Chapter 511: Difficult Peace
The 1912 revolution in the United States led to a large influx of American population into British Canada, according to Chamberlain's estimates, if nothing else, the population of British Canada will definitely be able to exceed 15 million in this year, what does this mean? This means that Britain's core population (native + colonial white Westerners) is approaching the 70 million mark, not counting the more than 10 million high-caste people in India who have received a British education. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
As during the Three Kingdoms War, the influx of immigrants stimulated the economic development of British Canada, and in 1912 the total industrial and agricultural output of British Canada had reached 30% of the domestic output, and the following year it exceeded 1/3! This undoubtedly made the overall strength of the British Empire have increased significantly, on the contrary, although Germany's potential has increased greatly after the merger of Austria and the Czech Republic, it has fallen into the dilemma of weak economic growth due to the narrow market......
Before he was worried that China would take advantage of the fire to rob and start a war against the United States, then the British government would face a difficult choice, and the old Chamberlain could not sit idly by and watch China annex the United States, in that case, British Canada would inevitably be difficult to protect, but if it really fought with China, even if it won it, it would inevitably suffer heavy losses, and after the war, especially during the war, if Germany suddenly attacked, then Britain would be wiped out. Fortunately, Chinese seems to be really peace-loving, as long as they don't provoke him, they will not take the initiative to expand externally, which can't help but make old Chamberlain feel very lucky, and he also thinks that he has found the secret of peaceful coexistence with China, but he didn't expect Li Hui to be just more patient......
After confirming that the Chinese government would not send troops to interfere in the American Revolution, the British government's attitude towards the American Revolution of 1912 suddenly changed by 180 years, and without the danger of China's intervention, then there was no need to rescue the United States, but on the contrary, it would be more in line with the interests of the British Empire to make the United States even worse. Wilson did nothing but express strong protest......
There is no way, now that the United States has a strong enemy in the west and a rebel army in it, where does it have the confidence to go to war with the British Empire again? In particular, the strength of British Canada has increased dramatically in recent years, and with the strength of the Canadian people, even if the British mainland is separated by an Atlantic Ocean, it is not very convenient to support, and the United States, which is currently suffering from internal and external troubles, is not sure of victory. Speaking of which, the Americans have not forgotten the fact that the Canadians burned the White House back then!
With the aid of the British, the American insurgents, which Li Hui thought would hold out for a few months at most, were finally destroyed in the second half of 1913, and the scattered remnants of the party that broke through still jumped out from time to time to make a big news until a few years later.
In order to quell the turmoil, the U.S. Federal Army paid a heavy price of more than 600,000 casualties, including 170,000 killed and missing. The civilian casualties and economic losses are far beyond Li Hui's previous expectations, if you only look at the output value, even compared with the original Heavenly Punishment Column, it is not much worse, but the cities affected by the war are mainly downstream industries, and the impact of Pittsburgh's steel is still incomparable, so the actual impact is naturally far less great.
One of the most tragic of these is that Detroit, the new industrial center of the "Motor City", which had already begun to be called "Motor City" before the war, was almost flattened by heavy artillery and air raids by the rebellious American forces, and God knows how long it will take to complete its reconstruction.
Although Henry Ford, the "car king" whose career was once like the rising sun, decisively risked his plane to escape during the siege of the rebel army, he had to borrow money everywhere to start his own difficult second venture after the war.
This time, Henry Ford never dared to choose the site on the shores of the Great Lakes, and the East Coast states were a little more expensive to labor, at least much safer. Well, Henry Ford really put safety first this time, and he even considered the danger of another war between the United States and China in the future, and specially set the site outside the range of naval guns. "Ahh
Although the American Revolution of 1912 ultimately failed, its teachers in Europe spoke highly of it, because it was the first proletarian revolution in American history, and the so-called "American exceptionalism" was declared bankrupt.
However, the ruthlessness of the American ruling class and the selfishness of the American workers (referring to the fact that workers across the United States rarely retaliate in response) made the teacher fully aware of how difficult it was to carry out the proletarian revolution in the rich and sparsely populated North America, and that it was a forbidden place that the Chinese Republic had long been targeting.
As far as China is concerned, it is already worth it to make the United States like this with just a small investment, and Li Hui also unexpectedly re-established a tacit understanding with the old Chamberlain through this incident, and soon reached a rapprochement in the Middle East and redivided the spheres of influence of the two sides.
On the Iranian issue, under the mediation of China and Britain, the main political factions in Iran conducted difficult peace negotiations in Tehran, and finally formally signed a peace agreement in November 1913. According to the agreement, the old king of Iran will complete the restoration, but only as a mascot with no real power, and the state power will be held by the Loya National Assembly, which is composed of revolutionaries and liberals, while China and Britain will jointly protect Iran's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In exchange, Iran must completely open its domestic market to the UK and allow British companies to invest in it; As for China, the Iranian government accepted the former's proposal to demarcate the Caspian Sea, and from then on Iran only retained the "sea" zone within 12 nautical miles of the coast of the Caspian Sea, and the part north of it was China's border (by the way, Soviet Russia had already signed such an agreement with China in exchange for compensation for the area on the east bank of the Volga, that is, the Caspian Sea was then almost completely monopolized by China...... and that the Government of Iran will also be liable to compensate its nationals who cross its borders for damage caused, whether by sea or land. As for the specific amount of losses, it is entirely up to the Chinese side to decide......