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After more than two years of control, he had succeeded in establishing a relatively solid rule in the western United States, where the local whites either went or obeyed, basically accepted the new order, and also received the support of the Indians, who helped them forge a new economic system.

Originally, the Indians made a living from hunting, and they were quite backward, and the benefits that the whites brought to them, in addition to disease and death, were probably taught to learn to ride horses.

Before the establishment of the United States, the horses introduced by the Spaniards to the Americas had already entered the Great Plains of North America from Mexico, breeding wild horses comparable to bison, and there were no large carnivores here, which was simply a paradise for wild horses.

The Indians learned to ride horses by taming them, and they were also a source of food.

But with the westward expansion movement after the American Civil War, more than 10 million bison were hunted by white Americans in just a few decades, wild horse herds disappeared, and the vast plain was transformed from prairie to farmland and pasture.

The Americans only wanted land, and what they demanded from the Indians was only to tame, so they were willing to put in the effort to spread their religion and civilization to the Indians, but they were rarely interested in helping the Indians cultivate an economic system that suited them.

Deng Shicai was just unintentionally inserted willows and different from the demands of the whites, so he accidentally brought a new economic method to the Indians, that is, nomadism.

At that time, Deng Shicai proposed that he hoped that the government would send some herdsmen to the United States to help the Indians establish pastures in the barren land of Southern California.

The Ming government recruited some herdsmen from the alpine grasslands of Yunnan and the Mongolian steppes respectively, and the nomadic way was brought by those Mongolian herdsmen.

They were originally the Zasak herdsmen of the Mongolian prince's family, which could be bought for some money, and it was easier to send them than the ranchers in Yunnan, so later the Ming government mainly recruited these herdsmen from the Mongolian steppe, and sent more than 3,000 people, both men and women, basically in family units.

After these shepherds got through the initial language barrier, they quickly integrated into the Indian tribes, and like the Indians, they liked freedom, drinking, hunting, and the Indians liked them, and learned from them to herd cattle and sheep, learn to make mare's milk wine, learn to make cheese, butter tea, and so on.

So within two years, the Indians of Southern California gradually transformed into a nomadic economy, nomadic herding back and forth on the grasslands around Southern California, and all kinds of livestock for sheep grazing also flourished, at first they only had tens of thousands of livestock, the government subsidized a batch, and now it has tripled, not only can be self-sufficient, but also can be sold.

The Indians of Southern California soon passed on their way of life to the Indians of other regions, and the Indians of neighboring Nevada were the first to learn it, and then spread to New Utah, Colorado and other Great Plains regions.

The change in lifestyle has brought about two results, one is that the population has begun to increase. Originally, with the disappearance of the bison in the Great Plains, the livelihood of the Indians fell into a desperate situation, there was an Indian tribe in Canada, there was a famous Indian hunter who hunted bison, before the bison disappeared, he was a hero in the tribe, when the bison disappeared, he was industrial, without food and clothing, drinking all day long, and finally when the white man found out that the hungry hunter killed his wife and daughter and ate them, he was arrested and executed for cannibalism.

The drunkards who degenerated from Indian warriors to killing their wives were not born like this, but largely when a hero suddenly found himself worthless, he couldn't accept that kind of mental blow.

Needless to say, the Indians in the United States are either funded by the government, or they work for the whites and work as servants, and the Indians living in the tribes are mostly small farmers, and they don't like farming and don't like to be bound to the land.

The Indians themselves did not have the knowledge to help them change their economic model, and after the Ming occupation army inadvertently brought them an economic model, they liked this way of life of riding on horses, singing songs, and getting a steady stream of food.

This way of life greatly improved their living conditions, after obtaining a stable source of food, the population of the Indians began to grow, young people began to have children, the previous decadence was swept away, history, with the westward expansion of the whites, there was a tragedy that the Indians were generally unwilling to raise offspring, until later generations, among the many ethnic groups in the United States, even if the Indians have become relatively rich, but life is still very depraved, drinking a lot, taking drugs, fertility and life expectancy are the lowest among all races.

Apparently the Indians of later generations gained wealth, but lost their souls.

Now they have found their souls in the singing of horses, and they have smoothly transformed from a superior and inferior people to a nomadic people.

This has led to another change, which is that they are less willing to be confined to reservations. Their chieftain petitioned the occupying forces, who allowed them to graze freely on the unowned wasteland, and they offered their allegiance to the occupying forces.

The Ming occupation army can allow the Indians to move freely, but the white government cannot, because the Ming occupation army does not care about the land of the United States, and the white government values the land the most, they treat the land as an asset, and by capitalizing the land, they obtain funds to build the railroad, and the railway company auctions the land and turns it into a farm for farmers and agricultural companies, and into a ranch for cowboys and animal husbandry companies, so they can't allow the Indians to occupy too much land, So it was impossible for them to help the Indians transition from a nomadic economy to a nomadic economy, helping them to sustain themselves without restricting their nature.

In just two years, it is obviously not enough for the nomadic economy that has been operating in the Mongolian steppe for thousands of years to spread widely throughout the United States, and it is only in Southern California, with the strong support of the occupation forces, that it has begun to form a certain foundation, and has begun to influence other places, and it will take time to fully form an economic model.

However, the Ming occupation army could not stay in the United States forever, and once the occupation army left, another round of war between the Indians and the Americans for living space would break out again.

The Indians supported the Ming army very strongly, and 50,000 Indian cavalry had joined Deng Shicai's troops, considering that there were only 100,000 Indians in the west in this era, it can basically be said that almost all the Indians were soldiers to help the Ming army fight this battle, and most of them served under Li Xiucheng, and the religious effect brought by Hong Xiuquan may have also played a role.

Under the command of Li Xiucheng, they acted together with Ma Youwei's cavalry army, constantly marching out of the Grand Canyon into the Great Plains area, carrying out large-scale guerrilla warfare, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of American troops in Denver who have been pinned down here, and also wreaked havoc and affected the local economy, resulting in a large loss of whites, some joined the militia for self-defense, some fled to the eastern region, and at the same time, the Indians in the reservation areas continued to join them, so it can be said that this war can be regarded as an Indian uprising.

The cavalry composed of Indians, Taipings, and Ming cavalry pinned down the central region of the United States, which made Deng Shicai's control over Texas and other southwestern regions more stable, and the transportation conditions were greatly improved.

At this time, Mexico's support for the Ming Dynasty was also increasing, and their diplomats began to contact the Ming Minister in private, and began to discuss the benefits that Mexico could obtain once Mexico entered the war, and the question of preserving these interests after the war.

Although the war that broke out on the U.S.-Mexico border and the victories won by the Ming army under the noses of the Mexicans made public opinion in Mexico soar, it also made Díaz realize that the scale of the battle between the U.S. army and the Ming army is no longer something that Mexico can afford.

Without the protection of the Ming Dynasty, even if Mexico recovers those lost territories, it is impossible to keep it after the war, and even Mexico itself will encounter a crisis, what he is most concerned about is how to maintain his position, and everything else is relatively secondary, so the Mexicans are not more concerned about how to seize benefits in the war, but whether the Ming will protect Mexico and to what extent.

As a result, it was difficult for the Ming envoy to give a guarantee to the Mexican government, at least that once Mexico was attacked by the United States after the war, the Ming would declare war on the United States to such an extent, and the cooperation between the two sides could only be limited to war.

The Mexican government never dared to enter the war without adequate guarantees.

But the Mexican government is very willing to weaken the United States as a neighbor, although it does not dare to say that it supports it secretly, but at least they acquiesce in the fact that civilian businessmen do something that violates neutrality, such as providing arms to the Ming army.

Juarez, a Mexican city near El Paso, has a fairly good industrial base, which is the center of cotton textiles in Mexico, so it has given rise to a number of textile machinery-related industries, although many of them are invested by Americans, but there are also some factories run by local Mexicans, even small factories that do maintenance business, and have the ability to repair military equipment with a little transformation.

The Mexicans' perception of the United States made the local bourgeois elite, who had a stronger sense of national consciousness, obviously more willing to support the Ming army, so naturally they began to take on some work to help the Ming army repair equipment, and at the same time the cotton mills also provided some cloth and other materials to the Ming army.

Mexico's support, coupled with the restoration of industrial factories in California, Texas and New Mexico in the past two years, all of which are now under the management of the army to serve the military, the equipment support of the Ming army has also been greatly improved, and at the same time the strength of the army has begun to increase significantly, all this situation allows Deng Shicai to launch a new round of offensive.

In August 1893, the Ming army began to assemble towards Austin, and the attack on Houston was already very obvious.

In September, with the completion of the army, later known as the Battle of Houston, the largest battle of the Ming army in the United States began.