Valley Emperor

Although the Pacific has just left the dock at this time, the speed is still very slow, but it still attracts the attention of countless people. Many people on the riverside are watching the Pacific is about to start this voyage, and the people on other ships on the river, It is also watching this behemoth slowly advancing.

At this time, the bridge on the Pacific, several other officials and others had disappeared, only Captain Sun and a dozen crew members.

Captain Sun issued various orders from time to time, and the crew roared loudly through the installed microphones, conveying them to the cabins inside the cabin.

"Go ahead!" After Captain Sun gave the order, the internal wheel well learned the order through the microphone!

They repeated the order "Go ahead!"

Also start adjusting the steam valve!

At the same time, in the boiler room, dozens of coal-burning workers were in the high-temperature cabin, wearing only shorts on the upper body and shorts on the lower body. They were full of muscles, waving the shovel in their hands, and shoveled coal into the coal-fired boiler continuously. .

The coal is burning, emitting a huge amount of heat, which continues to heat the water in the boiler, and turns the water into high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor, which flows to the steam unit through the pipeline.

Then push the giant piston to reciprocate!

The piston drives the huge crankshaft, which then drives the huge gears, which keep turning, and then drive the huge rotating rod.

The turning rod extends all the way to the stern of the boat, and then drives the two huge propellers at the stern to rotate through complex transmissions such as gears.

The huge propeller turned, pushing the huge Pacific Ocean forward slowly!

At this time, the Pacific Ocean did not raise its sails, but simply used the power of the steam engine to push the ship forward. The speed was not fast, and it was only three or four knots at most.

And this operation is also a typical operation when most sailboats only enter and leave the port, that is, when importing and exporting the port, the steam engine is used as the main power to drive the ship forward.

At this time, the other five thousand-ton ocean-going ships that were also heading to the Americas were also pushed away from the dock by tugboats one after another.

They would form a medium-sized fleet and travel together to the Americas.

On these six ships, in addition to free immigrants, corporate employees, businessmen, etc., there are more than 500 soldiers from the army.

These five hundred army soldiers are not regular rotation soldiers, but reinforcements.

At present, the military power of the Tang Empire in North America is mainly composed of three parts.

The first part is the Army Corps, that is, the Datang Army Xinjinshan Garrison Regiment, with a strength of about 1,000 people.

The second part is the navy. The navy has a North American squadron in North America, with a number of warships under its jurisdiction. Among them, 500 marines are stationed at the Xinjinshan Naval Base. At the same time, they also cooperate with the army to undertake ground defense. Participate in inland combat.

The third part is the militia, and the number of this militia is relatively large, because the colonial militia system generally adopts all people as soldiers, but all the young and strong will be incorporated into the militia units, but these militia units are scattered, and on weekdays There is no organization, but it will be organized for training at a fixed period. During war or other specific periods, it will be organized to assist the regular army in combat.

As for the number of bodyguards and armed guards employed by some companies in North America, in fact, these bodyguards and armed guards are actually included in the ranks of the militia, so they cannot be counted repeatedly.

Although there are three major parts, the dozens of colonies scattered in North America are actually quite empty, and the number of local indigenous people is very large, and sometimes even suffers.

After all, weapons and tactics cannot replace the number of people.

With the increase of immigration, it is also necessary to increase reinforcements. The army plans to increase the number of troops by 500 to expand the local Xinjinshan garrison to 2,000.

After the fleet left the dock, they all raised their sails. Although it was said that in the Huangpu River, the wind direction was not very good at this time, but at least some wind power could be used to speed up the speed of the ship.

However, each of the ships in the fleet did not plan to run the steam engine at full speed, which would consume too much coal. Even if the fleet could obtain coal supplies after it arrived in Beihai Province, it would cost money.

These six ships are not military ships, so there is no need to estimate the sailing cost. These six ships are all ships of shipping companies or trading companies, and they all plan carefully when they sail.

Maintaining a speed of about five knots, the fleet slowly left the Huangpu River and entered the mouth of the Yangtze River when the southwesterly wind happened to blow up the huge sails of the three masts on the Pacific. .

Driven by the sails and assisted by the power of the steam engine, the fleet began to accelerate slowly, and then moved towards Beihai Province!

When the Pacific and other ships went to the Americas, there was also a fleet that left Ceylon and went to the South African port!

In the past two years, Ceylon Island has become an important transit point and naval base for the Tang Empire in the Indian Ocean.

The headquarters of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Navy is set up here, and the fleet has been deployed all year round. At the same time, because this place happens to be in the middle of the Indian Ocean, basically ships going to the western coast of India, West Asia, and Africa will also pass here.

And when passing here, they often choose to stop for replenishment.

Therefore, it is reasonable to become the strategic transit point of the Tang Empire in the Indian Ocean.

In other words, when Ceylon Island was still in the hands of the Portuguese in the early years, it was actually an important strategic transit point, and now it is in the hands of the Datang people.

Many Datang ships, especially those heading to the South African port, will stop here for supplies, and gather more ships, waiting for the **** ships arranged by the navy to go to the South African port together.

In view of the large number of pirate ships in the South African waters, on the one hand, the navy is increasing patrols to eliminate pirates, and on the other hand, it continues to implement the centralized **** system, and arranges warships to **** merchant ships every few months.

Of course, if merchant ships are not afraid of pirates, they can ignore the centralized **** system of the navy. You can go to South Africa by yourself, but the navy will not care about this.

And now, these few ships leaving Ceylon and going to the South African port are **** warships without a navy.

The people in the port didn't understand it at first, but they were relieved when they saw that the flags of the Western Trading Company were hung on these ships.

This is the armed merchant ship of the Western Trading Company. The four merchant ships are all powerful merchant ships. There is no problem in dealing with ordinary pirates. Under normal circumstances, there is no need for naval escort!

In the armed merchant ships of these four Western trading companies, there are also a group of very special people. They came to Ceylon from thousands of miles from the mainland of the empire, and then prepared to continue to South Africa, and even all the way to the imperial mission in Europe. !

Since the Empire decided to send a mission to Europe, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire and other agencies, including the military, quickly decided on the selection and size of the mission.

There are more than 150 people in the entire mission!

The one who took the lead was Chang Zhenchuan, the deputy director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Originally, this person was only a fourth-grade man, but in order to travel to Europe and show the dignity of the empire, Li Xuan specially gave him a temporary upgrade to a third-grade.

After all, in the Datang Empire, the third-rank and above are considered as high-ranking officials of the empire.

The mission to Europe is barely considered a major event, and it is impossible to send a middle-level official there. It’s not that they look down on those Europeans, but that the middle-level officials have no authority to make some important decisions on the spot.

In addition to his rank of 3rd rank and the position of deputy director of the European Department, Chang Zhenchuan also holds the imperial decree of the imperial emissary to send envoys to the European countries. He is an imperial envoy!

What errand?

"Plenipotentiary Ambassador to European Countries"

He is the plenipotentiary ambassador of the Tang Dynasty to Europe.

The main task of his trip to Europe this time is to observe the war between Europe and the Tatars. If necessary, the Europeans will initially unite against the Tatars. Anyway, the Tatars cannot easily conquer the whole of Europe.

Under this premise, he will set up an embassy in Spain and be stationed in Europe.

He, Datang's ambassador to Europe, will be the first official stationed abroad in the history of the Datang Empire, and he is also a senior diplomat of the third rank or above~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Before this, although Datang has dispatched Diplomatic officials, for example, in Malacca back then, Datang had a consulate, but the Malacca consulate back then had a consular rank of only the top five.

In recent years, in the Ottoman Empire, Safi Dynasty and Mughal Dynasty in West Asia, as well as other parts of India, West Asia and North Africa, the empire has also dispatched some diplomats, but the basic level is not high, basically they belong to Below the fourth rank, most consuls are fifth or sixth rank.

Third-rank senior officials, to be honest, this is the first time!

However, considering that Chang Zhenchuan is not only an ambassador, but an ambassador in charge of the entire European foreign affairs, it is reasonable to give a grade from the third rank.

In addition to Chang Zhenchuan, the mission included two deputy envoys, more than 20 ordinary diplomats, military attachés from the army and the navy, and finally a marine corps from the navy who acted as the defense of the mission.

However, although the Marine Corps prides itself on being the best in the world, it can overwhelm the army with one hand, not to mention the natives, but this is very far away, and there is no support for Europe. The Marine Corps in this mere team, In fact, it's just a scene.

Before the mission set off, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire had already negotiated with the Portuguese and Spanish diplomats, regarding the Empire's dispatch of official diplomats to Europe and the establishment of the Tang embassy in Europe, especially this The embassy will also be established in Spain.

The Spaniards expressed considerable welcome and even joy!

Because they feel that this is the Datang Empire's recognition of Spain's strength and that the Spaniards are the dominant force in Europe. Otherwise, how could the Datang people set up their embassies in Europe in Spain.

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