Wild North America 1846

Just when Mexico was plunged into a period of turmoil and turmoil, the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty ushered in the fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of the country and the king's wedding celebration. In addition, the expedition to Mexico achieved an unprecedented victory, which can be said to be three blessings.

Throughout the tenth month of the golden autumn, the whole country of the Tang Dynasty was filled with joy, and the atmosphere of celebration was extremely strong.

The expedition south to Mexico brought in rich harvests. Tens of thousands of soldiers returned with loads, thousands of them received awards, and dozens of officers with outstanding military exploits entered the aristocracy. Six viscounts were awarded.

His Majesty the King's personal conquest achieved an unprecedented victory. Naturally, the Tang Dynasty royal family seized the greatest benefits, opened up millions of square kilometers of territory to the south, and included two of the three most productive silver mines in Mexico.

This move will greatly enhance the economic strength that the royal family can use, stabilize its strong position in the field of resources, and ensure that the royal family has firm control over the internal treasury that is independent of the kingdom's finances.

At any time

Money is an effective means to expand war outwards and control the economy. Only by controlling the money bag at his disposal can Richard choose the most favorable opportunity for the Tang Kingdom to strike decisively in the strange tide of the times.

For example, more than ten years later, an unprecedentedly brutal all-out war may break out in North America.

How could such a lively occasion be without the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty?

Richard has never been willing to fight an unprepared war. The accumulation of relevant weapons and equipment, war supplies, artillery warships, fine war horses and other reserve materials for that war will start now.

Of course, the least important thing is a lot of financial support. If you don’t have money, why fight?

Among these two major silver mines

There are the Sauceto Silver Mine, which ranks first in silver production in the world, and the Penasquito Silver Mine, which ranks third. Their silver mining history dates back to the Spanish colonial period in the 16th century and has a history of nearly 300 years.

The world's largest silver mine, Saucito, produced 37.3 million ounces of silver in 1850. The production areas are located in Zacatecas and Chihuahua states. It is the pillar industry of Mexico's economy. Today, it is all owned by the Tang Dynasty royal family.

In the eight northern provinces of Mexico newly occupied by the Tang Kingdom, the mineral resources are extremely rich. It has the world's top coal, copper, zinc, lead, silver and other resource reserves, as well as rich oil resource reserves. It can be said that

A huge treasure house of resources.

Spain's most important colony in the Americas was Mexico, which is still the world's largest silver producer 150 years later.

Its rich reserves are extremely large, enough to add another wing to the economic development of the Tang Kingdom and help the economy rise in North America.

The Chaucito Silver Mine is the largest silver mine in Mexico. This silver mine was discovered in the 16th century. The silver production of this place alone accounts for one-third of the world's silver production. Basically, all Spanish silver coins are minted here.

Shining silver was continuously excavated from the mines in Mexico and cast into inexhaustible silver coins. Along with the trade routes, tons of silver were transported across half the world and widely circulated in the land of China.

As the Qing Dynasty was opened to the country, countless Spanish silver coins, Mexican Eagle Oceans and Tang Kingdom Holy Oceans flowed into the land of China, possessing considerable purchasing power.

Especially the "Shengyang" of the Tang Dynasty, the obverse side of its silver coin is the obverse crown icon of the monarch who founded the Tang Kingdom, so it is called "Shengyang".

Because of its texture of silver, exquisite casting and processing, full weight, and ease of use, it has become the most popular currency in China.

The world's largest silver mine in Mexico, Shaoxito, alone produces 80 million Tang Yuan worth of silver a year. Compared with the 1.2 million Tang Yuan paid to the Mexican government to cede more than one million square kilometers of land in eight states in the north and central part of the country, that is simply

It's just a drop in the bucket.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty

Two large-scale military expansions, one defeated the United States and ceded six northern states, and the other defeated Mexico and ceded eight northern and central states, greatly expanded the territory of the kingdom and became the hegemon of North America.

Prestige.

It was these two large-scale war expansions that brought the Tang Kingdom's national power to two new levels and became one of the two North American hegemons.

In the golden autumn of October

The biggest happy event is not the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the grand wedding of His Majesty the King. He solemnly married Lin Zhen'er, the legitimate daughter of the Manchu Qing minister Lin Zexu, as his queen. The whole country took a ten-day break, amnesty was granted to prisoners, and the whole country celebrated together.

Lin Zexu, also known as Yuan Fu, is a pillar and important minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty today.

He was a Jinshi in the 16th year of Jiaqing. In his official career, he held important positions such as Hanlin editor, Jiangsu inspector, Donghe governor, Jiangsu governor, and Huguang governor.

In 1839, Lin Zexu went to Guangdong as an imperial envoy to ban opium, forcing foreign opium merchants to hand over their opium and destroying the confiscated opium in Humen. This incident directly triggered the first Opium War.

Not long after the Opium War broke out, Lin Zexu was falsely accused and dismissed from his post and sent to Xinjiang.

This is a Han minister who dares to be the first in the world. He has a noble national integrity in his heart. He deeply hates the poison of opium to the people and vows to put an end to this cancer that harms the country and the nation.

Although his efforts were not successful, they are still worthy of admiration and respect.

After being assigned to Xinjiang, Lin Zexu was not reactivated until 1845.

As the most enlightened foreign affairs minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Lin Zexu knew how significant it was for the Tang Kingdom to create a glorious Chinese dynasty in North America. It was a new dynasty truly dominated by Chinese people, with a unique new atmosphere and a new dynasty for the Chinese overseas.

Development provides a vast world.

Therefore, Lin Zexu defied all opinions and insisted on marrying his beloved legitimate daughter Lin Zhen'er to North America. He also gave a handwritten plaque "Poetry and Literary Heirloom" to his son-in-law Richard, with a hidden meaning of commendation.

After winning the Tang-Mo War, King Richard led his army back to the army. After meeting the three women in person, he immediately fell in love with Lin Zhen'er as his queen.

For nothing else

Although Lin Zhen'er is not the most beautiful or charming in appearance, she has bright eyes, white teeth, and is dignified. Especially since she was born in the palace of an important official in the imperial court, she has an awe-inspiring and inviolable noble temperament that is particularly outstanding, just like a white lotus emerging from the mud and untainted.

Richard particularly respected her origins. Lin Zexu was a rare enlightened minister in the late Qing Dynasty. He possessed Chinese strength and responsibility, and was truly a role model for a national hero.

It is a pity that Lin Zexu just died in Puning, Chaozhou not long ago due to his busy government affairs for many years and his frail health. He was given the posthumous title of "Wenzhong".

Due to the lack of news, the Tang Kingdom has not yet received this bad news and is in the midst of the joy of celebrating His Majesty the King's wedding.

While marrying Lin Zhen'er as the queen, the royal court also accepted two concubines of the king, both of whom came from famous families in China and had quite profound backgrounds.

One is the Huang family, a well-known scholar in Guangdong Province. She is the legitimate daughter of Huang Chengen, the second-rank governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This girl is called "Huiniang", and she is a lady as beautiful as water.

The other one is the legitimate daughter of Wang Peng, editor of the Hanlin Academy, named "Wang Manzhi". She is a charming and lovely girl. If judged by appearance alone, she is the best among the three girls.

Huang Huiniang and Wang Manzhi were respectively adopted as the king's concubines, ranking in the first rank, and were officially called "concubines" in the royal court.

After the grand ceremony, it is already the last day of October in the golden autumn.

Inside Maple Leaf Palace

Richard is sitting high on the throne. Next to him is Queen Lin Zhen'er, who is quite tall, has bright eyes and white teeth, and has a dignified temperament. She is wearing a luxurious queen's robe and looks elegant.

Sitting at the bottom on the left and right sides are the queen's concubines Huang Huiniang and Wang Manzhi, known as "Mrs. Huiniang" and "Mrs. Manzhi" respectively. They are both the princesses who are being married by the Ming Dynasty.

further down

Standing were all the beautiful concubines of Yingying Yanyan. The most distinguished of them was Qin Yufei, the wife of the fifth rank Chenghui. Because she had a son, she was promoted to be a concubine.

Zheng Xiuniang, wife of Zhaoxun in the seventh rank, was promoted as a concubine because she had a son.

In addition, there are five people of the ninth grade, namely the blond Persian cats Selena and Lilith. They were His Majesty the King's bed-warming maids when he was in charge of the Colorado Plateau. They were cute and cute little desserts.

The other three are the three Mexican beauty sisters, the eldest sister Elsa, the second sister Emma, ​​and the younger sister Ellie. After getting it, Richard liked it so much that he ignored the other concubines for a while, and they were all named the ninth rank.

One of the concubines recognized by the royal court.

"Your Majesty, the Tang Kingdom is now one of the most powerful countries in North America. Your Majesty has opened up a territory of millions of square kilometers, and his reputation spreads far and wide. The ministers and concubines of the royal court will never dare to say anything, but this is just a matter of the inner court.

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Queen Lin Zhen'er paused intentionally when she said this, looking at Richard's face with her big dark eyes, smiling without saying a word with a hint of fascination and admiration.

Naturally, Richard would not offend the Queen in front of so many people. He gently patted Queen Lin Zhener's delicate hand and said softly;

"Everything in the inner court is entirely decided by the queen. It is the queen's responsibility to lead the harem. What kind of rules to establish and how to send the subordinates to do things are all decided by the queen. I, the king, should also abide by it."

The weight of Richard's words is very important. It is equivalent to the golden decree. It has been recorded by the royal secretary as "residing in the royal court" and formed a national regulation. It is absolutely impossible to go back on it, and there is no reason for it.

Queen Lin Zhen'er smiled and responded: "Since Your Majesty has made a conclusion, I can only reluctantly take over this big business, but now the palace is quite crowded and there are many female relatives, so I am very afraid of Your Majesty's favor.

Those ferocious beasts that I have raised. I boldly request that Your Majesty choose another place to place these ferocious beasts."

After these words were spoken, all the concubines and maids were relieved, and they all showed relaxed expressions on their faces.

It sounds like I'm really scared of people

His Majesty has more and more pets. There are more than a dozen North American brown bears weighing more than 1,000 pounds, as well as tigers and jaguars, dozens of wild wolves weighing up to 1,780 pounds, various eagles and white-headed animals.

Needless to say about sea eagles.

Especially those bald eagles with wingspans as high as three meters. When they fly over, they really feel like they are blocking out the sun. A girl weighing several dozen pounds can really pick them up and walk away without any effort.

Seriously, which pretty girl is not afraid?

Although these ferocious beasts are usually very obedient and never take a step out of the maple forest, the occasional exposure of their huge figures and roars is enough to frighten all the female relatives to the point of turning pale and unable to recover for a long time.

Think about it too

Maple Leaf Palace is just a manor-style building originally owned by John Sartre. The regulations are not high and the area is not large. It is more than enough to accommodate more than a hundred people, but not more.

The two princesses that Richard recently married were both from well-known families. They were brought back by the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty on a special luxury cruise ship. They were accompanied by hundreds of dowries and children, including their personal maids, dowry maids and wives.

The total number of maids, study maids, chess, calligraphy and painting maids and housekeepers together exceeded 200.

This time

The originally spacious Maple Leaf Palace suddenly became overcrowded, and several additional courtyards had to be temporarily built to accommodate the excess population.

The Maple Leaf Palace was originally spacious, but now it can only occupy the open space on the other side of the woods. Many maids and women live just outside the wall of the beast, and some of them almost scare people to death.

free time

No family members dared to go wandering in the maple leaf forest. They were like savage beasts and were afraid to avoid them.

Hearing Queen Lin Zhen'er talk about this matter, Richard was stunned for a moment and then laughed and said;

"Hahaha... This was a lack of consideration on my part, and I would like to apologize to the queen and my two beloved concubines.

The new palace is already under intensive preparation and is about to start large-scale construction. It will be a palace building that brings together the essence of Chinese and Western architecture. It is beautiful and the most important thing is that it is large enough.

As for these pet animals, I will move them to a new place today so that they will not frighten the queen and the rest of the family.

It’s just that wild wolves are not big in size and are relatively well-behaved. Can we leave some to look after the house?”

"Since His Majesty has spoken, we will do as His Majesty wishes, but I have a request, that is, these wild wolves cannot enter the Maple Leaf Palace and can only guard the outside." Queen Lin Zhen'er responded with a smile, and then gently

He pushed Richard's arm and continued angrily;

"Don't talk about other people, I was scared when I saw those wolves. How can we, the family members who live in the boudoir without leaving the door, see such terrifying beasts? It's scary, okay? His Majesty likes to play.

These terrifying beasts really leave people speechless.”

"Hehehe... I promise not to bring him to the inner court, so as not to scare the queen and concubines." Richard replied with a warm expression.

He has always been very patient with his wives, concubines, and family. His harsh and cruel methods are only for dealing with enemies. What kind of hero is he who acts cruelly in front of his own women and children?

Take these three beauties from Mexico, for example. Their father Gonzalez has served as the Minister of Finance in the new government, and the family has also moved to Mexico City and settled in a gorgeous palace in the north of the city.

from this angle

Richard still takes good care of his own people, and his father-in-law rose to the top in one step. As long as the three daughters are still there, the Gonzalez family will be a standing and super-class family in Mexico, with a higher status than Minister of the Interior Flamengo and the Mexican Army.

Commander-in-chief General Dos Santos still needs to be stable.

These three major Mexican families were the White Gloves used by the Tang Kingdom to control the political situation in Mexico, thereby deeply penetrating their influence into the upper class of Mexican society and influencing its political development.