Chapter 54: The War Against America
At the same time as the training of troops in Hawaii, Song Haiping also began to pay attention to the news from the United States, although the north and the south were already on the same page, and there was no possibility of mediation at all. But as long as Lincoln, who came to power, did not declare www.biquge.info the abolition bill into effect, then the North and the South would not be able to fight.
As far as Lincoln himself is concerned, he is also unwilling to go to war with the South for some to die on the plantation or in the mines, but although Lincoln himself is a president, the essence of this president is actually just a puppet pushed out by the capitalists to do things, and many things are not what he can do as he wants.
For the capitalist, what is the difference between the president who spends a lot of money to push himself up does not do things for himself, and the dog that he raises bites himself -- so when the capitalist world begins to try to control the United States, the president of the United States always dies diligently, and there is no way to do it.
The absence of war for the time being was also good for Song Haiping, and since the signing of the treaty of commerce with Davis in September 1860, shiploads of munitions and ironclad warships shipped from Japan began to equip the Southern army.
Now in the face of the abolitionist movement instigated by the northern capitalists behind the scenes, this time the more confident Southern Union has chosen to stand at least morally, although the seven southern states announced their withdrawal from the Union, but did not do so in advance as in history.
Historically, the idea that the South wanted to strike first was based on the fact that the South was weak and the North was strong, and both sides believed that there would only be a limited war between the North and the South for this reason, and the South could not afford to fight a protracted war, so if the South could not win a quick victory, it would be a loss. Although General Robert Lee's transformation of decay into a miraculous command art dragged out the battlefield for four years, the outcome was actually decided six months after the start of the war.
As long as the south stays in this time space, it will arm itself with a steady stream of arms from Japan, and it can be said that it is getting stronger day by day, so naturally there is no preemptive impulse. On the other hand, the Northern Confederacy, seeing that after the Confederate army was reorganized for war, the big capitalists could no longer sit still, and forced Lincoln to pass the Slavery Abolition Act in August 1861.
On the day of the abolition, Lincoln also confessed in front of his family and friends that the U.S. Constitution did not actually give me the right to abolish slavery.
Why do you say that, because the U.S. Constitution stipulates that private property is sacrosanct, and the black slaves of southern farmers did not fall from the sky, they were bought at the earliest, and they were definitely part of private production. The South was not without free blacks, and before his father-in-law died, Washington's father-in-law declared that all the black slaves on the plantation would be free after his death.
However, if you want to change the Constitution, you need two-thirds of the members of both houses in the United States to put forward a bill. That is, Lincoln, as president of the United States, declared the abolition of slavery unconstitutional and had no legal effect.
Upon learning of the official abolition of slavery in the North, Davis, who was inaugurated as Union President in Richmond, gave a speech: "I am here to declare President of the Union because this is the darkest day in the history of the American Federation, and the power of the Federal President is greater than the Constitution, and he has begun to carry out blatant robbery against the citizens of the United States. We are going to use the rights given to us by the Constitution to take up guns and defend our property. ”
On the battlefield, the commander-in-chief of the South, Robert . General Lee shouted to the soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the Confederate Army, "Children, for the sake of the new America, advance." ”
In Hawaii, Song Haiping was giving an all-army speech: "Many people don't understand why we go to the United States so far away to fight with an unknown enemy, but I want to tell you that President Davis, the American Confederate Nation, that is, the South, has reached an agreement with us that every soldier who participates in the war will get 300 acres of land after the war."
Wounded, meritorious, sacrificed fighters doubled. 600 acres of land. I don't want to say too much about what 300 acres of land can be passed on to future generations, but I think it's a goal that most people can strive for all their lives. I know that everyone has saved a lot of military salaries in recent years, but they can't spend it, I can tell you that American cattle thieves are cheaper than a dozen taels of silver a cow, and you have the ability to even go to the wild to catch bison and wild horses to tame them without spending money.
The land there is fertile and barren, waiting to be cultivated by industrious owners. But this premise is that the Southern Army wins. If you want me to say it's fair, if you win you have everything, if you lose, you lose everything, including your lives and your cards. Because this trip to the United States to participate in the war was in the form of volunteers, I asked every soldier and officer to participate in the war for a voluntary purpose, and it didn't matter if they did not want to go to war, we needed a large number of workers in the sugar mills in Luzon and Hawaii. Everyone has their own aspirations, and we don't force them. Starting today, soldiers and officers who are willing to go to the United States to fight in the war go to your immediate officer to sign up. The deadline is three days. ”
Early the next morning, after reading the list of people who had already signed up, Song Haiping had to sigh that the value of human life in this era was actually very low, and as soon as he heard that his family could get 600 acres of land after sacrifice, Hua Yong signed up one after another, and more than 50 brigades collectively wrote blood letters to fight to become death squads -- as for victory, it is not a matter, we Hua Yong are not even afraid of death, and we still can't win victory.
Compared with the sparsely populated United States, China's land has been cultivated for thousands of years, and the Ming Dynasty has actually introduced crops that are highly productive in the Americas, such as sweet potatoes and corn. However, in this already very barren land, the high-yielding crops of the Americas did not perform very well, and even failed to harvest.
However, some local officials of the Ming Dynasty, who blindly believed that foreign high-yielding crops could be produced in China, forcibly promoted the cultivation of these high-yielding crops, which in turn intensified the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty to a certain extent.
Of course, the destruction of land and nature by agricultural civilization is less than that of industrial civilization, but thousands of years of agriculture have also degraded the land very much, and this land degradation, although very slow, is almost irreversible in agricultural civilization.
To make the land fertile, there are two ways, one is to fertilize, the small amount of farm fertilizer is obviously not enough, but the industrial countries can easily produce a large amount of fertilizer, so the pure agricultural countries in later generations are almost all controlled by the economy of the industrial countries. The second is the change of the earth's crust - volcanic ash is the best fertilizer in nature, even far better than struvite, but this crustal volcanic eruption is in a cycle of 10,000 years, 100 million years, and it is not human.
At the beginning of September 1861, tens of thousands of Northern troops marched to Richmond, the capital of the Southern Army, because the Northern Army believed that the Southern rebels were unbeatable, many Washington citizens, congressmen, and reporters brought their wives and children to Richmond in festive costumes and baskets of food, or walked or rode in horse-drawn carriages with the Northern Army to watch the great victory of the Southern rebels.