"China is a protectionist country, we must let China end protectionism", such a headline appeared in The Times, and I believe that the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom smelled something ominous.

After Li Xin became minister of foreign affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs underwent a comprehensive reshuffle. First of all, all the ambassadors to Europe and the United States will be replaced. At the meeting, Li Xin praised the efforts of former Foreign Minister Comrade Zuo Zhidan in opening up diplomatic work and fields, and then put all these ambassadors on the important post of collecting and sorting out information. Personnel transferred from the Ministry of Commerce are sent to various countries as ambassadors after some training. Of course, the Ministry of Commerce has also transferred a number of personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work in the Ministry of Commerce.

In the new work plan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, diplomacy and commerce must be closely integrated, and China's diplomacy must act as a pioneer for China's business. If it is still the thinking of Zuo Zhidan's era, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is just a mouthpiece, then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can definitely cut more than half of the manpower. Spread the word where so many people are needed.

The new Chinese ambassador to the UK was a key member of the European Department of the former Ministry of Commerce, and after reading the news from the British Times, the ambassador clearly felt quite a lot of pressure. The surest means of interfering in another country's commercial policy is war. For example, China's control of Vietnam was not based on holiness, but on the French military campaign to try to open the passage from the Red River to China's Yunnan-Guizhou region.

Nervousness is nervousness, and the Chinese ambassador to the UK is not afraid. China's domestic desire to control the Western Pacific by forceful means has never stopped, and the problem now is only China's lack of strength, not that China does not dare to fight the British. In order to find out as much as possible about Britain's attitude, the Chinese ambassador to Britain began to mobilize forces to find the source of this claim.

The efforts to make the inquiry were fruitless, and the Times could not have divulged its own sources. Not to mention facing the Chinese, even facing the British government, the attitude of the Times is the same. But The Times seized the opportunity to interview the Chinese ambassador to the UK. The Chinese ambassador weighed it up and finally agreed to be interviewed by The Times.

There is a lot of content in the interview, including China's diplomatic relations, and many things about China. The Chinese ambassador answered the Times interview as seriously as possible. Three days later, The Times reported on the interview. The title was "The Successor of the Great French Rebellion - China!" The subtitle uses a rather sensational phrase: "93 years again!" The Girondists 80 years later! ”

Prior to this, people in Europe who did not have a particularly bad feeling towards China liked to describe Weeser as the Napoleon of the East. Napoleon took advantage of the Directory and finally climbed to the throne of the emperor. Wei Ze split from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and eventually became emperor. This is a relatively mainstream view of Weeser by Europeans.

But after listening to the introduction of the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom by trusting China, the Times woke up first. Where is Wei Ze an emperor, this guy just deducted the title of emperor for himself. In fact, Wei Ze's real position is the chairman of the Liberation Party, the chairman of the Military Commission of the Liberation Army, and the president of the Republic of China. The honorary title of the suffix is "Comrade Emperor Wei Ze". China has only the electoral system of various republics, and there is no legal provision for the right of royal succession.

The only way to compare China's current policy with Weeser is the Girondists during the French Revolution. During the Girondists' reign, decrees were issued to force the nobles to return illegally occupied public land, to lease or sell confiscated church land to peasants in small plots, and to crack down on clergy and fugitive nobles who refused to take an oath to the Constitution. On January 21, 1793, the National Convention executed Louis XVI on charges of treason.

Wei Ze executed a large number of the upper echelons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty after trial, and in fact the upper echelons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were killed. China's central government implemented strict nationalization of land, and all peasants were given land, even though the land was rented from the state. Europe and the United States have long been well aware of China's attitude towards European religions, and the Chinese government does not accept any foreign missionary requests. During the French Revolution, the slaughter of nobles and clergy was extremely ferocious. It has the meaning of killing them all.

As soon as this report came out, it immediately caused a great sensation in Britain. The British upper echelons know this, but that's not where they care. What Britain demanded was that China open its market to Britain, and that the problem of opening the market was solved, and that British businessmen were not harassed in China, and that was enough. China is nominally an empire, but in essence it is a republic, which has a Mao relationship with the British. China has no intention of promoting a republic everywhere.

A small group of people in the upper echelons of Britain know the Chinese system as it is, but the whole of Britain knows very little about China. Seeing that this eastern country was actually a republic, the entire British intellectual class boiled.

The earliest republic in Europe was the Netherlands. In 1795 the Netherlands was occupied by France, and in 1806 Napoleon's brother became king, and the Netherlands was crowned a kingdom. It was incorporated into France in 1810. In 1814 it seceded from France, and the following year the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg formed the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830). In 1848 the Netherlands became a constitutional monarchy.

One republic has been transformed into a monarchy, while the First French Republic, which once shook Europe, has long since disappeared. The Second French Republic barely lasted from 1848 to 1852, and then became the Second French Empire amid earth-shaking cheers. If it weren't for Napoleon III's reckless launch of the Franco-Prussian War, I am afraid that the Second French Empire would still maintain its position as the land hegemon of Europe.

The emergence of the French Third Republic in 1870 was not well received by the whole of Europe from the beginning of its existence, and thanks to China, the first president of the French Third Republic, Thiers, had just been ousted.

Thiers, a self-proclaimed "royalist", also wanted to restore the monarchy, but feared that the imposition of the king on the French people might provoke the French proletariat to rise up again for revolution. He had to admit that the conditions were not yet ripe for the restoration of the imperial system at that time. Thiers advocated the establishment of a republican form of government that would maintain reactionary content. He proposed that "a republic is either a conservative republic or no republic at all." This angered the Republicans in Congress. Even the royalists believed that Thiers was no longer up to the post he held.

Just as the military operation against Vietnam ordered by Thiers failed, the news reached Paris, and the government was unanimous and forced the president to step down.

The royalist party in France was still strong, and all of Europe was opposed to the republican system. Far away China turned out to be a republic in the garb of an empire, and the British intelligentsia was shocked at first, and then they all became noisy.

The first to fire were the conservatives, who were convinced that the monarchy was the best system, and who counted the fate of the republican states of Europe - all of them were wiped out by the monarchies. The republican system will inevitably lead to the weakening of the state, and even if it is a momentary power, it is a return to the light. And then it's over. These people denounced the wickedness of China's Weize regime and cursed its rapid demise.

The conservatives are still acting well, coupled with the commercial contradictions between China and the United Kingdom, under the encouragement of the conservatives, many unemployed people ran to the front of the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom to protest, while shouting "Chinese get out!" "Republican untouchables get out!" "Get out of here!" He also threw stones at the Chinese Embassy in the UK.

Scholars who have a more moderate stance only expressed their surprise at how China, a large monarchy in the East, could be bewitched by republicanism and implement a republican system. They put forward a variety of views, and the more dominant of these people was that Weeser was merely a dictator, not a true republican.

There were minorities everywhere, and after conservatives and centrists spoke one after another, the socialists finally happened. In England, there were very few newspapers that the socialists could influence, and it took a lot of preparation and preparation. In December 1873, all the more socialist-oriented newspapers jointly published an article entitled "China! Utopia is coming! 》

Not only were newspapers, but the article was printed as leaflets and distributed in workers' quarters in every major city in England.

The article sang the praises of the Chinese revolution and the government of the Republic of China with enthusiastic writing. Land is state-owned, the state controls the economic lifeline through state-owned enterprises, compulsory education, vocational education, post-work re-education of workers. The state provides housing, the state fights usury, and the people's army undertakes the obligation of disaster relief. Men and women are equal, and everyone has the right to vote.

The writer was a representative of the Comintern who had recently returned to China, and they tried to go to China to apply for funds from the Chinese Emperor Weeser to return to Europe for a communist movement. Weeser rejected this request mercilessly, not because Weeser was completely uninterested in the European communist movement, but because Weeser believed that the current European communists were not investable. Give them a little money, and Weser sent them away.

But these people did not give up, and they wandered around China, trying to find supporters interested in the communist system. None of the supporters were found, but the gang was horrified by China's current system.

Running back to Europe with great excitement, they were just in time for the great British critique of the Chinese system. These people sang the praises of the great China without aristocrats, feudal landlords, and cannibalistic capitalists with great enthusiasm. At the end of the article, the writer shouted, "The establishment of the Republic of China has proved that utopia is viable, and compared with the Paris Commune, China has gone further and is more successful!" The rudiments of the kingdom of heaven on earth have appeared, and now we should stop thinking about the blueprint for the great future of mankind, all we need to do now is to replicate China in Europe! On the day when victory is achieved, the door of all European governments will be engraved with a phrase to serve the working people wholeheartedly! The cheers of all European countries at the celebration will be, long live the working people!! ”

The Chinese ambassador to Britain put down the leaflet he had read in his hand, closed his eyes tiredly, rubbed his fingers on his temples and was silent for a long time. The flyer was captioned "How China Can Avoid an Economic Crisis Through Institutions!" When the ambassador was interviewed by The Times, he just wanted to expand China's popularity in the UK and publicize the real situation in China. It was not the ambassador's intention to stir up the class struggle.

The younger wave of Chinese officials actively or passively accepted the anti-feudal stance, but none of them had the consciousness of the proletarians of the world uniting. Everyone also sang "Song of the Chinese Revolution", singing "The old world is falling, and the slaves are getting up!" "But that was the destruction of the old feudal world of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Liberation Party and the Liberation Army led the Chinese working people to turn over and become masters. The revolution is completely a Chinese affair, and has a Mao relationship with foreign devils?

Now the situation is out of control, and the outside of the Chinese embassy and consulate, which are usually deserted, is like a busy city. Reporters and people from all walks of life blocked the door, desperately handing out business cards to Chinese diplomats through various channels, hoping to meet Chinese diplomats, talk to Chinese diplomats face to face, and determine whether the sensational news was true or false.

During this time, even the chef of the embassy's logistics department did not dare to go out to purchase, and was tightly surrounded by hundreds of people, and the situation of gossiping and asking was too terrifying. The chef doesn't know much English, and most of the little English he doesn't know is dedicated to buying ingredients. The chef's heart was bluffed, and he felt that something was wrong.

As long as they see a guy who looks like a Chinese face, the British will go up and ask. Chinese diplomats have kept a low profile, and the Chinese students have been besieged from all sides. The economic crisis has caused a large number of people to have leisure, and after losing their jobs, they will naturally be free. Chinese students come from the grassroots level, and even if they have a limited understanding of the political system, they are familiar with grassroots life. They simply recounted the grassroots situation that they had personally experienced, and the British were in an uproar.

The leaflet "How China Can Avoid an Economic Crisis Through Institutions" enthusiastically eulogizes China's heavy industry, and the article describes the Chinese state's sale of iron tools to farmers at low prices and free training in agricultural technology. The unified purchase and sale of grain under the state ownership of land has not only ensured the stable supply price of grain for the whole people, but also provided a stable market for the products of the iron and steel industry.

Now that the steel industry of heavy industry in the UK has been hit hard by the economic crisis, the leaflet has sparked a strong reaction among workers in the steel industry. Even the owners of the small steel mills have expressed a certain degree of support for this. The biggest concern for the owners of small steel mills is that there is no market, and the British countryside is not to the point where there is no need for steel products at all, and in the eyes of the owners of small steel mills, what Britain lacks is a government that can directly manage the needs of the bottom like China. If the government can determine the sales channels through operations, the domestic demand in the UK will not be large at all!