"Comrades! What do you think of this fatwa? ”

In the former city hall building in San Francisco, the temporary capital of the New Tang Empire in the United States, all the ministers of the empire had just arrived and found their respective seats to sit down.

The Pope's call on his followers not to pay taxes to the empire is indeed not a small matter, and it is indeed very tricky!

Everyone knows that the religious forces in Europe and the United States are very powerful, and there is no doubt about this, but there is one thing to know, that is, the situation in the United States.

Generally speaking, in fact, the United States does not pee much on this pope!

Because of what?

Most of the people in the United States are Protestant, Protestantism, and the word 'protestantism' itself is 'protestism', to put it bluntly, Protestants are actually protesting against your Holy See!

So, this decree of the Pope of Rome is nothing to our New Tang Empire?

But that's not the case, because there are Catholics in the United States, and these Catholics are mainly Irish!

The crux of the matter is here, Irish, they were the main force of the original revolutionary army!

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So, this question becomes very tricky, what if the main force of the revolutionary army, the Irish, responds to this call of the Pope?

And to put it bluntly, the reason why Li Mengyang attaches so much importance to this thing is here, if the Irish have a conflict with him, then it is likely to affect his own ruling foundation, and his own country is built by them.

"......" The ministers who came here are not fools. They can all think of that, too. So. None of them speak now.

However, there was one person who laughed, this person is not a minister, but his official is not small, he is General Okashi!

"Haha, at this time, our Pope finally remembered us! It's really a blessing! But His Majesty, when we Irish people were starving. What was the Pope doing when we Irish came to this new world and were bullied by others, when we Irish people could not find a job and were displaced? Did he pray to God for us even once?! ”

That's a great thing to say!

A smile appeared on Li Mengyang's face, because this was tantamount to expressing his position, although Okashi was just a person, but he could have a large army in his hands, and if he dared to say this, it would mean that there must be support in the army.

The empire's current communication system is developing very fast, Cyrus. This guy Field's job is doing a good job, so. Many people already know about this fatwa. This is a clear telegram.

In other words, there should have been a certain discussion in the army, as well as a certain result, and it seems that the revolutionary army is still relatively revolutionary!

Moreover, Li Mengyang also noticed Okashi's words, but there was not a single word to blame God, all of them were scolding the pope.

But to be fair, when the Great Famine in Ireland began, Pius IX was not yet the Pope, so you can't say that Ocassi was wrong about this.

As soon as Ocassi saw the face of the Emperor's Majesty, what else did he not know, and immediately he continued: "Merciful Majesty! I don't know why that old guy issued such a fatwa, but I dare to pack a ticket, the revolutionary army will never be instigated by that old bastard! Otherwise, Majesty can wait a little, Matthew. General McConaughey will soon be coming, and I am sure he will prove what I say! ”

"Good! I naturally believe in two generals! "That......

Li Mengyang understood everything, and then the sentence waiting for Matthew, of course, according to normal development, Matthew is now on his way to San Francisco, that is, on the ship, however, it is obvious that Ocassi and Matthew are in harmony, as for how to send the news, it is actually very simple, it should have been specially sent over, and then went ashore halfway and sent it by telegram.

And Matthew didn't get off the boat, and he didn't say anything else, this was pretending, pretending that he didn't know anything. Moreover, he has to put up a little bit of a shelf now, Li Mengyang understands this matter.

"Your Majesty, please be relieved! No one is going to listen to that old bastard's bullshit fatwa! ”

"陛xià! I didn't say it! What kind of fatwa is that, it's just a piece of paper to wipe your ass! ”

"陛xià! I have to say, it's too small to wipe your butt! ”

“bull-**！ Is your moon that big? ”

"Big eyes!"

"Hahaha......"

I have to say that these ministers and various officials have been messing around with Li Mengyang for a long time, and they are all a little out of sight, and there is no lower limit when it comes to joking.

It's good, Li Mengyang is also smiling very comfortably, so now that his internal affairs are straightened out, he shouldn't be affected by any bullshit fatamwa.

In fact, this is not only because the revolutionary army is revolutionary enough, but also because there is also the 1848 revolution in Europe, to put it simply, the current religious system is not popular, everyone wants them to reform, but the old forces are still very strong, it is that France, and the key to this is the external problem.

So, Li Mengyang pressed it twice with his hand, and all the members of this kind stopped laughing.

Seeing that it was good, Li Mengyang also said, "Then the question now is, why did the Pope issue such a fatwa?" ”

This time, the people present were basically big-eyed and small-eyed, and they all couldn't understand this matter a little.

In fact, there are many well-educated people here, such as William. Thomson, but he's a scientist, he doesn't like other things, such as politics, international or whatever, he doesn't like it very much, as for religion, to be honest, he's really a Catholic, but he doesn't look down on the current pope, because so many people are against that guy, it must not be a good person, right?

Naturally, well-educated people can't see the problem behind this fatwa, so needless to say, the Chinese are now. That's all for the scene. That vision is not enough. They really don't know about international events.

So who can see a little bit more clearly?

"Majesty!" The big man Bill spoke, "Could it be that France is going to do something about our empire?" ”

When Li Mengyang heard this, he almost didn't pat his thigh, and there are still people in his 'cabinet' who can have some international views and political sensitivity.

Big man Bill, he used to like to watch these political things, which is conducive to his cheating, and now. He is the finance minister of a country, so he still doesn't pay attention to international events? His original idea was that in case this Clint . . . Li was killed, so he had to deal with it earlier, this ......

Hey~ Fortunately, Li Mengyang didn't know what the big man Bill thought......

"That's right! It's France! Li Mengyang gave the big man Bill a reward with his eyes at this time, "Everyone, how much do you know about the things in the south?" ”

"Southside?"

That's right, it's the south, and what Li Mengyang is referring to is Mexico!

Strange to say, Mexico is a very far place to go from France. But in 1862, the French Emperor Napoleon III sent an army of 34,000. Expedition to Mexico!

Let's just say that, when ordinary people see this situation, they must think, French Emperor Napoleon III, isn't this a stupid b?

So far away in a place, can you control zhì? And sent so many people, how much does this military cost?

However, people just did it, and they didn't hesitate to spend money, so why is this?

Li Mengyang knew that in many textbooks of later generations, there were also some domestic materials that mentioned this paragraph, and the introduction was very vague, and many of them were just a reason, that is, 'France can interfere with the United States through this war of aggression'.

Isn't that?

The relationship between the United States and France has always been very good, especially when the United States bought that piece of land, it was all a business negotiated with Napoleon, and now it is Napoleon III, how can he tear his face with the United States!

Obviously not such a reason, so what can it be?

At this point, because the guy Napoleon III is too weird, Li Mengyang really studied him, as far as Li Mengyang's personal analysis is concerned, that is, Napoleon III actually wants to be a bigger emperor!

Emperor of the Roman Empire!

This Roman Empire, not sacred, is the Rome of a thousand years ago, and he Napoleon III wanted to accomplish this great cause!

So does this invasion of Mexico have anything to do with Napoleon III's restoration of the Roman Empire?

Yes, very much.

In fact, just a long time ago, Napoleon III had such an idea, he turned out to be a paranoid person, and he became famous because he learned from his uncle's set, that is, Napoleon's set, he wanted to be exactly like Napoleon!

But he had no power, so he had to use other methods, and he had to use marriage to strengthen himself, Napoleon III was also a nobleman himself, and he originally wanted to marry a princess of the Habsburg family, but unfortunately people looked down on him.

In addition, there is also Napoleon II, the son of Napoleon, what is the title of II?

King of Rome!

To put it bluntly, Napoleon III was actually to inherit Napoleon's aspirations, even including Napoleon's ideals.

Therefore, we can see that Napoleon III's frequent use of troops, the Franco-Austrian-Italian War, the Crimean War, and the current invasion of Mexico, just these wars, France can't get any benefits at all, because they are not close to him, that is, the invasion of Italy seems to be good, but later, this strange thing guards the one-third of an acre of land in Rome.

So is he crazy?

Not!

The Franco-Austrian-Italian war was also fought by the Pope, because Pius IX at that time was downcast, and the French came forward and lay down in Italy, and the Pope returned to Rome.

Let's look at the Crimean War first, who is that against?

Tsarist Russia, that country is Orthodox Christianity, isn't this a complete war of religion?

But how far is Crimea from France?

The real ones over there are the Habsburgs.

The purpose of fighting Mexico is also like this, because there was an emperor in Mexico before, called Maximiliano I, this person is a member of the famous Habsburg family, that is, as long as the emperor of France helps this guy to restore, then, doesn't this prove that the emperor of France is stronger than the emperor of Austria?

Maximiliano is Franz. Joseph's brother!

The current Austrian emperor is of the Habsburgs, a descendant of the Holy Roman Empire...... I am better than him, and the title of Roman Emperor is mine!

What's more, before that, Juárez also had a religious problem, he turned his guns on Catholics!

Isn't it all about currying favor with the Pope?

It was all for one purpose, to hope that the Pope would recognize him as Napoleon III as Roman Emperor!

For such a purpose, so many wars were fought, and France did not get any benefits, spending billions of francs, hundreds of thousands of French ** people, and wasting national strength. Therefore, Li Mengyang has always felt that Napoleon III is definitely a strange person, if it were not for the fact that France went through the Great Revolution and the entire social development was accelerated, then France would have been finished long ago.

But now, Li Mengyang needs to face such a strange thing, Li Mengyang didn't tell all these ministers here, he just said that now a large French army is in Mexico, and Mexico City was just defeated last year, at this time they should be ready, and the Pope, who has been protected by France, has also issued such an edict, and that qiē has already understood.

The next target, most likely, is our empire!

The reason is simple......

"Comrades! Emperor Napoleon III! This clown-like guy, he just thinks that our socialist democratic empire of America is bullying now! He thinks that I, the emperor, am a Chinese, so I am easy to bully! The army in Mexico is ready to move, and this fatwa is to hope for civil strife in our empire! Comrades! How can we fight back against such provocations?? "This is the purpose of Li Mengyang's meeting!

Now, the new Tang Empire of the United States has to face an old power like France, what can it do?!

"Majesty!" Okashi stood up and said, "The minister is willing to lead the troops into battle!" ”

"Majesty!" Samuel. DuPont was also unequivocal, "We should send the navy!" ”

"陛xià! ……”

"陛xià! ……”

It's not bad, it's not cowardly...... (To be continued......)

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