"Your Highness, this is a godsend!"

Seeing that public opinion continued to ferment for three consecutive days, Li Zhangtong took the initiative to ask to see the crown prince.

"What godsend?"

The crown prince brought the newspaper to Li Zhangtongdao, who asked to see him, and he didn't understand what these guys were going to say.

Li Zhangtong spread out the newspaper: "This is the 30th non-governmental newspaper with the largest circulation, and except for a newspaper run by a trade union and a newspaper run by a church, all of them are denouncing the United States. ”

The crown prince understands the turn of public opinion, and this turn has reduced his pressure a lot, but he can't see what a good opportunity it is. On the contrary, he was more careful, worried that the voice against him would rise again.

Li Zhangtong finally took out a folded piece of rice paper, on which was an article written in small letters.

"Your Highness. Wei Chen made an article overnight, asking His Royal Highness to take a look at it and see if it could be published in the official newspaper. ”

The official newspaper is similar to the Di newspaper in the past, but the public is not only for officials and eunuchs in the wilderness, but everyone in the world can subscribe to it, but the style of the official newspaper is only to disclose, not comment, only explain the facts, and not express a subjective attitude. For example, in the case of land purchases between the United States and the United Kingdom, the official newspaper disclosed it, but only the original text published the public content, and as for whether there are any additional terms behind the British and American countries, the private newspapers will speculate wildly, but the official newspapers will not, and the British and American countries have not disclosed it, and the official newspapers will not print it.

Most of the materials provided for the official newspaper are the diplomatic department, and the political information collected from various countries can be made public, and the information of the private sector will sometimes be disclosed, but it must be recognized by the high-level, and it is the Ministry of Rites that currently manages the official newspaper.

The crown prince opened Li Zhangtong's article, the style is the style of an official newspaper, no commentary, only narration, no emotion, it is a boring article listing the history of the Americas.

The crown prince was puzzled: "Where did you copy this from?" ”

Li Zhangtong was not ashamed: "Most of them were copied from middle school textbooks. ”

The crown prince said, "What do you want to say?" ”

Li Zhangtong said: "Your Highness, the Americas are not American, nor British, they are the land of Fanren. ”

The crown prince said, "That's right. The Americans are about to exterminate the Fanren, but the British are better and have taken in a lot of Fanren. ”

Li Zhangtong said: "Your Highness, do you say that Fanren likes the United States, or the United Kingdom?" ”

The crown prince said: "Needless to say, the Fan people have a deep blood feud with the Americans." Many people were driven to our land by the Americans, and some entire families fled to the British. ”

Li Zhangtong said: "His Royal Highness once ruled the Americas, and he knows about this. Do you think they are willing to accept us, or are they willing to accept the United States? ”

The crown prince said, "Of course it's us." ”

Li Zhangtong said: "Are there any people who were born in the Fan clan and are officials in the court?" ”

The crown prince thought for a while and said, "When I was in the Americas, I didn't like to study, I drank blood, and I was savage and aggressive. ”

Li Zhangtong said: "That is to say, there are few civil officials, and there may not be no military generals?" ”

The crown prince said, "You can look it up." ”

Li Zhangtong said: "Wechen has asked the provinces of the Americas to help with the inventory, and there is no news yet." But the article can be done first. ”

The crown prince was a little impatient: "What the hell are you going to do?" Let people know that America is the land of the Fanren? Not American, not British, but not ours. Don't set yourself on fire! ”

The crown prince can probably guess that Li Zhangtong wants to take the opportunity to guide public opinion, since the Americas are not American's or British's, but Britain and the United States are buying and selling land in the Americas, which makes no sense. Li Zhangtong asked Fanren to be an official in China, just to prove that Fanren was treated favorably in the Great Zhou. It is estimated that the story of the massacre and expulsion of the Fan people by the Americans will be reported next, but the British are not bad to the Fan people. When Britain was at war with the United States, the Indians were allied with the British. After the independence of the United States, Britain and the United States demarcated the border, and west of the Alabachian Mountains, the British fought for the land of the Fanren. Later, the Americans crossed the mountains and invaded the land of the Fanren, and the Great Lakes belonged to a tribe called the Sioux tribe, but they were either killed by the Americans or fled to British North America, where the British demarcated a hunting range for them.

Compared with the United States, China is naturally doing better, adopting a policy of organizing households and uniting the people, giving people land and allowing them to cultivate on the spot. But it's not necessarily good compared to the British, who give them land, and then basically ignore them, because Britain has land.

Once this lawsuit of words starts, it may not be able to win against the British, because China has actually killed a lot of Fan people, and they are not used to being restrained.

Now the survival of the Fan people in the United States is that in the territory of China, they are basically organized into households and people, and they are sinicized. In the United States, largely living on cramped reservations, the land on the reservation is neither able to hunt for a living, nor has enough production to feed them, and many people are scattered and sold their sons and daughters in exchange for a sip of wine. On the contrary, those who lived in British North America still migrated, hunted and lived according to their traditional tribes.

Li Zhangtong said: "Your Highness's meaning is understood. The land purchase case shows that the British sold the fanren! Sold to the United States, which scalped the fan. If there are some leaders who express their attitudes and come to my big week to petition, there will be excitement! ”

The crown prince nodded, it was just a political trick, and it couldn't be put on the stage.

"You go ahead and do it."

The crown prince didn't care much and arranged things to Li Zhangtong.

After the outbreak of war, diplomacy took a back seat and military became the main issue.

The crown prince formed a wartime cabinet, and the chiefs of staff of the army division and naval division all entered the cabinet. The crown prince would inquire about the situation of the battle once a day in the morning and evening, and the current situation in all directions was in a state of anxiety and slow progress.

Both North America and India are nervous, because these are peripheral positions relative to Europe, and Britain does not pay enough attention to this place, and does not invest enough resources, but it is the direction of China's key attack, and it is inevitable that there will be tension.

But in other directions, it will be difficult to achieve results, especially naval battles, let alone sooner or later, it is possible that the fleet will sail at sea for ten days and half a month, and completely lose contact with the land.

At present, North America has advanced to Ottawa, the capital of British North America, and in the direction of India, it has comprehensively broken through the defense line of the Ganges River of the British army, and gradually compressed the Anglo-Indian army to the south. Therefore, this time the Sikh generals did nothing on the battlefield in India, but they expressed their willingness to send troops, but the emperor could only send 3,000 troops, which was very shabby.

The crown prince is anxious about the European theater, he does not care about the military actions of the Germans, Germany's victory over France too quickly is not good for China, because China has not yet destroyed the British Navy, once the European continental battlefield is divided into victories, the Germans will definitely accept negotiations, and then China will either choose a war of independence, or it can only restore peace through negotiations, this is not the Crown Prince's plan, his biggest goal is to destroy Britain, mainly to destroy the British Navy. Without the protection of the navy, the British islands were as fragile as shelled eggs.

The battle with Britain in the Mediterranean was the fiercest. The two sides have made some tensions. First of all, the Chinese side achieved results, the Greek army landed in Cyprus, with the support of the local Greeks, spent a month besieging it, and finally destroyed the British base fortress with heavy artillery, and the British army surrendered.

And in Sicily, the Chinese base was also besieged by the Italian and British forces, as well as the local mafia and clan forces. After almost two months of holding out, the fortifications were also destroyed by artillery and had to choose to surrender.

Less than 20,000 base garrisons surrendered, the crown prince was not a pity, but there were 20 warships stationed here, and finally they were all ordered to sink in the port, which made the crown prince quite heartbroken, in the direction of the Mediterranean, one more warship, one more chance of winning, the result was to go to 20 ships at once, and it was meaningless self-sinking.

After the capture of Cyprus, the main force of the Chinese Navy tried to rescue the Sicilian fleet three times, and the British Navy in the waters from Malta to Sicily, three consecutive hand-to-hand battles, but did not distinguish the winner, the first time the Chinese fleet was superior in numbers, the British army fought and retreated to the Malta base, the second time the British fleet was superior, the Chinese fleet chose to retreat, the third time it was equal, the number of main forces dispatched by both sides was 50 ships in China, and 48 ships in the United Kingdom, A day of fierce fighting was fought in the waters of Sicily, but neither of the main forces of either side sank, several ironclad ships were wounded, and thousands of casualties were inflicted, and then they retreated.

Unable to break through the British blockade, Sicily was never rescued, and finally had to order the fleet to sink itself.

At this time in the Mediterranean direction, the size of the Chinese fleet has not yet taken advantage, the British have 100 ironclad ships stationed here, and they are also supported by at least 60 French capital ships, and Italy has 30 ironclad ships, totaling nearly two hundred capital ships. China continues to send warships in the direction of the Mediterranean, and has now concentrated 150 capital ships, plus 30 capital ironclad ships of the Greek Navy, and 180 capital ships used to compete for sea supremacy, which is slightly weaker than the British, French and Italian forces.

The Chinese navy is still being transferred to the Mediterranean Sea one after another, and continues to enter the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, and the navy's plan is to raise the Mediterranean fleet to 200 ships, and then fight a decisive battle with Britain, and it will take at least two months to complete this transfer.

The task is significant, so I do not plan to take the initiative in the short term.