"The Germans are in Europe wanting a guy named Messchmitt. The British Empire learned from reliable channels that this gentleman seemed to be under the protection of your country. From the friendship between us, the British Empire was reluctant to see your country committing crimes against Germany. And as His Majesty the Great Emperor knew, Germany had a considerable degree of alliance with Russia. ", Ogne, expression was humble, but what he said was full of warning.

I was stunned for a moment. It turned out that he was talking about the German who offended the Prince of Prussia. This matter was not actually secret. With Britain's strength in China, it was naturally able to connect the German statistics with the foreigner who returned to China recently with diplomatic missions. But, what do they want?

"According to the proportion of losses, the losses of the British Empire account for the vast majority of the losses of the joint fleet. The warriors who died in your country will provide pensions according to the pension standards of the British Navy. And this money will naturally be discussed by the British Empire with the Japanese government." Ogne did not answer my question positively. While saying, he looked at me. When he saw an unhappy look on my face, he then changed his expression with a particularly sincere expression: "My country has a deep friendship with your country. If such a thing really leads to disagreement with Germany, the British Empire will find it difficult to choose a position. Therefore, in the consideration of your country's concern, your country can hand over the damn wanted criminal to our country. As compensation for your country's face, the United Kingdom can consider that your country will negotiate war reparations with the Japanese government in any way, including total war."

This is equivalent to acquiescing me to blackmail the Japanese, but the British wanted to return Mr. Messchmit so much, which made me feel a little doubtful. I relieved my mood and breathed a sigh of relief: "If there is really a wanted criminal, I will consider your proposal, I will ask. If there is really such a matter, I will reply to you as soon as possible. Please come back."

"Go up--" As I winked at Kou Liancai, he felt that he raised his duck's voice and shouted, leaving Ogne, who was slightly anxious, in the hall. Wu Tingfang from the General Administration there naturally made a gesture of inviting him.

It's time to meet Messerschmitt. This matter is not as simple as it appears. It's not that China's bad relationship with Germany is exactly what the British people think. Whether in terms of trade or politics, it is an extremely beneficial thing to the UK. Even in arms trade, the two main flagships of the Chinese Navy, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, are both German products.

Do the British really care so much about me? Not sure? After summoning Guo Songtao to inquire, they learned that Messerchmitt did have some top-secret information that he had not had time to submit to the German intelligence department, but the details were untrue, saying that he had to meet the Chinese emperor and only handed over these things to the Chinese side after receiving the promise of state asylum.

What exactly is this? Is it so valuable?

Guo Songtao is already seventy-four years old and looks weak. He coughs while talking, his face is pale, and he seems to have passed away for a few years. Thinking of this person's bad reputation among the people, I can't bear it, so I wanted to call an imperial physician to treat him, but he struggled and smiled and refused. After a violent cough, sweat beads appeared on his pale face. He struggled to kneel down on the ground for three kneeling and nine kowtows, and then raised his head and was already full of tears: "Your Majesty, I'm going to give such a gift for the last time. I've been in Europe recently and I'm rare to face the saint. I'm old and old, and I'm also covered with a slander.

, I have been without a face for a long time. When I was young, I thought that I would like to have a hand in my heart and build a three-foot sword for the country to build a fortune. Now I think about it, I am ignorant and crazy. In the second year of Xianfeng, I was lucky to have a harsh and controversial bandits under the army of Zeng Wenzheng, and to promote a army to defeat Gan bandits and build a hundred boats in the river. It is also considered to be a contribution to the Qing Dynasty. I was favored by the late emperor and was appointed as an editor of the Hanlin Academy. I have been sent abroad many times. From this, I saw foreign ships, foreign guns and cannons, so I was devoted to Western affairs. In the first year of Guangxu, I was ordered to envoy Ying and the wild scholars and harsh leagues. I was already angry and left my parents' country and worked for ghosts and barbarians. Hey, who knows that I am fully committed to the country, who knows?"

"I know, I know you, Guo Songtao." My eyes turned red. This old man has suffered countless infamous throughout his life. Who knows his difficulties?

"The emperor is wise." Guo Songtao insisted on ignoring the gesture of letting him get up, and still knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Since the emperor took power, the Qing Dynasty has been changing rapidly. Even though I am in the barbarian country, I am very relieved. The Qing Dynasty is revived, and there is hope for the revival of the Qing Dynasty!" Guo Songtao smiled a little, and then coughed again. He smiled apologetically and said, "I dare to die as my parents, die as my parents, and I don't want to come back and die in my hometown. I am from Xiangyin, Hunan. When I returned this time, I did the last thing for the Qing Dynasty and did not dare to beg for rewards..." Speaking of this, I sighed long and shook my head and smiled bitterly: "I am also afraid of ridicule and slander, but I dare not return home, but I finally died as my parents..."

"Long live my emperor, long live my life——" Guo Songtao solemnly bowed again, raised his head to wipe away the tears and said, "I will be ordered soon, I will leave..."

I waved my hand in a daze, and watched his old and thin figure step by step and struggle to walk out of the hall. I couldn't help it anymore, so I got up and chased him, greeted Kou Liancai, and helped Guo Songtao out of the Ganqing Gate together, and sent it to his sedan chair. Then I looked up at the sky and sighed.

"Emperor." Guo Songtao smiled peacefully on his face and said lightly: "I can be supported by the emperor with his own hands. Even if I die a hundred times, I will have no regrets. Master Weng and others are old. Although they say differently, they are about to die and their words are good. The emperor should not blame them."

I looked at him and nodded, and waved my hand to let the sedan chairman get up. (Real history Guo was deposed and returned home in 1879, and this book has been slightly modified.)

I calmed down in the palace for a long time. I knew about Guo Songtao's story before, so I was so emotional. How important was the last thing he did for the Qing Dynasty? I really should have gone to the Ministry of Justice in person.

It is my will to be sent to the Ministry of Justice for temporary detention. If this person is noticed by someone who is interested, the consequences will be extraordinary. In fact, the British are already threatening, and Ogne's meaning is very obvious. If this person is not handed over to them, the British will naturally reveal the news to the German side.

Of course I am not a person who is easily threatened, but it is not wise to easily commit crimes between Britain and Germany. This matter must be handled properly. This is also the reason why I interrogated foreign prisoners in the special detention room of the Ministry of Justice for the second time in just a few days.

Under my instructions, Messchmitt was well cared for in prison. Although his messy hair looked a little eye-catching, his face obviously didn't look like he was suffering.

I saw him as the emperor, which was extremely favorable. When Shanqi asked him to kneel down and kowtow, I even signaled to forget it. However, Messchmitt still looked lazy and had an unruly smile on his slightly sad face. He looked at me and nodded, "Are you really the Emperor?"

I was a little bored and nodded and said, "The British are looking for you, and the Germans are looking for you. It seems that you have caused a lot of trouble. This is also the reason why you came to my Qing Dynasty? Tell me, do you want me to hand you over to the Germans or to the British?"

"Have you made a decision?" Messchmit looked at me with his head held high and said, "If so, please give my body to my motherland and let them bury me in the hometown of Lüneburg, with me..." At this point, he suddenly became crazy, his face flushed and red, and his teeth burst out: "My poor, honest and honest parents should be buried together! What kind of burial is used for? No, no, no, I don't want to bury me. If you have to, then let the great immortal Germany!"

The translator translated his hysteria to me, and I could hear some pain from it, so I stopped the guards around me from coming forward to stop him. He ordered a cup of strong tea, which might help relieve his depression.

After cursing Germany, Messchmitt began to curse the German royal family again, cursing from William II, going back to the eighteen generations of ancestors and all German state machines. It took a long time to calm down, slumped on the ground, inserted his hands into the messy hair, and grabbed his hair angrily. Hands of hair were pulled out and thrown into the ground, some of which were still covered in blood, and he kept twitching.

I waited for him to calm him down while looking at his file. After a bowl of strong tea, Messchmitt truly returned to his calmness, his face was pale and gasping for breath.

"I am very willing to help you." I smiled at him kindly and said, "Tell me, don't you say that you have something special and can only hand it over to me?"

Messchmit looked at me straight, and suddenly shook his head and said, "Forget it, your Majesty should give me to the British. I am willing to be punished by them. You are a good person, and I don't want to implicate your country. Besides... your country and Britain are all ally. You must know that in the British intelligence agency, my code name is Mephisto." Messchmit raised his face and looked a little proud. (Mephisto, one of the Seven Demon Kings of Hell.)

"Okay." I reached out to him, smiled, and made a handshake gesture. I wasted enough time on him.

Messchmitt raised his hand helplessly and shook it with me. He was a little excited, which could be seen from the trembling of his palm. I smiled and said goodbye, and pulled out my hand and prepared to leave. It was really unwise for me to do this with the emperor. Although I could have a premonition that this guy must have a big thing in his hand, I was already very sincere in coming in person.

Sincerity has come, whether the transaction can be successful depends on luck.

"Notify the person from the General Administration and take him to Ogne." I walked to the door, stayed for a while, and spoke to Liu Guangdi.

"No! Wait!" Messchmitt suddenly jumped up, and the guard beside him quickly pulled out his knife and put it on his neck. He blushed and said stutteringly: "Misunderstanding... I've been misunderstood. Your Majesty, I've come up with a way to not cause trouble for you, so I'm very willing to make a deal with Your Majesty."

Oh? This guy was so squeamish that he was thinking about this. I couldn't help laughing and waved to the guard to remove the knife.

There was indeed a big guy on Messchmitt. In his private cell, he actually laid a large volume under the floor tiles. Seeing him carefully lifting the thing out, Liu Guangdi glared at the kneeling prison guards around him. Shanqi took him back to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice, and Messchmitt spread the volume of the wax seal.

"RoyalSovereignClass", what caught my eye were these three English words, Imperial Power.

I looked around and Liu Guangdi immediately understood, raised his hand and pressed Messchmitt's hand that spread out the scroll, and said to me: "Your Majesty, Prince Su, I am rude, I want to register the names and identities of the people present."

I nodded and said, "I can trust you and Prince Su Zai Wang, and everyone else will write it down. There will be half of the matter today to be passed on to the outside, and I will be asked to kill one by one." I turned to Zai Wang and said, "The same is true for the guards. I have killed a lot in recent years, and I don't care about killing ten or eight more. What I mean is to set a rule first. Do you know?"

"Zhe——", everyone agreed repeatedly.

As I stepped back, I raised my hand and signaled Messchmitt to present the scroll to me. When I expanded it, I saw that it was all the design drawings of the Imperial Power Battleship, and all the engineering data were marked one by one on it...

In my memory, I kept thinking about the historical evaluation of this class of battleship, but found that I had no specific impression, so I had to look at his design drawings carefully.

Messerschmitt interjected: "Last year, the British had already started building this class of battleships. I risked my life to steal this drawing from Britain. I originally wanted to dedicate it to the Prince of Prussia who served in the navy, so as to receive fair treatment on my promotion. But..." Messerschmitt gritted his teeth and smiled awkwardly: "Maybe, I should have fallen on a woman."

"Then, if you offer this, you should be able to make up for the bad relationship between you and the prince? After all, it is not his decision." I know about the Prince of Prussia. At this time, he was just an intermediate commander in the navy.

"It's late." Messchmitt said with a wooden face: "I'm in my hometown of Lüneburg, and several wooden houses suddenly caught fire at night. My parents were sleeping in the room, and... my eleven-year-old sister." At this point, he covered his face and cried bitterly. After a while, he raised his head and said silently: "It's the damn Heinrich, I will definitely kill him!"

Indeed, as the youngest brother of Emperor William II and the grandson of Queen Victoria of England, Prince Heinrich of Prussia, how could a small intelligence officer put on a green hat on himself? It was normal to set fire to kill people in anger.

However, what I am in trouble now is not this, but this drawing is like a useless rib. It is indeed a good thing, but... China does not have enough industrial strength and cannot be handed over to the UK for production. Germany can consider it. However, Messerschmitt may have some ideas. But don't, it's a pity. After all, it is the most advanced navy battleship design drawings...

Moreover, how should we deal with the British's pursuit to protect Messchmitt? I asked Shanqi to accept this person, but I returned to the palace with a lot of difficulties.

In the study of Yangxin Palace, I unfolded the design and looked at the imperial power design.

The designed displacement is 14,000 tons, the ship is 135 meters long, 25 meters wide, and 9 meters draft. The main firepower is double-consecutive twelve-inch cannons (305 mm, the same as the Dingzhen two ships.) two front and rear. Six-inch cannons are five on the left and right sides. One hundred and ten millimeter four-piece cannons are five, and ninety-three millimeter cannons are four. The firepower is strong, and the data in all aspects exceeds the Dingyuan level or above.

The power system uses two reciprocating steam engines, with a designed output power of 14,000 horsepower and a maximum coal loading book of 1,200 tons. The excellent power system allows such a huge ship to reach 18 knots, which is a very fast data. Only light cruisers can reach this number for ships today. This is a battleship of 14,000 tons.

At the same time, four 450 mm torpedo vehicles were designed, making this ship with extraordinary attack power.

In terms of protection, the design is also very good. The thickness of the armor in the waterline is 370 to 450 mm, and the deck armor is 70 mm. The turret ranges from 230 to 360 mm according to the importance of different positions. The artillery profile armor is 163 mm, and the command tower has the strongest protection, reaching 380 mm.

This ship is far twice as high as any of the naval ships currently in service. If it appears in East Asia, two such battleships lead a formation, which is enough to kill the navy of any country. I not only have a strong idea of ​​wanting to have.

What a pity. In my country, industrialization has just emerged, and such a project is unimaginable for China. Even the United Kingdom has just started construction last year. This thing is a pity... Can I really have to give up?

Leave it to the Germans? A thought suddenly flashed in his mind. There is danger. It may be exposed that Messerschmitt is in China, because I am worried that Messerschmitt is not the only intelligence officer in charge of this project in Germany. If Germany can get this drawing from other channels, it will be clear that it is against Germany.

I smiled bitterly. Now looking at the world, the shipbuilding industry in Britain and Germany is still more reassuring. Whether it is handed over to ponytails or to Jiangnan, this is no different from notifying the two governments...

Suddenly, my mind flashed. I was so stupid... I placed an order directly with the shipyard, just talk about the general technical data, and let the shipyard do it in detail. Yes, that's right, I also have to organize some Chinese shipbuilding people to learn other people's designs, which is equivalent to spending money to cultivate my own ship design major. Yes, that's it.

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