Outside the port of Penang, the anchorage of the British Naval Task Force.

Task Force Commander Colonel Franco received a signal from the defenders of the Chinese Army in Penang Harbor that with the approval of the Commander-in-Chief of their Chinese Army, not only could English cargo ships enter the port to load cargo, but even the three warships under his command could enter the port and dock.

"Just let the cargo ships in, and don't let the three cruisers go in!"

When the Huaxia Army agreed to let the British warships dock at the dock, Colonel Franco did not dare to enter.

The legend of the capture of the Dutch East Indies Fleet and the annihilation of the reinforcement fleet is still unknown, which made Colonel Franco's heart tremble.

In Colonel Franco's mind, the Chinese army is some unreasonable barbarians, who have just run out of the deep mountains and old forests to eat people, in case they enter the port of Penang and are captured by those cannibalistic barbarians, and even chopped into meat sauce by those cannibalistic barbarians, although the powerful British Imperial fleet will definitely send additional ships to avenge the officers and men of the task force, but after all, if you die, you will die, and that kind of sacrifice is meaningless, and there are more important reasons, Sir Walder, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, only asked him to lead a task force to see what was going on in the Dutch colonies, and did not order the task force to go to war.

While the cargo ship was loading at the docks, a small sampan was heading towards the English task force.

The sailors' sentry on the ship spotted the sampan and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

The man on the sampan replied in stammering English, "We are here to negotiate!" ”

"Negotiations? What kind of judgment to talk about? "Colonel Franco wondered that the task force wasn't trying to negotiate with these barbarians.

As soon as a young man reached Colonel Franco's flagship, he stammered in English: "We are here to negotiate, we will not harm the interests of the British Empire, we will negotiate with the Dutch about the purchase of islands!" ”

Franco said very contemptuously, "Sir, you have found the wrong person! We are the fleet of the British Empire, not the fleet of the Kingdom of the Netherlands! ”

"Our leader intends to ask the British Empire to mediate between us and the Dutch, and has decided to send someone to London to find one or more English banks to buy the Dutch East Indies with a mortgage in pounds!" The young man's English stammered, but he spoke the word "pound" with great weight.

"Buying the East Indies in pounds?" Colonel Franco was not a diplomat, but he often commanded warships to load diplomats to negotiate with some small and weak countries, and after hearing and witnessing, he gradually developed a diplomat's thinking consciousness, and also had a set of mature views on how to ensure the interests of the British Empire.

The stupid appearance of the young man on the other side made Franco think strangely: if this hateful barbarian really prompted these hateful barbarians to use the land as collateral and use the sterling loan to buy the East Indies, wouldn't it be the banks of the British Empire to make a lot of money, and the East Indies would fall into the hands of the British Empire?

Because, the barbarians could not repay the sterling loan in time, the British Empire had an excuse to send a fleet to use force to snatch the East Indies from the barbarians. And these barbarians did not have any industrial power, and the army of the British Empire was not ready to fight whenever it wanted.

Thinking of this, Franco smiled and said, "I'm sorry! I'm not a diplomat, I don't have the authority to mediate negotiations! But I can report to my superiors, and now I can send you to the Governor's Palace! ”

Naqing happily thanked him, and took out the gold and silver he had brought with him to give to Franco to express his gratitude.

It was the first time that Franco had come across such a foolish gift from a barbarian, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to take it and give some to the officers and men he saw on the ship, so as to shut them up.

Franco didn't know that this young man who stammered English was Niu Quyun sent by Hu Zhen, and he spoke English very fluently, but he listened to Hu Zhen's strategy, and pretended to be stupid and deliberately stammered English.

After leaving Pontianak, Dipole went through great hardships to find the Viceroy of the Straits Settlements in the British Empire.

Sir Walder, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, heard about the Dutch East Indies Colony, and he was shocked, and he could not imagine that a barbarian who came out of nowhere would actually knock down the entire Dutch Borneo, capture the entire Dutch East Indies fleet, defeat the Dutch reinforcement fleet, and capture Java, Sumatra and other towns, which is not good news for the colonies of the British Empire. The Straits Settlements were also constantly rebelled by barbarians.

Walder immediately sent a task force under the command of Admiral Franco to the nearest Penang to see what was going on.

Colonel Franco had no news to report back, and Walder was anxiously waiting, when the guards outside the door said that the governor of the Dutch East Indies colony, Dibor, had asked to see him.

"Let my old friend in!" Walder jumped to his feet, and he was going to be the first to ask Dipole what was going on.

As soon as they met, Wald saw that Dipole had lost a lot of weight, and suddenly looked very sympathetic: "Old friend! What's going on? ”

"Old friend, it's hard to say this......"

Dipole saw that Walde's tears fell, so he told his experience these days, but he put all the responsibility for the military failure on Lieutenant General Akson, anyway, Lieutenant General Axson was locked up in the cell of the Huaxia Army in Pontianak at the moment, and Hu Zhen also promised him that as long as he cooperated with the actions of the Huaxia Army, he would not let Lieutenant General Axon come out, even if the negotiations were successful in the future, the Huaxia Army would always keep Akson behind.

"Well, old friend, what can I do to help you?"

"I'm going to negotiate with those Huaxias? Ask your old friend to be a mediator with the British Empire, and to preside over my negotiations with the barbarians! ”

Walder was very unimpressed by this, and he even laughed at Dipole in his heart: It's time for a strong military force to cooperate, and he still expects to rely on negotiations to save the defeat? But he didn't want to lose face for poor Dipole, so he asked, "Negotiations?" Will those barbarians be willing to negotiate? ”

"Yes, definitely, after all, these barbarians don't know my chassis, and I still have a chance to turn the tables!"

"But how can we communicate with these barbarians?"

"This ......" Dipole was speechless, and when Hu Zhen communicated with him, he said that the Huaxia Army would send someone to find the Governor's Mansion in the Channel Settlements, but I don't know when someone would come to find him.

Just when Dipole was in a hurry, Niu Quyun took the clipper sent by Franco and landed at the Singapore pier.