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Chapter 561 The Old Traditions of England (Fifth update, please subscribe)
"The tragedy in Los Angeles! Overseas Chinese were massacred!"

This is a headline in the newspaper, "20 compatriots brutally murdered by mobs", this is another headline in the newspaper, and such headlines are overwhelming all of a sudden.

In Daming, almost all the newspapers tried their best to report the tragedy that happened yesterday with large headlines. When mourning the misfortune of compatriots, the text was more angry!
Unconcealable anger!
How can we just sit back and watch our compatriots being massacred?
Just when millions of citizens of Ming Dynasty were angrily shouting for revenge, at this moment in Linhai Bay, the iron-clad ship "Union", this "Ocean"-class iron-clad ship built by France is the most powerful warship of the Ming Navy , it is a symbol of the friendship between Ming and France, and after returning to China, it became the flagship of the Ming Pacific Fleet.

改装完成后的“同盟号”不仅换装了克虏式舰炮，而且其主炮更为强大——4门280毫米口径主炮，副炮为4门210毫米火炮和7门150毫米火炮。

Although its hull is made of wood and covered with iron armor, the thickest part is 203 mm armor and powerful artillery still endows him with extremely powerful combat effectiveness. The "Union" can even be called the most powerful warship in the Pacific.

Today it is adding supplies. The sailors line up to load fresh meat into the cold storage, load flour, rice, vegetables, and fruits into the food storage, and of course the most important thing is to load shells into the ammunition bay. A smoke-breathing The steam locomotive was parked on the side with a train of carriages, and the carriages were filled with huge 280mm shells.The crane on the ship is hoisting shells weighing up to 240 kilograms into the air one by one, and then slowly lowering them, passing through the decks, and loading them into the ammunition bay deep below the waterline.

After several hours of busy work, the loading work at the pier was finally coming to an end, the officer supervising the loading of munitions shouted.

"The last one!"

An officer on the deck responded by waving a finger.

"The last one!"

Only then did the crane send the last black 280mm shell into the ammunition bay, and the orderlies who were busy on the pier began to disperse, and the steam locomotive slowly drove back.

Staring at the sailors who were making final preparations for sailing, Meng Qingen stood on the bridge of the "Union" and looked at the two ironclad ships "Tianlong" and "Qinglong" on the other side of the port. Getting ready for departure.

Not far away, there is also the "Yingrui" coal carrier, which he also incorporated into the fleet.

"Sir, the fleet is ready!"

"lets go!"

When giving this order, Meng Qingen sighed helplessly.

"It's really troublesome 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 weak prey on the strong, if Daming cannot use force to protect its expatriates, then the Chinese expatriates overseas will only have the fate of being massacred, abused, and beaten!
If you want to change all this, you must speak with cannons!
Just as the task force headed by the "Union" sailed out of the harbor, a businessman with a Hispanic appearance casually watched the fleet sailing out of the harbor, and then walked casually on the street, and he left after a while When I arrived at the nearby telegraph office, I wrote a simple message on the telegraph to the waiter. The girl inside looked at the address and found that it was a company in Santiago, Brazil, and it was just a simple business telegram.

Soon, the telegram was sent, and a few hours later, the rattling telegraph machine of the Atlantic Telegraph Company in London received a telegram, and soon the postman delivered the telegram from Brazil to the receiver. The address, this telegram was finally sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the telegram was immediately sent layer by layer, and finally handed over to the Foreign Secretary Granville George Leveson-Gol. After receiving the telegram, he immediately said in surprise .

"Oh my God, it's just God-blessing, I just knew, I knew it was going to work!"

Then Granville gave orders to the secretary.

"Quick, prepare your car and go to Downing Street!"

Prepare the car, the car must be a horse-drawn carriage, after all, the BMW of Crown Prince Edward is still floating on the Atlantic boat.

The buggy was driving on the streets of London, and Granville, who was sitting in the carriage, squinted his eyes as if he was 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 ministers in the water, they are the real policy makers of the British Empire.

"Now that Ming Dynasty has dispatched 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 deteriorate the relationship between them and the United States. I believe When their naval guns fired the first shell, the American continent would not calm down again, after all, the United States... as an Anglo-Saxon country, they are also full of dignity!"

John's lips fluttered slightly, and he said triumphantly.

"Isn't this exactly what we hoped to see? It's just that we didn't expect it to be so soon!"

"What a pity!"

Prime Minister Gladstone sighed helplessly.

"If we knew that American thugs would kill Chinese people, there would be no need for us to sell British Columbia to Chinese people!"

Although everyone knows that the sale of British Columbia is to promote the confrontation between Ming and the United States, in the political circles in London, the accusations against the Prime Minister have never stopped, and the same is true in the newspapers, although there will be no criticism of his position as Prime Minister. influences.

But the satire of the public opinion still annoys him a lot.

After all, it was he who personally sold the British Columbia colony to the Ming Empire. Of course, the rewards from the British Empire were also generous - airships!
Whether it is an airship or an armored vehicle, it is what Britain needs.

It's all worth it.

But this kind of worthiness puts a question mark in front of the "Los Angeles massacre".The American thugs took the initiative to anger Daming. Doesn't this mean that the land was sold for nothing!
British Columbia... Gladstone can't help but have something to stuff, what about the Stonehenge stones?

"Of course it is necessary, Mr. Prime Minister. Now Ming Dynasty is dispatching their fleet. Once the two sides fight, then the United States, a country that believes that there is no threat of war after the Civil War, will inevitably increase military spending and expand In response to the weak and insignificant army and navy, Ming will also increase its garrison in British Columbia and send a fleet there.”

With a smile on his face, Granville laughed.

"Mr. Prime Minister, just as we planned, the Ming Empire and the United States are moving 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 smug.Everything is going as smoothly as they planned, even more smoothly than expected.

"By that time, all problems will be resolved."

"So, what do we need to do now?"

Facing the prime minister's question, Granville, who had already received the plan from the secretary, answered.

"We don't need to do too much, we just need to ignite the fire properly and fuel the flames. In other words, we need to convince the Ming Empire that even if they fire at the United States, Britain will not intervene in it, so that they will have no scruples fired."

Fanning the flames is a traditional British trick.It's what they do best.

"Of course, Your Excellency, the British Empire, as a civilized country, must stand up and criticize the atrocities, and we must also call for this issue to be resolved within the framework of the law! In short, we want to tell the world that this is a dispute between Daimyo and the United States. The problem has nothing to do with other countries!"

Why stress this point?

Just to tell Daming—you go to fight, and you can go to the United States with peace of mind.

No matter how you make the United States look like, the United Kingdom will not intervene.

"Even if the two countries declare war on each other, don't we intervene?"

Prime Minister Gladstone frowned.

"If Daming takes advantage of this opportunity to expand in the United States, it may create a situation that is not conducive to us."

"Of course, if such a thing happens, of course we have to intervene. At that time, we can mediate in the middle and end this war!"

Is it an old British tradition to mediate wars?

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