"The British are very evil-minded. Since 1878, the diplomatic relations between the mainland and the UK have always been lukewarm. Today, the British minister personally came forward to proactively contact the imperial government. This is the first time in more than ten years."
After leaving the palace, Hu Yaji and Tang Jingsong sat on a tricycle and chatted while walking.
"The local economic development is different from the past. As early as the end of the Argentine War, the local government returned many British businessmen's assets in Argentina for the purpose of easing relations between the two sides. In the three fields of railways, animal husbandry, and agriculture, the government also took
A more liberal policy allows British businessmen to regain part of their shares as foreign businessmen based on the amount of capital.
However, the British businessmen pushed further and tried to get involved in the operation and control of the local railways. After the attempt failed, more than 70% of the British businessmen were kicked out. The shares and capital they left behind were taken over by the local government, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, etc.
.And the remaining British businessmen, under the competition of capital from Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland and other countries, their market share in the local market is getting smaller and smaller, and they no longer have the dominant influence as they did in Argentina."
Hu Yaqi recalled the decline of British capital in the home region with a smile on his face:
“The empire’s home territory guards the Paraná River and the Uruguay River, the two main international rivers. It has more than 17 million citizens who have received primary literacy education. Although the average knowledge literacy of the home country is far from the standards of European powers, it has primary industries.
The system can independently produce steel, machinery, lathes, rifles, artillery, machine guns, ammunition and other industrial products. The comprehensive industrial system covers core industrial fields such as steel smelting, textiles, chemicals, internal combustion engines, and electrical.
The geographical shipping advantage coupled with the industrial market advantage is enough to make British capital that exited early become jealous and regret it.”
"The British want to enter the local economic field and take advantage of the opportunity of the local economic development. This cannot be done in a day or two."
Tang Jingsong nodded in agreement with Hu Yaji's idea and echoed: "Just because of the factors of the Argentine War, the British government has scruples and prejudices against the empire. It not only wants to take advantage of the empire in vain, but is unwilling to purchase ships, dispatch overseas students, and reciprocate industrial products, etc.
On the other hand, give the empire the conditions it deserves.
If you only think about gaining and are unwilling to make reciprocal concessions, then there is no such good thing in the world."
"The British have been domineering in South America for a long time. They are used to bullying the small countries in South America. They have not been able to turn around for a while. They are not willing to lower themselves and conduct economic transactions with the locals on an equal footing."
Hu Yaqi guessed the British mind and continued: "The British government's changes in the South American issue are much slower than in dealing with the balance issue on the European continent. In fact, it has already shrunk its overseas influence in the country and withdrawn from Tanzania one after another.
When establishing colonial strongholds in Somalia and Annan, the British should have seen that the imperial government had no intention of harming British colonial and economic interests.
But more than ten years later, when faced with the comprehensive entry of American capital into South America and the encirclement, suppression and expulsion of British capital, the British changed their foreign policy and took the initiative to contact the empire.
The British's decisions on most international issues are relatively rational and consistent with the actual situation, but only in the face of the rise of the United States and the layout of South America have there been deviations and mistakes."
"Every horse stumbles, and every man stumbles. Even though the UK has huge overseas colonies, it is still essentially a small country with an area of less than 200,000 square kilometers. There are differences and differences between the local and British governments in their analysis and judgment of the international situation.
It’s different, so it’s not strange.”……
The British took the initiative to seek support from the Han State. Hu Yaji and Tang Jingsong felt confident and were not in a hurry.
Along the way, we calmly discussed the pros and cons of Britain's foreign policy towards the mainland.
It was approaching noon, and the British Minister Yalman was no longer in the same mood as when he first came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building of Han Dynasty. He was still leisurely observing the customs and customs of Han Dynasty and recalling the past.
Arman had an important mission in taking the initiative to contact the Chinese Foreign Minister.
The local market of the Han State was even controlled by the Han State. A unified and complete Paraná River Basin was not without benefits to Britain from an economic perspective.
However, this factor only played a minor role in Arman's trip. Uniting the South American Han Kingdom to dispel the arrogant expansionist ambitions of the United States was the first priority.
Americans have a long history of aggression and expansion. The failure of the U.S.-Canada War in 1812, instead of dispelling the Americans' ambitions for expansion, inspired the so-called Manifest Destiny and the idea that the United States should unify North America and dominate the world order.
The Mexican-American War broke out in 1846. Through this war, the United States
It ceded 1.9 million square kilometers of land from Mexico. Before the Mexican-American War, as early as the era of Jefferson, the United States wanted to bring Cuba under its rule.
John Quincy Adams declared in 1823: "One day, Cuba will fall like a ripe apple into American hands."
In 1825-1826, he prevented Gran Colombia from liberating this Antilles island.
From 1845 to 1861, the United States expressed its intention to purchase Cuba several times to Spain.
After 1880, the rise of American financial imperialism strengthened the idea of swallowing up Cuba.
Annexation always requires an excuse, and the excuse the United States found was to condemn the Spanish colony and ostensibly sympathize with the brave Cuban people in their struggle to escape Spanish rule.
Behind the scenes, it provided arms and ammunition support to the Cuban rebels.
The Spanish government has declined. It accepts support and assistance from the United States, and the endless rebel forces are suppressing more and more people. If the British government had not stood aside to support Spain, and the United States government, which considers that its national strength far exceeds Spain, would not have waited until 1898.
In 1823, they attacked Cuba and turned it into a newly added state under the name of the United States.
Compared with the United States, the Han Dynasty is equivalent to a lion in its infancy. Although the country has achieved primary industrialization, it is far from threatening Britain's maritime hegemony. The United States is different. The United States has various minerals used for industrial production.
The sea distance from the European continent is only 3,000 kilometers. At the same time, it is close to the United States and rich in mineral resources. In the global strategic layout of the British Empire, Canada, which is at the core along with India, has always faced the risk of aggression by the United States.
Canada's role in the British global strategic layout is completely different from that of India. India has a large population and the British occupied the area purely for economic interests. However, Canada is treated as a native country. The local immigrant population is all white Europeans, with a small number of immigrants.
Local Chinese workers were also deported during the anti-Chinese movement a few years ago.
If the situation in South America gets out of control, the worst-case scenario is that the Chinese occupy Paraguay and Chile or even cede part of the territory of the Republic of Brazil, which will cause certain harm to the economic interests of the United Kingdom in Chile and the Republic of Brazil, but it will not damage the fundamentals. After all, Chile
, Paraguay is not a British colony, and Britain is still the current world hegemon. After the South American Han Dynasty occupied Chile and Paraguay, it will still retain British economic interests in the two countries. British capital will at most suffer a small loss due to the turbulence of the situation, but it will not
There will be nothing left.
And if the Americans reveal their expansion ambitions and invade Canada, Cuba, and South America with force, not only will Canada, the most important autonomous territory, be unable to be protected, but Britain's economic and political interests in the entire Americas, including North America, Central America, and South America, will be lost.
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From the standpoint of the British, it is easy to understand why the United States had always been Britain's number one imaginary enemy before the conflict between Britain and Germany intensified in 1900.
After the First World War in history, Britain's strength was damaged and it had no choice but to accept the fact that the United States and Britain were tied. However, at the beginning of 1889, the German Crown Prince Frederick III received timely treatment because of Li Mingyuan's intervention, and he recovered well after the operation.
, was crowned the second emperor of Germany in 1888.
Frederick III came to the throne and continued the friendly foreign policy towards Britain during the period of William I. Britain's authority on the European continent was not challenged. On the European continent, another country that might threaten Britain's hegemony, the Russian Empire was busy with internal reforms, and temporarily
I have no intention of causing trouble or causing trouble to the British Empire.
Therefore, after excluding the two European competitors, Britain, which was in its most prosperous period, climbed up and looked around, and found that there was only one United States that shouted for freedom, equality, and the liberation of the colonial people.
The colonial system is the foundation for maintaining Britain's hegemony. The Americans not only rebelled against the British a hundred years ago and created a completely different republican system, but also clamored for the liberation of the people of the American colonies after surpassing the British in total industrial output. This is
Doesn’t it fundamentally threaten the British Empire’s global hegemony?
Britain is not afraid of countries with ambitious colonial systems, but it is afraid of destroyers who intend to liberate the colonial people and dismember the colonial body!
The U.S. government is playing the role of this saboteur, and is happy to do so. It promotes it with great fanfare around the world. In the face of the U.S.'s clearly targeted hostile behavior, the British government had to change its diplomacy even if it had a military conflict with South America's Han Dynasty.
strategy, and instead chose to support the Han State to a certain extent and use the Han State as the most important pawn to curb American ambitions in the Americas.
