In just a few days, the news of the Queen's upcoming visit to China has caused an international uproar, and countless countries are secretly speculating about what happened to the UK? Is this the rhythm of softening China?

Of course, China and Britain are highly consistent with each other, and this is just a friendly visit.

After receiving confirmation from the Chinese side, the British side soon dispatched a fleet of about 5,000 diplomatic, commercial, and soldier escorts escorted by more than 10 cruisers, 80 auxiliary transport ships, and diplomatic, commercial, and soldiers.

In fact, Britain didn't need to bring so many transport ships, and after going around Africa, they could get supplies from Bombay and Calcutta respectively, but now India is no longer a British colony, and the British official has not recognized India's independence, which has brought about a rather embarrassing situation, the British fleet can no longer get supplies from India, because India is definitely unwilling to take it in the form of a colony from the suzerain, but it is purchased in an equal way, on the one hand, the law does not support it, on the other hand, it can't save face.

Including the two large ports occupied by China, such as Haiguang and Singapore, there is also a similar embarrassment, Britain did not officially recognize China's rule over Burma and Singapore, once its own colonies became the territory of other countries, just for the sake of face, Britain could not dock, so Britain came out of Africa, the nearest supply port could only be Guangzhou, which also forced Britain to carry a large number of supplies.

Since February of the following year, the princes of the Indian princely states have come to Nanjing one after another to participate in the month-long Indian cultural festival that began on April 1. At present, Nanjing's advantage is that the urban planning is large enough, but the population is far from meeting the requirements. There is a lot of vacant land in the city, and it took two years of construction to rush the work. Houses were built for the time being for Indians to live in, and after the festival was over, they were ready for sale.

As the main venue of the festival, China once had the idea of building a super-large steel and glass building comparable to the Crystal Palace in the United Kingdom, which was completely technically feasible, but considering the greenhouse effect of glass curtain walls, in an era when there was no air-conditioning cooling system, such a house was built. This means that at least half of the year is unusable.

At that time, cars could be open and windows could be opened, but this kind of glass structure of the house was difficult to ventilate and dissipate, and people could faint from the heat when they entered.

While London's summer temperatures range from 14 to 22 degrees even in July, Nanjing's temperatures above 35 degrees are common. Therefore, London can build a crystal palace, and Nanjing can only build a traditional brick and wood structure hall.

Many people sigh that they can't build a glass house, so they can only find a way to build a new material. A large amount of reinforced concrete was used in the construction, and the main building was five storeys high, as well as several auxiliary buildings. There are gardens in between, with a total area of 200,000 square meters. It is located in the west area of Nanjing River, and two steel beam structures were specially built for this purpose. Electric lighting was also used for the first time, and it was named Gyeongin Palace.

Not far away, a special power plant supplies power to Gyeongin Palace and Wang Feng's palace, the first practical application of electricity, which will be rolled out to the whole city in the next year or two.

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On 15 March, a huge fleet appeared in the waters of Hong Kong from south to north, flying all the rice-shaped flags, which was obviously the British Queen's visiting fleet, and the Hong Kong garrison had received the news in advance and did not make any move to stop it.

Looking at the top of Taiping Mountain, the fort hidden in the turquoise, everyone's expression is extremely complicated.

"This is Hong Kong, twenty years ago, we got it from the Qing Dynasty as a base for plundering China, but now, it is no longer owned by the British, not to mention that our warships dock in Hong Kong, even if they pass near him, we also have to submit documents to the Chinese army in advance, you see, the guns of the fort are facing us, I have no doubt that if any guy suddenly goes crazy, we will give it all to China." “

In order to avoid touching the scene, the fleet, after bypassing Africa, entered the Strait of Malacca directly from the Arabian Sea through Sri Lanka, passing through Singapore, and rushed at full speed, but in Hong Kong, it had to stop, because the fleet had to be resupplied at Humen Port.

"Hey~~" Wen Xian, who was with the ship, sighed leisurely: "Twelve years ago, because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Nanjing, I thought it was necessary to find out, so I took the Hermes to Nanjing and met with some high-ranking figures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to be honest, I was disappointed in this meeting, those people were ignorant, arrogant, selfish, their purpose of armed resistance to the government had nothing to do with the liberation of the people, they just wanted to replace them, become the new ruler of China, and live a luxurious life, they don't know what to do at all."

But the only bright spot was that I met Wang Feng in Nanjing, a Chinese boy with an authentic London accent, who was only eighteen years old at the time, serving as a middle-level officer in the Taiping Army, and I thought that this man would be a great man, and I had the idea of recruiting him into the East India Company, but I still despised him, he blew up the Hermes that year, inflicted unprecedented casualties on the British in China, and soon occupied the richest land in southeastern China, and de facto broke away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Since then, it has become even more out of control, leading China to become at least the leading power in the Asia-Pacific region.

I sometimes wonder what would happen if I were desperate to kill him in Nanjing. I think I should be somewhat sure that the Hermes has dozens of guns and hundreds of brave young men, which is enough to complete a surprise operation, or make a request to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it should be feasible to hand over Wang Feng to us for disposal. “

Judge Maxton spread his hands: "Your Excellency Bonham, it's a pity that you missed the opportunity, but you also gained a good son-in-law and a career because of it, didn't you?" “

There was a hint of sarcasm in his words, and there was a hint of envy hidden in Bonham's tenure as Governor of Hong Kong, when he was only a baron, and after retiring from the body, it was a great thing to correct at most, but because his niece became the empress of the Emperor of China, he himself was made a duke in one step.

You must know that he has been in politics all his life and has been prime minister for several years, but he is just a viscount.

Generally speaking, dukes are basically members of the British royal family, and there are less than 30 dukes with foreign surnames, although today, dukes have no political power, only equivalent to an honorary title, but even so, this honorary title still has a strong influence, and the whole family will be respected because of this, and it will also get great convenience in business.

(To be continued.) )

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