"The royal cruise ship she was on arrived in "Rio de Janeiro" under the escort of the battleship "Indomitable", and the moment she arrived at the port, it was like the brightest star in the world......

A few days earlier, Queen Victoria, who had just arrived in Rio de Janeiro, was beaming with joy while her husband, Prince Albert, sat beside him. Escorted by a troop of cavalry, they drove 70 kilometers north of Rio to the imperial city of Petropoli, known as the summer capital of the Brazilian Empire, where they were to stay at the Palace of Kitandinia.

The carriage was built in London for the arrival of Queen Victoria. When the scarlet-shirted guards arrived at the palatial red-carpeted staircase, the trumpeters of the Royal Scottish Marines who were waiting there played a harsh and powerful welcome song to welcome the Queen.

At the Palace of Chitandinia, aristocrats and celebrities from all over Brazil saluted the queen respectfully, and they were now subjects of the queen, not of the abdicated Pedro II.

Palmerston, who had just stepped down as governor of Brazil, looked grim and stood at the head of the stairs with a gloomy face to welcome the arrival of the queen. Two years ago, after the signing of the peace treaty in Amsterdam, when Palmerston was being debated in the British House of Lords, he had already set his sights on South America, to Brazil. Under the pretext of the "Paraguayan War", British expatriates were killed and property was threatened, the Brazilian Empire was threatened, and slavery in Brazil was criticized.

Originally, everyone thought that diplomatic mediation would solve the problem, but surprisingly, even when Pedro II expressed his willingness to compensate for the damage, the British still launched an expedition to Brazil, and what was even more surprising was that the Chinese fleet actually participated in the shelling of Rio.

The resistance of the Brazilian Empire was soon broken, and after the landing of 50,000 British troops from Rio, half a year later, after the British accepted the terms of their return to Portugal after surrender, Pedro II agreed to surrender and abdicate. It was also from that time that Brazil became a British colony. The impeached Palmerston was unexpectedly appointed by the Queen as the first Governor of Brazil.

The Governor, who had regained a vast colony for Britain after losing almost all of its colonies, looked a little depressed at this time, certainly not because of the arrival of the Queen, nor because he stepped down from the Governorship. In fact, as Viceroy of Brazil, Palmerston knew very well that his mission had been accomplished - as Viceroy of Brazil, he succeeded in pacifying the nobles of the Brazilian Empire, making them swear allegiance to the British, and ending the "Paraguayan War" by annexing Paraguay to the Brazilian colony, and all he seemed to be depressed about was that the Queen had rejected his suggestion of a march on Argentina.

After meeting the Queen, Palmerston followed her straight to the palace's teak gates, ready to brief her on a number of thorny questions he had left behind, as the British conquest of Brazil had only just begun.

"Your Highness, I am very sad that I can no longer serve you."

Palmerston lamented in a mournful tone.

"Viscount Palmerston, Britain thanks you for your service over the years."

Queen Victoria asked calmly:

"After this, are you going to stay in Brazil, or are you going to return to London?"

"Your Highness, I have decided to stay in Brazil, after all, Ireland is no longer the territory of Britain." Palmerston's expression was a little lost, as the third Viscount of Palmerston, his fiefdom was in Ireland, and now, it has become another country. Then he explained.

"Your Highness, you must know that for Britain now, if Britain does not want to be reduced to a second-rate country, then Britain must think about the future, how to integrate Britain and Brazil into one, and only in this way can the decline of Britain be avoided, Your Highness. Your mission is difficult, but the future of Britain is at stake, and if we lose Brazil, we will lose everything. ”

Palmerston then recounts at a leisurely pace the efforts he had made over the past year and a half, including the pacification of the Brazilian aristocracy and, of course, the adjustment of the Brazilian economic system to serve the needs of British industry as a source of raw material for England.

It was also under his impetus that Brazil's cotton, tobacco, cocoa beans, coffee, and rubber exports proliferated, which also allowed Britain to avoid the decline of the colonial past.

He then stood up and walked over to open the safe. The safe contains two items that he will hand over to Her Royal Highness, an archival document of the plan of action for the future of Britain. The document includes a solution proposed by the former governor of Brazil to promote the development of the United Kingdom. He sighed as he placed the file on his desk.

"The document is so named because it does relate to Britain."

Palmerston further explained:

"Unfortunately, it will take decades for this to happen."

According to the document's predetermined plan, the British will continue to emigrate to Brazil, not only ordinary commoners, but also many nobles, especially those Irish nobles who have lost their fiefdoms, through the re-canonization of those nobles, to settle them in Brazil, and finally, more and more British immigrants will change Brazil, in short, the British will become the mainstream of Brazil in a few decades. According to Palmerston's estimates, if the British had maintained a rate of 100,000 immigrants a year, Brazil would have become another Scotland in forty years.

"It's a long way to go, but I think it's also the only way out for Britain."

Palmerston finally emphasized.

"Now the world has changed radically, the colonial era is over, if Britain is not able to turn Brazil into another Scotland, then, one day, Britain is destined to lose Brazil as a colony, Your Highness!"

He picked up the dossier and handed it to Queen Victoria with a dejected expression.

"Your Highness, as a person who has witnessed Britain's previous failures and is responsible for it, I am miserable in my heart, but I am also full of hope for the future, because this is all I have handed over to you, and this is the future of Britain."

After saying this, Palmerston bowed deeply at Queen Victoria.

"Your Majesty, allow me to congratulate you in advance, Your Majesty the Empress!"

"Thank you, Viscount Palmerston, Britain appreciates everything you have done......"

Queen Victoria's tone was still very calm, she was well aware of the importance of Britain and Brazil, and it was for this reason that she agreed to re-canonize the landless nobles in Brazil. And this time she came to Brazil to accept the crown of the Emperor of the Brazilian Empire.

Not only because of the Chinese Empire, the French Empire, and the Russian Empire, which are all empires today, but also because she needs to appease the Brazilian aristocracy, and to convince the Brazilian nobility that Brazil will only be more glorious under British rule, and of course she is also their emperor, not just the queen of Britain.

On February 19, 1865, a new chapter in history was opened, and on this day, the entire imperial city of Petropoli was preparing for the upcoming enthronement ceremony, and hundreds of thousands of nobles, merchants and commoners from all over Brazil gathered here to witness this unprecedented event.

This is different from the "desperate move" half a century ago, when the Bragança dynasty of Portugal fled to Brazil, making Brazil a kingdom and changing the name of the country to "United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarve". Today, here, the crown of the Brazilian Empire will be awarded to a woman from across the ocean - Queen Victoria of Britain, and Queen Victoria, who is about to be crowned Emperor of Brazil, is quietly wearing a heavy white robe, she looks at herself in the mirror, and the mirror reflects a majestic and dignified image, Queen Victoria instantly feels as if she has entered a new world.

This new world was not what she wanted, just as she had been suffering two years ago when she had lost the vast empire that her ancestors had built for more than two hundred years, and she was faced with a choice between accepting peace or waiting for the final invasion of Britain by the Franco-Chinese and Russian forces.

Eventually, she made a painful choice.

Is this the right choice?

During the negotiations in Amsterdam, Britain eventually lost almost all of its colonies, despite China's covert release, and overnight, Britain was completely reduced to a second-rate European country, and was no longer the king that once made the whole of Europe look at it.

For all this, Victoria, of course, would not accept it, but she had to accept defeat. Unable to bear the fact that Britain was reduced to a second-rate country, she chose to support Palmerston and support his judgment on the future of the world - the arrival of a new imperial era, any powerful country must have a huge colony in order to stand tall in the world, otherwise it will inevitably become a third-rate country like the Netherlands and Belgium!

Palmerston made the right choice, the Brazilian Empire had little power to stop the British attack, but it took only a few months for Pedro II to abdicate and surrender. Britain, having lost its colony, gained another fertile and fertile colony, but it would no longer be a colony, and eventually, it would become another Scotland, a Scotland on the other side of the ocean.

And now, as the Queen of Britain, she will also take over the crown of the Brazilian Empire and become the emperor of the Brazilian Empire, adding another title to the title of the British royal family.

But, is this really the future of Britain?

A knock interrupted Victoria's reverie. It was Prince Albert who came in, smiling at his bejeweled wife, and looking at Victoria, who was wearing a silver-white dress inlaid with gold and silver filigree.

"Honey, you're so beautiful today!"

"Thank you, dear."

Queen Victoria replied with a smile, and she looked at Albert and suddenly expressed her concern.

"Albert, do you think, Britain, can get out of the predicament at hand?"

The predicament she was referring to was, of course, the decline of Britain's power, and the serious decline of Britain's international influence after the loss of its colonies.

"Honey, you know, I shouldn't have made any comments, maybe you should ask the other ministers."

Albert said cautiously.

"Honey, it's just a conversation between the two of us."

Her husband's caution made Victoria smile.

"I think, perhaps, Britain has come out of the woods, I read in the newspapers that last year, British exports have returned to pre-war levels, maybe the Chinese, the Russians, the French they won the war, but they do not have the ability to control the market, they have to accept the reality that in their colonies, British goods are still popular, and people in the colonies are still inseparable from British goods......"

Prince Albert is telling an ironclad fact, especially in the colonies controlled by Russia, Russia's backward industry is simply impossible to provide enough goods for the consumption of the colonies, and millions of pounds of British-made goods are pouring into the Delhi Viceroyalty and the Persian Viceroyalty, and even China, not only China's African colonies need British goods, but also their own homeland, and even compared with the pre-war period, their imports have not only not decreased, but have further increased.

Britain's economy and industry have not declined, or show no signs of declining, as a result of the loss of colonies, and Brazil is now becoming a supplier of raw materials to Britain.

"I think everything is going in a good direction......

Victoria's brow did not loosen as her husband's words fell, and she looked in the mirror and said in a deep voice.

"But...... Who will remember the glory that Britain once had? ”

Maybe everything is going in a good direction, but for Britain, Britain's former glory has long been lost. Even the reason why she opposed the expansion into Argentina was not because she was unwilling, for Britain, Britain also needed that pasture, but the refusal of the Chinese forced her to choose to temporarily abandon her ambitions there.

"No, my dear, I believe that under your rule, England will surely regain its glory to Britain!"

Albert gently shook his wife's hand, comforting her, trying to make her relax, and at this moment, there was a knock on the door of the attendant outside, and then the voice of the attendant.

"Your Highness, the ceremony has begun......"

The voice outside the door made Albert look at Victoria and say.

"My dear, today is yours, and you want the whole world to see the heroic appearance of Her Majesty the Empress of the Empire of Great Britain and Brazil......"

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