"Rebellion? Huck, you mean..."
Emperor Wilhelm looked at his chief secretary Harker in shock.
Huck shrugged and said with regret: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I just received a call from the First Lord of the Admiralty. The Royal Navy has prepared the cruiser Bristol for you...just berthed. Just board this cruiser at the docks on the Thames and you can leave the UK immediately. Once you leave the UK, you can go anywhere except India!
Sir Nathan Rothschild also called and said that he has prepared a huge sum of money for you in his bank, including 10 million pounds... You can use it as you wish!
Plus, you don’t have to worry about where the Gurkha Guards and the King’s German Infantry are going, everything is taken care of. They will all get their due rewards, and ships will be arranged to take them back to their countries. "
After all, he is a British gentleman... He is also such a gentleman when he rebels.
"But, why is this?" William was still unwilling, "I have promised to give up the throne to Victoria in the near future, why do they still treat me like this?"
Huck sighed: "Your Majesty, do you really not understand?"
Emperor William sighed, his face fell, and the tears in his big eyes swayed there without knowing when.
"It must be for India..." Emperor William said in a gloomy tone, "I know those Anglo-Saxons want to ride on the Indians' necks and be masters forever... But they I don’t even think about it, once the British Empire lost its ability to compete with the Ming Empire and became a country that obeyed the rule of the Ming Dynasty, why would it still have the cornucopia of India?”
"Just because we can make India lie on the ground forever and disintegrate from within. At the same time, a strong Britain can also keep Europe divided forever..." Huck sighed, "It is possible that we can do something like Ming Dynasty. The only threat to a world empire the size of the Ming Dynasty is a unified Europe, a resurgent India or a thriving United States of America. If these three threats appear at the same time, even with the size of the Ming Dynasty, it will inevitably lose sight of one and lose the other.
But if we in the UK can maintain the balance of power and division in Europe for the Ming Dynasty, and maintain the fragmentation and weakening of India...then there will be only one United States of America left, will the Ming Dynasty still be unable to suppress it? If Britain could play such an important role in the world system dominated by Ming Dynasty, how could Ming Dynasty take away the cornucopia of India from our hands? "
It has to be said that as a man standing at the top of the British civil service system, Huck still sees the nature and value of the British Empire very clearly, even more clearly than any politician or hereditary prince - after all, most of those people He was reincarnated, and a British civil servant like Huck, who was born in the middle class, can climb to his current position. Who is not the elite of the elite? It is not an exaggeration to say that they are actuaries of international politics!
Come and try it quickly. 】
And the geographical value of Britain can indeed make any world hegemon outside the European continent give her a good meal... What a mess! Moreover, for the local Anglo-Saxons in England, the Ming Dynasty, a world hegemon far away from Europe, must have given more preferential treatment than the United States and India, which were relatively close to Europe.
After all, there will be mustaches and red-haired men in Europe in the future, and the Ming Dynasty will have to go halfway around the world to send troops to intervene. If there is no "great hero" to support them, by the time the Ming Dynasty soldiers arrive, the mustaches may have unified Europe!
In addition, the Ming Dynasty also needed the cooperation of the British Empire to suppress the United States of America, because the "Land of Longxing" of the United States of America is on the Atlantic coast, not the Pacific coast. It is impossible for Ming Dynasty to lock down its opponents by setting up a few island chains in the Pacific. Even if it has now landed in the New World, it can only curb the development of the United States in the west, but it cannot stop the development of the east coast of the United States.
Moreover, after the United States' westward expansion is blocked, it can still go north or south. To prevent the United States from moving south, we can rely on supporting Mexico, but to prevent the United States from moving north, we must maintain a relatively strong Great Britain - otherwise, the United States can eat Canada to compensate for the loss of the west and the inability to annex the entire Texas. Although the Ming Dynasty could occasionally bomb New York, it was unrealistic to deploy troops on the west coast of the North Atlantic for a long time. Long logistics lines will drag down the country's finances, and it is difficult for the public to understand the significance of the country sending troops to such a distant place.
Therefore, maintaining Great Britain after defeating Great Britain has become the best choice for the Ming Dynasty...
Supporting the United States or India to compete with the Ming Dynasty for world hegemony may be the most beneficial to the entire Western civilization, but for the powerful and people of England, it is definitely a very painful choice!
Emperor William also understood that Huck's words were correct, but he was still unwilling...unwilling to surrender immediately.
But just when Emperor William was still trying to make a final struggle to get something more from his niece Victoria, in St. James Square outside St. James's Palace, a company of "workers" from southern Germany was already marching on the London Labor Day. The people placed barbed wire wrapped around the horse in front of them, and also set up Vickers heavy machine guns. In front of the defense line composed of the barbed wire and the horse, there was a cordon painted with white lime. There was a sign behind the cordon, which clearly stated - Rebellion is against the law, and you will be shot if you cross the cordon!
The commander of these German "engineers" was a company captain from the mountains of South Germany. He was in his thirties, not very tall, with a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked a little nervous, and a mustache on his lips. .
His name was Adolf - a perfectly ordinary German male name. Moreover, like most Germans, he is as strict, rigid, and not very flexible!
It was Emperor William's order to defend St. James's Palace, and it was Ernst August, the Grand Commander of the King's German Infantry Regiment, to shoot when the line was crossed.
These two didn't just talk empty talk, they both paid.
And Adolf also signed a contract when he took money to serve as a soldier for Emperor William, promising to obey orders and obey orders-so shooting across the line was the spirit of the contract!
"Down with Kaiser Wilhelm!"
"Germany, get out of Britain!"
"Defend India to the death!"
"India is the India of the British..."
The people of London also chanted slogans loudly. They also have a spirit of contract... They all took pounds from capitalists. Otherwise, it would be too late to work overtime. Who would have time to oppose the emperor?
Moreover, most of these working people in London don’t know German, so they don’t know what is written on those signs? Just shout slogans against the emperor and step across the white line with your head covered!
When Captain Adolf saw this group of British rebels rushing over regardless of dissuasion, he became anxious - the British had a precedent of cutting off the king's head. Are they going to kill Emperor William this time?
This is not possible!
So Adolf immediately shouted: "Attention all...defend the Emperor! Warning shots, rifles...fire!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the German mercenaries who had been prepared immediately pulled the trigger, but did not hit anyone, and opened fire above the crowd. This is a warning shot. If you don't retreat, it will be machine gun fire.
But at this time, there were too many people in the square and it was too noisy. The people in the front were scared when they saw the Germans opening fire, while the people in the back did not understand what was going on and continued to move forward, so they pushed the front People move on.
As soon as Adolf saw this scene, he was not polite and immediately issued the second order according to the regulations: "Machine gun...fire!"
A Vickers water-cooled heavy machine gun placed next to him fired first, with a "click-click" sound, and the flames swept directly through the crowd! There were also several machine guns placed throughout the anti-horse defense line. When those machine gunners saw that Captain Adolf was taking action, they immediately followed the orders they had received before and began to fire on the unarmed people of London!
