readx;?“ Your Majesty, Your Majesty Caesar is awake......" Dr. Zhu Guoxian's voice rang out in the luxurious lounge of Queen Mathilde's Hospital, awakening King Jujuan of Mexico from his chaotic thoughts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"My mother woke up? She's out of danger......" Zhu Juan raised his head suddenly, and when he saw Zhu Guoxian's solemn expression, his heart suddenly chuckled. "My mother, is she ......?"

"It's a return to the light!" Zhu Guoxian nodded, confirming the King of Mexico's guess. "Your Majesty, come with me." ”

'This is the last time I went to see my mother!!' Jujuan thought. The road to Mathilde's ward was not long, but Jujuan's mind seemed to have been disturbed like a river and a sea, and he thought of many of his own futures, the future of the Kingdom of Mexico, the future of the Kingdom of Donghua, the future of the Great Chinese Empire, and the future of the Roman Empire...... But nothing has been figured out, and no way out seems to have been found. When he reached the door, he felt that he was already drenched in sweat.

The door opened, in the dim light. Mathilde's fat body lay on top of a white hospital bed. A bunch of doctors, nurses, and priests were all standing there at a loss, a few of them were still sobbing in low voices, they were all Mexicans, Mexicans who only knew God, the empress and the king, and of course what the departure of this empress meant for Mexico?

Jujuan looked at the doctors, nurses, and priests in the ward in silence, and all of them left with great interest. Only Jujuan and Mathilde were left in the room.

"Juan, sit down." Mathilde struggled to speak.

Hearing his mother's voice, Juan was surprised at first. Maybe my mother's illness is not as serious as Zhu Guoxian said? But as he walked over to his mother and sat down. When I began to look at my mother carefully. He realized that he was wrong, and that the vitality of life had been lost in the old man's body. She's just trying her best to maintain her life, maybe it's because she can't worry about her only son, right?

"Juan, I'm going to heaven soon, ...... What are you going to do? Mathilde asked with difficulty.

"Me......" Juan shook his head. I don't know, maybe there will be a war, maybe not, it doesn't depend on my will. ”

Mathilde forced a smile. "Whether to fight or not depends not on you, but on whom? Do you think I don't know? The entire kingdom of Mexico wanted to fight...... Well, French and Italian goods crowd out the markets of Latin America! And you want to fight too, don't you? ”

Jujuan smiled bitterly, remained silent and did not speak. It wasn't until a long time later that his voice sounded faintly, "The victory or defeat of the war depends on the navy, not the army, and the Mexican navy cannot defeat the entire Eastern Empire navy ......"

"No, the survival of the Roman Empire depends on the Kingdom of Mexico and not France and Italy!"

Jujuan nodded silently, his mother's words were not wrong! Unlike the Roman Empire, which had 40 percent of its industry and one-fifth of its population, a quarter of its army and a third of its navy, the Kingdom of Mexico was nominally unified and in fact controlled by the countries of the Western Empire. The navy of the Western Empire was completely controlled by Mexico.

As soon as the Kingdom of Mexico declared its secession from the Roman Empire, Rome would immediately lose its power in Europe against the German Empire! And. Because of the close economic, political and military ties between the Kingdom of Mexico and the Latin American countries, as long as the Kingdom of Mexico proposes the formation of a Latin American federation, many Latin American countries will certainly join, even if the "Petite Bonaparte", "Petite Bourbon" or "Petite Savoy" in power in these countries do not agree. These sloppy rulers, who had little energy to govern the country, could not control the demands of domestic capital and politics, and only Mathilde, who had been in power for decades, had the power to block the general trend of Latin America from the Roman Empire.

"And the Great Chinese Empire! Mother...... The Great Chinese Empire would not sit idly by and watch the Roman Empire collapse. Jujuan thought for a moment and said.

The Great Chinese Empire, of course, did not mind the end of the Roman Empire, but Zhu Guoxiong did not want to see an ambitious German rise in Europe, and the German Empire has now completed the replacement of the old and the new, Kaiser Wilhelm I died on March 9, 1888 at the age of 91, while his son Frederick III only had a 56-year lifespan, and died after 1oo days as emperor, replaced by Wilhelm I's grandson Friedrich. William. Victor. Albert. Feng. Hohenzollern, that is, Wilhelm II in history.

In this time and space, in addition to the German Emperor and the King of Prussia, the last German emperor in history had honorific titles on his head, including King Wilhelm V of England and Scotland and King Wilhelm II of Poland. The territories ruled included the German Empire proper, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, the United Kingdom of Poland (including parts of Ukraine and all of Lithuania and all of Belarus) and Livonia (Estonia and Latvia), as well as a number of colonies in Africa, which was definitely a great empire that could dominate Europe, and if it were not for the fact that democratic socialism made England and the Scottish kingdoms weak, the German Empire would have provoked wars against the Roman Empire in Europe long ago.

However, even socialist Britain is not very powerful. After Wilhelm II succeeded to the throne of the German emperor, he also began to actively prepare for war, trying to compete with the Roman Empire, seize the leadership of the entire white world, and then compete with the Great Chinese Empire. To this end, he also kicked out Bismarck, who wanted to maintain the balance of power in Europe, and announced a shipbuilding plan of unprecedented scale, hoping to overwhelm the Roman Empire in terms of naval scale.

And by 1899, the naval arms race between Rome, Germany and the Great Chinese Empire had been going on for 1o years!

Generations of new battleships equipped with large-caliber rapid-fire naval guns were built one after another, like dumplings. The standard displacement of the latest generation of battleships of the three countries has exceeded 35ooo metric tons, and the caliber of the main guns equipped has reached more than 35o......

In addition to France and Italy, which have a large economic growth momentum, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ireland and the Grand Duchy of Constantine (which spent 200 million gold francs to intervene in the Russian Civil War) and other places have been extremely sluggish and socially unstable. If it weren't for the 4o% of the navy's military spending in the Western Empire, the Roman Eastern Empire would have spent the last gold franc in the naval arms race.

Chinese just didn't want to see Germany dominate Europe, but they couldn't stop the Germans from jumping out and grabbing the Roman Empire...... The lands of Africa and South America are too tempting and too rich. The allure of the Germans was unstoppable. Mathilde smiled bitterly and said, "I am also half German, how can I not understand the thinking of Germans?" ”

"It would be World War II!" Jujuan shook his head, "Quite irrational, the Germans did not break through Jérôme. The way to the Peel Line, at least I can't think of. As for the battle at sea, the victory was not quickly divided, because the terrain was favorable to Rome. ”

Mathilde blinked a little tiredly, "I hope so...... Juan, let's talk about your thoughts. ”

"The Western Empire will refuse to recognize Caesar and consulship as the king of New France, and the Mexican army and navy will refuse to swear allegiance to the king of New France."

"That's all?"

"That's all...... It's also enough. Jujuan whispered. This time the world war should have been provoked by someone else! ”

The Western Roman Empire has a long history of independence, and the Kingdom of Mexico only needs to pick a head, and most of the other Latin American countries will follow suit, because of the loss of Mexico's support, Napoleon IV will find it difficult to maintain even the Eastern Empire, let alone send troops to suppress the Western Empire.

"And then?" Mathilde asked again.

"Wait." Jujuan said lightly.

"What are you waiting for?" Mathilde asked.

"Wait for the Second World War, of course!" Jujuan said in a calm voice, "

Mathilde nodded, and did not continue the topic, but whispered to Jujuan, "My time is almost up, let the priest in......"

……

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty Caesar has died!"

When the bell of the Cathedral of Mexico to announce the ascension of the Empress rang, the tribune of the Eastern Empire of Rome, Alexander. Duke Valewski hurried into the office of Napoleon IV in the Palace of Versailles.

"Just 1 hour ago...... King Juan's telegram for the funeral has arrived! ”

"Juan...... He didn't declare his succession to Caesar and the consuls of the Western Empire, did he? Napoleon IV looked up from the pile of papers and looked at Alexander with some nervousness. Valevsky.

"No...... He won't do that......" Valewski said with some certainty, "Your Majesty, perhaps you can appoint him as Consul of Caesar and the Western Empire, so that the Empire can be at peace for the time being." ”

"No, I can't do that!" Napoleon IV shook his head with a grim face, "Because there is a good chance that I will not survive Juan...... I can't imagine Juan becoming the Augustus of the Roman Empire! ”

"So...... What can we do to appease the King of Mexico? "Alexander. "If he refuses to swear allegiance to the new King of France, the empire will be doomed!" ”

"Perhaps I could divide Cuba and Jamaica into the Kingdom of Mexico......," Napoleon IV thought for a moment and added. (To be continued......)