Wild North America 1846

When the Crimean War in Europe was in full swing, the public opinion circles in the Tang Dynasty criticized the "Black Sea Incident" verbally and in writing, demanding repeated negotiations with Tsarist Russia, which invisibly delayed the time.

a few months later

The Tsarist Russian fleet, which was rampant in the Black Sea for a while, collapsed under the attack of the overwhelming superiority of the British and French combined fleets. The instigator, Tsarist Russian Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, was also killed in the tragic naval battle.

From a certain perspective, it was also a disguised form of revenge for the sailors of the Tang Kingdom who died unjustly in the Black Sea Incident.

But the Tang Kingdom demanded more than that. It also demanded a public trial of the responsibility of the Black Sea Fleet and higher-level generals responsible for this, and demanded compensation and an apology.

Such a request was tantamount to compensation for defeat and a public humiliation to Tsar Nicholas I. Russia, a stubborn country, would not agree even if it lost the war, unless it was Britain who made the request.

In the eyes of the world's great powers, the Tang Kingdom is still a small player on the world chessboard.

On September 7, 1854, the Tang Kingdom officially declared war on Tsarist Russia and joined the same camp as Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War. It was also the only ally outside Europe.

By this time

The Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty slowly began to prepare for the expedition to Europe, recruiting new soldiers for training among new Chinese immigrants, supplemented by a backbone of experienced officers and sergeants, with a total recruitment of 50,000 soldiers.

From the beginning of September to the end of September in the first period of recruiting soldiers, the total number of soldiers recruited has not reached 10,000. Many ordinary people don't know where the recruiting station is?

There was neither publicity nor mobilization. Many people who wanted to sign up for the expedition were unable to find a way. In this way, nearly 10,000 people were recruited in less than a month.

At this time, during the Crimean War, the brutal battle between the two sides for the Sevastopol Fortress officially began.

In order to land and conquer the Sevastopol Fortress of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the British and French forces and the Ottoman Empire assembled heavy forces. On September 7, with the support of almost all the British and French fleets, they landed on the Sevastopol Fortress on a large scale.

After the British and French combined fleets continuously bombarded the fortress, a large number of transport fleets transported soldiers ashore in waves, and started a fierce battle with the Russian troops who had been waiting here.

The battle was unprecedentedly fierce, with both sides investing their troops to fight for every inch of land regardless of the cost.

The commander of the British army was Baron Raglan, an approachable nobleman. The commander of the French army was Marshal Armand Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnault, a new generation of French soldiers created during the French Revolution.

The British and French allied forces invested more than 20 divisions in the landing battle, with each division having about 6,000 troops and a total of more than 100,000 troops. After hard battles, they opened up a stable landing site.

Among the several war zones after the outbreak of the Crimean War, the battle for the Sevastopol Fortress was the most cruel, fierce, and bloody, and the price paid by both sides was the heaviest.

As the coalition forces continued to invest troops, Tsarist Russia also did its best to mobilize reinforcements. The two sides formed a tug of war in the Sevastopol Fortress, which lasted for more than a year.

Long-distance expeditionary operations required overcoming various difficulties, especially the fact that local women were very cheap. This led to a large number of soldiers in the British and French coalition being infected with syphilis and other venereal diseases. There was also a cholera epidemic in the military camps, which caused a large number of attrition.

In an unexpected fire before the launch of the landing war, the logistics supply camp of the British and French coalition was reduced to nothing. 160,000 pairs of boots alone were lost, as well as tens of thousands of tents and other important supplies. The number was quite astonishing.

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In the mid-19th century, the old colonial powers such as Britain and France were extremely able to withstand war losses. In addition to urgently deploying supplies, they launched a large-scale campaign to attack the Sevastopol Fortress as scheduled, even if the casualties increased.

In response to the slow mobilization of the Tang Kingdom, the British commander Baron Raglan told the Times reporter who came to interview on the corpse-strewn battlefield on the Sevastopol front line;

"Thank God, the Tang State's declaration of war on the Russians is really good news. I just hope that they will act faster. Even if they just add one more infantry division to my men, it may be the last straw that breaks the Russians. If

If we continue to act slowly like this, we may not be able to catch up with the defeat of the Russians and sign the treaty."

From these words

You can also hear the tragic flavor of the battle for the front line of Sevastopol. When the soldiers of the British and French coalition braved the fierce fire attack of the new Russian artillery and advanced, how much they hoped that there would be support from the Eastern troops around them?

There is no doubt about the cruelty of the European war. Tens of thousands of artillery shells are often fired in an attack battle.

The reason why the Russian army was able to sustain itself under the fierce attack was not only the soldiers' tenacious resistance and continuous reinforcements, but also its new Colt breech-loading artillery and new artillery shells, which also caused huge damage to the coalition forces.

Fortunately, the Russians have a limited number of artillery shells, and hundreds of thousands of artillery shells cannot determine the final direction of the war.

The rifled Minie rifle equipped by the British army in 1851 was lethal within a range of 550 yards and caused heavy casualties to the Russian army in battlefield duels.

The old-fashioned muskets equipped by the Russian army have an effective range of only 150 to 200 yards. They have poor shooting accuracy and low power, which makes them very disadvantageous in infantry line combat.

The British and French forces were supported by naval artillery, and their number of artillery far exceeded that of the Russian army.

After this back and forth, the tug-of-war between the two sides became even more fierce.

Often the positions that the British and French allied forces had just occupied during the day were recaptured by the Tsarist Russian army at night through hand-to-hand charges. A position was repeatedly attacked a dozen times or more, leaving corpses everywhere and unprecedented bloodshed.

Across the vast Atlantic Ocean

The Civil War in Kansas in North America also intensified. The state governments supported by the North and the South quickly armed themselves and established various volunteer militia groups. Many officers from the North and the South who were educated at the West Point Military Academy even participated in the battle.

In just three months, 171 large and small battles broke out between the two sides, with the total number of casualties approaching more than 4,000. The competition became increasingly fierce, and the scale of the battle had a tendency to further expand.

not far apart

There is an autumn harvest scene on the Colorado Plateau, with golden waves of wheat rolling, melons and fruits fragrant, and horse-drawn carriages loaded with harvest crops on the asphalt road. There is an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages on the asphalt road. Everyone's face is filled with joy after the harvest.

As the war progressed, Europe's demand for supplies became more urgent. The Colorado Plateau was rich in rum, whiskey, Mexican absinthe, etc., and orders were often received for hundreds or thousands of tons.

The pastures in several northern provinces are also busy. More than 100,000 horses have been transported to the European front lines. The subsequent orders are several times that, and the prices are also good, which makes everyone happy.

Also in early September;

The national population of the Tang Kingdom exceeded 8 million for the first time, reaching 8.0337 million. The total number of immigrants in each of the three months of June, July and August exceeded 100,000, reaching the peak of the Chinese immigration wave since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

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On the one hand, this is because the war in Shenzhou spread to the north, including Beizhili and the Jiaodong Peninsula, forming a huge refugee flow of more than 1.3 million people, but very few were able to board the immigration ships.

The Tang Kingdom only needs young people between the ages of 10 and 25, especially males and marriageable girls. They must be healthy, have good appearance, speak clearly and preferably have certain cultural abilities.

These few principles alone exclude the vast majority of refugees.

Of course, self-financing immigrants with certain financial capabilities, such as wealthy businessmen, families of fleeing officials, Chinese medicine monks, famous Liyuan celebrities, etc., can board the immigration ship as a family.

Naturally, there will be no restrictions on ferry tickets that people buy at their own expense.

The vast territory of the Tang Kingdom was like a dry sponge, desperately absorbing a large number of laborers. It had an astonishing appetite, and it was almost as much as it wanted.

Fortunately, the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty passed the "Preferential Loan Bill for Targeted Immigration" promoted by the central and eastern provinces in the first half of the year. These bills initiated by the inland provinces of central and eastern China locked the destination in advance through immigration loans to prevent them from being divided up by the provinces along the West China Sea.

With the economic prosperity, hundreds of large and small banks and money banks appeared in the Tang Kingdom. While meeting the needs of economic development and immigration loan needs, it also caused chaos in the financial market to a certain extent.

To this end, in September, the Parliament of the Tang Kingdom officially passed the "Financial Law" (Interim), which set entry thresholds for the current financial field, standardized business activities, and made many extremely influential restrictions.

For example, different levels of financial licenses are set up. Financial licenses with higher levels can operate all types of lending and immigration loans, absorb savings, and operate offshore immigration loan business.

Low-level financial licenses have many restrictions. Depending on the deposit reserve and strength, only one or several financial businesses are allowed to operate.

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The "Financial Law" (Interim) implements a financial supervision system, financial punitive measures, lists the conditions for financial crimes, and clarifies standards for financial fraud and violations. It is an important regulation regulating the behavior of the Tang Kingdom in the financial field.

This is conducive to the standardized development of large and powerful banks and banks, maintaining the order of the financial market, combating financial speculation, and putting the development of the banking and insurance industries on a standardized track.

seattle

This coastal city ushered in new opportunities during the European war. The salted fish and salted sea goods produced here became important military supplies. Large orders from Europe often amounted to hundreds or thousands of tons, and exports each quarter reached

Tens of thousands of tons

On the one hand, this has strongly increased the price of seafood. On the other hand, it has greatly promoted the development of Seattle's marine fishing industry, shipbuilding industry and seafood processing plants. The development momentum is gratifying.

You can see that along the coast of Seattle, the original dozen or so shipyards have grown to dozens. Each one is doing good business, and behind them there are ship owners with money in their hands waiting anxiously.

The current situation in Seattle is that the seafood is divided up as soon as it arrives at the shore. All processing plants are operating at full capacity day and night. The products are immediately shipped to Panama and appear on the dining tables of the Crimean coalition three weeks later.

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If you want to get a share of this feast, you must first have a fishing boat.

Therefore, since the beginning of this year, the business of shipyards in Seattle has been booming, and many shipyards have placed orders until the second half of next year or even the year after that.

But can the war last so long?

I was too slow to start, and I couldn't even get the hot shit out of my mouth.

It was against this background that shipyards sprouted up all over Seattle. Some small shipyards only had a dozen people, but they still dared to take shipbuilding orders.

There is no doubt about the business talent and courage of the Chinese. As long as there is suitable soil, they will flourish. The iron and steel shipbuilding technology spread rapidly in the Tang Dynasty. As long as a few experienced craftsmen pooled together a small amount of money, they would dare to open a shipyard and become their own shipowners.

.This also caused the loss of a lot of experienced craftsmen in large steel plants.

The fishing boats used for offshore fishing are not very big, basically ranging from 70 to 80 tons to more than 100 tons. Even if they are big boats, small boats are only 10 to 20 tons.

If you can't buy an iron boat, you can also buy a wooden boat. Anyway, as long as you can catch fish, it will be fine.

Now, the Internal Combustion Engine Research Laboratory of the University of California, Datang Kingdom, has invented a small diesel engine with only 4 horsepower. It uses an iron shaft and a propeller. It is very simple and convenient, and it is a very good power for fishing boats.

If the power is not enough, then use two units; if not, use three or four units.

And this newly invented small diesel engine is the guarantee for the proliferation of Seattle shipyards.

As long as you build a boat hull, whether it is a wooden or iron boat, and hang two small diesel engines on the back, you can go out to sea and fish.

Anyway, according to the current conditions, it is not far to go to sea.

Those medium and large fishing vessels can only be built by powerful shipyards, equipped with medium-sized horizontal steam engines, which have high power and long maintenance time, and can go fishing in the middle and far seas.

Of course, this kind of medium and large fishing boats requires a large investment and takes a long time to build. They are far less expensive and faster than small fishing boats.

After more than 6 years of development

Seattle has developed into a second-tier city with a population of 289,000. It is already one step away from the first-tier city with a population of 300,000, and will definitely surpass it by the end of the year.

On Vancouver Island, more than 170 kilometers north of Seattle, a small fishing village has developed into a large fishing city with a population of more than 100,000, and is world-famous for its timber and fishing.

In particular, the towering giant trees produced in Vancouver were slid directly into the sea along the slide on the mountain, and then bundled into wooden rafts, which were towed by steamships along the coast and all the way south to Chang'an (San Francisco) Bay. They were the main timber used in the construction of the Daming Palace.

supplier.

have to say

The rich resources contained in North America are inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Even though the Tang Kingdom was developing at a rapid pace, the development area still only accounted for a little more than 3% of the entire territory.

After Alaska was included in the territory, the development ratio of the Tang Kingdom was further reduced, falling below 5% to just over 3%.

Within the territory of the Tang Kingdom, there were more than 22 million bison herds, billions of passenger pigeons, more than one million wild horses, and countless other wild animals.

In the six northern provinces, the vast black soil has a very low degree of development. It is often tens or hundreds of kilometers uninhabited. There are only large mountains, forests and grasslands, which contain rich mineral resources that need to be developed urgently.

The most striking example is the abundant oil resources in North Dakota. The amount that has been proven is astonishing. However, because it is located in the inland and the distance is far away, it does not have the conditions for development at the moment, so it has no choice but to shelve it.

This situation is not rare. A national resource survey expert team sent by the Tang Kingdom discovered extremely rich coal, iron, copper, zinc, aluminum, lead and oil deposits in the newly acquired eight provinces of Mexico and six northern provinces.

, it cannot be developed for the time being due to various reasons, which I have to say is quite a pity.