Every year, the Spring Festival is the busiest time for all walks of life in the empire. Merchants are busy doing business during this golden time of the year. Farmers are busy buying New Year goods so that they can go home to celebrate the New Year. Workshop owners are hurrying to collect payment for their goods. Wages and red envelopes are distributed to the workers, while officials are busy welcoming the entertainment, and the workers are waiting for the boss to distribute the last sum of money so that they can bring back rich New Year goods for their wives and children at home.
In short, no other ethnic group attaches as much importance to this Spring Festival as the Tang people. In the minds of the Tang people, only after worshiping ancestors, ghosts and gods during the Spring Festival does the year truly end, and the new year truly begins. , while waiting for the old year to pass and the new year to come, the men and women in the family should stay at home as much as possible to spend the last moment of the year. Only in this way can the family be blessed with success in the new year. Smoothness, wealth and prosperity.
This is the first Spring Festival since the founding of the Tang Empire. Everyone knows what this means to the empire. His Majesty the Emperor will personally attend the Spring Festival ceremony. The Minister of Etiquette, Lao Min, has truly become a consumptive citizen. , I have lost at least ten pounds in the past half month. Representatives of the Senate and the People's Council from all counties in the empire in Beijing will participate in the empire's Spring Festival Ceremony. From clothing to etiquette, from tributes to the repair and decoration of the altar building, all of this will be done. It has been thrown on the heads of the working people. In addition, the palace etiquette officer who used to be able to help has now become a noble concubine. There is still no suitable candidate for the new palace etiquette officer. The lack of people at this critical point makes the working people complain endlessly.
In particular, most of the noble representatives and citizen representatives newly conferred by His Majesty the Emperor are from the grassroots and do not understand aristocratic etiquette at all. Many representatives from the central mainland were even more ignorant, and many concubines who were new to the palace were also unfamiliar with Tang-style palace etiquette. All these needed to be taught by the officials of the Ministry of Etiquette. If a joke is made during a large-scale celebration such as the Spring Festival. That is not just a matter of being ridiculed by foreign envoys, it also represents the image of the empire. In the words of His Majesty the Emperor, if anything goes wrong, the Ministry of Ceremony will be responsible for it.
While everyone was busy preparing for the Spring Festival, Wu Feng, as the king of a country, seemed much more relaxed in comparison. The governors and some important city guards had already received the interviews and returned to their respective jurisdictions. In fact, Shang Wufeng very much hopes that both Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu will return to the imperial capital to experience the Indian and Southwest Campaigns in their own way. He is now a little envious of Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu. As the emperor of the empire, although he commands the overall situation , but lost the possibility of ruling the front line. At least he can no longer appear on the front line in foreign conquests. Maybe there will be some opportunities in the war against the northern region in the future.
It's a pity that neither Liang Chongxin nor Cui Wenxiu can return to the imperial capital, at least not before and after the Spring Festival. The Southwest War has ended. Forced by the power of the imperial army, the Western Samoans finally accepted the imperial conditions unconditionally. The city republic was cancelled, and was renamed Western Samoa, the same as Eastern Samoa. The members of Parliament of the Urban Republic of Western Samoa became electors, and they elected their representatives. These people will conditionally transition to the representatives of the Imperial Senate and the Citizens' House in the southwest county. The Empire has made certain concessions in this regard. . Western Samoa still retains some dignity.
As the situation in Western Samoa became clearer, Sikkim's political reform also came to the forefront. The Republic was invited to change its name to Sikkim House without exception, and Sikkim City will become the capital of the southwest county in the future. This gave the lost Sikkimese barely a ray of comfort. The parliamentarians of the Republic use the same method to elect the representatives of the Imperial Senate and the Citizens' House in the southwestern counties. Compared with Western Samoa, the number of their representatives is much larger. For example, in Western Samoa, there is only one representative of the Senate and the Citizen. There are only two representatives of the House of Representatives, while Sikkim has two representatives of the Senate and three representatives of the House of Commons.
The city-state of Nan'an was punished for their resistance. It had no representatives in the Senate and only one representative in the Citizens' Council. Even compared to the most barren Soktu Principality, this makes the Nan'an people feel very disappointed. These two representatives who have gone to Beijing shoulder the important task of fighting for more representatives for the Nan'an people. Otherwise, in the future southwestern counties, Nan'an's The status will have to be at the bottom.
It is the established policy of the empire to adopt different attitudes towards the governments in the southwest region. Only in this way can all parties in the southwest region not stand on the same front. Although this method is crude and crude, it is quite effective. No one can tolerate what was once unified. Their partners on the front line are now treated better than themselves. The psychological factors involved will make it impossible for them to cooperate anymore, in front of all parties.
However, the southwest region is still in an unstable situation. Although the imperial army firmly controls the entire Sikkim and Western Samoa, the number of troops waiting to be reorganized and demobilized in Sikkim and Western Samoa is quite large, and they must be safe and stable. Sending these soldiers home is not an easy task. The main reason why Liang Chongxin stayed in the southwest and did not dare to leave without permission was because of the long-term interests of the army's reorganization and demobilization. The mercenary empires in various places adopted the policy of demobilizing all mercenaries. In this way, after paying enough severance expenses, most of the mercenaries were able to happily return home. There were also some homeless people. The empire adopted the method of recruiting some of them with rich combat experience as troops and The instructors in the military academy are used to train new recruits, while the rest can only be ordered to leave within a time limit by forcibly sending them out of the country.
Most of the local soldiers were demobilized, and a small number were retired into reserves. This required a considerable amount of money. However, considering that this matter was very important to the stability of the southwest region in the future, Wu Feng made an exception and agreed to be funded by the central finance of the empire. To cover this expenditure, this won unanimous praise from the industrial and commercial people in the southwest region.
The only exception is the navy. Regardless of whether it is the Sikkim Navy, the Western Samoa Navy or the Nan'an Navy, they were all taken over by the Imperial Navy. This made the disbanded armies of the three places very aggrieved, but this did not change the decision of the Imperial Privy Council. manner. The navies of the three regions were merged into the Imperial Navy's Nanyang Fleet. After chaotic integration and deployment, the Second and Third Fleets of the Southern Fleet were formed. Lei Cangpu temporarily served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Fleet, while the Commander-in-Chief of the Sikkim Navy Fleet became the Imperial Navy's Commander-in-Chief. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the South Sea Fleet and Commander-in-Chief of the Second Fleet, while the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of Western Samoa became Commander-in-Chief of the Third Fleet. Of course, the integration of the Navy cannot be accomplished overnight. The completion of the superficial integration does not mean that the combat effectiveness has been integrated. It will take a considerable amount of time to re-integrate. However, with a good start, Lei Cangpu has reason to believe that he has completely belonged to the Navy. The southwest under the Empire's rule will become the Empire's bridgehead to Latin America and the Adriatic Gulf.
If Liang Chongxin's inability to return to the Imperial Capital is mainly due to the situation in the southwest, then this reason does not exist for Cui Wenxiu. Whether it is the Indian counties or Meili County, the overall situation in this region is quite calm. Due to the unique situation in the Indian region The influential representatives have all stayed in the imperial capital to participate in the Spring Festival Ceremony. It is impossible for anyone to cause trouble. For Cui Wenxiu, this Spring Festival Festival is probably the calmest and most peaceful Spring Festival Festival. He didn't even know where he should spend this lonely spring festival, Luxor or Blue Castle? Reed or Lahore? Or go to Kunduz and spend the Spring Festival at Pauling's place.
The Spring Festival atmosphere in the Central Continent is far from being created. Although the number of Tang businessmen in Luxor and Reed is increasing, many Tang people forget that they need to pay homage to ghosts and gods in other places. This makes Cui Wenxiu was very unhappy. The main reason why Cui Wenxiu cannot return to Beijing is actually some other reasons. He has always hoped to promote the war against the Hansen Alliance and take back the three provinces of Maina, Dexin and Kustan from the Hansen Alliance. What the empire needs It is a complete Indian, not a incomplete one. The empire has determined Blue Castle as the capital of West Indian County. If the Hansen Alliance can understand what this means, they should consider the issue of advance and retreat. If they are smart enough to withdraw from here, they may be able to win some respect from the empire. Otherwise, even a fool can see that war will only happen sooner or later.
Cui Wenxiu hopes that the war against the Hansen Alliance will not be affected by the rest and recuperation policy reform made by the central government of the empire. However, it seems that he has not been able to win the approval of His Majesty the Emperor on this point. The empire seems to have ignored the differences in various regions in order to destroy the unity of the policy. particularity, Cui Wenxiu does not think this is a wise decision. He hopes that the central government of the empire will reconsider this issue after careful consideration. Of course, before that, the Central Continent Military Command should make a detailed plan for the Hansen Alliance War. Plan comes.
This issue also applies to the Meili area. Meili is indivisible. This has always been Cui Wenxiu's view. Although in order to solve the Meili problem as quickly as possible, he did not hesitate to choose to divide Meili. However, dividing Meili The advantage does not mean that this situation must always be maintained. Cui Wenxiu thinks that driving the Jutlanders and West Orans out of southern Mellie is a matter of course. Why do they enjoy southern Mellie? Is it just because they are Melly's neighbors? No, this is not a reason. This problem should also be solved for the same reason as West Indies!