I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Two days later, in the Parliament building, Old Churchill leaned on a cane, and with the support of a waiter, he talked to many MPs.

"Gentlemen, I cannot stress enough that India is the internal combustion engine of our British Empire's economic development, but at present we are fighting German thieves, Ottoman robbers, and Chinese tyrants for the civilized world!

Just having an internal combustion engine is not enough to get us ahead in this long race.

Now, what do we need to stabilize prices and get our exchange rate back on track? "

"Is it to reduce currency issuance?"

"Just reduce the bloody money supply and we'll bring prices down!" shouted one MP.

"Idiot, that would ruin our economic miracle!"

Churchill stomped on his walking stick and said angrily, "It's gold, gold! You idiot!"

"It's clear that through smuggling and illicit trade, our gold reserves are being squeezed out bit by bit. This is the root cause of the lack of confidence in our pound in the market, not because we have printed a little more money, okay ?

I can use my family's honor to guarantee that the current government has not printed more pounds at all. There must be other, more essential reasons for the soaring prices!

That's Ming people playing tricks!

They are stealing our gold with industrial products!

But for the time being, we don't have the ability to cross the Atlantic to punish those squinty-eyed thugs.

but!

If we can't deal with Mingren, can we also deal with others?

There is one and only one way to solve the current dilemma of precious metals, especially gold shortage, and that is to completely conquer South Africa, the country established by those two Boer bastards!

According to the latest information from the agents of the Empire, the newly discovered gold reserves in the Transvaal far exceed expectations. It will be a huge fortune, a fortune enough to keep our empire running and eventually win all wars!

And those Boers only have a population of 20, and the warriors of our British Empire can drown them every time they spit!

To use an old Chinese saying, they are walking on the streets holding gold!

I believe that as long as there are [-] regular troops, it will be enough to wipe out these unworthy guys, let the light of justice and reason shine on the dark southernmost tip of the African continent, and put those dreamy gold mines into our -in the middle of Great India! "

Chapter 735 Landing in South Africa

"I didn't go to India, but India rushed to me."

——"The Diary Manuscript of Li Hongzhang, Duke of the Tang Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, October 13st, Dewu Year 21"

When the Partridge Fleet landed on a remote coast called Erlandsbai, 200 kilometers northwest of Cape Town, neither Li Hongzhang nor Zheng Baoguo realized that they were on the right path to attack the Governor's Palace of India. .

In fact, although intelligence shows that Wen Tianwuxi, the British Cape Town authorities, are all busy making money, there are only 1000 British regular troops stationed there, and the rest are militias and black servants. Sir Buckley was even more busy dealing with the scandal that the half-race daughter left by himself and the black maid was discovered by the official wife of a large European family.

But Li Hongzhang finally decided to avoid his edge in the first battle, land from a relatively remote place, gain a firm foothold before making plans.

This is mainly because, compared with naval battles, Li Hongzhang is still a little more sure about land battles.

He originally planned to bombard the east coast of India, to enjoy the addiction of the big powers, relying on his trust in Admiral Zheng Baoguo.

But now, when he can't tell whether he is a dish or a fool, Li Hongzhang still decides to personally command the battle with Yingyi.

In this way, land warfare is naturally appropriate.

Regardless of his 80-year-old age, the old Li Yinshu acted as a guide and guided such an excellent landing site.

Many years ago, Li Yinshu and some Chinese laborers were shipped to Cape Town to build a blockhouse.

The sailboat encountered wind and waves and was forced to anchor in a hole in Elandsbye.

Li Hongzhang felt that if the old general Zheng Baoguo had half of Li Yinshu's ability to know the way, the road to India would not be so difficult.

The login process went smoothly.

Nantang's fleet is quite large, similar to the immigration transport fleet of Ming Dynasty, but Nantang obviously does not have the planning and scheduling skills of the Ming Dynasty Immigration Bureau.

Landing without a dock has always been a technical task in warfare.

The Southern Tang side didn't understand it at all. On the contrary, the old general Zheng Baoguo had some experience in transporting walrus meat for a long time.

In the end, it took two full days to land and move the baggage.

Fortunately, the place where the southern foot of the northern African plateau meets the southwestern lowlands in the lower part of the Elandsbai coast has not yet been developed and valued by the British Cape Town authorities.

Therefore, the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty set up camp and were not harassed.

For this campaign, Li Hongzhang brought all his family background.

Among them, Li Hongzhang's brother-in-law Li Hezhang led a pro-standard battalion of 3000 people, all of which were made of two-year German military rifles, a full set of Ming Dynasty bulletproof helmets, and equipped with 20 Ming-German Friendship cannons and 10 Iron Buddha heavy tanks. Spend 1200 machine guns.

Four main forces:

Liu Mingchuan led the Mingzi Battalion with 7000 people, equipped with Minghua 2.0, a small amount of body armor, 50 fast guns, 300 three-wheeled motorcycles, 50 Hanqi tanks, 15 Iron Buddha tanks, and 3000 flower machine guns.

Pan Dingxin led the Dingzi Battalion with 6000 people, equipped with Minghuahua 2.0, 50 fast guns, 200 three-wheeled motorcycles, 10 Hanqi tanks, 5 iron stupas, and 2600 flower machine guns.

Zhang Shusheng led the Shuzi Battalion with 5500 people, equipped with Minghuahua 2.0, 50 fast guns, 150 taels of three-wheeled motorcycles, 5 Hanqi tanks, and 2000 flower machine guns.

Wu Changqing led the Qingzi Battalion with 5000 people, equipped with Minghua 2.0, 40 fast guns, 110 three-wheeled motorcycles, and 2000 flower machine guns.

and also:

Kaizi camp, Qizi camp, Xiongzi camp, Jiezi camp, Chunzi camp, Shengzi camp, Zhizi camp, Dezi camp and other miscellaneous troops totaled more than [-] people.

Such an army does not talk about spiritual attributes, but in terms of strength on paper, it is much, much better than when Zhu Fugui started his business on the west coast of North America.

Historically, when the Beiyang Army faced the Japanese invaders during the Jiawu period, their equipment was actually not bad.

However, just "not bad" is not enough to guarantee Li Zhongtang's victory.

But now compared to the three melons and two dates that the British placed in Cape Town, the military appearance of Nantang can be described as "crushing".

Li Hongzhang is still very confident in the equipment crushing game.

When he was in Shanghai, he relied on foreign guns to suppress the remnants of the Small Sword Society and the Taiping Army, and his fight was indeed quite methodical.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have looked down on Zeng Guofan secretly, thinking that his level of running the army was bad.

Therefore, Li Hongzhang believed that within ten days, his partridge flag could be planted on the building of the Governor's Mansion in Cape Town.

But before that, Li Hongzhang discovered a strange thing.

It turned out that when the Southern Tang army set up camp and was about to take a rest and head south unexpectedly, some scouts reported that they had captured several savages who were spying on the camp.

Li Hongzhang laughed loudly when he heard the words, "This is the place where the Sanbao eunuchs got the unicorns back then. There are Kunlun slaves all over the place. You guys are really making a fuss!"

However, when the scouts brought the captives up, Li Hongzhang was dumbfounded.

It turned out that the one who was captured was indeed a savage!

Although it is a bit dark, it is far less dark than Kunlun Nu.

And these guys don't know why, although they are very ugly, they look like the mysterious people of China.

Li Hongzhang looked at his staff, everyone stared wide-eyed, not knowing what was going on.

If Zhu Fugui were here, he would definitely recognize that the so-called "savages" captured by Li Hongzhang and the others were actually not blacks, but the real aborigines of South Africa—the San people.

The San people are also a fossilized human race with a very ancient history.

Essentially, it has nothing to do with Asians or East Asians or Chinese.

From the perspective of the human evolution tree, East Asians and Caucasians are on the same branch, the so-called yellow-white race, and the two are separated by only 2 to [-] years.

The yellow-white race and the black race could merge into the same branch more than 7 years ago, while the San people formed a separate branch alone.

But the amazing thing is that the skin color of the San people is much lighter than that of black people, which is very close to the skin color of tanned East Asians.

Moreover, the San people live in the high latitudes of the African plateau, and their geographical environment is very similar to that of the Central Asian plateau where the ancestors of East Asians lived.

Therefore, after convergent evolution, the San people have become the only people in the world who have single eyelids and the so-called "Mongolian folds" except East Asians.

This has led to the fact that the San people do have a certain resemblance to East Asians in appearance, which is somewhat confusing, especially when they have not mixed with blacks in large numbers like later generations. (as pictured)

Li Hongzhang tried to communicate with these savages, but completely missed the point.

Finally, Li Hongzhang sent people to search around, and finally found the savage's lair 20 miles away.

It is not objective to say that it was found.

Because they live on the dry plateau, the thatched villages of these San people are very conspicuous.

Li Hongzhang was not sure whether these savages were lackeys of the British, so he decided to kill them.

When the Southern Tang army picked up their rifles and loaded the bullets, those savages also stood behind the grass shed and took out their simple bows and arrows.

These poisoned bows and arrows are actually very powerful if used for hunting.

But they are nothing compared to powder rifles.

At the same time, a savage who looked like a leader guarded the two children behind him, and while opening his bow and arrows to make a threatening gesture, he yelled loudly in an almost pleading voice.

Li Hongzhang was about to give the order to shoot, but Zheng Baoguo stopped him.

Zheng Baoguo had communicated with the natives in the Aleutian Islands before, and he didn't think it was wise to kill these savages who looked a bit like the Chinese people.

Staying in Daming all the year round, the so-called close Zhu Zhechi, Zheng Baoguo is well aware of the beauty of strong propaganda.

Among other things, with strong announcements, when the army is fighting, they will have the answer to why they are fighting, and the will to fight will be greatly improved.

Taking a step back, based on Zheng Baoguo's understanding of the Long Live Lord, he likes to be famous and promote righteousness.

If the Southern Tang side gets a strong declaration of this land, at least it will be convenient to ask for more Ming aid from Ming Dynasty.

To put it simply, as long as you dare to invest resources since ancient times, Liangzong dares to invest.

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Chapter 736 I Explain My Opinion

After repeated identification, Zhou Yushan finally discovered that the savage leader seemed to speak English.

Although the accent was very heavy, very strange, and his speech was very rusty, he did speak English.

It seems that he probably had contact with the British, and even the so-called slaves were imprisoned by the British.

Therefore, the village is hostile to outsiders, but they also try to communicate with outsiders.

The leader who has seen the world knows that if the opponent is really an invader similar to the British, it is impossible for his tribe to defeat them.

"You... you are not British, you are not Boer, you are not Bantu... Who are you? Friends? Enemies? Or the ones who will end us once and for all?"

The wildling leader asked the tribe to lay down their weapons.

Although he didn't recognize the sudden visitors before him, he knew the muskets in their hands.

At least 20 San lived in South Africa before Western colonists arrived.

But now, this tribe of less than 30 people is the last San tribe on the west coast of South Africa.

According to history, the San people in the south of British Cape Town and the west coast will be completely extinct, while the San people in northern Namibia and southern Angola will linger in some wild places, with a total number of only 3 to [-] people, and the African blacks exploded. The rate of population growth is completely incomparable.

"Is this savage asking who we are?"

Li Hongzhang said to the interpreter, "Tell him that I am acting on behalf of Tianxunhun... Forget it, he doesn't understand. Tell him that I am here to destroy Yingyi. Let's see how he responds."

In essence, Li Hongzhang didn't care about any bullshit savages.

He did a lot of massacring villages and villages when he was encircling and suppressing the Taiping Army, not to mention some savages.

But the words of old general Zheng Baoguo are indeed reasonable.

Not to mention that today's Emperor Zhu has a suspected hobby of collecting dogs.

It is the emperors of all dynasties since ancient times, who doesn't like the card of the coming of all nations?

Even the gang of nephew emperors in the Southern Song Dynasty, didn't they like the chieftains of the small countries in Nanyang to present their vassals?

Anyway, there are only about twenty savages, and they can't do any tricks.

Just keep it.

When the time comes to dedicate it to the emperor, it may be considered auspicious.

Savages are dispensable to Li Shaoquan, but to the savages, what Li Shaoquan said is not intended to be a matter of life and death.

When he learned that they were coming to destroy the British, the leader of the savages suddenly cried and yelled.

He threw the poisoned bow and arrow aside, knelt down on the ground, then turned around and yelled loudly at the people in the native language.