Chapter 414 The hidden danger of the second empire
"In order to maintain the independence of South China, South China is a civilized act, while Argentina ignores current international public laws and blindly expands and embezzles, which is really a barbaric country."
Around 1870, many mainstream newspapers in European countries would publish similar news. These news had only one core - South China was the guardian of civilization, while Argentina was a country of barbarism.
This man is cruel and should be severely punished.
Some newspapers even asked whether Argentina, a tyrannical country that massacres civilians and commits military robbery and robbery, should exist in the world.
"...For the people of various European countries in this era, Argentina is really too far away. All they know is through newspapers. What we need is to use newspapers to tell them that we are just! Civilized,
That’s enough.”
In the speeding carriage, Xie Liangde looked at the Champs Elysées outside the carriage and said.
"For a while, it seems that the French are not interested in foreign countries! This makes our work difficult!"
As the ambassador of Nanhua in Paris, Xie Liangde feels very depressed.
As ambassador, he has been responsible for promoting the "public opinion war" in South China, which is to promote the image of South China's "civilized country's army" through the press, and with the help of international public opinion, he said that South China is a civilized country, and Argentina is the one who brutally massacres people.
a barbaric country.
But now, he feels a little powerless. The Parisians don't care about "Southern Siberia" at all, and they don't care at all about the fate of Argentina.
"Ambassador Xie, the French are now more concerned about the fate of France. What were the Parisians doing during the parliamentary election last year? One-third of the people were marching on the streets. The demonstrators sang the Marseillaise and shouted "Republic"
Long Live" slogan. In the end, out of a total of 283 seats, the liberals won 120, becoming the largest party in the parliament, and the Republicans also won 30 seats - you know, this was the result of the various pressures exerted by the imperial government on the voters.
"
When Hu Weizhi spoke, his brows were furrowed. As a military attache in the embassy, or an intelligence officer, he found that this country was heading towards the edge of losing control. If it were other countries, that would be fine, but
France is different. France is an ally of South China.
"In January of this year, another scandal occurred in which a nobleman killed a reporter in anger. The Emperor had to make a series of concessions and choose the liberal Olivier as Prime Minister. The Prime Minister soon discovered that he was influenced by both the right and the right.
Despised and alienated by liberals.”
"No, if it hadn't been for this month's general election, and if those peasants hadn't stood unswervingly in front of Bonaparte, the emperor's chair would probably have been unstable. Perhaps one-third of the people in Paris are republicans.
But in the French countryside and small places, the vast majority of farmers support Bonaparte."
The ambassador's words made Hu Weizhi smile.
"Indeed, this is the same as when the peasants chose Napoleon III because his surname was Bonaparte. However, Mr. Ambassador, although the empire relied on the votes of the peasants to win the general election here, the protests have intensified, and the former freedom
Prime Minister Olivier had to ban public gatherings and close down opposition newspapers. The situation in Paris now..."
The carriage suddenly stopped and the thunderous shouts outside the carriage interrupted Hu Liangzhi's words. They looked out the window and saw groups of French people, holding red flags, gathering on the street.
Marseillaise is everywhere on the Avenue des Elysées.
This scene on the street fell into the eyes of Xie Liangde and Hu Weizhi, and their expressions became a little solemn.
None of them spoke, they just sat quietly in the carriage, waiting for everything to end. Suddenly, the door of the carriage was opened, and a French boy stuffed a leaflet into the carriage and shouted at them.
"Long live the Republic, gentlemen, long live the Republic!"
Then the boy with the tricolor flower on his chest sang the Marseillaise loudly and left.
The two of them didn't even look at the flyers in their hands, they just sat there with their brows furrowed.
Soon, with the sound of horse hooves, groups of cuirassiers appeared waving their whips. Under the whipping and impact of the cuirassiers, the crowd quickly fled in all directions, and tranquility was restored on the Champs-Elysées Avenue.
At that time, the ground was full of leaflets and red flags.
It wasn't until the carriage moved forward again that Xie Liangde said.
"Under such circumstances, Parisians will definitely no longer care about South American affairs. It seems that the advertising expenses can be stopped!"
His so-called "advertising fees" were actually fees paid to major French newspapers, which amounted to hundreds of thousands of francs, which were used to buy newspaper publishers in order to make the news reports in newspapers more beneficial to Nanhua. But now,
Obviously this is no longer necessary.
"It's true that you can stop for a while, there is no need to waste money."
Hu Weizhi took a look at the flyer in his hand, then crumpled it into a ball of paper, and said.
"The situation in Paris is so turbulent, I'm afraid it is definitely not a blessing for the empire!"
"Yes, the situation is so turbulent, how could the emperor not know about it? What do you think the emperor is most concerned about at this time?"
"Take the throne!"
Xie Liangde's answer made Hu Weizhi nodded slightly.
"Indeed, for the emperor, nothing is more important than the throne. The emperor has always tried every means to please the French. After all, no one supported him from the beginning. The republicans hated him for destroying the republic.
What the royalists want to protect is the Orleans Dynasty, so what does Bonaparte have to do with him? Without the support of farmers and small cities, his throne..."
After shaking his head and sighing, Hu Weizhi said.
"It's unstable. If he wants to keep the throne, he has to..."
"war!"
Xie Liangde uttered two words directly, and then said in an extremely affirmative tone.
"If I want to divert domestic attention and awaken the patriotism of the French, there is only one option, which is war. If I were the emperor, I would definitely launch a war. A war would be enough to unite all French people.
Around the empire, in fact, most of the time, foreign war is the best choice to cover up internal problems. After all, with the blessing of patriotism, even the republicans will temporarily give up their differences."
Over the years, from accompanying Zuo Zongtang on his overseas visits to serving as an envoy abroad, Xie Liangde was no longer a failed scholar in Huizhou. Many of his views were not much different from those of Europeans at that time.
"And a brilliant victory may even turn many people into royalists - royalists who support Bonaparte!"