Section 324 The Crisis of War in North America

Why fight Napoleon, it's not about unloading the mill and killing the donkey, Napoleon was implicated, by the United States, which no one is optimistic about, and Zhou Lang's main target is the United States.

Needless to say, the reason for attacking the United States is that this country's geographical location is too unique, and it is very dangerous to let it develop, and the current United States has not armed itself and does not seem to be a threat, and it may not look down on its own military strength, but where is the potential.

In 1790, when he was just independent, the population was only 3.93 million, and after 20 years, in 1810, the population reached 7.22 million, and the population almost doubled in 20 years. It has been 20 years since Zhou Lang ruled China, and the population has grown from 300 million to nearly 400 million, and a census was conducted three years ago to reach 380 million.

The current population of the United States has reached 12 million, and the population of the United Kingdom is only 20 million at this time. On the one hand, there is an ultra-high birth rate, Americans generally have seven or eight children, and the abundant material conditions have released the fertility of white people, who said that white people can't have children? The other is the influx of immigrants, and the geographical conditions of the United States are so good that poor immigrants from Europe flock to it.

And that's not counting the large number of black people, and the number of black Americans has exceeded 3 million, which is much higher than in history. Because the scale of cotton planting in the United States is much larger than that of the same period in history, the main driving force is that China has joined the ranks of the industrial revolution, and the scale of China's industrial revolution is unprecedented, so the demand for cotton, the main raw material of the industrial revolution, has become a bottomless pit.

For example, Britain relies on India's cotton production to achieve a balance, and most countries can only import precious metals to China, while the United States has maintained a long-term trade surplus with China, because the United States is the main supplier of Chinese cotton. China's cotton textile industry technology came from the United States, and it is the most suitable for American cotton, so there are almost no obstacles to importing American cotton.

Cotton planting is a labor-intensive industry, which needs to maintain a large amount of labor input, and the United States labor is scarce, and it is impossible to suddenly find a large number of short-term workers at several important nodes such as cotton pest removal and harvesting, and there is slavery in the United States, which solves the problem, so with the cultivation of cotton, slavery in the United States has been strengthened.

In 1807, Britain promulgated a decree prohibiting the slave trade, because of the strong influence of Britain, European countries generally accepted the idea of abolition, the United States announced in 1808 that the slave trade was not allowed, but this could not prohibit lawless American businessmen, they changed the open slave trade to smuggling, at this time the fate of the slaves was even more miserable, in order to escape the sea inspection, many traders tied the slaves to the body of the big stone and threw it into the sea to sell the stolen goods.

After the Napoleonic Wars, Britain and France organized a joint anti-slave fleet to patrol the coast of West Africa, but the ports of the Portuguese and Arabs on the coast of East Africa continued to export a large number of slaves, and the largest slave suppliers were exchanged from the tribal chieftains and Muslim forces of West Africa to the South African slave empire. Tens of millions of slaves have been shipped out of Africa in just over a decade, and not even half of them have actually reached the United States. But it still tripled the slave population in the United States, to nearly 4 million, and in the southern slave states, slaves made up more than half of the population.

Contrary to the dogmatic explanations in the history books, the slave trade did not limit the industrial development of the United States, but rather nourished it. The cotton trade has allowed the United States to continue to flow in precious metals, the dollar credit is strong, and the stable financial order has greatly promoted the economic development, which is better and faster than the historical development of the United States.

Although it is weaker than Britain in terms of overall national strength, compared with other European countries, the strength of the United States is not bad at all, and the living standards of Americans are even much higher than that of Britain, the suzerainty of the past, and the magnitude of British goods imported by the United States is about the same as that of Europe, because Americans are richer, and the average height of the second generation of Americans is ten centimeters taller than that of the British.

In the surrounding area, Mexico to the south has been reinstated as a Spanish colony, and the Spanish government has cooperated with the local native white people, recognizing the power and status of the native white people on an equal footing with the Spanish immigrants from the peninsula, having equal access to government institutions, and using uniform criteria to select officials. This greatly appeased the discontent of the native white people with the Spanish suzerainty, and at the same time the native white people needed the power of the suzerainty against pro-Indian forces like Hidalgo. The Spanish and local white forces joined forces and soon strangled the loose Indian regime, and Mexico returned to its colonial days.

Spain's level of development is unlikely to pose a threat to the United States.

The real suppression of the United States was the United Kingdom, which controlled Canada, but the United States now united with Napoleon to divide up the British people's lands. Once Napoleon took control of French-speaking Canada, and the United States seized English-speaking Canada, not only would the United States greatly increase its land area, but also make the Americans have no checks and balances in North America.

Can such a country be exempt from restrictions?

After this war, China has dealt a serious blow to Britain, by seizing the British colonies around the Indian Ocean, basically turning the Indian Ocean into China's internal lake, Britain will enter India in the future, must rely on China's snort, such Britain, there is no need to worry, on the contrary, the United States, whose national strength has grown too fast, has reached the extent of limiting.

So China joined the sanctions against the United States.

When the European powers, including China, met in China, issued an ultimatum to the United States, the Americans immediately coaxed, not knowing what American politicians thought that they dared to cooperate with Napoleon.

They miscalculated the situation, because European countries were constantly in dispute because of the Greek issue, and the United States thought that they would not unite, and Britain's policy in Europe offended too many countries, so the United States judged that attacking the British colonies would not cause joint intervention by various countries.

What they didn't expect was that Britain would be willing to make concessions on the Indian question for the sake of Napoleon. But in fact, Napoleon may really be just a step for Britain, and the devil like Napoleon, who has made an entire generation of British people restless, gives the government more reason to make major compromises, and concessions in India can explain to various forces in the country, so as not to let the government fall into the whirlpool of public opinion and fall.

After all, it is too difficult to compete with China for India, and it is actually commendable to be able to keep most of India. It's just that India's interests are too great, and the government does not dare to make concessions, and the appearance of Napoleon has attracted the attention of the British government to the people, and it has also given them a strong excuse.

In fact, it is the French Bourbon royal family that is really afraid of Napoleon, they have just gained a certain prestige through the war, but it is still too far behind Napoleon, and the people shout Napoleon when they are not satisfied, and Napoleon's nephew in history still has the prestige of making the French middle and lower class peasants support him as emperor decades later, not to mention that there is now a Napoleon.

The news of Napoleon's restoration in Canada came back to France, and like the French immigrants in the United States, many enthusiastic young people in China immediately took action and spontaneously went to Napoleon, and what worried the Bourbon royal family was that the Napoleonic Support Association was secretly established in China, and they organized immigrants to Canada to join Napoleon, and at home they were ready to welcome Napoleon home.

The Bourbon royal family was convinced that once Napoleon set foot on the shores of France, the Bourbon royal family would have to flee once again.

The second to fear Napoleon was Prussia, a country that was on the verge of extinction during Napoleon's reign. By destroying the Napoleonic Empire, it re-became a European power, occupying a large amount of land that originally belonged to Napoleon's Empire, and if Napoleon was restored, Prussia would definitely be Napoleon's biggest target.

The third fear is Austria, after the fall of Napoleon, Napoleon's only biological son Roman King has been imprisoned by the Austrian emperor in the Vienna Imperial Palace, Austrian politician Metternich used the prestige of the Roman king to get France to support Austria on many major issues, because France is just as worried that China will return Napoleon to France, but also worried that Austria will return Napoleon's son to France; Although the Austrian emperor was Napoleon's father-in-law and the grandfather of the Roman king, putting the Roman king in Vienna was also a kind of protection. But now that Napoleon has been restored in the Americas, what should Austria do, send the king of Rome to Napoleon, it will offend all European countries, and if the king of Rome continues to be detained, it will be with Napoleon. So they could only stand in opposition to Napoleon.

Of the major European powers, only Russia protested only verbally against Napoleon's restoration, but did not act substantively. Because the Tsar's empire really did not have the strength to cause trouble outside, Tsar Alexander died suddenly, the domestic monarch was in the void, the Tsar had no heirs, and his younger brother Konstantin refused to ascend the throne in the face of the plight of Russian serfdom. The third brother, Grand Duke Nicholas, lacked prestige, and instead of quelling the serfdom revolt in the country, more nobles joined in, the core of which was a group of young nobles, who were historically known as the Decembrists.

So in the end, the three major European powers of Britain, France and Prussia have announced that China will form a coalition to interfere in North American affairs.

But before the war broke out, and before the expeditionary forces of various countries had set out, the Americans confessed and sent representatives to ask for negotiations with various countries, but they could not resist even a single Britain, and it was really a crazy thing to fight against the world powers.

Only politicians who play with the state can be so crazy. When Lincoln was fighting the Civil War, in the face of Britain who was deliberately looking for an opportunity to support the South, he forbears everywhere, and the U.S. Navy intercepts the British merchant ship carrying the Southern envoys, and the British protest against this, Lincoln immediately apologizes and does not give the British a chance to intervene at all.

Now the Americans have once again shown this flexibility, the mediator they are looking for is France, France has enough influence, France and the United States have always been very friendly, even if the French ruler is the Bourbon, but it was this Bourbon dynasty that supported the independence of the United States, in fact, the Americans should be more grateful to the Bourbons, not Napoleon, but unfortunately Napoleon is too prestigious, and the French recognize Napoleon more.

The Bourbons immediately agreed to act for the United States, and for no other reason, the Bourbons really had nothing to do with Napoleon.