"I'm just an ambassador to China. I'm not in charge of the Dutch East Indies." The British ambassador immediately put on a show and tried to stall.
Zuo Zhidan was not moved by this excuse at all. He continued to ask, "In your opinion, will the British side agree to our request?"
Seeing that Zuo Zhidan was so serious, the British ambassador also understood that Zuo Zhidan and the China Zheng Residence that Zuo Zhidan represented were not joking. He slowly said, "This is a problem between you and the Dutch East Indies authorities. Why are you asking the British side about this?"
"The Dutch East Indies are your British dogs." Zuo Zhidan was too lazy to say a bunch of nonsense. He directly expressed his stance to the British.
Hearing Zuo Zhidan's vivid description, the British ambassador smiled. This smile was full of pride and confidence. It was appropriate to describe the relationship between the Dutch East Indies and the British as dogs. Without the permission of the British, the Dutch could not occupy such a large territory.
Zuo Zhidan saw this and continued, "We have a saying in China, we have to worship the right temple. If the British don't agree, we will always get half the result with twice the effort."
These words were all in Chinglish. For example, "Give you something to see" was simply translated into English as "I'll show you some color." The Englishman didn't understand the meaning of this at first, but he got used to it and got used to it. The same was true for "doubleing." The British had to use their brains to understand the meaning of "twice the effort with half the result."
"Even if we agree, the Dutch may not agree." The British ambassador was still very keen as a diplomat.
"We respect the influence of the British in the Dutch East Indies. I don't think the Dutch side has a reason to refuse. "Zuo Zhidan expressed China's respect for the British influence. Although he was actually cursing in his heart, "F * ck".
"What if we agree, but the Dutch East Indies don't?" The British cleverly put forward a bottom line.
"At that time, we have plenty of ways to get the Dutch East Indies to agree." Zuo Zhidan answered in the language unique to the great powers of this era. National territory was one thing, and colonies were another. The way the great powers solved problems in colonies was very direct. If they could agree, they would talk. If they could not, they would fight. As long as the benefits were big enough, a war was never a problem.
The British ambassador's expression changed immediately. "We will not accept any military attack on the Dutch East Indies."
Zuo Zhidan did not back down. He stared at the British ambassador and said, "We have no intention of attacking the Dutch East Indies, but we don't think it's necessary for the Dutch East Indies to reject our reasonable business demands. We hope to reach an agreement with the United Kingdom on this matter. "
Obviously, the British did not want to reach an agreement with China on this matter. Zuo Zhidan did not get any response from the British ambassador. Of course, he did not think that the British would be happy to cooperate with China. The news soon reached the Governor of Singapore, and along the British lines, it was making its way rapidly to London.
In London, Uncle Ma put down the Times. In his big flat roof mansion, Uncle Ma's children were playing with Yanni. Beautiful furniture, large rooms, and the embarrassment of arriving in England seemed as if it had never happened. The young emperor of China, who was at the far eastern end of the Eurasian continent, supported him in the British island country at the western end of the Eurasian continent. It gave him the middle-class life he now had. It gave him a comfortable residence opposite the Great Library in London, where he could concentrate on writing and writing.
It was said that the emperor of China did not believe in the divine right of the monarchy, nor did he say long live the emperor. Instead, he used the understanding that the fundamental driving force of social development was productivity to build the new empire. As an emperor, he was also the leader of the party. He used a new concept to structure everything in China in the future. From the development of productivity to the liberation of productivity as his ruling philosophy and policy, the emperor's revolutionary nature, especially the practice of promoting revolution, was probably the number one existence on the whole earth.
The emperor was not a simple man of action. Just by looking at his incisive discussion of feudalism and capitalism, it was hard to imagine that this man was actually born in an agricultural country. However, Uncle Ma's fear of the emperor grew stronger and stronger. Historical materialism first had to be materialistic. The emperor told the story of "Kong Rong gave away pears" in China. Vézé believed that the reason was that Kong Rong did not want to eat the pear at that time, so he found a reasonable excuse for others. Those who wanted to eat the pear but did not have the ability to eat it, used these reasons to prove that they were the ones who deserved the pear, and that others were willing to give them the pear.
Emperor Wei Ze was creating, and had already begun to create, a result. How many people who only hoped to obtain that result would carry out an interpretation that was beneficial to them, and then "create" a theory that they desired. As the emperor Vézé wrote in a sarcastic tone, "It's not them that are wrong, it's the world that is wrong!" These people wanted to use this fact to express their thoughts.
Of course, those people were relatively high-end. In Europe, many countries, especially Spain, began to use racial theory to attack China. They vigorously promoted the idea that white people were the best race in the world, the race that should rule the world. All other races, including the Chinese, were inferior. These people who did not believe in God were all damned heretics, and they must be eliminated.
This era was no longer the era of Catholicism. The influence of racial theory was not easy to determine, and the influence of religion in Europe did not play any role. At least there were a lot of articles advocating the supremacy of the white race in the newspapers, but there was no response to launching a crusade against the heretics in China.
In the end, Uncle Ma felt that he had to remind Vézé, even from a moral point of view, so he wrote a letter, in which he described Uncle Ma's understanding. "… The struggles in the various colonies around the world will return to this small place in Europe. For the European colonial countries, no matter how far the colony is from the mainland, all the discussions that decide the fate of that land must be done in Europe! … "
While Uncle Ma was writing to Vézé, Vézé was discussing the China railway network with the staff of the Ministry of Railways. The most important railway was undoubtedly the two main lines of Beijing-Guangzhou and Longhai. China currently did not have the ability to build expressways.
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