Dominate the Country

December of the Western calendar has quietly arrived, and there are only a few days left before Christmas in the world of One God. New York in North America, the largest city in the Lighthouse Country, is still decorated with lights, but the lively atmosphere in the city is much less than two years ago. Hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged people are missing, countless families are missing fathers, sons, husbands, brothers, and almost all young people are missing, and the entire Lighthouse Country lacks joy.

"It's time to leave, New York; never see you again, America!"

A young Western man who is not very handsome is leaning on the side of a brightly lit ocean-going merchant ship, holding a bottle of top-quality wine produced by the Portuguese Ribeiro family in his hand. He is looking at the moon in the sky and the brightly lit New York with a look of melancholy, and his voice is full of sighs and sadness.

Americans, these damn Americans, have made their family suffer.

Karl Rothschild from Frankfurt is only 22 years old this year. This age is still very young in the business tide, but he can already stand on his own. Among his three elder brothers, the third brother Nathan Rothschild, who has achieved the most gratifying success, was sent by his father from Frankfurt to the UK to develop the Rothschild family's banking business when he was 22 years old.

So, Karl Rothschild, who is also 22 years old now, is not young anymore.

He has been working in his family's bank for two years.

During these two years, he has been running around for the government bonds of the Lighthouse Country to a large extent. The Rothschild family's bank took over part of the US agency business in Europe. Although the bulk of it was in Baring Brothers Bank and Rothschild only took a small part of it, it was also a huge progress for the Rothschild family.

This is a financial agency for a country, which is not a responsibility that half of the financial customers can bear.

Because the Americans have the British backing them. And the strength of the British is needless to say, so it is not difficult to sell American bonds in the market.

Mayer Rothschild is a banker with a strong enterprising spirit. Last year, he sent his fourth son, Karl Rothschild, to the United States to develop the family business.

The Rothschild family, which has already emerged in the European financial world, can only be regarded as a newcomer. They are far from being able to take on the financial agency of a country alone. This family was far less powerful than some brain-dead person wrote in the later generations when it was at its peak in the original time and space. Although that brain-dead Song is no longer Chinese, he has become an American, but it is still embarrassing to think about it. What Chen Ming couldn't understand was why an American who wrote a financial novel could become a "famous financial historian" in China? And there are so many Chinese who believe it.

Just like Koreans believe that Confucius is Korean, they believe that the ancestors of the great Korean nation once extended their borders to the inland of China.

Alas, that is also intoxicating.

Carl also came to the United States with a strong expectation. He hoped that he could open up a world in the distant New World like his third brother Nathan. Whether it is land area or development prospects, the United States has great development potential. But the development of the situation in North America disappointed him, deeply disappointed.

The trend of the war development made Carl see no hope of victory in the war.

Chinese warships cruised in the waters of Washington, Philadelphia and New York, and the poor little American navy had been completely destroyed in the successive collisions. The current US Navy is a group of British people wearing US military uniforms.

But even so, the British could not guarantee the safety of important coastal cities such as New York and Philadelphia.

Carl was not a timid person, but after experiencing two wars in which the Chinese Marines landed from the side of New York and attacked New York without success, he was also extremely disappointed with the future of Americans.

Just before he decided to return to Europe, he had sent a letter to Europe, suggesting that the family's bank reduce its agency share of US government bonds and decouple from the United States as soon as possible.

The United States now relies entirely on the British to endorse it, and their own strength is really difficult to defeat the Chinese. Such a US government bond is too dangerous.

Shortly after Carl arrived in New York, he experienced a Chinese raid. At that time, Carl had not completely lost confidence in the United States, but he did not continue to look for a suitable bank location. He chose to wait and see.

Then Carl experienced the armistice between China and the West. The Spanish shamelessly became deserters and withdrew all their strength to fight back against Argentina. In Carl's view, this was definitely a stupid decision. After the Chinese dealt with Portuguese Brazil and the United States, would they still show mercy to Argentina?

If China had not encountered trouble during this period, their gentle means on the Spanish island had failed and they had to resort to force, and the blacks on the Spanish island were not easy to deal with, Carl might have been disappointed with the future of the United States.

However, Carl finally chose to return to Europe. Being in New York, he felt the threat of life, and he didn't want to be inseparable from America in the end.

The traces of the British intervening in the North American war are becoming more and more obvious. Carl is very worried that one day the Chinese will not be able to help but tear their faces with Britain. And he is more afraid that China and Britain will only maintain a superficial peace. In fact, they have begun to fight to the death in the vast Atlantic Ocean, and then he will even be uncertain about his life and death when he takes a boat back to Europe.

The only thing Carl can be sure of now is that the Chinese have a strong ambition to annex America, and it is difficult for both Americans and British to stop China. Who let Europe have Napoleon? Napoleon has tied up more than 90% of Europe's energy and eliminated the possibility of the two great powers of Britain and France joining forces to deal with China. Now, London can provide more material wealth to the United States, but it is impossible to send hundreds of thousands of elite troops to reinforce them. And relying on the power of the United States alone, even if they have Indians as allies, they cannot compete with China.

This is Carl's judgment. Therefore, Carl thinks it is better to stay away from the lighthouse country.

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In Asia, which has also entered winter, a message is spreading rapidly in Japan.

Due to the heroic performance of Japanese soldiers on the battlefield in America, China will cede some land in Africa and India to reward Japan.

There are many different opinions on this news, and no one dares to be sure whether it is true or false.

But for the upper echelons of the Tokugawa shogunate, this news is half true and half false. China is not going to carve out a piece of land from India and Africa for Japan, but let Japan choose whether to seek colonies from India or seek new territories from Africa.

The Chinese representative made it very clear that India's land is likely to be a colony, but a colony is not a territory, because India has a hugely influential belief and customs and culture, which is difficult to be assimilated by Japan, and of course it is very rich there. As for distant Africa, it is indeed a little far away, and it is even poorer than India, but there are broad prospects and sparsely populated areas there. Japan may turn it into a new Japan in the future.

This is a difficult choice for the Tokugawa shogunate. Both options are extremely tempting, and giving up any one of them makes them feel painful. And this also stimulates them to work harder for Chen Han.

The "reward" given by Chen Ming is not small. India is the Alleppey region in the southwest, which is close to Cochin, a major trading town in the Arabian Sea. The land is moist and flat, and both agriculture and business are quite gratifying.

The land of Africa is on the island of Madagascar. The local tribes are no match for Chen Han's South African expeditionary force. The relatively powerful Merina Kingdom, whose old king, who is deeply respected by his subjects, has just passed away, and its control area is more concentrated in the central part of Madagascar. The territories of the local Sakalava and Bezanozano people in the southwest of the sea all refuse to obey the rule of the Merina Kingdom.

If the Japanese enter Madagascar at this time, they can take advantage of the opportunity. Moreover, neither the British nor the French have established ports or settlements on the island. The closest connection between European countries such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal and Madagascar is the slave trade.

Although Madagascar in later generations is one of the least developed regions in the world, it is large enough to almost be the size of two Japans. And it is rich in resources, with a large forest area and huge mineral reserves.

African countries are generally rich in minerals. The poverty and backwardness of this place is because the Africans themselves are of low level and they cannot develop it, not because this place is really poor. Japan is different from Africans!

Each of the two choices has its own merits. Those who agree to colonize India do so because India is rich and Indians are "honest and decent" and easy to exploit and squeeze. Those who agree to the Falkland Islands do so because a new world can be opened up there. The estimated population of the entire Falkland Islands is less than one million, which is a paradise compared to Japan, which has a population of 30 million.

A "new Japan" can be born there!

Although the Falkland Islands are also located in an earthquake zone, which makes the Japanese slightly dissatisfied, the Falkland Islands are a whole piece of land, not an archipelago like the Japanese archipelago.

But in any case, in the upper class of Japan, they have a better impression of Chen Han.

This boss is very considerate. He did not let Japan only work without money. The boss not only gave money, but also gave a lot. The Japanese were very satisfied. Today's Japan is not afraid of death in war, but is afraid of no return.

As long as there is enough income, let alone the 20,000 or 300,000 Japanese soldiers in America today, even if there are 200,000 or 300,000 people, the increasingly large samurai class can be gathered, and it doesn't take too much effort.

Chen Ming stood aside and saw clearly that today's Japan still maintains the privilege of the "samurai" class - joining the army. The army lets civilians go away. Such a Japan is obviously not conducive to its own strength, but Chen Ming is happy to see Japan maintain its own traditions. Because such a Japan will never pose a threat to China.

Chen Ming doesn't know that the Southwest War in Japanese history was a "rights protection war" for samurai.

Kido Takayoshi (Katsura Kogoro) and Okubo Toshimichi, who control Japan's political power, want to abolish the privilege of joining the army that only belongs to samurai, and recruit civilians on a large scale, while a group of people led by Saigo Takamori sympathize with the difficult life of the lower-class samurai.

Oh, my life is already very hard, and now you want to blow up my rice bowl, bullshit!

A Southwest War cost the Japanese 20,000 to 30,000 casualties, and military expenditures exceeded 40 million, which is a big price. However, Japan has not experienced the "Supreme Emperor and Expelling Barbarians" movement. The Tokugawa shogunate and local daimyo in power are all representatives of the samurai class. It is unlikely that the privilege of the samurai class will be abolished in the short term.

The result is naturally that Japan is harmless.

Today, the Japanese army is like the British lobster soldiers. The elite are very elite, but the number is too small.