Chapter 194: Report of the Dutch Admiral In the evening, the Chinese League Capital State Guesthouse, Neuschwanstein Castle Unlike the original Neuschwanstein Castle, which is located in the Bavarian mountains in southern Germany, between mountains and lakes shrouded in mist all year round, this replica of Neuschwanstein Castle in Australia is located on a cliff at the mouth of the Swan River.
This place is blown by the fresh sea breeze all year round, and it can overlook the urban area of the capital across the harbor.
The location is just right for the name of the castle.
The architectural style is also very grand, full of fairy tale-like romantic artistic atmosphere, so it was chosen.
It is used as a state guesthouse.
Especially for the Dutch from Batavia, from the window of their room, they can also overlook the huge windmills spinning slowly beside the sea wall in the distance, as well as the beautiful lavender fields, which reminds them of their distant lowland hometown.
At this moment, after another day of visiting and sightseeing, and a delicious paella, Admiral Anthony Van Diemen, the envoy of the Dutch East India Company, returned to his room and stretched out his hand to tug.
He lit the lamp on the desk, took out the dip pen, ink bottle and letter paper, and began to prepare to continue writing quickly to describe what he saw and heard in this "Australian capital".
After staying in the luxurious suite of the Neuschwanstein Castle State Guesthouse for a few days, he finally figured out the purpose of most of the facilities in the room, but it also made Admiral Anthony Van Diemen feel increasingly frustrated that he really He's a redneck bumpkin.
First of all, just like the artistic and dreamy appearance of the castle, at least his room was also quite gorgeously decorated, with exquisite murals and paintings everywhere.
Not only were the tableware and wine sets provided crystal clear and delicate as white snow, with beautiful patterns painted on Chinese porcelain, but what was even more incredible to him was that even the toilets and bathrooms attached to the suites were all veneered with fine Chinese ceramic tiles.
Even the bathtub and toilet are made of porcelain There are also glass windows and glass mirrors everywhere.
Even though today's glass mirrors and flat glass have depreciated a lot, so many completely transparent glass products are worth a lot of money, which can be said to be more valuable than many kings, sultans and reds.
The palaces of the cardinals were even more luxurious Next, there is the incredible tap water and electrical appliances.
The tap installed in the bathroom is easy for the admiral to understand.
It is nothing more than a pool at a high place, which is introduced into his room through a metal pipe.
Once the gate is opened, Clear water will flow out.
But the electric lamps placed in the glass covers on the ceiling and desk, as well as the clover-like electric fan in the bedroom, were completely beyond his ability to understand.
Although the interpreter at the State Guesthouse patiently tried to explain to him what electricity was, Admiral Anthony Van Diemen was completely unable to understand why the power of lightning could be used for anything other than setting trees on fire and hacking people to death.
Light up the lamp and drive the fan Although he did not understand the principle of electricity, this did not prevent the admiral from using electrical appliances, especially when writing reports under the bright electric light.
After adapting to its light as bright as day, the admiral felt that he might no longer be able to Forget about those dim oil lamps and candles.
Withdrawing his eyes from the dazzling electric lights, Admiral Anthony Van Diemen returned his attention to the letter he wrote to the Governor of Batavia of the Dutch East India Company.
Carpentier's report.
In the content he had written before, he described the journey to Australia and his impressions of the land of Australia in as much detail as possible.
The focus was naturally on the various experiences in the Australian capital.
Next, the navy The admiral was about to write something more in-depth.
He put the pen tip into the ink bottle and dipped it.
After thinking for a moment, he began to write down rows of words quickly: "Dear Sir, as described above, with the blessing of God, we came to this magical land smoothly, and saw all kinds of incredible technologies in the Australian capital, as well as countless magnificent buildings that exceeded the limits of imagination. .Although many of us He said that he had traveled through most of Europe and had seen many famous cities.
Some people had also crossed the Atlantic and visited Manchester City in the Chinese-American Republic.
However, all of the above were like sparrows compared with the Australian capital in front of them.
Standing in front of the eagle, one usually feels dirty.
Overall, it seems that such a marvelous city of extreme splendor, splendor and luxury should belong to a great and extremely noble empire.
However, what is hard to imagine is that it is just a newly built new city, and quite a few blocks are still idle and uninhabited.
And the country it represents is just the remains of an ancient empire.
Although from the map, the territory of this country seems to be quite vast.
Company employees and European scholars have made many vague guesses about the origins of these mysterious Australians, and have also collected many conflicting rumors.
Here, I finally unveiled the mystery of Australians: when I tentatively asked the reception staff at the State Guesthouse about this, they directly gave me a French version of the History of the Rise and Fall of the Australian Song Empire.
I'm very lucky that my French is pretty good.
Although Australians' French is a bit weird, they are still understandable.
According to the description in this history book, the origin of Australians began in the late thirteenth century after the birth of Jesus, that is, about three and a half centuries ago.
In that era, when the terrifying Mongolian cavalry invaded Poland and Hungary and massacred Baghdad, and the great Marco Polo embarked on his journey to the East, the Mongols in the East also destroyed the Chinese Song Dynasty.
Marco Polo also described it.
But what he didn't know was that there was a remnant of the Song Dynasty who fled south across the sea in a fleet.
Eventually, they successfully found a new land carrying distant relatives of the Song Dynasty royal family, escaped outstanding scholars, and the most outstanding craftsmen of the old empire. , which is Western Australia where I am at this time.
In other words, these Australians are actually a branch of the Chinese, although modern Chinese may not be willing to recognize these relatives.
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Then, these refugees from the former dynasty reclaimed and farmed land in Australia, which was then a barbaric country.
They overcame various hardships and hardships, and finally re-established their own country, named it "Australia Song", and supported a distant royal relative of the Song Dynasty.
Ascended to the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, ruling this newly developed territory.
Around the middle of the fourteenth century, a member of the Knights Hospitaller named Livy, although his name sounded more like an Italian, claimed to be a Frenchman.
Due to some wonderful encounters, he accidentally moved to a country that was almost isolated from the world.
The Australian Song Empire.
He successfully spread the glory of God to this land and converted some subjects of the Australian and Song Empire to Christianity.
This is the origin of the Australian Church.
Next, this lonely empire continued to prosper and develop for more than a century, raising its civilization to an astonishing height.
However, starting around the end of the last century, a terrible drought suddenly came to Australia.
The entire Australian and Song Empire could not see a drop of rain for many years.
The rivers dried up and crops died of drought.
In the end, countless once-prosperous towns were destroyed. and countryside, rapidly being swallowed up by the expanding desert.
At the same time as the tragic natural disaster broke out, internal turmoil also broke out among the rulers of this empire.
Regardless of the fact that the country was gradually turning into desert, it instead fell into frequent palace coups and bloody all-out civil wars, further weakening the country's ability to deal with natural disasters. ability.
Due to devastating civil wars and natural disasters, the once prosperous Australian and Song Empire soon fell apart and was destroyed as suddenly as the legendary Atlantis civilization.
Many desperate Australians had to bid farewell to their hometown again and set sail to find a new home like their ancestors.
They soon blossomed in every corner of the world, establishing the Chinese American Republic, the East Coast Republic, and Lingao City on Hainan Island. and a series of colonies.
As for those who remained in the Australian and Song Empire, they struggled for a while.
But not long after, a tragic super sandstorm suddenly came, turning the elite area centered on Songcheng, the old capital of the empire, into a barren land where humans could not survive.
These last survivors of the Australian Song Empire had no choice but to embark on a migration journey, moving to other undeveloped and desolate places on the Australian continent, trying to rebuild their homes.
The history of the rise and fall of the Australian and Song Empire ends here.
In other words, Dear Governor, when we first came into contact with the Australians, their Australian-Song Empire had actually come to an end.
But the story of Australians going global has only just begun.”
After writing this, Admiral Anthony Van Diemen temporarily put down his pen, shook his slightly sore right hand, and rubbed his withered eyes.
Looking back, I saw a bunch of bright lights outside the window, making people feel like they were falling into the stars.
With the admiral's senses, he felt that the huge city across the harbor looked like it was on fire.
Even across a large expanse of water, he could clearly see that the lights there had turned the night sky red.
This is the beauty of the so-called "city that never sleeps", isn't it?
It's so bustling and intoxicating.
Anthony Van Diemen shook his head and sighed.
When he first arrived here, he was still carefully observing the port and waterway, calculating the possibility of sending a fleet to attack and occupy the city.
However, as he learned more and more about the terrifying strength of the Australians, he no longer dared to make such delusions.
He just concentrated on admiring the various magnificent wonders in this city and enjoying the various things in Australian daily life.
Good stuff.
So, after admiring the brilliant night view of the Australian capital for a while, he picked up the pen again and continued to write: "At the end of the fall of the Australian Song Empire, a large number of Australians went overseas and established a series of impressive colonial strongholds in America, Africa and East Asia.
However, although they left their homeland of Australia, they spread to various parts of the planet Although they still call themselves Australians or Song people, they maintain a considerable degree of unity at the psychological and cultural levels, thus laying the foundation for future reunification.
In fact, the last time fleets from various Australian colonies gathered in Batavia, it seemed to be to discuss the issue of peaceful reunification.
In the second phase of the meeting that they moved to Hainan Island, they finally reached the final resolution to unite and rebuild a unified country.
It is said that the last emperor of the Australian Song Empire, a respectable old man, played a great role in the restoration and reunification of Australians around the world.
Under his pressure and influence, the originally divided Australians were once again kneaded together.
After many rounds of negotiations, the countries established by the Australians have put aside their past grievances.
They first established military alliances to avoid internal struggles, and then reached terms for political unification on the basis of basically retaining the autonomy of each country, preparing to establish a loose unity again. nation.
However, this newly established Australian country is not the restoration of the former Australian and Song Empire.
Because although His Majesty, the last emperor of the old empire, is still alive, he has lost all his heirs and no close relatives in the disaster of the empire's collapse, so he has long been disillusioned with power.
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After His Majesty the Emperor announced his official abdication due to old age and frailty, the upper classes of various countries were unable to elect anyone with enough prestige to be a strong military and political figure who could overwhelm all Australians.
Therefore, according to the last emperor's suggestion when he abdicated, this new, unified Australian country was changed to a republic.
The complete country name is quite lengthy and cumbersome, and Australians generally refer to it as the Chinese League.
Therefore, it is very incredible that Australians currently adopt a republican form of government that is very rare in the world and bears a striking resemblance to our mother country, the United Republic of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands.
Just as our country is formed by an alliance of seven highly autonomous provinces, each province has its own army and fleet.
Australians are also currently made up of five major republics and several smaller dominions scattered around the globe.
Moreover, the seven provinces of our United Republic of Seven Provinces are at least geographically adjacent to each other and economically closely connected.
However, the various Australian republics are scattered on different continents, separated from each other by vast oceans, mountains and forests.
If a traveler wants to visit the Australian land, he would have to circle the earth almost once.
Moreover, the strength of each union republic seems to be basically the same.
It is not the relationship between the mother country and the colony that is common in Europe.
Even in terms of religious beliefs, there are already big differences between Australians around the world.
In this way, they can It seems that the only things that maintain the connection between them are culture and language, and this power is obviously very weak.
I simply can’t imagine how such a disjointed country could be established and born, and how it should maintain its unity and existence.
But no matter how contrary to common sense, this Australian republic with territory all over the world was indeed born suddenly at an astonishing speed.
And when they had just established a unified country, they launched an unprecedented reconquest war against the Ming Empire where their nation originated, occupying many coastal provinces of the Ming Empire and conquering the equivalent of two to three French kingdoms.
The vast territory almost completely disintegrated the empire.
In addition, this new Australian Republic also spent huge sums of money to build an unbelievably majestic new capital on the southern coast of the old Australian and Song Empire capital that was swallowed up by the desert.
It took only a few years to fully build the new capital.
This shows their unity and terrifying strength.
Therefore, dear Mr.
Governor, even if it is just to acknowledge the reality, the company should maintain a cautious and respectful attitude towards Australians.
In short, if I can only use one word to describe this country, it must be the word incredible.
This republican country that originated on the mysterious continent in the south may have the most irrational political system in our eyes, but it also has the most powerful and wealthy city in the world.
Even the great cities of Rome and Constantinople did not have so many magnificent palaces and mansions in the Australian capital.
More importantly, the prosperity of Australian society is not like that of the Indian princes or the German princes, who squeezed out all the wealth of the entire country for a very small group of nobles to squander.
However, the vast majority of lower-class civilians and serfs were left to struggle on the verge of death and live a life of extreme poverty.
On the contrary, all travelers who have been to the Chinese American Republic in North America enviously claim that every citizen of Manchester has several sets of clothes, and almost every family can eat white bread.
Many poor Germans who were forced into desperation by war and exorbitant taxes in Europe quickly found decent housing and lived a pretty good life after immigrating across the ocean to the Chinese-American Republic.
Even an ordinary mason can earn thirty silver coins a month in the Chinese-American Republic, and his life is richer than that of a considerable number of Amsterdam citizens.
Almost the same situation also occurred in another east coast republic established by Australians.
In addition, according to information sent by the company's Lingao Commercial Office, the Chinese on Hainan Island were generally more prosperous than under the Ming Empire after only two or three years of being ruled by the Australians.
It can be seen that Australians everywhere seem to have the magic to create prosperity and wealth, and are very happy to let their subjects share the benefits.
From what I have seen with my own eyes in the past two days, the wealth of Australia's native residents seems to be higher than that of the two Australian republics in the Americas.
Although I have not yet gone deep into the ordinary residential areas of the Australian capital, from what I have seen around me, even the maids who are responsible for entertaining us in this state hotel, the clothes they wear and the food they usually eat, at least They are also comparable to any baroness in Germany.
In addition to a surprisingly wealthy and comfortable life, Australians also do not lack the armed forces to protect their property.
Gentlemen of Batavia must all remember the three hundred Australian ocean-going galleys that came to our port three years ago.
Currently, after integrating various union republics around the world, this unified Australian country is said to have a standing army of more than 200,000 people, as well as nearly a thousand armed ships that can conduct transoceanic voyages.
Although these armed forces are scattered throughout the world, they are still daunting enough.
Their weapons have always been famous for their exquisiteness, and the firearms and artillery sold by the Chinese-American Republic have long enjoyed a good reputation in the European market.
Their soldiers never lacked courage.
The two wars that broke out between the East Coast Republic and the Spanish in South America both ended in the disastrous defeat of the Spanish Kingdom.
The company once tried to compete with them for the southernmost land in Africa, but it also ended in failure.
In fact, so far, no force has truly defeated any Australian force on the battlefield.
Being able to maintain a tie is already a great success.
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What is even more impressive is the spiritual outlook of their entire nation.
Contrary to the rumors of the arrogant and conservative native Chinese residents, the energetic and enterprising spirit of these Australians is simply terrifying.
In less than twenty years, Australians from various groups took root all over the world, opened up so many colonies, and established vast and powerful countries one after another.
The Australian aristocracy held the highest control over the governments of these colonial countries.
Chinese and European immigrants, as well as local surrendered indigenous people, exist as dependents of the Australians, reveling in the wealthy life and security protection provided by the Australians.
The language and clothing from the East quickly became a pursuit of identity in these countries.
All these earth-shaking changes took only one generation.
This is really a terrifying expansion rate, perhaps only barely comparable to the glorious victory of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. ”oshow7: