Chapter Seventy-One: The Tactics of Local Tyrants

It is understandable that the polar bear condom was opposed by believers, but the penguin refrigerator was a huge hit, alleviating Downing's prestige crisis in a certain way. Downing is a troublemaker, you can oppose him, but if you don't use the new things he invented, then you are out, out is too powerful. The Church called on believers not to buy any of the goods invented by the devil's ambassadors, almost no one paid attention to them, the telegram was not used, and the refrigerator was too practical.

Before the advent of the refrigerator, the abundant tuna caught by Scottish fishermen in the North Sea could only be sold into salted fish to England, and with the marine freezer, they were able to trade fresh seafood across borders, and between God and the devil, fishermen like them would obviously choose the devil.

The British telegraph company has quietly returned to normal operation, which is another masterpiece of the devil, and the invention of fishermen, wireless telegraphy, can quickly transmit the news of bad weather from the disaster area to the entire fishing area, and the fishermen have spontaneously invented this weather forecasting function to warn their compatriots. Later, the British Telegraph Company took the initiative to organize a more formal weather warning service and provided free services to fishing boats equipped with wireless telegraphy, which pushed the sales of wireless telegraphs up again. Although there are no meteorological satellites, the full-time staff has synthesized the number of wind forces and wind directions, and also guessed the information such as storms in various places.

God's spokesman is always lackluster, while the devil's spokesman organizes a lot of manpower to observe the weather of the ocean on regular ocean cruises, and does much more good than God. Whether the apostle of the devil was good or bad is judged by his descendants, and everything he did was real, and the goods he made were dry goods.

The current Downing's influence in the political arena is not trivial, many members of the cabinet are his friends, and even the prime minister does not dare to offend the tycoon. Not to mention the parliamentarians, who can scare a group of bad friends with the "grid opening schedule". In the field of public opinion, he has many close media such as "Daily News", "Republic Daily", "Worker", "Westminster Review", etc., and he can fight a good battle of public opinion. He is a member of the House of Lords. With his strength, it is time to fight the church well, and you can't always cause chaos for the lord.

It is necessary to use a magnifying glass to find the stubble of the church, whenever you find a little fault, the anti-church team organized by Downing will make a big splash, the huge financial resources are terrible, it is because he has the ability to do a lot of things, now Downing's printing house is responsible for the printing of many newspapers, 60% of the newspapers in London come from his printing house, this is also a resource that can be used, but all pro-church ones will raise prices, increase their costs, reduce their competitiveness, on the contrary, all pro-evolutionary will be rebated. Let them see what is called the tactics of local tyrants.

In the second step of the local tyrant's tactics, he told the British Museum that he would donate 1 million pounds to them within 10 years, provided that Darwin was appointed as the director. Owen, a Catholic who was running around trying to win the position and opposed the theory of evolution, spat out a mouthful of bird blood when he heard the news, hey, the strength was too far behind.

The royal family has a considerable say in the museum, and the queen and the prince have a huge disagreement, the queen does not like the theory of evolution, and the prince is a good friend of Downing, and is increasingly relegated to the local tyrant faction. In the end, Prince Albert said that it would be okay not to let Darwin be the director, and yesterday he went to Downing's house and said that if it doesn't work, he will build another natural history museum, and then 1 million pounds will be smashed, hehe, the world's largest museum may no longer be the British Museum.

Her Majesty also felt the power of the great tyrants, and she was very helpless, she couldn't watch the British Museum fall to second, right?

Darwin became the Grand Curator, and the church leaders suffered a heavy blow. Darwin is not young, and his health is not very good, so Wallace was sent to perform the work in the field, and it is estimated that Wallace does not like the work of a rubber plantation owner, and now he works in the British Museum, which has become one of the strongholds for the promotion of evolution, and all the exhibits of the original science exhibition were directly donated to the British Museum.

The struggle between Downing and the Church was a lot of fun, and the war in Crimea was progressing.

The key to the Crimean Peninsula is that if Russia gains the entrance to the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the balance of power in the Mediterranean, which originally belonged only to Britain and France, will be upset, and Britain and France have a common interest in this matter, which is why they will be so active in supporting the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Black Sea Fleet was crippled by the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and the Anglo-French Black Sea Fleet entered the Black Sea and wiped out the Russian fleet.

The relationship between Russia and Prussia and Austria was a "holy alliance". It was a loose alliance based on the recognition of the divine right of kings, created for the monarchs of Europe to re-establish their rule after the collapse of Napoleon's empire, and was initiated by Alexander I, the monarch of Russia, the main victor at the time.

At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Crimea, he hoped that the countries of the Holy Alliance would join his side, believing that it was Alexander I who saved the European royal family, but Pu and Austria were not fools, they had nothing to fight with Britain and France, and they were well fed, coupled with the despisy of serfdom in Russia, they did not think that the barbarian Russians had a chance of winning, and did not respond to the call of the "leader of the Holy Alliance". Prussia also had a large number of serfs when it was overthrown during the Napoleonic era, but they reformed and became rich and powerful. Not only that, but after the total annihilation of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Prussia and Austria formed a defensive alliance to put pressure on Russia to withdraw its troops.

Under pressure from Prussia and Austria, Russia withdrew from some of the two regions of the Ottoman Empire that he had occupied. At this point, the British Prime Minister decided that the war should be over. Unexpectedly, British public opinion did not approve of ending the war so quickly, the Ottoman Empire still had many places occupied, Britain and France had not completely contained Russia's Black Sea ports, or they would not fight, and since the war had started, they would take the opportunity to confiscate Russia's military ports and let Russia become a land power country forever.

The Prime Minister of Aberdeen was almost forced to choose to expand the war again, and the Anglo-French troops landed on the Crimean Peninsula and laid siege to the port of Sevastopol, while the Russian army strengthened the defensive line with all its might, and the Crimean War was in full swing.

In the fierce battle of the British and French landings, a huge storm in the Black Sea struck, and this time, the weather forecasting network led by Downing made a great contribution to the early warning, so that the British fleet was prepared, otherwise it was likely to be completely annihilated, just like the Mongols were twice blown by kamikaze and sunk in the sea when they fought Japan.

The consequences of the lack of wireless telegraphy in the French fleet were finally revealed, and only a few important command ships of the French fleet were equipped with telegraphs, and most of them did not have time to prepare and suffered heavy losses. This is in stark contrast to the Royal Navy.

When the news of the war returned to France, Napoleon III was criticized by domestic public opinion, criticizing him for not having a bad relationship with the telegraph king. Even if there are only 14 newspapers, these accusations are enough for him, the tone of the newspaper is "euphemistic" at first, and then when he sees that everyone is accusatory, the tone becomes more and more affirmative, which makes the third world angry enough.

A small start can cause a huge crisis, and then there are newspapers that continue to play: "No wireless telegraphy, no bicycles, no Leica cameras, no lights, no refrigerators...... I'm afraid this is not the France we want! ”

One newspaper retorted: "Downing? How can that crazy guy in Windsor covet the beauty of our queen, how can this matter be reconciled? Impossible. ”

Zhengfang: "Shaolai, long before the incident of Empress Eugenie, His Majesty closed the telegraph, this is still an English newspaper, an English newspaper that has never published political articles, and Tangning's support for the republicans is just a legend, who knows if it is true?" How can you believe it on the basis of some rumors? ”

As the discussion became more and more intense, the French ambassador to Switzerland also came to join in, and said in an interview with the newspaper: "Monsieur Windsor once said that if you ask Empress Eugenie to talk to him, maybe you can reconcile!" ”

The ambassador didn't know if he was drunk and made a gaffe, but he dared to say such things, and as a result, he was scolded by many newspapers.

There was also a newspaper that dug up the news and said: "Queen Eugenie is pregnant, and it just so happens that Windsor Maternity Hospital is the best hospital in the world, so it is better to go to London to give birth to ease the relationship between the two parties." ”

This newspaper was also scolded bloody, the goddess is pregnant, and the child is not mine! This kind of thing is exposed, is this a relaxation of feelings, or an intensification of confrontation?

In short, the French people are very unstable!

Hugo and Alexandre Dumas excitedly came running to discuss with Downing how to exploit the discontent of the French people. In the end, the negotiated trick was to make open freedom of speech a condition for lifting the product blockade, and to publicize this condition under the banner of fighting for freedom for the French people. Once the object of confrontation in the three worlds becomes freedom of speech, hehe, it will be even more interesting to watch.

Louis went to ask his wife for advice, and Eugénie said: "You should concentrate the best talents of France to crack the secrets of wireless telegraphy, and if that is not possible, then ...... The whole of France was to be plunged into a crisis, because the energy of this little thing was surprisingly great, especially in times of war. Now it's just getting started, imagine what the consequences would be if Windsor not only did not support France, but also sold telegraph machines to Russia? Now that we're joining forces with the UK, he's not going to do that, but what about after that? It is quite possible that, in addition to France, the British telegraph company had a dense network all over the world. ”

Louis was convinced, and then Eugénie made a request that stunned him: "Honey, I really want to go to Windsor maternity hospital to give birth." (http://.)。 ”

Louie's face was not good-looking: "Why?" ”

Eugenie: "I've read most of the reports about this hospital, it's really the best hospital in the world, the theory and equipment of disinfection and sterilization are unmatched, and our hospitals in France lack talent in London, for the sake of our children......"

Louis is going crazy, as the king of Lancy, he doesn't even have the ability to give his wife the best hospital for childbirth, this is ...... Alas!

Eugenie: "When I see Windsor, I will have a good talk with him, is it true that freedom of speech cannot be opened?" ”

Louis shook his head: "Newspaper will drive me crazy, I was fed up when I was president." Now the loss at the front is even more terrible. ”

Eugenie: "That's right...... With that, I personally selected a few beautiful French girls and sent them to Windsor as a secretary, so as to ensure that his heart blossomed and that his hostility towards my France would be reduced. ”

Louie: "...... A few ......, can you let me take a look at it first? ”

Eugenie swept her eyebrows: "Think beautiful!" ”

Her Majesty the Empress was really going to London to give birth, and the newspaper that proposed this was said excitedly: "See what I say? This is a good plan for peace talks, right? Our emperor and empress all agree! ”

In order to avoid embarrassment, Eugénie brought a lot of French officials with her this time.

When Downing received the news, he did not want to see the pot-bellied Empress of France, so he left Hugo as a plenipotentiary negotiator and fled London. Later, it was jokingly called "abandoning the city and fleeing".