With a "thump", a French cruiser crashed straight into the middle of the British cruiser Berkshire. Fortunately, the cruisers of the French Navy did not ram into horns, otherwise the Berkshire would have been finished immediately. But in this way, the cruiser Berkshire was also not lightly injured. A large hole was made in the side of the ship, but fortunately it did not tear below the waterline, and the bridge was torn off.

Another British cruiser was also in the midst of a collision with another French cruiser, but it quickly turned its rudder to avoid the impact.

But with such a turn, the course was naturally awayed, and the French merchant ships sailed smoothly into the port of Carroll.

The incident of the French warship ramming and damaging the British warship naturally brought some diplomatic turmoil. After receiving the news, both the British Foreign Office and the French Foreign Office summoned each other's ambassadors and lodged solemn protests with each other.

The British summoned the French ambassador to lodge a serious protest against the French navy's brutal ramming of a British naval ship, demanding that the French government apologize to Britain, punish those responsible, compensate for losses, and promise to restrain the navy and not create such incidents again.

At about the same time, French Foreign Minister Talleyrand also summoned the British ambassador to protest to the British Government against the British Navy's unprofessional and barbaric act of wantonly interfering with the freedom of navigation of the French Navy and intercepting and ramming French warships. On behalf of the French government, Talleyrand demanded that the British government apologize to France, undertake the relevant responsible personnel, compensate France for its losses, and assure France that they would respect France's right to freedom of navigation.

The diplomatic negotiations between the two sides were basically each other's words, and when everyone had finished speaking, the British began to send reinforcements to Ireland and instructed the British troops in Ireland to go on the defensive. As for the French, naturally, they seized the time to sail freely. As a result, the Irish Independence Army, which had suffered even greater losses, became active again.

As a result, the supplies and troops that were originally going to be sent to North America were intercepted and temporarily transferred to Ireland.

Of course, the impact of this incident is not only that. First of all, after this matter spread, the British people have more taste of paper tigers in everyone's hearts. Since the French can touch the ass of this paper tiger, and the Americans can touch it, why can't Lao Tzu touch it?

So the old enemies of the British, the Dutch people, also moved.

In 1795, taking advantage of the European continent to become a mess, the British seized the Dutch colony in Cape Town. The Dutch were powerless to resist at the time, so they had to admit it. Later, after the peace in Europe, the Dutch demanded more than once that the British should return their colony in Cape Town. Of course, to this, the British said: "Who cares about you? ”

This is also normal, as Cape Town controls one of the most important shipping routes today – the route from Europe to the East. For a worldwide colonial power, the strategic position of this colony cannot be overstated. So now that this colony is already in hand, how can it be returned?

However, the British colonization of Cape Town was not successful, because the British could not invest too much manpower in Cape Town because of various European matters. So in Cape Town, apart from the indigenous blacks, most of the rest of the people were Dutch. These people were originally in Cape Town, far away from the wars in Europe, and when they had nothing to do, they would bully and bully blacks and get some black slaves to work. From time to time, collect some money from those passing merchants to buy roads, ah, it should be berth fees, and then sell supplies at a high price to make a profit. In short, it's the hot pot that I eat, singing, and I don't know how comfortable it is.

But who knew that such a good life was jealous of the bad guys, and suddenly a group of British people came out of nowhere and robbed the port of Cape Town.

Although the British did not bully the Dutch too hard, they only took the authority to collect tolls for themselves. As for the Dutch people, they can still bully and bully the black Africans, and they can still practice their slavery, which is no longer in the civilized countries of Europe. On the whole, these Dutch people are actually doing well. Compared to other places, the British are also benevolent in Cape Town.

However, in order to be effective, there must be a process of "benevolence and righteousness" before doing so. This thing is still the investment strategy of Master Lu: "If there is a kind of violence, 'improperly treating people', not only is it not a person, but it is not as good as cattle and horses, it is nothing; when people envy cattle and horses, and there is a sigh of "chaotic separation from people, not as good as Taiping dogs", and then give him a price slightly equal to that of cattle and horses, just like the law of the Yuan Dynasty, kill other people's slaves and pay a cow, then people should be happy and convinced, and praise the prosperity of Taiping." Why? For though he is not a man, he is equal to a cow or a horse. ”

Even the Confucian master Mencius, when he and His Majesty the King of Liang argued the feasibility of practicing benevolent government, the first evidence that proved the extremely high feasibility of practicing benevolent government was that "there is not a single king today who does not like to kill." In other words, the kings have completed the preparatory work of "treating people as men", and now you can gain the support of the people as long as you declare that "you are equal to cattle and horses".

The British did not have this process of "'treating people inappropriately', not only not as good as people, but also as cattle and horses, and as nothing", but directly gave a "slightly equal price to cattle and horses". In this way, it is strange that those people can have no resentment.

It is true that the British left a lot of things to those Dutch people. If the previous rulers here had not been Dutch, but black Africans, those rights would not have been left to them at all. But the Dutch immigrants in Cape Town did not feel that they were being given preferential treatment, they only knew that many of the benefits that had been ours had been taken away by the British.

In this way, these Dutch people are naturally full of hatred for the British. It's just that considering that the Dutch were hung and beaten by the British, not once or twice. (Although there were occasional occasions when the Dutch overpowered the British in the process, they were eventually beaten by the British.) Just a Dutch immigrant from the Cape Town area really didn't dare to deal directly with the British.

But now, with the glorious example of North America and Ireland, especially this time, the French openly played bumper boats with the British, but the British did not dare to open fire. This guy, the British are paper tigers, and almost immediately became known to everyone. So even the Dutch people had the idea of recovering the lost territory. Of course, Cape Town is far away, and Dutch immigrants there don't know about it, but the Netherlands is already helping them prepare in advance.