Chapter 49: Expanding Oregon

Historically, in March 1845, the 11th President of the United States, James Polk, in his inaugural address, stated that the United States' territorial claims to Oregon were "clear and unequivocal." ”

But in 1836, James Polk was still a member of the House of Representatives, although he now often proposes the annexation of Texas in Congress, or the United States and Great Britain to negotiate and negotiate the Oregon Territory. But alas, all this will not be possible until he becomes president.

Between 1824 and 1846, the Oregon region was ruled by John McLoughlin, owner of the Great Britain' Shudson's Bay Co.

In 1834, American missionary Jason Lee established the first permanent colony in the Willamette Valley.

The Oregon Territory is located north of 42 degrees north latitude, south of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, west of the Rocky Mountains, and east of the Pacific Ocean, including the southern part of present-day British Columbia, Canada, and all of the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.

Oregon is important because it is sandwiched between the two North American colonies of the Chinese Empire. To the north of him is the Empire's Guangyang region, and to the south is the California region, which the Empire bought from Mexico.

The president of the United States at this time was Andrew Jackson. Jackson first ran for the presidency in 1824. In the 1824 U.S. presidential election, he received the highest number of votes in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, but because no one received a majority of the votes, the House of Representatives elected the president-elect, and the House of Representatives elected Adams as president. Jackson denounced the "corruptbargain" as Henry Clay supported Adams, who nominated Henry Clay as secretary of state, and Jackson later called for the removal of the Electoral College. Jackson's defeat has brightened his political image because many voters believe that "the people who have been entrusted by the will" have been deprived of their rights by the "corrupt aristocracy of the East."

During his presidency, Jackson withdrew the federal charter of the Second Bank of the United States of America, a bank that contributes to the growth of the U.S. economy by organizing the federal government's finances, but Jackson objected to this notion because of his ideology.

Another notable crisis during Jackson's tenure was the "Crisis of Federal Statutes," or "secession," from 1828 to 1832, a regional conflict over trade tariffs in which critics claimed that high tariffs on general imports from Europe ("disgusting tariffs") made prices higher than those of domestic products from the North and forced large South farmers to buy at high prices. Politicians in the South have therefore concluded that high tariffs have sacrificed agriculture in the South in order to subsidize industry in the North.

In short, Andrew Jackson was the most controversial during his tenure.

Neither Britain nor the United States wanted to play out version 2.0 of the Anglo-American War of 1812 again because of Oregon, and the British were ready to lose the area as the profitability of the Oregon Hudson's Bay Company's trading point was gradually squeezed and thousands of American colonists entered the region. Under the auspices of Peel's cabinet, Britain was in the midst of intense reforms of economic and commercial policy, and they were not interested in a distracting war.

Before that, however, tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants had moved into the Columbia region, and they had established more established immigrant cities in Alaska, Yukon, and the Queen Charlotte Islands. At the Imperial New Year reception in 1835, the Empire officially declared Alaska, Columbia, and California to European countries and the United States as permanent colonies of the Chinese Empire, and the Empire would defend its rights at all costs.

Although the U.S. ambassador to China sent the news back home, it did not concern Andrew Jackson.

As usual, American immigrants in Okanogan leisurely roam their empty territories, packing up the land and tidying up tiny villages.

"David, I say, you see when we will be able to go all the way to the great forest to the north, I heard that the log harvesting business has been very profitable lately." A white man with a beard and a scumbag face hugged a huge wine barrel.

"Sam, aren't you in the tavern business? Why do you still want to go north? That's the place of the British. "David was an ordinary carpenter, and he was very honest.

"You know, man, I've heard that there are Chinese everywhere now." Sam, the tavernkeeper, put down the barrel and whispered to David.

David nodded and said, "Is it a powerful country on the other side of the sea?" So what, our president sent an envoy to sign a trade agreement with them, and if we go to see it in a few days, I heard that the wood in the north seems to be better, and if we can go to the north to cut wood, maybe we can make a profit. ”

Sam laughed. After a while, he remembered something, and said, "Strange, although the fur business in this neighborhood is sluggish, the British usually come to us to buy some supplies and wine, but recently they have not come, and my business has also deteriorated, I don't know where they have died." ”

David didn't like to talk to him about these topics, and casually said, "Maybe you found gold somewhere." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a broom standing on the wall of the door of Sam's Tavern suddenly slipped and fell.

Sam and David, suddenly felt as if the earth was shaking, and the flower pots, windows, and tables, nothing was shaking anymore.

Sam fell to the ground in a panic and said in horror, "What's wrong?" Was there an earthquake? ”

But David exclaimed, pointing into the distance, "It's not an earthquake, what is it?" ”

Following the direction he pointed, Sam looked into the distance and saw a yellow sandstorm coming towards them. However, this was not just a sandstorm, in the dust, hundreds of yellow people rode on tall horses, screaming in tones they did not understand, and slaughtered them.

"Oops! It's the Indians! "Sam is not young, of course he has heard of all kinds of vendettas between the whites and the Indians around the land, the whites have robbed the Indians of the land, and the Indians have turned against the whites, and the two sides have come and gone, and they have not stopped from the day the colonization began.

In an instant, the cavalry dressed in colorful linen Indian costumes had rushed into the small village, and the men of the village took out their guns to resist, but before they could raise their guns, they had been put down by the gunners on the opposite horse, and the Indians, who were screaming loudly, with sharp sabers in their hands, cut down those who were still resisting, and within a few minutes, the uneven battle was over.

"Captain, we've taken Okanogan!" Charlotte the Haida jumped off her horse excitedly and said to a yellow man behind her, who was also dressed in Indian attire.

Li Qun smiled and said, "Okay, let's go to the next one." ”

These more than 1,000 yellow people dressed in Indian clothing are not all Indians, they are made up of Chinese immigrants and Indians of various local tribes, these Indians come from different tribes, there are Haida, Aleutians, Iroquois, etc. and even the black troops recruited by Lin Hong and Zheng Qi in East Africa, but they all joined the camp of the Chinese.

Since the Chinese accepted the Indians into the cities established by the Chinese, Li Qun, a systematic soldier, was assigned to establish the commander of the Indian Chasseur Regiment. Compared with the systematic soldiers with strong discipline and execution, there are even large and small contradictions between the various tribes of the Indians, and there is a lack of discipline, and many people do not understand the language and cannot communicate.

Since Li Qun led this contingent, he took advantage of the system of rewards and punishments that was very attractive to the Indians, and in a short period of time, he initially established the combat structure of this contingent, so that the Indian Cavalry Brigade had a certain combat effectiveness.

In addition to the exemplary role played by one percent of the systematic soldiers, Li Qun stipulated that all soldiers who train the hardest every day and achieve the most remarkable results can get more and better food. In each training session, the best performing soldier will be awarded the title of "Warrior".

Although most of the Indians in his ranks were still accustomed to using spears and bows and arrows, and were still not proficient in firearms, these scattered tribal warriors gradually learned how to restrain their behavior and carry out collective activities.

Following the plans of the General Staff Headquarters and the Emperor, the North American Governor, Pang Lang, officially ordered a massive invasion of the southern Oregon region to seize the lands that were not controlled. For the small villages and colonies scattered in this area, the mobile and flexible Indian Chasseur regiments were dispatched to attack and quickly control the local American immigrants, and for the small forts established by the Americans, the North American colonial divisions sent infantry regiments with sufficient heavy artillery to knock them out one by one.