Chapter 52: Royal and Republic

The blue sky is as clear as the deep ocean is boundless.

Standing on the deck of the Regent, Ye Zhao was twisting a huge cigar in his hand. When he came to America, he naturally had to taste the local cigars.

The breeze was blowing and the weather was warm. The majestic naval general standing beside Ye Zhao was Li Chengmou, the captain of the Regent. At this moment, he was holding a cigar in his hand, which was thrown to him by Ye Zhao just now.

"Tell me, tell me, the US Navy and the US *** officer." Ye Zhao looked at the rolling sea water behind the ship and asked faintly.

In recent days, Li Chengmou has to communicate with the U.S. Navy generals. However, the U.S. Navy is weak and mostly deployed on the East Coast where trade with Europe is busy. There are not many ports in the west. In recent years, the western development has led to San Francisco gradually rising, but that's all, such as Seattle and Los Angeles, which are still in small towns.

Li Chengmou said: "The thoughts are more active than those of the Europa. Those who are beside each other have little experience."

Ye Zhao nodded slightly and smiled and said, "What do you think of the newly signed appointment?"

Three days ago, Foreign Secretary Zou Kaizhi signed the Sino-US Friendship and Cooperation Treaty with the US Chief Secretary of the State Department (Secretary of State) William Henry Siward.

Siwald is a tough expansionist in the diplomatic line in US history and is also one of the most influential secretary of state in US history.

He advocated the establishment of the Pacific Empire and was actively mediating the purchase of Alaska with the Russians. However, the history of these two affairs deviated due to Ye Zhao's intervention. Just when Westward advocated that the US Navy enter the Pacific and declared sovereignty in the Pacific islands, it was reported that the Chinese fleet took the lead and claimed that Midway Island and other islands belonged to Chinese territory. At the same time, the Chinese Navy strongly expelled the French forces in Honolulu and took the lead in gaining influence in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

The negotiations with the Russians to purchase Alaska were also frustrated. It was not only the relationship between the United States and China, but also the Russian royal family that originally firmly agreed to the sale of Alaska, Grand Duke Nikolaevich, changed his attitude because he obtained a loan from a British bank, which made his willingness to sell Alaska no longer so strong. Grand Duke Nikolaevich was the Tsar's younger brother and he played an important role in the sale of Alaska.

In this way, the two most important measures in the Pacific line advocated by Westward suffered major setbacks, which led to him being widely criticized by conservatives within the party, and the isolationist trend gradually rose within the Republican Party.

Siward was full of alertness to the Chinese, and even some resistance and rejection. However, under the pressure of the president, General Grant and others, Zou Kaizhi had to sign this cooperation treaty.

According to the treaty, China will send 150,000 workers to the United States within four years. The Americans will conduct detailed statistics on Chinese workers in the United States and issue special labor certificates to create the safest working conditions for Chinese workers.

In this treaty, both China and the United States promised their ports to provide necessary assistance to each other's merchant ships. The Americans supported the trade behavior of Chinese merchant ships in the Americas, while China was willing to promote trade relations between Southeast Group countries and the United States.

Regarding labor, the United States has repeatedly insisted on the 150,000 yuan figure and did not let go. Ye Zhao instructed Zou Kaizhi to agree, thinking that you can create problems for yourself and you can't blame me. Two or three years later, if you want to break the contract, you will have to compensate for the huge amount of breach of contract according to the contract.

When asked about the Major General's view on the Sino-US Treaty, Ye Zhao wanted to know whether the young and strong generals in China felt that this treaty was too friendly to the United States? Especially for labor, due to the expansion of the empire's territory and the gradual formation of absolute control over the border areas, a wave of immigration booms emerged in the country, and the lack of arable land was alleviated. In addition, the construction of railways, highways and other infrastructure in the country is in full swing, so there is no need to export labor.

Hearing Li Chengmou answered as he thought: "I know nothing about foreign affairs and dare not speak nonsense." Ye Zhao didn't say anything else and lit a cigar.

After a while, Ye Zhao said: "Some things need to be more long-term."

It was very hard to chat with the emperor, but today the emperor seemed very interested and kept talking to him. Li Chengmou felt that his hair was steaming under his military cap and itched very much. He wanted to scratch it a few times, but he didn't dare to maintain the dignity of the royal general. He bowed and said, "The emperor is a Buddha in the world. He can see the past and the future. If his subordinates listen to the emperor's words, he will be able to do anything wrong."

Ye Zhao laughed and said, "You, you have learned this too."

Li Chengmou hesitated for a moment and finally asked boldly: "Emperor, my subordinates are bold. I heard that Nagasaki's *** people had a proposal to join the empire..."

Ye Zhao nodded slightly and said, "It's just the idea of ​​a few businessmen. I can't do it really. What should I do on the barren land of the four islands?"

The reason why Li Chengmou asked about this was a domestic telegram, the top commander Hosokawa Shaobang made a confession and asked the imperial emperor to visit Edo when he returned to the voyage.

As for the so-called Nagasaki *** proposal, it is probably because Nagasaki Freeport implements a city hall council system. A few days ago, several *** merchants proposed a proposal in the parliament, hoping that Nagasaki would join China and that Nagasaki people would all be Chinese nationality. However, although the Nagasaki City Council is all controlled by pro-China faction, this proposal was only barely passed by half, and it has no legal effect. It is just a symbolic statement and requires approval from the city hall. Of course, the Chinese people have to agree.

Obviously, although the members of the Nagasaki City Council are close to China, many people naturally dare not take the blame if they agree to Nagasaki becoming a Chinese city. This is a historical infamous, and it is completely different from serving in a puppet regime.

However, even if all the Nagasaki ***ers confessed, Ye Zhao was not so idle.

Ye Zhao had no interest in the territory of the *** Kingdom. There was nothing to occupy in densely populated areas with a relatively high degree of civilization development, so he would just dominate indirectly and plunder some wealth through unequal trade.

When it comes to territorial expansion, Ye Zhaozi still believes that it is far from enough. First of all, Central Asia can expand further, especially Kazakhstan, where resources have gone seas, uranium reserves are the world's largest, tungsten reserves, strategic resources, extremely poor chromium reserves in the country, second in the world, South Africa is the first, and there is no need to mention the rest of natural gas, oil, etc., but today, although Tsarist Russia has occupied most of its region, its importance to this region is far from realizing it.

As for China, it has penetrated a wedge in Southern Kazakhstan, but it naturally has to expand northward.

To the western Central Asia region, we must also extend our influence. The ultimate goal is naturally to directly send strategic forces to West Asia and directly affect the political situation of West Asia. Among them, the spread of the Muslim New Sect of Imam Bai will also play an immeasurable role.

These strategic goals complement each other. In today's world, Ye Zhao is only aware of the fact that others are just watching flowers in the fog, but they don't know that Ye Zhao has been sowing the seeds. The mysteries here are all about it.

Not to mention the Northern Region, Ye Zhao's ambition to seize the Siberian region has not subsided for a moment. This deserted area but contains the richest resources in the world is the place where China's territory is most confident to absorb.

However, these strategic goals will eventually break out in total war with the polar bears.

Especially in Siberia, the ambitious Ye Zhao's goal was to completely incorporate Central Siberia and Eastern Siberia into the territory of the empire with the Yenisei River as the boundary. In this way, the northern part of the empire was close to the Arctic Ocean, and for later generations, they could even make territorial appeals to the Arctic.

To seize all areas east of the Yenisei River, it would occupy most of Tsarist Russia, and the territory of the empire would be directly expanded from the current more than 14 million square kilometers to a great empire with an area of ​​more than 26 million square kilometers. Even in the heyday of the Soviet Union, it would be quite inferior.

Unlike the Soviet Union, the empire was not a national oppression policy that planted the root of disaster since the beginning of the founding of the country; second, it would not destroy the military and enter a vicious cycle of subsidizing heavy industry for the whole people; third, the collapse of the Soviet Union was more accidental. Moreover, most of these lands were deserted but contained unlimited resources. China could completely digest it, and there was basically no risk of division.

However, there is only one way to achieve the terrifying goal of occupying the east of the Yenisei River, to truly defeat the Russians, surrender, and even capture Moscow, so that it can sign a treaty to cede large tracts of land.

The complete defeat of Tsarist Russia was signed on the surrender treaty. After Tsarist Russia entered the Romanov dynasty in the 17th century, no matter how powerful the country was, it could not do this. Although Tsarist Russia also suffered a defeat, its territorial expansion has not stopped for more than 200 years, and countless European powers have fallen at its feet.

Just a few decades ago, the Russians were called European military police. Many European royal families were not overthrown by the revolutionary party. They all thanked the Russians for their intervention, which caused the bourgeois revolution to be curbed, and eventually many countries embarked on the road of improvement.

Although in the middle of the 19th century, there was a big explosion in technology and the Russians gradually fell behind advanced countries, it was only at the technical level. From the perspective of war and war mobilization, any European country would tremble in their hearts when facing polar bears.

As for the expedition to Russia and occupation of Moscow, no European country can do it, including the British.

Of course, this is also because the UK is far away from Tsarist Russia, and the British Army's mobilization capabilities are indeed its shortcomings.

Ye Zhao can be said that since he commanded the Third Battalion of the God Cannon, the polar bear has become his imaginary enemy, and it is an imaginary enemy that must be completely defeated. He will defeat the weakest polar bear neighbor for later generations, and will no longer have to live in the shadow of the polar bear for generations.

But how terrible the price of such a war? How serious will the consequences be if it is defeated? Will European countries participate? Ye Zhao can only judge the situation and slowly look for opportunities to move. I don’t know if this goal can be achieved in his lifetime.

Ye Zhao didn't take the land and resources seriously. Moreover, he had such a dense population, a relatively developed civilization and a relatively sound national concept. What are the benefits of occupying such a country?

Even if all the citizens of *** requested to join the empire, Ye Zhao would definitely refuse.

But these words cannot be said to Li Chengmou.

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Before the Regent fleet headed to Mexico, the situation on the battlefield in Mexico began to change. The Republicans won a lot of battles. When the Regent fleet arrived in La Paz, Juarez led the Republican army to conquer Mexico City, and Massimiliano I led the repressed soldiers of the royalists to flee to the California Peninsula.

This was already as Ye Zhao expected. Unless there was a major deviation in history, the Mexican royalists could defeat the republicans if they had divine help.

When the Regent landed in La Paz, the Mexicans in the entire city of La Paz were in panic.

Long before the Regent set off, the Americans had sent telegrams to the Mexican Republicans and the royalists, saying that the Chinese emperor was willing to mediate for both sides. Masimirano I welcomed this, and the Republican leader Juarez clearly refused.

Obviously, in Juarez's eyes, the Eastern emperors and Western royal families will eventually support the imperial system, which can be seen from the attitudes of royal countries such as France, Spain, and Britain.

And in fact, Juarez is also full of vigilance towards Americans.

The US-Mexico War between 1846 and 1848 can be said to be the United States' invasion of Mexico. Juarez, who was 40 years old at the time, was the most unwavering hardliner against the United States. In the end, Mexico lost the war and ceded more than 2.3 million square kilometers of land in three major areas of Texas, New Mexico and Upper California. Mexico lost most of its territory and was severely damaged. The United States became a major power in the transatlantic and Pacific Ocean, and since then it has gained its dominance in the Americas.

This is a shame that patriots like Juares will never forget, and he has no good impression of the Americans. Therefore, it is normal for him to refuse mediation from the Chinese emperor.

However, Sanford, a senior US Senate who accompanied Ye Zhao to La Paz, was close friends with Juares. After he arrived in La Paz, he soon wrote a handwritten letter to Culiacan, which is the stronghold where the Republican army faced the California Peninsula across the sea.

On the third day, Masimirino came to La Paz in a mess. The so-called Mexican emperor is now like a frightened bird. The French have completely abandoned him, and the Spaniards are even more likely to rely on him. He originally wanted to escape to the east coast and flee back to Europe by boat, but was cut off by the republican army. He hid in the east with only a few hundred servants. He was almost caught by the republican armed forces several times. Finally, he had to escape to the California Peninsula, with only twenty or thirty of the most loyal guards being followed.

Moreover, the Republicans have long claimed that they will shoot him.

On the west coast of Mexico, there were no merchant ships from Europe at all, so it seemed that his fate was destined to be hunted down by the republican armed forces.

He even handed his hat to his subordinate Thomas Messira and said to him: "Leave this to my mother. Please tell her that I still miss her until my death."

In fact, the Habsburg family member's decision to accept the Mexican throne was opposed by most members of the family, causing him and his descendants to lose the right to inherit the Austrian throne. However, when he was in danger, some European royal families with close ties with the Habsburg family still issued a statement to express their support for him.

When meeting Ye Zhao, Masimiliano still showed considerable demeanor. He was not a few years older than Ye Zhao. He was a handsome handsome man. Ye Zhao also met the famous Belgian princess, the mad queen Carlotta. It is said that this is a woman who wants to be a queen and a woman who really went crazy when she became a queen. When she went to Europe to ask for help, she encountered a wallowing her husband was executed by gunfire. She became mentally ill and lived in seclusion in a castle. She passed away more than 60 years later.

In fact, later Mexicans reflected on their reflection that they still gave considerable sympathy to the son-in-law couple, rather than the invaders and tyrannical masters who are now fanatical republicans clamoring. For example, in the "Anecdotes of the Empire" written by a Mexican diplomat, the writer said that Masimirino and Carlotta had the mission and ideals of a true aristocratic family and the royal couple who truly loved Mexico were caught between national independence and colonial ambitions, as well as the hegemony of the United States, and became victims of politics.

The white seagulls hovered at low altitude, making crisp chirping from time to time.

Ye Zhao and Massimilano stood on the second deck of the Regent, chatting under the sea breeze.

This is the tenth day after Masimireno ascended the Regent. It is said that Juarez has arrived on the California Peninsula. The Chinese Navy issued an ultimatum yesterday. If he could not see the representative of the Mexican Republic within three days, Masimireno I will set off with the Regent to return to China.

Moreover, the Chinese government will send an investigation team to investigate whether the Mexican Republicans have committed acts of harming the royalists, because Massimirino I is still the supreme head of Mexico. If Massimirino I gets the request of Massimirino I, China will seriously consider the possibility of interfering in the situation in Mexico.

In fact, Masimirino I did not ask for help from the Chinese. He just wanted to leave Mexico on a Chinese ship and return to Europe.

If it were a year ago, he might have been excited to get support from the Chinese, but now the defeat is over. He obviously does not want foreign forces to intervene and bring deeper suffering to the Mexican people.

At this time, he and Ye Zhao were blowing the sea breeze on the second deck of the Regent. Massimiliano said with a heavy expression: "I just want to say my last farewell to independent Mexico, and hope to give my final speech to the children of the Republic."

Ye Zhao nodded slightly.

A few miles away, several small black dots were armed ships of the Mexican Republicans, and the Regent had long been flag-telling and prohibiting them from getting closer.

Several armed wooden ships lingered for a while, and then left. The Chinese giant steel ships were obviously not something they could easily provoke.

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