Chapter 94: The World Games
According to Cixi's opinion, the British royal family itself has done things such as digging up people's ancestral graves and humiliating people's bones, so don't blame others for doing the same. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info There is a way: good and evil are rewarded, and heaven is reincarnated. This is where the retribution of the British came.
After the victory at the Battle of Jerusalem, Cixi was still waiting. It was not until the Japanese fleet broke through the British Indian Ocean Fleet and controlled the Red Sea that a large number of Qing troops crossed the Suez Canal under the cover of the Japanese fleet's naval guns to fight against the remnants of the British army.
After Prince Edward's defeat at Jerusalem, the remaining Egyptian garrison no longer had the strength to fight the Qing army head-on. At that time, Admiral Henry's carefully arranged defense line was already dismantled by Prince Edward, and those who could fight and fight were all transferred to the attacking troops and then either killed or captured.
Today's Egypt is like a ruined house that has been crumbling, and now the Qing army pushes it, and the broken house will fall in response. In fact, the Egyptians also thought about it, they used to be slaves to the Ottoman Turks, then to the French, and then to the British, and now it is not difficult to understand that they are slaves to the Qing army, anyway, whoever wins in this territory is the master of Egypt.
After the Japanese fleet defeated the British Indian Ocean Fleet, it not only effectively dealt a blow to the British army, but also cut off the connection between the British and the Hindustan colony.
But as soon as the Japanese fleet cut off the supply lines of the British fleet in Hindustan, the British in Hindustan were as grief-stricken as their dead fathers—without the backing of the British Empire, the British who remained so few here could not rule such a vast land and people.
Not to mention, Prince Edward was captured by the Three Servants and dedicated to the Qing Army, and the news has spread to the British mainland and the colonies, and now the British people also have all kinds of distrust of the Three Servants, and no British officer wants to be the second Prince Edward.
It's just that Britain itself can't take care of those left behind in the colonies now. In 1869, the Queen's fiftieth birthday celebrations began, and the multi-million pound World Games began.
Although it was called the World Games, neither the countries of the Chinese Federation nor the pro-Chinese countries of Germany or the United States sent people to participate.
However, the British did not care, except for the government-in-exile of Free Russia, Free Dutch, Free France, and Free Turkey, all the colonies of Great Britain sent troops to participate. Just before the Anglo-Japanese naval battle in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of Indian princely states sent teams to the competition. There are also teams from Australia and Canada. In most of the African colonies controlled by the British, there were more than 100 tribal chiefs who came to London.
In total, there are more than 200 teams, which is more than the Olympic teams in later generations.
The British royal family and Downing Street thought that this World Games would show that the British Sea Yan River Qing was strong, and at the same time, my Croon Saxon white people were still the first in running, swimming, long jump, weightlifting, high jump, shot put, javelin, etc., in short, they were the first in the British Empire.
As a result, at the beginning of the race, the British were shocked, and in the first long and short running event, Uncle Black, who could chase the antelope from the African plateau, let the British see what it meant to run, and a row of white people fell behind three barefoot blacks and were thrown away.
In other events, Uncle Black and Ah San, who opened the hanging, won the championship repeatedly, and even the Free France team also won the swimming championship. Except for James, who finally won a gold medal for the British team in the final finale, saving a little face for Britain and a zero breakthrough in the World Games, the British have become the role of accompanying the prince to study in other events. Every time I watch someone raise the national flag and play the national anthem.
James was summoned by the Queen of England for his gold medal in the free martial arts at the World Games, and when he met with Queen James, he said: "Your Majesty, if I hadn't been to China for a few years, I don't know who this gold medal would belong to." Now this gold medal is in the hands of my Zhan, not that I Zhan won. Your Majesty spent millions of dollars to show the prestige of the British Empire in organizing this Universal Games, but in fact, in the eyes of the world, we all lost.
In the opinion of the small people, there is no future for us to let this young man in England eat a lot of cigarettes and smash the shops. If these millions are used to run Sinology and learn Chinese characters, if we are lucky, maybe we can teach them the Four Books and Five Classics. This is the true way to make the country rich and the people strong. A gold medal for crickets is something that can change the fortunes of the country, it's really hard to say, this gold medal will be left to Your Majesty as a commemoration. ”
Queen Victoria was also moved by James's heartfelt words, and said to James: "It's hard for your little Zhanzi's filial piety, I don't know that the British Empire is now a scene of burning oil and paper paste." However, this family is not easy to do, my British Empire wants to maintain this system of colonizing the world, if it can't maintain it, then the crooked nuts will beat us when they see the flaws. It's Scotland's thief, and he has time to make trouble. Stand.
My wife is a handful of old women, half of whom are in the ground, and they still care about their face and reputation. But this family inheritance left by my British ancestors cannot be lost in my hands. Therefore, no matter how hard it is, this celebration and the World Games must be held, and I cannot lose the face of Great Britain, and the hearts of the subjects of the British Empire cannot be dispersed. ”
James came out of Buckingham Palace, and Queen Victoria handed down a decree: to reward James with 500 pounds of Indian tobacco.
Since British opium was squeezed out of the Southeast Asian market by the Japanese pill, large quantities of Indian tobacco began to be sold in Britain and Europe.
Opium is now called a panacea by foreign doctors in Europe, and it is also a common medicine for every family. A little headache, brain fever, diarrhea, cold, water and soil adaptation, and even toothache and menstrual pain, Europeans take this panacea to cure - and if taken in small amounts, even if taken multiple times, it will not cause addiction. Opium smoking is the only way in Southeast Asia -- it's the only way to scorpion.
In the eyes of Europeans, this thing is the same as spirits, and if you drink too much spirits, you will die. You have to eat too much opium to poison people, but normal people usually don't take a dose of opium that can kill people - that's a lot bigger.
This is also the reason why the British have never understood why the Qing Dynasty banned the opium trade, which was a commodity that the British had managed to find a balance of trade and even caused a large trade surplus.
In Britain today, the amount of opium is a bit large. As a result, these all-purpose medicines are sometimes used as a substitute for money.