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India has always been a jewel in the crown of the British Empire, the most important treasure in the entire British colonial system, controlling India, Britain has a market of hundreds of millions of people, and also has a very large raw material base. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the end of the 19th century, India's black tea production has replaced China's, cotton, spices, opium...... and other agricultural products are also indispensable in the UK.

More importantly, controlling India also controls the Indian Ocean, which in turn ensures the security of Europe's golden shipping route to Asia.

If you don't come to the Indian Ocean, you can't imagine how many heavy troops the British have invested here, and when the Combined Fleet finished the live-fire exercise and approached Sri Lanka, six more warships joined the queue, and these six battleships are all steam paddle steamers, a model of the combination of steam power and sail power.

Perhaps the pressure brought by the Zhiyuan was too strong, and the British Prime Minister issued a strict order that the British Navy from Malacca to London must escort the ship to the highest standard.

Is it really just to ensure safety? In fact, the previous 33 warships escorted were already a fleet that no country dared to challenge, and it was not necessary to add these steam ships at all.

But Xiao Lotian understands the thoughts of Benjamin and the British politicians, who are just trying to scare themselves to death with numbers, or to put pressure on themselves.

The subtext of the British is obvious, don't think that you have a Zhiyuan is very good, you can't imagine the heritage of the British Empire, and Xiao Lotian has learned through the intelligence network of Fang Guan and Yiwang that the British are secretly copying the Zhiyuan, and it is three ships at a time, but it will take nearly two years to get into the water.

New warships are still being built, they can't be taken out to be scary, and in the end they can only rely on numbers to fill the façade, the warships of the South Seas and Bengal have been assembled, and now it is the turn of the Indian colonies.

As a result, I didn't expect the Indian colonies to be bigger, and directly six steam paddle warships covered with iron armor were pulled out, and the six black smoke belts were extremely dazzling in the blue sky of the Indian Ocean.

The chefs of the Zhiyuan sighed, "Let's go, and then prepare a banquet, these British guys are too good to eat, and we are tired of it every day......

Another group of new officers was coming to meet His Majesty and the Führer, and in the end it was this group of receptionists who were unlucky enough to work in three shifts twenty-four hours without rest, and in addition to the rough seas, a third of the more than 100 cooks had already fallen ill from exhaustion.

Cooking is a very peculiar profession, although it is just stir-frying, but the owner generally does not dare to embarrass these people too much, not that he is afraid that these people will poison you, the owner is afraid of spitting in it, and this thing will not be poisoned.

Of course, the fat man Jin Sanshun was in charge of the entire housekeeping, he was sensitive to the mood fluctuations of these logistics personnel, and hurriedly went into the back kitchen to increase the bonus by three percent, which made everyone smile.

Jin Sanshun was roasted by the fierce fire in the pot stove, but he didn't dare to relax, "Old and young masters, all work hard, even if we don't rush money, we have to rush the dignity of the Chinese people, don't we? Can't let the foreign devils look down on us, saying that we Chinese don't even know etiquette as cooks, right?"

"I know everyone is tired and seasick, but no matter how hard it is, we have to get through it...... I have to give the Führer face!"

When it came to the Führer, the people's hearts all rose: "What Chief Kim said is! If we don't make a big nose at Britain, we have to work hard against ......the Führer."

"But Chief Jin, we have a proposal, would you like to consider it?" asked the chef with a smile, the knife in his hand still splitting the fresh fish.

Jin Sanshun didn't dare to slack off, "Let's talk about it...... There is something

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What are the conditions? Is it a matter of money? This is easy to do, and it can't be lost to your ......."

The chef who was preparing the vinegared fish fillet kept in his hand: "Sir, we don't have any requirements, can we ask the head of state to take a photo when we return to China in the future? We will hang in the ancestral hall at that time, this is also a glory to our ancestors, isn't it?"

As soon as this sentence was said, the whole kitchen was boiling, "That's right, yes, yes, why didn't I think of this, we asked the Führer to take pictures, and we kept the town house!"

Jin Sanshun wiped his sweat and said that the head of state has become a god......? However, he didn't dare to offend these national-level celebrity chefs, and they would have to work hard to hold various banquets in Europe.

"No problem! I'll make a decision on this matter here! Don't wait to return to China, I'll find an opportunity to let the Führer take a group photo with you when you go to Europe!"

After calming down the tired cooks, Jin Sanshun walked back to the deck to prepare for the welcome, but as soon as he arrived on the deck, he found that the atmosphere was very strange, almost everyone stood on the deck on the north side, and people kept looking at the sea in the north.

The telescope was looking out, and the hand without the telescope was looking at the pergola, and the fat man Jin Sanshun didn't know what was going on, and he came to Hyotaro's side and asked, "Dude, what's wrong? What are you looking at? What's wrong with a big girl on the sea......?"

"Nani, big girl, where's the ...... Bah, what nonsense are you talking about! Five unidentified warships suddenly appeared in the northern seas, and now the British have pressed up......"

"What? Unknown battleship!" Kim Sanshun snatched Hyotaro's telescope without saying a word, and the rope was still hanging around Hyotaro's neck, and as a result, Hyotaro's head was dragged over.

"It hurts, it hurts...... You dead fat man...... Counting ......"

How can Jin Sanshun have the kung fu to care if your Hyotaro hurts or not, he only has those few sail battleships of unknown origin in his eyes. No, there was also a battleship with a wooden hull covered with steel plates, but it was not a paddle steamer but a propeller warship like the Zhiyuan.

"Good boy! In the Indian Ocean, the only one who can come up with such a warship must be France! Damn, the French are looking for something awkward again!"

There was no mistake at all, it was the last naval armed forces of the French in the Indian Ocean that came from the north, and these five main warships were the last to hold up the façade, and a large number of remaining warships had been mobilized by the French emperor back to the Atlantic to deal with the Prussian threat.

By 1869, the British had taken control of the entire Indian continent, and the French were forced into Bengal, Burma and other places, which was nothing more than a defensive fleet cruising the Bay of Bengal.

Although the strength of the French is not as good as before, but the pride of the Gallic rooster cannot be lost, they will definitely not let Xiao Lotian swagger under their noses, even if they come to add some relief, they have to come to join in the fun.

The last five warships came from the north in a fierce manner, knowing that the British would not go to war with them, so they approached the combined fleet without any scruples, and marched in parallel.

According to the old navy saying, this is a very hooligan method to block your door and scold you for disgusting you.