"Our comrades in Prussia, eager to break a silver dollar in half, used all their strength to raise us a large amount of munitions, a rifled Mauser barrel, a high-hardness firing pin, the latest telegraph parts, boiler instruments, safety explosives for sappers......"

"We can't produce these arms for the time being, do you think the British will let these arms be transported to the Ryukyus safely?

There was a dead silence in the conference room, and everyone stopped talking, only the sound of heavy breathing and angry eyes mingled.

"Therefore, we must close the net in advance, we need Jiangnan's wealth now, we must stabilize Jiangnan's paper money credit, and then draw out real money to buy arms!"

"The British can blockade the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, but they can't blockade the Pacific! Now the Carnegies have promised to match us up and increase arms exports...... But the price!"

Xiao Lotian shook his head: "People can't help but bow their heads under the low eaves! Who makes us weak, who makes us unable to produce a lot of things? This money has to be made by the Americans ...... them."

Bang...... There was a loud bang, it was Cai Mao's fist slammed on the table, but it couldn't solve any problems, the gap in national strength can't be made up by feelings, you can't do it, you can't do it.

Xiao Letian's prediction is still very accurate, although the intelligence blockade of the Ryukyus is very strict, but for those battle-hardened old foxes, no clue can escape their eyes.

The Ryukyus intelligence is blocked, and people don't know the situation on the main battlefield, but the British intelligence officer will calculate the time! 30,000 troops robbed a vault, 48 hours should be enough, but now that three days have passed, why is there no trace of the Russian fleet?

Wasn't Molière supposed to be in regular contact with French intelligence? Why hasn't there been a sound until now?

Looking back at the countless Chinese gathering areas in Nanyang, and then looking at the people in Jiangnan who have been continuously buying paper money on dips, if all this does not explain the problem, it can only be said that the British are idiots.

Under the coordination of the British Counsellor in Beijing, the forces of the whole of Britain and East Asia made a pessimistic judgment, and the British governors began to change their strategies.

In the busy Strait of Malacca, the rested British fleet made an all-out attack to blockade the entire strait, and any suspicious ships were forcibly boarded and searched compartment by cabin.

In just one day, two Dutch-flagged merchant ships and one Portuguese-flagged merchant ship were seized, and the wooden boxes were opened to reveal butter-coated Mauser barrels, clearly rifled.

Firing pins, explosives, primers for bullets and shells, tight gauges, and optical lenses...... Precious military products on the European market have actually been searched in Asia.

Three cargo ships were enough to assemble more than 30,000 Mauser, equipped with explosives for two engineer regiments.

"Hehe, God should really punish you, Dutch, Portuguese, do you not hesitate to sell your soul to the devil for money? Who are you going to buy it to? Is it Xiao Lotian of the Chinese?" asked the captain of the navy with a roar.

"Oh my God, we are only businessmen, we don't know politics, please don't embarrass us...... This is normal business practice, and what law prohibits us from doing business?"

"Sophistry! Damn businessmen, mercenary villains, you are capital enemies! Why should the latest weapons be sold to the Chinese!"

"This is a free world, this is a free business rule, and you British have not started a war with the Chinese, why do you forbid us to do business?"

"Good, good...... Someone come on, tow this ship to the military port, don't ask me what the crime is, let me think slowly, maybe I will give you a reasonable explanation in half a year!"

Despite the protests of the merchants, the British navy forcibly took over the cargo ship, and the captain and sailors were abandoned in the Lion City, and all the ships and goods were detained.

The same scene played out not only in the Strait of Malacca, but also in the newly opened Suez Canal, and in the Strait of Gibraltar under the control of British artillery, including the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and the Andaman Sea, where all the Royal Navy went out to hunt down any merchant ships that supplied Xiao Lotian with arms.

The arms trade between Prussia and the Chinese was suddenly severed, and not only that, but what made London even more annoyed was that half of the arms money provided by Xiao Lotian to Prussia was actually settled in gold.

Britain was the most powerful gold standard country in the world at that time, and the credit of the British pound was maintained by a strong navy and huge gold reserves, and in the eyes of the British, the world's gold should be controlled in their own hands, and a small amount of gold transactions could not affect the financial security of the British Empire.

But the gold trade between China and Prussia is absolutely impossible, and God knows how much gold is hidden in this thousand-year-old country? Who knows how much actual benefits Prussia will give Xiao Letian?

Look at the existence of the Zhiyuan, which has already slapped countless European strategic analysts in the face resoundingly!

Prime Minister Benjamin, who had just come to power, was very sensitive to the alliance between Prussia and the Chinese, and he believed that Xiao Lotian's current success was the result of the old confusion of the previous Derby Prime Minister.

At Benjamin's covert instructions, the chain of maritime interests between Prussia and the Chinese was forcibly severed, and not only the arms trade was banned, but even ordinary trade in tea, silk, porcelain, medicines, and other civilian goods was harassed.

"Prussia wants to borrow the gold of the Chinese to compete for hegemony in Europe? This is absolutely not allowed!"

In the era of no global information network, cross-border trade between banks cannot be delivered in different places, and there is no problem with small amounts.

Prussian munitions had to be shipped to Asia, and Chinese gold and silver and goods had to be shipped all the way to Hamburg. Every trade is inseparable from the shipping lanes of the sea, and the golden shipping routes in this world have been completely controlled by the British.

In Xiao Letian's past life, the United States played financial hegemony, and as long as the status of the US dollar as a global settlement currency was not challenged, the United States would always be strong.

In this world, Britain is playing the hegemony of the logistics network, and the logistics network compiled by the golden shipping lanes on the entire sea is under the control of his cannons.

An unprecedented crisis loomed over Xiao Letian's head, and if he wanted to break the situation, he had to cast his eyes in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, across the entire vast Pacific Ocean, and on the other side of the sea, there was a country that had not yet been controlled by the British for the time being, and only he could help the Chinese people through the immediate crisis.