Section 325 Napoleonic Empire in North America
The Nanking Peace Conference had not yet ended, the diplomats of various countries were still continuing to negotiate the question of the end, and the fighting on all fronts had ended, and the French representative in this situation put forward a proposal to re-deal with the North American question, and at the same time hoped that the American representative would be invited to participate in the peace conference.
At this time, it was already the spring of the 27th year of the Great Zhou Dynasty (1826), and it had been more than half a year since Napoleon's restoration in North America, but because of the delay in the transmission of news, everyone learned that the news was only four months, and it was only three months before France intervened in mediation, and this speed was already a limit.
Now that the speed of Western clippers crossing the Atlantic has dropped to less than a month, it is obvious that the news is transmitted to Europe through the Chinese post station, and then to the United States through the Atlantic, so that it is possible to compress the speed of the bottom of the news ship to less than two months, and the railway to the Black Sea built by China has indeed accelerated the speed of news transmission between China and Europe.
The French suggested, Britain opposed, China supported.
Other countries are ambiguous, and the change of attitude between Britain and China is because of Napoleon. Last time, because the views of attacking the United States tended to be the same, so they could cooperate, but this time the Americans admit it, then the attack on Napoleon has become a disagreement, and the attack on Napoleon is the national policy of the United Kingdom, which is the reason for their compromise with China, and of course there are major practical problems. It is Zhou Lang's idea to fight the United States, and Zhou Lang doesn't care if he fights Napoleon or not.
He doesn't have any special knots about Napoleon, and even Zhou Lang doesn't look down on a politician like Napoleon, he is too rigid in character, if he can be a little more flexible, France will not be what it is now, and he will not be like this. With Napoleon's character, even if he gave him the whole of North America, he would be killed by him in a short time, and then add more merits to his brilliant martial arts, but it would be exhausted by the national strength of the whole of North America. Not to mention the fact that Napoleon only occupied the French-speaking part of Canada, which is not a cause for concern.
Even Zhou Lang believes that letting Napoleon stay in North America may have a greater counterbalancing effect on the United States than Britain, because Britain's attitude towards Canada has always been laissez-faire, resulting in Canada's population has always been the same as Siberia, some people attribute this to the fact that Canada is at the same latitude as Siberia, but in fact, Canada's coast is very warm because of the currents, and it is much more comfortable than Siberia.
In fact, Britain does not pay attention to it, British immigrants would rather go to the United States than Canada, if the British government takes some administrative measures to let more British immigrants move to Canada, Canada would have been developed long ago. At least not to the point of Siberia.
Napoleon was different here, he would have intercepted a large number of French immigrants who had gone to the United States, and even some French immigrants from the United States would return. This is a weakening of the United States, and coupled with Napoleon's strong military talent and prestige, the Americans will certainly be very wary of Napoleon, and in the long run, the confrontation between the two major powers will appear, and the United States will not be able to expand and develop without scruples as it has done in history.
But the British could not be assured that their colonies had neighbors like Napoleon, and they would rather be at peace with the United States than with Napoleon.
The different attitudes of China and Britain have made them win over France as the protagonist, but in fact, the French Bourbon royal family is really difficult to handle. They are de jure French monarchs, but Napoleon is the French monarch in the hearts of the people, and this prestige makes the Bourbon royal family very helpless. Why can you be the king of France and still get the support of so many people.
But the truth is that the Bourbon royal family is very worried about the reality that they sent to the Americas to suppress Napoleon's army, turning the gun as if Napoleon was allegiance, which is tantamount to sending reinforcements to Napoleon. Therefore, the Bourbon royal family really wants to suppress it, and it is really afraid to send troops.
At this time, the Americans came to the door, hoping that France would intervene, and the attitude of the United States was very much in line with the interests of France, and the Americans were willing to draw a line with Napoleon, but hoped that France would be able to prevent the European powers from sending troops to North America.
The idea of the Americans is very realistic, they will definitely not be able to defeat the European coalition forces, and once these coalition forces land in the Americas, it will be difficult to let them go. Britain has the ability to recover Canada and protect Canada, but the United States does not have the ability, but according to the European practice of ceding land and paying compensation, where does the United States want to cede it? The South is now very rich, and its ties with Europe are closer than with the North of the United States, and it has really been ceded to European countries, and I am afraid that it will not come back.
Therefore, the United States does not dare to allow European national armies to enter North America at all. The attitude of the United States coincides with that of France. The United States is worried that the European army will not leave if it goes to North America, and France is also worried that the French army will not be able to return if it enters North America.
As for Napoleon, it has now become a reality, and the United States thinks that it is better to recognize Napoleon's power in North America and negotiate Napoleon to give up his power claims to Europe, so that Napoleon can remain in the Americas permanently. This coincided with France, and this was the best outcome, as if Napoleon was exiled to Quebec.
Therefore, France agreed to mediate, and it was to be proposed at the Nanking Peace Conference, so that all countries would guarantee that Napoleon would not regret Europe, and as long as Napoleon did not return to Europe and France, he would do whatever he liked.
France's attitude is in line with China's interests, so China has accepted France's proposal. Britain did not accept it, Prussia did not accept it. Austria is ambiguous, waiting for the countries to decide after the game, the big deal is to send the king of Rome to the Americas and hand it over to Napoleon, but it is just missing a diplomatic card to balance France.
There is a heated debate on this issue, but two countries have already begun to act, one is the United Kingdom and the other is China.
After the formation of the expeditionary forces of the two countries, they immediately set sail for the sea, without any delay.
This is strange, one of the two countries strongly wants to suppress Napoleon, and the other strongly wants to protect Napoleon, but at the same time send troops into the Americas, the divergent attitudes and consistent actions are confusing.
When the American delegates entered the peace conference, they instantly became the object of condemnation, and the Americans kept making concessions and accepting humiliating conditions one after another. They promised to open the American market, in fact, the United States tariffs at this time were not high, after independence, the United States federal government, has always been the southern slave states have the advantage, they refused to adopt a high tariff policy, because they want to export to foreign countries in exchange, in exchange for consumer goods, high tariffs are not good for the South, the North Industrial Group has not yet become a climate, the main economic forces affecting the government are the banking industry and agricultural groups, the banking industry hopes to obtain benefits by promoting trade, and the agricultural groups also need to export grain to Europe, which is consistent with the interests and needs of the South.
Therefore, for the United States, the further reduction of tariffs will only lose the federal government's fiscal revenue, and will not affect major national policies, so they promised to reduce tariffs to less than 10 percent in general.
Spain demanded that the United States recognize their authority in Florida and Texas, and the United States agreed.
Historically, in 1819, Spain was forced to sell Florida to the United States in exchange for the United States recognizing their power in Texas. In this era, Spain's power increased as China turned to support Spain's restoration of colonial rule in the Americas, and it did not succumb to the threat of the United States to abandon Florida, and this time forced the United States to recognize Florida's power, and also forced the United States to abandon its policy of infiltrating immigration to Florida and Texas.
Britain got the United States to promise to withdraw its troops from British North America, abandon Ottawa and other occupied areas, and return them to the British Expeditionary Force. And to make the United States promise to remain neutral in the British suppression of Napoleon's rebellion.
Among other countries, only China has interests in North America, and the forward base of the American company has reached the eastern foot of the Rocky Mountains, and has established some bases in the intricate Mississippi River system, which has already intersected with some forward positions of the United States, and the territorial division of North America between the two countries has always been disputed.
At this meeting, China put forward a request to be bounded by the main stream of the Mississippi River, but the United States could not accept it, because Louisiana, in the lower Mississippi plain of the United States, is now the largest cotton production base in the southern United States, and the Mississippi River is of great value to the United States for shipping, and one of the purposes of buying Louisiana from Napoleon was for the shipping value of New Orleans. Immigrants from the western United States have appeared in large numbers in the areas west of the Mississippi River, and although they have not yet been formally stated, they have already reached some size, and the agricultural value of these territories is too great to be abandoned.
China also did not quarrel fiercely with the Americans, and military maneuvers continued, led by the Chinese crown prince Zhou Jitong, with a total of 500,000 troops.
It makes the American representatives very nervous, and the war with the Chinese makes their heads big, and the British can't do it, let alone the United States. It is recognized that China's national strength is at the level of the whole of Europe, and going to war with China is tantamount to going to war with the whole of Europe. Moreover, China is the largest trading partner of the United States, and cotton exports to China are the economic pillars on which the United States depends.
Before the US representative came, the US Government was aware that China would certainly raise a territorial dispute, and they were willing to make some concessions, and the US plan was to recognize China's occupation of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains, and the bottom line of the concession was to let the territory of the two sides be demarcated by the Missouri River in the north, and the United States must control the plains of the lower Mississippi River in the south.
This is where the borders of the two sides are now staggered, but both sides have weak management of the border zone, and the real inhabitants living in the middle zone are Indians. Unexpectedly, the Chinese would push the border to the main Mississippi River road, which means that the Chinese will approach the Great Lakes region. The United States has built the Erie Canal to connect the Great Lakes to New York, which is already considered the core of the United States, and it is really difficult to let Chinese influence close to it.
As the two sides are deadlocked over core interests, and the Chinese expeditionary force has departed, the U.S. diplomatic delegation continues to maneuver between countries, hoping for their support and mediation, while warning the country to prepare for war or authorize him to make greater concessions.
But is China's real purpose only for the territory of North America? Americans don't really know this at all.