At a time when there was a lot of noise in the Congress of the United States of America. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In the Prime Minister's Mansion of the British Empire, the 80-year-old Viscount Palmerston is working with his most important political ally and successor to the Prime Minister's throne, John Brown. Russell discusses the same problem - the Anglo-American dualistic empire!

With the challenges the British Empire now facing from France and China, the Prime Minister, who had been working at 10 Downing Street for almost 10 years, is finally in danger of stepping down. Still, the old man was stubborn in his earlier diplomatic strategy.

"The United States of America is the most valuable trophy in the world! It was God's gift to England...... John, do you know how many people, how much land, how many coal and iron mines the Ming Empire had, and how many tons of rice, wheat, soybeans, raw rubber, silk, cotton, and palm oil could be produced in a year? In the long run, the industry of this country will definitely surpass that of Great Britain and even of Europe as a whole! At that time, the British Empire will have to face a China that is far more powerful than itself, as Napoleon I said, a lion of the East who wakes up and roars! And the only way to make Britain overwhelm China in terms of industrial power is to unite Britain and the United States. Establish a dualist empire with the British monarch as co-monarch. In this way, the coal of the Appalachian Mountains and the iron of Minnesota, as well as the rich lands of North America and the more than 20 million industrious and brave white people, could be put to British use. And the world of the future is precisely the era of coal and iron. We may need 10 million tons or even tens of millions of tons of steel, and a billion tons of coal a year to overwhelm China industrially. Only the United States. It is possible to reach such an industrial scale. So my foreign policy did not fail. It's just that outsiders can't understand it. ”

Listened to Viscount Palmerston. John. Russell smiled: "Mr. Prime Minister, I think future generations will remember what we have done for the British Empire." The integration of the United States of America into the system of the British Empire would be the most successful diplomatic event in the history of the British Empire, and the hegemony of the Empire would continue for hundreds of years! When a world war breaks out in the future, people will be able to understand our foresight. I think in 20 years, we will let Napoleon III and Zhu Jishi know how powerful the Anglo-American alliance is! ”

"No, no. No...... A world war does not necessarily really break out, it's just a possibility, the worst possibility! Viscount Palmerston winked at a pair of dimly old eyes and smiled schemingly.

"Won't erupt?" John. Russell was stunned, "Napoleon III and the Emperor of China's Liberation are both very warlike monarchs!" According to accurate intelligence, they were already preparing for war with the British Empire twenty years later. ”

"Preparation is preparation, but going to war is another matter." Viscount Palmerston took out a pipe, twisted a pinch of fine Cuban tobacco from the carved wooden box of tobacco on his desk, and then rubbed it on the fire, and took a puff. Exhale out circles of white smoke. "If Napoleon III and Zhu Jishi really had the determination to go to war, why wait until 20 years later? One of them is 56 years old. A 47-year-old who doesn't know if he is still in the world after 20 years, even if he hasn't gone to hell, they are all old people in the twilight, how much courage can they have to start a war? In fact, if they really had the determination to fight, Napoleon III would not have sat idly by and watched us drive the Turks back to Asia. Zhu Jishi would not have watched us form a federation of Indochina. ”

The old man smiled coldly and turned at John. Russell nodded, and said: "The most delicate part of the current world situation is that there are three super powers. If there were only two great powers, Britain and France, a world war would have broken out long ago! If only Britain and the Ming were the great powers, then we would be able to gather the strength of the entire white world to block and besiege this eastern country. Such a policy will also induce China's large-scale expansion into the South Seas and India. But the balance of the three great powers has made it possible to maintain a long-term and tense peace in a world full of gunpowder. ”

"A long and tense peace?" John. Russell still looked a little out of the way, and what Viscount Palmerston said now is very inconsistent with the current trend of confrontation and war in the world step by step.

Viscount Palmerston smiled faintly and let out another puff of smoke, "The coexistence of the three great powers means that any two great powers will be cheap to act as the other side of the audience if they start a big war. And China and France, which are among the top three, really have enough interests and colonies. I can't imagine any reason why Napoleon III and Zhu Jishi had to fight? For them, the most important thing is to maintain and build the empire they have created and pass it on to their descendants. Unless the British Empire is really vulnerable to the point where they can be easily defeated, neither Napoleon III nor Zhu Jishi will easily provoke a war. Therefore, it is likely that world peace can be maintained for a long time...... I think it's not France and China that we really need to worry about in the future, but the second-tier powers that can't get enough out of the world. Hungry wolves like Russia, Austria and Germany are the real forces that have the potential to upset the balance. In the future, we must pay our full attention to these three countries. Of course, the United States of America, or the American Empire, is also a country that has the potential to upset the balance of the world. May the future leaders of the British Empire make good use of their power and not be led by their noses. ”

"And the United States?" John. Russell frowned, "Even if Her Majesty becomes the emperor of the United States, Americans are in big trouble, right?" ”

Viscount Palmerston shrugged his shoulders and said in a solemn tone: "20 million people, almost as much as the British mainland, and also has richer resources and more vast land than the United Kingdom...... John, for the sake of such a country, what is a little trouble? In my opinion, the future focus of the British Empire should be on the New World rather than on the narrow homeland...... The capital of the United Kingdom is best relocated to Ottawa or Toronto. And then move 1 million British people to the Americas every year, so that in 20 years the British Empire and the American Empire will truly become one, and our children and grandchildren will have the most powerful empire in the world! No one can seize her supremacy! ”

"But...... This can't be done! Viscount, I think you understand very well how stingy the English are, and even the Irish, who are dying of starvation, cannot eat a slice of English bread! And what about the Americans on the other side of the ocean? ”

John. Russell shook his head and said, "There are many people who are now very dissatisfied with the policy of forming the United British-American Empire. They believe that the taxes they pay will be used to save the bankrupt United States, to build and welfare the United States, rather than to serve the people of Great Britain itself. In their view, we are acting in such a policy as a betrayal of the people of Great Britain and using the hard-earned money of the British people to feed the traitors of the United States. ”

In fact, Viscount Palmerston's desire to form the United British-American Empire was also an important reason for his loss of parliamentary support. Not only was the British working class firmly opposed, but many of the voting bourgeoisie and middle class were also opposed to integration into the United States. Because they think that the United States is a mess now, and in order to clean it up, the British government will definitely raise taxes on the soil - which is equivalent to using the hard-earned money of the British to help Americans who have nothing to do with them. As for the idea of moving the capital of the empire to the New World, it seemed to them that it was simply a betrayal!

Viscount Palmerston smiled coldly: "These short-sighted fools! According to them, what should we do with the United States, which is ready to throw itself into the arms of the British Empire? ”

"Exploit it, suppress it, exploit it." John. Russell smiled helplessly, "Think of the United States as a second India and use its resources to serve the people of Great Britain itself." Because...... We are the government of Great Britain and should have the interests of the people of Great Britain first and foremost. ”

"Possession of a world empire is in the fundamental interests of the people of Great Britain!" Viscount Palmerston waved his hand, "John, you don't have to think too much about these stupid ideas, it is Her Majesty the Empress and Prince Albert who rule Great Britain, not the merchants and workers of London and Manchester. I think the Empress and the Prince will make the right choice! (To be continued.) )