Confrontations in the streets do not lead to war; at most they are conflicts.
"I think it's just a conflict over law enforcement."
At Prince Gaston's headquarters, Li Yunhao said with a smile.
"We just caught a few soldiers who did evil things."
Li Yunhao's words were light and airy, as if this matter was nothing at all.
As for murders and confrontations, in his opinion, they are simply trivial matters that are not worth mentioning.
It's just a verbal conflict.
"It's a Brazilian soldier!"
Prince Gaston almost said this word for word.
"freeman!"
Li Yunhao once again emphasized the identities of those people. Their identities are extremely special. They are not ordinary Brazilian soldiers, but just a group of, well... slaves. These are all the sins of the Brazilians.
"A "freeman" is also a Brazilian soldier,"
Gaston said dissatisfied.
"Your people not only beat them, but also killed two people. The other one is still unconscious. You said this was just a conflict of law enforcement powers, but how can you explain this?"
No matter what you say, you can't kill people, can you? Take a step back and kill someone. There is always a price to pay. How can you be so light-hearted like now, as if it didn't happen?
Faced with Prince Gaston's question, Li Yunhao replied.
"Your Highness, I think any gentleman would stand up for justice when faced with a woman being bullied. What do you think, Your Highness?"
"Um……"
Gaston nodded with some difficulty. How could he not know what kind of people those "freemen" were? A considerable part of the so-called atrocities committed by the Brazilian army were committed by them. Those people were not good at fighting and robbed and killed.
But he is a good hand.
The officers complained about me a lot about this. In their opinion, it was precisely because of the crimes committed by the "freeman" that the Brazilian army was now criticized all over the world.
Even the wives of some military officers wrote to their husbands, accusing them of the crimes they had committed.
Of course, those officers are definitely not clean either, but that doesn't stop them from putting all the blame on the "freeman", but in any case, those people are Brazilian soldiers.
"However, they are Brazilian soldiers, and we should arrest them even if they are sanctioned."
The prince's confidence was a bit lacking. How could he not know that the officers had no intention of maintaining military discipline?
"Look, Your Highness, this is just the conflict over law enforcement rights that I mentioned before."
Li Yunhao smiled.
"As for the deaths of those people, on the one hand, they brought it upon themselves, but on the other hand, it was... well, I can only say that those criminals were too fragile and completely vulnerable. What do you think? We simply can't.
There is no need to hurt the feelings between our two countries for a few "freemen"!"
Just a few "freemen"!
After learning the news, the most fortunate thing for Li Yunhao was probably that the dead were "freemen". Maybe they were Brazilian soldiers, but they were just cannon fodder of the Brazilian army.
"We need corresponding compensation!"
Prince Gaston thought for a while and said.
"After all, I need to explain to the army. Maybe "freeman" is not worth mentioning, but the officers are very dissatisfied with the issue of your military police's offside law enforcement. You know, those officers..."
Many of those military officers are full of hostility to the royal family. They are supporters of the republic. We must give those people some explanation!
Helplessly shrugging his shoulders, Prince Gaston sighed.
"We always need to take their emotions into consideration, otherwise it will be difficult for me to control the military's dissatisfaction when it is aroused."
This is Brazil!
Li Yunhao thought to himself, what does Brazil look like?
It is an empire on the surface, but there are a large number of republican officers in the officer corps. In this war, the power of the military has further grown. This is why the Emperor of Brazil hopes to end the war. If the war continues, what will happen?
Causing unrest within Brazil?.
"As law enforcers, it is certainly impossible for us to compensate for our law-abiding behavior. At most, it is just excessive enforcement of the law."
Li Yunhao said directly.
"In this case, the Paraguayan government will provide compensation."
"Yeah, okay."
After Prince Gaston agreed, Li Yunhao said again.
"In order to avoid this happening again, I think we can discuss the law enforcement power of the military police. After all, we are all civilized people and we cannot turn a blind eye to the atrocities of the military!"
What is civilization?
The so-called civilization has always been defined by the strong.
But civilization can be disguised, and Nanhua is a pretender. From the very beginning, it has carefully put on a shell of a "civilized country". The reason for putting on this shell is, to put it bluntly, to seize international discourse.
right.
For Zhu Xianhai, who lives in the 21st century, he has witnessed time and time again how the great and beautiful countries "practice" the arrogance that power is justice. Of course, he has also seen how they distort facts and seize the right to speak internationally.
What is the right to speak internationally?
"It's something that the enemy will take if you don't take it away. Our skin color and civilization determine that we are destined not to pee in the same pot as the Westerners, but this does not prevent us from fighting for the control of public opinion, and then
Whether we report it truthfully or distort it, as long as we can turn them into a group of barbarians..."
After thinking about it, Zhu Xianhai said.
"Take the Turks, for example. Originally, Turks were synonymous with barbarians in Europe, but the Russians never thought of using public opinion to strive for a more favorable situation for themselves. What's the result?"
Referring to Russia's stupid behavior in the "Turkish-Russian War", Zhu Xianhai's tone was full of sarcasm.
"Their attack on Turkey by the Orthodox Christians was actually beaten back by Britain and France. Although this was dictated by the international situation, Russia lost control of public opinion from the beginning. The British and French governments pushed them back
Called a "barbaric invader", but what about Turkey? It was forced to respond. This is the public opinion! If from the beginning, the Russians had established themselves as "the savior of Christians under Turkey's cruel rule", even if the two countries wanted to
To intervene, we must also consider the outpouring of public opinion.”
What is the control of public opinion?
It may even directly influence the victory of the war. This is why Zhu Xianhai planned public opinion in advance and cleverly disguised himself in this war. To put it bluntly, he was fighting for the moral high point.
In this regard, the Japanese did very well during the Sino-Japanese War. They could even use various methods such as bribery and bribery to get The Times to publish an article proving that Japan's sneak attack on the British Qing troop transport ship was correct and reasonable.
It was not an act of piracy. Even the Port Arthur Massacre was directly disrespected by European and American public opinion.
As a Chinese, of course Zhu Xianhai would like to eat his bones, but on the other hand, he does not deny that their public opinion offensive is effective. On the other hand, the international public opinion participation of "We Taqing" is a capital "0".
"Commander, public opinion is now favorable to us. The conflict in Apezun further proves Nanhua's identity as the "protector of civilization", but..."
Zuo Zongtang looked at the commander and said.
"We started from occupying the highest moral position, but now it is likely to become a burden for us. After all, we will eventually annex the entire Argentina. How should we explain this annexation?"
Facing Zuo Zongtang's question, Zhu Xianhai was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
"Explain? Explain what?"
"Reason for annexing Argentina!"
"reason?"
Looking at Zuo Zongtang, Zhu Xianhai said with a bit of hatred that iron cannot become steel.
"Ji Gao, what should I say about you? Let's not talk about how you have been inspecting Europe for so long. How do they define "civilization" and "barbarism"? Let's just say that what is written in the history books is written by the Manchus themselves.
According to history books, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, how did they explain their entry? They certainly didn't mean what they said? "We, the Qing Dynasty, barbarically conquered civilization", what did they say? Wasn't it "revenge of the late emperor"?
Aren’t we following destiny! We…”
After a pause, he walked to the window and looked at Putrajaya outside the window. Zhu Xianhai's tone became low and powerful.
"We came here not to occupy this land, but to let the people on this land bask in the light of civilization!"
"Of course, in order to prove that we are the "light of civilization," we still have to explain it. Well, we should comply with public opinion!"
This chapter has been completed!