C2988 The Sad Song of the Colony

This was a treasured vessel that the French Emperor gifted to the Tongzhi as a token of gratitude. The Tongzhi Emperor had relied on selling off the benefits of the entire empire as well as his master Xiao Letian in exchange for a generous reward from Napoleon III.

No one knew the specific conditions of the secret agreement between the French Emperor and the Tongzhi Emperor. No one knew how much money Napoleon had secretly supported the Tongzhi Emperor, but they could imagine the amount of cultural relics that had to be returned!

The Jia Lai had an important mission. None of the more than fifty people on the ship dared to slight her, but fate! It was really sad, because just as the Jia Lai was about to reach the waters of Cyprus, she received a terrible news from the France!

Sedan was defeated miserably and the French Emperor was captured. The National Assembly announced the establishment of a collapsing empire and formed a temporary defense government to continue fighting against the Prussian.

This was going to be awkward! The Jia Lai had received the secret orders from the French Emperor. Now that the French Emperor had fallen, what did the Jia Lai count as?

This ship and its treasures, did they really belong to the France's Second Empire? Or was it the newly established Republic?

This property right seems very hard to define. You mean it belongs to the Second Empire? But now the Empire was gone. It had disappeared from the world. Even the Emperor had become a prisoner!

You say it's from the New Republic? But the new Republic did not know of the existence of such a treasure vessel!

More importantly, the treasures on this ship and the body of the ship were the personal property of the Second Empire's Emperor.

According to the recognized inheritance right in Europe, the first successor to these properties should also be the Bonaparte Family!

The captain and crew weren't from the Republic. On the contrary, they were royalist party close to the emperor, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to receive such a mission!

After a simple discussion, these royalist party members all decided that they would continue to complete the French Emperor's mission and carry out the orders to the end!

The galley was originally a royal merchant ship on a secret mission. They carried with them documents of identity from many different countries, official status from the Netherlands and official formalities from the United Kingdom.

Don't think that these documents are fake. Instead, they are real. They are all from Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden... A legal document issued by a State.

In the end, they decided to use the most powerful British identity to disguise their identity. They disguised the galley in the waters south of Cyprus by changing her name to the British merchant ship, the Skate, and using the British flag to disguise all the markings of the former galley with paint.

This kind of work delayed them for two days. After everything was prepared, the Osprey began to descend towards the Port Said!

Luckily, the Jia Lai had made the right choice, they had disguised themselves as British people, and when they finally arrived at Port Said, they knew that this place had been turned upside down!

The empire collapsed, the country was established, the France was still in a state of war, and it had only been a few days since the establishment of the Interim Defence Government.

The new government only issued a brief statement to the French colonies all over the world, demanding that the garrison of all the colonies accept the leadership of the new government!

After that, there was no following. There were no personnel arrangements, no troop movements, no supplies … People didn't even know where they were going to get their salary next month!

The French colonies were in a state of chaos, and the governors and military commanders had to face the chaos alone.

The Suez Canal was originally built solely by the French, but because of pressure from the British, it became a joint investment between the two countries. The French had the first share, while the British had the second.

Now that France was in trouble, the French legions and civil servants stationed in the canals were in a state of panic. They had no new orders from home, no money to replenish them.

But the soldiers had to eat and drink, and they had no choice but to tear it apart from the Canal Company!

Xiao Letian extorted and extorted a large amount of money when he was passing by, and the furious French Emperor did not allow the Canal Company to save anymore cash!

In addition, the British started robbing while the empire was in disarray. They violated the agreement and continuously increased the number of troops on both sides of the canal. They even dispatched troops to control the Canal Company in the name of safety.

Your French soldiers wants to steal the money? Sorry, this money is shared by all three parties, no one is allowed to rob!

When the situation was tense, the soldiers on both sides were in a stalemate. They even pulled the safety of their guns and loaded their ammunition as they confronted each other!

Finally, through the mediation of the local tribal elders, the two sides reached an agreement. The French regiment would not attack the Canal Company, but in special times, the British had to guarantee the supply of the French legion!

Eating a person's mouth was short, while taking a person's hand was short! That was not wrong at all. The British had tied up the tens of thousands of French troops stationed at the canal through the logistics supply line!

After that, the British started to point fingers at the management of the canal. Despite being the second largest shareholder, they started to attack the administration of the canal aggressively, and their trusted aides started to interfere with the daily decisions of the management of France.

The entire Canal Company was in chaos, and the management of the ships was inefficient!

The British management started to bully the French ships that no longer had the protection of their home country. In any case, your empire had collapsed and the Interim Government was trapped in Paris.

Even the French legions stationed in canals rely on our British supplies. Then, do you still want to think about it?

extortion, conspiracy, creation out of nothing... French Merchant Shipping s were accused of all kinds of smuggling, capturing people, and fined. Their goods were all confiscated to an innumerable amount …

Such unfair treatment had caused countless French ships to temporarily change routes. They would rather take the long way around to the Cape of Good Hope than suffer from such injustice.

Because of this, the number of French ships in the canal was two-thirds lower than usual!

Seeing this scene unfold before their eyes, all of the crew members could only cry to themselves. Only at that moment did they finally understand what being a powerful country represented!

"Your Majesty! Come back quickly... Only the Empire can protect our interests, only the Emperor can protect our people! "

The poor galley, with her British flag, was waiting in line for the entrance to the canal, but she did not expect disaster to descend from the skies. For some reason, another French freighter was driven out of Port Said.

This incomparably angry French Merchant Shipping had nowhere to vent its evil fire, it actually took the chance to create an accident, and directly crashed into the Jia Lai class!

"Damn that British bastard..." Bandits who take advantage of the fire... I'll smash you to death! "

At that moment, countless familiar country notes resounded from the ship across from him.