1890 King of Southeast Asia

"It can be peaceful for three years. Since 1894, the world has been like a clockwork. Two years after the Sino-Japanese War, the Spanish-American War, followed by the Boer War, are just what we can say. Entering the 1900s, wars broke out more frequently. We have to hurry up." Liu Yiming muttered to himself as he walked out of the door of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"Hey! Yiming, how is it?" Charles learned some Chinese in Nanhua, that is, speaking northern dialect with a Minnan accent mixed with a London accent, which sounds a bit uncomfortable.

"Everything goes well. Maybe soon, the Anglo-Southern Secret Agreement will be released." Liu Yiming smiled.

"You, you have been very busy these days. You haven't told me how you are doing." Liu Yiming changed the subject.

"What else can I do? I can't even get on the ship now. After all, I am not Sir Fisher. Even my uncle thinks I should enter politics." Charles pouted.

Fisher is waiting for the position of the third naval minister next year. He is also a tough guy. He served on a battleship at the age of 13 and became a lieutenant colonel at the age of 28.

Compared with him, Charles is more magical. He became a lieutenant colonel at the age of 24, but after all, he is not mainly for military merit. The navy does not particularly like him, except for logistics.

"It doesn't matter. You are still very young, aren't you? You don't have much advantage in entering politics now. Voters will not vote for a young boy." Liu Yiming curled his lips and said with his own experience.

"But if I want to continue to stay in the navy, then the logistics department will be my final destination." Charles threw the half-smoked cigar fiercely at the door of the foreign minister.

"Hey! It is not allowed to throw cigarette butts here~ Not even half a cigarette!" A lobster soldier suddenly came over to stop him.

"Please come with me, sir." The lobster soldier looked at Liu Yiming with his nose. Perhaps because it was at the door of the foreign minister, he did not use force directly.

"Hey, I threw it, but my carriage is there. Do you see the family emblem on it?" Charles stood up and pointed to the carriage across the street.

"Master, what happened?" Charles's housekeeper walked up meticulously and slowly, and saluted Charles.

"Sorry, sir, but there can't be garbage here." The lobster soldier was a little confused, but still stubborn. The nobles have privileges, but he is exercising the rights given to him by the queen.

"Ode, you come to disturb me." Charles looked at the surrounding environment. Many people were watching the excitement, especially the two reporters. He called the coachman and slipped into the carriage.

Seeing the protagonist leave, the people around showed disappointment, and then went back to their own business.

"Hey! I say, this is simply unreasonable. I feel that the goddess of fate has been teasing me since I returned to England! Oh! God, forgive me..." Charles said.

Liu Yiming didn't understand Charles' logic, and he prayed as soon as he disagreed. Maybe God and the goddess of fate don't get along well?

"Where were we talking about? Oh! You said you were going to the Logistics Department. I heard that the Logistics Department is very well-funded. You must give me a discount when I go there to buy things." Liu Yiming said jokingly.

"Come on, if I go to the Logistics Department now, I will become a brigadier general at the age of 40, and then I will receive a knight's title and I will be a brigadier general until I die." Charles complained.

"With your resume, it shouldn't be difficult to be knighted, right?" Liu Yiming said.

"It's not that easy. If I stay in the Logistics Department, at most when I get old, the Queen will give me a knight's title." Charles seemed to have lost his soul.

"I have a chance..." Liu Yiming said.

"What?" Charles came to life and stared at Liu Yiming.

"Nanhua has just reached a preliminary consensus with the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom will support Nanhua's infiltration of French Indochina. I think this is an opportunity." Liu Yiming said.

"You mean, can you take me to the Far East?" Charles' eyes lit up.

"It should be no problem. The UK can't fail to send someone to watch. I can make a suggestion and recommend you, but you need to make your internal decision." Liu Yiming searched for a long time and finally found a place to put the red wine.

Alas~ There is nothing to drink, so I can only drink.

"Thank you my friend, as long as you mention it, I will definitely go there, thank you!" Charles said excitedly.

As for the second half of the sentence? Charles can be called a knight, but because he has a father who is an earl, not to mention that his uncle has already served as the Speaker of the House of Lords. At this time, the power of the House of Lords is still not small.

"Then, let's go to the telegraph office, I need to make some preparations." Liu Yiming said.

"Don't bother so much, I have a communications company, the environment is much better than in London." Charles waved his hand and said.

Liu Yiming was a little surprised, but not too surprised. After all, old nobles are a little bit of nothing.

"You know, my inheritance is very backward, and most of the family's wealth will be inherited by my brother. I only have two small farms, some stocks, and an annual income of about 10,000 pounds, but the nobles will spend most of it, so I have to find another way." Charles began to complain again.

Chatting all the way, until talking about the pharmaceutical business, Charles seemed to be resurrected, mainly because Liu Yiming did not expect Charles was not rich.

But what is more commendable is that Charles exchanged his income for the Vega and gave it to Liu Yiming.

"What arrangements do you want to make? Is it convenient?" Charles asked and realized something was wrong.

"There is nothing to hide. I will launch a strategy to attack Kalimantan, and use Kalimantan as a springboard to infiltrate French Indochina." Liu Yiming said simply.

"Yiming, forgive me for being blunt, this is not a rational choice." Charles said, that is, this "Yiming" sounds like "Yiming".

"It doesn't matter. I won't blindly send troops to French Indochina before I am ready." Liu Yiming said.

"You can use it as a little capital. Before the navy comes back, I won't blindly send people to French Indochina, but when I visit France, I will propose to evacuate the overseas Chinese in France, and at the same time I will smuggle weapons to the locals in French Indochina to support their independence movement." Liu Yiming said.

Charles didn't quite understand the former, but he had a deep understanding of the latter. After all, he had done it!

"What about Kalimantan? Although the Java Sea is not wide, it is difficult for the South China Navy to escort. Although the Dutch navy is hard to describe, your navy is weaker. And the three new Dutch coastal defense ships have been launched for some time, and they may be sent to the Far East in half a year." Charles suddenly remembered the information and said.

"It doesn't matter. The British colony in Kalimantan will become my logistics team. The Dutch army is not strong in combat and cannot accept casualties." Liu Yiming said indifferently.

"Didn't you receive the telegram I sent you?" Charles suddenly said to Liu Yiming.

"What telegram? I got on the ship on July 10th." Liu Yiming said.

"The Dutch have trained nearly 100,000 soldiers. It is said that he wants to solve the problem of the Chinese once and for all. I just heard it." Charles said as he looked at Liu Yiming's face that suddenly turned black.

"I know this, but only 100,000 people cannot be sent out. I believe the Dutch will not think that this is enough." Liu Yiming said with a sigh.

"There are also mercenaries. The Dutch plan to recruit 50,000 mercenaries. With the colonial troops, you may face more than 300,000 people." Charles said with some concern.

"Where does he get the money?" Liu Yiming was very puzzled. After the Anglo-Dutch War, the income of the Netherlands has not been high. After losing Java, the income of the Dutch colonies has been reduced by at least one third, which means that the government income has been reduced by at least 15%, not to mention the government property confiscated by Nanhua.

"The Dutch government has carried out demonic propaganda against you, but you have a long-term vision. Except for the Dutch, no one else believes this." Charles thought that the Dutch operation was in vain and couldn't help laughing.

"The Dutch government has issued a large number of national debts and borrowed money everywhere in Europe, using colonial income as collateral. Although they lost Java, they still have vast colonies and received a large loan. The specific amount is unknown." Charles said with a look of madness on the Dutch.

Liu Yiming's expression was unclear. The Dutch paid such a huge price, so they must pay it back. What should they use to pay it back? In connection with the context, the Dutch considerations are very clear. They will clean up the Chinese and then use the money received to repay the loan.

"We're here." As they spoke, they had already arrived at Charles's communications company.

Charles's communications company was in a decent location, located in the suburbs of London, with better air than in the city. The people living around were all middle-class people, and farther away were farmers and capitalists. This was the nearest communications point, so the business was pretty good.

Liu Yiming did not go directly to send the message, but sat in the carriage for a long time, thinking it over before going in.

He sent the recent events, the layout, the British conditions, the Dutch actions, Liu Yiming's decision, etc. to Nanhua. If nothing unexpected happened, it would fall on Xu Hui in the end.

When he went out, he saw Charles talking to two women in the distance. When he saw Liu Yiming coming out, he said goodbye to the two girls and came over.

"Done? I've already made a call, and the reply will be sent directly to me. By the way, has the ambassador been selected? You should set up an embassy in London." Charles said.

"Thank you, the candidate has been decided, and I hope you can help me with the site selection. I'm not familiar with London." Liu Yiming said without much interest.

"Okay, let's go back first. It's boring here." Charles called a carriage and the two set off on their way home.

Still in the manor, Liu Yiming greeted Zhang You, who was picking grapes with Charles' mistress, and went into the study with Charles to study the situation.