In early 959, all parties finally reached an agreement on the issue of the Western Regions, and the United Kingdom promised to gradually withdraw its troops from the Western Regions within three years.
At the same time, we will promote true democratic autonomy in the Western Regions as soon as possible and re-absorb it as a member of the Imperial Confederation.
The issue jointly raised by the Eastern Alliance and the Tianhan Kingdom was finally resolved.
Although the three-year withdrawal operation may take three years, three years, and then three years again, at least morally, what should be done has been done, and the leaders of the Eastern Alliance no longer want to dwell on this issue.
The representative of the Tianhan Kingdom was unable to make his own move and had to agree to the final plan of the United Kingdom.
On February 1, the confederations formally signed an agreement in the imperial capital to form the "New Holy Continent Confederation Empire." According to the agreement, the confederations can basically be regarded as independent countries, but they must obey William V as the only emperor of the Holy Continent.
The Imperial Parliament is the highest legislative body on the continent.
The Imperial Supreme Court can, in accordance with procedures, overturn decisions of the Supreme Courts of the various federal states or the Court of Final Appeal that violate the principles of the Imperial Constitution. However, the hearing process only addresses decisions that violate the Imperial Constitution and does not involve the right or wrong of the trial results of the case itself.
At the same time, the Imperial Supreme Court is also the place to resolve disputes among the confederations.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is nominated by the Emperor of the Empire and approved by more than half of the votes of the Imperial Parliament.
The Empire is a confederation with no central government, but it does have an Imperial Security Police Headquarters with branches in each confederation. Its main function is to monitor and guard against individuals and organizations that pose a threat to the security of the Empire.
This was a clause strongly proposed by the United Kingdom representative, and after several days of debate, consensus was finally reached.
Imperial Security Police, under the trusteeship of the United Kingdom.
This is also one of the most obvious privileges of the United Kingdom.
According to the agreement, the military strength, population and economic level of each confederation must be comparable, and military expenditures cannot exceed three percent of the confederation's fiscal budget.
The ultimate goal is to dismantle most military forces and retain only security forces.
Even after several years of war, many representatives still believe that if all armed forces are eliminated, there will be no more wars.
In addition, the members of the Eastern Alliance joined the Empire as separate confederations.
There is no doubt that this is also a very beneficial move for the Sonyans to divide the Eastern Alliance.
But most of the leaders of the Eastern Alliance certainly wished to become the head of the confederation rather than jointly elect a representative to represent themselves.
In this way, the number of imperial confederations reached more than thirty.
The Kingdom of Han also officially withdrew from the Eastern Economic Alliance because, regardless of the differences in size or economic development, it would be a big problem for the Kingdom of Han, which had many poor areas in the northern region, to continue to stay in the alliance.
However, the Kingdom of Han and the Eastern Economic Union signed a memorandum, and the two sides will continue to cooperate closely and implement completely tariff-free free trade.
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In the far north, there are many great places.
The sea was frozen this winter and there was heavy snow.
This horrified the border residents, because according to legend, when the snow flutters, it means the army of savage giants from the end of the ice and snow mountains north of the Tianshan Mountains will attack.
Just after the New Year, when all parties in the imperial capital were still arguing about the content of the agreement, Lu Ming came to Shenglunduo, a country within a country in the extreme north of Haixi.
It is separated from the Northern Territory by deep mountains and dense forests, but there is sea trade with the inland. Because the Far North specialties here are very rare, maritime trade is very developed.
There are tens of thousands of merchants, border residents, etc. living in the Shenglunduo area.
When Liu Bangchang fled here, the Montenegrin people did not have real military ships.
Three years ago, the Principality's armed ships arrived in Shenglundo and incorporated it into the Principality's territory.
Most of Liu Bangchang's remaining troops surrendered. Liu Bangchang and more than a hundred of his cronies, who were bandits with blood on their hands and who believed they would not be pardoned, fled into the mountains and forests.
Occasionally, mountain people would encounter them being killed.
Although the local border guards organized several anti-bandit operations, they were unable to find Liu Bangchang's gang.
Of course, Lu Ming did not come here for Liu Bangchang's remnants, but because he heard that the waters here were frozen and one day, it snowed heavily.
Moreover, a strange phenomenon occurred in a lake in the mountains.
I felt something and rushed over.
They did not come with a big fanfare, but as disaster relief specialists, because they could not go through the sea, the organization's helicopter flew over the mountains and forests, and mainly brought cold-resistant supplies such as cotton clothes to Sheng Lunduo.
The current trend is that the winter in the North is getting colder each year. Thinking of the legend of the savage giants, one feels a little uneasy.
In Shenglunduo, it snowed again hundreds of years later. According to unofficial historical legends, the last time it snowed heavily in Shenglunduo was a thousand years ago, when the last barbarian army crossed the Tianshan Mountains and invaded the south.
In this world, it was the first time that Lu Ming wore a thick cotton coat, and it was also the first time that he felt the pain of the north wind cutting his face.
In the home of Tuoba Sanshi, the chief of Shenglunduo Border Defense Zone, a blazing fire was burning in the makeshift fireplace, which made it much warmer.
There are many special border defense zones in Shenglun, which are managed by the Special Territory Administration Office of His Majesty the King's Privy Council.
In Shenglunduo, there is a border defense battalion of nearly a thousand people stationed, and the battalion commander is Tuoba Sanshi.
Tuoba Sanshi was a man in his forties, looking very honest. He came from the Tuoba tribe of the grassland and was the elder brother of Tuoba Khan.
This time when Lu Ming came to Shenglunduo, he also brought Tuoba Lan with him.
Tuoba Lan was wearing a bright red leather jacket and leather pants, which highlighted her sexy figure and the seductive curves of her slender legs. She already had the demeanor of a beautiful urban girl.
She lives with "Section Chief Wang" in Anxi Wangzhai and is a news anchor at Anxi TV Station.
Many of the women in Wang's house are now working outside, in various industries. They are also a very down-to-earth group of intelligence agents for Lu Ming.
In fact, in the Royal Household Department, these women were registered as consorts of His Majesty the King.
This time, Lu Ming came in his original form, but he wore sunglasses, which he could not take off for 24 hours.
Tuoba Lan was no longer surprised by "Section Chief Wang" suddenly transforming into the form of His Majesty the King.
He also became familiar with Bai Narcissus, Becky and others. From their occasional casual conversations, Tuoba Lan had some vague guesses, but he didn't dare to believe it.
The family ties among children of the grassland are not that strong, but when Tuoba Lan saw his elder brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time for the first time, he couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.
Listening to Lu Ming and his brother chatting, Tuoba Lan did not interrupt.
"There is an armed helicopter in the helicopter fleet transporting supplies. We will go to the mountains later to see if we can find the remnants of Liu Bangchang and deal with them at the same time."
Hearing what Commissioner Lu said, Tuoba Sanshi felt ashamed, "It's my incompetence! I've been here for a year, and I haven't eradicated the banditry yet."
Tuoba Sanshi was transferred here a year ago because of the failure to wipe out the remnants of Liu Bangchang. He had experience in suppressing bandits in Baihai before, but after a year, there was still no progress.
Lu Ming waved his hand: "It's not your fault, but the mountain is closed due to heavy snow this time. It should be difficult for Liu Bangchang and his men to hide any longer."
He glanced at Tuoba Sanshi and said, "You reported that there was something strange about the Tianchi Lake deep in the mountains. You have confirmed it, right? Otherwise, you can't report it to the Privy Council."
Tuoba Sanshi nodded: "Yes, it's absolutely true!"