Chapter 303
Once again, the North Atlantic is full of smoke!
The Ming Navy tore up the agreement with the United States, and they dealt with the American fleet as fiercely as wolves.
Torpedo bombers in the sky, circling like goshawks.
When you encounter a ship on the sea, you don't even need to ask for instructions. As long as it is not a Ming ship, it will be sunk.
Several times, they even sank Norwegian and Swedish ships.
Sweden and Norway angrily protested to the Ming Dynasty, but nothing happened.
Their diplomats can't do anything, and what they can't get on the battlefield, diplomats can't think of.
These diplomats from small countries can't even enter Zheng Sen's door, so they can only bargain with some low-level Honglu Temple officials.
However, the attitude of the petty officials of Honglu Temple was still very good, and they looked at those guys with a smile. Listen to their conversation and smile with sincerity no matter what the other person says.
At first, the diplomats of Sweden and Norway thought that he could not understand Swedish and Norwegian.
So, I found an English translator. Then, he hired a Ming merchant who knew English at a high price. Convert English into Da Ming dialect.
But the petty official of Honglu Temple still looked at them with a smile and didn't say a word.
The Norwegians and Swedes were stunned, they didn't know what it was.
It wasn't until the Ming businessman couldn't stand it anymore that he told the truth.
The petty official of Honglu Temple is simply deaf.
He doesn't know if you speak Norwegian or Swedish, or English, or even Mandarin.
To be clear, this gentleman is just an ornament.
The Norwegian and Swedish diplomats were so angry that they had no choice but to return in a huff.
For a time, this became an important joke in the international diplomatic community.
Everyone was talking about the joke, but London couldn't laugh anymore.
"Bastards, these Ming people are bastards. If you don't agree, you won't intercept our arms ships if you give money. What's going on, what's going on.
How can they still keep sinking our munitions ships, they are treacherous. Winston slammed the table in frustration.
"Prime Minister, in three days, in just three days, we lost 20,000 tons of cargo ships.
If this continues, it won't be long before we run out of cargo ships.
You......! Reluctantly, the Admiral handed a document to Winston.
Winston glanced at it, and threw the report on the table in annoyance.
After the frantic attack of the Ming Navy, there were not many transport ships in the first place. How can it withstand such a scourge as Daming!
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, I have just received the message. Daming Navy ...... They are willing to do business with us! Merkel, the head of military intelligence, said suddenly.
"What?"
The venue of the Supreme Military Council immediately seemed to be thrown into a huge bomb, and it boiled in an instant.
"Da Ming, what are you doing here? They are belligerents with us and captured our Gibraltar a few months ago. ”
"We can't surrender to Daming, we don't want their arms."
"Their munitions must not be of good use, and the soldiers who died under the inferior munitions exceeded the number of our soldiers who died."
All kinds of voices poured in, and the Supreme Military Council immediately turned into a vegetable market.
"Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Winston knocked impatiently on the table.
A group of ministers saw that the prime minister's face was sinking like water, and they also stopped talking.
"Gentlemen, what we have to consider is not the question of whether the Ming is an enemy or not. It's a question of how we are going to defend ourselves against the Germans!
We need weapons now, we need munitions, we need a lot of munitions.
The American arms can't be delivered, we ...... You can only use the Ming one. As humiliating as it was, could there be anything more humiliating than the fall of London? ”
Winston looked at the ministers like a lion.
Nobody spoke!
No one dared to speak, and the last time the city of London was captured was during the conquest of England by the Duke of Normandy.
If London fell into the hands of the Germans, it would be a great humiliation for England.
Everyone was silent!
Winston glanced at the people around him: "Judging from the requirements of the Ming Dynasty, the generalissimo of the Ming Empire is a naked interest animal.
Merkel, tell me what the Ming people are asking for. What kind of arms are they going to give him! ”
"Uh......! There has been no specific contact, but the Ming people said. All the weapons that can be supplied to us in active service!
But they only want gold, silver, or other metals.
Something else, they don't think about! ”
"Damn! The Ming people are sucking us to the bone marrow. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said angrily.
"Those pieces of equipment, they must have captured them on the battlefield, and they captured them in Gibraltar." The Minister of War said viciously.
"Uh......! The Ming people also said if we wanted. We can ransom the captured British officers and soldiers, and the ordinary soldiers will have a fifty Ming silver coin.
Officers, priced according to rank. Merkel looked around helplessly, and he knew that if he said this, it must be another noise.
"Insult! This is an insult to England! ”
"This is a naked insult to England!"
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, we want to refuse Daming's request."
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, we cannot accept Daming's conditions."
Sure enough, the meeting was interrupted again by an angry rant.
"Quiet! Be quiet! Winston roared like a lion.
"Merkel, you can reply to the Ming people. We promised them all the conditions, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Even if you empty the treasury of England, try to redeem all the captured officers and soldiers.
If it is not enough, it can take the form of a fundraiser. If the Germans had entered London, we would have nothing left.
I took the lead and donated 2,000 silver coins. Winston sighed helplessly.
The British army is in great need of soldiers now, and if they can redeem the captured British soldiers, those who take up arms will be qualified soldiers.
And these people are well trained, much better than the improvised National Guard.
From the Russian theater on the Eastern Front, to the Battle of Gibraltar on the Western Front. The Ming army captured more than 300,000 British troops, and if they can be redeemed, then Britain will have the confidence to fight the Germans to the end.
"Yes!" The Chancellor of the Exchequer is equally helpless.
Throughout, England's treasury was fairly full.
This was due to the fact that England had vast overseas territories, including Canada, which had not yet become independent, and the Caribbean coastal countries.
In Africa, England also had large colonies.
There is an abundance of rubber and a variety of mineral deposits.
In particular, Zambia in central Africa has very rich copper deposits.
These overseas colonies supported the empire's huge war expenditures. Before today, so to speak. England's finances were the best of all the countries that went to war.