Indian Empire, Port of Mumbai.

The tune of "God Save My King" whimpered, and the British and Indian soldiers who were waiting in line to board the ship on the dock all stood in line under the orders of the officer, and then saluted together towards a slowly approaching golden carriage. When the local high-ranking Ah San and the British lords of Mumbai saw this golden carriage, they all waved the red flag and the rice flag in their hands vigorously, and let out a burst of hoarse shouts.

The golden carriage was of course carried by Emperor William, a burly emperor with thick facial features sitting in a gilded carriage symbolizing the orthodox imperial power of India, and beside him were two royal slave girls dressed in gaudy saris, graceful figures, and white and beautiful. Although the European monarchs of this era still retained the bad habit of keeping royal mistresses, only the Ottoman sultans could do it if Emperor Wilhelm kept dozens of Indian beauties as slave girls.

This matter is to be put on hold in England, and it must be sprayed to death by parliament and civil opinion - this is a blatant support for slavery!

But in India. Hehe, Emperor Wilhelm is really "the joy of knowing for the king".

William's people, far from being disgusted with him as emperor for openly keeping slave girls, showed the greatest enthusiasm for his arrival. The two of the Emperor's loyal retainers, the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Nelson, were worried about the Emperor's downfall, and frowned there all the way.

Emperor Wilhelm is also a little weak - he has not yet reached the level of unjustly killing Zhongliang, and of course he has not thought of sending Zhongliang a few Indian slave girls, which is not as good as Emperor Daoguang next door.

The weak-hearted emperor spoke: "This. . . Don't worry about me, Duke, I'm just a feint this time, and the Marquis of Nelson (Nelson has been promoted) is with me, so there will be no problem. ”

Is there really no problem? It seems that in recent years, the British Empire has always had accidents when it is against the Ming Empire. The Duke of Wellington always had a bad premonition in his heart, and felt not very relieved, so he glanced at the Marquis of Nelson again.

"Duke," Marquis Nelson said, "rest assured, our blockade of the Persian Gulf is a bluff. We've scouted it over and over again with airships and spies. Not a single Hero-class ship was found in Muscat or the Persian Gulf, not even the Hanwu class, and the most powerful was none other than their Prince-class. And the Prince class is not a threat to our two Indomitable class, plus a few newly transferred old battleships and ironclads, our strength is far stronger than them. ”

Emperor Wilhelm also took over the topic and said: "According to Zhuge Youde's "Treatise on the Navy", the Ming Dynasty divided the fleet into three categories: the sea power fleet, the destruction fleet and the existence fleet. Among them, the sea power fleet, as the name suggests, is the fleet that has the sea power in a certain sea area, the destruction fleet is the fleet that attempts to destroy the opponent's sea power, and the existing fleet is the fleet that exists in a certain naval fortress or a certain bay, which can pose a threat to the enemy's naval fleet and contain the fleet, and the Nanyang Fleet, the Beiyang Fleet, and the Native Fleet of the Ming Empire are all sea power fleets, and the Nanyang Fleet is also a sabotage fleet. And what the Persian Gulf Fleet is carrying out is clearly the mission of the existence of a fleet.

And the first priority of the existential fleet is existence itself! Because the existing fleet is originally weaker than the opponent's fleet, it cannot assume the duty of sea power or sabotage of the fleet, and if it reluctantly carries out the task of sabotage or sea power, then the existing fleet can only be destroyed, which is meaningless. Therefore, the Persian Gulf fleet of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not seek a decisive battle before our Indian Grand Fleet has suffered heavy losses. As long as we are loud enough, they will definitely choose to shrink back. ”

The Earl of Nelson listened to Kaiser Wilhelm's words, but nodded his head in agreement.

It is clear that this Kaiser Wilhelm really understands the navy!

And Zhuge Youde, who wrote "On the Navy", is also a knowledgeable person. He even understands it better than his ancestor, King Zhuge Wuzhong. This "Treatise on the Navy" was not copied by Zhuge Youde from the ancestral book of heaven.

In fact, King Zhuge Wuzhong himself did not understand the true meaning of sea power.

Because King Zhuge Wuzhong has never lived in a country that really needs sea power from beginning to end - the concept of really needing sea power is not that there are one or two emperors who are willing to spend money to build fleets, but that they really need the need for overseas expansion and the need to protect overseas interests. However, it is impossible for a land power to understand sea power when its land expansion or security is not satisfied, and when its overseas interests are not significant. King Wuzhong was able to achieve a certain degree of overseas expansion, and even extended his hand to the Americas, which was actually "very crossing". It is simply impossible for him to go further and compete with Britain and the Netherlands for world sea power.

However, in the era when Zhuge Youde lived, the Ming Dynasty already had huge overseas interests and needs for overseas expansion, and he also truly understood sea power, so he wrote "Naval Theory" as the theoretical basis for the construction of the Ming Navy.

Although the Ming Navy, which became the second largest navy in the world under his promotion and auspices, was still a peaceful navy until not long ago, this peaceful navy still won half of the Pacific sea power by virtue of its own strength, and also had the ability to undermine Britain's sea power in the Indian Ocean.

Sometimes sea power doesn't have to fight, and flaunting and intimidating people can also achieve the goal. The key is that there is a real need for it, and that there is the ability to invest and build. It's really hard to come about!

When the "Peaceful Navy" of the Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful with the help of the Industrial Revolution, Zhuge Youde's "Treatise on the Navy" naturally became a must-read book for the naval commanders of Western countries, and even became a textbook in the naval academies of various countries. Kaiser Wilhelm was a navy born in a professional class, and he really knew how to do it, so he could see at a glance that the Daming Persian Gulf Fleet was an existential fleet.

And according to the Naval Theory, this exists in the fleet. As long as it is allowed to continue, it will not be desperate!

This is Zhuge Youde's book, can the younger generations of the Ming Navy not listen to it?

So Kaiser Wilhelm should be very safe!

In the late autumn season, the temperature in the Gulf of Oman is still very high, and under the scorching sun, there are several fishing boats with Arabian spinnakers and a tonnage of up to 1,200 on the sea, rolling nets on the sea.

This is not the fishing season in the Gulf of Oman, and if you can't catch the most popular sardines in the Gulf of Oman, you can catch some squid and yellowfin tuna at most, probably because these two kinds of fish are not very easy to sell, so the skin of the fishing boats floating in this area is tanned and shiny, and the head is wrapped in an Arab turban, and the facial features look like the absent-mindedness of East Asian fishermen. They don't care much about fishing nets either, but they all focus on one direction - the East!

In the past few days, quite a few destroyers and gunboats of the so-called Indian Navy have patrolled this area. From time to time, ships of the British Royal Navy from Europe sailed through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to join the Royal Indian Navy. The wind has become tighter, and the conflict seems imminent. These Arab fishermen with East Asian faces are naturally the officers and men of the "existence fleet" of the Ming Navy in the Persian Gulf, which has retreated into the Persian Gulf. They left their ships and were sent out to the open sea, opening a sea cordon search line for the "presence fleet" in the Persian Gulf.

A lean-looking man slipped off the mast of an Arab fishing boat, and around his neck hung a large eight-fold binocular binoculars with clairvoyant signs, and his glasses were red from long observations. Although the people had already descended to the deck, they still looked to the east frequently. The sailor at the bottom asked suspiciously, "Second Lieutenant, have you found anything?" ”

The man just shook his head, picked up the kettle and drank cold water, but began to count the days in his heart. His name is Wang Zuo, and he is an officer from a professional class, but because he has the lowest grades in the naval school and has not been promoted by nobles, he is still a second lieutenant two years after graduation. Unwilling! That's why he sent a report to ask for a torpedo boat brigade to be transferred to the Persian Gulf Fleet, but unfortunately he came for several months, fishing and basking in the sun every day. His family was originally a fisherman, and he thought that he could change his class by taking the navy officer exam (in fact, he had changed), but he didn't expect to go back to his old job.

At this moment, the sailor who had just spoken to him suddenly shouted: "Ensign! East! East. There is a case! ”

(End of chapter)