Chapter 304 Heaven’s Favor on China

Chapter 304 Heaven’s Favor on China

Chapter 304 Heaven’s Favor on China
No wonder today's investiture and honoring ceremony will be held in St. George's Church.

The general nobility conferring ceremony is held in Buckingham Palace. And each time is fixed, all the nobles who are conferred titles in a year are gathered together and conferred titles at one time, which can save the Queen's energy.

Shao Quanzhong is important, and we can't let him sit here with his large fleet waiting for collective ennoblement. It's certainly okay to hold a ceremony for him alone.

But why is it in Windsor Castle, especially St. George's Chapel? This is the royal cemetery, where many British kings are buried, and its status is equivalent to the Imperial Ancestral Temple of the Qing Dynasty.

This was a place that only the royal family could enter, not even the prime minister, but Shao Quanzhong was allowed to bring his family in.

The princes and princesses thought that it was because the old lady had been in seclusion in recent years and didn't want to go out and make trouble anymore. Now it seems that it was prepared to award Shao Quanzhong the Order of the Garter, because the Order of the Garter can only be awarded in the Taimiao of the Windsor Family.

What does the Order of the Garter mean?
The wearers, with a few exceptions, were limited to the King, the Prince of Wales, and twenty-four living members of the Order, who had to be loyal native nobles of England, not Scottish or Irish—obviously not including Shao Quanzhong.

Who were the few exceptions? Foreign monarchs who were allied with Britain, and those in the royal family who had made contributions and were appreciated by the king.

Historically, those who have received the Order of the Garter include Tsar Alexander I, German Emperor Wilhelm II, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I, and the Japanese pirate Heika.

Shao Quanzhong is not the monarch of the Qing Dynasty now, and the only condition he must meet is that he has made contributions to the British Empire.

Therefore, the queen should first arrange a marriage with him as a child, making him a non-member of the royal family, and then grant him additional honors, which basically does not violate the ancestral system.

What merits did Shao Quanzhong have? Of course, he drove away the Russians in Central Asia and protected the safety of India, but the Earl of Jersey and the Victoria Cross were enough rewards.

The key is that this time he made new contributions to the British Empire.

During the meeting with the Prime Minister, Shao Quanzhong donated his Equatorial Guinea territory to Britain free of charge, and allowed Britain to station troops in Kabul, Turkestan and Khiva, open concessions, and have priority in building roads, establishing telegraph lines, and investing in business in Afghanistan, the Khanate of Khiva, the Kazakh Khanate, the entire Konbaung (Myanmar), the Republic of Lan Fang, and the State of Sulu.

The British gained such huge commercial benefits without spending a single soldier or a penny on military expenditure. Shao Quanzhong's request was only to allow Lan Fang to annex the Sarawak Kingdom and unify Borneo, and for the British to stop their continued attack on northern Konbaung.

This is absolutely an act of unspeakable loyalty to our British Empire.

It is equivalent to Shao Quanzhong giving the benefits he seized from the Dutch and Spanish to us in Britain.

The Kingdom of Sarawak was just a small country built by British merchants. It was not even part of the British Empire, but was only recognized by Britain.

Sarawak was annexed by Lan Fang, and the whole of Borneo became Britain's sphere of influence. Is there anything cheaper than this?
As for Konbaung, why did the British stop fighting after conquering the southern half? They could not afford to fight because it was losing money.

Do you know how terrible it is to fight with the natives who suddenly come and go in the rainforest?
Now, with just one word from Shao Quanzhong, as the suzerain state of Konbang, the entire commercial interests of Konbang have been given to Britain. Why should I continue to suffer heavy losses in Konbang?

At that time, the Prime Minister did not even ask the Queen for instructions and directly agreed that Britain should withdraw its troops from Konbaung and return the occupied southern half to Konbaung.

We are here to make money, what's the point of having that piece of land in the rain forest that keeps shooting arrows at us? We have too much land of our own to manage, so we sell it at a low price.

Now that the Qing Dynasty has guaranteed the safety of British merchants' investments, would it be stupid for me to leave troops there and waste money and the precious lives of imperial soldiers?

This is a problem of the concepts of both sides. The British have no shortage of land. When there is a surplus of land, they want money. Shao Quanzhong, on his side, values ​​sovereignty. With the current economic strength of the Qing Dynasty, how can it afford to develop those poor places in Southeast Asia and West Asia? Let the British do it. If you want to make money, you have to build roads, lay telegraph lines, train industrial workers, and build infrastructure.

You took the money, and the territory has also developed and improved, right? Shao Quanzhong knew the future trend. The British Empire would eventually collapse. The British thought that they could enjoy economic benefits for thousands of years after investing, which was as unreliable as Qin Shihuang's idea of ​​becoming the first emperor.

If he didn't know the future, Shao Quanzhong would be selling out his country. Of course, if he traded economy for sovereignty, whether it was selling out his country or not would be controversial.

Equatorial Guinea is too far away and there are basically no Han people there, so it is impossible to occupy it.

Shao Quanzhong felt that he had made a profit by giving the British territories such as Sarawak and Konbaung in exchange for their occupation. Britain also felt that it was a huge profit, which made Shao Quanzhong feel very sorry.

That's why the Queen showed mercy and played a trick to bring Shao Quanzhong, a loyal younger brother, into the royal family. Among you princes and princesses, who has made such a great contribution to Britain?
If I marry off one of my granddaughters, Shao Quanzhong will become a member of my family, and I will support him in seizing the ruling power of the Qing Dynasty. Wouldn't the Qing Dynasty then be an iron-clad vassal of the British Empire?
It was definitely a wise decision to have such a good thug who came to you to curb the challenge from France and allow the British Empire to rule the world forever.

Twenty minutes later, Shao Quanzhong, wearing the Order of the Garter, walked out of St. George's Chapel with the royal family.

Only the special correspondent of The Times and Shao Quanzhong's accompanying reporter Mark Twain were allowed to enter Windsor Castle to take pictures.
"Bang! Crack."

A new family portrait of the Windsor royal family has been released.

Shao Quanzhong stood beside the queen with a smile on his face. The royal family added several members with oriental faces.

The Queen expressed satisfaction with the continued prosperity and expansion of the British Empire, and Shao Quanzhong expressed satisfaction with having penetrated into the inner circle of the British big brother.

Of course, Shao Quanzhong's descendants rank quite low in the line of succession to the British throne. Under normal circumstances, Britain would not have a monarch of oriental blood.

It is impossible for Shao Quanzhong to assassinate and kill all the people in front of him, so is there any possibility that Shao Quanzhong's secretly planned plan of taking over the magpie's nest will succeed?

If, I mean if, Shao Quanzhong has the ability to lead China to surpass Britain in strength within a few decades, without having to wait until the next century, then it is not certain who will be in charge of the British Empire in this photo.

The question is, is this possible?

What method can enable China to rise in a few decades and surpass the British Empire after hundreds of years?

Shao Quanzhong couldn't think of a solution now and was quite confused.

However, he was willing to take a chance on this possibility, and he always felt that if God favored China, there would definitely be such a solution.

for sure.

It seems that I have never seen such confusion as myself, and the firm belief that there will be a way out, in anyone else...

(End of this chapter)