Chapter 234: Controversy

At this time, a very important thing also happened in North China. But the Dayong government is now engrossed in fighting with Britain, Germany, France, and Japan, and does not care much.

After Yuan Shikai was killed in the Battle of Wuchang, the defeated Beiyang Army entered the point where the dragons were leaderless.

The south is taking care of its own cities, and it has little energy to take care of them.

So several warlords in Beiyang declared their independence and established local governments one after another, Duan Qirui was bored and led his troops into the Forbidden City, and then the soldiers were lawless, what Guangxu and Cixi were hacked to death in the chaos, and no one knew whose hands they died in.

The Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than 200 years, came to an end in chaos.

And then there was looting, massacre, chaos.

Unlike the original world line, after the revolution, a superficial form of government was basically maintained, but now this superficial form of government no longer exists.

Wang Yong learned the news when he captured Mandalay all the way and was about to conquer Magway Province.

At the former British Governor's Mansion in Burma, Wang Yong frowned.

It's late autumn, but central Myanmar is still full of spring and no autumn scenes.

Now he doesn't have the energy to take care of domestic affairs, but he didn't expect that there would be such consequences if he rashly started a war with Zhuguomao.

The war with Britain on its own will not end in a short time, and there are two greedy wolves in the north, Japan and Russia.

Losing a superficial government, once they annex the Northeast, they will have to pay a great sacrifice to get it back in the future.

However, the Dayong government has not yet decided on everything, and it really does not have the military strength to carry out the Northern Expedition.

He sighed slightly.

Ginny sat down beside him: "What do you think?" ”

Wang Yong smiled slightly, lying on the recliner and beckoning slightly.

Ginny obediently lay in his arms.

Wang Yong slowly voiced his worries.

Ginny turned around, looked into Wang Yong's eyes, and kissed him lightly on the lips.

"We're planning a lot in advance, aren't we?"

"Hmm." Wang Yong nodded.

hugged this body that had quietly walked from immaturity to fullness, breathed in the faint fragrance of flowers on her body, and settled down.

"Death is inevitable, and no matter how many people die, it is impossible to have more people than those who died in the war at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. The birth of a new country, a strong country, is accompanied by a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, especially if it wants to rise from the abyss. ”

……

At this time, the British Empire, London.

Edward VII had a bad premonition when he heard that the People's Army was directly attacking Indochina.

Today, when the United States, Germany, and Russia are growing stronger, Britain and France are advancing and retreating together in many things, and now seeing the continuous loss of France's colonies in the Far East, there is quite a sense of crisis.

At this time, he was standing in front of the map, staring at the topography map of the China-Myanmar border.

The gates of the palace burst open, bringing with them a deep chill of autumn in London.

Prime Minister Asquith walked in with a gloomy face and brought a telegram: "The Yong army has crossed the Sino-Burmese border and has occupied Myitkyina, and they are about to continue south." ”

Edward VII sat down in a daze, and looked at Asquith as if he were pleading.

But all he got was a silent shake of his head: "I held a cabinet meeting before and couldn't discuss a result." The Army advocated continuing the war until the last drop of Indian blood was shed. The navy disagreed, and suggested that peace be negotiated with the Yongguo government, because we are now engaged in a naval arms race with Germany, and once we fall behind, the security of the homeland cannot be guaranteed. Do you want to convene a House of Commons? ”

"That's all there is to it." Edward VII stared at the center of the map of the Far East, where there was a fertile territory - India. In order to seize it, the British took great pains to defeat the princely states of Portugal, the Netherlands, France and India, and it took more than 200 years to take control of this territory. IN ORDER TO DEFEND IT, THEY ATTACKED XIZANG IN THE NORTH, SEIZED AFGHANISTAN IN THE WEST, AND MARCHED IN BURMA IN THE EAST.

But now the brightest jewel in the crown of the empire seems to be coveted by others.

At the House of Representatives, everyone was arguing.

Lester said: "Britain must not make peace with Yongguo, this is just a new weak regime, and we must not bow to them." Hundreds of years ago, without the mighty Spanish fleet in front, in the Dutch regime, which was richer than us, in front of Napoleon, who swept across the continent, we would have finally won the war and dominated the Far East! ”

Carter scoffed, "What about the United States? Now, as then, Burma is far from the British mainland, but under the nose of the Yong State, they can mobilize an endless number of Chinese to fight against us at any time, while we have to send troops from the mainland. The soldiers of India are completely vulnerable, and if we use them, it will cause instability in the rear, forget the uprising of the Indian people decades ago?

And although we are united with Germany to fight the Yongguo in the Far East, we are more deeply contradicted in Europe, they are competing with us all over the world for markets, their Middle East railroad is shaking our presence in the Middle East, and their navy is threatening the leading position of our navy. At this critical moment, we must not be distracted to fight an endless war with the Orientals tens of thousands of miles away! ”

Walker was furious, "Coward! A bunch of cowards! If we don't concentrate on suppressing this Far Eastern regime now, think about it, now that they dare to invade our colonies just after the establishment of the country, then in a few decades, our India and even our Australia will be gone! Your kind of thinking is just a policy of compromise for the sake of temporary peace! We can contact Japan, which has long coveted the land of China, we can release him and invade the north of China, then the Yongguo will not have the energy to fight us! ”

Gary said in a cold voice: "Do you want to release another evil wolf, a wolf with a strong army, and the Far East Navy may be stronger than us?" What is our original purpose in fighting against Yongguo? It was to protect our property rights in the Qing Kingdom, and now there is nothing left, and even our colonies are still being lost. A Boer War has broken the British Empire, do you want to bankrupt the British Empire's finances! ”

……

The quarrel nearly toppled the roof of the House of Representatives. In the end, the two chambers chose a compromise strategy: they announced that they would authorize Zhu Erdian to negotiate with the Yongguo government with full powers, and that a peace treaty could be concluded as long as the Yongguo withdrew from Burma and recognized the British occupation of India.

Another huge war, then it goes without saying that with Germany, Britain itself will go bankrupt.

At this moment, Wang Yong's First Army was still moving south, as if it would not give up until the British were driven into the sea.

Magway Province and Bago Province were taken one after another.

Yangon seems to be close at hand.