Chapter 165 Is It Too Late to Die Now? (Second update, please subscribe)
Just as the British wished!
Can they get what they want?
Of course, we can't let them get what they want.
There was no light in the dim room. More than once, Zhu Xianhai wanted to turn on the simulator, select long-term simulation, and then conduct deductions.
But reason told him that such simulation would not only waste precious opportunities for long-term simulation, but more importantly, the unpredictable changes in diplomatic choices between countries far exceeded the simulation process of the simulator.
Especially for a country like the British, who can even make plans half a century ago, and then use decades to carefully and slowly push the situation in a direction that is beneficial to them.
Such a layout and perseverance are far beyond the imagination of outsiders.
This trouble maker... is so damn hard to deal with!
"But no matter what, the English stick is still being used by us now!"
In fact, Zhu Xianhai's long-planned plan to use Britain to contain Buenos Aires was actually a careful one. He just wanted to use diplomacy to achieve his own goals, even though he had successfully tied Britain down through commercial interests such as loans and orders.
But what is the reality?
What really made the British decide to take action was not just commercial interests, but their overall strategy. How could Britain's long-term strategy, which had been deployed for dozens of years, change because of Nanhua's interference?
"Two years later, the Paraguayan War broke out. Britain's layout was successful. At the same time, South China rose, and Britain's attention turned to the south. Araucania was in Chile, and the Pampas was in Argentina. With these contradictions, how could Britain not use its shit-stirring stick?"
Zhu Xianhai was thinking about the conflicts with the two countries in his mind. These conflicts were obviously irreconcilable. It should be said that they could not give in. For Nanhua, giving in would mean death. And what about the two countries? They were also determined to win. They didn't even need Britain to provoke them. When the time was right, they would take action.
"Without the support of Britain, the two countries would definitely not be able to hold on. In the final analysis, it is because of the rise of South China!"
What does the rise of Nanhua mean?
This meant that Britain's layout in South America was destroyed. Moreover, South China's industrial products also posed a competition to Britain. It was precisely because of these two points that Britain would never allow an enterprising industrialized country to emerge in South China, or South America.
"This should be the fundamental reason why the British intervened directly!"
After realizing the core of the problem, Zhu Xianhai frowned and smoked a cigar silently. If it was any other problem, he could choose to negotiate, but now the problem between Nanhua and the UK was obviously a conflict of core interests.
"It seems that conflict is definitely unavoidable."
Holding a cigar, Zhu Xianhai pondered.
"Now that we have discovered the mastermind behind this, is it still necessary to rush?"
The answer is obvious. There is still time now, but the most important thing is probably to increase the population and strengthen ourselves quickly. Only in this way can we survive in the future war, or in this era surrounded by tigers and wolves.
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Is it too late to commit suicide?
Even until now, such thoughts sometimes arise in Wang Youling's mind.
He had no idea how he was captured. He only remembered that when the city fell, he had planned to commit suicide for his country. However, when he was about to hang himself, the house was blown down by the bandits' foreign artillery. When he stood out from the brick and tile ruins, he had just walked a few steps out of the government office in a daze when he was kidnapped by the bandits.
Then what?
Like many other people in the city, he had his hands tied and a long rope around his neck, and was taken to the riverside outside the city like a walking corpse. He was originally thought to be dead, but he did not have to wait for the beheading knife. Soon he was taken to the boat like everyone else, and when he got on the boat, his braids were cut off like everyone else.
And then what?
When Wang Youling, who was dizzy and swollen by the explosion, regained consciousness, he didn't know where he was.
The sound of the waves could be heard through the board walls, and the biting cold wind blowing between the cracks in the wooden boards made it difficult to fall asleep.
Where is this place?
No one knows, all they know is that they are on an island, surrounded by the vast ocean.
Although they didn't know where they were, the people who were imprisoned here were grateful that they had neither starved to death in Hangzhou nor had their heads chopped off by the bandits.
In short, for the vast majority of ordinary people, being able to survive is already good enough. As for the future, in this chaotic time, what future is there? Don't we all just live one day at a time?
In the following days, he, like the captured civilians, was forced to practice military posture, march in step, and run drills around the island every day.
Although Wang Youling wanted to die, it was not that simple. Living with dozens of people, even if he wanted to commit suicide, he would have to have a chance, right?
Besides, even if Wang Youling died for his loyalty, someone should know about it, right? If no one knows, what's the point of dying for his loyalty?
Since I can't die, I'd better live a miserable life. Maybe I can find a chance to escape.
After he relaxed his guard a little, Wang Youling no longer wanted to die like he did at the beginning. Instead, he continued to run and exercise all day like everyone else. The only difference was that he wanted to teach others how to read.
Where on earth is this place?
Why did all men, women, and children have to train like soldiers? And they had to train in Western drills?
Could this be the bandits' "male camp" and "female camp"?
But why do we need to know how to read?
Have you ever heard that bandits need to be literate?
Moreover, the guards holding foreign guns were dressed more like foreigners than bandits. Before Wang Youling could figure out what was going on, he boarded the clipper ship "Nandouxing" a month after arriving on the island and headed straight for the South Seas as soon as the ship set out to sea.
Even though he was the governor of Zhejiang, Wang Youling had never been on such a big ship. Although the ship was large, the cabin was very crowded. The seven-foot-high cabin was filled with multiple beds, and the layers were only two feet high and two feet wide. To squeeze into such a coffin bed, people had to lean sideways, and when walking in the cabin, they could only walk sideways.
People could just lie down, but because the space was too small, they could only turn over after lying down. There were more than 300 people, young and old, crammed into the cabin. Men and women had different cabins on the ship, and they were all stuffed into the cabins like cargo.
The day he boarded the ship was the first day of the new year, February 1, 1862 in the Western calendar. From that day on, Wang Youling, like everyone else, had the opportunity to squeeze onto the deck to get some fresh air only during meal times. He queued up to get his food, then drank a bamboo tube of water. After eating a rice ball mixed with diced meat, he reluctantly returned to the dim and stuffy cabin.
In this way, the ship sailed on the sea towards an unknown direction. Sometimes the ship would encounter wind and waves. It was at this time that the stuffy cabin would feel a little more comfortable. However, seasickness would make them vomit all over the place, filling the cabin with a sour and smelly smell.
There was no one on the ship, and in the end, like everyone else, Wang Youling didn't know how long the ship had been sailing.
Until one day, a sailor's shout was heard from the hatch.
"Okay, pack up, let's go ashore, let's go ashore..."
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(End of this chapter)
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