"Oh my God, Benjamin actually made a private deal with you?" Eugenie was shocked to hear the news, which was a real surprise.

Prime Minister Benjamin's lack of interest in Prussia and the Chinese is not news that the diplomatic circles of various European countries can find out about this.

Perhaps in Benjamin's mind, his former prime minister, the Earl of Derby, was too preferential to Bismarck and the jumping Xiao Lotian.

When Xiao Letian led his troops to join in the Austro-Prussian War, Benjamin was very annoyed, especially because he didn't understand why Earl Derby finally let Xiao Letian go.

Benjamin guessed and had no answer, and in the end he could only say that it all came down to the old foolishness of the Earl of Derby.

There is nothing wrong with supporting a new power in Asia to counter Tsarist Russia, but the choice of a spokesperson is crucial.

Xiao Letian, a pseudo-Western master who has just emerged, dares to mix in the battle for hegemony on the European continent with hundreds of soldiers, which shows that this Oriental man is a madman!

How can a madman cooperate?

Later, Xiao Letian's various behaviors in Asia proved Benjamin's judgment even more sideways, leading troops to attack Beijing City, Taihe Hall to perform martial arts, and even kidnapping the Tongzhi Emperor......

And his attitude towards the French also made Benjamin very worried, he could be sure that Xiao Lotian was an untamable wild horse, and it was definitely a mistake for the Derby Prime Minister to choose such a role to confront Tsarist Russia.

What happened in the end? Where did Xiao Letian resist the expansion of Tsarist Russia's power, he directly cut off the hand that Tsarist Russia stretched out to the Far East.

How tyrannical, bloody, and arrogant! No matter how bad Tsarist Russia is, it is also a European country, so how can you be trampled on by Asian countries.

It's a pity that the Earl of Derby died of illness, and Benjamin couldn't find him to theorize, plus Xiao Letian kidnapped Emperor Tongzhi, and the queen cared a lot about the Chinese emperor's state visit across most of the world.

As a result, Benjamin couldn't let go of Xiao Lotian at all, and just when he was annoyed, Napoleon III threw an olive branch of temptation, although the two sides had differences in many positions, but their interests were the same in the fight against Xiao Letian.

Napoleon III put his hands on his chest and said triumphantly, "Benjamin's many continental views are very consistent with mine, and he also thinks that Prussia is rising a little too quickly, and we don't want to destroy Prussia, but Prussia always wants to unify the entire German-speaking region, which we don't want to see!"

"And Xiao Letian, he is the same as Prussia, the Chinese people he made up actually want to finally unify the Han cultural circle, this is all the behavior of careerists, and careerists must be curbed!"

"So, Benjamin promised me that in the event of war, he would share the necessary intelligence with us, and that he would allow our warships to blockade Prussia's territorial waters......"

"As long as the British don't pull the strings, who else can defeat us in France......?

Empress Eugenie looked at her husband and smiled arrogantly, and suddenly asked, "In that case, why did you drink absinthe to relieve stress just now? Why do you still say that Britain is the backer behind Xiao Lotian?"

"I think you're really drinking and hallucinating!"

Napoleon III's newly inflated self-confidence made his wife's stitch all the way down, and he said with a bitter face, "Oops...... Listen to me, after all...... After all, Benjamin also has political enemies! I'm worried about his political enemies!"

Eugenie's eyes lit up when she heard this, "You mean him?"

......

London, United Kingdom.

On the opposite bank of Big Ben, near the banks of the River Thames, in a small three-story apartment building along the river, the candlelight is reflected on the curtains, the figure of a man in good spirits is projected on the curtains, and the two policemen on duty at the door look at the figures on the windows in awe.

"Mr. Gladstone hasn't slept yet, it's been so hard......"

"Smoke a cigarette...... The Prime Minister has been questioned by Parliament because of Northern Ireland, and now there are even people preparing to impeach the Prime Minister......

"Match...... Come here to light a cigarette, it's windy here...... If the impeachment is successful, maybe this gentleman upstairs will be our next Prime Minister!"

"That's right, that's why we're here to stand guard, those bureaucrats in the police department have very sensitive noses!"

The man the police were talking about was the worrisome man mentioned by Napoleon III and his wife, William Jurg Gladstone.

Born into a wealthy Liverpool businessman's family, Gladstone received a very good aristocratic education from an early age, and was a liberal in his youth and did not believe in any political party.

But as he grew older, he realized that liberalism had no future, so he joined the Tory, one of Britain's two major political parties at the time, the one now led by Benjamin.

During his Tory years, he was regarded as the Tory's number one eloquent, and the Whigs had a headache at the sight of him, especially before the First Opium War, when Gladstone was a clear no-voter.

The British proposal to send troops to the Qing Kingdom almost made the baron mess up, and finally passed the parliament by a narrow margin.

Those who achieve great things will not be subservient forever, and in the Tory he gradually found that the political ideas of these people deviated more and more from his own.

Benjamin Disraeli, in particular, was a politician that Gladstone looked down upon, and once Benjamin's budget proposal was rejected by him in Parliament.

It was not until 1859 that Gladstone officially announced his withdrawal from the Tony Party and joined the arms of his former rival party, the Whigs.

It was clear that the Whigs could not accommodate the Bodhisattva, and it was not long before he and several like-minded politicians formed the Liberal Party on the basis of the Whigs, and became its leader in 1867.

In the study, Gladstone, who had become the leader of the party, was quietly looking at a gift from the Far East, which was a seal of Tian Huangshi, with many Chinese characters on it that he did not recognize.

The seal left a bright red mark on the white paper, and below the white paper was a line of ornate English small letters: "There are friends from afar...... It's a lot of fun!"

What kind of dumb riddle is this Oriental woman playing with me? Could it be that the Oriental Führer wants to be friends with me?

Gladstone looked at the Tian Huangshi seal in front of him silently, he was not moved by the value of this seal, even if this seal could be exchanged for a small manor, it didn't matter.

All he cares about is the deep meaning of this sentence.

Just outside the window of his study, on the street diagonally thirty or forty meters, a black carriage was quietly parked on the side of the road, the carriage had been parked for an hour, but the patrolling policemen seemed to have not seen the carriage, and no one had ever stepped forward to interrogate.

There is no need to interrogate at all, just look at the unique flower on the door, the owner of this car is the hottest courtesan in Europe at the moment, Fang Guan from China.

It was a blooming peony, a flower of wealth in the East.