"Goal...... Beautiful......"

Under the watchful eyes of thousands of spectators, the candidate for the Irish throne, dressed in a light green jersey and white pants, scored the opponent's goal with a brilliant kick. www.biquge.info On the battlefield, he was an invincible commander who strategized and conquered the North Sea. On the pitch, he not only controlled the tempo of attack and defence with poise and grace, but was also the heart of the visitors' most dangerous attack with his excellent passing and shooting skills, and was able to use his excellent skills to deliver the final blow. The match is not over yet, and he has already conquered the crowd with his confident performance......

Here, at the Royal Naval College Greenwich in the suburbs of London, the Irish state delegation formed a team of officials, guards and attendants to hold an international friendly match with the Royal Naval College football team. In addition to invited officials, hundreds of British people also came to see the iconic figures and to visit the prestigious Royal Naval College, which is rarely open to the public.

Although Prince Edward, the British prince is not a member of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, he also joined the home team because of Natsuki's participation, and the confrontation between the two has become one of the biggest attractions of the game, but to the disappointment of the Britons who came to watch the game, Prince Edward's football skills are average, and the cooperation with his teammates is quite rusty, although he scored two goals in the whole game, it obviously dragged down the home team's attack. At the end of the match, the Irishman narrowly won 9-7.

The results of the game were unsurprisingly published in the media and newspapers the next day, when the overall reaction of all walks of life in the UK was calm, whether it was the street chatter of civilians, the chatter in taverns or the whispers of the upper class at the banquet, and the discussion in the salon, most Britons felt that this was a due hospitality, because from a professional point of view, the overall cooperation of the home team was better than that of the away team, and the technical awareness and physical condition also had an advantage, if it were not for the royal status of the core figures of the other party, The lads at Royal Naval College Greenwich did not dare to use their good tackles, and the Irishman was sure to suffer in this game. You know, modern football originated in Great Britain......

Accustomed to self-consolation, the British have not forgotten the spectacular King's Cup Water Race, which has undoubtedly become a stage for Germans to showcase their mechanical talent and driving skills for 20 years. In the 19 editions prior to 1914, six German teams won the championship, five other countries won the championship using German-made speedboats, and only four trophies were won by the British themselves. During the war, high-speed torpedo boats designed and built on the basis of speedboat technology had many opportunities to shine, and the Germans remained the undisputed victors in this regard.

All of this is intimately tied to the terrible name of Joachim.

The innate ability of the German royal family in all fields was in awe of almost all Britons. Although he has now left Germany and is no longer loyal to the supreme German Emperor, his direct blood ties will not be easily severed, not to mention that he has helped Ireland to achieve and secure its independence, which is more far-reaching than the defeat of the British fleet in naval battles.

As a result, many Britons could not help but sigh that if their Prince Edward had a talent comparable to that of Joachim, even if it was only in one of his aspects, the future of Britain would not be as disappointing as it is now. Despite Prince Edward's diligence and ingenuity in a number of matters, these were only the basic requirements of a prince and fell far short of the so-called level of genius - even on the pitch.

What makes many British people even more disgusted is that the heir to the throne of the British Empire is actually very respectful to Joachim, who has never been cultivated as a prince, and even takes the initiative with enthusiasm like a younger brother to his eldest brother. With their age and status, they will play a role on the international stage as monarchs of their respective countries for a long time to come, and will Britain also respectfully enshrine Ireland as the leading country at that time?

Under the pressure of public opinion, Prince Edward changed significantly in some subsequent activities, he deliberately distanced himself from the candidates for the Irish throne, and the smile on his face was less, replaced by a rigid stereotype, and judging from the reaction of the British public, his performance was in line with the status of the British prince......

Following Prince Edward, British Prime Minister Bonner Law soon fell into a whirlpool of public opinion - one could even say a storm of public opinion. The Irishman's visit is a state visit, and the issue of Belfast's sovereignty, which is the most contentious and contradictory, is naturally an unavoidable issue. The British government's consistent approach to the Irish government's soft and hard bubble is to delay in all kinds. As one of the delaying tactics, at the first round of formal meetings held in London, the British Prime Minister deliberately relented in acknowledging that the independent sovereignty of the Kingdom of Ireland should be fully respected, but from the standpoint of safeguarding national interests and respecting human rights and freedoms, Britain has the obligation to continue to exercise its administration of the Belfast area.

Belfast now has a population of more than 200,000 people, and the result of the referendum is bound to be as the British government would like to see it - an artificial division of Ireland from the point of view of religion alone. The candidate for the Irish throne, who had only been in power for a few months and was already well versed in Ireland's affairs, was very adamantly rejected the suggestion of British Prime Minister Bona Law, and even said harshly that if the Irish in Belfast loved Britain more than their homeland and wanted to retain British citizenship, then let them all move to England, and the four million Irish would never accept Belfast as a foreign territory - they would rather be a lifeless desert.

Most of the British officials and army generals who attended the meeting watched a football match at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich and were amazed by the ability of the candidate for the Irish throne to take control of the pitch. In a sense, bilateral talks are a competitive game, and the existing strength is certainly an important factor in determining the outcome of the game, and the quality of the performance on the spot can also affect the final result. On the pitch, on the battlefield and in the venue, Joachim's ability to grasp timing far exceeded the normal level of his age, which posed an unprecedented challenge to his immediate opponents, the British military and political officials. However, the British Empire was able to overthrow Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, and France, and seize and firmly grasp the hegemony of the world, not by luck or divine might, but by the fact that it had a military and political mechanism that was constantly maturing and perfecting. The political and diplomatic figures cultivated under this mechanism are well versed in all kinds of explicit and unspoken rules, and are able to act flexibly and cunningly, and even in the case of military defeat, they are able to bully and blackmail, use both soft and hard measures, and obtain benefits from the negotiating table that cannot be achieved by military action.

The signing of the London Armistice was another victory that British politicians were proud of.

It is precisely because of the invincibility of the past that they greatly underestimate the young leader sitting in front of them.

The first round of bilateral meetings in Britain's imperial capital ended without a hitch, but British politicians slept only one night, and the next morning the cacophony of trumpets could be heard all over the streets of London – Prime Minister Boeen-Law's proposal on Belfast's sovereignty appeared in the front pages of several well-circulated newspapers. The news quickly spread across the UK before the British authorities could take effective measures to stop the situation from escalating. The British people originally thought that Belfast was a key bridgehead to contain Ireland, and no matter how much pressure from Ireland and even the Allied Front, Britain would adhere to the established terms of the London Armistice Treaty, but they did not expect that Beauna-Law would take the initiative to make concessions in front of Ireland. This is a negotiation technique that takes retreat as advance, and it is not difficult for mature politicians to understand the intentions of the British Prime Minister, but ordinary people do not understand this.

For a time, the accusations against Prime Minister Boehnard Law were overwhelming, and calls for him to resign were also surging.

This made the British government feel very embarrassed, because they had already strictly controlled the news system that had made several mistakes during the war, and had achieved remarkable results in actively guiding public opinion to the British people. At first glance, the newspapers involved tried to attract attention with the news, increase their popularity and increase sales, but after investigation, the British government found that this was actually a propaganda war carefully planned by someone, and the key figures in the management of these newspapers were either Irish nationals or had problems with their economic situation, and they all managed to abscond out of the UK after the incident, even if the British government seized the newspapers, the existing losses caused were irreparable.

The Bona-Rau cabinet came to power in a volatile situation. The terms of the London Armistice Treaty guaranteed Britain's core interests to the greatest extent, but the British, who did not buy it, still dismissed the previous cabinet as a "traitor" and ruthlessly ousted it from power. The success of the Boehner-Law cabinet was to take advantage of America's fear of Germany's rise as a world empire and to win it over Britain, which was now largely an ally except for the absence of a formal military alliance, which Britain was satisfied with from top to bottom. In the face of the British public opinion war deliberately induced by the Irish, the Beauner-Law cabinet saw a trick and gradually defused the pressure to calm domestic public opinion with calm and sophisticated political skills, and then unilaterally announced that the sovereignty of the Belfast area would be decided by a referendum of the local population without the approval of the Irish side.

The last major historical event decided by a referendum took place exactly 10 years ago, when Norway withdrew from the United Kingdom of Sweden-Norway by way of a referendum. It is worth mentioning that most of Sweden's right-wing politicians at that time tended to take a hard line towards Norwegian independence, and Sweden and Norway's armies were also on the border for a time, but the European powers believed that the independence movement supported by the majority of their citizens was legitimate, and King Oscar II of Sweden feared that the suppression of Norwegian independence would lead to the isolation of various countries, and finally gave up the Norwegian throne and recognized Norway's legitimate independence.

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