"Your Majesty the Emperor of the United States of America, contemptible, Secretary of the Navy McLory, I have a special invitation for you......"

McRowrie, the Secretary of the Navy of the Southern Confederacy, who had come from afar, was very humble in handing over a post after he asked to see Emperor Li Mengyang in New York.

Invitation? What kind of invitation is it?

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It's November 25, 1869, the fourth Thursday of November, but unfortunately there's no holiday in the whole of America right now.

Thanksgiving? What the hell is this?

You don't have to ask, all Americans would answer that, and if you explain to them that Thanksgiving is about thanking the Indians who gave the white people food on the Mayflower, it would be a loud laugh.

And this kind of festival? It's so fucking hypocritical! How many Indians have we killed, and we are so grateful to them? Hahaha......

The above things all happened in the mind of the emperor of the New Tang Dynasty in the United States, of course, he didn't really ask, but something like this must happen, there is no Thanksgiving at all now, and everyone doesn't have to be so hypocritical to be grateful to the Indians, it's good that the whites don't go to the Indians for trouble.

So today, why does Li Mengyang, His Majesty the Emperor, think about this? Could it be because of time?

It's really not, this day is a reason, but the main reason is that His Majesty Li Mengyang, the emperor, has nothing to do now!

Why is that? Isn't Li Mengyang, the emperor, very busy right now? Took so much territory. All kinds of government affairs. And what kind of market economy is that. Doesn't he have to do all this as an emperor?

That's right, let's just talk about what kind of market economy theory, no one knows now, Li Mengyang can't do it if he doesn't look at it, but now, he really can't look at it, or rather, there is no way to work. Because he, the emperor, is now on the ship!

Right! It's on the San Francisco!

There wasn't much radio these days, and although His Majesty the Emperor had come up with it, and it was now theoretically supported, as if it had been mentioned by Faraday, it wasn't that easy to get it done.

Li Mengyang naturally had no way to deal with any government affairs, he could only look at the scenery on the boat......

"Your Majesty! Williamsburg has arrived! ”

Samuel. Dupont, the rear admiral of the Imperial Navy, basically doesn't leave this steel giant ship now, he really likes it too much.

"Your Majesty, I'm not going down as an old man." Of course. Erickson, the old drunkard, was also on board, and he liked it too. When the ship was first built, the old drunkard poured a lot of wine, and almost didn't get drunk to death in order to celebrate.

"OK, be careful not to drink too much." For Eriksen, Li Mengyang, the emperor, is still very generous, after all, he is an old man who started with himself, and this old guy is really very individual, in addition......

This is Williamsburg, and this Williamsburg is only twenty miles from Richmond, the capital of the American Confederate!

Why did Li Mengyang, the emperor, come to the Southern Confederacy? Could it be that the South is going to surrender?

This surrender, there is no such thing now, isn't Li Mengyang here to discuss this matter, the previous invitation.

The invitation sent by McLawrie, the Secretary of the Navy, you really don't want to say, is quite formal, but the content of this invitation is interesting.

The Confederate government wanted to invite Li Mengyang, the emperor of the American Empire, to Richmond to negotiate a peace deal......

To put it simply, this is the content, but everyone knows that the so-called banquet has no good banquet, there will be no good meeting, and now although the south and the empire seem to be at peace on the surface, but they want to do something?

You must know that the southern side is independent because of the abolition of slavery, and on the imperial side, Li Mengyang issued the "Declaration of Equality", which is a great conflict, that is, it is very dangerous!

To go or not to go?!

This invitation, the high-level of the natural empire has read it, and everyone naturally wants to discuss the question of whether to go or not, and the result is that the vast majority of the high-level people have suggested that you should not go, Your Majesty the Emperor.

To put it simply, there is danger, and there is no need for this, our empire is now like a rainbow, and the United States has been beaten to the point that it is not human, what kind of thing is the Southerners?

That's right, the southerners don't agree to surrender, so they will fight, what can you do? Will our empire be afraid?

IT SHOULD BE SAID THAT ON THIS INVITATION, LI MENGYANG IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF ONE THING, THAT IS, TO RE-NEGOTIATE QING!

It's a bit similar, but at that time, Jiang Guangtou did a great job, he was invited by the whole country, and he created a big momentum, which means, 'If you don't come, you will destroy the peace'...... But it's a pity!

Yes, Li Mengyang decided that he was going to the south to negotiate!

As soon as this decision came out, needless to say, most of the officials of the empire were against it, but Li Mengyang insisted on his opinion.

Why is it so insistent?

There are mainly two points, the first point is very easy, and others Li Mengyang will not tell it, although some people know it, of course, because of Eleanor.

Eleanor is now in the south, she is a southerner, if the empire fights with the south, then how will Li Mengyang face Eleanor?

And when the two were separated in Washington, Li Mengyang swore to heaven that he would definitely bring peace to the South.

Well, this is a personal reason, it seems that Li Mengyang loves beauty a little bit and doesn't love the country, but in fact, it's not.

That's the second point, the empire actually has a lot of 'investment' in the south.

Well, the origin of these investments is rather suspicious, but legally speaking, they are all imperial. So what if the two sides start a war, and the southerners suddenly don't admit it?

So, from any point of view, the Empire was in league with the Confederacy. Able to solve problems in a peaceful manner. It's the best. This is definitely in the interest of all parties.

As soon as these truths are talked about, of course, the main thing is the 'investment' of the empire, so naturally it means that the officials of the empire are served, so the question comes, how can Li Mengyang, His Majesty the Emperor, go?

I'll go if you send an invitation? Doesn't that make me seem to be of low status?

That's right, everyone has to talk about each other's conditions. And now the news transmission is very slow, the telegram between the empire and the south has not yet been communicated, and at least everyone has to maintain a state of old and dead contact on the surface, so this is pulled into November, which is quite grinding.

But there is a certain amount of room for maneuver here, and the key is, where will His Majesty the Emperor go!

Richmond?

This is the capital of the South, how dangerous is it, can you go?

So you have to find a relatively neutral place. Of course, it can't be this side of the Empire, which is the original territory of the United States. Because of this lack of sincerity, everyone discussed for a long time, and finally settled on Williamsburg.

Williamsburg, this place is also very famous, that is, at the beginning of the American Civil War, in 1862, when a Battle of the Peninsula was fought. Lee's highlight moment was that he drove McClellan away in this battle, and of course there was a lot of fighting afterwards, but now the United States Army was gone, and Williamsburg was a military station on the eastern part of the peninsula.

The San Francisco entered from Norfolk Military Harbor, and then drove cautiously west for more than an hour or so, and that was almost the case, and His Majesty the Emperor gave a reason for choosing this place.

"My boat is too big to go any further west, and the course of the James River is too narrow!"

For this reason, when it was first given to the South, the decision-makers in the South felt a little inexplicable, and even felt absurd, but ......

"Oh my God!"

"This thing in front of you, this, this ......"

"Can any of you tell me if I'm right?"

"How can there be such a monster?"

Williamsburg's harbor, this port is relatively ordinary, the San Francisco can't stop in the harbor at all, can only anchor outside, fortunately, the water ripple situation near here, the United States has data, Dahlgren has fought here before, otherwise, the San Francisco is really in danger of running aground.

But though, despite this, when this steel beast of the empire appeared in front of the eyes of the southerners, it still shocked them deeply!

"......" Robert. Lee, the supreme military commander of the South, was naturally also in Williamsburg, and he was an important member of the negotiations, and at this time, fortunately, he was usually extremely steady, otherwise he would have behaved in horror and inexplicably like others.

But it's really scary!

"Father! This battleship, this is simply ...... "George. Washington. Castis. Lee, as Robert . Lee's eldest son, who was also an important official of the Southern government at this time, naturally came with him, and he came, so the president of the South, Jefferson. Naturally, Davis also came.

"Lee, my old fellow, it seems that we are right." President Davis turned a blind eye to the performance of his adjutant, and he cared more about Robert Brown. Lee's view.

"May peace come to Dixie soon." Robert. Li said such a sentence, obviously he was also more or less glad in his heart, fortunately his daughter fell in love with that emperor, and it is very likely that we will not have to fight.

At this moment, a small steel battleship sailed to the dock, and then a loud military horn sounded!

"The Emperor of the New Tang Dynasty of the United States! Great man of letters! Great strategists! Great military strategist! Great scientists! Great composer! Great painter! Great poets! …… Shine as bright as the sun! As kind as a friend, Clint. Meng Yang. Lee I! Coming to Virginia! ALL-HAIL-LEE！ ”

I heard a man shouting on the bow of the ship, and then ......

“ALL-HAIL-LEE！”

All the Imperial troops on the small ironclad ship saluted and chanted, maybe they were not many in number, but their momentum was extremely majestic!

In the midst of such momentum, a young man dressed in a black luxurious military uniform and embroidered with a golden dragon stepped down the steel escalator! (To be continued......)

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