At the beginning of September 1870, the imperial court suddenly launched a unified crackdown on experts and professors who had been in the clamor for a long time, causing a social shock.

meanwhile

The Propaganda Department of the Reich has been working at full speed to publicize to the public through various public media the history of the Empire's pioneering work, advocating the spirit of loyalty and patriotism, respecting the contributions of the Reich's soldiers, and guiding the society to have a correct view of honor and disgrace and history.

Hundreds of ex-servicemen's clubs scattered throughout the major cities of the empire showed unprecedented strength of unity, standing unequivocally on the side of the imperial court.

Through the public opinion media, verbal and written criticism, and angry denunciation of those experts and celebrities who have turned their backs on history, abandoned their ancestors, and propagated the moon of the West that is rounder than China in spite of shame, they have formed a huge social force and represented the mainstream public opinion of society.

Time

The rhetoric that had once filled the press was wiped out, and the Imperial Propaganda Department immediately promulgated several principles for the supervision of the press and media, which were strictly forbidden to be violated.

This includes that newspapers, periodicals, and cable radio stations must establish a correct public opinion orientation, must not attack and smear the imperial court and the army, strictly prohibit news reports involving the private life of the imperial family, must safeguard traditional Chinese culture, art, beliefs, and traditional moral concepts, unite national confidence, and propagate the traditional virtues of respecting the old and loving the young, and so on.

Violators will be punished with the suspension of newspapers and radio stations for rectification, rectification within a time limit, the editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief will have a demerit recorded, and fines, criminal detention and other punitive measures, up to the banning of the qualifications of newspapers and periodicals, cable radio stations, and a huge fine.

Those who violate the criminal law shall be handed over to the judicial department for punishment.

Polls find;

The overwhelming majority of the people in society support the imperial court's move to purge the public opinion circles, believing that this kind of chaos should have been cleaned up a long time ago.

The public has long been unaccustomed to these so-called experts and professors, and it is really gratifying to punish them severely.

With the support of social fundamentals, the purge action quickly dug deeper, and a large number of so-called teachers, disciples, and sympathizers of experts and professors were arrested.

There are some newspaper and media bosses, and even a small number of nobles, all of whom have been pulled out with mud and have been liquidated by the imperial court.

This unprecedented purge lasted for more than five months, and 37,644 people involved in the case were punished to varying degrees, and all of them were recorded in the archives to a lesser degree, and about one-third of those who were fined were subsequently released.

In addition, most of them were fined and confiscated their family property, stripped of their noble titles, and put into hard labor camps for one and a half to 20 years, basically the end of their lives.

In the Tang Empire, there was a low tolerance for those sentenced to hard labor.

Such people basically can't find a job in society, and no one dares to hire them, their household registration is often checked by the police, and their passports with black history marked when they go out are a big problem, and they are often thrown into a prison cell by the police for no reason.

Factory owners who dare to hire these people with a black history will also be unlucky, and their tendency is very questionable, and if they don't do well, they will be put on the surveillance blacklist of the imperial court. That's the end of the calf.

There are very few places like the hard labor camp that can really come out.

In the unprecedented scale of the purge of public opinion, some of those who committed crimes and had great malice basically did not leave the cells of the General Security Bureau, and were quietly dealt with.

From now on

The atmosphere of public opinion in the newspapers, periodicals, and radio stations of the Tang Empire has been positive, and the tolerance for the strange theories of various experts and professors has been greatly reduced, and some extreme remarks and non-mainstream ideas have lost the market.

The public opinion environment is dominated by bright and positive propaganda, attaches importance to traditional culture and education, and attaches importance to propagating the social virtues of respecting the old and caring for the young, and has embarked on the correct track of development.

Viscount Yao Guangyi was commended for his decisiveness in this matter, and this action was vigorous and resolute, completely cleansing away all kinds of unhealthy tendencies in the imperial cultural and public opinion circles, setting an industry benchmark, and establishing a quantifiable system of moral standards.

All this was rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor, and in March 1871 he became Minister of Culture and Sports, and became one of the most sought-after nouveau riche in the imperial political circles.

The Tang Empire's storm of public opinion in September was the first to alarm the United Kingdom, and Prime Minister William Jurte Gladstone of London expressed his great concern about the matter through his special envoy, Lord Palmerston.

Here's a little more to say

Lord Barmeton, as the Governor of Canada, will inevitably spend a long vacation in the warm Tang Empire in the south in September every year, and will not return to the sparsely populated and cold Ottawa until April ~ May of the second year.

The Governor and his wife were sometimes in Mexico City, sometimes in Chicago, sometimes in Los Angeles, and sometimes in the imperial capital of Chang'an, and they had a very happy time with many friends.

Therefore, it is very convenient to have Lord Palmerston as the British envoy, and the communication with the high-level cabinet of the Tang Empire is also quite smooth.

Someone will ask?

Why does the British have a sense of presence?

This is right, whether you admit it or not, the so-called world hegemon is in charge of global affairs, and everything can be mixed in.

In general, you can think of it as a composite of chengguan and police, and sometimes it also functions as a court and a peacemaker, and there is almost nothing in the world that the British can't meddle in.

Since I was a child, you can treat it as a neighborhood aunt who loves to take care of things, and the east and west have to ask a question.

You can hate the British, you can get tired of the British, but you can't ignore the British, who will always show off on various occasions.

However, the British were too selfish, and they did not do anything well, so they made the world full of miasma, and the frequent wars in the past 200 years in modern times have hardly stopped.

Go back to the roots

At least seven or eight of the 10 wars were fought by the British, or by the hands of the British, as the European proverb says; "Wherever the British pass by, the fish in the fishpond will fight."

Lord Palmerston also made a visit to the palace for this purpose, and personally met His Majesty the Emperor, and Emperor Richard had a very pleasant conversation with the British envoy, Lord Palmerston.

During the more than half-hour meeting, most of the talks were about the cultural scenery and the delicacies with Chinese characteristics, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed and pleasant.

Emperor Richard only said one last sentence; "You and others are all dangerous people who talk about government affairs and talk about political innovation, and they must be resolutely punished."

The British envoy, Lord Palmerston, was submissive and did not show a single word of doubt.

This is his cleverness, so he can mix like a fish in water in the upper class of the Tang Empire.

In today's world

The United States of America was seen as the birthplace of dangerous ideas in Europe, where feudal monarchy was predominantly wary of dangerous tendencies towards nationalism and liberal democracy.

As for whether it is a crime to talk about the government in vain?

In the more liberal Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and France, this is not a big problem, the public tends to laugh it off, and the social atmosphere is more democratic and open.

The tabloids in Paris, France, often wrote about the tryst with the French Empress Eugenie as a colorful joke, or even fabricated it out of nothing, just for the sake of newspaper sales.

This reflects the degeneration of the imperial power of the French Empire from one side, the rule is like a castle in the air, and the secret private life of the royal family will be ridiculed and consumed.

This is not the case in England and the Netherlands, where defamation of the royal family is a serious crime.

In the more conservative kingdoms of Prussia, Austria, the Ottoman Empire and other European kingdoms, it was a crime to arbitrarily discuss the government.

If you eat a lawsuit, or lose your head, it's really not a joke.

Privately criticizing the royal family is a serious crime, the so-called "sacred royal power should not be insulted" is not a lie, once it is verified to be true, it will lose a layer of skin if it does not die.

After the meeting with Emperor Richard, how to arrange it after he returned? How to respond to inquiries from London? That's Lord Bazun's own business.

As a veteran politician who has been involved in London politics for decades, the Lord Palmerston family has a deep background in London's high society and is well equipped to deal with this level of London skepticism.

Anyway, this boiling social turmoil has ended here, and it has not caused major waves in the British Isles.

In the London government

Some of the most influential British nobles were often appointed to such prestigious and modest titles as Secretary of State for Irish Affairs, Secretary of State for Scottish Affairs, Minister of the Keeper of the Seals, Governor of India, Governor of South Africa, Governor General of Australia, Governor of the Straits, Governor of Canada, Governor of Egypt, and so on.

For example, during his visit to Europe many years ago, the seventh Duke of Marlborough of Great Britain, who begged for forgiveness in a duel, lost the family inheritance of Blenheim Palace, and it became a joke in Europe for a while.

Now the Duke of Marlborough is the Minister of Irish Affairs in the cabinet, conquered by the superhuman force of His Majesty the Emperor, and his political leaning is more pro-Tang, which can be regarded as a strange figure.

End of September

The horrific tragedy in the Confederate States of America in the South, which caused a huge international repercussion, was unexpected.

The incident began when hundreds of white people wearing triangular white turbans burned to death the entire family of 16 members of a white farmer's family, which caused a great deal of controversy.

Hughes Fromm, a white farmer, was so fond of his black slave girls that he had nine mixed-race children, the oldest of whom was 15 years old, was not news in the circle of white farmers in the neighborhood.

In the more conservative and confined environment of the South

Other white manor owners also have ambiguous affairs with female black slaves, most of which are kept secret, and the mixed-race children they give birth to are still black slaves and will not tear off the last veil of shame.

Hughes-Fromm was an outlier, often taking his slave lover and children to the town to buy things, and was met with strange contempt.

Especially out of the ordinary...... Hughes Fromm doesn't know what's crazy?

He even openly married his female slave lover in the church, and prepared to let his mixed-race children inherit the estate property.

This is a blatant slap in the face in the slave Confederate States of America, and it is not uncommon for such a tragic fate to occur.

If you don't do it well, there is the shadow of the upper echelons of the Confederate States of America here.

After the Fromm massacre, the Confederate States of America did little additional action, except to arrest several black slaves on the farm and hang them as perpetrators to quell social outcry.

The Confederate States of America is the most backward and conservative region in the entire North American continent, stubbornly adhering to the tradition of slavery, and even fought an unprecedentedly bloody and brutal five-year war with the North for this purpose, with countless casualties.

Here, only traditional European immigrants and ethnic Chinese who are white by default have legal citizenship and inheritance rights, and racism runs deep.

Unless there is a war, never think of the Confederate States of America giving up slavery.

However, after the "Fromm tragedy" occurred, two diametrically opposed strong voices were aroused in North America and Europe, one was represented by the Tang Empire, which advocated not to participate too much in the affairs of neighboring countries and to give enough respect to independent countries.

Now that it's been dealt with, don't make a fuss about nothing, isn't it good to develop the economy with peace of mind and live a good life?

One group, represented by the United States of America and the United Kingdom, strongly condemned such acts of racial discrimination and abuse against humanity as being the work of uncivilized countries and that strong pressure must be exerted on the Confederate States of America to change their course and return to their misguided ways.

As a matter of fact

This is based on the position of the United States of America and the United Kingdom itself, not to uphold international justice, and the same is true of the Tang Empire.

The people of the Tang Empire generally dislike blacks, the imperial law is strict, blacks are strictly prohibited from engaging in various jobs in society, blacks are strictly prohibited from entering the country, and business owners are strictly prohibited from hiring black helpers.

The only place where black slave labor exists is on the construction site of the Nicaragua Canal, which is under construction.

These black slave soldiers, who had been deceived into the army by the Brazilian Empire on the grounds of granting freedom, were defeated and captured and transported to the construction site of the Nicaragua Canal in Central America to serve hard labor, becoming the main force in the construction of the canal.

In this day and age

The Suez Canal in the desert used a total of 2.2 million Egyptian laborers, and it is said that the death of 125,000 Egyptian laborers was far more than that.

The Nicaragua Canal project requires construction in tropical jungles and mountainous areas, and requires a large amount of blasting rocks, which is more difficult to construct and will only cost more casualties.

When the canal project was finally completed, there would be nothing left of the black slave laborers in these forced labor camps......

Many people living in the Tang Empire have never seen blacks, nor do they understand the miserable living conditions of black slaves, let alone care about such topics.

It was generally believed that it was too far away from imperial life, so the position of the imperial court was to represent the will of the common people, and there was very little opposition.

The Confederate States of America were extremely grateful for the position of the Tang Empire, and the two sides became closer to each other, but the estrangement from the north became deeper and deeper.

Simmons, President of the Confederate States of America, denounced the North; "It's a bunch of sanctimonious bandits who have committed a profound war crime against the people of the South. After the defeat, he remained unrepentant and his actions could not be forgiven. ”

As a result, the North and the South of North America were engaged in a war of words, and the antipathy of the Confederate States of America towards the Yankees was further aroused, and there was even a bad law and order incident in Richmond in which several white northern businessmen were beaten, causing an uproar.

Had it not been for the arrival of the police, the five white northern businessmen would have been nearly beaten to death by hundreds of southerners.

The government of the United States of America strongly condemned the atrocities in Richmond, but under the pressure of the Tang Empire, the response to the "Fromm Massacre" was much less toned, and the public opinion in the local newspapers was also controlled to prevent the spread of popular sentiment.

The reason why the United States of America stood with Britain and condemned the "Fromm tragedy" in unison was not because of how much sympathy the top of the government was for this crazy white manor Hughes Fromm.

Rather, it is because domestic public opinion is generally sympathetic to the victims of the tragedy, including the white manor owner and the black slave lovers who were burned alive and their children.

The tide of public opinion is such that the government parties have to conform to the will of the people.

Since the defeat of North America, the United States of America has become an abnormal country that has lost many national sovereignty, and the Tang Empire has dozens of large military bases in the north, stationed nearly 200,000 troops.

With so many troops, it almost occupies 2/3 of the total strength of the Tang Empire's army.

Whether on the streets of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh or Washington, D.C., it has become a strange scene to see officers and soldiers of the Tang Empire wearing military uniforms swaggering through the city with their white girlfriends in their arms.

More than 10 years after the war

The garrison soldiers and local white girlfriends have given birth to hundreds of thousands, so that many officers and soldiers of the Tang Empire will not bring these women and children back to the empire after retiring, so there are many local single-parent families.

This has become a social phenomenon that will be difficult to solve for a while.

In the United States of America, where guns are allowed, the officers and soldiers of the Tang Empire garrison are not easy to mess with.

If you get drunk and get beaten or shot at a bar, the soldiers who come to you will surround the bar and shoot all the people in the bar to death, which is called exterminating the mob.

After the killing, the body was dragged away in a horse-drawn cart, and the bar was smashed directly, and the local police did not dare to meddle in these matters.

Whether it is the Irish bandits or the Italian bandits, they dare not provoke these Tang Empire garrisons, because even if the bandits who fired the guns ran away, the Tang Empire garrison directly went to the bandit leaders and dignitaries, otherwise they would go crazy.

In a shooting in Pittsburgh, a garrison lieutenant and his two companions were ambushed by more than a dozen Italian gunmen, killing one and wounding two on the spot, and the officers killed three Italian gunmen in a counterattack.

After this incident

The Pittsburgh garrison directly approached the local Italian bandit leader for a dignitary, but was flatly refused.

Immediately after the deadline passed, the garrison and the Pittsburgh police carried out a large-scale siege of the Italian neighborhood, killing 74 Italian rioters and wounding and arresting 316 Italian rioters.

The entire family of the Pittsburgh leader of northern Italy was killed in the fire, and none of them survived.

Subsequently, the Italian community was still required to hand over the murderer, otherwise he would be severely punished. In the end, the eight Italian gunmen who participated in the attack and escaped obediently surrendered, and all were hanged on the streets of Pittsburgh.

Since then

From top to bottom, the United States of America has seen the ruthlessness of the garrison of the Tang Empire, and they are arrogant, and the local gangsters dare not provoke them.

These gangsters divided by geography also have to make a living, and they also have families and children, so they are pinched to the fatal weakness.

Whether it's on the docks, or in nightclubs, or in underground boxing rings or gambling stalls, or bars and restaurants, they divide the neighborhood and make a living, and of course they don't dare to compete with the army armed to the teeth.

Back to the point

The British people were very indignant at the "Fromm tragedy," and the mouthpiece of public opinion headed by the "Times" was in full swing, strongly condemning the Confederate States of America for conniving at the spread of bigotry and national sentiment in the country, and still practicing uncivilized and inhumane slavery.

The reason for this

It was Britain that had been dissatisfied with the Confederate States of America for a long time, and had long wanted to repair him, and it was precisely this opportunity to spray vigorously, and it was simply portrayed as a heinous regime.

The British believed that slavery was an extremely cheap labor cost, which made the cotton plantations in the southern United States very competitive, crushing the local cotton plantations from Egypt and India, and the Confederate States of America accounted for more than three-quarters of the supply of cotton raw materials in the British textile market.

This situation is naked and unfair competition.

In addition, a large amount of southern American cotton was imported into the Tang Empire, where it was spun into a variety of woven fabrics.

The combination of cheap cotton raw materials and higher production efficiency, in turn, poured into the European market competition, and knocked down many British cotton mills, causing a large number of British cotton textile workers to lose their jobs.

All kinds of new and old grudges have been accumulated together for a long time, and now that we have the opportunity, it is not good to deal with the Tang Empire directly, and of course the British are full of firepower to deal with the Confederate States of America, which can be regarded as a severe beating.

At present, the situation in Europe is turbulent, and it is impossible for Britain to draw military strength to make waves in North America.

But all kinds of repression have left a serious shadow, making the relationship between the Confederate States of America and Britain quite tense, and it is really full of bad feelings towards the British.

Fortunately, with the support of the unified market in North America, it can withstand the pressure of the United Kingdom for the time being.

Because of these things, Emperor Richard could feel the power of the "European-stirring stick" from the other side of the Atlantic, which was really "stinky in the wind, and nothing to stir up the sky".

Illustrate;

At the end of this troubled September, Simmons, President of the Confederate States of America, was dubbed by the British media as "the most notorious black slave leader of the century, a stubborn racist", and these two labels almost sent the 66-year-old President Simmons away, disgusting to the point that he didn't want to.

Take the position of fairness

The Confederate States of America is indeed a stronghold of conservatism, with the Southerners notoriously stubborn and stubborn, and more than 1.5 million of its population of more than 12 million are bigoted people with white hoods and only two eyes.

The fundamentals of society are such that President Simmons alone is powerless to change.

Is it fair that the British media has so unscrupulously labeled the presidents of other countries as such insults, and is it not relying on the arrogance of the British Empire to stand on the moral high ground and loudly condemn each other?

The "Fromm Massacre" may have been ghosted by local high-ranking officials, at least they knew that hundreds of people with white hoods had gathered, but what was it about President Simmons?

Be sure

This tragedy was not secretly instigated by President Simmons, and due to the limitations of the internal political environment of the Confederate States of America, it is impossible to truly punish these people with white hoods.

It can only be turned into small things and small things.

The partial British Yankees grabbed it, and the newspaper's public opinion tone was fierce and fierce, and they would really be angry and die!

Thinking of Britain's own mess and the spirit to go to North America to fan the flames, Emperor Richard also felt helpless, so he could only say "sorry" to President Simmons, and he couldn't control this matter.

It's obviously unreasonable, and no matter how you justify it, it's not reasonable!

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