Wild North America 1846

Chapter 366 The Chance in the North

A butterfly flapped its wings in the Amazon jungle. Half a month later, a storm occurred in the Pacific Ocean...

After the Battle of Virginia, the defeat and capture of the "Constitution" had far-reaching impacts. The British political earthquake was one of them. This directly led to the downfall of the Henry John Temple government, and London fell into a new round of political games ...

It was early October when the news reached the Tang Empire, and this is the most beautiful season of the year in Chang'an (San Francisco). The autumn is crisp, the fruits are fragrant, and it is full of a prosperous and prosperous urban atmosphere.

According to the statistics of Chang'an City at the end of June 1861, the population of the entire Chang'an metropolitan area reached 6 million, ranking the largest metropolis on the west coast of North America and the second largest metropolis in the entire American continent after New York.

New York and Chang'an, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast, are both world-class metropolises, ranking second and third in the global rankings, second only to London, which has a total population of more than 337 million. metropolitan area.

As the largest city in the world today, London had a population of just over 1800 in 90, and reached 1851 million in 263, and 10 years later, this number increased to 337 million. metropolitan agglomeration effect.

This aggregation effect is also reflected in the second Tang Empire that entered industrialization. The population of Chang'an City grew steadily and rapidly, showing an increasingly steep population growth curve, which also brought a lot of happiness. trouble.

This is the "metropolitan disease" that has attracted widespread attention from sociologists. The metropolitan area is overcrowded. Although Chang'an City has world-leading urban planning, the streets of large and small cities are spacious and clean, but the ills of population gathering cannot be avoided.

With the rapid expansion of the city, the traffic problem has become an unavoidable problem. The main means of transportation in the city, the public carriage, has a small capacity, high operating costs, and it is difficult to solve the urban pollution problem.

That is to say, pack horses urinate everywhere, and there is always a lingering smell of urine on the streets where public carriages run frequently.

On the basis of the existing urban public carriages, the idea of ​​developing a tram was put forward. Led by the government's science and technology fund, the preliminary technology research and development work was carried out in several science universities in the empire with relatively strong electrical foundation.

Demand-oriented is the starting point for the technological development of Datang Empire.

Daming Palace, Taiye Pool

In this harvest season when sweet osmanthus is fragrant and the branches are covered with melons and fruits, the rare trees in the inner courtyard of the palace are no exception, and they are also full of trees.

Emperor Li Cha took the queen and a group of concubines, princes, and princesses together to enjoy the flowers in the garden.

Today
The royal family can be described as thriving, with a total of 23 princes and 18 princesses. The eldest prince, His Royal Highness Tang-Li Yuan, has reached the age of 14.The eldest son of the empress, the third prince, His Highness Tang-Li Qian, was conferred the title of King Qin. He is 12 years old this year, while the young prince is still in his infancy.

The 6 princes over the age of 10 were all conferred the title of Grand Duke, and the other young princes will not be rewarded for the time being, and we will wait until they grow up.

The royal family, a large family, plus hundreds of court ladies, Li Cha's docile and colorful white tigers were also present, and a prince and princess who was only a few years old sat on his back, screaming excitedly .

Li Cha withdrew his gaze gently, and said to Empress Lin (Lin Zhener) beside him; "Empress, Li Qian, Li Kun, Li Xin, Li Yuan, these princes are all young men of martial arts, it's time to let them go out and train I intend to arrange to enter the Eastern Army for training, to see the battles in the territory opened up by the emperor for them, and to experience it for myself."

"Everything is according to what His Majesty said, and all the ministers and concubines will obey."

"That's good. A week later, we will arrange for the train patent to go east. The six knighted princes will be among them. All of them will join the battle as second lieutenants of the Royal Army. I have already arranged it."

"Ah...why is Your Majesty so anxious? Li Yuan is better at 14 years old, but Li Xin has just turned 10 this year. I am afraid that this child is too young to endure the hard life of the army."

"The queen's words are wrong. King William I of Prussia joined the army at the age of nine, and among the military nobles of the Germanic Junkers, there are many noble children who joined the army at the age of 5 and 6. Others can do it. Why do the royal children of the Tang royal family do it? not?"

"I... I beseech Your Majesty to forgive me. The courtiers and concubines are short-sighted." The three sons of Empress Lin were all in the army this time, and when she thought of this, she couldn't bear it, and she couldn't help crying.

Li Cha sighed softly, put his palm on Queen Lin's round shoulders, and persuaded him gently; "I know that the Queen has a loving mother's heart, but jade is not cut, and it is useless. Today's world is the law of the jungle where the weak prey on the strong, and there is no one." With a brave and diligent heart, looking at the world's vision, after all, he is just a useless person who is full of food all day long.

My descendants of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty have to be sharpened in the army and endure the influence of the smoke of war before they can grow into pillars of the empire.

Sometimes, spoiling is killing children!
This time the six princes will be accompanied by the children of the top nobles of the empire, and they will not be lonely among the army.I will write another imperial decree in hand, ordering the generals in the army to take care of me more, so the queen can rest assured. "

Empress Lin felt inexplicably grateful for His Majesty's gentle persuasion. She gently leaned forward and gently held His Majesty's big hand and said, "The concubine obeys His Majesty's arrangement, and will prepare the children for the expedition when they turn back."

"Don't bring too many, there are rules in the army, especially you can't bring court maids."

"The concubine understands, it makes sense."

"Yeah." Li Cha nodded, and saw Zheng Yuan, the head of the secretariat, standing far outside the pavilion with his long neck stretched out to look inside, then turned his head and said to Queen Lin; "Go and take the Let the children play, pass on that guy Zheng Yuan, and see what his reasoning is."

Empress Lin knew that they had business to do, so she pursed her lips and agreed, and led all the maids out gracefully.

soon
Zheng Yuan came to the pavilion with a respectful demeanor, and gave a deep salute; "I congratulate Your Majesty. According to the diplomatic email that just arrived, on October 10, the British Henry John Temple cabinet fell. This has always been related to my Tang Empire. The opposing British politicians have finally stepped down, and Prime Minister Liu Xianjun was overjoyed with joy, and immediately reported it."

"Oh... let's hear it." Li Cha asked with interest.

Director Zheng Yuan had a detailed understanding of the whole story in the diplomatic emails, and there was a letter from the British cabinet, so he knew the scene very well, and described it vividly.

A moment later
Emperor Li Cha laughed thoughtfully, the British guys really don't have any money, this is in line with their usual style.

With the powerful army and navy of the Tang Empire today, what the British Royal Navy wants to forcibly ask for is likely to upset the Tang Empire, and in the end they will get nothing.

Really tearing the skin off, can the British Empire really raise millions of troops to cross the Atlantic expedition?

During the Second Opium War
The first British army in 1858 was only 4600 people. After the defeat, it made a comeback in 1860. The British army reached 1.8 troops, most of whom were servants from the Indian subcontinent, Hong Kong and Weihaiwei. The army that actually invested from the British mainland was 1600. No one arrives.

That is to bully the corrupt and stupid Manchu Qing government. This little force landed on the North American continent, and it was not enough to give the Tang Empire a bite. The British knew this very well.

The Tang Empire, located in North America, is not afraid of the United Kingdom, and maintains good relations with France, Austria-Hungary, Prussia, Italy and other European powers. It has frequent political and economic exchanges, and there is a recent marriage proposal. It is not alone.

With Britain and France as both allies and eternal competitors, the military technology exported by the Datang Kingdom has a lot of room for manipulation, and this is a situation that the Royal Navy does not want to see.

Good things must be close to the British first, otherwise it will be a threat to British interests. This is their gangster logic.

After waving his hand to let Director Zheng Yuan back down first, Li Cha stood up with his hands behind his back and walked around, thinking about whether he could benefit from this diplomatic earthquake, mainly because of the Canadian issue in the north.

During his tenure as Prime Minister Henry John Temple, he pushed forward the "British North American Policy". Dominion.Since then, other provinces have been mobilized to join the federation.

In this way, the divided British colonies would be united, preventing unnecessary ambitions from their southern neighbors.

The American Confederation in the south once invaded Canada. Although the Tang Kingdom was full of friendship and allies, the British were still worried. After all, the British Canadian colony was such a big piece of fat that it was hanging on the lips.

It is for this purpose that during his tenure as Prime Minister Henry John Temple, he pushed for the union of three provinces dominated by British Canadians to form a dominion, an independent country attached to the United Kingdom.

This policy is also highly criticized in Canada. All the colonial provinces are used to idle people. They suddenly want to take back the power of the autonomous provinces and let the country take the lead. Opposition is pouring in.

In particular, Quebec, which is dominated by French people, has the most vocal opposition. All kinds of non-cooperation and various reluctance have led to the fact that a united Canada has not yet been born.

if history doesn't change

The wrangling did not come to a conclusion until 1867. The initial prototype of the Canadian country appeared, and then one autonomous province after another joined it. The last autonomous province joined in the 20s.

Is there any chance among them to get their hands on Canada in the north?

There must be opportunities. Li Cha mainly wants to get British Columbia and Yukon in Canada north of the Northern Province. It would be even better if there is a chance to get Alberta.

Thus

The territory of the Tang Empire extends from Alaska all the way to the south along the North American continent, and finally reaches Panama in Central America. What a vast and exciting territory it is!

If he really eats such a large piece of fat, Richard's ambition in North America will be almost satisfied, and it doesn't matter if he can get a little more in other places, such as Texas.

Whether you can get it depends on the development of the situation, alas, sometimes it is not humanly possible.

In the long term

The Tang Empire has always maintained a basic foreign policy of pulling one to fight in North America, and maintaining long-term alliances with the regimes in the South of the United States is the cornerstone of this foreign policy, and it will persist for 50 years, 100 years or even longer.

This conflicts with the attempt to seek Texas, the so-called can not have both fish and bear's paw.

A Texas that maintains a close and friendly relationship can become a major channel for the Tang Empire to export to Europe. There is no economic conflict, so it depends on the evolution of the situation.

(End of this chapter)