Chapter 1317: The Empire's Victory (Second update, please subscribe)
For the vast majority of British people, their lives have been affected by the war - although the Boer War did not directly affect their lives, the war permeated every aspect of their lives.
Although most of the news coming from southern Africa was bad news, and despite repeated defeats in the more than half a year since the outbreak of the war, this did not weaken the British people's confidence in achieving the final victory, and the patriotic enthusiasm in the country remained unabated.
Incited by patriotic enthusiasm, the British became fanatical. People bought government bonds and donated food and medicine to the South African front. Queen Victoria also expressed her support for the war in her own way - in the name of the royal family, she sent chocolate and condensed milk and other rare sweets on the battlefield to the soldiers on the front line. Thousands of doctors, engineers, nurses and even priests packed their bags and went to South Africa to serve as volunteers for the British army. Large posters praising the "imperial defenders" of South Africa were posted everywhere on the streets of London...
In the streets of London, the cry of "fighting the war to the end" was resounding.
Compared to another world, in this world, although Britain suffered a more devastating defeat in South Africa, the British were far more fanatical than people in the other world. The British were fanatical not only because the defeat on the front line stimulated their sensitive national self-esteem, but another important reason was that the British public opinion was bought by South African interest groups and, of course, the Ming Empire also fanned the flames.
Incited by public opinion, the British people became extremely fanatical, and the war frenzy permeated almost every aspect of Britain. At the same time, on the streets of London, many so-called women's rights leaders encouraged women to humiliate healthy young people in public in the name of patriotism, and to give them a white feather, which symbolized cowardice.
Under the instigation of those so-called female boxing leaders, women took white feathers and walked through the streets and alleys to humiliate men.
British women have finally found a way to improve their political status, so they actively humiliate men every day. Whenever they see a seemingly healthy man on the street, they will go up to him and humiliate him, and then put white feathers in his pockets.
Under their crazy attacks, some men dared not go out and simply hid at home, but these women would actually find men's homes to humiliate them.
As usual, after hearing a knock on the door, Harry opened it and saw several ladies standing in front of it.
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Harry?"
"Yes, who are you?"
The woman standing by the Harlem Gates said.
"Mr. Harry, this is a gift for you..."
As she finished her words, the woman put a white feather into his pocket.
White feathers!
Looking at the white feather, Harry's face suddenly changed. He certainly knew what this white feather symbolized - it was a symbol of cowardice and coward.
Then the women spoke again.
"Mr. Harry, you are a coward and a coward!"
"Yes, a coward who only knows how to hide in the room and tremble..."
The women's sarcastic remarks made Harry's face look very ugly, and he didn't even know how to respond to such sarcasm.
"Ladies, I just returned from Sudan last year. I have fought for Her Majesty the Queen on the front lines in Sudan and shed blood for the British Empire."
The women spoke loudly before Harry even waited for another argument.
"Although you have shed blood for the Empire, putting aside the facts, if you don't go to the front line now, aren't you a coward?"
"Is your past representative of your present?"
Facing these women's accusations, Harry was completely confused. What does it mean to ignore the facts? What does it mean that the past can represent the present?
Damn it... Did he shed blood for the British Empire in vain? He has to shed it again.
What's the reason for this?
Although Harry was dissatisfied in his heart, he knew that he had no choice. If he wanted to wash away the stigma, he had to join the army and go to South Africa.
There was not only one Harry in London and in the UK. In fact, many people went to the battlefield under the stimulation of such white feathers. Those women who finally found something to do regarded this as their credit.
"For the British Empire...die! Stinky man!"
When those so-called feminist leaders were encouraging British men to go to the front in the name of the "British Empire" and praising the women's "righteous deeds" in newspapers, only a very few people knew about it.
All of this is actually... a conspiracy of the empire.
"…Since the launch of the White Feather Movement, it has indeed had a certain effect. In order to avoid being humiliated by these women again, many people quit their jobs and signed up to join the army to fight on the front lines. In some places, some people could not bear the humiliation, but could not join the army for various reasons. Some even committed suicide out of shame in the face of repeated humiliation."
In the palace of Zhongdu, Qian Zizhuang stood in front of His Majesty and reported the merits of the Investigation Department - stirring up the patriotic enthusiasm of the British. In order to encourage the female leaders to participate, the Investigation Department even provided them with funding through certain foundations.
“Isn’t this exactly the purpose of our campaign?”
Emperor Zhu said with a smile.
"What we need is to use those so-called 'leaders', their unwillingness to be lonely, their ambition to be in the limelight, and more importantly, their extremism, to inspire the patriotism of the British people. Of course, more importantly, to create confrontation between British men and women!"
"Your Majesty is wise."
Qian Zizhuang said.
"Who would have thought that those women would be so extreme? Their actions are becoming more and more radical. They don't even know whether the people they are humiliating are healthy or meet the requirements for joining the army. They just humiliate them. Even some retired veterans, after returning to the UK, go to their homes to humiliate them. Some of them even commit suicide out of shame. Their actions are really too much. It can be said that they have deviated from the right track and become a tool for revenge against men."
"Isn't this the opposition we need?"
Emperor Zhu looked at Qian Zizhuang and said.
"To destroy an empire, you need to attack from all aspects. Disintegrating it from within is one of them. This internal enemy is not just internal rebellion, but also by supporting minority groups, such as women, and even..."
Oh, by the way, those people don’t dare to be public now, which is different from the other world.
"From a psychological perspective, the more non-mainstream a group is, the more extreme their personalities are. They are more willing to express their demands in extreme ways. What we need to do is to make full use of their extreme psychology and use them for our own benefit..."
When talking about all this, Emperor Zhu seemed to be very experienced, because in another world, this was a successful experience. During the Cold War, the KGB created unrest in Europe and the United States by supporting environmental protection, homosexuality, women's rights, and animal protection. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the activities of minority groups in Europe and the United States were almost all influenced by the KGB. Not only were they shadows, they even participated in them, providing them with a lot of financial support, intelligence and other aspects.
The seemingly vigorous civil rights movement from the 1960s to the 1980s was ostensibly an internal issue of the Western world, but in fact it was inseparable from KGB.
They may not have succeeded at the time, but the facts 20 years later proved that they succeeded! They successfully created opposition in European and American society by supporting minority groups and challenging their extreme governance. They even created social division. This division may not show its lethality in the short term, but as time goes by, the four will find that its lethality is even far greater than that of nuclear weapons. After all, nuclear weapons can only destroy the body, but the confusion and opposition in the mind may destroy the human soul.
Now the Ming Dynasty... all it needs is to repeat the successful experience of another world! Then it can disintegrate the British Empire bit by bit from within.
Thinking of this, Emperor Zhu recalled the news he had read before, and said with some sarcasm.
"This is what competition between great powers is all about. It's a game of playing cards. The winner of this round is in our hands!"
(End of this chapter)
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