"It is imperative to send more troops to Tianzhu, and the key question now is, how many more troops will the empire send to Tianzhu this time?" The Speaker of the House of Lords said.

"I think we need to increase the number of troops by at least 50,000!" A member of the House of Representatives suggested, "Tianzhu has a population of more than 100 million, and with the current strength of Tianzhu, it can only barely maintain that Tianzhu will not break out in turmoil, and it is even difficult to maintain a stable situation."

What's more, now that Da Zhou is watching from the sidelines, if there are too few soldiers sent, I'm afraid it won't be enough for Da Zhou to plug his teeth. ”

"I disagree with Your Excellency's words!" Some parliamentarians objected, "Tianzhu is thousands of miles away from the empire? Transporting 50,000 troops to Tianzhu is something that can be completed in three or two months?

In my opinion, the most urgent thing now should be to give Sir Frank, the governor of Tianzhu, an order to gather all the imperial soldiers in Tianzhu in the Assam region to prevent the surprise attack of the Great Zhou army. ”

"But in this way, the Tianzhu people will inevitably rise up, and if the empire wants to use such a small number of troops to maintain the stability of Tianzhu in the future, I am afraid it will be difficult."

"Your Excellency is only afraid that you don't know much about the Tianzhu people, right?" The councillor said with a smile, "With the submissive character of the Tianzhu people, even if they are forced to do so, they will not rebel."

Otherwise, the empire would not have ruled this huge territory with only 50,000 horses over the years.

"That's just your assumption, the importance of Tianzhu to the empire must not need me to say anything, in case the Tianzhu people are reversed? How many troops will the empire send to suppress it at that time?

You must know that Tianzhu is the most important source of raw materials and commodity dumping place for the empire, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, the empire cannot watch Tianzhu leave the arms of the empire. ”

"So what do you say? Is it possible to watch the Great Zhou army invade Burma without being indifferent? ”

"I didn't say that!" The councillor shrugged his shoulders and said, "Besides, whether the Great Zhou army will attack Tianzhu is still two words.

In my opinion, the first thing the empire should do now is to gather all the ships in the country to send troops to Tianzhu, so that even if the Great Zhou army invades Tianzhu, the empire can temporarily abandon the Assam region in the east of Tianzhu. After the imperial forces are assembled in Tianzhu, they will counterattack the Great Zhou army in a big way. ”

"That's not a good idea!" The speaker echoed, and then hesitated: "But even if you integrate all the ships of the empire, I'm afraid you won't be able to send many troops to Tianzhu at one time." ”

Another official from the Admiralty said: "What Mr. Speaker said is that with the current shipping capacity of the Empire, at most it can transport less than 20,000 soldiers and 50,000 soldiers to Tianzhu at one time, and it will take at least three times to complete the delivery. ”

Although England is now the hegemon of the sea, it has too many overseas interests, and it is impossible to give up the interests of other places because of one Tianzhu.

So in this case, the mobilization of ocean-going ships transporting 20,000 soldiers was already the limit of the English Empire.

In fact, if you rely on these ships to transport troops to Tianzhu, let alone 20,000, even 50,000 horses will not have the slightest pressure.

But this takes into account not only the transportation of troops, but also the logistical supply.

At present, in order to prevent the people of Tianzhu from rising up, England has not set up any arsenal in Tianzhu, and all the weapons and ammunition needed by the soldiers are all transported from the country.

Therefore, if they wanted to provide enough weapons and ammunition to the British troops in Tianzhu, the British would need to assemble far more ships than they needed to transport their troops.

While the House of Lords was hesitating over whether to reinforce Tianzhu, the news of Assam's failure reached England.

At the same time, the letters of Wilson, the envoy to the Great Zhou, were also delivered.

After reading Wilson's handwritten letter, the Queen of England was full of worries, and even summoned the prime minister to discuss: "According to Wilson's handwritten letter, the national strength of the Great Zhou is not inferior to that of the empire, although the Great Zhou is still in the point of faltering in the construction of the navy, but their army is very strong.

At least in East Asia, there is no country that is an opponent of the Great Zhou Army.

In addition, Wilson's letter also introduced that Da Zhou had developed two secret weapons, known as 'grenades' and 'mines', which were very powerful, several times more lethal than bullets, and had a surprising effect.

Therefore, Wilson suggested that the empire cease war with the Great Zhou, and resume peace talks with the Great Zhou as soon as possible. ”

"Peace talks?" When the Prime Minister heard this, he became resistant and said, "Your Majesty, you should know that the Empire has never conducted such peace negotiations with any country in all these years.

Now that the empire is newly defeated, Da Zhou will definitely put forward harsh conditions, I wonder if Her Majesty will meet these conditions? ”

Although the Prime Minister did not say what conditions Da Zhou would propose, Her Majesty believed that the armistice conditions proposed by Da Zhou were undoubtedly just two conditions: land cession and reparations.

But now the empire's forces in Tianzhu are empty, and if it can't negotiate an armistice with Da Zhou in time, I'm afraid that it will lose more benefits.

So after much thought, Her Majesty said: "Mr. Prime Minister, I think that the empire should first start negotiations with the Great Zhou, so as to stabilize the Great Zhou and prevent it from attacking Tianzhu forcefully.

In this way, the empire had plenty of time to mobilize troops to Tianzhu. And once the empire's forces in Tianzhu are assembled, then it will be war or peace, but I am afraid that it is not the final say of the Great Zhou. ”

"But Her Majesty!" The prime minister retorted, "The monarchs and ministers of the Great Zhou are not fools, can't they tell the true intentions of the empire?"

Once the Great Zhou paralyzed the empire on the grounds of armistice negotiations, and then marched to Tianzhu on a large scale, at that time, the empire wanted to increase troops to Tianzhu, but I was afraid that it would be too late! ”

Seeing the Prime Minister say this, Her Majesty the Queen fell into a contradiction between the left and right for a while.

On the one hand, Her Majesty naturally hoped that the English army would be able to recover the entire territory of Tianzhu. On the other hand, Her Majesty is worried that the Great Zhou will take advantage of this to play and then capture the entire territory of Tianzhu.

At that time, I am afraid that England will be in the land of Tianzhu, so as to completely withdraw from the colonization of Asia.

No one understands the importance of Tianzhu to the English Empire better than Her Majesty the Queen and Her Excellency the Prime Minister.

Later generations said that Tianzhu was the most shining pearl in the crown of Her Majesty Queen of England.

In fact, Tianzhu was even more important to England than that, much more important than the other colonies combined......