In the World Cup final, Datang defeated the Argentine team 5:1, and the magical Argentine teenager Messi even scored a goal in a sudden attack at the beginning, but the strength of the two teams is still too different, and the Datang team scored five goals in a row to lock up the victory, and the Argentine team was beaten to the point of no return. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In this way, Datang did not harvest the Hercules Cup in the slightest. Similar to the rules in the other plane, the Hercules Cup is owned by the newly established FIFA, and the winner of each World Cup will be awarded this trophy and will keep the Cup until the next World Cup. The shape of the Hercules Cup is still the line structure of two Hercules lifting the earth, made of 18K gold, with a malachite inlay base. All those who have seen this trophy agree that it is a perfect work of art and a symbol of the supreme glory of world football.

The trophy was presented by President Bai Nan himself, and when the captain of the Datang team lifted the Hercules Cup, the ribbons and fireworks were released at the same time, and people cheered and cheered. Maybe Datang has defeated countless enemies on the battlefield and won impressive victories, but the scene is not necessarily more intuitive than the situation of winning the world championship. The media even said that winning the world championship is actually a microcosm of Datang as the world's number one power. Great nations have magical powers that can create endless miracles.

On the night after the awards, the national football players rode floats to start a grand championship celebration parade in Los Angeles, a city that never sleeps. Thousands of empty alleys, red flags rolling, crowds surging, this scene is enough to record the annals of history.

At a time when ordinary people are celebrating the championship, there are other major events happening in the corners that are not noticed.

The British ambassador warmly approached President Brownam and greeted him: "Congratulations, Your Excellency, your country has won this honour and it is enviable. ”

Bai Nan smiled and thanked faintly: "Thank you, the British team is also doing well. ”

In accordance with the principle of diplomatic reciprocity, the British ambassador did not have the opportunity to meet directly with Paiknan, and this was one of the few conversations held in an informal setting. Although football is slowly becoming a favorite sport in the UK, the ambassador is not prepared to talk to Bai Nam about football.

"Your Excellency, I would like to congratulate you on hearing that the heroic army of the Tang Dynasty defeated the Arabs in order to protect the commercial interests of the Tang Dynasty in the Middle East. However, as you can see, there is a lack of reliable order in most parts of the world, and free trade is being undermined. Not only could the Tang Dynasty sit idly by, but Britain was also extremely indignant at the actions of some people who undermined commerce. Not long ago, the Mamluks, the military nobles of Egypt, attacked our British merchants in Egypt, causing heavy losses in people and property, and the United Kingdom was outraged, and we are ready to teach Mamluk a lesson and restore the normal existence of free trade in the Middle East. ”

After hearing this, Bai Nan immediately understood that he knew that the British caravan was attacked by the Mamluks in Egypt, but in fact, this kind of thing happened almost often. It is not surprising that the Mamluks, as the de facto ruler of Egypt, often looted and extorted passing caravans and merchant ships, and occasionally suffered some casualties.

The Mamluks are a historical legacy, an ethnic group that is actually Turkic from Central Asia, ethnically similar to the Ottoman Turks. It is first derived from the Abbasid Turkic Ghulam system, and the meaning of the word is actually slave. During the Saladin period, the Mamluk group was finally formed, and Saladin selected warlike and agile men from among the slaves to form the Mamluks. The Mamluks also established a dynasty in Egypt before falling to the Ottomans. Despite this, the Mamluks still controlled the vast majority of the military and political power in Egypt, and in fact Ottoman rule was relatively nominal in most of the Ottoman Empire.

Bai Nam said to the British ambassador: "What is the plan of the British, is it going to send troops to Egypt?" ”

The British ambassador nodded and responded: "Yes, the House has already made a decision on this, Britain will send elite troops to Egypt, and the French side also agrees with the idea of maintaining the trade order in the Middle East, and Britain and France are discussing the issue of cooperation." ”

This was a bit of a surprise to Bai Nan, France did have some foreign policy changes after the last war, and peace with Britain was one of them. Britain and France are enemies who have fought for hundreds of years, but it is obvious that the British do not want France to be the little brother of the Tang people in European affairs, and at the same time, Britain is more afraid of Germany, which has strong combat effectiveness, so Britain deliberately wooed France.

Europeans' coveting of Egypt has remained unchanged for a long time, and both Britain and France have ambitions for Egypt. This time, the two countries joined hands, and eighty percent of them had the idea of carving up Egypt. After all, the Ottomans were already weakened, and Britain and France, which were experiencing rapid industrialization and growing in power by leaps and bounds, both believed that the Ottomans were becoming more and more unpopular, and they did not take it seriously at all, and they wanted to blatantly seize the interests of Egypt.

The British revealed this matter to Datang, on the one hand, they had the intention of driving a wedge between Datang and France, and on the other hand, in fact, the British also wanted to get the endorsement of Datang, after all, they played the banner of maintaining free trade, and this kind of banner was generally played by Datang. Of course, the British also did not want to see the Tang Dynasty intervene too much and dilute the benefits they could gain in Egypt. In fact, at this time, the British may have calculated that the Tang Dynasty's moves in North India, Tianfang and Persia took up a lot of their energy, and they would not come to rob the blame on the Egyptian issue.

It is impossible for Bai Nan to discuss this kind of thing in detail with the British ambassador in such an informal setting, Bai Nan generally understood what was going on, nodded and said nothing, and said goodbye to the British ambassador.

After getting into his special car, Bai Nan said to Qi Yuan, the secretary beside him: "Let the intelligence unit check whether there is any secret contact between Britain and France to discuss the attack on Egypt." ”

The strict intelligence network built by Datang over the years is one of the conditions for Datang's success, and under normal circumstances, Datang grasps the situation first, and this time Bai Nan has not heard about the secret discussion between Britain and France, so he wants to know whether there is a small mistake in intelligence, or whether the British deliberately said so to confuse the public.

By the time Bai Nam returned to Tongguang Pavilion, the investigation had already reached an eyebrow, and he replied that Britain and France had recently held many meetings on national trade and technical cooperation, and that the intelligence units did not have a full grasp of the content of their negotiations, and it was very likely that the British had taken advantage of the meeting to carry the Egyptian issue. (To be continued.) )