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"Russia?" Yehenara quickly denied: "I have no contact with them. This time I came here to contact him. He had an irreverent enemy with Liu Juehuo, named Ge Mengjin." // Baidu search                                                                                                   

The queen had a suspicion on her face: "Ge Mengjin? Han people?"

"Although he is a Han Chinese, he is loyal to the Qing Dynasty. He is only forced to surrender to the Russian army due to the situation. However, he has 30,000 elite troops, countless foreign guns and cannons, and is trusted by Russian barbarians, and is very powerful."

The queen didn't care about this: "How is he doing to Jae Chun?"

Although he is not Zai Chun's biological mother, the queen's feelings for this child are even greater than his biological mother.

"He said that he was willing to contact the Russians, borrow the power of the Russians outside the pass to establish a country, support Zaichun as king, and rebuild Manchuria."

"It's enough to establish a country outside the pass, I'm afraid it's this Russian, just like the story of the early years of the country."

What is the story of the early years of the State Dynasty? Of course, the Qing Dynasty took advantage of the opportunity to rescue the Ming Dynasty and defeated Li Zicheng, and launched a large-scale pass to wipe out several small regimes in the Southern Ming Dynasty. It is a model of strategic planning.

Yehenara immediately said, "Don't worry, the Russian barbarians are foreign countries after all, and they come from afar. If they want to take charge of the relevant matters, they must support me in Manchuria. Su Laoliu said that protecting China but not the Qing Dynasty, so we will build Manchuria outside the pass."

The queen was still a little hesitant. Although she had suffered some hardships, she had too little experience in life. She really believed this.

"If Ge Mengjin is really available, we may not be able to use their power."

Manila is a typical international city, especially after the Hongjun occupied it, the international color here became even heavier.

The merchants here come from different countries, Americans, British, Swedes, French, and Dutch people may find the goods they need, especially the monopoly of tobacco leaves and other specialty items, which was naturally interrupted due to the entry of the Hongjun. Merchants from all countries praised Manila's friendship. It was not like this before. The colonial government composed of the Spaniards was extremely unfriendly to foreigners, and they did not even allow foreigners to stay in Manila. Instead, they had to purchase all the supplies they needed through some intermediary foreign companies. Even a few years ago, the colonial government even had to expel all foreign businesses that directly entered the Philippines to maintain the absolute advantage of the Spaniards.

Now it's fine. The previous prosperity in southern China has been replicated in the Philippines and Manila. Even if the Spanish sent large troops to reinforce the Philippines, it would not change this fact.

The Spaniards have promised the merchants of all countries that even if they can return to Manila, it will not change the reality of Manila's openness. However, foreign merchants believe more in the promise of the new owner of the Horse Jing.

All ports from Wenzhou, Ningbo to the coastal areas of China have confirmed that the Hongjun is a regime that is very committed to its promises. They not only agreed to maintain the traditional five-port trading, but they are even willing to open some new ports, but have even opened the Yangtze River ports along the Yangtze River.

The growth rate of foreign trade in the Yangtze River Basin has made these Manila merchants jealous. You should know that just the cotton trade has caused a huge increase in cotton prices around the world.

Now from Egypt to hamburgers, there are merchants holding checkbooks everywhere looking for spot cotton, and cotton prices around the world are soaring. Many factories have had to stop production due to shortage of cotton, but Chinese people still have more cotton cloth and cotton.

With the expansion of the Hongjun, not only soldiers, but also officials and some upper classes used British cotton. Now a new beneficiary class has emerged, with at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. They like to imitate everything about successful people and can afford cotton clothing. They don’t know how many tons of cotton they will use every year.

In Manila, although trade is developing rapidly, it has not yet reached such a stage. Everyone is looking forward to the new owners of Manila that can bring such new opportunities.

Therefore, foreign merchants did not resist the actions of the Hong Army. Even some businessmen from Catholic countries knew that the Hong Army had violated the interests of the Catholic Church on the island. They also regarded it as if it was not the case. Instead, they sold military supplies to the occupying army, and even acted as a surveillance for the Hong Army to deal with the Catholic guerrillas.

The Hongjun also reciprocates and provides as convenient as possible for foreign businessmen, but today's situation in Manila is different from the past.

Although the water diverters led foreign merchant ships into the Port of Manila, they no longer allowed any foreign merchant ships. Neither sailing nor steamships could leave the port.

Some merchants began to protest to the occupying authorities, and even crossed the intermediate officers and directly found their superiors, but the result was disappointing.

More than two thousand Spanish attacked Minduluo Island in southern Luzon. Governor Lin Mengchu has ordered a large force to reinforce Minduluo, and it is very likely that some merchant ships will be requisitioned.

Many cargo ships were full of goods, so many merchants immediately protested. They signed formal agreements with British merchants in Hong Kong, Malacca and Mumbai. If they were requisitioned now, they would not only not be able to deliver the goods as scheduled, but who would know what would go wrong with these requisitioned merchant ships? Maybe a ship of tobacco leaves fell into the hands of the soldiers and could not even see a single tobacco leaf.

However, the merchant's protests had no effect. Lin Mengchu still requisitioned most of the ships, including large sailboats and several steam paddle steamers. The whole Manila knew his determination. Lin Mengchu would never give up any comrades on Minduluo Island in the south. He would save them all without leaving them.

The Land Fighting Brigade Mobile Regiment, which served as firefighters in Manila and Luzon, had already begun operations. They soon boarded several steamboats in people's sight. Although they also had some steamboats and sailboats as maneuvers, they had to take more flexible measures to transport the entire infantry regiment to Minduro in the south.

Foreign merchants in Manila even knew that Lin Mengchu had indeed made the greatest decision this time. He would use the entire division's strength to reinforce Minduluo. He reiterated his principles and never give up a comrade-in-arms.

After all, the Spanish had been operating in the Philippines for three hundred years. Although they had been expelled from Manila and even the entire Luzon Island, there were a large number of Catholic guerrillas on the island. They were all loyal Catholics and led them with some foreign missionaries and some Filipino missionaries who were dissatisfied with the Hongjun. Therefore, these news was quickly passed to Hegree.

"Very good!" Lieutenant General Hygre, commander of the Spanish Steam Fleet, announced proudly: "We will send thousands of pagan reinforcements to the sea to feed the fish!"

Of course he was proud of his reason. His fleet had six steam warships in total. These six steam warships were the most precious treasures of the Spanish Navy, and the longest-serving warships were only five years old. Moreover, they were not like the Hong Army's warships transformed from ordinary merchant ships, but were real steam warships ordered from Britain and France.

They were born for victory, so they did not have a very heavy and deadly paddle wheel, and the firepower was also very reasonable. It can be said that such a steam warship was enough to deal with several armed steam merchant ships of the Hong Army.

"Fill the rudder, we must block the Pagan reinforcement fleet, which will be a huge troop, and we must not let them go!"

It is just that in the absence of radio contact, blocking Manila would be a very difficult mission. They dare not enter the offshore Manila because the Manila turret was built by Spain. They knew the power of those artillery, and if they were too close to Manila, they would scare away the reinforcements of the Hongjun troops.

But if it is too far from Manila, his fleet will not be able to completely destroy the port of Manila, and he has to preserve the coal stored on the ship as much as possible, which makes him nostalgic about their years on the sailing warship.

A small boat sailed out again, and real good news came: "The pagan fleet is ready to start the ship at thirteen o'clock today!"

"Long live the queen!"

Hegli breathed a sigh of relief. It was today. He would never give any enemy ship a chance to escape: "The whole ship is ready, check the guns and guns, check the turbines, and be ready for war!"

Although the other party was just some armed merchant ships, Hegree would not relax at all. He felt that he should have a chance to win.

The sea breeze was fierce and the battle flag was flying. The six steam ships of Haigree operated the efficiency of the steam engine to the limit and drove towards the vicinity of Manila in search formation. Soon they discovered the target in the telescope: "Discover the enemy fleet, a total of four steam paddle steamers, ready to fire!"

However, from discovery to entering the range, there must be a considerable distance. The Spanish warships were willing to store coal and started chasing at the highest speed. They quickly chased after them. Seeing that the target was about to enter the shooting range, they discovered something incredible on the flag.

"British ship? White flag?"

When these Spaniards thought of the tragedy of the Invincible Armada, they trembled a little. They had innate fear and respect for the British. Hegli felt something was wrong: "What's going on?"

Not only did the British flag and white flags be hung opposite, but the flags were even whispered, asking the Spanish to release the ship. A Spanish crew member whispered: "Do you want to release it? Is this really a Chinese transport fleet?"

The commander of the fleet, Haigree, immediately issued an order: "Fire is prohibited, we must board the ship for inspection... I hope we have found no wrong target."

Just over an hour later, Hegree found that it was in trouble. These four steamships were real British freighters, and even the crew were British. There was no Chinese soldier on their ship and there was not even a single contraband.

In fact, there are many contraband products. There is no trade ship without contraband in this time and space, but there is no contraband that the Spaniards want.

Where did the Chinese transport fleet go?

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