Li Xin was very familiar with international practice. The status of diplomats was very high in industrial countries. Killing diplomats was an absolute scandal in the world. Chinese diplomats were beaten in the United States. Even if the European countries did not openly oppose it, no one jumped out to support it. Diplomats were killed in broad daylight. This was enough to trigger a war in Europe.
Receiving Vézé's order for Li Xin to go to his office, Li Xin was not surprised at all. At this point, it was not surprising that the Min dynasty directly declared war on the United States. In fact, Li Xin had ordered his subordinates to prepare all kinds of statements. As long as the Military Governor Of Vaize gave the order, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would immediately respond.
After seeing Li Xin, Vézé did not give any orders. He first asked about the victim, "What's the situation with the murdered comrade?"
"The comrade is called Hong Fakui. He is the son of Minister Hong," Li Xin replied.
"Minister Hong?" Vézé could not remember which minister's surname was Hong.
"The former Foreign Minister Hong Ren?" Li Xin quickly added.
Vézé heard a little disappointment in Li Xin's tone. He could not help but look at Li Xin. Hong Ren? As a Christian, he was originally an outlier in the Restoration Party. After a large number of young comrades grew up, Vézé had long let Hong Ren retire. Hong Ren retired. What did Li Xin mean by calling him Minister Hong? When it came to retirement, Vézé was quite sensitive. Even if he did not like to guess the thoughts of his comrades, Vézé was still unhappy.
Seeing Vézé staring at him, Li Xin hurriedly continued, "Comrade Hong Fakui was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the year before last."
Vézé quickly turned back to work. No matter what Li Xin thought about retirement, he would not change. If a young comrade like Li Xin popped up, Vézé wouldn't mind changing the foreign minister. He continued to ask, "Is there any reaction from the United States?"
"The US government said that they don't know what's going on yet and that they need to investigate further." Li Xin quickly informed Vézé of the latest situation.
"Does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have any other sources of intelligence?" Vézé didn't find the US's reaction strange. He didn't think it was an order from the US federal government. Unlike China's political tradition, the United States adopted a federal system. In China, the central government was established first, and then the provinces came into existence. In the United States, the states existed first, and in the end, each state decided whether or not to join the United States. The fact that local governments existed before the central government gave the states a lot of power in the United States. The US federal government had no control over the states in many matters. Therefore, it was China's foreign affairs department's job to gather information about the various states.
"Los Angeles seems to be searching for criminals. They're treating this as a normal criminal case. Although we have strongly protested to the US federal and state governments, it seems that the US is not prepared to face us head-on. However, the US government seems to be in line with the British in terms of diplomacy. I see that the British media is using an ordinary diplomatic incident to describe this matter. And some tabloids in Britain and Europe even made up stories that our diplomats did some undignified things in Los Angeles and died in a gang fight. "Li Xin reported the information collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Vézé.
"Hmph!" Vézé snorted, but he didn't find it strange. Europe and the United States were doing this. Compared to the number of media manipulations, China was still far behind. The only thing that reassured Vézé was that China didn't have the power to respond to foreign propaganda. If it were the 21st century, a lot of self-proclaimed "public knowledge" would have jumped out to respond to foreign propaganda.
"Then tell the Americans that there is a limit to our tolerance. If they can't find the murderer, we don't mind going to the United States to find the murderer. "Vézé's voice contained deep malice.
"Got it," Li Xin said quickly.
"Write this down and tell the Americans that these are my exact words," Vézé added. Starting a war with the United States was Vézé's long-term plan. If the Americans really didn't want face, Vézé didn't mind starting a war. What's more, his son, Qi Rui, had already proposed the direction of truck transportation, and the research and development of airplanes had made a breakthrough. Even if the star engine didn't enter the stage of mass production, it was no longer a pure laboratory product. The idea of aluminum skin was difficult to propose, not difficult to implement. If it was just a limited war …
Vézé believed that this was also within his control.
After Li Xin returned, he immediately executed Vézé's order. The US federal government wasn't stupid. Nearly ten million young people in China operated North America. In a few years, tens of thousands of kilometers of railways were built, and a large number of farms were opened. As the neighbor of China's six North American provinces, the US federal government was deeply disturbed. For the US federal government, diplomats were killed in the United States, which was not a dignified thing.
Whenever the country had a need, there would be a result. For example, when the New York police were looking for a rabbit in the forest, they would always find a raccoon with a swollen face. And this raccoon was shouting, "I'm a rabbit! I'm the rabbit you're looking for. "
Within ten days, the United States informed the Chinese ambassador in the United States. Several local Los Angeles ruffians bet that if the Chinese were thrown into the river, they would sink like a stone. So the American ruffians put their imagination into practice. Now that the United States had entered the judicial process, the legal proceedings against these ruffians had begun.
After listening to this report, Vézé sneered through his teeth. The Min dynasty wasn't the Manchu Qing government. The strength of China was exaggerated in the US newspapers. Didn't the American ruffians know that China was so strong that the United States didn't dare to openly declare war? But since the Americans had made such a statement, China couldn't act too much.
Before China could do anything, the European public opinion suddenly began to publicize the matter. On October 24, 1886, Uncle Ma wore a black suit and watched with grief as his wife, Yanni's coffin was placed into the grave. His wife, Yanni, passed away a few days ago.
Uncle Ma didn't know his life in history. With the support of China's emperor, Vézé, Uncle Ma's life for the past 30 years wasn't bad. It was just that because he donated too much to the European revolution, Uncle Ma couldn't let him and his family live a rich life. Therefore, Madame Yanni died in the intensive care unit of a hospital opened by China in London. China's hospitals represented advanced medical skills and equipment in Europe. Madame Yanni's only request for this hospital was not to put flowers that were too fragrant in the ward. Those flowers were sent by the China Embassy in London. Uncle Ma's wife also stayed in this hospital when she was critically ill a few years ago. She didn't know if it was a coincidence, but she also died in this ward.
After the funeral, Uncle Ma looked as if he had aged several years. But when Uncle En helped Uncle Ma into the car, Uncle Ma asked, "Big Beard, do you think the war is about to start?"
Uncle En was stunned. At such a sad moment, Uncle Ma was actually concerned about the distant China and the United States. He replied, "Carl, I suggest you go rest and go to the sea." China's shipping company in Europe gave Uncle Ma and Uncle En a HEI card respectively. As long as they held this card, the two could take their families on a luxury cruise ship at a discount. They didn't even need to pay in cash, they could just sign the bill. The shipping company didn't take the initiative to ask the two for any fees. Madame Yanni liked to travel on cruise ships.
"Grief can't be eliminated. If I don't go to work, I can only fall into deep pain, "Uncle Ma replied firmly.
Uncle En didn't persuade him anymore. He had also experienced such a painful moment. Apart from diverting his attention, Uncle En couldn't find a way to eliminate the pain. The pain came from the heart, from the body. Even if reason could clearly tell him that the pain was useless. But the pain didn't come from the brain, but from his own heart.
No longer persuading Uncle Ma, Uncle En calmly said, "Carl, the British and French newspapers have begun to vigorously publicize the case of China's diplomats being killed in the United States. Many newspapers think that the U.S. government is just looking for a few scapegoats. They laugh at the Americans for using the lives of innocent people to make up for it. Not only the European newspapers, but there are also a lot of such news in the newspapers in the United States. A lot of people don't seem to want this matter to stop. "
"Did the French comrades tell us who instigated this in France?" Uncle Ma asked this question. Because of the cooperation between China and Germany, a large number of Paris Commune members escaped after the Franco-Prussian War. This group of French revolutionaries didn't buy Germany's account, and didn't have much gratitude to the distant China. Thanks to the British newspapers, in order to connect the ghosts wandering in Europe with the emperor of China, the British newspapers made a lot of propaganda.
(This chapter is not finished, please continue) China acted at the request of Uncle Ma. These members of the Paris Commune put their gratitude to Uncle Ma, who made a request to China at a critical moment. In the French left wing, Uncle Ma's words have a high degree of influence.
"This is what we already know. The Rothschild family and Cecil Rhodes paid a lot of money." Rhodes paid a lot of money. "Uncle En told Uncle Ma the information he just received. After the establishment of the French Third Republic, it had a more tolerant attitude towards the Paris Commune. A large number of Commune members returned to France, and recently the Congress was also discussing a general amnesty, with the intention of completely pardoning the Paris Commune members and solving the Paris Commune problem once and for all. Uncle En acted as Uncle Ma's contact person. When he made a request to the French comrades, many people in the French newspaper industry were very willing to provide information to Uncle Ma.
The Rothschild family was a famous European banker. Cecil Rhodes was a British mining magnate. They advocated expansion in South Africa and annexation of the Transvaal Republic, which was now a gold mining area. The cooperation between the Jewish consortium and the British mining magnate seemed to be a deep conspiracy.
"Big Beard, do you think these two want a war between China and the United States?" Uncle Ma asked this question.
Uncle En didn't answer immediately. The conflict between Britain and China in Africa and the Indian Ocean was getting more and more intense. If a large-scale war broke out between China and the United States, the biggest beneficiary would undoubtedly be Britain. But Uncle En didn't quite agree with this judgment. How the European countries viewed China was a matter for the European countries. Uncle En's view of China was far more radical than that of the European countries.
China, which adopted state control of the economy, had successfully avoided economic crises for decades. The great emperor of China, Vézé, insisted on the concept of productivity to promote social development. The country's economy did not follow the general road of free capital competition. The country strongly promoted the development of science and technology. Electricity and the internal combustion engine were not the first in China, but the emperor of China, Vézé, was the only leader in the world to promote the development of these two with the power of the country.
New industries and new industrial chains exploded at an alarming rate in China, allowing the industrial capacity of the entire society to expand rapidly. The dilemma of capital duplication that other countries inevitably encountered in industrial development was forcibly solved by Emperor Vézé with a concept that was completely in line with Marxism.
The advocates of free capital in Europe had been frantically criticizing the China model over the years. The old industries were destroyed, and the country bore too much financial burden. The collapse of this model was in front of them. But under the crazy criticism of Europe, the total industrial output and the total number of workers in China were growing rapidly.
What Uncle En was least worried about was the explosion of science and technology and the explosion of industries in China. Productivity was the fundamental driving force to promote social development. If the increase of productivity would lead to the destruction of the country. Then human society should now stay in the era of gathering and slash-and-burn farming. Facts proved that the development of productivity would only make the country and human society more prosperous. Historical facts proved that contrary to what the advocates of European free capitalism said, all the collapse of countries was based on the stagnation of society brought about by the stagnation of productivity. The slower the development of productivity, the slower the collapse of society. The faster the development of productivity, the faster the collapse of society. The development of productivity only destroyed the system that could not adapt to the new level of productivity. There had never been a case of productivity development destroying a country in history.
The great emperor of the East, Vézé, did not show any signs of becoming a reactionary at this time. The news that China wanted to establish a social system with the state as the backstop was probably far more shocking in Europe than in China. The country had the obligation to protect its people who were willing to work from hunger. In the eyes of Europeans, it was undoubtedly the horn of heaven. The country that guided the explosive power of productivity development in this direction was not an opponent that the United States could contend with.
"Carl, I think the United Kingdom is likely to join forces with the United States to fight against China. If there is really a war, the scale of this war will probably be beyond our imagination. "Uncle En stated his opinion to Uncle Ma.
"Beyond the imagination of the war agitators?" Uncle Ma asked.
"If the agitators of war think that China does not have the ability to go to war in North America and Africa at the same time, or that China does not have the ability to attack the United Kingdom, the United States, and India at the same time, I only think that they may be shooting themselves in the foot." Uncle En unconsciously used a China idiom. In recent years, China English has unwittingly become popular in Europe.
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