Chapter 1127 Four Fleet
Imperial study room.
Pang Yukun placed a document in front of Xiao Ming, "Prince, this is Brooke's purpose in coming to Qingzhou this time."
"Steelmaking technology, high-precision machine tools, and metal bullet casting technology." Xiao Ming felt very ridiculous as he read Brooke's asking price on the document.
Pang Yukun was also amused and cried. He said: "The British's brains are really flooded. Do they think they are qualified to ask the empire for a price?"
"The arrogance in these Westerners' bones cannot be changed for a while, but they will soon understand where they should put themselves." Xiao Ming said coldly.
"How should the officials respond to Brooke? In addition to negotiating these issues this time, Brooke also brought British missions to set up an embassy in Qingzhou." Pang Yukun asked.
Xiao Ming was still reading the document. The confidence of Britain's asking price this time comes from three points. The first is the war between the Ottomans and Persia, the second is the strategy in the direction of the empire in North America, and the third is the war between Tsarist Russia and the empire in Central Asia.
According to Brooke's meaning, as long as the Empire promises to export these three technologies to Britain, Britain will mediate the war between Persia and the Ottomans, provide assistance to the Empire's soldiers in North America and attack America together.'
At the same time, they will also stand on the side of the empire on the issue of Tsarist Russia.
"You go and tell Brooke that Persia will definitely defeat the Ottoman Empire in the next three months, and there is no need for British mediation. In addition, the empire's North American supplies are not a problem, and there is no need for Britain to intervene. The empire will teach them a lesson for Tsarist Russia." Xiao Ming said in a tough tone.
Pang Yukun smiled, "There is now a chance to tell Brooke, and he probably looks ugly."
After seeing Pang Yukun off, Xiao Ming remembered the news that Hu passed on about British bribery and threats.
He called Yue Yun and asked him to send a team of forty-two warships to conduct a "friendly" visit to the UK.
Dengzhou.
After Yue Yun took Xiao Ming's call, he showed an excited expression on his face. Liu Chen, who was beside him, asked: "Is there another war?"
"No." Yue Yun's smile remained unabated.
Liu Chen showed a disappointed look, "What else can you be happy about?"
"The Emperor asked us to send a fleet to the UK for a friendly visit." Yue Yun said.
Liu Chen was even more confused after hearing this, "Providing a friendly visit to the UK? What is worth being friendly with those robbers?"
Yue Yun stood up and came to the world map hanging in the office. He said: "This friendship is not really friendly, but to show the power of the Imperial Navy to Britain."
Liu Chen suddenly became interested, "Hey, this is interesting. Anyway, I'm still idle now. Why not go to England and then go around the European coast to let those Europeans see the power of the Imperial Navy."
"That's what the emperor means." After saying that, Yue Yun walked out of the office and looked down at the steel warships anchored in the Dengzhou military port.
It has been two years since the Battle of India. In the past two years, the Empire's warships have increased from the original thirty to the current ones like dumplings.
Nowadays, the Imperial steel warships can be seen on important routes around the world, and some of them are even equipped with the Imperial radio systems. The radio warships can communicate with each other, allowing the cooperation between the warships to achieve a leap forward.
As the number of warships increased, the organization of the Imperial Navy was re-divided, and the former Qingzhou fleet had been officially renamed the Pacific Fleet.
In addition, the Empire also established the Atlantic Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet, and the Arctic Ocean Fleet. Each Ocean Fleet is composed of three fleets. Total, the Empire will have a total of twelve fleets.
These twelve fleets will rule the entire ocean.
However, although there are numbers, the number of warships in the empire is not enough to be allocated to all fleets.
So at present, the empire only had the Pacific Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet equipped forty and eighty warships respectively.
The remaining two ocean fleets still need to continue waiting for warships to be launched.
"Thirty warships were drawn from the Pacific Fleet, and twelve warships were drawn from the Indian Fleet. This time we want to make Europe tremble in front of the Imperial warships." Yue Yun was so energetic.
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Qingzhou.
Brooke quickly got Pang Yukun's disappointing reply, and the Queen's confident trading chips were a bad card in front of the empire, and did not even cause any turmoil.
Moreover, from beginning to end, neither the imperial emperor nor the cabinet ministers came to see him in person, but only conveyed their meaning through Tang Wenjie.
But from this point, it is enough to see that they overestimated the empire's importance to them. Europe's number one power is just optional in the eyes of the empire.
"Ambassador Brooke, the cabinet has set the location of the British Embassy. You can start preparing from now on." Tang Wenjie suppressed his smile.
After Brooke exchanged these opinions with him, he told the Brooke Empire that it was impossible to make a deal with Britain.
Now the facts proved his judgment, because for the Empire, he was fully capable of coping with the current situation, while the technology that Britain wanted was strictly blocked for the Empire.
Brooke's mood sank to the bottom. Nothing was received after the past six months of trek, and no one would be in a good mood.
"I hope you can think carefully that Persia has occupied one-third of its territory by the Ottomans, and they have no chance of turning defeat into victory." Brooke's words were warning.
Tang Wenjie remained calm and they had long known that the Ottoman attacked Persia was Europe.
It can be said that behind the war between the Ottomans and Persia is actually the game between Europe and the empire in Central Asia.
If the Empire agreed to the British conditions, it means that the Empire failed in the game.
In his opinion, this is certainly something that the empire cannot tolerate, and it is too absurd that the West wants to use this to obtain the empire's technology by just giving some eliminated weapons to the Ottoman.
"Shoufu Pang has told me clearly that there is no room for maneuver in this matter, and the empire will not accept any compromise." Tang Wenjie said word by word.
Brooke opened his mouth, his expression was very ugly. This time he was destined to return empty-handed. As a last effort, he threatened: "Don't the Empire want the British market?"
"This is clearly stipulated in the armistice agreement. What do you mean?" Tang Wenjie said vigilantly.
"Sometimes the agreement is nothing more than a piece of waste paper." Brooke was aggressive.
Chapter completed!