In the imperial city of Nanjing, Chen Ming was taking a hot bath very comfortably. This afternoon, he took Robert, who once again represented Britain in China, to take a walk around the Central Military Academy, which meant nothing else, so that Robert could see how many foreign students were studying at the Central Military Academy in China.

These people came from Japan, Siam, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, from Mysore, Gurkha, Bhutan, from the Four Mongol Khanates, from the Kazakh Three Khanates, as well as Ottomans and Persians......

Chen Han trains more officers for friendly countries every year, but they are all trained according to China's war thinking and strategy, and Chen Ming is expressing his dissatisfaction.

You British have suffered from the Kingdom of Mysore, and China cannot be blamed for this.

Mysore killed an Englishman with a sword, you Englishman can't just ignore the murderer in front of you and bent on finding trouble with the blacksmith who made that sword, right?

Now the British in India and Mysore have seen the war, the fight is very lively, the British still have a little advantage in the overall situation, their navy is not comparable to the Kingdom of Mysore and can resist, but Mysore has the advantage of the number of land forces, although Tiepu's attack on Calcutta was repulsed, but the British offensive on the land of the Mysore Kingdom was also repelled by Tiepu, the British Anglo-Indian colonial army losses are not small, although the losses of the Mysore army are also quite large. Now the British are unwilling, shouting that the Chinese are playing tricks behind their backs and supporting Mysore without limits, isn't this nonsense? Scoundrels, huh?

After receiving protests from the British, Chen Ming had already ordered the troops of the Gurkha and Bhutan to move a step south. The British want to be unreasonable, and Chen Ming will be even more arrogant than them.

You know, after the outbreak of the war in India - another battle between Mysore and the British, Chen Ming ordered the withdrawal of all Chinese instructors and military advisers in Mysore in order to avoid suspicion - of course there will be a few people left, who have nominally left the Wehrmacht, just to avoid irritating the British. Let the British take a good measure of the fighting power of the Kingdom of Mysore.

- Chen Ming was not willing to provoke the Britons at all, at this time, they should have been allowed to get their wish in India, and then the British, who had consciously consolidated their position in India, would turn around and concentrate on launching waves of wars against France in Europe.

The French, who are now in the state of the export of revolution, are on the road to 'invincibility' in the whole of Europe - I think you are all rubbish.

Chen Ming would rather that the Kingdom of Mysore, which he had worked so hard to train, would be beaten to death by the British, and would rather the influence of the British be consolidated again in India, which in some ways would affect China's influence in India, and he did not want to touch the sensitivity and affection of the British at this time.

The ongoing war in Europe is too important for Chen Han's future development.

In this case, the British still thought that China was in the way, and sent Robert, who had resigned as ambassador to China two years ago and returned to the East India Company, to China.

Anyway, it's the autumn of 1796 in the Western calendar, and if Napoleon can make a fortune, he will already have it. And if you can't start it, you'll hit the streets. Therefore, Chen Ming is willing to give it a try.

Give the British a long memory, and let them all realize in the years to come that China cannot be provoked.

This news may have to wait for many months for Robert to know, anyway, this action, Chen Ming is really the British and Indian authorities.

But tonight, Robert is definitely going to have a headache!

……

In the west of Nanjing, Nanmiao Hutong on the bank of the Qinhuai River.

The residence of Wang Huizu, the first assistant minister of the cabinet, is located here. Although it is also next to the Qinhuai River, the Qinhuai River surrounds half of Nanjing, stretching for dozens of miles, and not any section is full of fireworks.

The most prosperous Qinhuai River, in a sense, is only in the area of Confucius Temple. There are many green buildings, and the warblers sing and dance, and today it is also the largest "red light district" in China. Of course, the number of Qinhuai River female branches in the Chen Han Dynasty is far inferior to that of the late Ming Dynasty, but the scale and quality will definitely be higher.

And now among the famous women's branches on the Qinhuai River, which one does not have a white slave and a red card?

Cold food in the morning, Lantern Festival at night. The more it is at night, the more lively the Qinhuai River becomes.

It's just that after the section of the Confucius Temple is removed, the Qinhuai River is also a quiet confluence.

The time had already reached eleven o'clock, and sixty-six-year-old Wang Huizu rubbed his sour eyes before finishing the work at hand.

"Old, really old." Before he knew it, he had been serving Emperor Chen for twenty or thirty years.

Although he is the fifth cabinet minister after Liu Dezhao, he is a few years older than Liu Dezhao. The latter is still active in Chen Han's political arena, and the influence of the Information Administration Yuan and the advisory bureaus of various local provincial governments, which has just been formally established for two years, is still expanding in Chen Han's native influence. Therefore, Wang Huizu's position as the first and auxiliary minister of the cabinet is not easy to do. Not to mention that he is now catching up with the princes fighting for succession! It made him very embarrassed.

lest they behave badly and cause trouble to their children and grandchildren; and fearful, attracting the emperor's dissatisfaction.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is just two days away, and the cabinet wants to make a difference. You can't blame everything on the Internal Affairs Department.

The report that Wang Huizu just reviewed is a statistical data handed over by the Ministry of Finance, and there will be a tax summary after the holiday is over. And the time has come to the Mid-Autumn Festival, so will the end of the year be far away? The financial statements and statistics for the whole year, and the financial expenditure form for next year ......, and this busy time is still to come.

What's more, this is already his second year in office, Wang Huizu is old, and after serving as the first and auxiliary minister of the cabinet, he can return to his hometown, and he will not have to go to the Senior Minister.

Therefore, Wang Huizu has come to make 'achievements'.

Anyone who sits in the top position does not want to be said to be a corpse vegetarian and do nothing after leaving office. Wang Huizu is old, but he also wants to show a dazzling achievement to dress up his face.

To be honest, with such a strong strength in China, it would be really bad if he couldn't make achievements after being the first and auxiliary ministers of the cabinet for five years and more than 10,000 people.

Industrial development, economic, foreign trade, transportation, agriculture, and so on are not 'real materials', nor is the war that is 'about to begin' in the Americas. The gold and silver sea of the imperial court have all been filled in, and it would be strange if these were not 'developed'.

Wang Huizu wants to dress up his 'rouge' is India.

Looking around China, apart from the indigenous kingdoms of India, the territory that China can reach is empty.

Yes, China was able to use its friendship with the Ottoman Empire to vigorously develop the Celestial World, and even seek a foothold on the east coast of Africa. If the Suez Canal progresses quickly, Wang Huizu will be able to start this major project that will change the world pattern during his tenure.

But these are too far away from China.

China's 'hand', in this day and age, the place that can be obtained externally, and the most profitable place, is only India.

The population here is the most densely populated area in the world outside of mainland China, and it can be said that it is a piece of fat meat and a huge market. As long as this place can be firmly grasped in China's hands, the future development of China's economy will be equivalent to a pair of wings soaring to the sky.

- Even if it only sells cloth, the Mysore, Matala people, etc., China's textile industry can earn hundreds of millions of profits a year over the years.

And he, Wang Huizu, although he has only served as the first assistant of the cabinet, if he can win in India, he will also achieve a historical evaluation that is not weaker than others.

Therefore, Robert and his party, who arrived a few days ago, are clowns in his eyes. belongs to the role of being cheap and obedient, and the British will bring humiliation on themselves.

Before, Wang Huizu did not understand why the emperor was indifferent to the changes in India, and took the initiative to let the personnel completely evacuate the Mysore Kingdom, which in Wang Huizu's view was taking the initiative to reduce the friendship with Mysore. No matter how much the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explain it to Tiepu, it cannot hide the fact that China abandoned Mysore because of the British. This proves that in the eyes of China, the rights and interests of Mysore are far less important than the friendship of the British. Tiepu Sultan was a man of great self-esteem and a very sensitive person, and he would have felt shamed in his heart for this.

By the time the war between Mysore and the British came to an end, would the friendship between China and Mysore return to its original state?

No one will forgive their friends for giving up on themselves in times of crisis, even if the two are still good friends on the surface, in fact, there will be an indestructible gulf between them, and it is difficult to break the mirror.

Of course, a small number of those who had previously served as instructors and advisers in Mysore were given instructions and did not withdraw from the Kingdom of Mysore. Moreover, these people in Mysore have already married the local Brahmins, and these people are considered to have left China 'automatically'. In fact, Tiepu also knew that these people were a gap left by Chen Han to him, and the Chinese did not completely close the ties and friendship between the two countries. These are also the biggest 'evidence' that the British are clamoring for!

But this was what Tiep thought in times of crisis, and if the situation in Mysore turned from crisis to safety, Tiep himself would certainly not continue to think like this.

No matter what, time doesn't turn back. And even if it is reversed, Wang Huizu believes that he will not be able to dissuade the emperor.

Emperor Chen's decision has not been changed, no matter whether the people below understand it or not, it must be implemented.

Finally, judging from the previous development, the emperor's vision is very good and long-term. Even they once speculated whether the emperor had an unknown intelligence team in private. But as it turned out, he didn't.

This made the aura of 'wise and martial arts' on Chen Ming's head even more dazzling.

It also made Chen Ming even more unwilling to change and more stubborn in his own decisions.

However, after the British-Mysore fire, the British made a slight setback, and they had to make moths again, according to Wang Huizu's understanding of the current Emperor Chen, the British would steal chickens and rice.

Emperor Chen was sometimes unreasonable to courtiers, but he was even more unreasonable to foreigners. Who do the British think they are? If they make a fuss casually, will the emperor recognize them?

The Emperor took Robert around the Central Military Academy this afternoon, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office ordered the armies of Bhutan and Gurkha to move south=, and the British suffered a big loss.

China is expressing its displeasure. This dissatisfaction was expressed by the emperor himself. Wang Huizu planned to wait and see how the British responded.

Don't think that only the emperor can express his 'dissatisfaction' with the Kingdom of Great Britain, as the head of the cabinet, has the right and strength to express his dissatisfaction with the British.

This is a matter for the Cabinet. Although Chen Ming was about to turn his face, he just came out to stand on the stage. Moreover, Wang Huizu also hoped that Britain would 'ignore' the emperor's instructions, and he hoped that he would use the power in his hands to solve this matter.

In this way, he could properly strengthen and restore his friendship with the Kingdom of Mysore.

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The next day.

Early in the morning, sensational headlines were printed on the front pages of many newspapers in Beijing. This is, of course, an indication from the relevant departments.

Besides, Chen Ming's whereabouts were not covered up yesterday, which was not only concerned by the newspaper, but also by many people and gossip parties. He took Robert, the special envoy of the British and Indian governors-general, the former British ambassador to China, to visit the Central Military Academy, which really gave people too much speculation.

"Fortunately, there is no sign of any bad leakage on Sino-British relations in the Central Plains Daily." Robert was well aware of the political and public opinion hierarchy in China, and the unshakable position of Zhongyuan Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese government. If the newspaper does not say anything, then everything is possible. Otherwise he would be a sinner in Great Britain.

"His Majesty the Emperor is the Supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and it is normal for every word and deed to be the attention of the whole country." Xie Qinggao, who was in charge of receiving them, said.

Robert sighed with a smile. China's newspapers have a much lower bottom line than European newspapers, and it is rare for them to open their mouths, and although these newspapers in front of us are not the vane of national conditions like "Zhongyuan Daily", they have already explained a lot of problems from one side.

The Chinese emperor was annoyed.

These newspapers are just loudspeakers, and it may only take one morning to pass, and everyone in Nanjing knows that there is a great contradiction between China and Britain, and that the British have made His Majesty the Emperor of China angry, and it is not uncommon for people to even rumor that China and Britain are going to use war.

It's just that the British deserve to be unlucky, who let them jump on their own? It was they themselves who rushed to lie down with their guns.

Less than two days after the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, at a time when countless people were crazy about the magic of the train, including Robert and his party, a piece of news came from Europe.

China and the West are at war.

In distant Europe, the Spanish naval fleet launched a surprise attack in the Strait of Gibraltar while the Chinese convoy was escorting the fleet on its last leg of the journey to the Ottoman Empire.

There was only so much urgent news that reached Chen Ming's hands, there was no naval battle of Nice and Tunisia that the two sides experienced next, and there was no price that Zhu Li's fleet finally paid - the entire fleet was silent after three battles, one army, one civilian and two ships, and the casualties of sailors and sailors exceeded 1,000, which can be described as heavy casualties.

However, the Spaniards attacked Zhu Hui's fleet at the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar, which had already opened the prelude to the Second Sino-Spanish War.

Chen Ming is like an angry lion, he is furious.

Spain, a second-rate European country, took the initiative to attack the Chinese fleet without knowing whether it was alive or dead, and they were seeking their own death and bringing about their own destruction.

If the lion is insulted by a hyena, then blood must be seen.

The Spaniards must be taught and punished as they deserve, and they must be given to him well and the Europeans must be remembered for a long time.

And Robert and his party must get out now, immediately, immediately.

Don't feel wronged, who made the big duck and the British now an ally.

Immediately, immediately, now, immediately, let me go!