The Rise Of the Sun Empire: Mexico as you have never seen it before. TL

Guadalupe Victoria Blinked into the light above his head, it was Christmas eve 1827, 4 days earlier he had declared that all Spaniards must be expelled from Mexico, he wiped his mouth, he had passed out last night, fell on the hard floor of his residence, his head hurt. That was a mistake, a grave one, in fact Mexico was a mistake. He recalled Cortés' description of Tenochtitlán, an image became lodged in his conscious, the image of a temple whose great size and magnificence no human tongue could describe, so large that within the precincts, which are surrounded by very high wall, a town of some five hundred inhabitants could easily be built. All round inside this wall there are very elegant quarters with very large rooms and corridors where their priests live. There are as many as forty towers, all of which are so high that in the case of the largest there are fifty steps leading up to the main part of it and the most important of these towers is higher than that of the cathedral of Seville. Cortés saw such splendour, and destroyed it, that was where he went wrong, where the Spanish went wrong and where the country was going to go wrong, by rejecting the natives and their past the country was losing its strength, if the Mexicans, the Spanish and the natives combined into one culture, they would be strong, so, the peoples of Mexico must blend, must unite under a new church, a new language and a new vision of what Mexico is, and he Guadalupe Victoria would deliver this vision, from the steps of a new temple of Tenochtitlán as the Sun Emperor of Aztlan.

A new timeline in which Mexico will be changed beyond all recognition, as their epileptic president has a fit he never had and smashes his head against the floor.
 
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On 23 December 1827, the Masonic Scottish Lodge declared the Plan of Montaño in Tulancingo, which was based on 4 points:

-The extinction of secret societies.
-The change of government.
-The expulsion of U.S. ambassador Joel R. Poinsett.
-Strict compliance of the Constitution.

Vice president Nicolás Bravo was the Grand Master of the Scottish Rite lodge in Mexico between 1823 and 1827, a time when this lodge had captured most positions of political influence in the country. Political parties had not yet formed at this time in Mexican history, and in their place the political elites of the country were associated with two Masonic lodges the centrist Scottish Rite (los escoseses) and the somewhat more liberal York Rite (los yorquinos). The rebellion was a fiasco; launched on 23 December 1827, it only attracted a few hundred rebels and fell apart when Bravo was captured on 7 January 1828. Guadalupe Victoria saw an opportunity to begin the destruction of the church in Mexico and to begin pepping the country for the civil war that would inevitably come upon his refusal to stand down. Bravo was shot on the 10th of January as a traitor, Victoria had documents forged that showed Pedro José de Fonte y Hernández Miravete (archbishop of Mexico) and the Scottish rite were in associtation, and were conducting a joint plot against Him, Vicente Guerrero and the government as a whole. Pedro Miravete was sent into exile and the churches legitimacy was damaged, Guerrero thought he gained himself an ally, in reality he was just a small piece in a great game. The plot allowed the government to justify taking certain liberties with the constitution that would have previously caused a coup, some of the presidents allies had begun to question whether federalism was right for Mexico at all, they were encouraged by Victoria and nursed as potential allies for the coming civil war.
 
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Since this deals with Mexico, and seems that this is going into a new and strange direction, consider me interested, and therefore I will subscribe post-haste.
 
The Mexican President only had one year in office to deliver on his plans, though he now had a lot of political capital to spend after successfully crushing the revolt. His next move would be bold, and would be the first of his cultural programs to change the country. He appointed a Santiago Méndez to construct a university in mexico city, with a school of linguistics to develop a hybrid Spanish Nahuatl language, A school of history complete with a public museum to discover and display artefacts from Mexico's past and a school of architecture and engineering to 'solve Mexico's infrastructure problems'. The University would use a mix of pre existing and new buildings, built in a new style called Renacimiento (Renaissance; a mix of colonial and Aztec architecture, the new standard for government buildings developed by the architecture school), it would dominate Mexico's education system, with most wealthy parents sending their children to study there. Victoria also reformed the curriculum of the small public education system to teach the value of education and to begin teaching Nahuatl alongside Spanish 'to reflect upon the cultural history of Mexico'. These reforms did not go unnoticed in the higher echelons of the Mexican government, some ministers began to comment on their presidents strange new idea's but were shut down by Vicente Guerrero, who was loyal to the president after the revolt.

The next issue would be Mexico's great northern Neighbour, securing an eternal alliance and friendship with her whatever the cost was one of the president's main objectives before his term ran out and things got real nasty.
 
I doubt the church won't put up a fight. Somewhere, there has to be a zealous peasant leading a mass revolt (Taipeng Heavenly Kingdom, anyone?), supplied by the church and pious rich people.
 
Would a large Catholic nation allow themsleves to be returned to a heretic and alien nation.

Catholicism in Latin America, especially in rural areas and among indigenous-descended people, is heavily syncretized with local folk beliefs. Our Lady of Guadalupe originated as a stand-in for the ancient Aztec matron goddess Tonantzin after the Spanish destroyed her temple. Indigenous Nahua-speaking villagers continued to worship at a church built in the location the same way they revered Tonantzin's sacred place.

It's estimated that at the time of independence, the majority of Mexico's population still spoke indigenous languages as their native tongue, so it wouldn't be too difficult to turn the tide against Hispanicization and create an indigenous national identity for the country.
 
Eternal friendship and permanent peace, that was the idea of the New Orleans meeting between Victoria and US president John Quincy Adams. Victoria's aim was simple, remove the threat of war by giving the USA a reasonable settlement and establish some sort of permanent order on the North American continent. The two topics the dominated the meeting: Tejas with thousands of American settlers already present, and the USA's ambitions on mexico's northern border. Tejas was the first issue discussed, the Anglo slave owners were fighting the impending illegality of slavery, and were agitating for a separate state, the solution was simple, a puppet state with a separate government, though strict laws were placed on its existence such as a law called one to one; which restricts the number of Anglo-immigrants to the number of Mexicans, and a law that forces Tejas to accept any Mexican prisoners for re-settlement. Victoria wanted to use Tejas as a future dumping ground for the enemies of His Sun Empire. The next was the northern border, which Victoria believed would cause a war in the future, as the US needed secure pacific access. A new border was drawn up that was satisfactory to both parties, the USA would pay Mexico 10 million dollars for the new lands and in return both parties would recognise the border as permanent. Victoria's last act of elected power was to guarantee his countries geopolitical position indefinitely.

North America in February 1829 after the New Orleans agreement.

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Well this is certainly different. I'll pay attention:D.

With the US fairly satisfied (although the Texans may very well try to break out from under Mexico's thumb), mexico is free to do quite a bit if it remains stable. That's a big if.
 
History books will say Mexico officially died on April first 1829, The nation that rose in the fires of its death would be the Sun Empire of the Mexca, a hybrid between Spanish and native, Christian and Teotl, Old world and New…

After winning the national election Vicente Guerrero was appointed President of the Mexican federation. For years he had been preparing for this day, For years he had been groomed for this day by Victoria, his ideals and vision were contagious, and the position he was to fill in the new order was too good to turn down, Prime-Minister of a centralised constitutional monarchy and leader of the Mexcan Army, He would be able to swiftly outlaw slavery, enact much needed land reform and then begin reforming the Army into a modern force. He did not envy the position of his trusted friend and mentor Victoria, ‘Sun Emperor’ was a burdenous position to occupy, Head of state with little real power over anything other than education, culture and national works, with 25% of the nation’s GDP to spend on these 3 things. Mexico would be in turmoil for years, he would have to begin teaching Mexca (50% Spanish 50% Nahuatl with a hybrid syntax that is surprisingly slick, the first dictionary was published in late 1828 and has been taken up very fast, laws are now written in Mexca) to the peasants(anyone who was anyone now spoke it), bending the church to the new state and rebuilding Mexico City, such vast projects would consume his life and leave him exhausted, but he was the man the nation needed to survive. Of course there would be resistance to the changes, Santa Anna had done a good job purging the army of elements that would rebel immediately, but not a perfect one. There would be riots and minor rebellions for years in most cities backed either by disheartened federalists or the Catholic church, but the army would bring it under control very very quickly.

The New National constitution was signed on the First of April 1829, it radically changed how power was handled in Mexico, appeasing the federalists by handing tax collection powers to the provinces whilst centralising most other things. The Sun Empire was now a constitutional monarchy with Victoria Guadalupe at its head.

Many members of congress and high ranking army officers were unhappy with these changes and so were offered a deal, they could relocate their entire estates to Tejas and would be compensated for the move, Officers could join the Tejan army and take any man under their command who was willing, priests unhappy with the unorthodox behaviour of the government were encouraged to leave for Tejas and bring their most devout with them, tens of thousands crossed the border with government money in their pocket, ready to build a new nation in the image of the one that existed before the dawn of the Sun empire.

A map of the Tejan republic in 1835, over 125,000 Mexican Loyalists have crossed since the Deceleration of the Sun Empire.

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Good deal for the U.S., but I wonder how Europe is going to feel about this new pagan empire.

I bet Spain's gonna be very pissed that all their work proselytizing is in the trash, but everyone else is going to see it as the end of expansion in the Americas and move over to Asia quicker.
 
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