Generosity?

Throughout human history, how many times has there been a time when true generosity has been done without purpose and with other intentions between nations? Obviously, no such example has been found in the history of mankind.

No one would think that the generosity of other countries has no price!

The price always needs to be paid in other ways!

As president of the Confederate States of America, Davis immediately asked rhetorically after listening to Benjamin's introduction.

"Are you sure the Chinese said they would send troops?"

As the president of the South, Davis has been deeply disappointed in the war, and he has no idea how to save the war from collapse, but now the good news brought by Benjamin gives him hope.

"They said they might send troops!"

Benjamin answered truthfully that he did not get a positive answer from Liu Jinshan, but he finally got a message that the Chinese do not exclude sending troops, but they need to get a certain return!

"Troops may be sent?"

Davis looked at Benjamin with some confusion.

"What do you mean by a possible troop?"

Vice President Alexander Stephens also asked curiously.

"If they decide to send troops, that's a good thing, and I remember Stephen Mallory mentioning that Chinese have 25,000 troops in Canada, including their army and defense forces, and in Barnabas, there's a small fleet of ironclads, and an army of 20,000 men, and if they want to help us, their army can be put into battle in a month......"

Alexander Stephens mentioned that Stephen Mallory was the Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States, and in the past few years, he had been trying to win over outside forces, so he knew very well about the military power of the Chinese in the Americas, and knew that they were the only forces other than the French who could help the Confederates.

"The question is, what price do we need to pay if we want them to send troops, Mr. President, the Chinese are not willing to send troops because of friendship, let alone for the peace of the United States or the Union from invasion!"

Benjamin reminded President Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens that when they heard that China was going to send troops, all they saw was "sending troops" and the idea that the Confederates would be saved as a result.

"Do they want cotton? Give them all the cotton agency of the entire Union State! ”

Alexander Stephens said almost without hesitation/

"All the people in the Allied countries have to be clear that if China doesn't intervene, we will lose everything, and I think they can understand why we did this, and I believe they will understand......

Alexander Stephens' self-righteous answer made Benjamin shake his head helplessly.

"Mr. Vice President, China doesn't need all this at all now, they won't sacrifice other interests for cotton, they think more!"

More!

Davis looked at Benjamin with strange eyes, and then said in an affirmative tone.

"Benjamin, we can't cede our land to the Chinese, even if it's the land in the north, we don't have any decision there, it's the land of the northerners, and it has nothing to do with us!"

The president's answer let Benjamin know that Mr. President had guessed the Chinese's request, but he had guessed wrong.

"Mr. President, Chinese is not asking for land......"

Almost anyone would instinctively think that China is asking the United States for land, but Benjamin is well aware that in previous meetings, the Chinese did not mention land at all, but that does not mean that China is not asking for other returns, they have offered another condition. The other is an extremely foreign condition for Americans.

"Oh, so what are they asking for?"

Davis asked, looking at Benjamin strangely. Since it's not land, it's not money, so what are they asking for?

"Mr. President, the Chinese want to get the right to build roads!"

Benjamin's expression was a little strange when he said this answer, and he had no idea why the Chinese would mention this condition.

"The right to build a way?"

Davis looked at Benjamin in surprise and asked/

"What right of way?"

"The Chinese want to get the right to build railways in the western region, the only right to build railways!"

Not to mention Benjamin, Davis and Alexander Stephens were also stunned after hearing Benjamin's words, the right to build railroads?

This is the condition put forward by the Chinese?

"This is the condition put forward by the Chinese? They want to build railroads in the United States? In the west? ”

Alexander Stephens asked in surprise, who would have thought that such conditions would be possible?

"Yes, Mr. Vice President, that's what Chinese are asking for, and of course they're not just asking for the right to build the railroad, they're asking for 20 miles of state land on either side of the railroad, and 80 miles of land on both sides for a bargain......

When Benjamin put forward this condition offered by the Chinese, Davis and Alexander Stephens, after a moment of silence, looked at Benjamin and asked rhetorically.

"It doesn't seem to have anything to do with us!"

It has nothing to do with the South, because the West is not part of the American Union, except for Texas, that is, China wants to build a railroad in the West of the North.

"Yes, Mr. President, but Chinese want to sign a treaty with us in exchange for our support, which will be one of the preconditions for China to send troops, and in future peace talks, they will submit this request to Washington, and we must support and endorse this condition as a precondition for an armistice......"

There is no direct connection with the South, certainly not without direct connection, at least at the negotiating table in the future, if Washington does not agree to this condition, then the war will continue.

"It seems that now we have no other choice, do the Chinese have other conditions?"

What are the other conditions?

Zhu Yifeng, who was hunting in the mountains, smiled slightly, and then said to Li Ziyuan that he was about to go to Japan to take up the post of prime minister.

"The other conditions are nothing more than the right of inland navigation of warships, as well as the most-favored-nation treatment, most of which are only commercial interests."

Zhu Yifeng, who was holding a double-barreled shotgun in his hand, said while carefully looking for his prey.

"Your Majesty, why don't you just let the United States cede its western region? For example, the area west of Kansas, I think that with our military strength, we can force the United States to agree to cede these areas! ”

Li Ziyuan asked with some puzzlement, although he knew in the court that accompanying His Majesty to hunt and even fishing could be said to be a sign of His Majesty's favor, but when he was about to leave the mainland and go to the vassal country, he was still more willing to understand His Majesty's thoughts in depth.

"Military occupation? And then force the United States to cede land and pay reparations, Li Qing, do you think that if we had let Britain cede Scotland, would it have been possible for them to sign an armistice treaty? Even Ireland, it was because the British themselves knew that it was a colony they occupied, not the British mainland, so they were willing to give up the western part of the United States......"

After a slight pause, he saw that there seemed to be a pheasant in the grass in the distance, and he immediately pulled the trigger, and after the gunshot, a group of hounds immediately pounced, and then took back a pheasant.

Driven by Zhu Yifeng, the current domestic dignitaries also like to hunt pigs, which is different from traditional hunting, and now the hunting games of domestic dignitaries and dignitaries are very similar to the hunting games of European nobles, and some people even organize groups to hunt in African fiefdoms.

When loading the shotgun, Zhu Yifeng continued/

"For the Americans, it's American, it's American soil, and we have no way of guessing how the Americans will react when we ask them to cede the western lands, especially the Union States!"

Looking at Li Ziyuan, who had only beaten one hare for half a day, Zhu Yifeng, who knew that his heart was not here, gave the shotgun to the nearby attendant officer, and then pointed to the stream in the mountains and said/

"I'll camp here at noon today, you pack up your prey first, and I'll walk with Li Qing."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Ziyuan walked behind His Majesty respectfully, and when the two were walking, he said.

"Is Your Majesty worried that the Alliance Congress will oppose us because of the land cession?"

"Yes, in the future, the United States will pose a far greater threat to China than Russia, France, and the United Kingdom, because of its land area, and of course, its population, if the North unifies the South, the United States will enter a period of rapid development, and by the end of this century, the population of the United States will exceed 100 million, and their industry will far exceed that of the rest of Europe......"

In another time and space, 30 years after the end of the Civil War, the industrial output value of the United States had surpassed that of Britain, and by the outbreak of World War I, the industry of the United States was almost equal to that of all European countries combined, and the land, resources and population determined the future strength of the United States.

"So, after the outbreak of the American Civil War, our policy was to weaken the United States by supporting the South and promoting the division of the United States!"

"Divide and weaken the United States" is the basic principle of the United States, and Li Ziyuan is of course very clear about this, and he is also very clear about why he will make concessions to the North after the war with Britain.

"But it's not enough to just weaken and divide the United States, we have to achieve this goal to the greatest extent, and how to divide and weaken them?"

"Your Majesty, the minister understands that the reason why we have supported the North in the past two years is not to ease relations, but to use the hand of the North to disintegrate the South and make the South lose the capital to negotiate, and then agree to our conditions, and willingly be our pawn."

Li Ziyuan's answer made Zhu Yifeng nod, and then he looked at the mountain scenery in the distance, and only replied after a little contemplation.

"The Confederates are critical, they are fundamental to dividing the United States, and their separatist moves will completely change the future of the United States, and they will also create a very bad example for all states and regions of the United States, that is, they can secede from the United States at any time......

Historically, it was the Civil War that completely eliminated the possibility of state independence with the victory of the North, but now, everything will change.

"So, we need a Confederate Nation, we need their presence, and if we intervene in the American Civil War, and we make it a condition for the United States to cede half of the United States to the war, assuming that the Confederate Cabinet in Richmond agrees, will Southern generals such as Robert Lee accept it?"

This is exactly what Zhu Yifeng has to consider, and he must take into account a series of consequences brought about by the cession of land.

"They may be on the opposite side of the North, but they are still Americans at heart, and they will not accept the cession of a large amount of land in exchange for our support, of course, a limited cession, they may accept it, but we don't want just one state, we want the whole West, which means that we have to seek those areas in other ways! Of course, with the help of the Americans themselves, that's why we have to build the right of way! ……”

A smile flashed on his face, looking at the prime minister in Japan who was about to go to Japan, Zhu Yifeng's smile had other meanings, the reason why he wanted to do this was to learn from another time and space, half a century, what Japan did in the Northeast, at that time, Japan extended its tentacles to the entire Northeast with the help of the Manchurian Railway, but at that time, compared with Japan's railway immigrants, tens of millions of Han people in the Northeast determined that it was impossible for Japan to annex the Northeast by rail.

But now the west is different, since it is in California, the most populous state, the population is only less than half a million, and there are 200,000 Chinese among them, in the entire west, there are now more than 300,000 Chinese living there, almost equal to the so-called white Americans, and compared with whites, under the organization of the government, Chinese immigration is faster.

"We are now going to use the railroad to penetrate our influence throughout the West, and to settle our settlers there through the railroad dependencies, for ten or fifteen years, maybe shorter, maybe longer, who knows? But what is certain is that if we had a monopoly on the railroads there, twenty years from now, the American West would no longer be white, but yellow, when our population was more than 70 percent local......"

After a slight pause, looking at Li Ziyuan, Zhu Yifeng said quite proudly.

"How was Texas independent? How was it incorporated into the United States? I think that when the time comes, our immigrants will be able to learn from the Americans, they can solve problems by voting, and maybe, they can become a country on their own at first, but we all know that all this is only temporary......"

Looking at Li Ziyuan, who seemed to be a little dumbfounded and couldn't believe all this, Zhu Yifeng patted him on the shoulder, and then said seriously.

"That's why I let you go to Japan, to educate the people there, one day, they themselves will choose to become Chinese, just like one day, the western part of the United States will vote for independence and join China, but now, what we need is to help maintain the independence of the Confederate States, and only in this way can we ensure the ......independence of the West in the future."

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