Chapter 965: Interrogation

Dengzhou Military Port.
Xie Yuan led a group of generals to pay a military salute to Xiao Ming.
Yesterday they passed the news of the naval battle to Qingzhou, and the next emperor arrived in Dengzhou on the earliest steam locomotive.
Xiao Ming returned a military salute to Xie Yuan. He walked to the dock while waiting for Xie Yuan's report.
"The emperor, the fleet that attacked Great Chongqing this time was a combined fleet composed of Britain, France, and Spain. The total number of warships was 76. All of them were the main battleships of Tier 3 sailing ships. In the fierce battle yesterday, we attacked together. Seventy-four warships were sunk, seven hybrid-powered warships and four third-class sailing warships were lost, 8,000 local soldiers were killed, and 3,000 drowned soldiers were captured. Only two warships under officers deliberately let them escape. Go away." Xie Yuan carefully reported the battle.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Ming stopped. He glanced at Xie Yuan interestingly and asked, "Why do you want to condone the two warships to escape?"
Xie Yuan was startled, his forehead was sweating slightly, and he was a little afraid of being blamed by Xiao Ming, but after taking a deep breath, he decided to tell his true thoughts: "This time the United Kingdom, France and Spain jointly attacked the Dengzhou military port. , It must despise the navy of the great Yu country, confident that this sea power is in their charge, the next official deliberately let the two warships return, the purpose is to pass the war to Britain and France through the soldiers of these two warships. The situation has achieved the goal of frightening the enemy, thereby making the navy of the Great Yu country more smoothly heading in the South Ocean waters. After all, with fear, they dare not open the battle easily, and the merchant ships of the caravan are safer."
Xiao Ming nodded slightly. It was easy for them to sink the remaining two warships, but to him it was obvious that the value of these two warships returning to Europe was much higher than the value of sinking them.
First, he needs European countries to have a clear understanding of the Great Yu State now, so as to prevent these powers from making trouble for him everywhere, at least less trouble.
Second, since the reunification of Great Yu, the land under his control has been rapidly increasing, including Korea, Waguo, Yaksa, the Philippines, and there may be more Southeast Asian colonies in the future.
These new lands need to be slowly digested by the Great Chongqing. Therefore, after the capture of Malacca, the Great Chongqing Congress uses Malacca as the boundary to delimit its sphere of influence, and slowly consolidate its power in these areas, making the enemy afraid and afraid Reckless action is what they want.
After all, only occupation can not bring out the benefits of the colonies. He needs these colonies to provide Da Yu with ore, food and artificial output to realize profit.
Otherwise, there is no value in occupying a loss-making colony.
"You have done a good job, to deter these maritime powers, to stop the war with war, and to play the majesty of the great Yu country is currently needed, and at the same time we need to spare time to operate the controlled area."
Xiao Ming admired.
Although the European powers are colonies all over the world, these colonies belong to different countries. Now the control of Asia by the Great Yu Kingdom is its own power, which makes it much more difficult.
"The King Xie praised him, but he was able to defeat the combined fleet this time mainly because of his work." Xie Yuan said, introducing Li Wei to Xiao Ming.
Xiao Ming looked at this weak, but divine admiral. He said, "You are very good. You can lead twelve warships to almost destroy the enemy's warships. This time I will give you a great reward."
Li Wei looked excited, he immediately delivered a strong military salute, and said loudly: "Thank you, the emperor, Longen."
Xiao Ming nodded slightly, showing a strong gratitude. The army is important, but the navy's position in the era of great navigation is unshakable. In the future, the navy he needs will seize maritime hegemony and serve as the caravan of Great Chongqing. Provide safe routes to deliver soldiers to remote colonies.
So he said to all the admirals: "This time the naval warfare will destroy the enemy in the first battle, and win overseas. This time the cabinet will draw up a list of awards, and you will all receive generous rewards."
The generals immediately became happy and cheered: "Long live my emperor, long live my emperor!"
Seeing the generals and soldiers so fanatical, Xiao Ming felt very at ease. After all, the Great Yu Kingdom is now a monarchy, and the soldiers' loyalty to the emperor is very important.
Condolences to the generals who participated in the naval battle, Xiao Ming and Xie Yuan and other generals went directly to the Naval Office.
At this time Xie Yuan asked: "The emperor, we have captured two very important people, one is the commander of the combined fleet, Wilson, and the other is the British member of Parliament Dick, especially this Dick. If he spit out, the emperor must be interested. ."
One of the purposes of Xiao Ming’s visit this time was to interrogate these prisoners, because he now wants to know the changes that are taking place in Britain and France. Lack of understanding of the changes.
Now that these prisoners are different, there are always a few who are willing to say.
"Bring them here." Xiao Ming narrowed his eyes. The two captives were full of weight. One was a congressman and the other was a senior navy general. Even if they were redeemed, they would cost a lot of money.
After receiving the order, Xie Yuan ordered the soldiers. After a while, the embarrassed Dick and Wilson were escorted all the way by the two soldiers.
"This is your Majesty the emperor of our Dayu Kingdom, aren't you arguing to see your Majesty? Now if you have something to say, please let go." Xie Yuan roared unceremoniously.
Dick and Wilson looked at the young man sitting in the central seat of the official office~EbookFREE.me~ and both were a little surprised. Like their queen, the emperor of Great Yu was also very young.
However, the power of the queen is based on the power of Britain, and the young emperor personally brought the country from poverty and weakness to its current prosperity and strength.
"His Majesty the Emperor, I am Dick, a British member of Parliament, and this is Wilson. As a nobleman, I protest against the rude treatment of us by the country of Chongqing. Any nobleman captured in Europe will be treated politely." Suppress the fear in the heart.
Wilson glanced at Xiao Ming and didn't say a word, but his unruly eyes told Xiao Ming that this person was still a little courageous.
"Your noble etiquette seems to be only effective for you Europeans. You never talked about etiquette when you slaughtered the natives of other countries." Xiao Ming said coldly, "I am very busy, and I will tell you clearly now, if If you can provide valuable information, I can still spare you not to die. If not, your end will be to be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks."
Dick's body suddenly weakened. He was pampered when he was in England. He had never seen such a arrogant monarch.