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Not long after Herbert Henry Asquith and others began to discuss, a government official rushed in with a copy, "It's a big deal, Prime Minister, just now India and Hong Kong sent an urgent telegram, look! So saying, he handed it to Herbert Henry Asquith.

When Herbert Henry Asquith heard that it was an urgent telegram, he immediately reached for it, and when he opened it, he jumped up from his seat, "How can China be like this, how can they station a large number of troops in India, and surround Hong Kong with warships, it is really shameless. Herbert Henry Asquith said with a grim face.

Several other ministers also immediately took a look, and after seeing it, they were as blue as Herbert Henry Asquith's face, they didn't expect Huaxia to be so tough, and they didn't leave them any time for the British Empire, did Huaxia want to fight to the end with the Empire?

"Now the development of the situation has exceeded our expectations, this is very unfavorable to us, I believe that it will not be long before the people of the empire will know what happened in Huaxia, so we have to be prepared, the job now is to stabilize the people, everyone, let's get together again in the evening, damn the yellow monkey is really troublesome, if I don't get it, I will send the home fleet to destroy their self-righteous navy, hum." As soon as Herbert Henry Asquith finished speaking, he heard a burst of shouts outside, and although he didn't hear what was being shouted, he knew it was the sound of a crowd marching.

"Restart negotiations and save the Imperial Warriors!"

"I miss my son, the government is incompetent!"

"Severely punish Huaxia, our citizens are being treated unjustly in China!"

"The government is ineffective, and the interests of our citizens in China have been hit!"

“……”

Banners written in red English were held up by the marchers, who were in the thousands, slowly making their way to the government, hundreds of police officers ready to stop them. Soon the marching crowd confronted the police, who demanded to see the prime minister. In fact, these people were able to come so quickly because the telegram sent back by the British merchants in China alarmed a large number of people, these people were basically the core capitalists of the British, and their interests in China and India were hit, especially the Chinese invasion of Britain made them almost vomit blood. These capitalists don't care about the war or whatever, as long as they have interests, they can do anything, not to mention being attacked in China, they feel that in the future, the market in China will be unified with the reunification of China, and the policies of the Chinese government can give them more space, so they want to speed up the progress of negotiations.

Herbert Henry Asquith did not let the people of these demonstrations wait for a long time this time, and after a while he appeared in front of the people with a group of high-ranking officials, "Everyone, be quiet, please believe in the ability of the government, this China incident is the ghost of the Chinese government, they have made very insincere demands on the great British Empire, especially the return of the Chinese tariffs, concessions, Hong Kong and part of India, this is a shame for the British Empire, we cannot agree to Huaxia's demands." ”

"Is Huaxia's tiny tariff more important than the Imperial Warriors? Do you just watch our compatriots bully in China? ”

"The interests of the concession and Hong Kong should be very important, why not send the empire's more powerful fleet to annihilate the Chinese fleet?"

"What about the Prime Minister's interests in China? Are those things more important than our compatriots? ”

"Hong Kong has been surrounded by the Chinese navy, what is the empire going to do?"

“……”

After listening to the Prime Minister's words, they immediately asked one question after another, there were too many questions, and Herbert Henry Asquith couldn't support them, and they hadn't even figured out how to answer them.

Herbert Henry Asquith had no choice but to say to the people: "Our government will definitely give the people a support, please believe us, we will convene a parliament to discuss the matter of negotiations with Huaxia, and we will announce it to you as soon as there is news, so please disperse first, which will hinder the normal work of government personnel." ”

The crowd wanted to ask questions, but the police, at the behest of Herbert Henry Asquith, began to disperse the crowd, consciously or unconsciously, and Herbert Henry Asquith quickly re-entered the government building.

"Let's go down, let's just say that I proposed to convene a parliament to discuss this negotiation, and now it shouldn't just be us who take responsibility, just look at these people and know that there are a lot of their shadows in it, so just as they wish, whether it's war or peace, it's up to this time." Herbert Henry Asquith said wearily to his subordinates.

His subordinates were silent for a while, but they quickly understood what the prime minister meant, and then quickly notified the MPs to come to the meeting.

Two hours later, all the MPs in the vicinity of London came, and after seeing more than three-quarters of the way around, the proceedings of Parliament began, with everyone sitting down and then the Prime Minister going up to give a speech.

"Many parliamentarians should know the purpose of this summoning of everyone, and it is difficult for us to agree to the demands made by China now, whether it is the return of Hong Kong or the cession of parts of India is a great shame for the empire, and it can be understood from Zhu Erdian, the diplomatic envoy to China, that the bottom line of Huaxia is basically these. In normal times, we could still send warships to annihilate the Chinese navy at any time, but now the situation on the opposite continent is becoming more and more tense, once the imperial fleet is sent to the Far East, then the defense of the mainland will be reduced to an extremely dangerous point, and this time there is still the shadow of Germany, so please choose carefully. Herbert Henry Asquith said righteously.

Then the Ministry of Economic Affairs spoke: "The empire has lost a lot in this war, both in terms of manpower and material resources, and the recent movement of Chinese citizens against our citizens has made the empire's losses even greater, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs believes that weak India is more important than the rising China." ”

“……”

When the government personnel reported and analyzed the matter, it was time for the deputies to speak, and for a while the deputies began to discuss.

After an hour, the discussion slowly subsided, followed by the statements of the councillors, whose findings would be recorded and then consolidated for voting.

"The situation on the mainland is very tense, it is not appropriate to transfer the native fleet to the Far East, the Japanese are very disobedient now, it is better for China to suppress Japan, one day the two countries will fight again, and when they are both defeated, the empire is intervening strongly, so that the empire can enter China again, and even enter Japan."

"The weak yellow monkey thought that he had won our Far East fleet, so he arrogantly made these excessive demands to the empire, and the empire should transfer the native fleet to the Far East to teach the yellow people a lesson, etc., and the authority of the empire is inviolable."

"Damn the yellow monkey dared to attack the citizens of the empire in China, causing the interests of the empire to be violently impacted, and now the situation is very bad, I implore the empire to send the fleet to China to rescue the citizens of the empire."

"Everyone knows the importance of India, now a large number of Chinese troops in Bangladesh and the area north of the Ganges, if the empire can not negotiate well, India will fall into the hands of China, and the empire has no time to transfer troops to India, even if the army in the Middle East is probably not the opponent of the massive Chinese army, then the empire will be affected by the earth, and then under the secret calculation of Germany and other countries, there may be greater consequences, so Jianyi has the conditions to accept China's conditions."

"The rise of Huaxia is already unstoppable, and sooner or later the interests of the empire in Huaxia will be taken back by Huaxia strongly, we must win over Huaxia, Huaxia's potential is much greater than that of Japan, and we must get our hands on the advanced weapons and warships they have, so I will lower our bottom line, after all, India still has to keep it."

"Our business in China has been dealt a huge blow, we must hurry up and carry out effective negotiations, and in the future, the construction of China and the market empire will also enter, and we cannot cheapen Germany and the United States, and at this time we will give up our interests in China for the sake of greater interests in the future, and we can also win over China."

"No, we must teach stupid pigtails a profound lesson, just like they did decades ago, and let them obediently be our lackeys."

“……”

After some controversy, there were only two opinions left, one was to lower the bottom line and conditionally agree to some of Huaxia's conditions to win over Huaxia, and the other was to dispatch the local fleet or use Japan to teach Japan a lesson, and it was impossible to compromise with Huaxia.

In the end, a vote was held, and the result was that the first opinion was passed by a margin of two votes, so in the end the United Kingdom decided to implement the first opinion. In fact, many of the congressmen are capitalists, and although some of their industries have been hit in China, they are more optimistic about the opening up of the former East China government, that is, the current China government, and the open China is definitely larger than the current market, and if China wants to compete with Japan, it will definitely build a large number of buildings, and then they will gain greater benefits. There are also rational parliamentarians who are aware of the current situation in Europe and the importance of India, so they support the first opinion.

Most of the British believe that India's interests are much more important than those of China, after all, a country completely controlled by Britain is better than a country with crisscrossed and complex powers, and Britain has been operating in India for a longer time than China, and the servility of Indians is stricter than that of China, so there is no doubt that the latter is the choice between China and India.

Immediately after the first opinion was determined, the British government sent a telegram of opinion and bottom line to the British ambassador to China, Juerdian, urging them to complete the negotiations as best as possible while guaranteeing the interests of the Empire, which was waiting for their good news.