Chapter 2: The stormy waves are coming to conflict 7

Guo Yaping's beheading in Macau made the opium dealers on the coast feel the fierceness of the smoking ban, but this is just the beginning. After the "Eight Regulations on Smoking bans" were issued, the punishment for smoking traffic became more severe. The opium dealers who were executed in 1838 were the sum of previous years. Most of the death penalty verified by Dali Temple was to deal with cigarettes. Some foreign tobacco dealers involved. After the Zongli Yamen gave the embassies of various countries, these foreign tobacco dealers were also punished according to Chinese laws, only respecting the customs of foreigners and agreeing to the pastors of the church to give them the final mass. These events greatly stimulated foreign merchants, and even those normal merchants became dissatisfied with the Chinese government while frightened.

Queen Victoria was the first British king to stay in Buckingham Palace. There is a huge square in front of this gray building, with many statues on it and blooming flowers all around it. Viscount Melbourne is already a frequent visitor in this building. Today, Viscount Melbourne appeared here to analyze a very important thing to the Queen. As usual, Viscount Melbourne puts his hands on the elegant French-style long table, which is a command table used by Napoleon I. It seems that when you contact the table in this way, Viscount Melbourne can travel through time and space and communicate with Napoleon's heart.

Viscount Melbourne talked endlessly to the Queen in a thick voice: "The British Empire has controlled the ocean for three hundred years. The great British people have completed industrial standards. The roar of machines has made us rich and powerful than ever before. The way of contact with the Chinese should change, and the rules should be determined by us. China is a huge market. Our merchants should not be excluded from this market. The Chinese people's northern ports should allow the Chinese emperor to open to our British Empire, and they should accept any of our goods unconditionally. This time they killed British merchants and refused to trade with the British must be punished. If we do not do this, our merchants will be disappointed in the British Empire. We should obtain the support of merchants and protect their rights overseas. "

The 18-year-old Queen Victoria is more mature than her age. Usually girls like this do not like politics. She listens with relish and asks from time to time. After listening to the introduction of Viscount Melbourne, the queen took the juice elegantly and took a sip. She took out her handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth and asked, "Are Chinese weak?"

"Her Majesty the Queen, the Chinese are indeed very weak. Their king is extremely powerful, even more powerful than the Russian Tsar. They have been doing some reforms over the years and have made some progress, compared to the previous Chinese emperors. The current Chinese emperor knows to import machines from the British Empire to strengthen themselves. The cotton cloth and ready-made clothes they produce are already competing with the East Asian market with British merchants. But their main army is still an old-fashioned army of bows and arrows and spears, and there are even fewer ships. The Chinese are now crazily expelling our merchants, and merchants are already rallied to protest the Chinese. We can propose this just war to the parliament and force the Chinese to re-sign a fair treaty like a devil."

The Viscount Melbourne, who is over 50 years old, looks handsome and looks like a trustworthy elder. What's more, the Viscount Melbourne had just helped the queen plan a good plan to drive away the queen's annoying Conroy, an ambitious Irish man, and the former housekeeper of the Queen's house. Although this incident made the Queen's mother a little sad. It won the Queen's trust in the Viscount Melbourne. She is not familiar with the distant Chinese queen and is not very concerned about her. She also needs to learn and rely on a trustworthy elder. The Viscount Melbourne is the queen's choice. She naturally agreed to the Viscount Melbourne's proposal.

The trade dispute between Britain and China has been a long history due to cultural differences, initially because of the etiquette of both sides. Later, it was a trade surplus, and now it is opium. China and Britain are far apart, and the two peoples do not have much contact, and the impressions between the people of both sides are one-sided. Of course, Thackeray is an exception. Thackeray, who has been to China, is now a columnist of the magazine "Fraser" and "Clumsy". Currently Thackeray is preparing to create a long serialized novel "Vanity Fair". In 1838

In the early spring, he received a letter from the Far East and opened the precious silk paper. The exquisite patterns on the silk paper were full of exotic style, reminding him of an unforgettable history in his mind. Thackeray saw a seal at the signature, although he could not recognize the hieroglyphs on the seal. But he knew it was the jade seal for the Chinese emperor. This reminded Thackeray of the young Chinese emperor. An emperor who was busy with troubles specially sent him a letter. Thackeray felt a warm heart.

Thackeray finished reading the letter paper with the fragrance in detail and fell into deep thought.

Thackeray was a British man with a conscience. Otherwise, he would not have written a novel like "Vanity Fair" that satirizes the ugly faces of the declining nobles and bourgeois atrocities in the upper class, nor would he describe the interpersonal relationship between the strong and the intrigue in British society in the novel. After seeing the description of British merchants smuggling opium with conviction in the letter and the tragic outline of Chinese smokers, Thackeray immediately made up his mind to help China expose the harm and facts of opium merchants smuggling opium to British society.

Thackeray soon took action. He first contacted the Chinese Embassy in the UK who had moved to the Netherlands and learned in detail about the situation.

When Thackeray arrived in Amsterdam to find the Chinese officials in the embassy, ​​the Chinese officials in the embassy not only provided Thackeray with detailed information, but also provided sufficient funds for the activities.

Just as Thackeray was busy traveling around in a black top hat and a tuxedo, Queen Victoria was reading a speech to the nobles at the British Parliament Building. The speech was provided by Viscount Melbourne. This was not the first time the Queen stood on the podium of Parliament. She was much more sophisticated than when she was sworn in as Queen of England. When it came to the missing points, the Queen's young voice would suddenly become louder, and at the end of the day

Queen Victoria Hou almost screamed: "The world is the great British. We defeated Spain, defeated France, and the evil Ottomans. The war allowed us to occupy many colonies and conquer India. Now it should be China's turn to defeat China and turn China into another India. This will bring huge wealth to the great imperial merchants, make Britain stronger, and bring more opportunities to every British gentleman present. "
Chapter completed!