Open the map, we can clearly find that the entire Pacific Ocean is bounded by the equator, and the conditions of the north and south seas are completely different. The North Pacific Ocean is vast and sparsely populated with islands, the famous of which are the Hawaiian Islands, the Aleutian Islands, the Kuril Islands, and the Japanese archipelago, while the rest of the region is an empty and vast ocean.

But the South Pacific is completely different, this vast sea area is full of islands, and the ocean-going fleet can easily get all kinds of supplies.

From Medan is the islands of Micronesia, south to Australia and New Zealand, and a little further east to the Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu Islands, Samoa, and then the North and South Cook Islands, where Tahiti is located.

After Tahiti, the voyage is more than halfway through, and after passing through Dessi Island and Easter Island, you can see the mainland of South America, and Chile's long coastline is facing the Pacific Ocean, and the fleet can land at any port.

With so many islands providing the expeditionary force with a lot of supplies, there was no need for food and water. Moreover, the island can also provide a place of refuge for storms, and Xiao Lotian has considered it foolproof.

Putting down the Pacific chart, Xiao Lotian rubbed his eyebrows to relieve the fatigue of his eyes, "We have already done what we should do, and the rest will be handed over to God! Let's go, let's go north and go back to Ryukyu, I almost didn't tire me out for more than a month!"

Under the complicated eyes of tens of thousands of people in Zamboanga, the Roma and the escort fleet went all the way north to the Bass Strait to the Ryukyus. The sea breeze blew on Xiao Letian's body, and he said to himself, "I don't know what the situation in Europe is now, His Royal Highness the Wing King has not received my telegram, and the equipment of more than 10,000 brothers is still waiting for your help to procure it......"

In 1868, the world's great powers were stepping up the laying of telegraph lines, but the earth was so big that it would take at least a decade for the colonies to form a large network linking the world.

Xiao Letian's telegram is still on the road, all the way to the west, Ryukyu, Shanghai, Hong Kong, the Lion City...... It then crosses the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal and heads straight for India, and from Mumbai continues west to the Arabian Peninsula.

The farther west you go, the more telegraph lines you can use, and by the time the message reaches the port of Cypriot, the ubiquitous British spy network has finally intercepted the cleverly disguised cable.

"Captain! This is the latest list of intercepted Lotte and Lotte Bank telegrams, thirteen of which were destined for Berlin, and three of them are very suspicious, because those Chinese have never sent such a long telegram......"

The Suez Canal is now fully completed and has become a world-famous intelligence capital as the main link from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.

Britain's spy network at the moment is firmly occupying the number one position in the world on the basis of its huge colonies, and the largest intelligence organization on the Suez Canal is British.

The captain opened the three German procurement contracts and looked at them carefully, "All of them are purchase lists?" 1,200 Mauser rifles, 3,000 spare barrels, 900 kilograms of nitrocellulose explosives, and 120 high-precision military binoculars...... It's all a list of arms purchases, huh?"

"There is also a list of industrial products to be purchased! For the sake of these few purchase contracts, we exposed two spies...... Let those Chinese break all the bones in their bodies and hang themselves on cables......"

The captain said with a blank face, "The sun never sets, the empire will remember their exploits, and give their families a generous pension, which is deserved......"

"3 boring machines, 5 lathes, punching presses...... It seems that Xiao Letian is really going to build a precision processing factory, and the purchases here are very sophisticated machine tools and instruments, and he knows the goods!"

"Hey, there's also a list of daily necessities...... Red wine from Bordeaux, caviar from Norway, olive oil from Sicily...... This Xiao Lotian is still a foodie!"

The three-point purchase list, the captain knows that there is definitely a secret in it, otherwise he would not have lost the lives of two spies in order to copy this, but how should the secret be cracked?

It took a long time for the captain to put the three-point contract in the file, and sighed, "This is beyond our ability, send it to London, and let the professionals decipher it...... Start paying more attention to the Sino-German Foundation today and see what this group of Chinese is going to do!"

After Xiao Letian's secret message arrived at the port of Said, it actually entered the all-European telegraph network, and the branch of Lotte in Port Said began to send a message to Berlin, and the message traveled north along the Mediterranean coast.

Passing through Cyprus and Greece, through the Balkans, and then into Austria and heading straight north to Hamburg, this information was only relayed twice before being delivered to the villa that Prince Karl of Hamburg had given to Xiao Lotian.

The villa on the banks of the Elbe has long been the property of the Sino-German Foundation, the main building has become the office location, and the few small buildings behind it are the residences of Yiwang Shi Dakai, Fang Guan and others.

It has become the base camp of the Chinese in Europe, not only because there are now the largest number of Chinese students in Prussia, but more importantly, it can handle some diplomatic affairs, which is already the Ryukyu embassy in Europe.

Yes, Ryukyu does not have the right to establish embassies in other countries, and although Ryukyu is already a small emerging power praised by Europeans, Ryukyu has not yet broken away from the vassal relationship with the Qing Dynasty, which means that Ryukyu is still a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.

If this layer of window paper is not torn, it will be impossible to establish diplomatic relations later, but no one in all countries will urge Xiao Letian, even if everyone knows that Xiao Letian has the strength to break away from the Qing Dynasty, no one will persuade him.

The reason is very simple, because Xiao Letian brought out the Tongzhi Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, and when he became the teacher of Aixinjue Luo Zaichun, no one persuaded him to leave the domain.

Because the Qing Dynasty could allow the emperor to learn from the prime ministers of the vassal states, but it would never allow the important ministers of the equal state who had established diplomatic relations with Zaichun to learn, which involved the traditional Chinese concept of imperial power in the Middle Ages, which was very powerful and could not be easily overthrown by ordinary people.

The winged king Shi Dakai, the prince who was resurrected again in Europe, named himself Mr. Hide, and the king of Prussia also gave him the title of a lord, with no real power but with this name, he is a well-known member of the European aristocracy.

hide means hidden in English, you can call him Mr. Hurd, you can call him Mr. Hide, or you can call him Honorable Lord.

There may be many high-ranking intelligence officials in many countries who know the true identity of Mr. Hurd, but no one will debunk him, who doesn't know that this Lord Yin is a VIP of the Kingdom of Prussia, who doesn't know that he is the head of Xiao Letian in Europe, it's too late for such a person to slip around.

Note: The ironclad ship is about to be released, can you give a few full orders?