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Chapter 730 The Anti-British French Prime Minister

On March 1879, 3, British Prime Minister Creston and the British Foreign Secretary Granville Gower who accompanied him arrived in Paris for an emergency visit.

French Second Empire, Paris, Louvre Museum.

"At present, both the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Siam have publicly stated that the defense agencies of the two countries regularly hold more military exchanges and interactions."

Napoleon III looked at British Prime Minister Creston and British Foreign Secretary Granville Gower in front of him with sharp eyes.

He said meaningfully: "This meeting between Mark Ruder of the Netherlands and Parklen has regarded the interaction between our two countries in Southeast Asia as a threat.

According to a document released by the Dutch Ministry of Defense, Macrud said when meeting with Parklen that William IV invited King Chula Longkorn of Siam to visit Melbourne for a meeting.

With the strengthening of cooperation between the two countries and under the strategic leadership of the kings of the two countries, the Netherlands and Siam have reached a new level of all-round partnership that keeps pace with the times. The alliance between the two countries will also become a model of global alliance cooperation, and even for the first time Non-Western countries have joined the highest-level alliance system built by the Netherlands.

The emergence of this situation shows how determined William IV is."

Napoleon III glanced at the two of them sideways, and then said slightly strangely: "It seems that the Netherlands is really worried about Britain."

Creston and Granville both showed complicated expressions upon hearing this.

It is obvious that this series of actions of the Netherlands are aimed at fighting against the British.

He had already received information about this document through MI[-].

In the manuscript, Mark Rudd directly pointed out that the security of the Asia-Pacific region in the Far East is disturbed by Britain, a global power, and the situation is stable and worrying.

The Netherlands and Siam have agreed to strengthen security-Siam communication on the Malay Peninsula and Indochina to jointly maintain regional peace and stability.

Parklen even took the initiative to further propose to Mark Rudd that he hopes that with the cooperation of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Siam, the two countries will further enhance high-level exchanges between the two countries' militaries, improve the level of joint exercises and training, promote the Netherlands to help Siamese military personnel, and let the Kingdom of Siam Joining the Dutch Indo-Pacific multilateral architecture security cooperation promotes the Siamese military to join the Dutch Indo-Pacific and global strategies, showing that the Kingdom of Siam is fully leaning towards the Dutch side.

This is where Creston is troubled.The original intention was to unite with the Second French Empire to increase pressure on the Netherlands, but now it was better. Instead, it caused the Netherlands to take the wrong side, allowing the Kingdom of Siam to directly join the Dutch chariot from its unwillingness to favor the Netherlands.

This was something Creston had not expected at all.

Looking at Napoleon III's slightly sarcastic eyes, he understood that this was a mockery of them. The British were scheming all day long. As a result, after facing the Netherlands, they bumped into each other many times and finally kicked the steel plate.

Creston: "Your Majesty's worries are unreasonable. You need to know that when Britain chose to cooperate with France in Southeast Asia, it expected this scene to happen. Therefore, we should not be worried at this time, but should directly find a solution. How to overcome the difficulties currently caused by the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Siam?”

Granville Gower immediately responded after hearing this: "Yes, Your Majesty, I think it is time for Britain and France, as the two major powers in Europe, to take some actions to safeguard our status."

"Action? Tell me how to do it"

Napoleon III looked angrily at Patrice McMahon next to him, who said dissatisfiedly with clever and righteous words:

"More than a dozen years ago, when we were alone facing sanctions organized by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, headed by the Netherlands, Britain chose to stand by. Even now, the French Third Republic, a southern power, has been established in our south, supported by Bismarck of the German Empire, but The two British ministries are helping each other, how do you think the now divided French Empire should treat the Netherlands?"

Speaking of this, he even showed genuine sadness.

When Creston and Granville saw this, their expressions changed slightly.

Patrice McMahon was born in Saône-Valouir in 1808. He is a descendant of the Jacobite Irish family. His grandfather was a doctor. He became a French national in 1775. His father was a major general in the French army at that time. Therefore, let the family enter the upper class of the great country.

He was the 19th of his father's 16 children.

In 1825, Zun joined the French army as a soldier according to his father's wishes. In 1827, he graduated from the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France.

Later, he won many military exploits and was promoted to brigadier general.

In 1852, he supported Napoleon III in proclaiming himself emperor and stood correctly. He was promoted to division commander by Napoleon III for his military exploits in the colonial war.

In 1854, a marriage was arranged before his father passed away, officially allowing him to enter the ranks of France's highest-ranking families.

He married Elisabeth Delacroix, the daughter of the Duke of Costris. Behind this lady was an absolute French orthodoxy, with a well-established foundation. Because of her, he officially entered the French aristocracy.

He became a count in 1857 and became famous in the 185 Crimean War and the Battle of Magenta in the Franco-Austrian War. He was promoted to French Marshal by Napoleon III and was named Duke of Magenta.

Since then, he has become Napoleon III's personal military influence.

He commanded the First Army in the Franco-Prussian War and was captured by Prussia with Napoleon III after being injured in the Sedan War.

He was also released together with Napoleon III at the end of 1870, and later became Napoleon III's military representative in the French military.
This man was a typical royalist who had many fierce war confrontations with the southern republicans in his career.

Because of his loyalty, with the support of Napoleon III, he was elected as the French Prime Minister in 1873, replacing Prime Minister Charles. The moderate Charles became the speaker of the French House of Representatives, controlling the parliament for Napoleon III.

Patrice McMahon is of Irish-French origin.

And his grandfather was a victim of the famous "self-destruction" policy to reduce the local population after the Great British Empire launched an attack on Scotland and Ireland from England and Wales and took over. Ireland's food shortage caused Ireland to starve to death. More than a million people were killed. It was this situation that prompted old Mike Mahon to leave his homeland and leave Ireland for France.

Patrice McMahon's father was also hostile to Britain during his lifetime, and the two did not believe that Patrice McMahon would be pro-British.

They know that the difficulty they currently want to bring the Second French Empire to join the British strategy against the Netherlands has increased a lot.

Granville stood up bravely and said: "Prime Minister Patrice's words make people disagree. At that time, there were major differences between Britain and France. It was understandable that everyone made their own choices for their own interests. But now everyone's stance on Southeast Asia is close. I don't think so. It would be a wise choice for the French Empire and Britain to continue to dwell on those old events."

(End of this chapter)