The imperial capital is the city of songs

Senjugyo

The Lantern Festival has just passed, and the red lanterns are still hanging on the majestic palace of Xianshou Palace, and the festive atmosphere of the festival has not completely dissipated.

Several huge lions, tigers, and pet beasts were playing happily on the snow outside the imperial study, playing with each other, and making them covered in snow.

The royal attendants in the palace were all busy, and His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu was about to travel west to the western capital of Chang'an in mid-to-late March.

The supplies needed to move could fill several trains, in addition to countless book treasures and royal belongings. Only a few dozen pet beasts and people need half a train.

This is for the Royal Home Office

It is a major work that does not allow any flaws, Lord Xu Maolin, the head of the Royal Interior, personally took charge, and Zheng Huaien, the head of the Royal Secretariat, supervised the whole process, and arranged for more than 730 royal secretaries to participate in the sorting and packing work.

Inside the Imperial Study

Richard sat on a large and comfortable court sofa, with a huge white tiger skin underneath his buttocks, and the warm sunlight shining in from the Tang-style window lattice was so warm and pleasant.

He had at hand a copy of the latest edition of the "World Summary" edited by the Royal Secretariat, which was limited to the top authority and above the rank of cabinet minister, and only the emperor, the crown prince and the princes of the vassal states had access to the Tang imperial family.

On the first page of the opening, the Holy Emperor Taizu personally decreed that the 82nd son of the 4-year-old emperor, Tang Li You, was the Duke of Kerch, and the vassal state was located in the four prefectures of Dongwu, with a total area of more than 100,000 square kilometers.

It is now incorporated into the Duchy of Kerch, or the Kingdom of Kerch.

Since then, the Tang Empire has 36 vassal states, and His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu personally issued an edict ordering that there will be no new vassal states in the future, which is the iron law of the Tang Dynasty royal family, and it will be passed on to future generations.

Why did you rush to crown the youngest prince who was only 4 years old?

Richard has his own considerations, and now is the best time to take advantage of the opportunity of the independence of European countries to mix sand in Europe and establish a subordinate vassal state that belongs to the Tang Dynasty.

It would be too abrupt to miss this point in time.

This youngest prince is born from the concubine Sevillania, and he has the blood of Tang and France flowing in his body, which is also very attractive to France, which is conducive to the next step of European political integration.

This is a dark chess piece laid out early, and when the situation in the Ukrainian region is stabilized, it will certainly play a powerful role in the future.

This Duke of Kerch is the best person to marry with various European royal families in the future because of his advantage of being of mixed Tang and French blood, and will build a bridge of intimate integration with European royal families through him.

This is the fate of the Duke of Kerch and the meaning of his birth.

Although the Principality of Kerch is the largest in the three provinces of Eastern Ukraine, its actual influence and role are far lower than those of the Crimean and Odessa provinces, and the region is only rich in coal and iron resources and has a relatively developed industrial base.

Compared with the Tang Empire, the world's largest industrial country, with the most complete industrial categories and the highest level of development, the Kerch Principality is still a backward industry.

One last point

It is the Holy Emperor Taizu Richard who made up for Seville, the favorite concubine who accompanied him in his later years, and with the fief of the Duke of Kerch, he will have a strong support in the future.

Not blowing or blacking, Severia was very gentle during this time, and she was extremely satisfied with Richard's service.

Continue to read, in the "Outline of the World Situation", there is news of the garrison of the Tang Empire stationed on the left bank of the Rhine River in Germany, news of the delivery of imported materials to Germany and Austria, news of the reconstruction of the eastern provinces of France after the war, and news of the outbreak of the labor movement in Hungary......

Turned a few pages

Richard couldn't help but stop when he saw the news that Fuso had sent another 49,200 troops to Siberia in the north, and that 276,000 had emigrated in advance.

His slender fingers tapped lightly on the pages, his deep gaze tingling thoughtfully.

Fuso's successive movements were very large, which aroused Richard's great interest; Looking at it like this, the people of Fuso have a sense of urgency that time is not waiting for me.

And this kind of large-scale northward expansion has exceeded the memory of the original historical time and space, what happened to the small days?

Want a handful of studs?

Come to think of it

A smile appeared on the corner of Richard's mouth, and he turned another page to read the commentary published by the Secretariat's Political Research Office on tracking international developments.

In the comments, it is said;

According to the latest information revealed by a source in the upper echelons of Fusang State, this government decision to expand northward on a large scale was promoted by Youpeng Youpeng, the most authoritative veteran of Fuso State.

Its intention is to follow in the footsteps of the colonial expansion of the Tang Kingdom, realize the century-old dream of the rise of the Yamato nation, and become a prominent world power.

The commentator's article analyzes the historical situation of Tsarist Russia from the angles of its population, ethnicity, and religion, and believes that this move will inevitably be suspected of being a bit of a drag and that it may fall into a quagmire in the future.

Far from being comparable in size to Fuso, Tsarist Russia still has a population of 126 million despite the devastation of World War I and civil unrest (note; excluding Ukraine and Belarus, Poland has already been deducted).

The key is the strong and unyielding character of the Tsarist Russian nation, which is really not rubbing sand in the eyes to the end.

The most obvious illustration of this

It was the local White Russian rebels, who strongly opposed the new Tsarist government, that are now the biggest enemy of the Fuso Siberian Dispatch Army, and have used all methods and means to attack the Japanese camps and immigrants, causing great trouble.

Richard read the commentator's article and nodded frequently, took out his pen, and reviewed a line below;

Very good, well-reasoned, and very insightful in analysis.

This is a high compliment to the analyst of the Political Research Office of the Secretariat, and if nothing else, this person will surely soar in the future.

Who are the people who can enter the eyes of His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu?

Hu Yongtang, a high-ranking official in heaven at the beginning, experienced the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, and was caught during the inspection of His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu, and now he is the prime minister of the Tang Empire, which can be seen.

Now that His Majesty the Holy Emperor Taizu will not easily approve major national affairs, it is a great saint to be able to mention a line of words to this little commentator's article.

Richard looked down with pleasure that the more Fuso invested in Siberia today, the more difficult it was to stop, and the higher the sunk costs.

The foundation of national strength is really not enough for a few tosses.

No, he began to borrow money from the Tang Empire consortium again, and he wanted to borrow 120 million Tang yuan as soon as he opened his mouth.

Okay, I didn't say it, of course I have to borrow this money.

Anyway, the little devil of Fusang still hasn't paid for it, and the Tang Empire has the means to beat him up rather than die.

There is no need to wage war or military strikes, and only a few important industrial raw materials exported to Japan can be cut off.

Skipping this incident, Richard continued to flip through the latest news about the Paris Peace Conference today.

As expected

The amount of war claims made by Britain, France and other countries against Germany was surprisingly large and the conditions were extremely harsh, which was strongly opposed by Lord Hu Yongtang, the prime minister of the Tang State.

After this wave of news was reported in Germany and Austria-Hungary, the defeated countries, Tang immediately won full gratitude and fiercely scraped a wave of public opinion.

As for the blood feud between Britain, France and other countries and Germany, they don't care about these details at all.

Therefore, the three giants of the Paris Peace Conference reached an impasse in the negotiations, and none of them was willing to back down.

At the Paris Peace Conference, French Prime Minister Clemenceau was elected president of the conference in his capacity as France's chief representative.

Clemenceau harbored a strong sense of revenge against Germany, and his main goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to attend;

It was to weaken Germany to the maximum in order to establish French hegemony on the European continent, for which the lion repeatedly opened its mouth.

On the issue of war reparations

Clemenceau advocated that Germany must compensate 6000~800 billion gold marks, which not only wanted to empty the pockets of the Germans, but also squeezed the bones of the Germans out of oil.

With the French in the front, British Prime Minister David Lloyd's George had an ambiguous attitude, and he also wanted to squeeze as much German war reparations as possible, at least to return a wave of blood for London.

On this issue

Lord Hu Yongtang, the Prime Minister of the Tang State, was strongly opposed and very resolute, he believed;

"Excessive exploitation of Germany will only provoke unnecessary hatred, which will not help solve the biggest problem of national antagonism in Europe, but will become a huge hidden danger."

Obviously, his views were not accepted by Britain and France, and the two sides argued fiercely.

At the Paris Peace Conference

A total of 19 countries were represented by the victorious countries, as well as representatives of British Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, totaling more than 800 people.

The new regime of Tsarist Russia was not invited, and Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey, which belonged to the defeated countries, were all turned away and had no right to participate in the Paris Peace Conference.

Their fate will be decided by the victorious powers.

19 representatives of the victorious countries, which is 8 fewer than the 27 representatives of the victorious countries in the original historical time and space, because of the Tang Empire.

The rise of the Tang Empire eliminated Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, and Honduras, the eight original victorious countries, and changed the pattern of Central and South America on a large scale.

In the future, there are many Middle Eastern countries that will not be present, such as Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and perhaps Syria.

There are also Eritrea, Djibouti, Mozambique, Malawi and other countries in Africa, which will not appear again.

Of course, these are small achievements, and what makes Richard feel most comfortable is that the beautiful country of the original historical time and space has completely disappeared, and it has been replaced by the unprecedentedly powerful Tang Empire.

Thinking about it makes people happy, and the corners of his mouth can't help grinning, smiling so brightly and happily.

At the moment of the unprecedented decline of the British Empire, the rise of the Han and Tang dynasties could not be contained.

Even if it develops step by step, the world belonging to the Chinese will come 100 years in advance, which is simply a great achievement!

With Richard's current calm mind, it is inevitable that he will be emotionally agitated every time he thinks about this.

Looking back on the past, it is really not in vain to be reborn in this life! (End of chapter)