Bruce is a very philosophical person. In his competition with his opponents, he is not as naive as some brainless politicians. He never believed that there would be good things like tortoise and hare racing.

And when he truly set foot on this land, Bruce became more convinced of his correctness in his judgment on the future direction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government.

Especially on May 28 last year, the destruction of the main force of General Gray's Far East Fleet at Hamkam Port made Bruce shudder.

He didn't believe the "purely misunderstanding" verb that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government explained. It was like two completely strangers who walked in broad daylight and suddenly started fighting. Of course, those who punched each other one and punched each other could be said to be "misunderstanding". But if one of them actually made a poisonous move when he did not allow the other party to react and killed the other party, could it be said to be a misunderstanding?

If there is a misunderstanding in the Box Hall incident, it is definitely not that the Red Navy of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom "accidentally injured" the main force of the entire Far East Fleet, but that the officials of the British Empire government misunderstood the actual intention of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government. Eliminating General Gray's Far East Fleet in the Box Hall is the real ambition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government.

"We love peace and always refuse war." This is a beautiful slogan that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government has been talking about all day long.

"They will not actively intervene in the war," which is exactly the fantasy of most important members of his British Empire government.

Could a government that can always use "misunderstanding" as an excuse and dare to fight at any time be a "peace-loving" and "rejecting war"?

Unfortunately, some people are willing to believe this. The poor British Empire's helmsman, even facing the sharp knife of the "box hall" that is almost about to penetrate into their hearts, is willing to swallow his anger and win over the so-called "peace period" for themselves.

Bruce felt sadly that in the face of a "rogue government" like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his British Empire was sick and not badly ill. The so-called struggle for more peace was just to find a fig leaf for himself to block his face.

Because, he had seen with his own eyes that the new Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in front of him had truly won him an extremely precious and rare nourishment period. They had begun to grow up gradually and had already left their infancy.

If what they shouted in the past, "We love peace and always refuse war" still had a lot of factors that bought ourselves time, then now, this so-called "We love peace and refuse war" has become the real smoke screen that is cast.

Bruce believed 100% that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government would be able to join the war that had swept the whole world at any time. Even if his British Empire could tolerate it, even if his British Empire gave up the great opportunity to enter the French mainland in order not to provoke this "strong gangster", and fundamentally resolved the war in Europe in one fell swoop. However, as long as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government felt that the time was ripe, they would immediately find a hundred reasons and snatch the guns and cannons that had already been aimed at him.

"...We should not start this war (referring to the war between the Allies and the Allies led by Britain and France). Because the facts will soon tell us that we have chosen the wrong object of the war..."

As soon as the war broke out, in his letter to his Queen and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, Bruce once lamented this way, because in his vision, the person worthy of the British Empire's efforts to eliminate it first was definitely not the French III, who had a very problematic IV, but the "rogue leaders" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government.

Unfortunately, after all, he is still a slight person. Even if he shouts, he cannot turn around the world.

Bruce had to do his best.

He racked his brains to learn more about the latest developments of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government's army and navy, and for this reason he did not hesitate to ask for a large amount of "special funding" in the embassy budget for his imperial government.

There is no way, because although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government has been shouting all day long to give everyone the same freedom to live. However, as long as he and his subordinates walk out of the embassy gate, not only will there be countless eyes staring at them, but they will also encounter "extremely unfair courtesy" of one kind or another. To put it bluntly, the things they don't want to see, such as which market is becoming more and more lively, such as where the grain and vegetables have been produced, such as where there are new factories preparing to lay the foundation, etc., can still be seen casually. However, once they really want to see and hear, they will immediately be unable to see or hear the same.

Therefore, in order to satisfy his "curiosity" and "curiosity", in addition to continuing to work hard in the course of cutting newspapers, Bruce can only make plans on some so-called "Chinese friends". Of course, if he takes this path without money, it will never work.

But unfortunately, I am anxious when I have no money, and after I have money, I am even more anxious.

Because his imperial government allocated a considerable amount of "special funds" he had every year, it was really hard to spend.

Of course, not one person is willing to come to receive such "unexpected fortune". However, in this strange country, people who want to do such work are not as many as Bruce had imagined before. Even if he and his subordinates went through a lot of trouble, they found only a handful of brave people, and they were as happy as they were when they received the money, and they were even more happy to capsize. In the end, even he himself felt a little confused. Could it be that the brave collaborators he had worked hard to find were simply colluding with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government in advance, just to cheat him of his money for spending?

But Bruce was not the kind of person who feared difficulties. He still unyieldingly performed his duties and made his best efforts for his British Empire.

By cutting newspapers and various channels, plus "hearsalism", and after his comprehensive analysis, he finally got this understanding of the current land power of Taiping Tian** team:

In order to achieve the so-called goal of simplifying military and streamlining government, since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government claimed that it began to disarmament, nearly half of the war-capable soldiers have been converted into quasi-military agricultural reclamation troops. Although the total size of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army seems to have exceeded 2 million on the surface, more than 60% of them are occupied by engineers specializing in various basic construction projects. Although the world is now full of war, its truly field-capable army has not increased compared to the past. The direction of its heavy troops is mainly concentrated in the north and southwest...
Chapter completed!