"Then, Ambassador Canning, shall we begin our action!"

Although Valerovsky was excited to promote complete cooperation between England and France, he maintained a calm demeanor and spoke to Canning unhurriedly.

"Hmm!" Ambassador Canning nodded to Valerovsky and then got up to leave the French Embassy.

"Klein, please see Ambassador Canning off!" Seeing that Canning was about to leave the French Embassy, Valerovsky immediately said to Klein.

"Yes!" Klein quickly responded and then personally escorted Canning out of the embassy.

Just as Canning was about to get into the carriage, he suddenly stopped, turned around, and looked at Klein.

Klein, unexpected by Canning's sudden gaze, was slightly taken aback, then smiled warmly at Canning.

"You're quite good!" Canning nodded and, after saying something that seemed out of context, left the French Embassy in the carriage.

Klein reentered the French Embassy, and when he entered the embassy hall again, Valerovsky, who had been sitting on the sofa, was nowhere to be seen.

Seeing this, Klein immediately went to the telegraph office on the second floor of the embassy, where he saw Valerovsky again.

At this moment, Valerovsky was standing behind two telegraph operators, dictating every word of the telegram to be sent to Paris.

The telegraph operator, dutifully and with his head down, recorded every word that Valerovsky said in a notebook.

After Valerovsky finished speaking, the telegrapher sent the recorded message to Paris.

At this point, only the sound of the telegraph transmission remained in the entire room.

In this extremely quiet environment, Klein dared not even breathe loudly, quietly waiting for the telegram to finish sending.

When the telegrapher pressed the final "click" note, he lifted his hand from the key, turned, and nodded to Valerovsky.

Valerovsky understood Klein's meaning and also nodded to the telegrapher, saying, "You've worked hard."

Then Valerovsky turned to Klein and said, "Canning left?"

"He left!" Klein immediately replied to Valerovsky.

"Did he leave any message?" Valerovsky asked Klein again.

"No, he didn't!" Klein shook his head first, then added, "But he did say something very perplexing!"

"Oh? What did he say?" Valerovsky asked.

"He told me, I'm very good!" Klein scratched his head and said to Valerovsky.

"That fellow Canning seems to have discovered something!" Valerovsky muttered softly.

"Ah?!" Klein showed a surprised expression on his face, and then, sounding a little nervous, said, "Then he..."

"What are you thinking?" Valerovsky shook his head and patted Klein's shoulder to comfort him, "Don't worry! I guess he just noticed something unusual but has no conclusive evidence. There's no need to be nervous! Moreover, we have the French Empire and His Majesty the Emperor behind us; what is there to fear?"

Hearing Valerovsky's explanation, Klein realized that he was no longer the person without any background, supported by the French Empire, he didn't need to be as afraid as before.

"Should we continue our infiltration into the Syria region?" Klein asked Valerovsky again.

"Why not?" Valerovsky replied to Klein, "Not only should we infiltrate the Syria region, but we should also infiltrate the Baghdad region, inciting the Pashas there to oppose the Ottoman Empire!"

"Sir, what is our purpose for doing this? Isn't the French Empire an ally of the Ottoman Empire?" Klein asked Valerovsky in confusion.

"Child, between nations, there is only mutual exploitation; there are no eternal allies!" Valerovsky, like a mafia godfather, said earnestly to Klein, "The reason we are willing to unite with the Kingdom of Britain is that neither of our countries wants to see the Russian Empire occupy the Near East, so the Ottoman Empire became our ally. Once the threat of Russia is over, the Ottoman Empire will again become a target for European powers to trample on. And all of this prioritizes our national interests."

"I understand!" Klein nodded at Valerovsky in response, then added, "However, I don't understand why the Empire wants to take action against Baghdad! As far as I know, there's nothing there but sand!"

"I don't know either!" Valerovsky shook his head and said to Klein, "However, this order was personally given by the Emperor of the Empire, so we just need to execute it resolutely!"

Before the internal combustion engine was invented, no one paid attention to the black "gold mines" buried beneath the lands of the Middle East.

It was precisely because Jerome Bonaparte saw this that he issued the order to Valerovsky and others to control this land at all costs.

Valerovsky also recognized Klein's exceptional linguistic talent and intelligent mind, which is why he made an exception for him to become the Third-level Secretary of the Embassy, specializing in work related to Syria and Iraq.

Klein lived up to expectations by traveling to the Baghdad Region to negotiate an arms deal with the local Pasha and "rebels."

However, Klein's actions seem to have been noticed by Canning.

Fortunately, with Valerovsky's backing, Klein was somewhat relieved.

Meanwhile, returning by carriage from the French Embassy to the British Embassy, Canning immediately sent a dispatch to the British Government about the destruction of the Ottoman Empire Navy.

Having sent the dispatch, Canning did not linger for long at the British Embassy, instead heading to the Constantinople port.

Then, boarding a fast ship at the Constantinople port, he traveled through the night and finally reached the Mediterranean Fleet Command in Malta that very night.

"Admiral Dundas! I now order your forces to set off immediately for the Bosphorus Strait!" The moment Canning stepped into the command center, he urgently issued the order to James Dundas, the Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet.

"Your Excellency, what on earth has happened?" James Dundas asked Canning in confusion.

"Here's the situation!" Canning informed James Dundas of the Ottomans' complete defeat.

James Dundas showed a look of disbelief and once again asked Canning, "Your Excellency Canning, could the intelligence be erroneous? As far as I know, the Ottoman Empire's Fleet is not vastly inferior to that of the Russian Imperial Navy. Even if the Ottoman Empire Navy was unable to match, it would hardly suffer complete annihilation. I wonder if the Ottoman Empire intentionally exaggerated their crisis to solicit our assistance!"

"No! That's not possible!" Canning shook his head and responded to James Dundas, "The source of this information is a naval advisor from the Kingdom of Britain dispatched to the Ottoman Empire! He witnessed with his own eyes that the Ottoman Empire Fleet was completely annihilated by the Russian Empire! Now the Ottoman Empire merely has a few ramshackle vessels, no match for the Russian Empire!"

"Since our naval advisor reported it, did he tell Your Excellency which method the Russian Empire Navy used to defeat the Ottoman Empire Fleet?" James Dundas once again asked Canning.

Canning relayed Slade's account in full to Admiral James Dundas.

"So that's how it was!" Admiral James Dundas breathed a sigh of relief, then nodded approvingly, "If they used the flower shell, then it all makes sense! The Russian Empire could only succeed with a surprise attack! At the end of the day, it was the Ottoman Empire's own lack of preparedness that led to this situation. If it had been our fleet, such a thing would never have happened!"

"Admiral Dundas! This is not the time to debate responsibility. We must instill some confidence in those people... I know the High Gate Government people too well; once the news reaches them, they'll surely consider negotiating peace with the Russian Empire!" Canning said to James Dundas.

"Your Excellency, I neither understand nor wish to understand political matters!" James Dundas replied to Canning with a serious face, "I just need to know what we are supposed to do! Are we to help the Ottoman Empire annihilate the Russian Empire Fleet, or merely guarantee the security of the Ottoman Empire's own territory?"

"The Kingdom of Britain has not declared war on the Russian Empire, so we cannot engage in conflict with the Russian Empire. Thus, the main objective of this mission is to ensure the Ottoman Empire's territorial integrity!"

"Then should we muster our fleet in the Greek Seas?" James Dundas once again asked Canning.

Following an aborted minor conflict between Britain and France, a small portion of the British Mediterranean Fleet, under Deputy Officer Edmond Leon, remained stationed in the Greek Seas.

Although nominally this small part of the Mediterranean Fleet was resting in Greece, in reality, it was there to monitor the French Fleet in the Mediterranean.

"Of course!" Ambassador Canning replied to James Dundas, "We must unite with France this time to jointly safeguard the maritime security of the Ottoman Empire!"

"Yes!" James Dundas immediately replied to Canning.

Subsequently, James Dundas dispatched a steam launch to the Kingdom of Greece to inform the Mediterranean Fleet of this news.

Upon the messenger's arrival, they discovered that the British Kingdom Fleet was already prepared to depart.

Upon inquiry, they learned that the French envoy Valerovsky had arrived here ahead of time, informing the local members of the British Fleet about the alliance.

Then he had already led the French Fleet to the Bosphorus Strait in advance.

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