On June 14, Lu Weimin came to the palace and asked Zhang Wei: "Your Majesty, according to the agreement with the British, Singapore will be handed over tomorrow, shall we evacuate on time?" ”

"Evacuate, my goal is to clean up the Japanese first, and for the British, don't be in a hurry, and keep him to deal with the Germans. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Your Majesty, news has come back from London, the British Navy has installed 1 Dreadnought-class battleship, and the naval strength is not weak, hand over Singapore to them, won't the British drag their feet when we fight Japan?"

"There are small moves, as for sending troops, they don't dare, they know that the most powerful thing in Britain is the navy, and now the navy is not our opponent, let alone the army, they still have to protect the homeland, so they will not attack us."

"And the British and Dutch captives were also released?"

"Let it go according to the agreement, but are the British naval officers and the soldiers on the battleship all disposed of?"

"It's all disposed of, and there is no handle left, it's all caused by the unadaptation of water and soil, and this time it was Li Minmin who personally dealt with it." Lu Weimin thought for a while and then added: "Your Majesty, so many British naval officers and soldiers have been captured, and now there are only more than 1,000 attached personnel left, will Britain make trouble and make trouble for us?" ”

"Isn't there nothing wrong with the Dutch Navy? This is the contrast, because they are not accustomed to the water and soil here, and no one can do this, in order to enhance their credibility, they will also kill some of their army officers, so that they will believe it. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, this time the British will be unspeakable."

Sir Anderson, the governor of the Straits Settlements, has been worrying about tea and food all day long, and nothing is pleasing to the eye, he is afraid that the army of the Lanfang Kingdom will not leave Singapore, and he will not be able to fight and fight, if he does not leave here, he really has no way to deal with them.

Daniel knew what Sir Anderson was thinking, so he said, "Your Excellency, rest assured, our fleet of battleships will arrive in Bombay at the end of May, and the Kingdom of Lanfang will definitely evacuate on time." “

"Daniel, I'm not worried, if they stay here and don't leave, our fleet won't dare to do anything to them, otherwise the Far East Fleet will sail directly to Singapore, not just stay in Mumbai."

"Your Excellency the Governor, the news from London that our British Empire now has a Lanfang-class battleship, named the Dreadnought-class battleship, and now it has been launched, I believe that it won't be long before the British Empire will not have to be afraid of the Lanfang Navy."

"I know this situation, it's just that our British Empire only has 1 Dreadnought-class battleship launched, and there are no battle cruisers, even after the official commission, our navy is not the opponent of the Lanfang Kingdom's navy, we must be patient, take the opportunity to produce more new battleships, and wait for the opportunity to give the Lanfang Kingdom's navy a fatal blow."

"Your Excellency the Governor, although rest assured, the people of the Lanfang Kingdom do not have such a long-term vision, they don't know the value of Singapore at all, if they really know the value of Singapore, they will not exchange the whole of Australia, they only change the western desert of Australia and be happy like this, it seems that they do not see Singapore as a small land, they will definitely retreat. Now the governor should organize ships as soon as possible, prepare to send the two regiments of the Lanfang Kingdom away, and send ships to pick up the tens of thousands of British troops who were laboring in Shangjing City. ”

"Well, I hope so, won't those servants come back?"

"The Lanfang people will not return the servant army to us."

"Then you can handle the matter of arranging the ship, I am in a very chaotic mood now, and it is not convenient to deal with these things."

"Yes, Your Excellency the Governor."

Listening to Daniel's reassurance, Sir Anderson felt better.

Daniel's ability to do things is still very good, Singapore's ships are not enough, urgently from Brunei, Ben Cheng waiting for the hire of cargo ships, to ensure that the two regiments in Singapore to evacuate the ship, as for the British Imperial Army and Navy now staying in Beijing, can only be transported in 2 batches, now the cargo ships on the market, a large part of them are hired by the Lanfang Kingdom at a high price to transport immigrants, and it is very big to suddenly raise so many merchant ships.

The ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands also greeted the Kingdom of Lanfang early, and as soon as the time came, they received the captured Dutch officers and soldiers and Dutch nationals. The Dutch had brought in more merchant ships than they could transport the men. These merchant ships were sent directly from the Dutch side, and when they came, they transported the machinery and equipment of the Lanfang Kingdom from the port of Hamburg, and when they returned, they happened to transport these Dutch officers and soldiers back.

As for the ships that transported their own equipment, when they returned, they generally transported grain, metal tin, canned food, tea, spices, etc., produced in the kingdom of Lanfang.

On June 15, the British Cabinet gathered at the Prime Minister's residence in Downing Street, eager to know how Singapore would take place, and everyone knew that the importance of Singapore and the British Empire could not be missed.

The two regiments stationed in Singapore received a telegram yesterday and evacuated on time, and after a day and a night of preparation, they were finally packed, and there was nothing special on the side of the acting mayor of Singapore, and the taxes collected and the profits earned from the port were transported back to Beijing at any time, and now they just carried their personal belongings with them.

The two regiments of Lanfang waited for the ship smoothly, which gave Sir Anderson a sigh of relief, and as soon as the Lanfang Kingdom Army boarded the ship, Anderson arranged for someone to send a telegram to the cabinet: The Lanfang Army was boarding the ship and evacuating.

After receiving Sir Anderson's telegram from the Prime Minister's Office of the British Empire, the cabinet members let out a burst of cheers, and everyone congratulated the Prime Minister that the successful recovery of Singapore was a diplomatic victory under the wise leadership of the Prime Minister, and Singapore was too important for the British Empire.

The Prime Minister asked everyone to continue to wait for the latest news and to report back to His Majesty the King.

After the army boarded the ship, the accompanying Chinese boarded the ship, and these Chinese were afraid that after the withdrawal of the Lanfang Kingdom army, the British would spread their hatred on the Chinese, so after learning about the Lanfang Kingdom's policy towards the Chinese, they all rushed to immigrate to the Lanfang Kingdom, and many older families had evacuated in advance, these were all Chinese from small families, and they could not afford to hire merchant ships, so they had to evacuate with the Lanfang government personnel. These evacuees account for one-third of Singapore's total population.

Sir Anderson is also happy to withdraw these Chinese, otherwise he doesn't know how to treat them in the future, and it will definitely not work if he is strict, and when the time comes, he is afraid that the Lanfang Kingdom will find trouble again, if it is too relaxed, and it is not conducive to his own rule, he will still withdraw his own worry.

At the beginning, he also complained that Daniel had mobilized so many merchant ships, and that he should go to pick up those naval and land officers and soldiers in Shangjing, but now it seems that Daniel was prescient, otherwise, these Chinese would not be able to board the ship, and the handover would not be completed today.

At the same time, in the port of Beijing, the released British naval and land officers and Dutch were also boarding, but compared to the Dutch, the British who boarded the ship in advance were holding a porcelain columbarium in their hands, about 10,000 more, these things in the Lanfang labor of the British navy and army, the Lanfang Kingdom after obtaining the consent of General MacDonald, all cremated, put into the columbarium.

General MacDonald knew about these people who died one after another, but he couldn't help it, the climate here was humid, many British people were not adaptable, and they fell ill one after another, although the military doctors of the British Empire and the doctors of the Lanfang Kingdom tried their best to save them, but their bodies were still weakening day by day, and finally they lost their lives. This can't be complained about by the Lan Fang people, Dr. Lan Fang tried his best, and the military doctors of his own army were powerless, because they were too weak, and the officers and soldiers of the army were stronger, and they died very rarely; The Dutch officers and soldiers may have been accustomed to life here, doing the same work, eating the same diet, and very few people got sick, and even if they did, they would recover quickly under the timely treatment of the doctors.

When the members of the British Empire cabinet learned that the officers and soldiers of the sea and land were boarding, their hearts were relieved.

Later, there was a telegram, claiming that more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the navy had died because of the unaccustomed water and soil, and the cabinet members also suspected that the Lanfang people had done something wrong, but they could not investigate the reason.

Regardless of the results of the investigation, this account is counted on the heads of Lan Fangren.

The British Empire's ambassador to the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Erdian, can now rest assured that after a few months of pretending to be his grandson here, Singapore's return to the hands of the British Empire is equivalent to regaining the right to speak in the Far East. The same thought is also the governor of Hong Kong, who is finally safe.

No matter how unpleasant things happen, the successful recovery of Singapore can be regarded as a diplomatic victory for the British Empire.