Chapter 3: The Beginning of the Empire

On January 1, 1830, on New Year's Day, under the leadership of His Majesty Lin Hong, the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, he led the imperial Duli regiment to recover the treasure island of Taiwan, and announced the founding of the country in the temporary capital Tainan on New Year's Day. The national flag is set as the "Five Sè" flag (I personally like it), and the national anthem is set as "Holy Road Yongchang". All diplomatic documents are called the Great Chinese Empire to the outside world, and at the same time declare the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, adopt a dual constitutional monarchy, establish a parliament, promulgate a constitution, and have legislative power. The promulgation of the "Imperial Constitution of the Great Chinese Empire" created by His Majesty the Emperor himself (in fact, it is a constitution systematically compiled by Lin Hongrang with reference to the constitutional monarchy of the previous life and the constitutional monarchy of Germany, and then combined with the current reality of China, to be meritorious!) ), and then announced the powers of cabinet officials, ministers, and ministries (also with the help of the system). The Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire, and the Royal Navy of the Imperial Chinese Empire, were set up under the direct control of the Emperor. The Chinese Empire was born in a hurry on New Year's Day.

"Your Majesty, all the ministers are in place, and all ministries and departments have also started their work one after another, and they are working throughout Taiwan!" This is the Chinese Imperial Cabinet Prime Minister Zuo Yu in a week after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the imperial meeting to the emperor Lin Hong, to say Zuo Yu, looking at him Lin Hong on the face of pain, as Lin Hong's first and only SSS-level subordinate, the man in front of him about 40 years old has all kinds of abilities impeccable, but it is really too expensive, his value alone is to spend most of the meritorious value cleanly, and now Lin Hong is back to before liberation.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

"Prime Minister, go on."

"Yes, at present, the construction of the empire in Taiwan is in full swing, our factories on the island, roads and railways, and Keelung Port are under construction, and the people on the island have no grievances, although there is a slight resistance to the policy of changing customs such as dreadlocks, but there are no riots and other conflicts after the persuasion of officials, in addition, militarily, with the expansion of the imperial army (the so-called expansion is Lin Hongmai's system soldiers), there are currently three divisions of about 40,000 people, about 35,000 combatants, In addition, the reserve forces of ordinary people who are still being recruited and trained are in progress (the system soldiers are equipped with the official rifles in the empire, and the non-system army is equipped with the needle-piercing rear-loading rifle invented by Lin Hong in the system in 1840, which was invented by the Prussian Dreisai, which was named the Imperial Type 30 rifle by Lin Hong), and by next year we can use about 100,000 army, and the navy currently has seven 74-gun three-level battleships, 15 48-gun battleships, and 20 armed merchant ships, which basically meet the needs of coastal defense. In fact, His Majesty, with the current strength of the navy, is enough to sweep the Manchu Sea Frontier. ”

"To speed up the construction of the people's livelihood on the island, we still have to gather forces to prepare for the recovery of the mainland and the expulsion of the Tartars. In addition, have new species been sent? In order to speed up the development of people's livelihood and agriculture on the island, Lin Hong bought many easy-to-live and high-yield crops from the system to promote them on the island.

"Yes, Your Majesty, new crop species are being distributed, and I believe that the people on the island will be able to live a good life this year!"

"Is there any news from the Manchus?"

"No, Your Majesty, at present, the intelligence network of my CIA has just been rolled out, and it only involves the coastal areas, but according to the calculations of the ships going to and from Taiwan, now the Manchu Qing should only know our news at the level of the governor of Fujian, and according to the efficiency of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Qing court will not react at least a month." The person who replied was Xie Hua, the director of the Zhongyāng Intelligence Bureau, who was also worth the price in Lin Hong's opinion.

"What about the finances?"

"Your Majesty, the current fiscal tax of the empire is mainly in the agricultural tax, and the commercial tax is developing with good momentum, and I believe that with the completion of Keelung, trade with Ryukyu Korea can be greatly strengthened. In addition, we carried out commercial trade with the British, Portuguese and Spanish, but their main trade partners were the Manchus. In addition, monetary reform is being prepared and will be implemented soon. After the completion of the monetary reform, we will establish a gold standard, which will greatly increase fiscal revenue. It was Chancellor of the Exchequer Lin Tu who stood up and answered.

"Are all the islands near the island of Taiwan under control?"

Liu Qing, Minister of Defense of the Imperial Empire, said: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Navy has captured Kinmen and Kinmen yesterday, and the Diaoyu Islands and other islands are also under control."

"Hmmm! Looks like we're running out of time! I really want to go back to the mainland soon! Lin Hong listened to the current situation, and this can only be the case.

"Your will is our life's pursuit!" Cabinet ministers bowed en masse.

After the imperial meeting, he and Lin Hong approached Zuo Yu and said, "I want you to set up a new department in the near future, the 'Colonial Department', which is responsible for the development of the empire's overseas colonies." ”

"This ...... Your Majesty"

"Whoa! Don't worry, Prime Minister, this is a long-term matter, don't be in a hurry, but take it slowly, I want you to send a warship to North America first, and just occupy a place with a tree monument or something. ”

"Your Majesty, your will is my life's pursuit!" ——

I'm a branch line -

With the efforts of Lin Honghe and the system personnel, this change is taking place all the time, and various factories such as textile factories and match factories have sprung up, and the people on the island of Taiwan can not understand the changes that are happening around them, and they really can't adapt to it, but fortunately, Lin Hongmai's officials, military families, workers and even ordinary people have integrated into it in time and helped to explain, so that the people on the island have not become crazy, and the people on the island have gradually adapted and understood and began to enter the factory and carry out efficient farming. Coupled with the change of policy, although they did not know what to do to elect parliamentarians, at least the lenient laws (compared to the Qing Dynasty), the loose taxation and the highly clean and efficient administration made them vibrant, they were full of hope for life and the future, and at the same time, they firmly remembered the Chinese Emperor Lin Hong firmly in their hearts.

Yangxin Palace, built in Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, is located on the west side of the Qianqing Palace in the inner court. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi died of illness here. During the Kangxi period, it was used as a workshop for the palace office, specializing in the production of palace items. Since the Yongzheng Emperor lived in the Yangxin Palace, the workshops of the office gradually moved out of the inner court, which has been used as the Qing Dynasty Emperor's dormitory, until the Qianlong year to be renovated and added, becoming a group of multi-functional buildings that summon the ministers, handle government affairs, the emperor read, study and live. Until Pu Yi left the palace, eight emperors in the Qing Dynasty lived in the Yangxin Palace.

At this time, in the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, Mu Zhang'a, Qi Shan, and other ministers were worried about the recent seizure of Taiwan by overseas remnants.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the governor of Fujian said that the island of Taiwan was invaded and occupied by overseas remnants, how should this matter be handled?" Daoguang asked.

"Your Majesty, the servants think that these overseas remnants do not obey the indoctrination and establish themselves as a country in Taiwan, called China, which is really a great rebellion, and they should send the heavenly army to suppress it in order to raise the prestige of our Qing Dynasty." Zaiquan Road.

The ministers of the palace said in unison, in fact, the courtiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not take the Taiwan rebellion to heart, they only thought it was a civil unrest.

"Okay, the Military Aircraft Department will take out a charter and do it immediately!"

"Hey, the ministers are leaving."