is even less than that of sending troops thousands of miles back in the day!

Think about it, if the distance between us and the British Empire is not 10,000 nautical miles, but a thousand miles, what will happen between us and them?"

Zhuge Weidao is now a strategic-level strategist!

Although his little calculations are not as good as those of the original Zhuge Weidao, and his IQ and EQ seem to be much lower, he has a strategy! What he said now made everyone in the meeting realize that the Ming Dynasty and the

There must be a great war in Great Britain!
Chapter completed!