Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 594 The Gate of War

  Faced with the cruel words of Morgan McLaury, Sir Matthew Crowley did not respond immediately, but looked at each other cautiously and asked; "You haven't answered the question I care about?"

  "Is this your problem or the common concern of the upper management in Victoria? Or is it the concern of Governor Jeff Bridges?"

  "Sir Morgan, you can think of me as a spokesperson, including everyone. Victoria is generally anxious about Easterners' invasion of the South."

   "This is our problem and yours." Morgan McLaury said with deep meaning, lying on the chair relaxedly, with a complex expression in his eyes;

"God bless, our most reliable close friend, Earl John Lawrence Bald, and a firm ally with common beliefs. He is deeply aware of the dangers of the expansion of the Orientals in Australia, like locusts that swept across the land, without a single blade of grass. .

In the new Conservative Party cabinet in London, there are many cabinet members who hold the same ideas. They are all our potential allies and supporters. Unfortunately, the Colonial Ministry and the Minister of Foreign Affairs are not among them. They should be Chinese. Lipai pays more attention to the situation in India or Europe.

Now Count John Lawrence Bald has been invited to serve as the Deputy Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The focus of his work is mainly on the internal affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Deputy Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs is different from the Deputy Minister of State Affairs. A neutral position on foreign policy issues is an important tacit understanding. This greatly limits the influence of Lord Earl.

  Recent communication

  I mentioned the increasingly serious situation in Australia to the noble Lord Earl, and asked for support from London, the Lord Earl said in his reply;

  Australia, as a collection of remote dominions, is at a marginal position within the scope of London’s diplomatic considerations. No one cares about what happens here, so there is no quick and powerful response, let alone strong policy support.

  The attitude of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is...just less trouble.

  Moreover, Australian affairs are directly under the jurisdiction of the Colony Department, and it is difficult for the Foreign Ministry to reach out to the Colony Department to dictate. .

Therefore, the key to solving the problem lies in Australia’s southern dominions. They must make enough noise. It is so big that Downing Street cannot be ignored, and the respected Her Majesty Queen Victoria has heard of it, so as to trigger the settlement of the Australian problem. Opportunity. "

  After Morgan McLurry said it, Sir Matthew Crowley fell into a long thought.

  These words clearly show the attitude of London's pro-Southern forces;

  You have to make a big noise first, so that London can do its best, instead of turning the order in reverse and letting the London masters spend more effort, the effect is not satisfactory.

  Is the "Ilawarra Town Riot" a big move?

   is obviously not counted. Hundreds of white Irish descendants were suppressed in the riots. This is a trivial matter in the afternoon tea chats of the upper class in London, and no one cares about it at all.

  Think about it

  In the unprecedented great famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1850, the powerful London government was indifferent to it and allowed nearly a quarter of Ireland’s population to die of hunger. How many years have passed since this tragedy?

  At that time, Britain had just completed the first industrial revolution. It occupies a large colony of 1/4 of the world. It was in the early Victorian prosperity. Just a bare finger was enough to relieve the disaster and rescue the Irish victims who were close at hand.

  In fact

  London did nothing. Instead, the British aristocrats and big landlords in Ireland were exporting food, allowing the disaster to spread and the Irish people toss their bodies. For five years, no one cared about the human tragedies on the island of Ireland.

  Nowadays, as many as hundreds of thousands of Irish people migrate across the oceans and immigrate to the United States every year. Has the London government paid any attention?

  No, no one cares about these things.

The European countries at the end of the 19th century were really cruel, not only cruelly exploiting the colonies, but also fierce to the internal people. Looking at the Third French Republic, which was born in a **** wind in 1870, you will know that it died in this turbulent period. The number of Frenchmen was ten times that of the Franco-Prussian War.

The famous French writer Victor Hugo once described it in detail in Les Misérables. This period was full of turmoil and killing. Stimulated by the terrible defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the French vented their anger in the war for the nobles and nobles who were born and died in France. The officers and soldiers, and then the brutal suppression of the Paris Commune by the bourgeoisie, the counter-attack would be counted...

  This is the case in Britain and France, as well as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Spain and the Tsarist Empire. They used black guns to brutally suppress internal uprisings, and there were constant internal and external wars, and there was almost no time to stop.

  Citi is not much better. It has only been 24 years since the unprecedented tragic end of the Civil War, and the deep scars still remain in the hearts of the people.

  In such an era of the weak and the strong, how difficult is it to make a big move that attracts London’s attention?

  This is not only a road of no return, but also a road that puts death on the ground and then lives. Along the way, all living beings with thorns and corpses paved the way to the future, perhaps heaven or hell...

Victoria’s wishful thinking is good, but Sir Morgan McLaury can’t get the answer he wants. It’s impossible for London to focus attention here when nothing happened. The Lord of London can There is no time to pay attention to these trivial things.

And once Victoria and New South Wales unite to break the current deadlock, it will inevitably lead to the thunder anger of the Queensland Earl. What will follow is the strong suppression of the Red Fort. Whether it can survive the first wave, no one has a heart. .

  If you don’t do anything, you can only watch the southern autonomous prefecture fall.

  This forms a paradox; whoever moves first will be unlucky, and it is even more difficult to not move. That is a dead end.

  The conflict of interests is life and death, and there is no room for tenderness.

  "Sir Morgan, can you be sure that New South Wales will act together with Victoria?" Sir Matthew Crawley asked dryly after a long silence.

Sir Morgan McLaury replied; "Please rest assured, Mr. Speaker, Ben Stevens and I have reached an agreement on this long ago, and we have secretly assembled some forces and materials. As long as we unite, it will still be Lords of Australia, God bless, it is absolutely impossible for those Orientals to defeat us on this land. I have no doubt about this."

  "I will try my best to persuade Mr. Governor and have a unified understanding at the upper level in Victoria, but we still need time to prepare. We need guns, cannons and war horses, and we need to reserve enough food. I am afraid that so many things cannot be completed in a short time."

"I understand very well, but we still have time... don't we?" Morgan McLaury smiled confidently, and the arrogance of the Englishman was revealed in his body, and his eyes flashed dangerously. "As long as we both reach a tacit understanding Together, we have the ability to make a comeback in New South Wales and build Sydney into an unbreakable fortress in a short period of time. We have enough manpower to do this, oh... by the way, there are some who just left. Mr. Babos, I think he will be very willing to donate a large sum of money to equip us with an additional cavalry division."

  "This is good news. Victoria has enough financial resources to stock up arms and food. Now we are short of time."

  "Please rest assured, Mr. Speaker, you will have enough time to prepare. Can I understand that the two parties have reached an agreement on this?"

   "Yes, Sir Morgan, Victoria must fight to defend its traditional way of life."

"That's great. I will send this news to London as soon as possible, and pray for God's blessing. I hope we can teach these hateful Orientals hard and let them understand who is in this world of Australia. Who really has authority?"

   "I agree with you very much, Sir Morgan." Sir Matthew Crowley's very gentleman's jaw greeted him, and the two of them looked at each other and laughed freely.

  As the leaders of the white conservative far-right parties in New South Wales and Victoria, the tacit understanding between the two sides has undoubtedly opened the door to dangerous war.

  As for Tasmania, he is just a soy-sweet boy. It has no impact on the overall situation. It appears more as a character waving the flag.

  Seriously, they do have the ability and strength to say this. As of October 1889, there are a total of 2.17 million white descendants in Australia. This number is 37% higher than the original history. Perhaps it is a direct impact of the butterfly effect.

Among these white populations, there are about 1.72 million white descendants living in New South Wales (Sydney and the south) and Victoria. If the entire population is mobilized, a huge army of 300,000 can be formed, accounting for The proportion of the total population exceeds 18%.

  In ordinary society, the mobilization ratio of 10:1 is already the limit.

  The main reason for such a strong mobilization ability is that the Australian white population is younger, the adult male population is much higher than the female population, and the corresponding soldier potential is stronger.

  Whether it is Sir Morgan McLaury or Sir Matthew Crowley, they are full of confidence in such a large white armed force. This is also the real confidence that they dare to make dangerous moves.

  They firmly believe that a white militia can defeat ten Orientals.

  Don’t ask why, it’s just so confident.

   Shortly afterwards

  Victoria has successively issued large orders for food and weapons, and imported materials through various channels, and preparations are in full swing.

Out of the need for confidentiality, NSW related material needs were also transferred to Victoria to organize imports. Conservative leaders Morgan McLaure and Ben Stevens had frequent activities and secretly contacted conservatives from various parties. , To form an offensive and defensive alliance.

  The mountains and rain are about to come and the wind is full of buildings, this is an unrest and turbulent years.

  (End of this chapter)