On the third day of Li Jinde's return, he was summoned by Chu Yun. As Chu Yun's agent in Europe for a time, even if nothing happened in the Mediterranean, Chu Yun would ask him to find out the situation. What's more, the big event of the Fourth Fleet's open war with the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean was also a big event that made Chu Yun want to know the detailed process of what happened in the Mediterranean.

Chu Yun never expected that the Fourth Fleet would challenge the Ottoman Empire, and almost wiped out the main strongholds of the Barbary pirates, Algiers, Tunisia, and Tripoli. What's even more exaggerated is that the Fourth Fleet and the Far West Expeditionary Force also joined forces with some countries in the Mediterranean to expedition to Egypt.

This was far beyond his imagination!

Even if Chu Yun now has a large number of new technologies and a lot of troops, he would not have thought of intervening in the Mediterranean at this time.

Although he provoked the Ottoman Empire, the Fourth Fleet's actions were quite satisfied with him. First of all, the Fourth Fleet's actions basically understood the details of the countries around the Mediterranean, especially the Ottoman Navy's external strength and the middle. Secondly, the trophy of the Fourth Fleet made Chu Yun very satisfied. Who can't get along with the money?

"It turned out that Algier Pasha's son was executed in public by our officials for smuggling in Batavia, which led to his resentment towards us Chinese..." After learning about the twists and turns of the matter, Chu Yun couldn't help but be surprised that the world was wonderful.

A butterfly flapped its wings in Brazil, which could lead to a tornado in Texas a month later.

Just like the butterfly effect, as the trade scope of Chinese merchants becomes wider and more and more active in opening up markets around the world, it will completely change the normal trajectory of history and make the world move towards a completely different future.

Chu Yun could not foresee that Li Jinde would be arrested, and that the Fourth Fleet would join forces with other Mediterranean forces to deal with the Ottoman Empire.

"The Fourth Fleet also wanted to save me to start a war with the Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean, which in turn caused hatred from the Ottoman Empire. Please don't blame them." Li Jinde was afraid that Chu Yun would be dissatisfied with the combat behavior of the Fourth Fleet, and was also pleading for the Fourth Fleet.

"I will only punish those who were defeated. The Fourth Fleet was defeated for the time being, and the losses were not great. Moreover, the wars in the Mediterranean had little impact on our layout in the West, so I would not blame them." Chu Yun said calmly.

Just kidding, the Fourth Fleet took millions of taels of silver from the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary Pirates this time. If such a result of the battle was punished, who would get millions of taels of silver back in the future?

Of course, there must be a little bit of blame on the surface, but that doesn't matter...

Chu Yun believed that no one could do better than the Fourth Fleet under that circumstances. If the Fourth Fleet had waited for the instructions from the capital, it would have been a long time since it was the cold.

"When I was in the Mediterranean, I found that the location of Malta is extremely important. If we can use the local area as our trading station in the Mediterranean, then our company will be able to trade extensively in the Mediterranean. Most of the Barbary pirates have signed treaties with us, promising that they will not rob our merchant ships, and then we only need to surrender the Ottoman Empire, and we may be able to get involved in most of the Mediterranean markets." Li Jinde suggested to Chu Yun to take down the island of Malta.

Chu Yun nodded as he heard this. In the Admiralty's ten-year arms plan, the three important naval bases in the Atlantic Ocean include Portsmouth, Malta Island and Cuba Island. Among them, Malta Island, known as the "heart of the Mediterranean", is one of the goals of the Admiralty.

"I heard that you tricked the sister of the head of the Knights Order of the Hospital to the capital..."

"Mr. Junzhu, you misunderstood. This is not a fraud. It's just that she admires our culture and prosperity, so she just followed the villain to travel to the capital."

"This is similar to cheating. In short, you must treat her well and try to make her feel good about us. It is best to make the Grand Commander of the Knights of the Hospital willing to open the Island of Malta and become our business station and fleet base in the Mediterranean. You should also know that it is easy to defeat the army of a place, but it is difficult to conquer a place."

"When the Fourth Fleet attacked Algiers to save me, the Knights of the Hospital also participated... As an important figure in the Knights of the Hospital, I naturally would not treat her unfairly."

"Very good. For the future century-long plan of our China, sometimes even if we have to sacrifice our color..."

Puff! The tea in Li Jinde's mouth almost spewed out. In order to obtain the fleet base and port in the Mediterranean, Chu Yun made it clear that he was going to take Hannah.

"Mr. The military leader doesn't know that my wife has been waiting for me for three or four years with her daughter at home. Such behavior will be an unbearable betrayal for her." Li Jinde quickly shirked.

"Haha, I'm kidding. We don't need to use marriage methods for some small profits. Such a relationship will not last long. When the interests of both parties conflict, the fragile relationship will break directly. We prefer to use interest exchange to obtain long-term cooperation." Chu Yun waved his hand to let Li Jinde not panic.

Chu Yun rejected Charles I's request for marriage a long time ago, just because he didn't want to be stubborn when he was acting, and he didn't want Charles I to be his brother-in-law.

"When I left London City, the factories built on royal land were able to operate normally. More than a dozen stores such as teahouses and porcelain shops were opened in London City. I believe our products will soon gain a foothold in Britain. Next, at least five markets have not been developed, including continental, Nordic, Mediterranean, West Indies, and North America. That is a market for hundreds of millions of people. I think that the power of our company alone cannot influx into such a huge market. Therefore, more merchant ships should be organized to go to the West and open up markets in various places." Li Jinde suggested at the end.

"Your judgment is very correct. Our technology and goods are invincible in these places. As long as someone is willing to go to the West, they can start their business. However, the premise is that we need a fleet that traverses all over the world to ensure the safety of our merchant ships. At present, just to maintain the sailing of the Western company fleet, the Fourth Fleet needs to send special warships to escort, which means that our layout has not been completed. In my understanding, our merchant ships can be protected by our warships at any time when sailing in any waters." Chu Yun said.

Li Jinde nodded. Pirates and privateers active in all over the world were a problem. The fleet of the Jiuzhou Army was not strong enough to appear anywhere in the world.

"By the way, I have a new task to hand over to you. After a while, you need to go to Tanggu, east of Tianjin Wei to help me inspect the preparations for a new factory." Chu Yun said.

"What factory?" Li Jinde asked in surprise.

"The factory that produces sodium carbonate...that is, soda ash, soda, do you understand what I'm talking about?"
Chapter completed!