Chapter 48: The Way to Balance the Power of Great Powers
After seeing the Fearlessness, Churchill felt something was wrong. It seemed that Tang Jian had agreed to be a little relieved, and sold the Fearlessness structure map to the UK. For Tang Jian, in addition to making a huge amount of extra money, it did not seem to have any substantial benefits to China. (eng.com)
Churchill hesitated for a while and then asked Tang Jian: "President Tang Jian, aren't you worried that our UK will pose a threat to you after having the Fearlessness?"
Tang Jian's eyes rolled around and cursed in his heart, "It's such an old fox, I smelled the smell so quickly."
"Haha." Tang Jian smiled and said, "His Excellency Churchill, this is not the issue I have considered. You know that since the founding of China, our capital has been very short of funds and is really powerless to support some industrial undertakings. Your country's huge sum of money will help me achieve economic growth. I think after your country is strong, it will not necessarily threaten China. After all, after China is developing rapidly, and only Russia and Japan are threatening China. Your country's land is so far away from the far east. Aren't East India and Africa your main sphere of influence?"
After Tang Jian's explanation, Churchill felt a little relieved. Based on the actual situation in China, according to Tang Jian's words, China really needs this amount of funds, perhaps because he was overly worried.
In order to divert Churchill's attention, Tang Jian said, "His Excellency Churchill, and General Michelle, I want to invite you to watch a good thing?"
"What good thing?" This trip to the Far East gave Churchill too many surprises. After Tang Jian said this, Churchill couldn't wait to see what Tang Jian said with his own eyes.
Michelle and Churchill have the same mentality. Seeing Tang Jian’s mysterious appearance, they also had a faint expectation in their hearts.
Tang Jian gave an order to the Captain of the Fearless Captain Wu Yingke, and then came to the fore deck of the Fearless Captain. Soon after, a target ship slowly sailed out of the port and finally broke down at the sea surface of the five nautical miles away from the Fearless Captain.
Churchill asked in surprise: "President Tang Jian, are you going to show us your new weapons again?"
Tang Jian nodded, indicating that he was defaulted.
After the sailors on the target ship on the distant sea, they took a barge and left the target ship's position and returned to the original formation of the East China Sea Fleet.
Tang Jian smiled and said, "His Excellency Churchill, look carefully!"
After saying that, Churchill and Michelle stared at the target ship on the sea in the distance. However, after waiting for ten minutes, they still couldn't see any movement on the target ship.
When Churchill turned his puzzled eyes to Tang Jian, Michelle jumped up and exclaimed: "Torpedo! It's a torpedo! God, where suddenly a torpedo appeared?"
Churchill looked in the sound and saw a red-headed torpedo shooting at the target ship on the sea at a speed of up to 40 knots. Snow-white waves gushed at the tail of the torpedo.
How could a torpedo suddenly appear? Churchill looked around and he obviously didn't see the ship in the East China Sea Fleet launching an attack! But in this case, a torpedo appeared mysteriously on the sea surface.
No! It's two, three!
Three torpedoes shot towards the target ship on the sea in the distance!
This time, Churchill saw clearly that these three torpedoes were shot from the bottom of the sea! Is this the rumored submarine? Churchill thought in horror.
Churchill is not unfamiliar with the new weapon of submarines, because a few years ago, when the Beiyang Fleet defeated the Russian Pacific Fleet and the Japanese Joint Fleet, his ships who had watched the naval battle saw that Russian and Japanese warships suddenly exploded on the sea surface and caused the sinking. At that time, everyone thought that at that time, it was because the Russian and Japanese warships were torpedo attacked by the Beiyang Fleet's surface ships, detonated the ammunition depot, causing several main ships of these two countries to suddenly sink. It seems that this is the masterpiece of this kind of submarine.
Submarines were once mentioned on the agenda of the Navy as a research project, but the British Navy Minister at that time felt that the ships underwater could not exert much power and should vigorously develop surface ships, so this research project was grounded halfway. On the contrary, Germany. Since the advantages of water ships were far behind those of Britain, Germany has been tirelessly studying such submarines that can fight underwater. However, due to technical problems, German submarines have been staying in their docks and have not yet been launched. Unexpectedly, they have been researched one step ahead of time.
Just after Churchill was stunned, three red-headed torpedoes hit the target ship one after another. After several loud noises and thick smoke in the sky, the target ship sank into the seabed in an instant.
Michelle was full of horror and stared at the vortexes on the sea without moving his eyes. It turned out that the Chinese East China Sea Fleet already had such a powerful weapon. Fortunately, he had lost his mind impulsively just now. If he had fired the fire first, his flagship Queen Elizabeth would have been hit by this mysterious weapon and sank to the bottom of the sea.
"How is it? Lord Churchill, how about our secret weapon?" Tang Jian stared at Churchill jokingly.
Churchill's face turned red and white, and he felt embarrassed and ashamed. He just angrily rebuked and threatened Tang Jian, which was a joke in Tang Jian's eyes. Even if negotiations were not reached and the two sides broke out in naval wars, the East China Sea might very well become a failure place for the British Far East Fleet.
Churchill laughed awkwardly and clapped: "Awesome, amazing. I didn't expect that President Tang Jian's navy would have such a powerful secret weapon. Today it really opened Churchill's eyes."
Churchill shook Michelle while speaking, and Michelle immediately lowered her head in shame. Her arrogant arrogance disappeared without a trace. If Churchill hadn't tried his best to disturb her, Michelle would not have been able to go back to see the British King alive.
"Can you see the true face of this secret weapon with your own eyes?" Churchill made a reluctant request.
Unexpectedly, Tang Jian waved his hand and said without any attention: "Of course, Lord Churchill is now our distinguished guest in China. We will naturally not refuse the guests' warm requests. Captain Wu!" Tang Jian nodded to Wu Yingke.
Wu Yingke understood and immediately ordered the submarine troops to float up.
More than ten minutes later, six huge black shadows slowly emerged from the seabed. In front of Churchill and others were six "spindle"-shaped underwater ships. The ships were black and streamlined. Although Churchill could not see the specific situation below the submarine's sea surface, Churchill knew that the surface of the six submarines was loaded with torpedo launch tubes that could launch torpedoes. Otherwise, the target ship just now would not have sank under the torpedo attack so quickly. Torpedoes should be the main attack weapon of the submarine.
Churchill thought for a moment, walked to Tang Jian's side and said, "President Tang Jian, this submarine is really a powerful weapon in the water! It can sink the ships on the water without knowing it. It is simply the nemesis of the battleship. Its military value is no worse than the Fearless!"
Tang Jian had guessed what Churchill was thinking at this time, so he said in a difficult manner: "I'm sorry, the submarine is the highest secret of the Chinese Navy, and I can't give up."
"That's right!" Churchill's eyes flashed with dimness, and then he said, "President Tang Jian should ask him to offer a price! There is no weapon in this world that cannot be bought with money."
Tang Jian shook his head, sighed, and explained: "Sorry, Lord Churchill, you also know that there is a secret agreement between us and Germany. We have sold the latest technology of submarines to Germany and can no longer be sold to third parties."
"What...... sold to... Germany?" Churchill was shocked. Germany was the mortal enemy of Britain. If Germany had a submarine, wouldn't the English Channel and even the entire North Atlantic become Germany's world? This seriously threatened Britain's dominance in Europe.
Churchill said anxiously: "President Tang Jian, is it really not possible? Do you know how rich Britain is, and we are fully capable of buying submarine technology."
Tang Jian spread his hands helplessly and said, "I guess this is not something that Your Excellency Churchill can do on his own? If you want to increase your naval armament, you must pass the approval of the British Navy, and you must go through the vote of the parliament and only take effect after the king's personal signature. If Your Excellency Churchill really wants to buy a submarine, it is far from enough to rely on his own subjective intention."
Tang Jian said this is the truth. Vigorously developing British naval warships has always been the basic national policy of Britain, but it was not as easy as expected to buy a submarine. After all, after the submarine research project was proposed, it was immediately rejected by the old guys in the Navy, not to mention being able to pass the parliament. Britain has never been interested in submarines. If Churchill had not seen the huge power of the submarine with his own eyes, he would have been even more disdainful of such small ships.
When Churchill accidentally scanned the cunning in Tang Jian's eyes, he immediately understood what was going on. Tang Jian was indeed a complete profiteer. No wonder he was so confident about betraying the structural diagram of the Fearless Account. It turned out that he had already made plans in his heart.
Selling the structural diagram of the Fearless to the UK and then selling the submarine technology to Germany, Tang Jian knew that Britain and Germany were incompatible, and at this time both countries were in a naval arms race. After selling these two secret weapons to Britain and Germany, Britain and Germany would fall into a crazy arms race again and have no time to look east. This is Tang Jian taking advantage of the conflict between Britain and Germany to divert Britain and Germany from the Far East.
Just when Britain and Germany were in a quarrel in Europe, China had already developed rapidly under a stable situation.
What a trick of killing two birds with one stone. Tang Jian is well versed in the balance of a great country! Churchill thought in shock.
Chapter completed!