An old lock ship with a steam engine and two hydro-turbine sails sailed northward, stirring up white waves on the Potomac River in Virginia, United States of America, and the red flag of the Aztec Republic danced in the spring breeze on the Potomac River.

On both sides of the Potomac River, in picturesque fields, groups of black slaves, under the supervision of white overseers, were toiling on the land of the new, free and progressive United States.

Kangxi, who has been reborn in this world for nearly two years, is sitting on the stern deck of this old steam lock ship belonging to the Aztec Jingzhong Atlantic Trading Company, sipping bitter coffee, breathing the sweet air of free America, and talking to an Aztec wearing a black gauze hat and a Ming Dynasty-style official robe.

This Aztec is of Indian, European, Chinese, and Japanese mixed ancestry, and has a very strange surname "Dispatch Office", named Dispatch Office Qingming, who is in his 40s this year, and is the ambassador of the Aztec Republic to the French Republic who has returned to China to report on his work.

Because both the Aztec Republic and the French Republic belong to the radical republican countries that do not want the emperor, and the Aztecs are particularly rich, it is estimated that they sponsor the French radical republicans, so the personal relationship between this ambassador and the high-level officials of the French Republic is good. He also had a very close relationship with Napoleon, and privately called Napoleon "the Geng President of France", probably hoping that Napoleon could be the same as Geng Juyi (Geng Jingzhong), the founding father of the Aztec Republic.

Because of Napoleon's seizure of power in the Wuyue Coup, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Aztec Republic ordered the ambassador of the Aztec Republic to return to China to report on his work. Napoleon asked him to do a favor and took Zhu Xuanye and his party across the Atlantic Ocean to the revolutionary holy city of Juyi (Acapulco) in the Aztec Republic - now the French Republic and the Anglo-Dutch United Kingdom are still at war, and it is a bit dangerous for the French to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and they will be robbed by the "English Pirates", but the Aztec Republic's old steam lock ships cannot be touched!

The Aztec Republic and its younger brother, the Inca Republic, are both silver countries, and the two countries account for 70% of the world's silver production. Hijacked the ship of the Aztec Republic, then wait for economic sanctions!

What? Gunboat diplomacy in the British Empire?

That's not good, the Aztec Republic is not only rich, its military strength is also second to none, and the Aztec Republic is also a country that has barely stepped into the threshold of industrialization!

The army of the Aztec Republic has always been the strongest in the New World, and when the Yankees fought the War of Independence, the Aztec Republic sent troops together with France, and the Anglo-Dutch army was still defeated by others.

And the naval strength of the Aztec Republic is also not weak - the Aztec Republic is rich, and the navy is a particularly money-burning service!

Therefore, in the current era when sail battleships are gradually eliminated by sail warships, the Aztec Republic, which has few wealthy ships, is naturally at the forefront, and is the first to complete the renewal of the fleet and establish a naval fleet with all sailing ships. All the equipment of the Ming Dynasty is the same as the Ming Dynasty's own version, without a little shrinkage.

If you add in the strength of the Aztec Republic's die-hard ally the Impa Republic Navy, even if it starts a war with the royal combined fleet of the Anglo-Dutch Kingdom, it can be a battle.

In addition, the Ming not only exported ships to the Aztecs and the Incas, but also transferred technology to the Aztec Republic, helping the Aztec Republic to build two large shipyards in Juyi City on the Pacific coast and Geng President Port on the Atlantic coast, and also supporting the steam engine factory - although the Ming and the Aztec Republic are not allies, and even have some hostilities, but the Ming and the Aztec Republic and the Inca Republic of silver are very friendly!

However, the production costs of these two shipyards are relatively high, and the merchant ships produced are not competitive, which will not pose competitive pressure on the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty. Their existence only guarantees that the Aztec and Inca republics have the ability to repair ships and build sailing warships in wartime.

As for rifles, artillery, ammunition and other weapons and equipment, the Aztec Republic can also produce them on its own! And the output is not small, not only to meet their own needs, but also to provide a large amount to their two younger brothers - the Inca Republic and the United States of America!

So as long as the Aztec Republic, the Inca Republic, and the United States of America, the three members of the Republican Union of the New World, are united, and in this acre and three points of land in the New World, no one is afraid!

However, the Aztec Republic, the Inca Republic and the United States of America are not monolithic, among which the Aztec Republic and the Inca Republic are relatively close, after all, the Inca is the "son country" of the Aztecs, independent with the full support of the latter, and the race, language, culture, religious beliefs, and social systems are relatively close. And between the United States of America and the two "brother states" of the New World, the Aztecs and the Incas, there is a little bit of disharmony.

After all, the United States of America has too many things that the Aztec Republic is not used to, even if he participated in the American Revolutionary War in the early years and fought side by side with President Washington, he became a little indignant when he saw the black slaves working on the farms on the banks of the Potomac River.

"Alas, there are more and more farms that use black slaves. These Yankees simply put republicanism to shame! Where else in the world in the world besides the United States still retains slavery? ”

Kangxi could not quite understand the righteous indignation of the Aztec ambassador, although there was no slavery or even serfdom in the Eastern Roman Empire. But the Ottoman Empire and the Rakshasa Empire, which are next door to the Eastern Roman Empire, one still retains slavery and the other maintains serfdom. India, which is farther away from Eastern Rome, has both slavery and caste systems, who dares to say that India, which has a long history and a brilliant civilization, is not a civilized country?

However, Kangxi has been a follower by Napoleon's side for a long time, and he has already experienced a set of "language arts", and he also frowned at the moment, and criticized the United States according to the meaning of the investigation office: "Brother of the investigation center, what you said is so right!" Now only a barbaric and inhumane country like the Ottoman Empire will retain backward slavery. Moreover, the number of Ottoman slaves has been decreasing since the loss of Constantinople more than a hundred years ago, and now only some remnants remain. And slavery in the United States, since independence, has become larger and larger, and it really shouldn't be! ”

As he spoke, Kangxi observed the expression of the mediation office, and saw his expression of appreciation, so he continued to say: "By the way, big brother of the investigation institute, didn't we say that we were going to visit Washington, the founding president of the United States, when we came back to the United States?" Why don't you persuade him and ask him to come out and say a few words for the black slaves in America. ”

"It's useless. He's a slave owner himself! Hearing Kangxi mention Washington, Qingming, the mediator was even more angry, "These Puritans don't really believe in Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother at all, they only believe in interests!" In those days, in order to get help from our Aztec Republic, he could say anything. Not only promised to emancipate the black slaves, but also said that they would become brothers with the Indians of North America and that they would become citizens of the United States of America! But now? Hum! Their armed conflict with the North American Indians has not stopped for a moment since the War of Independence!

Most of the Indians who originally lived in the eastern plains have now been forcibly deported to the Appalachian Mountains! More than 100,000 Indians were killed in the process! Such an act is simply more vicious than that of the Spanish colonists back then! ”

"That's a bit too much!" Kangxi shook his head again and again, "The Indians are the main ethnic group of the Aztec Republic and the Inca Republic, just like our Greeks in Eastern Rome. Aren't they afraid that the Aztec Republic and the Inca Republic will stand up for the American Indians? ”

The mediator Qingming shook his head and said: "The Indians in the United States are still not the same as the Aztecs and the Incas. They are not very civilized, they still use primitive languages, and they do not believe that the Father and Brother are not civilized human beings. It is not of the same race as the Aztecs and the Incas. The reason why they are collectively called Indians, along with the Aztecs and the Incas, is just a misconception of the early European colonizers.

They mistakenly thought that the New World was part of India, so they called the natives of the New World Indians. It's Indians! Therefore, we and the Inca Republic have no way to stand up for the American Indians, at least not for their sake of the United States, but can only urge the American authorities to protect the rights of the Indians in the territory, or work with us and the Inca Republic to help these Indians establish an independent Indian state. ”

All the points in this key are too idealistic. Kangxi Xin said: How can Americans be willing to be equal to the Indians? We Manchurians were not willing to be equal to the Han people back then, and now the Shenzhou people of the Eastern Roman Empire are not willing to be equal to the Greeks. As for letting the Americans help the Indians build a state, where to build a country? Cutting the flesh of French America or cutting the flesh of the United States itself?

But Kangxi still nodded again and again: "You are so right, maybe in the future, the Aztec Republic and the Inca Republic can unite with the French Republic, the United States of America, and the Eastern Sui Kingdom to put pressure on the United States!" ”

Joining forces with France, West America, and Eastern Sui?

The mediator Qingming's brows furrowed, revealing disdain, these three countries are all colonial powers, not independent American countries. Moreover, the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Eastern Sui were all feudal monarchies. is a king surnamed Zhu and Yang, with a large number of feudal monarchs under him, which is similar to the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is too backward, if it were not for the Great Ming Dynasty to protect them, the Aztec Republic and the Inca Republic would have sent troops to overthrow the feudal monarchies of those two countries.

Kangxi saw that the investigation center Qingming did not accept this stubble, and he also knew that the Aztec Republic did not look down on the West America, the Eastern Sui and the French United States.

So he no longer mentioned this stubble, but talked to the mediation office, and after a while, Kangxi found that the old steam gate boat he was riding was docking at a dock in the wilderness, so he asked: "Brother of the investigation office, are we in Washington City?" ”

"No," the mediator said, "we're at President BGI's house, and this is the dock at Mount Vernon!" ”

"The docks of the lodge? This villa is not small! As he spoke, Kangxi looked at the dock again and found that there was already a large group of "black and white people waiting" standing on the dock!

"That's . That's 8,000 acres! "Before he became president, Mount Vernon was only 800 acres, and when he became president, the estate expanded to 8,000 acres!" ”

"8,000 acres is almost 50,000 acres!" Kangxi smiled and said, "This big president's oil and water are good!" ”

The investigation office muttered: "What oil and water are not oil and water. It's just a matter of robbing the Indians of their land and then enslaving the blacks to do coolies! ”

Kangxi turned his head to look at the adjustment office, and was just about to pretend to be indignant, when he found that the other party had already stood up with a smile on his face, and quickly changed to a happy expression, and also got up with the investigation office.

By this time, the old steam lock ship they were on had already lowered its anchor, dropped its cables, and set up a gangplank with handrails.

The transfer office, Kangxi, Natasha, and other attachés all went down one by one. Just now I talked about the mediation of the United States and Washington with a face of righteous indignation, and now it is like a different person, far away from a white fat old man on the dock with a big nose and sunken eye sockets, but he does not look very fierce, and he is very relatable: "George, my old friend, it is so good to see you. You look so much more energetic! ”

This fat old man was no ordinary old man, but the first president of the United States of America, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, George Bush. Lieutenant General Washington. He was almost 70 years old, and since 1799 he had been in poor health, and now he walked staggeringly, and had to be supported by a black slave. However, in order to meet his old friend Qingming, he still worked hard, and now he is standing alone with a cane.

Seeing that the bureau was clear, George. Washington also smiled very happily and replied in very fluent Chinese: "Qingming. Thanks to you, after a few days of recuperation, I finally got better. This brother is "

It turned out that Washington saw Zhu Xuanye, who was dressed in a gray military uniform and looked magnificent.

Qing Ming hurriedly turned around, pointed at Zhu Xuanye, and said with a smile: "George, this is Zhu Xuanye, the third prince of the Eastern Roman regent, the guardian of the king's castle, and the king of Pingxi in the Ming Dynasty. He was also the first consul of France, Napoleon. Bonaparte's envoy to the Ming Dynasty!

The third prince, this is the famous General Washington, the first president of the United States of America! ”

(End of chapter)