New Ming Empire mixed in America
Chapter 246 The Orientals who kill me and bring the British people must be punished!
If Chile is allowed to continue, another powerful country will inevitably emerge in South America, which is a potential obstacle to bringing Britain to obtain benefits from South America.
So now Palmerston has to consider this issue carefully.
"Let the Peruvian envoy come over, and I will talk to him about the future of Peru."
Soon, the Peruvian envoy came to the office and began to cry to the world overlord, Peru's last savior.
"Those Orientals killed countless of our compatriots and gave our capital to the Chileans. Now Peru has lost everything, even Guano Island has been leased to Chile by the Orientals..."
Palmerston frowned and listened patiently to the cry of the Peruvian envoy, but he soon realized that he had done a stupid thing.
Because this messenger has been talking for a long time but has not gotten to the point. He is still crying and complaining about how cruel and shameless the Orientals are.
Now that the Orientals have withdrawn, why are you still holding on to them?
The best the Orientals can do is give you a beating, but Chile is the one who is going to attack you.
"You mean to let us send troops to help you teach the Easterners a lesson?"
Finally, Palmerston had to interrupt the envoy's ramblings and asked directly.
"Yes, we hope that your country can send troops to help us teach those Easterners a lesson out of humanitarian considerations!"
The envoy stated this request with great certainty. Palmerston didn't know how to describe his mood at this moment.
"So what are you going to do about the Chileans' problem?"
Palmerston asked his doubts. He felt that the messenger seemed to have a bad stomach, and what he just said was all farts.
"The Chileans have to be dealt with by our Peruvian government. We only hope that your country can send its navy to maintain the security of Peruvian waters."
The envoy appeared very confident when he mentioned the Chilean problem and did not take the Chilean threat seriously at all.
"If you had the ability to deal with Chile, your capital would not become a transit point for Chile."
Hearing this, Palmerston couldn't help but sarcastically said that Chile has gradually become rich by relying on the trade of guano and other mineral resources with the Orientals.
Even the British would be jealous of those Eastern currencies, let alone those from Chile.
Nowadays, the aluminum crown coins of the Xinming Empire are a very popular currency in Europe, second only to the pound sterling and the Spanish silver eagle.
It is not as good as the British pound because the British are the world's hegemons. It is not as good as the Spanish Silver Eagle because the aluminum crown coin can only be used as a large-denomination currency, while the Spanish Silver Eagle is the first choice for small-denomination currencies.
As for the rust-free crown coins of the Xinming Empire, they have now begun to slowly invade the small-amount currency market, but it will take a long time to fully occupy them.
"We have reached an agreement with the Indians in Bolivia. As long as we cut off the maritime support of the Easterners, our two countries will give the Chileans some shame."
The Peruvian envoy told this matter very proudly, hoping to use this to convince the British to determine their determination to punish the Easterners.
The union with Bolivia was his work.
The envoy made no secret of his hatred for the Orientals. He gritted his teeth and said:
"My son and my father both died resisting the invasion of the Orientals, and my plantation was turned into ruins by those Orientals."
"They even cast evil magic on my plantation, so that no crops can survive in my plantation until now!"
He was right. When Li Mingqi left, he asked the soldiers to sprinkle a mixture of quicklime and caustic soda on the ground, and finally watered the grain evenly with sea water.
If plants like sugar cane can grow within three years, Li Mingqi will stand on his head to wash his hair.
However, Palmerston did not immediately agree to the Peruvian envoy's request, because the destruction of five American warships still made him wary.
And the intelligence sent back from Peru showed that those Easterners also had a magical weapon that could make stones burn.
He does not think that the current Royal Navy has the means to deal with weapons like the Orientals.
Although I heard that Easterners don't have many such weapons, and there are even many restrictions on their use.
But it is undeniable that the Easterners, who have the ability to destroy an entire squadron of the United States Northern Federation, coupled with that kind of weapon, will cause the British navy to suffer considerable losses.
"Dear Prime Minister, those Easterners killed all the civilians of your country in Peru!"
The words of the Peruvian envoy made Palmerston suddenly narrow his eyes and said seriously: "You Peruvians must think about the consequences of doing this!"
The Peruvian envoy laughed and said, "No, no, no, those are made by Easterners and have nothing to do with us in Peru."
"I think when similar reports appear in your country's newspapers, you will definitely have a headache."
Listening to the threats from the Peruvian envoy, Palmerston almost laughed out of anger.
But after thinking about the increasingly bad people's livelihood situation in China and the unreasonable accusations against Dai Ying internationally, it might be good to shift the contradiction to the Easterners.
He will not say that there will be an election year in two years. Although his support rate has increased a little by plundering the puppet Qing Dynasty, that dwarf Earl Russell of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is still a threat.
When the Queen of England had to choose a person to be Prime Minister between two disgusting people, Palmerston and Earl Russell, the Queen was forced to choose Palmerston, who was less annoying.
So Palmerston's position is very unstable now, unless something big happens.
So there is no other big event like defeating an Eastern empire again to make people know that his foreign expansion policy is correct.
Therefore, he was only dissatisfied with the threat from the Peruvian envoy for a moment, and then showed a smile and said:
"The Orientals are indeed very cruel. They killed 'all' British civilians in Peru, so it is natural for us to dispatch the navy."
Although they didn't say it explicitly, the two old foxes looked at each other and smiled. Before the Peruvian envoy went out, a gentle reminder came to his ears: "Do it more cleanly!"
Palmerston had no choice but to think of ways to divert domestic conflicts, because now due to the sharp decline in cotton stocks in Britain, domestic factories have gone bankrupt on a large scale.
There were 1.29 million bales of cotton stored at the British port of Liverpool in 1860, 1.1 million bales in 1861, and only 180,000 bales in 1862.
At the same time, the price of raw cotton in Britain increased by 150% in 1862, while the price of cotton fabrics only increased by 50%.
What's this?
This is a sign of a cyclical economic crisis!
We must know that the livelihoods of nearly 4 million people in the UK are directly or indirectly related to the cotton textile industry.
As for what some people said about the fact that there was no shortage or even surplus of cotton in the British Empire in 1861, they started to say that the Civil War had nothing to do with the British Empire.
In 1861, cotton from the south could still be transported to Daiying. Later, because the navy of the Northern Confederacy blocked the sea routes, Daiying could not get new cotton and fell into a "cotton famine".
Bringing more than 10,000 troops sent by the British to Canada is no joke.
Later, if it weren’t for the fact that the British suffered a more severe reduction in grain production in 1861 and 1862, and had to rely on wheat from the Northern Commonwealth to save their lives, we don’t know what history would have been like.
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