Chapter 196: The Death of France
The battle of Windsor Harbour spread all over the world with the radio waves, the powerful French navy was humiliated, the stock markets of Paris, New York and other NATO countries plummeted, not to mention the bond market closely related to the war, and no one dared to buy the war bonds issued by NATO countries.
As the news spread in the Qing Dynasty, the housing prices of the French Concession, which had just been separated from the Shanghai Public Concession, plummeted, and French merchants who feared the brutal retaliation of the Qing Dynasty jumped off buildings and sold them off, far from the treacherous places of the WTO countries. Xu Rongcun's nephew Xu Run saw the real estate business opportunity, and received from his uncle the guarantee that the current government could not carry out a purge of foreigners, so he borrowed money to buy a large amount of real estate in the French Concession and became a generation of local tyrants.
Sure enough, the Qing government later sent a message to the Daqing newspaper to appease the French merchants, saying that the Qing Dynasty was moving towards commercial civilization, that war was a matter between countries, and commerce was a matter for civilians, and that the Qing Dynasty would even still fulfill the previous indemnity according to the Sino-French Treaty, and it would not be too late to reach a new agreement to recover it later.
Yes, the Qing government, which is so confident, well, the land price is slowly rising again, and Xu Tuhao is making a lot of money.
The most dramatic scene took place in Italy. Their emperor won a great victory, and the Italian flag was lowered at half-mast to mourn the fallen soldiers of the enemy country, which was really unheard of, and some Italians even danced happily with black ribbons, and what was supposed to be a good thing to respect the enemy turned into a mockery of the French in the Italians, and the newspapers published such a photo, which provoked the French to be extremely angry.
The French took to the streets spontaneously, waving banners that read "Boycott Italian goods", calling on the people of the whole country to unite and not to buy any products from the Windsor consortium. Don't use their telegraphs, cars, lights, refrigerators, washing machines, fans, avoidance-pregnancy condoms, black wires, hospitals, ......
Marseille, a port city with a large number of conscripts and enlistments, was the first to take the lead in vicious smashing and looting, where thugs stormed shops, car stores, ice cream parlors and other places selling Windsor Consortium merchandise, robbed and beat the predominantly French employees inside. Later, this evil behavior spread to Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice and other large cities.
The Windsor consortium suffered heavy losses in its industry in France and had to cease all business practices, even the supply of electricity. France plunged into a world of darkness, which was seen by the French as a more hostile act. Many of the Windsor Consortium employees are British, and they are angry that their homeland protect them.
Even the Times, which has always been anti-Windsor, said that "the French are all crazy".
The French emperor appealed to the people to remain calm, but his authority as emperor had been greatly lost in the utterly defeated war, and it was good that he did not come forward, and as soon as he came out, some people in the marching crowd even shouted "The emperor step down" "You are not Napoleon, you are not worthy of being our emperor!" ”
III suffered a crisis in power. His empress also complained, "Tell you not to go to war with Tang Ning, he is such a powerful genius that no one can see through, he was so difficult when he didn't have a political identity, and now he is also an emperor, only God can clean him up." ”
The couple disagreed and quarreled, and as a result, Eugenie left Paris in a rage, leaving behind the sentence "I don't want to see your miserable end!" "Eugénie is really gone, even leaving France, she thinks that the Emperor of France is finished, the French Empire is finished, and she, the Empress, has also come to an end. What the French are doing now will only outrage the Windsor Great.
The Dutch and Russians were dumbfounded by the French YY media discussing where it would be better to imprison Windsor the Great. The current East India Company is too capable of fighting, and it turns out that it has been hidden and is reluctant to take it out. The Netherlands thought, it's over, let's talk about the island of New Guinea, and the whole of Indonesia is probably hanging. There are also many Malays and Chinese in Indonesia, similar to Malaya, and perhaps Downing has long had ambitions to unify the Malay Archipelago.
The weak Russian fleet in Vladivostok is all fluctuating, and the powerful French Mediterranean fleet is completely annihilated. The Russian army, which had been defeated by the Japanese army at Sakhalin, decided to completely withdraw from Sakhalin and defend Vladivostok. Of course, their good days really came to an end, and since Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng still obeyed the orders of the imperial court and withstood the test, the imperial court had decided to equip their elite units with a small number of world-famous guns: the FN-1855.
A high-grade highway from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar is being built, using large, heavy construction machinery from the Suez Canal and prefabricated rapid cement paving technology. From this road, another road leads directly to Dayuz (southern Kazakhstan, the territory of the Qing Dynasty). When these two routes are completed and the war resources can easily reach Ulaanbaatar and Velika Yuz, the Russian-occupied Middle Yuz and Lesser Yuz, as well as the Baikal city of Irkutsk, will be severely threatened. And once these two strategic points are lost, it means that the entire vast land of Siberia of the Russian Empire will be cut off, and it will mean a national disaster for Russia.
Such a shocking result made everyone forget a major event for a while -- the opening of the Suez Canal. A voyage from the port of London in the United Kingdom or the port of Marseille in France to the port of Mumbai in India can shorten the total voyage by 43% and 56% respectively via the Suez Canal compared to the Cape of Good Hope. It is shortened by 5,500-8,009 kilometers from the countries bordering the Atlantic coast of Europe to the Indian Ocean; 8,000-10,000 kilometers from the Mediterranean countries to the Indian Ocean; For the Black Sea coast, it was shortened by 12,000 km.
Judging by the current volume of Eurasian trade, it is more profitable than the Panama Canal, two to three times the traffic of the Panama Canal, and it is likely that the French stake will become the spoils of war. The city and fortress called "Windsor" is not a soft persimmon to be handled, and the French are a profound reminder of this fact.
With the power to wipe out the French flotilla, Downing decided to regulate the opium trade through the Guò Suez Canal, and once again asked the Labour Party to introduce a bill to restrict opium in the British Parliament. However, this is of little use, and the current global opium trade is mainly sold by India to the degenerates of the Qing Dynasty, especially by officials. So there is an even more ruthless trick, if Britain does not pass the opium restriction bill for a day, the Suez Canal also imposes high tolls on British merchants!
Some people wonder, isn't Downing in India having the final say? Why the UK? Because the restriction of opium is a relatively important piece of legislation, which involves the supreme jurisdiction of the British House of Lords over India, otherwise Tangning would have introduced relevant laws in India a long time ago, and the people of Jardine Matheson are not dry meals, and have been courting the nobles of the Judicial Committee of the British House of Lords. As a result, India has not yet succeeded in enacting an opium restriction law.
To this day, the idea of absolute free trade is still dominant in British politics, so it is easy to restrict the goods of other countries, but it is quite difficult to restrict the trade of one's own country, even if there is reliable evidence of the side effects of opium.
The British government has a one-third stake in the Suez Canal, but the problem is that Downing has announced that the French third has been temporarily held in trust by Downing, the president of the Suez Canal Company, because of the war, so they seem to be unable to interfere now.
The Times found another anti-Windsor excuse, saying that he had seized the Suez Canal on the occasion of the war with France, turning the world's most important passage into his own personal canal.
The relationship between the World Trade Center and the world's largest power, Britain, suddenly became delicate, could it be that this prehistoric monster of capital is going to confront the rhythm of the suzerain? NATO countries are even more hyped up about the ambitions of the Windsor capital monster.
At this point, Downing swaggered back to London, because Faraday had returned, and he went to see how the old man was doing. Because Faraday lived next to the Situo Garden, he went to his house before he entered the house and took a turn, and found that the old man was not only thinking slowly, but also quite energetic, and was given a false alarm by Lin Fei'er.
It's okay, where can I pay attention to the little sister's lying, the two New Year's friends suddenly had a happy meeting, and at this time, the queen's family came to visit with their families, and it was even more lively. The Queen had come to thank Downing's specially set up treatment team for curing her husband's stomach cancer. In fact, until now, Tang Ning still doesn't believe that his real treatment technology can really cure stomach cancer, it is estimated that it is a fluke, and the cancer is quite tenacious.
Princess Louise was really happy, when she saw Tang Ning, she rushed up and kissed him twice, and the prince was jealous, no wonder, if she hadn't traveled thousands of miles to Shanghai to ask the great god to come back, Prince Albert's illness was still uncertain, and now she felt that she had the second most credit for saving her father's life, could she not be happy?
Princess Louise is now 14 years old, and she is becoming more and more beautiful and charming, and Linfield stared at her with wide eyes on the sidelines, which made Tang Ning very embarrassed, and quickly diverted his attention and asked the prince, "Are you really cured?" Bring me a picture of the gastroscopy for me to see. ”
The prince really brought the photo with him for Tang Ning to enjoy, of course he was quite grateful to his old friend, although Tang Ning was not in London, but he ascended the throne and honeymooned, and he never forgot to organize his research team remotely.
Tang Ning looked at the lesion diagram that was no different from ordinary people for a long time, and even said: "Good luck......
Princess Louise smiled sweetly, "That's ...... President Lincoln was not so lucky, and it was always bad luck to go against Downing. ”
Tang Ningqi said: "How do you say this? ”
Louise: "Don't you know? His son died of a high fever, and it happened that Windsor Hospital was completely withdrawn from the northern market during that time, and he found the best hospital to save his son. ”
"Huh?" Downing didn't hit the enemy's good mood, he still admired Lincoln, this ending is really ......
Louise said heartlessly, "Ahh You are really a good person, Lincoln ran to your wedding to tear down the stage, do you still feel sorry for him? I felt very angry at the time, when the contest is not good, I have to run to your and Sissi's wedding to make trouble, and it will cause me ......" She wanted to say "It caused me to lose the opportunity to dance with the new emperor", but she stopped in time, and two small red clouds floated on her little face.
Tang Ning: "I don't know about such a big thing, alas, too, I'm quite lazy now, I don't read the news much, especially the newspapers of NATO countries, which are all negative and scold me, so I have to see it clearly." (.)。 I had to focus on science and technology, which always made me feel calm. Although I was in Windsor Harbour, I was not in command of the battle in the Mediterranean, but by Marx and Engels, and they used me to show weakness to the enemy, so that I was scolded as a liar, and I later scolded the two of them. I don't want to show weakness, it's too fake, the French actually believe it......"
The prince laughed: "What is the French believe, our family Vicky believes it." ”
Queen Victoria gave Downing a blank look, expressing her displeasure at being kept in the dark.
Tang Ning found something: "Where is the prince?" ”
Queen: "This guy lives a bad life in Scotland, and I'm grounded. ”
This kind of gossip had not been spread long ago because of the Battle of the Mediterranean, and the blessing of the Tonning would have been limited by the spread of the scandal now.