The crown prince was never a patient man, his father was too patient, but his father's patience was increasingly seen as a twilight.

It's not that the crown prince group lacks talent, but the world view is different, what the emperor cares about is to create a world system with China as the core, while the crown prince group is more radical, they seek control over the world.

To put it bluntly, the emperor hopes to make world rules like Britain and the United States, and whoever formulates the rules has the right to speak and indirectly rules the world with rules; But what the crown prince group is pursuing is more like what Germany is pursuing, direct world domination.

It's too dangerous.

So when the South announced the abolition of slavery, the conditions set by the emperor for the crown prince had been met, and the crown prince could already use all means to intervene in the American Civil War, and his actions were carried out in a way that could not wait.

The first is to increase aid to the South and to lend openly to the South, although it still does not recognize the Southern regime, but to lend to them on a state basis. The Americans did not need this money, and all of it was exchanged for arms and handed over to the South by various means.

At this time, Europe has stopped the supply of materials to the north, but the south has received a large number of Chinese smuggled arms, although in a state of blockade, the situation of Mississippi and Louisiana has also been greatly improved, because it is located on the Mississippi River, the south was worried that the war here would trigger Chinese intervention, so they have restrained, all stationed heavy troops here, but no large-scale battles broke out, and the direction of the northern army's advance is from Kentucky, Tennessee and then to Georgia, all of which are far from the Mississippi River.

After Mississippi and Louisiana stabilized, they quickly helped Alabama stabilize the defensive line, and then connected with Florida to block the Northern Army from continuing southward, and also maintained contact with South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia through the coastal zone. The strategic disadvantage was still obvious, facing the unfavorable situation of the Northern Army detouring from Atlanta, but it was not yet to the point where it could not fight.

With the entry of Chinese supplies, the South began to try to arm the blacks, and these blacks who served were immediately given free status, led by their masters, entered the army as reserve soldiers, and first took on field logistics, liberating a group of white soldiers.

The combat effectiveness of the Southern Army is there, and the war has been fought so far, and on the whole, the casualty rate of the Southern Army is still lower than that of the Northern Army, especially in the early stage, almost the elite Southern Army with a small number of people is pressing the Northern Army to fight.

With the passage of time, the management of the northern army became more scientific and reasonable, but the southern army became more and more chaotic. In terms of manpower, the north is far better than the south, the north has a large population, all of them are free people, and the population of the south seems to be a lot, but nearly half of the slaves, even if the southern army succeeds in arming the blacks as they wish, but the overall quality of the blacks is too different from the free whites in the north, not that the blacks are weak, but the comprehensive quality is poor, they lack culture, and they are destined to be ordinary soldiers, but in the way that the whites lead the black soldiers, whether they can really exert their combat effectiveness is very doubtful.

The South itself has no confidence in this question, otherwise it would not have been possible to let black soldiers only serve as logistical tasks when there is such a lack of troops. In the long run, the only hope for the South is for outside intervention.

The number of arms supplied by China surged, and the Lincoln administration had no scruples about appeasement at this time, and the diplomatic form was in shambles, and the diplomatic war was lost not to the South, but to China and Germany. So the Federal Navy began to take a strong attitude, began to carry out stricter inspections of Chinese merchant ships, and seized a number of munitions ships, which the Federal Navy was unwilling to accept, regardless of the captain's explanation that they were transporting arms for the Chinese military fleet in the Americas. They didn't even care about offending China because they had the Red Cross ship seized. Lincoln gambled that the Great Powers would not shed blood for the South. The bet is that the Union of two million troops will be able to quickly settle the South.

The offensive of the Northern Army became fierce day by day, the Southern Army was defeated and retreated, and the black soldiers were inevitably pushed to the front. At this time, all fears were raised, the fighting power of the black soldiers was very problematic, the military discipline was very lax, they lacked the determination to fight to the end for the slave owners, and it was unreasonable to expect those who did not even dare to defend their own freedom to defend the interests of their masters.

It's not about training and command, the Prussian army in the era of serfdom was invincible, and in front of the free Napoleonic army, it was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and this is the truth, the times are progressing.

Those blacks have the same training, the same equipment, and the same driving to the battlefield as the whites, but under the fire of the platoon guns, they quickly collapse, and when they defend, under the baptism of artillery, they are also the first to collapse, attacking them without the will to fight to the end, and defense, they do not have the faith to stick to the end. Under the strict management of white officers, it was considered a success without a defection.

The Northern army marched east from Atlanta to Charleston, South Carolina, and once it reached here, it would cut the south in two parts, and the southern capital, Richmond, would be cut off from the south.

The crown prince group is not without action, Zhou Guanhai and other princely group forces quickly obtained authorization in the parliament to prevent the problem of displaced people, and made military mobilization in the Americas, and the troops that can be mobilized in the North American territory are by no means less than those of the Northern Federation, 60 million Chinese in the Americas, and more than 3 million armed people.

The three million troops began to assemble, and they were cleverly arranged, not to deploy near the south, but to begin to assemble along the Mississippi River in the north, and once the war began, it would quickly march into Wisconsin, attack the Great Lakes, and as long as the iron ore mines of Lake Superior were cut off, and the Northern Union would lose its arms supply if Europe also began to blockade the United States.

The ingenuity of this arrangement was that even if he did not enter the war, it would be a huge support to the South, because Lincoln did not dare to risk the loss of the iron ore base, and he had to maintain a fairly large army in case of a sudden Chinese intervention, which made the troops invested in the South nervous. The two million northern army can be used to fight, and those who dare to use it will not exceed one million at best, which makes up for the gap between the north and the south.

China also deployed a million-strong army in St. Louis, from which it could directly cross the river to attack Illinois and cut off the rear route of the Northern Army's Western Front troops, which made the Northern Army's Western Front troops dare not attack with all their might, and after the capture of Atlanta, the attack began to be weak.

After surviving the difficult year of 1863, the South did not fall, but the situation slowly improved. In addition to the continued deterioration of the economy, there is no military and political collapse in sight.

With three million troops mobilized in China, the risk of intervention is unprecedented, and it is rare for an army of this size to be mobilized without going to war. So after failing to beat the South that year, Lincoln's mentality also changed.

Bismarck has been mediating, but has not made any major moves, except for promoting a blockade of the United States in Europe and causing the economy of the north to deteriorate, but has not taken tougher measures, because Bismarck cannot get European countries to mobilize like China.

After China's mobilized army was gradually put in place, Bismarck finally succeeded in persuading the Lincoln government to accept a referendum, after all, the South would not necessarily achieve independence.

But the South did not accept it, not because of how confident the South was in China's intervention, but because they also understood this, as long as the northern states did not agree, after the referendum, they still could not become independent, so would they just rejoin the Union? They are not reconciled.

A civil war has turned the previously imaginary North-South hatred into reality, and the slave owners whose houses were burned down will not agree, the displaced civilians will not support, and the families of the soldiers who have spilled their blood on the battlefield will not support.

If the South does not accept it, there is no point in a unilateral referendum in the North.

It is not that the South is reluctant to negotiate, on the contrary, they have been more active in negotiations than in the North, because they are in a worse position. The demand of the South is that the southern states decide their own destiny and that the people of the states hold a referendum on whether to become independent or remain in the Union, whether to become independent or join the Union. Whether the South insists on the independence of the South is a matter for the Southern states themselves.

Lincoln made a bold decision at this time, he decided to follow the advice of the Berlin Parliament and at the same time hold a referendum in accordance with the attitude of the South itself.

Since the South itself said that it was up to their states to decide for themselves, Lincoln gave them a chance. Referendums were held in the southern states under the occupation of the Northern Army. To put it bluntly, it is Tennessee, northwestern Mississippi, northern Alabama, western Georgia and other places.

But the referendum in the North was firmly opposed by the South, for the simple reason that Lincoln had given blacks one person, one vote.

Even so, if the referendum had been held before the war, it would not have succeeded. Because there are always more whites, blacks may not all support the North, and most blacks may not understand the benefits of joining the North. But now it's different, the blacks are liberated, and the whites, adult males, basically join the army, either die in battle, either surrender and be captured, or retreat to other battlefields with the defeated army. In this way, blacks make up an absolute number and are ridiculed as a black vote.

Such a referendum, all the procedures are legal, but Europe has not recognized it, because a large number of white Southerners who are military personnel do not vote, and white women do not have the right to vote, and it is really the vast majority of blacks who vote. They did cast a vote in favor of the North and decided to join the Union.

Such an obvious political maneuver was not accepted by the South and widely criticized in Europe, but Bismarck began to lobby for the result.