1890 King of Southeast Asia

February 24th, the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, is also the first traditional festival after the Spring Festival and has always been very important.

In previous years, Huang Keqiang would eat Lantern Festival with his family on this day, and then go to Qinhuai River to enjoy the lanterns, temple fairs, etc.

But this year's Lantern Festival, Huang Keqiang hurriedly ate brunch, and took an airship at 11:30 to rush to Chang'an.

Borneo New Chang'an.

He was going to take over a new job - the Minister of Civil Affairs of the Empire.

As for his original position, it was given to a person who was gradually marginalized from the Nanhua system - Chen Simin.

There will be many problems in the merger, the most important of which is that after the two teams are merged into one, there will definitely be no more positions.

How to balance? This is a science.

After considering for a long time, Liu Yiming still believed that the position of prime minister should still be given to Xu Hui, and Sun Zaizhi would take over Chen Siyuan's position, that is, the Speaker of the Imperial Parliament.

This obviously violates the provisions of constitutional politics and the constitution, but there is no way to treat special times in special ways.

Just like the issue of power, Liu Yiming still has a lot of power in his hands, and he needs to use these powers to ensure that Nanhua can move in the right direction.

Why can he ensure it? It's like if a person goes back to the 1980s, the most important thing for him is not how to earn billions of wealth, but how to get the first million or 100,000.

After all, the general trend is basically determined.

On February 26, Huang Keqiang was appointed as the Minister of Civil Affairs of the Empire, in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but during the war, the power of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was compressed-this was also done intentionally by Liu Yiming.

To be honest, if the propaganda outlet was not too important, Liu Yiming would have sent Huang Keqiang to do propaganda, after all, he had an indomitable will, as for other things, Liu Yiming didn't know much.

As early as February 25, Chen Simin had already taken office as the Prime Minister of the Huaxia Provisional Government.

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The flow of senior personnel fired the last shot before the government merger. From February 25, Sun Zaizhi used the special power of the provisional government and the highest power during wartime to make the final replacement of officials from various departments.

Officials in important positions in the departments of internal affairs, industry, education, transportation, and railways (with great power, regardless of their status) were all replaced by officials from Nanhua or Nanhua faction.

Without doing these, forced merger is actually OK, after all, the four departments of finance, military affairs, navy, and diplomacy are completely controlled by the Pumpkin faction, and they can be conquered by force.

But this may cause chaos and leave hidden dangers, if it is publicized by bad media.

Everyone knows that good news does not go out, but bad news spreads a thousand miles.

By February 28, the last day of February, the reshuffle of the high-level power organs of the provisional government had been completed.

Together with the grassroots power institutions and the army that had already been reshuffled, the provisional government had actually been incorporated into Liu Yiming's rule.

On March 1, Sun Zaizhi, as the supreme head of the Huaxia Provisional Government, signed the "Return Agreement" with the Nanhua Empire, announcing the return of the Nanhua Empire to Huaxia.

The treaty stipulates that the politics, economy, military, and diplomacy of the Nanhua Empire will obey the leadership of the future government and gradually integrate into the Huaxia family.

Huaxia has 11.35 million square kilometers of territory, and Nanhua Empire has 6 million square kilometers. The total area of ​​the two is 17.35 million square kilometers.

It has surpassed France and become the world's third largest country in terms of territory after Britain and Tsarist Russia.

Unlike Britain, France and Russia, whose territories are distributed on several continents, Huaxia's territory in the future will still be concentrated in Asia.

Nanhua has abandoned almost everything, what has it gained?

First, in the future, Huaxia should retain the royal family, with Liu Yiming, the emperor of the Nanhua Empire, as the emperor of the new empire, and implement constitutional monarchy, with Sun Zaizhi as the chairman of the Imperial Parliament.

Second, because it is in the war, the parliament will directly follow the regulations of the Nanhua Parliament, add seats to various regions of Huaxia, and re-elect after the current parliament expires.

Third, the government will directly merge, and the incumbent personnel should be discussed by both parties and unanimously recognized by both parties, but they must not be delayed without reason.

Fourth, no large-scale changes will be made to the existing overall structure.

It seems that both sides have made huge concessions and reached a compromise, but in fact, the officials of both sides are one family, and these are only done for the people and foreigners to see.

On March 1, Sun Zaizhi issued a declaration to terminate his activities as a provisional government and to temporarily manage as the chairman of the Imperial Parliament.

On March 1, Liu Yiming made a radio speech, calling himself the emperor of all Chinese people and establishing the Chinese Empire.

After that, Liu Yiming ordered the comprehensive integration of the government, the army, and state-owned assets.

Then Liu Yiming, as the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces and the supreme commander of the navy, ordered the merger of the navy, abolished the Chinese Navy and the South China Empire Navy, and established the Chinese Empire Navy.

Ordered the original Chinese Navy Pinghai-class battleships that stayed in Ryukyu to form a battle fleet with the original South China Empire Xuchang-class and Arab-class to guard against Japan's sneak attack.

Originally, this fleet was incorporated into the South China Empire sequence, but it was still the Chinese Navy in name, so this order was very smoothly executed to the end.

In the eyes of outsiders, this was the first order issued by the emperor. Integrating the army was a big deal, not to mention taking away both Chinese battleships at once. Wait and see what happens next.

Then, this order was thoroughly executed. People in the know would not feel anything when they knew the inside story, but most ordinary people were shocked by it.

On the second day of March, Liu Yiming sent Huang Keqiang, the Minister of Civil Affairs, to Jinling to organize representatives of public opinion and discuss some key issues, such as where to establish the capital, land issues, etc.

On the same day, Sun Zaizhi took hundreds of government officials on a fast cruise ship and sailed to Borneo under the escort of two cruisers.

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Huaxia and Nanhua completed this series of operations in a short period of time, so fast that Britain and France had not figured out what happened, and the final treaty had been approved and implemented.

When Jordan hurried to Sun Zaizhi's office, Sun Zaizhi's secretary was "decorating", that is, replacing all the expired nameplates.

"Is Mr. President here?" Jordan panted and asked very gentlemanly.

"Is it Sir Jordan? Come in, come in, I want to find you." Sun Zaizhi happened to hear it and enthusiastically invited him in.

"Mr. President, did South China threaten China with force? Don't worry, the British Empire will stand behind you and support you in rejecting the unreasonable demands of the South China Empire." Jordan said quickly.

"Threat of force? No, no, no, you are joking. The office is about to move, please forgive me for the poor hospitality." Sun Zaizhi personally poured two glasses of boiled water and gave one to Jordan.

Jordan took it, and the two sat on the sofa.

"You know, in the past few years, information about the integration of the two countries has been circulating among the people."

"Recently, as wars have broken out one after another, we have found that we cannot guarantee national security and cannot defeat all enemies."

Jordan knew that Sun Zaizhi was accusing the British of not expressing their attitude towards the Japanese sneak attack on China.

This is really unfair to the British. It is the British who want to stop the war now and even hope that this war has not happened.

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On the day the war broke out, the British were still secretly happy and thinking about how to help the Japanese.

Then the next day, the European war broke out. The Germans were unstoppable on the battlefield, and the British were already beginning to consider the possibility of failure.

But would Britain sit back and watch a Napoleonic Empire appear in Europe again? No, so it began to contact other allies again.

For example, urging the Russian Empire to launch an offensive on the Eastern Front, or a large-scale offensive, for which the Tsar lost two armies, two armies loyal to him.

In addition, countries that have not yet joined the war, such as South China and Japan, were involved.

Privately, Britain and South China talked several times, but South China ignored it. Japan must pay a price, but Japan could not afford this price.

Then, the situation on the battlefield improved, and the British were not so anxious - it didn't know how long the war would last.

"Mr. President, I'm very sorry that the British Empire is in the middle of a European war and has ignored the situation in the Far East and the feelings of our friends."

"Don't worry, I will quickly facilitate the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to put pressure on the Japanese to stop the war." Jordan's serious look made it easy for people to trust him.

"Sir Jordan, I have stopped all activities as president." Sun Zaizhi drank water tactically, and then said lightly.

"Mr. President, I hope you will think it over. This is really unheard of." Jordan leaned forward and stared at Sun Zaizhi.

"Sir Jordan, I just want to reminisce with you. Since you insist on listening, I will talk about it." Sun Zaizhi put down the water cup helplessly.

"Before the Japanese sneak attack, even on the day the war broke out, they still raised a lot of funds in the London and New York exchanges."

"All these bonds were issued by British and American banks. On the day of the sneak attack, the bonds rose sharply."

"And when the Japanese sneak attack on the Huaxia fleet failed and dragged the South China Empire into the war, the bonds fell."

"I don't believe that no one in Britain knew the news, but no one, in any form, even reminded us."

"After the war started, we estimated how to resist the Japanese with our own strength, and the answer we got was very..."

At this point, Sun Zaizhi shrugged, looking particularly innocent.

"For this reason, we have thought for a long time about how to ensure development and security in this world. You know, we still have a large number of debts to repay."

"My comrades, that is, officials and think tank consultants of the provisional government, and I have discussed for a long time and found that absorbing the South China Empire is the fastest and safest way."

"So, we contacted South China, and South China also gave more favorable treatment, including that I will serve as the speaker of the parliament who can restrain the emperor and the prime minister."

"You know, I launched the revolution just to make my country strong and prevent it from being bullied. Let the people become rich and let them not go hungry. This requirement is not high, but it is difficult to achieve."

"And South China, a Chinese country with the same origin as China, can do this."

"That's all. If you still want to discuss this topic, please talk to the future imperial foreign minister."

Sun Zaizhi said a lot, his mouth was a little thirsty, and he drank a big sip of water.

"Mr. President..." Before Zhu Erdian's anxious words came out, he was interrupted by Sun Zaizhi.

"Please call me Lord Speaker! I have to catch my airship. Excuse me." Sun Zaizhi stood up, waved his sleeves (in Hanfu) elegantly, and left.