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    "Russian country?" Yehenala quickly denied: "I have no contact with them. This time I came to contact a rebel leader who has an sworn enemy with Liu Juehu, named Ge Mengjin."  //Baidu search to see the latest chapter//

    There was suspicion on the queen's face: "Ge Mengjin? Han?"

    "Although he is a Han Chinese, he is loyal to our Qing Dynasty. It was only due to the situation that he temporarily succumbed to the Russian army. However, he has 30,000 elite soldiers, countless foreign guns and cannons, and he has the trust of Russia.  , very powerful."

    The queen didn¡¯t care about that: ¡°How does he treat Zai Chun?¡±

    Although she is not Zai Chun¡¯s biological mother, the queen¡¯s affection for this child even exceeds that of his biological mother.

    "He said that he is willing to contact the Russians, borrow the power of the Russians to establish a country outside the customs, support Zaichun as king, and rebuild Manchuria."

    "It's enough to establish a country outside the customs. I'm afraid it's the Russians. It's like the story of the early years of the country."

    What is the story of the early years of the Kingdom? Of course, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took the opportunity to rescue the Ming Dynasty and defeated Li Zicheng. They went out on a large scale and wiped out several small regimes in the Southern Ming Dynasty. It can be called a model of strategic planning.

    Yehenara immediately said: "Queen, don't worry. The Russian barbarians are foreign countries after all. They have come from afar. If they want to occupy the country, they must be supported by Manchuria. If Su Laoliu said that we should protect China but not the Qing Dynasty, then why not protect China?"  We built Manchukuo just outside the Pass."

    The queen was still a little hesitant. Although she had suffered some hardships, her life experience was too little. She really believed these words.

    "If Ge Mengjin is really available, we might as well make use of their power."

    Manila is a typical international city. Especially after the Hong Army occupied it, the international color here became even heavier.

    Merchants here come from various countries. Americans, British, Swedes, French, and Dutch may all find the goods they need. In particular, the monopoly of tobacco leaves and other specialty goods was naturally interrupted due to the entry of the Hong Army. Countries  Businessmen rave about Manila's friendliness.  This was not the case before. The colonial government formed by the Spanish was extremely unfriendly to foreigners. They did not even allow foreigners to permanently reside in Manila.  Instead, all the supplies needed must be purchased through some intermediary foreign companies. Even a few years ago, the colonial government even expelled all foreign trading companies that directly entered the Philippines in order to maintain the Spanish's absolute advantage.

    It¡¯s fine now.  The prosperity that had existed in southern China in the past was replicated in the Philippines and Manila. Even if the Spanish sent a large army to reinforce the Philippines, this fact could not be changed.

    The Spaniards have promised businessmen from all over the world that even if they can return to Manila, it will not change the reality of Manila's opening up, but foreign businessmen believe more in the promise of the new owner of Majingra.

    From Wenzhou, Ningbo to various ports along the coast of China, it has been proven that Hongjun is a regime that keeps its promises.  Not only did they agree to maintain the traditional five ports for trade, they were even willing to open some new ports, and they had even opened ports along the Yangtze River.

    The growth rate of foreign trade in the Yangtze River Basin makes these Manila businessmen jealous. You must know that the cotton cloth trade alone has caused a huge increase in cotton prices around the world.

    Now, from Egypt to Hamburg, there are businessmen everywhere with checkbooks looking for cotton spot, and cotton prices around the world are skyrocketing.  Many factories have had to stop production due to cotton shortages, but the Chinese still want more cotton cloth and cotton.

    With the expansion of the Hong Army, not only soldiers, officials and some upper classes switched to British cotton.  Now a new beneficiary class has emerged, numbering at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. They like to imitate everything successful people do, and they can also afford to wear cotton clothing. They don¡¯t know how many tons they use every year.  cotton.

    In Manila, although trade is developing rapidly, it has not yet reached such a stage. Everyone is looking forward to the new owner of Manila to bring such new opportunities.

    Therefore, foreign businessmen did not resist Hongjun's actions, and even businessmen from some Catholic countries knew clearly that Hongjun was infringing on the interests of the Catholic Church on the island.  He pretended that this was not the case, and instead started selling military supplies to the occupying forces, and even acted as a spy for the Hong Army to deal with the Catholic guerrillas.

    The Hongjun army reciprocated the favor and provided convenience for foreign businessmen as much as possible. However, the situation in Manila today is different from the past.

    Although the pilots guided foreign merchant ships into Manila Port, they no longer released any foreign merchant ships.  Neither sailboats nor steamships were allowed to leave the harbor.

      Some businessmen began to protest to the occupying military authorities, even bypassing mid-level officers and going directly to their superiors, but the results were disappointing.

    More than two thousand Spaniards have attacked Mindoro Island in southern Luzon. Governor Lin Mengchu has ordered a large force to reinforce Mindoro, and it is very likely that some merchant ships will be requisitioned.

    Many cargo ships were loaded with goods, so many merchants immediately protested. They signed formal agreements with British merchants in Hong Kong, Malacca, and Bombay. If they were requisitioned now, not only would they not be able to deliver the goods as scheduled, but who would these requisitioned merchant ships be?  Knowing what could go wrong, maybe a boatload of tobacco leaves would fall into the hands of the soldiers, and not even a single tobacco leaf would be seen in the end.

    However, the merchants' protests had no effect. Lin Mengchu still forcefully requisitioned most of the ships, including large sailboats and several steam paddle steamers. The whole of Manila knew of his determination. Lin Mengchu would never give up on the southern capital.  Any comrade on Luo Island, he would save them all.

    The Marine Brigade Mobile Group, which serves as the firefighting team in Manila and Luzon Island, has already begun operations. They quickly boarded several steamships in people's sight. Although they also have some steamships and sailboats as means of maneuver,  If you want to transport the entire infantry regiment to Mindoro in the south, you must adopt more flexible methods.

    Foreign businessmen in Manila even knew that Lin Mengchu had indeed made the greatest determination this time. He would use the entire division to reinforce Mindoro. He reiterated his principle and would never give up a comrade.

    After all, the Spaniards have been operating in the Philippines for three hundred years. Although they have been expelled from Manila and even the entire Luzon Island, there are a large number of Catholic guerrillas on the island. They are all loyal Catholics who lead them.  There were both foreign missionaries and Filipino missionaries who were dissatisfied with the Hong Army, so the news was quickly passed to Heigli.

    "Very good!" Lieutenant General Hegri, as the commander of the Spanish Steam Fleet, proudly announced: "We will send thousands of pagan reinforcements to the sea to feed the fish!"

    Of course he has reason to be proud. His fleet has a total of six steam battleships. These six steam battleships are the most precious treasures of the Spanish Navy. The longest-serving battleships are only five years old, and they are not like the battleships of the Hong Army.  Transformed from ordinary merchant ships, they were real steam battleships ordered from Britain and France.

    They were born to win, so they do not have very heavy and deadly paddle wheels, and the firepower on them is also very reasonable. It can be said that such a steam battleship is enough to take down several armed steam merchant ships of the Hong Army.

    "Fill up the rudder, we must block the infidel's reinforcement fleet. It will be a huge fleet, and we must not let them go!"

    However, in the absence of radio contact, blockade of Manila would be a very difficult mission. They did not dare to enter the offshore waters of Manila because the forts in Manila were built by Spain. They knew the power of those artillery, and if they were too close to Manila, they would  Scared away the Hongjun troops who came to rescue.

    But if it was too far away from Manila, his fleet would not be able to completely reach Manila Port, and he had to save the coal on the ship as much as possible, which made him nostalgic for their years on the sailing battleship.

    A small boat sailed out again, bringing real good news: "The pagan fleet is ready to sail at 13 o'clock today!"

    "Long live the Queen!"

    Hagrid breathed a sigh of relief. Today is the day. He will never let any enemy ship have a chance to escape: "The whole ship is ready, check the guns, check the engines, and be ready for battle!"

    Although the opponents are just some armed merchant ships, Hagrid will not relax at all. He feels that he should have a chance of victory.

    The sea breeze was strong and the battle flag was fluttering. Hercule's six steamships operated their steam engines to the limit and moved toward Manila in search formation. Soon they found the target in the telescope: "Enemy fleet found,  Four steam paddle steamers in total, ready to fire!¡±

    However, there must be a considerable distance from discovery to entering the shooting range. The Spanish warships did not hesitate to save coal and began to pursue at the highest speed. They quickly caught up with them. Seeing that the target was about to enter the shooting range, they  But something incredible was discovered on the flag.

    "British ship? White flag?"

    When thinking of the tragedy of the Armada, these Spaniards started to tremble a little. They had an innate fear and respect for the British. Hegrid felt that something was wrong: "What's going on?"

    Not only were the British flag and white flag hung on the opposite side, they even had semaphores asking the Spaniards to let go.Okay, a Spanish crew member has already asked in a low voice: "Are we going to let it go? Is this really a Chinese transport fleet?"

    The fleet commander Heigli immediately issued an order: "No firing, we have to board the ship for inspection I hope we have found the wrong target."

    Just over an hour later, Hagrid discovered that he was in big trouble. These four steamships were all real British freighters, and even the crews were British. There was not a single Chinese soldier on board, and there was not even a bit of contraband on board.

    In fact, there is a lot of contraband. There is no trading ship without contraband in this time and space, but there is no contraband that the Spaniards want.

    So where are the Chinese transport fleets?

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