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The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, is the seat of the British Parliament (including the House of Lords and the House of Commons) in London, England. The Palace of Westminster is one of the masterpieces of Gothic Revival architecture and was listed as a World Cultural Heritage in 1987. The building includes approximately 1,100 individual rooms, 100 staircases and 8 kilometers of corridors. Although today's palace was basically renovated in the 19th century, it still retains many historical relics from the time of its original construction, such as Westminster Hall (dating back to 1097).

When you enter Westminster Hall, pass through the majestic and solemn St. Stephen's Corridor, and enter a circular central hall. From under the dome of the central hall, you will enter the House of Lords (also known as the House of Lords) to the right. The magnificent hall inside is spacious and bright, and the royal artifacts scattered throughout show off the glorious history of the British Empire for nearly a thousand years.

There is order in the House of Lords. Both the chairman presiding over the meeting and the members attending are all personable and speak with utmost etiquette and diction, carefully but confidently maintaining the majesty of British nobility for hundreds of years.

But if you go left from the central hall, you will enter a completely different world - the decoration here is simple, except for two rows of green seats facing each other and an ancient gray-black long table in the middle. No more. If you are in a meeting, you will definitely hear bursts of laughter, curses, boos and debates, and from time to time there will be many uncivilized words mixed in, which can easily make people feel like they are in a street market.

This is the House of Commons (also known as the House of Commons) of the British Parliament. For nearly 400 years, this humble room has been at the center of British politics. Over a long period of time, many decisions that changed world history were made here.

At this moment, British Prime Minister Churchill stood on the rostrum of the House of Commons and passionately criticized Vichy France. "The betrayal of the French Navy directly led to the fall of Gibraltar and Malta. I had long expected that the French Navy would become Germany's accomplice, but I didn't expect that they would come so quickly!"

There was an immediate rebuttal from below. "Fart, if you hadn't carried out that bullshit sneak attack plan, would the French navy have switched sides so quickly? You bastards are simply helping others! I even doubt whether you sent the fleet to be sunk by the Germans on purpose!"

Of course, this person is not a righteous person with a strong sense of justice and is complaining about Vichy France. He is just biting each other for their respective political interests. However, his words resonated with the surrounding MPs. Most people were deeply dissatisfied with this secret operation, believing that Churchill's wrong decision made the British Navy and even the entire British Empire worse. You must know that Gibraltar is more than just a colony for the British Empire. It is no exaggeration to say that it represents the gateway to the Mediterranean.

This door is now in the hands of Germany. Unless Gibraltar and Malta are recaptured again, Britain will not be able to set foot in the Mediterranean; supplies from those Middle Eastern colonies can only go around southern Africa.

But then again, with the fall of France and Italy's declaration of war on Britain, German fighter jets were able to attack British ships in the Mediterranean at any time. Therefore, after Britain lost its advantage on the European continent, they were actually unable to maintain the Mediterranean route.

After Churchill explained for a long time and repeatedly promised that such a secret operation would never happen again in the future, the matter calmed down a little.

"The German army is sending troops to Libya, and the target is obviously our African colonies."

The British Empire is not called the "Empire on which the Sun Sets" for nothing. It has colonies all over the world, including 21 colonies in Africa alone. They are South Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon, Lesotho, Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Zambia, Uganda, Tonga, Seychelles, and Mauritius. Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Namibia, Lion Rock, Kenya, Gambia.

Of course, these were small, dispensable countries; Churchill's real concern was Egypt, which bordered Libya.

Once the German army attacks Egypt, the Suez Canal will be in danger.

The Suez Canal is known as a "modern miracle". It connects the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Ocean-going ships do not have to detour around the Cape of Good Hope at the southernmost tip of Africa, which greatly promotes exchanges and colonial expansion in Europe, Asia and Africa. After the Suez Canal was opened to navigation in 1869, the Empire, the world's largest empire at the time, took a fancy to its strategic position and bought 44% of the shares of the Suez Canal from the Egyptians. Since then, the Suez Canal has become a cash cow for Britain. In the 1950s, the Suez Canal brought $25 million in extra income to the British Empire every year.

But how could such a good cash cow be lost so easily?

Speaking of which, this is also a ridiculous story.

In 1953, Egypt overthrew the five-thousand-year-old monarchy and established the United Kingdom. Before that, Egypt was ruled by a puppet government supported by the British, so in 1936, the British forcibly stationed 10,000 soldiers in the Suez Canal in order to better control the Suez Canal. After Egypt became independent, it naturally could not tolerate the presence of 10,000 British soldiers in the country. Under pressure, the British decided to withdraw their troops from Egypt.

As the Suez Canal issue continued to escalate, British senior officials behaved very calmly. The British Prime Minister at the time was also Churchill (in the 1951 general election, the Conservative Party regained power, and Churchill became prime minister again). In Churchill's eyes, the Suez Canal issue was obviously not a big deal, and he chose to wait and see.

Many people thought that Churchill no longer had the decisiveness to kill, but later learned that even Churchill's indifference was much better than his successor Anthony Eden.

In the shadow of the Cold War, we are neither friends nor enemies. In 1956, the United States immediately withdrew its economic assistance to Egypt's Aswan Dam project because of the Egyptian government's trade with the Soviet bloc. The Egyptian government immediately and forcefully announced that it would nationalize the Suez Canal and use the economic proceeds to fund the Aswan Dam. This angered Eden, who had just been the British Prime Minister for a year. He immediately imposed an embargo and blocked the Suez Canal. The Egyptian government was uncompromising and ordered the British ships to be sunk. In that year, the British army was supposed to withdraw from Egypt as planned. As the situation escalated, Eden formally reneged on the original withdrawal agreement.

Eden, who lost his mind, found France and prepared to use force to retake the Suez Canal. Britain and France took advantage of the contradiction between Israel and Arab countries to ask Israel to attack Egypt, and then directed Israel to ask Britain and France for help. In October 1956, the British and French forces took the opportunity to invade Egypt and soon occupied the Suez Canal.

Any conflict or contradiction during the Cold War will eventually escalate into confrontation between the two camps, let alone an aggressive war.

Sure enough, the Soviet Union announced that it would intervene in the war in November. At this time, Aiden remembered that the entire military operation had not greeted the United States in advance. At that time, the United States was busy condemning the Soviet Union's brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising. This was embarrassing. The United States could not oppose the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary and at the same time support the British and French invasion of Egypt. That would destroy its character.

In December, the United States forced a ceasefire between the British and French coalition forces and Egypt. In the end, the Egyptian government happily took home all British assets in Egypt, including the Suez Canal. Aiden, who lost popular support, was forced to resign. This talented prime minister was forever nailed to the pillar of shame in history - he was rated by historians as the most incompetent British prime minister in the 20th century.

Churchill now knew the importance of the Suez Canal and was determined to defend the Suez Canal no matter what.