On April 19, 1857, Washington was covered in greenery. At this time, Washington was just a small town with only a few thousand inhabitants, and it did not look like the capital of a great power country at all. Washington's area is not as large as that of later generations, and the land on the south bank of the Potomac River still belongs to Virginia, where there are continuous cotton fields, and now there are many yellow-skinned Chinese working there!

Mathilde I, the newly visited Empress of Mexico, was riding in a carriage on the north bank of the Potomac River, and today she wore a pale blue straw mud horsetail dress - the most fashionable high-end clothing in Europe and the United States at the moment. Nowadays, noble ladies in Europe and the United States usually wear silk when the weather is warm, and grass and mud horse wool when the weather is colder. However, since the production of grass and mud and horse velvet was much smaller than that of silk, it could only be enjoyed by true noblewomen, and this was certainly not a problem for the Empress of Mexico, who was fond of extravagance, like all "Napoleons". This made the dwarf foreign secretary Juarez, who accompanied her on a visit to the United States, slightly dissatisfied. In other respects, however, the Chancellor of the Dwarfs was very appreciative of Mathilde I's cousin.

Now, it has been a year and a half since Mathilde was crowned Empress of Mexico, and Mexico's political situation has been stable for a year and a half, and the economy has naturally maintained a year and a half of growth, and the diplomatic situation is unprecedentedly favorable. This situation has been unique in the last 3o years. The second is the economic development. Since the Empress came to power, there has been more investment from Europe, with factories, mines, ports, railways, and a Grand Canal running through southern Mexico under construction or about to begin. The lords of the estates, who had only known how to put their money into the land, now turned their attention to industry and commerce. Mexico's Bank of Americas also became operational, officially assuming the role of central bank. It has greatly improved the financial constraints in Mexico, which has further stimulated the exhibition of Mexican industry and commerce.

Thirdly, the pressure on Mexico's external debt has also been reduced, and the Mexican government has successfully issued 3ooo million pounds of bonds at very low interest rates in London and Paris to repay several foreign debts with high interest rates. The five provinces of Central America include Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, which were once part of the defunct First Mexican Empire. After the collapse of the First Mexican Empire, the Federal Republic of Central America was formed, a country that existed for more than a decade, and from 1826 the country was mired in civil war and division. By February 1841 it was completely disintegrated. This was followed by a brief revival of the Central American Confederation of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. And in the five Central American countries, there have always been "conservative" forces trying to rebuild the Union.

Now that the Mexican Empire was flourishing, it was also a sign of hope for the Federalists of the five Central American states, and some wanted to unite the five Central American countries with the help of Mexico on the condition that Mathilde I be Queen of the United Kingdom of Central America.

Although this matter does not seem to be good for the Mexican people. But the masses of the people sometimes have vanity, and when they see a joint Mexican-Central American empire on the map, they feel that their empress, Her Majesty, has achieved the opening of the territory, what kind of British lord is it.

However, there is also a British lord in Guatemala at the moment, who is of mixed white and Indian descent, has never gone to school, and is illiterate. However, it was supported by Guatemalan peasants and the lower class clergy. He used the spread of rumors to incite an uprising, seize Guatemala City, and establish a dictatorship, which has ruled Guatemala for more than 1o years. Not an easy master to deal with! He destroyed the Central American Federation, and in 1851 he defeated a coalition of Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras, which supported the re-establishment of the Federation, and almost destroyed the last hope of restoring the Federation, until Mathilde I became Empress of Mexico.

Now, Mathilde feels very good, thinking that she is Napoleon with a **, and she has a precious illegitimate child who has no place to arrange! Of course, this God-given opportunity to restore Greater Mexico was not missed, so he hit it off with the federal elements of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras. But before that, Her Majesty felt that she needed to make friends with the Americans, so that she could devote herself to the south.

, and extended an olive branch to the Empress of Mexico...... The purpose is, of course, obvious. President Buchanan, who tried to bridge the North-South divide and reunite the United States to deal with the threat from Britain, France, and China, figured out a way to co-opt the Mexican Empress and lead the troubles south to ease the pressure on the United States in its backyard.

Today, at the meeting between the two heads of state of the United States and Mexico at the White House. The President of the United States personally assured the Empress of Mexico that he would not oppose Mexico's recovery of lost territory in Central America, and was willing to provide $3ooo for military spending, on the condition that it ...... No foreign ** team can be stationed on Mexican territory! Furthermore, Mexico supports the accession of the United States to the Four-Power Agreement between Britain, France, China and Mexico.

But what kind of reaction will the Ming Emperor have to this?

The Mexican Empress in the carriage was a little undecided. At present, there was no telegraph line between the Americas and China, and before leaving Mexico City for the United States, the Empress of Mexico had written a sincere letter to the Ming Emperor, hoping to obtain his understanding. I don't know if this letter was delivered? What was the reaction of the Ming Emperor?

Thinking of this, the empress's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she sighed softly. The Foreign Minister next to him, Juarez, had been carefully observing his empress, and immediately noticed this subtle change in expression.

"Your Majesty, in fact, we don't have to worry too much about the reaction of the Ming Emperor, China is too far away from us Mexico."

Mathilde smiled faintly: "My minister, I know that China is far away...... And the United States is close! This is the misfortune of our Mexico, and it would be nice if at some point the United States could really split in half. That's how we in Mexico can really grow stronger. ”

"The divisive ...... of America," Juarez shook his head, "I don't think that would happen during President Buchanan's tenure." Because his free trade proposition took care of the interests of the South, and allowed the South to import Chinese labor to replace blacks, I believe that the South will support President Buchanan. ”

"Blacks are still a problem though!" Mathilde muttered, "It's a very troublesome question, there are 350,000 to 400,000 black slaves in the United States. "ChineseFarmers in the American South believe that 150,000 Chinese laborers are enough to replace 4oo black slaves, and that it is more cost-effective to hire 150,000 Chinese laborers than to keep 4oo black slaves." But where do these 4oo black people go? ”

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