Wild North America 1846

July 16

At the time of the vigorous wheat harvest season, Richard issued a royal order;

Naming the location of Denver Castle Phoenix City means "Phoenix Nirvana", which indicates that Phoenix City will have a better future.

Phoenix City includes but is not limited to Denver Castle. It currently has a total population of 133,700 residents (including convicts) and is the largest city in the Tang Kingdom.

Naming the location of the Indian Valley Taoyuan City, including but not limited to the Indian Valley, means "finding a peach land is a good way to escape the Qin Dynasty, and the peach blossoms will see another spring." Even if the war spreads on the Colorado Plateau, this place is still like a paradise.

Taoyuan City currently has 37,900 residents, including 11,755 Chinese families, 955 white families, and not a single forced labor prisoner.

In the irregular valley with a total area of ​​about 372 square kilometers, there are 11 hydraulic sawmills, 5 flour mills (note that another 9 flour mills are under construction to varying degrees), and two cement plants (one has been put into operation

, one is about to be put into operation), 4 clothing factories, 27 various wineries, 12 food factories, two coal mines, 19 hydraulic oil pressing workshops, a steel factory, more than 100 blacksmith shops, more than 160 carpentry shops,

There are 13 gun-making workshops, 29 pickle workshops, 9 tofu workshops, and various other handicraft workshops, which have initially formed complete industrial capabilities.

In addition, there are more than 1,200 small and medium-sized farms in the valley. In addition to growing rice, they also raise a large number of chickens, ducks and poultry, supplying sufficient meat, eggs, and milk products to Phoenix City.

The grain and other cash crops abundant on the Colorado Plateau are processed in Taoyuan City into bags of flour, rice, barrels of beer and liquor, pickled pickles and mustard, and then turned into bread, pastries, biscuits and

Other foods.

Therefore, a large train station is being built outside the valley entrance of Taoyuan City, about 4.2 kilometers away by Cherry Creek. This train station has a semicircular structure, surrounded by a 3.6-meter-high defensive wall, with defensive towers and forts set up at both ends.

, heavily guarded.

Trains enter the railway station through the city gate, which is closed to form a fortified fortress during wartime.

Taoyuan City Railway Station is an important measure to strengthen the city's defense. Any invading enemy will not be able to touch the edge of Taoyuan City's Taniguchi Fortress unless they breach the train station.

The railway from Taoyuan City to Denver has been paved, using the rails produced by the Taoyuan City Steel Plant. On the one hand, this railway continues to extend northwest and enters the intensive development area of ​​agriculture and animal husbandry.

On the one hand, it went south through Denver, and with the hard work of 4,200 Indian slave laborers, it was hoped to connect the main line of the Western Railway as soon as possible and complete the plan to connect the entire line.

Richard has been urging to speed up the railway construction process recently. Unfortunately, due to the lack of manpower during the wheat harvest season, he can only do it in a hurry.

He has been worried that the United States will launch a war from August to September. The number of U.S. troops currently gathered in Kansas City has reached more than 40,000. They are rebuilding transportation stations and roads and hoarding supplies, showing full malice.

If it goes as expected, then the great harvest on the Colorado Plateau will turn into a disaster. The materials cannot be transported out, and they are piled up in pits and valleys. You can only watch mildew and rot in front of your eyes. How sad it is.

What a thing!

So, it’s not bad as expected.

Richard was preparing to lead the cavalry to take the initiative to attack, delaying the U.S. military's offensive, destroying its logistics transportation lines, and blocking them at all levels, in order to gain time.

From mid-July to the end of July

Richard had been living in fear, and sometimes he was so anxious that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, always worrying that the US military would take advantage of this fatal opportunity to kill him.

Facts have proved that he was worried too much.

The most brutal and bloody siege battle of the U.S.-Mexico War lasted for two full months. The U.S. military repeatedly attacked Mexico City with continuous artillery fire, but encountered head-on attacks and made little progress.

At this time, although the U.S. military captured most of Mexico's territory, the resistance in various places was very fierce, causing heavy casualties to the U.S. military.

The Mexican army is still fighting fierce battles with the US military across the country, and the Mexican people are still engaged in guerrilla warfare in US-occupied areas, using broadswords, spears, and shotguns to fight the US military.

Only one ambush in February 1847 killed more than 300 American soldiers. Inspired by the victory of the Tang Kingdom, anti-invasion battles raged across the country, and the scale of the battle was much larger than in the original historical period.

In July, Mexican guerrillas launched a surprise attack on Puebla, killing the American governor and wiping out most of the 870 American defenders. The U.S. military subsequently carried out a brutal suppression, but still could not extinguish the flames of resistance of the Mexican people.

In July 1847, 28,000 U.S. troops were fighting against the guerrillas, and another 35,000 were besieging Mexico City. The artillery fire was raging throughout Mexico, and it was the most intense moment.

Considering the difficulty and strong combat power of the Tang Kingdom, the United States had to repeatedly postpone its Western Expedition plan and use all its strength to deal with the Mexicans. It was prepared to defeat one of them first.

This gave the Tang Kingdom valuable development opportunities. On August 12, the second phase of the Western Railway project was finally completed, and the southbound and northbound railway lines were successfully closed.

The four trains that had been waiting in Rio Rancho were loaded with supplies and headed north. They arrived in Denver on August 14 and held a grand opening ceremony for the Western Railway, which was warmly welcomed by the people of Denver.

The supplies on these trains were unloaded on the same day, and the trains were filled with high-quality coal here, and then filled with flour, beer, liquor, a large number of cattle, horses and various food items for the return journey, which also heralded the opening of the entire Western Railway.

By this time

Richard's heart was finally relieved. Taoyuan City was working overtime day and night. Various products were piled up in the warehouse. There was an urgent need for a modern, high-capacity means of transportation like railways to connect the entire kingdom together.

on the Colorado Plateau

The whole-military service system is implemented, which is also the national policy of the Tang Kingdom. All adult men aged 18 to 30 (excluding native Indians and hard labor prisoners) must accept unconditional conscription when needed in the kingdom's war.

Serve in the military.

As of the end of August

The total population of the Tang Kingdom has exceeded 336,000. Among them are 4,332 babies less than one year old. Most of them were born to Indian women distributed to soldiers and civil affairs officials after the encirclement and suppression of Indian tribes last year.

During the wheat harvest season on the Colorado Plateau, you can often see pregnant Caucasian or Indian women helping with labor in the fields or beside carriages. This is what makes Richard happiest.

How many exactly?

Because of the generally conservative and reserved character of the Chinese, it is really difficult to investigate this matter, but according to the approximate statistics of women who have become pregnant, there are at least 35,000 to 38,000.

what does that mean?

This means that more than half of the women are pregnant and about to give birth, which shows that these Chinese children are really hardworking. They clear and cultivate land during the day and at night, and they really work hard to spread the branches and leaves of the family.

In order to cope with the first baby boom faced by the Tang Dynasty, Richard specifically negotiated with the British to focus on arranging midwives and traditional Chinese medicine doctors among the Chinese immigrants, as long as he paid $100 for each person who was delivered.

As long as the money is available, there is no doubt about the British's ability to do things.

This price is four times higher than the cost of ordinary Chinese immigrants. Therefore, it is expected that starting from October, the number of midwives and Chinese medicine practitioners arriving in North America will increase sharply, and Chinese medicine clinics will also bloom everywhere.

The mainland of China is an inexhaustible treasure with endless human resources, which is the greatest confidence that Richard can base himself in North America and develop and grow.

September 4th, around 11:00 noon

Richard led some military and political officials to take the Western Railway train going south, leaving Denver, where he had been guarding for a year, and embarked on his second nationwide inspection tour.

The train was running along the railway line, and along the way, the barren rocky mountains of New Mexico and the Gobi Desert were left behind. The scenery was boring and desolate, as if walking on the surface of Mars, with few inhabited people.

Richard looked back in a good mood. He was riding in two passenger cars attached to the back of the train. There were more than 150 people from the accompanying squadron of guards and military and political officials, all crowded in these two cars.

Therefore, Richard only had a single opposite train seat, separated by wooden boards to form a narrow space.

by night

The small table legs are removed from the train seats facing each other, and the table top is placed on the seats on both sides to form a bed, where you can lie down and rest.

His Majesty the King is the only one who can enjoy such treatment. There is no way. In the early days of the kingdom, the conditions were rudimentary and there was not even a special train. Everything had to be improvised.

But this did not affect Richard's happy mood at all. The train took a day to run from Denver to Rio Rancho, and the speed was about 45 to 50 kilometers per hour.

This train is driven by a British 1840-style "fire fly" steam locomotive, which is one of the most advanced locomotive models in the world today and can reach a top speed of 95 kilometers per hour.

Of course, such speeds can only be achieved with light loads on specific high-quality tracks and are not of universal significance. Trains fully loaded with cargo can only reach a maximum speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour.

Even more than 100 years later, ordinary trains will only be at this level, but with greater carrying capacity.

next day

About 6:00 in the morning

When it was getting dark, the train Richard was riding on pulled into the Rio Rancho Fortress Railway Station with a long air whistle sounding.

More than a year apart

Rio Rancho has changed a lot. From the highland fortress by the Holy Spring River to the Rio Rancho town fortress, a wall has been built along the 4.3-kilometer distance between the two, organically linking them together to form a

A fortress city of approximately 12 square kilometers.

The streets in the city are orderly, wide and straight, and most of the brick-and-tile houses are in a "back" shape, which is very conducive to street fighting defense.

Most of the buildings near the street are owned by banks, telegraph offices, police stations, railway companies and mining companies. Most of them are solid buildings with 3 to 4 floors.

Turrets and heavy machine gun positions can be set up on the roof, allowing you to command the surrounding area during wartime.

Fortress Rio Rancho is a garrison castle second only to Fort Denver in importance. The Kingdom has spent a lot of resources to build it and has achieved gratifying results.

The train station is located 6.7 kilometers south of Rio Rancho Fortress. Currently, there is only a solitary train station, two rows of brick buildings, and a large livestock fence. There are more than 30 large cars neatly placed outside the fence.

This place is mainly used for boarding mules and horses.

When there is no transportation work, the mules and horses will take off the shaft harness and put them in the livestock pen to be raised.