The Great War in North America is nearing its end, and although the war did not last very long, the scale of the war, the number of casualties, the blow to the North American economy, and even the impact on the direction of later history can be said to be unexpected. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

And the outcome of the war was obviously not very satisfactory to all the belligerents. In fact, neither Donghua nor the United States has the strength to destroy each other. Donghua is just a country of 18oo people, and the scale of mobilization in this war has exceeded 250,000 people! The casualty figure is also more than 1oo thousand! Although a large area of land on both sides of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes region has been laid, what was once the breadbasket and industrial town of North America is now in ruins!

Moreover, the war also brought an extremely heavy burden to Donghua's economy. According to the will issued by Zhu Jishi before the war, including the Ming Dynasty participating in the war, more than 2 million people wearing military uniforms on the North American battlefield (the total mobilization number exceeded 380,000, but the army that existed at the same time was only 280,000 at most) The military rations of the army were all borne by Donghua, and the salaries, weapons, ammunition, military uniforms and many other expenses of the Donghua Army, the Japanese Army and the Korean Army participating in the war were also borne by the Donghua Kingdom alone.

In addition, all officers and soldiers below the rank of major of the Ming, Japanese, and Korean armies who participated in the war in North America immigrated to Donghua after the war in principle to enrich the population of Donghua. Officers of major and above may choose to stay. Donghua was also responsible for raising the expenses for the retirement and resettlement of all the officers and men of the Ming army, the Japanese army, and the Korean army who remained in Donghua. If they are wounded in the war. Donghua also has to bear the cost of bereavement benefits and medical treatment.

After a year and a half of the Great War, the finances of the Donghua Kingdom, which was originally considered a rich country in the world, have gone bankrupt in fact! The savings of the previous ten years have been exhausted, and there are hundreds of millions of silver pesos and hundreds of millions of Chinese dollars in debt, which is still not counting the expenses of post-war resettlement, reconstruction, bereavement pensions, and so on. It's all in one place. That's an astronomical amount!

And the Donghua cabinet's request for economic assistance to the Ming court was rejected by Zhu Guoxiong!

"A fiascopic victory, I didn't expect it to be a fiasco! The vitality of our Donghua is afraid that it will not be restored in 20 years! Speaking of which, I really envy Zhu Heng, who is the king of Beihua without doing anything, and still has more than a billion Chinese yuan in his pocket. In the future, I will probably be able to get the greatest support from Daming to contain me, right? ”

Of course, it was Donghua King Zhu Juan who made this complaint, and it was Donghua Prime Minister Rong Hong, who came to St. Louis to discuss financial issues with Zhu Juan. There is also Han Si, chief of staff of the North American Army.

Of course, Han Si knew that Juan was going to tell Zhu Jishi about his dissatisfaction through himself, and to put it mildly...... Zhu Jishi did squeeze Donghua a little hard this time. This country of 18oo people bears almost half of the obligation of the Greater China side to send troops, and the casualties are more than 6o% of the total casualties of the Greater China side in the war. Win though. But the vitality has been greatly damaged!

Moreover, the current victory is only temporary. As long as Donghua is unable to annex the whole of the United States, as long as there are still more than 3ooo white people on the original American and Canadian lands, the next war is only a matter of time! To make matters worse, the revolution now taking place in the United States may well have created a red republic in North America...... Juan, who has been in Europe for many years, certainly knows what the ghost of GCISM is!

This ghost has now come to the Americas, and has become a neighbor with Donghua!

Han Si just laughed, "Great King." After all, North America is the chosen country, and now Donghua occupies the best territory in North America, which is really the foundation of the king! This time we won big. The price paid was worth it. ”

"The Chosen One? The foundation of the king's tyrant? Juan smiled wryly and shook his head, "Who came up with it?" He looked at Han Si, "Otherwise, I will quit the king of Donghua and go to Mexico, let my second brother come to this mess of Donghua!" ”

Rong Hong was looking at the latest loss report, and when he heard Juan's words, he hurriedly raised his head and said, "Great King." You can't abandon Donghua's 18oo people and more than 20,000 soldiers! ”

Jujuan shook his head, "How do you say that?" If Daming takes over. Donghua should be easier to develop, right? ”

"It may be easier to develop, but in the future it will not be able to beat the red America of the whites!" Rong Hong said, "If we Donghua weren't a country, we would have been defeated this time!" ”

Han Si looked at the Donghua Prime Minister with some surprise. Could it be that without Donghua, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to defeat the United States?

"If Donghua is not a country, it is just a few provinces of the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to implement laws and policies in Donghua that are different from those of other provinces for a long time, and it is impossible for the people of Donghua provinces to overburden military service for a long time. It is also impossible to recruit locals to become local soldiers in Donghua, it is impossible for every male young man in Donghua to have the experience of serving as soldiers, and it is still less possible to set up another officer training system in Donghua...... In this way, how many troops could the Ming court maintain in Donghua before the war? How much combat power can be mobilized in the early stages of the war? ”

Before the outbreak of the war, the Ming Empire had a population of 600 million, with an army of just over 10,000 and a navy of less than 20,000. The so-called 7ooo 10,000 bayonets are nothing more than a scare. The standing army accounts for only two thousandths of the total population. If Donghua was the Ming Dynasty at that time, then it would have to bear the military service according to this proportion -- of course, it is impossible for a country to use all the people of the same place as soldiers, otherwise it will be easy to form a faction in the army -- it is almost more than 30,000 people, and such a force cannot withstand a blow from the United States at all! In this way, the Ming Dynasty had to maintain a garrison of hundreds of thousands of people in Donghua for many years, not to mention the huge military expenditure, that is, the rotation of soldiers and officers, and at least 200,000 people had to be transported into and out of North America every year. I am afraid that the freight alone will cost twenty or thirty million a year, not to mention the cost of raising hundreds of thousands of soldiers themselves.

Moreover, since the Donghua garrison is not a native of Donghua, there will be a shortage of enough reservists who have participated in the regular army and served on the battlefield, and it is naturally impossible to reserve tens of thousands of reserve officers in the Donghua provinces. Donghua's universities all have officer courses, and military academies also have civilian professional courses, which actually train dual-use talents, so they have a large number of reserve officers.

If Donghua becomes a few provinces of the Ming Dynasty, of course, it will be impossible to implement this system -- the central government of any country will probably not allow a few provinces that are more than 10,000 kilometers away from the capital to have an independent officer training system, right? Isn't this tantamount to cultivating independent forces?

And without a sufficient reserve of reservists and officers, even if the Donghua provinces implement general mobilization, they will not be able to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time, just like the Confederate States of America. As a result, the American Empire, with its large number of reservists and officers, would have an overwhelming military superiority in the early months of the war...... In this battle of North America, the Chinese side won a crushing victory when the strength and opponents were evenly matched, and if the Americans were given an overwhelming advantage, the result would naturally be self-evident.

Han Si, who had personally experienced the battle in North America, was deeply touched, "Chunfu is right, Donghua is too far away from the mainland, and if it is changed to a province, it is indeed better to fight than to establish a country on its own." ”

It is even more impossible for a soldier who has saved half of his army to bear almost half of the military expenses! If you really want to do that, the East Chinese will definitely be independent after the war! Rong Hong thought to himself.

However, when Donghua was already an independent country, the elites of Donghua could only desperately squeeze out the country's war potential for their own interests. Moreover, they had to beg for alms from the mother country of the Ming Dynasty for the cost of post-war reconstruction and the digestion of huge military expenditures -- in contrast, if Donghua was the province of the Ming Dynasty, it would be able to ask the central government for money and goods now, and the Yingtian Imperial Court could only respond to requests in order to appease Donghua so that they would not have independent thoughts, and it was impossible to deal with Donghua Province as it is now.

"But this King of Donghua, I still have to resign! I, the king of Donghua, have done my best in this battle, and it's time for my second brother to figure out how to do it in the next battle. Jujuan was silent for a long time, then waved his hand and said, "Rongxiang, can you help me write a resignation form for someone to take back to my second brother." This Donghua Wang...... I really don't want to do it anymore! ”

Rong Hong and Han Si glanced at each other when they heard this, and Han Si said, "Your Majesty, do you really want to resign from the throne?" ”

"Is it hard or fake?" Zhu Juan raised his head and stared at Han Si tightly, "Han Shuai, when I resign from the throne, the North American battlefield will be entrusted to you." ”

Han Si hurriedly waved his hand, "King, you are harming me!" I can't do it...... Recently, my body is not good, I am old, it seems that I will not live long, you should spare me. ”

"Han Shuai, what are you talking about?" Zhu Juan smiled bitterly and shook his head, of course Han Si didn't dare to take Juan's plate, when the hero was at his point, he should think about pretending to be stupid, how could he still take over the command of more than two million troops. "Well, if you don't do it, someone will come. In short, I really don't want to be the king of Donghua anymore, and I can't be anymore, let the Ming court take over. This is good for the people of Donghua, for more than 2 million soldiers, and for the future development of Donghua. Moreover, having won this battle, I have fulfilled my responsibility to the people of Donghua, and now I am just right to retire. ”

Han Si's face was even more ugly, and he couldn't figure out whether Zhu Juan was true or fake. However, they all knew very well that no matter what Juan meant, they all gave the Ming court a king-size problem, and packed a king-size mess and threw it to the Ming Emperor Zhu Guoxiong. And as long as this Xuanwu Emperor is a little careless, the situation in Donghua is likely to become difficult to manage...... (To be continued)