Section 335 North American Peace Conference
The division between the United States and China in the Central Great Plains, from the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers in the south to the sea, was owned by the United States after intense negotiations, after the Americans insisted that both banks of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis to the sea be owned by the United States, and the crown prince's team did not hesitate to threaten war before finally limiting the northern limit of the Mississippi River basin claimed by the United States to the Arkansas River.
This is largely due to the fact that China has expanded along the Arkansas River basin to the Mississippi River, and the two sides have a staggered presence in the area. South of Arkansas, the inhabitants were Indians, and de jure sovereignty belonged to Spain, which was controlled by the Spanish state of New Mexico.
The central region, from the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers to the north to the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, is bounded by the main stream of the Mississippi River. One of the disadvantages of China here is that the Americans established a colonial base at the confluence of the Minnesota River and the Mississippi River, which became what became Minneapolis, which became a stronghold of the American army, called Fort Neiling, and the Minnesota River was always a passage for American pioneers to hunt for furs in the Northwest. The Chinese did not establish a stronghold here, but only a stronghold on each side of the Minnesota River.
China is willing to give up its military stronghold on the north bank of the Minnesota River, and the United States is willing to give up its stronghold on the south bank, with the Mississippi River and the Minnesota River as the boundary rivers. The Minnesota River is located between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and originates in Big Stone Lake. There is also a river north of the Great Stone Lake, called the Red River, which flows into British North America almost due south and north, and is separated by a watershed from the Minnesota River, one flows south and the other flows north, so the United States claims that the northern border is bounded by the Red River. This is also the dividing line between Minnesota and Hebei Dakota in the United States.
Since the Minnesota River is a passage for the United States to hunt for furs in the Northwest, the economic value is very important, and the United States strives for the right of American hunters to hunt for furs north through the Minnesota River, while China has won the right to go to sea through the Mississippi River, and at the same time assures the United States that it will not seek the right to seek access to the sea in the Gulf of Mexico.
After these agreements were reached, the Americans honestly made greater concessions, because it was much more difficult for the American company to cross the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains of the United States, and it was currently established with much fewer bases than the United States, so there were big concessions on the additional terms, such as an alliance with the United States, unless the two countries agreed, to prevent any third power from entering North America, against the current Prussia.
China pledged that if the United States entered a state of war with any third country in North America, China would remain neutral in good faith and would not ally with America's enemies. Similarly, if China enters a state of war with a third country, the United States will remain neutral in good faith. This avoids the dilemma of China attacking from behind in the event of a war between the United States and Britain and Prussia. It is of little significance to China, because at present China has almost no opponents on the west coast of the Americas, the Spaniards in Mexico will never dare to challenge China, Britain and France and other powerful countries want to attack here, they have to cross the Pacific Ocean, unless China itself is defeated, otherwise attacking the west coast of North America is a joke.
So this article can be seen as a concession to the United States.
At the same time, the United States and the crown prince also reached an agreement on the current situation in North America, in addition to the consensus on the entry of Prussia and other European powers into North America, the two sides tacitly accepted Napoleon's rule over the French-speaking region, and jointly appealed to other countries for peace and mediated the war between Napoleon and the Anglo-Prussian alliance.
This means that the two countries accept that North America will be divided between the four great powers, the United States on the east coast of North America, China on the west coast of North America, and the Napoleonic Empire on the north of the British territory.
The two sides will invite representatives of various countries to convene a North American meeting in Washington to negotiate the relevant treaty. At the meeting, the two countries pledged to take a unified position and that if there were any changes, they would have to agree in advance.
At this time, the North American war situation was that the Anglo-Prussian alliance recovered Ottawa, which was captured by Napoleon, and the city was handed over to the United States before Napoleon, and half of the French-speaking population in the city was handed over to the United States, which was Napoleon's sincerity to the United States, but the United States retreated in the face of the strong attitude of European countries and handed over this place to the Anglo-Prussian allies.
After the Anglo-Prussian allies occupied here, the British fleet controlled the water control of the St. Lawrence River and the Ottawa River, Napoleon was in an unfavorable situation, on the one hand, facing the attack of the Anglo-Prussian alliance, on the other hand, there was no foreign aid support, the French in North America were possessed, there was no complete military industrial system, even weapons and ammunition could not be self-sufficient, and they were increasingly embarrassed, Montreal and Quebec were besieged by the Anglo-Prussian alliance, and defeat was only a matter of time.
After agreeing with China, the Americans no longer worried about the threat from the west and began to concentrate on solving the North American problem, and they did not want to see the Anglo-Prussian alliance victorious, so they resumed their assistance to Napoleon. The smuggling of large quantities of weapons into Napoleon's army caused a strong protest in Britain, but these smugglings have not been stopped, but now the United States is no longer strictly inspected. In the United States, a large number of French Americans were serving Napoleon, and there were even a large number of wealthy French and Irish businessmen who provided financial assistance to Napoleon, who directly purchased weapons and ammunition in the United States and smuggled them to Napoleon.
Napoleon remained the best military commander of his time, and when he was restocked, he quickly broke the Anglo-Prussian siege of Quebec and Montreal and turned to a blockade of British-occupied Ottawa. Napoleon did not have a strong navy, and the blockade was carried out mainly through the blockade of the St. Lawrence River. Both Quebec and Montreal were built on the St. Lawrence River, especially Montreal, which is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the St. Lawrence River.
Ironically, the French of Lower Canada were very supportive of Napoleon at this time, but many of their elites were royalists who had fled here as a result of the French Revolution. Bringing with them traditional ideas that were incompatible with the spirit of the Revolution, and more conservative than before the Revolution, the local church tried to maintain ties with the Roman Church, in order to unite the French community through the church and prevent them from being assimilated by the British.
The situation is very different from that of France, but the arrival of Napoleon also caters to the self-reliant psychological state of the French community, and the church is the biggest trouble, but Napoleon caters to the church. In fact, Napoleon had already begun to compromise and get closer to the traditional powers in the later period, so he became emperor, he married the Austrian Empire, he asked the pope to help him be crowned, and so on. Now he has joined forces with the most powerful church forces in the region, declaring himself a devout believer in God, and the power of the church is supreme.
With the support of the church, Napoleon ruled the Lower Canada region very smoothly, and was supported by hundreds of thousands of French people, as well as tens of thousands of French Americans, many of whom were even veterans of Napoleon's post-war service, and their bringing made Napoleon's officer class more professional.
On the basis of these, Napoleon, who had crushed the British naval blockade, was finally difficult to defeat, and the British began to reconsider the question of war. Because the anti-war voices in Britain have put the government's rule in jeopardy, the Earl of Liverpool, who has won the Napoleonic Wars, and who has been prime minister for 15 years, has begun to be impeached, and there are a large number of politicians who oppose him both inside and outside the Tory.
The middle and lower classes of people who have become embarrassed by the war, or who are simply tired of life and want to find someone to vent their anger, are loudly accusing the Earl of Liverpool of being a warmonger who wants to carry the war to the end of the world. Even the king was dissatisfied with his war-torn succession, believing that he seemed to be too fond of war.
There was an anti-war mood at all levels of the country, and even the dangerous Napoleon could not rally the people to support the war.
The Earl of Liverpool was not in good health, and he chose to resign to the king in frustration, and the king later appointed George Canning, who was exceptionally obedient to the royal family, as prime minister.
Historically, this man recognized the independence of the Spanish colonies, but it was also this person who refused to suppress the Spanish Revolution, leaving Spain unable to suppress the colonial uprising. But this man was unique within the Tory, with many people supporting him and opposing him, which led to his inability to get enough support to form a cabinet when he came to power, and he even invited Whigs to his cabinet.
As soon as he took office, he adjusted his policy and sought peace. Including the peace with Napoleon, at this time the United States and China jointly issued an initiative to invite Britain and France to participate in the peace conference on North America, and the Americans deliberately did not invite Prussia, the obvious purpose was to block any third power from North America.
As for France, it also supports the United States, as long as Napoleon does not return home, he will stay as long as he likes.
At the Washington Conference attended by Britain, France, China and the United States, it was obvious that they were all supporting Napoleon's forces, and Britain wanted peace and did not want to continue the war.
As a result, the meeting quickly came to fruition.
Britain recognized Napoleon's rule over the French-speaking Territory, and the French insisted that Napoleon remove the name of the New French Empire, and also opposed any use of the French name, while the British opposed the use of Canada as the name of the country, and finally confirmed Napoleon's country as the Kingdom of Quebec.
Since this king occupied the navigable position of the St. Lawrence River, the British strongly demanded that the Quartet confirm that Britain had an unconditional right of passage on the St. Lawrence River, and that no country should interfere with the navigation of British merchant ships.
As for the Napoleonic forces, he was not even invited to the meeting, and his fate was decided by the four great powers.
After the meeting, Napoleon recognized the resolution of the conference, sent a representative to sign it, and peace was restored in the Americas.
Napoleon got a state, Britain restored rule in the English-speaking areas, the United States expelled the entry of third powers, Prussia got nothing but British guarantees of free trade in their British territories, and France gave guarantees that Napoleon would not return to Europe.
It's just that in the western part of the British Territories, the United States and Britain are still in dispute, and now the dispute has widened because China has also entered the region.