Chaos is spreading, a general strike* broke out in the northeastern provinces of South America, and ports and railways were paralyzed. Work on the plantations came to a halt, bananas rotted on the trees, and coffee and cocoa could not be transported. In Europe, the prices of these agricultural products, which are unique to the Americas, have skyrocketed.

As a result of the great crisis of the world economy, the Spanish overthrew the king in April 303, setting another example for South Americans: a country without an emperor.

On January 16, 304, a cruise ship of the Royal Frankish Steamship Company "Normania" slowly sailed into the port of Xinyingzhou in the eastern part of the northeastern province. The ocean-going liner has a fixed route from the port of Marseille-Cádiz-Nueva Long Island (Saint-George) to the state of Xinying. This is an ocean-going fast cruise ship of the same class as the West Francian Kingdom "Bremen" cruise ship that won the Atlantic "Blue Ribbon Award" in previous years, and the port of Xinyingzhou is called Port Veracruz in Europe.

"Woo......"

The Normania sounded its long whistle and slowly docked in a small dinghy, and the ship dropped its huge anchor and slowly stopped at the berth. Ten minutes later, the giant ship lowered its gangway, and some passengers waiting on the deck began to pour onto the dock.

A tall, lanky southern European man with a well-mannered demeanor descended the gangway with the flow of people.

He had light gray eyes, thick black curly hair, and a thin chin that looked a little cold. He wears a blue-black trench coat and has a pair of Leica D35R cameras on his chest, which are often used by professional photographers.

At the customs checkpoint, he presented his passport with the words: Ušić Matt, nationality: Kingdom of West Francia, journalist of the newspaper Observer di Milano. In fact, the journalist was an agent of the South American Section of the West Frankish Security Service, whose real name was Fritz Klinger, a Croatian-born intelligence officer.

The Tang official in the customs passage looked up at the West Francian reporter in front of him.

"Is it the first time you've come to Tang Kingdom?"

"Oh no, I've been here many times, but this is the first time I've been to South America!"

Klinger nodded with a smile, and the broken German in the mouth of the Tang official in front of him made him uncomfortable to listen to, and he simply replied in Mandarin.

"Welcome to the Tang Empire!" The officer at the customs passage took the stamp and stamped an entry stamp on his passport, saying happily in Mandarin.

Klinger walked out of the dock with his suitcase in his suitcase, surveyed his surroundings with a scrutinizing gaze, and beckoned to hail a taxi. "Go to this place!" After getting into the car, he took a note from his pocket and handed it to the driver, "Via Piaggiono." ”

"Oh, it's Hengshan Road." The driver said the correct name of the street in Tang Country in his mouth.

In the vicinity of the port, skyscrapers with a mixture of Eastern and Western styles obscured the sky, and although the economy of the Tang Kingdom also fell into this unprecedented economic crisis, it did not prevent the monopoly consortiums and industrial and commercial giants of the Tang Kingdom from continuing to scramble to build new skyscrapers, not only to show off their wealth, but also to show the company's status and advertising effect.

It is the most prosperous port city in the northeastern province of South America, and it is even larger than the capital of New Tohoku Province, New Jeju.

Sitting in a taxi, Klinger looked at the somewhat unfamiliar East-West city in front of him.

In the cities of the New World, both in the past and now, all kinds of foreigners gathered, in addition to the earliest colonizers, as the rulers of the Tang Dynasty, there are also a large number of Indians, Europeans and blacks......

These cities in the New World have always been mixed places, and the government has been heavily infiltrated by liberals and churches, and spies from various countries in the intelligence agencies of the Tang State can even collect intelligence semi-openly here.

An hour later, Klinger met with Lai Chi Kang, the head of the American Youth Party's northeastern province of South America.

"Comrade Li Zhikang, you must know our mission, and while striving for the status of a legitimate political party, we must also be ready to launch an armed uprising!" Klinger first conveyed the opinions of the "leaders" in exile in Switzerland to Li Zhikang, "Not just a strike, our purpose this time is to guide an uprising, to assist you in training and establishing a 'fighting organization' to seize control of the government, overthrow and overthrow the authoritarian reactionary government, and establish a new republican regime!" ”

"Uprisings and battles?!"

Li Zhikang looked at Klinger with some surprise, he funded the American Youth Party behind the scenes, mainly to fight for a higher social status, but also to take revenge on the government. Due to the illegal introduction of a large number of European and African immigrants, the government suspended the land contracts and forcibly took back the large plantations.

This caused him to suffer a serious loss financially.

In the Tang Empire, all land was owned by the state, and the land of private plantations and farms was only "leased" in the form of contracts, and could not be privately owned for a long time like residences.

Lai Chi Kang joined the Church in his early years, made a fortune in trade with Europe, owned many industries in New Northeast Province, owned a publishing house and newspaper under his name, and was a provincial legislator, and was considered a celebrity.

However, after the "manor confiscation", he felt that his power and status were not enough, and that the top ruling group of the empire could easily let a rich man like him go bankrupt overnight.

Instead of reflecting on the fact that he had violated the laws of the empire to suffer significant property damage, he blamed the loss on his own lack of status. As a result, he became more enthusiastic about power games.

Due to the strict restrictions on the ownership of land by various sects, the restriction of the power of sects, and the prohibition of interfering in the social life of believers in the name of religious rules, the contradictions between the ruling circles of the empire and the various sects have also been long. Although there were many high-ranking officials, even the members of the imperial court were followers of the major sects.

However, when there was a conflict between the sect and the imperial court, these people sided with the ruler and immediately severed ties with the sect.

Europeans have a long history of hostility towards the Tang Empire.

The Tang Empire controlled the world's main resources and energy, especially after entering the era of the internal combustion engine, everyone suddenly found that the world's major oil producing areas were under the control of the Tang Empire, and the original barren land along the Persian Gulf coast had already been controlled by the Tang Empire.

Oil has become the largest raw material imported by European countries from the Tang Empire every year.

It seems that the price of crude oil imported by European countries from the Tang Empire is comparable to the price of Tang oil refining enterprises, but the Tang Empire has returned it to these monopoly "state-owned stock groups" through various forms of subsidies, in fact, the price of gasoline and diesel in the Tang Dynasty is only two-thirds of that of Europe.

Resources, interests, these are the root causes of hatred......