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Like Lu Dong and Yu Guang, the descendants of the big families who dare to break away from the family to pursue their own ideals are all a minority after all, and the shackles of thousands of years of family inheritance and Confucianism make it difficult for these big families who have always been located within the Qing Dynasty to make any fundamental changes, after all, the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is no longer the era of simply considering the change of dynasties within China, but since the Great Voyage, the scientific and technological forces represented by Western civilization have risen in an all-round way, and various countries have competed for hegemony. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Therefore, except for families like the Zhao and Zhu families in Nanyang, who have seen the tyranny of Western countries and have been baptized by the developed industrial civilization of the West, they have made changes independently. The remaining fifteen clans located within the Qing Dynasty, as well as other large and small families, have gradually fallen behind the times due to their own knowledge and the constraints of traditional thinking.

Five years is not a short time, but it is too short for a city or a country! But looking at the bustling streets around him, the flow of people, Gwener does not think so. As the Minister of the British Empire in Nanyang, in the past few years, he has seen with his own eyes how Ma Chen, the capital of the Nanyang Army of the Huo Family, has developed from a small harbor town to now not inferior to Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong and other big cities in the Far East!

And compared with cities like Shanghai, which have been in the twilight, Ma Chen, who has a population of more than one million, no longer reveals a high-spirited spirit all the time, just like this is no different from the country now. The occupation of the East Indies, like the Huo family army in the western part of the United States, is moving forward at an astonishing speed.

"Alas!" Gwener lowered the curtain at hand, leaning limply on the slightly bumpy carriage. I couldn't help but sigh heavily, and a thick sadness flashed on my face.

This kind of sorrow is not only about the terrible situation that Britain is facing in Egypt and the serious threat caused by the economic crisis in Britain, but more importantly, it is about the strength of the Huo family's army, which is now rising rapidly.

Unlike those British cabinet officials who are thousands of miles away, as the British minister to Huojiajun, Ge Weiner has a clear understanding of the current development speed of Huojiajun, and with the help of Britain's intelligence network in the Far East, Huojiajun is in addition to many islands in the South China and the Pacific Ocean and the western United States. They also occupied the Qing islands of Taiwan and Hainan, and they also had a large presence within the decrepit state of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, Huo Jiajun's rapidly developing economy and increasingly large military power. It made Gwiner, the British who maintained the hegemony of the British Empire in the Far East from the bottom of his bones, feel a lot of anxiety in his heart!

However, he also knew that the British Empire, which had been held back by the economic crisis and the growing war in Egypt, had no spare strength to interfere with the development of the Huo family army in the Far East. Thinking of this, Gwener's heart couldn't help but feel a deep unwillingness. However, fortunately, the war between Huo Jiajun and the United States, two rapidly developing and powerful forces, made Gwena breathe a sigh of relief, because this war was based on domestic reports. The two sides participated in a super war with nearly three million participants. It would seriously weaken both sides, and it could not be better for Britain, which was mired in economic crisis and war.

Therefore, in this war, whether it is the Huo Jiajun or the United States, no matter who wins or loses, the British Empire is the victor.

Thinking of this, the sorrowful look on Gweiner's face disappeared a little, but the rapid development of Huo Jiajun in Nanyang still made him have an indissoluble worry in his heart.

"What's going on?" felt the wagon that had been shaking. After shaking and stopping, Gwena couldn't help but frown and asked.

"Mr. Minister. The road ahead was blocked by the carriage of the German Embassy!"

Before the driver's words fell, a voice came from outside the car that made Gwener feel a little annoying.

"Minister Gwerner!"

Frowning, Gwener muttered to himself, "Nasty and arrogant German!", reached out and pushed the car door and walked out, just got out of the carriage and saw Schleier, the minister of the German legation in Huojiajun, who was standing in the car, smiling, and wearing a slightly wrinkled suit!

Although Britain and Germany are still in the honeymoon period, since France was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War and Prussia unified the whole of Germany, both Britain and Germany understand that it is difficult for the two countries to return to the previous state of close cooperation, because they all know that there is only one country that can lead the world, Britain wants to maintain the balance of Europe and continue its world hegemony, and Germany wants to expand outward, the contradictions between the two sides have begun to gradually appear, if it is not for the economic crisis, I believe that the concerns of the two countries will not be as harmonious as now。

With decades of experience in politics, Gwener knew that the time was not far off for a confrontation between Britain and Germany.

"Minister Schleier, I don't know why I stopped my carriage, you must know that this is not the work of a gentleman!" said Gwener, laughing. Although he is not interested in this German guy, his long diplomatic career has made Gviner's every word and expression full of diplomatic rhetoric and falsehood!

Although he also disliked this British fat man who was always competing with Germany for trade orders in the hands of the Nanyang Huo Jiajun, Schleier still won with a smile on his face.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Minister Gwyner, please forgive me for being reckless!" Schleier changed his tone and asked with a smile: "Minister Gwiner also went to the Chinese People's Army Council?"

Hearing his words, Gwener's face instinctively showed a look of vigilance, because since Britain, Germany, France and other European countries established diplomatic relations with Huo Jiajun, the matter of competing for trade orders in Huo Jiajun's hands has not been once or twice, especially after the economic crisis, European countries in order to relieve their own economic pressure, but also do everything possible to get more orders from the hands of Chinese who seem to never be able to spend the money in their hands.

Therefore, there was inevitably a competition between more than a dozen European sovereign states, among which Britain, which was strong in national power, and Germany, which was also prosperous in machinery manufacturing, received the most orders, so there was some competition between the two sides.

Looking at the expression on Gwener's face, Schleier couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, although the British have received more orders than Germany in recent years, but in private, the cooperation between Germany and the Chinese is far deeper than that of the British. Moreover, unlike the British, who simply wanted to exchange goods for silver dollars from the South Seas, the cooperation between Germany and the Chinese People's Army was more extensive, and the political, military, educational and other aspects of the two sides had their own needs, and of course, there was in-depth cooperation.

"It seems that Minister Schleier and I are on the same destination!" said Gwerner, glancing at the carriage with the flag of the Second German Reich of the tricolor parked on the side of the road.

"Hehe, not bad! But now I want to know more about the British Empire's views and attitudes towards the Sino-American war that is likely to break out in the next moment than going to the Chinese People's Army Council!" Schleier said with a smile.

After hearing his words, a strange look flashed in Gviner's eyes, "Why is it that the moral will is so interested in this war in the Americas?"

"Of course, although there were no German colonies there, both sides of the war had deep commercial cooperation with Germany, and now that the economic crisis was becoming more and more serious, any trade order from other countries was extremely important to the German Empire, which was now in a quagmire. So we were very concerned about this war throughout the German Empire. And we also want to know the attitude of the British Empire, as the world's first power, towards this war!"

Staring intently at the smiling German in front of him, Gwener's mind flashed with possibilities. He did not understand why the Germans were suddenly so interested in the Sino-American battle in the Americas. As for what the Germans just said about the 'economy' and 'trade order', Gwener didn't believe it at all.

Although Western countries attach great importance to the economy and trade, the most fundamental thing is politics, and the economy serves politics, not only in China, but also in European countries!

"Do the Germans also want to have a foot in the Americas?" thought to himself Gwener.

Of course, he had a reason to think so, because any European country knew that Germany was now crazy to colonize, and even if it was a reef that came to the surface, the Germans wanted to plant the German flag on it and declare it to be their colony. In particular, after this economic crisis, although Britain and France were far more damaged in the economic crisis than Germany, they were able to recover much faster than Germany by virtue of their vast colonies.

Therefore, within Germany, from the Kaiser and Chancellor Bismarck to the German people, there was a high expectation that the German colonies would grow rapidly and then provide Germany with raw materials and markets for economic and industrial development.

However, the era of great geographical discoveries has long passed, and the colonies of the world have been divided up by Britain, France and other countries, and now there is no land in the world that Germany can cut except Africa.

However, this huge war between the Huo Jiajun and the United States gave the Germans a glimmer of hope for expanding their colonies in the Americas. However, if you want to gain benefits, you also need to ask the attitude of the British, because their navy is so powerful, even if the British Empire has been exhausted by the protracted war in Egypt, their navy is still a formidable existence for any country in the world!

It is clear that the British, intent on maintaining the global hegemony of the British Empire, will not allow the increasingly powerful Germans to meddle in anything in the Americas, especially the war between China and the United States! )