May 24, 1868,

Today is the day when the Second Empire of Texas and Mexico begins to elect an emperor,

It was also the day when Tom auctioned off his "wife" and daughter-in-law to countries around the world.

In the town hall of Houston, diplomatic representatives from European countries and representatives of the Yankey government have gathered.

The European delegates entered the conference room first, and they all looked like victorious countries at the negotiating table.

In their eyes, Tom has already coaxed, cowardly can no longer coward,

They are already looking forward to returning to the European continent with a boatload of food, singing and dancing, so that the motherland can make themselves knights.

With the expectant eyes of the delegates, Tom entered the conference room.

Tom didn't wear the cheap mother's brand suit this time, but wore a standard European aristocratic dress.

In the eyes of the European aristocracy, the aristocracy of the dress was somewhat beyond their cognition.

This aristocracy does not refer to the luxury of the fabrics and accessories of the clothes, but to the specifications.

Hundreds of badges of all kinds hung on Tom's chest, and on the shoulders and neckline of Tom's dress, there were various patterns and accessories symbolizing the highest rank.

In short, Tom's dress is a garment sewn into the dress of the highest-ranking military governor in European countries.

The ribbons and epaulettes of the Prussian military uniform, the French two-foot hat, the British "fluffy" hat, the Ottoman long scimitar, and the long canvas leggings used by all countries......

All European delegates can see the shadow of their country's top military commander in Tom's clothes.

This dress is also a piece of clothing that Tom clumsily imitates the appearance of the dresses in the military uniforms of European countries, and sews it together.

Wearing this dress Tom aroused the curiosity of the delegates of various countries, wondering why Tom was wearing this nondescript dress.

Tom, dressed in a dress weighing thirty pounds, walked slowly to the center of the podium.

Tom looked at the dozens of surprised diplomatic representatives in front of him, and said something that made the delegates even more jaw-dropping:

"Does anyone want their daughter to be my queen?"

"It's okay to be my daughter-in-law, my son is one year old this year, and it's almost time to get married."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the European diplomatic representatives present was confused, and they did not understand what Tom meant by this sentence.

While the European delegates were staring at each other, the representatives of the Yankey administration were the first to understand what Tom was going to do.

Charles, the representative of the Yankee government, immediately stood up and shouted at Tom:

"Don't be delusional, the United States of America will not allow the monarchy to reappear in this land of freedom."

It's good that Charles didn't scold, and with this scolding, the European delegates instantly understood what Tom meant by what he just said.

The way they look at Tom has changed from longing to eat his flesh and bones to looking at a good husband.

As Tom had speculated before, as long as these people were not stupid, they understood the difference between Tom being the emperor and Tom being just the head of a company.

They also understand that once Tom becomes emperor, even if Tom is not happy, countries will have the opportunity to rely on marriage to enter the core power center of the heroine company.

Claim to carve up the Heroine Company.

By contrast, the small profits promised by the Yankee government are nothing short of a joke.

The opportunity to gain control of the Heroine Company, the Texas region, the Second Mexican Empire, and a few boatloads of food to save the populace from starvation was not a choice at all, but a declarative sentence for these European aristocrats.

As for whether Tom can become emperor, the representatives of various countries still trust Tom's ability in this regard.

They already knew who the real masters of the Texas and Mexican Second Empires were, and that the Yankee government, along with the Second French Empire and Austria-Hungary, had no ability to extend domestic power into Tom's territory.

Tom didn't do anything, and directly distributed the ballots that were distributed to all employees in the Smith factory area today.

As soon as the delegates look at this ballot, they will understand.

Tom wanted to follow Napoleon's example and vote for emperor with a "democratic" hand.

The representative of the Yankee government, Charles, sat in his place after reading the emperor's ballot in his hand,

Charles understood that the Yankee government was simply not capable of preventing Tom from becoming emperor of Texas without the support of the Europeans.

Whether Tom claims to be the emperor of America or the emperor of Texas is just a title.

And Charles, who has been dealing with Europeans for many years, also understands the twists and turns of the aristocracy.

I also know how Tom's move will make the Europeans crazy.

What Charles couldn't believe was that Tom would rather ascend the throne as emperor and use marriage to open up the center of power to the Europeans than spit out a little bit of food.

This kind of behavior, which seems to be extremely unprofitable, makes Charles unable to understand.

It also drives the Europeans crazy.

They didn't care why Tom was acting so unusually, they just knew that their chance had come.

In their eyes, Tom was still the knight who was obsessed with the feudal system at the funeral of Massimiliano I.

After Tom himself announced that he was going to get married, he didn't pretentiously, just turned around and walked out of the conference room.

In the conference room, all the Europeans maintained their usual social etiquette and said goodbye to their peers elegantly.

But the pace of their progress, and the words of urging the coachman after getting into the carriage, betrayed the true thoughts of their hearts—

Tom's wife's position, our Great Britain / France / Russia / XXX is bound to win!

In addition to Tom himself, the list of all the members of the Smith family was also sent to the diplomatic representatives of various countries for the first time.

The big nations are vying for Tom's own wife, and the smaller ones are targeting Tom's family.

Tom's widowed mother and sister, teenage sister who is also considered marriageable age, these are Tom's core family circle,

In addition to these, several cousins, cousins, and all members of the Smith family became their targets.

Although there were also the oldest conservative aristocrats in Europe, these diplomatic representatives did not dislike Tom, the mud-legged emperor of the Americas.

On the one hand, among the thrones to be inherited by this clay-legged emperor, one is the former throne of the Habsburgs - the Mexican throne,

On the other hand, they can let some families in China abandon their children to political marriages.

Besides, then again, it's the nineteenth century, and political marriages are good if they have interests, so why care about each other's origins?

In this way, Smith Farm was broken by diplomatic representatives of various countries in the next few months, and hundreds of European nobles brought pictures of their daughters or men from Europe to introduce Tom to the nobility of their blood in exchange for the possibility of marriage.

And now Tom, after deceiving the Europeans with a false signal of opening up the center of power through marriage, has prepared what he really should be related to

That was his enthronement ceremony on June 1, 1868.

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Thanks to Anne the Flame Witch for the tip of 100