Although the Marquess of Salisbury knew that the Foreign Minister had selfish motives in his heart, this meant that the interest groups behind him wanted to resume trade with the three countries as soon as possible.
However, this is exactly what the prime minister wants, and he also wants to end this dispute as soon as possible.
"Do you have any other opinions on Ralph's opinion?"
The other cabinet members looked at each other and unanimously agreed with the proposal made by the Foreign Secretary.
The Marquess of Salisbury saw that everyone was leaning toward resolving the current dispute through diplomacy, so he followed suit and agreed.
"Okay, since everyone has reached an agreement, then I will comply with public opinion, and this matter will be handled according to Ralph's opinion."
The Marquis of Salisbury paused here, looked at the cabinet ministers below, and then said: "But this matter has to go through parliament before a final decision can be made, and this time it was a big defeat, we
I'm afraid that the one who is in charge will be criticized and may even be subject to a vote of no confidence by the parliament. What do you think of this matter?"
The cabinet ministers below have finally become serious. Compared with the defeat thousands of miles away, the stability of their cabinet members' positions is the most important.
Colonial Minister Michal Ziro, as the oldest member of the cabinet and the person with the most power after the Prime Minister, first expressed his position: "This matter is entirely because the intelligence agency has not investigated Liu Hai's specific strength and the Prime Minister's strategy.
It has nothing to do with it. Therefore, I think the parliament should not make things difficult."
After the Colonial Secretary expressed his stance, other members also expressed their stance one after another.
Only at this moment did the Prime Minister feel relieved. These people represent various factions within the Conservative Party. As long as they all declare that the Conservative Party has a majority in the Parliament, they will fully support this government.
On the next day, all the cabinet members came to the parliament. The members of the House of Representatives in charge of the parliament informed them of the defeat and reported to them the next measures that the government would take.
At the beginning, the entire parliament was in an uproar. They did not expect that the Geely Kingdom suffered such heavy losses.
But after the initial chaos, they soon focused their attention on the incompetence of this administration.
The opposition parties even issued a motion for a vote of no confidence in the government.
However, the bill was quickly defeated in the Geely Parliament, where the Conservative Party holds a majority.
This was all due to a night of communication among cabinet members yesterday, which led to a consensus within the Conservative Party.
In this way, the British government led by the Marquess of Salisbury narrowly passed the test.
In the final parliamentary vote, most members agreed to engage in political negotiations with the Qing Dynasty in order to end the war with dignity.
After the parliamentary vote that day, the Marquess of Salisbury immediately sent a telegram to Sir Dou Nale, the Minister of Geely to the Qing Dynasty, asking him to immediately negotiate with Liu Hai. At the same time, he also conveyed to the official the cabinet's intention in this negotiation.
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After receiving the telegram from the Geely government, Sir Donale learned about the Geely country's disastrous defeat in the Indian Ocean.
The minister had been in a daze since he received the telegram. He couldn't believe that the dignified Geely Kingdom was forced to this point by a powerful local faction of the Qing Dynasty.
However, the minister quickly realized that he should race against time to make demands to the Qing government, and it would be best to end the war immediately.
So Sir Dou Nale hurriedly left the embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane at around five o'clock in the afternoon, and took a carriage straight to the Prime Minister's Office of the Qing Dynasty.
The current Minister of the Prime Minister's Yamen is Prince Gong Yixin. Because this prince is old and also holds the position of Minister of Military and Aircraft, he rarely comes to the Prime Minister's Yamen.
So when Sir Dou Nale came to the Prime Minister's Yamen, the person who received him was just an ordinary clerk from the Prime Minister's Yamen.
Sir Dou Nalue was a little anxious now, and he did not get angry like before when he saw ordinary clerks receiving him.
Instead, he directly ordered the clerk, "I have something urgent to see Prince Gong. Please inform me immediately."
This little official was a little embarrassed when he heard Sir Dou Nale's request. Although he was an official of the Prime Minister's Yamen and could be regarded as a subordinate of Prince Gong, his official position was small. If he disturbed Prince Gong Yixin now, he might end up in trouble.
Not well.
However, Sir Dou Nalue did not care about the embarrassment of this little official, "Why are you still standing there? If you don't hurry up and report it, it will delay my affairs. If anything major happens to the two countries, you will be solely responsible for it."
This official of the Qing Dynasty was cruel to the common people, but when he met foreigners, he immediately became weak, especially the leader of the foreigners in the Qing Dynasty. This small official was even more boneless.
Therefore, when the young official heard Sir Dou Nale's roar, he did not dare to neglect any more, and immediately left the living room, and then ordered his men to rush to Prince Gong's residence as if to report to the prince.
At this time, Prince Gong Yixin had just finished a busy day and was sitting in the small garden village in his palace, sipping tea.
Suddenly his chief eunuch came over. The eunuch came to Prince Gong's side gently. Seeing that Prince Gong had his eyes closed, he didn't dare to disturb him at first. But after a while, he thought that the Prime Minister's Yamen had come to deliver a message, and that person became anxious.
He could only grit his teeth and shout softly: "Master, master."
Prince Gong was taking a nap when he heard someone calling, so he opened his eyes with an unhappy face and glanced to the side.
This startled the chief eunuch. He hurriedly took a few steps back, plopped down on the ground, and kept kowtowing.
Prince Gong Yixin let the eunuch kowtow dozens of times, and then asked expressionlessly: "What's the matter?"
The chief eunuch who was kowtowing on the ground breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Prince Gong Yixin's question. He hurriedly raised his head and said flatteringly: "Go back to the master, there is an official from the Prime Minister's Yamen outside asking for an audience."
After Prince Gong Yixin heard this, his face was full of displeasure. He thought that this guest was here to give gifts again.
Since Prince Gong Yixin came back to power, he served as Minister of Military Affairs and Minister of the Prime Minister's Yamen. It can be said that he held a high and powerful position. In the Qing Dynasty, only the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Summer Palace could surpass him. Even the emperor had to give Prince Gong a third.
Therefore, officials from all over the world, like bees smelling honey, swarmed to Prince Gong Yixin's house to fawn over him and send him gifts.
At the beginning, Prince Gong Yixin was very happy. He had been neglected over the years, and now he finally tasted power again.
But as time went by, he became tired of it. After all, he received so many officials every day, which he couldn't bear at his age.
But these officials prepared generous gifts every time they came. Although Prince Gong was tired of it, he had no grudge against Qian, so he could only make a rule. If he wanted to see him, he could only come in the morning when he was resting.
Once it's afternoon, he won't see any visitors.
When the eunuch saw Prince Gong's displeasure, he quickly explained: "Master, I don't think this official is here to see you off, and his expression is very anxious. It seems that there is something important in the Prime Minister's Yamen, waiting for the master to deal with it."
Prince Gong made sense when he heard that his rules were known to everyone in the Qing Dynasty. It is impossible that the official of the Prime Minister's Yamen did not know this. It seemed that there was really something urgent waiting for him to deal with this time.
"Then let him in."
After hearing Prince Gong's words from Yi Xin, the eunuch immediately bowed his body and stepped back a few steps, about 10 meters away from Prince Gong. Then he dared to turn around and trot to deliver a message to Prince Gong.
After he left the garden, he took a long breath and wiped the blood and dust from his head, thinking that he didn't earn the 300 taels of silver in vain, but it had helped him.
It turns out that the little official who came to see him was also very discerning. When he first entered the door, he gave the chief eunuch 300 taels of silver as a courtesy. Otherwise, the eunuch would not have risked offending Prince Gong Yixin.
I said a few words to him.
Prince Gong Yixin did not wait long in the garden. The eunuch led the young official into the garden of the palace. After settling the young official from a distance, he came to Prince Gong Yixin to report.
Prince Gong Yixin looked up at the junior official in the distance, and then nodded. Only then did the eunuch dare to bring the official from the Prime Minister's Yamen to Prince Gong.
This petty official came to Prince Gong Yixinmian, kowtowed to him first, and saluted him. Then, before Prince Gong Yixin asked, he opened his mouth and reported: "Your Majesty, something bad happened. Dou Nale, the Minister of the Auspicious Kingdom in our Qing Dynasty,
Sir, I came to the Prime Minister’s Office in the afternoon, clamoring to see you."
When Prince Gong heard this, he immediately stood up from his seat and asked, "Do you know what it is?"
"When I got back to the prince, I only saw that I was very anxious about official matters. He didn't tell me anything specific."
Prince Gong Yixin thought for a while, then stood up and said to the eunuch beside him: "Change my clothes."
After hearing this, the eunuch hurriedly helped Prince Gong Yixin to the small room in the garden, and then put him into court clothes.
After all the preparations were completed, Prince Gong Yixin took the junior official out of Prince Gong's Mansion, and then hurried to the Prime Minister's Yamen in an eight-carriage sedan.
Prince Gong Yixin got off the sedan in the Prime Minister's Yamen and went straight to the lobby with the help of others.
Before Prince Gong's people arrived at the lobby, they heard a strange roar in the venue, "What's going on? There's no host until now."
Prince Gong Yixin heard this outside the door and said hurriedly: "Sir, don't worry, isn't this king coming?"
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After he finished speaking, he rushed into the lobby without looking at the old man he had just been.
As soon as Sir Dou Nale saw Prince Gong Yixin coming, he immediately stepped forward, grabbed his sleeve and said: "Your Majesty, I am here to make my strongest protest to you."
Prince Gong was shocked when he heard this, and his heart immediately became confused.