Chapter 481: Fusang asks for help

Richard frolicked with the rest of the pet beasts, and he was happy.

After a three-day stay on the shores of Lake Nicaragua, the royal driver set off north to inspect the Empire's newest Central Plains Province and experience the local customs firsthand.

This road is naturally Haiyan River clear, not to mention the tired corpses on the road, even the shabby clothes of the wanderers can not see a single one, the ordinary people who poured into the streets to welcome the holy car in the villages and towns are neatly dressed, waving the double dragon flag of the empire in their hands full of enthusiasm, and they can also hear all kinds of local sounds from Shenzhou.

Look at it all the way

The town is full of ancient buildings and temples from the Mayan and Aztec periods, as well as many Spanish manor buildings, churches, etc., which have taken on an ancient appearance under the vicissitudes of time.

Most of these towns are small in scale, but they are scattered throughout the Central Plains Province, forming relatively well-established human settlements, which are now occupied by social groups dominated by Chinese immigrants.

The streets are full of Chinese with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin. From Lingnan in the south to Zhili in the north, various accents are full of it, making people feel that they have taken the wrong script.

There are very few remaining Indian populations in the area, and most of the local women work as maids in Chinese families, or are accepted as concubines and wives, and most of the local men work in Chinese country estates, but they are rarely seen in the towns.

According to Earl Dong Jie;

More than 85% of the urban population of Central Plains Province are of Chinese descent, and the few local populations are mostly settlers, that is, the group of the imperial military who instigated the civil war in Central America through local settlers, and obtained the official status of imperial residents by betraying their own people.

It is expected to be two years later

As the population of Central Plains and Costa Rica grows to one million, the proportion of the local population will further shrink to less than 3 percent, and it will not be long before it will be absorbed by the Han Chinese, who have a strong ability to assimilate, and disappear into the long river of history.

On the territory of the Tang Empire

All kinds of primary, secondary and university schools implement a strict Chinese education, regardless of skin color, it is necessary to master the reading, writing and comprehension of Chinese, which is the first official language and the lingua franca, and Mandarin is based on the official dialect of Beiping.

Only on the basis of mastering the Chinese language will some aristocratic schools and colleges teach English, German, Spanish and French, some offer one foreign language course, and some aristocratic schools offer two, three or even more.

The higher the level of the school, the more expensive the fees, and the higher the level of teaching.

The teaching and dissemination of Indian and other ethnic languages are strictly prohibited, and relevant books are listed as banned books.

In this social environment

The rich and colorful heritage of Indian culture in North and Central America has little soil to survive and is gradually dying out.

It is expected that in the next 20~30 years, when this generation of Indians has passed away, its historical and cultural inheritance will also come to an abrupt end, becoming a historical topic for later generations of scholars to study.

September 12, 1866

After more than five months, the royal exclusive train to inspect the imperial territory slowly stopped on the platform of the imperial capital Chang'an, marking the end of the longest trip of the emperor to inspect the northern and southern border provinces.

In today's world, he is indeed a saint of the ages, but he loves to make too much noise and can't sit still.

Almost every year, I have to patrol a circle, the time is short, the length is 4~5 months, that is really a wild horse unrestrained!

At the beginning of April, the spring was cold, and when I returned in September, it was already full of autumn, and the branches of the fields were full of fruits, and half a year passed.

In the palace of diligent government

The mountains of music on the side of the imperial case almost submerged the wide golden silk nanmu imperial case, and the neat piles of them were half a person high, and it hurt to look at Richard's brain.

How many major domestic and foreign events have happened in this small half year?

"Okay, as long as the internal affairs are not burning eyebrows, put them aside first, and I will review them slowly. The chapter on international affairs is divided into regions, and Europe will take it first. Richard commanded with a frown.

"Wechen obeys."

Several secretaries of the secretariat immediately started to sort it out, and 2/3 of the pieces on the imperial case were instantly missing, and the remaining 1/3 were sorted out, and there were more than 100 copies of the summary of the situation and various kinds of pieces from Europe, which made people's scalps tingle to watch.

Richard had just returned from Europe and was very familiar with the local situation, so he asked the secretaries to choose a brief report one by one, and then approved it in a concise sentence or two sentences, which was quite fast.

The attitude of expressing dissatisfaction with the British side, that is, "dragging and adding tai chi", and France's expectation that the Tang Empire would play an important role in the reshaping of the European order, was "perfunctory", and the request for help from the Austrian Empire was still "perfunctory".

In response to the Prussian Empire's request for in-depth cooperation in the military, economic, industrial, trade, scientific, and personnel exchanges, the Prime Minister was instructed to personally take the lead, work with the ministers to quickly draw up a feasible plan for in-depth cooperation, and send a high-level delegation to Europe as soon as possible to negotiate and strive to implement the relevant cooperation results as soon as possible.

It was really vigorous and resolute, and it didn't drag on at all.

Several secretaries took turns to report and summarize the main content of the concert in as concise language as possible, and after one report was completed, it was the turn of the next.

The previous secretary continued to read the cantata nervously, waiting for His Majesty's next inquiry.

In almost a day's work, more than 100 decrees related to European affairs were handled, and the imperial decree was issued.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Development, Science, Technology, Culture, Education, and Health will be implemented in accordance with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Colonial Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Development, Science, Technology, Culture, Education, and Health.

At this moment, the cabinet ministries immediately jumped up and followed the Hadith of His Majesty, and dispatched elite soldiers to make the visit and implement the implementation, and they were so busy that they hit the back of the head.

Next

When Emperor Richard strode into the Qinzheng Palace, he saw Prime Minister Liu Xianjun, Foreign Minister Luo Fengxian, Minister of Colony Juan Carlos, Chief of Staff Dai Changfu, Chief of Secretariat Zheng Yuan and other important ministers standing at the side and greeted in unison;

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live, the ministers welcome the holy driver!"

"Excuse yourself and give you a seat." After Richard stepped up to the throne and sat down, he looked around majestically before he said lightly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long." All the ministers thanked him in unison.

Today's discussion focuses on two issues; One was the Fuso Civil War and the other was the Paraguayan War in South America.

The first thing that the courtiers discussed was the current civil war in Fuso, and the shogunate asked for help with 11 seals in a row as a vassal state, and his eyebrows were on fire.

Your Majesty can still delay when he is not in the imperial capital, and now he must give an explanation.

After winning the Battle of Toba Fushimi, the confidence of the shogunate army was greatly increased, and the slogan of "punishing the traitors and reshaping the court" was put forward.

The attitude towards the instructor corps of the Tang Empire is also subtle, and it seems that he is unwilling to interfere too much in the internal affairs of Fusang with the instructor corps dominated by the Tang Empire and France.

And the Tang Empire is happier than less, and it just arranged for the instructor group to take turns on vacation, some officers went to Shenzhou Province, and some officers returned to the empire.

It's not good to say

Although the military instructor corps sent by the empire was highly courteous in Fusang Country, it was a very good day, and it was not easy to eat beef, and the more luxurious things such as toffee, coffee, cheese, and red wine were not visible, but there was really no shadow.

A few slices of sashimi, seaweed rice balls are considered haute cuisine, who can stand this?

If it weren't for the fact that the officers were not to enrich their service experience in the army for future promotion, they really didn't want to go to the country to suffer this crime, so why bother?

Does the idle egg hurt?

Since ancient times, proud soldiers have been defeated, and the shogunate army is no exception.

After the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Toba Fushimi, the main force of the "Sacho Alliance" retreated to the Choshu Domain, which was densely forested with high mountains and forests, and was reinforced by the southwestern domains such as the Hizen Domain, the Sasuke Domain, and the Tosa Domain.

The most important thing was the British armament support, which even included 11 Gatling guns, which became a nightmare for the shogunate.

The shogunate army was kicked to the iron plate, and the banners under their command were defeated in successive battles in the subsequent attack for more than a month, losing more than 3,700 troops and a large number of weapons and equipment, and they could not cross the mountains and forests one step.

"What do they want?" Emperor Richard asked sharply.

There is no shortage of troops or cannon fodder in Fuso country, and the wandering samurai, urban poor, and townsmen who dare to fight can be sent to the battlefield as many as they want, as long as they have two rice balls a day.

What is really lacking is money and food, as well as advanced weapons.

Sure enough

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luo Fengxian, stood up and introduced the urgent needs of Fuso, and the Emperor Richard and the courtiers wept and laughed after hearing this, and the Minister of the Colony Juan Carlos stood up and asked;

"Listening to what you said, the old minister has to be suspicious, and if he doesn't understand, he also asks Lord Luo to answer positively.

The empire had already given the Wa State a loan of 2 million Tang Yuan and a large amount of material aid, including food, weapons and war horses, worth more than 2 million Tang Yuan.

After less than a year's work, you come to ask for it again?

Moreover, the Wa Kingdom asked for tens of millions of Tang Yuan and more materials with one mouth, but did not say how to repay it, was it deliberately pretending to be stupid or picking up the wool of the empire?

Our Tang Empire has abundant financial resources, abundant materials, and so much grain that it has become a mountain, and this year it has exported 77 ships of grain to Europe, totaling more than 420,000 tons.

As for Tang Yuan's loan, don't say 12 million, even if it is doubled by 10 times or 20 times, it can be easily obtained, but it is just a trivial matter.

But this is not the proof that the lion of the Japanese country opened his mouth!

The country is a poor and remote country, and the number of dollars that can be paid out in the years is only a million, and the income cannot be used to cover the expenditure, how can I repay the huge amount of money invested by my Tang Empire?

Isn't it just a bombastic mouth? ”

The veteran's combat effectiveness is extraordinary, and he is very sharp as soon as he comes out, and the emperor and all the ministers in the court laugh when he says this, and the atmosphere has become relatively relaxed.

The Tang Empire is not a stupid Ming and Qing court, and it will not be burdened by fame and righteousness.

There are indeed many countries that want to take advantage, but none of them have succeeded, and the imperial consortium capital is not a philanthropist who opens a benevolent hall, and it is glued to peel off its skin even if it does not die.