Soon, the news that Taiwan had sentenced its own citizens to death immediately spread to Britain, which immediately caused a great sensation in British political circles. However, compared to the sensation in the political arena, it is not good anywhere else. Because where ordinary British people have the heart to care about politics, this period is the most rampant period of the world's capitalists, they constantly exploit the workers, and then a worker works almost more than 12 hours a day, and even a few extreme 20 hours a day. And the wages and benefits are very low, and they are all cheats. And the British people in this period are tired enough to work every day, where do they have any time to care about politics! As for those people in Taiwan who are sentenced to death by their own country in this newspaper, they really don't have much to think about this. Anyway, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is normal for murderers to be sentenced to death, so the vast majority of ordinary British people also think so, after all, there are still most kind people in this world, and they all agree with the saying that murder is sentenced to death.

But this has caused a huge sensation at the top of the UK. This is because Taiwan does not fail to recognize the validity of the "Treaty of Nanjing" in Taiwan, although many of the provisions of the Treaty of Nanjing already exist in name only in Taiwan, especially the economic clauses have long been out of use. However, the British still believe that consular jurisdiction should still be retained, after all, this represents the status of the British and the strong position of the British. But now Taiwan has directly tried the citizens of their country and will put them to death, which shocked the British immediately. The British Cabinet, in particular, immediately began to convene a meeting to prepare for a parliamentary question.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a great insult to our British Empire, they actually do not recognize the treaty that our British Empire soldiers shed their blood and sacrificed in exchange, and they actually set up the treaty in this way. It's a great insult to us. Should we, the British Empire, endure such insults? Therefore, we should immediately declare war on China and safeguard our interests. One of the councillors said.

Obviously, some people are not willing to lose their interests, and this is certainly not very tolerable. Therefore, he immediately took the initiative to come over and hoped that Britain would start a war against Taiwan, so that they could obtain enough benefits and protect the face of the British. So. This made them all feel very angry, and if they didn't go to war, they wouldn't be able to have face.

But since there are those who support war, there are those who oppose it.

"I object, Taiwan is only the first province of China, we have only lost the so-called consular jurisdiction and economic power in one province of China, but in fact we have not lost much, if we launch a war for the interests of this province of China and declare war on China, will it cause China's central court to be forced to join forces with Taiwan to keep warm, and then come together? So. This is also a very important and big issue. When the time comes, we will defeat Taiwan, and it will obviously not be worth it how much manpower and material resources it will take. So, I don't support war, I support the use of political means and deterrence to solve these problems. You know, we were able to defeat China in the past, and there were a lot of reasons for luck, so if we still expect to be able to do it every time. That's impossible. Therefore, we might as well use deterrence to solve the problem. That's the best way to do it. ”

"There is one more important reason, and that is that we are at war with the Boers, and we cannot stop the war with the Boers to start a major war with Taiwan. In this way, we will definitely not gain more than we lose, because we have been preparing for the Boer War for a long time, and it is difficult for our British Empire to wage war with two countries at the same time. On the one hand, the Boers are relatively weak, and the Boers have the largest gold mine in the world. It accounts for more than half of the world's gold, so of course we should pay attention to this gold mine. Therefore, we might as well concentrate on dealing with the Boers before we can have the heart to think about anything else. At least, until the end of the war with the Boers. We can't go to a war to the death with Taiwan. If there is a war with Taiwan, then we must bring all countries together, otherwise we will not be able to gain more than we lose. ”

Soon, both sides also quarreled, apparently with their own feelings about this. However, in general, there are more people who support not going to war, because their losses are not as great as imagined, after all, Taiwan is only a province, not all of China, and the loss of the privileges of a province is not enough for the British to go to war against Taiwan. A war against Taiwan cannot be carried out without thorough preparations. After all, Taiwan is not a soft persimmon, and if it does not make preparations, it may be able to fight effectively. To deal with Taiwan, it is necessary to treat it with the attitude of facing the first-class European powers, and if the British want to break out a war with a great power, they will definitely not stupidly seize a person by themselves, and they will definitely bring many countries together. This time, they are not only militarily prepared but also politically prepared for a war against Taiwan, and they have not yet reached an agreement with European countries, so naturally it is impossible for them to start a war with Taiwan for the sake of some petty profits.

Coupled with the fact that they were at war with the Boers, if they rashly started another war, I am afraid that the risk to the British would increase dramatically in the future. All wise military strategists and politicians will avoid fighting on two fronts, and the risks of fighting on two fronts are extremely huge, so they are not willing to take this risk to start a war with Taiwan immediately. Their idea is to use deterrence and then force Taiwan to compromise.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, we in Parliament have always demanded that we guarantee the nominal existence of consular jurisdiction. In other words, even if that Philip died, he would die at the hands of our British Empire, not be executed by others. Otherwise, the face of our British Empire cannot be maintained. Therefore, we citizens of the British Empire can die, but in whose hands we die is also to be particular. Said a member of parliament.

The words of this British parliamentarian also illustrate the situation of the British dying to save face. The British had no way to hold Taiwan, but they still hoped to be able to maintain their poor face. They had to at least make sure that the so-called consular jurisdiction was not taken away, at least nominally, so that they could save the face of their British. If the face of the British is hit, I am afraid that the international position will be very humiliating. As a hegemon, then first of all, you must maintain your inviolable demeanor, and if someone dares to violate them, then they will definitely fight back in their eyes. Even if you can't fight back, you have to find a way to protect your face and avoid damaging your face internationally.

And now they have no way to clean up Taiwan, so naturally they hope to maintain the face of the British. As long as Taiwan is willing to hand over Philip to Britain for disposal, then on the surface it still maintains the consular jurisdiction, which is not unacceptable to the British.

"Hey, this time I didn't be able to move the parliament and get the parliament to agree to our war against Taiwan." Said the Marquis of Salisbury.

The Marquis of Salisbury was a little helpless, and this time he was not able to say anything for a while, hoping that the parliament would agree to a war against Taiwan, which disappointed the hopes of the Marquis of Salisbury. If the parliament can be persuaded to agree to a war against Taiwan, then the capitalists and nobles in the parliament can do the work of communicating with the European countries, and then let them contact the countries to go to war against China. In this way, a situation has been created in which many countries are besieging China together, and the chances of victory have greatly increased.

The more powerful the country, they will be very cautious once they choose war. The bigger the country, the less they want to go to war, because war means a redistribution of the world pattern, and all the big powers have vested interests, and they don't want to start fighting again and then face the loss of their dominant hegemony. All great powers want to be able to maintain their position and not break out into war. Therefore, although the British want to strangle Taiwan, they don't want to rush forward by themselves alone, otherwise the Germans and French will snicker at that time. If the British go to fight Taiwan alone, the Germans and French will definitely fan the wind and light the fire, and then cheer on the side, but they will not take the initiative to come to help. After all, they wish that the British would touch their noses on Taiwan, so that they can be regarded as a satisfactory result.

Therefore, the British will not support going to war with Taiwan until the relations between the countries are resolved. If we want to fight Taiwan, we must unite other countries to fight together, and we can't fight by ourselves in a stupid way, and then Britain will be at risk of decline. Just like the United States in later generations, they Americans seem to like to fight, but in fact they have to calculate the cost of fighting wars and choose their enemies. If the enemy is too strong, then they will not choose to fight. Just like China, they Americans will never easily provoke the China of future generations, because if a war breaks out between China and the United States, it will definitely be those other countries who are snickering.

"In that case, it will be two years before you can be ready to fight again. Anyway, we are all currently at war with the Boers, and it is not suitable for another war with Taiwan. However, telling the Taiwanese that we can tolerate the death penalty, but it must be up to us to impose the death penalty, so as to protect the face of our British. We can allow the death penalty, but it must be imposed by us British, and we will not allow the Chinese to sentence our citizens of the British Empire. (To be continued......)