Chapter 415: Painting on Wonder Woman

At the beginning of autumn, the situation in South Africa deteriorated extremely; and when Lin You arrived in Cape Town, the war had already begun.

Faced with the British Cape Town Colony's relentless pressure on the border and the British government's large-scale troop deployment from its colonies in Africa and India, the Boer governments of Transvaal and Orange decided to strike first; to reverse the absolute strategic disadvantage with a tactical victory.

As a result, a paradoxical scene appeared in history; in the Second Boer War, it was the Boers, who were in a weak position and under the threat of invasion, who took the initiative to declare war on Britain and became the party that initiated the war.

Diana was puzzled by this because she was just a soldier, not a commander, let alone a politician. On the contrary, Lin You was used to it; he used his superior strength to bully and oppress others, and then he would put the blame on them for starting the war after forcing them to resist.

The Anglo-Saxons have mastered the old skills since they were manipulating the "Continental Balance Policy". Now with the establishment of the hegemony of the British Empire, they have become more and more proficient in using these skills, and they will continue to develop them in the future.

For example, if you traffic opium to Eastern countries and dare to ban opium and drugs, you are infringing on British interests.

For example, if you give Hindu and Muslim soldiers bullet boxes coated with lard and beef tallow, you would be disobeying military orders if you don't bite them with your teeth.

As for placing troops and missiles at other people's doorsteps more than a hundred years later, using a soft knife to cut their flesh for thirty years, forcing others to resist with a hard knife, the means are exactly the same.

If you don't have some wisdom and skill, you can easily be forced into a ditch by them.

Just like the Boers in 1899.

On October 10, Transvaal and Orange declared war on Britain. On the same day, the first Boer army entered the British colonies and launched an offensive. On the 11th, the first large-scale battle broke out and the British army was defeated. On the 20th, the British lost nearly 30 people on the front line, and British troops were surrounded in Ladysmith, a frontline city.

At this time, Lin You was still in London and had just seen the joint motion of the MPs signed by Patrick Morgan. When he and Diana arrived in Cape Town, it was already the end of October, and the first batch of British reinforcements to South Africa had just arrived at the Port of Cape Town; the two pretended to be war correspondents and went to the battlefield with the army.

At the same time, the high-profile British parliamentary investigation team had just disembarked at the port of Cape Town. However, the war had already broken out, and these hard-line MPs found that there was nothing left to investigate, so they turned directly into a consolation team, urging the officers and soldiers involved in the war to fight bravely.

Lin You quietly approached Patrick Morgan to check, but found no trace of the God of Truth.

"Even if we don't find the biggest target, we can kill him first." Diana looked at Sir Morgan eager to try and almost wanted to draw her sword on the spot.

"That's meaningless, Diana." Lin You hurriedly stopped her. "Only by killing the real mastermind can we prevent similar things from happening again. Killing this impostor now will only alert the mastermind. He doesn't know that you have left Paradise Island yet."

"But he is also the culprit who started the war, at least one of them." The innocent Wonder Woman had a simple and noble idea. She sincerely believed that she could eliminate the war in front of her in a simple way. Unfortunately, the writer stopped her again.

The male protagonist Steve of the movie is a mortal. Whenever Wonder Woman acts impulsively, he can only try his best to persuade her and sweats profusely. However, the writer actually possesses power comparable to that of a real God. As long as he holds her hand or pulls her, Wonder Woman can only follow him "obediently".

As for the frowning, pouting and sulking look, Lin Youchun considered it a pleasing sight.

"Don't be angry, you are an excellent warrior, Diana; an excellent warrior must not only win the battle, but also understand the purpose of each battle." Lin You patiently persuaded; Wonder Woman, who came out early, was like a blank sheet of paper. What she would become in the future depended on what the first person to put pen to paper drew and wrote. In the movie, the male protagonist Steve was responsible for this work; he taught Diana a preliminary understanding of war and human society, and used his own sacrifice to turn her into a "female warrior" with great public responsibility. Although Lin You did not intend to die, he did not want Wonder Woman to lose the "hero" in her title.

Although the word "xia" is exclusive to the Chinese civilization circle, it does summarize the behavioral logic of these superheroes very well; the spirit of "xia" also exists widely and universally in every corner of the world and every historical period.

How should I put it? With some good publicity, it may become a universal value. It is more "popular" than the chaotic ZZZQ, right?

"Isn't our goal to prevent war?" Diana asked angrily.

Lin You agreed with this statement: "Of course; even if the war has already broken out, we can try to reduce the intensity of the war and reduce the damage and casualties of the war."

"Then why don't you let me kill him?" Diana said indignantly, "He is one of the root causes of the war. It is because of his deception and instigation with the God of Truth that this war happened."

"No, deception and incitement are only means to win wars, and they are never the causes of wars." The author popularized middle school political knowledge to Wonder Woman, "There is only one reason for the outbreak of war, and that is profit."

Having said that, Lin You looked around and pointed at the soldiers who were either marching or lining up and showed them to Diana.

"If we talk about deception, these soldiers who are about to go to the battlefield may have been deceived, and the people who were incited to war by newspapers may have also been deceived; but those who decided to start a war will not be deceived. The reason they started the war was not because they were deceived, but to gain benefits through war."

Wonder Woman was confused and bewildered. She received a traditional education in the ancient Greek mythology era, and most of what she learned was combat skills. Not to mention modern political economics, she had not even learned the extremely imperfect political theories of the classical era.

What are the causes of war in mythology? The most typical example is the war between the Amazons and Athens, which was caused by the King of Athens marrying the Amazon Queen Hippolyta; the Amazons felt that this marriage destroyed the traditional Amazon tradition and was a great offense to their tribe.

Then the war broke out, and Hippolyta was killed in it.

Why did the well-known Trojan War start? In order to snatch a woman named Helen, more than a dozen city-states formed an alliance and fought across the sea for ten years?

But pull it down!

How can such a trivial story be expected to teach Diana a correct understanding of the nature of war?

"They are fighting for interests. What interests?"

Lin You replied: "For gold. If we limit the discussion to South Africa and the original purpose of the war, I can say with certainty that they were fighting for gold. The largest gold mine in South Africa was discovered on the Boer lands, and all the conflicts initially stemmed from the struggle for control of the gold mines; later they gradually extended to trade, taxation, political rights and other aspects."

(End of this chapter)