Chapter 89 The British Empire Steel Battleship 【Seeking Monthly Pass】
U.K.
Buckingham Palace.
Victoria, who has been Queen for fifteen years, stands in front of her throne and is receiving an audience from Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
"Queen, there is news from the Far East. Guangdong is now occupied by a rebel group within the Qing court. There is evidence that this rebel group is the same group as the people who attacked Angelou two years ago. They belong to the nearest group near Guangdong.
The most notorious pirate gang for thirty years, the Red Flag Gang."
"Moreover, this group of rebels is extremely arrogant. They openly executed 68 legal citizens of our country six months ago. At the same time, they completely banned opium throughout Guangdong and destroyed nearly 400,000 boxes of opium."
"This behavior not only violates the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing signed between our country and the Qing Dynasty, but also blatantly provokes the authority of our empire on which the sun never sets. I think we, the British, must respond."
Victoria nodded and said in a cold voice: "How to deal with it?"
"Kill to stop killing, tooth for tooth!"
"This time our British Empire fleet will be dispatched again to sweep across the Far East."
"Those yellow people are not easy to deal with. On the coast, we can rely on our ships and cannons to beat them without any power to fight back. But the Qing government is too big. If we go deep inland, we will be dragged into the quagmire of war. This will
It is not in the interests of the British Empire."
When Victoria said this, her voice paused and then she said: "If the parliament can agree to have vampires accompanying the army, and with the help of these extraordinary creatures, then this matter can be perfectly solved."
"It just so happens that my brother Nick, the ancestor of vampires, is on vacation in India. If he is recruited by the Imperial Navy, I think he will be very happy."
"Queen, you should understand that this is the absolute bottom line of the Parliament. They are afraid of those cold-blooded creatures and there is no way they will be allowed to contaminate the army. Not to mention Nick, the ancestor of vampires."
"However, Dr. Leia has recently developed a new type of magic potion. Using this magic potion together with the ancestor virus and magic element can produce a kind of monster that is very different from vampires. This kind of monster is stronger than vampires individually and is more suitable for them.
Fighting with the army is also easier to control, so I think this is a good choice."
"Oh...!" An expression of interest flashed in Victoria's eyes.
"What kind of monster?" she asked.
"Ugly, murderous, and carrying deadly viruses, Dr. Leia named them werewolves, but I prefer to call them... demon wolves."
The Governor of Madras, India, Pottinger stood on his own ironclad ship, overlooking the British Royal Navy fleet with flags flying behind him, his eyes full of pride.
This is the most powerful fleet in the world today, bar none.
He once led this fleet to victory in the First Opium War, knocking on the door of that ancient country in the East for the first time.
Facts have proved that this seemingly huge and powerful empire was just covered in the skin of a paper tiger. Under its own artillery, the tiger skin was completely burned away, revealing the ugly pig tail inside.
From then on, everyone in the entire West could see clearly that the Lion of the East, the super empire, and the population of 40 million were all bullshit.
It is clearly a new world filled with gold, silver, women, slaves, silk, and tea. It is broader than India and richer than America. If the British Empire is managed properly, it can support the British Empire for a hundred years.
It was precisely because of his great contribution in forcing the Qing court to sign the "Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing" that he was awarded the title of Imperial Marquis.
He had already resigned as Governor of Hong Kong seven years ago and succeeded him as Governor of Madras, India.
This is a pension position, and he originally thought that this would be the end of his life.
But he didn't expect that good news came two years ago that a group of Far East pirates dared to kill him in the British Empire Navy.
As soon as he received the news, he knew that his opportunity had come. The Imperial Parliament was likely to use this incident as an excuse to initiate the Second Opium War.
As a result, another year passed, and good news came one after another. The pirates were so bold as to capture Guangzhou City, massacred more than 60 good British citizens, and even imposed a ban again like the Qing officials twelve years ago.
opium.
He almost woke up laughing from his dream.
He knew that the second war against the Qing court was about to break out in advance.
Sure enough, just seven days ago, he received the appointment jointly signed by Queen Victoria and the Imperial Parliament.
He was appointed commander of the Far Eastern Navy Fleet and led the subsequent Second Eastern Expedition.
There were two goals in this battle: to capture the city of Guangzhou, and then move north to threaten the Qing imperial capital and coerce the Qing government into revising the treaty for the second time.
If he was a little uneasy about his first expedition to this great empire in the Far East, then this time he was just impatient.
This is a feast, enough for him to eat to his heart's content. The most important thing is that it will be the key to his further advancement and promotion to the Duke of the Empire.
"Governor Pu Dingcha is really high-spirited!" In the shadow not far away, a pale young man appeared quietly and said with a smile.
"Duke Nick, you logged into my armored ship without authorization. Isn't this against the rules?" Pu Ding looked at the visitor, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said.
"Haha, haven't you ever seen an ironclad?"
“Come and see!”
"Oh, I really don't know what the old-fashioned people in the council think. Why don't they let me take the blood descendants with the army to go on an expedition? I have a strong interest in that ancient empire in the east!"
"Your Highness, you can relax and enjoy your vacation here. Even if we don't dispatch the extraordinary ones, with the help of this "Warrior" ironclad ship and the Armstrong heavy artillery that the empire has just studied and installed, I am confident that I can knock down the capital of the Qing Dynasty." Pu Dingcha
Speak with confidence.
He is not blindly confident. The "Warrior" ironclad is the latest steel battleship developed by the British Empire. It can even be said to be the world's first steel battleship.
The warship is equipped with a new type of rifled breech-loading artillery, which rotates out of the chamber, has higher hit accuracy and faster loading speed. The largest caliber artillery shell weighs 110 pounds and has an effective range of one mile.
The Hongyi cannon still used by the Qing government has an effective range of only 60% of this heavy artillery.
If he can't win this battle, then he doesn't need to be the commander-in-chief of the navy.
The conversation ended unhappily, and Nick felt the arrogance in Pu Dingcha's tone. He felt like he was holding a breath in his chest that could not be released.
He always felt that he was the chosen one in this world.
He is the ancestor of vampires.
He was the first to take out the Ancestral Virus and help the British Empire form an army of extraordinary beings. Why can he now spend all day doing nothing but vacationing in this barren place!
This is not a vacation at all, this is an exile.
He was exiled by those pigs in the parliament who only played politics.