Wild North America 1846

Chapter 241 Daming Palace

Richard carefully read the development report of Paradise Island, and finally reviewed the comments;

Based on its own resource advantages, it is the long-term way to develop characteristic agriculture and animal husbandry industries.

Putting down his pen, he thought for a while;

Paradise Island (New Guinea Island) is an area rich in mineral resources. The world's largest copper mine is located on the island, and it is rich in oil, coal, iron, gold and silver deposits. It is a full treasure house of resources.

It's a pity that Li Cha only knows that there is the world's largest copper mine on this island, but he doesn't know the exact location, let alone the relevant situation, so he has no choice but to open a golden finger.

Except for a few small coal mines and iron mines, no other resources have been surveyed, and we can only wait for the geological survey team composed of experts to discover them in the future.

After reviewing the memorial, Li Cha stood up and walked forward a dozen steps to the Linshui Pavilion, and cast his eyes on the misty lake.

Surrounding the "Taiye Pool", there are continuous palaces and pavilions in a well-proportioned manner. The golden hall is reflected on the water, complementing the ancient trees and carefully crafted rockeries. The lake and mountains are extremely beautiful.

in two more months
The main south gate of Daming Palace, "Danfeng Gate" and its subsidiary buildings, and the main palace buildings headed by the three halls will be completed one after another, entering the final stage of the project.

On the east and west sides of the palace city, there are royal guards and forbidden troops stationed respectively, and the commanding authority of the royal family's main guards and forbidden troops - "Beiya" - has been set up in the north gate.

The title of "Bei Ya" follows the tradition of the Tang Dynasty more than 1200 years ago, and highlights the inheritance and historical accumulation of the Tang royal family, recreating the glory of the Tang Dynasty in North America.

The entire main hall and palace area can be divided into two parts: the former court and the inner court. The former court is dominated by court meetings, and the Great Tang Kingdom holds a grand court meeting every month.

In line with the changes of the times, the content of the Great Court Conference does not discuss government affairs. The king commends and rewards outstanding figures in the military, political and social circles, sacrifices and sacrificial activities, and appreciating court dance music.

The inner court is where the king resides and convenes imperial inquiries, and the cabinet plays twice a week to report major and minor events at home and abroad, listen to orders, and deal with government affairs.

Adapt to the development of the times
The inner court has gradually become the main place for dealing with government affairs. Currently, due to the unfinished construction, the king temporarily lives in the Linshuibie Palace on Pudu Island. Therefore, it has also become the center of the Tang Kingdom to deal with important government affairs.

Danfengmen is the south gate of the main entrance of Daming Palace. In front of the gate is Danfengmen Street with a width of 248 meters. To the north of Danfengmen are Hanyuan Hall, Xuanzheng Hall, Zichen Hall, Penglai Hall, Hanliang Hall and Xuanwu Hall. Most of the other buildings in the palace are also distributed along this axis.

The Daming Palace has Hanyuan Hall from Danfeng Gate, and Zichen Hall to the north. The north and south overlap each other. The three buildings are all built on hills.

The hills are formed by the accumulation of excavated construction waste. The former dynasty area occupies the highest end of Longshou Mountain, and the Hanyuan Hall is the main hall. The entire three hall areas are magnificent, showing the extraordinary atmosphere of a new dynasty.

After six years of construction
The main hall and the East Palace of the Daming Palace have been completed one after another, while the remaining West Palace and the Harem Palace are still under construction, and it is estimated that they will be completed in succession in a few years, so this is irrelevant for the time being.

Today, there are more than a thousand kings, queens, concubines and maids in the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, more than enough to live in the East Palace, and each concubine and concubine has a separate palace courtyard.

In addition, the current princes and princesses are still young, and they are far from being able to live alone, so there is not much demand for the residence of the West Palace, so it can be postponed for a few years.

Standing on the waterfront platform with his hands behind his back, Li Cha looked a little lonely. He didn't like the feeling of living in a deep palace for a long time. The Daming Palace was built only for the facade of the dynasty, as a symbol of a prosperous dynasty, not for demand.

This palace, which covers an area of ​​one thousand hectares, is really too big, with the Danfeng Gate in the south extending to both sides. There are 24 buildings with various turrets and palace gates, all of which are Tang-style palaces with flying eaves and brackets.

For this reason, the Royal Guards of the Tang Dynasty expanded in size, reaching more than 4000 people, divided into four armies, front, back, left, and right, each led by a minister of the guard.

"Report to Your Majesty, Lord Gu Yan, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, led a group of staff to seek an audience."

"Xuan."

"The minister leads the order."

Today is the routine cabinet meeting with His Majesty twice a week, that is, the routine "small court meeting". Many outstanding military and political affairs at home and abroad are basically decided at the small court meeting, and government orders are issued for implementation.

Liu Xianjun, head of the royal family secretariat, guided the front with a respectful expression. When King Richard strode into the main hall of the palace, the Prime Minister Gu Yan and a group of cabinet ministers had already been waiting here to meet His Majesty according to the etiquette.

After being seated
In line with the principle of first international and then domestic, Huang Yuanjia, the minister of the Ministry of Communications, took the lead in detailing the current international trend, which is roughly as follows;
From January to October 1855, there were frequent wars all over the world. From the beginning to the end of the year, it can be said to be a turbulent year.

Eastern Shenzhou
At the beginning of 1855, Shi Dakai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom defeated the Hunan Army twice in Hukou and Jiujiang.

In the autumn of the same year, Shi Dakai sent troops to Jiangxi again, and went to 47 counties in seven prefectures in four months. Because of his strict military discipline, pragmatic administration, love for the people, and thirst for talents, the people of Jiangxi rushed to support him.

Many scholars from the landlord class who were not friendly to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also turned to support the Taiping Army. The team quickly expanded from more than 1 to more than [-].

After that, Shi Dakai divided his troops into three groups and counterattacked across the board.

The Taiping Army conquered Wuchang for the third time, and most of the banks of the Gaoguan River in Hubei were captured by the Taiping Army, and the Qing Army retreated step by step.

From the first month to April of the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), the units of Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang of the Taiping Army were successively defeated by the Qing army, and the entire Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ended in failure.

In the autumn of the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), various Nian armies met in Zhiheji, Mengcheng, Anhui Province, and Zhang Le was publicly elected as the leader of the alliance.

After the uprising of the Nian Army, they all fought on their own, neither belonging to each other nor contacting each other.With the in-depth development of the struggle against the enemy, the leaders of the various twists increasingly felt the need to unite to defend against the enemy.

In July of the fifth year of Xianfeng, all the Nian armies met in Zhiheji to jointly establish the "Great Han" regime. Zhang Lexing was called the "Great Han Yongwang", and he had military advisers, Sima, and vanguards.

Each Nian army is divided into five flags, each with yellow, white, red, black, and blue as its flag colors.

The general banner set up a banner, which is the basic unit of the Nian Army, which can fight independently, with as few as [-] people and as many as tens of thousands.There is a small flag under the big flag, and there is no fixed establishment.

Since then, the Nian Army's prestige has been greatly shaken, and it has become the main force in the resistance against the Qing Dynasty in the north.

In August of that year, the Nian army attacked from Zhiheji and defeated the Qing army in Yongcheng.In September, he attacked Guidefu City, and in November, he defeated the Qing army under the command of Hunan Admiral Wulong'e near Yongcheng.

In this year, wars were fought all over the land of China from south to north, and the Qing court fell into a state of overwhelmed self-care, and the ruling foundation was severely hit by the surging peasant uprising.

In North America

The Mexican civil war is intensifying. The Mexican government and the southern rebel Aztec Republic entrenched in Mexico City. In the sweeping operation this autumn, the two sides played the main force and fought a Mexican-style pecking war.

In the end, at the cost of 1.37 casualties, the Mexican government regained the four states dominated by the southern rebels, causing huge losses of more than 4 people to the southern rebels, forcing them to shrink their defenses.

This autumn war caused more than 10 Mexican casualties, and the newly restored agricultural and animal husbandry production in the warring areas was once again completely destroyed.

The 400-kilometer railway from Jinling, the southern frontier city of the Tang Kingdom, to Mexico City was officially completed. This will ensure that food and armaments from the Tang Kingdom will continue to arrive in Mexico, and will strongly support the continuation of the civil war.

on the basis of

The forces dominated by the capital and officials of the Tang Kingdom penetrated deeply into Mexico City and its surrounding areas, occupying a large number of shops, houses, residences and fields, basically dominating most of the country's economy.

Currently, the main railway artery from Mexico City to the west to the Gulf of Mexico is being built. More than 2.32 Mexican laborers have been mobilized.

Once the railway artery is officially opened to traffic, it will become the most convenient transportation channel for Datang Kingdom to connect the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. It will save huge costs for people and goods to sail from the coastal ports of Mexico.

Mexico will obtain a stable and rich income by providing railway transportation transit services, warehousing and short-distance transportation, and collecting taxes.

The Texas Civil War in the United States is still raging. The armed cavalry supported by the southern forces went deep into the north and looted the towns around Chicago, which deeply hurt the sensitive nerves of the north.

The northern armed faction headed by Congressman Lincoln announced after quickly receiving the support of personnel and funds; "We will use actual military operations to severely counter the provocations of the Southerners and beat them back."

In Europe, the core of the world stage, the Crimean War is still the focus of everyone's attention.

Lord Raglan died peacefully in his sleep on April 1855, 4.So far, the supreme commanders of the British and French armies died of illness one after another when the war started, which shocked the coalition forces a lot.

in a few days

Sir Simpson took over as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, but he was obviously inexperienced, helpless in the face of the muddy and difficult roads in Ukraine, and military operations fell into a long pause.

From March to June, the coalition forces that captured Sevastopol and Odessa successively stayed in the coastal area for a long time. Before solving the problem of logistics and supply, the army was unable to advance inland.

The Ottoman Empire was in a tight spot on the Caucasus battlefield, and Omar Pasha's army was preparing to withdraw from Crimea to rescue the Caucasus city of Kars.

The French Emperor Napoleon III was very dissatisfied with this, but considering the relationship between the allies, he could only let the Ottoman army go north to the Caucasus.

On August 8, Prince Golchakov of Russia concentrated 16 infantry divisions and 4 cavalry brigades across the Chenaya River to attack the coalition forces.

The British army (mainly the fifth to ninth divisions of the expeditionary force, with a small number of British cavalry and artillery cooperating) launched a resolute counterattack, resulting in 8000 Russian casualties, and the last rescue operation failed.

British commander Simpson's inability to do anything to start the war earned him rebuke from London, where his successor was being discussed.

Under strong pressure from the government, Lord Simpson had to make changes and start a new round of offensive after the coalition forces rested for nearly half a year.

1855年9月8日11点30分，联军开始第4次猛烈的炮击。

40 minutes later, the coalition forces launched a general attack. This was the first time in history that all troops checked the time and launched an attack at the same time.

The French McMahon Division attacked Malakoff Fortress.In just 10 minutes, the fortress fell into the hands of the French, who then repelled the Russian counterattack.

The British attack on Fort Lux failed again.The British troops, pinned by Russian fire behind the parapets at the foot of the fort, suffered heavy casualties and refused to advance, and soon they turned and retreated.

But the fall of the Malakoff Fortress was fatal to the Russian army. That night, the Russian army destroyed all the fortifications and withdrew from the fortress in a planned way with artillery and logistical facilities.

The current situation is that Napoleon III is ready to make peace as soon as he sees it. He wants to wait for the good news of the peace negotiations from Vienna, and he doesn't want to damage the French army too much.

Britain, on the other hand, preferred to continue fighting.After receiving a large amount of supplements from the expeditionary force, the British army is now full of confidence. The 5th and 9th divisions of the expeditionary force were still taken by the British, and the British Foreign Legion was formed on this basis.

The British made great efforts to equip the British Foreign Legion with artillery and cavalry units, and equipped them with advanced Colt breech-loading artillery imported from the Tang Kingdom, which further strengthened their firepower.

After nearly half a year of rest and replenishment, the strength of the British Foreign Legion has expanded to 4.5, including about 1.2 British white soldiers and 3.3 Chinese soldiers. The combat effectiveness is quite strong.

Apart from the Crimean battlefield, the most important battlefield in Europe is the Caucasus battlefield in western Asia.

From the Black Sea to the Persian border, Russia and the Ottoman Empire shared a 150-mile border.

In the center of this border is Kars, an important fortress left by the ancient Kingdom of Armenia.There have been major battles here in all previous Russian-Turkish wars, and the two sides have repeatedly fought for the Kars Fortress, and they are all too familiar with this battlefield.

From June to October 1855, the Russian army has been besieging Kars. During the high-intensity siege battle, the gray cattle of the Russian army came one after another, which put great pressure on the defenders of the Ottoman Empire and fell into the city for the first time in crisis.

Calls for help from Kars Fortress came like snowflakes. In order to hold on to this important fortress city on the Russian-Turkish border, the Ottoman Empire mobilized reinforcements from all over the country.

On September 1855, 9, Omar Lutfi Pasha, the best Turkish commander, left Crimea for the Caucasus with his army.

On September 9, his troops embarked from the Crimea, and another Ottoman army landed in Trabzon, and also rushed to Kars day and night.

In mid-October, after learning of the fall of Kars, two lines of Ottoman reinforcements were repelled by the Russian army, and Omar's troops had to retreat to the Caucasus Mountains.

in the baltic region

In the spring of 1855, Lieutenant Admiral Dundas of the British Royal Navy came from the Black Sea to replace Lord Napier. Lieutenant Admiral Dundas had 19 propeller-propelled battleships and 1 sailing battleship, 14 frigates, and 12 steamships. With 21 armed steamships and 15 gunboats, this was an overwhelming military force in the Baltic region.

The French army has 3 battleships, 3 frigates and 10 gunboats. The two sides formed a joint fleet to suppress and block all Russian military operations at sea.

After March, the coalition fleet entered the Baltic Sea again to carry out the blockade mission.The coalition reconnaissance found that the defense of the Russian fortresses had been greatly strengthened, and the landing operation became extremely impossible, which would cause huge casualties.

Allied forces could only bombard from the sea, and although the damage was great, no landing action was taken.

by the end of February
Considering the raging winds and waves in the Baltic Sea in winter and the extremely harsh sea conditions, the coalition fleet had to withdraw from this area and return next spring.

North Pacific
In the North Pacific, the fleets of Britain, France and the Kingdom of Tang also participated in the war. The coalition fleet attacked Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The landing marines and seamen suffered heavy casualties and had to withdraw to rest.

From June to October 1855, two formations of the Royal Navy and a formation of ships from the Kingdom of Tang, together with another formation sent by the Royal Navy from Hong Kong, joined the North Pacific Theater to continuously exert pressure on the Russian army.

The Russian army's defense is strong, and more importantly, it is far away from the main battlefield, which has little impact on the war. Therefore, the British fleet did not take major actions after careful consideration.

Aspects of the peace negotiation process
In 1854, the warring parties began to negotiate an armistice under the mediation of Austria.Russia considered the conditions proposed by the Allies unacceptable, and peace talks were broken off in April 1855.

As a direct participant in the Crimean War, the current expeditionary forces of the Datang Kingdom are mainly the 1st to 4th divisions and the new 5th division, with a total of about 3.7 troops, mainly deployed on the front line of Odessa.

After the original 5th to 9th divisions were taken away by the British, they were added to the British Foreign Legion and transformed into the 1st to 5th Field Division of the Foreign Legion.

The Tang Kingdom did not suffer either. 7371 experienced officers, sergeants and veterans were transferred from the fifth to ninth divisions of the expeditionary force, and all of them were strengthened to the first to fourth divisions, which made its strength soar.

The strength of the 1st to 4th Divisions of the Expeditionary Army has further expanded to about 7400~7800 people, a typical overstaffing.

In June, the Kingdom of Tang added troops to the Crimea battlefield, that is, the new 6th division. The whole division has a total of nearly 5 people. It spared no expense to deploy a large number of cavalry and artillery units. It is a regular field army armed to the teeth .

Through the internal personnel deployment of the expeditionary force, the combat effectiveness of the new 5th Division was guaranteed, and it showed impressive performance in the operations in September and October, which made people shine.

As an emerging kingdom, the Datang Kingdom maintained an expeditionary force of about 3.7 in the European region far away from the North American mainland, and it was already exerting its strength.

This also made Britain speak highly of the Tang Kingdom. The anti-Tang faction headed by the former Foreign Secretary Sir Temple was also speechless in front of the performance of the Tang Kingdom, and could not make any waves.

In general
It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of the Expeditionary Force of the Datang Kingdom that the Datang Kingdom won extraordinarily loose domestic and foreign development conditions. Paradise Island became a new overseas province of the Datang Kingdom. There were no twists and turns in the whole process. recognized by European countries.

From another aspect, this reflects the harsh reality of politics in today's world. To be a younger brother requires the consciousness of being a younger brother. When the elder brother needs it, it is a basic obligation to contribute money and troops.

Local forces that fail to see this will be severely beaten every minute.

(End of this chapter)