The sun never sets in America

Chapter 134 Central America and the United States
Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, is a city founded in colonial times.

During the Spanish rule, this was just a small city that represented a symbol of rule.

But now it is the capital of a small country like Honduras.

Honduras is a tropical country. The average temperature across the country is basically above 23 degrees, and rainfall is abundant. In some coastal areas, it can even reach [-] millimeters.

Due to climate problems, a strange fish rain occurs in Honduras from May to July.

In fact, it is the tornado formed by the monsoon that rolls the fish in the sea to the shore.

This also gives local people an opportunity to get something for nothing.

When Wan Fang's motorcade drove into Honduras, the scene he saw was almost the same as what he saw in Guatemala.

It was full of poverty and chaos, as was the fate of most American countries in this era.

But according to Wanfang's understanding, the coffee trade in Honduras is actually very prosperous.

Proud of the colonial economy of the Spanish period and the geography of Honduras.

Honduras has a large number of coffee plantations, and the profits generated by these coffee plantations add up to more than one million pounds. The coffee sold abroad every year is Honduras' largest financial revenue.

In later generations, Honduras was also one of the top ten coffee exporters in the world.

But what Wan Fang saw in Honduras was poverty, poverty, and chaos.

This is the same as the situation in Guatemala, and Honduras is also a colonial economic country in the typical sense.

Most of the wealth in Honduras is concentrated in the hands of planters and local nobles. All the government can receive is a part of the tariff and those pitiful taxes, which are completely inconsistent with the actual profits from selling coffee in Honduras every year...

On the road from the port of Honduras to Tegucigalpa, Wan Fang saw plantations that stretched as far as the eye could see, as well as the planters who rode tall horses and arrogantly patrolled their own territories, as well as those who bent down to pick. Coffee beans, naked upper body brown Indian laborer.

There is a big difference between these Indian laborers and those Indians in the central and western parts of North America who are martial and tough and can even organize cavalry to resist.

The biggest difference, apart from their personalities, is their looks.

The faces of these Indian laborers have obvious white features, which are very similar to some mixed-race people in the Han Dynasty.

Wan Fang speculates that they may be the descendants of the Spaniards and the local Indians. However, due to identity issues, these mixed-race children are not welcomed in the entire Latin America and are basically at the bottom of the local...

In fact, these mixed-race people have always been the targets of the Han Dynasty.

After all, judging from past experience, it is even easier to assimilate these mixed-race people than Indians.

Because being mixed-race means that he will not get favors from both sides. Don't be fooled by the propaganda of later generations that mixed-race is good and mixed-race people are beautiful. In this colonial era, white people, or pure-blooded white people, are the objects that the entire West has been admiring.

The One Drop of Blood principle is just a variation.

After all, the human species has always been a strong-willed species. Before China was stripped of its tiger skin, it had always been a white country.

Even though Han is now considered a pagan country by some people, they only curse a few words behind their backs, like yellow-skinned monkeys. But in reality, even a country like the Republic of Mexico that has enmity with Han, when it comes to internal propaganda, Han This country is a serious white country...

You can be a pagan, but you must be white. This is the attitude of Mexico, or many countries in the Americas, towards the Han Dynasty.

After all, there is no shame in being beaten by a white man! !

It can be seen from the Western view of the Ottomans that they were obviously life-and-death enemies who had been fighting each other for hundreds of years, but they still only competed on religion and did not accuse each other of race...

In fact, this is not respect for the strong. After all, Western rulers have no way to explain to the country that the person who has been fighting against us for hundreds of years is a person of color with a different skin color...

The same is true for Han. Since Han defeated Mexico, the international community, or Western society, has always labeled Han as a white country, not a yellow race.

On the contrary, the Han Dynasty itself wanted to break away from the identity of white people. This was actually a way to unite the Indians in the country and even the many mixed bloods.

After all, yellow can be said to be light yellow, dark yellow, and white, so there are standards.

You say this is a white country, what do you want the mixed-race people to think, and what do the Indians with not too white skin think?

After all, East Asians are the white people among Asians... This is recognized by later generations.

After Liu Peng learned all this, he immediately changed national policies, promoted intermarriage internally, expanded the size of the Chinese community, and neither denied nor rejected the white identity given to Han by other countries externally.

In other words, the Han Dynasty has the best of both worlds. Inside, I am a yellow person, and outside, I am a white person.

What is double standard? What Liu Peng or Han did is double standard! !
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When Wan Fang's carriage arrived at the Presidential Palace of Honduras, he was greeted only by the Minister of Finance of Honduras, not the President of Honduras.

"May I ask where Mr. President has gone??" Wan Fang looked at the Minister of Finance in front of him and asked with some confusion, "I came to Honduras on behalf of His Majesty the King of Han to submit my credentials. Your President should come to receive you anyway. I...is this how you treat guests in your country?" Seeing that the Honduran Finance Minister did not answer him, Wan Fang immediately became angry and asked directly on the spot.

In his opinion, a Honduran president did not come out to greet the Han foreign minister when he arrived. What is this? This is because he does not take Han country and the Han army into consideration... …

"Minister Wan... It's not that our president doesn't want to come out to receive you, it's because something really happened and he can't leave..." The Honduran Finance Minister looked at Wan Fang, who was on the verge of anger, and immediately comforted him.

"When was it more important than the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two countries??" Wan Fang looked at the Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs coldly and asked, "Or in the eyes of Mr. Minister, Han is just a small and dispensable country?" Wan Fang asked Fang's sharp eyes pierced the heart of the Honduran Finance Minister, causing him to lie on the spot.

"Minister Wan, this is serious. I'm not really neglecting your country..." The Finance Minister of Honduras looked at Wan Fang who seemed to be about to start a war if he disagreed. He was frightened and spoke in a low voice.

"Just before you came, our president was already ready to welcome you in the capital, but news came from the U.S. Embassy that they wanted to negotiate a trade agreement with our country. Do you think we can not go?" said Honduras. The Minister of Finance said to Wan Fang with a sad face. Although it was suspected of being pretentious, it could also be seen how great the interests of the United States in Honduras were. It could allow the president of a country to leave Han, a powerful neighbor, in a mess. ran to the American embassy.

"America..." Wan Fang frowned when he heard the Spanish word "America". Although he knew that the United States had invested in many plantations in Honduras before coming to Honduras, and the United States was also Honduras's largest coffee export target, but there was no I thought it would be so big... so big that when the President of Honduras heard the American Minister summoned him, he threw away the opportunity to compete with Han and ran over to meet with the American Minister...

They did not take into account the feelings of Wan Fang, the foreign minister of Han Dynasty.

From the perspective of ordinary people, this is a sign that Honduras has a better relationship with the United States, but from the perspective of Foreign Minister Wan Fang, this is a prelude to the United States' attempt to control Honduras, and even control the entire Central America.

Today you can control Honduras, but tomorrow you can control Guatemala, or even New Granada, the largest country with most of its territory in South America? ?
This was Wan Fang's first reaction when he learned that the President of Honduras had left him to go to the US embassy.

Wan Fang even thought about the deeper implications, especially the military impact.

If after the war between Han and the United States, the United States uses Central American countries to cause trouble for Han in the rear, will Han have to disperse some of its forces to deal with these Central American countries? ?
Even if these countries are fighting against the five scum, even if they are fighting against the five scum, it is still useful, especially when there is a stalemate on the battlefield between China and the United States. Opening up a new battlefield from the rear of the Han Dynasty is what the Americans will definitely do. After all, There is no reason why the Han people can understand things that Americans cannot understand.

Until Wan Fang left the Presidential Palace of Honduras and went to the post house prepared in Honduras, he was still thinking about these things on the way.

Even in Wan Fang's view, the American intervention in Honduras actually served as a wake-up call to Han, allowing Han to pay more attention to Central American countries so as not to be tricked by the United States at a critical moment.

Looking at the scenery on the street, the topless Honduran poor, and the slums on the hills, Wan Fang's eyes shone with a different light than before...

While Wan Fang was thinking about how to solve the problem between Honduras and the United States, the conversation between the U.S. Minister and the President of Honduras was still going on.

"Mr. President, I must remind you that it is very dangerous to interact with a pagan country like Han..." the American minister persuaded the President of Honduras, talking about the threat of Han.

"Look at those Han people. They just got a large territory from Mexico last year, and now they are sending people to Central America. They are not at ease at first sight..." The American minister continued to describe the horror of the Han country to the President of Honduras, specifically using Citing the fact that Han had ceded 82 square kilometers of territory to Mexico last year, he said, "The United States is the true friend of Honduras. The United States is a peace-loving country..." The American minister opened his eyes and told lies.

(Midwest Indians: Really, I don’t believe it!!)

Although this was a land purchase treaty in the Han-Mexican treaty, everyone knows what is going on. Just look at that poor 82 yuan. This is simply the humiliation of [-] square kilometers of territory ceded by Mexico. .

But even so, in the eyes of the Han and Mexicans, this is the most honorable solution. After all, it is better than ceding territory and paying compensation...

The Mexicans themselves know very well that if this matter were replaced by those greedy European powers, it would be more than just ceding 82 square kilometers. If nothing else, seeing that Mexico has so many silver mines, at least war reparations would be paid. , which is enough for the Mexicans to pay compensation for decades, not counting the lost territory.

The President of Honduras listened to the bad things the American minister said about Han, and although he partly agreed with it, he was equally disgusted by the Americans and the President of Honduras.

Just like the American minister just said that the United States loves peace, it made the President of Honduras laugh.

The United States loves peace, so how did the current territory of the United States come from, what is the current westward expansion movement of the United States, and what happened to those Indians who were massacred? ?
This is like a butcher who kills people all year round. If he tells you that he is actually a caring person who often donates blood and is willing to help others, what would you think? ?

The United States is such a country. On the one hand, it is a country founded by the Puritans. It even banned alcohol later, but this country is also the most barbaric and cruel bully.

If you look at the black slaves on the farms in the southern United States and the Indians who were scalped during the westward expansion, you will know what kind of country this is.

The United States' Declaration of Independence is the biggest lie of this era. Its greatest function is to give Americans a little psychological comfort when they massacre Indians. They are civilized, that's all! !
"Then Mr. Minister, if we terminate the establishment of diplomatic relations with Han and stop contact with them, will the United States protect our interests in Honduras?" The President of Honduras waited for the eloquent American minister to finish and then asked, "The United States Will you protect us??" The Honduran president looked at the American minister with expectation in his eyes.

The President of Honduras expected the American minister to say yes! !
"Uh..." When I heard the Honduran president say that he wanted the protection of the United States, he had just been scolding the Han Dynasty. The American minister who was sowing trouble was like a beast that was choked, and he could no longer make a sound.

The President of Honduras, who was observing from the sidelines, showed a hint of disappointment in his eyes.

He did not expect that the American minister who usually boasted to him about how powerful the United States was would not even have the courage to protect Honduras when the Han people came to Honduras.

"Mr. President, I think you have misunderstood. The relationship between the United States and Honduras remains unchanged. We should all make efforts to resist the Chinese infidels." Seeing that the Honduran president became a little disappointed, the American minister immediately redeemed himself.

"To deal with Han, we should not only rely on us Americans, but also rely on you Hondurans yourself." The American minister deceived the Honduran president, "After all, our United States is too far away from Honduras... Distant water cannot quench the near thirst, so I think , you should be self-reliant, and we in the United States can even provide you with weapons to resist the Han people's invasion of Honduras, and let the Han people bleed their blood in front of the Honduran people!!" The American minister became more and more excited as he spoke, and jumped directly from the sofa stood up.

In the opinion of this American minister, as long as Han is trapped in the quagmire of war in Honduras and even Central America, the United States will win without a fight.

After all, a country at war cannot fully develop.

In fact, the development of the Han Dynasty was not only visible to the Mexicans, but also to the British and French. The Americans saw it most clearly.

A U.S. congressman once said:

"In today's America, the only people who can prevent the United States from unifying North America, apart from the British, are the Han pagans..." As soon as the American congressman opened his mouth, he directly fixed Han China as a competitor of the United States.

"The country of Han has only been established for a short time, only about a year ago, but look what they have done in this year, they became independent in California, where the Mexicans are, what is there in California, there is gold... …Then they completely knocked the Mexicans to the ground, and even cut off large swathes of land in northern and southern Mexico... These lands were almost equivalent to half of the land originally sold to us by the French..." U.S. congressmen took France as an example.

(France: You still want to breastfeed me??)

“From the moment the infidel Han was born, everything he did was to deal with the United States. They quickly defeated the Mexicans, but they did not take away the territory in northern Mexico that was already within easy reach; The territories of southern Mexico and the north are two desolate lands... Are those territories really as valuable as New Mexico and Utah?”

"You can tell from the map that they are doing their best to avoid direct conflict with the United States now... I have to say that their current strategy is successful."

"They built railways this year. That's okay. The United States is also building it, isn't it? And we will build more than them... But don't forget, this is a country that has only been established for about a year, and it has already been able to build it. More than a thousand kilometers of railway can defeat the Mexicans... Although many people say that everything is because the Mexicans are too stretched, if it were replaced by American militiamen, the Mexicans would die miserably and they would lose faster."

"I don't deny the power of our American boys, but don't forget the magic of this country. It was founded by a group of immigrants from the Far East... It is said that they can't stand the incompetence and corruption of the rulers there. Look, like Unlike our American forefathers!!”

(The Han Kingdom advertised to the outside world that they were immigrants from China. As for pirates, those things did not exist at all!!)

"Look at Han, what this young country has. They have millions of people, a developing industry, the ability to build railways, and tens of thousands of standing troops. God...even the United States has no regular army."

"All in all, this is an enemy of the United States, America's biggest competitor since the May Ship. They are our biggest enemies in ruling the Americas. Even the British are not as threatening as them..."

"In view of the current situation, we should prepare for war to defeat this competitor in the next few years, so that our descendants can quietly enjoy the sunshine and wealth of America without being awakened by the gunfire of Han..."

Speech by Representative Perth of the United States House of Representatives on May 1841, [-].

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(End of this chapter)