Hong Kong is in full swing!

The Ming Empire's territory in Hong Kong, the British Isle, is now full of an extremely excited and even a little fanatical atmosphere. Skinny.. The Kingdom of England has issued an ultimatum to the Qing Empire!

More than one million English soldiers were ready, and dozens of armored warships from the English Navy were ready. A war that was about to declare the English nation stands up from now on will soon explode!

Lin Shuangwen, who had returned to Hong Kong, was wearing a rickshaw in a blue cotton robe. Although there was a thick cotton curtain hanging at the door, the cold wind was still coming in from outside. During the period when he returned to Hong Kong from Rouen City two days ago, Cao Wen-ye, the Atlantic Governor of the Ming Empire, temporarily moved to Hong Kong, not for anything else, but just to "supervise" the upcoming Qing-English War, and at the same time, he was also preparing to stand up and be a peacemaker when necessary. As the person in charge of the secret diplomacy of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Shuangwen naturally stayed in Hong Kong.

He is now rushing from the Hong Kong residence of the Atlantic Governor to the Consulate General of the Qing Dynasty in Hong Kong. Because he was going in his "personal capacity", he would provide the Qing Dynasty with some confidential information about the 6th Army of England. Of course, this information would not change the end of the war. However, it might reduce the losses of the Qing army and gain favor from the Qing Dynasty, so as to facilitate him to continue to play the "pro-Qing faction". In this way, after the war ended, he could serve as an adviser to the Qing Dynasty and help this destined country to carry out some "life-extending improvement".

Therefore, he did not take the car or carriage of the Governor's Office, but stopped a human tricycle on the street. A strong European coachman ran sweating heavily, took off his hat, and his head was full of heat. Lin Shuangwen was still damaging. Hurry! Seeing the entrance of the 49th Street where the Consulate General of the Qing Dynasty was located, Lin Shuangwen felt that the car slowed down. What was heard was no longer the noisy and noisy city sound, but the slogans like raging waves: "Long live England! Long live the Navy! Defeat the Breaking Bright! Defeat the colonial rule of the bannermen! Restoring France! Restoring Germany's will..."

Lin Shuangwen lifted the curtain of the car and frowned and looked at everything in front of him. Countless British people in Hong Kong are territories of the Ming Dynasty, but most of the residents are white people with English nationality. Most of these English people are just struggling to live in the lowest level of Hong Kong society, without compulsory education, no welfare, and there is very limited room for improvement, and it cannot share the dividends brought by Hong Kong's prosperity. It can be said that they are oppressed and insensitive people. In the past five hundred years, they have not thought about fighting for any rights for themselves. They do not think that they have any power to bargain with the Ming Empire. ═┝┝┟╞.

But today, Hong Kong residents, especially young people, suddenly became excited and gathered from all over the city to the entrance of Forty-Nine Street, where the embassies were lined with embassies, holding slogans and shouting slogans. I am afraid there are tens of thousands of people! The crowd was surging and noisy, venting their enthusiasm for being suppressed for hundreds of years.

Martial law was already on the entrance of Forty-Nine Street. The 6th Navy stationed in Hong Kong built sandbag fortifications. The members of the 6th Navy stationed in Hong Kong were holding their 52O-year-old rifles, and all the rifles were bayonets. In the winter sunshine of Hong Kong, the cold light flashed into pieces. Two water machine guns also had bullet links, and they were murderously facing these unarmed Englishmen. These Ming officers and soldiers who had been stationed in Hong Kong for a period of time were a little nervous and even at a loss. Is it still full of beautiful and enthusiastic white girls, and Hong Kong, which regards every visitor from the Shenzhou as a guest of honor? How could the Hong Kong English, who has always been numb and cold, be so excited about this because of an ultimatum? This is really Hong Kong. Not the Chinese Empire or the Holy Heavenly Kingdom?

"Damn Youth England Sports!"

Lin Shuangwen got off a rickshaw that could not move forward half a step. After paying the fare, he looked at the fanatical crowd and the name "Youth England Movement" popped up in his heart. This is a political party led by two fanatical English nationalists, William Pete and Richard Wellesley. This is a small party in the lower house of the English parliament, with only 5 seats. But it is a key minority. In fact, this small party has many supporters in England, but its supporters are mostly young people or middle- and lower-class civilians, and they cannot reach the property limit for voting and electing members.

Therefore, this political party that pursued extreme nationalism and strongly advocated the Qing War (it has been advocating for five or six years) is accustomed to inciting street politics to achieve their goals. Judging from the current situation, these fanatics have obviously achieved their goals. The Qing Dynasty will definitely refuse the ultimatum. The British-Qing War has actually broken out!

Now Hong Kong's youth England movement supporters gather outside Forty-Nine Street. In fact, they are celebrating the victory in advance... No English nationalist would doubt this.

In fact, Lin Shuangwen had no doubt that England would win this war, because this war was not decided at sea or on the battlefield, but on the streets of London and Paris.

Lin Shuangwen had a lot of information on hand to prove this judgment. On the day when England announced the general mobilization, there were long queues in front of every temporary recruitment station on the streets of London. The young English people who received the news came like a tide, demanding to join the army and fight for the future of the nation... No one would care about the amount of military pay!

Even in Hong Kong ruled by the Ming Empire, although there was no conscription station for the 6th English Army, in the years before the English mobilization, countless stations for the English Navy appeared. The Englishmen in Hong Kong, regardless of wealth, men and women, and religion, donated enthusiastically! Even the Englishmen in the Red Light District took out the money they had saved up for the meat. The money was finally summarized and turned into the most powerful "English Nation" ironclad ship of the English Navy.

This 12,000-ton ironclad ship ordered from the Ming Jiangnan Shipyard is stronger than any ironclad ship in the Qing Dynasty and is equipped with the latest dual-equipped nine-inch cannon... According to Navy Lieutenant Colonel Heshen, this ironclad ship is enough to destroy the entire Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty. Not only because of the four nine-inch cannons, but also because of the 4oo nine-inch caliber armor-piercing blasting bombs and 1oo three-inch caliber (secondary gun caliber) fierce blasting bombs sold with the ship!

This is the first time that the Ming Empire has sold "furious blasting shells" to the outside world. Currently, there are only three countries in the world, including the Ming Empire, the Huaxia Empire and the United Kingdom of China, which have fully mastered the core technology of producing "furious blasting shells". And only the Ming Empire can produce and fill the fierce armor-piercing blasting shells!

England, which must win in naval battles, can defeat the Qing Dynasty, which has been entrenched in Europe for more than 300 years.

Of course, defeating the Qing Dynasty is likely to be just the beginning! Then, the fanatical English nationalists will bump into the same crazy Tiandao sacred warriors...

What a great battle to look forward to!

Thinking of this, Lin Shuangwen put a leather hat on his head and pierced his head into the alley on the side of the road. Then he entered the building of the Ming Huitong Bank... The underground floor of this bank has a passage that can directly lead to a department store on Forty-nine Street, which is also the asset of Huitong Bank.

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Port of London, England.

"Long live England! Long live the Navy! God bless England..."

The extremely warm cheers continued to disperse around the London military port for a long time. However, the people cheering here in London were not organized by the Youth England Movement. Instead, they came to the port to cheer for the English warriors who went on a war.

Although the Qing Dynasty had not officially rejected the ultimatum, the English military authorities still issued an order to go to the 6th Army. London citizens who received the news gathered to cheer for their warriors.

On the Thames, merchant ships carrying troops had already lined up. They sailed to the berth one by one, then loaded with soldiers and heavy weapons of baggage. Then dragged the smoke column and drove out the Thames under the leadership of the steam engine. The English Navy fleet had already gathered at the mouth of the Thames, and just waited for the merchant ships to arrive, forming an escort ship to go out to Os6.

Os6 will be the base camp where the England and Nordic United Kings teams gather, and the English Navy fleet will also form a joint fleet with the Nordic Navy there.

In a corner of the dock, two young men in black uniforms and rank lieutenant were standing in front of a group of soldiers who were dressed up, whispering something. One of the two young officers was a native of the Qing Dynasty and the president of the Xingou Association. His current identity is... a European traitor!

Napoleon Bonaparte in this time and space is a traitor who betrayed the Qing Dynasty's motherland and led the English army to attack his compatriots!

It turned out that after he took Lang Heshen's funds, he did not stay in Macau to run a newspaper. Instead, he went to England with dozens of like-minded European traitors and defected to Richard Wellesley, the leader of the Youth England movement. He also proposed to let the European traitors of the Xingou Association serve as the leader party and interpreter.

The tall young man who is talking to Napoleon is Richard Wellesley's younger brother, and Arthur Wellesley, whom Napoleon met in England.

"Arthur, England is really an enviable country! The people love their motherland so much, are willing to sacrifice their lives for their strength and rise, and do not consider rewards at all. In my country, there is no such people..."

Napoleon's tone was full of envy, as if there was a complex emotion... it was for the Qing Dynasty.

"Maybe it's because the Qing government has never done anything for the people, right?" Arthur Wellesley said. "The Qing government must be a government that only knows how to collect excessive taxes, right?"

"No, no." Napoleon shook his head. "In fact, the taxes the English people need to pay are at least four times higher than those of the Qing people! The English people also have to use their only savings to buy the allotted government bonds. Moreover, the continuous depreciation of the pound is also a disguised exploitation of the people! Compared with the English government, the Qing government is much more kind."

After hearing this, Arthur Wellesley wanted to refute it, but didn't know what to say. Because Napoleon was right. Today's ordinary English people are probably the most miserable group of people in the world!

After the revolution thirty years ago, the English government adopted many methods to boost growth in order to accelerate the development of its own heavy industry... The government provided subsidies to allow private enterprises to work hard. In order to purchase advanced industrial equipment from the Ming Empire, the government implemented precious metals and foreign exchange state-owned domestic goods, and made non-exchangeable banknotes to purchase domestic precious metals and foreign exchange. It was then used for import. As a result, a serious financial crisis caused the pound to depreciate by 80%. Almost overnight, all the English people were looted.

In order to create foreign exchange income and to balance the trade deficit caused by heavy industry and armament development, the English government had to implement a rationing system in major domestic cities to reduce the consumption of agricultural products and use part of the agricultural products for export. At the same time, England also began to encourage ** to go abroad! The streets of Hong Kong, Macau, and Mingzhou six major cities (Mingzhou has long been open to Europeans) can see the golden and blue-eyed England **.

It can be said that in order to make a strong country, the English have suffered enough in the past twenty years. Theirs are the sixth largest industrial country in the world. They have also established a complete compulsory education system and a national mobilization system, and have also built the fifth most powerful navy in the world after the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese Empire Navy, the United Kingdom Navy and the Great British Navy in the World!

It can be said that England's current rise is based on the suffering of its people. The people of England not only endured such suffering, but also fanatically supported the government to borrow the usury from the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty on the other side of the English Channel!
Chapter completed!