The Earl of Derby has gone completely berserk, and has encountered countless enemies in his political career, some of whom are more fierce in rhetoric than Xiao Lotian, but after all, it is a struggle between gentlemen in Britain, and he has never encountered the provocation of backward nations.

This is like, a group of high-ranking officials in the court, you are a Shangshu and I am a general, and that one is still a prince, although everyone's status is high and low, they are all dancing on the same stage, and their social status is generally equal to each other.

In this kind of quarrel, it is understandable that Shang Shu satirized the prince, and the general refuted Shang Shu, and the political struggle is originally a matter of you coming and going, there are victories and defeats, and today's small setbacks may not be the foundation for tomorrow's wild victory. Besides, everyone's identities are similar, and there is no shame in losing.

This is the rule of the game, allow people in the circle to play together but will never allow people outside the circle to interfere, if a group of Shangshu and generals are arguing, and an old soldier sweeping the street next to him suddenly jumps out of the stinky training of Balabala, and finally all the big people are speechless, so it's a bit too much to play.

Not every old man sweeping the floor is a Shaolin unknown monk, and not every big man has a smiling face in the face of the questioning of the bottom, most of them will still choose to be angry, extremely angry.

"What are you? a sweeping veteran...... Oh no, no, no, you're a barbarian and you're the prime minister of a small Pacific island nation, and you dare to laugh at the prime minister of the British Empire?

Of course, the Earl of Derby did not say this, as if the English gentleman did not have as many rich words as the Chinese, even if he cursed.

"Arrogant, arrogant barbarian, do you know who you're talking to? I'm the Prime Minister of the British Empire, I'm a high nobleman, and you dare to give me an expulsion order? Are you crazy......

The Earl of Derby tried to lift the table, but he forgot about his gout, and underestimated the weight of the long oak table, and he did not lift it in one, two, three or four times.

Finally, the enraged Prime Minister grabbed the pure white tablecloth and pulled it back, trying to overturn all the seafood to the ground.

Strange things happened, he seemed to underestimate the smoothness of the white silk, and he also forgot the principle of inertia in physics. Everyone present saw Count Derby suddenly exert his strength, and pulled out the white silk tablecloth with one hand.

Well, yes. It was pulled out, from the gap between the silver cutlery and the tabletop, and it was as fast as lightning, and when the tablecloth was like a white butterfly flying among the flowers, all the cutlery on the table remained untouched?

This picture is so joyful, even the Earl of Derby himself was stunned, he was sad in his heart, why was it so unsmooth to smash the field today, and he couldn't even lift the table?

Xiao Letian's belly hurt, and he suddenly remembered the scene when the middle school physics teacher in his previous life gave him this real thing, the old teacher with the eyes at the bottom of the glass bottle, smoked the tablecloth three times in a row on the lectern, and smashed two teacups, and by the way, there was also a fat girl's pencil case, and in the end, the real yàn was also unsuccessful.

I knew that Earl Derby had such a subtle trick, how good it would be for him to be a physics teacher, and let his poisonous tongue be used against those students who skipped class.

Xiao Letian saw that the Earl of Derby, who was in a daze, was a little precursor to a stroke, he hurriedly took a few steps forward and said in a low voice, "Prime Minister, your temptation will end here, maybe you think it is interesting and fun to provoke me, so the game is over, can we talk about something serious..."

The Earl of Derby's eyes twitched and stared at Xiao Letian, "Game? Do you think insulting the Prime Minister of the British Empire is a game? I can tell you clearly, it is not only the French Navy that is besieging you now, but the Royal Navy of Great Britain is also going to join in, so you just wait to retire here......"

Xiao Lotian was no longer angry at this time, he just raised his hand to let the people around him disperse, and only the two of them were left in the rose bush.

"Prime Minister, the farce can end here, if you have already made up your mind to trap me in Europe, why do you have to make a special trip across the North Sea to see such a small person as me? Am I not a little chief of an island nation in the Pacific? A barbarian is worthy of your own visit? And a secret meeting?"

"Well, I can only identify the unpleasantness just now as a temptation and your personal hobby...... Now let's listen to my analysis of the current situation..."

"There is no doubt that the world today is the world of the British, Britain has the most powerful navy and industrial power in the world, you have the largest colonies in the world, your cheap industrial goods can be dumped all over the world, and the resources of the whole earth can feed back to the British Isles by sea......"

"Your navy is even larger than the rest of Europe combined, and in your eyes the sea is the inland lake of your Englishmen...... Yiqiē looks good and powerful, but to paraphrase the Chinese, there is a crisis under the prosperity..."

The Earl of Derby pouted: "Crisis, with the strength of our British Empire, how can there be a crisis? This kind of alarmist argument has not been told to me for a long time, and you are really bold." ”

Xiao Letian shook his head, "You can look down on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you can also ignore the current China, but you don't forget it, where is the culture accumulated for thousands of years, the prosperous times and troubled times we have experienced are written in the history books, the situation may be different, but the reason is figured out......"

"The British Empire has come to this day can be described as a rare prosperous era in history, but the fortune of the country is always swinging with the wind, and when you are in the middle of the day, there are many countries that think about you behind you, such as Tsarist Russia..."

"Don't think that you and France won a Crimean War and you will be able to contain this polar bear's throat, you really underestimate their appetite, if my intelligence is not wrong, now Moscow is estimated to have begun to evaluate the construction plan of the Trans-Siberian Railway, I think you British can't be unaware......"

When the words of the Trans-Siberian Railway floated to the ears of Count Derby, his expression suddenly became unusually rich, and the old man stared at Xiao Lotian in disbelief, and his heart suddenly boiled.

The Trans-Siberian Railway, an important transportation lifeline between the east and west of Russia, began to be demonstrated in the middle of the 19th century, but it was not until 1891 that construction began, and then it took a full 13 years to complete.

This railway has played a very big role in promoting the geopolitical pattern of modern Asia, and it can be said that at that time, the world's transportation of materials through Europe and Asia, one was the sea route and the other was the lifeblood of this railway.

It was thanks to this railway that the Russians were able to reach out to East Asia, and even eventually get a warm water port on the Liaodong Peninsula, and for Russia the desire for a warm water port was almost fatalistic, and this desire was still very strong until the Soviet period.

Relations between Britain and the Russians have always been tense, and Moscow's intelligence work has always been very important, how could the British not pay attention to the Trans-Siberian Railway project.

If the Russians had owned the railway, they would have been able to easily break free from the sea, move their troops and supplies between Europe and Asia at will, and the British would have much less control over them.

This is not the outcome that the British want to see, but Deby is very surprised, how can you, an Asian, know this kind of intelligence that is still in the middle of the debate? Do you have an intelligence system in Europe that we don't understand?

Xiao Letian saw the question in his heart, "Of course I have my own intelligence network, but you still don't bother to investigate, you can't find it..."

"To get back to the point, it was your victory over Russia in the Crimea that completely shattered their attempts to find an outlet to the sea from Turkey, and you should know very well that what the Russians wanted at that time was Istanbul, and what they wanted was the strait from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean......"

"Don't think that if you defeat Russia, you can make them give up their desire to find an outlet to the sea, now the Russians are supporting Aguba to invade Xinjiang in Central Asia, and he wants to support a military strongman under his control, do you really think his purpose is Xinjiang? You are wrong, his purpose is Afghanistan..."

"As long as the Russians take control of the Pamirs, they can easily obtain a port in the Arabian Sea, and threaten your colony, India, at any time..."

"It's ridiculous that you can't see such a clumsy plan to lead the way to the east, do you think that the Russians occupied Xinjiang, anyway, it was Chinese who suffered in the end, you are happy to watch the excitement......"

Xiao Letian's mouth was very polite, because he knew that the current British people were so arrogant that they had no edges, and on the surface, Earl Derby was just a very aggressive person who was not very tall and very aggressive, but this was also a common feature of the British politicians in this era.

Britain is too powerful now, and these high-ranking politicians are already arrogant. Take the example given by Xiao Letian, the Russians supported Aguba's invasion of Xinjiang, and in the eyes of many senior British officials, this was a conflict between Russia and the Qing state, which was a typical dog-eat-dog, and whoever won or lost had no impact on the interests of the British Empire.

It is true that the Russian nation has an unusually greedy nature for the land, just as the British are as greedy for the sea as they are for the sea. Russia really wants Xinjiang very much, and no country will refuse territorial expansion, but is Russia's move in Xinjiang really just to occupy more territory? Is it really just to grab China's land?

The so-called Xiang Zhuang sword dance is aimed at Pei Gong, and the Russians ostensibly want to dig a piece of meat from the Qing State, but the protagonist they really want to assassinate is Afghanistan, which is the Pamir Plateau.

"Hmm..."When the phrase Pamir entered the Prime Minister's ears, the Prime Minister's eyes immediately panicked.

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