The Mississippi River Basin in North America is now in autumn, and from Louisiana all the way north, you can see fields of farmland, cotton fields, tobacco plantations and pretty villages. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The info chapter is the fastest update, and if there are no troops marching along the road, and a column of tugboats full of munitions, this is almost a peaceful and beautiful country. On the way, you can also see Chinese farmers harvesting in the fields, and after the black people in the American South were "freed", they became the main agricultural labor force in the American South. The industriousness and simplicity of the Chinese peasants is certainly rare in the world, and thanks to their hard work, agriculture in the American South is almost more prosperous than it was before the outbreak of the war.

On the uncultivated plains, a little further from the Mississippi River, there are now a number of farms under construction, mostly white immigrants who acquired land under the Homestead Act, and a small number of Chinese immigrants. The bill, which came to be known as the Land for Soldiers, is now working, and large numbers of immigrants are coming in, some from Europe, some from Asia, and some even from the United States of America in the north. As a result of the arrival of these immigrants and the addition of several states in the Mississippi River Valley, the population of the Confederate States of America now exceeds 10 million, excluding blacks and Chinese laborers. The population of the United States of America in the north has dropped to less than 20 million, and there are no more than one million hard-working Chinese who are taking care of the land for him. Lincoln's advantage is only the industrial base of the northeastern United States.

When these Chinese workers working in the fields saw the gray uniforms of the brigade on the road and the army with the face of the east passing by. They all straightened up and cheered at them. This is the Ming Expeditionary Force that defeated the Kingdom of California! Riding on a Kentucky horse. Mao Zumin, an elderly major in the Ming Army. I also greet those compatriots who have traveled to North America. This is really a great era of change, and the fate of every Chinese is changing because of this era, and they are also changing the future world. Mao Zumin, who is 40 years old this year, arrived at his hometown in Hunan 16 years ago when the Ming army wearing gray military uniforms under the banner of the sun and the moon arrived in Hunan. His fate was tied to this great era.

He was one of the more than 100,000 children of Sanxiang who joined the revolution for the sake of 40 acres of military land. However, it took 16 years to go. Sixteen years of horse career, transferred to the north and south tens of thousands of miles. A soldier of that year has now attained the rank of army major and served as the commander of a battalion. However, unlike 95% of the battalion commanders of the Ming Dynasty, the battalion commander of the Maozu people also has the Tiger Medal on his chest, which symbolizes the title of Viscount of the Ming Dynasty, and the Order of the Knights of the Brocade Clothes, which is usually only owned by generals!

All the officers of the Ming Army who saw these two medals would not cast admiring eyes. Because they all know that this old soldier in front of them. He is a meritorious minister of the Ming Dynasty, just because he has no culture. Didn't go to military school, and didn't get a higher rank. But the title of viscount and the honor of knight in brocade are not something that an idle lieutenant colonel, colonel, or even a general can have. These two medals were personally hung on his chest by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in recognition of his outstanding military exploits for the revival of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, he received not only honor, but also nobility, a house and land, and a generous annuity.

However, after owning Tian Zhai Juelu, he was still willing to stay in the army, be with the soldiers, and smell the smoke of the battlefield. The barracks were already his home, and the battlefield was a part of his life. He is such a veteran, a veteran who is full of courage and has not yet withdrawn from the front line of the Ming Army.

Captain Aritomo Yamagu, who rode his horse alongside him, was in no mood to wave at the Chinese on either side of the road, even though there were sometimes a few Japanese in the middle of the road. Shan Shan was always frowning and thinking about his own thoughts. His company had just come from the west, and in the past few months, the Second Army of the Ming Expeditionary Force, which he was part of, had conquered almost ten Japanese-sized lands! But Japan doesn't have a share of this land! No, I can't say that there is no at all, I heard that Japan has also received a quota of 2 million immigrants. With 2 million Japanese and 30 million Chinese, living together and using Chinese as their official language, it is really not necessary to think about what will happen in the future.

And the news from the Japanese mainland and the new Japan also made Yamayama very worried. All modern schools in Japan are now using Chinese textbooks! Uh, what else can you use? Is it difficult to use a pseudonym? However, the new schools in Japan now use the textbooks formulated by the Ministry of Education of the Ming Dynasty, and simply use the Latin alphabet as pinyin, and teach students the Nanjing official dialect, which is the most standard pronunciation. There is a tendency to use Nanjing Mandarin as the official language and Japanese as a dialect. If this goes on like this, Japan will lose its language and culture!

What is even more worrying is that more and more Japanese landlords, under the influence of the Ming Dynasty's agricultural policy, have taken back their land from the peasants and switched to hiring farmers to grow sugar beets and give up the rice to feed the 25,600 million Japanese! Of those Japanese peasants who lost their land, only a few went to work in Japan's big cities, and most of them chose to leave...... Either to the Americas, or to the South Seas, and some simply went to the Ming Dynasty. Except for a small number of people who went to New Japan, the rest will probably soon integrate into the Chinese community.

yes, what's so good about being a farmer in Japan? If you can't be an official, you can't be a soldier, and you have to pay heavy taxes to support the samurai lord who is high up, how can you compare with the Chinese who are equal to the officials and the people? Now the Ming Dynasty itself and the territories of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the Kingdom of California, are all open to the Japanese!

What makes Shan County Youpeng feel a little desperate is that most of the Japanese samurai who served in the Second Army of the Ming Expeditionary Force were discussing the "Ming Army and Navy Japanese Volunteer Art of War" during this time, and they cheered that they could obtain Ming nationality and obtain the same (of course, it cannot be completely equal) promotion opportunities with Ming officers and soldiers. As for the samurai who did not want to serve in the Ming army for the rest of their lives, most of the topics they were most interested in were concentrated in New Japan...... It is said that there are already 350,000 Japanese immigrants, hundreds of thousands of grass and mud horses, and millions of sheep. Recently, there was good news that British geologists employed by the New Japanese Consulate had discovered gold and high-grade iron ore on the New Japan Island (Tierra del Fuego) in New Japan! Now quite a few people are ready to go there to make a fortune after the war! I really don't know, there are still a few people who care about their home country, Japan......

"Shanxi, look there, across the Mississippi River, those are blacks, right?"

Mao Zumin's Hunan accent interrupted Youpeng's thoughts, and he raised his binoculars to look across the Mississippi River, and sure enough, a black army was marching in on foot.

"That's a lot, it seems like fifteen thousand...... I guess it was to be assigned to the 27 black battalions of our Second Army. ”

Devil's Mountain County's mouth is a standard Nanjing official dialect. According to the order from above, the Second Army of the Ming Expeditionary Force was to join forces with 27 black battalions in Memphis, Tennessee—all of these 27 black battalions would be assigned to the Second Army, and each Ming infantry battalion would be assigned to a black battalion. After the meeting, the entire army of the Second Army will take a train from Memphis to the Eastern Front to squat in the trenches.

It's already approaching winter, and the sports battles in the central theater will soon be difficult to carry out due to the drastic cooling of the weather. So the center of gravity of the battle will once again shift to the east - the Shenandoah River will freeze in winter, and parts of the Potomac River will freeze, which will greatly facilitate the Union offensive. According to intelligence, the Union Army has gathered heavy forces in Maryland and West Virginia, and will launch a winter offensive between December 1862 and February 1863 to recapture the original capital of Washington, D.C., and break through the defenders of the Union Army, and burn the war to the Union capital Richmond in one fell swoop! (To be continued.) )