Chapter 461: The Death of South Africa (8)
"First of all, I laughed at Lloyd?? Councillor George wore a skirt because I didn't think he had the manhood and the courage to be willing to shed blood for the war. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoSecondly, I ridiculed him for his enthusiasm for lashing out at the pavilion, accusing him of taking a completely submissive approach to foreign countries, or to China. These statements are public, and you can see them if you look at the minutes. Fabian of the Conservative Party spoke loudly in Parliament about his experience.
The weaker Liberal MPs looked at him with contempt and mockery, while the Conservative MPs, who had a majority, remained silent to allow the MP to speak smoothly.
"Some people say that I created the rumor, or that I am the source of the rumor. This rumor refers to Lloyd's?? Councillor George is a man who likes to wear women's clothes to the flogging hall...... Special hobby. This! Just! Be! Rumor! Speech! It is the result of a distorted adaptation of what I have publicly and clearly stated. I've never said anything like that, and if someone in their right mind had listened to my speech, or read the transcript of it, they would never have produced that result! So, I admit what I said, but I will never admit that I am spreading rumors! The Fabian MP spoke eloquently, and the Conservative MPs burst into applause immediately after the presentation.
Liberal MPs not only did not applaud, but also booed in protest. Of course, the Fabian parliamentarians don't care about the attitude of the Liberal Party at all. The Parliament was tossed like a sheep, and the opposition parties naturally wanted to do the work of the Conservative Party, and the mood of those Conservative MPs who served as administrative officials in various departments was generally depressed. The Empress of India reacted strongly to Britain's plight, demanding that Britain unite within the country against foreign enemies.
The East African administrative region is probably a colonial concept in China, even though the colony is a few million square kilometers, which is larger than Russia's current territory. But this land is nothing compared to the mainland of the Republic of China. Seeing that the Minguo Dynasty, which has a land area of more than 40 million square kilometers, is completely unified under one government.
Britain could not verify whether it was united under the rule of the Romans, and that era had collapsed. From the beginning of the collapse of Roman rule in England to the Norman Conquest, the British Isles of Gadda remained ununited. From the Norman conquest to the present, the British Isles themselves have not been able to unify. Compared with China's biggest rival at the moment, the British upper echelons themselves feel that British politics is ridiculous. For thousands of years, there are three countries on 300,000 square kilometers of land. Had it not been for the Norman Conquest when they killed all the Welsh bards, Wales would probably be a completely independent country by now.
Use such divided feudalism to confront China's great unification, and use 40 million English and Scottish people against 800 million Chinese. Likewise British cabinet members felt that there was no chance of victory. Over the past few decades, such a view has become more and more marketable in the United Kingdom, especially now that the United States, with a population of 60 million, has been brutally slaughtered by China, and Britain's pessimistic attitude is particularly marketable.
The deal proposed by His Royal Highness in South Africa not only means that Britain will admit it, but what makes the Conservative Party feel even more embarrassed is the meaning of it. At least the Liberals interpret it as 'Britain is no longer able to encircle its borders at sea and on land on its own'. If such an attitude becomes a national policy, Britain must bow its head and make overtures to China and obediently surrender its hegemony. This is something that must not be acceptable to British Conservative MPs.
"Now we will begin to discuss the good-neighbourly agreement between the colony of Cape Town and the administrative region of East Africa." The Speaker of the House of Representatives reads the latest schedule for today. As soon as he finished speaking, Liberal MPs began to applaud and Conservative MPs booed. For several days, Conservative MPs have not only tried to delay the discussion of the bill, but have also made a lot of negative announcements beforehand, trying to make the bill spurned by the public and the upper echelons before it is discussed. However, judging from the current situation, the Indian Empress clearly expressed her attitude towards British affairs. Many people interpret the meaning of the Indian empress as 'support for peace'.
The content of the bill is not long, and after reading it, the gunners of the Liberal Party jumped up directly, and Lloyd's, who is called 'love to wear a skirt to receive whipping'?? George was the first to speak.
"We have spent more than £100 million on this war, which is 750 tonnes of gold. If it continues, at a time when more than 200 million pounds are spent, that is, 1,500 tons of gold, what reason are the Conservatives prepared to use as a pretext for you to end the war! Or maybe all the Conservatives are looking forward to is a big war with the Chinese, and the end result is that we have hundreds of thousands of elite troops killed and wounded. Then the European countries took advantage of the decline of our British Empire to adjust their European strategy. What did we use to organize a new army at that time? Therefore, we Liberals insist on peace not because of timidity, but because we believe that peace is the best option for the British Empire! ”
There is no previous ridicule, no previous strong and stimulating rhetoric. Lloyd?? George's speech was rational and mild. Although the attitude is clear, it will not get to the point where the Conservative Party cannot step down. Of course, the Conservatives' feelings are that this young Lloyd's ?? Leg. George is making full use of military spending to put pressure on the expedition.
In Lloyd's?? After George's speech, Liberal MPs expressed their opinions. All opinions are to have peace and not war, and war will only make European countries see clearly what style and color British underwear is, and at that time, European countries with bad intentions will probably do something to Britain, and even pounce on it.
Generally speaking, the British Liberal Party does not have a particularly close relationship with the military, and the Liberal Party does not have particularly military-savvy talents. On weekdays, most of the military-related issues are a place for the Conservative Party to play to its heart's content. The situation is now reversed, and the British Liberals have made ample comments on military issues, and their comments are even quite right. The Tories were unable to answer the Liberals' accusations of 'how much and at what cost they were prepared to lose the war'.
After the Liberal MPs spoke, the Liberal leader finally gave his life. The old man's voice was very low, "Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't adopt any assumptions, but use facts to prove that our all-out war with China will be won, I, the old man, don't care about joining the army, let alone dying on the front line. Defeating China means that Britain will be able to dominate the world for the next thousand years. It is a goal for which all Britons have fought and shed their blood and sacrificed. However, if you can't prove it, then let's choose to keep peace with China. We in the Liberal Party do not believe that there is eternal peace, but peace needs to be maintained. If I don't believe in peace from the beginning, then there is no peace. How can an idea that you don't believe in convincing the other party. Therefore, we in the Liberal Party support the agreement between the colony of Cape Town and the administrative region of East Africa. If this peace can be maintained, the situation in the South Atlantic will be beneficial to Britain, or at least not collapse. ”
Conservative MPs immediately rose up and began to speak, and the content of the speech was what the Liberal leader said, and they did not believe that peace could be maintained with China. It is precisely because the leader of the Liberal Party has spoken to the front that whenever Conservative MPs talk about how unreliable China is, it always triggers a burst of laughter and boos from Liberal MPs.
As the discussion progressed, the focus of the British Parliament became clearer. The Conservatives do not believe in China, the Liberals believe in being able to keep the peace. Such a clear distinction is rare in the historic British Parliament. In the past, the sharp confrontation between parliaments was actually more about issue manipulation, but this time the two sides already had a clear attitude before manipulating the issue.
Before the final vote, the numerically disadvantaged Liberal Party was not discouraged in the slightest. In their own chamber, Liberal MPs felt it was a victory.
"Those Conservatives are probably not going to fight to the end. If this agreement had not been passed, I think their insistence on war would probably not have been sustained. "Lloyd's who spoke?? George was confident. The Liberals largely support such optimism.
In the Conservative Chambers opposite, the Conservatives frantically asked MPs to find out their support for the war. What kind of price to pay will make these people lose confidence, this is the key choice question. For the Liberal Party's step-by-step pressing, the Conservative Party really felt that it was beginning to be unbearable. Because the Conservatives themselves have lost confidence in victory, China has been fighting in the United States for two years, and the war the following year was particularly brutal. The northern part of the United States is slightly better, and China retreats from New York to the important point of Pittsburgh before heavy snowfall. In the southern United States, about two million Liberation Army wreaked havoc on the southern plains, and only a few coastal cities in the south, such as New Orleans, relied on the U.S. Navy and sea transportation for maintenance.
At the time of the launch of the Southern African War, many British parliamentarians were optimistic that Britain could completely wipe out southern Africa within a few months, while the Chinese army was locked in a war of attrition with tens of millions of Americans. Now that Britain's victory is far away, China is about to brutally wash the entire United States in blood. Britain did not maintain the retirement system of the army until such a brutal and bloody war. In other words, the Chinese army that has experienced the war is fighting more and more. By the end of the war, China had about 8 million war-hardened soldiers. No one wants to fight with an army of this size.
The more the Conservative MPs were investigated, the more disappointed the Conservative leaders became. Faced with no prospect of victory, Conservative MPs appear to be very conservative. While they are not as opposed to the war as the Liberals, Conservative MPs do not see the need to devote more resources to southern Africa, and they want to be able to avoid losing profits.
Now the leader of the Conservative Party scolded in his heart, if this group of Conservatives had such an attitude. Then the agreement between the Cape Town Colony and the East African Administrative Region met these requirements almost perfectly. What the East African Administrative Region wanted was the independence of the Boer kingdom and China's absolute control and ownership of the Rand Gold Mine. The British, on the other hand, were given Boer lands and ownership of the Kimberley mines. By the time Britain gave up the fight for the Rand gold mines, the dawn of peace had already illuminated southern Africa.
The next day's vote was just as the Conservative leader had thought, and Parliament overwhelmingly passed the bill. At the request of the Liberal Party, a supplementary clause to the peace talks was even passed, which was immediately set up to run the office. Much to the annoyance of the Conservatives, the Liberals gave three of the nine seats in this operating office, they asked for three, and the other three were neutral MPs.
This seems to be fair, but the Conservatives do not agree with it in the slightest. The so-called neutral MPs all supported the position of the Liberal Party, and the Conservative Party was at an absolute disadvantage the moment the office was formed. Rather than that, it would be better not to let the Conservatives participate. At least what happened after that has nothing to do with the Conservatives.
At the first meeting of the establishment of the office, Lloyd's?? George was the first to speak, "Gentlemen, the Boers have caused us great trouble. Now leave all the trouble of the Boers to the Chinese. By supporting the Boers with weapons, ammunition and food, we can also support the Boers in the same way. ”
If not well aware of Lloyd's?? George's position, the Conservative Fabian MPs almost thought Lloyd's?? George is a senior MP for the Conservative Party. This kind of disposal can be said to be the essence of the British Empire's-stirring stick. There are only eternal interests, and there are no eternal enemies. It was on this that the British Empire was able to stir up the whole of Europe.
Recently, Britain has given a lot of support to the United States, and the purpose is the same as the future probability of supporting the Boers, hoping to make the weak kill the Chinese who are strong. It's just that the Americans are more rubbish than Britain thinks, and they simply can't do great harm to China.
Three neutral parliamentarians were puzzled by the question, and one of them asked: "Won't the Boers surrender to China?" ”
The Fabian MP of the Conservative Party immediately replied: "The bottom line of the Boers is to suppress the blacks in southern Africa, and we are more similar to China in that we both want to take advantage of the blacks in southern Africa." I don't think the Chinese will change their position for the sake of the Boers, who would rather die than accept blacks, even if blacks are theoretically equal to them. ”
At the time of the Fabian Councillor's stop, Lloyd's?? Rep. George continued with Councillor Fabian's words, "What the Boers want is a completely independent state, and what they need is control of the Rand gold mines. The Chinese have reluctantly accepted these things before, but they are limited to the situation. Now the Chinese will not accept such conditions. The Boers will probably be exterminated. ”
Fabian MP didn't expect Lloyd's?? George looked at the problem so viciously. However, at the mention of the extermination of the Boers, the Fabian Councillor was overjoyed. If it weren't for the stubbornness of these Dutch descendants, Britain would have solved the southern African problem long ago, where would it be the turn of the Chinese to intervene so deeply here. Even after such a long time, the Fabian Councillors were still very happy to see the Boers suffer their own evil.
The Liberals, the Conservatives, and the Centrists knew that the agreement between the Cape Town colony and the East African administrative region would lead to the destruction of the Boers, but none of them objected to it. In order to avoid trouble, the discussion on this is not documented. Implementation is recorded only on the basis of a peaceful position. It can be seen that the Fabian councillors were very happy to be able to completely kill the Boers.
His Royal Highness of Great Britain, who was in South Africa, sent a telegram to London, and ten days had passed by the time he received the news from London. Half a month had passed since he contacted the Chinese side and rushed to Nanzhan City again. To His Royal Highness's surprise, China's second prince, Wei Kun, was still in Nanzhan City.
Wei Kun didn't expect to meet this guy who he didn't like very much, and there was a kind of performance between His Highness's gestures that made Wei Kun feel very contrived. It is said that this is the so-called 'British royal style', which is the secret craft of the British royal family. Wei Kun is not a person who has no tutor and is not polite, but his tutor is against hypocrisy. Weeser thinks pretentiousness is worse than ridiculous behavior.
Therefore, Wei Kun did not see the British Highness, and he continued to work in Nanzhan City. Weeser had long believed that blacks in Tanzania were very obedient and malleable. Wekhun hopes to be able to recruit troops from Tanzania to balance the local tribes on Sudan's side. Centralization may have to cooperate with purely local forces such as tribes at some stage, but in the long run, centralization will inevitably continue to suppress this kind of land snake, or even completely eliminate this land snake. A large part of the reason for the existence of the ground snakes is that they are 'irreplaceable' at some stage. Mixing sand and engaging in substitution is the most traditional means.
There are many, many blacks in Nanzhan City, or the local people are basically black. After contacting and talking with these people, Wei Kun found that the biggest advantage of Nanzhan City to attract these black brothers is that there is delicious food. The only purpose of the work of these blacks is to eat, especially sweets.
At the meetings of the various workplaces, all the unit management departments complained, "As soon as they are paid, these blacks will immediately buy all the money into wine and food." Then I don't come to work, I just eat and drink to my heart's content! It's completely muddy and can't hold up the wall. If it weren't for the fact that there was no one to do the work, it was really unwilling to hire black people to do the work. Unorganized and undisciplined, lazy to the extreme. ”
Wei Kun was just secretly happy after listening to it, this problem is not only in Tanzania, but also in Sudan. It is not the fault of the black brothers to expect that a group of black brothers who have not even been able to bury themselves in an agrarian society have the Chinese level of thousands of years of agricultural civilization, but the fault of having such an idea.
"No wonder the Americans want to engage in slavery." Wei Kun just muttered. The reason why he couldn't understand it was entirely because he didn't have enough knowledge and saw the characteristics of the Black Brothers, and Wei Kun already understood the reason for slavery. And he had really considered a full-blown slavery system in the East African administrative region.
"Secretary Wei, what did you say?" The participants did not hear Wei Kun's muttering clearly.
Wei Kun shook his head, "It's nothing. I instituted a tribal system of tribal tribute of boys and girls in Sudan. Although we don't know how it turned out yet, we can talk about it. ”
"Oh? Raised from an early age? "The attendees were a little energetic.
Wei Kun nodded, "I have listened to the words of my comrades, and now I feel that it is necessary to consider the implementation of a forced labor system not only for children from an early age, but also for adults." Let's talk about it. ”