Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1135

[Chapter 1124 Four Fleets]

Royal Study Room.

Pang Yukun placed a document in front of Xiao Ming, “Your Majesty, this is the purpose of Brooke’s coming to Qingzhou this time.”

“Steelmaking technology, high-precision machine tools, metal bullet casting technology.” Xiao Ming read Brooke’s name on the document. The asking price felt ridiculous.

Pang Yukun was also dumbfounded. He said: “The British are really out of their minds. Do they still think they are qualified to ask for money from the empire?”

“The arrogance in the bones of these Westerners cannot be changed for a while, but they soon You will understand where you should put yourself,” Xiao Ming said coldly.

“Then how should I reply to Brooke? In addition to discussing these issues this time, Brooke also brought a British mission to prepare to set up an embassy in Qingzhou.” Pang Yukun asked.

Xiao Ming was still reading the documents. The British base for asking price this time came from three points. The first was the war between the Ottomans and Persia, the second was the empire’s strategy in North America, and the third was the war between Tsarist Russia and the empire in Central Asia.

According to Brooke, as long as the Empire agrees to export these three technologies to Britain, Britain will mediate the war between Persia and the Ottomans, provide help to the Empire’s soldiers in North America, and attack the United States together. ‘

At the same time, they will stand on the side of the empire on the issue of Tsarist Russia.

“Go and tell Brooke that Persia will definitely defeat the Ottoman Empire in the next three months without British mediation. In addition, there is no problem with the empire’s supply of North American supplies and there is no need for British intervention. Regarding Tsarist Russia, the empire will teach them a hard lesson. “Pause.” Xiao Ming said in a strong tone.

Pang Yukun smiled and said, “I will go back and tell Brooke now. I think his face will look ugly.”

After sending Pang Yukun away, Xiao Ming remembered the news from Hu about British bribery and threats to them.

He called Yue Yun and asked him to send a team of forty-two warships to pay a “friendly” visit to Britain.

Dengzhou.

Yue Yun had an excited look on his face after taking Xiao Ming’s call. Liu Chen on the side asked, “Is there another war?”

“No.” Yue Yun’s smile did not diminish.

Liu Chen looked disappointed, “What else can make you happy?”

“The emperor asked us to send a fleet to Britain for a friendly visit.” Yue Yun said.

Liu Chen was even more puzzled after hearing this, “A friendly visit to the UK? What is there to be friendly with those bandits?”

Yue Yun stood up and came to the world map hanging in the office. He said, “This friendship is not really friendly. , but to show the power of the Imperial Navy to Britain.”

Liu Chen suddenly became interested, “Hey, this is interesting. Anyway, I have nothing to do now. Why not go to Britain and go around the coast of Europe? Let those Europeans see the power of the imperial navy.”

“That’s what the emperor means.” After saying that, Yue Yun walked out of the office and looked down at the steel battleships parked in Dengzhou Military Port.

Two years have passed since the Battle of India. In the past two years, the empire’s warships have surged from the original thirty to one hundred and twenty today.

Nowadays, the Empire’s steel battleships can be seen on important routes around the world, and some of them are even equipped with the Empire’s radio system. Through the radio, battleships can communicate with each other, making the cooperation between battleships a leap forward.

With the increase in the number of warships, the Imperial Navy’s organization has been reorganized, and the former Qingzhou Fleet has been officially renamed the Pacific Fleet.

In addition, the empire has also established the Atlantic Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet, and the Arctic Ocean Fleet. Each ocean fleet is composed of three fleets. In total, the empire will have a total of twelve fleets.

These twelve fleets will rule the entire ocean.

However, although the numbers are available, the current number of warships in the empire is not enough to be allocated to all fleets.

So currently, the empire only has 40 and 80 warships in the Pacific Fleet and Indian Ocean Fleet respectively.

The remaining two ocean fleets still need to wait for the launch of warships.

“Deploy thirty warships from the Pacific Fleet and twelve warships from the Indian Ocean Fleet. This time we will make Europe tremble in front of the imperial warships.” Yue Yun was in high spirits.

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Qingzhou.

Brooke quickly received a disappointing reply from Pang Yukun. The queen’s confident trading chip turned out to be a bad card in front of the empire, and it did not even cause a ripple.

Moreover, from beginning to end, the emperor and cabinet ministers did not come out to meet him in person, but only conveyed their intentions through Tang Wenjie.

Just from this point, it is enough to see that they have overestimated the importance that the empire attaches to them. The most powerful country in Europe is nothing more than dispensable in the eyes of the empire.

“Ambassador Brooke, the cabinet has decided on the location of the British Embassy, and you can start making preparations from now on.” Tang Wenjie suppressed a smile.

After Brooke exchanged these opinions with him, he told Brooke that it was impossible for the Empire to make a deal with Britain.

Now the facts have proved his judgment, because for the empire, it is fully capable of coping with the current situation, but the technology that Britain wants is strictly blocked for the empire.

Brooke’s mood sank to the bottom. The six months of trekking had yielded nothing, and no one would be in a good mood.

“I hope you can seriously consider that one-third of Persia’s territory has been occupied by the Ottomans, and it is impossible for them to turn defeat into victory.” Brooke’s words contained a warning tone.

Tang Wenjie remained calm. They had long known that Europe was behind the Ottoman attack on Persia.

It can be said that behind the war between the Ottomans and Persia was actually the game between Europe and the empire in Central Asia.

If the empire agrees to Britain’s conditions, it means that the empire has failed in the game.

In his view, this was of course intolerable to the empire, not to mention that it was too absurd for the West to use this matter to obtain the empire’s technology by simply giving some obsolete weapons to the Ottomans.

“Pang Shoufu has clearly told me that there is no room for maneuver on this matter, and the empire will not accept any compromise.” Tang Wenjie said word for word.

Brooke opened his mouth with a very ugly expression. This time he was destined to return empty-handed. As a last resort, he threatened: “Don’t the empire want the British market?”

“This is clearly stipulated in the armistice agreement. You guys What does it mean? “Tang Wenjie asked cautiously.

“Sometimes an agreement is just a piece of paper.” Brooke said aggressively.

“Sometimes children will be spanked if they disobey.” Tang Wenjie refused to give in, implying that the empire would use force to force Britain to fulfill its agreement.

(End of chapter)