Wild North America 1846

Two consecutive Western expeditions failed miserably, and at the beginning of the year, 6,000 cavalry from the Tang Kingdom rushed out of the Colorado Plateau and ravaged the northwestern states of the United States, causing serious damage.

Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska were devastated by war, and people were devastated, forming a wave of people fleeing south, bringing with them the elderly and the young.

The originally stable social environment has been greatly damaged, and the local people are panicked.

This has become a weakness of the federal government that has been strongly criticized by the opposition parties and public opinion, which has greatly weakened the positive impact of the victory of the Southern War, resulting in mixed praise and praise.

Today, the U.S. federal government is more afraid of the Tang Kingdom, especially Mexico.

Americans have never surrendered so easily. They have been preparing for a war against the Tang Kingdom. However, the sudden "Northwestern States War" at the beginning of the year caught the U.S. federal government by surprise, disrupting the entire rhythm of war preparations.

nowadays

After the fourth total war mobilization, the U.S. government once again had abundant troops. The military did everything possible to allocate supplies and step up the production of new weapons and equipment to prepare for the upcoming war.

In terms of weapons, the United States is stepping up the research and development and production of 20-pound and 30-pound Patero cannons as siege weapons against the strong fortresses of the Tang Kingdom. Prototype cannons will be produced for testing in the near future.

The plan to develop and produce new weapons such as cavalry-style revolvers and heavy machine guns has never been abandoned. American cavalry-style revolvers have been mass-produced and put into service, and gratifying progress has been made.

However, the heavy machine gun project is fraught with difficulties, especially the development of copper-cased ammunition, which has so far been unremarkable.

This did not stop the US military preparations. After the disastrous defeat of the "Northwestern States War" at the beginning of the year, the third Western Expedition, originally scheduled to be launched in early March, was forced to be postponed to a certain day in August or September.

The war is postponed, not cancelled.

The reason why the specific time has not been determined is that Lieutenant General Arthur Temple of the United States Federal Continental Army Staff took into account the strength and difficulty of the Tang Kingdom and planned to deploy experienced US military generals after conquering Mexico City and ending the war in the south.

He and his army joined the Western Expedition, mobilizing heavy troops and elite generals to destroy the Tang Kingdom in one fell swoop.

It can be said that this time the U.S. federal government is really ruthless and wants to eradicate this smelly and tough little kingdom in the west at all costs.

Unifying the vast American continent is the natural mission of the American Federation. From the founding of the United States to the present, the 11 presidents of the United States have all strived for this lofty goal.

Since the war broke out

The U.S. federal government is already burdened with a government deficit of up to 170 million U.S. dollars, which is an extremely heavy financial burden for the United States with a gross national product of only 1 billion U.S. dollars.

The reason why President Polk was obsessed with this was, on the surface, an illusory and illusory sacred mission of America. In fact, it had extremely profound practical significance.

War can eliminate internal conflicts to the greatest extent.

President Polk clearly understood;

If we do not launch a foreign war, the internal conflicts in the United States will inevitably tear the Union apart, and the possibility of civil war will increase sharply.

In today's American society

White plantation owners in the South who owned a large number of black slaves accounted for the majority of members of Congress and were the mainstream of American political life.

The prosperity of the cotton trade prompted the southern slave states to urgently demand the expansion of the black slave trade and lower tariffs in order to earn more wealth.

On the above issues

The political forces in the northern states, dominated by factory owners and capitalists, strongly demand the implementation of high tariff policies to prevent the dumping of products from developed industrial countries in Europe and undermine the development of domestic industry.

On the other hand, due to the urgent need of labor shortage, the calls for "abolition of black slavery" in northern states were rising.

Such demands seriously harmed the core interests of white southern plantation owners, resulting in sharp conflicts between the North and the South, which have reached an irreconcilable and serious level of antagonism.

It is impossible for the United States to repeat the "enclosure movement" that happened in the United Kingdom. Therefore, northern capitalists turned their attention to the black slaves in the south. This was not an impulse to fight for human rights for the black slaves, but was driven by real interests. Industrial development required more

Plenty of cheap labor.

in the original history

After the northern regime won the unprecedentedly brutal Civil War, it successfully implemented the abolitionist movement, thereby acquiring a steady stream of black labor from the south, injecting new vitality into the economy, and industrial development grew rapidly.

However, the joy of black people was in vain, and the human rights and equality of black people were still just talk on paper until a hundred years later.

Colorado Plateau

"Your Majesty is opening the sickle!"

A high-pitched and melodious shout came out, causing cheers like a tsunami. The endless wheat fields on the plateau rolled with waves, and the heavy ears of wheat were full and solid, a scene of a great harvest.

King Richard harvested a bunch of wheat ears with a sickle. He presided over the "scythe opening ceremony" with a joyful smile on his face. After cheering loudly, the endless crowd of people on the side of the road walked into the wheat field and raised their sickles to harvest.

stand up.

The "Scythe Opening Ceremony" is an extremely important ceremony in the Tang Kingdom. Everyone from Denver to Indian Valley, except for the soldiers who are responsible for guarding, must help with the harvest.

Hundreds of thousands of people went into battle together, what a huge scene.

Richard looked at all this with a pleased expression, the joy of the harvest surged in his heart, and the smile on his face could not be suppressed.

After more than a year of construction, Denver has not only become the kingdom's garrison outpost, but also developed into the largest grain base, rich in wheat, oats, sorghum, potatoes, rice, soybeans and various vegetables. Its scale is so large that it can supply the entire kingdom.

There is still room for what is needed.

Last September’s potato and oat harvest was so large that even if part of it was used for brewing, there was still a lot of grain that went moldy due to being stored for too long and had to be discarded.

San Francisco, Los Angeles and other places need to import food from Central America due to their rapid population growth. Rio Rancho Fortress and Gallup Fortress are located in the Gobi Desert and do not have basic agricultural production conditions. Food and vegetables also need to be imported in large quantities.

external input.

exactly this is the case

This prompted Richard to accelerate railway construction. At the end of 1846, the Pacific Railway Company of the Tang Kingdom was formally established. The royal family invested US$1.6 million to occupy 70% of the shares. The remaining shares were opened to subjects and foreign capital, and all capital raising was quickly completed.

Among them, British capital accounted for 17% of the shares, and a group of military and political officials and businessmen from the Tang Dynasty ate up the remaining share.

Railway construction began in early 1847, starting from Los Angeles, going west through Las Vegas, Flagstaff, Gallup and other towns, and took 7 months to reach the town of Rio Rancho. The whole journey was about 1,220 kilometers long.

kilometers, and now the entire line has been completed.

This section of the railway is called the "Western Railway". The railway passes through plains, hills, mountains, the Grand Canyon, deserts and the long Gobi. The roadbed along the way is solid and flat, making it less difficult to lay the railway.

The Tang Kingdom invested 8,700 Indian convicts and more than 3,500 Chinese laborers for this purpose, and also established a railway police group of more than 700 people to guard and supervise the Indian convicts.

at its peak

The railway police team went out everywhere to capture and eliminate scattered Indian tribes. The number of Indian slave laborers once exceeded 12,000. When the railroad finally built Rio Rancho Fort, there were only about 8,700 Indian slave slaves left.

In addition to the harsh climate and high temperatures in the desert and Gobi areas along the way, there were also Indian convicts who were lazy, ineffective at work, often absconded and were severely punished, resulting in large attrition.

On average, approximately 6 kilometers of railway lines can be laid every day.

It should be noted that not all of the 15,000-strong labor force is crowded on the 6-kilometer-long railway line.

The total labor force of about 15,000 people is distributed along the 1,220-kilometer railway construction line. There are 200 to 300 people in each labor camp, a total of 43 labor camps. Each labor camp is equipped with more than 20 armed railway police, responsible for supervising labor and distributing food.

Each labor camp has different tasks. Some are responsible for building roadbeds, culverts, and bridges and have more people. Some are only responsible for building roadbeds and have fewer people.

on the entire railway line

Only in the Grand Canyon of Colorado, every spring, the melting of ice and snow in the mountains will bring massive flash floods, rushing down and posing a serious threat to the railway lines.

Therefore, bridges and culverts need to be built on the riverbeds of these seasonal rivers. More than 70 bridges and culverts need to be built in the Grand Canyon area alone, and 116 across the entire line.

On the floodplain river, the longest bridge requires construction of more than 160 meters, while a small culvert only needs a few meters to span the stream. The construction amount varies greatly.

Most of these works are completed by Chinese workers. They are hard-working, efficient, and responsible, and are the best builders.

Laying rails is a relatively simple task. With two to three thousand workers working together, more than 20 kilometers of rails can be laid every day, and the maximum is close to 30 kilometers.

at present

The Western Railway construction work has entered the second phase, which is to lay more than 700 kilometers of railway from Rio Rancho to Denver.

Since this section of the railway is located in the Gobi Desert and has only a dozen bridges and water culverts, the laying progress is very fast.

Richard mobilized 4,200 people from Denver's convicts to participate in the second phase of the construction of the Western Railway. They were mainly responsible for building part of the railway roadbed from Denver to the south, with a total length of about 280 kilometers.

It is expected to be by the end of August

The second phase of the Western Railway project from Rio Rancho to Denver will be fully completed, which means that the nearly 2,000-kilometer Western Railway project is fully completed and officially put into use.

By then

The grain, flour, soybeans, rice, liquor and beer, coal, wood, cement, and steel produced in the Colorado Plateau will be continuously imported into the Tang Kingdom through railway lines.

This will effectively revitalize towns along the railway and maximize their development ceiling.

For example, towns in the Gobi such as Rio Rancho Fort and Gallup Fort will usher in a major development after solving the problems of food supply and building materials.

From now on, cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Milan, and Flagstaff that are short of agricultural and sideline products will receive an abundant supply of materials, effectively ensuring the industrial development of the above cities.

Mutual promotion of industry and agriculture is the way to long-term economic development.