Kingdom of Youzhou (formerly Chubut Province)

It is located in the vast Pampas Plain, the Pampas Plain covers an area of more than 700,000 square kilometers, and the Youzhou Kingdom occupies almost half of the Pampas grassland, which is simply a paradise for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

The Pampas means no stone in the Indian language, and the locals proudly proclaim: "Our plains from the Atlantic Ocean, plough not a single stone to the foothills of the Andes".

The fertile Pampas Plains are all extremely fertile black soils, with dense pastures, and are one of the best pastures in the world, a paradise for cattle and sheep.

The entire Youzhou Kingdom has a population of 862,000, and there are only three cities with a population of more than 50,000, the largest city is Youzhou City, which borders the Atlantic Ocean, and the Atlantic Rim Railway connects the north and south from here, and Youzhou Port is also the main port for the country to transport agricultural and animal husbandry products abroad.

The emperor's royal drive has stayed in Youzhou City for more than half a month, here ushered in the New Year's Day of 1901, sitting here, the violent death of the king of Youzhou did not cause any waves, a large number of high-level officials of the kingdom government in the audit have been dismissed.

Until January 17, His Majesty the Emperor issued a royal decree to personally crown the fourth prince of the country, Tang Li Zhiting, to inherit the throne and become the second king of Youzhou.

Several important officials from the empire mainland parachuted into the country, bringing with them 246 elite middle and low-level officials, and almost changing the various departments of the kingdom's government from top to bottom.

A large number of tax disorders that went against the policies of the empire were abolished, and corrupt officials were imprisoned, which caused cheers and rave reviews among the people in the Youzhou Kingdom!

On the 21st of January, His Majesty the Emperor took a special train to continue his tour of the vassal states of South America.

At this time

The news from Britain that shook the whole world was that Queen Victoria, the grandmother of Europe, who single-handedly created the glory of the Victorian era, died at Osborne House in White at the age of 82.

During his reign of 64 years, he propelled the British Empire to the pinnacle of Victorian glory.

The bad news came that Europe was shaken, North America was shaken, and the world was shaken......

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Tang Li Gan was urgently ordered to take a luxury cruise ship in the imperial capital Chaoge City (Philadelphia) and lead a delegation of the Tang Dynasty royal family to London, England to express his condolences.

Tang, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Greece and other European and American royal dignitaries rushed to London to attend the unprecedented state funeral held in Great Britain.

News of the Queen's state funeral flooded the pages of European and American newspapers, with delegations led by kings and heads of state from 10 countries, and Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived in London on warships.

Their every move has aroused the attention of the European press, and related reports are flying all over the sky.

The bilateral peace talks between Tang and the Netherlands, which are being held in Paris, have long been drowned out by the overwhelming news about the queen's funeral and have become uncared for.

same period

Eight bandits are pressuring the Qing court to sign a treaty of further open doors and pay war reparations of up to 450 million taels of silver.

This money is worth about 450 million Tang yuan, 90 million pounds, and Tang and Ying, the world's industrial powers with strong economic strength, can get it without frowning.

In the Franco-Prussian War

The defeated France, according to the treaty, should pay 5 billion gold francs, which is equivalent to about 1.3 billion taels of silver, and the French only made up two years to pay the war reparations in full.

Subsequently, France launched a series of colonial wars in Africa and South Asia, fighting more than a dozen battles large and small, and while rapidly expanding its colonies, it also relentlessly returned a wave of blood.

However, the land of Shenzhou, which was still in an agrarian society, was corrupt and corrupt, and the corrupt Qing Dynasty had money to build gardens for the empress dowager, but the rebuilding of the Beiyang Navy and the rearmament were far away.

Huge war reparations, secured by customs revenues, were only looted from the heads of the people of Dawn.

March 7, 1901

Emperor Richard, who was spending the Lunar New Year in Hekou, the capital of the Great Rivers province in South America, received the good news of a peace treaty with the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands recognized its defeat and unconditionally recognized the Tang Empire's complete sovereignty over the East Indies, and the two sides reached a final agreement on white prisoners of war, war losses, and equal civil treatment of whites after the war.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands recognized the Tang State's means of confiscating the property of white estate owners in the East Indies during the war, and the Tang Empire paid 22 million Tang Yuan in exchange for sovereignty over the East Indies and compensation for the losses of the white colonists involved.

The more than 100,000 white captives in custody were immediately released into society after the conclusion of the peace treaty, and their stay was left to their own devices.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands could not withstand the enormous social pressure of the prolonged detention of more than 100,000 white captives, considering that this small country in Western Europe had a population of only a few million, and the combination of more than 100,000 white captives and their families was a formidable force to influence the political situation.

Any government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that neglected the rights and interests of white captives would be overthrown and knocked to the ground by the surging public opinion.

The last Dutch government, which had been unable to resolve the issue for a long time, had only survived for just over five months before stepping down amid a torrent of protests.

Emperor Richard's southern tour did not come to an end until April 2, when the royal fleet arrived at Pier 3 in the Chang'an Bay area.

The trip visited 16 vassal states and the Great River provinces in South America, as well as the Kingdom of Cuba in Central America, which greatly united the morale of the people of the South American vassal countries and spread the glory of the imperial family to every remote corner.

After the Youzhou Kingdom Incident, after Emperor Richard returned to the western capital of Chang'an, he was about to promote the introduction of the blockbuster "Tang Empire Imperial Territory Administrative Governance Act", which further restricted the intervention of vassal kings in local administration and clarified the boundary between royal power and administrative power.

The bill would establish a more independent administrative status of the vassal governments, strengthen the direct jurisdiction and supervision of the central government, and avoid the disconnection between local and central policies.

Clarity of mutual responsibilities and powers prevented local feudal lords from interfering excessively with the administrative power.

Emperor Richard's current focus, in addition to controlling the long-term strategic development plan, focuses on finding shortcomings, checking deficiencies, filling loopholes, and introducing corresponding laws and regulations to improve some problems that arise in social development.

With the support of government funding, 107 new prisons in various provinces and cities across the country have been completed and put into use, greatly alleviating the embarrassment of overcrowding in the detention rooms of various police stations.

In the coming years, the government will also support the construction of more prison facilities and a well-developed prison system.

Of course, those who can go to prison are petty offenders.

Felons suspected of rape and robbery, murder and extortion, arson and poisoning, will still end up in exile on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean if the crime does not result in death.

It is undeniable that the establishment of the prison administration system has made a big step forward in social civilization.

Since then, the society of the Tang Empire has become more mature, more civilized, more perfect, and more in line with the requirements of the progress of the times.

(End of chapter)