Wild North America 1846

Richard carefully read through the development report of Paradise Island and gave his final comments;

The long-term solution is to develop characteristic agriculture and animal husbandry industries based on our own resource advantages.

Putting down his pen, he thought for a while;

Paradise Island (New Guinea) is an area rich in mineral resources. The world's largest copper mine is located on the island. It is also rich in oil, coal, iron, gold and silver and other mineral deposits. It is a complete treasure house of resources.

Unfortunately, Richard only knew that there was the world's largest copper mine on this island, but he didn't know the specific location, let alone the relevant situation, so he couldn't find a way to open the golden finger.

Currently, except for a few small coal mines and iron mines, other resources have not been explored and can only be discovered by future geographical survey teams composed of experts.

After reviewing the memorial, Richard stood up and walked forward for more than ten steps. He came to the pavilion near the water and cast his eyes on the vast misty lake.

Surrounding the "Taiye Pond" are continuous palaces and pavilions, which are well arranged. The golden halls are reflected on the water, complementing each other with the ancient trees and carefully crafted rockeries. The lakes and mountains are extremely beautiful.

In more than two months

The "Danfeng Gate" at the south gate of the Daming Palace and its ancillary buildings, as well as the main palace buildings including the three main halls, will be completed one after another and will enter the final stage of the project.

The Royal Guards and Imperial Guards were stationed on the east and west sides of the palace city respectively. The command organ of the Royal Guards and Imperial Guards - "Beiya" - was set up in the city between the north gate.

The name "Bei Ya" follows the tradition of the Tang Dynasty more than 1,200 years ago, and also demonstrates the inheritance and historical accumulation of the Tang Dynasty royal family, recreating the glory of the Tang Dynasty in North America.

The entire main palace area can be divided into two parts: the front dynasty and the inner court. The former dynasty is dominated by court meetings, and the Tang Dynasty holds a large court meeting every month.

The Great Court Meeting adapts to the changes of the times and does not discuss government affairs. Instead, it focuses on the king commending and awarding outstanding figures in the military, government and society, offering sacrifices and rituals, and appreciating court dance and music.

The inner court is where the king lives and holds imperial interviews, the cabinet reports twice a week, reports on major domestic and foreign affairs, listens to orders, and handles government affairs.

Adapt to the development of the times

The inner court gradually became the main place for dealing with government affairs. At present, because the building has not been completed, the king temporarily lives in the Linshui Palace on Pudu Island. Therefore, it has become the center for handling important affairs of the Tang Dynasty.

Danfengmen is the main south gate of Daming Palace. In front of the door is the 248-meter-wide Danfengmen Street. To the north of Danfengmen are Hanyuan Hall, Xuanzheng Hall, Zichen Hall, Penglai Hall, Hanliang Hall, and Xuanwu Hall.

Most of the other buildings in the palace are distributed along the north-south central axis.

Daming Palace has Hanyuan Hall from Danfeng Gate, and Zichen Hall to the north. The north and south are adjacent to each other. The three buildings are all built on hills.

The hill is formed by the accumulation of excavated construction waste. The Qianchao area occupies the highest point of Longshou Mountain, and the Hanyuan Hall is the main hall. The entire three hall areas are magnificent, highlighting the extraordinary atmosphere of a new dynasty.

After six years of construction

The main hall and the East Palace of the Daming Palace have been built one after another. The West Palace and the Harem are still under construction and are expected to be completed in several years. This is irrelevant for now.

Today, there are about a thousand people in the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, including kings, queens, concubines, children and palace maids. It is more than enough to live in the East Palace. Each princess, concubine and concubine has a separate palace courtyard.

In addition, the current princes and princesses are still young and are far from being able to live alone. There is not much demand for the residence in the West Palace. They can wait for a few years before doing so.

Standing on the waterfront platform with his hands folded, Richard looked a little lonely. He didn't like the feeling of living in a deep palace for a long time. The Daming Palace was built just for the facade of the dynasty and as an iconic symbol of a prosperous dynasty, not for demand.

This palace covering an area of ​​​​1,000 hectares is really too big. With the Danfeng Gate in the south as the main one, it extends to both sides. There are 24 turrets and palace gates, all of which are in the Tang style palace architecture with cornices and brackets.

For this reason, the Royal Guards of the Tang Dynasty expanded in size to more than 4,000 people, divided into four armies, front, rear, left and right, each commanded by a minister who led the guard.

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Lord Gu Yan, has led a group of staff to seek an audience."

"Xuan."

"Wei Chen accepts the decree."

Today is the twice-weekly regular Cabinet meeting with His Majesty, which is also a regular "Umrah meeting." Many pending domestic and foreign military and political affairs are basically decided at the Umbrella meeting, and decrees are issued and implemented.

Liu Xianjun, the head of the royal secretariat, guided him with a respectful look. When King Richard strode into the main hall of the palace, Prime Minister Gu Yan and a group of cabinet ministers were already waiting here to meet His Majesty.

After sitting down

In line with the principle of putting international first before domestic, Huang Yuanjia, Minister of Transport, took the lead in detailing the current international trends, which are roughly as follows;

From January to October 1855, wars broke out frequently all over the world. From the beginning to the end of the year, it could be said to be a turbulent year.

Eastern China

In early 1855, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Shi Da opened its headquarters in Hukou and defeated the Hunan Army twice in Jiujiang. The Hunan Army's navy was completely defeated. Commander Zeng Guofan committed suicide by drowning but was rescued by his subordinates. The military on the western front was in complete decay.

In the autumn of the same year, Shi Dakai sent his troops to Jiangxi again, and attacked seven prefectures and 47 counties in four months. Because of his strict military discipline, pragmatic governance, love for the people, and thirsty for talents, the people of Jiangxi rushed to support him.

Many landlord-class scholars who were originally unfriendly to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also turned to support the Taiping Army. The number soon expanded from more than 10,000 to more than 100,000. Opponents lamented that "the people's sentiments have completely changed, and the trend is over."

After that, Shi Da divided his troops into three groups and launched a counterattack across the board.

The Taiping Army captured Wuchang for the third time. Most of the banks on both sides of Hubei Gaoguan River were captured by the Taiping Army, and the Qing army retreated step by step.

From the first month to April of the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), the Taiping troops Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang were defeated by the Qing army, and the entire Taiping Northern Expedition ended in failure.

In the autumn of the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), various Nian armies met at Zhiheji in Mengcheng, Anhui Province, and Zhang Lexing was elected as the leader of the alliance. From then on, the Nian armies gradually became unified from dispersion.

After the uprising of the Nian army, they all fought independently, with neither authority nor contact with each other. As the struggle against the enemy deepened, the Nian leaders increasingly felt the need to unite to jointly defend against the enemy.

In July of the fifth year of Xianfeng, all Nian armies gathered at Zhihe River to jointly establish the "Great Han" regime. Zhang Lexing was called the "Eternal King of the Great Han" and had military advisers, commanders, vanguards and other positions.

Each Nien army is divided into five flags, each with yellow, white, red, black, and blue as its colors.

There is a large banner under the general banner, which is the basic unit of the Nian Army. It can fight independently, with a number ranging from 10,000 to hundreds of thousands. There are small banners under the large banner, and there is no fixed organization.

From then on, the Nian Army gained great prestige and became the main force in the north's resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

In August of that year, the Nian army attacked from Zhiheji and defeated the Qing army in Yongcheng. In September, it attacked Guidefu City and in November, it defeated the Qing army under Hunan Governor Wu Long'e near Yongcheng.

In this year, the land of China was on fire from south to north. The Qing Dynasty fell into a state of overwhelming self-care, and the foundation of its rule was severely hit by the surging peasant uprising.

in North America

The Mexican Civil War is intensifying. The Mexican government entrenched in Mexico City and the southern rebel Aztec Republic, in this autumn's mopping up operations, both sides sent out their main forces and fought a Mexican-style novice war.

In the end, the Mexican government regained the four states dominated by the southern rebels at the cost of 13,700 casualties, causing huge losses of more than 27,100 to the southern rebels, forcing them to shrink their defenses.

This autumn war caused more than 100,000 Mexican casualties. The agricultural and animal husbandry production that had just recovered in the warring areas was once again completely destroyed.

The 400-kilometer railway from Jinling, the southern frontier city of the Tang Kingdom, to Mexico City has been officially opened. This will ensure that food and armaments from the Tang Kingdom continue to arrive in Mexico, strongly supporting the continuation of the civil war.

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The forces dominated by the capital and officials of the Tang Dynasty penetrated deeply into Mexico City and surrounding areas, occupying a large number of shops, houses, residences and fields, and basically dominated most of the country's economy.

Currently, a railway artery from Mexico City westward to the Gulf of Mexico is being built. More than 23,200 Mexican workers have been mobilized to build roads, bridges, and rocks. The progress of the project is unexpectedly fast.

Once this railway artery is officially opened to traffic, it will become the most convenient transportation channel for the Tang Kingdom to connect the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. People and goods can sail away from the coastal ports of Mexico, which will save huge costs.

Mexico will obtain a stable and substantial income by providing rail transportation transit services, warehousing and short-distance transportation, collecting taxes, etc.

The Texas Civil War in the United States is still raging. The armed cavalry supported by the southern forces went deep into the north and looted towns around Chicago, which deeply stung the sensitive nerves of the north.

The northern armed faction, headed by Congressman Lincoln, quickly received the support of personnel and funds and announced that it "will use actual military operations to severely retaliate against the provocation of the Southerners and beat them back."

In Europe, the center of the world stage, the Crimean War remains the focus of everyone's attention.

On April 28, 1855, Lord Raglan passed away peacefully in his sleep. At this point, the top commanders of the British and French armies died of illness one after another at the beginning of the war, which greatly shocked the coalition forces.

a few days later

Sir Simpson succeeded as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, but he was obviously inexperienced and was helpless in facing the muddy and difficult roads in Ukraine, and military operations came to a long standstill.

From March to June, the coalition forces that successively captured Sevastopol and Odessa were stranded in the coastal areas for a long time. The army was unable to advance inland until the logistical supply problem was solved.

The Ottoman Empire was in a tight situation on the battlefield in the Caucasus, and Omar Pasha's army was preparing to evacuate Crimea to rescue the important Caucasus town of Kars.

French Emperor Napoleon III was very dissatisfied with this, but considering the relationship between the allies, he could only let the Ottoman Empire march north to the Caucasus.

On August 16, Prince Gorchakov of Russia concentrated 4 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry brigades across the Chenaya River and launched an attack on the coalition forces.

The British army (mainly composed of the 5th to 9th Divisions of the Expeditionary Force, with a small number of British cavalry and artillery) launched a resolute counterattack, causing the Russian army to suffer 8,000 casualties, and the last rescue operation failed.

The British commander, Simpson, was unable to do anything to open the war, which earned him rebuke from London, where his successor was being discussed.

Under strong pressure from the government, after the coalition rested for nearly half a year, Lord Simpson had to make changes and start a new round of offensive.

At 11:30 on September 8, 1855, the Allied forces began their fourth fierce bombardment.

40 minutes later, the coalition launched a general attack. This was the first time in history that all units calibrated the time and launched an attack at the same moment.

The French McMahon Division attacked the Malakoff Fortress. In just 10 minutes, the fortress fell into the hands of the French, and then the French army repelled the Russian counterattack.

The British attack on the Fort of the Horn failed again. The British troops were suppressed by Russian firepower behind the parapet at the foot of the Fort. After suffering a large number of casualties, the troops refused to advance, and soon they turned and retreated.

However, the fall of the Malakoff Fortress was fatal to the Russian army. That night, the Russian army destroyed all the fortifications and withdrew from the fortress in a planned manner with artillery and logistics facilities.

The current situation is that Napoleon III is ready to make peace as soon as possible. He wants to wait for good news about peace negotiations from Vienna, and does not want to reduce the French army's strength too much.

The British, however, preferred to continue fighting. After receiving a large number of reinforcements from the expeditionary force, the British army was now confident. The 5th and 9th divisions of the expeditionary force were still taken away by the British, and based on this, the British Foreign Army was formed.

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The British spent great efforts to equip the British Foreign Legion with artillery and cavalry units, equipped with advanced Colt breech-loading artillery imported from the Tang Kingdom, further strengthening their firepower.

After nearly half a year of rest and replenishment, the strength of the British Foreign Legion has expanded to 45,000, including about 12,000 white British soldiers and 33,000 Chinese soldiers. The combat effectiveness is quite strong.

In addition to the Crimean battlefield, the most important battlefield in Europe currently is the Caucasus battlefield in western Asia.

Russia and the Ottoman Empire shared a 150-mile border from the Black Sea to the Persian border.

In the center of this national border is Kars, an important fortress left by the ancient Kingdom of Armenia. Major battles took place here in all the Russian-Turkish wars. Both sides fought repeatedly for the Kars Fortress, and they are all very familiar with this battlefield.

From June to October 1855, the Russian army had been besieging Kars. In the high-intensity siege battle, the Russian army's gray animals came one after another, which put great pressure on the Ottoman Empire's defenders and fell into the city for the first time.

in crisis.

Letters for help from Kars Fortress came like snow. In order to hold on to this important fortress city on the Russian-Turkish border, the Ottoman Empire mobilized reinforcements from all over the country.

On September 6, 1855, Turkey's best commander Omar Lutfi Pasha led his army to leave Crimea for the Caucasus.

On September 29, his troops boarded ships and set out from the Crimea. Another Ottoman army landed in Trabizon and also rushed to Kars day and night.

In mid-October, after learning of the fall of Kars, two Ottoman reinforcements were repelled by the Russian army, and Omar's troops had to retreat to the Caucasus Mountains. This also heralded the failure of the operation to liberate the Kars Fortress.

in the Baltic Sea region

In the spring of 1855, Vice Admiral Dundas of the British Royal Navy came from the Black Sea to replace Lord Napier. Under his command, Vice Admiral Dundas had 19 propeller-propelled battleships, 1 sailing battleship, 14 frigates, and 12 steamships.

With 21 armed steam ships and 15 gunboats, this is an overwhelming military force in the Baltic Sea region.

The French army has 3 battleships, 3 frigates and 10 gunboats. The two sides formed a combined fleet to suppress and block all Russian maritime military operations.

After March, the coalition fleet once again entered the Baltic Sea to perform a blockade mission. Coalition reconnaissance found that the defenses of the Russian fortresses had been greatly strengthened, making landing operations extremely impossible and would cause huge casualties.

The coalition forces could only shell from the sea, and although the damage was great, no landing actions were taken.

until the end of October

Taking into account the raging winter storms and extremely harsh sea conditions in the Baltic Sea, the coalition fleet had to withdraw from this area and wait until the following spring to return.

North Pacific Ocean

In the North Pacific, the British, French and Tang Kingdom fleets also participated in the war. The coalition fleet attacked Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The landing marines and sailors suffered heavy casualties and had to withdraw to rest.

From June to October 1855, two Royal Navy formations and a Tang Kingdom ship formation, plus another formation dispatched by the Royal Navy from Hong Kong, joined the North Pacific Theater to continuously exert pressure on the Russian army.

The Russian army's defense was strong, and more importantly, it was far away from the main battlefield and had little impact on the war. Therefore, the British fleet did not take any major action after careful consideration.

peace negotiation process

In 1854, the warring parties began armistice negotiations with the mediation of Austria. Russia believed that the conditions proposed by the Allies were unacceptable, and the peace talks were suspended in April 1855.

As a country that directly participated in the Crimean War, the current expeditionary force of the Tang Kingdom mainly consists of the 1st to 4th Divisions and the New 5th Division, with a total of about 37,000 troops, mainly deployed on the Odessa front-line battlefield.

After the original 5th to 9th Divisions were taken away by the British, they were added to the British Foreign Legion and transformed into the 1st to 5th Foreign Legion Field Divisions.

The Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty did not suffer. It transferred 7,371 experienced officers, sergeants and veterans from the 5th to 9th Divisions that originally belonged to the expeditionary force, and all of them were strengthened into the 1st to 4th Divisions, making its strength soar.

The strength of the 1st to 4th Divisions of the Expeditionary Force has further expanded to about 7,400 to 7,800 men, which is a typical overstaffing.

In June, the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty increased its troops on the Crimean battlefield, which is the new 5th Division. The whole division has a total of nearly 7,000 people. It spares no expense to deploy a large number of cavalry and artillery units. It is a regular field army armed to the teeth.

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Through the internal personnel deployment of the expeditionary force, the combat effectiveness of the New 5th Division was ensured, and it performed well in the battles in September and October, which was eye-catching.

As an emerging kingdom, the Tang Kingdom maintains an expeditionary force of about 37,000 people in Europe far away from the mainland of North America, and it has already tried its best to feed it.

This also made Britain speak highly of the Tang Kingdom. The anti-Tang faction headed by Sir Lord Temple, the former Foreign Secretary, was speechless in front of the performance of the Tang Kingdom and could not make any trouble.

In general

It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of the Datang Kingdom's expeditionary force that the Datang Kingdom has won exceptionally relaxed domestic and international development conditions. Paradise Island has become a new overseas province of the Datang Kingdom. The whole process has no twists and turns, and it is a matter of course.

recognized by European countries.

This reflects the harsh reality of today's world politics from another aspect. To be a younger brother, you must have the consciousness of being a younger brother. When the elder brother needs it, it is a basic obligation to contribute money, effort and troops.

Local forces that fail to see this will be severely beaten in minutes.