Wild North America 1846

Chapter 214 Statistics at the end of 1853
On February 1854, 2, due to the joint British and French fleet entering the Black Sea to intervene in the war, Tsarist Russia officially announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Britain and France.

Nov. 1854, 2

Not long after the Lunar New Year, bad news came from Europe. A cargo fleet composed of 6 ships from the Datang Kingdom encountered Tsarist Russia on the second day after crossing the Bosporus Strait and entering the Black Sea. Black Sea Fleet.

This is a fleet of 6 sail battleships and 8 sail frigates belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov of the Tsarist Russian Navy. The Datang Kingdom's cargo fleet was carrying out the task of transporting supplies, and the two sides immediately launched a sea chase.

in the roar of gunfire

The freighter fleet of Datang Kingdom urgently changed direction and sailed against the wind, using the greatest advantage of the steam freighter to run away at full speed, while the Tsarist Russian fleet followed closely with a zigzag track and fired warning shots non-stop.

The average speed of the freighter fleet is 9-10 knots. After encountering danger, they immediately accelerated to escape, and chose the most difficult direction against the wind for the sailing fleet. They galloped all the way with full horsepower, billowing thick smoke all the way, and reached the fastest speed of 11 knots per hour. .

The Tsarist Russian fleet was not a vegetarian either. Under the agitation of the strong sea wind, the fleet was divided into two and outflanked.

more than three hours later
The two freighters that fell behind were hit by Tsarist artillery one after another, and had to slow down their speed. The other four freighters took the opportunity to escape to the depths of the Black Sea, and soon disappeared between the water and the sky.

One of the two cargo ships hit by the Tsarist Russian fleet was severely damaged and the other was slightly injured. The heavily damaged cargo ship capsized due to a large amount of water, causing all 67 crew members on board to drown, including 19 white crew members, and all ships and cargo were lost.

This is the "Black Sea Incident" that shocked the Tang Kingdom. What is even worse is that the Tsarist Russian fleet did not take any action to rescue those who fell into the water from the beginning to the end. Instead, he laughed and pointed.

When the news was sent back to the Tang Kingdom, King Li Cha was furious. After the arrogant Russian representatives failed to negotiate, he officially announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia and prepared to declare war on Russia.

at the same time
The Tang Kingdom urgently contacted allies such as Britain, France, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and sternly declared the following three points;

Article 1: All the ships of Datang Kingdom operating Atlantic routes will not enter the Bosporus Strait or the Black Sea without the escort of allied ships.

Article 2: Allies such as Britain, France, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire should provide escorts for the Datang Kingdom team that transports war supplies, and suspend ocean transportation into the Black Sea until an agreement is reached on this issue.

Article 3; I hope that allies can clearly and unanimously support Datang Kingdom's demands for compensation and tracing the culprit.

Seeing that the Tang Kingdom took the initiative to join the war, Britain, France, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire expressed their official welcome attitudes in public, but their attitudes were ambiguous on whether to escort, and a unanimous decision could not be reached for a long time.

This is because the size of the fleet in the British and French combined fleet is very considerable. The British fleet has 11 main sailing battleships, while the French fleet has 14 ships and is equipped with more broadside guns. There are 100 warships with more than 8 broadside guns (French 5, UK 3).

The warships of the British and French fleets were driven by a mixture of sails and steam engines. Compared with the Tsarist Russian fleet that only used sails to power, it had obvious maneuvering advantages.

It is precisely because of the United Fleet that the British and the French have to discuss everything, and the decision-making process becomes procrastinated and inefficient. Any admiral who stands in the way, even London and Paris, can't help it.

Nov. 1854, 2

Britain and France issued an ultimatum to the Russian Empire, demanding that Russia withdraw from occupied Wallachia and Moldavia before April 4, but the Tsar ignored them.

3/12

Britain and France form a formal alliance with the Ottoman Empire. On March 3, the French Army boarded a ship to the Ottoman Empire, which opened the prelude to a large-scale land war.

A day later, the Russian army crossed the Danube.

France declared war on Russia on March 3, and the United Kingdom on March 27. The world's top three major powers appeared together. The scale of the war expanded uncontrollably, and the flames of war filled the entire Black Sea coast and the Balkans.

With more than 70 troops, Tsarist Russia faced millions of troops from Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire. Bloody and tragic wars were launched simultaneously in several war zones along the Danube, the Balkans, and the Black Sea coast. The situation was out of control.

Datang Kingdom, Maple Leaf Palace.

"What's the rush? Preparing to declare war is not declaring war. They haven't agreed to my conditions yet!" Li Cha was wearing a loose light-colored robe, sitting behind the desk in the bright Dongge study, with a very calm face.

After the "Black Sea Incident" occurred, public opinion reports immediately aroused social uproar in Datang Kingdom, and many hardliners shouted for beating and killing.

Looking at that appearance, it seems that he is about to lead an army of 10 to go to Europe.

Actually

Even if the Tang Kingdom sent 10 troops, it was only a drizzle among the allied forces. In a large-scale battle of 300 to 10 million people, how useful would [-] people be?
King Li Cha was very angry at that time, vowed to make the old man look good, and also uttered a lot of cruel words, but the thunder was loud and the rain was little, and the follow-up actions would soon be invisible.

The official declaration of war is nowhere in sight.

Count Juan Carlos, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has a bitter look on his face. He is now being pushed to death by the British, the French, and the diplomatic representatives of the Ottoman Empire. The diplomatic letters on the table are half the height of a person, and there is only one core problem. ;
When did the Tang Kingdom declare war?When will the troops be dispatched?How many people are going to be sent to the European battlefield?

Count Juan Carlos knows a ghost!

The political and military affairs of the Tang Kingdom have always been decided by His Majesty the king. If His Majesty does not speak, he cannot mobilize a single soldier, and the supplies and war funds are not available. What kind of war?
Count Juan Carlos looked at His Majesty in a good mood, and glanced at Prime Minister Count Gu Yan in a blink of an eye, intending to ask the Prime Minister how to reply to these European allies?

Who knew that Prime Minister Gu Yan looked up at the beam in a daze, as if he could see a flower, and he didn't even look this way.

Earl Juan Carlos was so angry that his teeth were itchy, so he had a modest smile on his face, and asked softly; "Your Majesty, seeing that the war in Europe is becoming increasingly fierce, and the allies are pressing hard, what should the Ministry of Foreign Affairs do? If you deal with it properly, I really don't know what to do in my mind?"

"What time is it now?"

"Oh, Your Majesty Qizuo, it's May 5th in the Gregorian calendar."

"Then let's use the escort issue as a shield first, delay it for two months, mobilize it in August and September, and the vanguard will arrive in Europe, and it will be the end of the year."

"Then... what is the size of the army to be dispatched?"

"This is not necessarily the case. The vanguard should be between 6000 and [-] people. The situation in Europe is very complicated. You can't rush into the army. You have to eat at one bite, and things have to be done step by step."

"My minister understands." Count Juan Carlos was also a smart person, so he understood everything.

It's just passive sabotage!
Shouting loudly, in fact, the movement is slower than a snail, and the work is effortless.

After talking about this matter, they talked about the now fierce "Kansas Civil War" at the imperial meeting. The battlefield of the Kansas Civil War was not limited to this state, but also spread to the neighboring state of Texas.

The hot-tempered rednecks organized several volunteer militia cavalry squads, killed those volunteers from the free state, left more than 170 corpses, greased their feet and ran away.

Today's North America is turbulent and not peaceful.

In addition, there was an extra intruder, the Tang Kingdom, who fanned the flames in the "Kansas Civil War", sent funds and guns to the southern slavers, and dispatched experienced retired white cavalry officers to participate in the command operations. The trouble was more violent than the original history many.

The vendetta between the north and the south of the United States has intensified under the leadership of the spoilers, forming indelible scars.

"What's the situation with Jefferson Davis?" Richard asked casually.

Provoking and deepening the conflict between the North and the South of the United States is something that the Army Staff Headquarters personally participated in. The Chief of Staff, Earl Dai Changfu, knew this very well, and people from the military and the Ministry of the Interior participated in it.

He glanced at Viscount Gawangshan, the minister of the Ministry of the Interior, and seeing him making a subtle "please" gesture, he cleared his throat, took a step forward, saluted with both hands and replied:
"Show Your Majesty;
The "Dawning Star Project" participating in the Kansas Civil War is progressing smoothly. The Jefferson-Davis side Mississippi Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, funded by our side, has just recently bloodbathed several towns where the liberals have a majority, killing and wounding more than 370 rebels , and hanged a dozen liberal leaders.

Evolving according to the current situation

This move greatly angered the liberals in the north, and news came from the Great Lakes region; liberal volunteers will form no less than three cavalry regiments to reinforce Kansas.

Anzi from the Ministry of the Interior has made a lot of efforts in this regard, donating about 8300 US dollars to northern volunteers through various means, and there are more than 100 outdated firearms, which can be regarded as a token of appreciation.

Abraham Lincoln, a former U.S. congressman and the main backbone of the newly formed Republican Party, swore at a rally gathered by northern liberals; "I will personally lead the Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry to the battlefield to fight back against the provocations of the Southerners and to liquidate their past crimes." Every penny of blood debt."

Now it seems
The anger of both the North and the South was aroused, and the expansion of the scale of the civil war was just around the corner. Northern cavalry rushed into Texas from time to time to collect food and supplies, which aroused the anger of the red necks.

Ha ha... Anyway, there is a good show to watch. "

"Oh, well done." Li Cha raised his brows, and gave a rare word of praise.

When he heard that Lincoln personally went off to participate in the Civil War, he really looked forward to the early duel between Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.

As the leaders of both sides during the American Civil War, the preview of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in the Kansas Civil War is quite exciting.

in the original history

Without the instigation and fire from the Tang Kingdom, the North and South of the United States also fought a civil war in Kansas for more than five years. Although the intensity of the war was not very high, deep cracks had already formed.

Now, with the unforeseen factor of the Tang Dynasty constantly fighting, the irritable and straightforward American cowboy rolled up his sleeves and started working. The situation has become as uncontrollable as a wild horse, and the civil war is on the verge of escalating.

As for the Datang Kingdom, it is taking the time to develop the economy and promote the industrialization process, further consolidate the kingdom's foundation, spare no effort to promote the process of Chinese immigration to North America, and strive to strengthen the national strength.

By the end of 1853
The total economic output of the Tang Kingdom reached 9.77 million Tang yuan, achieving an average annual growth rate of 38.6%. The industrial system dominated by the light and textile industry has already entered the threshold of an industrialized country.

The total mileage of national railways is 1.86 kilometers, the output of pig iron is 53.7 tons, steel is 19.7 tons, and the mileage of wired telegraph is 5.5 kilometers.

As the world's largest producer and exporter of petrochemical products, Datang Kingdom used the asphalt produced in large quantities in petrochemical production to harden and transform cities and roads across the country, and achieved fruitful results.

Statistics up to 1953;

Under the leadership of Viscount Huang Yuanjia, the Ministry of Communications, while making every effort to promote the construction of the railway trunk line and branch line network, improved and perfected the asphalt construction of the national road network, which won a lot of praise.

in the past three years
Asphalt roads have undergone three stages of small-scale pilot projects, promotion and full-scale deployment of coastal arterial roads, and a batch of steam machinery suitable for asphalt paving roads has been developed, which has greatly improved the efficiency.

In particular, asphalt paver powered by steam locomotive, special railway asphalt transport train, steam asphalt mixer and other equipment have played an important role in practice.

The asphalt paver is a four-wheeled large-scale steam machine powered by a steam locomotive, dragging a trailer full of asphalt, all the way along the way.

Although the design is very simple and crude, it really works very well.

The convicts in charge of paving the asphalt road followed closely behind, smoothing the hot asphalt with shovels, and then dragging the big stone rollers with manpower to roll and pave the asphalt road. Four to five kilometers of asphalt roads can be paved a day.

If there are 200 people in each asphalt paving team, ten groups can pave 50 kilometers of asphalt roads every day, and the asphalt is transported by specially modified heat-insulated carriages, which is quite efficient.

By the end of 1853, more than 8100 kilometers of main roads and urban roads had been paved with asphalt beaches across the country, and all the main railway lines along the coast had been paved.

In the planning of the Ministry of Transport;

In 6-7 years, 5.8 kilometers of main and branch roads and urban roads across the country will be fully asphalted and hardened.

Next Step

It will take 10 years to harden 10 kilometers of roads below the third grade leading to towns and pastures across the country, urban roads and remote roads, so as to realize the most developed road transportation network in the world.

The promotion and construction of asphalt roads has greatly improved the efficiency and load capacity of horse-drawn carriages, reduced the wear and tear of wheels and carriages, and played an important role in promoting the circulation of goods on national roads and strengthening the transportation capacity.

In the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty, the principle of driving on the right is fully implemented in road traffic, and lanes are drawn in the middle of the road, and people and horse-drawn carriages go their own way. This greatly reduces road traffic accidents and improves the smoothness of transportation. It is simple and convenient. A great thing for the country and the people.

(End of this chapter)