Wild North America 1846

Early September 1857

Panama

After joining the Tang Kingdom, it served as a transshipment center port for the Tang Kingdom's exports to Europe. The economies of Panama City and Cologne have developed rapidly, and their populations have grown rapidly.

The original two cities of Panama and Colon had a total population of 51,200. Panama is located on the Pacific side, and Colon is located on the Atlantic side, close to the Caribbean Sea full of adventure legends. These two cities account for more than 80% of the entire population of Panama.

Since becoming an overseas province of the Tang Dynasty, Panama has opened scheduled cargo flights to Los Angeles, Chang'an, Seattle, Portland and other places, and its economy has developed rapidly. In just a few years, a large number of Chinese have migrated here, and the total regional population has exceeded

100,000 people.

Overall

Most of the people who entered the province of Panama were businessmen. They opened shipping companies, freight companies, various commodity agencies and export companies here, which greatly prospered the local economy.

The major banks of the Tang Kingdom set up branches here, and the long-distance telegraph office also laid submarine cables to Panama, closely connecting the province of Panama with the mainland of the kingdom.

However, Panama's in-depth development and explosive population growth originated a year ago. After Paradise Island had complete transit and supply port capabilities, the Kingdom officially opened the Central Pacific Immigration Route, which brought huge opportunities for Panama's development.

From the beginning, more than 10,000 immigrants arrived at the Port of Panama every month. By the end of July 1857, 37,420 Chinese immigrants arrived in one month. The number of immigrants increased three and a half times, forming a large-scale immigration wave.

just one year

The total number of Chinese immigrants who arrived at the port of Panama reached 236,500, and nearly half of them voluntarily stayed in Panama and became new residents of this hot land in Central America.

In a short period of time, the population of the entire Panama region doubled, with the total population exceeding 200,000.

In order to repay their immigration loans, these Chinese immigrants will have to serve as bonded laborers for three years, while those who choose to go to North America will have to serve for four years before they can get their own resident registrations, become free citizens, thrive here, buy houses and land, and take root.

Panama is a small place and does not enjoy the preferential land grant conditions of Paradise Island (every adult male and female receives 10 acres of land for free). The only way to obtain land is to pay for it.

The arrival of a large number of Chinese immigrants eased the tight labor situation in Panama. Thousands of Chinese workers worked hard at the Royal Pacific Union Shipping Company terminals, warehouses, Panama Railway and construction sites around Panama City to make this ancient city

The coastal city is full of vitality.

Countless buildings are rising from the ground, seaside docks are being expanded and constructed, large new barracks have been built at naval bases and army bases, and new shipyards have been built one after another.

Along the Panama Railway line, Chinese immigrants opened up large tracts of farmland and built new towns one after another. Large tracts of forest were burned down and replaced by a pastoral scene of hundreds of miles of fertile fields and crisscrossed ditches.

Wherever the Chinese immigrants went, they brought the construction boom.

panama naval base

Lieutenant General Pan Hengchen, Chief of Naval Staff, has just arrived aboard the "Han Dew" armored destroyer. The "Han Dew" is the 10th ship of the "Han Feng" class armored destroyer. It was just delivered to the Navy in June 1857. It is a new and main force of the navy.

Battleship.

The "Han Dew" and the No. 7 ship "Cold Wave" formed a small fleet. Shortly after arriving at the Panamanian Naval Base, they were adding coal and water and lifting fresh vegetables, canned food, grain and other supplies. The dock was busy.

"Sir, I heard that the Army has started large-scale military training in several refugee camps in China. I remember the last time was three years ago, in order to prepare for the severe situation of the Crimean War in Europe.

We trained a mercenary force for the British." The speaker was Colonel Zheng Shuyu, commander of the Panamanian Naval Base, with a questioning look in his eyes and a respectful expression.

Lieutenant General Pan Hengchen, who was looking out the window with his hands behind his back, turned around when he heard this, looked at Colonel Zheng Shuyu with a considerate look, smiled after a while, and said, "Brother Shuyu is very alert. I must have seen something?"

"I feel ashamed of my humble position. I just thought that the Holy One might have something big to do, and I just speculated in private."

"It's understandable that you don't know the news from the headquarters. The latest news is that 50,000 militiamen will be mobilized to participate in regular military training on Paradise Island. This is the latest news I just received before coming here."

"Ah...are we really going to take action?"

"In my opinion, Brother Shuyu, where will the Holy One use his troops?"

"Shu Yu is not talented. I secretly speculate that the Kingdom and the South should unite to jointly use troops against the North of the United States. Now the situation is very clear. It is not difficult to guess."

"That's right..."

Lieutenant General Pan Hengchen simply answered with two words, without saying much. Then he turned around and sighed regretfully, saying, "It's a pity that our Kingdom's navy has no place to use it in this battle. It will probably be another battle."

Here are the visitors!”

Colonel Zheng Shuyu couldn't answer the words of the Chief of Naval Staff. He could only laugh awkwardly, and then closed his mouth tightly.

these few months

The situation in North America was turbulent. Since the white southern slave owners and state leaders gathered in New Orleans in April and reached some kind of secret consensus with the Tang Kingdom, separatist actions suddenly accelerated.

This time, James Buchanan, the 16th new president of the United States who had just taken office in March, was caught off guard and found himself in a dilemma.

The conflict between the North and the South of the United States has been around for a long time. The Kansas Civil War that broke out in 1854 continues to this day. The North took a tough stance and launched a massive "abolition movement" and incited the black slaves in the South to launch riots. All of this deeply hurt

The pride and anger of the southern white slave owners had been accumulated for a long time, and finally exploded with the covert support of the Tang Kingdom and the United Kingdom.

On June 12, 1857, South Carolina passed a statute declaring that the "Union existing between South Carolina and the other States in the name of the United States of America" ​​was dissolved.

Within the next six weeks, six southern states seceded from the Union and began to seize federal assets located within state boundaries, including Fort Sumter, Fort Pickens and other military facilities.

On August 27, the southern states established the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as president. Immediately afterwards, the Confederate States of America and the Tang Kingdom launched intensive alliance consultations and blatantly carried out a series of separatist and independent actions.

Freighters from the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty arrived at ports in southern states through the Gulf of Mexico, transporting large amounts of weapons, ammunition, equipment, logistics supplies, and experienced officer corps, and began to train soldiers from the southern United States.

On August 29, federal administrator Jefferson Davis publicly called for 100,000 volunteers and launched a call to prepare for war. This substantive separatist action sharply worsened the relationship between the North and the South of the United States and tore apart the superficial relationship between them.

Veil of peace.

Davis's actions destroyed the internal unity of the United States Federal Standing Army. Among the 3,780 active-duty officers, 986 resigned or were dismissed and entered the Confederate Army.

The West Point graduates were also divided: 377 of the 1,424 active-duty graduates betrayed the United States and joined the Confederate Army, 892 of the 1,710 retired members joined the Union Army, and 818 joined the Confederate Army.

The drastic changes in the situation in North America have caused President James Buchanan, who has just taken office, to become speechless for a while. Under the current circumstances, the United States has been paralyzed and cannot even pass this year's bill to expand military spending.

President James Buchanan was stunned by this series of torrential fists. His originally ambitious slogan of "Making America Great" has now become a joke, and he has been unable to come up with a powerful response plan.

The Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty has now begun to reorganize its armaments. The Chang'an Martial Arts Lecture Hall and the Royal Army Military Academy have doubled and expanded their enrollment. This year, the number of conscripts recruited has also expanded a lot, reaching as many as 26,000.

At the same time, veterans are delaying their retirement.

Through such a move, 7 to 8 frame divisions can be quickly filled, making it a fully-staffed main field division.

But the outside world, including people in the United States, only saw the surface and did not pay much attention to the scale of mobilization of the Tang Kingdom's army. After all, what would happen if 26,000 more recruits were added?

actually

The Tang Kingdom began to recruit 50,000 militiamen on Paradise Island to carry out full-time, high-intensity military training. As long as needed, they can be continuously transported to North America via large immigration ships at any time.

on the other hand

In refugee camps across China, the Army General Staff Headquarters has also invested considerable resources and implemented large-scale military training. The number of these rigorously trained Chinese recruits is unknown, and it is said that the scale is much larger than the militia mobilized on Paradise Island.

It is a pity that due to the lack of information in today's era, the American Yankees do not understand this latest trend at all, and naturally there is a deviation in their assessment of the situation.

As of the end of August 1857

The total population of the northern United States is more than 17.6 million, and the annual gross national product is about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. The population of the southern United States is more than 9.1 million. The economy is dominated by agriculture, led by cotton, and its strength in all aspects is far better than that of the north.

This is the real reason why President James Buchanan of the United States is still able to stabilize the Diaoyutai. In terms of hard power, the United States does have an overwhelming advantage, with a population and economy two to three times that of the South.

From the current point of view, the Tang Kingdom has no obvious signs of getting involved in the war. The addition of a mere 26,000 new soldiers is nothing. It has enough self-preservation and lacks the ability to attack across borders.

On August 29, after careful consideration, U.S. President James Buchanan decided to provide supplies to Fort Sumter, which was surrounded by the Confederate Army. He then sent an expeditionary force by sea and notified South Carolina via telegram.

State Governor.

Such a move undoubtedly angered the Southerners, and a fierce war was just around the corner...