A menacing war has come to an end.

Grey returned to Arthur in Calcutta. Wellesley became the one behind the war.

His position as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India was taken off.

And to be recalled to London for debriefing.

In the port of Kolkata.

An armed merchant ship is ready.

"The ship has prepared the Sun and Moon Flag of the Ming Empire and the pass issued by them, there should be no problem."

Richard. Wellesley said helplessly.

When did the British Empire need to be so low-voiced, even its colonial officials did not dare to take a warship when they wanted to return to London.

Belch.

In fact, now the British Empire has little maritime power in the Indian Ocean.

All the warships they could float to the sea had been destroyed.

Except for some ships that have obtained the Indian Ocean Pass of the Ming Empire, the entire British Indian Viceroyalty is unable to send any large ships to the Indian Ocean.

So they worked hard for so many years to get 30,000 lobster soldiers from London through various means.

"The Chinese army is terrible, we have to let the guys in London know this, if we don't carry out deep military changes, Britain will be left far behind by the times."

Arthur said as he stood on the boardwalk in the harbor and stared at the ships coming and going in the port of Calcutta.

"We may be able to seek reconciliation with the Chinese and buy time."

"Reconciliation? Would they like to? ”

"It's man-made." Arthur spread his hands and said, "We can only try, we can't defeat them on the battlefield now, fortunately, they are far from Europe." ”

As he spoke, Arthur looked at the large boxes placed in front of him.

They are equipped with Daming Guangfu two-year rifled guns, four-inch rifled howitzers, and steel-shelled mortars. At the same time, there was also a box of new gunpowder that I don't know where it came from.

Richard looked at these weapons and said, 'These are the weapons that the Chinese have defeated us. ’

"That's right! We have to have these things as well. Arthur said, "The joint progress of the steam engine, the metallurgical industry, the chemical industry, these industries can produce these weapons on a large scale, and the military revolution caused by these things will have a profound impact on the whole world." ”

"The future army belongs to the era when firepower is king, and the future navy belongs to the era of steelclad ships!"

"Only with these things can Britain have a future."

As the ship sailed away, Richard's words lingered in Arthur's mind.

Whether Britain could have a future or not, he didn't know very well.

But he knew very well that it was not certain whether his Indian satrapy would have a future.

"Your Majesty, the war in India has come to an end, and the war for the passage of the Ganges River should not begin until the beginning of next year."

Zhongdu, the emperor's northern palace.

Reporting to the emperor was the new Left Prime Minister Peng Jun.

Former Prime Minister Luo Fangbo has retired, and is now the president of the Daming Industry and Commerce Promotion Association, and has recently been sorting out teaching materials to teach officials in various places how to develop industry and commerce.

And now the right phase is Gu Song, and the left phase is Peng Jun.

One is the prime minister, and the other is the deputy minister.

In short, the Ming court is still a harmonious group now.

Although the conflict between the old and the new schools in the last Zhongdu Imperial Palace gave birth to the predecessors of the two main political parties of the future Ming Dynasty.

They are the revitalization party that represents the new intellectual class and the new bourgeoisie.

and the party of gentlemen, which represented the old class of scholars and landlords.

A radical party, a conservative party.

It's a pretty solid structure.

However, at present, neither the Revitalization Party nor the Gentlemen's Party has been able to enter the halls, and it has only spread among young new students and scholars.

At present, the dominant position in the imperial court is the Yue Party and the Hunan Party, which are divided by geography - but this structure of regional newspaper groups will collapse sooner or later.

Therefore, apart from maintaining a balance, Emperor Zhu basically did not interfere too much with the officials under his command to report to the Unity Party.

There is no faction in this party, and there are all kinds of strange things.

It is human nature to report to each other.

"The British Viceroy of India sent envoys to the Central Capital to sue for peace, and they are willing to recognize the territory that the Ming vassals now occupy, and they will not even care about the life or death of the Mughal Empire."

"It's just a stopgap measure." Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.

"Ignore the Indian side for now, and recall Yang Yuchun and the settled side at the same time, the Indian side should not be a big fight."

The feudal domains were now busy digesting their territory, and although Sun Shiyi was very active in marching into the Ganges, the other feudal domains were not very enthusiastic about it.

Emperor Zhu also did not intend to directly force the vassals to obey Sun Shiyi's orders.

It's good that the Indian vassal can now occupy such a large territory.

What is now in front of Emperor Zhu is a nautical chart.

Departing from Shanghai, replenishing supplies in Tokyo Bay, then heading north, riding the ocean current, drifting all the way to a natural harbor named "Peanut Tun" by adventurers sent by the Ming Dynasty.

If you return, you are going south, and there is a westward current near the Tropic of Cancer in the south.

Emperor Zhu carefully looked at the map of Peanutun.

"Isn't this Vancouver?"

Emperor Zhu's face showed a burst of joy.

"Baochen, Zheng Yi and Zhou Jihai can be said to have made a great contribution, summoning the two of them, I will personally knight them!!"

This is knighted?

Peng Jun was stunned for a moment, he looked at the map in front of Emperor Zhu, and said, "Your Majesty, there are a lot of good harbors in this place, but I don't know what the climate is?" Can you farm? ”

"Yes! Absolutely! ”

Emperor Zhu said affirmatively.

This is Vancouver, the climate is the best place in the North American continent, and it is the forestry center of Canada in later generations, but this place can actually reclaim a lot of excellent arable land, but because Canada's population is too small, so such a good land is actually used to plant trees, which is really a waste.

And if you go, it only takes 50 days to arrive in Vancouver from Shanghai Port.

A Daifuku ship carries 300 people and cargo, and if there are 100 Daifuku ships, it will go back and forth every 120 days.

That's 30,000 people in 100 days!

That's 60,000 a year.

Ten years is 600,000!

Emperor Zhu was counting with his fingers.

Ten years, six hundred thousand

It's still a little too little.

Emperor Zhu thought for a while and said: "It's best to attract more folk immigrants to this place, the place name of this peanut tun is not good and not attractive enough." ”

"Your Majesty, this peanut tun is indeed not atmospheric enough." Peng Jun nodded and said.

"Then change the name, this island will be called Treasure Island, this port will be called Jinshan Port, and if the city is built in the future, it will be called Jinshan City!! There's a big gold mine in this place! By the way, let the newspaper publish it, and it will say that everyone who went to Jinshan has picked up gold! ”

Vancouver does have a big gold mine, but Emperor Zhu doesn't know where it is.

"Mountains of gold."

Peng Jun was stunned.

"It's a good name"

(End of chapter)