Chapter 198: The Queen of America Arrives in New York
The Ming court sent an edict to the British and French royal families and courts:
"According to the observation of Daming information personnel, the situation in North Yinzhou, especially in the United States, is now extremely tense.
"In order to prevent possible chaos from endangering the Ming immigrants, the Ming will continue to increase troops to the northern Yinzhou.
"France's armed forces in Canada are basically sufficient, but Britain's forces are relatively weak.
"It is recommended that Britain send additional armed forces to the United States as soon as possible to suppress possible chaos.
"Britain and France, as the main forces in the North Yinzhou region, have an obligation to maintain stability in the region."
The court officials and royal families of the two countries were in a very melancholy mood after receiving the reminder from the Ming Dynasty.
Especially the British.
The situation in the United States is like a bag of explosives dangling above a fire, which can be lit at any moment.
The Queen of America has just been arranged, and the Assembly of the Kingdom of America has been prepared, which has barely stabilized the situation.
Now, with a large-scale investment turmoil, and the beginning of the continuous influx of the Mornu laid off in the central and southern Yinzhou, the situation in the United States has become dangerous again.
When William Pitt saw the news, he pinched his forehead weakly.
Pete can be basically sure that Daming did not deliberately create trouble in the United States.
Ming merchants found business opportunities and traded slaves from Zhongnan and South Yinzhou to the United States, which was only a commercial activity.
If the Ming Dynasty really deliberately created an incident, it would have been possible not to contact and remind Britain and France, especially since there was no need to suggest that Britain and France take the initiative to increase their troops.
From the very beginning, the Ming Dynasty was determined that he was unwilling to keep a large number of Mo slaves.
The Ming allowed the evacuated Tessians to leave with their slaves, which was a decision to respect personal property and was made during the peace talks.
This was even a condition that diplomats from various countries in the Tessie, including Pete, had fought for.
Now it seems that it is the safest choice to throw the slaves to the Ming Dynasty, or to send them to Mozhou en masse.
But it's too late to say anything.
Britain was preparing to send Queen Charlotte of America to the United States.
The official ceremony of crowning as the King of the United States of America and the convening of the first Congress of the Kingdom of America were held.
Can Queen Charlotte be allowed to pass in this situation?
In the growing intensity of tiredness and exhaustion, Pete felt a dull pain begin to ache in his head.
He pinched his forehead weakly again, frowning and sighing in his heart.
I'm like a maintenance worker, struggling to keep an old and twisted machine running.
Fix a fault yourself, and a new one will appear immediately.
After stabilizing for a while, it will jump out of the problem on its own again.
How can we fundamentally solve the current problem?
How can all the areas under the control of the United Kingdom be truly united?
There needs to be a king who really holds power, has enough courage and vision.
Able to suppress dissenting opinions and quickly embark on the right path.
Just like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
George III of England may be barely qualified, but his sons and daughters are not.
In the final analysis, it is still not thorough enough to study the Ming Dynasty.
If, like Lucy, the princes were trained in a centralized manner, there would not be no qualified monarchs.
With reflection and deep apprehension, Pitt once again attended a new day of House of Commons sessions.
Pitt demanded additional troops to the American region and arranged military spending.
As a result, Fox rightfully stood up against it:
"The affairs of the King of America should be settled by the Kingdom of America itself.
"It should not be for the United Kingdom to send troops and provide military spending.
"More troops should be recruited within the Kingdom of America.
"Let the Kingdom of America settle its own military expenses.
"If weapons and equipment are needed, unite
The kingdom can be sold."
Pete exclaimed, a little annoyed:
"What time is it, you're still thinking about that pitiful profit!
"Let the United States recruit its own troops and raise its own military expenses, which is to make the United States completely independent!
"In the event of any contradiction or conflict between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of America, it is impossible for these forces to be at the disposal of the United Kingdom."
Fox was-for-tat and immediately said:
"America was supposed to be an independent kingdom!
"Only if the United Kingdom tries to control the United States will there be tensions between us.
"Position the Kingdom of America as a complete and equal whole.
"Naturally, there are no traditional, conservative, feudal worries!"
Pete continues to spray:
"The Tianzhu region was already unsustainable, and had to allow the slave trade to the Mozhou colony.
"If we lose the American region again, the United Kingdom will become a second-rate country.
"We will completely lose the opportunity and ability to lead Tessie."
Fox still retorts as a matter of course:
"Why are we leading the Tessie Continent? Does this do us any good?
"Are you still trying to use the power of the Taixi countries to contend with the Ming again?
"That's something that can't happen, it's impossible to win, and the British people won't accept another world war that challenges the Ming Dynasty.
"The current world is led by the Ming Dynasty, and the United Kingdom's integration into the Ming system is the safest."
Pete felt that he had no way to convince his opponent, so he had to change his thinking:
"Queen Charlotte is going to America to be crowned, to preside over the American Congress.
"It should be escorted by the Royal Navy, with the Royal Army to protect its safety.
"Look no further, Queen Charlotte is also second in line to the throne of the United Kingdom.
"The royal family has the right to arrange for troops to protect them to the best of their ability."
Pitt took the matter of sending troops out of the confines of the imperial court and regarded it as an internal affair of the royal family.
The British Royal Navy theoretically belongs to the royal family.
The army itself does not carry royal titles, but many of the subordinate units carry royal titles.
The royal family's request for troops to escort Charlotte to Yinzhou was a completely reasonable operation.
It's just that the scale is certainly not as big as the official battle.
Fox can't veto such a thing entirely, unless he decides to support the abolition of the royal family.
It is only possible to suppress the size of the convoy as much as possible.
Lawmakers have been arguing for days over the details of Charlotte's trip to the United States.
In addition to the size of the escort force, it is more important to select the right escort.
Charlotte had just turned ten years old this year, and such a child could not fulfill the duties of the king.
So the kingdom of America also needs a regent.
The natural candidate was Charlotte's father, the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince of Wales.
But the Prince of Wales is also the regent of the United Kingdom.
The Prince of Wales could not stay in the United States for a long time was small, and the early merger of the United States and the United Kingdom was large.
A large number of parliamentarians, who feared that the United Kingdom would soon merge with the United States, were unanimously opposed.
In the end, the Prince of Wales chose his second brother, the Duke of York, Frederick Augustus, to serve as regent of the Kingdom of America.
The frail Princess Amelia also travels to America on vacation.
The news that Queen Charlotte and the Duke of York were about to leave for the United States was immediately transmitted to the United States by the British royal family and the imperial court.
When the arrangements for the Kingdom of America and the Queen were finalized, the representatives of the American states were already aware of the arrangements, and now only a more precise date has been set.
Now representatives of the states of the United States
Spokesmen for various interest groups in the United States have gathered in New York.
The rapidly escalating chaos in the United States seems to have been put on hold at this time.
After all, this is a major event of actual "nation-building", a major event that truly confirms one's own status.
The various groups whose interests are harmed will be as patient as possible, or will be asked to be forcible to endure.
This is the kind of outcome that British politicians such as Pitt are looking forward to.
That's why Charlotte, a ten-year-old girl, was sent to the United States.
Pitt pinned his hopes on Monroe to negotiate a bill in the U.S. Legislature.
Before Monroe left, Pete specifically found Monroe alone to talk to and expressed his thoughts:
"The overriding goal of the American Congress is to stabilize the situation.
"Stabilize the situation at all costs.
"The American Congress should not pursue a completely uniform law, and the United States itself cannot be completely unified.
"The situation in each colony was very different, and complete unification was the trigger for war.
"I suggest that we promise to gradually ban the import of Moji slaves and stabilize the slave owners who breed slaves.
"At the same time, we pledged to gradually abolish slavery in the industrial colonies and stabilize the factory owners.
"Don't abolish slavery right away and stabilize the regular Southern plantation owners.
"Promise to grant the colonies a sufficiently high level of self-government to allow them to make their own laws and administer their own land and people according to their circumstances.
"Each colony should establish its own parliament and elect its own executive.
"The Kingdom of America should be a federation, and federal laws need to be ratified by each colony before they can take effect within the colony."
Monroe agreed with mixed feelings:
"I understand, thank you for your advice."
For Monroe, things have come to this point, and they can't be considered bad or good.
After the establishment of the Kingdom of America, he became the official Prime Minister of the Kingdom of America, and ceased to be the Secretary of State for American Affairs of the United Kingdom.
Whether this change in status has been raised or lowered is something that no one can judge.
What you have to do will also change, and you will no longer represent the interests of the United States in the United Kingdom Cabinet.
To consolidate the various colonies of the United States so that they do not collapse and disintegrate, like a repairman.
In the future, what we need to do is to coordinate interests, not represent and fight for interests.
On the first day of the second month of the first year of Ankang, the passenger ship and the convoy of Queen Charlotte, the Duke of York, the Regent of York, and the Prime Minister James Monroe officially set sail from London to New York, the capital of the Kingdom of America.
Ten days later, on the twelfth day of the first month of the first year of Ankang, Queen Charlotte's fleet arrived in New York.
After more than 20 days of trekking, Gu Rui and Lufrey's slave ship finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at Norfolk Harbor, Virginia, where they joined Huang Xin, who had been waiting in advance.