Chapter 195: In the report of the Dutch Admiral "Next, I am going to describe the current political system of the Australians. yznn has said before that the history of the Australian Song Empire has ended.
The Australians now practice a republic, and it is an extremely loose one, similar to the League of Italian City-States.
In fact, the confederal republic system is, for a giant country whose frontier provinces are half a world away from its capital, In fact, its political system cannot help but be loose, so that the poor local officials can't do anything and are forced to send couriers every two days to repeat Mr.
Magellan's voyage around the world, carrying documents to half of the world.
They should ask for permission from the capital outside the earth.
In that case, everything might be delayed until they get a reply from the capital.
Under this extremely loose confederation system, each of the Australian republics retains almost complete autonomy, and can even launch foreign wars on its own.
There are also great differences in the internal political systems of each Australian republic, except Apart from the fact that they are all republics rather than monarchies, it is almost impossible to find anywhere that is exactly the same.
This is quite similar to the Seven Provinces Alliance in our motherland.
In short, in addition to the capital, Australians have five major union republics and a number of sporadic small autonomous territories.
Within each of the union republics, there are a variety of autonomous cities and vassal tribes, including republics, feudal monarchs and noble territories, and even several theocratic states that are said to be very weird.
This makes this political system extremely complicated, and it is almost impossible to explain clearly in a letter.
In fact, I myself still do not fully understand what the local political system of Australians is all about.
Therefore, I will focus here on describing the Australian central government.
Like our country, England, and the Venetian Republic, Australians have a parliamentary system that brings together gentlemen representatives from all over the country to serve as a link between all parts of the country.
But unlike our country, which has only one national parliament in The Hague, Australians have two houses, the upper house is the Senate and the lower house is the House of Representatives.
The two houses together are collectively called the Parliament.
The supreme leader of the Republic, the President of the Republic, is recommended by the Senate and appointed and removed by the House of Representatives.
In theory, the entire republican government of Australians is also an employee of the Australian Parliament.
Regarding how members of the Australian Senate and House of Representatives should be elected, there is also a complex set of procedures and systems, including election and appointment.
It is easy for laymen to be confused, so it is difficult to give an accurate description here.
Because I haven’t found out clearly yet.
Roughly speaking, the Australian Senate has fewer members and longer terms.
Some members are even lifelong, but they are not hereditary.
They symbolize the authority of the central government to a greater extent rather than representing local governments.
Benefit.
The Australian House of Representatives has a larger number of members and shorter terms, which better reflects the local interests of their respective origins.
The number of seats in the House of Representatives held by each union republic is directly linked to the overall strength of the republic to which they belong.
There is an extremely complex calculation formula for this, which is roughly based on population and tax payment as the main benchmarks.
However, just like our country's Frederick.
Lord Commander Henry was the actual ruler of the Dutch Republic at this time, the brother of Maurice, the "Dutch God of War".
He took over in 1625 and took over the power of six of the seven provinces of the Netherlands.
He was only one step away from being crowned king.
Unfortunately, After all, he died before he could complete this step.
With his elite army and the high prestige of the Orange family, he could dominate the provincial councils to a considerable extent.
If the supreme leader of the Australian republic can have the support of the military and outstanding achievements, he can completely suppress the waffling and inefficient Congress and become the uncrowned king of this country.
He may even go one step further and win that alluring crown. of crown.
But it is a pity that at present, the supreme leader just elected by this new republic, the first president who is about to officially take office, is not a soldier, but an Australian who has had dealings with us before, the governor of the Hainan Island Colony, the Netherlands.
Human understanding, Mr.
Wen Desi.
Mr.
Wen Desi is an experienced politician who is very good at coordinating relations among all parties, but he is not a brave and skilled general and does not have outstanding military exploits to draw upon.
On the contrary, his strong political competitor, General Huangshi, who presided over the battle to conquer the Ming Empire, is known as the invincible God of War in the East.
He can be called a world-class general.
It can be imagined that in the following days, Here, many conflicts and discords are likely to break out between the Australian military and government.
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But for us foreigners, it is reassuring good news.”
After writing this paragraph, Admiral Anthony Van Diemen felt a little tired, so he picked up the telephone receiver at hand and cranked it a few times.
After a moment, a sweet voice sounded from the microphone: "Hello, waiter No. 007 at the front desk is at your service.
What do you need?"
Even when he first touched the phone a few days ago, the Admiral was surprised once, but now when he heard the voice coming from the other side, he still wanted to marvel that Australians could actually communicate through thin metal wires.
Voice, is this the wisdom of the devil?
However, in the past few days, he had seen too many incredible things in the Australian capital, which somewhat numbed his nerves.
So the admiral just calmly said to the microphone: "Please bring a pot of hot tea, the kind with sugar."
Not long after, the oak door of the luxury suite was gently pushed open, and a waitress wearing a black and white maid uniform walked in.
She gently placed a large tray with exquisite white porcelain tea sets on the navy On the desk in front of the admiral, he then bent down and bowed, then turned and left.
The admiral, on the other hand, expertly lifted a white porcelain teapot decorated with golden flowers and plants from the center of the tray, poured himself a cup of fragrant black tea, and then used tongs to take out two pure sugar cubes from the white porcelain jar.
Throwing it into the tea cup, while admiring the sugar cubes emitting clusters of bubbles and quickly dissolving in the dark red tea soup, he sorted out the thoughts in his mind and finally drank the cold black tea in the cup and raised the pen again: "Next, Mr.
Governor, I want to talk about some lighter topics.
In this beautiful castle where we are staying now, which is the Australian State Guesthouse, there are also envoys from other countries.
According to my contacts with them, Their attitudes towards Australians seem to be very different.
The first is the mother country of Australians, the envoy of the emperor of the Ming Empire in the East.
As mentioned before, the founders of Australia were the descendants of the Song Empire 350 years ago, the predecessor of the Ming Empire in Asia.
They fled all the way to distant Australia from the brutal Mongolian cavalry, re-established their own country, and stubbornly believed that they still had the natural inheritance right to rule China.
Although in terms of blood and legal theory, the Australians and the Ming Empire should indeed be considered cousins, however, the emperor and ministers of the Ming Empire obviously did not agree with the Australians' view.
In fact, the court of the Ming Empire not only completely ignored the facts and scorned the Australians as barbarians, but also actively provoked a war with the Australians.
Even after being completely defeated, the rulers of the Ming Empire still seemed to refuse to admit defeat.
For example, the Ming Empire envoy currently living in the room below me is obviously full of hostility and anger towards Australians in their words and deeds.
The Australians also treat them very coldly and have not sent a higher-status official to meet them so far.
At the beginning, I felt very strange: why Australians, who are also a group of civilized gentlemen who know how to be polite, treated the diplomatic envoys of a large empire so coldly Later, through a casual chat with an Australian diplomat, I was surprised to learn that under the combined attack of the Tatar invasion to the south, peasant riots, rebellion of military nobles and Australian attacks, the current Ming Empire had been torn into pieces and completely collapsed. .
Even the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who represented the orthodoxy, was defeated and died in a war to suppress the imperial rebellion this spring.
Who will succeed him as emperor of China suddenly became a big problem.
Today, within the orthodox royal family of the Ming Empire alone, there are six emperors who support their own troops at the same time.
As for the various kinds of usurpers and clown-like pseudo-emperors, there are countless others.
The political situation is as chaotic as the ancient Roman Empire when it collapsed.
Regarding this situation, the Australian diplomat seemed to jokingly claim that this year was the "Three Thousand Tyrants" unprecedented in Chinese history.
"Year" In short, if so many people in China really claim to be emperor at the same time this year, I simply can't imagine what a ridiculous scene it will be.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty envoys living downstairs from me actually only represented the fourth-ranked member of the royal family.
Although this self-reliant Ming emperor had noble blood, he had just been defeated miserably by the Tatars on the battlefield, and was seized of a large territory by another Ming emperor and a usurper.
When it was in embarrassment, only two cities and one island were left, and most of the army was lost.
Just like the late Byzantine Empire that was surrounded by the Turks two hundred years ago, it was barely supported by sporadic assistance from the Australians.
In order to repel the next Tatar invasion, the Ming emperor sent a mission to the Australian capital, trying to beg for more ordnance, money and material assistance, and even hoping that the Australians would send troops to help him fight the war.
However, the Ming emperor obviously did not find the right person to send the envoy.
For example, the envoy named Fang, although he tried hard to hide it, I can still feel that he has an incredible disdain and contempt for everything about Australians, such as those magnificent buildings.
The Australians were very content with the assistance they had received before, without any thought of having to pay any price for it.
They were even picky about it, as if they regarded the Australians as their serfs.
It should be noted that his behavior was not a special case, but a general sentiment that widely existed among the diplomatic corps of the Ming Empire.
Although diplomacy is synonymous with meanness, I can't help but admire the thickness of these guys' skin and their astonishing stupidity.
Although the envoy named Fang has a very problematic attitude, he is still performing his duties reluctantly and trying to get some assistance for the monarch he serves.
Then the other deputy envoy named Xia simply wanted to mess up their rescue mission.
The deputy envoy seemed to have a deep hatred for the Australians and was not aware of the diplomatic status between the two parties.
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Actually, when I visited their residence, I recounted a lot of the sins of the Australians, and finally thought crazily that the Australians should plead guilty and surrender to their emperor, as if he hadn't come all the way to ask for help from the Australians.
It was as if the Australians were kneeling at his feet begging for forgiveness.
The deputy envoy's personal servant was even more astonishingly crazy.
Shortly after arriving in the city, he arrogantly extorted bribes from the Australians at the State Guesthouse.
Naturally, he only received a lot of blank looks.
Next, when the maid came to clean the room, this guy deliberately blocked the door to make things difficult and tease her.
After being severely scolded, the angry servant simply got violent and wanted to molest the pretty Australian maid.
As a result, the Australian guards who came after hearing the news gave him a severe lesson with a stick and then locked him in the basement.
The Australian officials who managed the state guesthouse also ordered the cancellation of room service for the Ming Empire mission, allowing them to do their own laundry and clean the rooms.
In this regard, Deputy Ambassador Xia did not realize any mistake at all.
Instead, he felt that he was greatly offended.
He actually ran out and made a fuss and broke many things in the hall.
In the end, he was expelled by the impatient State Guesthouse.
The guard threw it back into the room.
The Australians also ordered the envoy named Fang to make a guarantee that similar vicious incidents would never happen again.
Otherwise, expel the entire embassy and leave them living on the streets.
In the next few days, I never saw the deputy envoy again.
It is said that his companions locked him in the room and were not allowed to come out to prevent him from causing any big trouble again.
But he still kept talking to himself in the room all day long, cursing the Australians to perish as soon as possible, as if thinking that this was the only way to show his loyalty to the Ming Emperor, but he never thought that he was ordered to ask for help from the Australians. .
Anyway, if I have such a loyal employee, then I will definitely tie him to a rock and kick him into the sea to feed the sharks." oshow7: