Chapter 1529: The Beginning of the End

It is not allowed to be tampered with, oh, it is the wheel of history that cannot be tampered with by others, and the years flow quietly year after year. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn the blink of an eye, more than 2o years have passed in a hurry, and the 19th century, the century of the fastest development and most drastic changes in human history, will come to an end. And a new century and a new era are coming.

December 26, 1899.

At the entrance of the Queen Mathilde Hospital in Mexico City, a convoy drove over as if flying. Not a horse-drawn carriage, but a rumbling car". The first was a truck full of serious-looking soldiers in the blue uniforms of the King of Mexico's Guard. It was followed by a large ambulance. Behind the ambulance is a Tianma car produced by the Continental Automobile Manufacturing Company, with a canvas awning, and on the back seat of the car sits a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the marshal of the Roman Empire. A Queen's Guard officer, also of yellow and white descent, stood on the pedal of the Continental truck at the front and shouted in Spanish: "Get out of the way!" Get out of the way! ”

As the motorcade passed a few blocks in the center of Mexico City, the pedestrians on the road stopped, drew crosses on their chests, and threw sad glances at the ambulance. A whole carload of guards opened the way in front, and the patient on this ambulance was the former queen of the Mexican people, Caesar of the Western Roman Empire, who was already over eighty years old! More than a month ago. In Mexico City, news broke that Caesar had had a stroke. But then His Majesty Caesar appeared in public with his son Juan I in high spirits. It seems that he can live for another ten or eight years. But now......

The convoy sped to the entrance of the Queen Mathilde Hospital, where a large crowd was already waiting anxiously. Dr. Zhu Guoxian, a cardiologist at the Donghua Army General Hospital, who had just arrived in Mexico, the director of the Queen Mathilde Hospital, the expert doctors who had arrived from the Eastern Empire in Rome, and the nurses of the hospital were all gathered at the door. The military police who arrived ahead of schedule had already put the three floors inside and the three outer floors of the hospital gate on guard. When the convoy stopped, doctors and nurses in white coats swarmed up and took a stretcher from the tailgate of the ambulance.

Mathilde lay quietly on the stretcher. His mouth and eyes were closed, and his face was pale, as if he had died. Dr. Zhu Guoxian, who looked less than 4o years old and looked tall and handsome, and somewhat similar to Zhu Jishi, was the first to grab it and press Mathilde's carotid artery. Then he shook his head slightly at Jujuan, who rushed down from the car, "This is the second time I have had a stroke, and His Majesty Caesar is over eighty, I'm afraid ......" Jujuan stood there, almost unable to accept the reality that Caesar's mother in the Western Empire of Rome had fallen like this. A little dazed stared at the reassuring gaze cast by his half-brother.

'Is the era of peace coming to an end?' Jujuan looked at his mother who was carried into the hospital, and in addition to grief, he looked forward to a new round of changes to come.

In the system of the Roman Empire. In the world peace system after the end of the World War, Mathilde I's role could not be overlooked. Although she was bent on passing on the Mexican throne to her son. But to the Roman Empire and to the Bonaparte dynasty, she was still loyal. As an elder of the Bonaparte dynasty, she can indeed suppress a vote of little Napoleon, including Napoleon IV on the other side of the Atlantic, Napoleon IV has also had extremely complicated feelings for her aunt over the years.

On the one hand, Napoleon IV certainly hoped that her old man would soon return to the arms of God, so that he could make his son consul of Caesar and the Western Empire, knowing that most of the people of the two branches of the Bonaparte family were long-lived. And Napoleon IV himself, two generations in a row (if you count Charles. Bonaparte is three generations) got cancer! If Napoleon IV really didn't live Mathilde (he never lived Mathilde in history), then the foreign appearance would be great.

But on the other hand, Napoleon IV wanted his aunt to live a long life. Because Mathilde's existence was a symbol of the unity of the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire has been plagued by a variety of internal and external problems for more than two decades.

The first problem is that the rising power of the German Empire has seriously threatened the leadership of the Roman Empire in the Western world. Although the German Empire sided with Britain in the last world war, Germany was a victorious power, not only acquiring large tracts of rich land from the collapsed Tsarist Empire, but also forming an ally with the republican Republic of the Slavic Socialist Union by supporting the "Great Patriotic War" of the Russian Volnador, allowing Germany to concentrate its forces against the Roman Empire. Moreover, after the establishment of the Anglo-German Monarchical Alliance, the British and German also established a royal joint fleet, making the German Empire a maritime power overnight, with a military force sufficient to rival Rome!

The second was the setback of Roman intervention in the Russian Civil War, which instead allowed the Russians to rally around the Revolutionary Committee headed by Nechayev. The former traitor turned into a patriot, raised the banner of resistance to France (the All-Russian Revolutionary Committee did not recognize the Roman Empire), and fought hard for three years with the support of Britain and Germany against the Roman intervention army and finally the white army of Empress Alexandra. The Roman intervention forces were driven out of all Russian territory except Constantinople and Asia Minor, and at the same time, the White army loyal to Empress Alexandra was driven to Western Siberia east of the Ural Mountains, and finally the Kingdom of Siberia was established under the protection of the Great Chinese Empire, which was set at the ancient city of Tyumen in central Western Siberia, which also meant that Napoleon IV's plan to marry the Russian Empress was completely bankrupt, because Empress Alexandra, who was sheltered in China, could only choose a husband among the Zhu Ming royal family.

Again, the partition plan of the Austrian Empire was aborted because of Droz's confrontation. Although the Roman Empire succeeded in forcing Austria to relinquish the title of Holy Roman Empire and cede Greece, the plan for further partition was abandoned because of the Anglo-German union of the monarchy and the intervention in the European continent after the defeat of the Russian Civil War. However, the buffer state of the Austrian Empire itself was not very stable. The native Germans in Austria were also strongly pro-German. The Slavs under the Austrian Empire were close to the Slavic Union. It was a headache for Napoleon IV and the big names of the Roman Empire.

However, it was not the external difficulties faced by Rome that really caused a headache for the top of the Roman Empire, but the internal crises of Rome. One of the most troublesome was the tendency of the various parts of the Roman Empire to secede! The foundations of the great empire, which took decades to be cobbled together by two generations of Napoleon III and Napoleon IV, were in fact woe.

Unlike the Great Chinese Empire, which was also huge and cobbled together with a large number of large and small empires and kingdoms, the Roman Empire did not have a major nation. Although Napoleon III and Napoleon IV spent more than forty years trying to create a "Roman nation", the results were far from ideal.

Latin, which was chosen by Napoleon IV as the national language of Rome, had great difficulty in implementing it in France itself, triggering a wave of protests from the French people, who insisted that French was the most wonderful and perfect language in the world. And the current Roman Empire was actually founded by the French. Its official language and culture can only be French...... This view was immediately opposed by the other Roman countries except France, especially the Spanish-speaking peoples, who insisted that the Spanish language was the highest in the Roman Empire, and that Spanish should be the official language anyway, at least on a par with French and Latin. The Romans, who spoke Portuguese, Greek, Russian (Constantinople and parts of Asia Minor), Italian, Arabic, English, and Irish, made the same claim, and Napoleon IV was so anxious that Latin , French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Italian, Arabic, English, and Irish were all the official languages of the Roman Empire.

Equally troublesome was the "economic fragmentation" of the Roman Empire, which, unlike the Great Chinese Empire, was the core of the Roman Empire, France, which was too small. In the time of Napoleon III, the size of the French economy was large enough to take on the role of locomotive. But after more than forty years of stability and development. The rest of the Roman Empire developed to varying degrees, with most of it growing faster than France. In particular, the Kingdom of Mexico under Mathilde I took advantage of the collapse of the United States and the British Empire. It has absorbed a large amount of British and American capital and population, and with the help of the resources and market advantages of Mexico and the whole of Latin America, it has achieved rapid growth for more than 40 consecutive years.

By 1899, the population of the Kingdom of Mexico had exceeded 430,000, several million more than the population of France itself, of which more than 370,000 were white and Indo-European. The total industrial and agricultural output of the Kingdom of Mexico surpassed that of both France and Italy, and became the economic core of the Roman Empire.

And under the core of the Kingdom of Mexico, including the Kingdom of Colombia, the United Kingdom of Central America, the Kingdom of Venezuela, the Kingdom of Ecuador, the Kingdom of Peru, the Kingdom of Bolivia, the Kingdom of Guyana, the Caribbean, the Kingdom of New France, the Kingdom of Brazil, the Kingdom of Argentina and the Kingdom of Paraguay and the Kingdom of Uruguay, the economy has gradually integrated into a whole, the Kingdom of Mexico is the center of industry and commerce, and the rest of the countries are places for raw materials collection and industrial sales!

Goods from France and Italy compete fiercely with Mexico's goods in this economy......

Under the domestic and external difficulties, the Roman Empire could only rely on a series of treaties with the Great China Empire to maintain itself as an ally of the Great China Empire. But once Mathilde I died, the Roman Empire, which had barely lasted for 2o years, faced a new round of tests! (To be continued......)