As the British wish!
Can they get their wish?
Of course we can't let them get what they want.
In the dim room without a trace of light, Zhu Xianhai wanted to open the simulator more than once, select long-term simulation, and then perform deductions.
But reason told him that such a deduction would not only waste precious long-term simulation opportunities, but more importantly, the unpredictable changes in diplomatic decisions between countries far exceeded the simulator's deduction process.
Especially for a country like the British, which could even lay out the plan half a century ago, and then use decades to cautiously and slowly push the situation in a direction that is beneficial to itself.
This kind of layout and perseverance is far beyond the imagination of outsiders.
This shit-stirring stick... is so difficult to deal with!
"However, no matter what, the British stick is still being used by us now!"
In fact, Zhu Xianhai's use of Britain to contain Buenos Aires this time was planned and carefully planned for a long time. He just wanted to use diplomacy to achieve some of his own goals, even though he successfully tied up commercial interests such as loans and orders.
to the UK.
But what about actually?
What really made the British decide to take action was not just business interests, but their overall strategy. How could the British's long-term strategy of deploying dozens of countries change because of Nanhua's interference?
"Two years later, the Paraguay War broke out, and the British layout was successful. At the same time, with the rise of South China, Britain's attention would turn to the south, Araucania to Chile, and the Pampas to Argentina. With these contradictions, Britain
How could you not use that shit-stirring stick?"
Zhu Xianhai was thinking about the conflicts with the two countries. These conflicts were obviously irreconcilable and could not be compromised. For Nanhua, concession was death, but what about the two countries? They were also determined to win. They did not even need the British.
Provocation, they will take action when the time is right.
"Without the support of the United Kingdom, the two countries will definitely not be able to persevere. In the final analysis, it is still because of the rise of Nanhua!"
What does the rise of Nanhua mean?
It means that the British layout in South America has been destroyed, and South China's industrial products have also formed competition for Britain. It is precisely because of these two points that Britain will never allow South China, or South America, to emerge as an enterprising industrialized country.
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"This should be the fundamental reason why the British would directly intervene!"
After realizing the core of the problem, Zhu Xianhai frowned and smoked his cigar silently. If it were other issues, he could choose to negotiate, but the current issue between Nanhua and Britain is obviously a conflict of core interests.
"It seems that conflict is definitely inevitable."
Holding a cigar between his arms, Zhu Xianhai muttered.
"Now that we have discovered the mastermind behind the scenes, are we still in a hurry?"
The answer is obvious, and it's still urgent, but the most important thing is probably to increase the population and quickly grow ourselves. Only in this way can we survive in the future war, or in other words, in this era of tigers and wolves.
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Is it too early to be martyred?
Even until now, Wang Youling sometimes has such thoughts in his mind.
He didn't even know how he was captured. He only remembered that when the city fell, he was originally prepared to be martyred, but he never thought that just when he was about to hang himself, the house was blown up by the bandit's foreign cannon.
Standing out from the ruins of bricks and tiles, he had just taken a few steps out of the Yamen in a daze when he was kidnapped by the gangsters.
Then what?
Like many people in the city, his hands were tied and his neck was tied with a long rope. Like a zombie, he was taken to the riverside outside the city. He originally thought he was going to die, but he did not wait for the knife to behead him, and he was soon killed.
The others were also taken to the boat, and when they boarded the boat, their braids were cut off like everyone else.
What next?
When Wang Youling, who was dizzy and dizzy from the explosion, fully regained consciousness, he had no idea where he was.
The sound of the waves can be heard through the wooden walls, and the biting cold wind between the wooden boards makes it difficult to fall asleep.
where is this place?
No one knows, they only know that they are on an island, surrounded by the vast sea.
Although they don't know where they are, the people imprisoned here are very lucky. Fortunately, they neither starved to death in Hangzhou nor had their heads chopped off by bandits.
In short, for the vast majority of ordinary people, being able to survive is good enough. As for the future, in this time of war and chaos, how can there be any future? Don’t we all just live one day at a time?
In the days that followed, he, like the captured people, was forced to practice military postures, goose steps, and run along the island every day.
Although Wang Youling wanted to die, things were not that simple. Living with dozens of people, even if he wanted to commit suicide and die, he still had to have a chance, right?
Besides, even if the king was martyred at an old age, someone would have to know about it, right? If no one knew, what would be the use of being martyred?
Since death is not possible, then just live an ignoble existence, maybe you can find a chance to escape.
After his guard relaxed a little, Wang Youling was not as obsessed with death as he was at the beginning. Instead, he ran and practiced all day long like everyone else. The only difference was that he wanted to teach others how to read.
What exactly is this place?
Why do all men, women and children have to practice like soldiers? And what’s more, they practice Western exercises?
Could it be that this is the "male camp" and "female camp" where bandits are sent out?
But why do we need to be literate?
Have you never heard that being a gangster requires literacy?
Moreover, the guards with foreign guns were dressed more like foreigners than bandits. Before Wang Youling could figure out what was going on, he boarded the "South Dou Star" a month after arriving on the island.
The clipper ship "No. 1" set off, and as soon as the ship left the sea, it headed straight for Nanyang.
Even though he was the governor of Zhejiang, Wang Youling had never sat on such a big ship. Although the ship was very large, the cabin was very crowded. The seven-foot-high cabin was packed with multi-layered beds, and there were only two feet between the layers.
It is high and two feet wide. People have to turn sideways to squeeze into such a coffin bed. When walking in the cabin, they can only walk sideways.
People can just lie down, but because the space is too small, after lying down, the most they can do is turn over. There are more than 300 people, old and young, squeezed into the cabin. There are different cabins for men and women on the ship, and they are all packed like cargo.
Stuffed into cabins.
The day he boarded the ship was the first day of the Lunar New Year, February 1, 1862. From that day on, Wang Youling was like everyone else. Only during meal times could he squeeze onto the deck to take a breath and queue up to receive food.
Finally, he poured a glass of water from a bamboo tube, and after eating a ball of rice mixed with diced meat, he reluctantly returned to the dark and stuffy cabin.
In this way, the ship sailed in an unknown direction on the sea. Sometimes the ship would encounter wind and waves. It was at this time that the stuffy cabin became a little more comfortable, but seasickness made them vomit.
, making the cabin full of sour smell.
There was no armor on the boat, and in the end, like everyone else, Wang Youling didn't know how long the boat had been traveling.
Until one day, a sailor's shout came from the hatch.
"Okay, pack up, go ashore, go ashore..."
This chapter has been completed!