Chapter 912: Istanbul in sight
This night, Wang Feng fully realized Zhou Xiuying's super combat effectiveness, even with Wang Feng's toughness, he couldn't bear it, so he said I want it again, and then continued, constantly tossing himself with Yang Shuijiao.
When he got up the next day, Wang Feng's waist was unprecedentedly sore, which had never been done before, which made him wonder if he was old.
However, what makes him happy is that Zhou Xiuying and Yang Shuijiao do not exclude each other, and they will act out of line when they can't help themselves, they are good girlfriends.
In the following days, Wang Feng mainly focused on negotiations with the Allied States and the United States on the price increase of industrial products, while the European continent set off a wave of anti-China and anti-British upsurge, and the people took to the streets to angrily denounce the arrogance and hegemony of China and Britain, after all, this time the sanctions were quite extensive, covering almost all the industrial countries in Europe.
But this has nothing to do with Wang Feng, his portrait and the Chinese flag have been burned, not once or twice, at least in Russia, according to incomplete statistics from Western media, Wang Feng's portrait and the Chinese flag have been burned more than 10,000 times!
Finally, on December 15, China and Britain completed a trade agreement with the United States between the north and the south, and China will establish diplomatic relations with the allies at the ministerial level, invest in rubber factories, oil refineries and automobile factories in the allies, and China and the United States have agreed to jointly develop the Panama Canal, with one-third of the shares, and will study the feasibility of establishing a trans-Pacific free trade area, and start negotiations on a free trade area at an appropriate time.
The UK is very red-eyed, and the establishment of a free trade zone is the most beneficial to the UK. Because he is the world's number one industrial producer, and with the sanctions. British industrial goods will regain the advantage of low prices, but the Suez Canal has not yet been opened. The conditions are obviously not ripe for free trade talks with China, and he can only seek to establish a transatlantic free trade area with the two United States first.
On 22 December, the French and Italian governments announced at the same time that they would negotiate with China, Britain, and the United States on the price increase of industrial products, and on the same day, Wang Feng and the Chinese army set out on their way home to the people of Richmond and government officials, and before leaving, sold a brigade of artillery to the Allied troops. There were 48 small mountain guns and 48 122-mm guns, with 10 ammunition bases, which were paid by the Chinese government with a five-year low-interest loan, and the remaining 70% were paid for by agricultural products.
This can't be helped, the southern government really has no money, and the whole country is poor and white.
With a third of the artillery missing, the whole army was removed from a lot of burdens, and in just two days, it reached Charleston by rail. After a day's rest, he left the land of the Union by boat.
After Wang Feng's careful consideration, he did not participate in the attack on the Russian Baltic Fleet, except for diplomatic needs. There is also the need for security.
After all, the Baltic Sea is an almost closed bay, and the surrounding Sweden, Denmark, and Prussia are all traditional powers. As the emperor of China, he ventured into the Baltic Sea, once the surrounding countries united to block the strait. Even if Wang Feng is leading the most advanced fleet in the world, I am afraid that he will be more than lucky.
You know, because of economic sanctions. Now the people of all Europe have a deep grudge against Wang Feng, especially China and the puppet Russian army, which has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in the North Caucasus, which is a huge threat to the surrounding powers, such as Austria and Prussia.
It is useless to station a large army at the door of someone else's house, no matter how much sincerity is shown, the other side will only think the worst, and no one will tolerate being blocked by other countries with hundreds of thousands of troops, unless the army is withdrawn.
Moreover, from Wang Feng's cooperation with Britain, Karl read his sinister intention to suppress the communist movement all over the world, because poor workers are the foundation of communism, and if the workers are rich, who will make a revolution?
Therefore, the propaganda against Wang Feng was also relegated from the great leader of the national liberation movement in the colonies to the lackeys of the British capitalists, the shameful reactionaries, traitors and compradors hidden in the ranks of the revolution, and defined China as an evil capitalist axis country.
In the face of the surging opposition and the sowing of discord by the communist radicals, Wang Feng will not enter the Baltic Sea, but with only one fleet, the surrounding countries will have to weigh whether it is worth doing, after all, compared to Wang Feng, the East China Sea Fleet is just a small shrimp, even if it is destroyed, China will only lose a fleet, and it will not hurt the fundamentals, and it will naturally carry out a strong retaliatory strike in the future.
Therefore, Wang Feng gave up the plan of personally attacking the Russian Baltic Fleet, went to Tsaritsyn in advance to join the large forces, and then the East China Sea Fleet sailed into the Baltic Sea.
The vast fleet crossed the Atlantic and entered the Mediterranean in early January of the following year, when the Strait of Gibraltar was already British territory, and given that China and Britain were in their honeymoon period, the British had no trouble.
On the way, Wang Feng went ashore at Genoa, talked with Cavour for a long time, and continued to hurry on the same day, and on January 16, the fleet entered the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus Strait was in sight.
At that time, there was only one Bosphorus Strait merchant ship passage regulation formulated in 1841, that is, in peacetime and wartime, merchant ships of various countries could freely pass through the strait, but in wartime Turkey had the right to prohibit the passage of enemy merchant ships, and for warships, the passage of warships of any country must be approved by the Turkish government, obviously, Turkey could not let Russian warships pass through the strait.
However, after the Crimean War, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles Strait were once controlled by Russia, and Russian warships could swagger through under the city of Istanbul, and the Turkish government and opposition had an indescribable pain, but with the defeat of the Russian army in the Far East, the two straits fell back into the hands of Turkey.
Although it is the middle of winter, the strait area rarely falls below zero, and it is still lush and green, and the coast is dotted with buildings and villages with Turkish style, full of rich pastoral atmosphere and exotic customs.
Yang Shuijiao suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed: "In front of you is Istanbul, this city is so big, it is the largest city I have seen abroad." ”
"Hmm!" Zhou Xiuying also nodded: "It's bigger than London." ”
Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople, as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, has been the largest and most prosperous city in Europe for a thousand years, with two theaters, two public assembly halls, eight luxurious public baths, 153 private baths, 52 colonnades, five granaries, eight elevated aqueducts, fourteen churches, fourteen palaces and 4,388 noble residences, plus numerous commoner and slave residences and public facilities.
In particular, the Imperial Palace, covering an area of more than 600,000 square meters, was the largest imperial palace in the world at that time, and it was not until the 33rd year before the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire that the Forbidden City was unveiled, and the Grand Palace of Constantinople was relegated to the second place in the world.
(To be continued.) )
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