Wild North America 1846

Chapter 599 Recent Situations in the United States, North and South

Author: Portuguese toothless

Early 1873

On the 9th of the first lunar month, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the emperor of the Second French Empire who once carried the dream of renaissance, died of illness while in exile in England, which represented the end of an era.

After the news came out, almost Europe was shocked.

The French nation has a particularly complicated mood. This emperor who was once held up to the altar brought France glory in the mid-19th century, but also brought a shameful historic defeat, and the halo of glory was instantly shattered.

Richard, the legendary emperor of the Tang Empire, sent condolence messages to the governments of London and Paris respectively, expressing condolences for the sad demise of this historic figure.

In his condolence message, Richard commented on the French Emperor Napoleon III: "He was a king who was determined to restore the glory of France. He profoundly changed the geopolitical structure of Europe in the mid-19th century and left a unique mark..."

British Prime Minister Lord William Ewart Gladstone personally attended the funeral and publicly stated at the funeral;

"The Napoleonic dynasty always brought something special to Europe. His Majesty the Emperor is our old friend. He left London and finally returned here..."

Different from the connotative official statement of the British, the French republicans enthusiastically celebrated the death of this feudal emperor in a foreign country. They even held more than a dozen grand banquets in Paris to celebrate the end of the biggest hidden danger of the French Third Republic.

The conservative royalists and Napoleonic factions in France cried bitterly, mourning the loss of the beacon that guided the path of life and the future of the country, and the loss of the highly respected French emperor.

One happy and one sad reflects the French people's clear distinction between love and hate, and their strong emotions are not concealed.

With the arrival of the New Year

French customs conducted strict inspections and anti-smuggling, and the large-scale smuggling spree that lasted for nearly two years finally subsided. Smugglers from the Tang Dynasty and the German Empire left France one after another, counting their harvests with joy.

As the last moments of the German army's retreat approached, all the smugglers were selling their goods like crazy, clearing out their inventory as quickly as possible at any cost, converting them into massive amounts of francs and depositing them in banks.

Then, through international exchange, the funds in the account are transferred abroad, including London, Berlin, Milan, Amsterdam and other places. The signs of fund escape are very obvious.

According to French government estimates;

In the large-scale smuggling wave that lasted for nearly two years, Chinese businessmen and German businessmen were especially active, plundering 2.3 billion francs worth of wealth from all over France, and losing customs tax revenue of 600 million to 700 million francs.

Coupled with the 5 billion franc war reparations paid to Germany, France is facing a serious loss of social wealth and urgently needs to make up for it.

The French government, which had just stabilized, was immediately faced with completely opposite policy choices, one internal and one external, with completely different priorities.

One is to vigorously develop the economy internally, restore industrial and agricultural production, focus on the field of economic development, restore people's livelihood, and restore homes that have been devastated by the war.

One is to immediately start expanding colonization around the world and replenish blood through crazy plundering of wealth. The main targets are the Middle East and Indochina.

After a short discussion, as a veteran colonizer in the world, the French government naturally chose the latter;

That is, through expansionary colonial policies, we further strengthened the plunder of colonies, made great strides in expanding the colonial areas in the Middle East and Indochina, and adopted the method of "making up for losses within the embankment and making up for them outside the embankment"...

Daming Palace

Emperor Richard carefully read through the recent international developments. He put down the documents in his hands and sighed softly. He stood up and walked out of the palace with his hands behind his hands. He wanted to go to the back garden to relax.

The accompanying officials of the Royal Secretariat and the Royal Attendants tacitly avoided the situation and were only on guard at the periphery, ready to listen to His Majesty the Emperor's call at any time.

His Majesty the Emperor doesn't like to be surrounded by many people, and he especially wants to be quiet when he is thinking about problems.

Walking in the Imperial Garden, you will be greeted by the chirping of birds and the fragrance of flowers, and the breeze blowing on your face, making you feel extraordinarily peaceful.

The rise of the Tang Dynasty made world history take a small turn. Now it is back on the established track and moving forward tenaciously according to the original track.

The situation in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East basically follows the original historical trajectory.

Only the entire America has changed drastically, including Central America.

The Cuban uprising is now in its fifth year. The Spanish colonists and rebels have suffered very heavy losses. Due to years of war and rampant plague, the entire population of Cuba has dropped sharply from more than 1.5 million to less than one million.

A rough estimate is between 920,000 and 960,000;

The Spanish colonists lost 70,000 to 80,000 troops, and the rebels suffered losses of more than 250,000. The rest were people who died due to famine, plague, and abuse in the harsh war environment.

The Spanish concentration camps were notorious and were called "death camps". They were widely criticized for their harsh living environment and high mortality rate. They were criticized by the Tang Empire and many countries in North and South America.

Currently, Spanish-colonized Cuba is in an unprecedentedly weak state, with internal conflicts intensifying, and a large number of Chinese businessmen and immigrants have withdrawn from the region.

This situation made the Royal Army General Staff Headquarters ready to take action and made several secret reports, intending to find an excuse to intervene in the situation in Cuba and make it an overseas province of the empire through war.

Emperor Richard suppressed all these secret reports. He knew that now was not the best time.

If history does not change

Next year, the Spanish Bourbon dynasty will be restored, and then immediately send heavy troops to try to extinguish the Cuban uprising in one fell swoop. The most brutal and bloody battle has not yet begun.

At this stage

The empire uses various methods to transport weapons, gunpowder, food and other materials to the island of Cuba. The only correct solution is to support the people's uprising people to continue fighting. Just keep fighting.

Once it's completely broken, it will be easier to clean up.

Walking on the path in the forest, two huge white giant tigers followed behind me. These were the second generation of "White Skin" and "Red Middle". The pet animals of the older generation had passed away and were made into tiger skin mattresses.

In the side hall at the foot of Wanshou Mountain.

Richard walked to the high point of the rockery, stood in the pavilion and looked at the vast misty Taiye Pond, and suddenly felt relaxed and happy.

Two giant white tigers snuggled up to him, one on the left and the other on the right, gently nudging Richard with their huge tiger heads.

Richard smiled indifferently and stretched out his hand to scratch the scalp of the giant tiger, but in his mind he was thinking about how to deal with the British.

With the rise of the empire, the British rulers redefined the relationship between the two countries as both cooperation and competition.

on North American issues

The British are the most aggressive foreign force in secretly antagonizing them. Both the United States of America and the Confederate States of America have a small circle of British upper-class people who stubbornly refuse to allow wealthy Chinese businessmen and big entrepreneurs to enter.

The postwar order in North America was established in the Treaty of Peace, the American Peace Constitution, the Agreement on the Single Market for North American Agriculture, the North American Customs Union Agreement, the Garrison Act of the United States of America, the Postwar Financial Arrangement Act of the United States of America, and New York, Porter

On the basis of more than a dozen treaties such as the Land and Campton Lend Act, especially the dozens of military bases spread across the United States of America, it is the most direct way for the empire to exert influence.

As a typical immigrant country, the United States of America has rapidly regained its vitality since its population exceeded 10 million in 1863 due to post-war financial restructuring.

This is the case for small countries. The overall economy collapses quickly and recovers quickly.

Due to the loss of the vast southern and central North American Great Plains, the United States of America has shrunk sharply in area, totaling only more than 860,000 square kilometers, and has lost its foundation as a major agricultural country.

Therefore, more than 70% of the country's agricultural products and various foods and livestock and poultry meat need to be imported from the Tang Empire, and the degree of dependence is quite high.

After more than 10 years of recovery and development, the total population of the United States of America had exceeded the 20 million mark by the end of 1872, reaching 21.77 million, creating a record high.

In horizontal comparison, this population size has exceeded the total population size of the North during the American Civil War.

(Note: In the original historical period, there were 23 northern states with a total population of 22.37 million. With the rise of the Tang Empire, it occupied six northern states before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1858. Only 17 northern states participated in the war, with a total population of 1870

More than ten thousand, the strength is greatly reduced.)

The massive flow of European immigrants to North America is an unstoppable historical trend. In order to strengthen penetration and control of the United States of America, the empire also encouraged immigration to the east coast.

Over the years, many retired military officers and soldiers stationed in North America found white women to start families there, and eventually stayed in cities on the East Coast. Chinese residents became an important part of the local population.

in 1863

Among the population of the United States of America, whites account for 73.2%, Chinese account for 15.4%, and blacks account for 7.3% (note: it reached 19.2% at its peak. After the war, black slaves were deported on a large scale, and as many as one million were returned to the South.

(large), Mexicans account for 3.1%, and Indians account for 0.9%.

10 years have passed

Due to the continuous import of European immigrants, the proportion of white people in the population has further increased, from 73.2% to 76.1%, making them the mainstream ethnic group in society.

The proportion of Chinese Americans has also increased significantly, from 15.4% to 19.3%. These two ethnic groups have exceeded 95%, forming a social structure dominated by whites (note, from the perspective of European and American experts).

Free blacks have been subject to various severe restrictions, the level of marriage and childbearing has been reduced, and the difficulty of starting a family has increased rapidly. As a result, the proportion of blacks has dropped sharply, from the original 7.3% to less than 3%. Mexicans account for 0.92%, and Indians can be ignored.

Forget it.

It is this demographic structure that has allowed the "Liberal Party" to rapidly rise to become the third largest party in the United States of America. Because it is a party dominated by Chinese Americans, it has won the social recognition of the Chinese ethnic group, which accounts for 19.3% of the population, and has become its ironclad supporter.

on the basis of

The "Liberal Party" put forward the slogan of breaking the monopoly of the British-American political arena, and won the support of many German, French, Italian, and Mexican residents. It continuously stormed the city in the mid-term elections and presidential elections, and won many seats in the Senate and House of Representatives.

"Liberal Party" leader Zhang Zongliang participated in the 1872 presidential election and was ultimately defeated by Republican Rutherford Birchard Hayes, but it also greatly shocked the political arena of the United States of America.

By participating in the general election, the Liberal Party won more seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

North America is the core of the Tang Empire's interests, and the North American Unified Market is the cornerstone of North American policy. The garrison of the United States of America is a powerful means to ensure the influence of the Tang Empire. These three complement each other and are indispensable.

nowadays

The Liberal Party has already won nearly 1/3 of the seats in the House of Representatives and 17 of the 100 seats in the Senate in the political arena of the United States of America. It is already strong enough to compete with the other two parties.

The more than ten years of management and infiltration of the Tang Empire are not in vain. They have cultivated a large number of interest spokesmen and leading parties in the United States of America, and have the strength to influence its political situation.

On the contrary, among its close allies, the Confederate States of America, the Empire's influence was far less than that of the North.

If you want to talk about a stubborn character, the first one would be a Southerner.

When it comes to being conservative, the first choice is the Southerners.

When it comes to stubbornly adhering to tradition, the first one is the Southerners.

At a time when the abolitionist movement is surging in the world, the Southerners stubbornly insist on not relaxing slavery and will not be persuaded by anyone. This makes the British angry and curses.

But there's no way, Southerners are just so stubborn.

Since the Southerners insisted on using a large number of black slaves to cultivate cotton fields, their production costs could be reduced to a minimum. A large amount of cheap lint not only impacted the Bangladesh cotton, Indian cotton, and Egyptian cotton in the British market, but also had a serious impact on the cotton of the southern provinces of the Tang Empire.

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In order to protect the interests of cotton plantations in the southern provinces, the Tang Empire imposed a punitive high tariff of 36% on Southern cotton exports. This was also the main focus of the conflict between the two countries.

The Confederate States of America is the largest cotton exporter in the world. Cotton export is a matter of life and death, and it is also related to the country's economic development. Therefore, the protective policies of the Datang Empire attracted strong opposition.

In order to counter the high tariffs on cotton from the Tang Empire, the Confederate States of America also imposed high tariffs on agricultural and sideline products imported from the Tang Empire. This was a setback to the North American unified market.

It is precisely because of this factor

There have been constant economic frictions between the two countries in recent years. The upper echelons of the Confederate States of America, led by white British-American plantation owners, have strong feelings of excluding Chinese businessmen and plantation owners, and the relationship is not harmonious.

Political parties headed by ethnic Chinese are not developing smoothly either. Why is this?

In 1863, the population of the Confederate States of America returned to 8.15 million. Among the population, whites accounted for 36.72%, Chinese accounted for 23.1%, blacks accounted for 32.4%, Mexicans and Central Americans accounted for 5.7%, and Indians accounted for 2.1%.

10 years have passed

Thanks to the two-way input of European immigrants and Chinese immigrants, coupled with natural population growth, the population of the Confederate States of America has grown to 14.61 million, making it a powerful agricultural country.

According to statistics at the end of 1872

Whites account for 43.6%, an increase of nearly 7%, and Chinese account for 28.5%, an increase of 5.4%. They are the mainstream ethnic groups with voting rights in the South of the United States and are also major participants in political life.

The number of black people decreased from 32.4% to 25.9%. The reduction of the world slave trade and the influx of white and Chinese immigrants filled a considerable labor gap and were the main reasons for the decrease in the proportion of black people.

Cut off from sources, Central Americans and Indians suffered from high mortality due to abuse and harsh conditions, and their population share also showed signs of significant reduction.

Since the Chinese population is the mainstream of southern society, why are they struggling in the political arena?

The main reason for this is that the Southerners are extremely conservative and selfish and have a strong racial ethos. White voters generally reject Chinese suffragettes in a group, making it extremely difficult to divide and win over. This is the main reason.

The second reason is that there are too many unscrupulous little tricks, the election lacks the principles of openness, transparency and fairness, and there are frequent black-box operations. What can people do?

The third reason is that the Confederate States of America have higher autonomy and independent sovereignty. They are tougher when it comes to their own interests and have less room for relaxation.

In 1873, there was a certain degree of overproduction in the Tang Empire, and many small and medium-sized enterprises went into debt and went bankrupt, casting a shadow on the economic prospects.

This year will be the year of the Great Recession of the world economy. We must be prepared to live a hard life.