Wild North America 1846

Chapter 218 Resource Treasury
When the Crimean War in Europe was in full swing, the public opinion circles of the Tang Kingdom criticized the "Black Sea Incident" and demanded repeated negotiations with Tsarist Russia, which virtually delayed the time.

A few months later
The Tsarist Russian fleet, which was rampant in the Black Sea for a while, fell apart under the attack of the absolute superiority of the British and French combined fleets. The instigator, Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, was also buried in the tragic naval battle.

From a certain point of view, it is also a disguised form of revenge for the crew and sailors of the Datang Kingdom who died unjustly in the Black Sea incident.

But the request of the Datang Kingdom is not only that, but also requires a public trial of the responsibility of the Black Sea Fleet and higher-level generals responsible for this, and demands compensation and an apology.

Such a request is tantamount to compensation for defeat, and it is a public humiliation to Tsar Nicholas I. Even if Russia is defeated, it is impossible for the stubborn Russia to agree, unless it is Britain who made the request.

In the eyes of world powers, Datang Kingdom is still a small player on the world chessboard.

On September 1854, 9, the Kingdom of Tang officially declared war on Tsarist Russia and joined the same camp as Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War, and it was also the only ally outside Europe.

By this time
Only then did the Kingdom of Tang slowly begin preparations for an expeditionary force to Europe, recruiting recruits from among the new Chinese immigrants for training, supplemented by experienced officers and sergeants, and recruiting a total of 5 troops.

The first phase of recruiting soldiers was from the beginning of September to the end of September, and the total number of recruits has not yet reached 1. Many ordinary people don't know where the recruiters stand?
There was neither publicity nor mobilization, and many people who wanted to sign up for the expeditionary army could not find a way. In this way, nearly 1 people were recruited in less than a month.

At this time, during the Crimean War, the brutal battle between the two sides for the fortress of Sevastopol officially started.

In order to land and overcome the Tsarist Russian Black Sea Fleet Sevastopol Fortress, the Anglo-French coalition forces and the Ottoman Empire gathered heavy troops. On September 9, with the support of almost all the British and French fleets, they landed on a large scale at the Sevastopol Fortress.

After the British and French joint fleet bombarded the fortress continuously, a large number of transport fleets transported soldiers ashore wave after wave, and started a fierce battle with the Russian army that had been waiting here.

The battle was unprecedentedly fierce, and both sides invested their troops regardless of the cost to fight for every inch of land.

The British commander is Lord Raglan, an easy-going nobleman.The commander of the French army is Marshal Armand Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnault, a new generation of French soldiers created during the French Revolution.

The British and French allied forces invested more than 6000 divisions in the landing battle. Each division had a strength of more than 10 troops and a total of more than [-] troops. After hard fighting, a stable landing field was opened up.

Among the several war zones after the outbreak of the Crimean War, the battle for the Sevastopol fortress was the most cruel, fierce, and bloody, and the price paid by both sides was the heaviest.

Due to the continuous input of troops from the coalition forces, Tsarist Russia also tried its best to deploy reinforcements. The two sides formed a tug-of-war in the Sevastopol fortress, which lasted for more than a year.

Long-distance expeditions had to overcome various difficulties, especially the fact that local women were very cheap. This caused a large number of soldiers in the British and French allied forces to be infected with syphilis and other venereal diseases, and the cholera epidemic in the military camps caused a large number of attrition.

In an unexpected fire before launching the landing battle, the logistics supply camp of the British and French allied forces disappeared, and 16 pairs of boots alone were lost, as well as tens of thousands of tents and other important supplies.

have to say
In the middle of the 19th century, the old colonial powers such as Britain and France were extremely capable of bearing war losses. In addition to urgently deploying supplies, they launched a large-scale battle to attack the Sevastopol fortress as scheduled, even if the casualties increased.

In response to the slow mobilization of the Tang Kingdom, the British commander, Baron Raglan, said to the reporter of The Times who came to interview on the battlefield in Sevastopol where the corpses were strewn across the field;
"Thank God, Tang's declaration of war on the Russians is really good news. I just hope they move faster, even if it's just adding an infantry division to my men, it may be the last straw that crushes the Russians. If If we continue to move slowly like this, we may not be able to catch up with the defeat of the Russians and sign the treaty."

from these words
You can also hear the tragic taste of the Sevastopol frontline battle. When the soldiers of the British and French allied forces braved the fierce fire of the new Russian artillery and marched forward, how much they wished that there were support from the Oriental army around them?

There is no doubt about the cruelty of European wars. Tens of thousands of shells are often fired in an attack battle.

The reason why the Russian army was able to survive the fierce attack was not only the soldiers' tenacious will to resist and continuous reinforcements, but also its new Colt breech-loading artillery and new artillery shells, which also caused huge damage to the coalition forces.

Fortunately, the Russians have a limited number of shells, and 10,000+ shells cannot determine the final direction of the war.

The rifled Minie rifle equipped by the British army in 1851 has lethal lethality within a range of 550 yards, and caused heavy casualties to the Russian army in battlefield duels.

The old-fashioned smoothbore guns equipped by the Russian army have an effective range of only 150 to 200 yards. They have poor shooting accuracy and low power, and are very disadvantaged in infantry line operations.

The British and French allied forces have the support of naval naval guns, far exceeding the Russian army in the number of artillery.

With this back and forth, the tug-of-war between the two sides became more and more fierce.

Often the positions just occupied by the British and French allied forces during the day were recaptured by the Tsarist Russian army at night through a sharp-edged charge. A position was repeatedly saw-sawed more than a dozen times or more, and the corpses beaten were all over the field, unprecedentedly bloody.

across the vast ocean
The Kansas Civil War in North America also intensified. The state governments supported by both the North and the South quickly armed themselves and established various voluntary militia groups. Many North and South military officers from West Point Military Academy even participated in commanding operations.

In just seven, eight, nine and three months, the two sides had 171 large and small battles, with a total of nearly 4000 casualties. The competition has become increasingly fierce, and the scale of the battle has a tendency to further expand.

not far away
The autumn harvest scene on the Colorado Plateau is full of golden wheat waves, melons and fruits are fragrant, and horse-drawn carriages full of harvested crops are flowing on the asphalt road. Everyone’s face is filled with joy after the harvest.

With the deepening of the war, Europe's demand for materials became more urgent. The Colorado plateau was rich in rum, whiskey, Mexican vermouth, etc., and the orders received were often hundreds or thousands of tons.

The pastures in the northern provinces were also busy, and more than 10 horses had been sent to the European frontline battlefields. The subsequent orders were several times that, and the prices were good, which made everyone happy.

Also in early September;

大唐王国统计的全国人口数量第1次超过800万，达到803.37万人。6、7、8三个月的单月移民总数皆超过10万人之巨，达到了建国以来华人移民潮的高峰。

On the one hand, this is because the war in Shenzhou spread to the north, including the North Zhili and Jiaodong Peninsula, forming a huge refugee wave of more than 130 million people, but very few of them were able to board the immigration boat.

Datang Kingdom only needs a population of young people between the ages of 10 and 25, especially males and marriageable girls. It is required to be in good health, good in appearance, articulate, and preferably have a certain cultural ability.

These few principles alone exclude the vast majority of refugees.

Of course, wealthy businessmen at their own expense, fleeing official families, monks and Taoists of traditional Chinese medicine, famous pear gardeners and other self-funded immigrants with certain economic capabilities can board the immigration ship with their families.

Naturally, there will be no restrictions on the tickets bought by others at their own expense.

The vast territory of the Tang Kingdom is like a dry sponge desperately absorbing a large amount of labor, with an astonishingly large appetite, almost as much as you want.

Fortunately, in the first half of the year, the Tang Kingdom passed the "Oriented Immigrant Preferential Loan Act" advocated by the central and eastern provinces. These bills initiated by the central and eastern inland provinces lock the destination of the immigration loans in advance to prevent them from being divided up by the provinces along the West Sea.

Along with the economic prosperity, hundreds of large and small banks and money houses appeared in the Tang Kingdom, which caused chaos in the financial market to a certain extent while meeting the needs of economic development and immigrant loan needs.

For this reason, in September, the Datang Kingdom Council officially passed the "Financial Law" (provisional), which set entry thresholds for the current financial field, standardized business operations, and made many extremely influential restrictions.

For example: different levels of financial licenses have been set up. Higher-level financial licenses can operate all types of lending and immigration loans, absorb savings funds, and operate offshore immigration loan business.

Low-level financial licenses have a lot of restrictions. Depending on the deposit reserve and strength, only one or several types of financial businesses are allowed to operate.

on the basis of

The "Financial Law" (provisional) implements the financial supervision system, financial punishment measures, lists the conditions of financial crimes, and clarifies the standards for financial fraud and violations of laws and regulations.

This is conducive to the standardized development of large banks and banks with strong strength, maintaining the order of the financial market, cracking down on financial speculation, and bringing the development of the banking and insurance industries into a standardized track.

Seattle

This coastal city has ushered in new opportunities in the European war. The salted fish and salty sea goods produced here have become important military supplies. Large orders from Europe often range from hundreds to thousands of tons, and the export volume every quarter reaches tens of thousands of tons

On the one hand, this has strongly increased the price of seafood, and on the other hand, it has greatly promoted the development of Seattle's marine fishing industry, shipbuilding industry and seafood processing plants, and the development momentum is gratifying.

You can see the seaside along the coast of Seattle. The original dozen shipyards have grown to dozens, and every one of them is doing well. There are ship owners holding money waiting anxiously behind them.

The current situation in Seattle is that as soon as the seafood arrives on the shore, it is divided up. All the processing plants are producing day and night at full capacity. The products are shipped to Panama immediately after they come out. Three weeks later, they will appear on the table of the Crimean coalition forces. .

If you want to get a share of this feast, you must first have a fishing boat.

Therefore, since the beginning of this year, the business of various shipyards in Seattle has been booming, and many shipyards have placed orders until the second half of next year or even the year after.

But can the war last so long?
It's slow to start, and I can't even eat hot shit.

It is against this background that Seattle's shipyards are blooming everywhere, and some small shipyards have only a dozen people, but they still dare to accept shipbuilding orders.

There is no doubt about the talent and courage of the Chinese in business. As long as there is a suitable soil, they will flourish. The manufacturing process of steel ships spread rapidly in the Datang Kingdom. As long as a few experienced craftsmen raise a sum of money, they dare to open a shipyard and become ship owners themselves. .This also caused a lot of experienced craftsmen in large steel factories to lose.

The fishing boats fishing in the offshore are not big, basically about 100 to [-] tons to more than [-] tons, even if they are big boats, small boats can be [-] to [-] tons.

If you can't buy iron boats, you can also buy wooden boats, anyway, as long as you can catch fish.

Now the Internal Combustion Engine Research Office of the University of California, Datang Kingdom has invented a small diesel engine with only 4 horsepower. It is very simple and convenient through an iron shaft and a propeller. It is quite a good power for fishing boats.

If the power is not enough, then there are two, and if it is not enough, then three or four.

And this newly invented small diesel engine is the guarantee for the blooming of Seattle shipyards.

Just build a hull, whether it is a wooden boat or an iron boat, and hang two small diesel engines behind the buttocks, and you can go fishing.

Anyway, according to the current conditions, it is not far to go to sea.

Those medium and large fishing vessels can only be built by powerful shipyards. They are equipped with medium-sized horizontal steam engines, which have high power and can last for a long time, and they can go fishing in the COSCO Sea.

Of course, this kind of medium and large fishing boats requires a lot of investment and takes a long time to build. It is far less fast and cheaper than small fishing boats.

After more than 6 years of development
Seattle has developed into a second-tier city with a population of 28.9. It is already one step away from a first-tier city with a population of 30, and it will definitely be surpassed by the end of the year.

On Vancouver Island, more than 170 kilometers north of Seattle, there is also a small fishing village that has developed into a large fishing city with a population of more than 10. It is famous for its timber and fishing.

In particular, the towering giant trees produced in Vancouver slide directly into the sea along the slides on the mountain, and then bundle them into wooden rafts, which are towed by steamers along the coast and drive all the way south to Chang'an (San Francisco) Bay. They are the main timber for the construction of the Daming Palace. supplier.

have to say
The rich resources in North America are inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Even though the Tang Kingdom is doing its best to colonize in the rapid development, the development area still only accounts for a little more than 3% of the entire territory.

After Alaska was included in the scope of the country, the development ratio of the Datang Kingdom was further reduced, falling below 5% to just over 3%.

Within the territory of the Tang Kingdom, there are more than 200 million bison herds, billions of passenger pigeons, more than one million wild horses and countless other wild animals.

In the six northern provinces, the vast black land has a very low degree of development, and is often tens of hundreds of kilometers uninhabited. There are only large areas of mountains, forests and grasslands, which contain rich mineral resources that need to be developed urgently.

The most striking example is the rich oil resources in North Dakota Province. The proven amount is extremely astonishing, but because it is located in the inland and the road is far away, it does not have the conditions for development for the time being, so it has no choice but to shelve it.

This kind of situation is not uncommon. The national resource survey expert team sent by the Datang Kingdom discovered extremely rich deposits of coal, iron, copper, zinc, aluminum, lead and oil in the newly acquired eight provinces of Mexico and six northern provinces. , because of various reasons, it cannot be developed for the time being, which I have to say is quite regrettable.

(End of this chapter)