Ma Jiang knew that the biggest flaw of the other party this time was not the brand new name of the ship, but that a ship that was going to return to the United States would not take advantage of the situation to load all the special products of the Southeast Peninsula such as furs and jade, but would load a shipload of extremely perishable and cheap fruits? Is this the usual style of a savvy businessman?

The only plausible explanation is that the ship had re-named, and that they were not passing by, but were sailing from somewhere near the bay! Why did they change the name of the ship, and was there any shady trick? Ma Jiang believes that everything will be clear after grabbing it!

Standing on the bridge of the ship, Ma Feis, who was really relieved, looked at Kashgar, who looked very bad. Duras shrugged his shoulders and said, "My Excellency, don't be so nervous and worried, don't you see that we have already escaped their inspection?" Be calm! Be sure to be calm! ”

Suddenly, Muffis found that the ironclad ship of the Chinese Empire Zhiyuan was driving over while re-waving the flag of stopping the ship for inspection, and Marfis was taken aback. The opposing battleship was unusually ordered to stop the ship for the second time for Kashgar. It was a bolt from the blue for Duras.

Kashgar, which is already somewhat panicked. Duras grabbed Malfes's sleeve and said anxiously, "What to do?" They've found out, so let's run away! ”

Malfezy despised, helplessly, Kashgar. Duras glanced at him and said, "Our speed is not half that of the other party?" How to escape? I'm afraid that once we try to escape, the other side will not hesitate to sink us, this is common for the navy of the Chinese Empire, they are the largest maritime gang in the whole of Asia, they are extremely good at killing people and goods, otherwise where do you think they got the money to buy so many warships? Although they are openly prohibitive, I have always suspected that they are the biggest drug dealers in the world, because real drug dealers absolutely do not take drugs, and their families and subordinates are forbidden to use drugs! ”

Malfis patted Kashgar, who had no master of the six gods. Duras's shoulder said: "You and your people can do whatever they should do, the more nervous you are, the more likely you are to have flaws, they may have come here this time to ask us about something, not to find any flaws, we have to stabilize ourselves." ”

But the Zhiyuan ship is getting closer and closer, and Ma Feis's heart can't help but pinch up, although he is smiling on the deck, but his heart has already risen to his throat, and Ma Jiang is standing on the bridge with a blank face looking down at Ma Feis, Ma Jiang is nothing more than a big luck, whether he can intercept the ship that Prince Ahena of France escaped in speculation, but Ma Jiang is sure that there must be something wrong with the ship in front of him.

As a senior naval officer studying abroad, Ma Jiang also has rich experience in command and combat of sea sabotage and surprise attacks, although this kind of bandit behavior contradicts Ma Jiang's education as a sea knight, but Lin Haijiang has long elevated this kind of sabotage tactics to the level of patriotism.

Ma Jiang had attacked many East India Company opium ships and some large cargo ships, but in his eyes, the captain of the Yuanwang may not have realized that the captain's own performance was their biggest flaw. This is obviously a very abnormal reaction, unless the captain is crazy or he is trying to hide something.

If one person suspects another person, then the suspect's every move will become more and more suspicious, and now Mafez is extremely suspicious in the eyes of Ma Jiang!

When the two ships finally slowly approached the broadside, after a large number of armed marines boarded the ship, Muffis realized that this time his luck may have come to an end, Fang Ming gathered all the personnel including Muffis on the front deck of the Zhiyuan ship, and then found the captain's sailing chronicle in the wheelhouse, and found the crew roster and the bill for purchasing supplies in the captain Muffis's room.

Looking at the few things that were taken into the hands of the other party, Muffis couldn't laugh anymore, a piercing cold feeling made Muffis shudder, Fang Ming smiled slightly after looking through the crew roster and navigation chronicles: "It seems to be more!" ”

For this inexplicable sentence, Muffis remained silent, and now Muffis can be said to be in a fierce psychological struggle, how not to make the other party angry with himself? You must know that he almost succeeded in deceiving the other party just now, and until now, Malfez still doesn't know where he has a fatal flaw?

Fang Ming, who didn't rub sand in his eyes, lined up all the crew, and among them, the ones with fine skin and tender flesh were all picked out, and then stood in front of a sailor with dark skin who looked like a perennial sailor at sea, smiled slightly and asked in English that he was not very proficient in: "Identify who is the last to board the ship!" ”

The sailor didn't know if he didn't hear clearly, or if he was deliberately sloppy, and even waved his hand and said that he didn't know anything! Fang Mingyi raised his hand and slammed the shot, and under a burst of exclamation and scratching, the sailor fell to the ground.

Immediately, Fang Ming walked up to the second sailor and continued to ask, "Identify me which of you were the last to board the ship!" ”

The second sailor glanced at Captain Muffis with a slight hesitation, Fang Ming raised his hand and slammed the shot, eliminating the sailor, and when he stood in front of the third sailor, who was already trembling, the third sailor was like a cannon. Duras and others all identified them.

Then Fang Ming immediately reported to the captain Ma Jiang, and in Kashgar, which was sad and angry. Under the attention of Duras and others, Muffis and the others were driven back to the ship Yuanwang, and the sailor who had become a traitor was killed by several companions who took advantage of the opportunity to cover their bodies!

Muffis stared intently at the front and rear main guns of the Zhiyuan ship slowly turning, and he knew that it seemed that it was time to kill people!

Lin Haijiang, who was at the Haikou base, saw Kashgar escorted back by the Cup Zhiyuan ship. Major General Duras and Prince Asina, for the arrival of these two distinguished guests, Lin Haijiang gave a formal reception in accordance with their status, and the reception ceremony and the other party showed courtesy. Neither Major General Duras nor Prince Ahena could believe it.

Of course, they met in Haikou with the former Admiral El Ey, who had already begun to serve the Chinese Empire. Raffarin, about this? Raffarin was still a little embarrassed, but at this moment, Lin Haijiang had already heard of Prince Ashina's title as the number one beauty in Europe.

However, Lin Haijiang was very disappointed after meeting, Prince Ashina was far from having the demeanor and brilliance of Hollywood superstars in later generations, and her noble status made people add countless conjectures, because once a woman has the right and money, she can develop a unique temperament, and whether a woman is beautiful or not is based on her five exquisite and upright levels, her temperament should account for at least fifty percent, so Prince Ashina may be the first beauty of the European royal family, but it is a bit too much to say that she is the first beauty in Europe!

Lin Haijiang has always wondered why in this era, why Europe married each other not princesses, but grand dukes and princes? Passing through El? Raffarin's explanation only understood that the princess has no territory after marriage, and has no right to participate in politics, while the grand duke and the prince are different, they still maintain the territory after marriage, and their husbands also have the same rights and obligations as them, and the purpose of the marriage between the European royal families is to have you and me, and I have you, and the specific and pragmatic Europeans believe in strength, not in vain, so the title of a royal princess is far from a royal prince.

For the head of the Chinese Empire did not show the slightest obsession with himself, Prince Athena was furious when he returned to their residence. Duras came forward to explain that the aesthetic views of the Orientals are completely different from those of the Europeans, such as foot binding, etc., which can be regarded as fooling Prince Ashina.

However, compared to the treatment they receive, Kashgar. Duras was still very relieved, because the other side did not even have a guard at the door, and still served as their Praetorian Light Cavalry, which was a clear signal that they were very valuable now, so they did not have to worry about their safety for a long time to come.

When the news of Prince Athena's captivity reached France, Napoleon III was like a grumpy lion, and Olivier's dissuasion completely lost its effect and declared war! Declare war! Declare war! The shameless actions of the evil rulers of the East infuriated all of France under deliberate propaganda.

A large number of elite French troops began to assemble, and Napoleon III, although extremely irritable, had not yet lost his mind, and he demanded that the navy use all its ocean-going forces to complete the preparation of the expedition in eight months, and he was to peel off the skin of that damned barbarian in the East and make a war drum!

Of course, Napoleon III did not forget to send lobbyists to Prussia, and he needed to conclude a solid agreement with Prussia so that he could crusade against that damned scholar in the Far East without any scruples, so that the whole world could see that the dignity of France could not be provoked!

However, Napoleon III still followed Olivier's advice and summoned Marshal McMahon and Marshal Bazin, Marshal McMahon and Marshal Bazin did not show Napoleon III's national war against the Far East, they believed that since Napoleon III had always wanted to restore the French territory of the Napoleonic era, then it should first deal with the already majestic rise of Prussia, the rise of Prussia has posed a great threat to France, rather than going to the East to deal with a newly born state power, You must know that the war in the East will cause the French army to be exhausted due to the long front of the French army, and the long supply line will also exhaust France, and the French national strength will not be able to support the maintenance of a large corps in the far east.

Napoleon III naturally did not dare to despise the opinions of Marshal McMahon and Marshal Bazin, the two heavyweight senators, and the stability of his throne depended on the support of the big family, and the rise of Prussia in recent years has made Napoleon III feel that his dream of trying to restore Napoleon's empire is getting more and more distant, and since he became emperor, he has been seeking French hegemony in Europe.

Marshal MacMahon saw that Napoleon III was lost in thought, so he said unceremoniously: "Now the rise of the North German Confederation headed by Prussia has given France a rather advantageous competitor in Europe. Therefore, we must now do everything possible to prevent Prussia from reunifying the four southern German states, even at the expense of foreign wars, and at the same time we can ease and divert domestic contradictions so that France can complete its strategic plan of dominating the European continent. ”

Napoleon III also knew very well that the contradictions between Prussia and France had already intensified rapidly, and the Franco-Prussian War was an inevitable war between Prussia to complete its unification and fight for European hegemony. But Napoleon III has completely made his strategic plan for crusading against the Chinese Empire completely public, so he will have a very faceless feeling if he continues?

As the helmsman of the Bakkens family, who strongly supported Napoleon III's claim to be emperor, Marshal Bazin knew very well that His Majesty the Emperor was a bit of a good person, and Marshal Bazin smiled slightly and said to Marshal McMahon and Olivier: "Actually, you have not understood the strategic intentions of His Majesty the Emperor, His Majesty the Emperor made such a public announcement with such fanfare, just to divert the attention of the Prussians, saying that it takes eight months, in fact, we only need four months of preparation, and then give the Prussians a sudden fatal blow, am I right?" His Majesty the Emperor? ”

Regarding Marshal Bazin's words, Napoleon III was slightly stunned at first, and then said with a slight hint of embarrassment: "You were actually noticed by Marshal Bazin!" Hahaha! ”

Marshal McMahon glanced meaningfully at Marshal Bazin, who could be called a scheming Marshal Bazin, he didn't expect that his old rival would count His Majesty the Emperor into the bones, and Olivier was stunned by what was happening in front of him, compared with those marshals who held real power and backed the big family, Olivier felt more helpless, but Marshal Bazin's words also made him feel very inspired.

At the same time in Hamburg, Wilhelm I summoned Bismarck and Moltke, the chief of the General Staff, to hear the views of Bismarck and Moltke on the French side, Bismarck believed that before the outbreak of war, it was necessary to use diplomatic means first to induce the stupid Napoleon III to take the initiative to provoke a war, so as to provide a legal basis for Prussia to gain a firm foothold in the subsequent major counteroffensive, and it was difficult for other European countries to directly intervene in the war between the two countries.

Moltke believed that the marshals in the French army were not necessarily idiots like Napoleon III, and that the French army simply did not have the strength and conditions to fight in the East, so Moltke thought that this could also be a smoke bomb released by the French! It is intended to confuse the eye, but Moltke believes that the allies of the empire in the Far East have indeed played an unexpectedly huge role, and even brought the whole of France into the orbit of the war, which can be said to have made the French economy even worse, and the French economy will directly affect the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the French army in the future.

To this end, Wilhelm I decided to prepare for the strategic arrangement before the decisive battle, the Prussian army was secretly reorganized, a large number of military supplies and weapons and ammunition were stored, and 3,000 general-purpose machine guns purchased from the Chinese Empire were distributed to the troops, so that the troops could familiarize themselves with their surnames, and the Mauser factory began to authorize imitations.

When Lin Haijiang, who was in Haikou, learned that Napoleon III was going to pacify him, he only smiled slightly, and Lin Haijiang knew very well that the Franco-Prussian War was a war that broke out in Prussia to unify Germany and compete with France for hegemony on the European continent.

The war was started by France, and in the later stages of the war, Prussia transformed the war from a war of self-defense into a war of aggression. It ended with a resounding victory for Prussia and the establishment of the Second German Reich on January 18, 1871.

It is now July 2, 1860, ten years earlier than the Franco-Prussian War in history, Napoleon III's thunderous fury in Europe like a clown has no effect on him in Asia, and now the major military operations in Indochina have basically subsided, and those of the French officers and soldiers with technical expertise who have passed the examination have entered some unimportant technical posts, and the remaining 4,000 sailors and army, Lin Haijiang instructed them to form a special unit under the command of the Indochina Intelligence Bureau, in Nanqi to train a large number of [***] forces and subversive forces in the countries of the Indochina Peninsula.

Lin Haijiang's principle is to first let the Indochina Peninsula be chaotic, control and block the foreign communication and trade routes of the entire peninsula country, destroy the trade in the region through non-stop attacks, and cause massacres and famine through turmoil, so as to achieve the previous strategic vision.

In addition to satisfying the needs of the garrison and the stability around the military-controlled areas, Lin Haijiang brought only destruction and war to the Indochina Peninsula.

At home, especially in Hainan Province, the speed of construction can be described as a thousand miles, due to the bad relations with the French, Britain also terminated the construction projects and loans to the Chinese Empire, and the British also realized that once Lin Haijiang developed and rose, it would pose a serious threat to the British Empire's interests in Southeast Asia, especially now that British power has penetrated from Shanghai to the Yangtze River region in the hinterland of China.

The British have always taken a wait-and-see attitude towards the Chinese Empire, the main reason for which is that the Chinese Empire is not a soft persimmon, but an adversary that needs to be faced by the British Empire.

Britain can sit back and watch China's frequent civil strife, but it can't sit back and watch China's unity and strength, Yanjing's little emperor and empress dowager can't, and Tianjing's Hong Xiuquan is not, but this Lin Haijiang is very promising to become the leader of unified China, according to relevant researchers familiar with the structure of the Chinese empire, Lin Haijiang's rise will have a huge impact on the empire's interests in China, to put it clearly, Lin Haijiang will not buy anyone's account.

China's unification and strength conflicted with the fundamental interests of the British Empire, and the Chinese Empire, one of the three major forces in China today, dared to challenge the majesty of Napoleon III of France? And the capture of Prince Athena of France made the British see a double opportunity to meddle in Asian and European affairs!

(To be continued)