At the headquarters of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the top leaders of various countries now know that the French have actually left and have been completely annihilated by the Taiwan army. This surprised all the countries, because they did not expect that the French would take the initiative to attack, which made them all very strange. And when they later heard about the few French logistics soldiers left in this camp, their hearts immediately felt like 10,000 grass and mud horses passing by. This Frenchman actually took the initiative to attack, and was defeated? They received information from a person who claimed to be a religious citizen, and then they went to discover a loophole, so they wanted to take advantage of this loophole to attack, but they fell for the tricks of the Taiwanese army and wiped out the whole army.

Seymour immediately said: "Do these French still see us as a whole?" In order to grab the credit, they took the initiative to attack, and as a result, they fell for the enemy's conspiracy. If they had discussed it with us earlier, we would have found out that this was a conspiracy of the Chinese! But now it's too late, the French army has been completely wiped out, damn it! ”

And this Seymour began to act as an afterthought here, putting the responsibility for the destruction of the French army on his French general, anyway, he was shirking the responsibility and was unwilling to bear the blame for the French. Anyway, the French don't listen to the command and don't share the intelligence at a critical time, which is simply against the obligations of the allies. This is really a cheat, so why did Seymour take the initiative to take responsibility for them? This is also a big problem for the coalition forces of various countries, and it is impossible for the coalition forces of various countries to be truly united, once they encounter benefits, they will flock to it, and once there is no benefit, they will shirk their responsibilities. Once you encounter danger, it is a matter of not dying and being poor.

They thought that the Eight-Nation Coalition could easily attack the city of Beijing and force the Empress Dowager Cixi to take the initiative to sign various traitorous treaties. But now even Tianjin can't get by, which makes them very depressed.

"Now. What about the affairs of the French? Tell the French to let them continue to send troops over? Seymour asked.

"Well, let the French continue their obligations as allies, let them continue to send troops!" Seymour said.

And when he sent the telegram to the French government, the French government began to meet one after another, and then quickly came to a conclusion.

"Your Excellency the President, Prime Minister. We don't think we, France, can continue to send troops. We should not involve France in this senseless war, we may not lose anything if we lose, but we may not gain anything if we win. We went out to fight the Chinese this time, but in fact, it did not mean much. On the contrary, it will allow our soldiers to continue to lose. This time, we might as well take advantage of the loss of soldiers and get out! ”

"What? So how can our interests be guaranteed? Someone asked right away.

And the French official said: "Actually, we don't have much interest in China." At most, we have more interests in Vietnam, and as long as the Chinese do not infringe on our Vietnamese interests, then why should we fight them to the death? Vietnam for us. It's also a thing that doesn't have much use. Once that Chinese Wang Guorui achieved control of the central government of China, and then he carried out a reorganization of the central government or directly usurped the central government, then the new China he established must be a very powerful country. And will we still allow us to dominate Vietnam at that time? At that time, the territory of the Chinese will go from Nanyang all the way to the Taiwanese, and then to the mainland. ”

"In the past, there was an emperor in China who said, "How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch? So our Vietnam, in fact, is on the side of their homeland, if we continue to occupy Vietnam. Then we will pay a very strong opponent. We will pay a huge price to protect this interest. Maybe the gains outweigh the losses. Although we have had enmity with China in the past and once looted the Yuanmingyuan, the royal garden of the Chinese, are these important? We have not really occupied a single piece of China's territory in the past, and all we have robbed is some floating wealth. Some floating wealth, the Chinese will not really desperately try to settle accounts with us. And although we seem to have so-called privileges in China, in fact there are not many of them. We can gradually give up. If the Chinese are willing to redeem it gradually, we can take out a part of it and gradually put it back in the sedimentation method. Isn't it not worth it to make enemies with a new and powerful country for the sake of these things that are not of much use. ”

But there are still people who say, "If this is the case, are we not going to let a mighty empire in the East rise?" When the time comes. It will affect our Western hegemony! Shouldn't we take the initiative to kill them? ”

"What good can we do if we go to strangle this country? Maintain our Western hegemony? Is it to maintain the hegemony of the British? The Germans did not do such stupid things, will we French do such stupid things? The British would like to let our countries fight hard with the Chinese, and if I really go and fight with the Chinese, the 400 million Chinese population, if they are forced to hurry, they can completely recruit 40 million troops according to the limit, and that will sweep the world. The rabbit bites when it's anxious, and the dog jumps off the wall when it's anxious! Isn't it stupid for us to go to a country with a population of 400 million and still a predominantly ethnic group for the benefit of the British? They are not like the United Kingdom, although Cause and Effect claims to be the most populous in the world, but they are not the main people, they are all colonies. Therefore, we can't fight with such a country, and we can't do this kind of stupid thing. When the time comes, it must be the British who are snickering. Someone immediately snorted.

"Then when China rises and threatens our Western hegemony, so what?" Someone asked right away.

But there are still people who say, "So what? The rise of great powers is not such a simple thing, and it is simply impossible to achieve it without decades or even hundreds of years. There is never a cheating method for the rise of great powers, and it is not only possible to provide some industrial technology. He must be from science and technology, industry, military and so on, and even the people of his own country still really have the consciousness of a big country citizen, otherwise he is not a big country at all. So without a hundred years, China will not be able to restore its former international status. As long as we don't seek death, then I can completely limit the speed of China's rise. As for the passage of time from decades to a hundred years, I am afraid that all of us who are doing will have thrown themselves into the arms of God sooner or later. At that time, what can we do more? ”

"A generation has a generational responsibility, and in a hundred years, things have changed, and we can't predict what the world will be like in a hundred years. So why do we have to think so much, let's take care of our current interests in France first. We also have one of our biggest opponents, the Germans. If we don't solve the German threat, how can we go against China, a future power? Therefore, instead of focusing on the situation of desperate relations with the Chinese, it is better to settle accounts with the Germans. ”

"We don't have any deep-rooted interests in China, and although we have had a lot of unhappiness with China, we have just robbed some floating wealth and don't have too many core interests. The British are different, they have too many interests in China, so they can't give it up. We have little interest, and if the Chinese are willing to pay a certain price, then we are not unavoidable. And more than 100 years later, China has risen to become a world leader, who knows? Who knows what will happen in these decades? We can't calculate what will happen more than a hundred years from now, so we don't need to think about it. ”

"Therefore, I advise the President and Your Excellency the Prime Minister that we should not continue to mix in this war. The reason why the Germans only sent five hundred soldiers out, in fact, his meaning was very obvious, he did not want to drink the Chinese to make a fuss. What deals are behind the Chinese and Germans, don't we know yet? The Chinese wantonly used those Nanyang resources to exchange some backward technology with the Germans, and then consolidated their scientific and technological foundation. Then the Germans acquired a large reserve of resources, and they gradually achieved the accumulation of resources. So, if we continue to persecute the Chinese, will they increase their cooperation with the Germans? We have to understand what the immediate threat is. German talent is our biggest enemy at this stage, not the Chinese. The rise of the Chinese is also a matter of decades to a hundred years later, and that is also the next generation or even the next two generations. Let's just do our generation. If we allow all the enemies in front of us to develop for the sake of the next generation, then we are the sinners of France. If we can't even distinguish between these main and secondary tasks, can we still be a qualified politician? ”

"Well, we will not continue to send troops to participate in this battle with the Chinese. However, we will not sign any agreements with the Chinese, and we still have to fulfill our obligations as allies. However, in the future, the matter of fighting will be handed over to Britain and other countries, and we will not be involved. The French Prime Minister said.

And Seymour, after receiving this telegram that the French would not continue to send reinforcements, scolded the British for their world-famous national scolding: "Falk squid! (To be continued......)