Wild North America 1846

Chapter 245 Return of the Expeditionary Army

On March 1856, 3, the "Paris Agreement" was officially signed. As one of the victorious countries, Count Juan Carlos, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Tang, attended the contract signing ceremony with a confident smile on his face.

The "Contract of Paris" is the most shameful defeat treaty signed by the Tsarist Russian Empire in the past century.

The only harvest is that the Russians finally preserved the sovereignty of the Crimea Peninsula, leaving behind a bridgehead territory extending to the Black Sea.

Under the strong oppression of the United Kingdom, being able to hold this bottom line is the only achievement achieved by the diplomatic representatives of Tsarist Russia. Naturally, the overt and secret help of France and the Tang Kingdom during the negotiations was indispensable.

Leaving aside France, the Tang Kingdom is not a good person, and naturally has its own interests.

Although it was not reflected in the "Paris Agreement", in the private exchange of conditions, the Tang Kingdom received a lot of benefits from Tsarist Russia.

First of all, in the field of trade, products such as kerosene, cotton cloth, steel and canned food from the Kingdom of Tang will be imported into the hinterland of Tsarist Russia through the ports of Crimea on the Black Sea and Lithuania, a port on the Baltic Sea.

The specific conditions need to be discussed, but basically on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, preferential tariff treatment will be given, which is a matter discussed in advance.

Second, Russia provides convenience and non-discriminatory treatment to businessmen, students and migrant workers with Datang nationality in the Far East, and Datang Kingdom provides the same convenience to Russians, further deepening the cooperation between the two sides.

In the third aspect, Russia and Tang Dynasty will discuss the establishment of a joint venture railway from Crimea to Kyiv. Gradually, in the form of a joint venture company, an exclusive company will be established to invest in the railway. Labor force, land and franchise investment each account for a certain proportion of shares.

Today's Tsarist Russia is not as good as a phoenix on the ground. After suffering the most tragic failure in the past 200 years, its reputation has plummeted. rights and interests.

At this time, the royal families of European countries were laughing and laughing, the sharp ridicule of the public opinion became the mainstream voice, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Prussia, which had concluded the Holy Alliance, betrayed, and the Ukrainian Great Plains were full of dead bodies, while the domestic prices of Tsarist Russia were soaring, public dissatisfaction was boiling, and the economy was in crisis. On the verge of collapse, all this deeply hurt the lonely and proud Russian bear.

At this time, the goodwill shown by the Tang Kingdom is especially precious.

After the war

Since May, officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Army of the Kingdom of Tang, stationed in Sevastopol, Crimea, the city of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, and surrounding towns, began to pack their bags one after another, and boarded and returned with their women and children. cruise ship.

The military embodies a humane arrangement. Each soldier can bring one passenger back by boat, and children under the age of two can accompany them, and the military will pay for it.

The excess will be paid by the officers and men at their own expense.

This extra sentence is not a decoration. Many officers and soldiers have more than one woman and more than one child in Ukraine, and they can only bring it at their own expense.

What the military does is fair and just, and honest people are not allowed to suffer. This is the principle of doing things.

According to the regulations of the shipping company; pregnant women are not allowed to take transoceanic cruises, so as not to cause one dead and two dead due to acclimatization.

This seemingly cruel rule actually has its rationale. The voyage across the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico is about eleven or twelve days. Even if the conditions of the cruise ship are better than that of the immigration ship, it cannot guarantee the safety of pregnant women.

Shipping companies cannot afford such responsibilities.

In contrast
It is not a big problem to bring young children in the same company. The shipping company has special meal arrangements for such passengers. Generally, light and nutritious fish porridge, kelp and preserved egg porridge, salted fish and seaweed porridge with bread and cakes are the staple food. According to the conditions With fruit, it can generally ensure sufficient milk for pregnant women.

The real sea voyage across the Atlantic is eleven or twelve days. After arriving at the port of La Antigua or Medellin on the Gulf of Mexico, you can transfer to the newly opened railway to go west through Mexico City, and then turn north. It took more than 400 kilometers to reach Jinling, the southernmost city of the Tang Kingdom.

The five field divisions of the expeditionary force returning from Europe will be deployed in the eight southern provinces of the Tang Kingdom, including the port of La Antigua or Medellin, which still belongs to Mexico today, to strengthen the local defense .

The Mexican Civil War has entered its fourth year, and now the North and the South have begun peace talks, but the rebellious Aztec Republic in the south will still often cross the border to launch attacks. These two important port cities on the Gulf of Mexico are important targets.

Datang Kingdom, as the owner and actual user of the railway, of course cannot ignore this.

Nov. 1856, 1

After several rounds of consultations between Tang and Mo, the two sides concluded the "Tang, Mo and Jinling Friendship Treaty", which opened up two ports, La Antigua and Medellin, from business and commerce, immigration, personnel flow, and the garrison along the Gulf of Mexico Railway and port cities. The city has made institutional arrangements for all aspects of the free port.

Through this treaty, the Tang Kingdom has the right to garrison troops along the Mexican railways and port cities, open up and operate free port cities, further transport Chinese immigrants to the above-mentioned areas, and expand its influence in the area.

Backed by the powerful Tang Kingdom, the Mexican government can split most of the defense burden of the 700-kilometer-long states from the Gulf of Mexico to Mexico City, greatly reducing their own pressure.

years of civil war
The population ruled by the Mexican government, dominated by Mexico City, has dropped sharply to about 82 to 83, and more than 60 of them are gathered in Mexico City and surrounding towns. The combined population of the other six states controlled by government forces is Also less than 6.

In the face of cross-border attacks from the southern Aztec Republic, most of which ranged from 4000 to [-] people, the local state government was often unable to do what it wanted.

This is not to say how strong the southern Aztec Republic is. It controls a population of about 130 to 134 million, and is supported by foreign forces headed by the United States and Colombia. Because of religious and nationalist factors, morale is quite high. Mexico can often gain the upper hand in wars between chickens and chickens.

On January 1, after the two sides concluded the "Treaty of Friendship between Tang, Mo and Jinling", the public opinion media in the southern Aztec Republic reacted fiercely to this, calling it a "humiliating traitorous treaty" and "demonstrating the Tang Kingdom's wolfish ambitions for Mexican territory." "Foreign governments are colluding with pro-Tang forces and betraying the interests of the Mexican nation."

The newspapers in the northern United States were also in an uproar, and the "New York Daily" published the news on the front page with the headline:

"Datang Kingdom takes a new step in colonizing Mexico"

The report quoted the concerns of the top White House, and with various malicious speculations and pessimistic arguments, it showed a heartfelt concern for Mexico, just like a good neighbor.

The United States has completely forgotten how it annexed Mexico's Texas, Tijuana, and Monterey regions in one go. For this reason, it did not hesitate to launch the US-Mexico Tang War and launched a naked aggression against Mexico.

Just 7 years after the end of this war, the Yankees have forgotten the crimes of aggression they once committed.

Actually

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the rhetoric of American expansionism has always prevailed. The soft persimmons of the South, Mexico, are regarded by Yankees as their own meat on the plate.

Now this plate is taken away by the Tang Kingdom, but the Yankee has nothing to do. How can this huge gap not be sour?

The "Tang-Mo-Jinling Friendship Treaty" not only greatly deepened the exchanges between the two countries, tied Mexico tightly to the chariot of the Tang Kingdom, but also stipulated the mutual defense obligation.

This article is not only aimed at the Aztec Republic, but also at any foreign forces that invade Mexico. The implication is to include the good neighbor to the north, the United States of America.

Living in the middle of the 19th century, when the weak were preying on the strong, in the wilderness of North America, the weak Mexico was simply unable to protect itself.

The two bullies, the Tang Kingdom and the United States, can bully her, defile her, and torture her in different ways at any time, but those European powers turn a blind eye and listen to it.

International justice and justice are under the shadow of power. The Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Iran, the Manchu Dynasty, the Fusang Kingdom, Egypt, the kingdoms of the Indian subcontinent, and many feudal kingdoms with a long history are not immune, not to mention the small Mexico. .

The withdrawal of troops, which began in May, lasted for more than three months. In the ports of Odessa and Sevastopol on the Black Sea coast, people can be seen crying and saying goodbye every day.

Many white women with big bellies and their families came to the port to bid farewell to the returning Chinese officers and soldiers, and to meet again after a few years.

And those women who were lucky enough to board the ship were full of joy, and the joys and sorrows deduced countless joys and sorrows.

Many soldiers of the Expeditionary Army were refugees from the mainland of China. They had nothing at all. After coming to Europe for more than two years, they had women and children. Whenever possible, they would try their best to bring them back.

During the more than a year of stationing in the coastal areas of Ukraine, although there have been no major battles, there have been hundreds of small and medium-sized raids, encounter battles, and small and medium-scale battles for towns.

Under the coalition's policy of acquiescing to looting, the Chinese soldiers of the expeditionary force made some small fortunes more or less. Correspondingly, the large and small towns within a range of more than a hundred kilometers in the coastal areas of Ukraine have experienced war, looting and devastation. look.

now the war is over

Under the envious eyes of the Chinese officers and soldiers of the British Foreign Legion, the officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force set foot on the returning cruise ship one after another with their women and children and luggage, eagerly looking forward to the beginning of a new life.

The whereabouts of the Chinese officers and soldiers of the British Foreign Legion are much more complicated. Some went to Moldova, and some went to the Caucasus to perform isolation and supervision tasks.

Most of them are still stationed in the Sevastopol fortress to supervise the performance of the Russian army. In the next step, they may return to the British mainland, or go to Europe or Egypt to perform tasks.

anyway
The British guys really don't care about their own people. No matter how many wives, concubines and children the Chinese officers and soldiers have, they are all responsible for transportation and resettlement. The salary they give is slightly higher than that of the British soldiers, which can be said to be very generous.

This is because the British Foreign Legion is actually a mercenary in nature, and it needs to carry out overseas garrisons and field missions all year round, charging on the front line.

Without good treatment, who the hell will die for you?

(End of this chapter)