Wild North America 1846

Chapter 377 A good plan

Boston is the capital of Massachusetts and the largest coastal city in the northeastern United States of America. It has a long history of development, dating back to 1630 more than 200 years ago, making it one of the oldest cities in the United States.

The famous "Boston Tea Party" event in the history of American independence, which eventually triggered the American Revolution, took place in Boston.

The Chinese people are most impressed by Harvard University and Boston lobster. Boston lobster is a local specialty and is world-famous for its large size and delicious taste.

Boston can be said to be the city of education in the United States. As early as 1635, the British Puritans founded the Boston Latin School, the first public school in the United States. In 1636, the first university in the United States, Harvard University, was established. Harvard University and MIT are both located in Boston.

The urban area gives the city a strong intellectual atmosphere.

After the visit of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Richard, accompanied by a group of military and political officials, inspected Harvard University and spoke highly of the school's tireless efforts in cultivating high-level talents for 226 years.

Wherever the excitement comes

His Majesty the Emperor temporarily announced that the royal family will invest 1 million Tang Yuan for this famous institution to expand its enrollment, expand its library and school buildings, and build it into a world-class university.

The accompanying staff contacted the school with great vigor. After investing 1 million Tang Yuan, they quickly obtained 56% of the equity of Harvard University. The school was therefore renamed Royal Harvard University. In the future, members of the royal family of the Tang Empire will serve as honorary

The position of chairman will be passed down as a conventional rule.

Boston is built on a peninsula, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, and surrounded by Massachusetts Bay and Back Bay, the mouth of the Charles River.

Early European immigrants originally named it Three Hills City based on the three hills here, and later renamed it after Boston, England, the hometown of some outstanding figures among the immigrants.

In the early 1770s, the British tried to fully control the 13 colonies, mainly through taxation, and violently levied the British colonies. The oppression prompted the Bostonians who yearned for freedom to launch the independent revolution.

The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and several early battles in the American Revolution—the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston—all took place in or near the city.

Therefore, this is a very symbolic east coast city.

“These political events have affected the history of the entire country and are shaping the minds of the people who have come to this great country, in which Boston has played a leading role.” —Henry Cabot Lodge.

For a period of time after the independence of the United States, because Boston was the closest major port in the United States to Europe, it rapidly developed overseas trade, exporting rum, fish, salt and tobacco to Europe, and became the richest international commercial port in the world today.

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During this period, some descendants of prominent Boston families became the social and cultural elite of the United States; they were later nicknamed the "Boston Brahmins."

During the inspection with great interest by His Majesty the Emperor, it was planned to build a nine-story pagoda with Chinese characteristics on the top of Beacon Mountain and name it "Oriental Pagoda". A temple would be built under the tower and named "Oriental Temple", which means East and West.

Religious and cultural exchanges.

This project is supervised by the "104th Hongyan Valley Division" of the Northern Army Corps stationed here, hoping to spread Dongfeng culture, expand the influence of local Chinese immigrants, and enhance cultural exchanges among various ethnic groups.

Since the "104th Red Rock Valley Division" of the Northern Army was stationed in Boston, more than a dozen prominent local families with malicious intentions have been imprisoned for conspiracy to riot and other crimes. The main members of the family have been thrown into prison. The so-called "Boston Brahmins" have been severely punished by the military.

, in fact no longer exists.

Emperor Richard stood on the highest Lantern Mountain, surrounded by a large number of military and political officials. He looked at this beautiful east coast port city between the hills and the river in some trance. There were almost no traces of war.

He suddenly asked: "This place is full of tranquility and peace. Is it a city that has not been affected by the war?"

"Your Majesty, Boston is an important city in the northeast. The Chang'an Cavalry Corps fought on the outskirts of the city for more than two weeks. Most of the nearby fields and villages were destroyed. There were also several feint attacks in the urban area, but under the desperate efforts of the local militiamen

There was no success despite the resistance, so the traces of the war are not obvious."

"It's better to have peace! This way the people will not be affected by the war." Richard sighed softly and glanced at General Chen Chuan indifferently.

Admiral Chen Chuan was so shaken by this glance that he broke into cold sweat on his back. He quickly lowered his head and bent over to show his utmost humility, without daring to say anything in defense.

He groaned secretly in his heart;

It's all the fault of the Chang'an Cavalry Corps, a bunch of deceitful people who said that the cavalry was not equipped with heavy siege artillery, so it was difficult to destroy the strong defensive positions on the outside, and they were afraid of excessive casualties among the officers and soldiers of the corps. Now the leader of the platoon suffered the consequences.

His Majesty the Emperor is an out-and-out Han nationalist and has never shown mercy to these white pariahs. The North American War is over and the three coastal cities of New York, Philadelphia and Boston are mostly intact. His methods are not ruthless enough and his actions are not thorough enough. The Chang'an Cavalry

The legion's guilt is not trivial.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Duan Debiao, the commander of the Chang'an Corps, was transferred to the Southern Military Region after the war. There was no talk of being rewarded or promoted for meritorious service. I heard that he was probably sent to a count.

The situation is different for the officers of several other major corps. According to the rumors coming from the palace, the title of duke is basically a certainty, but the gap between them is huge.

What does it mean?

It means that Lieutenant General Duan Debiao's holy family is not here, and it is estimated that it will be idle from now on, and there will no longer be an opportunity to independently lead the regiment in combat.

Look at General Harry Fletcher, the former commander of the Colorado Corps, who has now been promoted to deputy chief of staff of the Army General Staff Headquarters. He has the title of an imperial duke in hand, and is just waiting to take over when Duke Dai Changfu comes to the second line!

why?

Because General Harry Fritsch resolutely carried out His Majesty's will, he dealt extremely heavy blows to the U.S. military in previous battles, and the thorough execution of the rural clearing and bandit suppression operations almost wiped out Kansas, Missouri and Indiana, creating "a great foundation for the empire".

The policy of "emptying the cage and replacing the birds" has laid a solid foundation.

If such ministers are not reused, how can Lieutenant General Duan Debiao, who has a compassionate heart, be reused?

In the 1820s, Boston's demographic composition began to change dramatically due to the arrival of the first wave of European immigrants. A large number of Irish and Italians immigrated to the city, bringing Roman Catholicism to the city.

By the end of 1861, Catholicism was the largest religious group in Boston, the Irish began to play an important role in Boston politics, and the Protestants in England were relegated to second place.

Today, Boston's manufacturing industry overwhelms international trade in importance. Boston is still one of the important manufacturing centers in the United States, especially famous for its clothing and leather products, with more than 110 factories of various sizes.

It is also one of the few remaining industrial cities in the United States of America (North).

This is also the source of His Majesty's dissatisfaction. How can General Chen Chuan dare to say anything at this time?

Li Chaqing knew that he could not blame General Chen Chuan, so after saying something calmly, he went down the mountain with a slightly unhappy expression.

Walk halfway

His Majesty the Emperor suddenly asked: "Are the criminal evidence seized by the Boston Brahmins accurate and can they withstand the cross-examination of the British?"

General Chen Chuan bowed and replied;

“Start your majesty;

These so-called Boston Brahmin families colluded with each other and committed many evil deeds on a daily basis. They maintained caravans of gunmen and cavalry to kill people wantonly, robbed beauties, and dominated land and property. They were full of blood debts. They levied excessive taxes on workers and farmers, and no one was clean.

These rough American Yankees have no aristocratic manners at all, and their food is very ugly. They almost regard Boston as the territory where they do evil, and the local white residents dare not speak out about this.

Moreover, they dared to commit crimes on the street in broad daylight, and once shot former Boston Mayor John Myers to death in the street, just to scare ordinary people, and their arrogance could not be increased."

"Well, we must use this case as a breakthrough to investigate all the way and catch all the thugs involved. At the same time, we must have conclusive evidence, do you understand?" Richard ordered in a serious tone.

Admiral Chen Chuan looked serious, raised his hands in a solemn salute and replied: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that the Northern Army will never allow any bad element to escape. It will use this case as a breakthrough to win reputation and obtain real evidence."

"When necessary, we can join the trial with the British. Although we are not afraid of British intervention now, there is no need to make bilateral relations very bad. We must pay attention to methods." Richard explained again.

He looked at General Chen Chuan who didn't seem to fully understand. He turned around and told Director Zheng Yuan, "After you go back, find some time to sit down with General Chen."

"I obey," Director Zheng Yuan respectfully accepted the order.

He knew better than anything in his heart that what His Majesty meant was that the Northern Army should not swallow up all the benefits, but share some of the profits with the British, so as to save them from having to listen to nonsense.

These dozen "Boston Brahmins" are in the same spirit and are married to each other, forming a complicated and stubborn local interest system. It can be said that they are constantly pruned and chaotic.

It was only during this extraordinary period of war that the Tang Empire's garrison attacked with an iron fist and captured them all, just like a strong wind sweeping away fallen leaves. Naturally, there was no possibility of any further trouble.

In carrying out His Majesty's order to suppress the demonstrations, these people in Boston and the Police Department were disobedient and failed to do their job. Instead, the mass demonstrations became more and more powerful.

This forced the 104th Division of the Northern Army to launch a large-scale attack, including city officials, police stations, tax bureaus and more than a dozen so-called "Brahmin Bostons", and suppress the demonstrations with ruthless and iron-blooded methods.

However, it is troublesome to create these "Brahmin Bostons" because they are all Puritan families in England who believe in Protestant Christianity. They are authentic Anglo-Americans and their ancestors can be traced back to a certain county in England.

Compared with the Irish and Scots, these Anglo-Americans are authentic Anglo-Saxon whites, with the same religious beliefs and the same ethnicity. They are the authentic fellow countrymen of the British.

If you engage them without real evidence, it will inevitably cause an uproar.

Your Majesty's idea is a wonderful one. Letting the British take part in the trial is equivalent to joining the same camp, and then everyone can share the spoils.

These white English families have been operating in Boston for more than 200 years. Their family properties span the city and countryside of Boston, with factories, shops, buildings, and fields, accounting for more than one-third of the wealth in Boston.

This huge wealth, even during the war, amounted to more than ten million. As long as you can get your hands on it, you can eat it up. Aren't the British people interested?

What religion, what ethnicity, what fellow countrymen?

It's nothing in the face of naked interests. If we don't uproot these dozen "Boston Brahmin" families and confiscate the property of the powerful people in the municipal, police, taxation and other departments that are their tributaries, how can there be any

Can large sums of money be used to divide profits?

The British know this truth better than anyone else. They started out as bandits, and they are absolutely sinister in doing this kind of thing and will leave no consequences.

From an imperial perspective;

If we want to comprehensively deepen our penetration and control of the United States of America, these white interest groups whose vitality was not harmed during the war are all within the scope of the attack. They can be strictly traced through various aspects such as law or tax evasion, and there is no way to implement them.

Resist the dimensionality reduction attack.

From the day capital was born, every pore has been dripping with blood and filth.

This is true for the British, the Tang Empire, and the Yankees in the United States. It’s really not easy to find out the facts about their crimes!

Return to the temporary palace where you stayed

Director Zheng Yuan held a latest briefing on the situation and hurriedly came to report to His Majesty.

Richard did not reach for it, but asked Director Zheng Yuan to give an oral report, which turned out to be the latest progress in the international syndicate's 1.375 billion Tang Yuan debt arrangement.

According to Director Zheng Yuan;

After repeated negotiations on behalf of international loan sharks, the syndicate proposed that the value of 1.375 billion Tang Yuan should be paid off in two parts, one part as investment and the other part as loan principal and interest repayment. The interest rate was tentatively set at 8% to 8.6%.

to be honest

Adding up these dozens of international loans, there is almost no war loan with an interest rate lower than 10%. The highest one even reached 17.5%. It was borrowed from the French by the United States of America (North) when it was desperate.

Money, in fact, there is no ability to repay it at all.

The interest rate is tentatively set at 8% to 8.6%. It can be said that the international loan sharks have made great concessions and demonstrated their sincerity.

The key problem is that the current United States of America (the North) cannot afford it!

On the eve of the Civil War

The annual gross national economic output of the United States of America (in the North) is close to its peak of 1.8 billion US dollars. After several years of war, inflation has been atrocious, and prices have skyrocketed.

Originally, one U.S. dollar could be exchanged for one Tang Yuan, but now 2 million U.S. dollars cannot be exchanged for one Tang Yuan. It is so outrageous.

Those Yankees who bought U.S. dollar war bonds during the war were all bankrupt. The more they bought, the more they lost because the current U.S. dollar bills are just pieces of paper.

However, international loan sharks lend hard currencies such as pounds, francs, and marks, and the principal and interest are denominated in their respective currencies, or they accept repayments of equivalent value in Tang Yuan. It is not acceptable for US dollars to depreciate to the point that no one wants them.

The United States of America (North) can fool its own people, but if it wants to fool international loan sharks, it has no doors or windows.

The United States of America (North) is now in tatters. It has no money to pay off international loan sharks for at least the past two years. And when the economic situation stabilizes, how much of the original average annual output value of US$1.8 billion will be left?

Maybe, even US$500 million a year is too much.

What the international loan sharks mean is that part of the debt is counted as investment, and this part is about 300 million yuan, which is used to fully control the Appalachian coal fields, and the principal and interest are repaid based on the annual coal output.

What kind of coal fields are more valuable than Manhattan and New York Harbor?

The answer is; the Appalachian Coalfields.

The world's largest coalfield is located in the Appalachian Mountains, a famous mountain range in the United States. There is an Appalachian coalfield. The coalfield reserves extend from northeast to southwest, spanning nine states in the United States (states on the east coast are generally larger in area).

(small), with a total length of about 1,200 meters to 1,250 kilometers, a width of about 50 to 300 kilometers, and a coal seam thickness of nearly a kilometer.

The area where coal has been detected covers about 180,000 square kilometers, and the proven coal reserves are as high as 310.7 billion tons. It can be said to be an endless sea of ​​coal.

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The Appalachian coalfield has become the largest coal production base in the world, accounting for more than 89.6% of the total coal production in the United States, and the annual mining volume is more than 40 million tons.

The coal produced here every year is worth up to 16 million Tang Yuan. This is the real reason why international loan sharks are targeting the Appalachian coalfields.

In today's competition of comprehensive national strength in the world, coal and steel are important manifestations of national strength. However, after more than 200 years of intensive coal mining in the UK, domestic coal resources have tended to be exhausted.

The Greater London Metropolitan Area alone consumes 28 million tons of coal annually for industrial coal and residential heating. For heating coal alone, the Greater London Metropolitan Area requires no less than 16 million tons of coal each year to maintain the economy.

The heating coal needs of a total population of approximately 3.6 million people in the London metropolitan area and surrounding towns.

France is also a country severely short of coal and has a huge demand for coal.

There is no need to worry about selling the high-quality coal produced here. If it is transported to Europe by large-tonnage steam freighters, it will cost a lot of money.

The Appalachian coal fields have very superior mining conditions. 99% of the coal fields are clean horizontal coal seams. The coal seams are less than 100 meters from the ground, and the shallowest place is only 1.7 meters.

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As long as you dig a 1.7-meter pit, you can dig out extremely high-quality coal. This is a world-class shallow coal field.

Open-pit mining can be carried out here, which avoids the dangers of underground mining and greatly reduces the time and cost of mining.

Moreover, the quality of the coal here is also very high. Almost all coal is anthracite. It can be used directly after mining without processing, which has high advantages in use.

The ultra-large storage capacity and ultra-high quality show the huge value of the Appalachian coalfield, so international loan sharks are willing to pay NT$300 million to acquire this world-class coal mine.

As the United States of America (Northern) has a small pocket of money, the current President Nick Jones-Marmont firmly disagrees with this plan and does not agree with the average interest level of 8% to 8.6%, which is the highest interest level that the U.S. government can accept.

It's only 5.5%, it can't be higher.

This has resulted in a huge gap between the two parties, and there are many lip service lawsuits to be fought.

(End of chapter)