Chapter 199 is coming to seek peace

"Hooray!"

"Win!"

"The Indian Ocean is ours now!!"

On the twelve ironclad ships, the officers and men of the Ming Navy cheered.

"Eliminate evil! Order, sink all the British battleships! ”

Zhu Li was extremely excited in the command cabin.

This is an unprecedented victory.

The First World War abolished the so-called Eastern Fleet of Britain, the so-called overlord of the sea, and the ruler of the sea in the future was not the so-called Great Britain, but the Ming Dynasty!

Now the British Eastern Intervention Fleet has been defeated.

The remaining battleships tried to escape from the battlefield and flee for their lives.

Leaving a presence fleet in the East for Britain.

But how could Zhu Lian allow the battle exploits in front of him to slip away from his eyes.

It is impossible for these sail warships to escape in the face of steam ironclads.

Twelve ironclad ships pounced on the sailboats that were turning around, like tigers entering a flock of sheep, and the guns roared, and several battleships were blown up.

On the surface of the sea.

The Britons lying on the broken planks, including Vice Admiral Nelson after falling into the sea, watched as one battleship after another was sunk, and the expensive battleships were as fragile as paper at this moment.

The future is the era of ironclads

Nelson thought.

Fortunately.

Luckily, the sea is wide enough.

It was so vast that the Ming Empire could not control all the seas in the first place, at least they could not control the Atlantic Ocean now.

But

They are already incomprehensible in their hegemony over the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Predictable.

South Asian subcontinent.

Continental Australia.

Southeast Asia.

And also

The west coast of North and South America.

It's already on the lips of the Ming Empire.

Perhaps the key to the future struggle for world hegemony in the Americas?

Nelson thought as he leaned on a floating plank.

Just then, a rope descended.

Nelson smiled wryly.

It seems that these Chinese still listen to the rules.

At least there was no attack on the sailors who fell into the water.

This time.

I am afraid that thousands of naval soldiers will be taken prisoner.

I don't know

What conditions will the Chinese put forward in order for them to return to Britain?

on the battlefield in the Indian Ocean.

A naval decisive battle has ended.

The result of the decisive battle was, naturally, a complete victory for the Ming Indian Ocean Fleet.

The British Eastern Intervention Fleet was wiped out.

Not a single battleship escaped.

There were more than 3,800 captured sailors alone.

Among them were British Vice Admiral Nelson and British Navy Colonel Collingwood.

The outcome of this war determined the hegemony of the Indian Ocean for the next decade, and now the Ming Empire has opened the shipping route to India.

Now the Britons could no longer stop the influx of Ming goods into the subcontinent.

However, at this time.

At the Governor's House in Kolkata.

British Viceroy of India, Richard. Sir Wellesley was still waiting for news of the victory.

"Do you really think we can win easily?"

Some of the people who are fidgeting are Richard. Sir Wellesley's unsuccessful brother.

"Of course, the Ming Empire doesn't know that we have used a secret weapon in this battle, they will definitely be surprised."

Richard. Wellesley shook the wine glass in his hand gracefully.

"The quality of this wine from India is almost close to that of the French, and the East is really a rich land, even in India."

Richard. Wellesley said.

"According to the Prime Minister's suggestion, this time we must at least gain control of the Strait of Malacca, and at the same time force His Majesty the Ming Emperor to suspend the war against the Qing Empire, and also want the Ming Empire to open its own market."

"Do you think the Ming Emperor will agree to this? We don't have the strength to land on the mainland of the Ming Empire, and their army is very strong. ”

Arthur. Wellesley said.

"What if you don't agree? This is just a negotiation, and of course I don't expect him to agree to it all, but as long as we destroy the fleet of the Great Ming, then the Emperor of the Great Ming will have to give in, because the Great Ming Empire is actually a maritime empire, isn't it? A large part of their fiscal revenues depend on foreign exports and maritime trade. ”

Richard. Wellesley said.

"To this extent, as long as their fleet is defeated, the Ming Empire may in fact be even more vulnerable than the Qing Empire."

Just defeat their fleet?

Arthur. Wellesley frowned.

"War is full of accidents, everything you said is based on "defeating the fleet of the Ming Empire", but you haven't thought about it, what if? ”

"What if we are defeated?"

Arthur. Wellesley asked.

"The Chinese are not fools, and they may have their own secret weapons."

"What if?"

Richard. Wellesley shook his head.

"No whatever, my brother. We have a bigger fleet, we have better soldiers, our fleet is more experienced in combat, we have a secret weapon, where is what in case? I admit that the Ming Empire is very powerful, but the Chinese are originally a land people, and if they want to go to the sea, it will take at least a hundred years to build a navy that can cross the seas! ”

Richard's voice just fell.

The door to the governor's office was slammed open.

Richard's brow furrowed.

I saw that it was the liaison officer of the Governor's Palace who slammed into the door.

He looked extremely flustered, sweating profusely, and he didn't even have time to tidy up his appearance.

What a gentleman.

Richard was just about to reprimand.

I heard the news from the liaison officer that made Richard stand up suddenly, and he didn't even know that the red wine on the table had been blown to the ground.

"Mr. Governor-General, it's over, Britain's Eastern Fleet is finished, and Britain's Indian colonies are finished!"

"We were defeated, the Eastern Fleet was completely destroyed, and the Chinese took control of the Indian Ocean!"

Richard. Wellesley was dumbfounded, trembling all over, and his mind went blank.

By the time he came to his senses, he had already realized.

The Eastern Fleet, all annihilated.

The Chinese will land on the South Asian subcontinent on a large scale.

Britain will lose its foothold in India.

This series of terrible consequences.

Jean Richard. Wellesley was at a loss.

Arthur. Wellesley took a deep breath: "We need to be ready to fight the Chinese on land now." ”

Richard. Wellesley sat back down in his office chair.

Then he nodded.

"Yes, we don't have a navy anymore, now we can't block the coastline of India, but our colonies in India must be kept, by the way, we have to report the situation in India to London as soon as possible, we have to let the country know how this stop was defeated, the Chinese are coming"

Richard. Wellesley even began to imagine the terrible scenario of the appearance of Chinese gunboats in Portsmouth Harbor.

He shook his head and stared at Arthur. Wellesley said: "Yes, we need to be ready to fight, but . . . War is the last option. ”

"Until then, perhaps His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will accept us. Sue for peace. ”

Britain demanded and.

The Great Qing Dynasty also demanded and.

At this time.

Liaoxi, Ningyuan City.

The big tomorrow is here.

Liu Yong and Ji Xiaolan were wearing mending clothes, wearing flower feathers on their heads, and hanging pearls around their necks.

Accompanied by a group of Ming cavalry, he entered the Son of Heaven.

The two didn't dare to look around.

At the first time when entering the Son of Heaven.

Liu Yong and Ji Xiaolan paid a big salute.

"Liu Yong, a scholar of the Great Qing Dynasty (Ji Yun, the scholar of the Great Qing Dynasty Rite Department), knocks to see His Majesty the Great Tomorrow."

The two respectfully knelt three times and bowed nine times.

This was a great gift to meet the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Now it is used to pay homage to the Ming Emperor.

Zhu Daohua sat in his position, and waited for the two of them to kneel before he spoke: "I have a Ming ceremony, sweep away the bad rules, and the two of you can bow according to the Ming ceremony." ”

Liu Yong looked up at the young Zhu Daohua and said, "The foreign minister is a minister of the Qing Dynasty, and he does not follow the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Daohua looked at Liu Yong curiously.

Liu Luoguo, the prime minister who was said to be a hunchback in later generations, did not seem to show signs of a hunchback, nor did he have the thin and obscene image of later TV dramas.

Come to think of it.

This Liu Yong can be such a big official.

There is definitely no problem in terms of image, and one of the assessments of officials in ancient times was appearance.

The appearance is not good enough.

The figure is not majestic enough.

Generally, you can't be a big official.

This Liu Yong is a native of Shandong, very tall and strong, obviously a typical Shandong man.

Zhu Daohua did not dwell on etiquette.

Instead, he asked; "What do you want to do when you two come from Beijing?"

Liu Yong said: "I wonder if the great tomorrow wants to take Beijing? ”

"Oh?" Zhu Daohua showed a look of considerable interest.

Listen to what it means.

It's the Qing Dynasty that is leaving.

This is still to make peace.

It is naturally good to take Beijing in its entirety.

After all, the city was the ancient capital of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Many of the buildings have considerable historical value.

Moreover, it was possible to get a complete city of Beijing, and the province was rebuilt in the future.

The Ming Empire must be a large empire with a composite type of sea and land.

So Beijing must be an important capital.

The land of Yanyun can firmly control the grassland to the north, and radiate to the land of Central Asia to the west.

"Qianlong wants to run away? Yes, his capital is more than one million Eight Banners, compared with this more than one million Eight Banners, Beijing City is not a place that cannot be given up, where is he going? Go to the steppe to be a great khan? ”

Zhu Daohua smiled slightly and asked.

Liu Yong couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, and said: "Why should the Son of Heaven ask knowingly, if you get Yanyun, in the sweep of Shanxi, there will be only one Guanzhong left in the Han Land without success, just with the strong army of the Son of Heaven, it is not easy to take a Guanzhong, my lord is willing to cede Liaodong, Yanyun, and Shanxi to the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty only retains Liaobei, Inner and Outer Mongolia, and the Western Regions."

(End of chapter)