Section 364 The situation in the Americas (1)
The situation in the Americas is delicate, not a tripartite one, but a quadripartite power structure.
The weakest is undoubtedly the Kingdom of Quebec, ruled by the House of Bonaparte, which is no longer ruled by Napoleon, because last year Napoleon died suddenly and was succeeded by his son, King Louis Bonaparte of Rome, who was recognized by the nations.
Napoleon died suddenly, and before he died, he said that he was as strong as an ox, and that he often hunted brown bears in the dense forests of Quebec, and such a man died suddenly. Some say he died hunting, but there is no sign of him being attacked by wild beasts, but there are some bruises, others say that he was frightened by his horse and dragged Napoleon into the jungle, where he dragged him to his death in the bushes. But as a generation of famous generals, his war horse is not so easily frightened, and even if the war horse is frightened, his riding skills are unlikely to be dragged to death so easily.
In short, Napoleon's death was full of secrets, and after his death, his son King of Rome quickly succeeded to the throne, claiming that Napoleon died in a hunting accident, but as for what the accident was, there is no explanation. The Roman king was sent to the Americas by his grandfather, the Austrian emperor, after the establishment of the Kingdom of Quebec, and he should have died of tuberculosis in 1832 at Schönbrunn Palace in Austria.
Napoleon ruled Quebec for ten years, from 1827 to 1836, and spent the last eight years under construction, except for the first two years of constant war. Quebec is a French colony, the French are relatively good at agriculture, so Quebec is basically an agricultural area, commercially in the past they seized huge commercial interests by controlling the St. Lawrence River, but unfortunately after the British controlled Hudson Bay, their commercial monopoly was broken, and then Quebec was seized by the British, the French basically did little in the business here, and began to transform into an agricultural nation.
There is no shortage of land here, so as long as you are willing to farm, you will not starve to death. During the French Revolution, a large number of people fled to the aristocracy, bringing an intellectual elite here, which had good aspects, such as improving their management skills, so that they could confront Britain for a long time as a colony and guarantee their power from the British; There is also a downside, those conservative forces before the Great Revolution brought extremely conservative ideas here.
When Napoleon first arrived in Quebec, he had pledged allegiance to the Church, but when he gained a foothold, he began to limit the power of religion, and in recent years, there have even been frequent rumors that Napoleon was going to implement reforms in Quebec, and I don't know if these news led to Napoleon's death.
During Napoleon's reign, Quebec developed well, with its population rapidly increasing from hundreds of thousands to two million, and Napoleon's great prestige played a role; Once the political situation in France is unstable, the common people are willing to shout Napoleon's name, obviously he is very attractive to the French, those desperate French, as long as they plan to emigrate, I am afraid that the first thing to think of Napoleon's Quebec will be. Others include the French-Americans and even the French in China.
It even led to the loss of a large number of French capitalists who invested in China in recent years, and a group of them came to China in the early years to defect to Napoleon, and accumulated here for many years, and have been quite large-scale, as a result, Napoleon established a country in Quebec, and many of them actually sold their mansions, factories and shops to go to poor and white Quebec.
Especially during the economic crisis in the past few years, because the Chinese public banks only rescued Chinese money institutions, but not French banks, many French bankers were dissatisfied or went bankrupt, and these high-IQ people also went to Quebec to make a living.
Although the Industrial Revolution did not begin, some traditional industries, such as sawmilling, shipbuilding, flour grinding, etc., had begun to introduce hydraulic machines and began to mechanize.
But Quebec is still a small backward country. Strangely, at the time of Napoleon's reign, the Kingdom of Quebec, with a population of 2 million, was considered by everyone to be an important country in the Americas, and when Napoleon died, everyone felt that it seemed that this country was not so always important. In the hands of a strong and bull-strong Napoleon, and in the hands of a sickly Roman king, Quebec seemed to be two countries.
In the past seven or eight years, as China and the United States have tried to get their hands on the land area, the British have desperately pumped people to the simple area.
Although Britain is not a large country with a large population, the British people do not reject immigrants in their concept, so British people move out frequently. Between 1815 and 1930, more than 11.4 million people emigrated from Britain and 7.3 million from Ireland. Between 1853 and 1900 alone, 4.67 million people left England and Wales and 890,000 people left Scotland.
With this level of immigration, and the descendants of immigrants, combined with more than the entire population of Great Britain, it would be no exaggeration to say that British immigrants have bred a new Britain overseas. It is not a problem for the UK to send 200,000 people out of the country every year.
But there is a problem, free immigrants in the United Kingdom are often attracted by the affluent living conditions in the United States, at least more than one-third of them immigrate to the United States every year, and the number of immigrants to Canada is very small compared to the United States. In order to prevent simple fall into the hands of the United States and the Middle Ages, Britain began to take measures to restrict immigration to the United States. Increase the preferential policy of immigrating to Canada, give a large amount of land, and each immigrant, as long as he is willing to move to Canada, will be given 160 acres of land. The exile of prisoners to Tasmania was stopped, and all of them were deported to Canada to provide labor for the development of Canada. Canada was also opened to countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark and even Germany in the Nordic region to attract immigrants of Germanic origin.
In these ways, the UK has managed to send more than 300,000 immigrants to Canada each year, and eight years later, the Canadian population has increased to about 4 million.
This kind of immigration speed is still not comparable to China, but it has pressed the United States. The Americans traveled north through the River Ride into central Canada and into the Lake Winnipeg area. The area had always been the sphere of influence of the Indians, who were armed with British weapons and recruited by the British, and when there was a war, they often rushed to the front line of the war against the United States, making the Americans hate these Indians deeply.
Their settlers entered the area, drove out the Indians, established colonial forts, and claimed dominion over the area. and founded a city on the south shore of Lake Winnipeg, which was called Winnipeg.
However, China expanded northward through the Missouri and Reed rivers to the South Saskatchewan River, establishing a number of colonial strongholds on both banks, and signing protection agreements with local Indian tribes to claim dominion over the area.
In fact, the forces of all sides are intertwined, and there are also British strongholds south of the Saskatchewan River and Chinese strongholds to the north; The Lake Winnipeg region has both American and British strongholds. But there are only a few colonial strongholds, and there are not many real immigrants, and China, which has the largest number of immigrants, has only emigrated a million people.
Previously, it was China and the United States that jointly infiltrated the British colonies, Britain claimed sovereignty over the entire Canadian region, China and the United States did not recognize it, and finally everyone worked hard to infiltrate, and now it is time for various forces to intertwine and various conflicts to occur, and finally the British put forward the hope of dividing North American territory through negotiations.
The Americans responded positively, although their border with China had long been clearly demarcated, and there was no competition between them when the land had not yet been developed at all, but the Americans actually began to actively support the three countries to demarcate the national border together, and it was obvious that the United States gradually began to side with Britain.
In the Americas, Napoleon, as the weakest party, has always formed an alliance with the most powerful China, thus achieving a balance of strength and weakness, but now that Napoleon is dead and the Roman king has succeeded to the throne, Quebec is no longer valued, and the Roman king's attitude towards China has begun to be ambiguous, without his father's ambitions, and it seems that he has no interest in intervening in great power disputes. This becomes China's independent rivalry with Britain and the United States.
In North America, although the Chinese population is the largest, slightly more than the United States, Britain and the United States together are much stronger than China. In the event of a war between the three countries due to frequent clashes between the colonies in North America, China would be at a disadvantage.
In this case, the crown prince's best option was to accept negotiations, but he refused.
Britain and the United States negotiated separately, and then the two sides completed the demarcation of the border, and the British recognized the area south of Lake Winnipeg, east of the Red River and Lake Woods as belonging to the United States, withdrew all British strongholds, and ceased support for the local Indian tribes.
The purpose of the Americans' expansion to the north was not actually for the sake of territory, but in terms of territory, the Great Plains region was better than here, the land was easier to cultivate, the climate was warmer, and the transportation was more convenient. The main purpose of the American infiltration into Lake Winnipeg was the desire of the pioneers for Canadian fur, and once they arrived in Lake Winnipeg, they could go north through the River Reid directly into the Lake Winnipeg area.
Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba and other central Canadian lakes are basically connected, and as long as you establish a base here, you can cover the entire Great Lakes region, surrounded by virgin forests and swamps, where it is impossible to cultivate and open up the land, but it is an excellent place to hunt furs. Most advantageously, Hudson Bay can be accessed directly through the abundant Nelson River. This means that the United States can have direct access to the sea through here.
In the proviso clause, the United Kingdom granted American merchants the right to trade furs within Canada, which fully satisfied the needs of the United States.
After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in North America, after China and the United States demarcated the border, they began to secretly collude and began to jointly confront the most powerful China.
At the same time, the contradictions between the United States and China, and between Britain and China, have not been resolved and continue to expand.