Not long after Liu San and the others left, more than 100 troops from the Geely State stationed in the concession hurriedly arrived at the consulate, fully armed.
The leader, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Long, led his men into the consulate and found that everyone in the consulate had been shot to death indiscriminately.
This moment frightened the lieutenant colonel. This was no small matter. More than 20 staff members in the consular office were all killed. This had never happened before in the Qing Dynasty, let alone in the entire world. This was simply
It is contempt for one's own country.
After Matt Long secured the scene, he immediately asked people from the patrol house to come over for inspection. The patrol house was more experienced than the military when it came to inspecting the scene.
Under the leadership of Inspector William, the patrol room officers conducted a comprehensive search and survey of the consulate.
After inspecting the scene, Detective William came to Lieutenant Colonel Matt Long with a gloomy face.
"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel! Something very cruel happened here. Everyone in the embassy was shot."
"What is the specific situation? Give me a detailed introduction."
"Okay, sir."
Detective William sighed and continued: "Judging from the current situation, the consulate was attacked. They were completely unprepared and were attacked by more than ten gunmen from the enemy."
After Matt Long heard this, he thought in his mind that in the Liangjiang area of the Qing Dynasty, the only person who could accomplish this was, in addition to the consulates of various countries, Liu Hai, the governor of Liangjiang.
These people are all key suspects.
"And these gunmen were very cautious and left almost no clues. However, we found a corpse in the consulate that was not a staff member of the consulate. It seemed to be the corpse of a Qing national."
Lieutenant Colonel Matt Long's eyes lit up when he heard this. Other bodies appeared in the consulate. This was not normal in any way. It seemed that if he wanted to solve the case, he would have to start with this body.
At this moment, a soldier came to Zhong Xiao and said a few words softly.
Matt Long nodded after listening, and after a while, the soldier came in with someone.
The foreigner came to the lieutenant colonel, bowed to him first, and then said sadly: "Mr. lieutenant colonel! I am a businessman and an intelligence officer. I came to the consulate yesterday, but suddenly today
When something like this happens, I think I know what's going on?"
Matt Long looked the man up and down, then asked, "What's going on?"
"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, did you find the body of a Qing citizen in the consulate?"
Matt Long's eyes shone coldly when he heard this. It seemed that the man in front of him did know something.
The British businessman continued: "This man is the deputy director of the Shanghai manufacturing plant. He has a key drawing about a new rifle. It took a lot of effort for me to convince him to join us. I think
If something goes wrong, it should be blamed on the factory director and the drawings."
After Matt Long heard this, he was filled with anger and had nowhere to vent. It seemed like this was done by people sent by Liu Hai, the governor of Liangjiang. How dare this Qing country guy do this? Geely Country would never let it go.
After roughly figuring out the whole story, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Long ordered people to start cleaning up the mess, and on the other hand, he sent a telegram to the embassy in Beijing to truthfully report what happened in Shanghai.
The new minister, Sir Doyle, was shocked after receiving the report from Shanghai. If this incident was true, it would be an extremely huge disaster for the diplomatic community.
Therefore, Sir Dou Nale did not dare to neglect and immediately reported the matter to the domestic authorities.
At the same time, the spies in the Qing Dynasty must be mobilized to dig deeper into this matter and strive to obtain more evidence.
After receiving the telegram from the capital of the Qing Dynasty, the Prime Minister of Geely, Count Rosebery, immediately knew that things were in trouble.
Because since he took over as Prime Minister, the most important issue before him is that the fleet in Liuhai in the Far East has posed a huge threat to their country's hegemony.
And now various naval design bureaus are working overtime to design new warships, hoping to suppress those behemoths of Liu Hai.
However, judging from the information obtained from all aspects, the design bureau simply has no way to design such a behemoth.
Because manufacturing warships is not as easy as it seems. It is a systematic science and a reflection of the overall strength of a country.
Therefore, the major design bureaus in the UK are now at a loss to solve the task of chasing Liu Hai's four behemoths.
Now there has been another massacre of the Shanghai Consulate. This is really a thorny issue for the government controlled by Earl Rosebery.
If something like this happened to other countries, they would have sent warships to blockade the other country's ports.
But when this happened to the Qing Dynasty, they were at a loss what to do. So what if they sent out warships now? Could they really be able to defeat the Nanyang Navy?
Earl Rosebery had no choice but to convene a cabinet meeting, and everyone discussed how to deal with this matter. After all, one person is trying to figure out the shortcomings, and two people are thinking about the strengths. Maybe others have some ideas.
However, cabinet members have different views on this matter.
For example, the colonial secretary believed that the government should take advantage of this incident to send out the main fleet to destroy Liu Hai's Nanyang Navy in order to maintain the country's hegemony on the entire earth.
However, the Minister of the Navy was completely opposed to this matter. He believed that this matter should be handled in a low-key manner. His reason was also very clear. The Navy had no way to deal with the Nanyang Navy. If this Nanyang Navy was to be eliminated, it would have to send out
It has all its capital ships, and the outcome of the war is unpredictable, which will make the country lose its hegemony on the earth.
After listening to the words of the central cabinet members, Earl Rosebery finally made the decision not to send the navy in this matter.
"Gentlemen, I have heard everyone's opinions. In that case, I will make a concluding speech."
"The government will handle this matter in a low-key manner and cannot have a head-on conflict with Liu Hai, the leader of the Nanyang Navy, before it is absolutely sure to defeat the Nanyang Navy."
"I will order the capital of the Qing Dynasty to reduce this matter to a major issue as much as possible. What do you gentlemen think?"
After listening, the other members looked at each other and finally nodded silently.
These people are all sophisticated and like foxes, they naturally understand why the Prime Minister does what he does.
Although they understood in their hearts and decided to do this, they all felt a little angry in their hearts.
In all the years their country has ruled Blue Star, when has there ever been a situation like this? Diplomats were killed, and they could only let the incident pass lightly. This is simply a shame.
Therefore, after leaving the Prime Minister's residence, the Lord Admiralty immediately went to the Admiralty to strictly supervise the warship designers, asking them to design a powerful warship that the country's shipyards can produce in the shortest possible time to counter the
Those behemoth ships of the Nanyang Navy.
Now, those behemoth ships have been weighing down the navy's head for more than a year. If these giant ships are not moved away, the navy will probably fall into decline.
Besides, Sir Doona Le in the capital had the same expression after receiving the telegram from London.
Sir Dou Nale also knew in his heart that as long as the Nanyang Navy was still there, their country would have no way to take any sanctions against the Governor of Liangjiang.
On the second day after receiving the telegram, Sir Dou Nale took a boat from Tianjin Port and went straight to Shanghai. After several days of sailing, after arriving in Shanghai, he directly entered the concession. First, he went to the consulate to check the damage to the consulate.
Condition.
Although all the corpses have now been cleaned up, traces of the gunfight inside the consulate can still be seen everywhere.
After checking the consulate with a gloomy look on his face, Sir Donalle hurriedly left Shanghai and took the passenger ship to Nanjing again.
The purpose of his trip to Nanjing this time was to reach an agreement with Liu Hai, the governor of Liangjiang, on the matter of the consulate.
Now Liu Hai has returned to Nanjing after handling the matters at the Shanghai manufacturing plant.
As a result, when he arrived in Nanjing, Minister Dou Nale followed him.
The two people met in the study of the Governor's Mansion of Liangjiang. After that, the two people talked in the study for more than an hour, during which a fierce quarrel broke out.
During the few hours of waiting outside the house, I was a little frightened when I heard the noise in the house. I even wanted to break in and support their master a few times. Fortunately, the quarrel slowly subsided in the end.
However, Sir Dou Nale looked very unhappy after leaving Liu Hai's room.
Moreover, the minister did not stay in Nanjing. After reaching an agreement with Liu Hai, he took a boat back to the capital the next day.
Liu Hai also issued a statement a few days later, which read: The attack on the Geely Consulate was caused by Jiangyang bandits. Now these bandits have been surrounded and suppressed by the Hunan Army, and all of them were shot to death.
At this point, the incident at the consulate came to an end.
However, the impact of this incident was far-reaching. The Gili government changed its policy of suppressing the Rakshasa Kingdom in the Far East and began to deliberately indulge their expansion in the Far East.
Their purpose is also very clear, which is to let Liu Hai and Qi have a war in the Far East, preferably both sides will suffer losses, so as to ensure that Geely's global hegemony will not be lost.
After this incident, Liu Hai also clearly felt the pressure from the outside, especially the Qing Dynasty and Rakshasa, who were now flirting with each other more frequently.
Even some of Ronglu's new army purchased Rakshasa weapons and hired instructors from other countries.