Invincible urban management

Prime Minister's Residence, [-] Downing Street, London, UK

The mansion's latest owner, leader of the Conservative Party, Earl Stanley Baldwin, rubbed his temples, feeling his head ache.

Not long ago, he had just defeated his old opponent in the political arena for more than ten years, the grassroots leader of the Labor Party, James Ramsey Macdonald, the former Prime Minister, and became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but he also Inherited the mess left by Macdonald.

Among these thorny messes, the most conspicuous one is the ambiguous relationship between Prince Edward, who loves beauty but not country, and Mrs. Simpson, an American widow-this disreputable relationship quickly made the crown prince and his father. Relationships with King George V were extremely rigid.Both Edward's parents refused to accept Mrs. Simpson, and his younger brother, Prince Albert, repeatedly suggested that Prince Edward find another good match. The influential Anglican Church also expressed strong opposition... But the problem is, Edward and Mrs. Simpson Always remain unmoved!

If this family dispute continues, it may eventually affect the ownership of the throne-so, although he is not very good at dealing with this kind of family dispute that is constantly cut and reasoned, but out of the duty of a courtier, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Still reluctantly walked on both sides, made peace several times, tried to reconcile the relationship between the royal father and son, and finally found that he was not the material: this seems to be the job of the priest!

Of course, the family disputes of the English royal family, even though they have been played up in the tabloids, are after all hurting the vitality of the country.Politicians care more.It is still the economic situation that is still sluggish-the capitalist world economic crisis has lasted for six years, causing indescribably terrible disasters to the British Empire, as well as serious social and political turmoil.Although it has eased slightly since then, it has not yet returned to the ideal level.

The various open and secret struggles between the United States and the United Kingdom around the struggle for world hegemony made Britain feel more and more overwhelmed by the responsibility of leading the world, and began to feel a little powerless... Fortunately, the long-term economic depression also seriously restricted the United States' ability to intervene in foreign countries , forcing the United States to carry out a global strategic retreat in the past few years and fall back into isolationism.It also gave Britain a temporary breather.

Regrettably, the tide of global competition between the United States and Britain has just come to an end, but the haze of war has risen from the horizon.

in Europe.The crisis of the war is not yet obvious. Although Hitler of the Nazi Party has monopolized power, the weak German army is not enough to launch a large-scale foreign war.Although the Soviets took advantage of the economic crisis, they obtained a large amount of industrial machinery from the United States and Europe.Greatly improved their industrial capabilities.But their borders are still far away from the heart of Europe, not enough to really shake "Peace Under Britain". [

However, in Asia, Britain stepped into the flames of war on its own initiative, and has fully felt the pain of the war.

——Thousands of British warriors, precious ships with a total displacement of more than 30 tons, all lost due to a "police operation"!

The old and sickly former Prime Minister MacDonald was completely crushed mentally and physically by all kinds of bad news that came from the Far East battlefield one after another.As a last resort, the throne of prime minister was handed over to his old rival, Earl Baldwin.However, although the newly appointed Prime Minister Baldwin established a wartime cabinet, he fought against the repeated failures of the Far East intervention.Also at a loss.And the latest terrifying information made him feel like he was in hell...

At this moment, he was discussing the latest information on the Far East battlefield with Winston Churchill, who had just been promoted to the position of Minister of the Navy.

"...The entire urban area of ​​Hiroshima disappeared in the big explosion. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of people were reduced to ashes, and at least a few hundred acres of land were burned into glass. Eda, which is across the water from Hiroshima City The Naval Academy on the island, as well as the Wugang Fort not far away, were almost razed to the ground.”

While smoking his pipe, Churchill pointed to the map of Japan on the table and said, "...Sasebo, Wugang, and Yokosuka, the four main bases of the Japanese naval empire, have been destroyed, and only one with the highest status remains. The unimportant Maizuru Base. Even the Etajima Naval Academy, which trains talents for the Japanese Navy, is finished... In the foreseeable future, we don’t have to worry about the threat of the Japanese Imperial Navy anymore.”

"... Instead, it is the Bolshevik threat to all civilized countries in the world! Atoms capable of destroying countries with one blow...Damn it! How did these yellow-skinned monkeys who just cut off their braids come up with such a thing? A super weapon that threatens world peace? This is unscientific!"

Prime Minister Baldwin said sullenly that this out-of-control situation of "whack-a-mole and big tiger" really made him feel terrible-when he attended the Manila Conference and signed the "Far East Joint Anti-Communist Pact", most British gentlemen Thinking that this was just a law and order operation to suppress colonial riots and defend commercial interests, the British government didn't know how much mistake it had made in underestimating the enemy until the war broke out.

So far, the Royal Navy's losses in China have exceeded that of the Battle of Jutland that year!

And all the interests of the British Empire in the Yangtze River Basin in China were completely wiped out as the Chinese Bolsheviks blocked the mouth of the Yangtze River.

To make matters worse, this is only the beginning - the power and strongholds of the British Empire in other parts of China are also being gradually destroyed.

"... Regardless of whether it is scientific or not, these red elements are destroying our Far East sphere of influence step by step, Mr. Prime Minister."

Churchill sprayed a smoke ring and said, "... Another latest news is that the Chinese red elements have completely destroyed the local government troops in Guangdong Province of China, raided into the provincial capital Guangzhou, and used force to capture the After entering the British Concession and the French Concession on Shamian Island in downtown Guangzhou, our garrison announced its surrender after a symbolic resistance-because they had only six Scottish officers and eighty Indian soldiers in total; The boat slipped away. As a precaution, the British expatriates in the Gulangyu International Settlement in Xiamen also spontaneously organized an evacuation, and retreated to Hong Kong together with the British expatriates from other parts of China... There is almost no doubt that the next battlefield will be Hong Kong... "

"...For the upcoming battle of Hong Kong, how prepared is our army? Is there any chance of winning?".Prime Minister Baldwin asked.

"...the Imperial Admiralty has mobilized a second large-scale expeditionary fleet: the aircraft carriers Hercules and Glory, the battleships Royal Oak and Revenge, as well as six cruisers and twenty-two destroyers, fifteen auxiliary ships, 22 aircraft of various types, as well as 120 army troops mainly composed of indigenous troops—for this, almost all of the empire’s property in India and Malacca was emptied...”[

Churchill replied slightly melancholy, "...as for the odds...before I learned that the Chinese Reds had atoms, I might have said 'yes' with confidence. But now...well, anyway, I Only understand one thing - England will never allow easy retreat!" (To be continued...)