"The British have a lot of ghosts, and since 1878, diplomatic relations between the mainland and Britain have always been lukewarm, and today the British minister has personally stepped forward to contact the imperial government, but for the first time in more than ten years."

Leaving the palace, Hu Yaji and Tang Jingsong sat in a three-wheeled carriage, chatting as they walked.

As early as the end of the Argentine War, the local government returned the assets of many British businessmen in Argentina for the purpose of easing relations between the two sides, and in the three fields of railways, animal husbandry and agriculture, the government also adopted a more enlightened policy, allowing British businessmen to regain a part of the shares as foreign businessmen according to the standard amount of funds.

However, British businessmen were forced to gain control of the local railways, and after the attempt failed, more than seventy percent of the British businessmen were kicked out, and the shares and capital they left behind were taken over by the local government, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. The remaining British businessmen, under the capital competition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland and other countries, have a lower and lower market share in the local market, and they no longer have a dominant influence in Argentina. ”

Hu Yaqi recalled the decline of British capital in the home region, and a smile appeared on his face:

"The empire itself controls the Paraná River and the Uruguay River, two major international waterways, and has more than 17 million citizens who have received primary literacy education, although the average knowledge literacy of the local country name does not meet the national standards of the European powers, but it has a primary industrial system, which can independently produce steel, machinery, lathes, rifles, artillery, machine guns, ammunition and other industrial products, and the comprehensive industrial system covers core industrial fields such as steel smelting, textiles, chemicals, internal combustion engines, and electrical.

The advantages of geographical shipping and the advantages of the industrial market are enough to make the British capital that withdrew early reddened and regretted. ”

"It is not a matter of a day or two for the British to enter the domestic economy and take advantage of the opportunity of the take-off of the local economy."

Tang Jingsong nodded in agreement with Hu Yaji's idea, and echoed: "It's just that because of the Argentine war factor, the British government has scruples and prejudices against the empire, and wants to take advantage of the empire in vain, but is unwilling to give the empire due conditions in terms of ship purchase, dispatch of students, and reciprocity of industrial products.

Just thinking about obtaining, unwilling to make reciprocal concessions, there is such a good thing in the world. ”

"The British have been rampant and domineering in South America for a long time, and they are used to bullying those small countries in South America, and they have not been able to turn around for a while, and they are unwilling to surrender their status and conduct economic transactions with their homeland on an equal footing."

Hu Yaqi speculated on the British mind, and continued: "The British government's change in the South American question is much more sluggish than in the question of the balance of the European continent, in fact, as early as when the mainland shrinks its overseas power and withdraws from the colonial bases in Tanzania, Somalia, and Annam one after another, the British should have seen that the imperial government has no intention of harming Britain's colonial and economic interests.

However, more than ten years later, in the face of the full entry of American capital into South America and the encirclement and expulsion of British capital, the British changed their foreign policy and took the initiative to contact the empire.

The British have made decisions on most international issues in a rational manner and in line with the actual situation, but they have only made deviations and mistakes in the face of the rise of the United States and the layout of South America. ”

"Even though Britain has a huge overseas colony, it is still a small country with an area of no more than 200,000 square kilometers, and it is not surprising that there are differences and differences between the two sides in the analysis and judgment of the international situation." …………

The British took the initiative to seek support from the Han Kingdom, and Hu Yaji and Tang Jingsong had confidence in their hearts, and they were not in a hurry to hurry.

Along the way, he calmly discussed the pros and cons of Britain's foreign policy towards its homeland.

Near noon, British Minister Yarman's mood was not as good as when he first came to the Han Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, and he still had the leisure to observe the customs of the Han Kingdom and recall the past.

For taking the initiative to contact the foreign minister of the Han State, Yarman has an important mission.

The Han native market, and even the Han controlled by the Han state, a unified and intact Paraná River valley, from an economic point of view, was not without benefits to the British.

However, this factor was only in a secondary position during Yarman's trip, and it was the most important matter to unite with the South American Han Kingdom to suppress the arrogant expansion of the United States.

The defeat of the Americans-Canada War in 1812 did not discourage the Americans' ambitions for expansion, but instead inspired the so-called destiny of the United States, and the idea that the United States should unify North America and dominate the world order.

In 1846 the Mexican-American War broke out, and through this war, the United States

It seized 1.9 million square kilometers of land from Mexico, and before the Mexican-American War, the United States wanted to bring Cuba under its jurisdiction long before the Jefferson era.

John. Quincy. Adams made a statement in 1823 saying, "The day will come when Cuba will fall into the hands of Americans like a ripe apple,"

In 1825-1826, he prevented Gran Colombia from liberating the Antilles.

Since then, the United States has offered Spain several times its desire to buy Cuba.

After 1880, the rise of American financial imperialism strengthened the idea of swallowing Cuba.

Annexation always had to find a pretext, and the United States found an excuse to condemn the Spanish colonies and ostensibly sympathize with the brave Cuban people in their struggle to free themselves from Spanish rule.

Behind the scenes, it provided arms and ammunition support to the Cuban rebels.

If it were not for the British government standing on the sidelines to support Spain, the US government, which thought that its national strength far surpassed that of Spain, would not have waited until 1898, as early as 1823, to attack Cuba and turn Cuba into a new state under the name of the United States.

Compared with the United States, the Han State is equivalent to a lion in its infancy, although the country has achieved primary industrialization, but it is far from threatening Britain's maritime hegemony, while the United States is different, the United States has a variety of mineral resources for industrial production, and the sea distance from the European continent is only 3,000 kilometers, at the same time, close to the United States, rich in mineral resources, in the global strategic layout of the British Empire, Canada, which is in a core position with India, has been facing the risk of American aggression.

Canada's role in Britain's global strategic layout is completely different from India's, India has a large population, and the British occupation of the local area is entirely for economic interests, while Canada is run as if it were a local country, and the local population is all white Europeans, and a small number of Chinese workers who have emigrated to the local area have also been repatriated in the anti-Chinese wave a few years ago.

If the situation in South America gets out of control, the worst situation is that Han occupies Paraguay, Chile and even cedes part of the territory of the Republic of Brazil, which will cause some damage to Britain's economic interests in Chile and the Republic of Brazil, but it will not hurt the fundamentals, after all, Chile and Paraguay are not British colonies, and Britain is still the current world hegemon. But it will not be nothing.

However, if the Americans expose their expansionist ambitions and invade Canada, Cuba, and South America by force, not only Canada, the most important autonomous territory, will be unable to protect it, but Britain's economic and political interests in the entire Americas, including North, Central, and South America, will be lost.

From the standpoint of the British, it is easy to understand why the United States has been Britain's first imaginary enemy until the intensification of the Anglo-German conflict in 1900.

After the First World War, Britain suffered from the loss of strength and had to accept the fact that the United States and Britain were on a side-by-side basis, but now in early 1889, German Crown Prince Frederick III was treated in time due to Li Mingyuan's intervention, and recovered well after surgery, and was crowned the second emperor of Germany in 1888.

Frederick III ascended the throne and continued the foreign policy of friendship with Britain under William I, and Britain's authority on the European continent was not provoked, while on the European continent, another country that could threaten British hegemony, the Russian Empire was too busy with internal reforms to make trouble for the British Empire for the time being.

Therefore, after excluding the two European rivals, Britain, which was at its peak, looked around and found that there was only one United States, which clamed out for freedom, equality, and the liberation of the colonial people.

The colonial system is the foundation for maintaining Britain's hegemonic status, and the Americans not only rebelled against the British a hundred years ago and created a republican system that is different from the four differences, but also shouted everywhere to liberate the people of the American colonies after the total industrial output surpassed Britain.

Britain is not afraid of the colonial countries with ambitions, but it is afraid of the saboteurs who want to dismember the colonial system by liberating the colonial people!

In the face of the hostile behavior of the United States with a clear purpose, the British Government had no choice but to change its diplomatic strategy even if it had a military conflict with the Han State in South America, and instead chose to support the Han State to a certain extent, using the Han State as the most important chess piece in the Americas to contain the ambitions of the United States.

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