Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

“Although this journalist friend’s words were a bit fierce, his mood is understandable.”

"A war between two countries should not affect the rights of a third party under any circumstances."

"The Empire is an important member state in East Asia and has a considerable position in world trade. The Empire has trading partners all over the world."

"So the empire reserves the right to hold the country accountable for the sinking of our Daxia merchant ship by the John Kingdom."

"The above is the attitude of the Empire. Today's press conference ends here. Thank you all journalists for coming. The Empire has also prepared a cocktail reception for all the journalists after the meeting."

After Gu Xianzhi said this, he packed up his speech, ignored the reporters who still wanted to ask questions, and walked out of the press conference.

The reporters were left looking at each other in shock.

However, unlike reporters from other countries who were ready to take advantage of the situation, reporters from Empire John were obviously a little panicked.

As a member of the John Empire, he knew exactly what would happen if Daxia participated in the war.

So, he reported the press conference to Downing Street overnight.

Downing Street also responded quickly, telegraphing Andrew, the John Empire's ambassador to Daxia, to contact Li Fu.

When Andrew came to Li Fu's office and explained his purpose, Li Fu showed a sneer.

"Mr. Andrew, the Empire kindly provided strategic materials to your Kingdom of John, but this is how the Empire of John repaid the Empire?" Li Fu said displeased.

"Dear Li, this matter is completely a misunderstanding. Our country of John has no hostility towards Daxia." Andrew explained.

"But the fact is that your John Empire's warships sank my Daxia merchant ship." Li Fu shook his head.

Hearing Li Fu's words, Andrew quickly said: "Dear Li, you see, I'm here just to solve this matter?"

"Or tell me, how can this matter be resolved?"

Hearing Andrew's words of submission, Li Fu felt happy.

In fact, during the bombardment by John State, in addition to the loss of three cargo ships and supplies, no one in the empire was killed in this incident. Only a few unlucky ones were affected by the shock wave of the explosion and suffered some minor injuries.

After all, after Xu Changxing ordered the ship to park behind Empire John, he ordered the people on the ship to evacuate urgently.

However, one lifeboat rowed relatively slowly and was affected by the explosion of the merchant ship.

But they were later rushed to the Hans Empire Hospital for treatment. It is estimated that everyone is almost recovered by this time.

However, although there were no casualties on the empire's side, the show still needed to continue. After all, the people in John's empire did not know the specific losses of the empire.

"Okay, Mr. Andrew, as a friend, I can tell you the truth in private. There is still no conclusion on this matter within the empire."

"The military people feel that this incident is a provocation to the empire. The empire should retaliate and retaliate against the John Empire."

Hearing Li Fu say this, Andrew immediately became anxious.

If Daxia really wants to retaliate against the Empire at this time, it will not be a good thing for the John Empire.

Especially, in East Asia, the standing troops of John State had no way to compete with the Great Xia Empire.

The John Empire's garrison in South and Southeast Asia is about 10, and this number does not include local colonial divisions.

As for the number of warships, counting them all, there are probably more than 40 to 50 ships.

However, among these battleships, there are only about 20 that can be regarded as capital ships. The rest are either destroyers or gunboats.

What they need to face is the Daxia fleet, which is the number one in the Far East.

Although the John Empire has been trying to figure out how many main battleships Daxia has and the strength of the battleships over the years, it has never been able to get accurate information.

However, according to estimates from Downing Street, the total standing army of the Daxia Empire is between 150 million and 230 million.

The number of battleships is approximately between 90 and 140.

However, it should be noted that the Daxia Empire's army equipment is definitely not worse than that of the Hans Empire, and may even be more difficult to deal with than the Hans Empire's army.

Because, it can be known from the intelligence that Daxia has always been a traditional army power. Coupled with Daxia's vast land and rich human resources, the war potential of the Daxia Empire is far more difficult to deal with than the Hans Empire.

As for the strength of the navy, if you don't talk about anything else, you can know it just by looking at the performance of the tungsten-containing high-carbon alloy armor newly equipped by the Hans Empire in the Battle of Jutland.

This armor is said to be a synthetic formula obtained from Daxia.

This shows that it is very likely that all warships in Daxia have been equipped with such armor.

This is not good news for John Empire.

Therefore, according to the current news, Daxia has absolute dominance in the Far East.

Downing Street did not want to have a conflict with Daxia at this time.

Even if they want to compete with Daxia again for the hegemony of the Far East, they will need to defeat the Hans Empire first and then use the strength of the whole country to defeat Daxia.

This was the expectation given by Downing Street, so when Andrew heard Li Fu say that someone in the Daxia military proposed retaliation, he was a little anxious.

Looking at Andrew who wanted to speak, Li Fu pressed his hand to signal him to calm down, and then continued: "Although the military has such an idea, Prince Rui opposed all opinions and expressed his unwillingness to do so at this time. Conflict with John Empire.”

"Prince Rui means that what Daxia needs now is peaceful development, not war."

"However, Prince Rui also stated that the dignity of the empire cannot be tarnished. Therefore, the empire hopes that John Empire can sincerely apologize and compensate for this matter."

"Only in this way can Prince Rui have enough excuse to suppress the military. Do you understand what I mean?"

Li Fu expressed his thoughts.

"Of course, of course." Andrew nodded to Li Fu when he heard that things were still improving.

"So dear Li, what do you think our country, John, should do to give Prince Rui more say?" Andrew asked.

"I just said it, apology and compensation."

"John Reich would be wise to issue a letter of apology, admit responsibility for this incident, and proactively compensate the families of the casualties."

"Only in this way can we calm the anger of the people in the country, give Prince Rui a greater voice, and suppress the thoughts of revenge by the military in the empire."

When Andrew heard what Li Fu said, he nodded thoughtfully, and then said to Li Fu: "Dear Li, I will truthfully report this matter to the country, and they will probably give an explanation soon. A mutually satisfactory answer.”