London.

The 31-year-old former Liberal MP, former British Army cavalry captain, legendary hero, journalist, writer, colonial expert, grandson of the Seventh Duke Marbaro, and the current deputy chief of colonial affairs of the British Empire, Winston Churchill sat calmly on a chair.

The new Prime Minister of the British Empire, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, a moderate leader of the Liberal Party, a 69-year-old man known as the good man Henry, had a smile on his face and looked at the young cabinet minister who could be his grandchildren: "Winston, how are you doing in the Ministry of Colonial Affairs? Is Old Erkin easy to get along with? Did the colonists cause trouble for you?"

"Lord is a good man." The young Churchill shrugged his shoulders, but his expression was very serious. "He is very tolerant of his subordinates and is willing to share his experience. I am honored that although the time is short, I have benefited a lot."

Prime Minister Banerman's eyes softened.

This Winston Churchill is not a reckless young man.

Old Erkin, the former governor of India, is definitely not a simple sè in Sir Bennerman's opinion. He had heard about the things that these two people get along with long ago: every time Churchill finished his own opinions, Erkin would often say "I don't agree" and then simply say his own opinions; after Churchill deliberately soaked the thick materials, Erkin often briefly commented on "This is your opinion, but not mine". But some things are hard to believe, Churchill really respects the chief officer very much. The discussion between the two people finally solved many problems properly.

This is a promising young man.

"Okay, Winston, since you're on track, I want to ask for some advice this time." The old prime minister smiled and put down the Assam black tea in his hand. "What do you think about the previous relationship between the colonies and the empires, and the special customs alliance?"

Churchill nodded and said, "About the colony, I have recently communicated a lot with Lord Erkin and began to form a view: this issue is like a war. When we give up the position at the foot of the mountain, the defensive front should retreat to the top of the mountain. It is meaningless to stay on the mountainside, and it can only make things worse."

Sir Bennerman squinted his eyes and listened, and the gods were calm.

"We have given the power of colonial autonomy, and have established a sample like Canada, Australia, and a higher autonomous republic like South Africa. Other colonies will not be satisfied with staying in their current state, let alone abolishing their autonomy rights and becoming directly under the jurisdiction of colonies." Churchill shrugged, "The world today is no longer the one-man show of Britain. Many ambitious late empires are staring at us, hoping that we will be divided. If we push the reverse process, not only will it not succeed, but it will also lead to the colonial disgust towards the empire in vain, and eventually the empire collapse. In this case, we only have one road left: give them freedom generously."

"That empire?"

"Freedom and empire are not contradictory." Churchill continued, "Freedom requires sufficient political, military, diplomatic and economic power to ensure it. All this is only capable of the British Empire and is most suitable for them. Within the British Empire, military and diplomatic affairs are coordinated and unified, and the economy is linked with finance and taxation. Under this system, the colonies enjoy full autonomy, which is the best picture."

"Do you pay taxes...Winston, do you mean to agree with the special tariffs?" "Prime Minister Bannerman looked at Churchill with a smile, "Even our 'Hurigans' (a small group composed of young political elites at the time with Churchill as the core) joined the tariff protection alliance?"

Bannerman's words have allusions.

Churchill was originally from the Conservative Party. This ambitious young MP, who had invited Conservative trade policy leader Joseph Chamberlain to have lunch with his "Huligans" in his early years and listened to Chamberlain's explanation of the protection of tariffs. Then, Chamberlain launched a "Tariff Protection Alliance" movement within the Conservative Party.

Churchill and his close friends analyzed the situation and believed that Joseph Chamberlain's protection tariffs were actually the biggest beneficiary of the British heavy industry, which was struggling under the competition between Germany and the United States, while the shipbuilding and textile industries, which have a wider force in the United Kingdom, face the threat of counter-retaliation. The bigger problem is that the protection tariffs will lead to an increase in the price of imported agricultural products in the United Kingdom, which will be opposed by the lower class. For British industry and commerce, the United Kingdom is still on a large scale, and is generally a beneficiary of free trade. Immediately, Churchill and his "Huligans" began to criticize Chamberlain's trade protection policy, and brought Chamberlain and his accomplices out of the cabinet, which led to a great division of the Conservative Party.

However, the Conservative Belfort, who later formed a new cabinet, did not include Churchill in the cabinet, which made Churchill very dissatisfied. In addition, he himself agreed with the Liberal Party in terms of free trade policy, so he finally turned to the Liberal Party and then won a seat as the second-official officer of colonial affairs in this Liberal Party building.

"Yes, respected Prime Minister." Churchill nodded, and the gods became solemn. "Implement preferential tariffs internally and unify tariff barriers externally, so that the British Empire can form an economy that can circulate itself, and thus strengthen the cohesion of all parts of the entire empire. This is what I want to express."

Sir Bennerman stared at Churchill.

"Under such a system, our various main raw materials and agricultural products can be self-sufficiency," Churchill continued, "and we have enough consumer markets to make the world jealous. This market will speak to the outside world in a unified manner. Anyone who wants to enter this market must bear high tariffs and pay appropriate prices in politics, diplomacy and even military. Using this unified market, we can negotiate with countries around the world."

"For the colonies within, leaving the empire is equivalent to losing this special market, and raw materials and other necessary daily necessities must be re-seeked for supply." Churchill Xiong said confidently, "This is the best way for the British Empire to restore glory in the current world, and it is also the only way."

Sir Bennerman smiled unanimously: "Something is true... By the way, Winston, how did you think of this?"

"Observe, and think." Churchill smiled somewhat reservedly, "I have been studying a country over the years: China."

Sir Bennerman didn't speak.

"This country has maintained unusually high growth for decades, and what they have always insisted on is actually such a path." Churchill said. "After they gained enough economic depth and population, they began to restore tariff sovereignty. They used their own market as bargaining chips to convince us, European countries, to give up tariff control, and let them establish their own tariff barriers. Inside, they canceled the local likin tax cards and realized a real discount inside. They have been focusing on strengthening investment and immigration in places like Nanyang, establishing their own economic colonies, and then using capital and common allegiance as a link to connect these economic colonies with the local government to form a unified self-sufficiency economy, and thus gaining greater economic game capabilities from the outside."

"Their main agricultural products and industrial raw materials are basically self-sufficient and exported in large quantities. Their industrial products are supported by an internal market of up to 450 million people. When they face the external market and have laid a solid foundation, it is difficult to be shaken." Churchill took a deep breath. "The so-called new order they are now establishing in East Asia is essentially to establish a system like our special tariff empire, with the headquarters of their Chinese Empire as the core, controlling a number of economic colonies with military, economy and diplomacy, and building a self-sufficiency economy. Look at the commercial agreements they signed with ***, North Korea, and through tariff refunds, they achieve zero tariffs internally!"

"Prime Minister, the question now is no longer whether our model is too advanced, but that we are doing it now may fall behind the Chinese, let alone maintain the status quo..." Churchill spread his hands, "I believe that what the Germans are doing in Africa is actually similar to the Chinese. Continuing to maintain free trade in front of these trading empires is like shooting archers naked and wearing plate armor. Sooner or later, we will die of excessive bleeding."

Sir Bennerman was silent for a while and changed the topic: "Okay, Winston, I understand what you mean... Let's talk about the next question. What do you think about the matter between the Russians and the Chinese? St. Petersburg is urging us to give diplomatic recognition and demand trade. What advice do you have?"

"Prime Minister, my suggestion is to completely crush the red elements and hang them one by one!" Churchill's tone suddenly became a little jittery, "The red mobs in St. Petersburg, they are the terrible plague that can truly destroy the entire civilized society and subdue the British Empire and the entire Europe in the sea of ​​blood. No, in the name of God, if the Chinese can eliminate this red tide, I do not object to handing over the entire Siberia to them!"

Bannerman's pupils contracted sharply.

"Prime Minister, please forgive my frankness." Churchill was obviously a little irritated, and his tone showed some persistent disgust. "These mobs are a group of real pseudo-*** and crazy believers! They shouted the slogan of liberating all mankind. What they actually had to do was incite the mob to seize power and build a ruthless society where dictators ruled the gangsters. They would overturn the moral norms and bottom lines of all civilized society and establish a terrible system full of beasts and maintained by barbaric and unethical violence."

"Prime Minister, these pseudo-***s who are good at fooling the lower class are our most terrible enemies and the most dangerous enemies." Churchill paused and emphasized his tone. "Look at the current Western Europe, Germany and France leftists sang hymns and advocated that the 'Eight Programs of St. Petersburg' has something worth studying... In London, the Labor Representative Committee is being reorganized into the Labor Party, and they are actively preparing to participate in the general election. The new story that happened in St. Petersburg has now become their hot sign, used to inflict those blue-collar workers with high wages and high benefits, long live labor."

"Winston, since that's the case, how do you let us deal with the Soviets in St. Petersburg?" Prime Minister Bennetman looked at Churchill, "The government's finances have not yet fully recovered from the disaster of the Boer War. The economy is low, the unemployment problem is serious, the workers' emotions are already a little unstable, I don't want Britain to be divided... The situation is very delicate, and you understand our difficulties."

"Yes, Prime Minister, we cannot do it directly, nor do we need to do it directly." Churchill looked back at Bannerman with a bright look. "My suggestion is simple. Give the Tsar enough money, weapons, supplies, and meet the Chinese requirements in Siberia and Central Asia, so that they can re-arm the captured Russian animals and form a new army. Help the Tsar crush these red sè elements as soon as possible."

"That Chinese?"

"Everything that the Chinese have gained is nothing but illusory mirages. He is a wasteland in a large frozen land, millions of combative indigenous people who are fanatical about Islam, and their barren land full of Gobi and deserts." Churchill smiled proudly. "All this will firmly absorb the kinetic energy of this new empire and make them fall into a quagmire. And a re-armed Russia has contracted its defense line and will no longer be in a disadvantaged position because of the expedition of the Lao Shi. Instead, the Chinese will be forced to station troops on the wasteland that has left its homeland thousands of miles."

"The Chinese are an easy-to-satisfied group and like to indulge themselves. This victory will destroy their ambitions for expansion. A new Celestial Kingdom will celebrate the merits, and a hundred years later, they will gain the Second Opium War."

The worried Tsar sat on the Volga river gunboat that came to greet him, followed by cavalry and horse-drawn carriages to Rostov, met the Don Cossack troops of the Nei Caucasus, and met with the Queen of Ukraine and his troops.

After a long journey, the Tsar finally arrived in Rostov and saw two guests who came on a merchant ship and disguised themselves as a disguised guest: Pierre Sigis Méng, the French government's special envoy, and Nicholson, the British government's special envoy.

Sigis Méng brought a group with a special set of passwords dedicated to diplomatic documents between France and the Tsar, and the situation in the UK was similar.

The Tsar, who was slightly relieved by the French cabinet, learned from Nicholson about the China proposals fed back from British and American diplomatic mediation, and was immediately furious.

"God punishes those greedy ghosts in the East... They are crazy! Crazy!" The Tsar, who has been tortured to the extreme haggard recently, no longer has the gentle and elegant demeanor he usually has. "The Yenisei River? The Caspian Sea? The islands of the Arctic Ocean? Haha... I don't give me an inch of land! I won't give me!"

Nicholson looked at the Russian Tsar with deep eyes and an excited expression with some sadness and sighed in his heart.

"Your Majesty, this is just their proposal. You can also make a counter-proposal." Nicholson waited until the Tsar had almost vented, and continued to speak, "Please be honest, the problem now is that you must negotiate peace with the Chinese as soon as possible. The longer the time goes on, the more land you lose, the less chips you have to negotiate. More critically... Our mission in St. Petersburg and the consulate in Moscow have informed that the Soviets are rectifying their troops, strengthening their control over local regimes, sorting out the currency and industrial systems, and using gold and foreign exchange in the treasury of St. Petersburg and Moscow, they have started shopping for foreign goods. Some countries...such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands are already transporting food to St. Petersburg, and they pay directly with gold and pounds..."

The Tsar's face was pale, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't say a word.

"The Chinese have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and a large number of military supplies in their hands. As long as you agree to their conditions, they can arm several armies and hand them over to you at any time." Nicholson said calmly, "If you refuse... it is said that the Soviets are contacting the Chinese through Jews. Once the Soviets are in front, these troops..."

"No, God curses these damn rebellions! In the name of St. Andre, these obscene embryos can't betray them!" Tsar said in a moving manner, "This is a carefully formed army. How can I betray me? They are loyal..."

"I totally believe this." Nicholson bowed slightly, "but the problem now is that they are all in the Chinese prisoner-of-war camps, building railways behind them."

"Your Excellency, has the British Empire abandoned Russia and turned into a lobbyist for the Chinese?"

"Your Majesty, everything I say is out of goodwill to you, and it also represents the goodwill of the British Empire to the Russian Empire." Nicholson shook his head, "In the eyes of the British Empire, the choice you have to make now should consider more of the relationship between pros and cons. Obviously, for you, for the Russian Empire, the Soviets are the most dangerous enemy. Their purpose is to completely destroy the Russian traditions, eliminate the nobles and merchants, and also you. The society they want to establish has exceeded the scope that a civilized society can tolerate. And their approach is also a completely replica of Mara and Saint Just, which is a terrible modern Jacobin!"

"You have to understand us." Nicholson paused and said earnestly, "For us, and for the French Republic, the most dangerous enemy is already the terrible red plague! There are many left-wing forces, workers and leftists, who clearly show their sympathy for this new regime. But we all know that it is a nightmare! It is a terrible plague! If Russia is redundant, the next one will be Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and then France. This European Revolution will no longer be a river of blood, but an endless sea of ​​blood!"!
Chapter completed!