Make France Great Again

When Lord Clarendon again arrived in front of Aberdeen, he was greeted by a pair of hostile eyes and angry faces.

"Mr. Prime Minister, good morning!" Facing the hatred of the Prime Minister of Aberdeen, Lord Clarendon immediately chose to smile and greeted Aberdeen.

After all, who wants to be more serious with someone whose political lifespan is less than a few months.

"Lord Clarendon, tell me! What's your purpose in doing this?" Aberdeen roared in a low voice at the foreign secretary he had picked up in front of him: "Palmerston, Russell, what did they promise you? what?"

"I don't understand what you're talking about Prime Minister?" Lord Clarendon looked at Aberdeen blankly, pretending to be innocent.

"No more acting!" Aberdeen said to Lord Clarendon in a low voice again: "Only you and I and Canning know about this! Except you, I just can't think of anyone else! "

"Maybe it leaked the secret halfway!" Lord Clarendon still refused to admit that he leaked the secret: "It is also possible that the telegraph staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs betrayed the intelligence of the government department, maybe!"

"I don't care who leaked the order, this matter has nothing to do with your Ministry of Foreign Affairs!" Aberdeen pointed to Lord Clarendon and said.

Although Aberdeen can definitely be the secret leaked by Lord Clarendon, but now he has no substantive evidence, and even if there is substantive evidence, it is impossible for him to take any action.

Because Aberdeen understands that once the information of the Sinop naval battle is leaked, the pro-Russian and anti-French signboard he painstakingly created will be smashed to smithereens immediately.

Just imagine, a country that can annihilate the navy built by Britain "hands-on" can't arouse fear in Britain.

The original British had a certain fear of Russian infantry, and now the Russian navy has annihilated the entire navy of another country at a very small cost.

This is simply to stimulate the nerves of the British people, and it would be really strange if the British people did not express anything.

This is why Aberdeen suppressed the Sinop naval battle.

Who would have thought that Lord Clarendon would "betray" him at this time.

At this time, it is impossible for British voters not to focus on the Near East.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, I admit that it was my lax rule that caused the current situation!" Lord Clarendon immediately admitted his mistake to Aberdeen, and firmly assured Aberdeen: "I can guarantee that I will definitely Find out the main person responsible for this incident and bring him to justice!"

Aberdeen looked suspiciously at Lord Clarendon in front of him. Judging from his expression, it seemed that this matter had nothing to do with him, but Aberdeen's potential sixth sense reminded him that this matter must be related to him. related.

However, now is not the time to struggle with these, the most important issue is those newspapers.

Thinking of this, Aberdeen, who was sitting in the Prime Minister's chair, bent down and held the crumpled newspaper in the trash can, and then spread it out in front of Lord Clarendon: "Speak! What should I do now? "

Lord Clarendon glanced at the title, and immediately understood the specific content inside, and couldn't help but gloat inwardly.

"Why don't you order The Times to apologise in the next edition of the paper? Let's just say that there was an error in their reporting, and then I can probably get away with it!" Lord Clarendon leaned forward and put on a serious analysis. attitude, and then Aberdeen made an unreliable proposal.

"What are you kidding? If this is the case, the Times will probably report more violently!" The Prime Minister of Aberdeen shook his head and immediately rejected Lord Clarendon's suggestion: "It's not that you don't know, the newspapers are always shouting. , interfering. They are good at bullying others and turning the government into a bully.”

"Then we have to let the situation continue to develop!" Lord Clarendon shrugged and responded to Aberdeen with a helpless expression: "Maybe, in a few days, the newspapers will simply not report this. It's up!"

"That's the only way to do it!" The Prime Minister of Aberdeen sighed and responded to Lord Clarendon.

Aberdeen, who had no response to public opinion and dared not use any drastic means, could not control the newspaper at all.

This can only happen in Britain. If it is France, or even any monarchical country in Europe, those outside the system will not be able to publish content that is not conducive to the government.

"By the way, Your Excellency Prime Minister! When are you going to start the cabinet meeting to discuss whether to help the Ottoman Empire?" Lord Clarendon once again stirred Aberdeen's nerves.

No one knows better than him that it is impossible for Aberdeen to quell public opinion.

The Sinop naval battle will definitely be pushed to a certain height by Palmerston and other main fighting factions, and then use this public opinion to become the prime minister of the cabinet.

"Don't discuss it in the cabinet meeting for now!" Aberdeen looked at Lord Clarendon depressedly.

What he said would have removed Lord Clarendon had it not been for the turbulent state of the cabinet.

"If there is nothing else, I will go first!" Lord Clarendon said goodbye to Aberdeen.

"Right!" Aberdeen suddenly thought of something, and he asked Lord Clarendon again: "How is the situation on Ambassador Canning's side?"

Lord Clarendon shook his head, indicating that he had not received Canning's next request.

"That's good! That's good!" The Prime Minister of Aberdeen breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, as long as Canning did not intensify the conflict, everything could be turned around.

But Aberdeen had forgotten that Canning, as the British ambassador to Constantinople, had the right to deploy the Mediterranean fleet without the consent of the cabinet.

Aberdeen's unwillingness to expand is simply wishful thinking.

Lord Clarendon then left his office in Aberdeen.

Aberdeen, who was sitting in the empty prime minister's office once, no longer has any will to continue working. Standing in front of the window, he stared at the sky outside the window and couldn't help sighing again.

In the next few days, the situation in the British newspaper office did not gradually calm down in the direction expected in Aberdeen, but made great strides in the direction of intensification.

When The Times, the Morning Herald, and the Morning Advertiser fired the first shot, the remaining tabloids, funded by some "loving people", began to attack the cabinet.

The newspapers dubbed the Aberdeen-led cabinet an "anti-British cabinet" and described Aberdeen itself as a marionette controlled by the tsar.

Some newspapers claimed that the Tsar used his money to corrupt the vast majority of Aberdeen's cabinet, leaving Aberdeen at the mercy of the Tsar. Some newspapers pretended that the Sinop naval battle was the annihilation of the entire army caused by Aberdeen selling the news of the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire.

In short, in this intensifying public storm, not only Aberdeen itself, but even Albert and Queen Victoria in Buckingham Palace were labeled "Russian" by some unscrupulous tabloids. The reason is even more bizarre, because most of the nobles of the Russian Empire are of German descent, and Albert and Queen Victoria are also of German descent, so Prince Albert and Queen Victoria are spies sent by Russian ruthless people.

In order to satisfy the British people's desire for office conspiracy theories and court conspiracy theories, "Morning Advertisement" also deliberately made up a rumor that Palmerston was ousted because his anti-Russian ideas won Queen Victoria's favor. Encountered, thus involved in a palace conspiracy.

In order to attract attention, many vulgar newspapers have reported that Prince Albert was imprisoned in the prison of the Tower of London for betraying the United Kingdom, and will be sentenced to death on another day.

Once the news spread, it attracted countless good people to the Tower of London.

Some people who were watching the fun even put up a slogan "Long live Ottoman, Death to Albert".

Of course, such a slogan only existed for less than 10 minutes before being taken away by the London police loyal to the Queen on the charge of "obstructing the law and order".

Queen Victoria, who lives in Buckingham Palace, was particularly angry in the face of the growing public opinion.

"Look at these stupid things Palmerston has done! He wants to send us to the guillotine too, so that he can be the protector of the country?" Queen Victoria frowned and said to Albert beside him.

"I don't think it's a stupid thing!" Albert said to Victoria, smiling.

"Albert, do you know what the newspapers in London say about us now! They say we are thieves who stole the whole of Britain! They also say we should be hanged!" Victoria continued to Albert angrily~www. readwn.com ~ Gallows? We are not tyrants! Albert joked, and then added: "The one on the other side of us is the real tyrant!" "

The "tyrant" in Albert's mouth is Jerome Bonaparte.

"This is not the time to be joking, we have to do something!!" Queen Victoria told Albert.

"I don't think the newspapers in Britain can be intimidated by just reading a sentence or two!" Albert replied indifferently.

"Then you say, what should we do? Let them continue to arrange the royal family?" Queen Victoria said angrily.

"Of course not!" Prince Albert shook his head, and then said with a smile: "Since they all think that Britain intends to condone the Russian Empire, why don't we take this opportunity to show our attitude to the British people!"

"You mean to declare war?!"

"That's right! Time to declare war on the Russian Empire!"