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Chapter 609

Now the hegemony of the Empire is still sleeping, waiting for the spring breeze of the first industrial revolution to awaken them, so Britain is still just a matter of just being a monk and hitting the bell for a day.

The powerful British navy can't even see the shadow. However, Liu Mingyu didn't plan to let Britain's hegemony beauties. The steam engine has appeared in Liaodong. The industrial revolution has begun. Liaodong's development will change with each passing day. He is now full of interest in leading the Liu family fleet to Europe and allowing Britain and France to compensate millions or even tens of millions of pounds of military expenditure.

Helena turned around frequently, looked at the burning warships, the broken ship materials floating on the sea and the burning wreckage of the warships, and once again became interested in the naval guns of the Liu family fleet.

This is an unparalleled naval weapon. No matter how much the price it costs, she must get it!

Liu Mingyu came to the command room of the Wei Qing and picked up the walkie-talkie that could convey the Liu family's naval warship. This kind of walkie-talkie was very expensive. In addition, there was no electricity in this era, so the only way to charge was to use solar panels and inverters. Each walkie-talkie required 690 points.

However, Liu Mingyu believed that the money was worth spending. Now the main battleships of the Liu family army will be equipped with a step-by-step phone. In terms of unified command and rapid maneuver, the Liu family army has a unique advantage. Liu Mingyu pinched his waist and said with great enthusiasm: "Sirs, I am Liu Mingyu!"

Through the radio waves, in the command rooms of warships, the commanders listened to Liu Mingyu's voice on the radio: "Spanish Governor-General to the Philippines Sandy said that only 10,000 soldiers of the Spanish regular army, recruiting 4,000 to 5,000 Philippine and Xiaolizi mercenaries, and cooperating with thousands of Portuguese with rich Far East experience, will be enough to conquer the Ming Dynasty."

Spain's attempt to conquer the Ming Dynasty was not a fabrication. The "Travels of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the 16th Century" written by the Portuguese Martin de Lada and Geronemo Ma, monk Ren, in 1575, in most parts of the southern part of the Ming Dynasty, which allowed Spain to better understand the Ming Dynasty.

In 1584, Sandy, the Spanish Governor-General stationed in the Philippines, provided Philip II with a plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty. He said that dealing with the Ming people could provide them with "a thousand reasons for a just war" every day, "the war with this country is the most just, because it will give freedom to the poor, the innocent people killed, the children and all the people who were plundered and persecuted; their judges, the rulers and the kings are treating them with unheard of tyranny."

In order to rescue the dire straits of the Ming people, Governor Sandy even expressed his willingness to donate all his property to support the expedition to the Ming Dynasty.

It was a pity that the Queen of England at that time, Elizabeth, adopted Sir Rayley's strategy and went out. Britain continued to plunder the Spanish Empire's trade routes with its pirates, and its scale became larger and larger, which directly affected the Spanish Empire's fiscal revenue. Therefore, solving the piracy in Britain became the number one major event in Spain.

"Bah, they want to conquer the Ming Dynasty and enslave us, they are delusions!"

Liu Mingyu continued, "Soldiers, I order you to chase after you and destroy them on the sea!"

With Liu Mingyu's order issued, the main warships and auxiliary warships of the Liu family's navy began to hang sails and advance at full speed.

Due to the blockage of fire ships, the Liu family's naval warships formed a distance of about twenty nautical miles from the European Combined Fleet. If it were a high-speed warship in later generations, it would take about an hour.

However, this is a sailing warship, and it is slow.

The main warships of the Liu family army can run at a speed of up to 11 to 12 knots, and the Garen ship's speed is about the same, so chasing is not easy.

However, the warships and armed merchant ships of the European Combined Fleet are not the same as those of armed merchant ships. The speed of armed merchant ships is slightly slower, almost eight or nine knots.

Don’t underestimate the speed difference of one or two knots. A distance of more than twenty nautical miles can be caught up in at most ten hours.

Early the next morning, a Spanish sailor was shocked to find that the shadows of sails overlapped on the northern sea surface, covering the sky and the sun. He screamed: "He's here, they're here!"

"Your Excellency Duke, you don't seem to look down on these black people?"

Helena clearly felt that Liu Mingyu was discriminating against black people. In fact, Helena looked down on it, but as a tool, black people are actually suitable.

Liu Mingyu was also a little strange. On the Helena Princess Catherine, these black men bought by Helena were very diligent. They packed up the cables, cleaned the decks, and supported the Venetian sailors on the boat.

In fact, this is not an illusion.

Liu Mingyu has also seen many rumors about black people in later generations. This is not an exaggeration. It is really hard to describe the work of Filipinos. Take the simplest building houses for example. Filipinos can only move bricks, and even Filipinos are unable to do such work as building walls. Even if it is supervised by supervisors, Filipinos will likely build a wall crookedly. This has nothing to do with technology. It is completely caused by lack of responsibility. If you use a little snack, you won’t be like this.

Of course, black people are not like this, but are spoiled by the so-called democracy in later generations, or they can be said to be spoiled. It is not about discrimination, but in fact it is like this.

In this era, no one talked about human rights to black people, and no colonists were kind to them. I heard that working honestly can give you a meal. If you don’t obey and don’t work hard, it will be light to throw it into the sea.

Helena patiently persuaded: "Hisser Duke, you need a large number of workers to build a railway in Liaodong. I can catch you such black slaves. They are strong and eat less, and you don't have to pay them wages..."

"Forget it, just like you, don't you have fewer people in Venice?"

Liu Mingyu said with a smile: "It takes less than ten years to bring them to Venice, and you can give birth to ten Venices for you..."

"you……"

Helena was so angry: "They were just tools, tools, not people!"

The genes of black people are strong, and this is the test of the times. Black people are mixed with white blood. Most of the people born are black. Of course, in the United States, black people want to marry white people, it is no less difficult than poor losers marrying white and rich beauty. If you carry it, that's fine.

In fact, it is almost impossible for whites and blacks to intermarry. Not to mention getting married, when passers-by see white women walking hand in hand with black men, they will often remind white women "kindly" to be careful of the black man next to them.

Of course, I don't believe in evil.

There is such a weird thing. Of course, many of us will say, when you watch Hollywood movies, why are white women in love with black people, and they fall in love with each other, and you must find that in Hollywood movies, most of them are good people, not bad people.

This is because of the political correctness of the United States. Some things can be done, but they cannot be said. The United States has been established for almost three hundred years. Less than 2.3% of the mixed-race children born from intermarriage between whites and blacks. In fact, there are many other mixed-race children who are intermarriaged because of counterattacks, which is like having money.

Rich people can also have a superior status in the United States. For example, McEl Jackson can marry Lisa Mary Presley, and of course, Jackson is also a takeover man.

Helena did not make any sense of boredom about the black issue. She said with some confusion: "His Excellency Duke, now the Dutch East India Company and the Great Britain East India Company have intervened in this war. Do you seem to be in a hurry at all? Don't worry?"

"What are you worried about?"

Liu Mingyu smiled disapprovingly and said, "Zheng Zhilong's deployment this time seems clever. He united the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and British. By the way, the French and Swedes. This plan is impossible to succeed!"

"Why?"

"Because of the interests!"

Liu Mingyu smiled and said, "They are all businessmen. Merchants have one common character, that is, seek profit and avoid harm. If our Liu family army is vulnerable, they will rush up like a shark smelling blood. Unfortunately, our Liu family army is not vulnerable. The 15-National Joint Fleet sounds quite intimidating, but in fact, they are scared!"

"How could they be afraid?"

"They are not as powerful as they imagined, and we are not as weak as they imagined."

Liu Mingyu smiled and said, "Didn't the Spanish Invincible Armada disappear?"

Helena sighed deeply. Compared with Zheng Zhilong four years ago, Zheng Zhilong seemed to have lost his spirit. Liu Mingyu was more like Zheng Zhilong four years ago. His spirit was so strong that he was so angry that he had no intention of keeping his true colors. He would not give up until he inserted the battle flag to the end of the world.

At first, Liu Mingyu took back the Liaodong lost by the Ming Dynasty from Jiannu, then regained the sea power from Zheng Zhilong, and then regained the official from the Dutch and the Spanish.

The senior officials are actually no longer smaller than the small European countries. In fact, the senior officials are much larger than the Venetian city-state Communist Party, and the Hebei country. However, Liu Mingyu was not satisfied and did not stop expanding.

He led his fleet to the south and took Luzon from the Spanish. Liu Mingyu never concealed his ambitions for the South China Sea.

An additional condition for the transaction between Liu's army and Venice is the nautical chart. The current General Staff of Liu's army has drawn a detailed map of the Nanyang islands, including the nautical charts of the Indian Ocean and the South Ocean.

In the Xisha Sea, the main warships of the Liu family army's navy have already caught up with the combined fleet of the 15 European countries. Of course, it only takes about two or three hours to catch up with the enemy within sight. There is no way. The speed difference is one or two centuries, and it is very difficult to catch up with the enemy.

Another shot was not launched, and the combined ships of the 15th National Congress continued to flee south, as embarrassed as they would be. The three armed merchant ships with relatively slow speeds had opened the water valve and were ready to sink themselves.

Unfortunately, due to the collective opposition of the Liu family navy, Liu Mingyu left the Zhenghe and boarded the Princess Catherine. There was no way, which main warship he stayed on, which main warship he retreated from the battle, and left eight main warships and more than one hundred flying fish warships to protect Liu Mingyu.

Liu Mingyu was very helpless.

He could not let down the wishes of the soldiers of the Liu family.

The Black Tulip warship is a warship affiliated to the Great Britain East India Company. It is by far the largest warship of the British Navy and is manufactured by Woollich Shipyard.

This is a ship with a total length of 49.9 meters, a width of 14.7 meters, a depth of 23.17 meters, and a draft of 6.8 meters. The ship weighs 1,600 tons, has ninety naval guns, 30 guns are mounted on the low deck and main deck, and 26 guns are mounted on the upper deck.

There are 12 guns on the first floor, 14 gun doors on the half deck, and 10 bow guns and several tail guns. The ship has 11 anchors, each weighing 2 tons. There are more than 800 sailors, the largest shell has a net weight of 60 pounds, and the shells fired at one volley weigh one ton.

Unfortunately, these naval guns are front-mounted smoothbore guns, which can be fired at around 800 meters, have a high hit rate, and are more advanced than all Spanish warships.

However, the problem is that the ship fled without fighting.

Sir Rayley roared on the Tulip, "You are all cowards, the empire's shame!"

Sir Rhodes said coldly: "You can do it, then you go!"
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