Section 395 The Situation in the Americas

On the bright side, Spain could not withstand the continued failure and the country's financial woes, and a rebellion broke out in the country, with a coup d'état by the conservative aristocracy, the expulsion of liberals, and the establishment of a new conservative government.

Spain's religious culture makes it difficult for Spain to carry out a complete revolution like France. The Napoleonic Wars caused an imbalance of social forces in Spain, and the anti-religious forces became stronger, and after the Napoleonic Wars, there were already two bourgeois revolutions, both of which were suppressed by the king.

Spain did not have the strength to compete in the Americas, at this time Spain was very chaotic, the king was Queen Isabella II, because he was the queen, his succession caused a succession war, the king's nephew Prince Carlos claimed the right to inherit, entered Spain from Portugal, and was supported by religious forces, but the war was only fought for three and a half years, and was defeated by the queen's army. This is many years shorter than the historical War of Clos, mainly in this era, when the Spanish government forces were supported by the Chinese forces, gave them a lot of loans, and suppressed Carlos in advance.

But who would have thought that the Spaniards would take advantage of the army trained in the civil war, take the weapons purchased with Chinese loans, turn their heads and accept the British to win over, and start another war with China.

These are not the responsibilities of the king, Queen Isabella II inherited the throne of her father Ferdinand VII, she was not yet a minor, not yet twenty years old, and has not yet taken over the throne. The Spanish regime had always been in the hands of radical reformist ministers, but because they were too radical, the ministers were eager to reform the feudal power of Spain into a French-style state, recover the ecclesiastical domains, and abolish tithes, which was opposed by conservatives, which led to the coup d'état.

But conservatives remain loyal to the Queen.

But this gave Carlos the opportunity to have the support of Chinese forces in the Americas, which helped him establish power in Mexico.

Religion is more powerful in Mexico than at home, and Carlos's supporters are mainly religious.

Carlos ascended the throne in New Mexico City, declared himself to the Spanish throne, declared Isabella II's throne illegitimate, and demanded that all Spanish possessions pledge allegiance to him.

In return for China's support, he announced the cession of Coahuilay Tejas, north of the Rio Grande, to China, essentially the equivalent of what would become Texas in the United States. The area south of the Colorado River and the Rio Grande is still part of Mexico.

The main Spanish army in the Americas had been wiped out, and Carlos's Spanish government, supported by China, soon established its rule in Mexico and formed a Catholicized Indian Army, which, with the help of the Chinese army, began to suppress the white forces that refused to swear allegiance to him. In addition, Peru and Chile, which were occupied by China, also announced that they recognized Carlos as the king of New Spain.

The Spanish government resolutely does not recognize the Carlos government, let alone the cession of the state of Coahuila-Tejas to China, but the Spanish government after the coup has been unable to send troops to the Americas.

The declaration of the territory of the Mexican state of Ahuila-Tejas did not make much military sense, because it was a vast and desolate land, largely inhabited only by the Indians, and the Spaniards established a few sporadic strongholds through which the missionaries naturalized some of the surrounding Indian tribes, so that the inhabitants were Catholicized Indians and native Indians. According to the Chinese name, it is cooked and raw.

But whether or not it was annexed, the Spaniards were de facto out of the war, and even before, Spain was not the main force in the war.

As a result, the war situation in the Americas remained almost unchanged, and after the main force of the 50,000 Spanish troops was encircled and annihilated, the main opponent was changed to the United States.

That's the bad side.

Because the United States, which is united with the outside world, exerts a very strong force, and after surviving the passivity at the beginning of the war, the Americans have formed a regular army of 400,000 people. The strongest industry in North America is none other than the United States, even in China's North American provinces, in fact, the industrial strength is not strong, mainly agriculture. The United States, on the other hand, has developed an industrial system, although there is a big gap between it and Britain in terms of scale and technology, but it is better than complete, and they can build it.

In terms of population, the United States is also on par with China and North America, and the age structure of the population is also similar, all of them are young immigrants, and even bachelors, and the proportion of troops that can be formed by such a population structure is very high, and it is no exaggeration to say that they all have the ability to form a million army.

The biggest change in the Americas was not that Spain actually withdrew from the war, nor did the United States begin to exert its strength, but the change of power in China's upper echelons, and the crown prince was pushed to a high position by public opinion after winning the battle of the Colorado gold mines, and was quickly recalled to the country by the emperor, replaced by an old bureaucrat, Huang Qiuwei, who had just stepped down as prime minister.

After Huang Qiuwei was sent to the Americas as governor, the previous governor was deposed, given the title of duke, and ordered to return to China. Political power in the Americas was quickly taken over by Huang Qiuwei, who had excellent prestige and qualifications.

Huang Qiuyou's coming to the Americas to take up a post is very controversial. Because the military in the Americas is in the hands of his younger brother Huang Qiu, some people are worried about the fact that the military and government will be one family, and that there will be trouble raising tigers in the border areas.

But in fact, Huang Qiu's worries to the Americas are very conflicting with his brother's political ideas. The support for Carlos was done under Huang Qiuwei's administration, but in fact, according to the policy of the crown prince and Huang Qiuhui, their previous actions were clearly intended to directly annex the Spanish American territory.

Huang Qiuwu came with the emperor's advice, he didn't care about the comments of the outside world, he also knew that it was all nonsense, in this era, where is there still an opportunity to form a feudal town.

The emperor asked him to come here with a more reasonable policy and to end the war at the lowest cost.

As for the territory of the Americas, the emperor believed that the previous territorial division with the United States was relatively reasonable, and there was no need to continue to expand in North America. Half of the Great Plains is enough for agriculture, mineral development in the Rocky Mountains should be on the agenda, and transportation along the western coast should be more closely linked.

Therefore, we should try our best to end the state of war with the United States, and strive to make favorable changes to the bottom line of the territory returning to the previous state.

This is possible because with the annihilation of the Spanish army, the Chinese army has already shown great combat effectiveness, and the size of the army that has been armed is as high as 600,000, a third more than the United States. Huang Qiuhuan's correct handling has also put the Chinese military in an advantageous position in the battle against the US military, and until now, the main battlefields have been fought on US territory. The east bank of the Mississippi River in the United States was reduced to rubble. There were no decent cities to be found here, only a few large cities along the river, which are now largely destroyed, and the inland connection with the east coast of the United States has always been through the Mississippi River, and the area between the river and the coast is relatively inhospitable, and the Great Lakes region in the north has large areas of cultivated land, and the central region is even mainly dominated by sheep farming.

The Americans have massively exploited the areas east of the Mississippi River, and there is no point in grabbing them.

Therefore, the emperor instructed Huang Qiuwu to get along with the United States, and when the United States lost its ability to become a two-ocean empire, it also lost the qualification to compete with China for world hegemony, and Zhou Lang did not pay any special attention to this country.

North America will be positioned as a food producer, a resource producer, and a commodity market until the industry here develops, and will perfectly play these roles.

The same is true for the British colonies in Canada, the Central Great Plains of Canada, Zhou Lang is not very interested, where the farming conditions are good, but they cannot be compared with the Great Plains of the United States, Zhou Lang has already occupied half of the Great Plains of North America, so he doesn't care that the British occupy Canada.

Moreover, the expansion of the crown prince has allowed Chinese power to occupy a lot of land in the Great Plains of Canada, which can be confirmed through negotiations, which is advantageous. North America is an empty wasteland, land and minerals have not been developed, who can be the first to develop, who can get these riches, and time is on China's side.

As for Spain and South America, there is no obstacle for Chinese to immigrate here, and strict immigration barriers have not been established in this era, and it is not unacceptable for the Spaniards to continue to rule. So Huang Qiuwei generously supported Carlos, and now the Spaniards no longer have the strength to continue the war with China, and the Spanish government is now busy fighting with Carlos for control of the Americas. After asserting his own army, Carlos asserted his authority over all of Spain and sent troops from Mexico and Peru in an attempt to force the Viceroyalty of New Granada (Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela) to pledge allegiance to him.

Huang Qiuxian also sent people to establish contact with the US government, and the Americans were also interested in peace negotiations, because they found that fighting a war with the Chinese was really a headache, and at the same time, the Americans also knew what was going on with the gold mines, where according to various treaties, did belong to Chinese territory, and this war was very absurd, and it was fooled by a group of gold mining companies.

Moreover, the United States was very unconfident in the war, and New England, the industrial region of the north, supported the war, and the war brought them a large number of orders, but the agricultural groups in the northwest and the slave-owning groups in the southwest suffered the most, and they both began to oppose the war.

As for the treaty with Britain, the Americans still had to abide by it, but it was still possible for the two sides to maintain some tacit understanding, so the US military and the Chinese military both tacitly stopped military operations, each firmly guarded the border, and did not invade each other.

In North America, as long as the U.S. military gives up fighting, Britain is actually unable to fight with China, during the war, they did not show much, military operations are more carried out through Indian tribes that cooperate with the British, the main forces of the British army are in Central Asia to fight with the Russian army, obviously the Canadian battlefield is only a secondary battlefield for Britain.

As a result, the situation in the Americas gradually calmed down after Huang Qiuwei took over, and China maintained a tacit understanding with the United States, and began to fight mainly against the Canadian Indians. At the same time, China and the United States began to discuss the issue of territorial ownership in private.