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"Tragedy in Los Angeles! Overseas Chinese were massacred!"
This is a big-character headline in a newspaper, "20 compatriots were brutally killed by thugs." This is another headline in a newspaper. Big-character headlines like this are flooding the sky at once.
In the Ming Dynasty, almost all newspapers tried their best to report the tragedy that happened yesterday with big headlines. When mourning the misfortune of the compatriots, the words were even more angry!
Unconcealable anger!
How can we sit back and watch while our compatriots are being brutally massacred?
Just as millions of citizens of the Ming Dynasty were angrily shouting for revenge, at this moment in Linhaiwan, the "Alliance" ironclad, this "Ocean" class ironclad built by France, is the most powerful warship of the Ming Navy.
, it is a symbol of friendship between Ming and France. After returning to China and being refitted, it became the flagship of the Ming Dynasty's Pacific Fleet.
After the modification, the "Alliance" was not only equipped with Krupp naval guns, but also its main guns were more powerful - four 280 mm caliber main guns, and the secondary guns were four 210 mm guns and seven 150 mm guns.
Although its hull is made of wood and covered with iron armor, the thickest part of the armor is 203 mm and the powerful artillery still gives it extremely powerful combat effectiveness. The "Alliance" can even be called the most powerful battleship in the Pacific.
Today it is loading supplies. Sailors line up to load fresh meat into the cold storage, load flour, rice, vegetables, and fruits into the food storage. Of course, the most important thing is to load artillery shells into the ammunition bay. A car is spitting out smoke.
The steam locomotive is parked on the side with a train of carriages, which are filled with huge 280mm artillery shells. The ship's crane is hoisting the 240kg artillery shells into the air one by one, and then slowly lowering them.
Pass through the decks and load into the ammunition bay deep under the waterline.
After several hours of busy work, the loading work at the dock was finally coming to an end, and the officer supervising the loading of the ammunition shouted.
"The last one!"
An officer on the deck waved his finger and said.
"The last one!"
Only then did the crane send the last black 280mm artillery shell into the ammunition compartment. The orderlies who were busy on the dock began to disperse, and the steam locomotive slowly drove back.
Staring at the sailors making final preparations for departure, Meng Qingen stood on the bridge of the "Alliance" and looked towards the two ironclads "Tianlong" and "Qinglong" on the other side of the port. They were also preparing for the voyage.
Making preparations for departure.
Not far away, there was the coal ship "Ying Rui", and he was also incorporated into the fleet.
"Sir, the fleet is ready!"
"lets go!"
When issuing this order, Meng Qingen sighed helplessly.
"It's such a troubled time right now!"
When he sighed, there was more anger in his heart. The incident in Los Angeles made him understand a truth.
In this world where the jungle prevails, if the Ming Dynasty could not use force to protect its overseas Chinese, then the Chinese overseas Chinese would only have the fate of being massacred, abused, and beaten overseas!
If you want to change all this, you must use cannon to speak!
Just as the task force headed by the "Alliance" sailed out of the coastal port, a Hispanic-looking businessman looked at the fleet sailing out of the harbor casually, and then walked casually on the street. After a while, he left
When I arrived at the nearby telegraph office, I wrote a simple message on the telegraph newspaper to the waiter. The girl inside looked at the address and saw that it was a company in Santiago, Brazil. It was just a simple business telegram.
Soon, the telegram was sent out. A few hours later, the rattling telegraph machine of the London Atlantic Telegraph Company received a telegram. Soon the postman delivered the telegram from Brazil to the recipient.
Address, the telegram was finally sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The telegram was immediately sent up the chain, and finally was handed over to the hands of the Foreign Secretary Granville George Leveson-Gower. After receiving the telegram, he immediately said in surprise
.
"Oh, my God, this is simply a blessing from God. I knew, I knew, that all this would be successful!"
Then Granville gave instructions to his secretary.
"Quick, prepare a car and go to Downing Street!"
Prepare a car, it must be a carriage. After all, Prince Edward's BMW is still floating on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The light carriage was driving through the streets of London. Granville, who was sitting in the carriage, squinted his eyes and seemed to be thinking about something. When he opened his eyes again, he looked at his secretary John and asked.
"How do you think we should handle this!"
"support!"
As the First Secretary of the Foreign Secretary, John is the legendary "Imperial Civil Servant". Compared with the idle ministers, they are the real policy makers of the British Empire.
"Now that Ming Dynasty has sent their fleet, we must make appropriate statements to prompt them to take corresponding actions against the United States. It is best to prompt them to bombard Los Angeles. This will further worsen the relationship between them and the United States. I believe
When their naval guns fire the first shell, the American continent will no longer be calm. After all, the United States...as a country of Anglo-Saxons, they are also full of dignity!"
John raised his lips lightly and said triumphantly.
"Isn't this exactly what we wanted to see? It's just that we didn't expect it to happen so soon!"
"What a pity!"
Prime Minister Gladstone sighed helplessly.
"If we had known that American thugs would kill Chinese people, there would be no need for us to sell British Columbia to the Chinese!"
Although everyone knows that the sale of British Columbia was to promote the confrontation between Ming Dynasty and the United States, in London's political circles, criticism of the Prime Minister has never stopped, and the same is true in newspapers, although there will be no criticism of his position as Prime Minister.
Influence.
But the ridicule from the public opinion circle still made him very angry.
After all, it was he who personally sold the colony of British Columbia to the Ming Empire. Of course, the rewards from the British Empire were also generous - airships!
Whether it's airships or armored vehicles, they are all what Britain needs.
It's all worth it.
But this kind of worthiness has been questioned in the face of the "Los Angeles Massacre". The American thugs took the initiative to anger Ming Dynasty. Doesn't this mean that the land was sold for nothing!
British Columbia...Gladston couldn't help but feel a little upset. Where are the stones at Stonehenge?
"Of course it is necessary, Mr. Prime Minister. Now the Ming Dynasty is sending their fleet. Once the two sides fight, the United States, a country that believes that there is no longer any threat of war after the civil war, will inevitably increase military spending and they will expand.
The army and navy were weak and insignificant. In response, Ming Dynasty would also increase its garrison in British Columbia and send a fleet there."
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
With a smile on his face, Granville laughed.
"Mr. Prime Minister, just as we planned, the Ming Empire and the United States are now heading towards confrontation according to our plan. When the time is right in the future, this confrontation will turn into a war!"
Granville's tone was relaxed and he seemed proud of himself. Everything went as smoothly as they planned, even more smoothly than they imagined.
"By that time, all problems will be solved."
"So, what do we need to do now?"
Facing the Prime Minister's inquiry, Granville, who had already received the plan from his secretary, answered.
"We don't need to do too much, we just need to ignite the fire appropriately and add fuel to the flames. In other words, we need to make the Ming Empire believe that even if they fire at the United States, Britain will not get involved, so that they will have no scruples.
's firing."
Fanning the wind to light a fire is a traditional British trick. It is also what they are best at.
"Of course, Your Excellency Prime Minister, as a civilized country, the British Empire must stand up and accuse atrocities, and we must also call for solving this problem within the framework of the law! In short, we must tell the world that this is between the Daimyo and the United States.
The problem has nothing to do with other countries!”
Why emphasize this point?
Just to tell Ming Dynasty - go ahead and fight, and feel free to fight against the United States.
No matter what you do to the United States, Britain will not get involved.
"Even if the two countries declare war on each other, won't we intervene?"
Prime Minister Gladstone frowned.
"If Ming Dynasty uses this opportunity to expand in the United States, it may cause a situation that is not conducive to us."
"Of course if this happens, of course we will intervene. Then we can mediate in the middle and end this war!"
Mediating wars, is this an old British tradition?
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