Wild North America 1846
Chapter 357 The New President of the United States
Chapter 357 The new President of the United States
The central states in the United States that experienced the baptism of war recovered at an astonishing speed in just one or two months, far exceeding the expectations of the royal government.
The upsurge of eastward development in society has brought a large number of immigrants and social funds. Countless pastures and farms have resumed operation. The city has regained its former prosperity. The factories in the suburbs have also emitted black smoke again, giving off a new look.
vitality.
after new year
Mid-February 1861
The economic summary data for the previous year have been released. The GDP of the Tang Kingdom in 1860 reached 2.216 billion Tang yuan, an increase of 23.7% compared to the previous year, showing a trend of explosive growth.
At the end of 1860, the total population reached 24.06 million. On the one hand, due to the high base of new-born population, on the other hand, the total number of immigrants throughout the year reached 1.8986 million, which also created a new high since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Among them, mainland recruits accounted for 311,100, making them an important factor that cannot be ignored among the immigrant groups.
Another important factor is that the total number of white women and children in the occupied areas reached more than 1.37 million, especially white women of childbearing age, which pushed the total population of the Tang Dynasty upwards and greatly slowed down the Chinese population.
The demographic contradiction between immigrant men and women and the difficulty of getting married in society will help stabilize the social situation.
This year's report card shows that His Majesty the King's overall strategy of "the economy must develop rapidly and expansion cannot stop" has been implemented, achieving both economic and military harvests, and the whole country is showing a prosperous development situation.
Every major expansion of the Tang Kingdom's territory would bring countless development opportunities, which would lead to explosive growth in the total population and social economy.
February 27, 1861
King Richard of the Tang Kingdom issued an edict, admitting the provinces of Tijuana, Monterey, and Kansas as the 23rd, 24th, and 25th mainland provinces of the Kingdom, and accepting Costa Rica as the fourth after Hawaii, Panama, and Alaska.
overseas provinces.
In addition to the direct territory of the Tang Kingdom's royal family Paradise Island, there are a total of 30 provincial-level local administrative units, and this is just the beginning of this round of major expansion.
The mainland of the Tang Kingdom was divided into 14 provinces after the Tang-American War in 1849, namely Northern Province (formerly Washington State), Idaho, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
That province, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota (formerly known as North Dakota), South Dakota (formerly known as South Dakota), and Nebraska.
After the Mexican-American War, eight provinces in Mexico were added, namely Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Coavena, Sonora, Zacatecas, and Tepic.
and Jinling Province, a total of 22 provincial administrative divisions.
Now the provinces of Tijuana, Monterey, Kansas and Costa Rica are added again, together with three overseas provinces and the royal autonomous territory Paradise Island, for a total of 30 provincial administrative divisions.
March 2
The Battle of Cincinnati, which had been postponed for a month and a half, was launched as scheduled. The Colorado Corps, which had been recuperating for a long time, launched a fierce attack on Cincinnati, an important city on the Mississippi River. They used the M1860 48-pound mortar to smash the solid fortress.
defense, and then enter the bloody battle for the city.
During the Battle of Cincinnati, the Chang'an Corps, which mainly used mobile forces, broke into the eastern continents of the United States and spread the war to the densely populated and historically developed cities and villages in the east coast states of the United States.
For a time, the flames of war were everywhere, and people were panicked.
March 27
After three and a half weeks of fighting for the city, the Colorado Corps captured the Fort of Cincinnati with heavy troops. In this battle, 77,300 enemies were wiped out, and 38,200 were captured. The remaining 80,000 defeated American troops withdrew from the city, and the Battle of Cincinnati came to an end.
In this battle, the Colorado Corps suffered 32,300 casualties, including about 17,600 killed and 14,900 wounded. White servant troops accounted for about half of the casualties.
to late April
The total military strength of the United States of America (Northern), which has suffered repeated attacks, has dropped to more than one million, while the main force on the Eastern Front battlefield led by Commander-in-Chief Robert E. Lee in the South still has more than 550,000 troops, which is about 120,000 less than in its heyday.
The North and the South of the United States have always been engaged in brutal competition on the Eastern Front battlefield. Battle after battle has left both sides exhausted.
The United States of America (Northern United States) deployed a large number of troops on the Eastern Front battlefield in order to strengthen the defense of the Western Front battlefield. Therefore, it changed its original offensive operations and adopted a conservative strategy focusing on defense, struggling to resist the Confederate States of America (Southern United States).
attack launched.
Entering April 1861
The United States of America (Northern) has shown an obvious defeat. It suffered a series of major defeats on the Western Front. It was defeated by the coalition forces dominated by the Tang Kingdom. It lost cities and land, and lost a large number of troops. The war further spread to the east.
Coastal states.
Under such adversity, the country was in an emergency situation of life and death. The United States of America (North) once again launched a national mobilization, planning to recruit no less than 600,000 militiamen to join the army to resist the joint invasion of the Tang Dynasty and the United States Confederate States.
March 7, 1861
The United States of America held a presidential election, and the new President Andrew Johnson succeeded the former President James Buchanan, who had been criticized for his domestic and foreign affairs. He became the 16th President of the United States.
This position should have belonged to the Democrat Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately, in this historical time and space, Abraham Lincoln died in a shooting in Philadelphia a few years ago. As a rising political star who was killed before he could make his mark, he no longer had much
People still remember this guy.
There is no doubt that what President Andrew Johnson took over was a mess. At the beginning of taking office, he discovered that the Eastern and Western Front battlefields were in danger of total collapse and faced the real danger of defeat.
After the fall of the fortified fortress city of Detroit, the Western Front battlefield virtually ceased to exist. As a city in eastern Ohio, Cincinnati, the iron hooves of the Tang Kingdom's war, had broken into the prosperous and wealthy traditional states on the east coast of the United States.
The war is close at hand, and the United States has no retreat.
Faced with this dilemma of national life and death, President Andrew Johnson had to launch the first national military mobilization since taking office, with the goal of forcibly recruiting 600,000 militiamen to participate in the defense of the United States.
In 1861, the United States faced two major dilemmas, one was the invasion of powerful enemies, and the other was the food crisis.
The North American War caused the United States of America (the North) to lose several agricultural states rich in agricultural and animal husbandry products in the central Great Plains. The country fell into varying degrees of famine. The food imported from Europe and Canada was far from enough, leaving a large gap.
The war caused a large number of young and middle-aged people to take up guns and go to the battlefield. The lack of strong labor force further affected the agricultural and animal husbandry production in the eastern coastal states. In many cities, the phenomenon of starvation of the lower class people in the society became more and more serious.
Washington, White House.
The Oval Office has a new owner. Former President James Buchanan left with a heavy sigh. After four years of suffering, he finally failed to sign the humiliating and humiliating defeat contract that divided the American territory as the leader of the defeated country, and was thus forever condemned. Nailed on the pillar of shame of history.
This is not necessarily the case for President Andrew Johnson. From every angle, he looks like a taker, the kind of unlucky guy who takes the blame.
"Please forgive me for telling the truth. Mr. President, you ran for the wrong president at the wrong time and took on the most difficult office in the world. It's hard to say it was the right decision. All I can say is your bravery." and fearlessness impressed me deeply." General Grant, the commander-in-chief of the United States Union, poured down a basin of cold water from his pocket, leaving no room for words.
President Andrew Johnson smiled bitterly. The Democratic Party was a new party that had just been established a few years ago. As the first president of the Democratic Party, he shoulders the important task of the party participating in the mainstream of American political life. The road ahead is long and winding.
The gains and losses of one person and one thing are not the most important issue.
If it were not for the war policies that were greatly criticized during the term of former President James Buchanan, the Democratic Party, as a small party just founded a few years ago, would not have been able to defeat its powerful political opponents and win this presidential election.
President Andrew Johnson obviously did not want to dwell on this issue. He came out from behind his desk, gave the new Secretary of State Henry Jones an encouraging look, and then asked in a brisk tone;
"The election is over, gentlemen. Let us turn our attention back to the urgent issues at hand. After making the important decision to recruit 600,000 militiamen, we have solved the serious problem of military shortage.
What we need to consider now is bread. Cities and factories cannot produce enough food for consumption. The government is considering evacuating the urban population and calling on more people to farm in the suburbs and villages. We have a lot of fertile land that is not being used.
The top priority is to plant high-yielding potatoes and vegetables with fast growth cycles. The government will provide assistance within its capacity, including seeds and a small amount of funds.
As long as you survive, anything is possible.
Now is the most difficult moment for the United States of America, and the whole country must work together to tide over the difficulties.
I firmly believe that victory will ultimately belong to the United States."
The content of Mr. President's words was vague and did not impress Secretary of State Henry Jones and other important cabinet ministers. They all remained silent. The atmosphere in the Oval Office gradually became solemn, and no one responded to the President's words.
a moment of silence
The new Agriculture Secretary Lloyd Austin coughed twice and broke the embarrassing silence and said;
“Your Excellency the President;
After I took over the Ministry of Agriculture, through this period of understanding, I discovered a cruel fact that we have to face;
The situation is far more serious than expected. After losing the traditional agricultural states in central China, the existing food production capacity can only meet 1/3 of the needs. This is with the current population of 12 million, and we are short of 8 million people. the food needed.
Maybe... there are no more 12 million people, but the seriousness of the problem has not changed at all.
Imports from Europe, Argentina or Canada may be able to solve the food problem for one to two million people, but this is still a big gap from our needs, and we have no money.
The treacherous British grain merchants are driving up prices. When the war situation is unfavorable, no one is willing to lend us grain on credit. This is the terrible situation we are facing.
People were starving, and people were dying in the streets and alleys from Philadelphia to New York. They were emaciated and without a grain of food in their stomachs.
Today's hunger wave is expanding and spreading, which reminds me of the terrible "Irish Famine" a few years ago. Now there is a high probability that the terrible disaster will become a reality in the United States, and the tragic scene will repeat itself.
When millions of people die of hunger and the faith that supports this country collapses, perhaps America has no future."
What motivates urban people to farm in the suburbs is just talk. Where will so many people live in the wilderness? What will they eat? How will they obtain enough agricultural materials for production?
Nowadays, the eastern states of the United States are crazy about killing everything that can be eaten, whether it is cattle, sheep, chickens or the overpopulated passenger pigeons, and these things are rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. There are also many men in the city who have bought fishing nets, which come every now and then.
Just go to the river to catch fish and try to add a meat dish to the table.
Food prices are soaring, people's lives are difficult, various crimes are rampant in urban and rural areas, and social order is falling into unprecedented chaos.
If things continue like this
With foreign invasions and frequent civil strife, things will only get worse. In the end, American society will break into pieces with a "bang" like an egg, and everyone will be finished.
The relaxed look on President Andrew Johnson's face disappeared, but in an irresponsible way;
Originally, a person needs about three pounds of food every day. If we eat half less, wouldn't everyone be able to get through this most difficult moment?
actually
This ideal situation will never occur. The powerful and wealthy will still live a luxurious life, and the skyrocketing prices will lead to the spread of famine across a large area, falling into a vicious cycle.
And this will further stimulate the greedy appetite of the hoarding capitalists, and the situation will be very bad. This is almost an endless cycle, unless the government takes action...
After a long silence, General Grant, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Northern Army, said with a stern expression: "Mr. President's solution makes sense to a certain extent. It is true that some urban residents should be allowed to enter the countryside to participate in agricultural and animal husbandry production to alleviate the current urgent food crisis.
but before that
The country should declare a state of emergency, fully implement a food rationing system, strictly crack down on the criminal behavior of hoarding the national treasure, and give the American people a chance to live with justice and dignity.
In addition, the Secretary of State must take the lead in negotiating loans with foreign consortiums and large grain merchants, and do everything possible to transport precious grain to the port.
This war will be very difficult. On behalf of all the soldiers of the US military, I would like to express my determination to fight to the end. As for whether I can defeat the invaders of the Tang Kingdom who are armed to the teeth, I have no confidence in it.
All I can promise is that I will fight to the end and face death as a soldier. May God bless America!"
"May God bless America!" all the cabinet ministers of the new government said in unison. Many of them stretched out their hands and made the sign of the cross in the air, looking very pious.
In this almost unsolvable dilemma, only faith can bring infinite power and support these Yankees to go on...
(End of chapter)
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