"Shameless!"

"How can you be so shameless!"

"It's just shameless!"

In Downing Street, London, in the Prime Minister's Palace, Palmston was so angry that he was almost crazy, everything around him that could be smashed was smashed by him, and countless servants lay down their guns and hid far away.

Since the news of the final annihilation of the British Asian Fleet in the waters of the Qizhou Ocean was confirmed by the Chinese authorities, the news has spread all over the world, and the British Empire has been thrown to Mars in disgrace.

But what made Palmston even more angry was that British intelligence officers had already obtained the truth in Manila, and it was clear that the Chinese overseas Chinese fleet was the first to fire a surprise attack, but they bit back and framed the British Navy for a sneak attack.

Now the whole world believes that the British Navy attacked the Chinese Escort Fleet first, after all, the British Navy is used to being domineering, which is reasonable, and at the same time, the British Navy went to Manila inexplicably at that time, obviously to find the stubble of the Chinese Navy.

These two reasons are enough to convince people all over the world that it was the British Navy that stole chickens and rice.

What's more, China preemptively launched a public opinion offensive in Europe and the United States in advance, resulting in the British government now at a loss for words, and the more explanations it has, the less worthy of sympathy it is, and it can be said that the more black it is.

Palmston really wanted to cry, it was so aggrieved.

The clerk's office came to inform the Palmston councillors that a meeting was to be held, and the servants were relieved not to look at Palmston's foul face anymore.

The House of Lords, also known as the House of Nobles, is held by the real elite of Britain.

As soon as Palmston arrived, parliamentarians from the royal family began to bombard, accusing Palmston of being the culprit for the total destruction of the British Asian Fleet and demanding that Palmston step down.

It is no wonder that members of the British royal family have a monopoly on the sales of special drugs throughout the United Kingdom, and the real so-called special drugs are the big and small pills produced in China. Because of the war, China stopped supplying.

You must know that the special effect medicine is comparable to gold, and the British royal family has no right to manage the United Kingdom, so ******** focus on making money, and the huge profits of the special effect medicine have made the British royal family red-eyed, and they will naturally seize the opportunity to die in Palmston.

Fortunately, Palmston had already expected this result, and he had the support of the British East India Company behind him, and it was not easy to be brought down for a while.

"Gentlemen, I admit to underestimating China's military might. But now is no time to hold accountable. The whole world is watching the jokes of our British Empire, and if we don't take action, not only the Chinese will ride on our heads and, but other powers will also be ready to move. ”

William, a member of the royal family, sneered: "Nonsense, who dares to on the head of my British Empire?" Chinese? Joke, it's clear that you, Palmston, took the advantage of the East India Company and took the initiative to provoke China. ”

Several other members of the royal family chimed in, and the conservatives, although they were also dissatisfied with the royal family's monopoly on the distribution of special drugs, had to support the royal family at this time, because it involved next year's general election. Although their conservatives are just as tough on national issues, they still want to attack liberals and unite more allies at this critical moment. to help conservatives win next year's election.

If Palmston is forced to resign voluntarily and dissolve the cabinet, then conservatives may call an early general election to come to power.

Countries with multi-factional systems are often unable to deal with major emergencies because factions attack each other and pull each other back, as is the case in the UK. In dealing with the Sino-British war, the conservatives had no choice but to throw away the discipline in order to pull the liberals out of power.

"That's right. If it weren't for the fact that you were instigated by the East India Company to provoke China, you would not have been in this situation. ”

The new head of the conservative faction (because of the sensitivity of the word can only be replaced by the head of the house), Benjamin Disraeli has made a statement, taking the side of the royal family and attacking Palmston together.

As soon as Benjamin took the lead, a number of conservative lawmakers chimed in.

The liberal parliamentarians were furious, and in order to defend the head of Palmston, they immediately joined the battle group, and the entire parliamentary hall suddenly became noisy, like a vegetable market.

What's even more outrageous is that soon some grumpy parliamentarians started beating people, which quickly turned into group fights, and the parliamentarians who were incomparably gentlemanly in front of the public on weekdays instantly became shrewd cousins, and the B war was staged.

Palmston rolled his eyes and knew it was going to be this end.

Damn parliamentarism, the chain always drops at critical moments!

How nice it would be if it were a centralized imperial system!

At this moment, Palmston envied those imperial states, because only the imperial centralized state would burst out with amazing cohesion at a critical moment.

For example, China!

There are many people, more than 200 million people, although they are only moving towards a well-off society, which is far from a developed and rich country like Britain, but as long as the emperor of the people has a call, and the people only need one person to donate a dollar, 200 million funds will come out immediately.

On the other hand, although Britain has a population of tens of millions, but the gap between the rich and the poor is huge, and the government can only beg the rich to raise funds, yes, it is begging, just like he Palmston has to count on the East India Company to sponsor funds if he wants to do anything, but he has to be constrained by the parliamentary system if he wants to do half a major thing, and he is dragged back by the opposition faction every day.

Thinking about these terrible things, Palmston immediately shook his head and sighed bitterly, ignored the group fights of the councillors, and left the parliament directly.

The Admiralty, the former Minister of the Admiralty, has resigned.

There is no way, under this **** system, if you do something wrong, you will resign and finish, pat your ass and leave, the British Navy itself will be injured, the British government will be ashamed, and the loss will be the people's tax money.

"Prime Minister, has there been any result on the part of the parliament? Are we going to continue to fight China? ”

The new Lord of the Admiralty, the 3rd Duke of Newcastle, asked nervously.

That's right, Newcastle is very nervous, the British Asian fleet is completely annihilated, which is equivalent to the loss of half of the combat effectiveness of the British Royal Navy, but the main force of the Chinese Navy is almost unscathed, if this continues to fight, it is difficult to say whether the winner will be defeated, and Newcastle is not sure of victory. If it loses again, it will be a devastating blow to the British Navy, Newcastle cannot afford it, and Britain cannot afford it.

Seeing Newcastle's expression, Palmston immediately frowned, and asked rhetorically, "Are you so unconfident?" ”

Newcastle sighed and nodded sincerely: "To be honest, I just got a piece of information that an officer of our Asian Fleet fell overboard in that night battle and was lucky not to be captured by the Chinese Navy. A day later, when one of our broken frigates returned to Singapore and sent a detailed report to the Admiralty, I learned that the Chinese Navy had invented new weapons and that our navy had suffered a great loss by destroying its entire army. Until I have a grasp of the specific parameters and countermeasures of the latest weapons and equipment of the Chinese Navy, I really have no chance of winning. ”

"Again?"

Palmston said the word "again", apparently he knew very well why the second and third commercial wars (Yapian War) failed, and in the final analysis, the Chinese Shence Army had the killer weapon that could change the tide of the war. The first was a rear-loading rifle and rapid-fire gun, the second was a Gatling machine gun, and now a killer weapon. It can be seen why Palmston only said the word "again".

It's really painful, a "again" word is enough to express that kind of depressed and sad mood.

"What kind of killer weapon is it?"

"We don't know the exact name, but the Chinese military has done a very good job of keeping it secret. Our intelligence officers weren't aware of it at all. ”

"They're just a piece of!" Palmston snorted angrily, already disappointed in the UK's several MIX intelligence bureaus.

Newcastle continued: "But our officer was more specific, saying that the Chinese Navy has successfully developed submarines 20,000 miles under the sea, as well as fish and radium weapons based on submarine launches. ”

20,000 miles under the sea? What the hell is that?

Palmston, of course, doesn't have time to read science fiction. Naturally, I don't know that 20,000 miles under the sea has been very popular in recent years.

"It's a famous science fiction novel written by a Frenchman, and it contains a new type of combat ship that can dive underwater and launch fish radium to attack targets underwater."

"Underwater diving? Can you also attack underwater? "Palmston is not a military man after all. There are a lot of things that don't have enough brains.

Newcastle explained: "I talked to the experts and we found that it was entirely possible, because in the American Civil War ten years ago, the South American used submarines to attack North American warships. Also six years ago, Captain Lupius of the Austro-Hungarian Navy mounted the engine on the pole mine, used the compressed air in the high-pressure vessel to push the engine piston to work, and drove the propeller to make the mine body sail in the water to attack the enemy ship. However, due to the low speed, short range, and poor control, Lupius's invention was not put into use. ”

Palmston frowned: "We in the Western world have not yet successfully developed weapons, why can the Chinese succeed in developing them?" They have only been around for less than 20 years, so how can they always surpass us in terms of technology? ”

"Of course they can't overtake us! We, the British Empire, naturally, will not lag behind China! Newcastle Ton defended: "Actually, we have successfully developed fish radium. And it was five years ago that our British engineer Robert Whitehead succeeded in developing the first fish radium. Borrowed from the invention of Lupius, the fish radium uses a compressed air engine to drive a single propeller to propulsion, and the horizontal rudder plate at the tail of the fish radium is controlled by a hydraulic valve to control the depth of the fish ray. At that time, the speed of the fish radium was only 11 km/h and the range was 180-640 meters. Because of its fish-like appearance, it was called [Radium Fish], and was named [Radium Fish] after Whitehead's name (which translates to [white]). Almost at the same time as Lupius and Whitehead, the Russian inventor Alexandrovsky developed a similar device for fish radium. ”

It didn't matter if Palmston didn't listen, and when he heard it, he was immediately angry.

"What? We developed fish radium five years ago? Why not put it into use in the Navy? Even the **** Russians have successfully developed it! ”

"This-" Newcastle was dumbfounded, and secretly scolded himself for talking too much, why did he say it in such detail, now he was lying down.

"I don't know about this, it should be the fault of my predecessor!"

Well, Newcastle is not a fool either, and immediately put the blame on the ex. However, he seems to have forgotten that he was the Minister of the Sea before, in charge of the development of ordnance, and the Fish and Radium weapon should be within the scope of his accusation.

Fortunately, Palmston was not in the mood to pursue this, he just wanted to know what the Navy thought, and after suffering such a big loss, would the Navy still have the confidence to fight again.

"I just want to know, if we send another fleet to China, is it possible to win?"

Newcastle wanted to say that the British Imperial Navy would win, but he was old and dragged his family with him, and if one accidentally lost, then his life would be over, and his family would be affected.

The more rich people are, the more generous they are, and the richer they are, the more stingy they are, the reason is that they are barefoot and wear shoes, and those who are barefoot are not afraid of anything, anyway, there is nothing worse than barefoot, and those who wear shoes are different, they are afraid of wolves and tigers, for fear of losing their shoes and becoming barefoot.

At this moment, Newcastle is in this mentality, he shook his head and said: "Even if we send all the new warships of the British Empire to Asia to deal with the Chinese Navy, the victory or defeat will only be half and half, and the Chinese Navy has new weapons, and we will suffer." In terms of the overall situation, the colonies and seas that the empire has to protect are too big and vast, and if all the warships are transferred to Asia, what about the Americas, Africa, and our own Europe? As soon as a maritime vacuum is formed in this region, the European powers will immediately make up for it, especially the newly rising Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, which have no colonies, but are all staring at our colonies? ”

Palmston nodded, he agreed with this point of view, he was just unwilling!

If the Navy does not help him, then he will fall, this is a given.

"Forget it, I'm tired too!"

Palmston got up and left, a little lonely, a little lonely.

Newcaster was about to say something, knowing that Palmston's political career was over, ending with a stain, an outcome that no politician wanted to see.

Just when Britain was in a panic and the Congress was jumping, Li Weiguo, who was sitting on the dragon chair in the Forbidden City in the Chinese capital of Asia, issued two holy edicts again.

The first was to order the Navy's Pacific Fleet to sail to the Dutch East Indies and order the Netherlands to withdraw from Lanfang.

Second, China's Shence Army set out from Yunnan to carry out an all-out encirclement and suppression of the Golden Triangle at the junction of Burma, Nanzhang and Siam, and completely wiped out the headquarters base of the East India Company there.

As soon as the first oracle was issued, the Dutch authorities immediately relented. It is no wonder that after learning of the total annihilation of the British Asian fleet, the Dutch government certainly did not dare to argue with China anymore. Originally occupied Lanfang, in the face of the previous backward Qing Dynasty, the Netherlands did not dare to publicly announce the annexation of Lanfang, and now in the face of a more powerful China, the Netherlands of course honestly withdrew from Lanfang, in fact, directly withdrew from Borneo, and gave the land of Borneo to China as compensation for the anti-Chinese riots.

After all, Li Weiguo does not want to be an enemy of the whole world now, because he has already occupied Manila, which has caused panic in the entire Western world, and it is appropriate to show goodwill to the Netherlands and appease the Western world, which is beneficial to China's rise, and the British in the province will instigate the entire Western world to become enemies of China.

The second oracle also quickly fruited off, the Golden Triangle was the last stronghold of the British East India Company in Asia, and the East India Company, which was supposed to be dissolved by the British in 1858, changed history because of the arrival of Li Weiguo, allowing the East India Company to survive until 1870 and develop the Golden Triangle.

Li Weiguo had already known through the intelligence department that the East India Company was behind the war and was the devil behind it, so he naturally wanted to get rid of the East India Company.

The Golden Triangle, the world's largest Yapian base in the future, if controlled in hand, can not only benefit the Chinese people, but also harm the world.

That's right, you guessed it, that's what Li Weiguo thinks and will do the same. (To be continued.) )