Iron Dynasty

The season is deep winter, and the wind blowing from the sea is freezing to the bone.

It's just that in Dick's eyes, this coldness is far less than the icy cold in the eyes of the emperor in front of him.

In the past, the Great Yu Kingdom was just a strange term to him. Like all other lands outside Europe, he believed that the people living here were just a group of indigenous people who had not yet stepped into civilization, until the British suffered unprecedented in Asia. The failure of this country has brought the country's name to frequent appearances in the House of Representatives.

After the two scholars from the Great Yu Kingdom came to the UK, their ideas were subverted again. Obviously, the Great Yu Kingdom did not come into contact with other barbaric civilizations.

Because of this, there are now different voices in the British House of Representatives. Some members advocate establishing contacts with the Great Yu Kingdom, developing business contacts, and exchanging science with each other. However, most of the parliamentarians are still afraid of the rise of the Great Yu Kingdom.

He understands that the rise of the Great Yu Kingdom will certainly harm the interests of some big families, because both British India and Australia have vested interests, and these vested interests will not watch their wealth be taken away by the Great Yu Kingdom.

This joint operation was initiated by the vested interests. They came from three countries, but the goal was the same, to relieve the naval power of the Great Yu Kingdom.

But now he's screwed everything up, and in this big gamble, they've lost their naval power in Asia.

Your Majesty, I'll tell you what you want to know, I just hope you don't kill me. Dick prayed. He had a good life in England, a beautiful wife and lovely children. Thinking of these, he couldn't be reconciled. so dead.

Wilson showed disdain in his eyes and scolded: You politicians are all boneheads and disgusting.

Come on, it is the ignorance of these hardliners that led to this war, and you are responsible for the failure of the war. Dick's anger rose in his heart, and he was equally angry.

Xiao Ming's eyes wandered back and forth on Wilson and Dick. Compared with soldiers, he prefers to deal with politicians, because although politicians are cunning, they know more about compromise than soldiers. Of course, this is when dealing with the enemy.

You can continue arguing when you return to the prison. Now it's time to talk about your country. What did the two traitors from the Great Yu Kingdom bring you? Xiao Ming gritted his teeth and said, he had been asking the secret guard to plan the assassination These rebellious, just because the appearance gap is too big, the secret guard can't send people to approach them.

The Chinese living in the UK had a very low status in this era, and were basically no different from black slaves, and were subject to strict supervision.

Your Majesty is talking about Fei Anyi, is it Fan Hongcai?

It's the two of them. Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, he needed to grasp the current information in the UK.

Dick pondered for a while, and said reverently: I have to say that the two of them are indeed excellent talents, both in terms of physics and chemistry, they have provided the UK with a lot of mature scientific and technological achievements, and these achievements are verified and feasible. It is because of their contributions that the UK has undergone drastic scientific changes, and now that the entire UK's talent is concentrated in London, many people believe that the UK will soon make a huge leap in technology.

When he was talking, Dick was always watching Xiao Ming's expression. What worried him was that the emperor's expression never changed and he remained calm.

The reason why he said this was to intimidate the emperor, because the whole of the UK believed that these two people were the top talents of the Great Yu Kingdom, and the knowledge they contributed would allow the United Kingdom to quickly catch up with the current technological level of the Great Yu Kingdom, while the This is enough to make the Great Yu country jealous.

However, after seeing Xiao Ming so calm, Dick decided to increase the stake. He emphasized with a politician's eloquent mouth: The UK has all the things and theories that the Great Yu country has now. It's a matter of time, so I hope Your Majesty can reconsider the current relationship with the UK, and I am willing to be a bridge of friendship between the Great Yu Kingdom and the UK.

Xiao Ming listened quietly. When he got here, he showed a mocking smile, Are you threatening me?

Dick panicked: Your Majesty, I'm just a prisoner under your command now, how dare you do this? I'm just stating the facts. There's one thing Your Majesty may not understand. In fact, the royal family in Europe has been interacting with each other for thousands of years. Intermarriage, strictly speaking, whether it is Britain, France, or even Tsarist Russia, the rulers are more or less related by blood. If faced with a powerful enemy, European countries will unite again, as in history. Twice united against the nomads from the East.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming laughed out loud. This Dick was afraid of death, but he had to say that he was very smart, and what he said was basically the truth. The blood theory in Europe has always occupied a high position. The fights between relatives are somewhat similar to the contemporary Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Although they fought to death, royal marriages prevailed.

Dick said this obviously to create a shock in his heart so that Xiao Ming could deal with him carefully.

However, this move is useless to Xiao Ming. Dick's words may become true, but this needs to be based on his aggressive attack on Europe.

It's just that attacking the mainland of Europe is not currently in Xiao Ming's plan, because the European continent is too far away from the Great Yu Country, and the Suez Canal has not been built yet. If you want to get from the Great Yu Country to Europe, you need to start from the Great Yu Country and pass through Malacca, and then arrive. Cape of Good Hope, Africa, north along the African continent.

And the entire voyage adds up to more than 30,000 kilometers, which is almost a circle around the earth. After all, the route is not straight, and it needs to sail along the continent for supplies.

As a result, it takes half a year to go to Europe once, and another half a year to come back.

And attacking Europe is not a problem that can be solved by tens of thousands of people. Using troops in such a remote place is an unprecedented consumption of national strength.

Countries that have done this in contemporary history have basically shot themselves in the foot. In the former Russo-Japanese War in the Tsushima Sea Battle, Tsarist Russia sent the Baltic fleet to the Far East battlefield. After more than 200 days of voyage, Tsarist Russia The dispatched fleet was annihilated by the Japanese fleet waiting to work.

The wars that the United States launched in Asia can only be sustained by relying on the defeated Japan as a supply base, but even so, they often end in failure.

After weighing many factors, Xiao Ming's final plan was to expand the colonies layer by layer like Europe, and expand his power based on the colonies.

When his fleet can get supplies along the way, it is possible to start a hot war with European countries on the mainland.

Before, all he could do was to compete for colonies. As for this issue, European countries are expected to see clearly after this naval battle. They are unable to attack the Great Yu Country, and the Great Yu Country is also unable to attack them.

In the future, the fierce competition between the two sides will start in the colony.