Here's how North America is today.

The St. Lawrence River is the only natural waterway in and out of the Great Lakes, and the United States was very ambitious here, but Canada was the first to develop it in France, which led to France being the first to establish an advantage in the St. Lawrence River basin.

Later, the British annexed the French colonies, but the French immigrants occupied the best position, and the British could only develop the interior, and then the United States became independent, and the St. Lawrence River valley was all included in the United Kingdom, because the royalists controlled it, and they refused to join the United States independently.

The source of the St. Lawrence River is Lake Ontario in the Great Lakes, which can be seen as the natural gateway of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to the Great Lakes' water sources, the St. Lawrence River, which flows from west to east, is constantly fed by its tributaries from the north and south. The northern tributaries are joined from the direction of Canada, while the southern ones are some of the tributaries that originate from the Alabachian Mountains.

As a result, the border between Britain and the United States is essentially along the watershed of the Alabachian Mountains, leaving the United States completely deprived of the St. Lawrence River, the only waterway to the Great Lakes. Later, New York and Philadelphia built canals to connect the Great Lakes, and quickly became large ports, and the western region was also developed. But man-made canals can't be compared to natural waterways, and the canals in New York and Philadelphia are only accessible to barges, and there are plenty of locks to help ships cross the mountains. This kind of transportation volume quickly took a back seat after the railway was built, and it could only become a tourist attraction in later generations, with no practical significance.

The St. Lawrence River, on the other hand, allows ocean-going ships to sail directly into the Great Lakes, and if the Americans get their hands on it, it will have important strategic and economic value for the development of the area around Lake Superior, which is becoming increasingly economically valuable.

But the St. Lawrence River has always been controlled by the British, and under the British control, it is controlled by the French province of Quebec, and the important cities on the St. Lawrence River, Montreal and Quebec, are French cities. Even Ottawa, the capital of Canada founded by the British, has never been comparable to Montreal in terms of population, economy and size.

In this history, the Kingdom of Quebec was established as a result of Napoleon's foothold in Quebec. Under various pressures, the British recognized the independence of the French population, but because of the importance of the St. Lawrence River, the British did not annex the Alabasia watershed south of the St. Lawrence River to the American border into the Kingdom of Quebec, but left themselves a narrow passage to connect the inland hinterland of Upper Canada with the coastal British territories.

So west of the Ottawa River, the capital of British North America, and all the way to the coastal British territories, the area occupied by the British was only a narrow strip of land south of the St. Lawrence River and the Alabachian Mountains. After the Chinese army conquered Ottawa, to the north was the Kingdom of Quebec, which was established by the French, and to the south was this narrow strip of land.

The Kingdom of Quebec, under the rule of the Napoleonic family, has been developing tepidly, in terms of population and economy, it is not as good as the British and American dominions, but it also has a certain strength, and five million French people have copied the small peasant economy of France here, and the agriculture dominated by homesteaders is not developed, but life is very comfortable.

In this war, although they supported France, they did not participate in the war in the name of the country, and the Quebec army entered France to fight in the name of volunteers, so the Kingdom of Quebec itself did not declare war on Germany, and certainly did not enter a state of war with China after China entered the war.

Therefore, once Ottawa is captured, China will not be able to attack the Kingdom of Quebec, east of the Ottawa River and north of the St. Lawrence River. Unless you're willing to take the risk of going to war undeclared, or find some hasty justification. The point is that none of this is planned, because China is not interested in the alpine regions of nearly two million where five million French people live.

And that panhandle, on the one hand, the United States wants it very much, and on the other hand, the British Navy is a huge trouble. Due to the geographical location, it is impossible for the Chinese Navy to cross the whole of North America and enter here. The British Navy controlled the St. Lawrence River and even continued to support Ottawa to keep it afloat.

It is not a problem for the Chinese army to capture Ottawa, the Ottawa River cannot stop the Chinese army, but the St. Lawrence River is different, it is a large river that can pass through sea ships, which means that the capital ships of the British Navy can enter the battle, and the naval artillery is not at all something that the field infantry can resist. The army alone was easily blocked by some short rivers originating in the Alabachian Mountains, and on the other hand, it was bombarded by the enemy's naval heavy artillery, so it was very difficult to reach the Atlantic coast through here, and it was not possible to succeed in a short time.

In addition, the Americans expressed their attitude that if they forcibly invaded the narrow strip of land on the south bank of the St. Lawrence River, they might attract the US Navy, which was weakening day by day, but still numbered dozens of ships.

China is not afraid of the United States, the key is that it cannot commit it, and it cannot play with the United States for the sake of such a little land. What is important here for the United States is not important for China.

Different values look at the value of land differently.

Compared with the British colonies at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Chinese value the Great Plains of central Canada more, which is a vast grassland area, where the British used the exile of prisoners and other methods to develop large areas of farmland, but compared to the entire grassland area, only a very small part is still developed, and most of the grassland area is occupied by Indians and Indian-French mixed blood, hunting for fur for life.

Under forced immigration, the British population here from the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the Ottawa River is only 7 million people, and the land between the Ottawa River and the Great Lakes region accounts for more than 5 million people, and the vast inland grassland area is actually only a million people. In addition, there are more than one million British people in coastal Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland, and this coastal area is barren and densely forested, and China has to pass through a narrow area on the south bank of the St. Lawrence River to reach here, and after reaching here, there is no land to develop.

Therefore, Li Zhangtong suggested accepting the opinion of the United States. After the elimination of the British army in Ottawa, the political achievement of the capture of British North America was achieved, and then the force was used to effectively control the central Great Plains, and the military operation against the densely populated coastal belt was temporarily abandoned.

But other cabinet ministers feared that Britain would relent, and after the main Chinese forces had reversed course, they would counterattack from the coast and retake the Ottawa area.

Li Zhangtong said: "Then let the United States make a guarantee!" ”