Wild North America 1846

Chapter 784 The end of the Victorian era
Youzhou Kingdom (formerly Chubut Province)

It is located in the vast Pampas Plain. The Pampas Plain covers an area of ​​more than 70 square kilometers. The Youzhou Kingdom occupies almost half of the Pampas Plain. It is simply a paradise for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Pampas means no stone in the Indian language. The locals proudly declared: "Our plain starts from the Atlantic Ocean, and a plowshare will not touch a stone when it is plowed to the foothills of the Andes."

The fertile Pampas Plain is full of extremely fertile black land with lush pastures. It is one of the best pastures in the world and a paradise for grazing cattle and sheep.

The entire Youzhou Kingdom has a population of 86.2, and there are only three cities with a population of more than 5. The largest city is Youzhou City, which is close to the Atlantic Ocean. main port.

The emperor's imperial chariot has been staying in Youzhou City for more than half a month, welcoming the New Year's Day of 1901. Sitting here, the sudden death of King Youzhou did not cause any disturbance. A large number of high-level officials of the royal government were dismissed in the audit.

Until the 17th day of the first month, His Majesty the Emperor issued an imperial decree, proclaiming Tang Li Shuuting, the fourth prince of the country, to inherit the throne as the second king of Youzhou.

Several important officials from the empire parachuted into the country, bringing with them 246 capable middle- and low-level officials, and almost completely changed all government departments in the kingdom from top to bottom.

A large number of tax chaos that was contrary to the imperial policy was abolished, and corrupt officials were sent to jail. This aroused cheers from all the people in the Youzhou Kingdom, and received rave reviews!
His Majesty the Emperor took a special train on January 21 to continue his tour of the various kingdoms in South America.

At this moment

Great news came from England that was enough to shake the whole world. The European grandma who created the glory of the Victorian era, Queen Victoria of England, died at the age of 82 at Osborne House in White.

During his 64-year reign, he pushed the British Empire to the peak of the Victorian era.

The bad news shook Europe, North America, and the world...

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

Royal dignitaries from Tang, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Greece and other European and American royal families rushed to London to participate in the unprecedented grand state funeral held in Great Britain.

News about the queen's state funeral filled every page of European and American newspapers and periodicals. Kings and heads of state from dozens of countries led delegations to attend the ceremony. Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II also arrived in London on warships.

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

Meanwhile, Tang He's bilateral peace negotiations, which are being held in Paris, have long been overwhelmed by overwhelming news about the Queen's funeral, and no one cares about them.

same period
The 8 bandits are forcing the Qing government to sign a treaty to further open the door and pay war reparations as high as 4.5 million taels of silver.

This sum of money is worth about 4.5 million Tang yuan, 9000 million pounds. 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 should pay 50 billion gold francs in accordance with the treaty, which is equivalent to about 13 billion taels of silver. The French only spent two years to pay the war compensation in full.

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

However, the land of Shenzhou, which is still in an agricultural society, has corrupt officials and rampant corruption. The decadent Qing Dynasty has money to build a garden for the Queen Mother, but rebuilding the Beiyang Navy and rearmament are far away.

Huge war reparations, mortgaged by customs revenue, can only be collected from the people of Liming.

1901/3/7

Emperor Richard, who spent the Lunar New Year in Hekou City, the capital of the Grand River Province in South America, received the good news that he had concluded a peace treaty with the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands admitted defeat and unconditionally recognized that the Tang Empire had complete sovereignty over the East Indies. The two sides reached a final agreement on issues such as white prisoners of war, war losses, and equal treatment of white citizens after the war.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands recognized Tang’s means of confiscating the property of the white manors in the East Indies during the war. The Tang Empire paid 2 million Tang Yuan in exchange for the sovereignty of the East Indies and compensation for the losses of the white colonists.

The more than [-] white captives in custody were immediately released to the society after the date of signing the peace treaty, and they were allowed to stay voluntarily.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands cannot bear the huge social pressure of the long-term detention of more than 10 white captives. It must be known that this small country in Western Europe has only a few million people.

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

The previous Dutch government, which was unable to solve this problem for a long time, resigned in the midst of raging protests after only maintaining a lifespan of just over five months.

Emperor Richard's southern tour did not come to an end until April 4 when the royal fleet arrived at Pier 2 in Chang'an Bay.

This trip visited 16 South American feudal states and the province of Grand River, as well as the Kingdom of Cuba in Central America, which greatly condensed the morale of the South American feudal states and spread the glory of the imperial family to every remote corner.

After the Youzhou Kingdom Incident, after Emperor Li Cha returned to the western capital of Chang'an, he was about to promote the promulgation of the heavy-weight "Administrative Governance Act of the Royal Territory of the Tang Empire", which further restricted the vassal king's intervention in local administration and clarified the boundaries between royal power and administrative power.

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

Clear mutual responsibilities and powers can prevent local vassals from overly interfering in administrative power.

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

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

In the next few years, the government finance will also support the construction of more prison facilities and create a complete prison administration system.

Of course, the only people who can go to prison are petty criminals.

Felons who are suspected of rape, robbery, murder and drug trafficking, and arson and poisoning will still end up in exile on an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean if their crimes do not result in death. This will not change.

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

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

(End of this chapter)