Kathmandu, Nepal, inside the royal palace of the Shah Dynasty.

After reading the news secretly from outside, King Surandbara was overjoyed, his face flushed, and he excitedly said to the personal guard of the palace in front of him: "Great, great! The British expeditionary force was almost completely wiped out, and the Chinese Empire was victorious, which showed that the powerful British army could also be defeated. We, the Gurkhas, have finally seen the light of day! ”

The guard officer also smiled, but there was still a hint of bitterness: "Yes, Your Majesty." It's just that now the royal family is completely hollowed out, and the power of the entire Gurkha is in the hands of the prime minister. Without getting rid of him, His Majesty would not be able to control the Gurkha army, and the country would always be enslaved by the British. ”

"That Englishman's dogleg! Licking that British woman's bathwater! At the mention of the powerful prime minister of the kingdom, King Surandbara gritted his teeth and hated: "At the beginning, as a guard officer of the royal family, he took advantage of the trust of the former king to lure the British into the house when the former king and the queen mother were fighting for power, and my Gurkha would have fallen to this step!" And my Shah dynasty was completely hollowed out, also because of this person. He will have retribution! Now, the time of retribution is near! ”

As he spoke, Surandbara lowered his voice and said, "Send a few teams of men and horses to Lhasa and Burma quietly to contact the Chinese Empire and win the support of their army!" Tell the emperor of the Celestial Empire that as long as he helps this king to eradicate the rebels and drive out the British, our Shah Dynasty is willing to be a vassal state for generations to come, and this king will also become a subject of the Celestial Empire, and pay tribute every year. Also, as we all know, the bravery of our Gurkha warriors, as long as the Celestial Empire is willing to help us, this king can provide 10,000 Gurkha warriors to obey the war call of the Celestial Empire. ”

The guard's eyes widened and he said, "Your Majesty, this ...... It's not just the vassal states, even half of the Gurkha army has given up to them! ”

Surandbara sighed: "Otherwise, how can you show the sincerity of this king, and how can you impress the emperor of the Celestial Empire?" At the beginning, our Gurkha was originally a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty, and we paid tribute once every five years. How can we just restore a simple relationship between the clans and the vassals now? What's more, a while ago, in order to show his loyalty to his British father, the British dogleg sent 15,000 of our Gurkha army, which was only 25,000 people, to assist the British in suppressing the Indian rebels. That army is still in places like New Delhi and Calcutta, and we just need to let the Celestial Empire take control of that army. ”

"I see! Your Majesty's idea is truly brilliant! The guard officer understood, and couldn't help but praise: "It seems that Your Majesty decided that the emperor of the Chinese Empire was ambitious, so he deliberately provided an opportunity for them to send troops to India?" ”

"Not bad! Even if our Gurkha unified the whole of Nepal, it was still only a small and weak country for the Chinese Empire and British India, and the Gurkha was trying to survive in the gap between these two big countries. Now that the Chinese Empire has risen strongly, this time it is the defeat of the powerful British Expeditionary Force, and it will inevitably continue to expand, so we naturally have to see the opportunity to take refuge. Moreover, I allocated the 15,000 troops of that British dog-legged descendant to the Chinese Empire, not only to remove the armed forces of the rebels, but also to provide the Chinese Empire with an excellent excuse to march into India, this temptation must be difficult for the great emperor to refuse! Not only that, but he will be attracted to the rich India, and will not take advantage of the situation to annex our Nepal. ”

There is another sentence that is difficult to say, that is, the British chose **** as the agent to control Nepal, and his only choice is to show the Chinese emperor that he is willing to be their agent. This would allow them to regain control over all of Nepal, even if it is a proxy. What's more, his sincerity is greater, and perhaps the great monarch with great ambitions will have his eyes on India and not care about the barren land of Nepal.

At the same time, the neighboring kings of Nepal, His Holiness Tsemangxiong (King of Sikkim) and King Bulukeba (Bhutan), also quietly sent envoys to the Chinese Empire in the northeast.

After hearing the news of the British Expeditionary Force, the religious and aristocratic forces in Lhasa, who had ostensibly surrendered to the Chinese Imperial Court, also appeared one after another, and after several days of urgent discussions, a huge tribute mission set out from Lhasa and headed east.

Messages from Myanmar and Siam were received a little faster. Although it was not time to pay tribute, their huge group of envoys, thousands of people escorting more than 100 carts and dozens of cargo ships, hurried towards the capital of the suzerain.

The powerful British army was defeated, the situation in the entire South China Sea area changed greatly, and the entire Eastern world, the Chinese Empire was already in an absolute dominant position, and no force could compete or shake it. As a result, the kings of Burma and Siam began to feel uneasy, and perhaps increasing the frequency and intensity of tribute would alleviate their fears and uneasiness a little.

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A suburb of London, England. Windsor Castle.

British Prime Minister Palmerston, Foreign Secretary Russell, Secretary of State for the Navy Sidney Herbert, and Secretary of War Panmur Ramsay sat in the castle's living room as if they were mourning, all silent.

Together, they had come to ask Her Majesty for their guilt.

Just a few hours earlier, they had received a war report from the Far East.

Herbert, the Minister of War of the Navy, was the first to see the shocking news that plunged him into the apocalypse, and now he sits quietly on the soft sofa, recalling the scene as if in a dream.

At that time, he thought that the news of the expeditionary force capturing the city of Guangzhou had finally arrived. He even thought indignantly that it took so long for so many warships to capture Guangzhou, the trading center city in the Far East, and that Seymour and Ross still had the heart to report the victory?

When he opened this letter dated the war situation written in a hurry by Colonel Wu Lisi, the commander of the garrison on Hong Kong Island, who had traveled to many places, he simply thought that the colonel named Wu Lisi was crazy!

How can it be!? The main force of the powerful British Empire Expeditionary Force was defeated by the army of that eastern country, and it was almost completely annihilated?

The Combined Expeditionary Fleet, which had nearly 100 warships, was led into an inland river and blocked up on the river less than five kilometers away, and the enemy used a kind of black oil of hundreds of millions of pounds to dump on the river, igniting the entire expeditionary fleet in the river and burning more than 20,000 Royal Navy soldiers of the British Empire to death. The colonel, Ng Lisi, said he could see the red-hot half of the sky and smell the strong stench of charred corpses on Hong Kong Island, 100 miles from the battlefield.

Seeing this, Herbert couldn't stand it anymore! He never believed it was true. However, another letter delivered at the same time as this letter from Wu Lisi shattered his illusions, and the brutal truth told him that it was true!

This letter from Sir Canning, the Viceroy of India, made him no longer have any illusions that none of this was true.

Although the letter, which was dated half a month later than the letter from Hong Kong Island from Woolis, arrived in London at the same time as Herbert of the Admiralty. This handwritten letter from Sir Canning, the Governor of India, not only recounts the cruel fact that nearly 100 warships, dozens of transport ships, and an expeditionary fleet stretching for several kilometers in the far east, in that inland river called the North River of the Pearl River, which is only a few kilometers away from the city of Guangzhou, were destroyed by fire. Moreover, Hong Kong Island, the East Indies, and the Straits Settlements such as Singapore, Malacca, and Penang, which were occupied by the British Empire, were all occupied by counterattacking enemy fleets and armies.

Not only were the deputy commanders of the expeditionary fleet, Ho Bo, and other generals captured, but even the commander of the Hong Kong garrison, Colonel Ng Li-s, who had fled to the port of Singapore, was also captured by the enemy forces who had already taken control of the area.

Moreover, in a valley in the primeval jungle of Johor in the northwest of Singapore, there are 8,000 British infantry led by Major General Ward, deputy commander of the expeditionary force, only 5,000 remaining, surrounded by more than 20,000 enemy troops, facing the situation of running out of ammunition and food, and waiting for help, sending a distress letter to the Governor of India.

Herbert screamed, the letter in his hand fell to the ground, he trembled, and it took him a long time to pick up the letter on the ground again, and then he sent it to the Prime Minister's official residence as quickly as possible to hand it over to Palmerston.

Herbert still remembers that Palmerston, the prime minister of the time, who was elegant and gentlemanly, took the letter with a smile, and after reading only a few lines, his face turned pale as if he had been struck by lightning, and then he fell to the ground.

Herbert could understand the blow to Sir Palmerston!

The British Imperial Navy, since its victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain at the beginning of this century, has dominated the world, and has never encountered an opponent to rival, let alone be defeated, let alone suffered such a crushing defeat!

As the Prime Minister of the British Empire, the expeditionary force aimed at conquering the Chinese Empire in the East was initiated by Prime Minister Palmerston. Therefore, Palmerston is extremely responsible for the defeat of this expeditionary force, and it will be difficult for him to continue to hold the post of prime minister. But he had only just become Prime Minister, and before his term of office was reached, he would be ousted from power, which would be the greatest shame of his life, and he would also be recorded as a humiliating record in the history of the entire Kingdom of Great Britain as Prime Minister during the defeat of such a great war.

However, it did not take long for Palmerston to recover, and although his mood was not yet calm, he calmly accepted the defeat. After summoning Foreign Secretary Russell and War Secretary Panmuel Ramsay, the Big Four rushed to meet Queen Victoria, who was on holiday at Windsor Castle on the south bank of the River Thames.

The Queen of the Dead Club has learned the shocking news from the Far East, and she wonders how she will react? Palmerston and the other four were all worried in their hearts.