Make France Great Again

Lord Clarendon, who was pierced by Palmerston's words, did not show any annoyance on his face. Sitting in the chair, he asked Palmerston as usual: "Mr. Palmerston, if Hua, I am on your side, what can I get!"

"What?" Palmerston glanced at Lord Clarendon, rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a moment, and then replied: "I can assure you that after I become Prime Minister, you can Stay in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary!"

Lord Clarendon, who heard Palmerston's promise, was slightly startled. He really did not expect that Palmerston's conditions would be so generous.

"What? Are you not satisfied with the position of Foreign Secretary?" Palmerston asked Lord Clarendon.

"No no no!" Lord Clarendon waved his hand and responded with a shy smile: "I am very satisfied with the conditions you put forward! For those who are about to fail, it is very important to be able to retain this position after re-establishing the cabinet. Not bad!"

"As long as you are satisfied, then our deal is a preliminary conclusion!" Palmerston smiled and nodded to Lord Clarendon.

"Then, Mr. Palmerston! May I ask you a question that may offend you a little!" Lord Clarendon asked Palmerston tentatively.

"Then I may refuse to answer the question!" Palmerston said half-jokingly to Lord Clarendon.

"Of course!" Lord Clarendon replied immediately: "If the following questions make you embarrassed, you may not need to answer them."

"Then ask!" Palmerston responded to Lord Clarendon with an inviting gesture.

"That's it!" Lord Clarendon cleared his throat, reorganized his language, and asked carefully: "I thought Minister Russell would get my position after you reorganized the cabinet! Now, it seems that you Mr Russell was not considered."

After hearing Lord Clarendon's words, Palmerston immediately stopped smiling, and turned to Lord Clarendon in a serious tone: "If it were you, you would be willing to have the same Do the guys you disagree with share the class?"

"I'll kick him out!" Lord Clarendon responded without hesitation to Palmerston.

"Excellent! I think the same as you!" Palmerston responded immediately to Lord Clarendon.

"But, Mr. Palmerston!" Lord Clarendon asked again: "Without the help of Mr. Russell, it would be difficult for you and me to bring down the Prime Minister of Aberdeen!"

"Who said it was just the two of us?" Palmerston asked, then pointed to the dark night sky outside the window and said, "Not all of them are ours!"

"What do you mean?" Lord Clarendon seemed to understand what Palmerston meant, but he always felt as if he had been cut off from his mind by something invisible.

"Those voters are not our strength!" Palmerston said to Lord Clarendon. "As long as they are willing to support us, the Aberdeen Cabinet will surely fall!"

Palmerston's words caused Lord Clarendon, who was originally curious, to immediately fall into a state of depression. He thought that Palmerston would come up with some good solution, and he was in Aberdeen with him for a long time. The same as what was said before.

"Mr Palmerston, I am afraid we are no match for the Prime Minister of Aberdeen in this respect! He has far more power than us!" whispered Lord Clarendon in dismay.

"At the level of traditional government, Aberdeen is indeed much stronger than us!" Palmerston first agreed with Lord Clarendon's words, and then turned to Lord Clarendon: "Fortunately, Aberdeen Ding didn't notice that another power was quietly rising! This power, when used properly, is enough to change the policy course of a government from the outside!"

"What power?" Lord Clarendon asked Palmerston impatiently.

"The power of London, and the whole of the British press!" Palmerston said to Lord Clarendon: "The news in Britain is not a megaphone for the different factions within the ruling class, but a summation of the wisdom of the whole country, a report on the ruling class. A tool of criticism and control. It is really the 'fourth force', not the third force in words and sounds."

"You mean to use the newspaper to put pressure on the government?" Lord Clarendon immediately understood Palmerston's intention, and he hurriedly said to Palmerston.

Palmerston shook his head and said to Lord Clarendon: "No no no, we are not using the power of the newspapers, but directing news coverage in our favor! Make the people think that we can represent their interests. Speaking of which, I have a question for you!"

"Please speak!" Lord Clarendon was slightly startled, and then responded to Palmerston.

"What do you think is the national character of Britain? Or what is the ideal of the British?" Palmerston asked Lord Clarendon.

"Continent in balance? Britain forever strong?" Lord Clarendon responded tentatively to Palmerston.

"No no no! These are just the ideas of politicians!" Palmerston shook his head, and then spread his hands to Lord Clarendon: "According to what I know of them, the ideal image of the British should be: Protestant, liberty-loving, dynamic, adventurous, self-confident, bold, fighting to protect the weak, proud to be British, and contempt for foreigners, especially Catholics and Orthodox Christians.

They believed that the task of the government was to bring the British way of life to the unfortunate foreigners, and this was the peculiar Anglo-Saxon idea. As long as we address this thought, the war on Sinop will turn into a hateful Orthodox invasion of the unfortunate Turks. Those rich and just British voters will definitely support us! "

"But the newspapers publish the news we have spread?" Lord Clarendon asked Palmerston again.

"Why not?" Palmerston asked back, and then smiled happily: "I know them too well, those guys who are afraid of chaos in the world will not let go of every hot news! They Never heed the warnings of the British government, even if the government shut down their newspaper!"

Afterwards, Palmerston glanced at Lord Clarendon and said, "However, Minister Villiers, you must fire the first shot!"

"I see!" Lord Clarendon nodded to Palmerston, who knew that Palmerston was going to ask him to submit a "signature".

After all, how could Clarendon win the trust of Palmerston if he didn't take a stake in something.

Afterwards, Lord Clarendon and Palmerston exchanged views on some diplomatic issues and gained a better understanding of each other.

The time gradually came to one o'clock in the morning during their conversation. When Palmerston's wife appeared in the study, Palmerston had to stop the conversation, "Okay! Minister Willis, it's not too early. Now, you and I should rest too!"

"I've caused you trouble!" Lord Clarendon bowed again to Palmerston.

Then Lord Clarendon walked out of the mansion, accompanied by Palmerston.

After seeing Lord Clarendon, the carriage parked across the street from Palmerston Mansion quickly drove in front of Lord Clarendon.

Lord Clarendon slowly entered the carriage, and Lord Clarendon, who was sitting in the carriage, waved goodbye to Palmerston.

As Palmerston watched, Lord Clarendon drifted away until he disappeared at the end of the street.

"There's going to be a good show!" Palmerston said to himself with a playful expression on his face.

After speaking, Palmerston turned around and entered the mansion.

...

Early the next morning, a drizzle of drizzle fell from the dim sky, covering the whole of London in a curtain of rain.

In such a bad weather, Aberdeen, the Prime Minister, will usher in a news that is enough to shake his cabinet in his office.

"Dong Dong Dong!"

With a hurried knock on the door from outside the Prime Minister's Office, the Prime Minister of Aberdeen slowly raised his head and said to the door, "Come in!"

The door opened, and standing outside was his Chief Permanent Secretary (referred to as the Chief Secretary), who was also the leader of the entire British civil service.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, please allow me to report bad news to you in such a bad weather!" The chief secretary closed the door of the Prime Minister's office with a serious face, and then walked quickly to Aberdeen and said solemnly .

"Sit down and talk!" Aberdeen said to the chief secretary in front of him.

The chief secretary sat across from Aberdeen, and then, under Aberdeen's gaze, pushed the Times newspaper, which was placed on his chest to prevent it from being soaked by the rain, in front of Aberdeen.

"Please take a look at this!" said the chief secretary to Aberdeen, tapping the Times with his hand.

Aberdeen was stunned for a moment, then took the still-warm Times newspaper in his hand.

"The first news of the second edition!" The chief secretary reminded Aberdeen.

Aberdeen turns the pages of The Times to read the second edition of The Times.

When the Prime Minister of Aberdeen read all the contents of the second edition, his face immediately turned blue~www.readwn.com~ and his lips were trembling with anger.

"Who is it!" The Prime Minister of Aberdeen looked at the chief secretary with anger and said: "Who told the news to The Times!"

"Your Excellency, it's not just The Times! Almost all newspapers report the same thing!" the Chief Secretary continued to the Prime Minister of Aberdeen.

"Go! Call Minister Willis here, I want to ask him in person what the foreign minister did, and let such important information as Jiang be stabbed to those villains who can only use a pen!" Prime Minister Aberdeen's face Filled with disgust for newspaper reporters, perhaps because of his hatred for Wujiwu, he also gave orders to the chief secretary who reported the matter to him with a roaring attitude.

"Yes, Prime Minister!" The chief secretary who received the order frowned slightly and bowed to the Prime Minister of Aberdeen to leave the office.

After the chief secretary left, there was only Aberdeen left in the prime minister's office. He looked at The Times in front of him with extreme disgust, and then smashed the Times into a ball and threw it into the trash like he was treating his father's enemy. middle.

Through the crumpled "The Times", one can vaguely see a headline, the title's name is "Save Ottoman!" 》