The matter of Little Rock, as the governor of the Americas, Huang Qiuwu did not pay much attention to it, in recent years, there have been many similar mass incidents, and they are all occasional incidents in various places, but when they converge in front of him, there are more of them.

The Americas is a rich region, where there is no basis for civil unrest, and the mass incidents of recent years are mainly caused by the illegal operation of commercial companies.

The most dangerous is the problem of miners, mining is a high-input, high-output and high-value-added industry, but the working environment of the mining industry is very poor, and few people are willing to mine for a living. Driven by lucrative profits, a large number of mining companies and private mine owners have resorted to deception and coercion to bring in manpower from the country. At one time, some people even secretly bought black slave jobs, and also triggered a black slave rebellion, destroying several surrounding villages and forts.

After the incident, the mine owner was beheaded, and the black slaves were taken to the United States for auction. Then he ordered that black slaves were strictly forbidden to enter the Americas, including those who escaped from the United States, and that they were also auctioned off after they were caught.

Severe penalties were also imposed on mine owners and commercial companies who illegally cheated laborers, but under the urging of high profits, the ban continued repeatedly, and there were many cases of miners' riots.

Huang Qiuwei knew very well that China's problems were mainly human and land problems, and as long as the peasants had land to plant, there would be no rebellion.

So he was very concerned about the land of the Americas, and what annoyed him was that there was really not much wasteland that could be cultivated.

If there is no land, no people can be attracted, and nothing can be done without people.

However, the number of immigrants has dropped sharply in the past two years, and during his administration, there was only a large number of population imports in the first three years, and then it has decreased year by year, from 1.4 million in the second year to 200,000 last year, and the decline is even greater this year, and the customs estimate that it will not exceed 100,000. The U.S. now has more than 200,000 immigrants a year, and in the long run, the U.S. may surpass the population of China and North America.

The Americans' affairs are also a nuisance. It's not been a year or two since the Americans wanted that canal, from the beginning of the construction, the Americans wanted to take shares, and the shares did not achieve opposition, and the same is true for Britain, and Britain didn't want the canal to be built, in order to build this river, the mercenaries of the American Company and the local natives, and the Spanish army fought not once or twice, and the support behind them was nothing more than Britain and the United States.

Now that the canal has been opened, the Americans are even more urgent, they have blocked their ports, and it is strictly forbidden for ships passing through Panama to enter American ports and berth.

Huang Qiuwei has negotiated with the American consul many times to no avail, the other party does not agree, and the attitude of the domestic emperor is also resolute and cannot be compromised, the canal must be Chinese.

However, the emperor did not attach much importance to profits, and he said that Britain and the United States could be allowed to participate in shares and dividends, but they were not allowed to intervene in management.

Huang Qiuwei has discussed this point with Britain and the United States, and the two countries attach more importance to management rights, and the purpose of equity participation is to manage.

The inability to communicate directly with the United States has a great impact on the economic interests of the canal, but the current situation does not lead to a greater conflict. Because just the value of communicating the east and west sides of China and North America is enough to make the canal work well.

Chinese immigrants from the Americas, concentrated on the West Bank and the banks of the Mississippi River, with the Rocky Mountains in the middle, although this is too wide a mountain range, many areas are not precipitous, mountain valleys have fertile land, forests and minerals, in addition to farming, logging and mining can also be developed, but the transportation problem has been solved very south, he has built two east-west railways through the Rocky Mountains in the north and south, but for the vast mountainous area, the transportation is still very backward. The population of the West Bank is as high as 23 million, almost the population of the entire United States, and the population of the Great Plains near the Mississippi River on the east bank is 12 million, while the mountain range in the middle is only 5 million.

Dozens of prosperous big cities have been formed on the east and west banks, the most populous Jinshan City has one million people, not losing to the big cities in China, Little Rock also has 300,000 people, Sancai City 500,000, if you can communicate the two sides of the strait, it is of great significance to the economic ties between the two sides, so the canal must be controlled by the Chinese, and China and North America are also enough to support the canal's profits.

Huang Qiuwu worries that the Americans will not give up.

It is not very likely that the United States will break out again in the trilateral war between China, the United States and Britain in the last war, and the United States did not seriously contribute to the last war. He facilitated the entry of cotton from the south of the United States into China, and also facilitated the export of machinery from the north of the United States, and won over the two factions of the United States respectively. In exchange, grain from the Upper Mississippi River provinces of the North Central and Great North provinces passed through the Great Lakes region and was exported to Europe via New York, USA.

The economic ties between the two countries are very close, far closer than those between the United States and the United Kingdom, and in such a situation where it is not beneficial for either side to go to war, the United States openly closes its ports and threatens China.

Huang decided to fight a trade war with the United States, and since the United States closed New Orleans, China refused to allow American merchant ships to enter the market.

Houston is located near the mouth of the Salver River (the Colorado River that empties into the Gulf of Mexico) and the Brazos River, both of which have developed large areas of cotton production and from which American goods flow in large quantities. It was originally a Spanish colony, but the Spaniards only had 3,000 people here, but the Americans came after the latecom, and 30,000 people immigrated here, so the Republic of Texas was established at that time. The Chinese are the latest, and most of these Spaniards and Americans have not all left, most of them have stayed, and they have an industry here that is difficult to give up.

Local Americans still call the place Texas, China inherited the name, named Texas, because there are local Americans, there are American goods that supply these Americans to sell here, and local Americans are not good at farming, but good at raising cattle, Texas longhorn cattle are very famous, a large number of supplies to the American market, but also exported to the Chinese market, Americans eat meat, Chinese use horns to make handicrafts. So there are also a lot of American merchant ships here, and the blockade here is a warning to the Americans.

The Americans did not give in, and at this time, they jointly announced with Britain and Spain that they would not allow any ships in the direction of the Panama Canal to pass through the Strait of Florida and the Caribbean Sea under their control, which was equivalent to closing the area covered by the canal to the east in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, two closed sea areas, and the original passage through the canal would have reduced the distance between the Pacific American coast and Europe by half.

The move instantly hit the shares of American companies, which had been rising for more than three months. The economic significance of the canal is mainly reflected in the communication between the two shores of the Americas, which can shorten the voyage of ships between the east and west coasts of the United States by 15,000 kilometers, from the east coast of North America or Europe to the ports on the west coast of South America by 6,500 kilometers, and the voyage of ships sailing between Europe and East Asia or Australia by 3,700 kilometers. Overall, the distance between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans has been shortened by 5,000 to 10,000 kilometers.

Originally, the economic value of this canal is expected to be comparable to that of the Suez Canal.

This caused a strong dissatisfaction with the American Company, which was not an ordinary businessman with a small talk, but a privileged company, an army, and an organization that did business with guns.

The American Company immediately announced that it would prohibit British merchant ships from docking in La Plata, which was already de facto American Company territory, and that neither Spain nor Carlos had control of the La Plata River, but was controlled by the American Company through a series of settler settlements, and once again supported the establishment of a state by the Énéo de la Plata, and the new Republic of La Plata was much more honest than before.

The American Company has established a large number of farms in the vast Pampas grasslands, and these large farms, often calculated in an area of 100,000 acres, employ agricultural workers, adopt American-style mechanized operations, and use horse-drawn seeders and harvesters to plow, so that the price of grain here has a world advantage.

These properties were not robbed, but legally occupied, given money to the Republic of La Plata, and were taxed legally, and in terms of legal status, they were no different from those Argentine farms.

As for the direct territory of the American Company, it has controlled the entire basin of the Paraguay River and the Paraná River, and not only the land between the two rivers that the colonists could not control in the past, but has even penetrated deep into the Brazilian plateau along the river, which has a great dispute with the Brazilian Empire. To the north, it controlled the Paraguay and Picomayo rivers, and advanced to the Bolivian Altiplano and Amazon basins, extending to the edge of the Amazon rainforest, where it was blocked by the rainforest and did not continue deeper.

The territory controlled by the Republic of La Plata is only the area of the Pampas grassland west of the mouth of the Río de La Plata, but the farming conditions here are good, Argentina has developed agriculture and animal husbandry, and has close trade relations with Europe, and is Britain's largest trading partner in South America, and the trade volume during the Napoleonic Wars was as high as tens of millions of pounds, and the increase in recent years has even reached 30 million pounds. The development of American companies, in fact, the British are also benefiting.

But Britain was still hostile to China in this direction, and the Americas Company tamed the Lapra people, and the British supported the Brazilians, because the Americas Company had cultivated along the rivers and penetrated deep into the Brazilian highlands.

The topography of Brazil is very special, the coastal area is high and uplifted, known as the Brazilian shield, although this topography allows the coast to have a good harbor, but none of the ports have a hinterland, because the ports are backed by steep mountains, and all the navigable rivers flow from the coast to the interior, not from the interior to the sea as in the general terrain. The Brazilian rivers flow inland from the rugged shield of the coast, either into the Amazon or south into the La Plata system.

It is with the help of the La Plata water system that the Chinese have been able to penetrate deep into the Brazilian plateau, and the cost of developing the Brazilian plateau is even lower than that of the Brazilians from their own coast inward, which puts Brazil at an absolute disadvantage in the territorial competition with the American company.