Wild North America 1846

Chapter 358 The national power of the North and the South has shrunk dramatically

After a four-month rest and recuperation, the Northern Corps retired some injured and expired veterans, and accepted as many as 118,000 new recruits. This part of the recruits included mainland recruits and Kingdom mobilization troops, and it was back to full strength and fighting spirit.

In an unprecedented state of prosperity, the officers and soldiers had a strong desire to fight.

Before the final east coast war comes

The Northern Corps is still thinking of retiring some experienced and honorary veterans. What kind of magical operation is this?

actually

This stems from the decision of the highest level of the Kingdom to retire and rotate veterans who have served for more than 4 years in a planned manner, so that they can retire with honor and the pride of being a soldier, and return to the local area to enjoy a peaceful and respected life.

An important measure to stabilize the newly conquered areas.

Most of these retired officers and soldiers are located in Illinois, Michigan and Missouri, where there are well-equipped farms and pastures, as well as very good houses and agricultural production facilities.

After officers and soldiers retire, with the help of meritorious fields and preferential loan policies, their peaceful life can quickly get back on track, which is much easier than opening up farmland in the wilderness.

Following the Northern Corps, the Colorado Corps and the Southern Corps will also successively carry out the retiring of disabled veterans and overdue service officers and soldiers during the rest period, creating the best possible conditions for a total of hundreds of thousands of veterans to return to their places.

This is also part of the "vacate the cage and replace the bird" policy. Placing these hundreds of thousands of veterans who fanatically worship His Majesty and are loyal to the Kingdom on the newly conquered Great Plains of central North America will greatly stabilize the local social structure and strengthen the agricultural system.

Animal husbandry and industrial production capabilities quickly revitalized these newly conquered areas.

Today's Datang Kingdom has no shortage of recruits. From January to April 1861, nearly 100,000 mainland recruits have arrived one after another. About 55,000 new domestically mobilized conscripts have supplemented the existing field corps strength, and are even more victorious.

Once upon a time.

Since the war was always carried out in the north and south of the United States and never spread to the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty, the economy of the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty maintained rapid development, the society was prosperous and stable, the people's self-confidence was high, and the cohesion and sense of honor of the kingdom's subjects were further enhanced.

By the end of April 1861

The total statistical population of the Tang Kingdom has exceeded 25.2 million. Compared with the other party in the war, the United States, which has a population of less than 12 million, its size is more than twice that of the other party, and its economic output is still three times that of the other party, which further highlights its advantages.

At the end of 1858, the population of the Tang Kingdom surpassed that of the United States of America (North). During the statistical period, the total population reached 16.82 million, surpassing the total population of the United States (North) of 16.6 million.

In the first year of the outbreak of the American Civil War, that is, at the end of 1856, the total population of the United States (North) once reached its peak of 18.1 million. Later, with the expansion of the tragic civil war and the sharp decrease in immigrants from Europe, the population of the United States (North)

The total amount has been decreasing year by year, showing an obvious downward trend.

On January 15, 1860, the Tang Kingdom officially declared war on the United States (North) and launched a series of fierce offensives, defeating and annihilating multiple heavily armed field groups in the United States (North) and occupying the Great Plains of the central United States.

The land of Kyushu (including Indiana).

The war situation in North America has been fundamentally reversed. The United States of America (the North), which originally saw the dawn of victory, was kicked into the abyss of defeat by the Tang Kingdom and struggled hard. It was overwhelmed by the number of casualties as high as one million, and there were 140

Thousands of American refugees are heading north into Canada.

Coupled with the loss of 1.5 to 600,000 people in the centrally occupied areas, the total population of the United States of America shrunk sharply to less than 12 million. The national strength suffered heavy losses and the war progress was difficult.

The Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty took advantage of the darkest moment when the land of China was mired in the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion, and further steadily increased its efforts to introduce Chinese immigrants, and the Chinese immigrant population hit a new high.

The scale of immigration reached a new high of 1.86 million people per year in 1860, and the domestic newly born population also exceeded 1.59 million per year. Coupled with the newly added 1.37 million white women and hundreds of thousands of white farmers in the occupied areas, the total population surged again.

rise.

This increase and decrease made the advantages of the Tang Kingdom more prominent.

It was precisely based on his strong confidence in winning the war that King Richard suppressed the opposition of the military and insisted on promoting the retirement of disabled veterans and veterans who had overdue service as scheduled.

On the one hand, there are a large number of empty towns with a large population in the occupied areas, which is very conducive to fulfilling military rewards without putting heavy economic pressure on the kingdom. It is very cost-effective from an economic perspective.

On the other hand, it is out of consideration for stabilizing social production and life in the occupied areas.

Retired veterans serve as local village chiefs, town mayors, police officers and squire manor owners to achieve a complete change in the social structure, which will help the North American Central Plains to integrate into the empire's territory as quickly as possible, with many benefits.

King Richard calculated this account very shrewdly. After successively starting the process of asset sales in major cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee, the royal government obtained hundreds of millions of large amounts of revenue, which not only made up for the huge financial deficit, but also provided a substantial

surplus.

To put it simply, I made money, and made a lot of money.

This makes Prime Minister Ryu Hyun-jun so happy that he can't close his mouth. In the future, the government will receive a steady stream of industrial and commercial tax revenue from operating these cities, further enhancing the kingdom's financial strength.

The Royal Family of the Tang Dynasty also benefited a lot. For the urban properties obtained by the frontline officers and soldiers through the discount of meritorious fields, the Royal Household Office did not use cash to trade with the government, but directly relied on strategic reserve investment that lasted for more than ten years.

After the outbreak of the North American War, a large amount of money was paid off.

Not only were the accounts balanced, but a large number of fixed assets appeared on the accounts of the Royal Household Office, including properties and buildings in prime neighborhoods and large tracts of undeveloped land. These were war gains belonging to the royal family.

When the war reached this point, the government and royal family of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the army and even ordinary people in society, benefited extensively. Only the United States of America suffered losses. It can be said that it was truly taken advantage of.

As the occupied areas quickly regained their production vitality, the economic aggregate of the Tang Kingdom in 1861 will reach a higher level, and the gross national product may reach the Tang Yuan range of 2.7 to 2.8 billion, which is compared with 2.2 billion in 1860.

The total amount of Tang Yuan will skyrocket.

The direct reason is;

The annual statistics for 1861 will include the output value of 8 states in central North America. In one and a half years, 1.56 million Chinese immigrants poured into these 8 states, far exceeding the originally expected scale of one million immigrants. The recovery situation of the states in the occupied areas is gratifying.

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This year, 163,000 demobilized and demobilized veterans will be resettled, and no less than 250,000 decommissioned and demobilized veterans will be resettled in the next two years. More immigrants will settle in the central states of North America.

As of April 1861

The urban population of Detroit has recovered to 310,000, which is very close to the 380,000 before the outbreak of the war. The industrial and commercial economy has recovered by 75%, and trade with British Canadians has been widely carried out.

There is only one;

The canal issue has not yet been addressed, and international trade exported to Europe through the Toronto Canal has come to a standstill. This has caused the British to lose a large amount of transit tax revenue, and it has also restricted Detroit's development prospects and space.

Chicago was severely damaged by the war. By April 1861, the city's population had recovered to 469,000, more than 90% of whom were Chinese immigrants. The city's post-war cement factories, brick and tile factories, and building materials and sanitary ware businesses were booming, and there were already 11 of them.

Cement factories have settled in Chicago, and there are more than 150 brick and tile factories.

Nowadays, Chicago has entered a stage of comprehensive reconstruction. Construction sites and scaffolding are everywhere in the city. Chinese businessmen from the coastal areas are pouring in. Black smoke is rising again from factories of all sizes. The recovery of the entire city has reached about 40%.

given time

Chicago and its surrounding towns will become a new hotspot for immigrants from central North America. In a few years, a metropolis with a population of one million, with an overwhelming majority of Chinese people, will stand proudly in the Great Lakes region of central North America.

The government of the Tang Dynasty steadily promoted the governance and continuous immigration of the Great Plains in central North America, and at the same time launched a large-scale remobilization of officers and soldiers, chewing up this vast and fertile black land and completely digesting it...

Therefore, military actions appear to be much slower.

In addition to the Cincinnati Battle carried out by the Colorado Corps in the new year, there will also be the raid by the Chang'an Cavalry Corps. The Corps continuously dispatched cavalry to burn, kill and loot in the northern states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.

Human Territory brought severe war disasters to the northern United States, further driving a large number of refugees to flee north to Canada.

The U.S. Northern Army also tried its best to organize cavalry to pursue and intercept them, but they were repeatedly defeated by the heavy cuirassiers and ferocious firepower of the Chang'an Corps. They were even accidentally lured into the encirclement, encountering intensive heavy machine gun fire and cavalry counterattacks, resulting in casualties.

Quite tragic.

According to estimates from the Army Staff Headquarters of the Tang Kingdom;

It is expected that by the end of June 1861, two months later, a large-scale hunger wave broke out in the northern United States plus a wave of refugees, and the total population of the United States of America would further shrink to less than 11 million people.

The recruitment of 600,000 volunteer militiamen will further shake the foundation of the United States of America. With a total population of 11 million, maintaining an army of 1.6 million, plus an astonishing number of people serving the war, is really a militarism, which will cause drastic changes in its society.

The turmoil greatly weakened the national power.

In large and small towns and villages in the eastern states of the United States, old, weak, women and children can be seen everywhere. It is rare to see young men aged 16 to 50, and most of them are serving in the military.

The unprecedentedly brutal Civil War caused the disappearance of two generations of young and adult male populations in both the North and the South of the United States, which had a profound impact on the entire society.

If there were not a large number of young and middle-aged people from Europe to supplement their population, these two countries would be considered useless.

Richard knew that things were not that simple;

In the original history, in less than 40 years from now to the beginning of the 20th century, the total number of European immigrants to the United States was about 36 million to 40 million, with an annual average of about 850,000 to 1.1 million.

More than 1.5 million people visit every year.

It was these white immigrants from Europe who created the glory of the United States. This is a majestic historical trend, and it also stems from the profound historical and realistic contradictions in European countries, which is difficult to change easily.

Comprehensive suppression of the United States is far from a simple matter.

From now on

The Tang Kingdom teamed up with the American Confederacy to comprehensively suppress the American political system in the north. After winning the war, if the central North American states can be successfully ceded, a geographical territory that meets the Datang Kingdom's expectations will be established.

Then, by losing the fertile black soil in central North America, the United States of America will forever lose the foundation for becoming a major agricultural country in the world, and will become an importer of food, agricultural and animal husbandry products for a long time in the future. This is one of them.

But after losing the important Great Lakes industrial cities of Chicago and Detroit, the United States of America (North) is left with the eastern industrial region with Pittsburgh, New York, Boston and Philadelphia as its core. Its industrial scale, categories and resources are far inferior to those of the Great Lakes region.

, the industrial development potential and stamina are insufficient, this is the second reason.

Under the leadership of today's Chang'an Cavalry Corps, they continue to send cavalry to invade places such as Pittsburgh, set fire to manor and factory buildings, kill a large number of local resistance forces, plunder the young white female population, and cause a heavy blow to its industrial and social production. This is its

three.

Somewhere further away

This is due to the heavy stockpiling of troops in the North of the United States, which is difficult to deal with, so it has not yet been taken into account.

This will have to wait until the Northern Army and the Colorado Army join forces and carry out operations in the eastern states of the United States. Only then can they carry out a devastating blow to the industrial base of the northern United States, destroy its nascent signs of industrialization, and put it back on the old road of the agricultural era.

, this is the fourth one.

In terms of the overall strategy towards the United States, Richard has always regarded the North as a life-and-death enemy. He will weaken the North by supporting the South. After the war, he will control the North through financial and economic means, destroy its industrial production capacity through the dumping of industrial products, and occupy its territory.

The market has been reduced to the role of an economic puppet. This is the fifth and step-by-step overall strategy.

Even if it cannot completely suppress the rise of the United States of America, it will still be able to slow down the process greatly, such as 50 years or 80 years or even longer.

At this stage

Richard is also facing pressure from his allies. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Army Commander-in-Chief General Robert E. Lee led a large delegation to Chang'an in mid-April to discuss the alliance's overall operational intentions this year.

This is what it means on the surface, but what it means secretly is that the Confederate States of America (the South) can't bear it anymore, and they hope to join forces with the Tang Kingdom to launch a decisive battle as soon as possible, defeat the United States of America (the North) in one fell swoop, and free themselves from the quagmire of the war.

For the Confederate States of America (South), the all-out war has entered its fifth year, and they are really having a hard time!

Almost all the young and middle-aged men were killed, and the southern army's soldiers were old and young. The potential for recruiting soldiers again was almost exhausted, so they had to focus on white prisoners.

Every time the Chang'an Corps launched an attack in the north, the Confederate States requested that some of the male population be plundered and brought back. General Hill, the representative of the Southern Army, sent troops to guard Romulus County south of Detroit to watch.

Whenever the troops sent by the Chang'an Cavalry Corps returned with a large number of people, General Hill's soldiers would happily go forward and take away the young and middle-aged white males. Most of them would be stuffed into the army and eliminated.

The remaining population was used for manor labor.

At the very least, can you look after the black slaves?

After five years of brutal war, the original population of more than 9 million in the Confederate States of America has shrunk significantly. The number of black slaves who fled north has reached between 1.30 and 1.45 million. Hundreds of thousands of black slaves suffered cruel abuse and died. This has reduced the original population of nearly 4 million.

The black slave population was reduced to more than 2.4 million, and it may be even lower than this number.

Coupled with the 720,000 to 750,000 young white male casualties in the five-year war, the total population of the Confederate States of America (South) today is less than 6.5 million, of which more than 700,000 are frontline troops. The cities and villages are a desolate scene, and domestic

There are only more than 2.3 million white old, weak, women and children left and about the same number of black slaves.

Cotton production, the mainstay of the economy, has been less than half of its heyday. Large areas of cotton fields were abandoned and uncultivated. Coupled with the scorched-earth policy once implemented by the Yankees, many white farmers and their entire families died.

How can you hold on after being beaten into such a miserable state?

Chang'an, Daming Palace

King Richard met with President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and General Robert E. Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army, in the splendid main hall. In a peaceful atmosphere, he said;

"The Tang Kingdom paid great attention to the concerns of its allies. The Army General Staff Headquarters conducted a comprehensive and detailed study on this issue and conducted multiple sand table simulations. The results were not satisfactory.

Now that the new government of the United States of America (North) has taken office, President Andrew Johnson is ambitiously preparing to compete with us again. Without suffering heavy losses, it will be difficult for them to surrender easily.

should see

Our enemy is suffering from serious internal and external troubles, and it is unsightly to take the initiative to launch a large-scale decisive battle before July, which will help the United States of America (the North) to divert domestic conflicts and unite people's hearts to fight against aggression.

With the current huge size of the enemy, the possibility of killing him in one military blow is relatively small.

at this point

General Robert Lee should have a say, I want to hear your opinion..."

Above the main hall

King Richard asked pleasantly, pushing the question to General Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army.

Richard looked at the problem from the perspective of the overall national struggle in North America, and was not limited to the suffering of the people in the South. If he had a compassionate heart, he might as well become a priest.

When the name was called, General Robert E. Lee stood up with a respectful expression, put his right hand on his chest and gave a deep salute, saying;

“Your Majesty the King;

On behalf of all the officers and men of the Southern Army, I would like to express my most sincere respect to you. After arriving in Chang'an, we saw the magnificent city and the prosperous economy. All of this made us deeply envious and felt the power of the Tang Kingdom.

Prosperity.

As allies trapped in the quagmire of war, we extremely hope to end this painful process as soon as possible. With the strong support of the Tang Kingdom's army, we finally see the dawn of victory.

This shows that all our efforts are worth it.

The war has entered its fifth year. The Confederate States of America (Southern) government and society have sacrificed too much to win this war and are already on the verge of collapse. This is the original intention of our eagerness to end it all.

From a purely military perspective;

Although the North has been defeated, it still has some remaining strength. The move to recruit 600,000 volunteer militiamen shows that the Yankees have not given up and are still thinking of fighting to the death.

But we can no longer hold on. The huge consumption on the Eastern Front battlefield is like a millstone of flesh and blood, with an average of more than 300 casualties every day, which is seriously eroding our national strength. More than 60% of the young and middle-aged population has been killed or injured.

I hereby implore His Majesty the King to send a legion to join the battlefield on the Eastern Front to help us share the pressure of the war until we win the final victory.

Only in this way can we persist until the end."

"Yes, I, the King, can strengthen the Southern Corps to 200,000 men and mobilize it through railways to join the Eastern Front battlefield to support the allies in their operations." King Richard readily agreed.

Continuing the course of the war is the right way, and wearing down the national strength of both the United States and the South is the right way. As for paying more, that is a detail and is not within the scope of discussions among the top leaders of the kingdom.

After the Southern Legion entered the Eastern Front battlefield, they fought side by side with the white allies of the Confederate States of America (South). This friendship forged with blood spans races and countries, making it easier to remember deeply and integrate more easily.

For Richard, what would happen if the entire Southern Army was given to the Confederate States of America (South)?

What cannot be changed is blood and skin color. What cannot be changed is culture, accent and religion. What cannot be changed is the fact that the Southern Legion is part of the Chinese population.

If he really integrates into the mainstream society in the south, it will help strengthen the sincere friendship forged by the blood of both parties, which is also a situation he is willing to see.

Hearing King Richard's generous promise, President Jefferson Davis and everyone in the southern U.S. delegation stood up with excitement and bowed deeply to the throne.

President Jefferson Davis said with great gratitude;

“On behalf of the war-suffering people in the South, I sincerely thank Your Majesty for your assistance, which is more precious than gold. This gives us the confidence to defeat the hateful Yankees and usher in the day when the blood debt will be finally settled.

The southern government also wants to have in-depth discussions with the Tang Dynasty government to introduce no less than 500,000 Chinese immigrants to participate in the economic reconstruction process of the south.

The war has caused many white families to lose men, and these families are in urgent need of a backbone. We can only ask our allies for help, and ask your majesty to lend a precious helping hand. We will be grateful."

"How is the implementation of this year's immigration plan? Is there still a huge labor gap in urban and rural areas?" Richard did not respond immediately, but turned to the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Viscount Liu Xianjun.

Prime Minister Ryu Hyun-jun stood up, bowed deeply and replied;

"The large-scale introduction of immigrants from the mainland in recent years has greatly alleviated the labor shortage in the western coastal cities. The eastern and central immigration reclamation plans are being promoted in an orderly manner, and the demand is not strong. The allies' requests can be considered as appropriate, but only in terms of funding arrangements and

In terms of quantity, further details need to be discussed.”

"Well, try your best to make arrangements on your behalf. Strengthening the strength of the southern allies will help us jointly deal with our enemies, and this will be the long-term strategic pattern of North America." Richard made a decision after thinking about it carefully.

The Chinese population immigrating to the South of the United States is not suitable for new immigrants, because these new immigrants have not yet formed loyalty and cohesion to the Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty, nor have they experienced the kindness of the Kingdom of Tang to Chinese immigrants. They can easily be fooled by sugar-coated bullets from the South of the United States.

My head fell into a gentle land and I couldn't extricate myself.

In this way, it is easy to be attracted by the Southerners and become a banana man with yellow skin and white heart.

A better way would be for people at the bottom of domestic society, who are unable to solve their personal marriage problems due to their meager income and lack of professional skills, to mobilize immigrants to the south of the United States to become door-to-door sons-in-law. Houses, wives, estates, everything can be solved, and maybe children.

They are all ready-made, as long as they continue to output their reproductive capabilities.

I usually help with the farm work. Anyway, a man always has the strength to support the family and establish a household.

Coupled with the high sense of identification with the kingdom, it is a better choice to be closer to the Tang Kingdom from the heart.

The jobs of immigrants from the bottom of society can easily be replaced by new immigrants. Under the current environment of a large immigration wave, it will not affect domestic economic development and is a relatively safe choice.

(End of chapter)