C2988 The Sad Song of the Colony (1/2)

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.