In early July 1879, before the summer recess of the British Parliament, the House of Commons delegates, after a heated discussion, finally decided that the House of Commons general election would begin on the first Thursday of April 1880.

In order to maintain the Conservative Party's majority in the House of Commons, the Tory, or more precisely, Prime Minister Disraeli, the leader of the Conservative Party, announced at the Conservative Party Congress in early July that the Conservative Party's immediate focus will be to serve the general election in the first half of next year. As Disraeli's designated successor and the party's number two figure, Foreign Minister Robert Cecil's constituency visit is the heaviest task, after all, Disraeli is over 75 years old and has a hidden illness.

According to the British parliamentary reform of 1867, the current election in the United Kingdom is still a large constituency system, not a small constituency system in Joey's previous life. If a constituency produces only one elector, it is called an odd-numbered constituency, i.e., a small constituency. If a constituency produces two or more electees, it is called a plural constituency, i.e. a general constituency. Because it is a large constituency system, the method of selecting deputies is proportional representation or majority representation.

These two approaches, unlike the simple majority system used by Joey's previous British small constituency system, mean that the future leader of the Conservative Party, Foreign Minister Cecil, will have to fight the election battle in every large constituency, rather than strategically abandoning the traditional strong constituencies of his opponents and concentrating on winning neutral constituencies as in the small constituency system.

Just as the Conservatives were preparing to fight the Liberals for next year's general election, the mainstream newspapers in London suddenly broke an explosive news story at this tense moment. The newspaper on Fleet Street said conclusively that, according to reliable information, Prince Heinrich of the German royal family would issue an official apology to the Qing State on behalf of the Western world for the harm caused to the Qing State by the two Opium Wars.

If it weren't for the parliamentary election, Cecil, as foreign minister, would have apologized to the Germans for apologizing to the Qing country, even if it was in writing. Only the weak will sympathize with the weak, and the lion of the British Empire will never care about the tears of sheep.

As for how much Germany will perform the drama of loving world peace, as long as it does not touch the interests of the British Empire, Cecil will only regard this incident as a circus show by the Germans, and he will be ready to watch the angry eruption of the entire European media, and Germany will be psychologically prepared for a foreign policy of no discipline, no bottom limit, and flattery towards the Qing Dynasty.

Whoever made the German circus famous in Europe, who made the media spray on Fleet Street was never merciless, such a beautiful circus, Prime Minister Disraeli and Foreign Minister Cecil, I want to laugh when I think about it.

But the reality is always cruel and ruthless, who let Britain implement a multi-party system, who made the Liberal Party the Empress, the opposition party designated by His Majesty, who made Mr. Gladstone a famous Mr. morality, who let the British army in Afghanistan and South Africa in a row, eat the Pashtuns and Zulu beatings, who made Prime Minister Disraeli a Jew, who did not save Christians from being slaughtered by the Turks, and said that it is not a big deal to kill Christians......

When The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph began to comment on the behavior of the Germans, Mr. Gladstone keenly grasped the matter and began to trumpet the righteous diplomacy in the leftist newspaper The Guardian, attacking the injustice of the Conservative Party's colonialism, and there was even a very marketable rumor that the Conservative Party, under the leadership of Disraeli the Judas, was trampling on the traditional spirit and morality of Christianity.

The British Empire is falling under the temptation of the devil of Satan.

On the one hand, he not only anonymously submitted articles in the "Times" and used the face of a conservative and stiff superior person to desperately attack the British middle class's idea of pursuing equality for all, but also fought with himself in the "Guardian" newspaper, representing the British middle class, and vigorously denouncing the hypocrisy and shamelessness of the upper aristocracy in treating ordinary people.

On the other hand, through the mainstream newspapers in Prussia, they vigorously stood up for the British Liberal Democratic Party, relying on the common point that Prussia and Britain both believed in Protestantism, and starting from the characteristics of Protestant Lutheranism "justification by faith", emphasizing that as an ideal Protestant country, it is natural to do good in the world, and what the current British government is doing is completely contrary to the spirit of Protestants.

If the German newspapers criticize the British government's ability to govern, the Conservative Party can fight back against the Germans in many ways, and Disraeli and Cecil guarantee that each article will make the Germans unable to step down, but Germany slyly stands on the moral high ground, cloaks of religion, and pokes the wound of the Conservative government with the spirit of Christianity, which makes the Conservative Party under the leadership of Disraeli and Cecil speechless.

More ruthless tactics were yet to come, and Joy also extended the battlefield of this controversy to the level of religious belief, especially the Protestant beliefs that prevailed between Germany and Britain.

At the same time as Joey submitted his article to England, he also wrote an enthusiastic letter to Mr. Gladstone, starting with the universal spirit of Christianity, and talking about the common ground between Lutheranism and the Anglican Church, both of which are Protestants.

The views of the letter were very much to the liking of the moral master Mr. Gladstone, and when he learned that the letter was written by his own student, the son of Crown Prince Frederick, Mr. Gladstone was full of praise for Joy's views in a subsequent letter to Crown Prince Frederick.

During the regular Q&A in Crown Prince Frederick's study, Joey successfully persuaded his father with Mr. Gladstone's letter to get the Protestant Lutheran bishop to come forward and contact other Protestant denominations to fight for the Christians who had died tragically at the hands of the Turks.

The Protestant Lutherans, who had been under the patronage of the Hohenzollern family since their birth, naturally could not fall behind as the state church of Prussia in such a matter that was concerning the universal spirit of Christianity and criticized the British Conservative government, which disregarded the lives of fellow Christians, let alone was encouraged by Crown Prince Frederick.

After communicating with the Reformed Church in Switzerland and the Anglican Church in England, the bishops of the Protestant Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and Anglican churches issued statements almost simultaneously protesting against the unjust interests of the British Conservative government by selling the lives of Christians. At this moment, the Conservative government is facing not only competitive pressure from the Liberal Party, but also from Christendom as a whole.

The Christians massacred by Turkey belong to Catholics, so what reason is there for Protestants to stand up for Catholics, Pope Leo XIII, who has just come to power in the Vatican, immediately issued a statement and joined the movement to bring down the British Conservative government.

Taking advantage of the crisis, Joey carefully expanded this storm, so that the famous Marquess of Salisbury, Foreign Minister Cecil pessimistically admitted, the fall of this Conservative government is only a matter of time, as this storm that the Conservative Party is powerless to stop expands, Prime Minister Disraeli's Conservative government will not survive the general election in April next year.

If there is any more pessimistic view, if there is even a little bit of bad news for the Conservative Party, it is very likely that at the end of July, Prime Minister Disraeli will submit his resignation to Her Majesty the Queen.

For the first time, Prime Minister Disraeli felt the inherent disadvantage of being a Jew in the context of religious conflict. The Times, which has always been pro-Conservative, and the German media have shown restraint and have refrained from attacking his Jewish identity, but newspapers that are pro-Vatican, especially those with a Catholic background, have taken aim at his Jewish origins.

What was originally a big discussion about the dignity of Western countries in the Qing Dynasty ended up inexplicably turning into a critique of the Conservative government by the Christian society, and even a hint of anti-Semitism.

Disraeli, who can shout that interests are paramount, naturally has extremely strong nerves to face this chaos, and he also has a very thick skin to face the spit that his opponents spray on his face.

But now Prime Minister Disraeli's biggest enemy is time, if God and Her Majesty the Fairy Queen can give themselves time, the Prime Minister is willing to bury his head in the sand, pouting his ass and letting his opponents kick, as long as he survives the first three weeks, the Prime Minister can absolutely guarantee that he can use new news hotspots to make the British people forget about this storm that has caused pain to the Conservative Party.

Unfortunately, God did not want to give time to the Prime Minister, who was in a coma more and more often, and the pain caused by the hidden illness became more and more serious, and now he can only rely on opium to relieve the pain. Her Majesty the Fairy Queen, as the head of British Protestantism, does not dare and is unwilling to support her favorite Prime Minister at this juncture when Christendom is scolding the Jews, and the only thing he can do is to remain silent and not fall into the ground.

Germany, or rather Joey, was by no means willing to give the Prime Minister, the founder of colonialism in the British Empire, any respite.

At a time when Prime Minister Disraeli and the Conservative government were struggling to support it, the latest report from Hurd, the chief tax department of the Qing Customs, became the last straw that crushed the Conservative government.

The latest news sent back to London by Hurd said that the three most powerful governors of the Qing Dynasty, the Governor of Zhili, the Governor of Liangjiang, and the Governor of Huguang, jointly appealed to the Qing government, demanding that they build railways, build factories and develop mineral resources in joint ventures with the Germans in their own jurisdictions.

When the British businessmen who were doing business with the Qing Dynasty heard the news, they were in an uproar, on the one hand, they were closely following the every move of the German businessmen, the German government, and the German mainland, and on the other hand, they urgently demanded that the Conservative government at home come forward to fight for the interests of the British businessmen in the Qing Dynasty.

The proposal to send warships to the Qing state, as in the previous two Anglo-Qing wars, was immediately denied, and the pretext of the first two wars was to let the Qing open up for trade, and the other was to rescue their own comrades and take revenge on the barbarism of the Qing government.

But now the Qing State is willing to give the same conditions to the British in the same way of cooperation with the Germans, and the British and Qing are open in trade, and the British cannot be furious. After being beaten twice, the Qing government learned to be obedient and resolutely refused to do it! The British still can't go crazy.

What's even more odious is that under the secret mediation of Queen Elizabeth, the tone of the Anglican Church was slightly lowered, but two days later, the tone of the Anglican Church was higher again, an octave higher than that of the previous Prime Minister of Disraeli.

After the Conservative Party's later understanding, it was learned that the Qing government agreed to let go of German Protestant missionary activities in the Qing country, and the Germans generously listed the Reformed and the Anglican Church in the list reported to the Qing government, that is to say, the three main factions of Protestantism could preach in the Qing country willfully, and the Anglican Church was greatly stained with the light of the Germans.

Disraeli, who had always claimed to be a secular government, was lukewarm about the missionary activities of the Anglican Church, which made Archibald Campbell Tate, Archbishop of Canterbury, very complaining. The Anglican Church was very grateful for what the Germans had done, and the idea of giving the Jews a little color naturally arose in contrast.

The pressure of the general election, the pressure of religion, the pressure of public opinion and his own poor health state made Prime Minister Disraeli neglect the demands of British businessmen in Qing.

Business opportunities never wait for anyone, if you miss it, you miss it, and you can't help but feel angry when you look at a lot of opportunities in Qingying businessmen and smash them from the sky to German businessmen.

In the words of the person in charge of the Jardine Matheson Company, "While the British gentlemen were sitting in the gatehouse in front of the yamen of the Liangjiang Governor of Nanjing, struggling to apply for an inexplicable request, the damned German merchants, under the guidance of the enthusiastic officials of the Qing Dynasty, entered and exited the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion at will." It seems that every official of the Qing Kingdom is begging for trade and investment from the Germans, and I have never seen such a ridiculous thing in the Qing Kingdom for so many years! ”

People are the best at making excuses for themselves, and it is their nature to always find others first. In fact, according to the principle of inclusiveness, the business that German businessmen can do, British businessmen can also do. However, after the Second Anglo-Qing War, the British merchants, who were accustomed to enjoying themselves, were extremely uncomfortable with the loss of any privilege.

Seeing that the German royal family and the government were running around in the Qing Dynasty for the sake of German businessmen, they naturally blamed the British government for not working hard to fight for the interests of British businessmen in the Qing Dynasty, especially to spread their anger on the Conservative government, angrily reprimanding the Conservative government for not doing its duty for British enterprises, and asking the government to learn from the methods of the Germans, and for the sake of British businessmen, it is best to apologize to the Qing country.

When the Conservatives saw this demand, they couldn't help but laugh. If you apologize, you don't have to guess, someone must have scolded the Conservative Party, led by profit-seeking Jews, who have no regard for the glory of the British Empire. And by apologizing, he admitted in disguise that the Liberal Party's attack on the Conservative Party was correct, which is a black spot that the Conservative Party cannot erase for the rest of his life.

Therefore, the Conservative Party can only grit its teeth and hold on.

"Look at the nobles of Germany, for the sake of the interests of the common merchants, they can bend their knees and apologize, while our noble lords are indifferent!" This argument became the last straw that broke the Conservative government.

After a painful choice on the hospital bed, Prime Minister Disraeli finally decided to put the national interests of the British Empire first, withdraw Foreign Minister Cecil from the blazing battlefield of the election campaign, and send an envoy to Berlin as soon as possible, so as to stand up for the last post of the Conservative government for the interests of the British Empire in the Qing Dynasty.

In mid-July, on the train to Berlin, Foreign Minister Cecil's heart did not feel any warmth, and before leaving, Prime Minister Disraeli held his hand in his hospital bed, and frankly said that he would submit his resignation to Her Majesty the Fairy Empress at the end of July, and in any case, Cecil's trip to Berlin must convince the Germans to accept the fact that the Yangtze River valley of the Qing Dynasty was the sphere of influence of the British Empire.