The crown prince has been sitting in the Americas for ten years, during this period is not back, every two years will go back, because the current imperial examination, has been once every two years, the chance of the examination is getting lower and lower, the Americas as a Chinese territory, the children of the Americas also participate in the imperial examination, but in order to prevent the separation of local forces, the children of the Americas are the same as in China, they are still officials in different places, and most of the children of the Americas will be assigned to the country, and the crown prince sends these American scholars back to China every year during the imperial examination. Then he greeted the Chinese scholars who were going to serve in the Americas.

Establishing a relationship with these low-level officials is also a political means, at least to show a political attitude, telling the world that he, the crown prince, attaches great importance to the imperial examination, and the traditional Chinese gentry have always been panicked about Zhou Lang's reform of the imperial examination.

From this point of view, the crown prince's political wisdom is not low, in fact, even if he lacks political wisdom, he is surrounded by many resourceful people, he has long hired a large number of retired old bureaucrats as his staff, as long as he is not a stubborn person, he will not make serious political mistakes, if he is a stubborn person, he will not hire these old bureaucrats who always like to show their qualifications.

But the Americas are now in a situation where they are besieged by Britain, the United States, and Spain, and there is only one explanation, that is, the crown prince wants to fight this war. He hoped to accumulate prestige for himself through military exploits, which was the quickest and most indisputable achievement.

China's resources in the Americas also allow him to fight this war. As early as when Zhu Li ran the American Company, he established a complete military industrial system in the Americas, and now the industrial level of the Americas is still imperfect, and the California region is already the world's largest gold and silver producing area, and this kind of high value-added minerals is enough to support a higher income for the Americans, and it is impossible to compete with industrial products from China with high incomes, nor do they need to engage in low-income industrial production. With the exception of the military industry, other industries are almost blank.

But the population of the Americas is not very small, gold and silver mining is the first major industry, but agriculture is also very developed, agriculture in high-income areas, often more economical, California's climate is suitable for growing cotton and mulberry silkworms, manpower is relatively lacking, so they only produce raw silk and export to China.

Since the main business is gold and silver mining, planting is cotton and raw silk such as a very economic industry, grain production is mainly self-sufficient, and even grain is imported from South America, self-sufficiency is only vegetables that are not easy to transport; Therefore, the living standard in North America is very high, much higher than Chinese mainland, not lower than the eastern part of the United States, on average, the Chinese in North America are currently the highest income group in the world, with a per capita monthly income of more than 1.5 taels of gold, equivalent to about 8 pounds.

In China, even the richest Jiangnan region cannot get half of this wage, a skilled worker in a silk factory rarely has more than 10,000 wen a month, ordinary manual labor, even 1,000 wen a month can not even get 1,000 wen, 1 tael of gold can be exchanged for 20,000 wen, and domestic skilled workers can only get one-third of the average income in the Americas.

Therefore, the attraction of the Americas to Chinese immigrants is huge, the number of immigrants is growing every year, it has reached 800,000 last year, and it has reached 600,000 in the first half of this year. Therefore, the crown prince was able to rule for ten years, and the North American Chinese population increased from 10 million to 15 million.

This kind of culture came so lightly that no one thought it was a merit, perhaps it was such an atmosphere of public opinion that made the crown prince begin to desire a war, or from the time he came to the Americas, he was eager to make a contribution, because after arriving in the Americas, he began to build up the military power here.

The military power of the Americas is similar to that of China, divided into soldiers and auxiliaries, the soldiers brought from China ten years ago, and those people have long since retired, but the later soldiers are still mainly recruited from China, and the natives form auxiliaries to maintain the level of training through the armor protection system.

After retiring, all the officers of the old army in the Zhu Li era were retired, and after retiring, they were given land and became the chief of the armor protection system, and they were responsible for organizing militia training during the agricultural slack time in peacetime, and they were conscripted to join the army in wartime.

Although the population of the Americas is just over 15 million, because most of the population are young immigrants, there are many men suitable for military service, and the number of auxiliaries that can be called up is as high as millions. To fight against the United States, of course, you will not need so many troops. So there was only a partial mobilization to arm the state and county auxiliaries located along the Mississippi River.

The crown prince developed the Mississippi River valley by establishing a military base and then recruiting farmers to clear the land. As for what style of building, it depends on the area from which the immigrants come from, and the northerners from the Yellow River valley like to build earthen forts; Construction of earthen buildings and walled houses in the southern region. These military and civilian buildings have always militarized the border areas of the Mississippi River basin to a high degree, and the Indian tribes who have continuously surrounded and crossed the river have made the common people in the border areas relatively strong.

Although the United States does not have the tradition of building city walls, they also have the habit of building fortresses in the border areas in the battle with the Indians, but these fortifications against the Indians are completely unable to block the heavy artillery of the regular troops.

It was also difficult for the US troops, mainly the militias of various states, to assemble, and as a result, in a short period of time, important border towns were lost one after another. From St. Paul in the north to St. Louis in the center and Memphis in the south, it was conquered successively. The crown prince's army marched from St. Paul and St. Louis to the great city of Chicago in the Great Lakes region, and south along the Mississippi River to Louisiana, with the aim of capturing the port of New Orleans.

And the main force of the United States is still being assembled, transported, and even recruited in the east. The armed forces responsible for the resistance, mainly the state militia and the Mounties, these irregular forces, although they can do some damage, are not much more harmful than the frequent harassment of the western cowboys.

Since Canada had not thawed at this time, it was the middle of winter, and the crown prince chose to attack Mexico in the south, taking advantage of his naval superiority, and landing directly in Acapulco, a Mexican port that China had been renting, along the Chinese avenue, and directly attacking Mexico City.

As for the South American direction, for the time being, the Uruguayan defenders should remain on the defensive, without attacking La Plata, which seems to be an easy take, and not colluding with the local rebels.

It is clear that the crown prince has other ideas for Spain!