Wild North America 1846

In 1874, the situation in East Asia changed subtly. The Fusang Kingdom invaded North Korea’s Ganghwa Island. Japanese ships destroyed forts, landed and massacred North Korean soldiers and civilians, forcing North Korea to conclude the "Treaty of Ganghwa", and seized a series of aggressive rights.

The Tang Empire knew about this from beginning to end, and acquiesced in the invasion of the Korean peninsula by the forces of the Fusang Kingdom. There is a reason for this...

Originally at this historical stage

Fusang country entered the period of "Meiji Restoration", began to industrialize while comprehensively learning from the West, and actively colonized and expanded foreign countries. In 1874, it invaded Taiwan Island and created the "Peony Club Incident".

Also in this year, Fusang invaded the Kingdom of Ryukyu on a large scale, coercing King Shangtai to stop paying tribute to the Qing court, and pay tribute to Fusang instead, in preparation for the annexation of the Ryukyu Islands.

now history has changed
After the Fusang Civil War, as the samurai regime (shogunate) retreated behind the scenes, they formed the first Fusang cabinet government in the modern sense with the reformers who "respected the king and rejected the barbarians".The domestic situation in Fusang has been greatly improved, and it has been several years.

Although there are many internal contradictions, Fusang still started the historical process of learning from Datang and Europe and the United States, promoted many innovative measures, and produced positive significance.

On the one hand, this has eased the domestic conflicts in Fusang, and boosted the confidence of industrial and commercial people by developing the economy. On the other hand, it has been widely supported by the people, and the economic development has entered the fast lane.

Fusang quickly discovered the development bottleneck;
The three elements for the development of industrialization are markets, raw materials, and funds. The last item can be solved through loans, but the first two items cannot be avoided anyway.

However, Fuso is an island country with a lack of resources. In the case of Amami Oshima in the south and the Ryukyu Kingdom are all vassals of the Tang Empire, the mainland and Taiwan Island have the same origin as the suzerain country, basically blocking the way to colonize the south.

look around
Only the Korean peninsula has rich coal and iron resources and a large population, which is suitable for colonization and development.

If the Korean Peninsula can be colonized, then the coal and iron resources that are in short supply for the development of industry can be solved, and a rich supply of important minerals such as gold, silver, tungsten, lead, and aluminum can be obtained, which solves the shortcomings of industrial development.

With mineral resources and markets, the process of industrialization will inevitably be greatly accelerated. This is the inevitable result of the development of Fusang's interests.

If Fusang was forced not to go north to colonize the Korean peninsula, he would not dare to violate it, but he would inevitably feel resentment, leaving a deep gap that was difficult to bridge.

The Emperor of the Tang Empire, Richard, thought over and over again, and finally decided to adopt a tacit attitude, not obstructing the strategic direction of Fusang's colonial development to the north, which was in line with the current interests of the empire.

Today, in the north of East Asia, Tsarist Russia’s policy of “looking east” for expansion has become very obvious and has achieved rich returns, which further stimulated Tsarist Russia’s colonial expansion ambitions.

In just over 20 years, Tsarist Russia seized 154 million square kilometers of land from the Qing Empire through war blackmail and threats without spending a single soldier.

During this period
Tsarist Russia successively sent troops to Central Asia, destroyed the Kokand Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, and acquired nearly 400 million square kilometers of land in one fell swoop, of which Kazakhstan (Kokand Khanate) alone had more than 270 million square kilometers.

In addition to the nearly 26 square kilometers (part of Xinjiang) occupied by Tsarist Russia's invasion of Ili, the total before and after is 580 million square kilometers. What a vast territory is this?

The success of the "Look East" policy has greatly stimulated the territorial ambitions of Tsarist Russia. They ambitiously formulated the "Yellow Russia Plan" to invade Xinjiang in an all-round way and occupy the Manchurian and Mongolian regions including the three eastern provinces. Gain warm access to the sea.

The goal has been set, and that is "Dalian", the capital of Yellow Russia in the east.

Faced with the heavy pressure of Tsarist Russia's eastward invasion, the British felt it, and Datang naturally felt it too. The two sides could not help but put their hopes of containing Tsarist Russia's forces on Fusang.

Regardless of whether it is the United Kingdom or the Tang Dynasty, they are unwilling to spend a lot of troops in East Asia and Tsarist Russia. It is a difficult task that consumes a lot of national strength.

The confrontation with the Tsarist Russian Empire is not a war or two wars, but a strategic confrontation that lasts for decades or hundreds of years, requiring 10 soldiers for a long time.

Even with the strong strength of the British and Tang Dynasties, it is too much to bear.

Under such strategic needs, the strength of the Fusang country cannot be overly weakened, and even some policy support is required, such as financial loans, industry, trade and other fields.

The Fusang Kingdom was put on fire like this, and had to face the heavy military pressure from Tsarist Russia going south. Are they stupid?
actually not
Fusang Kingdom is different from world-class powers like Yingtang. Their influence spreads all over the world, and colonizing East Asia is not a core interest, and its importance is not high.

If you can't stand it anymore, you can retreat, you can also bargain with Tsarist Russia, each divides its sphere of influence, and there are many choices.

Since ancient times, Huashan has been a road, and the country of Fusang has no choice.

If you want to develop and innovate the country, if you want to get rid of the status quo of being weak and poor, and lead the people on the road of industrialization, you must colonize the Korean peninsula, and there is no other way.

Then why can't we develop the economy through hard work based on our own conditions?
Such was the status quo of international politics in the second half of the 19th century. How could a little accumulation come as fast as colonial expansion (robbing and plundering)?
The rapid rise of the Tang Empire in North America and the world is the most vivid example. The history of its colonial expansion is a history of looting and cruel oppression. Every page is full of blood and tears of the colonized.

If it weren’t for the large-scale colonization of North American whites, Indians, Mexicans, South American Incas, and Mapuche Indians, wantonly plundering wealth and land, enslaving local aborigines, and occupying resource-rich mines and fertile pastures, where did the Tang Empire come from? Today's thriving splendor?

If you develop step by step and accumulate wealth, then you will get the year of the monkey?

In the international situation in the 19th century, the naked law of the jungle prevailed.First-class powers such as Britain, France, Russia and Germany, which control the world order and the right to speak, all pursue a policy of large-scale colonial expansion and spare no effort in comprehensive expansion.

How did the glory of the Victorian period of the British Empire come about?

When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, the area of ​​the British Empire was 2101.5 million square kilometers, with a population of about 9600 million.

At its peak in 1874, the area of ​​the British Empire was 3122.6 million square kilometers (note; the maximum value of 3487 million square kilometers was not reached), with a population of about 3.3 million.

That is to say, during the 37 years since Queen Victoria's reign, the territory of the British Empire has increased by 1000 million square kilometers, and its population has increased by nearly 2.35 million, thus achieving the great miracle of "the empire on which the sun never sets".

At the same time as the colonial expansion of the Tang Empire, none of the world's great powers was idle, and all of them were frantically expanding their colonization, staking their territories everywhere in the world.

It is not surprising that the world's first-class powers are doing this, so Fusang Kingdom will naturally follow suit.

Fusang Kingdom's northward invasion of the Korean peninsula will inevitably produce sharp and irreconcilable conflicts with the Qing court, the suzerain of North Korea, and there is nothing to do about it.

Today's Manchu Qing court is a dou who can't afford to support it. There are only one or two mainstays like Zuo Zongtang left to support the facade. In fact, the inside is already rotten.

History has long proved that with the weak combat effectiveness of the Qing army, it was impossible to stop Tsarist Russia from going south.

Fusang is still Tsarist Russia, the lesser of two evils.

Don't think that if Fusang didn't invade the Korean Peninsula or the Manchurian and Mongolian regions, these places would be able to escape. This is completely an illusion.

nowadays

There are already many white immigrants from Tsarist Russia in the three eastern provinces, and their ambition to go south has not been wiped out, but the conditions are not met.

The Trans-Siberian Railway is still on the map today, and the tens of thousands of kilometers of long ice field from Moscow to Vladivostok is a huge geographical obstacle that is difficult to overcome.

Trapped by this, Tsarist Russia was unable to mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources into the outer northeast, and the development of the region has been lagging behind for a long time, unable to support the logistics of the army.

It is precisely because of this that Tsarist Russia tried to break through from Xinjiang, gradually encroaching on large tracts of land in the northwest, and realizing the ultimate dream of "Yellow Russia".

It didn't take long, after Zuo Zongtang led the army to recover Xinjiang, he completely cut off the strategic planning route of Tsarist Russia's invasion from the northwest.

It was with the support of the fanatical ideal of southern invasion that Tsarist Russia, after careful consideration, mobilized the whole country to build the Trans-Siberian Railway, extending its tentacles to the warm east.

Otherwise, why spend huge sums of money to build the Trans-Siberian Railway?
In order to develop those small cities on the ice field?

The historical trend is mighty and mighty, where there is a cause, there must be an effect.

In the clear international vision of Tang Emperor Li Cha, he would rather let Fusang gain power temporarily than let Tsarist Russia succeed.

When did you see the huge land swallowed by Tsarist Russia spit out?
If the Tang Empire intervened without authorization and caused history to change, and the weak Qing government once again signed a treaty to cede a large area of ​​Manchurian and Mongolian land, then he would be a sinner of the Chinese nation.

Emperor Li Cha already understood that the Qing court could not defend the Manchurian and Mongolian regions at all, and there must be a history of occupation, either by Russian occupation or Japanese occupation, unless the Tang Empire directly sent troops to occupy the Manchurian and Mongolian regions.

But doing so is tantamount to directing all the firepower to himself.

Tsarist Russia was dissatisfied, Fusang was dissatisfied, the Qing court was dissatisfied, and the great powers of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Austria were all dissatisfied. It is equivalent to the Tang Empire placing itself on the opposite side of the world.

Isn't this crazy?

Just think about it, a powerful empire with hundreds of millions of people in North America, and 3 million compatriots of the same origin in the East Asian continent join hands to have people and money. What a terrible prospect this is?

This will definitely overturn the entire world order, overturn the era when Europeans dominated the world, overturn all existing international structures, and overturn everything.

The result will inevitably be that all countries in the world form a coalition, including the Qing court, to jointly crusade against the Tang Empire.

That will break out the first world war in human history, and the Tang Empire will independently deal with gang fights from all over the world...

The Tang Empire has not taken many actions in East Asia, because there is a strategic red line in it.

This is the strategic red line that the great powers of Britain and France are highly concerned about. That is, the Tang Empire must not get involved in East Asia, which has exceeded the limit of tolerance.

(This chapter is a response to those readers who have always hoped to clear it up. Many readers are indeed enthusiastic, but they are really pitiful. This book has written more than 200 million words anyway. Can't let him be banned? There will be another chapter tonight , is in the codeword.)