New Ming Empire mixed in America

"Oh, buy it. Those flying battleships are the airships mentioned in the newspapers?"

Such a big airship in the sky also caught Broad's attention.

In order to get the news from Europe as soon as possible in the Far East, special merchant ships come regularly with newspapers within two months.

Therefore, big figures like Brod who have certain rights in the Far East keep an eye on what is happening in Europe.

Although it is a few months late, it is not too seriously out of touch with Europe.

They have also heard about the Xinming Empire.

Whether it was the defeat of Dai Ying's expeditionary force or the defeat of Dai Ying's expedition fleet, it was a newspaper headline that shocked the world.

The same is true for airships. The bombing of the White House in Washington has caused a huge sensation in Europe with newspapers.

Now that Nasan has the airship airbag blueprint, even the production of battleships has been slowed down. The research and development work on airships has been fully launched.

After all, Britain's strength at sea is superior to France's, but in the field of airships, both countries are on the same starting line.

Just develop an airship first and form an airship army.

With the distance between the UK and France, the English Channel can become the back garden of France, and it may be renamed the French Channel.

Therefore, airships are a new strategic weapon that anyone who pays attention to the world situation knows something about.

The maritime military competition between leading the British and taking the third is no longer news.

Since the Vienna system that hindered the development of France collapsed due to the Crimean War, Nasan began to secretly compete with Daiying.

Now Dai Ying and Na San have fallen into a more subtle confrontation because of the early birth of the airship.

This caused Daiying's fleets around the world to gather indistinctly towards the mainland. Warships from each colony gathered towards Daiying's mainland under the pretext of returning home for repairs.

In addition to those who were beating Mexico, Nasan's army also began large-scale training.

This situation delighted the newly established Kingdom of Italy and Prussia, which had just taken office as Bismarck.

Prussia planned to unify the German region while Daiying and Nathan were attracted by the airship.

You must know that the German region was divided into 34 monarchies including Prussia and Austria and 4 free cities under the Vienna System.

Now that Italy has become independent from the Austrian Empire with the support of Nazionale, how can it not make Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck and King William I jealous?

It was already 1864, and Prussia was already preparing to attack the Austrian Empire.

Historically, Prussia launched the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 and dealt a blow to the Austrian Empire.

Then the Franco-Prussian War was launched, giving France another kick.

That's why Li Mingqi dared to bring his fleet to the Far East to cause trouble.

Internal competition has begun among European countries, and European countries, which are full of conflicts, are holding their breath and preparing to kill each other.

As long as Li Mingqi doesn't seek death by going to sensitive countries such as India or Cuba to stir up trouble.

Or directly annihilate a fleet that Dai Ying deployed here in the Far East, then all eyes of Dai Ying will be fixed on Na San, the opponent who is preparing to become the world's boss.

Prussia and other European countries also have their own plans, so they don't care much about the Xinming Empire.

For example, the last defeat against the Spanish did not cause any big disturbance in Europe.

Everything works fine except for a processed world map that causes some trouble for some countries.

After all, not all colonies are as weird as India, and they like to be submissive and be like grandsons.

"I didn't expect that the Xinming Empire would bring airships to the Far East. We have nothing to stop the attacks of these sky battleships!"

Huggins, who is Broad's deputy, is somewhat out of character. He is also a member of the Macau Council, but he is the kind of person who does not have much real power.

At this time, the Macau Council has been renamed the Macau City Hall, but almost everyone is still accustomed to calling it the Council.

He originally opposed Portugal's involvement in the immigration affairs of the Xin Ming Empire. Now that the Xin Ming Empire's fleet has blocked the port and airships have appeared in the sky over Macau, how can he not be frightened?

Portugal is considered a great power in the eyes of those weaklings who pretend to be Qing Dynasties, but it knows its own affairs well.

Portugal, which had just been restored for more than 40 years, no longer has the strength of the great powers. Not to mention the army, the navy is also lacking. Unless the warships sunk by Napoleon are fished out from the sea, Portugal will have to admit the fact that it is weak.

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The strength of the Xinming Empire is obvious to all. In Huggins' eyes, this country is simply a country where all the people are soldiers and has grown in battle.

It's not so much a country as it is an army.

It is simply unreasonable for Portugal to go against a country like this flat-headed brother, but since his status is not enough, he can only watch other people in the council being fooled by the British consul into taking the lead.

Especially Brod, a fool who was running around to lead the British consul to meet with other people in the council.

"All this is caused by you, Brod, you are a sinner of the Kingdom of Portugal!"

It wasn't until the airship flew over their heads that Huggins roared at Broad with a sullen face.

"I don't agree with what you said. I am here now just to end this misunderstanding."

Brod no longer had the energy he had when he first went to sea, and the appearance of the airship made him regret more and more what he had done.

"I've been punished, haven't I? Otherwise I wouldn't be standing here!"

Sighing, Brod once again focused his attention on the battleships not far away.

"This is the Xinming Empire's Pacific Fleet. Unrelated merchant ships, please leave immediately!"

Just as the merchant ship was getting closer and closer to the Pacific Fleet, a gunboat appeared in front of the merchant ship.

The sound coming from the loudspeaker on the gunboat could be heard clearly by everyone on the merchant ship, which was less than five meters away from the gunboat.

This merchant ship attracted the attention of the Pacific Fleet after it sailed out of the port. After all, it is difficult for a merchant ship flying a British flag and raising a white flag not to attract attention.

"Send a signal to the other side and tell them that we are the envoys of the Kingdom of Portugal!"

Looking at the small warship in front of him, which was larger than a merchant ship, Brod immediately gave the order to the lookout.

When the merchant ship's flag signal was finished, the Xinming Empire Navy on the gunboat was a little stunned.

They have already started fighting, and the other party actually sent an envoy over.

This is the first time this kind of thing has happened in these battles in the Xinming Empire.

Therefore, the naval soldiers on the gunboat did not delay and reported the incident directly to the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Cheng Yuanliang.

Cheng Yuanliang had no way to make the decision, so he reported the matter to Li Mingqi.

"Bring them here to see what these Portuguese people want to say, just to buy some time for the airship unit to investigate the situation."

After receiving Cheng Yuanliang's report, Li Mingqi made an impulse to meet these Portuguese envoys.