Section 476 Afterword (II)
In the twenty-sixth year of the republic (1670 in the Western calendar), Cui Erding was inaugurated as the cardinal of the diocese of East Asia in St. Peter's Basilica in Datong, which was the first time that the Holy See appointed a non-Europa as a cardinal, and it was also a major event of the East Asian Federation, Lamaism, Islam, and Protestant leaders came to congratulate each other, and there was a strange scene at the inauguration ceremony, and tens of thousands of believers of various religions sang hymns in praise of God with Cui Erding - "Republic" published an article saying: The protection of private property, citizenship and good religion are the three cornerstones of a free country, The inauguration of Fr. Choi as cardinal indicates that the federal government has worked hard to create a situation in which all religions coexist and prosper under the premise of "one God, different expressions", and the major newspapers rushed to reprint the article.
In the 28th year of the Republic (1672 AD), the English fleet raided the Dutch merchant fleet, and France then invaded the Netherlands by land, and the Third Anglo-Dutch War broke out. The new Dutch consul William III took up the burden of defending the country and led the people to bravely resist the invasion, Li Yu ended his visit to the European countries and was rushing from Moscow to Kazan, on the way to Amsterdam to assist the young consul in commanding the war, at the same time, the Federal Navy Admiral Fujiwara Toshiya led a combined fleet that was cruising off the coast of the Netherlands to reinforce the allies, and the East Asian Federation and the Dutch Republic fought side by side again.
The Dutch navy was still strong, and the 65-year-old veteran De Knight commanded the Dutch fleet to win the Battle of Texel, defeating the English fleet and fleeing, and the Confederate navy, which had grown up in the war, also annihilated the French fleet off the coast of Normandy. The East Asian Federation and the Dutch Navy controlled the sea supremacy, but the Dutch militia could not stop the powerful French army, and gradually retreated to Amsterdam after defeat, and in the second year of the war, Prince William was forced to order to dig up the Muyden seawall, on which the Dutch had relied for generations, and forced the French army back with the surging sea, and the Netherlands finally won the Great Patriotic War, but the price paid was too great, and it began to decline.
Seeing the ruins, Li Yu was grieving, extended a helping hand to his allies, wrote to the Bundestag Business Committee to propose an emergency loan to the Netherlands, and agreed to take in homeless Dutch refugees - three months after the victory in the war, Wilhelm III led the Dutch people to bid farewell to Li Yu and the Combined Fleet, as well as the more than 30,000 compatriots who had traveled with the ship to the East Asian Federation to earn a living.
In the 29th year of the Republic (1673 in the Western calendar), Wu Yingxiong, the eldest son of Wu Sangui and the big boss of the Yunnan Mining Company, was arrested for drunken murder in Shanghai. After receiving the report, Federal Minister of the Interior Yu Chenglong ordered the Inspection Department to summon Chen Yuanyuan, the concubine of Wu Sangui and the owner of the Yunnan Jewelry Company, who was discussing business in Datong.
Yu Chenglong reported to the House of Representatives: It has been found that Wu Sangui and his son and son-in-law have opened accounts in a number of banknote shops and deposited huge sums of money, and at the same time smuggled and imported machine tools, guns, ordnance, and other prohibited items produced in China, and this situation also exists in Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian. The report concludes by saying that the southern provinces encroach on our industry with low wages, extract our Asian dollars with arbitrarily issued copper banknotes, corrupt our officials with commercial interests, and that their constant military build-up far exceeds the purpose of self-defense, and undoubtedly pose a substantial threat to the East Asian federation -- Wu Sangui and others have expressed friendship while wantonly inciting the people against Datong in their borders, and the parliamentarians have long been wary of this, and after hearing the report, they were so excited that the House of Representatives urgently formed an independent investigation committee, The Senate has also begun impeachment proceedings against the Liberal government.
When the news broke, the "Republican Daily" and the "Citizen" simultaneously published articles criticizing the Liberal Party government for its tendency to transform into a Chinese dynasty, and if it is allowed to continue to govern, the East Asian Federation will surely become a paradise for corrupt elements, and the citizens of the Federation will criticize the Liberal Party. This year coincided with the general election, the Civic Party merged with the Federal Party to grow stronger, took advantage of the situation to launch a challenge, defeated the Liberal Party that had been in power for nearly 30 years, won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives for the first time, and the party's leader Zhang Zhiyao was successfully elected as the Federal Prime Minister. Sun Zhiwei, the former prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party, admitted defeat and published an article in the "Liberty Daily" saying that the Liberal Party is a glorious political party and has been able to govern for a long time thanks to the trust of the people, but the mercenary behavior of some people is disgusting, resulting in the defeat of this general election, which is the most shameful page in the history of the Liberal Party, and the party will resolutely eliminate the party members involved in the case, and deeply reflect in an attempt to revive itself.
The first thing Zhang Zhiyao did when he took office was to put forward a bill to the House of Representatives: to impose economic sanctions on Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Guangdong, Fujian and other places under dictatorship, and to prohibit trade and capital exchanges between federal trading companies or citizens with them; In the future, federal officials will be required to voluntarily declare their assets every year, and any property that cannot be proved to be of legitimate origin will be considered an improper interest – both bills passed by an absolute majority vote in the House of Representatives.
In the thirtieth year of the Republic (1674 in the Western calendar), Wu Sangui was forced to jump over the wall by economic sanctions, and under the banner of "Xingming to beg for capture", he contacted Sun Yanling in Guangxi, Shang Zhixin in Guangdong, and Geng Jingzhong in Fujian to launch a northern expedition. There was no war in the interior of the federation for decades, the standing army was less than 100,000, and there were only a small number of local defense troops to defend it, and at the beginning of the war, the southern army successfully invaded Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang.
Wu Sangui thought that he had gained power, and ordered the restoration of the Ming system and the dissolution of the parliament, and sent officials to various places to recruit troops and collect food, but unexpectedly, this order provoked a strong resistance - the officials and people in the occupied areas may not care about the East Asian Federation, but they will never give up the rights in their hands, once they see the face of tyranny, they will not hesitate to take up arms to fight, the southern army has no food to take, no soldiers to collect, and is constantly harassed by the militia, in mid-October, the attack on Yueyang was defeated, and since then it has been unable to advance north. At the beginning of the following year, Daniel Zhang, the governor of Chengdu, Yue Le, the governor of Wuchang, and Tuhai, the governor of Nanjing, led an army to launch a counteroffensive, and the governor of Shigatse, Sanji, also sent troops to threaten Yunnan.
In February of the 32nd year of the Republic (1676 Western Calendar), the governor of the capital and the governor of the left capital, Hadari, rushed to Wuchang and commanded eight towns to attack Hunan to contain the main force of the southern army, and in March, Admiral Adahai of the Western Expeditionary Army rushed to Chongqing, commanded the four towns that returned from the Rakshasa country to cooperate with Daniel Zhang to recover the whole territory of Sichuan, and then invaded Guizhou, and attacked Yunnan with Sanji, Li Dingguo, the right governor of the capital governor's mansion, rushed to the Republic City of Taiwan, commanded eight towns from Liaodong, Japan, Korea, and Ryukyu to land in Quanzhou, and swept through the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Zhixin, Sun Yanling were defeated and surrendered - the federal army was offensive, Wu Sangui felt that the end was coming, and established himself as the emperor of the Great Zhou in Hengzhou, and then withdrew and returned to Yunnan, and died in Kunming in August of that year, his grandson Wu Shifan surrendered the city, and his accomplices Fang Guangchen and Xia Guoxiang committed suicide, the Great Zhou Dynasty was wiped out, and the southern provinces fell into the hands of the East Asian Federation like ripe fruit.
In the forty-fifth year of the Republic (1689 A.D.), the people of England drove out the Catholic King James II, and the parliament decided to invite James II's daughter Princess Mary and son-in-law William III, the ruler of the Netherlands, to jointly serve as the king of England.
In the same year, there was a civil strife in the Rakshasa country, Peter Tsar put her sister Princess Sophia under house arrest on behalf of the conservative forces, and issued an edict to reform the old system, and the governor of Kazan, Li Xuan, after hearing the news, ordered the trade ambassador in the Rakshasa country to force Peter to hand over Princess Sophia, on the grounds that the Emperor Tian Khan had accepted her as a righteous daughter when he visited the Rakshasa country, and now she was treated unfairly, and the East Asian Federation must protect her safety, Peter hated it to death but did not dare to be disobedient, Princess Sophia was quickly released and went to Datong.
In the 47th year of the Republic (1691 A.D.), the East Asian Federation, the Kingdom of England, the Dutch Republic, and the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Alliance in Shanghai, which confirmed that the Kingdom of England had inviolable maritime rights, and England promised to respect and protect the maritime rights of the East Asian Federation and the Dutch Republic. This was a historic moment, the East Asian Federation and England from then on side by side in the vast ocean, joined hands to dominate the Eurasian continent, friendly alliance relations maintained for a long time, and jointly gave birth to another powerful free country - the North American Federation, but the two countries had to adopt a balance of power strategy on the Europa continent in order to protect their allies, so they carried a heavy burden, and in the next hundreds of years they successively went to war with France, Rakshasa and Germany that tried to dominate Europa, and the Dutch were able to live a happy life as a small country and a widow. Poland was also miraculously restored several times because of the Shanghai Treaty.
At this time, the Netherlands was in decline, forced to cede its maritime supremacy to England, which was advancing by leaps and bounds, and was satisfied with the protection of the two great powers, and after the Shanghai Peace Conference, they quickly negotiated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the East Asian Federation in Tianjin to give up their shares in the United Asia Company, the United Europa Company, and the United America Company to offset the loan and military debts owed over the years.
After three Anglo-Dutch wars, the Netherlands was heavily indebted and unable to repay the huge debts of tens of millions, and the federal government had to agree to the request of the Netherlands, and the three joint companies were entrusted by the federal debt and banknote banks to take over the colonial administration, and the combined fleet was incorporated into the federal navy, but retained the number and military flag as the ocean-going strike force of the East Asian Federation.
In the forty-ninth year of the Republic (1693 in the Western calendar), Li Yu passed the throne of the Holy Eastern Roman Emperor to his righteous daughter Princess Sophia, and Her Majesty then rushed to Kazan to announce the establishment of the Eastern Rakshasa Empire, and the federal army took the opportunity to climb out of the quagmire, except for a small garrison in Kazan to protect the Western Rakshasa Company, all the others withdrew to the Xinjiang province east of the Ural Mountains - a few years later, Alexei, the son of Tsar Peter, defected and took over as the Holy Eastern Roman Emperor. Desperately fighting against the Western Rakshasa Empire, the two Rakshasa dynasties fought fiercely for more than a hundred years, until the East Asian Federation and England reunited them against Napoleon in France.
In the 53rd year of the Republic (1697 in the Western calendar), Emperor Li Yu, the emperor of Tian Khan, who was recuperating in the Republic City of Taiwan, sent a letter to the House of Representatives, hoping that the Li family would withdraw from politics and no longer serve as the president of the Federation. After intense discussions, the House of Representatives held that the Li family was a symbol of the unity of the Federation and the integration of various ethnic groups, and that its status could not be easily shaken, so it passed an amendment to the Constitution: "Emperor Tian Khan, the first citizen of the Federal Republic of Datong, nominated by the Prime Minister's Office, examined by the Supreme Court and the Supreme Criminal Court, voted by the Senate and the House of Representatives to serve as the President of the Federation for life, and if he is unable to take charge of the matter due to abdication or deposition, the Vice President of the Federation and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall replace him with the functions of the President, and the President shall be elected from among the Imperial Family"—— Li Yu couldn't laugh when he saw the resolution, but he was also relieved about the future of the East Asian Federation and the Li family, and died in Republic City in August of that year at the age of 90, and his partners and opponents of the era had already passed away before him.
When the news of the emperor's death came out, the head of the Federation Li Kun quickly rushed to the Republic City to cremate his body in accordance with his grandfather's will, and buried one of his ashes in Manhan Mountain and one in the Xilamulun River. The Bundestag also made a resolution to pay tribute to the emperor with the highest rites of the federation, and at the same time announced that the federal president Li Kun would succeed him as the emperor of the Heavenly Khan.
"The revolutionary leader of the era, Prince Wilhelm I, led the Netherlands to independence, but failed to change the national situation of the small country and the widows, Cromwell could not restrain the desire for power and embarked on the road of dictatorship, and the Emperor of the Heavenly Khan united people of different races and beliefs to create the most powerful and wealthy free country in the world, but he did not care about power, and retreated on the day of success, his achievements and virtues are incomparable, and he deserves to be the greatest revolutionary leader of this era" - Gordon, "Revolutionary History of the Datong Federation".
More than 200 years later, on a bright spring morning, the grass of the Barbarian Hill Cemetery reverberated with Polish musician Chopin's "Luminous Sonata in E flat major" - the founding of the East Asian Federation has been open to countless foreign immigrants who have been ruined or persecuted by tyranny for hundreds of years, including the Dutch, Poles, Rakshasas, French, Germans, and ......, most of whom have integrated into this land and contributed their talents to this free country like the great Chopin.
This is another founding day, people from all over the country quietly lined up, one after another walked in front of a relief wall - the relief records the battle process of the East Asian Federation, the early two Kuku River Tun Battles, Yanghe War, Tuxiao River Battle, Jinlian River Battle, Balkhash Lake Battle, three Anglo-Dutch Wars...... the middle of the Trafalgar Naval Battle, Waterloo Campaign, Crimean Campaign, ......modern Jutland Sea Battle, Southern Rebellion, the capture of Moscow, the liberation of Warsaw, the capture of Berlin and other battles, It also records the three glorious retreats of the federal army from North America, East Africa, and Southeast Asia - at the end of the relief is engraved a passage from Li Huai's "Continuation of the Federation": The foundation of political power lies in civil rights, and the root of civil rights lies in freedom.
At the entrance of the cemetery is the statue of the unknown hero of the Second World War, and the three soldiers on the stone base hold the Black Eagle flag high and charge forward with steel guns in their hands, as if to remind future generations that war is not far away. On the high flagpole behind the statue are the flags of traditional allies such as the North American Federation, the British Empire, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Republic of Poland, as well as the flags of Germany, France, and other allies that later joined the "Pacific and Atlantic Cooperative Defense Alliance". A huge display screen kept scrolling to broadcast the latest news, "His Majesty Li Kuang, President of the Federation and Emperor of the Heavenly Khan, and Empress Helena arrived in London for a visit, and the British royal family led the people to warmly welcome them", "Federal Prime Minister Eiichi Fujiwara met with the North American Federal Foreign Mission", "Foreign Minister Van Wren condemned the Rakshasa provocation against Poland", "The spokesman of the Metropolitan Governor's Office announced that the Flying Tiger-400 anti-aircraft missile will be deployed in Poland", "The 32nd time Congress rejected the gun ban bill, the spokesman of the Veterans Association said that the people have guns in their hands, Only careerists dare not deprive the people of their freedom", "China's United Fleet and the Allied Navy launched a 10-day 'Operation Justice' exercise in the Black Sea", "His Royal Highness Prince Li Chen and Princess Sachiko participated in the celebration of the 360th anniversary of the founding of Datong University......
There is a group of statues erected in the cemetery, the Erji Lama sits in a wheelchair and points in front of him, Li Yu looks up into the distance, Ortai, Li Fugui, Li Huai, Batu, Namur, Yunrong are smiling and seem to be talking on the side, behind them are Zhao Ji and Du Wenhuan, who have made great military achievements, Song Tongyin and Liu Zhilun who guided the enlightenment, Liu Zongzhou and Sun Qifeng who promoted practical learning, Gao Yizhi and Wang Zheng, who introduced Western learning, Antonn Lama, Cui Erding, and Dr. Ma who innovated religion, Liu Tianren and Wang Ying, who laid the judicial system, and Li Jianji, who rejuvenated the country through industry and commerce. Sun Tingyao and Shen Shoulian, the Fifth Dalai Lama and Tulu Baihu who stabilized Tibet, Batur and Mahad who consolidated the Western Regions, Changshu and Zilharang who promoted the annexation of Manchuria, Saigo Youjiang who advocated the establishment of the East Asian Federation, Shukur and Ayuqi father and son who developed the territory east of the Ural Mountains, De Knight and Van Galen who founded the navy - a line of big characters is engraved on the stele in front of the statue "The ancestors of the founding of the country are immortal", and not far away are more than a dozen huge cement walls, It records the names of martyrs and highly decorated officials since the First Battle of Kukuhetun.
A group of children of different skin colors placed flowers in front of the torch in front of the stone monument, and then quietly lined up, and their teacher, a young woman, said slowly: "Our ancestors came from poor backgrounds, some were barbarian slaves, some were hungry and cold outcasts, some were horse thieves in the steppe, some were lowly merchants, and some were frustrated literati, they created our country in search of freedom, equality, and benevolence, which is a free land that people all over the world yearn for. Descendants of Poland, Afrikaners, Rakshasas, Germans, ......, we all love this country, because this country gives us freedom and dignity, this is our motherland, let us recite the names of our ancestors, remember their exploits, Wang Ziyong, Zhang Miaoshou, Liu Xingzuo, Man Dahai, Wuhai, Bagen, Bai Yintu, Du Hongfang, Man Zhu ......"
At this time, the cadets of the Barbarian Mountain Army Military Academy marched to the cemetery in neat uniforms, and a loud song came from the wind, "The red flag is raised under the Barbarian Mountain, and my soldiers are mighty and strong; The great marshal recuperates the people, and his comrades are in love with the army; The Great Wall desert is full of smoke and smoke, and the Jin Ge Iron Horse is in a hurry; The blood is heroic, the country is dead, and the captives have been extinguished. ”
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