Red Alert 1895

Chapter 949 – 2 The Best Way (Part 1)

“Your Majesty, it has been 24 hours since we issued the order to the Portuguese to disband the so-called Macao Governor’s Mansion and other governing institutions, and there are 24 hours left before we prepare to resolve it by force,” said Li Zhanfeng, the staff officer in the attendant’s office.

Wang Guorui nodded. This time he didn’t take the initiative to solve the problem with force this time, it was already giving face to those guys. If they didn’t know what to do, they would use force directly. If it wasn’t for Wang Guorui who didn’t want to disrupt the current national development situation, and didn’t want to cause extra problems, he wouldn’t have given the Portuguese a chance to discuss in advance, and directly attacked. However, the current development opportunities are hard to come by. Based on the idea that more things are worse than less things, it is not suitable to start fighting directly. However, if the Portuguese are not sensible, Wang Guorui doesn’t mind using force to solve it.

Of course, you’re welcome to the Portuguese, they’re not British. Anyway, persimmons should be picked softly, this is the international rule. A weak country will also be bullied by a strong country. Between a strong country and a strong country, force is often the last solution, but between a strong country and a weak country, force is the first solution. The greater the difference in strength, the greater the possibility of a war breaking out. According to the three elements of peace, China is actually not bad. Back then, China had the strength to resist the invasion, but it didn’t have the heart to fight to the death. In this way, they will cause the invasion of the great powers, and the three elements of peace cannot be well realized.

But facing the Portuguese at present, Wang Guorui, such a low-level country, doesn’t pay much attention to them, and he should deal with them as soon as he needs to deal with them. Portugal is not England, Wang Guorui doesn’t need to take it seriously.

“Send a telegram to Li Yuanhong. After 24 hours, as long as there is no new order from our Military Commission during this period, then he doesn’t have to wait for our order after 24 hours, and he will directly solve it by force!” Wang Guorui said.

“Yes!” Li Zhanfeng immediately asked someone to draft a telegram, and then prepared to send it to Li Yuanhong, the commander of the southeast theater.

However, at this time, Wang Guorui suddenly met someone he didn’t expect.

“Wang, are you going to send troops to Macau?”

Wang Guorui was surprised: “Mary? Are you here?”

Wang Guorui did not expect that this time it was Mary, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Wilhelmina has been in China for a long time, and Wang Guorui also built a Dutch-style palace for her, and Wang Guorui also went to live together for about ten days and a half to see his daughter. However, Wilhelmina had only given birth to a daughter to Wang Guorui in these years, because the chances of Wang Guorui and Wilhelmina having **** have been much reduced. But with a daughter, the Netherlands can be regarded as having an heir, and the problem is not serious, so Wilhelmina didn’t say anything, and devoted her main energy to taking care of her daughter Angelina.

Wilhelmina also understands, so she has never asked about China’s government affairs. Of course, Wang Guorui hardly directly intervened in the internal affairs of the Netherlands, and the two sides almost did not interfere with each other. But in fact, China’s influence on the Netherlands is far higher than the Netherlands’ influence on China. This is due to the national strength of both parties. Wang Guorui could use Wilhelmina’s name to ask about Dutch government affairs at critical times, but the Netherlands dared not take it seriously. But the Netherlands couldn’t coerce Wang Guorui, even if their queen married Wang Guorui, because Wang Guorui married Wilhelmina in his own name, not a marriage between the two countries. So this formed a unilateral suppression. Wang Guorui could “intervene” in the affairs of the Netherlands as the Prince of the Netherlands, but it was very difficult for the Netherlands to intervene in Wang Guorui’s China affairs. Moreover, the strength gap between the two sides is not small, and it is naturally impossible for the Netherlands to “inquire”.

But Wilhelmina actually chose to come over to ask questions this time, which made Wang Guorui a little nervous. Especially Wang Guorui has always felt guilty towards Wilhelmina, at least in terms of personal feelings, Wang Guorui knows that he owes the Queen of the Netherlands. Therefore, Wilhelmina’s material conditions in China are actually much better than other queens and concubines. She even built a palace for her, and received them with the etiquette of foreign kings and heads of state. These are Wang Guorui’s other women. far less status treatment.

Wilhelmina has never borrowed their relationship to ask for any political benefits from Wang Guorui. If it is an ordinary country or even if Wang Guorui thinks about it differently, she may definitely use this relationship to ask for political benefits. , after all, this relationship is not in vain. And Wilhelmina never took the opportunity to ask for political benefits, which is why Wang Guorui felt indebted. As the head of a country, it is natural to think about his own country. In fact, even if Wilhelmina wants political benefits from Wang Guorui, Wang Guorui thinks this is normal and understandable. After all, born in the royal family, as the lord of a country, even if it is a country with a constitutional monarchy, they have already been inseparable from politics. Don’t think that there is nothing wrong with the constitutional monarchy. In fact, as long as it is still a monarch, even if it is just a king without power, it cannot be completely separated from politics. Do you think the crown was worn for nothing? If you eat the support of the people and the government, you have to do things, even if they are just ceremonial things, and you have to find ways to fight for the interests of the country. Otherwise, if you just take money and do nothing, then the government and the people don’t mind replacing the constitutional monarchy with a republic.

Therefore, even the king under the constitutional monarchy must make as much profit as possible for his own country. If he only takes money and does nothing, he will not mind changing the political system. However, Wang Guorui knew that Wilhelmina had resisted the domestic pressure. The Netherlands had always hoped that Wilhelmina would “blow the pillow wind” for herself and ask for benefits, especially political and military benefits. However, Wilhelmina was also very “hard-hearted”, so she insisted on resisting, and did not take the opportunity to ask Wang Guorui for it.

Regarding this point, Wilhelmina never told Wang Guorui, but Wang Guorui knew very well that Wilhelmina was under a lot of pressure. So Wang Guorui knew that if Wilhelmina asked him to do something, it would be really hard to refuse. After all, she has always owed her both emotionally and financially, and she has even done a good job. As a good wife, she is almost very qualified, and there are few people who can be more qualified than her in history. In particular, as the king of a country, she did not use her relationship with Wang Guorui to take advantage of the opportunity for her country. Regarding the pressure of her status, she has withstood this pressure and is enough to be called a good wife.

Whether a good wife is good or not depends on one’s status. If it was just ordinary people in the country, Wilhelmina was obviously not qualified as a good wife, because she didn’t manage the housework herself, and didn’t do various things. But compared to her status as the king of a country, if she does nothing, that is the greatest “virtuous”. For Wilhelmina, who is also the king of a country, she is already “virtuous” if she doesn’t take advantage of the opportunity to claim benefits through her status, although she seems unqualified compared to the “good wife” in traditional China. But Wang Guorui, as the lord of a country, naturally knew how rare it was. She has withstood the domestic pressure to seek benefits from Wang Guorui, which is absolutely helping Wang Guorui, so compared to the pressure she bears as the lord of another country, she can do this enough to be called “Good Wife”. I’m afraid, if it were an ordinary person, they wouldn’t be able to bear the pressure at all.

Wang Guorui understood her, that’s why she felt indebted. But now that Wilhelmina asked for it, it was not easy for Wang Guorui to solve it. If he agreed, it would not be appropriate, but if he didn’t agree, then it might not be appropriate either!

“Mary, why are you saying this at this time?” Wang Guorui asked.

Wilhelmina replied: “This time, the royal family of the Portuguese Empire came forward, and the government also came forward to persuade me. And you should also know that the royal families of European countries are very close, and there are many marriages. It is impossible for us to separate. Yes. I have to consider the pressure from their royal family~www.mtlnovel.com~ and the government has also come out to persuade me, so naturally I can’t completely ignore it.”

But Wang Guorui shook his head and said: “Mary, I really can’t promise you this time! This is a matter of Chinese territory, and I can’t promise you. Chinese territory, and it is directly under the territory, not the kind of colony Territory, so we can’t throw it away, it’s a fight for every inch of land. This Macau is not our colony, you can throw it away at will. They always say that we are directly under the territory of China, so we can’t throw it away, I think you can understand me? Territories and colonies, that’s not the same thing at all, understand?”

When Wang Guorui said that, Wilhelmina was not surprised. Obviously, she seemed to have known about this problem for a long time. The directly subordinate territory is different from the colony. The colony is actually just a “commodity” in the final analysis, but the directly subordinate territory is its own “home”. If one’s “home” is lost, it must be unbearable and painful. But losing a “commodity”, no matter how heartbreaking it is, it will not be as heartbreaking as losing a “home”. Therefore, Wilhelmina can be regarded as the lord of a country, so she naturally knows the problems here. Back then, the Manchu royal family did not regard themselves as Chinese, so their ceding the territory was just ceding the “colonies”, so they didn’t feel too much heartache. Different attitudes lead to different results.

“I think, I have a solution that has the best of both worlds, do you see if you are willing to accept it?” Wilhelmina said. (To be continued.)