If you want to silence the British government, you must first silence the British people. As long as broad public opinion remains unchanged, it is useless for one or two politicians to jump in occasionally.
How can the British people not become emotional about the death of Samuel? It's very simple, then create a new saint for the British!
Let’s use the power of the global media, spend money to buy sections, and try our best to put Samuel among the good guys!
You, Samuel, are a friend of the Qing Dynasty, the discoverer of the Dunhuang Scripture Cave, and an old friend of the Chinese people!
Look at how sad we are when you die. The head of state personally wrote a condolence article. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty ordered all the people to attend the funeral. All kinds of honors rushed towards you like a flood.
When the British opened the newspapers, they saw the Chinese people's sad reports, which were Samuel's heroic feats. The entire media had already portrayed him as a tragic hero.
Imagine a scene like this: Mr. Samuel struggled to move forward in the desert in the no-man's land of the Western Region in a windy and snowy sky with temperatures soaring to more than 30 degrees below zero.
His body was extremely weak, and he suffered from severe typhoid fever due to the cold weather. Everyone advised him to stay, not to leave anymore, but to stay in the towns along the way to wait for the coming spring.
But Mr. Samuel sternly refused. He always remembered the Qing Emperor's instructions before leaving, and he also missed the splendid culture of the mysterious Western Regions.
"No... don't worry about me... I can still walk... I have to keep moving forward..."
What a hero! hero!
His firm belief and noble morality supported him across the entire Pamir Plateau, the deserts of the Western Regions and the no-man's land of Mongolia!
Even in Guazhou, when Marshal Zuo Zongtang insisted on sending Samuel to the warm city of Beijing to recuperate, he even wrote a military order for the sake of archaeology!
For the sake of his archaeological dream, Mr. Samuel ignored everyone's dissuasion and signed the exemption document. Even though he knew there was danger, he still wanted to stay in the Western Regions.
It is precisely because of his unrestrained efforts that the Dunhuang Scripture Cave, which shocked the world, came into existence!
Great British people, thank you for raising such a knight with the spirit of chivalry and sacrifice! Let us collectively shout three long lives for the dead Mr. Samuel!
Long live Mr. Samuel Baker...!
Long live the empire on which the sun never sets...!
Long live the great UK-China friendship...!
Sensational... This is simply too sensational. Once such a bloody report was published in the British and European media, public opinion in Europe was in an uproar!
The British people who read the newspapers were all moved to tears. They were touched that their nation had such a hero, and they were also touched by the Chinese people's gratitude!
"Look, our empire on which the sun never sets is still at the forefront of world culture! Only our nation can produce such a moral role model!"
"Hero, Samuel is the pride of our British Empire!"
"Long live! We will build a bronze statue of Mr. Samuel!"
"You don't need to shape it. The Chinese have said that they will build a large bronze statue of Mr. Samuel in Dunhuang so that he can forever look at the scripture cave he discovered!"
The direction of public opinion was swept up, and the public fell into a vicious cycle of preconceptions. Taking this opportunity, the Chinese Civilization Series report incidentally launched a Dunhuang series.
Where is Dunhuang? what story does he have?
What happened to the war and integration between the ancient Western Regions and the Han people?
When did the silk and porcelain that Europeans loved arrived in Europe?
How did Buddhism spread in the Western Regions?
There are also mysterious ancient countries in the Western Regions, thousand-year-old tombs and ancient legends. What are they recorded in?
Questions were thrown out one after another, and the wonderful answers in each issue suddenly made the boring life of the people a lot more fun.
In this era, there were no radios, no cable TV, and no Internet... People did not have many daily entertainment options. The best way for ordinary people to relax was by reading newspapers and books.
In this era, there is no massive amount of information filling people's brains. Almost everyone around the world is in a state of information hunger!
Whatever you instill in them, they will accept. A dry sponge will never be picky. If there is water, just absorb it!
They were able to withstand Xiao Letian's media hype routine from the future. All their reports were brilliant with pictures and texts, and each story was extremely legendary.
It was also mixed with praise for Mr. Samuel!
With such indiscriminate bombing, the British people will not start a wave of hatred against the Chinese. On the contrary, the feelings between the people of the two countries seem to be three points closer.
While the London media was bombarding the news, the domestic investigation was also in progress. The first batch of investigation reports of Northwest Zuo Zongtang had been telegraphed to Beijing, and the British Embassy was stunned when they saw it.
The investigation was very systematic and not one-sided. There were also British people who testified together!
The hole in the ice was dug by Samuel himself. He accidentally slipped and fell into the water. The water under the ice sheet was only one meter and a half deep, so there was no way he could drown Samuel!
The explorer was completely frozen out of typhoid fever, and then died of typhoid fever!
Both parties carefully explored the site, and there were no traces of man-made damage on the river or ice... What? Do you think someone might be doing anything under the ice?
Okay, would you like to do one for me to see? It's a low temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius and there's no light yet. How can people go down there and do anything? If you can do it, I will consider you right!
The British are speechless!
As for the poisoning of medicinal materials, there is no problem. Half of the medicine that Samuel drank has been divided into spare parts. You all keep a part.
If you don’t believe it, just make a pot of it and see if anyone will die!
The head of state in Singapore even summoned the British Governor and British reporters and spent half a day sorting out and introducing the entire incident.
No matter how tricky the British reporter's questions were, they could not stop the head of state. From everyone's perspective, this incident looked exactly like an accident.
Samuel Baker, the famous British explorer, died in China inexplicably, leaving nothing behind except the reputation of a hero behind him.
The crisis was finally over. When Xiao Letian left the press conference, he summoned the generals to relax and have a drink. Xiao Letian said with emotion under the banquet.
"No matter how powerful the enemy is, they will never be monolithic. If you want to defeat them, you have to find loopholes in their system and public opinion!"
"If the British want to go to war with us, then they need to study their war process and how they will go to war with us..."
"By disrupting their processes and disrupting their rhythm, we will naturally win without a fight..."
"Send a telegram to King Shangtai and the others and hurry up to transport all the treasures from the Sutra Cave... No one is left, and no one can be lost!"
