Sitting in his office in the British Concession late at night, the well-dressed British Minister, Dou Nale, was sure that an important piece of information about the Great Song people would be delivered to him before dawn.

The mastermind who planned the attack on the poisonous female diplomat of the Great Song Dynasty was one of the important staff members of the Manchu Emperor, and if the Great Song insisted on not giving in to the British Empire on the Weihaiwei issue, then he would continue to take a tolerating attitude towards the despicable actions of the Manchu Emperor's minions.

The natives hired by the Great Song did have an advantage in the previous battles with various mercenaries, but that was only because the Great Song people had received a lot of military help from their predecessor, Sir Ogner. Dou Nale took it for granted that the yellows would not be able to win a battle against the whites, even if their opponents were just some improvised white-skinned ruffians. Well, the minister was apparently selectively blind to the fact that another group of white mercenaries had been to-day at the docks by the natives hired by the Great Song.

The Manchu emperor would definitely have a follow-up, and perhaps the governor who obeyed the orders of the empress dowager would also take the opportunity of the rebellion to send troops to expel the Great Song people.

At that time, no matter whether the poisonous female diplomat of the Great Song Dynasty is dead or alive, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is hiding in the Liaodong Peninsula and is pretentious, can only come to me in a low voice to ask me to solve the problem!

A hurried knock on the door interrupted Dou Nale's imagination about the future situation in the Far East. Waiting outside the office late at night was the butler he had brought with him from England, a traditional and steady old servant. Obviously, the consulate must have received a message that was enough to cause the professional butler's emotions to fluctuate so much that he neglected the etiquette that should be followed when knocking on the door of the master's room, Dou Nale thought to himself.

"Your Excellency, the battleship of the Great Song Dynasty with the board number BB63 has arrived in the open sea of Tianjin Port!" The housekeeper did bring Dou Nale a piece of news closely related to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, but obviously this news was not what the minister who had stayed up in the middle of the night was looking forward to.

"Didn't the Great Song people have an agreement with us that they would not send a fleet to Tianjin?" After seeing the Great Song people expressing their attitude of using brute force to solve problems, Dou Nale began to think of talking about civilization with others again.

The previous verbal agreement between the Great Song and the British not to use the fleet to carry out military operations against the Dagu Fort and Tientsin was the result of the efforts of the previous British Empire's Minister to the Qing Dynasty, Sir O'Gna, and Dou Nale was reluctant to mention anything that would highlight the merits of his predecessor unless he had to do so.

"Your Excellency, the merchants who have received the news that the Great Song warship has arrived are gathered downstairs, and they have asked to meet with you." The butler couldn't provide an answer to Dou Nale's question, so he could only throw out another tricky question to prevaricate.

According to the legends about the Great Song Dynasty battleship in Maguan, this battleship has the ability to block the largest wharf in northern China on its own, and as long as the Great Song people are willing, they can immediately realize the situation that no large ship can only enter and leave the port of Tianjin.

Many of the passenger and cargo ships of various countries that were originally floating off the coast of Tianjin Port did not have radar and night vision equipment, and they did not know that the battleships of the Great Song Dynasty had sailed.

However, those steamers who had seen BB63 during the day lowered their boats to their shippers and employers in Tianjin to convey the news that the Great Song people were very likely to blockade the port of Tianjin.

The trade merchants gathered in the consulate hall, Dou Nale, could have been sent away, but the vested interests behind these people were not so easy to fool.

"Mr. Minister, if this shutdown of the docks continues, our losses will be incalculable." A foreign firm who was elected said to Dou Nale.

This person very vaguely used the state of shutdown to express that the current situation of Tianjin Port was almost equivalent to being blockaded by the Great Song Dynasty, which could be regarded as saving enough face for the citizens of the British Empire present. Since the last time they had burned down the Manchu Emperor's royal gardens with the French, they had gained navigation rights along the country's coastline so great that they could almost describe it as a rampage.

The British have not experienced the embarrassment of acting according to people's faces in this sea area for a long time, and it is obvious that the current minister in the Qing Dynasty is not as reliable as the previous one, at least when Ogna was in power, the merchants did not need to include when the sixteen-inch naval guns of the Great Song people would fire into the cost of goods.

"Gentlemen, I am convening the military attaché of the embassy and some officers of the Admiralty for urgent consultations on this matter. Trust me, the proper disposal will be available soon. Dou Nale said to the traders crowded into the hall.

Even if the Great Song people who were bound to report their revenge could not be lifted immediately, it would be acceptable to allow British merchant ships flying the Mizi flag to obtain permission to pass.

Unfortunately, the merchant's starting point for consideration was clearly a far cry from that of the Qing envoy who claimed to be different from the pro-Song Sir Ogna.

After receiving an affirmative reply from the British Admiralty officer that he had sent a telegram urging the Royal Navy's Far East Fleet to go north, Dou Nale was more inclined to continue to pressure the Great Song people as an option.

Some naval officers who were skeptical of the BB63 bombardment of Maguan clamored that as long as the small gunboats stopped in Tianjin for patrol and anti-theft, they could force out the "paper tiger" battleships of the Great Song people.

The data of this Eagle Sauce pinnacle battleship during World War II is really too mysterious for the naval people of this era!

The engine alone made the Great Song battleships as thin as paper armor recognized by a large number of white naval officers and engineers.

Although there is evidence that the marine engines of the Great Song people used more efficient oil as fuel, the technicians of this time and space could not imagine the existence of gas turbines, and they still estimated the power system of the BB63 based on the assumption that the Great Song people used more efficient fuels and steam engines.

Even if the whites themselves thought that BB63 had been evaluated on the premise that the Great Song people had all the most advanced technology in the world at present, they still came to the conclusion that even if BB63 was full of steam engines under the deck, it would still not be able to raise its massive body to the speed they saw.

Therefore, all the Great Song people can do is to weaken the hull armor as much as possible to reduce weight, and even its main guns, which seem to be nearly sixteen inches, are very likely to be small barrels with coats!

Based on the well-founded statements of these "professionals" attending the meeting, Dou Nale has reason to believe that the Great Song people have ruthlessly slandered other countries in Maguan. Of course, as a more shrewd diplomat than Ogner, it is impossible for him to fall for the Great Song Dynasty again!

"Your Excellency, the Great Song people have always refused to allow foreign ships to approach their so-called battleships, which must have something to do with weak armor and fake main artillery! As long as the Imperial Far East Fleet enters the Yellow Sea, the Weihaiwei problem will be solved! A military attache of the embassy swore an oath.

"Yes, as long as we gather enough small warships, we can force them out of the harbor in no time." This man's speech was more radical than that of the military attache just now.

While John Bull was at the conference table pondering which of the small gunboat powers that were anchored near the port of Tientsin, the Germans, who were close to the Great Song people, had already gone to the dock to seek the possibility of obtaining special permission to leave the port.

As for the polar bear that showed that Shang and the Great Song Empire were at war, because he didn't want to expose the fact that the two families had reached a secret agreement in private, he didn't cause trouble to Huang Xiaolei. However, the Russian traders who had people above were given a hint to stay in Tientsin and not to move.

As for Eagle Sauce, this will be waiting for the Great Song people to agree to the plan to rob the Spaniards together. What? You said that you want to gather small gunboats to put pressure on the Great Song people! I'm sorry, but our ships have gone to the dock to wash barnacles, and you know that the Spaniards have blown up our battleships, so we have to prepare in advance, right?

As soon as the day dawned, Douglas jumped up and down to make a tandem, trying to persuade as many small gunboats as possible to join the arms demonstration against the BB63, but in the end only the French, who had suffered from the intervention, and the Italians, who were almost always on the wrong side, answered his call.