Chapter 163: The End and the Excitement
The Cairo Conference is the full name of the "Conference on Helping Africa Achieve Democracy, Modern Peace and Development". Referred to as the Cairo Conference or the Egyptian Conference, the conference began in 1870 and ended at the end of 1872, of course, in the middle of 1871 the major powers had completed the task of carving up Africa, and the post-1871 conference only had nothing to do with the division of power among the great powers in some small places. The final victor of this congress, initiated by the British, caused by the contradictions between the Chinese and the Boers, was France, who won the Chinese Congo River valley through their support for the Chinese in Rhodesia (Northern Rhodesia i.e. Zambia, Southern Rhodesia i.e. Zimbabwe) and Bechuana.
In fact, the Chinese were the real victors in this deal, and the Chinese who gained Rhodesia and Bechuana successfully connected their East African colonies with their South African colonies. China has seized more than 1.7 million square kilometers of land in Central Africa, and its strategic goal has been largely achieved, successfully limiting British colonization to South Africa.
In addition to the unexpected right of domination outside the Congo River valley, the French also recognized their suzerainty and protection rights over the indigenous kingdoms of Africa, such as Mali and Soletto.
In addition to clarifying the sphere of influence of Egypt, the poor British were suppressed by the Chinese Empire and the French Empire in other regions, and although they finally received Liberia, even the British Prime Minister at the time, Gladstone, admitted after returning home that "it was Great Britain itself lifting a stone to shoot itself in the foot."
The first conference to carve up Africa has finally come to an end, and China and France have joined hands to become the biggest winners.
The Cairo Conference on the Colonial History of Africa -- Noon, July 15, 1871, Dagukou Wharf.
When Zeng Guofan stepped on the land of the motherland, his heart was full of feelings. Looking at the prosperous and busy wharf, he was sincerely proud, but soon he heard a funny news from Mu Bofumi, the emperor's envoy who welcomed him (formerly known as Ito Hirofumi, such as Okubo Ritsu, these historical celebrities of Toei, still have great use value in terms of personal ability, plus Japan will soon join the empire with Toei Province, so these people have all changed their Han surnames to Lin Hong, and loyalty is not a problem), the emperor is now in Beijing, but unfortunately he did not come to greet him, but to participate in a special hearing of the Diet.
The content of this hearing is to ask the martial arts novel writer "New Jin Yong" to continue to publish novels, as for the identity of this new Jin Yong, Zeng Guofan still knows, that is, the emperor himself, he is also the first reader of these novels.
Emperor Lin Hong, who sat at the head of the Congress, is now repentant! Only blame himself for his cheap hands and mouth, there are too few entertainment activities in modern times, he really can't watch dramas and operas, in the past few years, he has been bored to tell the queen and his attendants about the Condor Divine Condor, and when he talks about the queen, he will write it down and publish it, and after writing it, he will casually throw it to Mu Bowen, who was the military attache of the chamberlain at the time, and let him find a publishing house to publish, Mu Bowen honestly found a publishing house, but the major publishing houses that don't know Mu Bowen's identity refused to publish, and there was no way Mu Bowen finally directly helped the manuscript to be thrown to the Imperial Ministry of Culture. It's okay now, it's a big deal. The Ministry of Culture does not know who the author is, but the emperor's attendants sent it, can it be returned. Publishing and serializing martial arts culture has become popular, young people look at the love between Huang Rong and Guo Jing in the Condor, and middle-aged people look at the great man who shoots the Condor for the country and the people. Newspapers, magazines, books and even many teahouses invite Mr. Storyteller to talk about the Condor and the Condor.
Good-looking, just two words, wonderful is also two words. Lin Hong was happy to do this at first, and finished writing all fourteen copies of Mr. Jin Yong's Flying Snow Shooting White Deer Laughing Book Divine Hero Yi Bi Yuan. After writing it, forget it, anyway, love is justified, and plagiarism is not guilty. But readers across the country are not happy, it's over? Gone?. It's not fun! I want to! What to do? Initiate a relationship to find the author!
Even as the director of the CIA, he simply asked his subordinates to investigate. Anyway, everyone is a fan of Xin Jin Yong's books, and everyone wants to know.
After checking and checking, the final result startled everyone, it was written by the emperor. Okay! What to do? You can't write it to the emperor!
In the end, the fans mobilized Congress through their respective forces to demand a special hearing against the emperor. Don't underestimate these book lovers, eighty percent of the members of Congress are also fans of novels.
This led to the tragic end of our Great Emperor now.
"Your Majesty, do you think our proposal is reasonable?"
He's got a big head! Lin Hong's wound in his heart! After writing Jin Yong, I will write Gu Long, and after writing Gu Long, I will write Liang Yusheng, but the problem is that the Congress requires the remuneration of these novels to be handed over to the treasury as funds for cultural revival activities in recent years, which clearly shows that the horses want to run and the horses do not eat grass, and what is even more excessive is that the Congress is also preparing to pass a special bill.
Looking at this funny bill, Lin Hong felt that these sub-councilors were making a mistake! It's too much of a fuss! It also requires the National Assembly to pass a bill. In fact, this bill is very necessary in the eyes of the cabinet and the parliament, the empire is still weak in terms of culture in terms of comprehensive national strength, even if it has the quintessence of Peking Opera and other national quintessences, and some ancient poems cannot be popularized to the people at the bottom, so Lin Hong's novels are easy to understand in the vernacular and penetrate into every strata of the empire. This is also a deliberate act by the Cabinet and the Diet.
In the end, in the emperor's wry smile, the parliament passed this special bill, until Lin Hong saw Zeng Guofan in the Old Summer Palace was still complaining, those parliamentarians were full of food, and sooner or later they would be unlucky or something.
Zeng Guofan also smiled at this, he knew who the emperor was, as a lazy person, this time the bill did not make the emperor angry at all, the emperor was just not angry, and he was arrested by the parliament again-
After explaining the itinerary and the contents of the Cairo Conference to the emperor, Zeng Guofan honestly began to listen to the emperor's complaints.
However, he still has a lot to do next, as the next prime minister, he will also attend a reception of a big business group to listen to the opinions of some political parties, Zeng Guofan does not have a political party, but in the future, he will need the support of the National Assembly as prime minister, so it is his first task to win over various political parties. Lin Hong didn't keep him much. Even though most members of Congress are now absolutely loyal to his clones, he will only come to his aid when it matters most.
Zeng Guofan's appointment as prime minister is Lin Hong's attempt, the previous ones were clones, and modern people are ways of thinking that are handy in dealing with international and domestic affairs, Zeng Guofan, as a historical celebrity, Lin Hong wants to see his performance