Chapter 214: Sino-British Contradictions (11)
"We want to get permission to lease land, prospect for minerals, and develop plantations in the Dutch East Indies. I don't know if the British side will support our view. After Zuo Zhidan signed the secret treaty with the British, new negotiations began.
"I'm just an ambassador to China, and I'm not in charge of the Dutch East Indies." The British ambassador immediately started tai chi and used the procrastination technique.
Zuo Zhidan was not moved by this excuse at all, and he continued to ask: "Then I want to ask if London will agree to our request as far as your opinion is concerned." â
Seeing that Zuo Zhidan's attitude was so serious, the British ambassador also understood that Zuo Zhidan and the Chinese Zheng Mansion represented by Zuo Zhidan did not look like a joke, and he said slowly: "This is a problem between you and the Dutch East India authorities, why do you want to ask us about this matter from the British side." â
"The Dutch East Indies are your English dogs." Zuo Zhidan was too lazy to say a bunch of, he showed his attitude to the British straight away.
Hearing Zuo Zhidan's description so vividly, the British ambassador smiled. The smile was complete pride and confidence, and it was too apt to describe the relationship between the Dutch East Indies and the British in a dog, and the Dutch could not have occupied such a large territory without the permission of the British.
Zuo Zhidanjian continued: "We have a saying in China, worship the Buddha and worship the temple, if the British do not agree, we will always get twice the result with half the effort. â
These words are all in Chinese-style English, such as "giveyousomecolortosee", which is simply translated as "give you some color", and the British did not understand the meaning of this at first, but later got used to it and got much better. The same is true of "doublework, halffinding", and the British have to use their brains to understand the meaning of "doing more with less".
"Even if we say yes, the Dutch may not agree." The British ambassador was still very diplomatic.
"We respect British influence in the Dutch East Indies, if it is a Sino-British joint company. I don't think the Dutch side has a reason to refuse. Zuo Zhidan expressed China's respect for British influence. Although at this time, he was actually scolding "FYM" in his heart.
"What if we agree, but the Dutch East Indies don't?" The British cleverly came up with a bottom line.
"At that time we had a way to get the Dutch East Indies to agree to this." Zuo Zhidan replied with the unique language of the great powers of this era. It's one thing to have one's own territory, it's another thing to colonize one's own country. The means of solving the problem in the colonies by the great powers were very straightforward, and they talked about it when they could talk about it, and they fought if they couldn't talk about it. As long as the stakes are big enough, a war is never a problem.
The British ambassador's face changed when he landed, "We do not accept any military attack on the Dutch East Indies. â
Zuo Zhidan did not flinch because of this, he stared at the British ambassador and said: "We have no intention of attacking the Dutch East Indies, but we do not think that the Dutch East Indies need to refuse our reasonable business demands. On this matter, we hope to be able to reach an agreement with the UK. â
It is clear that the British did not want to agree with China on this matter. Zuo Zhidan did not receive any statement from the British ambassador, and of course, he did not expect the British to cooperate with China with joy. The news soon reached the Governor of Singapore, and along the British communication system, the news was moving fast towards London.
In London, Uncle Ma put down the Times Daily, and in his big flat-roofed mansion, Uncle Ma's children were playing with Yanni. Beautiful furniture, large rooms, and the embarrassment of arriving in England as if it had never happened. The British island nation at the western end of the Eurasian continent was financed by the young Chinese emperor at the eastern end of the Eurasian continent. He had the middle-class life he now had, and he could have a comfortable place to live opposite the Great Library in London, so that he could concentrate on writing and writing.
It is said that the Chinese emperor did not talk about the divine authority of the monarch or long live the emperor, but built the new empire with the understanding that the fundamental driving force for social development was the productive forces. As an emperor, he is also the leader of the party, and he uses a new concept to frame the future of China. From the development of the productive forces and the emancipation of the productive forces as the governing philosophy and policy, the revolutionary nature of this emperor, especially the practice of promoting the revolution, can only be regarded as the first existence on the whole earth.
This emperor was not a simple doer, and looking at his incisive exposition of the feudal system and the capitalist system, it is hard to imagine that this man was born in an agrarian country. However, Uncle Ma's jealousy of Emperor Wei Ze became stronger and stronger, and historical materialism should first be materialistic. The emperor's article tells the story of the Chinese "Kong Rong let the pear", and Wei Ze thought that the reason for the pear was that Kong Rong didn't want to eat it at that time, and then found a reasonable reason for others. In later generations, those who wanted to eat pears but could not afford to eat them turned the consequences into causes, and used these reasons to prove that they were the ones who deserved to eat the most, and that others had to willingly give them pears to eat.
Emperor Wei Ze is creating a result and has already begun to create a result, how many people who only hope to get that result will interpret the result in their favor, and then "create a zĂ o" to come up with a theory they desire. As the emperor Wei Ze wrote in a sarcastic tone, "It is not them who are wrong, it is the world that is wrong!" That's what these people think about with that fact.
Of course, those people are still relatively high-end. In European countries, especially many countries represented by Spain, they have begun to attack China with ethnography. They preach that white people are the best race in the world, the race that should rule the world. All other races, including the Chinese, are inferior. These Godless guys are damned heretics, and they are all beings who must be destroyed.
This era is no longer the era of Catholicism, and the influence of ethnography is difficult to say for the time being, but the influence of religion has not played a role in Europe. At least there were a lot of articles in the newspapers about advocating Caucasian supremacy, but there was no crusade against the pagans in China.
Uncle Ma finally felt that he had to give Wei Ze a reminder even morally, so he wrote a letter about Uncle Ma's cognition. ââŚâŚ The struggles in the colonies of the world will return to this small part of Europe. For the European colonial powers, no matter how far away the colonies were from the mainland, all the discussions that decided the fate of that land had to be done on European soil! âŚâŚâ
While Uncle Ma was writing to Wei Ze, Wei Ze was discussing the matter of China's railway network with the personnel of the Ministry of Railways. The most important railways are undoubtedly the two main lines of Beijing, Guangzhou and Longhai, and China does not have the capacity to build highways now.
Weeser understood the attitude of the British. It was the countries that let go of the fight according to their own interests, and the "League of Nations" emerged after the brutal First World War. The League of Nations didn't work, and the United Nations came after the more brutal World War II. In this era, only iron and blood were the decisive events, and what China needs now is iron and blood. That's the important work of the moment.