Iron Dynasty

London, Imperial Embassy.

A knock on the door in the middle of the night awakened Hu Chuan from his sleep. He immediately came to the door of Kang Ming's room to wake him up. At the same time, he woke up the guards with their revolvers and carefully came downstairs.

After the last port incident, the imperial embassy was repeatedly attacked, and there were often radical British people throwing bricks or torches, which made their nerves become sensitive, but the embassy could be invaded by thugs at any time.

Although he and Kang Ming could choose to follow Yue Yun back to the empire at the time, they did not want to ruin their achievements in the past two years, and just yesterday, they finally reached an agreement with the Scottish MP.

As long as Scotland is independent, the Empire will announce its support as soon as possible, but the Scottish MPs are also very careful. If the Empire cannot ensure its military presence in Europe, they will not take risks.

So they are ready to pass the news back and let the empire prepare in advance.

When he came downstairs, the guard looked out and found that there was not a large number of people gathered outside. He immediately asked the guard to open the door.

At this time, an imperial man dressed as a merchant walked in swaggeringly.

Hu Chuan was stunned, and he asked, Who are you?

The businessman said with a smile: I am the Imperial Guard, and I have been ordered to come to inform you to evacuate Britain ahead of schedule.

Evacuate? Could it be that the emperor... Hu Chuan said in shock.

The secret guard nodded, Britain's rude behavior has challenged the bottom line of the empire. The emperor officially ordered war against Britain. In two or three months, the news of the declaration of war will be sent back to Britain.

Hu Chuan and Kang Ming looked at each other, Kang Ming said, Great, our mission here is basically completed, it's time to teach them a lesson, but why did you come in the middle of the night, it surprised us.

No way, my ship has just arrived, and I will come to you when I get off the ship. The secret guard said that after the armistice agreement was signed, there was some trade between the Empire and the United Kingdom.

He pretended to be a member of this trading company and traveled to and from the UK all the time, because their business involved industrial products, and the UK was very welcome.

After a pause, the Secret Guard continued: When I came here just now, I found that there were a lot of eyeliners around the embassy. Evacuation now will definitely alarm the British, so when our ship is settled tomorrow, you will use the excuse of visiting the Imperial Merchant Ship as usual. Get on the boat, we take the opportunity to escape, they can't catch up with us anyway.

Hu Chuan was a little worried, Since the emperor has declared war on Britain, don't the British in the empire know about it? If they do, we may not be able to leave.

You don't have to worry about it. This time the emperor can forbid the British to take the ships of the Empire to the UK, which means that the British in the Empire will return to the UK two or three months later than us.

Hu Chuan and others were relieved, they said: Okay, we will evacuate tomorrow, and when we come back next time, the British will be disgraced.

Everyone suddenly laughed tacitly.

The next day, Hu Chuan ordered all important documents to be burned, and then led the envoy to the port.

Because the embassy had the habit of inspecting imperial merchant ships in the past, the British did not show any unusual reaction.

But when the merchant ships of the empire started to sail to the sea, the British who followed Hu Chuan reacted, and they immediately reported the news to the Tulip Palace.

What! Hu Chuan ran away! Victoria couldn't believe it.

She frowned and immediately ordered a search of the embassy. The news came quickly that all the documents in the embassy were burnt, leaving only some clothes and other sundries.

Hearing this news, Victoria's heart beat violently a few times, and at this time she suddenly realized that she was overconfident.

She thought that Britain and the Empire were separated by tens of thousands of miles, and that the seizure and release of the ship was nothing but a diplomatic matter. The big deal was a personal apology, and the Empire would not start a war because of this.

But now Hu Chuan and others have suddenly withdrawn, which is obviously a precursor.

All those forty-two warships should be turned into British property, Victoria murmured.

At this time, Murphy and Brook got the news that they had arrived. After confirming the news, their faces were extremely ugly.

Your Majesty, with all due respect, now we must prepare for war. Please, His Majesty, issue a national mobilization order to enter a state of war, Brook said.

Murphy said: We must immediately communicate with other European countries to win their support. If the Chinese Empire attacks Britain, their security will not be guaranteed. Only by uniting the whole of Europe can we survive this crisis.

Victoria rubbed her brows in pain, and said: France is too busy now, we must seek support from Prussia, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Tsarist Russia, and Austria. As long as they stand by our side, we will be able to carry out this war. down.

Speaking of this, Victoria said to Brook: You send envoys to European countries immediately, and the war is probably not far away.

Brooke saluted and acted immediately, and Murphy was preparing to go to the House to announce the news.

And just as Victoria expected, more than two months later, the embarrassed British mission returned to the United Kingdom from the Chinese Empire, bringing back the Empire's war book, as well as the news of the Empire's attack on the British colonies in Africa.

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In Cape Town, Liu Chen is eyeing the area that the Europeans have become the Cape of Good Hope.

This is the British colonial government in the southernmost tip of Africa. It was originally a Dutch colony, but after the Anglo-Dutch War, it was taken over by the British.

The empire has always had little interest in Africa, and the main reason is the attitude of Emperor Xiao Ming.

At the court, Xiao Ming rejected the advice to import slaves from Africa, and at the same time analyzed the harm that this would cause to the empire in the future.

Based on the decree prohibiting the introduction of slaves from Africa, interest groups in the empire naturally lacked interest in Africa. After all, what the empire lacked most today was slaves.

General, the artillery is ready and ready to fire! The captain of the King-class ironclad reminded in time.

Liu Chen put down the binoculars with a determined look. He cherished this opportunity to make a guilt and make merit.

Since the start of the Empire, he has hit here along the east coast of Africa, and the ports on the entire east coast of Africa are now occupied by marines.

The follow-up imperial engineering team will quickly rebuild these ports, then garrison troops, and supplies will be in place one by one, making these ports the supply bases of the empire.

However, relatively speaking, the European power on the east coast of Africa is relatively weak. In his view, it is the west coast of Africa that needs to be dealt with.

Because there is the Spanish-occupied coast of Northwest Africa, the Portuguese occupation of both sides of the southern African continent and the island of Madagascar, as well as the British and French occupation of the Gold Coast of the Gulf of Guinea, and the North African coast, the occupation of Egypt.

However, at present, the target of his attack is the United Kingdom, and other European countries are temporarily excluded.