Dongjiaomin Lane, British Embassy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"The momentum of the Japanese has been suppressed like this?" The British ambassador picked up the coffee cup and put in a sugar cube, and a few tiny bubbles bubbled out of the calm coffee, like the appearance of the menacing Japanese dying down.

"Yes, sir, the special envoy of the Japanese, their Secretary of Internal Affairs Okubo Toshitsu has received an order from Tokyo to prepare to establish diplomatic relations with the Chinese."

"Oh?" The British ambassador took out a white silk cloth from his breast pocket, took off his glasses, and wiped them carefully, "What about the Ryukyu problem?" ”

"The Japanese still insisted on confirming in writing that the Ryukyus were the common vassal states of China and Japan, but China's Prime Minister Yamen resolutely disagreed, and according to the grapevine, Prince Gong was only willing to verbally agree that the Ryukyus would pay tribute to China and Japan together, and it absolutely could not be determined in writing."

"The Chinese like face," the ambassador took a sip of coffee, "so even if Prime Minister Yamen thinks that Ryukyu is an irrelevant territory and it doesn't matter if they abandon it, but they dare not say it explicitly, because," a sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of the ambassador's mouth, "they dare not lose face." ”

"Since the war more than ten years ago, the face of the Chinese has suddenly become more sophisticated again, and the old old shelves seem to have reappeared, I have to say that my work in China has become difficult, in addition to those conservative ministers, even many officials of the Prime Minister Yamen are filled with an inexplicable mood, this feeling, as if the Chinese are standing in the first position in the world again, defeating those Indian soldiers with turbans on land, and then buying the warships that the British Empire wants to eliminate, forcing the Spaniards, It seems that a small island nation was also saved, so that it returned to the first place in the world? It's ridiculous, their Beiyang sailors have nothing to do against the French Far Eastern Fleet, they can only watch the French scatter wild in the waters of the Chinese, and now it seems that they are bullying the Japanese Navy whose tonnage is not at the same level at all, hehe, it seems that the Chinese are going to be proud again. ”

"What you say makes a lot of sense, Mr. Ambassador," a handsome black-haired man who drank tea and didn't speak thought for a moment, but still spoke, "but there is a relationship between momentum and courage, and I personally think that it is very terrible for both people and countries to maintain momentum. They are now only a small victory, which makes them so crazy, they will be fearless in any war in the future, and once the sense of national pride and honor is aroused, it cannot be suppressed. If the Chinese maintain this sense of honor of victory, and keep it like this, it will cause a terrible qualitative change, and when the time comes, the glory of the central country they aspire to will definitely reappear. ”

"So we can't allow such a thing to happen, yes, your country and our country have invaded China together, the Chinese are the best to remember hatred and help, I think Lancy does not want to have a strong enemy who is both vengeful and strong."

"That's exactly what I want to say, Mr. Ambassador."

"The cohesion filled with this sense of honor looks very terrible, but as long as they have experienced a failure, they will find that everything they were proud of is nothing more than a paper tiger, used to scare people, once we do it, we can easily crush this delusion, come and go quickly, this country, will fall back into the terrible abyss of artillery fire, opium, land reparations, Mr. Ambassador, don't you say?"

"So what are we going to do?" The French ambassador said with interest, "You know, neither of our countries can arrange important troops in the Far East, and we have no excuse to wage war with the Chinese at present." ”

"No, no, no, we don't need to do it ourselves." The British ambassador smiled, smiling very mysteriously, "Sometimes, do it yourself, it is better to watch others do it, before I invited the Japanese envoy to come to my place for afternoon tea, but I didn't expect him to refuse, today he wrote back and said that he is willing to come." ”

"Oh," said the French ambassador, shaking his head, "none of these yellow-skinned Orientals can be trusted. ”

"The Japanese are also very good at arrogance," the British ambassador nodded disdainfully, "Yes, you are right, do they think that with a few sampans of their own, they can compete with the Chinese?" It's a dream, but," the British ambassador smiled, smirkingly, "we can give him the chance to dream like this." ”

"I have applied with the country, the same to sell to the Japanese, the same as the Chinese, or even more advanced warships, as long as they can afford it." The British ambassador said, "Their Secretary of Works, who is also visiting the UK, will probably get a lot of things." ”

"Just by the actions of the Japanese? IMHO, you may not be able to see the results in a short period of time. ”

"There are other arrangements, please allow me to sell a pass, Mr. Ambassador," said the British ambassador with a smile, "and the Queen Mother of China is about to arrive in Tientsin, and I hope that she will not be too angry with us if she knows of the British move." (To be continued.) )