"It seems that Guo Yan is doing a good job. He actually discovered that the California shipyard was trying to build steamships, and there were also engineers sent by the Sun-Battle Empire and engineers from the United States jointly developed the United States' own ironclad ship."

Chu Qi's subordinate Guo Jian secretly went to California on the west coast of North America, and soon achieved results and secretly rewarded Chu Qi.

Guo Yan was carrying out the mission of collecting intelligence in North America, and the information he received was of great importance.

Lincoln and the members of the United States should have noticed something, so they were eager to build a steam fleet in the Pacific.

The United States of this world is not strong yet. The population and economic centers of the Uttar Union and the Northern Federation are distributed along the Atlantic coast, and they are ignored in the Pacific Ocean.

The United States finally needs to pay attention to its interests in the Pacific, but the Ming Dynasty has begun to take action.

Chu Qi estimated that the Ming Empire at this time might be ten times stronger than the United States, and the strength of the Oriental Shogunate was about the same as that of the United States.

Once the Southern Federation of the United States declares independence, the United States, which is only left in the Northern Federation, will fall to the eighth power, and the Eastern Shogunate will replace the United States and become the seventh power.

I didn't expect that the United States will be today.

Chu Qi is not a saint. Now the great powers are fighting openly and secretly, and joining forces with each other, which is similar to the Warring States Period. None of them is a just war.

In the steam era, some jungle laws were still continued, with caliber being justice and range being truth.

When he came to the Ming Empire, what he had to consider was naturally the interests of the Ming Empire.

Li Yanguang handed a cowhide bag to Chu Qi: "Sir, this is the Jinyiwei of Malacca who sent someone to send information about the Prussian ironclad ship for reference by you."

Chu Qi opened the cowhide bag, which contained information about the Prussian ironclad ship "Bavaria" anchored in the fortress of Malacca, and even sketches.

The regular task of the Thousand Houses and Institutions he was responsible for was to monitor the movements of the Prussian Empire.

"The Bavaria is the No. 1 of the four Saxon-class ironclad ships built by the Prussian Empire. The Bavaria recorded by the Jinyiwei of Malacca is no different from the information provided by our spies at the Volkeng Shipyard of the Prussian Empire."

Chu Qi put this information aside. This information is just to verify the information and has no value after verification.

Chu Qi was a little worried about Prussia, and after Prussia began to enter the steam era, it might become a difficult enemy.

It would be great if Prussia, Britain, France, and Tsarist dogs could be bitten.

"Sir, the Prussian envoys have already arrived from Malacca on our Ming Dynasty steamship. They may be the first envoys to come. We need to monitor their envoys." Li Yanguang reminded Chu Qi again.

Chu Qi pondered for a while and said, "When they arrived at Tianjin, we would just send more than a dozen members to secretly protect and monitor them. This is the territory of our Ming Empire, and they dare not make any abnormal movements in the imperial city."

Li Yanguang replied: "I will arrange for the candidates responsible for monitoring the Prussian envoys."

Chu Qi sat upright, and he had to work in front of many subordinates and look through the information sent back from various places by his subordinates.

Chu Qi looked at the list of the Prussian envoys again. In addition to the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck and the crown prince Frederick, there was also a name that made Chu Qi care a little - Mao Qi.

Prussia was full of talents at this time, and Chu Qi couldn't help but be moved by it.

It seems that after the arrival of the Prussian envoy, he also needs to observe their movements secretly.

Of course, the service of the envoys is not the Jinyiwei. The person responsible for entertaining the envoys of various countries is the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites, and the police yamen maintaining public order.

A ship from the Ming Empire arrived in Tianjin Wei.

The people of Prussia, who had always heard that the powerful Prussians of the Ming Empire had set foot on the land of the Ming Empire under the protection of the guards they brought.

"It is said that the steam engine and gas lamp were first invented by the Ming Empire, and then passed to our west through trade."

When Bismarck saw the soldiers of Tianjin Guards, they all had a unified standard military uniform and a rifled rifle, and they looked very elite.

The guards at this time were not guards who lacked combat effectiveness before, but public security forces that maintained local order and responded to emergencies.

"I also heard that the steam engine had appeared in the east when they were Emperor Chongzhen. He was really a great emperor." Crown Prince Frederick admired Emperor Chongzhen in this world.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was suspected by Chu Qi, finally created a steam engine in his last years. After generations of Ming engineers, the current Ming steam empire was established.

Now Prussia has become one of the imitators of the Ming Empire.

"Envoys from Prussia, we have prepared the carriages, and please go to the Imperial City to attend the World Expo."

Now, the Honglu Temple, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, has sent officials to Tianjin to receive the Prussian envoys.

Moltke asked, "We Prussian envoys were the first to arrive at the Imperial City of the East?"

The officials of the Honglu Temple replied: "Yes, followed by His Excellency Napoleon III of the French Envoy, who have arrived in Annan."

"Napoleon III is here too? Can he, the arrogant guy, bow his head and attend the World Expo held in the East in person?" Frederick III obviously didn't like the French emperor very much.

The two empires have never dealt with very much. Even though they are now members of the Anti-Ming alliance, they still have various contradictions and conflicts.

Officials from the Temple of Honglu said: "It is not only His Excellency Napoleon III, but also Queen Victoria of Britain, Joseph I of Austria and others."

Bismarck and Moltke sighed almost at the same time: "That's really amazing."

The Prussian envoys boarded the carriage and they were about to take the "Apocalypse Three" steam locomotive from Tianjin Wei to the Imperial City.

Chu Qi's subordinates had already set their sights on the Prussian envoys when they set foot on this land.

There were several large carriages sent by the Honglu Temple of the Ming Empire to pick them up and drop them off, one of which was a four-seater carriage, Frederick III, Bismarck and Moltke. They could see the Ming shop outside through the car window.

The shops on both sides are hung with hanging banners unique to the East, with many civil and high-rise buildings and bustling traffic.

Bismarck said: "This place is ahead of us in Prussia at least twenty years."
Chapter completed!