"Your Majesty, it has been twenty-four hours since we gave the Portuguese the order to dissolve the so-called Macao Governor's Palace and other ruling bodies, and there are still twenty-four hours for us to prepare for a military solution." Staff Officer Li Zhanfeng of the chamberlain said.

Wang Guorui nodded, this time he didn't take the initiative to solve it by force first, which was already given to those guys, if they didn't know how to use force, then they would directly use force. If it weren't for Wang Guorui's lack of wanting to disrupt the current national development situation and not wanting to cause extraneous complications, he would not have given the Portuguese a chance to discuss in advance and attack directly. However, the current development opportunities are not easy to come by, and in line with the idea that more is better than less, it is not suitable to start directly. However, if the Portuguese are not interested, then Wang Guorui does not mind using force to solve the problem.

Of course, you're welcome to the Portuguese, who are not British. Anyway, persimmons should be picked up and pinched, which is also an internationally accepted law. A weak country will also be bullied by a strong country, and force is often the final solution between a strong country and a strong country, but between a strong country and a weak country, force is the first solution. The greater the difference in strength, the greater the likelihood of war. In terms of the three elements of peace, China is actually not bad. At that time, China had the strength and strength to resist the invasion, but it did not have the heart to fight to the death. In this way, they will cause the invasion of the great powers, and the three elements of peace will not be well realized.

However, in the face of the Portuguese, this kind of unruly country kingdom Rui does not pay attention to it, and it is time to clean them up. Portugal is not the UK, and there is no need for Wang Guorui to attach such importance to it.

"Send a telegram to Li Yuanhong, after 24 hours, as long as our military commission does not have a new order during this period, then he does not have to wait for our order after 24 hours, and directly solves the problem by force!" Wang Guorui said.

"Yes!" Li Zhanfeng immediately went to have someone draft a telegram, and then prepared to send it to Li Yuanhong, commander of the Southeast Theater.

However, at this time, Wang Guorui suddenly received a person he didn't expect.

"Wang, are you going to send troops to Macao?"

Wang Guorui was surprised: "Mary? There you are? ”

Wang Guorui didn't expect that this time it was Mary, that is, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who came over. Wilhelmina has been in China, Wang Guorui also built her a Dutch-style palace, and Wang Guorui also went to live together for about ten days and half a month to see his daughter. However, William Minna has only given birth to a daughter to Wang Guorui over the years, because Wang Guorui and William Minna have a lot less opportunities to have sex together. However, with a daughter, the Netherlands can be regarded as having an heir, and the problem is not serious, so Wilhelmina didn't say anything, and spent her main energy on taking care of her daughter Angelina.

Wilhelmina also understood, so she never asked about Chinese government affairs. Of course, Wang Guorui has hardly directly intervened in the internal affairs of the Netherlands, and the two sides almost did not interfere with each other. However, in fact, China's influence on the Netherlands is much higher than the influence of the Netherlands on China, which is due to the strength of both countries. Wang Guorui can borrow the name of Wilhelmina to inquire about the government affairs of the Netherlands at a critical time, but the Netherlands does not dare not think about it seriously. But the Netherlands could not coerce Wang Guorui, even if their queen married Wang Guorui, because Wang Guorui married Wilhelmina in his own name, not a marriage between the two countries. So this formed a unilateral suppression, Wang Guorui could "intervene" in the affairs of the Netherlands as the prince of the Netherlands, but the Netherlands was very difficult to inquire about Wang Guorui's Chinese affairs. Moreover, the strength of the two sides is not small, and it is naturally impossible for the Netherlands to "ask".

However, William Minna actually chose to come over and ask this time, which made Wang Guorui a little nervous. It is that Wang Guorui has always felt guilty about Wilhelmina, at least in personal feelings, Wang Guorui knows that he owes this Dutch queen. Therefore, Wilhelmina's material conditions in China are actually much better than those of other queens and princesses, and even built a palace for her, and received her with the etiquette of foreign kings and heads of state, which are far from the status and treatment of Wang Guorui's other women.

William Minna has never borrowed their relationship with Wang Guorui to ask for any political benefits, if it is an ordinary country or even if Wang Guorui thinks about it, he may definitely use this relationship to ask for political benefits, after all, this relationship is not in vain. And Wilhelmina never took the opportunity to ask for political benefits, which is the reason why Wang Guorui feels indebted. As the head of a country, he naturally has to think about his own country, in fact, even if William Minna and Wang Guorui want political benefits, Wang Guorui thinks this is normal and understandable. After all, they were born in the royal family, and as the head of a country, even if it is a country with a constitutional monarchy, they are no longer able to get rid of politics. Don't think that there will be nothing to do when the monarchy is constitutional, in fact, as long as you are still a monarch, even if it is just a king without power, it will not be completely separated from politics. Do you think that this crown was worn for nothing? After receiving the support of the people and the government, then we have to do things, even if it is only ceremonial things, and we must also find ways to fight for the interests of the country. Otherwise, if you just take money and don't do anything, then the government and the people don't mind replacing the constitutional monarchy with a republic.

Therefore, even the king under the constitutional monarchy has to make as much profit as possible for his country, and if he just takes money and does not do anything, otherwise people will not mind changing the form of government. However, Wang Guorui knew that Wilhelmina resisted domestic pressure, and the Netherlands always hoped that Wilhelmina would "blow the pillow wind" for herself and ask for benefits, especially political and military benefits. However, William Minna was also very "tough", and she actually resisted it, and did not take the opportunity to ask Wang Guorui for it.

Regarding this, William Minna has never told Wang Guorui, but Wang Guorui knows very well that William Minna is under pressure. So Wang Guorui knew that if William Minna asked him to do something, it would be really difficult to refuse. After all, she has always owed her emotionally or profitably, and she even did a good job, as a good wife, she is almost very qualified, and there are few people who can be more qualified than her in history. Especially as the king of a country, she did not use her relationship with Wang Guorui to take the opportunity to ask for benefits for her country, and for her identity pressure, she withstood this pressure is enough to be called a good wife.

Whether a good wife is virtuous or not, this depends on the identity. If it was perhaps just ordinary people in the country, Wilhelmina was obviously not qualified by the standard of a good wife, because she did not take care of the household herself and did not do all kinds of things. But compared to her identity as the king of a country, she doesn't do anything, which is the biggest "virtuous". did not take the opportunity to claim benefits through identity, then for William Mina, who is also the king of a country, it is actually "virtuous", although it seems unqualified compared to the general traditional Chinese "good wife". But Wang Guorui is also the head of a country, so he naturally knows how rare it is. She withstood the pressure of asking Wang Guorui for benefits at home, and that was already absolutely helping Wang Guorui, so compared to the pressure she had borne as the head of another country, then she could do this enough to be called a "good wife". I'm afraid that if you change to an ordinary person, you won't be able to bear this pressure at all.

Wang Guorui also understands her, so he feels indebted. But now William Minna took the initiative to request, so that Wang Guorui is not easy to solve, if he agrees, it is not suitable, but if he does not agree, I am afraid it is not suitable!

"Mary, why are you saying this at this time?" Wang Guorui asked.

William replied: "This time, the royal family of the Portuguese Empire has come forward, and the government has also come forward to persuade me. And you should also know that the relationship between the royal families of European countries is very close, and all kinds of marriages are continuous, and it is impossible for us to break up. I have to think about the pressure of their royal family, and the government has also come out to persuade me, so naturally I can't completely ignore it. ”

However, Wang Guorui shook his head and said, "Mary, I really can't promise you this time!" This is a matter of Chinese territory, and I can't promise you. China's territory, moreover, is directly under the territory, not the kind of colony-like territory, so we can't lose it, and we must fight for every inch of land. This Macau is not our colony, and it can be discarded casually. They have always said that we are directly under the territory of China, so we can't discard it, I think you can understand me, right? Territories and colonies, that's not the same thing at all, understand? ”

Wang Guorui said this, and William Minna was not surprised, obviously she seemed to have known about this aspect of the problem for a long time. The direct territory is different from the colony, which is actually just a "commodity" in the final analysis, but the direct territory is its own "home". If you lose your "home", it will definitely be unbearable and painful. But if you lose a "commodity", no matter how heart-wrenching it is, it won't be as heart-wrenching as losing your "home". Therefore, Wilhelmina can be regarded as the head of a country, so she naturally knows the problems here. At that time, the Manchu royal family did not regard themselves as Chinese, so they ceded territory that was just ceding "colonies", so they were not too heartbroken. Different mentalities have resulted in different results.

"I suppose I have the best of both worlds, do you see if you're willing to accept it?" Wilhelmina said. (To be continued.) )