When the emperor led the governor Zeng Guoquan (Zeng Guofan had stepped down and went to China to prepare to become the next prime minister, Zeng Guofan recommended his younger brother to be the new governor, originally the upper and lower houses of the parliament had no complaints about this, but Lin Hong believed in Zeng Guofan in addition to believing in history, so he still appointed him as the governor without scruples. The Foreign Legion arrived at the camp with a regiment, leaving nothing but blood and chaos on the ground, and it was clear that the Boers had cleaned up the battlefield.

"If you live to see people, you must see corpses when you die!" Zeng Guoquan squinted his eyes and said to the adjutant.

You must know that Wang Zhongqiang is his good friend, in the colony Zeng Guoquan usually in addition to government affairs A large part of the time is to communicate with Wang Zhongqiang and Zhou Biao These scholars and professors, and Zeng Guoquan, who grew up through old-style education, respects these friends very much, they gave Zeng Guoquan a lot of geographical and geological knowledge and often goes out on expeditions to collect African animal and plant specimens for Zeng Guoquan to send to him, Zeng Guoquan and this group of people are also teachers and friends, and now the blood stains and messy camps all over the ground make him very sad. In the past, Wang Zhongqiang also joked that if he was dismembered by a beast that day, he would ask Zeng Guoquan to collect his body, but he didn't expect it to happen now.

After an hour, the soldiers still didn't get anything, Zeng Guoquan was really unwilling, and his good friend couldn't do anything before his bones were cold.

At this time, the adjutant ran over from the north and shouted out of breath: "The chief has found it!" Got it! ”

"Alive!" Zeng Guoquan looked at the adjutant and immediately picked up his collar and asked nervously.

This was the adjutant's face and a low face replied: "The soldiers of the river gunboat found the corpses of Professor Wang and the expedition team, and at the downstream fork of this tributary, there was a broken log blocking their corpses. ”

Listening to the adjutant's words, Zeng Guoquan's face froze, he didn't say anything, sighed with a gloomy face and ordered: "Call the soldiers back, let's go back, and let's arrange Professor Wang's funeral first." "As Governor, he knew that this would not and could not end.

After saying and walking a few steps, Zeng Guoquan suddenly turned his head to look at the south and said calmly: "You will pay the price!" ”――

J.H. Bird Orange Free State fourth president, as an immigration country, to be precise, forced to immigrate country, they were also driven here by the British, originally the situation in Orange was very difficult, the south is the South African colony of the British Empire, and the east is the strong African indigenous Zulu, but now it's okay, the British are at war with Zulu, Orange finally has a chance to breathe, but just yesterday the big things that made Bird's head big were one after another, first the news came from the colonial village in the north that the patrol eliminated a Chinese invading expedition, so that Bird had the urge to hit his head against the wall, you have nothing to do to provoke the Chinese, The important thing is to eliminate a whole team of people, if you want to start cleanly, forget it, but people came to the door. Now this matter has spread all over the world, the name of the "Kakamas Massacre" has also spread, and the international reputation of Orange is also stinky. Now the Boers, who are also white, have actually done the same thing as barbarians, and the countries of the European continent have condemned Orange, and of course the British have danced the most.

Zeng Guobao, the special envoy of the governor of the Southwest Emperor (Zeng Guofan's younger brother Zeng Guoquan's second brother), he had already met yesterday. The envoy simply said calmly: we need an explanation, an explanation that satisfies us. The calm tone and attitude are what frighten Bird, this is the power of the world's first-class powers! How to explain! Obviously, they will not rest until they have received enough benefits.

Bird is really troubled now, looking for help from the British? The British are also a bunch of virtues who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, what to do! What to do

While Bird was agonizing over the troubles in front of him, Downing Street, far away in London, was indeed full of joy.

After William Jurte Gladstone implemented the liberal economic policy, the British economy improved markedly, and from 1868 to 1874, Gladstone led the Liberal Party for the first time to organize a government and carry out various reforms. In response to the fact that all schools in England were controlled by the Church and that most school-age children did not have any literacy education, he introduced the National Education Reform in 1870, establishing government-funded secular primary schools to raise the literacy level of the workers in order to support the industrialists in their competition on the international market. In the same year, a reform of the civil service was introduced, and a low-cost government was established that could improve administrative efficiency and save costs, so as to facilitate the use of more funds for economic development. From 1871 to 1872, he strengthened the military bureaucracy through measures such as the reform of the army, the abolition of official contributions, the introduction of short-term military service, and the creation of the Ministry of the Interior to supervise the activities of local self-government organs, thus making Britain a very important step on the road to establishing a centralized bureaucracy of the European continent. In his first cabinet, Gladstone adopted a series of political reforms to finally complete the transformation of the political superstructure of the country by the bourgeoisie since the nineteenth century, making it a handy tool for the bourgeoisie to rule the people. This period was the golden age of his reign, and for this reason, the British government was held up as a model by the rulers of various European countries. In order to win over the petty bourgeoisie and the upper strata of the working class among the population, he issued a decree legalizing trade unions in 1871 and elections by secret ballot in 1872. It can be said that he laid a solid foundation for the economic, political and cultural transformation of Britain.

"Those stupid farmers and hooligans, they have to suffer now." Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne-Cecil was the third Marquess of Salisbury, who succeeded to the title of Marquis of Salisbury in 1868 because of his father's death. With the immense prestige of the Marquess of Salisbury in the previous generation and his own ability, Gascoigne Cecil was a regular visitor to Downing Street, and how could he miss this time when it happened so big.

"Without the protection of the British Empire, those fools would eventually die out in Black Africa." First Sea Secretary Sydney Dyck was still resentful of the Boer secession from the South African colony.

"Yes, they will be punished, but now we are going to talk about what role our British Empire is going to play in this conflict." Gladstone spoke: "Protector or arbiter, or step in and take some of what we deserve!" ”

"According to the custom of the Chinese, this will definitely be used as an excuse to invade the land of the Boers, and I think that we only need to give the Boers some small help after the Chinese do it, so that we can not only consume China but also harvest the friendship of the Boers, what a perfect thing! It's not too late for us to come forward. Sydney said.

"No, no!" At this time, Charlie Yilu, who was sitting next to him in obscurity, spoke, because he was already old (he was about to hang up in five years in history), so everyone didn't pay attention to him at first, if it weren't for the fact that he was an expert in Chinese affairs and had in-depth research and understanding of China, today's meeting would not have his share at all