The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 200 Canadian Independence

The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Police are the two major departments in the cabinet, with two sets of bureaucratic teams, but this does not prevent Jia Xu from being the minister in charge of the two departments.

In this way, Bismarck can also save some energy and put it in other departments for supervision and management.

In just one month since Jia Xu took office, the efficiency of the Police Department and the Ministry of Justice has increased by [-]%!

And investigated and dealt with a large number of corruption cases!

It can be expected that life for local bureaucrats and powerful people will become even more difficult...

After all, it is very difficult for ordinary people to escape the law. They don't have that kind of connections or money.

But the local dignitaries and bureaucrats are different. Whether these people are free from the law depends entirely on the efficiency of the central government's law enforcement and the amount of energy it puts into it.

If the central government is not strong enough, the local dignitaries and bureaucrats can completely deceive the upper and lower by weaving a network of relationships between officials and officials, and become local emperors who are above the law at the local level.

Why most countries in this era still retain the enfeoffment system is not because the cost of local management is too high and the difficulty is too great!

Since there is no way to prevent local areas from becoming too big under the central government, it is better to entrust them out altogether.

This defect is not only a chronic disease of this world, but also has serious decentralization in the history of Yuri's previous home country.

Regardless of the fact that Yuri’s previous homeland was a unified central empire most of the time, in fact, the roots of local aristocratic families are beyond people’s imagination. Even in the process of dynasty change, they cannot trip those local aristocratic families. Make a deal with them!
Even most of the emperors in history were replaced by local clans who rebelled.

This disadvantage of governance was not completely eliminated until the large-scale popularization of wired and wireless telegraphy, the complete establishment of railway lines, and the penetration of the central government into local areas in terms of communication and transportation, and the establishment of a truly unified central government.

In the world Yuri lives in today, the telegraph has not yet been invented, and railway lines have risen in European countries, but the relatively backward American Empire does not have a decent railway...

Therefore, even if Yuri uses various methods to physically eliminate the local rich and powerful, the local bureaucrats still have a lot of authority.

After all, even if Yuri adopts the rank-and-file official system, who can guarantee that those rank-and-file officials will not walk with local snakes, or be corrupted by money?

Of course, in today's American Empire, the ability of local elites to rebel has completely disappeared, and at most they have secretly engaged in some illegal and profitable activities.

One month has passed since the British army retreated, and the Governor-General of New Spain was the first to be unable to hold on under the attack of the Fifth Army, so he sent an envoy for peace talks.

This time, the New Spain Governor's District can be said to be the fish on the backing board. Yuri directly cut off all the other territories of the New Spain Governor's District except Central America and the Mexican Directly Administered Region.

Even areas on the west coast with few immigrants are nominally part of the territory of the American Empire.

The reason why Yuri didn't swallow the entire Mexico region in one bite was mainly because the governorship of New Spain had a very high prestige in the Mexico region. If he really tried his best, he could still gather an army of tens of thousands of people to resist in a short time.

Naturally, the Fifth Army couldn't capture the Mexican region, and Yuri had to guard against the British in the north going crazy, so he let the Mexican region go.

Yuri put all the newly included territory into Florida, and the Fifth Army was stationed there under Yuri's order, especially the border with the Governor-General of New Spain.

No sooner had the peace treaty with the Spaniards been signed than the British diplomatic envoys arrived in the New York capital.

After the London government was defeated in the Battle of the American Empire, it simply transported the remaining main force of the British army back to the European continent, preparing to use it to suppress the growing French First Republic.

In addition, the London government, which knows that it cannot defeat Yuri on land, is also ready to be slaughtered.

As a result, Yuri was not polite, and directly demanded the annexation of the entire New England region, as well as the independent establishment of the British Canadian region, free from the control of the London government!
The reason for annexing New England is that this land is sparsely populated, with very few British troops stationed and few immigrants, so even if the British do not allow Yuri to send the First Army, they can easily annex it.

Yuri believes that the London government can also see this. In fact, the bottom line of the London government includes giving up the New England area, which cannot be defended at all.

Back then, a Freedom Legion could turn New England upside down, let alone the American Empire?

And Yuri asked for the independence of Canada because the British took it from the French. In Quebec, the most densely populated area in Canada, the vast majority of immigrants living in it are French, and they don't care about the London government at all. cold.

Canada is different from New England. There is a well-developed Quebec area with many immigrants.

More immigrants means more troops. After all, all immigrants in America are armed with guns!
Now the treasury of the American Empire has long been in deficit, not enough to support a large-scale war, and the climate in Canada is cold, not very suitable for human habitation, and the development value is low, so Yuri is not too interested.

Yuri's conquest requires fertile land and a large population, and the advantages and disadvantages of conquering Canada are obviously not proportional.

However, Yuri didn't want a British colony in the north to threaten the American Empire at all times, so he simply asked the British to allow Canada to be independent.

Sure enough, when the French in Quebec heard the news, they immediately became overwhelmed!

At this time, the British troops in Canada were withdrawn one after another and sent to France to suppress the First Republic. They could not stop Yuri's attack, but the London government was not reconciled, and the negotiations between the two sides fell into a stalemate. .

Then, a large-scale independence uprising broke out in Quebec with Yuri's ordnance funding!
Immediately afterwards, Napoleon personally led the First Army to make an offensive posture, so that the British army did not dare to return to the defense to suppress the uprising.

In the end, the British could only allow Canada to become independent from the British colonies!

However, the British also kept a hand. Although Canada established a republic at Yuri's request (if it is a kingdom, the king must be of British descent), most of the members of Congress are of British descent.

There is no way to change this. The people in power and high reputation in Canada are all British. Members of Congress must naturally be selected from among these people. It is impossible to select ordinary people...

In this way, after the war ended, the American Empire became the biggest beneficiary.

(End of this chapter)