On the night of Bismarck's visit to England, there was a sleepless night at Buckingham Palace. Pen "Fun" Cabinet www.biquge.info British Prime Minister Benjamin. Disraeli, the Marquess of Salisbury, Foreign Secretary, and the Liberal War Secretary (Britain also organized a wartime coalition government after the declaration of war) William Brown. Gladstone, Secretary of the Navy Robert . Winston Churchill and Admiral Milne, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, all gathered in the audience room of Buckingham Palace to meet Edward, the crown prince who remained in England.

Because Prince Albert lived much longer than in history, the royal power of the British Empire was stronger than in history - although Britain was a constitutional monarchy, there was also a process of its weakening of royal power. Historically, in the early and mid-Victorian era, the monarchy of England was still very powerful because of the power of Prince Albert. However, after the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, who has been dependent on her husband, lacks the ability to govern the country, and the amorous Crown Prince Edward is disliked by the queen because of the need to take certain responsibility for the death of the prince, and he has not been able to touch power until he is 50 years old. As a result, the British crown has been in decline for a long time, making the prime minister and parliament completely in control of the country. The current Britain is actually a country led by a monarch and a parliament.

"Threatening France with a strong Germany?" Crown Prince Edward listens to Benjamin. Disraeli reported on the meeting with Bismarck, while fiddling with the ** "Celestial Empire" that made him very unpleasant, "But will the Germans be co-opted by the Chinese?" This part of Europe has never been short of treachery, right? ”

"That's in the future, at least this time the Germans won't betray the British Empire, because it will take them a long time to digest the spoils." Said the Marquess of Salisbury. "And the Chinese will not sit idly by and watch Russia perish. They would certainly continue to support Russia in its resistance to Germany. In this way, there is no basis for a union between China and Germany. ”

"But will our sending troops to attack Russia affect the dispatch of troops to North America?" "North America is in dire need of reinforcements, and we should send 800,000 troops there in the next three months to relieve the siege of Kansas City," the British crown prince said. ”

"Actually, you don't need that many troops." Admiral Milne, the chief of the Imperial General Staff who came from the Navy, explained, "Because there will be no real relief operation, any attempt to relieve the siege of Kansas City will end in a fiasco." Traveling 400 kilometers west from St. Louis City to fight a hard-fought battle with more than a million squadrons waiting for work, it is absolutely crazy. It was like sending 200,000 British troops across the English Channel to fight Napoleon's Grande Army after the Battle of Trafalgar. No general in his right mind would agree to do that. ”

Milne is thinking of Jujuan as Napoleon I! The British crown prince sighed inwardly. He suddenly thought of Jujuan's sister, Princess Zhu Yisha, if his parents agreed to ask the Chinese emperor for marriage on his behalf, then the great beauty Zhu Yisha would become the future queen of the British Empire. And he is the son-in-law of the emperor of China, and the current war probably will not happen......

"Even if you don't need to relieve the siege of Kansas City, you still need a lot of troops on the North American battlefield." The British crown prince said, "Because Jujuan will attack, and if there are not enough troops, no one can stop him." ”

Milne explained, "He won't advance east until Jujuan has wiped out more than half a million Confederate troops in Kansas City. Because the encirclement of more than 500,000 people requires at least 800,000 troops, and an additional reserve group of at least 500,000 people is needed to deal with the relief of the Americans. In addition, Jujuan recently made a request to the state of Texas to become a Grand Duke of Texas. ”

"Can Texans accept a yellow man as their archduke?" Crown Prince Edward asked lightly.

"Actually, Jujuan is not a yellow race. He was of mixed Eurasian descent, and he was of Bonaparte and Württemberg royal blood. Going back further, it is related to almost all European dynasties, and the bloodline is very noble. Benjamin. "So Texans are likely to take it." ”

After the outcome of the battle of the Missouri River-Kansas City became clear, the royal families of all Europe suddenly discovered that Jujuan, the greatest commander of the era, was in fact a distant relative—no wonder it was so illustrious, it turned out that noble blood was at work! Uh, and William, who was defeated by Jujuan. Sherman and Thomas. Jackson's pedigree is too inferior, so failure is normal.

He's just an illegitimate child! Crown Prince Edward thought to himself, while Maria. Clementina was born into a noble family of the first class in France, and her maternal ancestors can even be traced back to the Anjou family, which was the Golden Sparrow Dynasty that once ruled England! There are still a few drops of blood belonging to the British royal family in Zhu Yisha's veins, why can't she become the Queen of England? It's ridiculous......

"Okay, then we'll send fewer troops to North America, and leave half of them to attack Russia." The British crown prince said that he was bargaining with the cabinet, after all, this is Britain, not Russia or Germany, where the king has made a promise, and now that the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal parties have agreed, the king will have to back down. "Send 400,000 people to the United States first, no less, otherwise it will be difficult to integrate the American Empire into the British Empire."

"Then send 400,000 people to the United States." British Prime Minister and War Secretary William. Gladstone exchanged glances and agreed to the crown prince's request. While they all know that shifting the UK's centre of gravity to North America will be beneficial in the long run, British voters don't think so, and they don't want to be "American hillbillies."

"And what is the reward for sending 400,000 troops to Russia?" The British crown prince paused for a moment and then asked, "What else can Britain get but a strong Germany?" ”

"There will not be 400,000 troops sent to Russia." The War Minister replied, "Send a maximum of 200,000, and we will try to unite with the Kingdom of Sweden to help Sweden recover Finland (occupied by Russia in 1809)." ”

"The Swedes agreed?"

The Marquess of Salisbury, the Foreign Secretary, said: "I will agree, this is a pie-in-the-sky thing." ”

Negotiations to bring Sweden and Norway into the war had been going on in secret, and now Sweden and Norway are still co-monarchies, and Norway is ruled by the Bernadotte dynasty of France. However, relations between the Bernadottes and the Bonaparte dynasty were always bad. Even when Napoleon III was alive, the Bernadottes did not have much of a relationship with the Bonapartes. As for the question of recovering Finland, Oscar II, who now rules the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, is of course interested, but the monarchs of Sweden and Norway actually do not have much power, and it is difficult to lead the country to war with Russia. Of course, as soon as Britain decided to send troops, the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway would surely follow - for with the entry of Great Britain the war against Russia would certainly be won, and the Swedish government would not be able to take advantage of such a great advantage.

"Oh, where are the 400,000 troops to be sent?" Edward asked. The British Army has now mobilized 1.2 million, of which 1 million remain on home soil. Now send 400,000 to North America, 200,000 to deal with Russia, and 400,000 to use.

The Minister of War replied: "Two hundred thousand of them will remain at home to watch out for France." A hundred thousand will be sent to India to strengthen the defenses there. Another 50,000 were used to strengthen the defenses of Australia and Malacca. Another 50,000 men were sent to the Cape Colony to prepare to fight or aid the Republic of Dewathland. ”

"What? Is it to attack Devasland or to aid Devasland? "The Crown Prince is a little confused.

"It depends on the attitude of the Republic of Dewasland, the Orange Free State, the Zulu Kingdom, and the Black African Empire." The British Prime Minister blinked, "The gold of Devasland is so tempting, enough to send all the surrounding countries into madness." ”

"And the UK?" Crown Prince Edward frowned, "Shouldn't we use all our forces against China?" ”

Milne, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, said: "Your Royal Highness, we don't have to worry too much about China, as long as Russia fails, France will definitely succumb to the pressure of the whole of Europe, and then the white world will be united, and the Chinese can only make peace with us." ”

"I hope so." The British crown prince nodded slightly. I thought to myself, wouldn't there be no problem if I married Zhu Yisha earlier? What stupidity these politicians are! (To be continued.) )