Steel Dynasty - Chapter 989

[Chapter 982 Trouble in London]

London.

On Monday, Murphy came to the Tulip Palace early to wait for Queen Victoria. It was a little different from the past. Today, his face was a little pale. Even the maid of the Tulip Palace could see the deep worry in his eyes.

After waiting for a while, the door to the queen’s palace slowly opened, and Victoria appeared in front of Murphy as gloriously as before.

But now Murphy was not in the mood to appreciate it at all. He quickly walked up to Victoria and whispered something.

Hearing this sentence, Victoria’s beauty turned pale, and her fair face lost all color.

“Your Majesty, the Conservatives are using this failure of the Combined Fleet to attack our foreign policy. Their voices are supported by many centrist congressmen. This time we are in trouble.” Murphy said with great concern.

Now the Liberal Party only has a slight advantage over the Conservative Party in the House of Commons. This defeat is enough for the Conservative Party to overturn. If so, the rights of the Queen who loses the Liberal Party’s governance will be restricted by the Conservative Party, which is what Victoria least wants to see.

“It’s unbelievable how the United Fleet lost so miserably.” Vidomia was almost crazy. As she spoke, he and Murphy walked out the door.

After getting on the carriage, she and Murphy quickly arrived at the House. By this time, the entire House was filled with members. It was obvious that this failure had a great impact.

Because they haven’t suffered such a disastrous defeat in decades.

“Dear Her Majesty the Queen, just three hours ago, two almost broken battleships arrived in London. One thing that is certain is that these two battleships belong to the East India Company. The poor soldiers on the battleships told about the suffering they suffered in the Great Chongqing Kingdom. “For the same reason we opposed this plan in the first place, now we have lost most of our naval power in Asia, and at the same time we have provoked a powerful enemy.”

Victoria just sat down from the Conservative bench. Suddenly, a congressman with white hair, thin build, and wearing a gray vest stood up. This was Nick Timothy, the leader of the Conservative Party.

When Victoria came in, her eyes were focused on a group of naval soldiers in the middle of the chamber. These naval soldiers were in ragged clothes and skinny. One can imagine how much suffering they suffered when they returned to the UK from Great Chongqing.

“Earl Nick, first of all, I feel very sad for what happened to these naval soldiers, but I don’t think there was any mistake in the original decision. Everything I did was for the benefit of the British Empire. Only by destroying the soldiers of Great Chongqing, we Only then will we have more time to realize the obtained technologies one by one. As you said, Dayu is a powerful enemy. So far, it is only in Asia. One day, their tentacles will extend to North America, South America, and Africa. Even in Europe, it was already too late for us to contain him. “Vidomia looked at Nick firmly and did not give in.

“Hush…”

Victoria’s words fell, and there was a burst of boos from the Conservative Party seats. After the passage of the Bill of Rights, the Queen actually only ruled but not ruled the UK, and the real power fell to the House of Commons.

Only Victoria cleverly used her influence to reach cooperation with the Liberal Prime Minister, which allowed the Queen’s influence to further expand, as if she once again had the right to rule Britain.

In fact, in Nick’s opinion, this is just the Liberal Party using the Queen’s influence, and the Queen using the Liberal Party’s power. In fact, they are not afraid of the Queen.

“Dear Her Majesty the Queen, look at these poor soldiers. These two battleships originally had more than a thousand soldiers. After returning to the UK, there were only more than a hundred soldiers left. Most of them starved to death at sea or suffered from illness. This is the price to pay for fighting in the far east, and the most important thing is that your decision did not safeguard the interests of the United Kingdom. What we may have to face next is the revenge of Great Chongqing,” Nick said calmly: ” India and Australia, these are our important colonies, they are likely to be lost because of this.”

Victoria covered her forehead with a headache. She had never experienced such a setback after taking the throne, and she was about to say something. At that moment, a man stood up, it was her uncle, Duke Paston.

He stopped Vidomia from arguing, but said: “Your Majesty, now we must improve relations with Great Chongqing to avoid losing more, otherwise the Liberal Party will lose the support of many nobles who have a lot of interests in India. , You don’t want to see the Liberal Party be kicked out, do you?”

“Yes, Your Majesty, it is very unwise to continue to provoke a war, especially in such a distant place. Since the combined fleet has failed, we must change our strategy.” Murphy agreed. .

Vidomia has been panicking since she got the news. Faced with Nick’s questioning, she just defended her mistake.

Now that Paston and Murphy said this, she suddenly realized that if they continued to confront Nick, they would be even more passive. Only by appeasing the nobles could they leave room for change, but now she must make effective suggestions and show her This queen can lead Britain out of trouble.

After calming down, she stood up and said: “I feel very sorry for the failure of the combined fleet, but this also allowed us to see clearly the true strength of Dayu, which will prevent us from making greater misjudgments in the future. Therefore, through this matter, we should adjust our relations with Dayu, and now we should send a mission to Dayu to ease relations. “

After a pause, she continued: “At the same time, we must invest more manpower and financial resources to speed up the process.

The research on new technologies can defeat the Chongqing army in the next war. Moreover, we also need to support the enemies of Chongqing. I suggest selling steam engine technology to Tsarist Russia to help Tsarist Russia popularize steam engine factories. They will effectively contain the Chongqing army. “

After Victoria’s words fell, the Conservative MPs did not boo deliberately. They were just dissatisfied with the Queen’s sophistry. In fact, they also hoped that Victoria could come up with effective countermeasures when the UK suffered a setback. .

Seeing that her speech had achieved good results, Vidomia continued: “Ideas are sometimes more effective than weapons. Da Yu is still an imperial country, and we are moving from imperial power to democratic elections. It is common for an empire to collapse from within. It is easier than destroying it from the outside. Our Congressman Cao Kun knows this better than us. “

As Victoria spoke, she looked at the two seats in the corner of the Liberal Party, where Cao Kun and Cao Zhengtong were sitting.

(End of chapter)