This makes the rulers of each country more dependent on the support of the Empire, which can turn the region into an autonomous republic at any time if the Empire is not satisfied with a lord such as a king or marquis. The new Low Countries consisted of the Dutch, Zeeland, Flanders, Gerdland, Friesland, Groningen, Drentheb, and Brabant. Flanders, who originally belonged to France, reneged on his feudal oath and joined the Republic of the Netherlands as a successful case of small cost and accession. After joining the Netherlands, this wealthy country with a wool textile civilization had only one vote in the republic's parliament, like other provinces, but there was no co-ruler on it, and the aristocratic republic composed of eight states belonged to the new form of collective leadership.

The main power is in the hands of the sub-level, with a large number of viscounts and barons, grand knights and puppets of the empire, and the presidents of various chambers of commerce forming a joint council, which is composed of more than 3,000 people. All the cities were also controlled by city councils united by aristocrats and wealthy merchants from each district. The national parliament is held once a year by representatives of the various districts and municipalities to formulate and revise laws, update policies and formulate national policies. The eight lords are rubber stamps in name, and every year there is a big lord with a stamp, who appears once a year, and they act as mascots just like the presidents of the EU presidency.

This regime, which was entirely dominated by the new aristocracy and bourgeoisie, took its mercenary efforts to the extreme, not only by making the same mercantilist measures as in the old Dutch Republic (the government guaranteed the East India Company stocks and bonds). The opening of various exchanges, the establishment of a banking system) and the privatization of all the industries of the republic. Even the planned coastal defense levees were contracted to the Imperial Western Construction Company.

When the empire led the puppets to overthrow the Papal States, the euro-wide tithes were abolished. But the pockets of the abbots and bishops who owned estates and vineyards everywhere did not shrink, but became richer as they turned to the empire. Instead, the sacred churches became the bridgeheads of the imperial cultural import, and the Bibles, classics, mythological stories, and various stationery and technical books printed in Chinese and Latin were the exclusive items of the churches. Schools and religious universities also became the main sources of funding for imperial aid because of the Chinese language classes. Is making money the fundamental reason why elites of all classes break their heads and squeeze into the transformed European upper class? Obviously not, the fundamental reason is to improve the standard of living and meet the higher spiritual needs. The productive forces of the old era could only meet the basic material needs of a very small number of top nobles and clergy (food, clothing, shelter, and transportation), and the more advanced ones were basically the same (health care, education, art, cultural consumption), and this field, which was not comparable to the powerful soft power of the empire, was the basis for Europe's complete fall to the East.

The church and the remnants of the Holy See soon became a showcase of the empire's civilization (only priests and nuns were literate), and theaters, art exhibitions, university cultural salons, literacy classes, barefoot doctors' outlets in the countryside, and even cooperatives that had been handed over to agents in various regions gave a share to the church. This policy of cultivating pro-China personalities from the grassroots level is also one of the national policies of foreign affairs. At the very least, it is a culture that works. This continuous infiltration will naturally change from quantitative to qualitative, and many new Europa scholars realized the selflessness and strength of the empire, and in order to catch up with all backward countries, the way to seek prosperity and strength for the country and the people has become the consensus of many people of insight. The three pillars of the empire in Europe were the puppet church, the puppet military aristocracy, and the puppet chamber of commerce.

A large number of Europa elites and knowledgeable young people have traveled thousands of miles. Coming to China to study is an act that is very much in line with the law of human historical development. It is very beneficial to both private and public, which can not only improve the status of individuals and families in all fields, but also meet the needs of collective and national progress. If you gain fame and fortune, you will not have any patriotic stance and comprador inferiority. This can greatly increase the quantity and quality of the three puppet classes.

Just like after the Opium War, ministers like Lin Zexu realized that the world had changed, and the nation-state would inevitably usher in a huge impact. The Great Reshuffle is inevitable as it is. There are also a lot of smart people in Europe. As long as the empire did not have the same excessive demands and land ambitions as Europe did with the Qing Dynasty, it would not have provoked an anti-imperialist movement. The idea of win-win unity is the ideological core of all walks of life at home and abroad.

When Europe's upper echelons of thought were bought off financially and spiritually by the Empire, European resistance could naturally be ignored. The agent Consilio and the great monarchs of the original history quickly became the real monarchs of the centralized power of the Age of Enlightenment after annexing dozens or hundreds of small and medium-sized lords. If you don't look at the leased lands, military bases, allied free zones, and allied headquarters of the Emperor Taishang in Europe (similar to the relationship between the United States and South Korea), the countries are almost no different from the countries of the Enlightenment era in the old time and space.

Western Europe has always had a head start in terms of engagement with the outside world, while Northern and Eastern Europe has been slow to make progress. Poland and the vast Eastern European Plain, in particular, have hardly changed since the Empire appeared on Europa, and the Slavs have not advanced even as much as the Sámi and Vikings of Northern Europe, let alone their distant relatives in Western, Central, and Southern Europe.

Hungary, founded by the descendants of the Huns, was also incorporated into Eastern Rome. Eastern Rome seemed to have regained its former glory, clinging to the thighs of the empire before it was ravaged by the Crusades. It can be said that it was the first snake to leave Europe and enter Asia, and naturally got the greatest benefits from the strong dragon. Not only did it obtain the scale of arms loans and the number of underwritten national bonds second only to the Kingdom of Solomon, but also obtained the protection of the imperial garrison through a series of "traitor" treaties, vigorously aided the construction and technological openness, and greatly improved the regional deterrence and comprehensive strength of Eastern Rome. Soon, the modern army, which had matured under the leadership of the Empire's instructors, helped the Eastern Romans to get rid of many of the problems left over from the past. Serbia, Wallachia, Bulgaria, Moravia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Galicia were 'recovered', and the northern borders were extended to borders with Poland and Lithuania, and to the northwest with Austria, Styria, and Carinthia in the Kingdom of Germany. The East and the Seljuks divided the Anatolian Plateau and Asia Minor equally, consolidated their rule over Cyprus and Greece, captured the Crimean peninsula and the eastern coastal areas of the Black Sea, and almost turned the Black Sea into its own 'inner lake'.

The Kingdom of Germany also unified the Holy Roman Empire and even the territories of several surrounding princely principalities, including Burgundy, Herstein, Austria, Luxembourg, Hesse, Bavaria, Switzerland, Bohemia, Silesia, Pomerania, Hanover, Brandenburg, Cologne, Bremen, Tours, Verdun, Frankfurt, Baden-Baden, Saxony, Lorraine, and Alsace, all of which were united by the new King Maximilian who hugged the thigh of the empire. As for whether the Prussian region near Königsberg or the land belonging to Poland had nothing to do with this new Germany.

Let's take a look at the three ancient states founded by the Vikings of Northern Europe. In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings, the three fighting nations of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, were plagued by the Magyars, descendants of the Arabs and the Huns. Unlike the Magyars and Muslim jihadist pioneers, the Vikings were both raiders and colonizers. When Norwegians discovered islands in the North Atlantic Ocean that resembled their homeland (Iceland, Greenland, Macran, Newfoundland, Bafinland, etc.), many wanted to cross the sea in search of a better life. Although the Danes had southern Sweden as a place of expansion, they also settled across the sea, and naturally the direction was better and richer than Scandinavia's Western Europe and Britannia. Many of the leaders of the Norwegian and Danish expeditions were forced to leave their homeland, and most of them were members of the royal family who had been exiled for crime or had failed to compete for the throne in order to make a name for themselves in the West. Not only did these men loot monasteries and cities, but they also established bases and supply points on their way deep into the interior and in the middle and upper reaches of the rivers. Many of the bases have been turned into permanent settlements. Sweden was mainly expanding eastward, crossing the Baltic Sea in search of markets and land. The southern Muslim traders in the Burga market in the middle reaches of the Volga eagerly sought out the furs and slaves that the Swedes and other nationalities had acquired in the northern woods of Rus'. Due to their small numbers and cultural backwardness, the Swedish colonists were soon Slavized. (To be continued.) )u