"If we can assassinate the emperor of China, maybe China will collapse now, right?" The British Prime Minister chatted with the head of the Secret Intelligence Service, which presided over the assassination of the Portuguese Minister of Commerce and Industry, John 61 Farrell, about such a possibility. It can be seen that the Prime Minister is serious and anxious, and his desire to kill the Chinese Emperor Wei Ze is very strong.

"What about after killing the Emperor of China? Do we have a chance to break China's navy and regain dominance of the Indian Ocean? "The head of the Secret Intelligence Service, on the contrary, is emotionally stable and not aggressive.

"As long as we can kill him, China will fall into a period of policy chaos and personnel turmoil. At that time, we, the British Empire, wanted to show peace with China as much as possible. As long as China's civil strife reaches a certain level, a civil war is bound to break out. At that time, everything we have lost can be regained. "The Prime Minister seems to have his own vision of the future.

"I don't think so." The head of the secret intelligence bureau shook his head again and again, "China already has a clear strategic goal, to eliminate the United States, so that Chinese farmers have more land to cultivate." As long as this policy is adhered to, there will be no social turmoil in China. And hast you noticed that the Emperor of China has spoken of the succession of the three main positions in China. Five years later, following the premiership of the State Council, the presidency will also be elected. If China's emperor dies suddenly, China's Liberation Party caucus will be able to elect a successor. ”

"Don't you want to do it?" The British Prime Minister raised questions.

"No, I'm just trying to say that we in the UK don't have to do it directly. There are many people who hate the Chinese emperor now. The head of the Secret Intelligence Service said calmly.

The British Prime Minister breathed a sigh of relief, he himself actually did not have a sense of victory in the Sino-British and South African war, which had a great chance of happening, and he even felt that Britain was very likely to lose the war. That being the case, the Prime Minister began planning an assassination attempt against the Emperor of China. If it succeeds, the Prime Minister will be able to do a great job, even if he can't publicize it. If it doesn't work out, it will prove that the Prime Minister has really tried a new path for Britain under difficult circumstances.

This is the end of the conversation, and the Prime Minister does not even ask what the Secret Intelligence Service is going to do next. Because the Secret Intelligence Service is ostensibly not a government department, and its personnel are not listed on the government's civil service roster, their salaries are approved through a loophole method. Therefore, the specific content is approved by a joint department of the military and the government, not by the prime minister. This time, the Prime Minister was only discussing the matter with the chief, and there was a secret record that proved that the Prime Minister was working the future of the British Empire.

Regardless of the Prime Minister's thoughts, the Secret Intelligence Service is looking at this work as something that can be vigorously promoted now. After China blocked the Red Sea and Britain effectively lost control of the Indian Ocean, Britain became a secret intelligence service, working hard to ensure the smooth flow of intelligence between Britain and India. Since then, this department has had an effort to assassinate the Chinese emperor Wei Ze.

The problem faced by the secret intelligence department at that time was that after letting foreign devils run to China, they would be the target of key surveillance, and it was basically impossible to count on them to assassinate Wei Ze. Hiring Chinese locals is actually riskier than hiring Europeans, because the Chinese can easily find out who is behind the scenes. The purpose of the assassination is to make the assassination party not know who did it. Otherwise, in the confrontation between countries, it would be good for the two sides to directly start training.

Now that the United States and Japan have finally found an opportunity to hate Chinese more than the British, the Meiji regimes of the United States and Japan have appeared, and the British Secret Intelligence Service has finally found an option to send people out. The remaining problem was to get the itinerary of the Chinese Emperor Wei Ze, and after more than ten years of hard work, this important condition also began to have a chance to be achieved. At least at this stage, there is a relatively certain thing, the Chinese emperor Wei Ze is going to move the capital to Beijing. It was much closer to Japan, and this change made the assassination much more likely to succeed.

Of course, the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service did not think that even if it was raised, the success rate would exceed 10%. But these things were meant to be prepared, just like the British people who came to the UK from European countries to study in the UK tried to train British intelligence officers, and the best friend of Isabel, the fiancée of the Portuguese Minister of Commerce and Industry John 61 Farrell, who was killed two days ago, was recruited to the British Secret Intelligence Service when she was studying in the UK.

It was a piece of information from such an intelligence officer that made the puzzle of the political situation of Britain against Portugal complete, and it was determined that the node in this system was John 61 Farrell, the Secretary of State for Commerce and Industry. The decision of the British Secret Intelligence Service proved to be very correct, and in the news from other sources, at the meeting of the Portuguese radicals who were trying to collude with China and annex Brazil, they decided to wait. This group of people did not have the spirit of John 61 Farrell to be out of the way at critical moments.

The British fleet is now just outside Lisbon, and Lisbon is still 12 kilometers away from the coastline, which is just enough distance for British warships to keep firing guns to show the might of the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet. The weak Portuguese would-be king would have acceded to the request of the British, and then the British would not have to worry about what the Portuguese had come up with.

Therefore, the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service sent a telegram to the Japanese intelligence officers, asking them to agitate in Japan to see if the Japanese Meiji government, which had retreated to Kansai, had such intentions.

It was already cold in Japan in November, and Tom, an intelligence officer, wore a suit and went to visit his friends in the Meiji government. Youpeng in Shan County looked a little aggrieved, and he could see that he was in a very bad mood. When he saw Tom, he asked a little tiredly, "Can China really eliminate the United States?" ”

Tom couldn't answer for a moment. The two main backers behind the Meiji government were Britain and the United States, both of which supported Japan for their own interests. China has seized the West Coast of the United States, and trade between Japan and the United States has been completely cut off. Japan no longer has to think about receiving material support from the United States. However, Japan's Meiji government still seems to be very concerned about the United States.

After thinking about it, Tom replied, "Your Excellency, I don't know why you are so concerned about the situation in the United States. ”

Shan Youpeng shook his head helplessly, but did not answer, which made Tom feel very regretful. Some of these high-ranking Japanese officials are actually quite persistent, for example, Aritomo Yamaguchi will not tell a foreigner like Tom about that important information. In this case, Tom had no choice but to give up gathering intelligence and instead focus on lobbying high-ranking Japanese officials.

"Your Excellency, I wonder if there is anyone within the Meiji government who has ever thought of assassinating the Chinese emperor." Tom asked bluntly. The majority of the members of the Meiji government were Assassins or had been involved in murder. This kind of problem has no impact on them at all.

Youpeng didn't feel strange because of this question, he sighed: "We have discussed it many times, and I feel that it is inappropriate to do this. ”

"Why?" Tom asked.

"What's wrong is what's wrong." Yamaguchi Aritomo refused to answer again, and he asked the question in turn, "When will the next batch of ammunition arrive in Kagoshima?" ”