Former British Prime Minister Benjamin looked at what was happening in front of him with worried eyes. He felt extremely sad for this empire!
The Victorian era was indeed Britain's most glorious era, but it was also an era of great changes in the empire from prosperity to decline. The entire British society was generally filled with a kind of arrogance, extreme arrogance.
The queen has done a very good job, at least she knows how to restrain Xiao Letian, even if the starting point is just because of her political intuition.
But this is already very good. At least it has eliminated some hidden dangers for the UK, and at least it has made the Chinese people know what the rules of the game are to abide by!
The Queen used his lifelong political talent to judge that Xiao Letian might be a threat and might need to be beaten.
But that was all. When Xiao Letian put on a submissive look, Princess Sissi relied on family ties to mediate the situation and ensured that the Chinese would never challenge Britain's maritime power and gold control.
That’s it! That's all the Queen wants. She won't really die for Spain. She is very satisfied if she can make Xiao Letian be honest and obedient!
After all, it is all about saving face. At this moment, Victoria is like the elderly Emperor Qianlong, no longer willing to analyze the troublesome social contradictions.
Xiao Letian may be a threat, but when will this threat erupt? Maybe it will be ten years, maybe it will be fifty years. If we get angry because of the potential crisis fifty years from now, we will send a large army to exterminate the Chinese.
So how will this matter be evaluated in my history book of Victoria's reign?
Of course victory is certain. How could Britain fail, but the Chinese cannot be underestimated. Xiao Letian's ability to fight will definitely make many British boys die in vain!
It's troublesome, it's really troublesome. So many soldiers died for an uncertain crisis decades later. There will definitely be some criticism of me in the country.
By then, I'm afraid I will no longer be a wise queen, but a queen who has been stained during her reign!
After all, you still have to worry about your face. At such an old age, it would be better to cause less trouble!
This is what Queen Victoria is really thinking at this moment, and Benjamin can see it very clearly... After all, the Queen is no longer young, and the old man will become a little stubborn, a little vain, a little weak, and a little preoccupied with one thing and the other!
It was because Xiao Letian understood the old man's temperament that he found a breakthrough and tried his best to follow the Queen's wishes so that she would never touch the chord in her heart about using military force.
Glorious empires always have a common problem, that is, their own lives are too valuable and their national power is too strong. The entire society secretly believes that they can defeat others without fighting and achieve strategic goals without killing their own people.
This has become a trend, a common disease in prosperous times, and it is also a disease of wealth!
The queen is like this, and the nobles of the empire are even worse. They are not as good as the queen!
In Benjamin's eyes, these fat-headed aristocratic capitalists have been immersed in the glory of the empire and cannot extricate themselves. They have a kind of mysterious confidence that absolutely no country in the world can defeat Britain.
It is true that there is really no country in the world that can challenge the United Kingdom.
What does the Chinese count? It's just a matter of taking advantage of the Germans' favorable conditions. Can the overall national strength be among the top ten in the world? I'm fed up with it.
For a country that is not even in the top ten, do you think it will pose a threat to the UK? Do you want to use military force to strangulate? Please think of a better excuse if you want to make war fortune.
The entire British aristocracy and big capitalists had only one attitude toward Xiao Letian, and that was that he was an ambitious Asian jackal!
The rope is in the hands of the empire. If it bites France, it must bite France. If it bites Tsarist Russia, it must bite Tsarist Russia!
Once the jackal is disobedient, just kill it and raise another one!
But killing jackals is definitely not the time now. Xiao Letian is now a treasure, firmly controlling the seas of East Asia. Basically, the trade between Europe and the Qing Dynasty cannot be separated from the ports and financial support of the Chinese.
What a good business partner, not to mention he has so many new inventions, such as the lucrative Fresh Source and the Chinese restaurant that makes a lot of money every day.
The clever head of state dragged the high-ranking British aristocrats into buying shares to make a fortune, and used commercial interests to connect a huge business network.
Benjamin's heart was bleeding. He felt sad for the arrogance, short-sightedness, and greed for small profits in the entire British Empire. It seemed that he was the only one who was calm and sober in this era, and he was the only one who could understand what Xiao Letian had. How dangerous.
It was so bad that everyone was drunk and I was alone. He wanted to rush into Buckingham Palace to stop the Queen's land purchase transaction, but what could he do as a resigned Prime Minister who couldn't even get today's admission ticket? ?
He could only be like an ordinary citizen in London, with a glass of whiskey and a newspaper, and then helplessly look at the brightly lit Buckingham Palace in the distance.
Watch this empire heading towards Xiao Letian’s trap!
"Damn it! The queen is unwilling to go to war. The entire aristocratic capitalist group is short-sighted and greedy for small profits... The remaining politicians are full of parties!"
"What do you want me to do? What should I do?"
At this moment in Buckingham Palace, Crown Prince Edward had heard the news that Benjamin was drinking in a pub not far away. As the Crown Prince, of course he knew what the former Prime Minister was thinking.
He sighed and said, "Go...send a message to Benjamin...just say that I will ask him privately!"
"Of course I understand his worries, and I understand the reasons... But our empire currently only has a population of 40 million. What do you want the government to do?"
"For the development of colonies, who else can we use if we don't use foreign races?"
"Are you worried about attracting a wolf into your house? Well, even if Xiao Letian is a wolf, the Empire can raise this jackal and will easily kill this white-eyed wolf in the future!"
"Let the Chinese develop it, wait until those wastelands become fertile soil, wait until cities rise from the ground...then we will go pick the fruits!"
When Benjamin heard the original words sent by the Crown Prince's secretary, he shed tears. He drank the whiskey in one gulp and sighed, "Yeah, who else can I blame? I can't blame British women for not living up to expectations, right?"
"If women can give birth to 400 million descendants of the empire, why are we so helpless?"
"But is Xiao Letian really that easy to kill? If we give him another few decades of development, what will happen if this white-eyed wolf finally turns into an unkillable tiger?"
"Don't be careless! I beg the Crown Prince to be careful, don't be careless!"
Note: Well... the recommendation vote dropped to 11th place, which is really sad!
It seems that no matter how hard we try, we can't compare to one finger of a rich man!
No matter the ranking, let’s go our own way!
Hidden Dragon book friends, keep up the hard work, the event will end in less than ten days! See if you can get 200 tickets a day!
If we can reach 5,000 recommendation votes by the end of the month, we will be considered successful!
