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Chapter 767: The future of the United States must be something that everyone can think about! (Please vote for me, please subscribe)

The seventh day of the seventh month in the thirteenth year of the Tianli calendar.

In the sandalwood hall of the Prime Minister's Office in Tianjing, the morning light shines through the carved wooden windows onto the blue brick floor. Luo Yaoguo is wearing a long grey gown, holding a cup of bitter coffee made from Yunnan coffee beans, while Feng Yunshan is leaning back in a rattan chair with his eyes closed. Zhao Liewen, Secretary General of the Prime Minister's Office, holds a brown paper file and clears his throat: "Reporting to the Prime Minister, Master Feng, General Chen Yucheng sent a "Situation Briefing" from America."

Luo Yaoguo only said one word: "Read!"

"On July 14, Vicksburg won a great victory in the Mississippi River fire attack. The Confederate Army used 208 fireboats to raid the Union Army's anchorage, burning seven inland ironclad ships, 12 steam tugboats, 112 barges, capturing 61 stranded barges, and seizing 5,000 barrels of flour and 800 boxes of lead bullets. However, the Confederate 'Mississippi Glory' was hit by a Union ship and its keel was broken, and it was impossible to repair it. The 'State's Rights' and 'Spirit of Alabama' were also bombarded by land artillery, and the decks caught fire. Although the fire was successfully extinguished after rescue, the weak industry of the South made repairs quite difficult."

"On the eleventh of the same month, Prince Consort Zhao Si took advantage of the remaining power of the fire attack and ordered the black army of 30,000 people to attack the main position of the Union Army. The Union Army's rear guard used Gatling machine guns to set up a fan-shaped fire net, and more than a thousand people were killed in the first round of charge. Although mortars were used to suppress the enemy later, there was insufficient ammunition and they were unable to destroy all the enemy fortifications. After eight hours of hard fighting, the Union Army's rear guard retreated, but Grant's main force had already fled with heavy artillery. In this battle, our army suffered 7,200 casualties, including three black flag battalion commanders."

"In addition, General Robert Lee attacked East St. Louis. The Union Army deployed more than 30 Gatling guns in the outer trenches. The charging column was like straw being sickled. General Lee fought hard for three days before conquering. However, the main city of St. Louis was still held by the Union Army, and the railway line was not cut off."

Zhao Liewen flipped the pages, his voice gradually sinking: "General Chen concluded that although the Northern Army had been defeated repeatedly, its factory produced more than 200 Gatling guns and three ironclad ships per month. After the Battle of Vicksburg, Prince Consort Zhao has no intention of continuing the war and is leading his troops to Colorado, intending to abandon the North-South war and plan for the separatist situation of Xixia and Later Jin. General Chen asserted: After the Battle of Vicksburg-St. Louis, the initiative of the American Civil War has been transferred to the hands of the North."

Feng Yunshan suddenly opened his eyes: "My son-in-law is a sly guy! A while ago he said he wanted to divide the world into three parts, but now he has retreated and wants to rule the Rocky Mountains and become Li Yuanhao."

Luo Yaoguo put down his coffee cup and suddenly laughed out loud: "Third brother, I think Zhao Si has done a good job. With his fierce operation, the situation of our True Protestant faction in the United States has suddenly become clear. Before the outbreak of the American Civil War, the True Protestant faction in California was not very stable. But now, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho Territory, Colorado Territory, and Nevada Territory are all under the rule of the True Protestant faction. Brigham Young of Utah Territory even went to San Francisco to pay a visit a while ago. In addition, the American tribes on the Great Plains are also moving closer to the True Protestant faction. I think in the future, the True Protestant faction may be able to control more than a dozen states in the western United States!"

"More than a dozen?" Feng Yunshan counted on his fingers, "There are only seven including Utah. Where did the others come from?"

"Idaho is too big, it can be divided into at least three states," Luo Yaoguo explained. "In addition, there is New Mexico Territory south of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, where the main residents are Mexicans and Indians. If we fight for it, we can divide it into two states, so there will be eleven states, right?"

"Eleven states?" Feng Yunshan pondered for a moment, "There are only more than thirty states in the United States now, right?"

"Now there are thirty-six," Luo Yaoguo said, "If we add eight new states, it will be forty-four. In the end, it may reach forty-eight."

Historically, the United States had 50 states. That should be until Luo Yaoguo was struck by lightning. But Hawaii, Alaska and the United States should not have been included, so the United States has at most 48 states.

After counting the accounts for the United States with his fingers, Luo Yaoguo smiled and said to Feng Yunshan, "Third brother, I originally only planned to dye the three states on the west coast of the United States yellow to add an insurance for our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's hegemony in the Pacific. But now it seems that the True Yorkists have the hope of winning eleven states and twenty-two federal senators. If we can send more people to the three states on the west coast, it is possible to win thirty or forty seats in the federal House of Representatives and thirty or forty electoral votes! For the domestic politics of the United States, it is definitely a decisive force!"

It's hilarious to think about it. What will American politics be like in a few decades? Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Hong Tiangui were debating on Capitol Hill, and there were a bunch of "Americans" shaking prayer wheels and black congressmen who claimed to be white people making a fuss?

Looking at this scene, I wonder if the white Americans on the East Coast will be unable to tolerate another "East-West War" in the United States?
"Ninth brother, will the white people in the United States agree to this?" Feng Yunshan asked hesitantly, "I have been to the United States, and the white people there are all white supremacists. After they have done what they want, will they come and do us?"

Luo Yaoguo smiled when he heard this, then stretched out a finger and pointed to the sky: "Third brother, this is not a question of whether white Americans agree or not, but a question of whether Father Heaven, Brother Heaven, and King Heaven want to pass on the true scriptures to those white supremacists!"

Feng Yunshan was stunned for a moment: "Ninth brother, do you mean that this True Covenant sect has to spread to the East Coast of the United States?"

"That's right!" Luo Yaoguo laughed, "Isn't this exactly what the True Covenant Sect should do?"

Feng Yunshan thought about it and frowned again: "Ninth brother, have you noticed that our Zhenyue sect has been a little... a little chaotic in the past two years!" "Chaotic?" Luo Yaoguo smiled and pointed to the sky without saying anything else.

Feng Yunshan immediately understood - this is what the above meant!

But think about it, the biggest difference between this True Covenant sect and other Christian sects is that there are too many gods! Not "one god", but "one family of gods"! There is one Heavenly Father, one Heavenly Brother, one Heavenly King, one Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, one Virgin Mary, and one Aunt Amaterasu. Then, Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, Victoria, Hong Xuanjiao, Xiao Chaogui, Luo Yaoguo, Shi Dakai, and Maria are all "little gods"! Hong Tiangui, Yang Chengtian, these "third generation of gods" also have some divinity.

With so many gods, how can there not be chaos?

Luo Yaoguo then said mysteriously to Feng Yunshan: "Third brother, it would be good if our Zhenyue sect expanded. This way, if we can't recite the sutras, we can let Fourth Brother recite them!"

"What do you mean?" Feng Yunshan looked at Luo Yaoguo.

Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "The East King's kindness is not over yet! Yang Chengtian has already led a group of people from the Shinto sect of Korea and Japan to the East Coast of the United States to chant sutras. From now on, Hong Daquan and Hong Tiangui will chant sutras on the West Coast, Zhao Si and Amur will chant sutras in the Rocky Mountains, and the people of the fourth brother will chant sutras on the East Coast. Isn't it great that everyone can chant sutras this way? Otherwise, if they are all crowded in China, it will be easy to quarrel among themselves!"

After hearing what Luo Yaoguo said, Feng Yunshan immediately understood - it turned out that the higher-ups were far-sighted and were making long-term plans for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, like all previous dynasties, had a group of nobles and meritorious officials. However, unlike previous dynasties, the population was too large when the country was founded! The previous Qing Dynasty actually collapsed due to the contradiction between population and land, and Luo Yaoguo led the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to directly take over the stall of the Qing Dynasty with too many people and too little land.

So the situation that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was facing now was that on the one hand, the nobles and meritorious officials also had a share of the cake, and on the other hand, there were more than 19 million and nearly million people who needed to eat, and agricultural production in the mid-th century depended on nature and the land. In short, it was very tight!
If too much is given to the meritorious officials, what will the hundreds of millions of people eat? What if they have nothing to eat and rebel? But if the meritorious officials are not given more benefits, those people all started out as rebels!
Moreover, even if those nobles and meritorious officials were willing to share less, with a population of several hundred million now and perhaps more than one billion in the future, it would still not be enough if they did not occupy more territory.

Luo Yaoguo took a sip of coffee and said to Feng Yunshan, "Third brother, our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is about to unify the world. I am not worried at all. Your brother-in-law and Brother Ba are very capable in fighting. Li Hongzhang and Zeng Jize have no choice but to retreat. But it is not easy to bring peace! If our generation cannot bring peace and leave a mess for the younger generation, they will be even more helpless. Sooner or later, the world will be in chaos! If we want to leave a peaceful and prosperous era to our descendants, at least the per capita land area should reach the world average, right?"

"Average. That's not easy!" Feng Yunshan immediately understood what was meant. Today, the population of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom accounts for at least one-third of the world's population. If the Asahi Heavenly Kingdom ruled by Yang Xiuqing is also included, that would be 40% of the world's population!

To occupy 40 percent of the land
"It's definitely not easy," Luo Yaoguo gently turned the coffee cup in his hand, "but it's not impossible. Didn't our Zhenyue faction take over the western United States? We can use the same method elsewhere!"

"Somewhere else?" Feng Yunshan narrowed his eyes, "Old Nine, you are talking about..."

"Australia!" Luo Yaoguo laughed.

"That's your fifth sister's territory!" Feng Yunshan frowned, "Do the higher-ups really agree?"

Above the fifth sister?

Luo Yaoguo thought to himself: "You really believed it."

Seeing that Luo Yaoguo was silent, Feng Yunshan said sternly: "Ninth brother, we are all children of Heavenly Father, we cannot kill each other!"

"That's natural," Luo Yaoguo knew that Feng Yunshan was very superstitious and firmly believed that he was the son of God and the brother of Jesus, so he had to change his words, "Third brother, I have no intention of sending troops to Australia. It's just that there have been many Chinese immigrants in Australia in recent years looking for gold. We in the True Covenant sect should also send people over to spread the true teachings of the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother!"

(End of this chapter)