Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1151

[Chapter 1139 Cape of Good Hope]

London, Imperial Embassy.

A knock on the door in the middle of the night woke Hu Chuan from his sleep. He immediately went to the door of Kang Ming’s room to wake him up. At the same time, he woke up the guards and took their revolvers and carefully went downstairs.

After the last port incident, the imperial embassy was attacked repeatedly. Radical British people often threw bricks or torches, which made their nerves become sensitive. However, the embassy could be broken into by thugs at any time.

Although both he and Kang Ming could choose to follow Yue Yun back to the empire at that time, they did not want their achievements in the past two years to be ruined, and just yesterday, they finally reached an agreement with the Scottish MPs.

As long as Scotland becomes independent, the Empire will announce its support immediately. However, Scottish MPs are also very cautious. If the Empire cannot ensure its military presence in Europe, they will not take risks.

So they prepared to send the news back and let the empire prepare in advance.

When he came downstairs, the guard looked outside and found that there were not a large number of people gathering outside. He immediately asked the guard to open the door.

At this time, an imperial man dressed as a businessman walked in swaggeringly.

Hu Chuan was stunned and asked, “Who are you?”

The businessman smiled and said, “I am the Imperial Secret Guard, and I have been ordered to inform you to evacuate the UK in advance.”

“Evacuate? Could it be that the emperor…” Hu Chuan said in surprise.

The secret guard nodded, “Britain’s rude behavior has challenged the bottom line of the empire. The emperor has officially ordered a war against Britain. In two or three months, the news of the declaration of war will be sent back to Britain.”

Hu Chuan and Kang Ming looked at each other. , Kang Ming said: “Great, our mission here has basically been completed. It’s time to teach them a lesson, but why did you come in the middle of the night? It shocked us.”

“No way, my ship just arrived Come, I’ll come find you as soon as you get off the ship,” the secret guard said. After the armistice agreement was signed, there was some trade between the empire and Britain.

He pretended to be a member of this trading company and traveled to the UK all the time. Because their business involved industrial products, the UK welcomed them.

After a pause, the secret guard continued: “When I came just now, I noticed that there were a lot of informants around the embassy. Evacuation now will definitely alarm the British, so when our ship is cleared tomorrow, you can use the usual excuse of visiting the imperial merchant ship. We boarded the ship and took the opportunity to escape. They couldn’t catch up with us anyway. “

Hu Chuan was a little worried,” since the emperor has declared war on Britain, don’t the British in the empire know about it? If they find out, we may leave. No more. “

“You don’t have to worry. This time the emperor can prohibit the British from traveling to the UK on imperial ships. This means that the British in the empire will return to the UK two or three months later than us.”

Hu Chuan and others .

The people were relieved and they said: “Okay, we will evacuate tomorrow. When we come back next time, the British will be embarrassed.”

Everyone suddenly laughed in tacit agreement.

The next day, Hu Chuan ordered all important documents to be burned, and then led the envoys to the port.

Because the embassy had the habit of inspecting imperial merchant ships in the past, the British did not show any unusual reaction.

But when the imperial merchant ship started sailing to the sea, the British who were following Hu Chuan realized that they immediately reported the news to the Tulip Palace.

“What! Hu Chuan ran away!” Vidomia said in disbelief.

She frowned and immediately ordered a search of the embassy. News soon came that all the documents in the embassy had been burned, leaving only some clothing and other debris.

Upon hearing the news, Victoria’s heart beat violently. At this time, she suddenly realized that she was overconfident.

She believed that Britain and the Empire were tens of thousands of miles apart, and that the seizure and release of ships was nothing more than a diplomatic incident. At worst, she would apologize in person, and the Empire would not mobilize troops to start a war.

But now Hu Chuan and others suddenly withdrew, which is obviously a precursor.

“All those forty-two battleships should be turned into British property.” Victoria murmured.

At this time, Murphy and Brooke had arrived after receiving the news. After confirming the news, their faces were extremely ugly.

“Your Majesty, with all due respect, we must prepare for war now. Please issue a national mobilization order to enter a state of war.” Brooke said.

Murphy

said: “We must immediately communicate with other European countries to win their support. If the Chinese Empire attacks the United Kingdom, their safety will certainly not be guaranteed. Only by uniting the whole of Europe can we survive this crisis.”

Domia rubbed his brows in pain and said: “France is now too overwhelmed to take care of itself. We must seek support from Prussia, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Tsarist Russia, and Austria. As long as they stand on our side, we can continue this war. “

Speaking of this, Victoria said to Brooke: “You should send envoys to various European countries immediately. I’m afraid the war is not far away.”

Brooke saluted and took action immediately, and Murphy was also preparing to go to the House of Representatives to announce the news. .

And just as Victoria expected, more than two months later, the embarrassed British mission returned to the UK from the Chinese Empire, bringing back the empire’s letter of war and news of the empire’s attack on the British colonies in Africa.

…

In Cape Town, Liu Chen was eyeing the area that Europeans called the Cape of Good Hope.

This is the British colonial government located at the southernmost tip of Africa. It was originally a Dutch colony, but after the Anglo-Dutch War, it was taken over by the British.

The empire has always lacked interest in Africa, and the main reason lies in the attitude of Emperor Xiao Ming.

In the court, Xiao Ming rejected the advice to introduce slaves from Africa, and at the same time analyzed the harm this would cause to the empire’s future.

Based on the law prohibiting the introduction of slaves from Africa, interest groups within the empire naturally lacked interest in Africa. After all, what the empire lacks most now is slaves.

“General, the artillery is ready and ready to fire at any time!” the captain of the King-class ironclad promptly reminded.

Liu Chen put down the binoculars with a determined look on his face. He cherished this opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

Since the departure of the Empire, he has fought all the way along the east coast of Africa. Now the ports on the entire east coast of Africa are occupied by marines.

The following imperial engineering teams will quickly rebuild these ports, and then garrison troops and supplies will be in place one by one, making these ports the supply bases of the empire.

However, relatively speaking, European power on the east coast of Africa is relatively weak. In his opinion, the real thing to deal with is the west coast of Africa.

Because here is the northwest African coast occupied by Spain, Portuguese occupation of both sides of the southern African continent and the island of Madagascar, and British and French occupation of the Gold Coast of the Gulf of Guinea, as well as the North African coast and Egypt.

However, at present, the target of his attack is the United Kingdom, and other European countries are not included for the time being.

(End of chapter)