Wild North America 1846

Chapter 642 The eldest brother doesn’t talk about the second brother

Author: Portuguese toothless

Chapter 642 The eldest brother doesn’t talk about the second brother

The bad virtue is still being controlled!

Emperor Richard did not get used to the British Queen's special envoy, and walked away directly. He also laughed at the British appeal, neither agreeing nor rejecting it.

Anyway, leave it alone until it cools down.

Public opinion in the world today is in the hands of Western countries led by Britain. News reports about the Tang Dynasty are full of words such as "nouveau riche", "rough North American cowboys" and "lucky oil tycoons", which inevitably carries some condescending prejudice.

Especially the rich oil resources on the North American continent make people jealous. This is a huge wealth given by God.

The most profitable bulk trade in the world is kerosene, lubricating oil, diesel and heavy oil. The flowing oil fields in Texas are money. It can be said that money is rolling in every day.

Texas was a territory directly under the royal family, and the royal family of the Tang Empire was the biggest beneficiary. No one now says that the royal family's purchase of Texas was a loss-making transaction.

Since the empire's major oil companies are all owned or controlled by the royal family and have monopoly operations on resources, there is no vicious competition among them. The price of crude oil remains at the level of 5.5 Tang Yuan per barrel.

Compared with the early price range of 10 Tang Yuan to 12 Tang Yuan per barrel, this price has dropped by more than half.

However, due to the surge in production, annual output has increased from one to two hundred barrels in the early days to more than 20 million barrels today, and profits have increased tenfold.

How profitable can oil be?

in the original history

After a period of crazy expansion of Texas crude oil production, the price of oil per barrel dropped sharply by 99% from a high of 10 US dollars to less than 10 cents per barrel, resulting in most oil fields experiencing serious losses.

Note that this is most of the oil fields.

Some high-yield oil fields with high reserves are still profitable. The oil companies that own them have used their production to squeeze out hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized oil companies that are not strong enough, and gradually grow into oil giants.

Stimulated by huge oil profits, Houston and Dallas in Texas and surrounding small and medium-sized towns developed rapidly, much faster than other local cities.

Today, Houston has developed into a first-tier city with a total population of 760,000, and Dallas has a total population of more than 500,000, with many modern buildings, ranking first and second in Texas respectively.

Back to the harem

Emperor Richard sat on the couch with a leisurely look and tasted the fragrant tea. With a flash of lightning in his heart, he reviewed the current world situation and felt that he was very sure of it.

Taking advantage of the current turmoil in the world, the world's major powers have no time to look elsewhere and complete the entire long-term strategic plan in one fell swoop. Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines are about to be included. Now is the best period of strategic opportunities.

The resulting wave of opposition is the smallest and the benefits are highest.

After more than eight years of civil war in Cuba, the situation in the region has completely deteriorated, but both sides are still struggling.

Years of huge military expenditures have dragged down the Spanish government's finances and weakened its strength.

After the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, even the coronation ceremony of the king was extremely shabby, reflecting the extremely weak status of this traditional colonial empire.

At its peak, the Cuban rebel army had nearly 200,000 people, occupying more than two-thirds of Cuba's provinces, and reached its peak.

Today, under the bloody suppression of the Spanish colonists, the resistance force led by President Des Cespedes has less than 30,000 people and is divided into six or seven armed groups, hiding in the jungle and persisting in fighting.

It is said that President de Cespedes is bedridden because of the plague and may not last long.

If he dies, it will not be a fatal blow to the current faltering Cuban uprising movement, and the remnants may become scattered.

No matter how you look at it, this is a good time to intervene.

Emperor Richard has decided that this war will be fought by the Royal Guards, and the Royal Navy will cooperate in the fight. All war expenses will be paid by the Royal Household Office, and the imperial treasury will not need to spend a Tang Yuan.

The battlefield will be divided into two parts, one in Cuba and Puerto Rico in Central America, and the other in the Luzon Islands in the Western Pacific.

This war will provide training for two princes. One is the Duke of the North, the Seventh Prince Tang-Li Kun, who is responsible for commanding the battlefield in Central America. His troops are 60,000 from the elite Royal Elite Guards, plus 30,000 more.

New recruits, a total of 90,000 troops.

In addition to these 30,000 recruits, the recruits have already undergone six months of rigorous training at the Salt Lake City military base and will soon be transported south to the Central Plains Province by troop transport ships to continue three months of tropical combat training.

The 60,000 elite Royal Guards have already set out one after another and will arrive in various Central American provinces on standby for 3 to 4 months of military training in tropical operations.

Another battlefield is located in the Western Pacific. His Royal Highness Tang Li Xin, the eleventh prince and King of Pingxi, has secretly returned from the Egyptian city of Suez, accompanied by only more than 200 guards and close men.

His Highness Tang Li Xin's destination is Xin Xi'an on Paradise Island. There, there are more than 2,700 Royal Guards officers training three new recruit divisions, and four overseas military region field divisions are already ready, a total of

More than 85,000 people.

According to the edict, these seven divisions were all under the jurisdiction of the Royal Guards, and were assigned the mission of conquering the Luzon Islands, driving away the Spanish and occupying them.

Pre-war preparations are proceeding in an orderly manner, various combat supplies are being delivered one after another, officers and soldiers are stepping up training, the Royal Navy fleet that is to be deployed in two-front operations has set off, and everything is progressing steadily.

Regardless of whether the British agreed or not, war was imminent and had to be started.

But the reality of today’s world determines that nothing can bypass the British Empire.

He is like a veteran village chief who has been serving for more than 200 years. He has to take care of everyone's daily necessities, food, housing and transportation.

Whichever family's children are prosperous, whichever family goes out to pick up a bag of cow dung in the morning, whichever family wants to open up wasteland, whichever family is being bullied by their neighbors, you can always see the figure of the old village chief.

Some things are unavoidable. It is better to get acquiescence or even understanding beforehand than to have trouble afterwards.

This is the international situation that Datang is facing. After all, the old village chief has a high prestige. He responds to every call in the village, even if he doesn't gather together to knock on the door, even if the water and electricity are cut off, he can't stand it.

We have to live together. We are in the same village and it is not good for our relationship to be too isolated.

What's more, Datang won't suffer any loss from such an exchange of interests.

The bulk supplies that the British needed were bought with money. Even if they had no money, they would pay them back on credit and borrow funds from banks.

It’s not like things are given for free, it just expands the volume of export trade, so why not?

The British are typical people who can only take advantage and cannot suffer losses.

Seeing that the current war situation in the Ottoman Empire is extremely unfavorable, with defeats occurring in several important battlefields, the Tsarist Russian army launched a very fierce offensive and gained a lot.

Even if the British Expeditionary Force and the Tang Expeditionary Force are added in, they may not be able to reverse the situation on the battlefield.

I guess the British people must have given up.

in the original history

The Tenth Russo-Turkish War lasted for eleven months. The Tsarist-Russian coalition occupied a large area of ​​the Ottoman Empire. The British did not send a single infantryman. This was very different from the performance in the Crimean War.

What a thieves the British are!

When the Tsarist Empire took action, it had 48 divisions with a total of 720,000 troops organized into 19 corps. In addition, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, and Monte Negro had more than 100,000 troops from the Balkans. The total strength was at least 86

More than ten thousand.

On the other hand, the Ottoman army only had 406,000 troops, of which only more than 280,000 were in the European region. The two sides in the war had a military disadvantage of 3:1, and the gap was too big.

Therefore, now that the war has been going on for nearly five months, the Balkans are already in flames, and the British Expeditionary Force has not seen a trace.

This time, the Ottoman Empire suffered.

The British were also anxious, so they searched for help all over the world, which gave the Tang Empire a good opportunity to raise the Cuban issue.

After reviewing this in his mind, Emperor Richard became more sure that he would not be wrong, and his mood became better.

He planned to keep the British in the dark for a while, and then take action after getting a satisfactory answer.

The expedition of the Tang Empire's expeditionary force was a huge undertaking. There were several destinations for the troops and supplies:

One is the Port of New York in the east, one is the Port of Chicago in the north, one is the Port of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico in the south, and the other is the twin ports of Altamira or Tampira in Eastern Mexico.

No matter which port it is, mobilizing troops will take a lot of time, ranging from one or two months to three or four months.

Transoceanic transportation takes more than ten days, up to 2 to 3 weeks, and reaching the Ottoman Empire requires at least 1 to 2 months of adaptive training.

By then, the war will probably be over.

Is such a laborious and costly military operation necessary?

Objectively speaking, it is very necessary.

The Datang Empire’s expeditionary force has successively arrived in the Ottoman Empire’s territories, and coupled with the bluffing of the British expeditionary force, it will put tremendous psychological pressure on Tsar Alexander II, which will be extremely beneficial to the next step of war blackmail negotiations.

The British guy is a good player. He can produce effects even if there are no cards in his hand. One or two points of cards can produce 10 points of effects. He is an expert in conspiracy.

The modest behavior of Tsarist Russia is not enough in front of the British, and they will definitely spit out most of the fruits of war they have swallowed.

In this way, you will reach the highest state of victory without fighting.

This must not be without the contribution of the Tang Empire in waving the flag, and naturally some benefits can be reaped.

For example, the Ottoman Empire acquiesced that the central and southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula belonged to the Tang Empire's sphere of influence, which would include Najd, the United Arab Emirates, and the Persian Gulf coast.

There is no need to think about the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula. The British have traditional spheres of influence in Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula, Lebanon and Syria, and the French and Germans are also competing to penetrate.

Especially in Iraq and the Kingdom of Iran, the European powers are more active than the other, and they have defaulted to the scope of white world colonization.

Only the barren and barren central and southern regions of the Arabian Peninsula have received little attention.

The Ottoman Empire has acquiesced in the presence of the Tang Empire in Yemen, and the officials stationed there worked closely with the imperial military to brutally oppress the Arab people.

It can be said that the eldest brother does not talk about the second brother, and they are really working together.

urgent matter

The purpose is to convey the news to Zuo Zongtang that Tsarist Russia is fully committed to the European war. I believe this veteran general who has been on the battlefield should know what to do. This is a rare opportunity to change history!

(End of chapter)