Walking through Piazza Modero and into the Royal Palace of El Salvador, Ebel sits in a random place in the empty hall and waits patiently for the arrival of the palace owner.

The palace was quiet, and the chairs where hundreds of people used to sit together were empty only a dozen people.

Count Loreto, Minister of the Imperial Treasury (Promoted from Baron to Count in 1879 for his meritorious service to Princess Isabella. ), Marshal García, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Army (Duke of Akaju. ), Duke Frobert, Prime Minister of the Reich (Prime Minister)

Commander of the Imperial Navy, Count de Au, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire, Baron Marcos, and Bishop of the Imperial Diocese, Antonio Ferrou......

Although the number of people seated in the palace is small, each of them is a high-ranking figure within the Brazilian Empire.

Seeing a group of dignitaries of the empire gathered at the Royal Palace of Saldóba, Ebel realized the peculiarity of this meeting, and temporarily resisted the urge to advise Empress Isabella and continued to sit upright.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

More than ten minutes later, with a powerful roll call, Empress Isabella and her imperial husband, Duke Iyu, dressed in a crown and a gorgeous white dress, sat side by side on the throne under the gaze of everyone.

"I have called you here today because there are several important things that need to be discussed and decided together."

Empress Isabella spoke: "The first thing is the final disposal of the people involved in the rebellion, according to the recent reaction of Marshal Garcia and several generals in various states, the total number of people directly involved in the rebellion and suspected of providing material support to the rebel forces exceeds 200,000, and more than 200,000 people have been detained or isolated, which is not a solution, so in the end, how to properly solve the problem of the management and resettlement of the rebel blacks, it is still necessary to come up with a safe plan as soon as possible." ”

After Empress Isabella finished speaking, she subconsciously turned her eyes to the most senior Duke Frobert, hoping to gain the support of the other party.

"Ten years ago, the rebel armed activities swept through more than a dozen states in the north-central part of the empire, and at present, the eight and a half states in the central coastal region under the direct control of the empire have all experienced the destruction of the rebel forces."

Duke Frobert briefly described the area involved in the rebellion, and continued: "The armed rebellion is dominated by native blacks, and of course, many native whites, Indians, and mixed-race groups have joined the rebellion, and after the rebellion broke out, witnessing the economic and political damage caused by the rebel forces to the empire, some local commanders inevitably made some radical moves, and some residents who sympathized with the rebel forces or were considered to be allies of the rebel forces because of their skin color, were concentrated and isolated.

During the war, it is understandable that local officers would take such radical actions in order to ensure that the counterinsurgency war ended as soon as possible, but now that the war is over, the immediate task of the Imperial Government should be to repair the wounds of the war and to coordinate the development of the economy and the lives of the people who have been stagnant as a result of the war.

Therefore, I believe that the principle of leniency should be adhered to in the principle of leniency for the more than 200,000 people who have been held in centralized detention and isolation, and a number of armed personnel who have committed less serious war crimes should be executed, and a number of armed personnel who have committed less serious crimes should be imprisoned, and then, in the name of His Majesty, the remaining those who have participated in the insurgency to a lesser extent or who have not been directly involved in the insurgency should be pardoned. ”

"In the area controlled by the empire, the number of blacks and mixed-race blacks is four times that of whites, and the forcible execution of all rebel blacks may arouse the dissatisfaction of local blacks, but only some of the rebels who have committed serious war crimes will be executed, and all other rebel fighters will be treated leniently.

Duke Forbert retired from the military and served as the prime minister of the Brazilian Empire, from the perspective of Duke Forrobert, executing the chief evil, leniency with the remaining rebels, and stabilizing and bridging the conflicts and hatred between various ethnic groups within the Brazilian Empire as soon as possible is the safest way to solve the problems left over from the counterinsurgency war, but, from the perspective of a senior general, Marshal Garcia, even if he understood that the starting point of the other party's proposal was for the sake of the Brazilian Empire, did not think that Duke Frobert's proposal could spare the army and be implemented.

When the Brazilian Civil War broke out, Princess Isabella was able to restore and retain the territory of eight and a half states in the central coastal region, although there was the support of the upper aristocratic class such as Duke Forbert and Marshal Garcia, but it was the young Zhuang officers led by Ebel who played a decisive role.

In the original history, the Captain's faction, which was disappointed in the Brazilian Emperor, was co-opted by the Republicans and became a vital military force to overthrow the Brazilian Empire, and the unexpected rise of the Han State and the diffusion of the Han Dynasty's military and political ideology influenced a group of radical members of the Captain's faction, and it was this group of officers who accepted the new military and political ideas that separated from the Captain's faction and became followers of the monarchy's constitution and military and political thoughts, and then when the Brazilian Civil War broke out, Using the military power at their disposal, Princess Isabella was put on the throne of the Empress.

As a traditional soldier of the same age as Duke Frobert, Marshal García, after gradually coming into contact with and understanding the ideas of Ebel and others, although he had reservations about their radical ideas, but in the face of multiple threats from within and outside the Brazilian Empire, as well as the fact that the Han State in South America was growing and rising step by step, he also had to admit that the constitutional and military system advocated by the Young Zhuang faction was a risky road, and it was also the most effective way to reverse the decline of the Brazilian Empire at present.

Acquiescing to the Shaozhuang faction's idea of national salvation and gradually transferring the power of the imperial army to Ebel, Marshal Garcia, while leaning towards the Shaozhuang faction, is also trying his best to exert his residual enthusiasm to bridge the differences and contradictions between the military and political forces of the Shaozhuang faction and the imperial political forces.

"After the end of the counterinsurgency war, it is very important to restore the empire's native economy, but it is also necessary to punish the armed personnel who participated in the rebellion and give them the punishment they deserve, otherwise, the victory achieved by the empire in mobilizing tens of thousands of troops and lasting nearly ten years is likely to be due to the relatively light degree of punishment, which cannot leave a profound lesson and alert to those who participated in the rebellion, nor can it give a reasonable explanation to those imperial soldiers who fought on the front line and sacrificed their blood."

Marshal Garcia was the commander-in-chief of the army, and his words represented the opinions of many officers of the army, and Duke Forbert could not ignore his opinions and force his own opinions.

"What should be done with the 70,000 armed men directly involved in the rebellion and the 160,000 persons who are indirectly or suspected of being indirectly or suspected?"

"The War Department has come up with a preliminary plan for how to deal with the rebels."

Marshal Garcia waited for Duke Frobert's concession, the expression on his face softened a little, and then said: "General Ebel, please take the place of the Imperial Army, and introduce to Your Majesty, Duke Iyu, and all the dignitaries of the Empire who are doing it, the plan for counterinsurgency and aftermath drawn up by the Imperial Army. ”

"Yes, Marshal."

Ebel stood up, first saluted Empress Isabella and Duke Iyu, then stood up straight, and said in a respectful tone: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty Duke Iyu." And those of you who are here talk about the final disposition of the rebel fighters without bypassing the early slave trade.

Before the abolition of the slave trade, three of the five large slave trading centers in the country were controlled by the empire, namely El Salva, which ranked first in size, Recife in second, and Marseillo in fifth.

The number of blacks entering the territory through the three major slave trading centers accounted for about 50 percent of the annual black imports, so that after the outbreak of the local civil war, the proportion of blacks in the areas controlled by the empire was about twice as high as in the areas occupied by republican rebels in the south. "Peerless Tang Gate fo

After a rough introduction to the differences in the proportion of ethnic groups in the north and south of Brazil, Ebel continued: "There is a huge disparity between the total number of blacks and the proportion of blacks and whites in the areas controlled by the empire and the south, and the republican rebels may be able to temporarily stabilize the situation in the areas under their control by adopting a policy of co-opting and conniving at the black rebels, but the number of blacks and non-whites in the areas under the control of the empire is more than four times that of whites, and if the necessary punishment for the rebels is abandoned for the sake of short-term economic effects, then when the empire is again facing an external crisis, Especially when the southern republican rebels launched an attack on the reich-controlled areas under the guise of equal rights for blacks and whites, would those bastards who had participated in the rebellion and intended to split the country be grateful for the tolerance and gift of the imperial government and assist the imperial army in resisting the attack of the southern republican rebels? ”

"I'm afraid not!"

Without waiting for someone else to respond, Ebel himself gave the answer.

"Of course, I have never doubted the loyalty of His Excellency the Prime Minister to the empire and the imperial family, but judging from the fact that since His Majesty Pedro I led his Brazilian subjects to establish the Brazilian Empire, the non-white ethnic groups have stubbornly carried out one armed rebellion after another aimed at dividing the empire, even if they are given greater tolerance and mercy, they will not be rewarded with gratitude and loyalty to the empire and Her Majesty the Empress!"

Ebel progressed step by step, leading to his own assertion, and in the face of Ebel's righteous speech, the other officials, including the Duke of Frobert, did not interrupt his speech, and of course, no one cooperated.

"It is very unrealistic to put to death all the more than 200,000 blacks who participated in the rebellion and are suspected of participating in the rebellion, but it is disloyal to the empire to keep them in the area under the control of the empire and sit back and watch their potential harm to the empire!

Therefore, the only way to effectively imitate the former enemies of the empire and move all the blacks who participated in the rebellion and the blacks who may participate in the rebellion out of the country is the most suitable solution! ”

Seeing this, Ebel foreshadowed and spoke a lot of words, and finally led to a final plan for the disposition of those involved in the rebellion.

Hearing Ebel's ultimate intentions, Duke Frobert had a look of disappointment on his face.

The idea of where to come from, where to go, and to send blacks back to their native Africa, is not without precedent.

Before the Civil War, there was also the idea of repatriating blacks in the United States, and a group of civil society activists spontaneously raised funds to implement the repatriation plan, but because they did not have the support of the U.S. government, the repatriation plan eventually failed after more than 20 years of implementation.

Similar to the situation faced by the United States at the beginning, even because the number of blacks in the area controlled by the Brazilian Empire was too large, the difficulty faced by the Brazilian Imperial Government in implementing the black repatriation plan was ten times greater than that of the United States.

Duke Frobert did not believe that Ebel did not see the difficulty of the repatriation plan for the Negroes, so he asked the order: "The Negroes have lived in the empire for hundreds of years, and most of them are considered to be legitimate nationals of the Brazilian Empire.

Taking a step back, even without considering whether the Empire had the financial strength to support the huge cost of repatriating more than 200,000 men, or what the remaining blacks in the control area really thought of the plan,

Will the Empire be able to solve all the difficult problems involved in carrying out this operation itself? ”

"The marshal and the Imperial General Staff Headquarters have deduced and responded to every scenario that may arise in the repatriation plan. Your Excellency the Prime Minister's concerns are also part of our response plan. ”

With a basic respect on his face, Ebel explained: "The possible obstacles to the implementation of the repatriation plan come mainly from both internal and external aspects of the empire,

Internally, after the end of the counterinsurgency war, a small number of blacks, Indians, and mulattos were no longer capable of launching attacks on the core control areas of the empire.

External aspects of the empire,

First, judging from the experience of the United States in implementing the Chinese Exclusion Act and the relocation of blacks from the Han control area to Africa, the European powers and the United States will not really intervene to hinder the implementation of the repatriation plan.

Second, I would like to emphasize to you that the repatriation program does not necessarily cost the Imperial Government valuable revenues, and it is not impossible to offset the cost of the repatriation program by selling more than 200,000 blacks to plantation owners in the Portuguese African colonies in the name of dispatched labor. (At this time, the Brazilian royal family and the Portuguese royal family were one family, and Empress Isabella of Brazil came forward to contact the Portuguese government to discuss the repatriation plan of the black people, which was more operable.) ）

Third, after the completion of the first batch of more than 200,000 black people, the young black forces that constituted the rebel forces were further weakened, the imperial government's control over all parts of the controlled area was further strengthened, social order was improved, and the available land was increased. ”

Responding to Duke Frobert's questions and explaining the beneficial impact of the repatriation of blacks on the resumption of European immigration, Ebel ended his speech and stood silently waiting for a response from the people in the palace.

The implementation of the repatriation plan is a risky move, and if it is not careful, it may plunge the Brazilian Empire, which has just ended the war, into turmoil again, and like Duke Frobert, there are many officials who are worried that the repatriation plan is too risky, and after Duke Frobert, several people have raised their concerns and opinions.

Marshal Garcia and Ebel knew that it would not be easy to convince the old-fashioned officials within the empire to accept their proposal, so they prepared for it before they could formally present it.

The back and forth of questions and explanations lasted for more than an hour, and when Duke Frobert learned from Ebel's repeated additions that the so-called plan to repatriate the negroes was not a decision made on the impromptu rise of the army, he finally gave up his opinion and reluctantly passed Ebel's proposal.

The black repatriation plan was successfully passed, and Ebel's face was filled with a smile of satisfaction.

You must know that from planning the relocation of blacks in the controlled area to the adoption of the repatriation plan today, Ebel and many young Zhuang officers spent nearly ten years.

During the counterinsurgency war, under the pretext of quelling the rebellion, the black ethnic groups in the gathering areas were centrally managed and imprisoned, and the scope of the counterinsurgency was deliberately expanded.

The deportation of more than 200,000 black people who participated in or were found to have participated in the rebellion was the first step, and after the successful repatriation plan, there was a second and third group...... Blacks who have been repatriated for a variety of reasons.