1855 United States Tycoon

Due to the hype in the previous period, Europeans paid considerable attention to the trial of this diaspora case, and the Macdonald consortium took this opportunity to start a live broadcast of the radio broadcast. It’s not the first time in United States, even in Europe, to use wireless radio to broadcast live concerts. As early as five years ago, McDonald’s companies had broadcast live broadcasts of Weiner's New Year's Concert in Europe. Two years ago, they even broadcast the Weineran New Year's Concert to the North American continent. But this is the first time to broadcast live to Europe from the wild southern hemisphere, which is still underdeveloped. The people of the Macdonald consortium built a temporary radio repeater station on Tabana Entregnana, the highest mountain in southern Africa, and then another one in Madagascar, followed by Italy...Of course it cost a lot of money. Money, but, anyway, the Boers are the ones who paid the money, so there is no need to feel distressed. In addition, the time zone of Johannesburg is the same as that of Paris, so there is no need to worry about jet lag.

Moreover, in order to cooperate with the publicity, the Transvaal Republic also set the trial time at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. This time happened to be those Europeans who had finished a day's work and answered that they turned on the radio at home to listen to the news, or The time of the novel. The Boers were still considering whether to set the trial time on Sunday, but Greystone immediately rejected the proposal.

"Your image in the hearts of Europeans is a pious and conservative Christian. How can you work on the Sabbath?"

The method of trial is a bit rougher than that in Europe, but in general it is quite satisfactory and has a legacy of ancient Roman courts. But these are not the most important ones. The most important thing is that the Boer’s prosecutors showed undeniable evidence during the trial. Whether it is the letters between Cecil Rhodes, Governor of the Cape, and those of Jensen and the "Aliens Reform Commission", or the large number of weapons searched at the "Aliens Reform Commission", it shows that these British expatriates are indeed involved. The previous rebellion.

Prior to this, the British population claimed that the involvement of the "Aliens Committee" in the rebellion was planted by the Boers, but now, those British expatriates who participated in the rebellion themselves confessed to this. And the "barbaric and simple" Boers have not delayed much time. Since the facts are clear, their sentence was particularly straightforward: Mr. Dahl and others who took the lead were sentenced to hanging, and the others were sentenced to five to fifteen years. Servitude.

This judgment immediately caused a stir in the UK and Europe.

Generally speaking, the world's largest power will always bully other countries, otherwise, spend the world's largest military expenditure every year and raise the world's largest army for what it does? Is it just for the military parade every year until Her Majesty’s birthday? If you can't go out to be a bully happily, isn't it the boss of the world for nothing?

In addition, for so many years, the British have been doing dung sticks on the European continent whenever they have a chance. So although many countries in Europe now follow the British as their younger brothers, their people’s impression of the British is very different. Poor (this is also the norm, there has never been a world boss that is not disgusted. For example, in later generations, in various surveys of foreign tourists, Europeans always think that the tourists from the lighthouse country are the most annoying) For those who can see Britain making a fool of yourself Things, that must be a good thing for everyone. Therefore, those people on the European continent are naturally more willing to believe that the British are not something, and the natural are more willing to believe that "everything is a British conspiracy." However, although the British guy is hateful, he is too strong, so no one dare to jump out and oppose him. But now, the Boers stood up, and through such a trial, they slapped John Bull's face with a fierce slap, and breathed out a sigh for the whole of Europe. Therefore, on the entire European continent, except for those who took the British money and spoke for the British without their conscience, most people were cheering for this verdict.

Of course, the British also have a strong influence on the media on the European continent, and some media will also help the British. But now, they have been attacked unanimously. The writer Zola publicly wrote an article accusing these media of concealing the truth and betraying their conscience for money, comparing them to Judas who betrayed Jesus for a few silver coins. An unknown newspaper even directly spread rumors that these people took money directly from Cecil Rhodes.

"We have conclusive evidence that every time they ignorant of their conscience, they publish an article that smears their master Cecil Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes will toss them five pence. Yes. Yes, it's only five pence. Because Mr. Cecil Rhodes also believes that these guys' conscience is worthless, and it's worth five pence at most."

Any reader knows that the things mentioned here must be fabricated. In any case, the price of five pence is too low. Even if you have a dog, it is more than that. However, this article had an unexpected effect. From then on, as long as someone defended the British, everyone else laughed at whether he also took five pennies from Mr. Cecil Rhodes. . Later, he simply called anyone who spoke for the British five pence.

In the UK, the effect of this ruling is completely different. As the world's boss, British nationals are always superior to any place wherever they go, especially those low-ranking barbarians and semi-barbarians. Although the photo of the British empire’s guardian did not say “no matter where you are, the United Kingdom government and the royal army are your strong backing”, there are many times, especially those who are weak. On the territory of the savages, the British really did this often. When the British Empire was looking for trouble with those "barbarians" in order to annex their territories or plunder their gold, one of the common tricks was to arrange a few British people to die there, and then Robbery in the past under the banner of protecting the legal rights of British citizens. And one of the consequences of this approach is naturally that British businessmen and other things can be unscrupulous and domineering in many places. Nowadays, a small Boer country dares to try the high-ranking British, and even dare to sentence them to death. Moreover, they also made the sentence so straightforward, and it only took a few hours to give such a sentence. This obviously didn’t put the British Empire. To put in one’s eyes. If such behavior is not punished, how can businessmen in the British Empire do business well in the future? As a result, the voice of the Transvaal Republic of punishing the Boers and eliminating the Boers became louder and louder in Britain. Many British MPs clamored in public: If the Boers dared to hang the British, then start a war. The British government also announced that the Cape Colony was put on alert. And sent a commissioner to Johannesburg to put pressure on the Boers.

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"Dad, it seems that the British are coming for real. If we go to war now, a lot of our business has not ended, and the money has not yet arrived." Gray Stone said to Scrooge, "We want Don't cool down the propaganda?"

"No," Scrooge replied, "barking dogs don't bite. The Boers are not ready, but are the British ready? What can the British army do with the Cape Colony? The British really want to do it, they will definitely release the "sincerity of peace" to make the other party's vigilance drop before doing it. Now they are just threatening. Not only can they not cool down, but also add a fire. For example, now you It's time to start spreading rumors publicly, because public opinion has fallen to one side, and the right to speak in this matter has been in our hands. If you don't spread rumors at this time, it will simply waste the right to speak. Propaganda is like this. At first, the audience will think they are. They care about the facts, but with the passage of time, the division of different attitudes toward a certain news will become more and more obvious, and then they will naturally use their butts to replace the'facts' that they previously claimed to be the most important. From the widespread use of'fivepence', we can see that this trend is already obvious. So my child, at this time, the fact is no longer important. Conscience or butt is the most important. Now even if you What I said proved to be wrong. Those who are already on your side will not change their positions because of this. So the time to spread the rumors is ripe."

"Okay, Dad. I see." Grey Stone said.

The next day, many newspapers in France and Germany reprinted a piece of news from the Associated Press:

"Informed sources said that according to Cecil Rhodes’s previous plan for the British government, the British army is gathering secretly and will be transferred to South Africa in the near future. Once the Transvaal Republic rejects the British expatriate’s appeal, it will Immediately use this as an excuse to declare war on the Transvaal Republic to seize the gold mines of Johannesburg, conquer Transvaal, and turn it into a British territory."

Although the British government immediately began to refute the rumors, claiming that the British government did not have such a plan. But this rumor was useless at all. Various media on the European continent were rumoring that the Jensen expedition was actually launched by Downing Street and Windsor by remote control. The purpose was to get an excuse to go to war. The entire European continent is beating the British for their ambition and greed. The great French writer Zola even said to his friends: "If I'm still young, I must bring my own rations like Byron, and go to South Africa to fight for freedom and justice."

This conversation was revealed by the newspaper somehow, and as a result, a group of literary and artistic youths really launched a campaign to "bring your own weapons, your own dry food, and your own military pay to defend freedom and justice." Compared with the later generations of keyboard man who only dared to take Jasmine flowers to the streets with Ma Bian foreign ambassadors on the Internet, but did not go there, the European scholars of that era were far more sincere and brave. They really formed a team of about a thousand people to go to Transvaal.

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