The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was known as the era of imperialism. According to Li Mingyuan’s intuitive impression of the four words imperialism, there were many emperors. The monarchs of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, the Russian Empire and other countries all wore
In 1876, Elizabeth looked at a circle of European monarchs proclaiming themselves emperors. She felt that the title of Queen of England was too low-key and did not match the world's largest comprehensive national power. Therefore, she privately hinted to Prime Minister Dis
After a lot of hard work, she was crowned the Queen of India, and she finally got over the addiction of being an emperor.
The legal system of European emperors originated from the Roman Empire. Among the countries that proclaimed themselves emperors with one vote, except for the title of Russian Czar, which was closely related to the Eastern Roman Empire, the titles of emperors of Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, and Germany were all crowned on their own without legal basis.
Mexico, Brazil, and later the Ethiopian emperor followed the European monarchy trend. The title of the emperor could only attract the limelight at home, and few countries recognized it abroad.
The emperor symbolizes the supreme power and the right to rule the vast territory. In terms of territory alone, the Han State has an area of more than 3.4 million square kilometers. The Congo colony it occupies overseas covers an area of more than 2 million square kilometers. The area of the mainland plus overseas colonies is nearly 6 million.
square kilometers. From the perspective of the Eastern cultural circle, a monarch who rules such a vast territory deserves the title of emperor. However, what is inversely proportional to the territory is the sparse population. In the native areas of South America, Chinese and naturalized white women,
There are about 6 million mixed-race people in total, and more than 1.8 million white people in the Indian, Argentine, and Uruguay-occupied areas. The total population in the ruled area is more than 8 million. If you put it on the Central Plains, it is only the population of two or three prefectures.
Whether he proclaims himself emperor or not has no substantial impact on the national strength of the Han Kingdom. Li Mingyuan himself does not have an urgent desire to proclaim himself emperor. However, the old brothers of the Taiping remnant army who followed Li Mingyuan to conquer the country have joined the ruling group from Southeast Asia, North America and other regions.
The young officers, generals, and officials all hoped to proclaim themselves emperor and change the Yuan Dynasty, and establish an independent imperial country in accordance with Eastern cultural traditions.
Conquering the country and dominating the world, Li Mingyuan felt the Han generals, officials, and people's pursuit and stubbornness for legitimacy. For this reason, in order to reward the Han army's military exploits and boost the cohesion of the entire nation, Li Mingyuan changed the situation of Guanggangliang and slowed down the
The low-key strategy of proclaiming the king correctly announced the timetable for proclaiming the emperor and reforming the system throughout the Han Dynasty, and held the grand ceremony of proclaiming the emperor and establishing the Yuan Dynasty before the end of the year at the latest.
I have had the experience of founding a country and becoming a king. The preparation process for proclaiming an emperor and transforming the system can be roughly followed, from the various costumes worn by the emperor, officials and soldiers during the grand ceremony, to the etiquette and music played, most of which are for people to be elected.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites, who were scholars, were well organized and arranged each part carefully. They selected hundreds of era names from classical books such as "Li", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn" and so on, and attached detailed information to each era name.
The implication was submitted to Li Mingyuan for the final decision.
"Yongxing, Jianwu, Zhaowu, Jianye, Longping..." A dense row of words was placed on the table. Li Mingyuan read it twice carefully, and then chose "Jianye" as the first reign title after proclaiming the emperor.
The founding of the country in South America, the great cause of construction, the establishment and development of the Han Dynasty was a magnificent history of development, and only the word "Jianye" met Li Mingyuan's expectations and expectations for the country.
The proclaiming of emperor and restructuring was a festive and significant day for all the citizens of Han in South America. The establishment of the empire meant that the country had completely abandoned the influence of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and became independent from the mainland. Ordinary people were faced with the problem of self-identity.
Zhi Shang, the first impression is no longer that of Chinese living overseas, but that of upright Han nationals. The national mentality changes with the change of living environment. You may not notice the difference at first, but after a few years or a generation,
Looking back and comparing, the national spiritual outlook of the South American Han Empire will have undergone earth-shaking changes.
All Chinese and voluntarily naturalized whites and Indians were given the status of formal citizens, and each citizen was given 5 acres of arable land free of charge. The decree issued by the Han government was to enhance the people's recognition of the monarchy through the festive atmosphere of proclaiming emperor and reforming the system.
and loyalty are also a secret administrative means,
There is also free land allocated to the Chinese who have newly obtained national status. Most of it is concentrated in central and southern Argentina and the two newly occupied areas of Uruguay. According to the "Agricultural Law" promulgated by the Han government, a single piece of high-fertility farmland
, the minimum area is 30 acres. After each household obtains the land allocated by the government, it is not allowed to divide the land into fragments. The land is slightly less fertile and produces less food. The minimum area of a single piece of land is 40 acres, pasture and forest land.
The minimum area is 500 to 700 acres.
A small part of the 5 acres of cultivated land distributed for free is in the same area or adjacent to their own land. After farmers obtain the ownership of 5 acres of cultivated land, they can exchange the land with other farmers, or merge the two pieces of land together, and those distributed in
land in newly occupied areas,
Chinese farmers must either give up their individual 5-acre plot of land, or move to the newly occupied area, return the original land to the government, and then receive another piece of land in the occupied area.
The plains of La Plata and Uruguay have pleasant climate conditions and fertile land. The Chinese who had previously gathered in the two southern states of Brazil and the five northern states of Argentina naturally knew how to choose when faced with more attractive lands. Through this hidden method of encouragement,
The number of Chinese in the occupied territories ushered in another period of rapid growth. The Argentinian and Uruguayan whites who stayed in the area gradually lost their numerical advantage over the Chinese.
More than 90% of the land suitable for farming in the La Plata Plain has not been developed. There is no shortage of land allocated to new immigrants in the Han Dynasty. However, in order to cooperate with the national strategic plan of paying equal attention to industry and agriculture, even if it has enough uncultivated land
, each Chinese family was given two to three hundred acres of land free of charge, and the reserved land could still meet the needs of subsequent immigrants. Li Mingyuan did not do this either.
Things that are too easy to obtain are less easy to cherish. The first batch of more than 100,000 Chinese workers who followed Li Mingyuan in the Peruvian uprising moved thousands of miles, and tens of thousands of people were killed and injured due to fighting, disease and other factors along the way. They risked their lives to get 500 acres.
Land ranging from 1,000 acres to 1,000 acres. If new immigrants can get 200 acres or 300 acres of land for free without doing anything, their psychology will definitely be unbalanced. Moreover, every Chinese family has hundreds of acres of land. Everyone is
Small landowners have lived a good life that was unimaginable in mainland China. Who would still be willing to work as a worker in a factory or enterprise, and who would even think of fighting to the death.
Absolute average is the greatest unfairness. The development of Han industry requires a large amount of labor. Each household has 30 acres of good arable land, which can ensure that immigrants live a good life with enough food and leave them with the opportunity to continue working hard and improve their social status.
Room for growth. When the industrial level in the city becomes higher and higher, and more new immigrants enter the city and earn higher wages than those who work on 20 to 30 acres of land, the development of industry and agriculture in Han Dynasty will also be positively promoted.
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The industrialization of agricultural production will be the mainstream of future social development. Through the efforts of the early immigrant Chinese workers, many of them already own two to three hundred acres of cultivated land or two to three thousand acres of forestland and pasture.
Therefore, in South America, families with an average of 300 to 2,000 acres of land are the main force in agricultural production, and families with an average of 30 to 100 acres of land have a population four to five times that of the former.
The total amount of land is only one-third of the former. At the same time, with the progress of urbanization and industrialization, many farmers retain land ownership and rent the land to other farmers for farming, while they and their families have moved to the city.
Life.
Digesting the occupied areas and settling new immigrants are the current main tasks of the Han government. Faced with the olive branch that the British were forced to extend, Li Mingyuan just set a bottom line for Hu Yaqi who was stranded in Rio de Janeiro: on the local side, it will be divided by the current actual line of control.
Territory, retain the Congo colony and ownership of the Natuna Islands, ensure that Songkhla is not annexed by the British Malay colonial authorities, and can abandon the strongholds of Kismayo and Mtwara if necessary, but the United Kingdom and its allies must not block travel to and from Asia,
The Han immigration transport fleet on the South American route stopped for repairs and supplies on the way.