Wild North America 1846

Chapter 424 Exciting Empire Map

next day
At the same time when the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was invited to the House of Lords of the British Parliament and delivered an important speech on the "policy between the two countries", the "Times" published on the new day was hawking in the streets and alleys of the newsboys, and the London citizens were quickly shocked. Scrambled.

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper, 23 European nobles challenged the Tang Emperor to a duel, 19 nobles were killed on the spot, and the life and death of the three were uncertain, shocking the whole of Europe."

"Your Excellency the Duke knelt down on the spot, and hundreds of years of family glory came to an abrupt end."

"London's high society collectively witnessed; the oriental emperor, like a prehistoric beast, ruthlessly killed more than 20 British nobles."

"The Times special commentator article: In the face of great strength, any act of provoking the sacred kingship is tantamount to suicide."

The explosive news caused a sensation in London, England, and almost the whole of Europe. The news blew across every corner of the continent of Europe like a strong wind. Many illiterate Europeans heard the great reputation of "Charlie the Devil" for the first time. Such great news.

Of the three British nobles who were seriously injured in the duel, one died on the second day, one died on the third day, and the third barely survived for more than ten days after being seriously injured, but still died in the end.

Therefore, this 1v23 duel record was finally fixed at 22 deaths and 1 injury. Duke Churchill, whose nose was smashed, was accompanied by severe concussion. Now he spends less time awake in bed and more time in coma.

By the way, there was also Lord Iggers-Retz, the Minister of the Colonial Department who broke his neck. After persisting for a few days, he finally died and died very uneasy.

one week later

The home base of the Royal Navy’s home fleet is Plymouth Port, 310 kilometers to the northeast is London. Ships gather in the surrounding bay anchorage, demonstrating the invincible majesty of the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

Most of the bays here are sailing ships with high masts. There are about 300 ships, and a small number of them are wooden steam double-powered sailing ships wrapped in iron armor. The deck design is extremely crowded.

The British Royal Navy is well-known for its stubbornness and tradition. Even though it is known that the technical route of sailing and steam power is expensive and impractical, the new ships that the dockyard continues to build are still this kind of stacking design, which is quite a kind of one-way to the black. energy.

Anyway, rich and self-willed, that's what it is.

Two armored cruisers "Storm" and "Shanfeng" of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire parked at the port on one side, attracting a large number of officers from the Royal Navy to observe. There were people everywhere on the deck of the ship. Lively like a festival.

Accompanied by Edward, Prince of Wales, Emperor Richard visited the University of Plymouth and the Royal Plymouth Naval Academy successively, held discussions with a group of British students, and donated £2000 and £3500 to the two schools for the construction of the Oriental Library .

These two donations are quite a lot. In comparison, Her Majesty the Queen donated only £5 during the five-year famine that starved millions of Irish people.

It is said that after the Great Famine broke out in Ireland, Sultan Mejid I of the Ottoman Empire announced that he would donate [-] pounds to the victims of the disaster in Ireland, but was stopped by the British government and asked the Sultan to donate only [-] pounds to the victims of the disaster.

No matter what, that can't overshadow Her Majesty Queen Victoria's limelight!

When Emperor Li Cha of the Tang Empire was visiting, the diplomatic negotiations between Tang and Ying for several years finally came to fruition.

Under the personal intervention of the high-level officials of the two countries, the representatives of the two countries, who had been negotiating intensely for several days, finally signed a series of memorandums of understanding and contracts, and everyone was happy.

The governments of Tang and Britain signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on the Right to Self-determination of People's Representatives in the Colonies of British Canada (British Columbia and Yukon Territory Only) Annex", "Toronto Canal Toll Package Solution", "Central America Guatemala and other regional issues memorandum of understanding" The Memorandum of Understanding on Financial Arrangements in the United States of America, the Memorandum of Understanding on Further Closer Bilateral Economic and Trade Relations between Britain and China, the Joint Action Plan for the German Confederation, and the Joint Action Plan for East Asia and Southeast Asia between Britain and Tang issues of international cooperation and defined programmatic policies.

Besides
The Royal Armstrong Arsenal of the British Empire and the Colt Arms Company reached several contracts related to the introduction of breech-loading artillery technology, and reached a contract with the Colt Chemical Company to import 20 tons of nitroglycerin high explosives and import [-] copies of advanced trigger fuzes A series of large-scale cooperation in military industry has achieved satisfactory results for both parties.

Royal Navy Commitment;

No less than 800 sets of Colt advanced breech-loading guns of various calibers ranging from 12 lbs to 60 lbs will be imported one after another. Armstrong Royal Armory will obtain the breech-loading gun patent authorization, and will pay a license for each set of breech-loading guns manufactured Royalties.

The authorization agreement has a 20-year exclusivity. During this period, Colt Arms Company shall not grant advanced artillery technology to other countries. This is a clause that the British representative specially emphasized and insisted on.

Its purpose, of course, is to maintain the dominance of the Royal Navy of the British Empire and limit competitors such as the French and Prussian navies.

The needs of the Royal Navy have always been listed first.

Being able to get a large artillery order from the British, Colt Weapons has already smiled crookedly, and of course it fully agreed.

As the most wealthy and powerful buyer in the world today, the iron-clad warships of the British Empire need to be equipped with tens of thousands of advanced artillery pieces that sail across the world's oceans. Imports alone will definitely not work. How much will it cost?

Fortunately, the two parties reached a patent licensing agreement, and the British agreed to import 800 sets of Colt breech-loading guns in stock in order to show their sincerity. This is a very profitable order.

The British Royal Navy also played tricks, only saying that the order covers 12-pound to 60-pound artillery, without specifying the number of each type of artillery?

This left a back door for British warships to import a large number of main 60-pound main naval guns. As long as the budget can keep up, they can import as much as they want.

The price difference between the 12-pound cannon and the 60-pound cannon is huge. The former only costs more than 680 pounds, while the latter costs more than 1 pounds, which is not a level at all.

英国皇家海军喜欢堆集重火力，一艘1862年下水，排水量10812吨级铁甲战列舰米诺陶级“阿金考特”号上，主要武备：4门9英寸线膛前装炮和24门7英寸线膛前装炮。

This formed a long armored artillery row on the "Agincourt", densely packed with thick muzzles, exuding a cold luster under the sunlight, making people feel scalp numb when looking at it.

Today, the two [-]-ton armored battleships "Minotaur" and "Agincourt" are all quietly moored in Plymouth Bay. Their huge hulls dwarf all the two-masted and three-masted warships , representing the most elite naval decisive force of the Royal Navy.

Likewise, the juxtaposition of the tall masts and funnels of the two new ironclad warships is unusually conspicuous and always uncomfortable to look at.

It is undeniable that although there were some small episodes, the state visit of Emperor Li Cha of the Tang Empire was a complete success, which strongly promoted the further development of the relationship between Tang and Britain, and made great progress in many aspects.

The Tang Empire also responded well in many ways. His Royal Highness Tang-Li Yuan, the Duke of Hawaii (the First Prince), will end his study tour in the Kingdom of Italy and transfer to the Royal Naval Academy in Plymouth.

His Royal Highness Tang-Li Geng, the Duke of Panama, will also end his trip to Paris, enter Oxford University for further study, continue his European study tour, and leave France, where the upper-class aristocrats live a decadent life, to hide here quietly.

After Li Cha personally played 1v23 Liwei, the status of the nobles of the Tang Empire in the British Isles skyrocketed, and basically they were able to receive treatment that was slightly inferior to that of the British nobles, which was already very good.

The French have fought against the British for hundreds of years, and the French aristocracy are still the object of ridicule and exclusion in the upper-class aristocratic circles in London, not to mention other small European countries.

The arrogance of the British aristocrats stems from blood genes, and they will show a sense of superiority from time to time, which really cannot be changed.

The most obvious change around the Duke of Panama is that all the civil and military attachés have been replaced. He has already returned to the empire on the Atlantic flight a few days ago, and it is said that he will be sent to overseas provinces for business in the future.

Either Hawaii or South America, anyway, the official career must be over.

I didn't know how to persuade the Duke of Panama, and I didn't know how to seal the mouths of those French ladies, which caused the reputation of His Royal Highness to be damaged. This is an unforgivable sin no matter what.

Changing to an environment like London, there will be less singing and dancing, and more respect and purity, which may be a good thing for the Duke of Panama (the second prince) to grow up.

Morning of april 6

A grand and grand farewell ceremony was held at Plymouth Pier. Emperor Richard of the Tang Dynasty ended his 10-day visit to England and embarked on a journey to visit the Dutch royal family.

After the 21-gun salute, Emperor Richard led the crowd to wave goodbye to Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and many dignitaries of the British aristocracy. The parting scene was quite touching.

His Royal Highness Edward also let out a long sigh of relief as he watched the luxury cruise ship of the Tang Empire leave the pier.

In order to receive the royal family of the Tang Empire, he has been holding back these days and needs to vent his anger.At least five days and five nights of open conferences must be held consecutively, otherwise it will feel like a loss.

After sending the two British escort ships out of the country, as soon as the Imperial 4 visiting ship formation entered the North Sea, several black spots appeared in the sky, and then fell rapidly.

It turned out that five bald eagles that were kept in a remote manor in England came back and landed steadily on the crossbar outside the luxury cabin dedicated to the royal family on the top floor.

In order to avoid unnecessary complications, the five bald eagles left the brigade on their own after completing their secret mission and fell in a remote manor, spending more than ten days without anyone knowing about it.

Hearing the cheerful chirping of the bald eagles, Li Cha immediately came out, took out slices of meat from the large basin held by the royal guards and threw them into the air, attracting the bald eagles to scramble for them peck.

"You guys don't want to grab it, there are meat strips, so why are you hungry?" Li Cha said with a smile, grabbed the meat strips and threw them over, teasing these little ones The bald eagles were in high spirits.

This visit to England has yielded a lot, and these bald eagles have also made contributions.

The North American part of the empire that Richard is thinking about, after reaching a memorandum of understanding with the United Kingdom on the self-determination of the people of British Columbia and Yukon, the above two provinces can also enjoy the same rights and interests as the provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Give up the same treatment to the three provinces, independently decide whether to be independent or join the Tang Empire through democratic voting, and the British side will not interfere.

In this way, it paved the way for the above two provinces to join the Tang Empire.

Today, the British are promoting the establishment of a dominion in Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, which are dominated by British immigrants. The name is "Canada", which is the earliest dominion in the UK.

As for joining the United Kingdom, it is absolutely impossible. The British are still a bit selfish in this regard, and they don't want all cats and dogs to enjoy the glory and wealth of the British Empire.

Not Canada, nor Australia and New Zealand, nor South Africa. The future development direction of these colonies is dominion, which is a new change in British colonial policy.

Canada could only exist as a dominion under British rule, the highest form of colony.

The Dominion enjoys the greatest degree of political and democratic self-determination rights, and has the right to formulate independent tax policies. In fact, it is tantamount to managing itself and not causing trouble to the British Empire.

The Tang Empire is not afraid of trouble. Li Cha happily calculated the current empire's territory and planned to continue to immigrate to the northern provinces of British Columbia and Yukon in 2 to 3 years, and then join the Datang Empire through democratic self-determination.

As for the time, 1867 is appropriate.

Because the current British Canada is wrangling, the originally independent provinces have different opinions on the establishment and dominion, especially Quebec, which has the most vocal opposition, has a majority of French-white residents, and most of them disagree.

Now the autonomous provinces of Canada are directly loyal to the British Empire. They have no affiliation with each other and are used to being free. Many provinces don't want to have a weakened version of the leader. What's the point?

in the original history

By suppressing opposing voices and excluding Quebec, the British finally kneaded the provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia together in 1867 to form the so-called "Canada". This gave birth to the earliest dominions in Britain.

In the follow-up, Canada successively absorbed other provinces. The last province of Alberta did not join Canada until 1949, forming the Canadian territory of later generations. It has been 1867 years since 82.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Tang Empire acquired British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, and then formed the ultimate territory from Alaska in the Arctic Circle along the Pacific Ocean all the way south, and finally arrived at the Channel Province and Zhennan Province.

After a few years of civil war chaos in the three countries of Central America, the land of the three countries will come to fruition, and it will be firmly in the pocket of the Tang Empire.

by then
The territory of the Tang Empire can extend all the way to Panama in Central America. What an exciting and glorious moment that would be?
Thinking of this, the corner of Li Cha's mouth couldn't help showing a happy smile. It was so worth it. This visit to England was full of rewards, so how could he not smile?

To say that the British Empire in this era is really amazing, and you can eat and wear it just by letting your fingers slip through it, is not a bit of a lie.

And the Brits always take good care of their own people, let’s say that the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the second stop of Richard’s upcoming visit, is the beneficiary.

If it weren't for the fact that after defeating Emperor Napoleon in 1814, the British handed over the East Indies to the Kingdom of the Netherlands for rewards, how could there be anything like the Netherlands in the East Indies now?
At that time, both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands were major players in the East Indies, but it was very difficult for the British to manage the Straits Settlements dominated by Malaysia, Singapore, Johor and Penang, and more places could not be managed at all.

The territory occupied by the British is too large to be developed at all, so they simply let the people around them take advantage of it.

The Dutch royal family took advantage of this advantage. The huge profits squeezed from the colony of the East Indies and the annual exclusive spice trade accounted for almost half of the Dutch royal family’s income, maintaining the Netherlands’ status as a third-rate country in Europe.

As long as the British are not happy, if they get stuck in the Straits Settlements, or if the Indian Governor's Office deliberately embarrasses them, the spiced coffee on the Dutch merchant ship will be completely finished, no matter how many years they have grown hair, they will not be shipped out.

Maintaining a close ally relationship with the British and repairing the rift between the two countries, whether it is in Central America or South America, or in the future colonial expansion to Asia, is of great strategic significance to the Datang Empire.

As long as the British guys turn a blind eye, the Tang Empire can completely ignore the roles of the great powers such as France, Germany, Russia, and the Austrian Empire. With the cover of the leading brother, it will be much more convenient to do things.

Some people say that the Tang Empire is so strong, why should it rely on others?

This question has to be looked at from two perspectives. When the power expands to a certain level, it is true that we should implement an independent foreign policy and set ourselves up to be the king. Wouldn't it be beautiful?

The strength of the Tang Empire lies only in the army, which is a regional power.

If you confront the European powers, there is no certainty of victory. These European powers have advanced weapons and equipment, and the population is not small, and they can find many allies if they call for friends, and their economic strength and military strength are relatively strong.

Therefore, the strength of the Datang Kingdom can only be limited to North America. If it radiates to South America, it will be overwhelmed, and it will not be able to radiate to Europe.

If you want to expand outwards, such as the Far East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, you must ask whether the world hegemon, Britain, agrees?
In addition, you need to seek advice from France, otherwise they will beat you in minutes.

There are many friends, but few enemies. This is an irrefutable truth no matter how we deal with people in society or international politics.

As long as you recognize the British guy as the big brother, many things will be implemented much more smoothly, and the French guy will not dare to intervene unscrupulously. This is the reason why it is easy to enjoy the shade under the big tree.

Before the Tang Empire surpassed the United Kingdom in economic strength and established a powerful Royal Navy, it was king to continue dormant.

(End of this chapter)