The Taiping army seized the city, captured the fortifications such as forts and fortresses that had originally defended them, and now turned to deal with the American army, and the American troops transferred back from Southern California could not break through these fortifications at all for a while, so they could only ask the Federation for help. And the federal government was also caught off guard, not expecting the Chinese to take the opportunity to revolt. At first, it was suspected that the Chinese government was playing tricks, and it protested and asked for international support.

But then I slowly came to my senses, and it didn't feel like it was an operation by the Chinese government. Because the Chinese government's subsequent actions, while seemingly tough, are clearly inclined toward peace. Since we don't want to go to war with the United States, we can't afford to encourage Chinese Americans to rebel.

But at this time, the problem came, when the war with Daming ended, the treaty signed between the United States and Daming stipulated that the United States could not establish an ocean-going navy in the West Coast area, and Daming used this as a reason to not allow the United States to transfer the navy to the West Coast. But this is the best chance to restore the U.S. naval presence on the West Coast, and if the U.S. Navy is not transferred to the West Coast, the western part of the U.S. will always be under a strong threat from the Chinese Navy.

However, the Chinese Government does not allow it, and it will not be easy for the Americans to transfer troops, because the Chinese Navy will be able to transfer its navy from the east coast to the west coast, and the Chinese Navy will be waiting for work, and it is really difficult to say whether the US Navy's expeditionary fleet will be able to take advantage of the Chinese Navy at that time.

In recent years, the United States has stepped up its penetration into Panama, and with the support of Britain, it has wrested the right to dig the canal from France, hoping to solve the current situation of naval division by linking the east and west coasts with the Gulf coast through the canal.

However, the canal had not yet been opened, and the construction process was extremely difficult, and the navy was always at a disadvantage until the canal was completed.

Therefore, China does not agree, and the United States really does not dare to send a navy unless it can get the support of the great powers.

Therefore, after the outbreak of the California crisis, the United States protested to China and urgently contacted European countries for support.

The focus is on Britain, the world hegemon, and with the support of Britain, the U.S. Navy can reach San Francisco safely.

However, Britain has an agreement with China, and although it does not intend to support China's war with the United States under this agreement, it cannot side with the United States.

Among the other powers, the French were always keeping their eyes on Germany, reluctant to send too many forces overseas, let alone get involved in wars elsewhere. Although Germany easily made the promise, it offered too much to ask the United States to transfer its security zone in Cuba to Germany. Putting Germany on its doorstep is as dangerous as China, and the United States is unlikely to agree to it. Russia's navy is already very strong, its army is stronger, and it has contradictions with China, and sooner or later a war will break out, so Russia is the most active supporter of the United States. But the Russians' offer to conclude an alliance with the United States made the Americans hesitate. Once they formed an alliance with Russia, they became involved in European disputes, which was not in line with their national policy.

While the United States was active, China was also active, asking Britain for support and military preparations. On the one hand, he released a conciliatory attitude and suggested that the California issue be resolved through peaceful negotiations. Britain was happy to act as a mediator, conveying that the Chinese government had no intention of supporting the establishment of a Chinese state in the western United States, nor did it have any intention of dividing the American territory. We are willing to reconcile with the United States on the basis of returning to the previous status quo. The Chinese government is willing to help the United States and resolve the separatist behavior of the local Chinese.

This is very tempting, because the Americans are actually very unconfident, and they suffered from the last war. They had no confidence in the outbreak of a war with China on American soil, and a much stronger China than it was then. Once the war began, millions of Chinese troops could easily land from Chinese-occupied San Francisco and then sweep through the western United States. Proceeding to the east, the U.S. government considered that no matter what, they would not be able to stop the Chinese army's advance into the Midwest of the United States. It is very likely that they will once again face a situation in which the entire central and western regions will fall, because in terms of military resources, they cannot compare with China.

In addition, the poor financial situation makes the United States not want to go to war. Although the last war saddled them with more than 10 billion foreign debts, although it did not affect the private economy, and also greatly developed the industries on the eastern coast during the war, the foreign debts of more than 10 billion yuan put a heavy burden on the government. After the war, a large navy was formed, and 600,000 regular troops were maintained, which was also a huge expense. In this case, the United States fears that their government will collapse in the event of another war with China.

Under these circumstances, they temporarily abandoned their intention to form an alliance with Russia, accepted British mediation, and negotiated with China.

The negotiating teams of the two countries held consultations in London. The basic principle is acceptable to the United States, that is, to restore California to the state after the Ming-American War, the United States will continue to protect the interests of the Chinese, and the local Chinese will abandon the move of founding the country. But on the issue of the Indians, there were differences between the two sides.

The Chinese suggested that the California crisis was caused by the United States bullying the Indians too much and wanting to deprive the Indians of their land, and the Chinese representative suggested that the US troops withdraw from Southern California, return the Indian living area to the Indians, or make Southern California an Indian reservation as a whole.

The United States believes that the Indian issue is an internal affair of the United States and is not in the content of negotiations with China.

The Chinese representative said that the main reason why the local Chinese support the Indians is a matter of faith, and if the United States cannot protect the interests of the Indians, it will be difficult for the Chinese of the same faith to lay down their arms.

After getting involved with the Indians, European public opinion was quite supportive for a while, because the issue of the extermination of the Indians in the United States had no pain or conflict of interests for the white people in Europe, and they were very willing to sympathize with the Indians who were almost extinct, and the European elites criticized the United States in this regard. The reason why Europeans think that the United States is the bad side of Anglo-Saxon civilization and Britain is the good side is largely because everyone thinks that the Americans exterminated the Indians, while the British can "lead" the Indians, Africans and other colonial peoples to civilization.

Of course, to a large extent, this is due to the cultural discrediting of the United States by the British in the era of hegemony, and in fact there are more ethnic groups that have been exterminated at the hands of the British, such as the indigenous people of Australia.

But the British gentlemen, who thought they had become civilized, could no longer accept the policy of genocide, and when they fought with the Boers, because the Boers massacred blacks, and even shot several Boer leaders, they also had a big disagreement with the Boers about the suffrage of blacks in the subsequent negotiations. In the end, the right to vote of the black people was sacrificed, so that the Boers were willing to declare to the British king, and the English gentry would not be pursued.

In short, Britain is so civilized that it can fight for the right to vote for black South Africans, so it is natural to be more sympathetic to the Indians who were squeezed by the Americans. As long as blacks and Indians don't live in the Isles of England, the English gentlemen will always unleash their civilization outward, and once these people get into England, well, the British will leave the EU.

Under the influence of strong British public opinion, the U.S. government decided to give up, and they decided to give up the lands of Southern California and create a large Indian reservation. And the decision to relocate all the Indians in the United States here was a solution to the Indian problem once and for all.

But at this time, the problem came, the Taiping army was unwilling to give up the establishment of the country. The Chinese consul talked to Li Xiucheng and Yang Fuqing, but they couldn't reach an agreement. And Hong Xiuquan does not talk to the Chinese consul, in fact, Hong Xiuquan does not care about things, he always plays a spiritual idol and a god.

At this time, the real power in the Taiping army was the young Shaozhuang faction, if it were not for the Shaozhuang faction in power, in fact, they would not easily launch an uprising.

The leader of the Shaozhuang faction is Hong Xiuquan's son Hong Tianguifu, but Hong Tianguifu is actually also a banner, Hong Xiuquan is a spiritual banner, Hong Tianguifu is a political banner, and he is completely hollowed out by the second generation of those weak people.

Among the young Zhuang faction, Li Xiucheng's two sons are more able to talk, but neither of them can call the shots, and a large number of young Zhuang factions who grew up in the United States support them, but they do not completely obey them. The political system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom influenced here, and the second generation of the Taiping army remained fragmented.

The second generation did not reject China's support, but they refused to be subservient to the Americans, and their desire to establish a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in California was strong. Behind it is an extreme thirst for power.

This created a huge problem for the Chinese government, and the Americans gave in, but China could not solve the Chinese problem.

At this time, either choose to let the Americans suppress the Chinese here, or start a war with the United States and let the Taiping army drag the Ming into the war, which made Zhu Jinglun extremely annoyed, but regardless of them, once the United States suppresses the local Chinese, it will inevitably control California again, and the influence of the Chinese in the local area will be wiped out, at least greatly weakened.

The controversy within the Chinese government has also intensified.

The Ministry of War analyzed the current situation, and the Taiping Army had already occupied the delta region, organized an army of 300,000 people, had sufficient weapons and equipment, and had also obtained a large number of heavy weapons from the US army.

Cut off from the Sierra Nevada, it was not easy for the U.S. military to move troops from the east. Both the south and the north also occupied favorable terrain, and in the event of a war, the Taiping army could hold out for a few months, which bought China time to transfer troops, and China could afford to send a million troops and corresponding supplies here before the United States eliminated the Taiping forces.

Therefore, the Ministry of War proposes to start a war, this time completely occupy the western part of the United States, and solve once and for all the threat of the United States to China's Pacific interest chain.

The household has always been reluctant to go to war, fearing that the war will drag down China's economy, and in the end of the last war with the United States, there were all kinds of problems in the country, almost causing turmoil, and they had lingering palpitations and did not want to take risks.

Zhu Jinglun also did not want to go to war at this time, in fact, as long as the United States could always accept that the Chinese would maintain an advantage in the western part of the United States, Zhu Jinglun did not plan to start a war with the United States, but an incident suddenly broke out that made Zhu Jinglun change his mind.

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