Salutes originated in the British, and when they first began to colonize the world, the scale of warships was not very large, and the number of guns carried by the largest sail warships was 21, which is the origin of the 21-shot rule.

In the era of sail battleships, it was much more time and difficulty for humans to sail around the globe than they are now, and sometimes there was a rebellion in the colonies, and it often took a year and a half or more from the time the news came back to the time the fleet was sent to suppress it.

It is like the burning of the Old Summer Palace by Britain and France in 1860, but in fact the foreshadowing of the war began in 1856 with the 'Yarrow' incident. It took more than four years for Britain and France to communicate diplomatically and then transfer troops to finally break out into war, which shows how difficult it was to dominate the world at that time.

In fact, not only in the 19th century, but even in the 21st century, the United States, aside from those strategic missile weapons, it will take time for their aircraft carriers to drive from one hot spot to another.

It has never been easy to dominate the world, and it is impossible to suppress it by complete force, so the British Empire has always relied on deterrence and support to effectively control its colonies.

At this time, you can see the benefits of the salute, anyway, the colonies are also a group of inferior primitive people, every time the warship passes through a port, it first blows up a round with empty shells, anyway, there is no projectile that can't hurt people, but in the roaring firelight, the visual conflict and deterrence of the weaker people are full.

If you want to conquer inferior peoples, you must first make them afraid, what the Chinese like to do is to give grace and power, but the West is not like this, their order is just the opposite, first to establish authority and then to give grace, anyway, if you are not completely convinced first, they will not believe any rhetoric from the other party.

Salute originated from the deterrent strategy of the navy, but with the growing strength of the British Empire, the gradual expansion of overseas colonies, until the emergence of the empire on which the sun never sets, this means of deterring with salute gradually disappeared, but as a ritual of the navy has been passed down.

The 21-gun salute, which is the highest courtesy of the British Royal Navy to the head of state, is used today on the body of Ryukyu Prime Minister Xiao Lotte.

Boom Boom Boom ...... The loud sound of the salute echoed across the North Sea, and in the firelight and white smoke were the faces of the French soldiers, who seemed to be back in Trafalgar at that moment, and the scene of Nelson slapping the French navy in the face appeared again.

21 salutes are courtesy in Xiao Letian's eyes, but in the eyes of the French, they are a threat to Chiguoguo.

Your French fleet is only three poor small-tonnage cruisers, and you still want to show off your might in the waters of the North Sea? Who gave you the courage to do this? Look at our British Royal Navy, three battleships, five heavy cruisers, you have to be polite to the Prime Minister of the East, where do you dare to humiliate the Prime Minister of a country?

Sometimes there is no need to say the words, everyone knows that the world is always the last word.

The French battleships were silent for long, their expedition was an order issued by Napoleon III himself, and for the sake of the emperor's dignity, they could not leave without even a fart. So, after a long discussion with the French captains, they finally decided to put a tough fart on the British...... Oh, no, no, no, it should be said that it is extremely tough negotiations.

"Dear British allies, we are a diplomatic vessel sent by His Majesty the Emperor of France to greet the Prime Minister of the East, and our task is to receive Mr. Xiao Lotian to Paris as a guest, this is a normal diplomatic action, please do not interfere...... Ten minutes later, the French Navy will send a small boat to meet the Prime Minister of the East, hoping that you will not make an impolite move......"

When the flag was passed to the Sovereign, the British Navy's eyes widened in disbelief: "Oh God... Are these French people crazy? How dare they speak to the Royal Navy? Crazy......"

"It seems that the information is accurate, this time the French operation was ordered by their emperor himself, these poor soldiers must show us tough, otherwise they will not be able to go back to the business......"

"So what should we do? Huh...... Dare to lose your temper in front of the Royal Navy, I'm sorry, we have never looked down on you French pride......"

"The fleet accelerated, cutting between the French and the Prime Minister of the East...... Separate them... Tell the French that our British Navy is not responsible for any scraping incident......"

As the most powerful military force of its time, the British Navy not only had the strongest warships, but also the best soldiers. Under the captain's orders, the eight warships were cut in as if they were being operated by a sophisticated computer, drawing extremely standard arcs and cutting in like a sharp knife.

This time, Xiao Lotian could be regarded as seeing the main battleship up close, and he and his new army officers had only one feeling, that is, big, surprisingly tall.

From the waterline to the deck, it is a full five stories high, and the entire captain has exceeded 60 meters by visual inspection, and the three-story shooting deck is densely packed with closed gun doors, which look like the dense eyes of a kraken from a distance.

The sailors on both sides of the deck stood with their hands behind their backs, standing as straight as javelins, and their white sailors' uniforms and proud expressions showed that they had rolled on the iron-blooded battlefield.

The poor Portuguese merchant ships were not half as tall as a human warship, and everyone had to look up at the mountain-like battleship, while the English sailors on deck could easily look down on it.

Xiao Letian's face was a little hot, he couldn't keep eye level with the British sailors when he stood on the mast, they didn't have much respect in their eyes, but they had a little pity, maybe in the hearts of these British soldiers, although the bloody battle of Shiqiao was a miracle, but it was like that.

In the eyes of the Royal Navy, these Chinese can barely reach the point of making the Royal Navy treat them equally, and as for what respect and the like, it is a joke in the hearts of the British Navy.

"Damn, isn't it just bullying us, China doesn't have a navy? Isn't it just that it captured the city of Beijing six years ago? Is it worth being such a cow? Lao Tzu's brother is no more ...... than any of you?"

Xiao Letian was secretly scolding in his heart, but he knew very well in his heart that the British had such a bull's confidence, and until World War II, Britain's naval power was the most powerful in the world, and it was the only one and not one.

At this time, Xiao Letian looked down at his brothers on the deck, and he suddenly found that these 'rabble' who were bandits, Taiping Army, and Ryukyu people two years ago actually matured all of a sudden, and this maturity was not even noticed by himself.

As long as all the brothers can stand, they all stand on the deck with the most standard military qualifications, and their chests are almost taller than women. Don't look up at these British soldiers, but the iron-blooded murderous spirit of the brothers after a hundred battles can also deter those arrogant sailors.

Gradually, the officers and soldiers on the Monarch found it strange, and countless soldiers put away the instructions in their hearts, and their eyes showed a bit of incredibleness, and some even stood more standard in their frontal military posture.

"What's going on?" The captain who was negotiating with the French, with thirty years of experience in leading troops, he didn't need to look at it, he could smell it with his nose, and he could smell the strangeness in the army.

When he turned to the port side and looked down at the dwarf Portuguese merchant ship, the old captain couldn't help but gasp, "Oh... What a strong military temperament...... What a cold gaze, I believe that the intelligence is true, this group of people really created a miracle, this kind of military momentum, only the elite of a hundred battles can have ......"

The captain of the ship suddenly stood upright, raised his hand and gave a military salute to the Chinese soldiers, and the other officers and men on the Monarch saw that the captain had saluted, and everyone did not dare to slack off and salute collectively.

Xiao Letian smiled and nodded, raised his hand to salute the British Navy, and thought with great emotion in his heart, "Is there still a prime minister in this world who stands on the mast and salutes?" Haha, I am really the first person in the ages...... Haha, but one thing I'm sure of is that I, Xiao Letian, must be the youngest prime minister in the world, and other old men can't climb him if they want to......"

The actions of the British fleet made the French completely speechless, and their foreheads were bruised with anger, and when the eight battleships separated them from Xiao Lotian, the mission was a complete failure.

"Flag Message...... Continue to issue the flag...... Sue these Frenchmen that if they insist on going their own way again, it will cause diplomatic disputes...... I can't guarantee that it won't go wrong...... Yes, that's what I said, and I'll send the flag right away......"

This flag full of gunpowder ignited the anger of the British at once, and as countless orders sounded, the gun doors on the side of the battleship facing the French were all opened, and the murderous guns were aimed at them.

"Leave and evacuate...... Please don't challenge the endurance of the Royal Navy, and please don't delay our mission......" replied the Monarch with incomparably forceful response.

The French breathed a sigh of relief, "Hurry up, what about the cameras, record the scene where the British are preparing to open fire, with these pictures we can make the difference, at least to make His Majesty less angry......"

These French captains were really smart, and the threat they had just made was just to get the British to make a closer threat, so that they could be exempted from responsibility in front of the emperor when the time came.

The French got the 'evidence' they wanted, and the British Navy would not care even if it saw through the French calculations, this is the arrogance of the strong, even if Napoleon III could punish all of France, but in front of the British Royal Navy, he could not do anything.

"Look, my lord, France has retreated...... The group of grandsons escaped...... Hooray..." all the fishermen and sailors on the sea shouted excitedly, only these Chinese still calmly looked at the British battleship.

The tiger drove away the wolf, so what is the conspiracy of the tiger? God knows...

Note: Yesterday afternoon, Xinjing's right eye suddenly watered, photophobia, and the eye examination was acute keratitis, but I started to have a headache and fever last night. Today I spent the whole day in a coma, and I was half-blind.

The one in the morning is even more saved.,And now what you see is that I covered my right eye.,Coding it out in the one-eyed dragon pose.,There may be a typo.,Everyone bear with me.。

Tomorrow's two watches can only be tomorrow's yard, and it will be very slow, but I promise you that there will be two more.

Remind everyone, you must save with your eyes, now you can't see anything with your right eye, you cry when you see the light, and your right side hurts when you half pull your head, it's really uncomfortable......

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