A steam ironclad ship blazing black smoke led the fleet into the most prosperous port of Surat in the Mughal Empire.

The arrival of a huge fleet of ironclad ships, sailing warships, merchant ships and troop transport ships caused a huge commotion in Surat Port!

Surat Port is regarded as an international port for Indian merchants, Western merchants, Arab merchants, and Ottoman merchants to conduct ocean trade. Because of checks and balances of strength, all parties abide by traditional trading habits here, do not interfere with each other, and pay tariffs to the Mughal Empire.

As a commercial center rather than a fortress, the Mughal Empire did not set up too many artillery guns, and the turrets by the sea were still the backward artillery styles of last century.

The arrival of a huge fleet is likely to break the balance between all forces here, and may even destroy the port of Surat.

The arrival of this huge fleet shocked almost the entire Surat port.

Especially the steam iron armored ship of General Fubo brought them unparalleled!

The 94-meter-long iron-shelled hull, two huge chimneys were emitting black smoke, and several masts were straight up into the sky. The black hull was painted with white paint and dragons and phoenixes. This type of text with oriental characteristics added a bit of mystery to the iron-clad ship.

General Fubo only has a 40-pound smoothbore gun with armor, and the head of the upper deck and the stern of the ship each have a 68-pound smoothbore gun. It uses the simplest mobile turret design and can be used to make limited angle adjustments.

Unfortunately, the Armstrong rifled gun is still under development, and its stability is unreliable, and it cannot be installed on the ironclad ship of General Fubo for dispatching to Europe.

If the General Fubo is damaged due to the breached gun, it will be impossible to repair it at the current shipyard level in Britain, so the mature smoothbore gun technology is still used.

In addition to the ironclad ship of General Fubo, there is also the sail battleship of the Wei Kingdom, the most common fifty artillery-class sail battleship in the Jiuzhou Army.

Because the Wei State sail battleship is a wooden warship, it cannot withstand the recoil brought by heavy long cannons, most of which are 12,24-pound cannons.

Even so, the sail battleship of the Wei State alone is already the largest sail battleship in the Indian Ocean.

The ships built by the Mughal Empire themselves were simply incomparable to it, let alone the steam iron armored ships built with technology beyond this era.

Not only the local officials and merchants of the Mughals, but also the Netherlands who set up factories in the Port of Surat, the Portuguese came to the seafront to watch this huge supply fleet.

"This is the fleet of Chinese merchants, and there are more than 30 ships! How could that ship be black? Could it be that they used what paint?"

"The smoke monster looks like it's on fire!"

Many merchants who had never been to China were shocked by the size of the fleet they arrived, and even more shocked by the strange shape of the General Fubo ironclad ship.

The chimney, black hull, is more than twice the length of a traditional sailing ship, and the steam iron armored ship has never appeared in this world, and they are extremely surprised.

The most surprising thing was the officials of the Mughal Empire in Surat Port, which had not had strong ocean consciousness. They were already extremely surprised when they saw the Garen sailboat in the West. At this time, the arrival of iron armored ships like steel castles made them feel like frogs in a well.

If it weren't for the East India Company and the officials of the Surat Port, they would have thought this was a monster that emerged from somewhere. The strength of the fleet that had come here before was enough to capture Sutra Port.

The huge fleet was anchored at the Port of Surat. Because of concerns that the ships were stranded, only small boats docked and transported supplies from Surat port to the large ship through small boats to provide supplies to the large ship.

The East India Company has long collected and purchased a batch of coal here, and then temporarily collected a large amount of fresh fruits, vegetables, meat and fresh water.

There were several troop transport ships in the fleet, carrying a thousand missionary troops in the Far West, and they could really conquer the most prosperous port of the Mughal Empire without any trouble. However, their purpose was not to come to the Mughal Empire to provoke a protracted war, so they did not disembark, in order to avoid causing extreme panic in the Mughal Empire.

As long as we avoid going ashore, the Mughal Empire can still be glad that it is firmly grasping the power of land.

However, several people came to the shore with a precious machine on a small boat.

"Be careful, don't let the camera get water in!"

Several cameramen carefully carried the machine to the shore.

"This is the Surat Port of the Mughal Empire? It's really different from our capital. If we can record the precious images of this trip, our photo studio will definitely become famous in one fell swoop!"

"Prepare to take pictures in the port. If possible, we will go to the street to take pictures with more interesting photos!"

The cameraman and several apprentices from the Beijing Photo Studio did not care about the eyes of the people around him, but took important images here.

Princess Sophia asked Chu Yun to send a videographer to London City so that those stationed in the two places could communicate photos. Chu Yun also agreed, so he asked the photo studio to send a team to Europe with two early cameras.

For the photo studio, this is a rare opportunity to capture exotic styles. The photos taken during this voyage may become a series of precious historical materials.

"What are they doing?" asked the East India Company employee in Port Surat.

They saw several Han people operating strange machines, aiming at the port city, and some people got into the black cloth.

In order to inherit the privileges that the British had here, the East India Company was on the surface a company of the British, and the British also dealt with local governments to avoid the suspicion of the Mughal Empire.

The British employees of East India Company have never seen such a weird thing as a camera, and they can't answer one, so they said: "Please rest assured, sir, they may just go ashore to take a break, and they are very curious about this place."

The official at Surat Port had a strange expression, but he had privately taken many benefits from the East India Company, so he still had to help with this little thing: "As long as they leave as soon as possible... But such a huge fleet is really rare, no, I have seen two similar fleets before, and their ships are similar. Could it be that the Chinese people come and go back to the West every year?"
Chapter completed!