446 Helping Hands
"Why? Why are you attacking us? We Black Sand Bandits have never attacked your tribe, we have been living together peacefully for more than ten years, why did you betray us?"
The tribal coalition didn't bother him at all, and in their rear, dozens of elders were protecting a Westerner in Arabic robes, all flattering around him.
"Honorable messenger, look at these sand thieves are too fierce, our casualties are really too high, you see ......"
"Don't talk to me about casualties, our Prussian nation has always been generous, and in half an hour to exterminate these bandits, I will give you another fifty thousand pounds..."
When the tribal elders heard this, they added money and reveled excitedly on their horses, brandishing scimitars and even riding their horses to rush into battle, fighting with desert thieves in the yellow sand.
The same scene was repeated in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula, where countless desert natives were mobilized under the heavy bounty of Prussian intelligence officers, one desert thief's nest after another was exterminated, and the bloody slaughter began long before Xiao Lotian came ashore.
The Arab nation of this era did not find that this black oil was buried under their feet, their life was extremely poor, and mankind did not enter the age of oil in the middle of the nineteenth century, when the energy source that dominated the earth was still coal.
Since he was poor, he wanted no dignity, and under the heavy bounty of the Prussian intelligence officer, countless tribes joined the ranks of the bandits, and countless bandits were wiped out, but everyone did not know the true purpose of the operation.
The French can hire desert thieves, then the Prussians can hire desert tribes, and under the heavy reward there will be brave men and enemies to fight, the only thing that depends is who spends the most money.
Obviously, the French were not as generous as the Prussians, and in the dozens of wars against bandits in Sinai, the tribal natives were always in the upper hand, suppressing the French mercenaries to the death.
And this Qiē Xiao Lotian did not know that the Prussian nation was not so superficial, and they did not want this group of Eastern warriors to know these details, they were not villains who invited favors.
The British also made great efforts, and on the Red Sea, the guns of the British warships were fully open, the light of the cannon fire illuminated the entire sea, and the Arab pirate ships scattered in all directions amid the rumbling of cannons.
"Fire, keep fire...... For God's sake, blow these pesky thieves to ashes and make them fish food in the sea......" The British captain was constantly boosting morale.
"Damn the British, you usually take so many gold coins from us for filial piety, and we give you countless protection money, but today you are firing at us?...... are you sick in the brain" Countless West Asian pirates cursed angrily at the sound of cannons, but unfortunately the British fleet ignored their protests, and the cannons continued.
Xiao Lotian did not see the beach of the Red Sea until he crossed the entire Sinai Peninsula and the camels were exhausted to death more than a dozen horses, and at this time a British merchant ship had been waiting here for a long time, and even the dinghy was lowered to sea.
"Look...... is the Prime Minister of the East...... Our mission is finally accomplished, please board the Prime Minister's majesty..."Amid the shouts of countless sailors, Xiao Lotian finally crossed the entire Sinai Peninsula, and the most dangerous journey was finally over.
The place where the British greeted Xiao Lotian was not an important port but a very ordinary small fishing village, and when the merchant ships gradually moved away from the fishing village, suddenly thick smoke billowed from the village, and even screams were heard in the wind.
"It's bad, it's the camel team that sent us..."Sima Yun was the first to shout, he guessed correctly, at this time, the land had already been slaughtered into a sea of blood.
Although Prussia and Britain mobilized countless desert natives and thieves to fight against them, the Arab world has been fierce since ancient times, and the number of thieves is unimaginable.
When Xiao Letian left by boat, many fish that slipped through the net were also surrounded, and when they found that the task of killing Xiao Letian could not be completed, they could only angrily knife the people of the same nationality.
The Egyptian guide, who had taken advantage of some small advantages, became a ghost of his fellow villagers at this moment, and the full moon scimitar not only cut the throat of the camel, but also cut the throat of the guide in the end.
In the end, the Egyptian guides could not figure out why these people were attacking them, and they went to Allah with a full stomach.
Xiao Letian successfully left the Sinai Peninsula, but in Buckingham Palace in London, England, the discussion about him has not stopped.
Queen Elizabeth leaned back on the sofa, holding a cup of Indian black tea in her hand, and opposite her was the teasing Earl Xiao Lotian teased.
"So, not only did you use the Royal Navy to help Xiao Lotian return home, but you even mobilized the manpower and financial resources of the colony to help Xiao Lotian get rid of the pursuit?" asked the queen with a blank face.
The Earl of Derby put down the teacup in his hand and replied with a humble face, "Yes, my dear Majesty, it is very beneficial for us to support Xiao Lotian in the British Empire...... We will absolutely not allow the French to close the distance between us, and the maritime interests of Britain are inviolable..."
Queen Elizabeth smiled faintly, "Have you ever thought about it? If Xiao Letian becomes a hero in East Asia, if he has the strength to compete with Britain, then how can we protect the interests of Britain?"
"Oh... Dear Queen, Xiao Lotian will not pose any threat to Britain, because the difficulties he faces are unimaginable to us......"
"First of all, Xiao Letian's biggest enemy in front of him is the French, and Napoleon III will definitely spare no effort to kill Xiao Letian......"
"Secondly, Xiao Letian has been advocating nationalism and the concept of a modern state in East Asia, which shows that his love for China is sincere, and who is the most threatening enemy of the Qing Dynasty now? It is the Russians, Chinese like all European peoples, everyone will subconsciously tremble in the face of the Russian grizzly bear......
"Regardless of whether the Manchus love Xiao Lotian or not, I firmly believe that Xiao Lotian will definitely forget the small self and realize the big self at the critical moment, and they will definitely not stand idly by in the face of the threat of the Russians. ”
"Faced with so many enemies, how can the Chinese be the enemy of us British? Moreover, the essence of our British Empire lies in the navy, but the establishment of an excellent navy is unrealistic without 180 years, even if there is money to buy a large number of warships, then what about talent? Where in East Asia are there so many naval talents?"
Count Doubi said with great confidence, "Your Majesty, supporting Xiao Lotian can definitely achieve our goal of weakening France's power in Asia, and it will not pose any national threat to our Britain, this qiē is all under my control..."
The Earl of Derby's words were met with a faint smile from the Queen, but in the end the Queen did not speak, but a boy who had walked in from outside the palace spoke.
"Dear Prime Minister, I have a question, according to your analysis just now, China will not be able to catch up with the UK, but I have a different view...... China has a population of hundreds of millions, such a huge base, no one donates a penny, and out of a thousand people, this force is unimaginably huge, how is this not a threat?"
The boy who spoke was not an outsider, but the Queen's own grandson, Wilhelm, the son of the Crown Prince of Prussia, who would later be Wilhelm II, and of course he was only an eight-year-old boy now.
The Earl of Derby smiled and bowed to the young crown prince, "Oh, isn't this His Majesty William......? I can answer your question very clearly, it is just an illusion, and it is completely a pseudo-proposition released by scholars......"
"Xiao Letian wants to stir up the tide of popular sentiment in the whole of China, not to mention whether there are external constraints, but to say that the resistance of the Manchus in their country is unimaginable. How could the Manchus in power allow a Han Chinese to carry out state mobilization? What should we do if the people's hearts are mobilized to Xiao Letian's side?"
"Hahaha, my dear crown prince, will the country be strong when it is big? This is really a pseudo-proposition, why don't you think so, the country is bigger, the nationalities are bigger, the population is denser, and there will be more contradictions?
The good eloquence of the Earl of Derby once again impressed everyone, and the Queen of England and the future King of Prussia were speechless by him, and this is really the truth when you think about it carefully.
The queen and the little crown prince of Prussia no longer had any doubts in their hearts, and the Count of Derby's analysis was indeed very accurate, in the Qing Dynasty, a country in the Middle Ages, internal friction was always greater than external friction, and internal contradictions were far greater than external contradictions.
Let's not talk about the Qing Dynasty, even a small Ryukyu, a county with a population of hundreds of thousands, it is difficult for people's minds to be unified, although people were united under Xiao Letian's command before, but once they encountered a life-and-death juncture, those subtle small cracks quickly became a gap that isolated people's hearts.
The indigenous forces of the Ryukyus, now that they have thrown off the mainland forces brought by Xiao Letian, are ready to negotiate peace with the French alone, they have never imagined that Gong Cheng has already dug a huge trap in front of them.
In the dark night, the old shopkeeper Fan Hao and General Liang Kun sat facing each other, and they hadn't spoken for an hour, and Gong Cheng's trick was really difficult for them to deal with.
The old shopkeeper believed that if they opposed the peace between the Ryukyu Kingdom and Gong Cheng, I was afraid that the status of the new army and foreign forces in the minds of the natives of the Ryukyus would plummet.
"My dear aunt, are you really forcing me to come up with that killer weapon? Is it really a last resort?"
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