Chapter 638: Utilization

"Nice to meet you, General Watanabe. My name is Elson. I am currently serving as the special envoy of Sam to the East."

The Sam man in a black tuxedo took off his hat and saluted Watanabe, and began to introduce himself.

Raising his head, he looked up and down at the supreme ruler of Japan, feeling proud.

It was with his insistence that the Sam fleet consisting of four sailing warships decided to use cannons to blast open the door of Japan and force Japan to establish trade relations with Sam.

This was the task assigned to him by Sullivan, the current president of Sam.

Since Sam gained independence from the rule of the British through the War of Independence.

After half a century of development, Sam's local industry has prospered.

In order to find new markets for Sam's industrial products, Sullivan generally chose to support the strategy of expanding eastward and join the tide of colonization in the West.

It's just that the colonies in the New World were divided up by the old European countries.

They could only go east all the way to the East, an area that had not yet been colonized.

After successively occupying many islands in the eastern ocean.

They established supply points on these islands, and then their merchant ships arrived in Japan first.

However, their contact with Japan ended in failure.

So they continued to travel eastward and contacted the Liang family of Dasong.

This Dasong family, which specializes in Dasong maritime trade, started trading with it.

However, they did not give up the market of Japan.

Gradually losing patience, this time they decided to solve it by force.

The effect was immediate, and the Japanese shogunate immediately decided to negotiate trade with him.

"We should have used this method to deal with these natives a long time ago." A voice sounded in Elson's heart.

"It turned out to be Mr. Elson." Watanabe gestured to Elson to sit opposite him, and asked the Japanese maid to pour Elson a cup of tea.

Because of decades of exchanges with the British, Watanabe learned a lot of British language from the translator when he was young.

He was able to understand what Elson said.

After a pause, he said, "It's a pity to meet in this way, but after weighing it, I think we should not refuse trade with Sam."

Elson smiled. He just thought that Watanabe was scared by them and decided to accept the trade.

He said this just for face.

So he didn't point it out, but said, "This is really a wise decision. In this case, please sign this treaty, General."

As he spoke, he took out a document from his bag.

Watanabe flipped through the document and frowned slightly.

Basically, Sam wanted all the preferential treatment that Japan gave to the British in trade.

Japan also wanted to open the two ports of Shimoda and Guanyong, which were specifically used for trade with Sam.

But thinking of the precedent, it seemed that there was no reason to refuse Sam.

The most important thing now was to make a profit between Britain and Sam.

So he said, "I can agree, but you have to help us build eighteen sailing warships like the British."

Elson was stunned for a moment, then he nodded, "I need to go back to the warship to discuss this with Major Mari."

Watanabe said, "It just so happens that I also need to discuss this treaty with Japanese officials."

Elson stood up, "I will be back soon."

Watanabe sent Elson out of the shogunate, and first asked someone to take Elson to visit the warships under construction.

Then he also summoned officials to discuss the treaty.

But this was just a formality. In Japan, his power was as supreme as that of the Emperor of Dasong.

An hour later, Elson returned.

"Major Mari agreed to this." Elson took out the trade treaty again, "Please sign it."

Getting the result he wanted, Watanabe signed the treaty without hesitation.

Now, he wants to make Japan strong at all costs.

...

Leting Wharf.

When Watanabe signed a treaty with the United States.

Zhou Yi returned from Jinghai, and then, according to Zhao Xu's order, he summoned 8,000 marines.

He led six warships, 16 troop transports and 18 supply ships, and headed for Yizhou.

After leaving the Yanzhou waters, he crossed the Qizhou waters.

Looking at the transport ships behind the warships, Zhou Yi frowned.

If they had supply points along the coast, why would they bring so many supply ships?

Therefore, if the supply problem on the route cannot be solved, Yanzhou's actions in the southern waters will be restricted.

After all, in addition to hunger, there is another point.

Staying on the warship for a long time will make the crew crazy.

The crew must go ashore to relax every once in a while.

This is also a very important issue.

"After the Yizhou incident, this issue must be reported to King Yan." Zhou Yi said secretly.

Then, he summoned the Marine Corps generals to discuss the matter of Marka City.

Ten days passed.

The fleet arrived in the south of Yizhou smoothly.

Six sailing warships appeared near the port of Marka City, and the news immediately reached Steven's ears.

It used to be Feiwen's office. At this moment, Steven was lying on a chair with his feet on the table.

Hearing the report from the Portuguese soldiers, he almost fell off the chair.

"What did you say, six sailing warships of King Yan." Steven couldn't believe his ears and grabbed the soldier's collar and asked.

"Yes, commander." The poor soldier was almost out of breath.

After confirming the news, Steven frowned tightly.

The King of Yan warship that came to negotiate with Fei Wen had just left when six more warships arrived.

He could not determine the purpose of these warships.

So he arrived at the port with his translator to understand their purpose.

Although this time two sail warships docked at the port of Marka City.

But the number of opponent's warships is three times more than theirs.

Even if the Franco robots' skills in manipulating battleships must be more mature than those of King Yan's soldiers, they may not be able to win.

Arriving at the port, he immediately asked the translator to take a small boat close to King Yan's warship.

Less than half an hour later, the translator returned, looking pale.

After getting ashore, he said to Steven:

"Commander, they ask you to surrender and release Governor Feiwen, otherwise they will attack Malka City."

When Steven heard this, he was immediately furious, "These humble Eastern natives dare to threaten me. Now let the noble white people tell them what war is."

After speaking, he looked at the sea, counted the number of troop transport ships, and roughly estimated the number of soldiers on the other side.

Troop transport ships like King Yan are similar to Japanese troop transport ships. In his opinion, each ship can transport up to five hundred soldiers.

The city of Marka has eight thousand French soldiers.

He believed that he could defeat this Yan army.

However, in order to avoid the battleship being sunk, he ordered the battleship to escape from the port, rendezvous with the other two battleships, and then return to the port to wait for an opportunity to fight.

He will defeat King Yan's army head-on at the gate of Marka.