Chapter 36 The Trend of Sea Power

Although most of the civil servants in the political axe of the Republic were full of enthusiasm, many of them also systematically received a Western-style education in Sizhe. But many of them still look at the thinking of centuries ago, and Chen Zeyu also hopes that they will gain something through this kind of overseas research activities.

In addition, the whole republic of today has already established a top-down parliamentary organization at this time, and Chen Zeyu mainly refers to the upper and lower house system that the British have been practicing for centuries.

The House of Commons will be freely nominated by the citizens of each region according to the proportion of the population with reference to a certain number of seats, and will be finally elected. The House of Lords, on the other hand, will be made up mainly of retired military personnel with honorary ranks and retired civil servants who will be familiar with political affairs in the future, although unlike the British House of Lords system, which will still need to go through a certain electoral process.

As for the Americans' system of the Senate and House of Representatives, it turned out to be a tragedy, which was directly ignored by Chen Zeyu.

Since the House of Lords of the Republic as a whole does not yet have a personnel base, only the House of Commons system can be used for the time being.

For the time being, these regional lower houses elected by various localities only have the right to participate in and discuss state affairs and supervise local officials, and their future functions are still only in Chen Zeyu's plans.

In order to strengthen supervision over the newly established news media in the Republic of China (learning from the People's Party), Chen Zeyu also passed the "Public Opinion Supervision Law" throughout the country to manage the publication and publication of public opinion media in various localities.

Chen Zeyu feared that this move would reduce the media's oversight function, so he set up a special Independent Commission Against Corruption under the Ministry of Justice, which was directly controlled by himself.

During this time, Chen Zeyu also spent time recruiting people to start his own newspaper, and the newly published Xinhua Yue Bao was divided into two editions, edited in Chinese and English, in order to expand the newspaper's area of influence.

Under the pseudonym Qin Wangsao [***], Chen Zeyu serialized more than a dozen articles in this newspaper and periodical, which had a huge impact on the republic in a short period of time, and gradually formed a huge trend of thought in the whole country to learn from the West.

In addition to "Xinhua Daily", the newspaper also manages two semi-monthly periodicals, and the names of the journals are also directly assigned by Chen Zeyu, discovery and time, which are translated into Chinese as exploration and discovery, and era.

For the time being, the two magazines will only serve the Republic of China and will not publish foreign language editions for the time being. The establishment of these two magazines is mainly to let the general public in China have more contact with the humanities, science and technology, military and other knowledge around the world, and broaden their horizons.

Compared with the former, this magazine as "Time" will emphasize more professional surnames, and "Time" has opened a number of columns, including economics, education, law, criticism, sports, religion, medicine, art, people, book reviews and readers' letters, etc., from the planning of its columns can be seen from the great ambition of the magazine's leaders.

Of course, this newspaper has always been under the control of Chen Zeyu, and at Chen Zeyu's orders, every foreign minister who came to establish diplomatic relations with the Republic of Seris was on the cover of Time magazine.

Since then, it has become a common practice to take a photo of a celebrity on the cover of every issue of the magazine.

By October, the Republic of Seris had signed diplomatic agreements with European and American countries, and had established embassies and consulates in each other. Of course, Chen Zeyu will not buy anything like the Qing Dynasty and the legal power to be forced to stay abroad earlier, and what the Republic has signed with other countries is a completely equal and autonomous diplomatic relationship.

The British were the most responsive of these, and after learning from various sources that the new Republic of Seris had a naval force capable of upsetting the balance of power in East Asia, the British Governor-General in India, Henry Charles, immediately sent an envoy to the Republic by the British colonial authorities stationed in Malacca.

After a short period of negotiations on the division of interests for the future commercial relations between the two countries, the British established diplomatic relations with the Republic of Seris for the second time after Spain.

The Republic arranged for Liang Dunyan's younger brother, Liang Dunyi, who had studied in England earlier, to go to London to establish Seris's second diplomatic legation.

After that, Seris diplomats who visited Europe and the United States established diplomatic relations with Germany, Austria, Portugal, France, the United States, and Italy in turn.

As for the Qing State and the Yue Ben, these two countries destined to "establish diplomatic relations by force" in the future, they were ignored by the republic's choice of surname.

Just when Chen Zeyu was worried about his Seris Republic, the country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean gradually fell into restlessness.

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In May, while France was mired in the Guiana conflict in South America, the Americans secretly annexed Hawaii, the former French colony in the Pacific (although France admits it).

Although not officially announced, the American political axe has achieved de facto control of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Interestingly, at this time, some of the self-absorbed French political axes did not express any opinions. On the other side of the ocean, Samoto jumped out at once, and as soon as the United States invaded Hawaii, he asked his minister to the United States, Kiyotaka Kuroda, to run to the White House to protest.

In this coup d'état in the Kingdom of Hawaii, several of the people who were hired by the queen as guards were killed by American Christian names. In the end, the American political axe, who had gained a real profit, pinched his nose and paid a sum of money to the family of the immigrants.

In the early days, the United States and European countries persecuted the United States and signed a series of unequal treaties. During this period, he taught them an oriental proverb, and Shi Beisan said that they should be impressed.

Just three years ago, when he was revising treaties with European countries that had signed the Snaegwa Treaty in the past, he simply rejected the request of the United States on the basis of his military strength, which was no longer what it used to be. Not only that, but it also unilaterally canceled all the concessions and corresponding extraterritoriality of the United States in the United States.

It has to be said that since the eighties of the nineteenth century, the balance of power of the various coastal countries in the Pacific Ocean has changed again.

The Americans, who had opened the door of their own country with a few steam warships in the 50s, discovered that on the waters of the Pacific Ocean today, the naval fleets of the Qing and Qing countries were much stronger than their own navies, and this discovery made the Americans very frustrated.

At this time, the United States had just possessed a naval fleet consisting of two first-class armored cruisers, five second-class armored cruisers, and more than 20 unprotected cruisers (iron-ribbed wood-hulled steam warships).

Such a navy, not to mention challenging the navy of the newly aristocratic nobility, is not even inferior to the Spanish colonial fleet in Cuba, Havana, and under the noses of the Americans themselves.

It is even more regrettable that all the armored ships are equipped on the east coast of the United States, and only a few unprotected cruisers are equipped on the Pacific coast.

The Americans suddenly found themselves the least vocal country on the entire Pacific coast.

Mahan, who was still serving in the U.S. Navy at this time, was just beginning to emerge, and history was destined to play a joke on him.

This US naval officer, who originally relied on the book "On Sea Power" and became popular all over the world, and was even received by British Empress Victoria, may be destined to become an unknown ordinary person in this life.

The stimulated US Navy during this period, coupled with the imperialist ideology that was rampant around the world at that time, caused some of Chen Zeyu's earlier writings to begin to circulate in naval circles.

Gradually, some people sorted out the several issues of the newspaper he had submitted during his time when he was studying in the United States.

Before Chen Zeyu knew it, Superben's name had already become famous in the U.S. Navy.

In the same way, the American people of this period would not have discovered that there was a naval officer named Mahan, who was serving in the US Navy, and whenever he spent his time creating a little bit of military theoretical thinking, he would be stunned to find that he was actually copying other people's theories that he had already had.

Influenced by Chen Zeyu's early writings on sea power, the Americans began to vigorously build up their naval forces......