"Excuse me, General, how are you going to deal with the current situation? The Prime Minister has closed the door to all negotiations. How effective will your protest be?"
"We will express our protest to the Queen. The UK is a constitutional monarchy. Please don't forget the word monarch!"
"General! What if the Queen is powerless? Don't forget that Britain is a system of real prime ministers. Many powers of the cabinet cannot be interfered with by the royal family!"
"Then we will ask for intervention from many countries!" Sima Yun usually doesn't like to talk, but when he spoke, his words were so sharp that ordinary people could hardly imagine it.
"Whether I, the Chinese, are bandits and warlords cannot be decided by one person. Britain is recognized by all countries in the world! In addition, I would like to solemnly remind those die-hard conservatives!"
"The status of a country cannot be recognized by one or two people, and denied by one or two people! In the end, a country still depends on its strength. Don't forget that we, the Chinese, can defeat Tsarist Russia and France with our own strength! Our strength has been proven Our place in the world!”
"I would like to remind you that there are still more than 20,000 Tsarist Russian prisoners working in hard labor camps in the Far East and Ryukyu at the moment, including more than 100 French prisoners! I hope smart people will not make the mistake!"
"I really have some doubts. Does the Prime Minister dare not meet our head of state? Because everyone knows that the head of state of our Chinese nation is a well-deserved and unparalleled eloquent person!"
After leaving these threatening words, Sima Yun ignored the questions from the reporters around him, stepped onto the carriage and drove away. Before leaving, Sima Yun clearly saw the annoying picture in the second floor window out of the corner of his eye. Face.
It turned out that Benjamin had been paying attention to him from beginning to end.
"Haha, the person who knows you best in this world must be your enemy. Benjamin, you are a senior colonialist and a typical force-exporting madman. Don't you like to solve problems with violence?"
"Now that the head of state has taken action, I want to see if you can bear it!"
After Benjamin, who was on the second floor, heard such threatening words through the crack of the open window, he was so angry that he almost tore the curtains to pieces.
"Arrogant, how arrogant are these arrogant Chinese! How dare they threaten the British Empire?" Benjamin's face became ferocious.
Even more angry were the two special envoys of Tsarist Russia and France, Ivan and Montauban. The war in the east was a dull pain in their hearts, and those prisoners of war were a thorn in their hearts. Sima Yun's blatant fluctuations today made them almost vomit blood in pain.
"We cannot let them go! These despicable Eastern barbarians! Prime Minister, please listen clearly now. They want to use European lives to threaten our entire Europe. This group of people should not exist in the civilized world at all!"
"Don't worry, they don't dare!" Benjamin's chest rose and fell sharply, and his blood pressure hit his forehead with veins all over it. "No one in this world dares to threaten the British Empire, and no one dares to challenge the dignity of the Empire on which the sun never sets!"
"Get changed, I want to go out!"
Benjamin said he was going out to attend the meeting, but his real purpose was to meet the reporters at the door. These persistent reporters did not catch up with Sima Yun's carriage. They wanted to hear the Prime Minister's reaction at this moment.
When the door to the official residence was opened, the group of reporters went completely crazy. They broke through the wall of people blocked by the police and directly blocked the Prime Minister at the door.
"Prime Minister, why do you refuse to meet with the Chinese envoys? You don't even have unofficial contact? Is it really because you are afraid of Xiao Letian's eloquence?"
"I'm sorry, Prime Minister, what is the UK's attitude towards the Tsarist Russian and French prisoners of war in the hands of the Chinese? Will the UK intervene diplomatically?"
"But now that you have closed the door to negotiations with the Chinese, how are you going to solve the prisoner of war issue? Are you just ignoring it? Or is it that the UK is going to intervene militarily..."
Benjamin was surrounded by harsh questions one after another. Even though the Prime Minister was "battle-hardened", he was a little concerned about one thing and not the other.
Facts have proved that Sima Yun's method of stimulating generals is quite effective. The empire on which the sun never sets in the 19th century was more arrogant than the United States in its heyday, and their national pride was comparable to that of China's Tang Dynasty.
The eyes of ordinary people have grown to the top of their heads, let alone the elites, especially these members of the Tory Party, headed by Benjamin, who belong to the deep colonial faction. There is no term for militarism in this era. In fact, Xiao Letian It is clear that the iron-blooded ideology these people believe in is actually the prototype of militarism.
The strong industrial strength and strong military strength ensure the maritime privileges of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets. All golden waterways are under their control, and any land worth operating must become their colony.
Fortunately, mercantilism and civilian politics were still very strong, and there was a queen holding them back, so this kind of deep colonial thinking did not dominate the entire empire, and militarism did not appear here in the end.
But the prototype alone is enough for the whole world to drink. Which European country before Britain dared to dream of defeating distant China? Not to mention that Tsarist Russia once fought a war with the Qing Empire, but the scale was nothing more than border friction at best, and it was ultimately a matter of negotiation.
It was Britain, it was Britain that tore up the weak Qing Dynasty and showed the truth to the world!
In this era, even China cannot survive the British naval gunfire. You can imagine those weak countries in Africa, North and South America. They are not even qualified to protest. Do you expect black Africans to go to Downing Street to protest?
In the Victorian era, when flowers were blooming and fire was cooking, these colonialists had long developed the habit of looking too far ahead. Today, when they heard Sima Yun's unceremonious provocation, all reason was thrown to the back of their minds.
Benjamin had only one thought in his mind at the time, "Damn it, it doesn't matter how you humiliate the French and Russians at the banquet, but how dare you humiliate me! How dare you, humble reptile!"
Benjamin, whose face was slightly red, said something in his official residence that he would regret for the rest of his life.
"Okay, gentlemen, please be quiet! I will answer your questions one by one... Why don't I see Xiao Letian? Why do you think this is a problem?"
"I want to ask everyone, why do I want to see him? What is the reason for meeting him?"
"The Queen's state banquet? The welcome ceremony at Tower Bridge? I'm sorry, but what I want to explain is that everything is to welcome Emperor Tongzhi, not anyone else!"
"Who is Xiao Letian? Who is the Chinese? Why do everyone have to worry about this issue?"
"Let me answer you, the Chinese are just a warlord force that stole the power of the ancient Ryukyu Kingdom. In my eyes, Xiao Letian is just a bandit warlord who has temporarily gained the upper hand!"
"Do you dare to dream of becoming a country in just one county? How arrogant!"
