In the distance, a faint light pierces the fog at sea and shines near the horizon. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's the stars?" Jujuan was a little unsure. Dark clouds are hanging over the South China Sea tonight, and there is no moonlight or stars in the sky.

"It's the light, the light of my hometown." Zhu Hengdao.

"Lights?" Jujuan was stunned, "It's so bright!" It's an electric light, right? That's a lot! ”

At this time, the captain of the Mexican was giving orders loudly. The first mate at the helm carefully steered the ship towards the brightly lit city that never sleeps. The officers and sailors who were not on duty on the warship all stepped onto the deck, craned their necks and looked at Hong Kong in the distance in a patch of lights.

The lights of the old country! Juan stood on the bridge with one hand on the steel railing. In a moment, the corners of his eyes moistened.

It's a bit of a gaffe. He was going to be the emperor of the North American empire, his home was in the Americas, and China was just the place where he was born. Although there is his father here, I don't know if it's a hundred or a hundred dozens of siblings. But he didn't meet most of them. If he didn't count the people he had seen in his infancy when he had no memory, he had only seen the crown prince Zhu Guoxiong, Princess Anle Zhu Yisha and the Zhu Heng beside him. And I've only really gotten along with Zhu Heng for a while. Although he didn't have any family friendship with them, he got along relatively happily, because he had a family business and his surname was not Bonaparte, so he would not participate in the division of interests within the Bonaparte family. And still single, many little Bonapartes wanted to stuff their sisters into him as queens......

Maria. Letizia seems to be good. A beautiful girl from Rome, Lucien. Bonaparte's granddaughter. And Alexander. Valewski's sister is also quite beautiful...... The girls of the Savoy family are also good, but they are a little amorous.

As for the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies, it was a bit of a setback. He thought of the Duchess of Manila who always asked him for delicious candy along the way. That kid named Zhu Guoguang is going to live with a bourbon sow for the rest of his life.

The Mexico was already very close to Hong Kong Island, and the ship approached from the west side of Hong Kong Island and sailed into the Helena Channel (Victoria Channel) under the guidance of a small pilotage steamboat. Although it is already the middle of the night, there are still many houses on both sides of the strait with lights on, some of which are factories that work day and night, and some of which are hotels and inns that do not close all night. Where's the atmosphere of war? There were some cargo and passenger ships parked on the docks on both sides of the strait, and there was not a single trace of a warship. And there is not a hint of war.

"These lights are lit with an AC power system." Juheng frowned at Juan's brow. I thought he was lamenting the lights in front of him. "It was Elizabeth's husband, Cheng Zhongcheng, who developed the power generation and transmission system...... Juan, do you want your Donghua City to use such an electrical system? ”

Direct current generation systems have been around for a long time. The lights on the Mexico are lit by direct current from a small generator. But the DC power system is so inefficient that if you want to use it to light up a city, you don't know how many small power stations need to be built. Therefore, although DC generators have appeared for many years, there is still almost no electricity consumption in urban power systems and industry. And now. This gap has been filled by Hong Kong. While the parliaments of other cities were still debating the need for electric lights, Zhu Guojie had already made a decision to invest and set up the Hong Kong Electric Company, which lit up the entire city with electric lights in the shortest possible time.

"Henry, when can I see Big Brother? I haven't met him yet. Jujuan asked.

"Big brother doesn't seem to be in Hong Kong." Zhu Heng told him.

"Not there? Did he go to Nanjing? Jujuan asked, confused.

"I don't know." Zhu Heng shook his head and was a little puzzled, he had just contacted Nanjing through the radio on the ship and learned that Zhu Guojie and his wife were not in Hong Kong. Jujuan was not an ordinary Ming prince, he was the son of the Empress of Mexico, the king of the Kingdom of Donghua, and the name of a prince of France and the Roman Empire. Such a character visits. How can Zhu Guojie avoid it? It's completely unruly.

"So the crown prince is in Hong Kong?" Jujuan asked again, his tone calm and without any displeasure.

"Nope. The second brother is not there either. Zhu Heng smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "They all seem to have important things to do, and the old man asked Brother Guoguang to meet us in Hong Kong." ”

Zhu Guoguang is the son of Luo Xiangju, the "child-giving machine" of Zhu Jishi's harem, and Empress Luo's sister has given birth to 10 children to Emperor Zhu in the past thirty years! And all of them are very healthy. Among them, there are four sons, and Zhu Guojie has become the king of Hawaii and the duke of Hong Kong. Zhu Guohong became the king of North Korea again, and now it is Zhu Guoguang's turn to be the king of the Philippines.

"Henry. Hong Kong is a very good city for big brother, why don't we stay in Hong Kong for a few more days and walk around? Zhu Heng smiled and made a suggestion.

Mr. Chu's statecraft has been recognized, and the Duke Dominion of Hong Kong is a model for many cities in China. Including the "Terrace House Scheme", "Workers' Pension Scheme", "Collective Bargaining System" and "Power Harbour Scheme" are all popular and popular. If it weren't for the fact that the crown prince's ability was not weak, and he managed the government in an orderly manner, maybe someone would have put forward the idea of replacing the crown prince -- now the Ming Dynasty practiced freedom of the press and speech, and if anyone really wanted to say that, they would not lose their heads according to the law.

"No!" Zhu Juan frowned and thought for a long time, then suddenly shook his head, "Let Brother Guoguang get on the ship immediately, we won't stay in Hong Kong, go to Nanjing immediately, I must see my father as soon as possible!" ”

Zhu Heng was stunned for a moment, "Henry, you're not in such a hurry, are you?" ”

"Of course I'm in a hurry!" Jujuan snorted lightly, "I still underestimate the old man, no wonder he didn't move the Philippines for so long, it turns out that what he wants to fight is not the Philippines!" ”

"Not the Philippines? Where does the Emperor want? "Zhu Heng's energy is more focused on business, and he doesn't think as much about military affairs as Juan, of course, he can't see through Emperor Zhu's wishful thinking. Jujuan, however, had a little talent for knowing things.

"It's Hawaii." Zhu Heng whispered.

"Hawaii!" Zhu Heng gasped, "The old man is crazy, he really wants to provoke a world war!" ”

Zhu Juan smiled: "The old man really dares to bet!" This time, if I can't do a big fight, I have to go to Nanjing immediately and then return to Donghua...... Once the fight starts, Donghua will be the front line, and I, the king, will not be able to go back to command! ”

……

"Father, do you really want to fight?"

Nanjing, inside the Hot Spring Palace. Emperor Zhu's eldest son, Zhu Guojie, who was already thirty years old, looked at the old man on the throne with a solemn gaze. Juan guessed correctly, Zhu Jishi's target is indeed not the Philippines, but Hawaii, a nail stuck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Although the Philippines, like Japan, is a barrier to protect the Ming Dynasty. But its strategic position is still far from Hawaii's. Moreover, the Hawaiian Islands are too far from the Ming mainland and are already at the limit of the combat radius of the Pacific Fleet. That is, if the archipelago cannot be captured at once, the Pacific Fleet will not have enough coal for the return voyage. Therefore, the best way to pull out this nail is to surprise the sneak attack.

And from the map, the Hawaiian Islands are the eastern gateway to Australia, and the Strait of Malacca is the western gateway to Australia. If these two gates are controlled by the Ming Dynasty, Australia will be the turtle in the urn. As for the Philippines, once these two gates are controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the British will dare to put their fleet and army there?

Zhu Jishi looked at his son with a smile and said with a smile: "I don't know if I can fight...... I didn't mean to take Pearl Harbor, I just wanted to land ground troops on Oahu. That island is not British land, it belongs to you! ”

"Sixty thousand troops!" Zhu Guojie smiled bitterly, "With so many troops on Oahu, can the British give up?" ”

Zhu Jishi shrugged his shoulders and looked at his eldest son seriously, "Guojie, your Nanhua Kingdom will not fall from the sky out of thin air, if you want to get there, you have to fight, fight with the British, and you must win!" Therefore, I am not afraid of war, and now it depends on whether the British are afraid or not. (To be continued)

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