The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 732: The Americans already have the Eight Banners, so are they still short of the Three Feudatories?
In the Oval Office on the second floor of the White House, the copper lamp on the oak table stretched the shadow of the person. President Davis knocked his knuckles on the "American Acreage System" leaflet, and two cold rays of light shot out from behind his gold-rimmed glasses: "Gentlemen, now the rednecks throughout the South are asking - can killing a Yankee really get 100 acres of land? Can anyone tell me what's going on?"

"This is treason!" Breckinridge slammed his fist on the map of North America on the oak table. "Someone is deliberately inciting the rednecks and niggers in the South to cause trouble. The traitor must be found and hanged on Pennsylvania Street immediately!"

"But who is the traitor?" Davis asked with a dark face.

"It must be that Chinese guy who likes to play tricks!" Breckenridge gritted his teeth and said, "We should order his arrest immediately!"

As soon as he said this, there was silence in the Oval Office.

Although Breckenridge did not directly mention Zhao Si's name, everyone in the Oval Office knew who the Secretary of the Army was referring to?

But it is not easy to catch Zhao Si! Because Zhao Si's black brigade has now expanded into a black division, and is stationed in the District of Columbia. How can he be caught? If he is caught, will the black division mutiny?

If they were to mutiniate and storm Washington, that would be real trouble. Would they kill all the leaders of the Confederate States of America?

The door hinge creaked, and the office door opened a little. A White House secretary leaned in halfway and said, "Mr. President, Brigadier General Nicholas Zhao Si and Colonel O'Hara want to see you."

"Let Zhao Si and O'Hara in!" Davis yelled unhappily.

Xianfeng walked in with a smiling, pockmarked face, speaking fluent English with a southern accent: "Mr. President, who are you mad at?"

Behind him followed O'Hara. Although this Irish man always acted like a white master in front of Emperor Xianfeng, he looked trembling with fear when he walked into the Oval Office of the White House.

Vice President Stephenson's pipe creaked between his teeth. He didn't even look at O'Hara, but glared at Emperor Xianfeng: "Commander Zhao, you've come at the right time! Look, is this crap American Land System something you made?" He shook the red seal on the leaflet, "Now the whole South knows that you can become a landlord by killing the Yankees!"

"Mr. Vice President, you are wronging me!" Xianfeng was not afraid of the vice president at all, because he had worked in the "proper" position. "Take a closer look at how well this leaflet is printed?" He also took out a leaflet from his pocket and slapped it on the oak table. "Can this be printed by a small workshop in our south? This is clearly printed by a large factory in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston! In my opinion, this must be the work of Hong Rengan in the north! He Americanized the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "Heavenly Kingdom Land System"

"That's enough!" Secretary of State Hammond suddenly interrupted, his South Carolina accent hoarse and low, "The problem now is that three thousand poor white people in Charleston Harbor signed up to join the army yesterday - they all hope to exchange their military merits for real estate in downtown Charleston!" He picked up a stack of letters and threw them on the table, "These are the seventeen letters of protest I received. The gentlemen of Charleston demanded that the villain who forged the documents be hanged!"

O'Hara's red face suddenly turned red. "Mr. Hammond, isn't it a good thing that 3,000 poor white people have signed up to join the army? Aren't our troops always insufficient? If we can have another 100,000 troops, General Lee will surely be able to capture Harrisburg, and then we will have a reliable line of defense."

"But how much land do we have to exchange for these 100,000 troops?" Breckinridge asked with a sneer, "Mr. O'Hara, are you willing to give up your estates in Georgia and South Carolina?" The Secretary of War's finger almost poked the tip of Emperor Xianfeng's nose, "Or are you yellow-skinned people willing to hand over the gold mines in California?"

"Clap! Clap! Clap"

Secretary of the Navy Mallory suddenly slammed the oak table, his New Orleans accent sounding very solemn: "Gentlemen, the Northern Army has started building ten ironclad ships at once in the shipyards in New York and Boston. They are all imitations of the Korean 'Orient'!" He unfolded a wrinkled blueprint, "This is a drawing sent by a spy in New York. This class of ironclad ships was designed by the British, using mature technology and craftsmanship. It is not difficult for the Northern shipyards to build them. If they run at full capacity, they can build more than 20 to 30 'Orient' class ships a year! So time is not on our side!"

Deathly silence suddenly fell over the room.

The productivity of the world's second largest industrial country is no joke!

The United States builds more than 200,000 tons of ships a year, including more than 20,000 tons of steamships. Now the Northern Federation has used all the steamship production capacity to build ironclad ships, and can produce ten "Oriental" class ships a year. If part of the production capacity of large sailing ships is transferred to ironclad ships in the future, it will not be difficult to produce 20 to 30 ships a year - don't think it's difficult to convert large sailing ships into steamships. The current American industrial second is one of the best in the entire industrial chain built under the conditions of an industrial revolution!

Moreover, the United States has the world's first railway, which is a cliff-like lead! With more railways, there are more steam locomotives, and with more steam locomotives, there are more steam engines, so there is no shortage of power systems for ironclad ships. As for steel, the United States is also the second in the world.
Therefore, the "Vostok" class that even North Korea can build can really be mass-produced in the northern United States today!
President Davis's face turned pale, Breckinridge's beard trembled slightly, and even Stephenson's pipe went out. Only Xianfeng, who had lost his country, remained calm. He suddenly sneered: "I say, gentlemen, since you know that time is not on our side, you should try every possible means to win. If you lose, the land and slaves will all belong to others."

"This is the United States of America!" Attorney General Benjamin suddenly screamed in a Louisiana accent, "Not your barbaric Eastern country!" The little Jewish man yelled, "According to the Constitution, private property is sacred and inviolable."

"Mr. Attorney General," Xianfeng really didn't want to argue with this Jew, "then let's find a solution to the problem without infringing on private property and state rights!"

"It doesn't infringe on private property and state rights?" President Davis' eyes lit up. "Is there such a way?"

"Of course!" Xianfeng smiled. "Mr. President, you should really study Chinese history. China has thousands of years of history, and the ancient Chinese also recorded history carefully, so we can find many ready-made solutions from history books."

"Tell me quickly," the American president interrupted Xianfeng, "I want a ready-made solution now."

"Yes, Mr. President!" Xianfeng said with a smile, "What we need to solve now is actually the problem of how to reward merit. The Eight Banners system can only give non-white people political status, but there is no way to give them economic benefits. In addition, the military merits of white people cannot be realized through the Eight Banners system. The solution in Chinese history is... the Three Feudatories!"

"San Francisco? What does that mean?" Davis certainly didn't know about the "San Francisco Rebellion".

However, Xianfeng knew too much about the "Three Feudatories".

"The Three Feudatories were established in the early Qing Dynasty to accommodate those Han Chinese meritorious officials who were not suitable for inclusion in the Eight Banners. They took out a part of the land in southwest China and gave it to those Han Chinese meritorious officials and their subordinates to rule! In the United States"

"Midwestern land?" President Davis understood a little. "Zhao, do you mean to establish new states in the Midwest?"

"Establish a special state," Xianfeng said, "different from the 'white state' in the east!"

"Tell me more about it," Davis said.

Xianfeng grinned and walked to the map of North America spread on the oak table: "Let's mark the area west of 100 degrees west longitude as the Three Franciscos of America. After the black bannermen earn points and raise the black flag, the points they earn can be exchanged for land in the Three Franciscos." His fingernails scratched a deep mark on the map, "Here, the buffalo prairie in Kansas; here, the cactus land in New Mexico - anyway, it won't affect the cotton plantations in the east."

"What about the white people?" Postmaster General Reagan suddenly asked, "The poor boys are all looking forward to the land distribution!"

"Easy!" Xianfeng said with a smile, "The three feudal territories in the west can also be distributed to the white people. If they don't want them, we can give them some residential land in the big cities in the east. In addition, we can also open up the benefits of the 'three feudal territories' to the slave owners in the south. They are the key!"

Most of the people in the Oval Office were the "they" mentioned by Xianfeng, and they immediately became interested when they heard Xianfeng's words.

"White farmers can be allowed to bring black slaves to join the army..." Xianfeng winked at O'Hara, "For example, if Master O'Hara leads fifty black slaves to the battlefield, and for every ten Yankees killed by the black slaves, the master can collect 30% of the points. After the war, the master can take the points collected and the serfs under him who have not accumulated enough points to raise the flag to the West to enclose land. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be a real land aristocrat?"

The real land aristocracy. Although the United States is a country where everyone is equal (some people are more equal than others), an American who does not want to be aristocrat is not a good American!

"Mr. President," Xianfeng suddenly reminded loudly, "As long as we can promulgate the Three Feudatories Ordinance and allow those Americans with skin color that is not white enough to establish some highly autonomous "vassal states" in the desolate and barren Midwest that are different from the eastern states, I can guarantee that the three Chinese states on the west coast will sooner or later turn against us and support us! By then, we will be able to obtain a large number of Chinese mercenaries, gold and silver from the west coast. Victory will no longer be out of reach!"

(End of this chapter)