Chapter Seventy-Nine: Young William
William Jr., of course, understood why Marshal Moltke and his nephew were watching him at this time, and he also knew why Grandpa had sent his younger brother, Prince Henrik of England, to come with him.
"Don't you want to find fault with me! Never think! Little William let out a hysterical cry in his heart. Thanks to his heart, if he really shouted out, I believe many people would run away in fear.
At this time, William Xiao deeply hid his hatred for "Mr. Oriental Dragon" and the British, and watched everything on the scene quietly.
Since a few years ago, when he was "co-ed doubles" by his father, Prince Frederick, and his mother, Princess Victoria, for speaking ill of "Mr. Dragon of the East", he has learned to hide his thoughts.
When the young Willy was born, his 18-year-old mother experienced an extremely painful delivery, due to the baby's birth in an improper position, Willy's head and shoulders came out first, and most of his body was stuck in his mother's body. According to common sense, a young woman who is a newborn baby is very fond of a new mother. But Willie's mother is not an ordinary woman, she is the first child of Queen Victoria of the British Empire, this eldest princess is proud and obsessed with the throne, but unfortunately she is mistaken for a daughter. For her, the only future is to find a good husband to marry, have a son, and then motherhood, through this son, to transform the country she married into the country she was born in.
Unfortunately, the son she gave birth to was a semi-disabled man.
Princess Victoria could not tolerate the child's imperfections, and so she preferred several other able-bodied children, both in public and in her palaces in Berlin and Potsdam. And Princess Victoria adheres to the temperament of her mother, Queen Victoria, and her maternal love is not much revealed. When the doctor did her bidding, he was electrocuted to his left arm by tying young William to a chair (presumably similar to electrocution), and when the six-year-old William was left to Presbyterian Professor Hinzpet, Princess Victoria ignored him. All of this is enough to distort the psychology of a young child and extend the object of his hatred to those things that are reminiscent of his mother, for example, England.
Princess Victoria, a member of the British royal family, often instilled in her son the concept of "Britain first". She insisted on calling her son only by his English name: William was called "Willy" and her second son Heinrich was called "Henry", and William had a great ill feeling towards England from an early age because of his mother's relationship. According to Freud's doctrine, England became a symbol of his mother who had been a shadow over William's head in childhood.
In addition to not loving his mother, William Jr. also has a stern, even harsh, father who believes that "corporal punishment is the only way to correct mistakes", and you can imagine what William's childhood was like.
Because of his deep belief in the legend of the "Oriental Magic Box", when Lin Yizhe visited the Kingdom of Prussia, William Jr. went so far as to say that Lin Yizhe was an enemy of the German nation, and that his words might ruin the friendly relations that Prussia had just established with Daqian. Enraged, William I reprimanded William's father, Prince Frederick, and his mother, Princess Victoria, and William's parents dragged William into the room and gave him a "mixed doubles" lesson, nearly beating him to death. After that, William Jr. became reticent and no longer dared to express his true thoughts easily.
One of the palace guards wrote these words in his diary: "...... This tragic encounter deepened his prejudice against Mr. Lin Yizhe and Qianguo, as well as his hatred of Britain. …… From that day on, both the Qianguo and the British were out-and-out conspirators in his mind. He privately referred to the envoy as Satan, the serpent and the dragon of the Bible, his father as a tyrant, his mother and siblings as the British colonial, his grandmother Queen Victoria as the Empress of Hindustani, and said that this old woman should have died a long time ago. As for himself, he hoped that 'the blood of that damned Englishman' would be drained from his veins! Although this lesson taught him to hide his opinions and thoughts, I believe that these ideas are deeply rooted in his head......"
Nevertheless, because the trouble he had caused on that occasion was so great that King Wilhelm I was not at ease with his performance, that the sending of his envoy was to a great extent a test for him - if he dared to do anything that jeopardized the relations between the two countries, then he would not have to return to Germany.
Little William felt that his younger brother Prince Henrik seemed to be looking at him as well, he pretended to be casual and turned his head to look around, just met his brother's gaze, and his younger brother Henrik saw that little William was looking at him, his eyes flashed with fear, and he immediately turned his head to the side, and did not dare to look at him again.
William Jr. knew that his "authority" in his brother's mind—which he had ridden as a horse—had not disappeared, and he could not help but feel a secret sense of pleasure in his heart. But there was still no expression on his face.
After a short time, the British delegation finished worshipping, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites sang loudly to welcome the German delegation into the memorial, Wilhelm turned his head to look at Marshal Moltke, as if asking him to give instructions, Moltke knew what he meant, and when he stepped forward, William and Henrik followed him, and the members of the German delegation entered the mourning hall in turn.
After the bouquet was presented, William began to read the prepared prayers, which he read with sincerity and sincerity, and all his words and movements were in a proper manner, much to Moltke's great surprise.
After completing the memorial ceremony, Xiao William even came to Chen Wan, greeted her, and presented one of his medals to Xiao Lin Guanchen, pinning the medal to Lin Guanchen's chest like a medal.
Moltke and his nephew Moltke looked at each other, each reading the other's eyes.
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