However, reality proved that he was a fool with a lot of money.
The warships sold to him by the foreign powers were all former Dreadnaught-class battleships and Dreadnaught-class battleships.
These two types of battleships looked intimidating, but in fact, their speed, armor, and cannons were all inferior to the super-dreadnought battleships that the foreign powers had just equipped.
After decades of development, the foreign powers had been improving the design of the dreadnought. Increase the caliber of the main cannon, improve the protection of the turret, gunpowder storage, and other parts, take key protection measures, thicken the armor of important parts, reduce or cancel the armor of non-important parts, pay attention to horizontal protection, and protect against torpedoes below the waterline.
As a result, the super Dreadnaught-class battleships with faster speeds, stronger firepower, thicker armor, and larger tonnages were born.
The foreign powers knew that the pre-Dreadnaughts and Dreadnaughts that they had built before were about to be eliminated by the super Dreadnaughts, and they just happened to encounter Qianlong, this sucker.
Then what were they waiting for? It was a crazy sale!
The Fearless class that was under construction was sold off!
Those that had just entered the water, even those in service, were sold as a package!
Moreover, it was sold to the Qing Dynasty at a price that was half the cost of the production. It was no different from robbing money.
The Empire of the Sun Never Sets, France, the Germanic Empire, the beautiful Caesar Empire, and other naval powers had more or less cheated Qianlong.
After getting the money from the scam, he started building the super Dreadnaught-class battleship without a second thought!
In 1748, Qianlong was dissatisfied with the unbridled dumping of goods and plundering of wealth by the foreign powers. He ordered the increase of customs duties, and the second trade war officially broke out.
The majestic and confident Qing Royal Fleet set sail, preparing to fight the allied fleet of the foreign powers in Donghai.
In the end, the fleets that had been built with a huge amount of money were sunk one by one in less than half a day.
When the news of his defeat reached the Forbidden City, Qianlong instantly aged by ten years!
He finally realized that the Qing Empire had lost its right to speak and could only be trampled upon.
However, the turn of events came very quickly. A large-scale chaotic war broke out in Europe. More than a dozen countries participated in the war, and tens of millions of soldiers participated in the war. The battle was extremely intense.
Seizing this opportunity, Qianlong gritted his teeth and increased taxes. In two years, he collected taxes from the past six years. He spent a huge sum of money to buy a large number of warships from the Germanic Empire of France, which was short of money to fight. He rebuilt the Qing Royal Fleet!
What Qianlong and his civil and military officials did not notice was that while they were focusing all their energy on the West, the Mishima Japanese slaves had already risen under their noses.
In October 1751, when the European war entered its most intense peak, Gao Li was in chaos.
Because the Eastern Learning Association was dissatisfied with the royal family's oppression, they gathered tens of thousands of people and marched toward the capital in a short period of time. The Li Dynasty was unable to control them.
Fusang seized the opportunity and set up a wartime base camp on October 5th. With the excuse of protecting its own citizens, they began to land on Goli on the 15th.
It was also Fusang's move to enter Gaoli that led to the final declaration of war between the Qing Dynasty and Fusang. The city of Hanoi, guarded by the Qing generals, quickly fell, and the four armies of the Fusang army destroyed all resistance here.
After that, the Fusang Army not only crossed the Yalu River and entered Liaodong, but also provoked the Qing Royal Fleet in the Yellow Sea. A naval battle between the two sides immediately broke out.
However, the final result shocked the world. The Royal Fleet that Qianlong had spent a lot of money to build was destroyed in the war and suffered a crushing defeat!
At this time, Qianlong and his dog slaves finally woke up. It turned out that the Qing Dynasty could not even defeat the small country of Fusang...
After the defeat, not only did Gao Li become a colony of Fusang, but the northeast was also forced to be rented to Fusang!
Qianlong recalled the painful experience and finally began to wonder why the Qing Dynasty, which he thought was invincible, would be defeated again and again, completely defeated.
After reading a large amount of European history and combining it with the brief history of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong came to a fact that made him autistic.
Ever since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and settled the Central Plains, the national policy that they had implemented had been wrong from the beginning. It was a huge mistake!
The Qing Dynasty was rich in martial arts and was number one in the world?
His great-grandfather Emperor Shunzhi, his grandfather Emperor Kangxi, and his father Emperor Yongzheng were just frogs at the bottom of a well.
As early as more than a hundred years ago, the European powers had begun to develop colonies around the world to plunder massive amounts of resources, and industrial technology had developed rapidly.
However, the reason was that his grandfather, Emperor Kangxi, had issued a national policy of closing the country off, which made the Qing Dynasty fall far behind the world.
If they had seized the opportunity of the industrial revolution back then, with the huge population and rich resources of the Qing Dynasty, they would probably have become one of the superpowers by now!
Would he still be bullied by the foreign powers again and again?
Would he even be beaten up by the Fusang shorty that he had always looked down on?
The most painful thing was that he had to cede territory and pay compensation to the perpetrator!
Grandpa, dad, are you all muddle-headed?
Qianlong was in despair.
In the end, he could only endure the humiliation and suck up to the foreign powers, increase taxes internally, squeeze the hard-earned money of the common people to develop the industrial system, and build a new army on a large scale.
Gou Jian, King of Yue, endured hardships and tasted gall. Three thousand Yue soldiers could swallow Wu!
Not only do I have millions of square kilometers of land and hundreds of millions of people, but I will also be able to defeat the foreign powers one day and make the Qing Empire the number one empire in the world!
However, the tragedy was far more than that…
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