Seeing the current situation, the Inca king Zhu Yong felt more and more interesting.

He was the first to stand up at first, and he really intended to intervene, and in the worst-case scenario, he thought that after uniting Mexico, the two countries could jointly send a million troops, which would be a powerful help to the South.

What he didn't expect was that Germany behind Mexico jumped out and Bismarck played with a balance hand.

Zhu Yong simply continued to hide behind the scenes, he didn't care who controlled the United States, he had no ambitions for the United States, as long as the United States was divided into two countries, it would be in the interests of the Inca Kingdom, if it were not for the mediation of the United States, the border between the Inca Kingdom and the Spanish colonies would not be what it is today, he thought that at that time he could get at least half of the Maracaibo lowlands and monopolize the entire Magdalena Valley. Zhu Yong doesn't care about the size of the territory for a while, what he cares about is the ability of the United States to affect the territorial changes of the Inca Kingdom.

As long as the United States is divided, that is his only purpose. So he was neither as worried about the United States being controlled by China as the British, nor as strongly as China's plot to squeeze out British influence in the South. Therefore, he is happy to continue to stand on the sidelines and watch the play.

Onlookers are clear, but this makes him more able to see Bismarck's step-by-step strategy, lamenting that everyone is Bismarck's pawns, and this famous European diplomat is really a figure who is good at layout.

And the crown prince's series of actions, which were naturally done independently, made Bismarck take advantage of the situation, and it seemed as if China was cooperating with Bismarck's diplomatic actions, which made people can't help but be surprised.

Zhu Yong couldn't help but sigh that if the emperor was in power, this situation would never happen. He began to envision what it would be like if the emperor intervened. Perhaps he would join the Berlin Conference directly and put pressure on the American Federation with the European countries, and even the Emperor might take the lead in forming such a conference, but not Germany. In terms of the use of international power, the emperor was the same figure as Bismarck.

Just watching the play, Zhu Yong doesn't have to care about the others. The impact of the war on the Inca Kingdom was limited, and the Inca Kingdom did not have close economic ties with the United States, limited by its geographical location, mainly with countries in the Pacific Ocean, and its trade with the United States was not even comparable to that of Japan. If there is a certain impact, it is mainly a beneficial one, and the war in the United States has benefited the cotton produced by the Inca Kingdom as much as Mexico.

But Zhu Yong didn't care about these benefits, because as a new generation of powerful people, and a young man with strong business ideas, he was not satisfied with the agricultural conditions of the Inca Kingdom, and he believed that the future of the Inca Kingdom was mainly in minerals and industry, and the conditions for agricultural development were much worse than those of neighboring countries. Therefore, after he came to power, he introduced a lot of industrial incentive policies, agriculture mainly relied on the development of the people themselves, and the agriculture of the Inca kingdom was under the control of the owners of large estates and agricultural companies, and the homesteaders were mainly those Indian tribes, and the Indians could be encircled by tax exemption and other methods, and it was some large companies themselves that invested in improving agricultural conditions.

Industrially, the cotton and wool textile industry has some support, processing Peruvian cotton and alpaca wool that is unique to the Inca Kingdom, and supporting these specialty products to occupy a place in international trade. His focus was on the mining industry, and he carried out a census of the minerals of the Inca kingdom from the American Company and by employing foreign technicians. Based on the results of the census, large capital is recruited to transfer minerals to these large companies. The services provided by the government are to improve the environment for mineral exports, including the construction of infrastructure such as railways, roads, ports, etc., and the licensing of merchants to set up mining exchanges.

Under these policies, Chile, which has better conditions, has quickly become the world's largest exporter of copper ore and saltpeter, and Peru's four major minerals of copper, lead, zinc and silver have become world-class advantageous industries. In recent years, in addition to the large mines auctioned to the mining giants, small and medium-sized mines have blossomed everywhere, and various mineral deposits are being mined all over the country. Chinese and whites were mine owners and technical engineers, and mestizos and Indians were the main laborers. A capital group composed of native-born whites and Chinese began to form in the country.

As long as the huge surplus brought about by exports is properly utilized, it will greatly promote the country's development. In just a few years, the government invested heavily in public facilities and educational institutions, which greatly improved the transportation and educational environment of the Inca Kingdom, and the security and commercial conditions were much better than when Spain and Carlos ruled the kingdom in the past.

The biggest shortcoming is the problem of insufficient population, China's foreign migration has begun to ebb, with an average of about one million per year, but South America has no advantage in the process of competing with other places, there is no land suitable for large-scale reclamation, and the existing reclaimable land is monopolized by large commercial companies and large plantation owners. Therefore, most of the immigrants attracted from China every year are some business immigrants, and the number of people is difficult to exceed 100,000. The Inca kingdom numbered more than 10 million people, and its growth was slow, and there was no possibility of rapid growth.

There are really too few people scattered over the vast land from the Caribbean Sea in the north to the Antarctic zone in the south.

In this situation of population size and population distribution, it is actually enough to develop the country's economy, with a total length of more than 8,900 kilometers from north to south, and countless mineral deposits in the Andes Mountains running through the western part of the South American continent, which can allow the Inca Kingdom to develop for hundreds of years. There is no manpower and motivation to expand the territory, so if you can not fight, you will not fight, the country and the people will be safe, and you will make a lot of money in silence, which is the endowment of this country.

Therefore, unless it is a last resort, Zhu Yong does not plan to intervene in the American Civil War and be a peaceful king.

But he knew that neither China nor Britain would be at peace, and Germany would be churning between them.

Sure enough, the confrontation between the two sides escalated as the U.S. Federal Navy began to seize Chinese military vessels. The Chinese Navy began escorting ships from the Panama Canal to the Mississippi River, and American warships followed them, watching for every merchant ship to enter a Chinese port, not a southern port.

The direct contact between the military forces of the two sides may lead to a misfire at any time, and China can already create an excuse at any time to intervene.

The south is still in retreat, and even with the support of a large amount of Chinese materials, it is still unable to form an effective fighting force. The speed of defeat depended only on the forces that the north could draw, and it was only because China mobilized its army and let the north start to take precautions, resulting in a relative balance. Lincoln began to assemble troops on the border and on the Richmond front, hoping to settle the war by taking advantage of the decisive battle to capture the southern capital. It can be said that the North has moved from an all-out offensive to a focused offensive, but as long as the situation changes, they still have the ability to continue the all-out offensive.

Stretched thin, the army began to expand in size, and a new conscription bill was announced, stipulating that not one-third of the men were obligated to serve, but one-half. This would increase the size of the federal army to more than three million.

But American industry was not well prepared, and this war, even the arms of the North, could not be self-sufficient, especially some advanced weapons, such as the Watworth breech rifule, were designed and manufactured in the United Kingdom. The north's own industry can provide some breech guns, which are huge in number and used as the main force, but they can only be second-rate in terms of technology and performance.

Even this would not suffice, but there was a large industry in the north, and they had already begun to switch production, and in less than a year they would be self-sufficient, and then the army would be large enough to continue a large-scale all-out offensive.

But the reality is that neither Europe nor China can give Americans this opportunity. As long as the south is defeated, China will definitely enter the war, and Europe has been continuing to put pressure on the north, hoping that the north can accept peace talks and not give the Chinese the opportunity to intervene militarily.

Bismarck, on the condition of recognizing the referendum presided over by the North, hoped that the North would accept peace talks and that the people of the South would be able to vote for themselves.

This would be tantamount to getting the United States to recognize the independence of the South, and at the same time get revenge for the annexation of the current occupied territories to the North, because the referendum in the occupied territories chose to join the Northern Union.

No matter how you look at it, this is more like an invasion, the North invaded the South, and also ceded the territory of the South, and the two countries formed after that are bound to be full of contradictions.

What Zhu Yong could see, Bismarck could see, and Lincoln could see, so Lincoln refused. Lincoln was an idealistic politician, pragmatic with a bottom line, some things do not always take into account interests, let the United States split this kind of thing, Lincoln could not accept.

With neither China's military pressure nor Europe's trade blockade able to bring Lincoln to its knees, war seemed inevitable.

If you put it in a monarchy, if you put it in a country with strong nationalism, it might really be the only way, but this is the United States, a loose federal state, a loose immigration country.

European public opinion entered the United States unimpeded, and Lincoln could not even do simple control, as many states as there were voices, as many races as there were interests.

Lincoln tried to maintain the unity of the United States, but the federal Congress did not necessarily do so, and the Union wanted to maintain unity, but the states did not necessarily do so.

So at Lincoln's insistence, the opposition to Lincoln in parliament began to rise, and no one in the sane parliamentarians wanted to be the enemy of the whole world for Lincoln's ideals.

Even a war with China is not an option, in the last war, China relied on only one American territory to make the United States attack fruitlessly, and now China's North American territory is larger than then, much stronger than the comprehensive strength of the United States in the north. In the past, when the United States was not divided, it had to rely on Britain to fight against the increasingly powerful Chinese forces, but now that the United States has been divided, and Britain does not support the North, it is already exhausted to let the North fight China alone, let alone against the whole world.

Lincoln made an effort to get the support of Britain in the event of a Chinese intervention, invoking the Anglo-American Treaty of Alliance, but under Bismarck's operation, Britain said that Britain could only help the United States if the United States stopped the civil war.

This does not mean that Britain supports China's involvement, on the contrary, the British Foreign Secretary has repeatedly publicly stated that he opposes military intervention in the US civil war by any country or force. In fact, if it weren't for the fear that Britain would get involved and escalate the war into a world war, the crown prince group would have intervened directly.

There was not much time left for Lincoln, who gambled everything, and even did not hesitate to draw a large number of troops on the Western Front, causing the South to even start a counteroffensive on the Western Front, trying to recapture Tennessee and other states.

Under these conditions, a battle of great scale broke out, with 800,000 troops in the north and 500,000 troops in the south, and around Richmond, the decisive battle between the two sides began.

Obviously, the outcome of this battle will affect the future situation in the United States.