Canning and the others actually expected this outcome before returning home, but they were not in a hurry, and after looking at each other, Gavinner bowed to the queen, and then said: "Dear Your Majesty, we have betrayed your trust and the trust of the British people, and we are willing to accept a legal and fair trial."

But I must affirm that all of you here have never been to the Far East, and it is difficult to imagine how bad the situation in the Far East has become, and the root cause of this is the repeated defeat of the Royal Navy, and we have only suffered the consequences of defeat.

I ask gentlemen to think carefully, what would you do if it were you, without adequate armed forces to protect you? ”

The implication of Gavinner's words is well understood, if there is to be accountability, it is to first blame the Royal Navy, and it is the successive defeats of the Navy that have led to the loss of the colonies in the Far East, and the heads of these colonies are at best the victims.

I have to say, this is very convincing, heart to heart, change you to be the governor, can you save the defeat?

There was a lot of discussion in the hall, and the originally one-sided condemnation was also clearly divided, at this time, a parliamentarian from the Whig Party, that is, the ruling party, stood up and said: "Your Excellency, your statement has some truth, but your surrender to the Chinese is unforgivable, this is a shame that I have never had in the history of the British Empire, you have defiled the British flag, and you have also tarnished the sacred title of British gentleman!"

Now, the whole world is talking about Britain, and they all say that the sun never sets on the empire is gradually setting on the horizon. The jewel in the Queen's crown was taken off by the Chinese!

Our allies have different hearts, and our enemies are ready to move. Britain is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, and all this. It is your act of surrender! ”

Another ruling party MP stood up and said: "I must say that now is not the time to take responsibility for the defeat, Britain has never been a country that judges heroes by success or failure, China's strength has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years, since the defeat of the East India Company, it has grown into a formidable opponent, I think about this, not only the Queen, but everyone in this room knows this." If it's just because you're defeated, no one will blame you.

From the initial defeat by the Prussians and the Franks, the gradual withdrawal from the mainland, to the loss of vegetables in the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, and the complete drive to the sea, to the invasion of the Vikings, Britain has also failed repeatedly in history, and even faced the threat of extinction several times, but we have turned the corner again and again. And in the last few hundred years, from a small island nation to an empire on which the sun never sets, why is that?

It is precisely because all British people have a share for the sake of honour and for the nation. The courage to look at death for the sake of the motherland, and I don't see this courage in you. Only surrender and cowardice were seen!

Is it the warm sunshine of the Asia-Pacific that has corroded your fighting spirit? Or is it the drunken life of the colonies that has bewitched your minds? None of this matters. The important thing is that your surrender will be perceived. The fearless spirit and pioneering courage of the British people were lost, just like the Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire in history, and then it fell rapidly after its peak! ”

"Not bad!" The third ruling party member also said: "As a governor, in the face of a powerful enemy, you should not surrender under any circumstances, but should die for the country, originally, you have the opportunity to become heroes, but on the contrary, you did not die in the Far East, all chose to surrender, this is an unforgivable act of cowardice, I ask the parliament to vote immediately to transfer several of them to a military court for trial!" ”

The faces of Canning, Gavinner and others turned cold, and those who can take charge of the Far East are all old foxes, and now they are all ruling party parliamentarians who jump out and accuse, what does this mean? It shows that the ruling party wants to push them out as substitutes for the dead and evade responsibility for defeat!

What honors? What courage? It doesn't matter what fails? It's a joke!

The current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Messon, has single-handedly handled British foreign policy in recent decades, including the Qing-British War, the East India Company's war against southern China, the Crimean War against Russia, and the second war against southern China by gathering the Combined Fleet, which is behind his promotion, but it is obvious that except for the war against the Qing, the last three wars all failed, especially the second war against southern China, which led to the collapse of the entire line from Australia to Southeast Asia, from Burma to India. Masston must be held primarily responsible.

Lambert began by saying: "Your Majesty, gentlemen, if our surrender has brought adverse consequences to the country, then we are willing to take responsibility, but I must state that in the face of the superior warships and land forces of the Chinese, we also thought of saving honor by dying, however, we did not do so, why?"

Is it a fear of death? Family, wealth and life may be worth remembering, but the safety of thousands of British expatriates is more worrying than personal.

For those of you who have never been to China, everything about the Chinese military comes from intelligence, so allow me to spend a few minutes recounting the first-hand information I have.

Chinese firearms, loaded from behind, can fire continuously, with a rate of fire between fifteen and twenty rounds per minute, and the bullets are made of pure copper throughout, which exceeds the lead bullets used in Minnie guns in terms of range and accuracy.

And the caliber of Chinese artillery is generally very small, the largest is only half of the twelve-inch guns that we are proud of, but the firing range is comparable to ours, which means that Chinese artillery is more flexible, lighter, and faster to load, China's so-called large-caliber naval guns can fire six to seven shells per minute!

Gentlemen, shocked, the facts do not stop there, Chinese-made shells after the explosion on the ground, the black smoke is much less than that made in the British, but the fire is brighter and more powerful, which shows that the purity of Chinese gunpowder is very high, and even we are privately suspecting that the Chinese have invented a new formula of gunpowder, after all, our British gunpowder, the purity has almost reached the limit.

In addition to these, China also has a cannonball that emits a strong light at night, blinds people's eyes at close range, and the annihilation of the allied fleet in Tianjin, which is inseparable from this cannonball called the holy light of God.

In addition, China has grenades that can burn a fire within a radius of tens of feet after being thrown, and the speed of Chinese warships is even faster than ours.

At the same time, in China, the people are no longer closed and ignorant, but positive, they are crazy to learn scientific knowledge, and can quickly transform into productivity, China now has railways, modern mines and factories, advanced metal smelting enterprises and manufacturing, China's mines are being developed on a large scale.

What is even more devastating is that the Chinese emperor attended his coronation in the world's first practical car, in short, the whole land of China is full of life.

All this shows that China's science and technology, at least in military terms, surpasses Britain, and China has more geographical advantages than Britain in relation to the Asia-Pacific region and India, China has a population of more than 400 million, a land area of more than 8 million square miles, hundreds of thousands of well-equipped troops, and dozens of warships with more than 100 cruisers.

The white people in Australia were slaughtered, the executioner was the Qing state, which was looked down upon by our European countries, and the Chinese side only provided equipment and assistance, once our war with China in the Far East broke out, how many of our expatriates would survive?

Although we knew that surrender was a humiliating decision, we still did it without hesitation, because we could not watch our compatriots die, and we were responsible for tens of thousands of British expatriates! ”

Lambert's speech was very shocking, looking back on the miracles created by China in recent years, including the ruling party has fallen into silence, in fact, the reason why the European powers were able to colonize the Asia-Pacific region and India is not that they are strong, but that the military force sent by Europe to the East is limited and pitiful, and the root cause is that the Far East is too backward.

One or twenty thousand people can defeat the Qing Dynasty, and a few thousand people can conquer India, not to mention the miracle created by the Spaniards, hundreds of people conquered South America!

But now, a powerful force has erupted in the Far East, and if you want to conquer the Far East, it is no longer a goal that can be achieved by one or two thousand, or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so is Europe capable of organizing more than one million troops to attack China?

Even if there were, no one would be so mad, except, of course, Russia, which borders China and can attack from land, but even so, Russia cannot support an expeditionary force of a million men alone.

And Britain is even more unlikely to send an army to accompany the Russian army on an expedition to China, which is tens of thousands of kilometers away.

The queen who is high on the throne, her eyes are a little hollow, she is forty-four years old, although obesity can replenish moisture to the skin, but her face is no longer young, there are a few shallow crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, since she ascended the throne twenty-four years ago, she has seen Britain step by step towards glory, taking off the crown of the empire on which the sun never sets, and then becoming the center of the capitalist world, Britain has reached a historic peak.

She thought that this glory could last forever, but the collapse came inadvertently, as if the strength of Britain was only on the surface, but if you think about it carefully, how can a country on a small island, with a population of tens of millions, rule the world?

"Hey~~" Queen Victoria sighed deeply, a touch of sadness appeared on her face, at this moment, her ambition disappeared, she seemed to foresee the second half of her life, will witness Britain being beaten back to its original shape step by step, until it will never turn over! (To be continued.) )