Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1171

[Chapter 1158 The bereaved dog]

“Your Majesty, Brooke did not agree to our conditions. He has already taken the motorcycle to Dengzhou that night.”

In the royal study, Pang Yukun personally reported to Xiao Ming, “Are our conditions a little too harsh?”

“No, it’s not harsh at all. If the roles were reversed, they would have done more than us.” Xiao Ming said, he knew very well the faces of these Western powers’ robbers.

Pang Yukun nodded, “Since they don’t agree, we can only continue to blockade Britain and see who can persist until the end.”

After the two said this, Pang Yukun turned and left.

At this time, Xiao Ming looked at the map in the imperial study room. This was a brand new world map. On this map, all the areas currently controlled by the empire were painted in red.

The entire map suddenly looked red. This was the result of his efforts over the years. Now the empire controlled 50% of the world’s land, and these areas were also very rich in resources.

At present, the only places that are very eye-catching are Europe and the United States in North America. These old colonial powers are still struggling to support themselves.

But in an arm-wrestle with an empire that controls a huge resource area, they will lose sooner or later.

But even so, he cannot be careless. His current goal is to obtain the maximum benefit at the minimum cost.

In order to achieve this, upgrading imperial weapons is one aspect, and making reasonable use of conflicts between European countries is also another aspect.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming set his sights on the warring areas of France, Prussia and Austria. For him, the longer the battlefield war lasted, the better. In this way, he would have enough time to build his own mechanized army.

Once this goal is accomplished, the Empire will have the capability to maintain a military presence in Europe.

Because of this, he chose to send snipers to France to help Henry fight. Next, he would send military advisers to France and even support Henry with more advanced weapons.

After all, Prussia jumped too high this time and exposed his abilities and ambitions. He would not make this traitor’s life easy.

After glancing at the expanding territory of Prussia, Xiao Ming left the imperial study with Qian Dafu and his hands behind his back.

Before Brooke arrived, he had made a plan to inspect key armaments factories in the empire. The first use of tanks in Tsarist Russia had obvious effects.

With the emergence of this kind of cross-era weapon, Tsarist Russia’s army was completely unable to parry. The impact of this war was that the major military districts applied to form tank units one after another.

To this end, Xiao Ming once again specially approved the construction of three tank factories, striving to have each military region of the empire have its own tank force as soon as possible.

In addition to the production of tanks, he will also go to the empire’s key shipyard this time to put steam turbines into use. This will have a revolutionary impact on ship manufacturing. From now on, battleships will burn oil instead of coal.

In this way, the fleet can carry out long voyages on the ocean as long as it carries supply ships.

After all, the volume of coal is too large and the combustion efficiency is too low. This makes the current status of the empire’s supply ships very embarrassing. Often a fleet sails long distances and needs to bring a lot of supply ships.

Otherwise, the coal on three or five supply ships would not be enough to meet the needs of a fleet.

In addition to the cannons and ships represented by the steam turbines, he also focused on inspecting the major aircraft manufacturing and research and development centers that the empire had just established.

His goal was to have a small bomber fleet in the empire within three years, while also developing transport aircraft.

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Dengzhou.

Brooke looked at the prosperous Dengzhou City with mixed feelings and took a merchant ship to sail to Europe.

The scene during the negotiation is still clearly imprinted in his mind. If possible, he never wants to come here again.

For him, this is a place that he yearns for, but feels scared at the same time.

Withstanding the turbulence of the ship, Brooke returned to Europe three months later on an imperial merchant ship, and then returned to Moscow in embarrassment.

Seeing Vidomia living in Tsarist Russia again, Brooke couldn’t even bear to speak, but facing Vidomia’s expectant eyes, he still told the cruel truth.

After listening to Brooke’s story, Victoria’s face turned livid with anger. She said, “The empire will never let Britain agree to these stupid conditions. Even if all the British starve to death, they will not surrender to them.” “

Your Majesty, don’t be angry .

, I have verbally rejected them, but what about the UK now? As the imperial blockade continues, the situation in the UK will get worse. When I came back, I passed through the English Channel, and the imperial warships were still patrolling.” Brooke’s face was full of emotions. Worry.

After a pause, he said: “And according to people who escaped from the United Kingdom, the voices for independence in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are getting louder and louder. Rumor has it that the empire’s diplomatic envoys and independent parliamentarians have close contact. It seems that the empire is being dismembered. Britain’s sinister intentions,” Brooke said.

Victoria already knew the news. She said: “You don’t know enough. I got the exact news. The empire promised to help those independent members just like it helped Henry. This means that the British Civil War may break out at any time. Murphy will not Allow Scotland to be independent.”

Brooke sighed, “It seems that the empire has already made preparations. Like these treaties, this move is equally vicious.”

Victoria seems strong now, but in fact she has nothing to do.

Since the empire captured the border of Tsarist Russia, the entire Tsarist Russia has been in a winter-like atmosphere, and Ekarina has gradually become indifferent to her, and even talked about expelling her from Tsarist Russia in public.

Now she was thinking of going to Prussia, where at least her husband was a prince.

Thinking of this, Vidomia said: “It’s useless to say all this now. Since you are back, let’s go to Prussia during this time. It is no longer safe here. Yekarina is just a profit-seeking person. The empire’s attack will She was frightened, she didn’t dare to send troops to France again.”

Brooke sighed in his heart, now they are running around like lost dogs, how could the once glorious empire on which the sun never sets fall into such a situation?

After hesitating for a moment, he said: “Your Majesty, hiding in this way is not the answer after all, and I am worried that the domestic opposition will take the opportunity to rise. If Murphy steps down, Your Majesty’s future will be full of unknowns.”

Vidomia said: “Then you What does it mean? “

“This time we go to Prussia, we should seek the help of King Fei to return to England, so that we can deal with the tension in the country in time.” Brooke said.

(End of chapter)