In January 1867, the weather in London was really a bit cold, but on such a winter day, a group of people from afar made a street in England lively.

Whitehall, this street is the name of a street. This street is of great significance in London. It connects the Parliament Building and Downing Street. Almost the important political departments of the United Kingdom are mostly concentrated here. There are the Admiralty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense... Anyway, there are very many, and it is definitely the heart of the United Kingdom.

On this day, many foreigners came to Whitehall. These foreigners were very interesting. If you say that Britain is now awesome, it claims to have a territory of 36 million square kilometers. In other words, what kind of people do the British have never seen?

But today is really different. Among those foreigners, there are white people, but there are also yellow people. Looking at the clothes and braids, it seems that they were from the Qing Dynasty. But what happened to those who don’t have braids and those who have braids?

What’s even more strange is that those who don’t have braids are close to each other.

"Oh, you are Li Hongzhang, right? I have heard of your reputation, and you are famous..." The person who spoke this was not someone else, but the father-in-law of the American Empire, Mr. Huang San!

Then the person he is facing now is really Li Hongzhang and Lord Li?

"You bad old man! You are the one who is the one who is there?!" Li Hongzhang, that was a powerful figure. Suddenly an old man came over and drooled with him. Will he feel good?

The most important thing is that the old man has no braids!

"Ouch! You, the bad old man from what country! Abandoned people! A barbarian! A bastard!..." Li Hongzhang swears directly.

"Putting! Spreading you, Emu!" Then Master Huang San was overwhelmed? He immediately started to curse!

The others were stunned at the time. Because there were many foreigners, that is, many Europeans, who couldn't understand Chinese. So, at the beginning, they really didn't know what these two yellow-skinned people were saying, but soon found that these two people were going to fight, which was really surprising!

You know, these individuals nowadays are all envoys from various countries!

Yes, they are all envoys from various countries. There are French, American, Mexican governments in exile, and even other European countries, such as Austria, and of course. There are also landlords and British people.

So from this point of view, isn’t it embarrassing to see the two people from the American Empire and the Qing Dynasty doing this here?

It’s embarrassing but not embarrassing, right... some people don’t care at all anyway.

"Mr., please don't have any friction with the Qing officials. We are not here to negotiate with them this time. It's important for us to do serious things." This is Liszt, who speaks. His Chinese is pretty good now, although he can't achieve any correct words. He is also quite good.

"That old man! I originally wanted to talk to him... I'm in a good mood today! I won't be as good as you!" Master Huang San was so angry, but fortunately, he knew that he had a task and could not give his son-in-law bad things, but he had not forgotten to attack Li Hongzhang a few words.

"Old bastard! %!..." Li Hongzhang was also angry. He felt that he was a high-ranking official of the Qing Dynasty, and those guys without braids were all rebels from the Qing Dynasty!

Then it would be nice if I didn’t arrest you if I saw a traitor. Do you want to scold me?

Li Hongzhang is doing diplomacy. Generally speaking, it’s really just two words, he is a hooligan!

But unexpectedly, he met someone more rogue and rogue than himself today. Who has Mr. Huang scared of scolding?

The two old hooligans met, and it seemed that it would be good if they didn't fight.

But, what are you doing? Why is there Liszt?

Not only that, Liszt is also the Foreign Minister of the American Empire, and he is the official envoy to this time!

It's very simple. Isn't it the meeting I mentioned before in London? It's just that the British are going to mediate what happened before in Mexico.

But now it's 1867! Is it too late?

Let me put it this way, when Li Mengyang saw the telegram, he was ready, but he didn't expect that the song conference would be held so late, and it took almost half a year to start.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Li Mengyang also expressed his understanding, because he didn't know about some things before, but now he hasn't noticed them.

What's the matter?

It’s very simple. Something happened in Europe, or something big happened!

When Li Mengyang was studying history, he had basically had a slight understanding of European history. The reason was very simple. The reason he looked at European history was nothing more than to study "revolution", which was to help him study party history. Therefore, some European history were automatically ignored.

These overlooked history include what happened in 1866 last year.

The most famous European event in 1866 was the PASAC War!

Yes, this war was ignored by Li Mengyang before, because there were too few revolutionary things involved in this war. This war gave Li Mengyang the feeling that this was an internal struggle between the noble forces in the European continent, that's all.

In fact, this is indeed the case, but the result of this war was very big, that is, Germany was unified by Prussia. Austria was excluded from Germany. In addition, according to the news that Liszt has received, Hungary is no longer restless, that is, his tribe members are going to make trouble.

From this point of view, Li Mengyang realized that the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which he was more familiar with, probably happened because of this incident. This country, which is currently called Austria, was really a very awesome before the Pakatan Harapan War!

The territory of the Habsburg family is really vast. Nominally, there are a bunch of people on Italy, Hungary, and the Balkans... And as soon as the situation comes out, the Habsburg family will naturally develop to the Balkans. You must know that the Ottoman Türkiye was a sick man from Europe at this time and was in a state of seeking and seeking.

Well, the international situation is still very complicated, and the reason why this Puji War is an internal struggle between European aristocrats is also very well-founded.

That is the final mediation of war, which was done by French Emperor Napoleon III!

By the way, the Napoleon family was not aristocrats, but after Napoleon became emperor, he had to marry a wife. Therefore, Napoleon III also followed suit. Of course, his identity was higher than his original uncle's starting point, and he was one of the noble members.

So, with the subsequent mediation, in Li Mengyang's current view, the son of the niece of the fourth and third uncles in the next village, fought with the second uncle and his uncle, the younger uncle of the eldest and younger uncles of the oldest and grandpa, his grandson's wife, and then needed the cousin of the sixth grandpa, his grandson's wife to mediate... Well, in fact, it's not that complicated.

But after taking all these things, Li Mengyang also had some of his own understanding, that is, only after being in this era can he know that aristocrats are also useful.

Look, isn’t the French emperor mediating?

In other words, the nobles can act as a lubricant. Perhaps this effect is constantly decreasing, but it still exists now.

The PASAC war had a great impact on the European continent, but it was only because of this incident that delayed the convening of the London Conference, which was still a bit insufficient.

Because although the United Kingdom is a European country, they are lonely overseas and are affected relatively less. In other words, if it is just because of European affairs, then everyone can hold meetings normally and don’t need to worry too much.

So, although the American Empire received an invitation in the early 1866, although there were some issues with the speed of message transmission, it took almost a year to hold a meeting. This shows that something happened in the UK?

Yes, that's true!

In 1866, a significant political event occurred in Britain, that is, reform!

You should know that Britain is a conservative country. They can easily not reform, or the reforms are relatively small, very small, but this time the reforms are relatively large.

Election reform!

Simply put, it is to expand the election qualifications, mainly targeting farmers. That is, if a farmer can earn 10 pounds a year, he will be eligible for elections. The original rule was 50 pounds.

Of course, there is no sentence here that mentions the election qualifications of women.

So such a reform plan doesn’t seem to be anything, right?

But it just failed!

Li Mengyang knew about this through newspapers. You should know that you can obtain information. For example, in places like the UK, you only need to buy some newspapers, too many newspapers, and there are various tabloids.

Of course, because the message was transmitted too slowly, the newspapers Li Mengyang got were all from more than a month ago, but this was already very fast.

From this incident, Li Mengyang learned that Britain in 1866 was very chaotic!

It should be said that the political situation is relatively chaotic, because the competition between multiple forces can be said to be the one who finished the show, and the Conservative Party itself is still divided, so it is very difficult to integrate its power.

For example, this election reform plan was proposed by a man named Benjamin Disraelli. He is currently the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, this...

Li Mengyang sighed a little because it seems that he rarely heard of the British Chancellor's Chancellor in later generations, and very few, as if most of them were the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Chancellor.

So, although Disraelli is not the prime minister, his influence should be great, but despite this, the reform has not been passed.

Politics is the superstructure, economy is the foundation!

So, based on this judgment, Li Mengyang knew that there were problems within the UK.

But Li Mengyang is very clear that the British will not have big problems, they are just like this, they are conservative.

This has been a year, so how many things have to happen... (To be continued)
Chapter completed!