In November 1871, Xiao Lotte took the Zhiyuan and formed a joint fleet with nine French warships, returning from Britain to Asia.

Prussia restored Xiao Lotte more than just one Zhiyuan. In the Battle of East Frisia, Zhiyuan sank a total of three ironclad ships and seriously injured and captured four cruisers. The remaining French fleets were captured by the Prussian Navy, except for a small part of them who fled.

These prisoners of warships would never be returned to France. Part of them were dragged to William's military port with the Zhiyuan, and part of them to the Hamburg Shipyard, and began maintenance and renovation.

In order to express his admiration for the Chinese navy, the German side gave Xiang Ying the greatest priority in the allocation of captured warships.

You Chinese choose these warships first, and the rest are from Germany!

After joint investigation and research by naval officers and soldiers and engineers... Xiang Ying spent most of her time between William Military Port and Hamburg Shipyard when she was not with Xiao Letian.

From these chaotic French warships, Xiang Ying selected nine battleships, one of which was a battleship and the rest were fast cruisers!

It’s not that Xiang Ying showed high style, but that those French battleships were really useless. They had completely different ideas from the Zhiyuan since the beginning of their design, and could not be modified at all in the later stage.

A large number of French battleships are all set of sail battleships, with small calibers arranged on both sides of the left and right, and a large number of naval guns. The entire battleship is designed in the keel according to the most outdated ideas.

Only the Chinese people who eliminated warships like this are not allowed. There is only one that has the possibility of transformation and upgrading, so Xiang Ying stayed.

But cruisers are a good thing. Although the design idea of ​​this thing is also problematic, it has a fast speed. It can become the best firefighter at the critical moment when the Chinese control East Asia in the early days.

Anyway, within thirty or fifty years, Xiao Letian was not ready to go to war with the Western powers, especially naval warfare. So the important task of the early Chinese navy was to control Asia.

Do those backward nations in Asia need advanced Zhiyuan series of warships to deal with? There is no need at all. In the eyes of the unknown Asian people, these French-made iron-armored cruisers are already the magic weapon of the Dragon Prince.

You don’t need to kill a chicken, so cruisers are the best!

Nine warships guarded the Zhiyuan and began to return from the Mediterranean to Asia. Twenty-four steam freighters purchased by the Chinese were accompanied by the Chinese, which could temporarily serve as supply ships.

After Asia, some of these freighters will fill the navy and some of them can be auctioned into private shipping companies. This is a sure-fire deal.

Thirty-four cash steam-powered ships formed a huge return fleet, and several treasure ships followed. Such a scale was of course nothing in front of Britain and France.

But in the eyes of other European countries, it is already a very powerful military force!

The fleet sailed to the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Portuguese and Spanish navies looked at the modern army in horror, and then looked at their hybrid warships with sails, all of them lowered their heads in shame.

All the shore defense turrets on the Spanish coastline were actually ordered by the king and were wrapped in cannon coats to show respect for the Chinese fleet.

Xiao Letian smiled, and he grabbed the wrist of the Wing King and shouted excitedly, "Did you see it? My old brother, have you seen it? This is the glory of victory in the foreign battle!"

"If you are a Chinese man, you have to fight a foreign war! Let's fight against the world's powerful countries. Only in this way can you get respect from others!"

"I took their Philippines, and they didn't even dare to point cannons at us. This is the dignity that the winners won!"

"Don't think that Europe is really the center of this world. I have been here. I have seen their reality and I know how many contradictions there are within them!"

"Not only should we use barbarians to control barbarians, but in fact, these barbarians themselves are also full of cracks in their internal areas. The contradictions between capitalists and poor workers, the contradictions between different parties, and the contradictions between emperors and emerging forces..."

"The development between countries is extremely unbalanced, and many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are simply not as strong as ours!"

"How many loopholes? Lost holes are waiting for us to find... In this era, our Chinese people are destined to rise. As long as we are willing to open our eyes and take a look, just look!"

Xiao Letian was so excited that tears flowed, and even the Wing King was moved and tears rolled up his eyes.

"Before I came to Europe, I thought this was an invincible country. The country that could create strong ships and guns across thousands of miles of seas was almost invincible in my subconscious!"

"But when I came to Europe and lived here for many years, I saw the real life of all classes here with my own eyes, and I realized that this place was also messy!"

"It was not until I saw it with my own eyes that I understood how many opportunities we missed back then!"

"Not only the Kingdom of Heaven, but also the Qing Dynasty, were all blind people who were unwilling to open their eyes to the world. Failure was inevitable!"

Xiao Letian held the Wing King's hand, "That's right, my old brother, it's not difficult for us to catch up with China in this era. As long as you are willing to open your eyes and see the world!"

"The iron curtain of Europe has not yet fallen, and we can still catch up with the gap in technology! Europeans are not a game of chess, they have more internal conflicts!"

"We can completely get the new technology of blockade by Britain and France through the curves of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries!"

"The industrial products that the British refused to sell, as long as we do a good job in diplomacy, the United States and Germany can always satisfy us!"

"Even talents, they can't lock them up! Do you know how poor Eastern and Central Europe are? Where are the smart people, how long do those scientists want a world to show their hands and feet?"

"As long as we open our eyes and look at the world, as long as we are willing to take the initiative to go abroad, we will have countless opportunities!"

Listening to Xiao Letian's excited words, Director Wang laughed behind him, "That's right, even as long as we are willing to spend money and thought, these Europeans can still work hard for us!"

"Look at the Paris Commune. These people who have no support for life at the bottom want to improve their class! This is a huge volcano, it depends on how they use it!"

"In order to fight the civil war and survive, these Europeans can sell national treasures. Hundreds of thousands of academic treasures in the French Library said they would sell them to us!"

"What a great internal conflict. As long as we can use it well, are we still afraid of Europe?"

At this time, the Wing King said with a serious expression, "We can take advantage of the internal conflicts of Europeans, so won't the internal conflicts of Europeans take advantage of the internal conflicts of our China?"

"Look at the Qing court, between Manchu and Han, between the ocean and the continent, between Confucianism and Western learning... how many contradictions can be exploited, how can the enemy let it go?"

"Hahaha... Then let's hurt each other! This is a world that hurts each other, it depends on who can survive to the end! I firmly believe that the one who laughs to the end must be our Chinese!"

Note: That...that...that...that is on the 27th today. Can I ask for another wave of recommendation votes?

It seems that the goal of 5,000 is difficult to achieve.
Chapter completed!