Luxembourg's founding was opposed by the whole of Europe, which was a major blow to Downing, and he felt that he still stayed in the safer place of the more liberal Britain. Naturally, his plans for Luxembourg were put on hold for the time being. He could not rule Luxembourg honorably, but he was still the top power in London, and at his level, he no longer needed the support of nobility or land to show his prestige. Downing? Windsor is a symbol of high technology and new industry, and English people do not have the habit of religious persecution, especially an important industrial leader like Downing.

Downing was still not in the habit of arguing with people, and since all of Europe was opposed to a country that openly professes atheism, then forget it, he continued to invest in Luxembourg, but on a regular scale and intensity, and did not explain in a single word whether he would hold on, give up, or drag his feet, in short, Luxembourg was nominally the Grand Duke, but he never visited.

In the midst of the curses of the whole of Europe, the only person who firmly supported him may be the "Workers' Daily" edited by Marx, Lao Ma is of course a materialist, and the public ownership he advocates has not changed, but he is first materialistic, and then communist.

Downing suddenly realized that his religious views could not be supported in democracies, and for the next two hundred years, the fear of godlessness forced all democratic politicians to refrain from expressing their true religious attitudes (even if he was an atheist). Suddenly, Downing's founding ideas underwent a fundamental change, from democracy to elitism. In the future, even if Luxembourg, China, and Japan have an upper house and a lower house, he will support the upper house representing the elite.

Downing, who always thought that he was not on the right path with Marx, couldn't help but smile bitterly, in the end, Marx was actually his only comrade-in-arms, and of course, Engels was too.

This old horse is also quite pitiful, and in his life he has never been able to see a public state established according to his own ideas, and many countries that later respected him as a mentor have misinterpreted his original intention in many ways. There is a lot of controversy here, but one thing is certain, Marx's original intention was not to use the dictatorship of iron and blood to slaughter all the capitalists.

One day, Downing met Marx alone, and on a whim, he said, "Carr, are you interested in creating a country with me where atheists gather?" There will probably be a two-party system in this country, you, on behalf of the workers, and I, on behalf of the capitalists, if you can win the election, it will be possible to have public ownership in this country, and realize the idea that public ownership of your means of production will promote production. ”

Marx, of course, was very interested, and he knew that Downing, the eccentric capitalist, was not just talking about it, and you see, wasn't the Workers' Party headed by his good friend Engels already established in England?

Downing continued: "Well, I am now the general contractor for the Suez Canal project, so that I can put both sides of the Red Sea under the protection of the Canal Company, so I will have troops, and on both sides of the Red Sea, there will be a lot of empty arid land for the establishment of the country. These arid lands are places of death for others, but heaven for me. Because I have two treasures: first, seawater desalination technology; Second, greenhouse soilless hydroponic technology. The latter can keep the water in the internal circulation of the greenhouse, and can create an artificial oasis in the desert, with a yield 20 times that of ordinary land, ensuring that our country has a developed agriculture. Isn't the proletariat characterized by the color red? Maybe the Red Sea will really turn into the Red Sea, haha! ”

Marx rubbed his hands excitedly: "How should I start?" ”

Downing: "Under the guise of the Suez Canal, when I recruit workers and engineers, I will send out some answers to interviewers, and workers who tend to be atheistic will be given priority to join, so as to pull up a huge team, use both sides of the Suez Canal as a base, and then expand settlements on both sides of the Red Sea." In the future, all European ships will pass through the Suez Canal, so these settlements will be able to obtain sufficient employment security just as a supporting industry for the canal, and they will not be poor and empty. What's more, I will also invest in other industries. ”

There is one thing he did not tell Marx - the right bank of the Red Sea is the Arabian Peninsula, which has the richest oil resources in the world. As long as the oil age comes, their red empire can really be rich and distributed according to needs. However, this really cannot be revealed, lest the Arabs become guarded.

Marx: "This is a very constructive approach, but I am also worried about the balance of power between you, a capitalist and me, a representative of the working class who advocates public ownership. ”

Tang Ning: "It depends on your wisdom, you make a step, I give a step, this world is originally a competition between the power of capital represented by capital and the power of people represented by people, but it is not a zero-sum game, don't workers have a little capital?" Will the workers be poor forever? Can't you be a small and middle class? When a small production is combined, it is also a large production. I have opened my attitude, and our cooperation is not a life-and-death relationship, but a relationship of coexistence and development. Without my capital, your workers have no chance of building a nation, and without your people, I don't have enough manpower to build a nation. ”

Marx went back to pondering a plan for the peaceful coexistence of workers and capitalists, which could well be the constitution of the "Red Sea Empire".

During this period, it was time for the Japanese delegation to return home. The Japanese delegation was really eye-opening, and went to Birmingham, Manchester and other industrial cities in the United Kingdom to see the great factories of the industrial age, and the most impressive thing was the crystal shipyard in London, which was a masterpiece of the times.

In order not to be biased, the delegation also went to Belgium, which is relatively industrially developed, and Switzerland, which has a direct democratic system, which are all recommended by Downing. Of course, Japan also curiously went to the Bavarian kingdom where Downing's fiancée lived, and the prosperity under the imperial system did not seem to be much inferior, as if the key was to have a powerful industrialist like Downing to guide him.

At the time of parting, Downing suddenly had an inspiration, Europeans pay attention to God, and the Japanese don't talk about God, just right, in order to stabilize Luxembourg's defense strength and offset the threat of stern zhòng brought by the Hessian monarch's non-support, Shimazu Qibin, the lord of Tangning's Satsuma domain, sent 2,000 elites to Singapore to participate in modern rifleman training, and then selected 1,000 of them to form Satsuma mercenaries to go to Luxembourg, in exchange, Downing will build a shipyard in Nagasaki in a half-joint venture, It is also on the same scale as the Crystal Shipyard. The most advanced shipyards of this era will be a turning point in Japan's national fortunes, and the combination of steel mills will be the beginning of the rapid rise of Japan's heavy industry.

Shimazu Qibin was quite excited, this was what he dreamed of, and he patted his chest and assured that these 2,000 warriors were definitely an iron army that was completely loyal to Tangning without fear of death. Downing believed in this, the prestige of the Japanese samurai......

Tangning has already set a plan for the reliability of the army, using Asian mercenaries to fight European enemies, using European mercenaries to fight Asian enemies, and conquering the Arabian Peninsula in the future, the Eurasian coalition army.

When his Satsuma mercenaries are successfully formed, they can officially take over Luxembourg, and when the time comes, they will drive the Prussian army away first, and others may be afraid of the soldiers hatched from the shells of the Prussian kingdom, and the Satsuma mercenaries hatched from the scabbard of the katana!

After a battle with the Taiping army, Tang Ning found that he could be qualified as a commander, but he was not comfortable, killed thousands of people, had several nightmares, and only recently eased up, alas, he tried not to go to the battlefield in the future, just let the mercenaries go on their own. He was a scientist, or a military scientist, but he didn't like to be a general. This is still only killing the Taiping army, and if there are no casualties among his own people, if his own army has casualties, I am afraid he will be even more uncomfortable. Therefore, he prefers naval warfare to land warfare, military technology is very useful in naval warfare, and the importance of soldiers in land warfare is more prominent, and the team with courage and courage is more likely to win. The last time he fought the Taiping army, which was almost all cold weapons, if the opponent was a European rifleman, it would be miserable. He didn't like the results of one as ten.

This battle also made him regard his smokeless gunpowder technology as a treasure, and he would not show it lightly. Only an army with a fairly guaranteed loyalty would ration the FN-1855, and at present, only 2,500 Hessian mercenaries in Singapore had them (300 of whom served as marines on his Great Eastern, the equivalent of his guards), and after the Hessian monarch expressed his disapproval, Downing strictly controlled the ammunition supply of the Hessian soldiers in Singapore to avoid getting out of control.

Marx finally came up with a plan for the founding of the Red Sea colonies. As Downing said, the implementation of the two-party system, Marx represents the working class, for the workers' party, Downing represents the middle class with considerable assets, and later officially named the "Alliance of the Prophets", claiming to represent the future development direction of the ideological, academic, scientific and technological, business, industrial and commercial elites, to govern the country with rationality, advocate finding a balance between distribution according to work and distribution according to capital, and build the country into a fair and competitive, dynamic regime.

In the new country, there is the House of Lords and the House of Commons, both of which have equal power, and both have the power to veto each other's bills by a simple majority, and the members of the House of Lords must have assets of more than a certain amount or an annual salary of more than a certain amount, basically business owners, financiers, famous scientists, famous writers, artists, engineers, traditional aristocrats, etc. Members of the House of Commons are distributed according to the number of persons with primary education, irrespective of gender, race or language. （http：／／.）。 Education here is the floodgates that restrict the entry of religious elements, and here education refers to language, mathematics, history, geography, biology based on evolution. The languages were initially divided into three languages: English, German, and French. In the future, if internationalization is successful, the number of constitutional amendments will increase.

This is kept secret for the time being, waiting for an opportunity, and it is necessary to make sure that such a country is attractive, and if the Suez Canal is not enough to attract tens of thousands of people, then the plan to establish a state will be in vain.

After four years of construction of the London sewers, the main trunk has been completed and put into use, which has greatly alleviated the stench of London, and the Labour soot elimination law has been put into effect, no coal burning is allowed in the city of London, and the factories must be equipped with filtration devices.

In addition, Bathermar, the engineer of the London sewer project, had been selected by Downing to be the chief engineer of the Suez Canal, which was also announced when he boasted of his achievements in sewage treatment. The original French engineers became auxiliary forces, so let's rest.

At this time, the citizens of London suddenly woke up, it turned out that our better life has the indestructible contribution of Mr. Windsor, and in the past few days, the voice of criticism of Downing has gradually faded. What God, God, can't be seen or touched, but the improvement of London's environment is a certainty. Due to the revocation of the duke's title, "Mr. Windsor" is now the most common name for Downing in London, although Downing's status as the Earl of Cambridge is still there, but people are afraid that Downing will be touched by the nobility title and think that his duke title is no longer useful.