Wild North America 1846

Chapter 642
Bad morality, but also handle it!

Emperor Richard didn't want to be used to the Queen's special envoy, so he walked away directly, and laughed at the British request, neither agreeing nor rejecting it.

Anyway, put it aside, let it cool down.

Today's world public opinion is in the hands of Western countries headed by the United Kingdom. News reports on Datang are full of words such as "upstart", "rough North American cowboy" and "lucky oil tycoon", which inevitably carry some high-level prejudice.

In particular, the rich oil resources on the North American continent make people jealous. This is a huge wealth bestowed by God.

The most profitable bulk trade in the world is kerosene, lubricating oil, diesel oil and heavy oil. The flowing oil fields in Texas are banknotes, and they are really rich in money every day.

As Texas is directly under the royal family, the royal family of the Tang Empire is the biggest beneficiary. Now no one says that the royal family's purchase of Texas is a loss-making business.

Since the major oil companies in the empire are all owned or held by the royal family, and resources are monopolized, there is no vicious competition among them, and the price of crude oil remains at the level of 5.5 Tang yuan per barrel.

Compared with the price between 10 Tang yuan and 12 Tang yuan per barrel in the early days, this price has dropped by more than half.

However, due to the surge in production, the annual output has increased from one to two hundred barrels in the early days to more than 2000 million barrels per year today, and the profits have increased tenfold.

How profitable is oil?
in the original history

After a period of frenzied expansion of Texas crude oil production, the price of a barrel of oil has dropped by 10% from a high price of US$9 to less than 9 cents per barrel, resulting in serious losses for most oil fields.

Note that this is most of the oil fields.

Some high-yielding oil fields with high reserves are still profitable, and the oil companies that own them have overwhelmed hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized oil companies that are weak by virtue of their production, and have gradually grown into oil giants.

Stimulated by huge oil profits, Houston and Dallas in Texas and the surrounding small and medium-sized towns developed rapidly, far faster than other local cities
Today's Houston has developed into a first-tier city with a total population of 76, and Dallas has a total population of more than 50, with many modern buildings, ranking first and second in Texas respectively.

back in the harem

Emperor Li Cha sat on the couch with a leisurely demeanor and sipped the fragrant tea. With a flash of lightning in his heart, he reviewed the current situation in the world and felt that he was very sure.

Taking advantage of the turmoil in the world today, the world's powers have no time to care about others, and they have completed the territory in the entire long-term strategic plan in one fell swoop.With Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the bag, now is the best period of strategic opportunity.

Generate the smallest wave of opposition and maximize the gains.

After more than 8 years of civil war in Cuba, the situation in the region has been completely corrupted, but the two sides are still struggling.

Years of huge military spending has dragged down the Spanish government's finances and weakened its strength.

After the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, even the coronation ceremony of the king was extremely shabby, reflecting the extreme weakness of this traditional colonial empire.

At its peak, the Cuban rebel army had nearly 20 people, occupying more than 2/3 of Cuba's provinces, and its momentum reached its peak.

Today, under the bloody suppression of the Spanish colonists, the resistance led by President De Cespedes is less than 3 people, and they are divided into six or seven groups of armed forces, hiding in the jungle and fighting persistently.

It is said that President de Cespedes was bedridden because of the plague, and I am afraid he will not last long.

If he dies, it will not be a fatal blow to the now crumbling Cuban uprising, and the remnants may be scattered.

No matter how you look at it, it is a good time to intervene.

Emperor Li Cha has already decided that this war will be fought by the Royal Guards, and the Royal Navy will cooperate in the battle. All war expenses will be paid by the Royal Internal Affairs Office, and the imperial finances will not need to pay a Tang Yuan.

The battlefield will be divided into two parts, one in Cuba and Puerto Rico in Central America, and the other in the Luzon Islands in the Western Pacific.

This battle will be practiced for the two emperors. One is the Duke of the North, the Seventh Prince Tang-Li Kun is in charge of commanding the Central American battlefield. His troops will be allocated 6 troops by the Royal Guards, plus 3 additional troops. Recruits, a total of 9 troops.

These 3 additional recruits have already undergone six months of rigorous training at the Salt Lake City military base, and will soon be transported south by troop carrier to the Central Plains Province for three months of tropical combat training.

The 6 elite Royal Guards have been deployed one after another, and will arrive in the provinces of Central America on standby for 3 to 4 months of military training in tropical combat.

The other battlefield is located in the Western Pacific. The eleventh prince, Pingxi Wang Tang-Li Xin, has secretly returned from the city of Suez, Egypt, accompanied by more than 200 guards and confidantes.

His Highness Tang Li Xin’s destination is New Xi’an on Paradise Island, where there are three recruit divisions trained by more than 4 Royal Guards officers and four field divisions belonging to overseas military regions. More than 8.5 people.

According to the above decree, all these seven divisions were under the jurisdiction of the Royal Guards, and they were given the mission to conquer the nearby Luzon Islands, drive out the Spaniards and occupy them.

Pre-war preparations are underway in an orderly manner. Various combat materials have arrived one after another. Officers and soldiers are stepping up their training. The Royal Navy fleet to be put into two-front combat has already set off, and everything is progressing steadily.

Regardless of whether the British agree or not, the war is imminent and has to be waged.

But the reality of today's world dictates that nothing can bypass the British Empire.

He is like a veteran village head who has been for more than 200 years, and everyone in the village has to take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Which family's children are prosperous, which family goes out in the morning to pick up a bag of cow dung, which family wants to open up wasteland, and which family is being bullied by neighbors, and the old village chief can always be seen.

Some things are unavoidable, and it is better to give a tacit approval or even forgiveness with a prior notice than to keep troubles afterwards.

The international situation that Datang was facing was like this. After all, the old village head had high prestige, and he would respond to everyone in the village.

Let's live together. We live in the same village. It's not good to be too isolated.

What's more, Datang will not suffer from such an exchange of interests.

The bulk of the supplies that the British needed were bought with money, and even if they had no money, they would pay on credit, borrowing funds from the bank to repay.

Things are not free, just to expand the export trade volume, why not do it?

The British are typical masters who can only take advantage and not suffer.

Seeing that the current war situation in the Ottoman Empire is extremely bad, several important battlefields have been defeated, and the offensive of the Tsarist Russian army is very fierce, and they have gained a lot.

Even if the British Expeditionary Force and the Datang Expeditionary Force are filled in, it may not necessarily be able to reverse the situation on the battlefield.

It is estimated that the British must have retreated in their hearts.

in the original history
The Tenth Russo-Turkish War lasted for eleven months. The Tsarist-Russian coalition forces occupied a large area of ​​the Ottoman Empire. The British did not send a single infantry. This was quite different from the Crimean War.

What a british guy!

The Tsarist Russian Empire has 48 divisions, a total of 72 troops, organized into 19 armies, plus Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, Negro, the 10,000+ troops of the Balkan brothers, with a total strength of at least 86 above.

In contrast, the Ottoman army only had 406 people, of which there were only more than 000 in the European region. The two sides in the war were at a 28:3 troop disadvantage, and the gap was too great.

Therefore, now that the war has been fought for nearly five months, the Balkans are already full of wars, and the British Expeditionary Force has not seen a shadow.

This time, the Ottoman Empire suffered.

The British guy was also anxious, so looking for helpers all over the world just gave Datang Empire a good opportunity to raise the issue of Cuba.

With such a review in Emperor Li Cha's mind, he became more certain that there was nothing wrong, and his mood became better.

He was going to let the British hang out for a while, and act after getting a satisfactory answer.

The dispatch of the Expeditionary Force of the Tang Empire can be described as a lot of work. There are several destinations for the troops and supplies of the army:

One is the Eastern Port of New York, the other is the North Port of Chicago, the other is the South Port of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico, and the other is the Twin Ports of Altamira or Tampira in Mexico City.

Regardless of the port, it takes a lot of time to mobilize the army, ranging from one or two months to three or four months.

Transoceanic transportation takes more than ten days, and it takes at most 2 to 3 weeks. It takes at least 1 to 2 months of adaptive training to arrive in the Ottoman Empire.

By then, the war will probably be over.

Is such a painstaking and costly dispatch of troops necessary?
Objectively speaking, it is very necessary.

The expeditionary forces of the Tang Empire arrived in the territory of the Ottoman Empire one after another, coupled with the bluff of the British expeditionary force, it would put enormous psychological pressure on Tsar Alexander II, which was extremely conducive to the next step of war blackmail negotiations.

The British guy is a good player, he can play the effect without any cards in his hand, and can play the effect of 10 points with one or two points in his hand. He is an expert in conspiracy.

Tsarist Russia's morality is not enough in front of the British, and they will definitely spit out most of the fruits of the war they swallowed.

In this way, the highest state of victory without fighting is reached.

This must not be without the credit of the Great Tang Empire for waving the flag, and naturally it can share some benefits.

For example, the Ottoman Empire acquiesced that the central and southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula belonged to the Tang Empire, which would include Nejd, the United Arab Emirates and the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf.

Forget about the northern part of the Arabian peninsula, the British have traditional spheres of influence in Jordan, the Sinai, Lebanon and Syria, and the French and Germans are also racing to infiltrate.

Especially in the Iraqi region and the Kingdom of Iran, the European powers are becoming more active one by one, and there has been acquiescence to the scope of the white world's colonization.

Only the barren and barren south-central region of the Arabian Peninsula has received little attention.

The Ottoman Empire has acquiesced to the existence of the Tang Empire in Yemen, and the local officials stationed there work closely with the imperial military to brutally oppress the Arab people.

It can be said that the eldest brother, not the second brother, is really in a mess.

Imperative

It is to pass the news of Tsarist Russia's full commitment to the European war to Zuo Zongtang. I believe this veteran general who has been in the field should know how to do it. This is a rare opportunity to change history!

(End of this chapter)