A butterfly flipped its wings in the Amazon jungle, and half a month later, a storm occurred in the Pacific Ocean......

After the Battle of Virginia, the defeat and capture of the "Constitution" had a profound impact, and the earthquake in British politics was one of them, which directly led to the fall of the Henry John Temple government and plunged London into a new round of political games......

When the news reached the Tang Empire, it was already early October, and this was the most beautiful season of the year in Chang'an (San Francisco), with a crisp autumn and fragrant fruits, filled with a rich and prosperous hustle and bustle urban atmosphere.

According to the statistics of Chang'an City at the end of June 1861, the population of the entire Chang'an metropolitan area reached 2.037 million, ranking first on the west coast of North America and the second largest metropolis on the entire American continent after New York.

New York and Chang'an, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast, are both world-class metropolises, ranking second and third in the global rankings respectively, after the London metropolitan area with a total population of more than 337 million.

As the largest city in the world today, London's population was only about 900,000 in 1800, but in 1851 it reached 2.63 million, and 10 years later, this number increased to 3.37 million.

This agglomeration effect was also reflected in the second industrialized Tang Empire, where the population of Chang'an City grew steadily and rapidly, showing a steeper and steeper population growth curve, which also brought a lot of happy troubles.

This is the "metropolitan disease" that has attracted widespread attention among sociologists, and although Chang'an City has world-leading urban planning, large and small city streets are spacious and clean, it still cannot avoid the disadvantages of population agglomeration.

With the rapid expansion of the urban area, the traffic problem has become an unavoidable problem, and the main mode of transportation in the city is the small capacity of the public carriage, the high operating cost, and it is difficult to solve the problem of urban pollution.

That is, pack horses urinate everywhere, a big stall, and on the streets where public carriages run frequently, there is always a lingering smell of urine.

On the basis of the existing urban public carriage, the idea of developing a tram was proposed, led by the government science and technology fund, and the early scientific and technological research and development work was carried out in several science universities with strong electrical engineering foundation in the empire.

Demand-oriented is the starting point for the scientific and technological development of the Tang Empire.

Daming Palace, Taiye Pool

In this harvest season when osmanthus is fragrant and the melons and fruits fall full of branches, the rare trees in the inner courtyard of the palace are no exception, and they are also full of prosperity.

Emperor Richard took the queen and a group of concubines, princes, princesses and a large family to visit the garden to enjoy the flowers, and they were happy, and the concubines of Yingying Yanyan took a group of half-grown children, which was really very happy.

Today

The royal family can be described as flourishing, with a total of 23 princes, 18 princesses, and the eldest prince, His Royal Highness Tang Li Yuan, has reached the age of 14. The eldest son of the queen, His Royal Highness Tang-Li Gan, the third prince, was crowned King of Qin, 12 years old this year, and the young prince is still in infancy.

Six princes over the age of 10 were crowned Grand Dukes, and the other young princes were not rewarded for the time being, and they will be talked about when they are older.

There are a large number of people in the royal family, plus there are hundreds of women serving the palace, and the docile white tigers that Richard usually raises are also mixed, and the princess who is only a few years old is sitting on his back, screaming loudly with excitement.

Richard retracted his gaze with a gentle expression and said to Queen Lin (Lin Zhen'er) beside him; "The queen, Li Gan, Li Kun, Li Xin, Li Yuan, these princes are all heroic young men, it's time to let them out and temper them. I intend to arrange to enter the army of the East to experience the wars in the territory opened up for them by my father and the emperor, and to experience it for myself. ”

"Everything is according to what Your Majesty says, and the concubines have nothing to disobey."

"That's good, in a week's time, the train patent for the eastward march will be arranged, and the six knighted princes will be among them, all of whom will participate in the war as second lieutenants in the Royal Army, and I have already arranged it."

"Ah...... Why is Your Majesty in such a hurry? Li Yuan is still better at 14 years old, but Li Xin has just turned 10 years old this year, and I am afraid that this child is too young to endure the hard life of the army. ”

"The queen's words are wrong, King William I of Prussia joined the army at the age of nine, and among the Germanic Junker military nobles, the children of the nobles who joined the army at the age of 5 and 6 abound, others can do it, why can't the royal children of my Tang royal family do it?"

"I ...... I pray for your majesty's forgiveness, and the concubines and women are short-sighted. The three sons in law of Queen Lin were all in the eastward march this time, and when she thought of this, she was reluctant and couldn't help but burst into tears.

Richard sighed lightly, put his palm on Empress Lin's round shoulder, and gently persuaded; "I know that the queen has a motherly heart, but the jade is not cut, it is not a weapon, the world is the law of the jungle of the jungle, without a brave and enterprising heart, looking at the world's vision, after all, it is just a waste person who eats all day long.

The children of my Tang Dynasty Emperor clan have to be tempered in the army and undergo the smoke of war before they can grow into the pillars of the empire.

Sometimes, spoiling is harming children!

This time, the six princes went on an expedition, all accompanied by the children of the top nobles of the empire, and they would not be lonely in the army. I will write another imperial decree and ask the generals in the army to take more care of it, and the queen can rest assured. ”

His Majesty's gentle persuasion made Queen Lin feel inexplicably grateful, and gently leaned up and gently held one of His Majesty's big hands and said; "The concubines obey His Majesty's arrangement, and when they turn back, they will prepare for the children to go on the expedition."

"Don't bring too much, there are rules in the army, especially not to bring palace maids."

"The concubine knows, and she makes sense."

"Hmm." Richard nodded, and saw Zheng Yuan, the head of the secretariat in the distance, standing outside the pavilion from afar, looking inside with his neck stretched, so he turned his head and said to Queen Lin; "Let's go and play with the children, pass on Zheng Yuan's house, and see what he thinks?"

Queen Lin knew that they had something to do, so she pursed her lips and agreed, and went out with a group of maids with a graceful expression.

Soon

Zheng Yuan came to the pavilion respectfully and bowed deeply; "Congratulations to Your Majesty, according to the diplomatic email that has just arrived, on October 3, the British Henry John Temple cabinet fell, and this British politician who has been working against our Tang Empire finally stepped down.

"Oh...... Let's hear it. Richard asked with interest.

Director Zheng Yuan had already understood the beginning and end of the diplomatic emails in detail, and there were letters written by British cabinet sources, so he was very familiar with the scene at that time, and described it vividly.

A moment later

Emperor Richard laughed thoughtfully, the British are really unprofitable, this is in line with their usual style.

With the strong army and navy strength of the Tang Empire today, what the British Royal Navy wants to forcibly demand is likely to provoke the Tang Empire, and in the end it will get nothing.

Is it really tearing the skin, can the British Empire really raise a million troops to cross the Atlantic for an expedition?

In the 2nd Opium War

The British army was only 4,600 in 1858, and after the defeat in 1860, the British army reached 18,000 troops, most of which were servant troops from the Indian subcontinent and Hong Kong and Weihaiwei, and the actual army from the British mainland was less than 1,600 people.

That is to bully the corrupt and mediocre Manchu government, this little force landed on the North American continent, and it was not enough to stuff the teeth of the Tang Empire, and the British knew this very well.

The Tang Empire, located in North America, was not afraid of Britain, and maintained good relations with European powers such as France, Austria-Hungary, Prussia, and Italy.

With Britain and France being both allies and eternal rivals, the military technology exported by the Tang Kingdom has a lot of room for maneuvering, which is a situation that the British Royal Navy does not want to see.

Good things must first be close to the British, otherwise it is a threat to British interests, this is their bandit logic.

Waving his hand to let Director Zheng Yuan step back first, Richard stood up with his hands behind his back and walked around, thinking about whether he could benefit from this diplomatic earthquake, mainly the Canadian problem in the north.

During Prime Minister Henry John Temple's tenure, he vigorously promoted the "British North America Policy", the core of which was to merge the British Canadian Province, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a federation, becoming the first British Dominion. Since then, other provinces have been mobilized to join the federation.

In this way, the fragmented British colonies would be united, preventing the southern neighbors from having unnecessary ambitions.

The American Federation in the south once invaded Canada, and although the Tang Kingdom was full of friendship and allies, the British were never at ease, after all, the British Canadian colony had such a big piece of fat on his lips, and he felt hanging when he thought about it.

It was for this purpose that Prime Minister Henry John Temple, during his tenure, pushed for the union of three British-Canadian provinces to form Dominions, that is, independent states attached to the United Kingdom.

This policy was also very controversial in Canada, where the colonial provinces were idle people who suddenly wanted to take back the power of the autonomous provinces and take the lead of the state, and there was a lot of opposition.

In particular, Quebec, which is dominated by French people, has the greatest opposition, and all kinds of non-cooperation and reluctance have led to the fact that a united Canada has not yet been born.

If history has not changed

It wasn't until 1867 that the first prototype of the Canadian state appeared, and then one autonomous province after another joined it, and the last autonomous province joined in the twenties of the twentieth century.

Is there any chance that this will be able to touch Canada in the north?

There are definitely opportunities, and Richard mainly wants to get his hands on British Columbia and the Yukon Territory north of the Northern Province, and it would be even better if he had the opportunity to get Alberta.

So

The territory of the Tang Empire extends from Alaska all the way south along the North American continent to Panama in Central America.

If he really eats such a large piece of fat, Richard's ambitions in North America will almost be satisfied, and it doesn't matter if he can get a little more in other places, such as Texas.

Whether you can get it or not depends on the development of the situation, alas, sometimes it is not human.

In the long run

The cornerstone of this foreign policy lies in the Tang Empire, which has always maintained a basic foreign policy of pulling one by one in North America and maintaining long-term alliances with the southern regimes of the United States, and it will adhere to it for 50, 100 or even longer.

This is in conflict with the quest for Texas, which is incompatible.

A Texas that maintains close and friendly relations can become a major channel for the Tang Empire to export to Europe, and there is no conflict in terms of economy, so it depends on the evolution of the situation.

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