"Your Majesty, Brooke did not agree to our conditions, he has already taken the locomotive that night to Dengzhou."

In the imperial study, Pang Yukun personally reported to Xiao Ming, "Is it that our conditions are a little too strict." “

"No, it's not strict at all, if the roles were reversed, they would have gone even further than we did." Xiao Ming said that he knew very well the bandit faces of these Western powers.

Pang Yukun nodded, "Since they don't agree, we can only continue to blockade Britain and see who can hold out to the end." ”

After the two finished talking about it, Pang Yukun turned around and left.

At this time, Xiao Ming looked at the map in the imperial study, which was a new world map, on which the current control area of the empire was all painted red.

The whole map suddenly looked red, this is the result of his years of hard work, and now the empire has controlled fifty percent of the world's landmass, and these regions are still very rich in resources.

For now, the only places left are Europe and the United States of America, the old colonial powers are still struggling to hold on.

But wrestling with the empire that controls the vast resource area, they will lose their bottoms sooner or later.

But even so, he can't be careless, and his goal now is to get the maximum benefit with the least price.

In order to achieve this, it is one thing to upgrade the weapons of the empire, and it is also a point to make rational use of the contradictions between European countries.

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

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

Because of this, he chose to send snipers to France to help Henry fight, and he will also send military advisers to France to support Henry's more advanced weapons.

After all, this time Prussia jumped too high and exposed his abilities and ambitions, and he would not let this betrayer have an easy life.

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

Before Brooke arrived, he had made a plan to inspect the key military factories of the Empire, and the first use of the tank in Tsarist Russia was obvious.

With the advent of this cross-era weapon, the Tsarist army was completely powerless, and the impact of this war was that the major military districts applied for the formation of tank units one after another.

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

In addition to the production of tanks, he will also go to the key shipyards of the empire this time, and the steam turbines will be put into operation, which will have a revolutionary impact on shipbuilding, and from then on the warships will burn not coal, but oil.

In this way, the fleet can carry out long voyages on the oceans without any intention while carrying supply ships.

After all, the volume of coal is too large and the combustion efficiency is too low, which 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 is simply not enough for the needs of one fleet.

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

His goal was to have a small fleet of bombers in the Empire within three years, while developing some in transport aircraft.

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Dengzhou.

Brooke took a mixed look at the bustling city of Dengzhou and sailed for Europe on a merchant ship.

The image of the negotiation was still clearly etched in his mind, and he would never want to be here again if he could.

For him, it was a place he longed for, but he was afraid of.

Enduring the turbulence of the ship, Brooke returned to Europe three months later in the carriage of imperial merchant ships, and then returned to Moscow in disarray.

Seeing Vidomia living in Tsarist Russia again, Brooke couldn't even bear to speak, but in the face of Vidomia's expectant gaze, he still told the cruel truth.

After listening to Brooke's story, Vidomia's face turned pale with anger, and she said: "The empire will never want the British to agree to these stupid terms, even if all the British starve to death, it will not give in to them." “

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, I have already rejected them verbally, but what about Britain now? As the Imperial blockade continues, the situation in Britain will get worse and worse, and I will pass through the English Channel on my return, and the Imperial warships will still be patrolling. Brooke's face was full of worry.

After a pause, he said: "And according to those who have escaped from England, the voices of the independence of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are now getting louder and louder, and it is rumored that the diplomatic envoys of the Empire are in close contact with the independent parliamentarians, and it seems that the Empire has sinister intentions to dismember Britain." Brooke said.

Vedomia was already aware of the news, and she said: "You don't know enough, I have received the exact news that the Empire promised to help those independent parliamentarians as much as it helped Henry, which means that the English Civil War could break out at any time, and Murphy will not allow Scottish independence." ”

Brooke sighed, "It seems that the Empire has been prepared for two ways for a long time, and like these treaties, this move is just as vicious. ”

Now Vidomia seems to be strong, but in fact, she has nothing to do.

Since the empire conquered the borders of Tsarist Russia, the whole of Tsarist Russia has been in a winter-like atmosphere, and Catherine has gradually become indifferent to her, even talking in public about expelling her from Tsarist Russia.

Now she is thinking about going to Prussia, at least her husband is a prince of Prussia.

Thinking of this, Vidomia said: "Now it is useless to say that there is no this, since you have returned, let's go to Prussia during this time, it is no longer safe here, Catherine is just a mercenary person, the attack of the empire has frightened her, and she does not dare to send troops to France again." ”

Brooke sighed in his heart, now they are wandering around like lost dogs, how could the once glorious empire of the sun never set be reduced to such a situation?

After a moment's hesitation, he said: "Your Majesty, hiding like this is not a way after all, and I am worried that the opposition in the country will take the opportunity to rise, and if Murphy steps down, Your Majesty's future will be full of unknowns." ”

Vidomia said, "What do you mean?" ”

"On this trip to Prussia, we should seek the help of King Ferret to return to England so that we can deal with the tensions in the country in a timely manner." Brooke said.