Gladstone's reasoning couldn't be more righteous. Using the safety of 400,000 people as an excuse, he really dared to break into Buckingham Palace alone. Even if it was against the rules, no one could do anything about it, and the Queen would not scold him for this.
Benjamin completely understood his opponent's tactics at this moment. He even suspected that Xiao Letian and Gladstone had reached some kind of secret alliance. Otherwise, how could they cooperate so well step by step?
In the final analysis, Xiao Letian and Gladstone want to embarrass themselves in front of the people, in front of the Queen, and in front of all the people in Europe, so that they can all see the weak management capabilities of this government.
If you can't even hold a diplomatic welcome ceremony, what else can you do, Benjamin?
Originally, this cabinet was very unstable. The Tories have been in power for many years. Although they have made various achievements, they have also accumulated countless political opponents. The people always like to blame themselves, and they will naturally find someone to blame for all their unhappiness. object.
Isn’t that what Xiang does? Doesn’t the ruling party exist just to bear infamy?
But no matter how he was scolded at home, Benjamin could tolerate it. Now that Xiao Letian dared to act boldly to lose his face, he couldn't bear it anymore.
Thinking of this, Benjamin sneered and whispered to Gladstone, "I don't care what opinions you have about me, or what opinions you have about my governance, but what you did today is wrong..."
"I hope you will never forget that you are British and your position cannot make mistakes. Remember this!"
Gladstone's eyelids twitched and he said coldly, "On the issue of patriotism, I've done just as well as you, even much better than you... You're thinking too much!"
At this point, the last bit of dignity between the two people was completely torn apart. Benjamin turned around and left the ceremony. Some senior members of the Tory Party were waiting for him outside the ceremony. He had to come up with a countermeasure for the current situation.
"What should I do? Now all the citizens of London are attracted by the oriental style. It's more than 400,000 yuan. At this moment, many factory workers have stopped working. When they heard about such a magical painting, they rushed to the streets regardless of the factory owners' obstruction. Already..."
"That's right, there are so many people that no one dares to stop them. The factory owners are watching the machines stop working. No matter whether they are threatening or begging, they can't stop the workers who want to watch the fun..."
"There are also countless ordinary citizens who were originally unwilling to go out to watch the excitement at home. They were also attracted by the sudden changes. These people said that even if they don't see the Oriental Mission, it would be good to go to the streets to see these landscape paintings... "
"It's too scary. This Chinese is simply a devil that deceives people's hearts. If things continue like this, the number of people attracted to the streets today may exceed 800,000!"
"What should we do? It's not right to destroy it now, and it's wrong not to destroy it now. What should we do?"
Benjamin was surrounded by a group of subordinates, and his ears were filled with buzzing questions. At that moment, he really wanted to make a fool of himself, but when he glanced at the reporters around the venue from the corner of his eye, his strong self-control kept him calm. down.
"Okay, stop talking...what you said is not on point. I have now understood Xiao Letian's trick. He just wants to coerce the people to put pressure on me!"
"It's very possible that he has guessed that I am going to deal with him. He knows that he is not my opponent, so he came up with this dirty trick, desperately increasing his popularity, and then pretending to be a celebrity in front of the public. A civilized gentleman!”
"As long as there are enough British people who love him, he can force me to avoid dealing with him! I must admit that Xiao Letian is very smart. He has really blocked many opportunities for me to take action!"
Benjamin really has a plan to secretly execute Xiao Letian. In Benjamin's safe, the final plan is to destroy these Chinese people.
Xiao Letian, his generals and all the soldiers must die, and Britain does not care at all about the revenge of the Chinese, including the revenge of Prussia.
While Xiao Letian is alive, someone may stand up for him, but once Xiao Letian dies, who will choose to be an enemy of Britain over a dead man? Bismarck is not that retarded.
Of course, committing such a crime will definitely have a huge negative impact on Britain's glorious image, but the Chinese are not a country recognized by Britain, and are now just a force.
What is the difference between destroying a force and the British destroying a group of bandits in their overseas colonies? Therefore, the infamy will last for a while, but within a year, people will have forgotten everything.
Benjamin doesn't care about the opinions of the European and Asian people at all. In his heart, only the attitude of the British people is the most critical. As long as the British people don't care, then he has no worries.
In Benjamin's judgment, who among the proud British people cares about a small Eastern warlord? Where is Ryukyu? In legend?
However, Benjamin did not expect that before Xiao Letian came to Europe, successive reports appeared in the European media one after another, and his own negligence did not block the Chinese series of reports from the beginning, which resulted in the first Thanks to word-of-mouth publicity among fans, the entire series of reports began to spread rapidly.
Facts have proved that if you don’t control news from the beginning, once it starts to spread among the people, it will be difficult to cover it up later.
As more and more people knew about the Eastern Mission, and as the number of curious people became wider and wider, Benjamin could only sadly retract his judgment and hide the plan to massacre the Chinese in the safe.
We have to give an explanation to the people. After all, the Tories will continue to compete for votes and cannot be offended too harshly.
Abandoning the original plan, Benjamin had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and choose to trap Xiao Letian.
Use the British influence to put Xiao Letian under house arrest in the UK and feed him well, but he will not give you a chance to go to Prussia, let alone an excuse to join the war.
More importantly, if we don't give you the treaty you want, Britain will never recognize the national status of the Chinese.
When the time comes, you will naturally go back to where you came from in despair!
But who would have thought that Xiao Letian would directly join forces with Gladstone, and even make such a big deal in London, boosting his reputation so high, and slap himself so loudly in the face.
"Damn it! No matter how much it is, Xiao Letian must not be allowed to increase his reputation today. After a while, everyone changed the schedule and tried to adjust the schedule of activities..."
"Give me all the time Xiao Letian has to speak. It's best to cancel his speech directly! Anyway, all the scheduled activities must be completed before the luncheon!"
