On the night of Hong Kong Island (Portsmouth Island), a small wooden boat slowly approached the pier. It has been almost a month since the night battle, which later generations of English called the Great Victory on the Thames. Now the whole of Portsmouth Island has been completely controlled by the troops of the Atlantic Governor's Office. Even the Gosport Peninsula, west of Portsmouth, which held the entrance to the port, was occupied by the Coalition forces, and a star-shaped wooden fort was erected, with a regiment of Genoese crossbowmen and an artillery battery.

Prince Edward stood on a Kirk ship, just looking out at the scenery. It was very dark, and only a few lanterns were shining. In this faint light, I saw mercenaries from the Black Forest, who did not know from Switzerland, with their backs to the wooden ship. Standing straight and on guard.

Qiao San, the prince of Castile, opposite him, smiled at him and said, "Edward, these are the Black Forest mercenaries who have just been transferred from Macau. Now they and the Swiss mercenaries are famous in Europa! My father is also planning to hire 20,000 Swiss and Black Forest mercenaries, and he is also planning to hire Officer Seris to help train them. ”

Prince Edward's smile froze slightly. But the cover is good. The night battle of the Thames was of course a big win for England on the London side! But in the eyes of Europa as a whole, the victors were the undoubted Serisians - even the "three-sevenths emperor" of the Holy Roman Empire and the Earl of Cornwall. Anjou himself was killed, and with him two thousand and hundreds of knights! How dare you say that such a battle has been won? The results of the English were nothing more than Swiss and Black Forest mercenaries. Exchange the lives of noble knights for the lives of cheap mercenaries, and it seems that knights die more!

Such a battle is said to have been won, and the English are too shameless, right? The knights of Europa heard that the English had declared victory. It's just laughter. However, after laughing, the monarchs of Europa realized the value of mercenaries and arquebuses.

Over there in Macau. There were long queues of nobles from various countries who wanted to buy arquebuses and cannons. And mercenaries in Switzerland and the Black Forest became sought-after overnight.

Just elected Holy Roman Emperor (rival was killed by his allies, and the support of the Pope. Alphonse I also made an agreement with the lords of Switzerland and the Black Forest to recruit up to 20,000 mercenaries in their domains. At the same time, Alphonse I recruited an equal number of mercenaries in Castile. An army of 40,000 mercenaries was formed, and 5,000 muskets, 100 cannons, and a large amount of gunpowder and Nanfen steel were ordered from the Atlantic Governor's Palace. He also invited an officer of the Ming army to serve as an instructor to help him train the army.

And in order to thank the Chinese for their help, Alphonse I signed several treaties with the Daming Atlantic Governor's Office concerning "negotiated tariffs", "one-sided most-favored-nation treatment" and "extraterritoriality". He also sent his second son, Prince Chawsan, as an envoy to mediate the Ming-British War, which Prince Chaisan was the nephew of Prince Edward.

He lived up to expectations. After a rush on both sides, Prince Edward was invited to Portsmouth Island, which had become Hong Kong.

He looked at Edward and smiled: "Edward, it doesn't actually hurt England to hand over Portsmouth to the Serisians. Because the Cyris Navy stationed here was actually guarding the safety of England...... If the Mongols had occupied Norway and Burgundy or even France, England would have been at risk of invasion. With the presence of the Cyris fleet, England could rest easy. And, when Portsmouth becomes Hong Kong, it will become a window for Seris civilization and goods to enter Europa. It will also be the port of entry for Europa goods to the New World and the Seris mainland. This brought England a fortune! Now, the area close to Macau is already showing signs of prosperity. ”

Prince Edward just smiled and sat there without speaking. Of course he knew what Prince Josan said. While Genoa and Venice passed by underwriting silk, porcelain and spices. For the time being, they retained their monopoly position in the Europa trade. But in the long run, Macau and Hong Kong are bound to rise to replace these two merchant cities. And England will become as prosperous as Italy because of Hong Kong.

Moreover, once the countries of Europa encountered a crisis in resisting the Mongol invasion. Then there is the English Channel protection. And England, where the Cyris fleet is stationed, will become a refuge for Europa money and prominent people......

This is a rare opportunity for England! Although England will lose some rights and interests in the process of associating with the Serisians, it will be able to earn back ten times more from the other countries of Europa.

That's lost to Seris. Thanks to Europa!

On the dock, Chen Chongguan and a few Han Chinese officers and the newly promoted Teswen were waiting for the visitors. Several wagons were parked on top of this empty dock. Four ships of the "New World" class of the Atlantic Fleet have already returned to Mingzhou. There are only three Genoese Kirk boats on the pier on Hong Kong Island. Together with the ship that Prince Edward was on, it is now the entire maritime defense force of Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong's land defense is slightly more adequate, with an Aztec musket regiment, a Swiss mercenary regiment, a Black Forest mercenary regiment, a Genoese crossbow battalion, and a Ming artillery unit. There were more than 5,000 men, the same number of troops used in the invasion of England. But Chen Chongguan did not have the confidence to use this army to launch another invasion - of course, the report of starting a war and teaching the English a harsh lesson had already been handed over to the Atlantic Governor's Palace. It was planned to use 30,000 German mercenaries for the invasion, which would require millions of dollars to be spent on mercenaries and equipment.

Daming's forces in Europa are still too weak! Chen Chongguan thought to himself that if there was an infantry division stationed in Europa, he should be able to easily defeat Prince Edward's army.

But a division...... I really can only think about it. The regular army of the Ming Dynasty in the New World did not have a division. It seems that before the training and equipment of 30,000 German mercenaries are completed, there is nothing to do with the English themselves.

When Chen Chongguan sighed secretly, the high-pitched military horn sounded. Edward, the Crown Prince of England, had stepped down from a Genoese Kirk-style galleon, accompanied by Prince Josan of Castile.

This meeting would undoubtedly give birth to a series of unequal treaties that would be the beginning of the fall of the Kingdom of England into a semi-colony. And Prince Edward, who signed these treaties and betrayed the country, will be infamous in later generations - he will be the traitor Edward!

But precisely because of such a traitor, the Kingdom of England was always only a semi-colony, first semi-colonial and semi-feudal, then semi-colonial and semi-capitalist......

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"Okay, how long has it been! Macau has it, Hong Kong is also soon, and a pope has been raised, the emperor of Holy Rome is also our friend, and there are two compradors in Genoa and Venice! This Liang Chongru and Chen Chongguan really know how to do things. With their merits in Europa, they can be crowned! ”

Just when Chen Chongguan was unwilling to meet and negotiate with Prince Edward, tens of thousands of miles away, Chen Dexing, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, was praising Liang Chongru and Chen Chongguan repeatedly.

At this time, he did not know about the "defeat of the Thames", nor did he know that Hong Kong Island had been reached. But in his mind, why should the Kingdom of England fight against the Atlantic Governorate and the Atlantic Fleet? The two sides are not at all opponents of the same rank!

Moreover, the cession of Portsmouth Island and the southern tip of the Gosport Peninsula to the Ming as a naval base was required by the papal edict, so why did the king of England fight to the end? Those two pieces of territory are not very big, and there will not be too much loss if they are given to Ming England, and they can also hug the thigh of the Ming Empire and annex Scotland with the support of the Ming Empire. In short, England is not at a loss!

Chen Dexing smiled and put down the report of the Atlantic Governor's Palace, which had crossed two oceans and drifted at sea for several months before it was delivered to the city of Beijing. In the era when there was no telegraph, communication across the ocean was really too difficult. Such communication and transportation conditions have determined that the Ming Empire will not be able to maintain too large a direct territory and a large number of garrisons in Europa.

So you can only choose to control a few key points. Hong Kong, Macau...... In the future, there may be Suez, well, and a Chinese name, let's call it "Shenmen Canal". There is a shortcut to Shenzhou (Asia), which is where the Shenmen is located.

Thinking of this, Chen Dexing picked up the brush and commented on the text "Liang and Chen discuss the title of the marquis" on the recital of the Atlantic Governor's Palace, and then handed it to Yang Po'er. Then he asked, "Has Uszang's Paspa arrived?" ”

In the first month of this year, when King Kong, the big BMW head of Wu Sizang, went to Jingzhao Mansion to meet Chen Dexing. The Great Treasure of Sakya, Phagspa, left Sasgar, and stationed in Yulong Haya, southern of the Qingtang Plateau, with tens of thousands of native soldiers and a large number of goods and lamas. It was not that he wanted to fight with the Ming army that had invaded the plateau, but that he would leave the Western Regions if the preparations were not right.

After the big BMW Tou King Kong brought Chen Dexing's conditions, Pasipa immediately left Yulong Haya and rushed to Jingzhao Mansion day and night, only to learn that Chen Dexing had finished his western tour and returned to Beijing -- the first stage of the Western Expedition had ended, and the territory, including Hetao, Hexi, and Hehuang, had been recovered. The Ming court set up a Gansu province on these recovered territories, and the provincial capital was in Lingzhou. The Mongol tribes on the Gansu territory have been driven away. However, there are still many Tibetan tribes, and most of them are not authentic Tubo, but Han and feudal mixed blood, because they have been away from Han civilization for a long time. Now the Gansu Provincial Governor and the Western Expeditionary Army stationed in Gansu are focusing on rectifying their territory. There is nothing to say, it is to turn the vassal into a Han and go to the Buddha and worship the Tao! Catch the Tubo tribes in the mountains, scatter them and settle them in the rich land of farming, and then use Tiandao to educate people's hearts.

As a result, the western expedition was temporarily suspended, and Chen Dexing returned to Beijing to deal with the government. But Pasipa didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly rushed to Beijing, walked for more than a month, and only entered Beijing New Town three days ago. (To be continued......)