A few would-be Americans did not spend long in Los Angeles, they recorded their sights and feelings as much as they could, and then, with the help of the Dons, they counted the arms and loaded them onto the Fubon freighter. The ship www.biquge.info crossed the Pacific Ocean to Guangzhou, and now it will bypass the South American continent and sail to New England under the escort of the Li Wenzhong (Qi Jiguang-class six-fan ship and the last ship).

At first, Dearborn didn't quite understand why such a large ship was needed to transport just a batch of munitions, but later they found out that the Tang people were also loading a lot of goods on the ship, which was to do business while planning to transport arms. Jensen and the others could only accept this, and when they arrived in New England, they even had to actively help the Tang people sell their goods. After all, the Tang people have given the Continental Army great help, and they need to reciprocate.

Jensen thought that the Tang Dynasty and New England, which separate the two ends of the continent, actually have a lot of trade difficulties, and the route needs to cross the northern and southern hemispheres, with a total voyage of more than 10,000 kilometers, which is comparable to the trans-Pacific route, and the north-south moving wind belt and cold snap change greatly, so on the whole, it is not as smooth as the Pacific route. Jensen thought that if he wanted to do business with Datang, he would first go to Mexico, hire camel caravans by land to deliver the goods to Vallarta, and then send them to Datang by boat, and the same would be true for the return trip. Although this is a lot of trouble, and it may even be exploited by the customs of the New Spanish colony one more time, but in terms of time and cost, it should be more advantageous to go around the Americas.

Especially for businessmen with less capital and small batch volume. It is more suitable for such a sea-to-land-to-sea trade model. It may be more cost-effective for Datang to use large-tonnage cargo ships to import and export goods in large quantities. But in general. No one wants to choose a long-distance, complicated route around the Americas.

What Jensen doesn't know is that now the Datang Republic thinks that the time is not ripe, and if the demand is really strong one day, then Datang is likely to choose to dig the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is difficult to excavate and is located in a rainforest area where tropical diseases are rife. In fact, in the 14th century, it was envisioned to open the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but it was not until 1914 that the canal was successfully navigable, and the French, who had previously dug the Suez Canal, fell in front of the Panama Canal.

The canal is carried through in sections. There are a total of six locks, although this is not particularly difficult for the Tang Republic to achieve, but the difficulty is self-evident. The Ministry of Industry has conducted a brief assessment of the project, which is considered to be only preliminary work such as engineering surveying and design. It will take two to three years. With 10,000 workers, it will take another three to five years for navigation to be opened. Historically, it took the Americans 10 years to complete this project in the early 20th century.

Of course, now that Panama is still part of the colony of New Spain, there is also a certain degree of political difficulty, and it needs to be improved at the right time.

The Datang Ministry of National Defense also sent a military advisory group composed of 10 members, including officers of the former Guofu Army and non-commissioned officers of special forces like Guo Xin, and Datang would not be willing to train the Continental Army according to the standards of the Tang Army. But I hope to consume a little more of the British's strength. Moreover, the military advisory group is also a good way to exert influence on the future US military and strengthen the friendship between the two countries.

In fact, aid to the Thirteen Colonies. Although the confrontation against Britain was finally passed, and even a batch of equipment was generously donated to the Continental Army, in fact, there was a lot of criticism in the National Council and the people about aiding the United States. In particular, many people in the modern world have resented the hegemony of US imperialism, suffered a lot of losses from the Americans, and even after the rise of the motherland, they have engaged in suppression and rebalancing everywhere, stirring up trouble in China's neighborhood, and even cultivating some internal separatist forces.

Even from a practical point of view, although North America is vast, it is still difficult to accommodate two great powers. The Tang Dynasty is expanding eastward, the United States is expanding westward (Spain will sooner or later be driven out of the North American continent, Mexico is a negligible type), and the two sides will inevitably meet at some point inland, and then create a national border thousands of kilometers long.

Some people believe that it is an extremely unfavorable thing for Datang to support the United States, make the United States quickly independent, and develop its own industrial system. Moreover, the transatlantic route is more convenient than the trans-Pacific route, and Europe has a better tradition of immigration, and the United States may develop more rapidly than Datang, and then Datang will stupidly raise a huge enemy for itself and cause huge trouble.

But in reality, the considerations of the cabinet members and Paik Nam are much more far-reaching and complex. There are no less than two powerful countries in the United States, and this view is basically valid, so who says that the United States will definitely follow the trajectory of future generations and develop step by step into a superpower, and even a future world hegemon? One of the natural advantages of the United States is that there is no direct enemy on the North American continent, the geopolitical environment is superior, and there is no direct threat.

And now? Datang is close by, and with a strong enterprising spirit and desire to pioneer, this threat is probably greater than that of many European countries. Talking about the value of the United States' military force, the population of the Thirteen Colonies is now more than 2 million, and there will be a rapid growth after independence, and in less than 30 years in 1808, it has doubled to 5.3 million, and by the middle of the 19th century, the population of the United States has increased to 31.44 million, of which immigrants contribute 21%. Such a population base can reasonably bring the United States a good army, but in fact, the US Army was the object of ridicule of the world's traditional military powers until World War II. In the Civil War, the two sides fought each other, but in the eyes of many military experts, they were just second-rate generals commanding third-rate soldiers, fighting a ninth-rate war.

In 1848, the United States launched the Mexican-American War to seize the huge western United States, but the target of bullying was weak Mexico, which has a tradition of weak chickens, so in later generations, there are often strange things such as drug lords sending troops to encircle and suppress government forces.

Datang is not a weak chicken, but a tiger. For more than 100 years after the founding of the United States, there were not many standing armies, and the colonization of the West was mainly done by immigrants with guns. At that time, they were facing a wild land and Indians, so naturally there was no problem in advancing westward, but if the Americans who were going to the west with their families and their families suddenly saw the Tang army pointing guns at them halfway through, and told them to go back, as long as the brain circuit was normal, they would not continue westward.

Therefore, Bai Nan and others felt that the Americans were not terrible at all, but what was terrible was the Tang Dynasty, and it was absolutely undesirable to take the awe of the American imperialists of later generations, and even to give the future life of a super-hegemonic country to the current New England.

Some people may think that even if the United States is not terrible now, it will be a great threat to the development of the United States in the future. It's just that, from the perspective of development, the United States is developing, and Datang is also developing. As long as the Cuckoo Project helps the Tang Dynasty smash the shackles imposed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty so that a large number of Chinese immigrants can reach the Tang Dynasty itself, then the amount of immigrants provided by a source of 300 million people, coupled with the same culture, race, and ethnicity, will be more impressive than that of European immigrants to the United States, who have complex internal ethnic groups, diverse beliefs, and deep contradictions.

In addition, Datang has a technological level beyond the times and a stronger military force, if you are still worried about the threat posed by the United States to Datang, then it can be said that it is in vain to cross the public. As for the establishment of an industrial country by the United States, Canada is also an industrial power, and it has not been suppressed by the Americans. Datang's goal is to limit the development of the United States and make the relationship between Tang and the United States similar to that of the United States and Canada.

This time to support the Americans, and to gain the goodwill of the Americans, Datang will quickly open up the Tang-US trade, although the route around the Americas is unbearable, but to complete the trade, there are still many ways. Relying on a large number of product dumping and even cultural exports, Datang can form an influence on the budding United States. The Tang people, who have seen more than 200 years of knowledge, do not need to make the United States like a colony, and the British have suffered this hardship, but the Tang Dynasty can be like the developed countries in the 20th century, through technological and product advantages, so that the Americans can consciously become a part of the interest chain, so that they can make complex low-end manufacturing and raw material production, and get a relatively reasonable interest range.

Of course, the northern factions in the United States will be more inclined to build strong industries on their own, but their technological disadvantages will be reflected in market sales, and cheap and high-quality Datang goods will defeat the northerners. At that time, the federal government was likely to raise tariffs or restrict the purchase of Datang goods, and it was natural for Bai Nan to come up with the next trick - to instigate the contradiction between the north and the south.

The American Southern camp was a traditional plantation power, growing cotton and various crops, and as long as the Tang Dynasty signed lucrative trade agreements with the plantation owners, the plantation owners would find that doing business with the Tang Dynasty was far better than doing business with the Yankees and the British. If the North makes a move in trade, then it must be the South that suffers, and the South camp will turn against it, because this has happened in history. It's just that the third party is not the Tang Dynasty, but the British.

With industrial superiority and an illusory declaration of emancipation of black slaves, the northern camp won the victory, but if the Tang Dynasty gave great support to the southern camp and even personally sent troops to fight, then the north would never win, then the consequences were very direct, that is, the division of the north and the south of the United States, which seemed to be more in line with the interests of the Tang Republic.

Therefore, the United States does not have to worry, and it will be a commodity that will be rounded and flattened by Datang in the future. In the future, Datang's territory will not be limited to North America and East Asia, and Britain is a maritime country poking everywhere, which is really annoying, consuming British strength, and then consuming the power of European powers, so that Datang can gain more space for global development, which is an important main line in the foreign affairs strategy of the Republic of Datang. (To be continued.) )