After 14 years of rapid development, Chang'an City is now the largest city on the west coast of North America, with a total area expanded by 26.5 times to 879 square kilometers, and its population has increased from 1,573,700 at the end of June 1858 to 1,788,000 at the end of 1859 after a year and a half, maintaining a good momentum of steady growth.

Compared with New York, the largest metropolis in North America, its total population grew rapidly from 1,876,200 at the end of June 1858 to 2,370,000 at the end of 1859.

This is the result of intense social upheaval, and people tend to feel that the big cities are more secure, not because of New York's natural growth, but because of the additional factor.

In contrast, Chang'an City does not have the crowded and chaotic slums of New York, with poor sanitation and living conditions, and a place where crime is rife with filth and filth.

The Tang Kingdom implements a set of neighborhood management system, except for a small number of salaried public officials, mainly rely on the voluntary service of residents on the street to maintain a clean and tidy living environment in the neighborhood, maintain street security, and report and fight crime.

The combination of the neighborhood management system and the household registration system has become the most basic social management system, which has proved to be very effective.

Those residents who are enthusiastic about public welfare, after the selection of residents and the recommendation of the street, have a certain number of places every year to win the honor of "Justice of the Peace", and have a certain chance to participate in the monthly pilgrimage meeting, which is an incomparable honor.

For example; Every year in the first month and May of the year, the grand grand scene of sacrificing the ancestors of heaven and earth, "Justice of the Peace" as representatives of the people can participate, showing the holy scroll of benevolence to all people, which makes people flock to it.

The carriage shuttled lightly through the streets, sometimes stopping for a while in the lively neighborhood, and taking the carriage to watch the life of the citizens up close, which was also a way for Richard to get close to life.

It's not ...... Three mounted police officers escorted some Dongying people wearing Fuso kimonos and pedaling clogs along the street, these short Dongying people attracted the surrounding crowd to point their fingers, curiously stop to watch, I don't know what to say, suddenly caused a burst of laughter.

In front of Dongying people, the Chinese are full of pride and self-confidence.

"Your Majesty, these should be a large number of young envoys sent by the Fuso State recently, intending to learn the advanced culture and technology of our country, they call it "sending Tang envoys", because there are too many people, so they are not treated as diplomatic envoys. ”

"Hmmm......"

Richard replied noncommittally, sighing secretly in his heart;

Britain, France and Germany have sent a large number of young students and diplomats to exchange, including some experts and scholars, and now the Fuso people have also come, but unfortunately they do not see the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Shenzhou has been decadent and degenerate for a long time, wars are still frequent, and the people of the mainland are living in dire straits, even if such a backward feudal dynasty is overthrown.

"Your Majesty, the diplomatic envoys of Fusang also put forward a request to go to the front line to observe, and also hope to send young students to study in the Chang'an Lecture Hall and enter some ......factories."

"Not at all." Before Viscount Dong Jie's words were finished, Richard interrupted him, directly denied it, and said; "In the military and scientific and technological fields, it is strictly forbidden to study and observe abroad, sensitive information is prohibited from leaking, and no reception or dissemination is allowed, and the military industry only sells products and not technology, and this article is implemented as a principle. Oh...... The exception was for Prussians, who applied for an ad hoc application. ”

"Wechen understands that the system will be drawn up in accordance with His Majesty's will."

"The Fuso people only need to appreciate the strength of the kingdom, and teach them to be respectful and obedient, rather than teaching them to pick up swords and swords."

"Weichen understands, he must consider it carefully."

Viscount Dong Jie responded respectfully, Your Majesty the King This is an obvious double standard, and the mystery inside needs to be carefully experienced after going back, this is the basic consciousness of a close minister.

Your Majesty will not explain, if Viscount Dong Jie can't understand Your Majesty's deep meaning, then this position will be at the end.

In fact, Richard's starting point is also very simple.

Regardless of whether the Fusang people are self-reliant or not, at least the knowledge of military affairs and science and technology cannot flow out of the Tang Kingdom, and it is useless to "send Tang envoys" to call their fathers.

The Prussians, on the other hand, as the biggest destabilizing factor in the future of Europe, deserve the help of the Tang Kingdom, selflessly imparting knowledge based on advanced military concepts and science and technology, and supporting it to thrive.

The close friendship between Tang and Germany will last for many years, and it is also one of the pillars of the Tang Kingdom's diplomacy with Europe, and the other pillar of diplomacy with Europe is the British Empire, which is beyond doubt.

Today

With the rapid growth of the Tang Kingdom's economic and military strength and the substantial increase in its national strength, Li felt that it was time to put forward the "Monroe Policy" that belonged to the Tang Kingdom.

This policy divides the whole of the Americas as its own backyard, advocates the solution of Americans' problems, and strongly opposes the interference of foreign countries, including Europe, in the affairs of the Americas, so as to create their own circle of friends.

Just like the "Pound Pound Trade Circle" and the "Franc Trade Circle", the Tang Kingdom needs its own "Tang Yuan Trade Circle" as a basic plate, which will be the focus of the next foreign policy.

If you want to grow into a world-class power, it is not enough to rely on your own market and national strength, and it is also immature.

The old powers, Britain and France, with their colonies and vassals all over the world, have created their own raw material supply bases and cheap labor sources, and in times of war, they have a large number of cannon fodder troops.

Britain once proudly proclaimed; "The British Empire will not fail until the blood of the Indian subcontinent is drained."

This is the foundation of an old world power, based on a vast area of colonies, piled up with the towers of the world's top powers, and the foundation is solid and difficult to shake.

The negative example is the North and South sides of the American Civil War today, they shed the blood of white people in the war, hurt the foundation of the country, and if it is not supplemented by tens of millions of immigrants from Europe, no matter whether the war is won or lost, it is bound to collapse and decline.

The Tang Kingdom took a clever approach, backed by the almost endless Shenzhou Continent with almost endless labor resources, replenishing the army on the one hand, and the labor force population on the other hand, and made dazzling achievements in military expansion and economic construction.

In the long run

The Tang Kingdom should include the southern United States, Central America, and South America into its own market, and integrate all these little brothers through military, political, and economic infiltration.

Half an hour later

In a lively teahouse, King Richard, Viscount Dong Jie, and Lieutenant General Liu Wu were all dressed in civilian clothes, sitting in a private seat in the screen style to drink tea leisurely, listening to the discussions of the tea guests with their ears pricked up.

The discussion of the tea guests can be clearly transmitted to the ears, and most of the hot topics discussed are the current war against the United States, especially the siege of Chicago that has poked the high point of the masses, and it is also the most exciting hot spot today.

In addition to the words, there is a lot of confidence in the kingdom's army to capture this North American metropolis.

King Richard had an attitude of listening and amusement, which was a way for him to relax, to get out of the palace and feel the people's feelings, to be able to hear the most real voices.

Sit next to you

Viscount Dong Jie's expression was not so leisurely, but he could feel the pressure everywhere.

The true evaluation of the people is an invisible spur to the royal government, and it is impossible to deceive the Holy Hearing, but only to do the work of the government more solidly and effectively meet the needs of the people.

His Majesty has always encouraged high-ranking officials and nobles to listen to the voices of the people, solve the needs of the people, formulate policies that are in line with the will of the people, and not forcibly intervene in the development of the market economy, but only play a guiding and regulating role through policies to encourage healthy competition in the market.

In fact, many policies are instructed by His Majesty, such as municipal construction regulations, perfect sewer facilities, driving on the right, urban green spaces and public toilets, etc., which are now becoming more and more perfect in implementation and are among the world's top urban planning.

Even the proud Emperor Napoleon III sent a large number of municipal administrators to study and improve the poor sanitation and slum living conditions in Paris, Lyon, and Frankfurt, with remarkable results.

Viscount Dong Jie knows that a cabinet re-election will be held after June this year, and the new prime minister is likely to be the current senior California official Liu Xianjun to achieve a change of government.

Yoo Hyun-jun was the former head of the royal secretariat, and after receiving His Majesty's instructions, he left the court to form a new political party called the "Justice and Liberal Democratic Party", or "Gongzi Party" for short, and became the leader of the party.

The "Gongzi Party" is a new and important force in the political arena of the Tang Kingdom, covering the interests of white new immigrants, Mexicans and working class, similar in nature to the Democratic Party of the United States, emphasizing the development of a pluralistic, fair and just multi-ethnic integrated society.

Its counterpart is the "National Power Party", the leader of which is the current prime minister, Count Gu Yan, who has been re-elected as prime minister for two consecutive terms, each for a period of five years, and the second term ends at the end of June this year.

The "National Power Party" is an out-and-out royalist party, the current ruling party with Chinese and aristocratic strata and the vast number of small and medium-sized farmers and ranchers as its hardcore members, and its policy is conservative and xenophobic, and the strict prohibition of black people from entering the Tang Kingdom is the party's iron-fisted measure.

Most Chinese immigrants regard the "National Power Party" as their own party, and the party's cadres are almost all ethnic Chinese from top to bottom, with only a very small number of white aristocrats, such as Earl Kahn and Harry Fletsch, whose policies are conservative and xenophobic.

If it is a normal election, the "National Power Party" will win the final general election, but it will not be able to prevent His Majesty the King from pulling the strings, secretly saying that it is Foreign Minister Juan Carlos, Colonial Minister Zheng Wei, Minister of Economy Chen Cailiang and other heavyweights who have turned against the water and brought a large number of current parliamentarians to join the "Gongzi Party." This made the "Gongzi Party" immediately gain momentum.

Speak from the heart

None of these government officials are willing to join the "Gongzi Party", and it is not nice to stay in the "National Power Party", the largest heavyweight party in the kingdom?

If the grassroots elections are implemented, the "National Power Party" will crush the "Gongzi Party" into scum in minutes, because the "National Power Party" is backed by the Chinese forces that occupy nearly ninety percent of the population of the Tang Kingdom.

But it can't stand His Majesty's desire to engage in political party checks and balances, political party rotation, the so-called arms can't twist the thighs, His Majesty the King has a look, and these heavyweight ministers can only obediently obey their orders.

Resistance, that does not exist.

All people's political lives depend on His Majesty's grace, thunder, rain and dew are all royal graces, where does true democracy come from?

Such a political situation is purely a testing ground for His Majesty the King, and this is still an arrangement of how to obey orders, and there is no price to talk about.

Viscount Dong Jie has been serving by His Majesty's side for several years, and it is estimated that in these two years, he may release himself and serve as a senior member.

The future destination may be high-ranking officials in California, or it may be the Great Lakes region led by Chicago, the focus of the current war.

Therefore, His Majesty's private visit to Weifu still brought considerable pressure to Viscount Dong Jie, making him have to consider the future governance and the trend of public opinion, which are extremely important aspects.

Where do these tea guests have a doorkeeper on their mouths?

Sure enough, it didn't take long

Someone mentioned the delicious Galapagos tortoise, and the tone was full of infinite remembrance, attracting the support of everyone;

"The provincial government has issued a special ban, and it is estimated that it will not be possible to eat delicious Galapagos tortoises in the future, just think about it, it is really mouth-watering!"

"What this guy said is very true, especially the turtle liver is delicious, and the food is fragrant, it is a first-class ingredient in the world today!"

"Five-spice stewed turtle meat is not far behind, it turns out that there are several restaurants on Kai Tak Gate Street, and the turtle meat made is famous, I was fortunate to go with Lord Lu to taste it once, and it is still unforgettable!"

At the beginning of the year, there was a restaurant that violated the government's ban and slaughtered Galapagos tortoises for sale at a high price, and after being caught, the boss and his buddies were all punished for bankruptcy, and I heard that he was put into a hard labor camp, and now he is mining in the east, and he is not expected to come back in this life."

"The government doesn't let you do it, you can't do it, this is the bottom line, recently Chongwenmen Street opened several Taoyuan ginseng pigeon house, I heard that the taste is quite good, the old few have time to take a look......"

"Oh...... I know it's a Taoyuan specialty, but we don't have any passenger pigeons here! ”

"You don't know yet, they are all fresh wild pigeons caught on the Colorado Plateau, and they are sent to our Chang'an City through the Nevada Railway. The business of those pigeon halls is very good, a dime a bowl, each bowl stews a pigeon, Tong Su is not bullied! ”

"Well, it's not expensive, so you'll have to try it......"

The topic of the tea guests was talking and drifting away, and everything in the south and north of the world could be talked about, but fortunately, there was nothing to touch on the taboo topic, which made Viscount Dong Jie secretly happy for the people of the royal government......

It's good luck that I didn't touch His Majesty's scales!

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