Section 373 What is the Crown Prince's intention?

The Chinese troops who entered the territory of the United States were confined to occupying the crossings on both sides of the strait, and did not penetrate deep into the hinterland of the United States, then opened and repaired the American fortifications that seemed to have been destroyed in the battle, and then transferred auxiliary units to take over the defense.

The methods of warfare adopted after that gave the Americans a sigh of relief and made other countries see that they were not clear. Because the soldiers were not in a hurry to advance, but with a large force of cavalry composed of Indians, they swept the American estates everywhere, mainly in the South, and after they captured each estate, they would publicly announce the emancipation of the slaves.

Telling these dazed-looking slaves that they are free people doesn't excite them, because they don't know what a free man looks like, just like telling a blind man how good a movie is, they can't imagine it. Of course, there are also a very small number of blacks who have a higher level of knowledge, who have mixed up with the level of housekeepers, and can understand this. The rest of the blacks, even if they were told that the houses and land of the slave owners were given to them, they were alarmed, because they did not know the concept of private property rights.

After Lincoln announced the abolition of slavery, various books recorded that blacks enthusiastically joined the army, but in reality there were not many black troops. The Americans also told the world that this was because whites discriminated against blacks and did not want blacks to join the army. Whites died in rebellion in New York because of forced conscription, how could they not want blacks to join the army because of discrimination against blacks?

There are writings sympathetic to slavery, although they make small noises, but it is possible that it is true that blacks simply do not understand what it means for their emancipation, that they do not understand this, that they see no future, only panic. In this case, let them enthusiastically join the army, that is purely white thinking. For a black man who was born and had only the plantations they were on in the world and saw only their masters and other slaves, talking about emancipation and freedom was always nonsense. That is why, when Napoleon attacked Russia, proclamations abolishing serfdom were posted everywhere in front, while the Russian serfs attacked Napoleon's army on the side of the landlords, because the serfs did not know what was different after liberation.

The Chinese army soon found out. It was found that the freeing of slaves did not win the support of the large number of slaves in the south, but the real joy of freedom was the black slaves who had just been transported from Africa, and these warriors of most tribes were captured and reduced to slavery in battle. Although they didn't know what they were going to do after they left the plantation, these blacks in the South had never seen blacks doing business in shops, no blacks teaching in schools, no blacks working in factories, all blacks they had seen were blacks working on farms.

But these black people who were once free, they know how to fight. They were either captured in a campaign with a neighboring tribe or captured by a sneak attack by a slave team, so they asked the Chinese army to join the army, and they were willing to take up guns to fight for the Chinese.

This new black man has a large number in Memphis, because it is the largest slave market in the South, surrounded by a large number of cotton plantations, and it is itself a city in the Mississippi River Valley, and a large number of slaves smuggled from the Caribbean are transported to this place through the Mississippi River, and then auctioned off in the market.

After careful consideration, the crown prince agreed to include these blacks in the army and use them as auxiliaries. The crown prince's decision saved the lives of many white people, because later when these black people went to war, they grew up from the primeval jungle of Africa, with that primitive instinct and disregard for life, they were indeed brave enough to fight, but they were bloody enough to kill people, and the black rebels in Haiti could slaughter the white people cleanly, and the quality of these black Africans was even inferior to the black slaves who were tamed on the plantations.

Finding that raiding the estates could not win the support of the slaves, the crown prince changed his plans. Instead of touching the estates, he co-opted them and told them that the army would be forbidden to destroy private property. It was also announced that the estates were exempt from taxes.

At this time, the target of the wooing turned to the Indians.

There are about 250,000 Indians living in the Great Plains, of which 200,000 live in the areas under Chinese rule, and in addition to the aborigines who originally lived here, there are also a considerable number of Indian tribes driven here by the Americans.

In 1830, Jackson became president of the United States and introduced an "Indian Eradication Act", and the U.S. government began to systematically expel and relocate the Indians from the east to the western part of the United States, and vacate the land in the eastern region to the whites. In particular, in the south, there were many Indians, and they also occupied a large amount of fertile land and even gold mines, while the slave owners, who were eager to develop cotton plantations, struggled to find sufficient land. Therefore, Jackson's purpose was mainly to win over the southerners.

The law was enforced so thoroughly that more than 100,000 Native Americans of the Southern Indian tribes were driven west. However, because the land west of the Mississippi River belongs to China, and the United States has no right to establish reservations in the west, the nominal reservations they have demarcated are all located along the Mississippi River, but these lands are good land, and the local state government has privately expelled the Indians and forced the Indians to cross the river and move to Chinese territory.

At first, a large number of Indian tribes rashly invaded Chinese territory, and the local government was very angry, and while protesting to the United States, it made contact with these Indian tribes. The U.S. government was a scoundrel, saying that the Indians were used to freedom and that it would be difficult to stop their migration; The Indians were also not very communicative, naively saying that they only wanted to find a piece of land without an owner for them to live on, and Chinese officials told them that the land west of the river was all Chinese.

When negotiations were ultimately fruitless, Chinese officials informed the Indians that they would either move back across the river or submit to the imperial court, which would settle them with land and establish household registrations. The Indians, of course, agreed to the land, but they were not satisfied with the land allocated to them by the government. It's not that the location is bad, it's that the place is too small.

Local officials were also annoyed, and each family was divided into more than 500 acres of land, which should be enough for even raising horses. It was later discovered that the Indians understood the land according to the scope of their hunting, and it was unacceptable if there was not enough prey on the land they were given.

After that, a large number of problems arose in the management of these Indians. They were organized into households, forcibly taught them to farm, and officials were sent to manage them, but these people killed officials and rebelled at every turn, and no one wanted to be Indian officials for a time, and the risk was too high.

The crown prince is young and vigorous, and he doesn't have such good patience, and the Americans can send troops to suppress these shengfan, and he won't be polite. Dealing with rebellions, suppressing and appeasing them at the same time, and mainly by strangulation. The Indian people at the bottom can still be forgiven, and the chieftains at the top will not let go. Almost rebelling against a tribe clears the leadership of a tribe. The remaining ordinary Indians were scattered, some were sent to government-run horse farms to raise horses, some were sent to Indian settlements managed by Han Chinese officials, and some were scattered and sent to Han villages to settle down.

In this way, the living habits of a large number of Indians were effectively and completely changed, so that they changed from a nomadic life to a life of agriculture and animal husbandry. But most Indians had a lower standard of living than the Han Chinese, not because the government discriminated against them, nor because the Han excluded them, but because of laziness.

The local Han immigrants have accumulated habits, are accustomed to preparing for war and famine, and have surplus grain in their families. And when the Indians are full today, they sing and dance, ride horses and wander, buy meat when they have money, and call friends. This is called freedom, because of the entry of Western culture in later generations, the word freedom has a rather lofty meaning, but in this era, the Han people do not have this concept, and their evaluation of the freedom-loving Indians is "used to being wild".

The existence of these people is a huge challenge to the management of the government, and traditional means such as suppression, suppression, and appeasement cannot be completely changed. But later it turned out that these people were good material for soldiers, so they began to recruit a large number of Indian soldiers.

The Indians are also often in economic difficulties, and being a soldier has become a very good livelihood, so the proportion of Indians as soldiers is extremely high, and almost all people are soldiers.

Of course, they can only be auxiliaries, and the soldiers are composed of Han Chinese, but the role of the Indians is not only auxiliaries, they are good at least, the people are fierce, and after strict training, their combat effectiveness is considerable, and in the suppression of other Indian tribes' rebellions, these people are also unrelenting, so that the army feels that they are loyal and reliable.

Because the U.S. plan to eliminate the Indians was heavily guarded by China in the border areas, some Indian tribes crossed the Mississippi River and others stayed on the other side. The Indians who stayed on the American side suffered quite miserably, and everyone wanted the land along the river, and as a result, the militias in the states treated them as thorns in the flesh, and they were constantly driven and restricted. They wandered along the river, but could not find a piece of land of their own.

The number of Indians squeezed on the east bank of the Mississippi River was estimated at around 50,000, and now the crown prince sent Indian cavalry to contact these Indian tribes and invite them to join them in the cavalry against the Americans.

How could they not agree!

In any case, the military operation in the United States has been petty, and the focus is on Mexico. Of the 100,000 American soldiers, 40,000 were sent here, and 200,000 auxiliaries were mobilized to storm Mexico City along the Chinese Strip.

More than 20 years ago, the Chinese army was able to capture this place in two attempts across the sea, not to mention now, it only took a month to capture Mexico City.

After that, it was limited to this, and did not continue the operation, but left 20,000 soldiers and 80,000 auxiliaries to defend. The rest of the army was drawn and joined forces with the navy to move south to capture Lima, the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

At this point, the crown prince's strategic intentions have been guessed by the outside world, and it turned out to be an intention to annex the Spanish colony.