In January 1867, the weather in London was really cold, but on such a winter day, there was a group of people from afar who made a street in England lively.

Whitehall, this is the name of a street, this street is of great significance in London, it connects the Houses of Parliament with Downing Street, almost all of the important political departments in the United Kingdom, and most of the official residences are concentrated here. There is the Admiralty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense...... Anyway, it's very, very much, definitely the heart of the UK.

And on this day, a lot of foreigners came to Whitehall, these foreigners are very interesting, to say that Britain is now awesome enough, claiming a territory of 36 million square kilometers, that is to say, what kind of people have not seen the British?

But today this is really different, among those foreigners, there are white people, it is easy to say, but there are also yellow people, looking at the clothes and braids, it seems that they are from the Qing Kingdom. But what is the matter with those who don't have braids and those who have braids?

What's even stranger is that the one that doesn't have braids is close to the one with braids.

"Oh, you're Li Hongzhang, right? I've heard of your reputation, and it's a big name...... "This is no one else, it is the abbot of the American Empire, Huang Sanye!"

So the one he is facing now is really Master Li Hongzhang Li?

"You bad old man! Who are you?! "Li Hongzhang, that's a powerful man, and suddenly an old man comes to talk to him, can he feel better?

The most important thing is that the old man doesn't have braids!

"Oops! You bad old man of that country! Outcasts! Barbarian! Darn! ......" This Li Hongzhang directly burst into foul language.

"Cover! Shop your Eminem! ...... "Then Huang Sanye suffered?" Immediately scolded!

The others were stunned at the time, because there were a lot of foreigners, that is, a lot of Europeans. They don't understand Chinese. So. At first, they really didn't know what these two yellow-skinned people were talking about, but they soon found out that these two people were going to fight, which was really surprising!

You know, these individuals now, they are all envoys of various countries!

Yes, they are all envoys from various countries, including French and American. There was also the Mexican government-in-exile, and even the rest of Europe, such as Austria, and, of course, the landlord England.

So from this point of view, the two people of the American Empire and the Qing Kingdom are like this here, isn't it more embarrassing?

It's not a shame, isn't it...... Anyway, some people don't care at all.

"Lord Guozhang, please don't have any friction with the officials of the Qing Kingdom, we are not here to consult with them this time. It's important that we get down to business. "It's Liszt who speaks, and his Chinese is pretty good. Although it can't reach the right word, it is also presentable.

"That old shriveled calf! I would have liked to have a conversation with him...... Lao Tzu is in a good mood today! Not like you! ...... "Huang Sanye is so angry, but fortunately, he knows that he has a task and can't do bad things to his son-in-law, but he hasn't forgotten to attack Li Hongzhang a few words."

"Old bastard! %$@......"Li Hongzhang was also angry, he felt that he was a high-ranking official of the Qing Dynasty, and those guys without braids were traitors of the Qing Dynasty!

Then when I saw the traitor, it's not bad if I don't arrest you and kill your head, but you still want to scold Lao Tzu?

Li Hongzhang runs diplomacy, generally speaking, it is really just two words, playing hooligan!

But he didn't expect that he met someone who was more hooligan and scoundrel than himself today, so who did Huang Sanye scold and scare people?

Two old rascals met, so it seems that it is not bad that there is no fight.

But what is this doing? How can there still be Liszt?

Not only that, Liszt was also the foreign minister of the American Empire, and he was the envoy of this mission!

Quite simply, isn't it the same meeting in London that I mentioned earlier, or the British who want to come out to mediate the matter before Mexico.

But it's 1867 now! Too late, right?

Let's put it this way, when Li Mengyang saw the telegram, he was ready, but he didn't expect that this song meeting would be held so late, and it would take almost half a year for it to start.

In fact, the reason is very simple, Li Mengyang also expressed his understanding, because there are some things that he didn't know before, and now he hasn't noticed it.

What is it?

It's very simple, something is wrong here in Europe, or something big is wrong!

When Li Mengyang was studying history before, he basically knew nothing about European history, and the reason was very simple, the reason why he looked at European history was nothing more than to study the 'revolution', that is, to help him study the history of the party, so he automatically ignored some European history.

These neglected histories include what happened in 1866 last year.

The most famous European event in 1866 was the Austro-Prussian War!

Yes, it was this war, Li Mengyang had ignored it before, because there were too few revolutionary things involved in this war, and this war gave Li Mengyang the feeling that this was an internal struggle between the aristocratic forces on the European continent, nothing more.

And this was indeed the case, but the result of the war was great, and that was the unification of Germany by Prussia. Austria was excluded from Germany, and as far as Liszt had received, the Hungarian side was restless, that is, his people were going to make trouble.

From this point of view, Li Mengyang knew that the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which he was more familiar with, probably appeared because of this incident, and this country, which is still called Austria, was really a very awesome existence before the Austro-Prussian War!

The territory of the Habsburgs was really vast, nominally, Italy, Hungary, and a bunch of ...... in the Balkans And as soon as the current situation comes out, the Habsburgs will naturally develop on the Balkan side. You must know that Ottoman Turkey at this time was the sick man of Europe, in a state of giving and taking.

Well, this international form is still very complicated, and the reason why it is said that this Austro-Prussian war was the infighting of the European aristocracy is also very well-founded.

That was the final war mediation, done by the French Emperor Napoleon III!

It is said that the Napoleonic family was not originally a nobleman, but after Napoleon became the emperor, he had to marry a wife, so Napoleon III also did the same, of course, his status was higher than his original uncle www.biquge.info Fun Pavilion, he was one of the members of the aristocracy.

Therefore, this Austro-Prussian war plus the mediation later, in the current Li Mengyang's view, that is, the son of the niece of the fourth uncle and the third uncle in the next village had a fight with the second uncle and his maternal uncle of the younger brother of the eldest aunt in the village, and then the cousin of the daughter-in-law of the sixth grandfather and his grandson was needed to mediate...... Well, it's not that complicated, actually.

But however, after taking a good look at these things, Li Mengyang also had some of his own realizations, that is, after being in this era, he could know that the nobility was also useful.

You see, it wasn't the French emperor who interceded?

That is, the nobility can act as a lubricant. Maybe this role is decreasing, but it still exists.

The Austro-Prussian War had a great impact on the European continent, but it was still a bit of a lack of weight just because of this incident that the convening of the London Conference was delayed.

Because the United Kingdom, although it is a European country, but they are isolated overseas, the impact is relatively small, that is to say, if it is just because of European affairs, then everyone can have a normal meeting without too much worry.

So the invitation that the American Empire received in early 1866, although there were some problems with the speed of messaging, but it had been waiting for almost a year to hold the meeting, which means that something happened to Britain, right?

Yes, that's true!

In 1866, there was a big political incident in Britain, that is, reform!

You know, Britain is a conservative country, they don't reform lightly, or they reform relatively small, very small, but this time the reform is relatively large.

Electoral reform!

To put it simply, it is to expand the qualifications for the election, mainly for the peasants, that is, if a farmer can earn 10 pounds a year, then he is eligible to vote, the original rule was 50 pounds.

Of course, there is not a single mention of women's election qualifications.

So such a reform plan doesn't seem to be anything, right?

But it just doesn't get through!

Li Mengyang knew about this matter through the newspapers, you must know that to get information, such as in places like the United Kingdom, you only need to buy some newspapers, there are too many newspapers, and there are all kinds of tabloids.

Of course, because the news was transmitted too slowly, the newspaper that Li Mengyang got was more than a month ago, but this was already very fast.

From this incident, Li Mengyang learned that Britain in 1866 was very chaotic!

It should be said that the political situation is relatively chaotic, because the competition between multiple forces can be said to be your side and my debut, and the Conservative Party itself is still fragmented, so it is very difficult to integrate forces.

For example, this election reform plan was developed by a man named Benjamin. Disraeli's people put it up, he is currently the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the United Kingdom, this ......

Li Mengyang sighed a little, because it seems that he rarely heard of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer in later generations, very few, and it seems that most of them are the prime minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

In that case, although this Disraeli is not the prime minister, his influence should be very large, but despite this, the reform is not clear.

The government is the superstructure, and the economy is the foundation!

Therefore, according to this judgment, Li Mengyang knew that there was a problem within the UK.

But however, Li Mengyang is very clear that the British will not have major problems, they are like this, conservative.

It's been a year, how many things have happened...... (To be continued......)

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