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In addition to the smell of wine, the lavish dining room was also a little stuffy – as time went by, it was the beginning of July 1876, and London was already in the sweltering heat. Just as hot as the temperature is the joy of the British Empire's victory.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's make a toast to victory!" Prince Albert, who had just returned from Toronto, suddenly stood up and proposed. "Obviously, the naval battles in the South China Sea and the Battle of Bangladesh indicate that the turning point of this world war has arrived!"

"Cheers to victory!" In the midst of the cheers, everyone raised their glasses at the same time, looking respectfully at the Empress Victoria of England and the visiting French Emperor Napoleon IV.

It is clear that the British Cabinet and the Queen have adopted Robert. Churchill's suggestion was to slap the swollen face and fill the fat man. In a very high-profile manner, he announced the victory in the naval battle in the South China Sea and the battle in Bangladesh.

The navy claimed to have sunk 4 Chinese battleships, severely damaged 3 Chinese battleships, sunk and damaged more than a dozen Chinese cruisers, and captured hundreds of Chinese naval officers and men, including Vice Admiral Yu Guibei, deputy commander of the Nanyang Fleet, and Vice Admiral Takehiro Enomoto, deputy chief of staff! And its own losses were only 2 battleships sunk, and several cruisers were heavily damaged.

The British War Office claimed to have annihilated a book in the Battle of Bengal. The novel was out of 200,000. team, 80,000 prisoners, including Zhu Guowei, the king of Dali, and General Luo Ange, commander-in-chief of the army of the Dali Kingdom!

The news of the disappearance of Zhu Guowei, Yu Guibei, Enomoto Wuyang and Luo Ange was later confirmed by the embassy of the Ming Empire in Paris. This seems to confirm the British Empire's great victories in India and the South China Sea.

At least in the eyes of Napoleon IV, there was no doubt that Britain had won – of course. There is also a lot of intelligence that the British have lost. Both China and Britain declared victory. The intelligence services of France did not have a single letter of information, one saying that Britain had won, and the other saying that Ming had won. In the end, Napoleon IV's advisers came to a unanimous opinion that it was a crushing victory for England.

This is the main reason why he accepted the invitation of the Queen of England to visit London. The French and Roman emperors have long stretched their necks and want to take advantage of the defeat of both China and Britain to seize world hegemony! It's just that he was suppressed by the two female regents, Mathilde and Eugénie, and had no chance. And now Mathilde is still stranded in New Orleans to win over the upper echelons of the five states of New France, and the Empress Dowager Eugenie is a woman who has not much opinion, and seeing the victory of the British in India and the South Seas, the original position of no war has also been shaken - as a mother, she certainly wants to see her son command. Team up against strong opponents to become the leader of the world!

Of course. Napoleon IV's visit to England did not mean that he would immediately side with Britain and seek trouble with the Ming Empire. This French and Roman emperor was not so stupid yet. If you want to fight with China, you will definitely break with Donghua, and the king of Donghua, Jujuan, is not only a famous general comparable to Napoleon I, it is not difficult to deal with!

And he was also the biological son of Empress Mathilde I of Mexico. Once France and Donghua are opposed, will Mathilde I turn against Napoleon IV? This was a risk that the French and Roman Empires could not afford! At least until Mathilde I expressed his support for war against China, Napoleon IV would not have considered trouble with the Ming Empire.

"Although we have achieved some victories in the recent battle, ......" At this moment of cheering, Queen Victoria's expression was still very serious, she looked at her ministers and French visitors, and her tone was full of solemnity, "The power of the yellow civilization is still very strong. The final victory is still very far away. If we European white civilization cannot unite and work together at this time. There is even a possibility that we will suffer another setback. And at this time, what makes the whole of Europe feel cold is that there are still some white people who do not recognize that the essence of this world war is a race war, and they are still watching and even standing with the yellow race......"

After hearing the angry words of the British Queen, the original excitement and excitement of the people present suddenly disappeared. Quite a few also set their sights on the French emperor. The atmosphere in the restaurant is serious again.

How could Napoleon IV not understand Victoria's voiceover? Isn't France just waiting now? No, not only on the sidelines, but also on digging into the corners of the British Empire. As for the Russian Empire in the east, it simply sided with China, in a vain attempt to win the war by "standing on the right side" and expanding its power into the Balkans.

But Mathilde's admonition to him before he left France was especially clear.

“…… Now there are two world empires in the white European world, Great Britain and France. And if you want the yellow civilization in the East, there is only one world empire, and that is China. If we white people want to compete with the yellow race, we need one leader, not two. So we should wait now, wait for both the British Empire and China to be exhausted, and then come out and lead Europe and the white world. As long as France has Latin America and Africa, and has a navy that can rival China, all of Europe will depend on France. And with the support of the whole of Europe, China can only share the power of the world with us. ”

In other words, France does not need to fight, it only needs to wait until the day when Britain loses, and then it can stand up and integrate the white world and become one of the two world heroes who can compete with China. But in this world, will there really be victory without a fight?

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After the welcome banquet, most of the people dispersed, and Napoleon IV was also in the British Prime Minister Benjamin Brown. Disraeli left in the company. There were only a few people left in the restaurant.

Empress Victoria stood up and walked to the window with Prince Albert, and the two stared out the window at the city, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere was dreary and solemn.

London was still immersed in the euphoria of victory, and even the cool breeze blowing from the English Channel seemed to be full of joy. After looking at it for a long time, Empress Victoria suddenly spoke.

"Dear Albert, we deceive the people like this, and they won't have their heads cut off in the future, right? There is a precedent in this country for killing monarchs. ”

Prince Albert smiled coldly: "If we don't deceive them, can we still keep the empire?" If Napoleon IV had known that the British Empire was in decline, he would have watched everything we had lost on the other side of the English Channel with the most cheerful mood of the holiday, and even contributed to it. Because we have lost everything, France is the master of Europe! Victoria...... Everything I'm talking about is the lives of you, me, and my children! ”

Empress Victoria shook like a frightened rabbit, "Who?" Who will take our lives? Is it Zhu Jishi? ”

She has been haunted by that terrible dream, in which she was led to Zhu Jishi and beheaded!

"It's the British, your subjects!" "The cost of losing the empire is unimaginable to the British today," said Prince Albert, "and most of the people who will suffer it are the poor in the slums of London and Manchester...... Without markets and raw materials for the colonies, half of them were at risk of losing their jobs, and the rest would have to accept wages far below what they are now. I think this will definitely lead to a revolution that will kill us! So we have to keep the Empire, and as long as we keep the Empire, we can keep the decent life of most of the British, so that we can keep our power and our brains......"

"By entrapping France?"

"Yes." Prince Albert was still looking out the window, "This is the only way...... Drag France into the water, no matter whether the French win or lose, they will be greatly damaged and reduced to the world's second-rate powers. I don't think Zhu Jishi will let the French Empire collapse completely. A Europe with Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia on a par is a good Europe! ”

"And what about the Americas?" Victoria asked with a deep groan. "Albert, is it still possible for us to keep the North American Empire?"

"Go for it." Prince Albert looked at the lights that were getting brighter in the night and whispered, "That is the future of the Empire!" ”

"What about India?" Victoria asked again. “

Albert said, "India is the present of the empire...... Without the present, how can there be a future? (To be continued......)