Just as Grant was redeploying the army, the direction of New Orleans Harbor, which he was concerned about, was drowning in artillery fire at this time, and it was the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force that had just arrived that caused this qiē!

Although this army is under the banner of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, it is not the unit that made a lot of trouble in Japan at the beginning, but the motorized unit that Li Yongji personally trained in the Red Fort in Hollywood, which is called the Dream Army, and because this army with a total of 30,000 people is a large division, this army is also called the Dream Division.

After the 926 incident, a regiment of motorized troops swept through San Francisco and Sacramento, during which Shi Dakai and others were greatly shocked, but this was only a small test, and the focus was to test the performance of this unit in actual combat.

After quickly taking San Francisco and Sacramento, controlling the entire California region, and discovering that the combat effectiveness of this fantasy army was indeed good, Li Yongji, who was known as Li Yuanzheng, immediately began the next plan.

At that time, although the Chinese Empire had officially declared war on the United States of America, and the entire California region was quickly taken by the Chinese, the two sides seemed to have completely torn their faces and there was no room for manoeuvre, but in reality it was not the case.

The biggest reason is that Lincoln did not declare war on China and still hopes to solve the problem in a peaceful way, because he does not want to completely tear his face with China at this critical moment.

In 1862, although the Pacific Railroad across the east and west of the United States had not yet been built, there was a telegraph line from San Francisco to Washington, for the simple reason that it was much easier to build a telegraph than a railroad, and this telegraph line, which was completed in mid-1861, was originally prepared for the construction of the railroad.

It was precisely because of this telegraph line that Washington knew the events of 926 in time, and knew the fall of San Francisco and Sacramento in time.

Although Lincoln and the people in the U.S. Congress still had many doubts about the 926 incident, they were also very angry at the rash aggression of the Chinese. But at this point, Lincoln's most important thing was how to deal with it.

From the heart, Lincoln was very angry at the Chinese's declaration of war and unauthorized occupation of California, and hoped that he could fight back strongly, but as a politician, Lincoln knew that impulse and anger would not help in the current situation, especially when Britain also followed the declaration of war, and he had to calmly face this dangerous situation. Let China and Britain try not to interfere in the judgment of the United States in the war and affect the direction of this war.

That's right, in Lincoln's mind, the most important thing at this time was the counterinsurgency war, and only by winning the Southern Yankees and reuniting the United States would he have the strength to go back and clean up China and Britain.

Therefore, Lincoln never declared war on the United States and Britain, but sent a plenipotentiary envoy to China and Britain. The combination of soft and hard measures is to hope that China and Britain will return to peace, and even if it does not work, they must try to hold each other back. Let them not send troops to interfere, or even if they send troops to interfere, they should delay as much as possible.

Although at home, when facing the ordinary people of the United States and members of Congress. Lincoln raised his voice, and at every turn he talked about the declaration of war between China and Britain, arousing their enthusiasm to defend their homeland and country. But from the bottom of his heart, Lincoln was quite wary of the union of the two countries, especially England.

The reason is very simple, in Lincoln's view, the Chinese declared war on the United States, at most, to affect the trade of American merchants in China, and the other is to occupy the marginal state of California, which does not hurt the United States of America at all, and cannot pose much threat to the current counterinsurgency war of the United States, because it is too far away, and China does not seem to have a too strong expeditionary fleet, and the delivery capacity is insufficient, or even if there is, Lincoln does not think that the Chinese will stupidly send troops to the east to interfere in the counterinsurgency war of the United States.

On the contrary, the British are different, although the British army, although it is still very powerful, but Lincoln has not taken it seriously, after all, the number is too small. However, the British navy made Lincoln's eyelids jump and was the most fearful.

The reason why the British Empire now dares to say that the sun never sets and claims to be the first in the world, the most important place is that the British Empire has the world's first navy! The British fleet was rampant all over the world, and although it was not possible to say that it was invincible in the world, it was almost over.

The United States and the Southern rebels are currently at war, and with the current military posture, they are still in a stalemate of strategic stalemate, so if they want to take down the Southern rebels as soon as possible, they must block their sea lines of communication and prevent them from receiving material support from the outside.

You must know that the southern states originally did not have the strength to argue with the United States, after all, they wanted industry but not industry, and they wanted population but not population, and they could not make their own weapons at all, so most of their war materials were imported from outside, or supported by foreigners, and this foreigner was mainly British.

Before the war, the Chinese were fine, how to sell weapons was also sneaky, and it was considered to be treated equally, there was no special sale for the southern United States, and merchants in the northern United States could also import weapons at the same price, but the British were different, they were naked support for the southern independence movement.

Although the United States did not have a separate intelligence agency at this time, after the start of the war, Lincoln also attached great importance to intelligence gathering, and the person in charge of intelligence work was the guard battalion during Lincoln's presidency. Pinkerton!

Alan. Pinkerton is also a legend, as early as before the Civil War, he worked as a police officer for a long time, and then he resigned from public service and established the first private detective agency in the United States, Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and became a detective.

It was because of this move that Pinkerton was considered the first, if not the world's, private investigator in the United States and went down in history.

But in fact, Pinkerton's legend is not only the world's first private detective, he is also the originator of American intelligence agencies.

Speaking of which, Aaron. Pinkerton was originally out of tune with Lincoln, but in 1861, when Lincoln was sworn in as president, Allen Brown. Pinkerton served as the president's guard from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C.

Thanks to Aaron. Pinkerton's prominence, or rather his prominence, won Lincoln's attention, and when Lincoln officially became president, he transferred Pinkerton as his security adviser.

In fact, Pinkerton at that time was a detective on the surface. Secretly he is a gangster in Chicago, although he is not a Republican, but he is one of the funders of the Republican Party, and Lincoln was the absolute leader of the Republican Party at that time, so his relationship with Lincoln is also quite close, if you want to say, it is similar to the relationship between Jiang Gong and Du Yuesheng in later generations.

To put it bluntly, Pinkerton was Lincoln's bodyguard and thug, and during Lincoln's presidency, it was inconvenient for him to shoot openly. It was all through guò Pinkerton who sent people to settle the level. And Pinkerton's humility and prudence also won him trust in front of Lincoln.

After the outbreak of the Civil War, in view of the importance of intelligence work, Lincoln appointed Pinkerton to take full charge of the intelligence work of the United States and organize an independent spy agency.

After Pinkerton gained power, he set up spy agencies in the form of gangsters, and then set up branches or halls in various cities, which not only obtained a lot of information, but also made a fortune.

I have to say. Pinkerton's ability was quite strong, and at that time in Richmond, he knew whether President Davis had a mistress or not, and what personal hobbies he had. Many of the military movements of the Union Army are said to have the shadow of Pinkerton.

It can be said that if it were not for the fact that the transmission of intelligence in this era was still very backward, the army relied more on the ability of the local corps commander to fight the war. Instead of President Davis's orders, then judging by the intelligence war alone, the Union Army has also won.

It was the intelligence of Tong Guò Pinkerton. Lincoln realized that as early as the beginning of the Civil War, the British had secretly supported many powerful people in the southern states for free, a large number of ordnance and other military supplies, and even provided several ironclad ships.

It was precisely because of these military supplies that the Union Army had the confidence to call out to the United States, and of course, their army was also rigorously trained in advance, and there was also the shadow of the British in this.

Therefore, in Lincoln's eyes, the British were planning for southern independence and were one of the main culprits in dividing the United States of America, and as for the Chinese, in Lincoln's view, they were just fools who were used.

Lincoln did think so, because in his mind, there was no conflict between China and the United States, the previous Chinese emperor was also close to the Americans, and after the founding of the Chinese Empire, the relationship between China and the United States was even more prosperous, he really couldn't think of a reason for the Chinese to target the United States, and it was no good, after all, China was too far away from the United States, far farther than Britain and the United States.

Of course, Lincoln did not fail to think that China might have ambitions for the western territory of the United States, but in his opinion, this is somewhat unreliable, after all, those western regions, such as California and other places, are all deserted places that the United States has just taken from Mexico, so to speak, there is nothing but California gold, and it is very difficult to develop.

In this era, the value of oil has not yet been reflected, and the only value in California is the discovery of gold, but after all, it is wasteland, and it is not so simple to develop, especially since China is so far from this place, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Moreover, if the Chinese want land, there are a lot of places around him to grab, such as Japan, the Philippines, Southeast Asia, are good places, there is no shortage of gold and silver, and close to China, in terms of risk and income, it is much more cost-effective than going to San Francisco to dig those gold mines, how to think about it will not be willing to go far, and the United States is almost on the other side of the world.

Therefore, Lincoln thought about it and felt that the Chinese should have declared war this time by accident, or forced, for the sake of face, and did not really want to send troops to the United States, at most it was to fight a war of words, and after that, give an explanation, apologize and apologize.

Because of this, even if the Chinese have declared war on the United States, Lincoln has not declared war on China, and is still in a state of being declared war, and in public occasions, Lincoln has been saying good things about the Chinese, constantly condemning the California robbers who caused the 926 incident, and constantly releasing goodwill to the Chinese, obviously wanting to compromise with the Chinese.

In fact, not only Lincoln did this, but even other Americans, except for a few radicals, most of them were relatively kind to the Chinese, or did not want to get into trouble with the Chinese, after all, China's trade with the United States was beneficial to both sides.

Among them, the high-end luxury goods imported from China are secondary, and if they are gone, they will be gone, but those various special drugs that can only be imported from China, once Sino-US trade is completely banned, the biggest damage can only be the United States, and it cannot be China. Because many diseases can only be treated with Chinese medicines, once these drugs are gone, many fatal diseases cannot be treated, and in the face of life, everything else is fake.

In other words, to this day, only China has produced a special drug that can treat infections and other deadly diseases, and no other country has copied it. Even though all countries have made great efforts to research and imitate it, they have never understood the formula and principle inside.

Therefore, in the current situation, especially in the course of the war, once the supply of drugs from China is lost, especially those anti-inflammatory and anti-infective sulfonamides, as well as other drugs such as iodine, the death rate of the federal army will skyrocket.

No way, who made this era not the era of antibiotics all over the world. The mortality rate of infection is so alarming that many people may only get a small gunshot wound or abrasion, and once infected, they may have to take their lives.

Actually, before that. Various countries, including the United States of America, have used various methods to obtain this anti-infective drug from China, especially the drug called yellow powder (cotrimoxazole powder) and the drug formula called heroline. But the Chinese government has not yet agreed to sell the formulations for the two drugs.

Europe and the United States have also made great efforts to develop similar drugs before, but although there are a bunch of new drugs developed, no drug can compare with yellow powder in anti-infection. Not to mention the even more miraculous anti-inflammatory water (penicillin injection), and when it comes to analgesic and pain relief, there is no drug that can compare to Falline.

Nowadays, most of the dignitaries and nobles in Western countries such as Europe and the United States are inseparable from Hailuoyin, and those who are sick and infected are inseparable from yellow powder and anti-inflammatory water, which is already the most popular product in China's export goods and can be called China's hard currency.

The previous measures against China, including the dispatch of the Russian expeditionary fleet, were in fact essentially hoping to obtain these drug formulas, but unfortunately they ended in failure, and because of this, they realized the strength of the Chinese Empire, and they no longer dared to force this medicine by force and coercion.

Don't you see, since Russia and China became enemies, China immediately cut off the supply of special drugs to Russia, and made it clear that any drug manufacturers who directly or indirectly trade with Russia will no longer supply in the future, and as a result, Russia can only get a very small number of high-priced special drugs for a long time, which is very difficult for a long time.

It was not until the end of the Sino-Russian negotiations that Russia relented and gave away a large amount of land that the deal between the two countries for this special medicine was resumed, which made the Russians hate it to the root of their teeth, but it could only be in vain.

By the same token, the United States is now facing a grim situation, the counterinsurgency war is in full swing, and a large number of wounded are in need of anti-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory drugs every day.

Maybe it's just a few anti-inflammatory drugs, is it so exaggerated? Didn't you come here when you didn't have it before?

If anti-inflammatory drugs can't become popular drugs, and they are still as expensive as in the past, it will not be so exaggerated, but the problem is that with the increasing trade volume between China and other countries, with the emergence of anti-inflammatory water with better effects and higher prices, it can be called an anti-inflammatory holy product, and the price of yellow powder and dropain, which is more expensive than gold, has dropped sharply within a year, and has long fallen to the level that ordinary people can consume.

Taking yellow powder as an example, just a year ago, the export price in China was generally ten grams of first-grade yellow powder (unadulterated compound xinoxazole powder) about ten grams of gold to buy, but now, a year later, after China is said to have improved the new process, twenty grams of first-grade yellow powder only needs one gram of gold, and the price has dropped by 20 times.

So what is the concept of a gram of gold? Before the Civil War, a dollar coin could buy 0.05 ounces of gold, that is, 1.4 grams of gold, but now after the war, although the dollar has depreciated somewhat, the depreciation of metal coins is not large, and a dollar can still be used as a gram of gold.

That is to say, in the United States, the purchase price in the army is only $1.5 for 10 grams of first-grade yellow powder, while the market price in London, England, is 1 pound to buy 100 grams of first-grade yellow powder.

Generally speaking, if it is not a particularly severe infection, 5 grams of first-grade yellow powder is enough, and if it is a relatively severe infection, 10 grams of first-grade yellow powder is enough, which is a life-saving drug.

$1.5 is not a lot though. But in the United States, it is no longer a high-priced thing that the white people can't afford, and many ordinary people can afford it.

However, there is a premise here, that is, trade cannot be broken, and the other is that the president compulsorily sets prices, suppresses hoarding, implements unified purchase and sales, and does not allow market prices. Once the trade chain is broken, or the drug is allowed to go to the market, the price will definitely not be so cheap. But no matter how expensive it is, it won't be too outrageous.

For example, the Union has not implemented the government's policy of unified purchase and sales, and due to the blockade of the United States Navy some time ago, there is a shortage of drugs in the United States, so the price of yellow powder in the Union has remained high, far higher than the world average, which also leads to the smuggling of drug dealers becoming more and more rampant, so rampant that the United States Navy is a little overwhelmed.

But no matter what. Because China has taken the initiative to reduce prices and increase the export volume of yellow powder and dropdown, the two drugs of yellow powder and dropdown have changed from a high-end luxury drug a year ago. It has become a special drug that ordinary people in the Western world can consume. This drug may still be relatively expensive, but it is not unaffordable.

Comparatively speaking, other drugs with better effects, such as anti-inflammatory waters, have become the new darlings of the pharmaceutical industry. Nowadays, the dignitaries and nobles in the world no longer eat any yellow powder, and they come up with anti-inflammatory water. in all countries of the world. As long as you are a nobleman, if you are sick, you don't need to take anti-inflammatory water, or take an anti-inflammatory (amoxicillin capsule), you are embarrassed to greet other nobles.

However, although the price reduction of China's special drugs is good news for most of the people in the world, it is precisely because of the low price and sufficient quantity and the technology has been in a monopoly position that the monopoly position of these special drugs has not changed, and because of the reduction of prices, the overall demand of the people has increased, resulting in the power of these drugs has become greater, and it is already a strategic material.

In other words, because of their special nature, although China's yellow flour and Hailuo have not yet reached the international status of petroleum products in later generations, they are not too different from each other in the current situation of exclusive monopoly.

If this situation continues for another year or two, if the export volume can increase several times, then yellow flour may not be able to become a special product with the right to speak, although it is unlikely to really influence the policies of other countries, but a slight impact is still possible.

The reason for this qiē is naturally related to the breakthrough of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Chinese Empire, that is, the scientific research institutions of the 110 Special Administrative Region.

In the past, antibiotic drugs such as cotrimoxazole, penicillin, cephalosporin, and other antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs were almost all finished products directly imported by Li Yongji from modern society, but there was no packaging.

At that time, the drugs imported from modern society became their own drugs with a little packaging and OEM, so the pharmaceutical factories under Li Yongji's name were actually OEM factories.

The only difference is that the sea falls.

At that time, Li Yongji invested in this drug, and it was nominally registered in the British Concession in Shanghai, and the legal person was also a British medical institution, called Bayer Pharmaceutical.

The reason why it was so complicated at that time was mainly because Hailuo didn't want to be infamous later because this product was relatively special.

After the emergence of this enterprise, Li Yongji used the equipment and technology of later generations, and used the workers of this era and the crows. Flakes of raw materials, non-stop production of high-purity dropaine as well. Half of the products produced are sold to countries around the world, and the other half is sold to modern society, so that another agent, Dou Bifeng, can find a way to sell them for money and materials.

In this way, although the Chinese Empire has completely banned drugs in the country, it is no longer as gentle as in the past. Tablets became one of the luxury taxes, but because their own enterprises had to produce a large amount of dropdown, the amount of opium imported every year not only did not decrease, but increased significantly compared with the past, resulting in an increasing area of opium cultivation in India and other places, and also making the Chinese Empire's drug business bigger and bigger, and making more and more money.

Now, Dou Bifeng has become a veritable hidden drug king in modern society, using various methods to obtain a large amount of money, and has gained a firm foothold in the United States, and in this time and space, Hailuo's products have also begun to kill rampant in Europe and the United States, and have become a kind of universal medicine for the middle and upper classes.

In the same way, the United States was importing this kind of dropdown, usually for pain relief for mid- and high-ranking officers, and even for President Lincoln, who inhaled a little through his nose every time he had a headache or was tired.

Therefore, because of the uniqueness and indispensability of Chinese products, coupled with the fact that China has already demonstrated its powerful force to the world, and has also shown itself to be tough in the recent Japanese strategy, Lincoln does not want to fall out with China on this joint, but only wants to settle the dispute peacefully with China, hoping to resolve the dispute between China and the United States through more moderate negotiations.

After all, the war against the United States was the result of Li Yongji's deliberate thinking, and what he wanted was to use this once-in-a-lifetime American Civil War to nip the United States in the bud in one fell swoop, so that the country would never have a chance to become strong again.

However, when Li Yongji knew that the Americans still did not want to conflict with China even when war had already been declared, he quickly took advantage of this and launched a targeted strategy against the United States to fight but not break. (To be continued......)