Section 672 American Gains

Public opinion in China continues to improve.

Through the official newspaper, Li Zhangtong first made a representation of the history of the Americas, first introduced that the American region was originally inhabited by the Fan tribes, and the first to come here were the Spaniards, who came here in order to find India, and named the local Fan people Indians.

Britain was a latecomer, establishing thirteen colonies on the east coast of North America, which the Spaniards did not actually control, and these thirteen colonies eventually rebelled and founded the United States. Subjects loyal to the British remained in Canada.

Then he described the attitude of the United States towards the Fanren after the founding of the country, not completely blaming the Americans, but listing the ins and outs of the future clearly, the Americans attacked the Fanren, firstly, because the Fanren had helped Britain fight the war before, and secondly, the Fanren had a vast land.

The United States drove out the people of the Great Lakes region, and the people of the Great Lakes region entered Canada. The Southern Fan people were also slaughtered and driven away by the Americans, although the Southern Fan people were not enemies of the United States. The people of the western region were organized under the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The article focuses on China's expansion into North America, starting with the landing of American companies, then crossing the Rocky Mountains, competing with Britain, the United States and Spain, and finally the crown prince establishing a province here.

The official newspaper took three days to straighten out the history of the Americas, and briefly described the colonial history of the Americas in three stages, the first stage was the period of indigenous and Spanish colonization, the second stage was the period of British colonization and American independence, and the third stage was the period of China's entry into the period of contention among the four countries.

The content quoted is all the most stereotypical historical content, but it makes people clearly feel the brutal atmosphere of survival of the fittest and racial competition.

For the Fanren, everyone else is an intruder, a predator, and there is no justice at all.

But these contents began to ferment among the people, and although some intellectuals with a rich conscience criticized the plundering of the Americas by Spain, Britain, the United States, and even China, most people could only remain silent, because their country was also the perpetrator, which made them evaluate it. Although the public opinion that had previously criticized the crown prince's policies strongly opposed the war, they did not oppose it from a righteous standpoint, and they opposed the crown prince only because they felt that the battle that the crown prince was fighting was meaningless. There is no benefit in winning, it is just a waste of money and food, and a waste of military salaries.

What can they say about the situation in the Americas now, isn't this story of the law of the jungle happening every day, like a defender, rebuking the aggressive policy of their own country, what can they do, who dares to say that the 780 million Chinese in the Americas will withdraw from the Americas and return the land to the Fanren?

Although the official newspaper is guiding public opinion, it does not express its position, but only straightens out the pattern changes in the Americas and the context of colonial history.

The real guidance of public opinion began with the arrival of some Native American Indians in China.

The Indians were not numerous, but there were many more than they were historically. Historically, due to war, expulsion, disease, and the development of the western part of the United States, the number of Indians has dropped dramatically, from a few million to one or two hundred thousand. On the one hand, they were continuously expelled by the Americans, who died in large numbers in the process of expulsion, and were killed in wars and rebellions with the United States, and on the other hand, the bison in the Great Plains of North America were hunted and killed by the United States, and the Indians who hunted for a living and chased the bison for migration lost their food sources. As for the effects of diseases such as smallpox, they basically ended a century or two hundred years ago, and smallpox and other diseases could have reduced the number of tens of millions of people in the Americas (some estimates are in the hundreds of millions, but it is unlikely) to the millions.

But then the arrival of China and the division of North America with Britain, the United States and Spain, and then different management methods brought different results. The Indians in the United States, who continued to be devastated and forced to leave their homes, migrated first from the eastern seaboard to the western part of the Alabachian Mountains, where they lived on the reservation designated by the Americans. Then the Americans also came to the west and continued to evict them and seize their land. Some migrated to the Mississippi River and lived in the Great Plains.

After the arrival of China, they first seized the area west of the Mississippi River, immigrated here, and established an administrative structure.

Compared with the expulsion of the Americans and the laissez-faire of the British, China adopted an effective management of the people.

In fact, no one respects the Indians, no one respects their language and culture, their way of life, the Americans are exterminating the Indians, the British don't care about the Indians, and the Chinese are assimilating the Indians, forcibly changing their way of life, not caring that they used to be farming, hunting, all of them are allocated land, let them farm.

So there must be resistance, and the Indians in the United States have the most fierce resistance, they fight for survival, and almost every migration is the result of a defeat; The Indians in Britain were the least rebellious, because the British were unable to control the vast lands of Canada, where the Indians could still live according to their traditions; The Indians in China rebelled between the United States and the British, and the Chinese did not destroy their existence, so they rebelled sometimes, not to survive, but to maintain their way of life, to put it mildly, they were fighting for their culture.

It's a pity that they can't win against the United States, let alone China.

As a result, for decades, the most primitive Indian tribes could only accept agricultural techniques and agricultural lifestyles.

The end result, in fact, was the same as China's rule in India, the early resistance was fierce, and the later life was stable, and the Indians in China, whether they were the Indians on both sides of the Mississippi River who migrated from the American side, or the Dakota Indians who originally lived in the Great Plains, or the California Indians who accepted agriculture earlier, they were forcibly turned into an agrarian economy.

Compared with the Indians who lived hard in the reservation areas established by the Americans, did not learn agricultural techniques, and could not make a living by hunting, and could only rely on the little assistance provided by the Americans to survive, compared with the Indian tribes who continued to hunt and migrate in Britain and lived a free and primitive life, the Indians in China have become farmers and entered a modern social system.

After several generations of reproduction, the Indian population in the United States continued to decline, the population of Indians in Britain did not increase or decrease, and the number of Indians in China increased greatly, reaching more than one million. The Indian chiefs in the United States always fought bitterly; The Indians of Great Britain depend on the weather for their food in the hunting economy, and the population changes with the skillfulness of the wild animals, they are part of the pristine nature, and the Indian chiefs here continue to be muddy. The Indians in China entered a new level of civilization, which could transform and break away from nature, and their chieftains evolved into landlords, merchants, and officials.

The vast majority of the millions of Indians who have completed the transformation and become settled Indian villages. Their chieftain is now the chief of the body, their warriors are Chinese soldiers, and their heroes become officers. Such Indian villages, although not as large as the previous tribal period, occupied more land, but were extremely widely distributed, from the northernmost Dakota region to the southernmost Colorado region, there were scattered Indian villages.

It was easy for the local governments of the Americas to find a group of such people, dressed in Indian costumes, with painted faces, and piercing feathered hats, who sailed across the ocean on steamships, landed on Chinese soil, entered China's capital, and walked through the streets and alleys.

Their final destination was the Royal Palace, where they sang and danced, cried, and were interviewed.

Chinese newspapers have reported that they have come to petition for China to stop the United States from selling its territory to the United States, and they have told reporters about their suffering, some of their ethnic groups, who have been driven from the East Coast to the Colorado Mountains, and some of whom are still living miserable lives in the United States. There are tribes living in the Dakota area, who used to migrate across borders and chase herds of bison, but now they farm because the bison are dead. They told about their people living in Canada, saying that they lived a life of hunting, without food and clothing, but at least they could live, and they complained that if the Americans occupied Canada, they would definitely drive them out, so that their people would have no place to stand.

The accusations from the Indians completely turned over the sins of the Americans, and at the same time, the Anglo-American land purchase case became a crime.

Public opinion has completely shifted from opposing the war in the past to opposing the land purchase case.

The more conscientious people used to be, or who pretended to have a conscience and shouted for peace, the more they now want to express their hatred of sin. The silent nationalist and racist forces, which were already dissatisfied with the United States taking advantage of the fire, have become more active, and the voices of war are endless.

The imperial court finally publicly stated through the official newspaper that it did not accept and did not recognize the Anglo-American land purchase case.

The imperial court did not express its position on Canadian land, but some high-level officials expressed some views on various occasions, and some said that China could consider including Canada in its territory, establishing a provincial and county system here, building schools for the Fan people, educating the Fan people to know etiquette, righteousness and shame, teaching them the way of agriculture and mulberry, and changing the custom of drinking blood. It is also possible to consider making the Fan people a country of their own, a subject country, or an independent country.

The position of individual officials, of course, was expressed through civilian newspapers. The newspaper interviewed them because public opinion had shifted to discuss the future of Canada. Public opinion began to discuss how to plan for Canada's future in the best interests of this place. The method is nothing more than to directly incorporate into the territory, establish a country to allow the people to survive and continue to let the British rule here.

In the course of the discussion, public opinion gradually favored the annexation of this place, because after all kinds of fierce debates, both the belligerent and the anti-war actually believed that China's rule was the best, and under the theory of Chinese cultural superiority, the extermination of the culture of the Fan people was not genocide, but to educate them, which was a kind of benevolence.

Under this turn of public opinion, the Chinese army has completed the encirclement of Ottawa, and more than 500,000 British troops have put up a stubborn resistance and established a defense line of more than 100 kilometers around Ottawa to defend the canal between the Ottawa River and Lake Ontario.

The U.S. military also suddenly entered here at this time, they did not have a war with China and Britain, but entered York (Toronto) and other unfortified cities in the Great Lakes region, where the British troops were transferred to Ottawa, and the Chinese army had not yet arrived here, and the United States claimed that according to the land purchase plan, the United States officially took over here.

Li Zhangtong's greatest fear happened: The Chinese army attacked the British army, and the United States directly sent troops to take over the places where the British army could not hold them; if they acquiesced to the US approach this time, I am afraid that after that, the greater the results of the Chinese army, the more land the Americans will acquire, and China and Britain will become snipes, and the more fierce the contention, the more the United States, a fisherman, will benefit.

This kind of issue will inevitably be discussed by the Cabinet.