Lincoln's original Anaconda plan was not carried out thoroughly, although most of the southern ports were blocked, but foreign merchant ships in these ports could still enter and exit freely, and after the failure of the U.S. military to seize the Panama Canal, he immediately implemented a thorough anaconda plan, prohibiting all merchant ships from entering and leaving the southern ports. (For the latest chapter, please visit wèn) The python is getting tighter and tighter.

The southern army was quite embarrassed in terms of the navy, and there were almost no warships available, so the south urgently placed orders with civilian shipyards, and even converted merchant ships into warships, and even ordered warships from overseas shipyards such as the United Kingdom. As mentioned earlier, in fact, Britain and France do not want the United States to rise, and it is their normal behavior to secretly stumble. After France joined NATO to counter the Windsor consortium, it no longer accepted orders from the Southern Navy, but Britain ignored this, and as long as the government did not have a formal ban, the private shipyards had no scruples.

The cooperation between the Southern Navy and the British shipyards was clearly in conflict with the Anaconda Project, and if the South had warships, it would be able to fight the Northern Navy. The Northern Navy also did not have many warships, only 48 before the war, and several of them were destroyed by the Windsor consortium in Hawaii, far less than the scale of the British and French navies that were hundreds at every turn. Moreover, the python plans to disperse the naval forces, and as long as there is a little navy in the south, the destructive power is huge.

This conflict finally went wrong, and two warships produced in Britain were targeted by the Northern Navy and captured on their way to the south to join the ranks. This incident triggered a diplomatic crisis in the United States. The militant Prime Minister Palmerston immediately threatened the United States with war to hand over ships belonging to British citizens. As long as it has not been handed over to the South, it is British, so where can the Americans reason?

Lincoln knocked out his front teeth and ordered the Navy to hand over the ships of "British merchants", but demanded that the British government issue a decree prohibiting the shipyards of the country and its colonies from producing warships for the Southern rebels.

The Times saved the United States, because of the Times's traditional anti-Windsor stance, they put a lot of pictures of slaves being abused to say good things for the American Army of the North, thinking that this was an opportunity to free the slaves, and Britain should not stand on a humanitarian standpoint and should not put millions of blacks in a catastrophe for the sake of the southern states. Lincoln loved the Times so much that without the efforts of the newspapers led by him to dissuade him, I am afraid that the python would instantly turn into a dead snake and rotten eel under the cannon of the British Navy. British militarists have been waiting for this opportunity for almost 80 years, since the Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized the United States.

In the end, under the pressure of public opinion, the British government issued a ban on domestic shipyards to produce warships for the North and South of the United States, so as not to undermine Britain's neutrality policy and drag the British army into the war. Palmerston didn't care about this outcome, because he thought that the Windsor consortium would have a war with the United States, and Britain would wait and see. If the Windsor consortium entered the war, it would be equivalent to half of Britain participating in the war, and as far as Palmerston knew, the East India Company navy was still dominated by British sailors. Thus, the prohibition cleverly avoided the requirement that the colonies not interfere with it, so as not to make it difficult for the East India Company.

In this way, the American python tightened, and on the mainland battlefield, sporadic victories began to come from the north, among which it is noteworthy that a division of Commandery Grant and a division of the Southern Army met in Burmont, Missouri, Grant's judgment of the battle situation was accurate, and he took advantage of the fact that the Southern Army did not meet to understand the enemy's combat intentions, won a small victory, and withdrew from the battlefield in time before the enemy completed the superior assembly, and gradually entered Lincoln's field of vision.

Shortly after the end of the diplomatic crisis in the United States, Lincoln's mood fell into a low point again, announcing the official opening of the Panama Canal, and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, which were separated by the Americas, finally had a convenient passage. It means that the warships of the East India Company Navy can enter the Caribbean Sea in an extremely comfortable posture, and after going out to sea from the Caribbean Sea, they will go thousands of kilometers north to the head of the python - the Gulf of Mexico, an important blockade area of the US Navy, which is the coast of the five major states of Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, and Florida.

Originally, ships from California to New York had to go around the Strait of Magellan, the southernmost point of South America, and I don't know how much manpower and material resources were wasted, and now the voyage is shortened by the circumference of a South America, that is, saving 14,800 kilometers, which is really exciting! Specifically, the New York-San Francisco flight can be shortened by 16%, the Liverpool-San Francisco flight can be shortened by 43%, and the New York-Sydney flight can be shortened by 28%......

After talking about the benefits, the fox's tail was exposed, saving more than 10,000 kilometers, the toll is not cheap, and the toll to be paid for a passage is calculated according to the displacement tonnage, and the general goods and passenger ships are 1. $2 / ton, ballast vessel 0. 72 US dollars / ton (in order to prevent the empty ship from rolling, when there is no cargo, you need to get some seawater, sediment and other ballast), military ships 0. $5/ton. This is a huge price, a warship like the King-class heavy cruiser with a full load displacement of 10,000 tons, and the toll will cost 5,000 US dollars. It is estimated that the largest number of customers of the Panama Canal are American companies, so here we take the US dollar as an example, at the exchange rate at this time4. $85 to one pound sterling.

The above prices are common customs clearance methods without checking the contents of the goods, and if you are willing to be inspected, a toll fee of 10% of the landed value of the goods will be charged. The landed value is of course much more expensive than the offshore value, and the captains are again in tears. The good news is that if the goods are daily necessities, they can be refunded from 1% to 5%, and if they are shipped to disaster-stricken areas and poverty alleviation areas, they can be reduced again.

The anti-Windsorist Times exclaimed with a sensational headline: "The Windsor consortium taxes 10% on trade in the Americas!" ”

In addition to the huge commercial interests, as long as the Windsor consortium can hold on, the military strategy of this canal is also remarkable, and at the end of the broadcast, it was announced that the Canal Company would entrust the defense to the East India Company, and the two ends of the river mouth are within 200 kilometers of the center of the circle as the coastal defense identification zone, and military ships are requested not to trespass, so as not to trigger unnecessary military conflicts. However, there were no restrictions on the United States or NATO member states, and later American merchant ships tried to contact the canal company, and received a positive reply that American merchant ships could pass through the Guò Panama Canal!

The U.S. military observers in the Federation of Granada were released with the demand that the U.S. Navy's warships hovering at the mouth of the Panama Canal leave the 200-kilometer coastal defense zone, so the Americans, like other people, waited until the Windsor consortium made a public announcement to confirm the incident.

In contrast to the worries of the Northerners, the Southerners were overjoyed by the opening of the canal, which Confederate President Davis praised as a landmark in the history of trade and condemned the Northerners' maritime blockade of the southern states as an obstacle to free trade in the world.

He didn't seem to care about the South, and when President Davis's envoy broke through the blockade of federal warships and arrived at the Panama Canal Company's military base, the commander of the Panamanian fleet proposed three chapters of the treaty to help the South lift the blockade: 1. Slaves were not allowed to work more than 12 hours a day, with one day of rest per week; 2. Slaves have the right to read and write; 3. Slaves may be reinstated and free at market value.

It seems that the Windsor Consortium, an industrial legend, is really not very interested in slavery, you know, now hired workers work more than 12 hours abound, not to mention slaves who are not free? While the North is under pressure, so is the government in the South. （http：／/.)。 Originally, southerners thought that the Windsor Consortium would spare no effort to help the south for their own interests, but after all, he was once known as the biggest philanthropist in history, and he still wanted face, and it was not good to make himself fall into a bad reputation.

Lincoln's intelligence system came into play, and when he learned of this request from the Windsor consortium, he immediately ignited hope, and it seems that the international allies of the Southerners are not very reliable. In a friendly response to the Windsor consortium, Lincoln immediately lifted the ban on oil exports to Pennsylvania and paid his respects to Downing Windsor himself. Downing, who is on his honeymoon in New Guinea, continues to refrain from responding to olive branches from both the North and the South and maintains an unfathomable stance.

Civilians accustomed to distinguishing between good and bad people by whether they supported slavery or not were confused, and whether a new emperor was a good man or a bad man? The Confederate legislators were hotly discussing the three chapters of the Covenant proposed by the commander of the Panamanian fleet on behalf of the Windsor consortium. If you don't agree, the sea routes will gradually freeze, prices will skyrocket, and the wealth of the people in the south will quickly evaporate in the shadow of the war. If we say yes, it's clear that this is a step towards the decline of slavery, why did we come here in the first place? Isn't it just to protect one's own mode of production from the influence of the north? The government of the South is in a dilemma.