Chapter 387: The Central Railway Runs Through! Bent! The South is also coming!
In fact, in the past two years, Li Mengyang has really done the old nose thing, he is not just engaged in highways.
Just a few months ago, the Central Railroad through the American continent was also opened!
That's right, it's this big railroad that was built before the war, and the whole project can be said to take a short time, but it can actually be faster.
Why?
The reason why it can be said to be faster is because the current time is a little longer, but this is not a matter of the speed of construction, but this big railway, she turned a corner!
Before it was Leland. Didn't Stanford negotiate with Sword, and the United States agreed, so let's build it, but I didn't expect it...... This battle is going on so fast!
Yes, just because this battle was fought too fast, Li Mengyang originally wanted to build such a railway, this is to make it more convenient for him to plan for the east later, and our empire can deliver supplies faster.
Li Mengyang's initial plan was divided into two parts, to solve the siege of Atlanta realistically, and then slowly clean up the east, he really didn't expect to take the east down so soon.
So, when the government of the United States went to Illinois, then the situation became that we did not recognize what was signed before!
That's right, that's Lincoln, a traitor, and a very henchman who signed it with your empire, and this is definitely another crime of theirs.
Let's put it this way, Leland. After Stanford went to Illinois, he almost ended up in jail, if it weren't for the fact that this guy had a lot of money, and his father was also a well-known rich man before, and he used to be good with the Democratic Party. Maybe Stanford really won't come back.
OK. Stanford, this guy won't die. But his investment ......
It's about to finish the calf!
If this railway can't be repaired, what will happen to the money you borrowed?
That's right, Stanford's magnificent central railway, but a round of capital financing, there are a lot of people involved behind this thing, you can't help but succeed, otherwise everyone will have to find a mountain to jump down!
"It's okay, I can lend you some more money." Just when Stanford was at a loss. His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire, with an approachable smile, said the above to Stanford.
These words are really wonderful!
If the railway cannot be built according to the previous plan, that is, it will be a large straight line from the west to the east, then it will require increased investment.
Because if you want to build this railway, you must have to make a turn, in fact, this turn is very easy to say, everyone can think of it, but such a turn. That's really going to cost a lot of money, this money...... You see. His Majesty the Emperor is so generous and merciful......
Is that really the case?
To be honest, Stanford looked at Li Mengyang's smile at that time, and he always had a feeling of chill in his back.
However, you have to continue to repair when you are cold!
If you don't repair it, you will die, and it is better to turn a corner than to fail to complete the project, so the railway was tossed to this time.
In fact, after the railroad was built in Utah and Colorado, the place after that was simpler, and these two plateau areas, surrounded by mountains, could pass quickly, relying on all explosives, smokeless gunpowder from the Empire, plus the advent of acetone, the whole cost was much lower.
Therefore, it is really not easy for this project to be completed!
And now, this central railroad, it is difficult to call it the central railway, because this railway, from Colorado to the south, through Texas, and then to the Mississippi River, that is, Vicksburg, where a major war was fought before, and this place, a bridge has to be built.
On the whole, the railroad is like a fence that encloses the United States!
From that point of view, Li Mengyang also has a purpose to help.
Anyway, this railway has been built and opened to traffic, so how much does this train ticket cost? How much does it cost to get from the west to the east?
$500 a ticket!
Don't negotiate yet!
Is it expensive? That's expensive, of course!
Black or not? This...... It's really hard to say, because this project is really not easy, there are a lot of twists and turns, a lot of changes, and it seems reasonable to charge a little more money.
Don't say it, it's such a high price, and there are really a lot of people buying it.
It's definitely not as cheap as going to the sea, but it's faster than the sea, and ah, the scenery along the way is still good.
But overall, the price is still high!
Although the price is high, it is estimated that the number of people who buy tickets will not be able to get up slowly, but as soon as this railway is opened, the last hope of breaking through the United States is gone, and they are really surrounded to death now.
However, as far as Li Mengyang heard the news from the United States, these people are still stubbornly resisting, although after so many years, the economic situation of the states that the United States now owns is really, really bad.
Generally speaking, if it's really hard work, everyone is tightening their belts, according to the natural talent of the land of America, and the degree of industrial development in the Great Lakes region, where the United States is located, don't forget that the famous Springfield Arsenal, also known as 'Springfield', is in Illinois, and Lincoln is a local.
They can make the United States survive through their own efforts, although the foreign trade will be pitiful, but there is food, there is food, there is use, and there is industry, which can still be supported, but well, the latest news is that the United States is now soaring, and there is turmoil everywhere!
Why?
On the one hand, many people in the United States are moving westward, and they have heard that there seems to be a gold mine in Montana, and there is a lot of gold!
This thing...... Anyway, there was Crazy Horse and his people waiting for them on the road.
On the other hand, the currency before the United States was still the same green paper as before, that is, it was printed with Salmon. Chase's oh, then these green papers in Andrew. When Johnson and McClellan arrived in Illinois, they both found a lot more.
Yes, the money supply has increased dramatically!
How did it come about?
Seems to be coming from the east!
So...... Needless to say. This source is naturally the ghost of Li Mengyang. Didn't he exchange the American dollar for the dollar? So what do we do with these useless, butt-wiping dollars?
Of course, it's time to get them back where they should be, and the United States is using them, so go there!
If the United States were not stupid, they immediately thought of a way to deal with it, and that was to hurry up and issue a new Treasury bond, a kind of banknote with the image of Washington's head!
This trick would have been good. That's fine, but there's one place that the United States can't get around, and that's what about the previous national debt?
That's right, paper money is a national debt, so you United States don't recognize the previous paper money, isn't this just telling your own people, we don't recognize the previous accounts!
So, no choice but to start exchanging new banknotes for old ones...... In fact, there is another way here, which is to reduce the over-issuance of banknotes through the consideration adjustment of the two banknotes. For example, it is possible to stipulate that 10 old banknotes will be exchanged for 1 new banknote.
However, it can't be done!
Your government in the United States is still going to pay its debts, isn't it?
Do you still want to get mixed up?
Believe it or not, Lao Tzu went to the Appalachian Mountains to join the Empire?
It's hard. It's really hard!
And Andrew. Johnson is a person who is very incompetent, he was invited by Lincoln before, just to deal with the election, just to appease the Democrats, so he really can't handle this matter.
All of the above is what is happening in the United States now, and it can be said that it is really in the process of collapse.
On the Empire's side, it's a completely different story.
"Our Southern Confederacy, that is, the Confederate States of America, will be incorporated into the New Tang Empire of the United States from today, and the south will achieve autonomous ......"
On March 1, 1871, President Davis of the South sent a telegram that the South had accepted the terms of the Empire and that everyone was at peace!
"On behalf of the empire only, I welcome the people of the South! ...... "Li Mengyang, the emperor, is naturally happy, his territory has expanded again, and he really took the south peacefully, which is definitely the best explanation for Eleanor."
However, the process is still very tortuous.
Before, there wasn't that Nathan. Forrestal, instigated George. Li Lai assassinated Li Mengyang.
This thing did not succeed, but because it did not succeed, the South immediately fell into a small civil war!
To put it simply, it's Nathan. Forrestal, he immediately pulled up a group of people and formed a ...... This time it's more 'Ku Klux Klux Klan', and this time the name is quite lofty, it's called the Free South!
It's a good name, before the independence of the South was not because it wanted to be free, but actually wanted to maintain slavery, so now we also call it freedom, and the subtext is that we want to maintain slavery.
In fact, Forrest had been planning for a long time, so he knew that George. That guy Li was instigated and didn't succeed in the assassination, so he Forrest attacked first!
It's as if at the beginning of the American Civil War, the South was able to have the upper hand and strike first.
But though, Robert. Li Ke is not an ordinary person, he suppressed the fact that his son was going to assassinate his future son-in-law at that time, but his military actions did not stop!
So, this little civil war began, but because the South had been fighting for so many years, it was really tired of being beaten, and almost no one supported the 'Free South', so Forrestal's team, slowly, became a guerrilla......
This can't be helped, in fact, slavery itself is already not good, and it is not in line with the development of this era.
So, now that the South has returned, what can Eleanor do?
Li Mengyang, this guy won't have told his three wives yet, right?! (To be continued......)
PS: What, I just knew, Odangdang almost ate too much because of what he ate with the stumbling girl...... Okay, what the hell is the black car talking about, let's sum it up ourselves, hey~ Don't say much, ask for support! Thanks a lot!