Chapter 740 (1/2)

In this year, the 41 year old crown prince of the Great China Empire, hekale, began to gradually take over the power from his father, Shi Xiong, and began to prepare for becoming the supreme head of a huge empire.

Because Shi Xiong has already told his eldest son that he will retire when he is 70, and then he will be in charge of this huge empire.

Stone bear doesn't want to have a life-long system. Even if his physical condition allows, he is only going to retire at the age of 70. So huckler, who had been taught by stone bear for decades, has begun to slowly change his role.

The 30-year-old barutu began to lead a group of proud soldiers in the Pacific eight years ago. Barutu's greatest achievement is that he successfully expelled the British in Australia and brought the whole of Australia into the territory of the Empire.

As a prince, barutu was also granted the governor of Australia by his father, stone bear. At present, all the imperial colonies in Australia and even the Indonesian archipelago belong to barutu.

Compared with his elder brother, hekale, barutu is more like a stone bear in both body shape and character. Moreover, this guy has no great ambition for power. He is more keen on military affairs, and is keen on attacking cities and pulling out strongholds to expand territory for the Empire.

Now, after receiving his father's radio communication, barutu set out from Darwin to go north, prepare to join him in Davao, and then accompany him to inspect the Empire's colonies in the Indonesian islands.

In July 1808, the stone bear's fleet arrived in Davao and joined barutu, who had been waiting here for a long time. After a few days of trimming, the fleet began to move south along the Indonesian islands.

In fact, by this time, the Empire had almost occupied the whole Indonesian archipelago, and the Spaniards and Dutch who had been dominating in this area had long been beaten by the Empire.

Especially now that Europe is dealing with Napoleon, their control in Southeast Asia is even weaker.

Barutu took the opportunity to sweep almost the entire Indonesian archipelago. Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Mindanao, Sulawesi, Timor, New Guinea and other large islands are now under the control of the Empire. The Empire also controls the Strait of Malacca, Sunda and other important Straits.

Now the Spaniards can only curl up in Luzon Island in the northern Philippines, and the Dutch can only barely make a foothold in Banga island in the east of Sumatra. Because they thought the Spanish and Dutch were still useful, the stone bear didn't wipe them out, otherwise the whole Southeast Asia would have fallen into the hands of the Empire.

And it's not just the Indonesian islands, the empire is now targeting the Andaman Islands west of the Strait of Malacca

Although the Empire does not want to go to war with Britain for the time being, if Britain really gets in the way, the Empire does not mind fighting with Britain again. However, it is obvious that Britain, already the leader of the first anti French Alliance and the second anti French Alliance, is deeply involved in all kinds of things and wars in Europe, and now they do not want to break up with the powerful empire on the other side of the ocean.

Now the Empire expelled the British from Australia, but at this time Australia was only a place for Britain to exile criminals, and Britain itself did not attach much importance to Australia.

They even lost Canada. In the face of the increasingly powerful empire of China, they did not want to tear their face from the Empire because of a wild land.

However, if the Empire dares to attack India, it is bound to tear its face with the British. India is now Britain's most important overseas colony. Britain does not want to lose India.

So, the stone bear just plans to occupy some islands around India first, and then slowly attack India

The two Shangjing class warships were escorted by more than ten class III sail warships... Well, actually, it was escorting. It was just a guard of honor for the imperial head of state to go out. The strength of the above Beijing class warships did not need escorting at all.