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1914: Meeting

Gaisen did not expect that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty met him on a terrace on the top floor of the building. In the Western Continent, it seemed that only the king's palace was so tall, it was a huge castle made entirely of granite, a symbol of the Tiger Dynasty's rule over the entire Western Continent. But in the East, such a tall building seemed to be a universal state.

He knew that the core of the rule of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was in the other side of the distant sea called Yuejing City. This place was not even considered an emperor's otherness. It was just that the yamen under his command that ruled here could be compared with the best castle of the supreme ruler of the Tiger Dynasty.

This was not made of stone. Gaisen did not see even a little gap. The entire terrace seemed to be a whole, and he didn't understand how it was constructed. Just like the cell where he was imprisoned, he once thought that the white paint covered it with rammed earth, but when he took off a piece of white coating, the gray wall below was far harder than he imagined. He used all his strength to dig a small hole.

Everything here is beyond his perception.

The guards at the door opened a whole door made of glass for him. Gaisen walked into the terrace alone. The thin old man who had been following him also stayed in the house at this time. Gaisen deliberately looked at the glass that was erected from the ground to the top of the wall. In the Western Continent, glass is not a rare thing, but such a large glass is completely different. Gaisen has a glass workshop at his own house, but he still cannot produce such huge glass. The bigger this thing, the harder the craftsmanship is.

There was no imaginative scene. A man in light green clothes stood on the edge of the terrace with his hands behind his back and looking into the distance. His black hair was casually tied with a silk ribbon, and his whole body felt a sense of tranquility, and of course, there was a faint sense of majesty that came to his face.

That is a momentum that people who have been in the superior for a long time will naturally develop inadvertently.

Gaisen took a step forward and knelt on one knee in a regular manner: "Gesen under the command of the Venetian Duke of the Tiger Dynasty, the great Emperor of Ming Dynasty."

A crisp and pleasant voice came from a corner of the terrace. Gaisen turned his head and looked at it. He was a beautiful woman, as if she was a translator, translating her words to that person. His previous attention was completely focused on the person standing on the edge of the terrace, and he did not notice that there was another person on the terrace.

Such a beautiful and pleasing Eastern woman can actually speak the Western Continent? Gaisen had only seen those merchants who went to the Western Continent say their words.

The man on the edge of the terrace turned around, looked down at Gaisen, who was kneeling on the ground, and chuckled: "Get up, you are not my subject, and you don't need to give this great gift."

Looking at the man's face, Gaisen's heart was shocked. Is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty so young? If Danxi, the king of the Tiger Dynasty, was already a tiger in his twilight years, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in front of him was a tiger in his prime. The imposing youthful vigor made King Danxi, who was already in his twilight, immediately dwarfed the old King.

"Gesen's defeat and surrender should offer his most noble courtesy to the winners." Gaesen said.

"For you, the war has ended!" Qin Feng laughed and said, "It is a very difficult choice to sacrifice your reputation to save all your lives even though you know it is impossible. I admire you very much."

Gaisen said embarrassedly: "I just hope that Your Majesty will look down on me because of my surrender."

"No, no, no, I know some things about you." Qin Feng waved his hand with a smile, "Get up, don't kneel down. We will both be uncomfortable when we talk like this. Is my translation good?"

Gaisen nodded repeatedly. The young woman could keep up with the rhythm of the two sides' conversations and quickly translated the conversation between the two sides. Of course, her level was extremely high.

"In a university in our Ming Dynasty, there is a department that specializes in learning various languages. This lady is the best among them. This time I want to deal with you people from the Western Mainland, and I brought a lot of such talents here."

"University?"

Gaisen didn't quite understand. In the Western Continent, reading and literacy was still the right of the nobles, and it was extremely rare for ordinary people to read. However, although he did not understand this so-called university, he could understand that the Ming Dynasty had begun to study the Tiger Dynasty, and even specialized talents could learn their language. It was obviously not possible for this young woman to reach the current level. This means that the Ming Dynasty had been studying the Tiger Dynasty for a long time, but in contrast, the Tiger Dynasty basically knew nothing about the Ming Dynasty. The information they learned now came from those merchants and the Qi envoy who specifically contacted them.

God knows how many of these people are the truth and how many are deceived by them. At least until now, their description of the Ming Dynasty's military strength and combat effectiveness is completely wrong. After experiencing that naval battle, Gaisen now knows how powerful the other party's combat effectiveness is at sea.

In fact, this is no wonder that Qin Li, who went to the Western Continent, had not yet made it public when he left. Qin Li had seen steam warships, but the artillery was completely unaware of them. And out of selfishness, he did not tell the Tiger Dynasty the news. He was worried that once the news was found out by the Tiger Dynasty, he would no longer send troops because of fear. For Qin Li, the Tiger Dynasty was just a tool that he could use. What does it matter if it was dead or alive, win or lose?

It would be better if they could defeat the Ming Dynasty. If they could not, they could restrain part of the Ming Dynasty's power, and for Qi, they would achieve their original goal.

Qin Li didn't care about pushing the Tiger Dynasty into the pit.

Gaisen walked to Qin Feng's side, stood here and could see the situation of Manzhu Port. A wide avenue stretched from there to the place. The entire port was covered with a gray architectural style, and tall buildings extended from there to the foot of the mountain. And those buildings were afraid that none of them were shorter than the one at his feet.

Although these buildings are in the same format, like boxes, far from the majestic castles in the Western Continent have their own characteristics and styles, the problem is that there are too many of them.

His eyes slowly extended out, and he looked at the sea surface, and his eyes frozen in an instant.

He saw an extremely huge warship anchored in the port. And beside this giant ship, more warships were like dwarfs around the giant. Unfortunately, he saw that the warship that once belonged to him was also anchored in one of the positions.

Although those warships looked a little different from the one that defeated them, the strange and slightly curved chimneys were the same, which meant that these warships had the same power and firepower as they defeated their warships. After carefully counting, there were as many as a dozen such warships.

"That's our warship." Qin Feng looked at the other party's wide eyes and pointed at the place with a smile: "The largest one is the flagship of this fleet, called the Da Chu."

"Do you have many such warships?" Gaisen said tremblingly.

"Of course, this is our standard configuration." Qin Feng lied. In fact, the Ming Dynasty has only built three five-story flagships so far. The Dachu and Taiping are steam artillery warships, while the Daqin is still a traditional sail power and steam artillery fleet. The Ming Dynasty has only two fleets with less than thirty warships.

Gaisen took a deep breath. Now he was really worried about the fleet of the Tiger Dynasty that had come from afar.

"After seeing some of the situations you mentioned, King Dance brought nearly five hundred warships alone, as well as hundreds of other auxiliary warships and supply ships?"

"Yes, this time our king has come out in full swing." Gaisen replied mechanically.

"It's indeed a huge force that makes people fear." Qin Feng said fear, but there was no expression of fear on his face. This made Gaisen's heart, who had been paying attention to Qin Feng's expression, sink even further. "But King Danxi hasn't considered the consequences of failure?"

"Our king has never considered failure, and in fact, he has never considered failure in his life." Gaisen said.

Qin Feng laughed loudly: "In our place, I am called the God of War by some people, because so far, I have never lost a battle. It seems that in this encounter, one of us will always taste the taste of failure. Gaisen, tell me, who has more hope of winning by King Dance?"

Of course, Gaisen hoped that King Dance would win, but his current situation would not allow him to say that. Once he angered the person in front of him, his fate would be bad. Although this person looked kind now, the person who could sit in this position was afraid that he would turn against him much faster than reading the book. Gaisen had never seen the superior who laughed and killed the next moment.

He was stammering.

Qin Feng shook his head, "If you want you to answer such a question, it is indeed a bit embarrassing for you."

"Thank you for your understanding!" Gaisen inexplicably felt some gratitude to the emperor in front of him. The other party did not look very aggressive. Compared with King Dancy's style, which was like a sharp sword, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty felt more comfortable like warm sunshine.

"Please sit down. I am interested in many things on your side and want to have a good chat with you." Qin Feng sat down and waved to the translator woman on the side, "Come here too."

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