Hong Kong is boiling!

Hong Kong, the territory of the Ming Empire on the British Isles, is now filled with an atmosphere of great excitement and even some fanaticism. The Kingdom of England has issued an ultimatum to the Qing Empire!

More than a million English warriors were ready to go, and dozens of ironclad warships of the English Navy were also ready. A war that will proclaim that the nation of England will henceforth stand on its feet will soon break out!

Lin Shuangwen, who has returned to Hong Kong, is wearing a cyan cotton robe and sitting in a rickshaw, although there is a thick cotton curtain hanging at the door, but the cold wind still comes in from the outside. He had returned to Hong Kong from Rouen two days earlier – during this time, the Atlantic governor of the Ming Empire, Cao Wenyun, had temporarily moved to Hong Kong, not for anything other than to "supervise" the upcoming Qing-British War, and to be a peacemaker if necessary. And Lin Shuangwen, as the manager of secret diplomacy against the Qing Dynasty, naturally stayed in Hong Kong.

He is now on his way from the Hong Kong residence of the Governor of the Atlantic to the Consulate General of the Qing Dynasty in Hong Kong. Because he had gone in a "personal capacity", he had gone to provide the Qing side with some confidential information about the English Army, which of course would not have changed the outcome of the war. However, it is possible to alleviate the losses of the Qing army, so as to win the favor of the Qing side, so that he can continue to play the role of a "pro-Qing faction". In this way, after the end of the war, he can go to the Great Qing Kingdom as an adviser and help this doomed country to carry out a little "life extension improvement".

So instead of riding in a car or carriage at the Doge's Palace, he stopped a rickshaw on the street. A strong European coachman ran profusely and took off his hat. There was heat all over my head. And Lin Shuangwen was still devastated. Hurry up, hurry up! Seeing the entrance of the 49th Avenue where the Consulate General of the Great Qing Dynasty was located, Lin Shuangwen felt that the car slowed down. It is no longer the noisy and noisy sound of the city. Rather, it was the slogan of the waves: "Long live England!" Long live the Army and Navy! Down with the blast! Down with the Bannerman Colony! Liberation of France! Recovering German ......"

Lin Shuangwen lifted the curtain and looked at everything in front of him with a frown. Countless British people in Hong Kong - Hong Kong is a territory of the Ming Dynasty. But most of the inhabitants are white people with English nationality. Most of these Englishmen are only struggling to survive in the lowest strata of Hong Kong society, with no compulsory education, no welfare, very limited room for growth, and no share in the dividends of Hong Kong's prosperity. It can be said that it is a group of people who are oppressed and insensitive. In the past five hundred years, they have not thought about fighting for any rights and interests for themselves, and they do not think that they have any strength to bargain with the Ming Empire.

But today, the residents of Hong Kong. Young people, in particular, suddenly boiled over, gathering from all over the city to the entrance of the 49th Avenue, which was lined with embassies, holding slogans and banners, and shouting slogans loudly. I'm afraid there are tens of thousands! The crowd swelled and bustled, giving full vent to their enthusiasm that had been suppressed for centuries.

Martial law had been imposed at the entrance to Forty-ninth Street, and the Daming Marines stationed in Hong Kong had erected sandbag fortifications, and the iron-faced Marines were holding their Tiandao 520-style rifles, all of which had bayonets on them. In the winter sun of Hong Kong, the cold light flashed into a patch. Two water machine guns were also on the chain. Murderous at these unarmed Englishmen. These Ming officers and soldiers who had been stationed in Hong Kong for a period of time all looked a little nervous, and even a little at a loss. Is it still Hong Kong, which is full of beautiful and enthusiastic white girls, and treats every visitor to China as a guest? How could the English people in Hong Kong, who have always been numb and cold, be so excited because of an ultimatum? This is really Hong Kong. Isn't it the Huaxia Empire or the Divine Heavenly Dao Country?

"Damn the Young England Movement!"

Lin Shuangwen got off the rickshaw that couldn't move forward half a step, and after paying the fare, he looked at the frenzied crowd, and the name "Young England Movement" came up in his heart. This was done by William Jr. Pete and Richard. Wellesley, two fanatical parties led by English nationalists. It's a small party in the House of Commons of the English Parliament. There are only 5 seats. But it is a key minority – in fact this small party has not many supporters in England, but its supporters are mostly young people or lower-middle-class civilians. Failure to meet the property limit for voting for elected parliamentarians.

Therefore, this one pursues ultra-nationalism. The parties that strongly advocated the war against the Qing (which had been advocating for five or six years) were accustomed to inciting street politics to achieve their goals. Judging by the current situation, it is clear that these fanatics have achieved their goal - the Great Qing State will definitely reject the ultimatum, and the Anglo-Qing War has actually broken out!

Now Hong Kong's Young England Movement supporters are gathering outside Forty-Nine Street to celebrate the victory in advance...... No English nationalist would doubt this.

In fact, Lin Shuangwen had no doubt that England would win the war. For this war is not won or lost at sea or on the battlefield, but in the streets of London and Paris.

Lin Shuangwen has a large amount of information at hand to prove this judgment - on the day England announced the general mobilization, there were long queues in front of every temporary recruiting station on the streets of London. The young people of England, who received the news, poured in like a tidal wave, asking to join the army and fight for the future of the nation...... No one cares about the salary!

Even in Hong Kong, under the rule of the Ming Empire, although there was no recruiting station for the English Army, in the years before the general mobilization of England, there were countless fundraising stations for the English Navy. The English people in Hong Kong, rich and poor, men and women, and religions, are enthusiastic to donate! Even the English ** in the red light district took out the money they had worked so hard to save to sell meat. This money was finally summed up and turned into the most powerful ironclad ship of the English Navy, the "English Nation".

This 12,000-ton ironclad ship ordered from the Daming Jiangnan Shipyard is more powerful than any ironclad ship in the Great Qing Kingdom, and is equipped with the latest twin-mounted nine-inch rapid-fire gun...... According to Lieutenant Commander Lang and Shen, this one ironclad ship was enough to destroy the entire Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty. And not only because of those four nine-inch rapid-fire guns. Also because of the 400 nine-inch caliber explosive armor-piercing blasting bombs and 1,000 three-inch caliber (secondary cannon caliber) explosive blasting bombs sold with the ship!

This is the first time that the Ming Empire has sold "explosives explosives blasting shells" to the outside world, and at present, only three countries in the world, including the Ming Empire, the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom of China, have completely mastered the core technology of producing "explosives explosives blasting shells". And only the Ming Empire can produce armor-piercing blasting shells filled with fierce explosives!

England, which won the naval battle. As long as the Great Qing State is defeated on land, it will be able to defeat the Great Qing State, which has been entrenched on the European continent for more than 300 years.

Of course. Defeating the Great Qing Kingdom is likely to be just the beginning! Subsequently, fanatical English nationalists would run headlong into equally fanatical Tiandao Divine fighters......

What a great battle to look forward to!

Thinking of this, Lin Shuangwen put a leather hat on his head and plunged into the alley on the side of the road. Then I entered the building of a Daming Huitong Bank...... There is a passage in the basement of the bank that leads directly to a department store on Forty-ninth Street, which is also the property of Huitong Bank.

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Port of London, England.

"Long live England! Long live the Army and Navy! God bless England ......"

The incomparably enthusiastic cheers lingered around the London Military Harbour for a long time. But the people cheering here in London are not organised by the Young England Movement. Rather, they spontaneously came to the port to cheer for the English warriors who went out on the march.

Although the Qing Dynasty had not officially rejected the ultimatum, the military authorities in England still gave the navy and army an order to go on the expedition. The citizens of London, who got the news, gathered spontaneously. Come and cheer for their warriors.

On the Thames, there was already a long line of merchant ships transporting troops. One by one, they sailed to the berths, loaded with soldiers and heavy weapons, and dragged the plume of smoke out of the Thames under the drive of the steam engine. The fleet of the English navy was already assembled at the mouth of the Thames, and when the merchant ships arrived, they formed a convoy and set off for Oslo.

Oslo will be the base camp for the combined forces of England and the United Kingdom of the Nordic Kingdom, where the British naval fleet will form a combined fleet with the Nordic navy.

At the corner of the pier, two young men in black uniforms with the rank of lieutenant were standing in front of a group of soldiers who were ready to go, whispering something. One of the two young officers. It was Napoleon, a native of the Qing Dynasty and the president of the Xingou Society. Bonaparte. He is now a ...... It's a European traitor!

Napoleon of this time and space. Bonaparte was a traitor who betrayed the Qing Dynasty and led the English army to attack his own countrymen!

It turned out that he did not stay in Macao to run a newspaper after taking Lang Heshen's funds. Instead, he went to England with dozens of like-minded European traitors, and took refuge with Richard, the leader of the Young England movement. Wellesley. Moreover, it was proposed that the European traitors of the Xingou Association should serve as the leading party and translator.

The tall young man who is now talking to Napoleon is none other than Richard. Wellesley's own brother. It was also a good friend of Napoleon's in England, Arthur. Wellesley.

"Arthur, England is such an enviable country! The people love their homeland so much. Willing to give his life for her strength and rise, and without any consideration of compensation. in my country. There is no such people......"

Napoleon's tone was full of envy, as if there was a complicated emotion...... It is for the Great Qing Kingdom.

"Maybe it's because the Qing government has never done anything for the people?" Arthur. Wellesley Road. "The Qing government must be a government that only knows about expropriation and extortion, right?"

"No, it's not." Napoleon shook his head, "In fact, the people of England need to pay at least four times more taxes than the Qing people!" The English had to use what little savings they had to buy the assessed public debt. And the continuous depreciation of the pound is also exploiting the people in disguise! Compared with the English government, the Qing government was much more merciful. ”

Arthur. Wellesley heard this and wanted to refute it, but he didn't know what to say. Because Napoleon was right, the average Englishman today is probably the hardest in the world!

After the revolution thirty years ago, the English government adopted a number of methods to accelerate the development of heavy industry in the country...... Subsidies are provided by the government to allow private enterprises to get up and running quickly. In order to purchase the advanced industrial equipment of the Ming Empire, the government implemented the nationalization of precious metals and foreign exchange in the country, and issued non-convertible banknotes to purchase domestic precious metals and foreign exchange, and then used them for imports. The result was a severe financial crisis that devalued the pound by as much as 80%. Almost overnight, the whole of England was sacked.

In order to generate foreign exchange earnings, they are used to balance the trade deficit caused by the development of heavy industry and armaments. The English government had to introduce rationing in the country's major cities in order to reduce the consumption of agricultural products so that some of them could be used for export. At the same time, England has also begun to encourage ** to go abroad! On the streets of Hong Kong, Macau, and major cities in the mainland of Mingzhou (Mingzhou has long been open to Europeans), you can see blonde and blue-eyed England**.

It can be said that in order to strengthen the country, the English have really suffered enough in the past twenty years. And theirs is the sixth largest industrial country in the world, and has also established a complete compulsory education system and national mobilization system, and has also built the fifth most powerful navy in the world after the Ming Navy, the Chinese Imperial Navy, the Chinese United Kingdom Navy and the Tianzhu Great British Navy!

It can be said that the present rise of England is based on the suffering of its people. And the people of England not only endured such suffering, but also fanatically supported the government to borrow the usury of the Ming Dynasty to fight the Qing Kingdom on the other side of the English Channel!

Napoleon pressed his saber and looked at Arthur. Wellesley suddenly sighed and said with a wry smile: "This is probably the magic of nationalism, right?" It anesthetized the citizens of England and made everyone fanatical into the dream of becoming a strong country. Let everyone believe that only when the country is strong, will they have a good life. The Young England Movement even shouted the slogan "Don't butter, want cannons!" And it has the support of so many people...... Now, the whole of England has been condensed into an iron fist, an iron fist that is enough to crush the Great Qing Kingdom! The Qing Dynasty, on the other hand, had tens of thousands of people, vast land, and abundant resources, but it could not be brought into play because it was a small number of people and a large country with millions of people. Such a country simply cannot survive in this era! (To be continued.) )