It's the summer of 1877, and the scorching sun has swept across most of Europe, and the streets of Paris and Rome are rarely crowded at noon. But on the streets www.biquge.info of London, the capital of England, people braved the scorching heat and the occasional summer thunderstorms to take to the streets, not because of the need for work, but to vent their dissatisfaction and despair.

Because everyone knows that Britain is finished, it is no longer a great world empire, and it is not even as good as such a large European power as Sweden and Germany. At least the value of the krona and the mark is still strong, and the pound will soon be wasted paper."

The "Battle for the Pound", which once brought hope to the people of the British Isles, has been lost! Over the past few months, the Bank of England has liberalized the pound and then desperately sold the gold franc in the market in an attempt to stabilize the pound. The financial circles in Britain and Rome called this kind of behavior "the battle to defend the pound".

"This is a battle to be won!" British newspapers and newspapers once told the public optimistically, "Because the Bank of England has received a loan of 5o billion gold francs from Rome, plus the proceeds from the sale of interests in Gibraltar and Egypt and the original reserves, the Bank of England has as much as 800 million gold francs of 'ammunition' in its hands." In addition, the Viceroy of India has prepared 2o billion silver rupees, which are being shipped to London by ship. This is a sea of gold and silver that has never been seen before in history, and with such assurances, the Bank of England will surely become a hero in preserving the British Empire......"

And at the end of these optimistic articles, the editors of the British newspapers, out of patriotism or for other purposes, did not forget to exclaim, "...... Let's. Every citizen of the British Empire. All joined in this defense of the pound. Come in the struggle to defend the glory and interests of the British Empire! Sell our gold pounds (pound sterling coins) and silver shillings (silver shillings) to the Bank of England, and let the ill-intentioned speculators see the strength of the British people united! ”

&NB billion gold francs, 200 million silver rupees, and the people of England lining up to sell their few gold and silver coins in front of the Bank of England's "gold and silver buying points" in the business halls of various banks, all together can form a sea of glittering real money. In the spring of 1877, the whole of Britain was full of confidence, even though there were frequent reports of defeat on the North American front, even if the Chinese delegation at the Rome Peace Conference demanded 5oo billion gold francs for compensation. The people of Britain still believed that they could keep the pound and keep the British Empire.

But just over two months later, the shocking news was published in the "illegal newspapers" controlled by the British Workers' Association and the British Workers' Federation, and the Senate of the Roman Empire rejected the second phase of the British aid plan! Other words. 4o billion of the 5o billion gold franc loans are all in the soup!

Just when people suspected that this news was a rumor spread by socialist and anarchist elements who feared that the world would not be chaotic, the news of a drastic tightening of rationing was published in the mainstream newspapers in Britain, which seemed to confirm from the side that the crisis of the British Empire was far from over!

In the days that followed, more definite gossip came from across the English Channel, all confirming that the Roman Senate had rejected the plan to aid the British! Some merchants and sailors who traveled to and from the English Channel simply brought back newspapers from the Roman, Dutch, Belgian, and German Empires, all in black and white, and in various languages, telling the British that they had been abandoned and that the pound would soon be wasted paper! Moreover, the news revealed in some newspapers made ordinary people in Britain feel chilled and desperate, and a large amount of real money was flowing out of Britain instead of flowing in!

According to the Roman newspapers, loans were provided by the Roman Empire for the purchase of funds from Gibraltar and Egypt. The gold and silver sold by the British people to the Bank of England went into the pockets of the big bankers, big capitalists and big aristocrats through the foreign exchange in London. Shipships were then shipped to Rome for the purchase of French and Italian real estate and company shares, which is said to be the main reason why the Roman Senate rejected the second phase of the British aid plan.

Some Roman newspapers also published parts of Napoleon IV's speech to the Roman Senate: "...... Every one of them is a thief! These famous people in England, including the Wellesley family (hehe, the Duke of Wellington and their family), the Churchill family, the Jenkinson family (the British prime minister at the Battle of Waterloo was their family, and Napoleon IV still held a grudge) and the British royal family, all of them were thieves! They stole at least 1.8 billion of the 200 million gold francs we aided, turning them into the most beautiful and luxurious official residences on the outskirts of Paris, Rome, Berlin and Mexico City, and the hottest stocks listed on the Paris Stock Exchange and the Mexican Stock Exchange. If there was any disaster in the British Empire, it was to put these shameless thieves in high positions! ”

As Napoleon IV's famous speech spread in the British Isles, the already anxious people finally knew that a catastrophe was coming. There were long queues in front of every bank, every shop, every station where rations were distributed on the streets of London, Manchester, and Liverpool. Every man took all the pounds they had, and wanted to turn them into real money at once, into flour and cloth, into anything else of value or necessity of life. The whole of Britain seemed to have become an island of shopaholics overnight, and the pound that poured in like a tidal wave soon swept the containers of every store, and the pound rate in the banks plummeted, and the battle to defend the pound that lasted for nearly three months was finally lost.

What followed, of course, was the anger of the British people! It was the anger of the powerful who provoked a war to destroy the empire, the anger of the rulers who were still stealing public funds at the time of national crisis, and of course, the resentment against the British aristocracy and bourgeoisie who had oppressed and exploited the people in the past, all of which erupted at this time and completely ignited the British Isles. The whole of Britain once again vibrated many times more violently than the last protest caused by the North American Revolution. In particular, the anger of the British proletariat, who were at the bottom of society, endured poverty and exploitation day after day, toiled day and night in factories in extremely harsh conditions, and earned only a few small sums of money, was as unquenchable as a volcanic eruption. They attributed their misfortune and poverty to the unscrupulous exploitation and oppression of the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy, and these British bigwigs were all criminals who stole the country and harmed the people, and they all deserved to be guillotined!

Once again, the working people of England poured into the streets, once again incited by the speeches of the radicals of the workers' associations and workers' unions. Mass demonstrations, order in London and Manchester was completely out of control. The police are powerless about the situation. In both cities, the lower ranks of the British Army, most of whom came from the lower ranks of the great slums of Britain, had been shaken.

Those who shouted "Long live the Republic!" Long live socialism! Among the poor in England, there may be their relatives!

To make matters worse, the moderate workers' federation in the British workers' movement was classified after the Battle for the Pound, and most of the leaders of the labour movement who were dissatisfied with the status quo broke away from the workers' federation and formed the Radical Workers' Party, and later merged with the British Workers' Association led by the International Workingmen's Association to form the more radical British GCD! He also openly shouted the slogan of opposing the counter-revolutionary dictatorship with the revolutionary dictatorship......

Robert. Prime Minister Winston Churchill came out of his carriage tiredly, and because of his exertion and worry, the fat man who had lost a lot of weight was walking a little staggeringly. Churchill hurriedly grabbed the fat man's shoulder. Randolph is only 38 years old, but he has already made his mark in British politics. As the third son of the Duke of Marlborough and the leader of the British Conservative Party, Robert Murphy was the son of the Duke of Marlborough. Churchill's nephew, Randolph, is, of course, the political successor that the Churchill family focused on cultivating...... If the British Empire had any future, he would have become a minister or even a prime minister.

The &nb had become a military exclusion zone by this time. Heavily armed soldiers set up sentry posts at both ends of the street. Watching Qiu Fatzi's carriage pass by, he didn't show any respect, not even a military salute. This was unimaginable when the British army was still strict in the past, but now...... These soldiers are still barely carrying out their mission, and it is already a commendable thing to prevent the angry crowd from storming Downing Street.

The fat man took out his handkerchief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked back at the soldiers on the other side of the street, and sighed. The shabby black wooden door at 1Downing Street creaked open, and a man dressed as a secretary stepped out of the door, and after a few steps to the Prime Minister, he whispered: "Mr. Prime Minister, His Excellency Baron Revelstoke has arrived, and he wants to meet you alone, and has important things to say." ”

"Baron Revelstoke...... It's Edward. Bahrain. "Robert. Churchill smiled bitterly, turned back to his nephew, and said, "Randolph, there's an important guest here, I'm afraid I can't have dinner with you." ”

"Then I'll go to my councilor's office first and see if there's any important news coming from the East." Randolph. Churchill was a member of the House of Commons Committee on Indian Affairs, and his office in London kept in touch with the Viceroy of India. Of course, this is also Robert. Churchill's arrangement, he hoped that his nephew could become Viceroy of India after the expiration of his first parliamentary term. (To be continued......)