After the bombing of the Port of New Orleans, all parties except for a while at the beginning of the quarrel and a period of exclamation, which soon disappeared, and all that remained was to prepare for the new situation that was coming, such as the 21st century when there was a war of words before going to war.

This is so because this is not an information society, nor is it a world of justice and justice, but the nineteenth century, when the great powers were in power. In this age when truth is within the range of cannons, things like morality, while important, are far less important than victory.

Just like the first Opium War that Britain engaged in against the Manchus, this war was obviously an unjust war, and when it started, even the British government was embarrassed, and the plan was almost aborted, and the British government agreed to go to war by a narrow majority.

Even if the war started, the British government was not confident at that time, and it was intended to get a little benefit, after all, the Manchu Qing at that time was still quite bluffing, at least the number of troops was very large, who knew that the Manchu Qing was too uncompetitive, and the British were beaten all over the ground by the three times and five divided by two.

At this time, the weakness of the Manchus was fully exposed to the eyes of the British, and also to the eyes of the European powers, and since then, the Western powers have swooped down like sharks that smell blood, vying to snatch the delicacy of China.

Therefore, for the Western powers of this era, it does not matter whether the war is just or not, the key is how much the war will be won, how much will it be, and if it is big enough, or if the benefits are enough, then it will be considered unjust. You can also fight first.

The expansion of intervention in the American Civil War is a true portrayal of this situation. On the surface, Britain and France were angry about the New Orleans port bombing. began to increase the scale of troops, but in essence, Britain and France saw that the Southern Union countries had a great chance of winning, so they decided to send troops ahead of schedule to curb the development of the Union Army.

In the past, the British did not fight the French because the war between the Commonwealth of America and the Confederate States had not yet become clear. The scale of the war is also a little too large, so I don't want to end rashly. But now the battle lines between the two sides have begun to stalemate. And the originally fragile coalition army, with the help and armament of the Chinese, has changed its guns, at least in terms of equipment, surpassing the federal army, and has initially shown the dawn of ** success.

Of course. What really made Britain and France decide was the close relationship between the Chinese and the Allied Powers, and the great benefits that the Chinese had gained in this war.

According to reliable sources, since landing in the port of New Orleans, the Chinese have advanced all the way to Memphis City, but since then, they have not continued to attack, but have been busy consolidating their fronts. And befriended the Union State.

That's it, but soon, the Chinese began to center on the three cities they occupied. Relying on the convenient transportation of the Mississippi River, large-scale trade activities with the Union began to be launched.

In this trade activity, the Chinese exported large quantities of Chinese-made industrial goods and then purchased local agricultural products, thus establishing a basic trade loop.

The most terrifying thing is that this trade throughput is said to be terrible. If nothing else, just a port of Memphis. Trade throughput now exceeds 10,000 tonnes per day, far exceeding the past in terms of busy journeys.

There is no doubt that the throughput of the Port of Memphis has increased significantly, which has a lot to do with Li Yongji's golden finger, but it may be necessary to ask, Li Yongji's current daily transmission tonnage is only 500 tons, that is, it can only transmit 500 tons of goods a day to modern society, how can it be more than 10,000 tons a day?

To explain this, we have to start from the beginning.

Li Yongji's 500-ton transmission tonnage limit one day is true, but his limit can be accumulated, and it can be accumulated for up to 90 days, that is, nearly three months.

Although Li Yongji used to use the transmission tonnage every month, because in the past, there were still many imports from modern society and few exports, so Li Yongji still had a large amount of transmission tonnage that was useless and had been in the process of accumulation.

Later, when Li Yongji found that the agricultural products here could be sold in the modern society, he began to purchase local agricultural products, and then sent them to the modern society to sell as organic agricultural products, which used up the transmission tonnage accumulated before.

After all, he only has 500 tons a day, so he no longer transmits things with low economic added value, such as corn and wheat, but only things with high economic value, such as salmon and spoon sturgeon.

Because the economic value of these things in modern society is quite large, much higher than the value of ordinary agricultural products, but these things are not rare in the eyes of current Americans, so even if they are caught indiscriminately, it is not a big deal.

In addition, in order to avoid wasting the tonnage of transmission, Li Yongji no longer transmits all agricultural products, but receives an organic food production line from Zhang Xinda, directly processing vegetables, fruits, wheat and corn and other agricultural products near Memphis into vacuum packaging, and then sending them to modern society, where Zhang Xinda only needs to label these things and print a production date, and then they can be directly taken out.

In this way, it is equivalent to taking advantage of the cheap labor and cheap raw materials in Memphis in this time and space, and it has an unparalleled advantage in terms of cost, so the profit is not small.

In addition to these, Li Yongji also imported a beer production line to produce modern beer from wheat locally, and these things were not sold to the modern society, but directly exported locally at a high price of luxury liquor in exchange for real money.

Not to mention, Li Yongji's new brand called Yinmai Beer is very popular in the local area, not only the taste is good, the price is not outrageously high, coupled with the exquisite glass bottle packaging, it is a veritable high-end beer second only to Tsingtao Beer.

In other words, Memphis City, where Li Yongji personally led his troops, has become a base for processing agricultural products, and in this place, Li Yongji has set up many basic industries, using modern equipment and simple power generation equipment to engage in beer production. Canned food production, vacuum organic food production, ** product processing and other projects. And these projects require the acquisition of a large number of raw materials, so the throughput of more than 10,000 tons a day is not much at all.

The new equipment and new products not only brought more real money to Li Yongji, but also brought practical benefits to the locals, and more and more farmers began to sign contract supply contracts with the expeditionary force and became the subordinate suppliers of the Chinese. As a result, local farmers in Memphis are basically tied around the Chinese. It is no longer possible to do without the Chinese.

If it was just that, it would have been a small matter in the city, but what happened next made the British and French feel a lot of pressure.

Because. The Chinese actually resold weapons on a large scale again, and this time the Chinese actually directly sold 300,000 Chinese versions of Sharps rifles to the Allied government, 10,000 front-loaded 12-pounder infantry guns, and 3 million rounds of ammunition and 100,000 shells, which is definitely a big deal.

The most numbing thing is that with so many weapons and equipment, the Chinese can actually pay on credit!

That is, the Union State completely exempted the goods of the Chinese within its territory. Recognition of the Chinese currency as one of the country's transaction currencies, and recognition of the equal treatment of Chinese in the territory of the Union as white citizens of the Union in exchange for low-interest loans for the Chinese. This low-interest loan was then used to purchase military supplies provided by the Chinese.

Soon, the Chinese provided the Allied Powers with low-interest loans of 30 million Chinese dollars, and the Allied Powers immediately used the money to buy a large amount of supplies from the Chinese, of which seventy percent were arms, and the other thirty percent were food and the like.

It is especially noteworthy. The 30 million Chinese dollars provided by the Chinese side are all paper money. It's not the kind of silver dollar that weighs so much!

In fact, the Allied countries were somewhat confused and dissatisfied with the fact that all paper money was available, but when they discovered that these paper money could also be used as ordinary currency and could buy Chinese goods, the dissatisfaction disappeared.

Moreover, the Chinese have said that the 30 million is only the first phase of the loan, and in the future, according to the situation, there will be a second phase of the loan, and even the Chinese will encourage Chinese businessmen to invest here, such as investing in factories, such as purchasing local agricultural products.

While giving low-interest loans to the Allied countries and giving them cheap arms, a large number of Chinese financial institutions have also begun to settle in, such as Memphis, Vicksburg, New Orleans and even Richmond, and the Chinese China CITIC Bank and Minsheng Bank have begun to settle down and conduct business abroad.

loans, arms, banks, agricultural products...... After this series of means was used, the relations between the Allied Powers and China seemed to be getting closer and closer, and it was said that the Allied Powers had already begun to discuss the exchange of ambassadors with China, and that they would sign a new agreement and engage in a strategic partnership.

With these things just a few signs for the time being, the British and the French are not stupid, especially since these two countries themselves have many bankers, and they can see at a glance what kind of trick the Chinese are playing.

Obviously, the Chinese are engaging in economic aggression, well, or the word economic aggression is not quite right, after all, this era is not such a fashionable concept, but the word economic control zhì already exists.

That's right, in the eyes of European bankers, the hand played by the Chinese is a typical economic control, to take advantage of the most difficult time for the Union countries, to give them some seemingly warm help, but in fact to control the country from the economic level.

You must know that the Allied countries basically have no industry, and in the past, industrial products were imported from the northern United States, Britain, France and other European countries, but now because of the war, the industrial products of the north have been cut off, and as for the industrial products of the European powers, it is becoming more and more difficult because of the blockade of the US Navy.

Well, the Chinese came, and for some reason, the Chinese always provided a large number of industrial products that the Union countries urgently needed. Although these industrial goods are mainly munitions, these are the things that the Union really needs.

In addition, the Chinese not only sell things, they also buy things, such as agricultural products of the Union State, and they are buying them in large quantities, coupled with the large number of loans provided by the Chinese to the government and the people of the Union State, which directly led to the collapse of the Union State's economy to stabilize again.

But isn't it, in the past, the economy of the Union countries was about to collapse, because the economic products of the Union countries were too many and single, mainly agricultural products, and there was basically no decent industry. As a result, even some industrial necessities need to be imported.

Of course, in this day and age, there are no so-called industrial necessities. It is possible to get by, but now it is clearly not a time of peace, but a time of war, which requires not only industrial necessities, but also large quantities of ordnance and supplies.

At this point, the gap in the Union State is large, but just right. The Chinese supplied a large amount of arms at once, satisfying the appetite of the Union State. Even better, the Chinese ask for arms that are not high, and can even be said to be quite cheap.

Take a Chinese version of the Sharps rifle that is called the Chinese version of the Sharps rifle by both the North and the South of the United States, that is, the Hua 1 rifle, as an example.

This Hua 1 rifle. Although it is similar to the Sharps rifle in the north, both in terms of workmanship and local design, it surpasses the Sharps rifle produced by the Americans, and the performance is much better.

However, a standard Sharps rifle made in the United States costs $42, and the Hua 1 rifle provided by the Chinese to the Allied countries is only $20, which is twice the price!

You know, don't talk about high-end goods like the Sharps rifle. In the United States, a front-loading Spring rifle costs $12 ex-works. And the Chinese Sharps rifle is only 8 dollars more expensive than the Spring rifle, which is simply a joke.

If it weren't for the fact that the Chinese and the United States were at odds with each other, just at this price, maybe the North would have become a customer of the Chinese.

In fact, not only the Confederate countries, but also the British and French, were very hungry for the weapons of the Chinese. And the officers and soldiers below have repeatedly asked for the import of such weapons in large quantities, but unfortunately Britain and France have their own arsenals. And there are too many interests involved, so they did not purchase in large quantities like the Union countries, but still used their own production of Mini rifles.

That's right, it's the Mini rifle, that is, the front-loading rifled gun that fires the Mini bullet, this kind of gun is the mainstream of this era, and things like rear-loading guns, in the eyes of the Western powers in this era, the cost is still a little too high, and some of the gains outweigh the losses.

In short, buy arms, give loans, buy their agricultural products...... After this whole set of combination punches, the economic chain of the alliance countries seems to be re-stabilized, but in fact, it has been completely kidnapped on the chariot of the Chinese.

In particular, the Allied Powers implemented a duty-free policy for all Chinese goods, which greatly increased the competitive advantage of Chinese goods in the Allied Powers, and the United States still did not give up the blockade of the coastal areas of the Allied Powers.

Just kidding, why did Britain and France interfere in the American Civil War? Why do you want to help the Confederate States against the United States? Don't they know that slavery in the South is bad? Don't you know that the United States of War is on the side of justice?

The reason is very simple, Britain and France went to help the Allied States first for economic interests, and secondly for geopolitical and other factors.

Today, Britain and France are in the middle and early stages of the Industrial Revolution, and the characteristics of this era are the extensive use of steam engines, and the products are mainly cotton and other daily textiles.

And to get good cotton, in addition to the technical aspects to pass, it is necessary to have good raw materials, so far the best weaving material, undoubtedly in time for the continental cotton of the United States, and this cotton is only available in the southern part of the United States, that is, in the territory of the Union State.

In the past, the American South, or the Confederate Powers now, relied on the export of cash crops such as cotton and tobacco to gain a great deal of wealth, while in the import of industrial goods, the wealthy Southern slave owners did not look down on the coarse quality of the North, but preferred the well-made British or French goods.

In this way, the two sides have formed a kind of complementarity, Britain, France and other European industrial countries import cotton, tobacco, wheat and corn and other agricultural products to the southern United States, and then export their own industrial products there, such as iron products, cotton yarn, cotton cloth and other materials.

The Civil War in the United States was said to be for slavery, but in essence it was an irreconcilable contradiction between the two economic systems, because in order to reduce the price of industrial products and provide competitiveness for the export of agricultural products, the South advocated the implementation of free trade with low tariffs or even zero tariffs, while the North advocated the implementation of trade protection policies, advocated raising tariffs, and curbed Western imports for the sake of the emerging industrial capitalists.

There is no doubt about the North, or the protectionist policies of the Republican Party. It was good for the domestic industrial capitalists, because it protected the country's still fragile industries, but for the southern slave owners, who were mainly exporters of agricultural products. It's a disaster, because it increases their import costs and reduces their income in disguise.

To put it bluntly, the economic considerations of Britain and France are mainly to protect the southern part of the United States, an important source of raw materials and markets, once the southern part also implements the protectionist policy of the United States. Restrictions on the export of raw agricultural products to the export of processed trade goods. For example, cotton cloth, iron products, etc., it will be a blow to the British and French industries, although I dare not say that it hurts the muscles and bones, at least it is a big loss.

These economic benefits. It was Britain and France that were the main driving force behind the intervention in the American civil war, and as for the so-called immature geopolitics, that is, simply not wanting the United States to be strong, that is, it was secondary.

But now, the division of the United States is imminent, but the southern market has been taken away by the Chinese, and everyone sees that if it continues like this, when the war is over, the Chinese will also swallow up the market of the allied countries. There will be no English or French to do anything.

Others don't know, but the British know very well that today's Chinese can not only produce silk porcelain and munitions that others can't match. It can also produce Chinese cloth with better quality than British cotton cloth, but the price of Chinese cloth is too high, which allows British cloth to continue to occupy a place in the world market.

However, the British have no doubt that with the current level of science and technology as expressed by the Chinese, they can definitely produce a capacity comparable to that of British cloth.

The British think. In the past, the problem that restricted the production of cloth by the Chinese should be mainly the problem of raw materials, because it was difficult for the Chinese to obtain a large amount of high-quality cotton. It is currently considered the best continental cotton in the United States. Once the Chinese also obtained continental cotton from the United States and monopolized production here, British cloth would certainly suffer a heavier blow.

The world's best continental cotton in the United States is mainly in the territory of the Union States, and if the Chinese take advantage of this to control the economy of the Union States, or even form some close alliances with the Union States, it will not be good news for the British and French.

Therefore, the British were in a hurry, they took the initiative to find the French, and decided to unite with the French, under the pretext of the bombing of the port of New Orleans, to take action against the United States in advance, at least to kill the American navy, and reopen the sea lines of communication between Europe and the Union States.

In other words, since sooner or later it is better to fight with the United States, it is better to fight now, and more or less can rush over to get a piece of the pie before the Chinese have not completely occupied the market of the Allied countries, and if they continue to soar slowly, when the Chinese have finished dividing up the markets of the Allied countries, then there will be nothing to do with the British and the French, or even if there is, they can only eat some leftovers.

To this end, the British and the French, while quickly gathering troops, began to take the initiative to look for the Americans to fight, and at the same time sent ambassadors to the Allied Powers, promising to be willing to provide the Allied Powers with preferential loans, and even to provide them with weapons and equipment.

In this regard, the Allied States took it and said, low-interest loans are easy to say, but the weapons and equipment, at least there must be Chinese goods, if not, the price must be lowered, if not, then forget it, but for the sake of everyone who have been dealing for so many years, I can buy you some ammunition.

The reason why he was willing to buy ammunition was because Li Yongji was limited by the problem of tonnage, and he sold a lot of weapons, but he had very little ammunition, and on average, only 10 rounds of ammunition for a gun, and only 10 rounds for a gun, and this amount naturally made the allies dissatisfied.

However, Li Yongji can't help it, because the batch of arms provided by Li Yongji is all inventory produced by Zhang Xinda in small factories in South Africa and China, that is, the processing factories when Li Yongji started at the beginning.

At that time, these factories used modern equipment to make things like Sharps rifles and Napoleon guns, and then sold them in the name of handicrafts, and then assembled them into finished products in South Africa, which was not a problem, but ammunition was another matter, so at that time these factories only produced finished weapons, and there were other ways to deal with ammunition.

Fortunately, most of these weapons are modeled after 19th-century weapons, so they can not only be smokeless. Gunpowder can also use black fire-medicine, so even if Li Yongji provides less, he can also use ammunition purchased from Britain and France.

So, Li Yongji's weapons have been sold, why can't he sell them along with ammunition? The reason is simple, that is, Zhang Xinda's side has long changed shotguns, and they are directly on the bullet production line to produce 7.62 mm modern bullets.

Therefore, in the end, Zhang Xinda took out the inventory, and even if it was these stocks, the gunpowder was not black. Gunpowder, but silver gunpowder used in fireworks and fireworks, etc., was stored in those factories in the early beginnings.

As for smoke-free. Zhang Xinda has a lot of gunpowder, and he can also provide it, but this is not for himself, but for foreign trade, and he definitely can't give good things, so he will only give so much for the time being.

Moreover, Li Yongji's main purpose was to land in the western part of North America, not to seize the so-called market of the Allied Powers, and he had not even finished eating the Chinese market, and he had no intention of grabbing any market with the British and French.

As for what American continental cotton, to be honest, this thing is good, but even if Li Yongji wants to develop the cotton textile industry, there are better cotton seeds, and they are domesticated, and they can be grown in China, and it is easy to promote them in China in the future, so he doesn't really care much about the continental cotton of the Allied countries.

In fact, although the American continental cotton in the sixties of the nineteenth century is of good quality, it is far worse than modern cotton varieties, especially the modern cotton is mostly genetically modified, not to mention the high yield, the disease and insect resistance is super strong, and there is basically no need to serve, so whether it is cost, yield or quality, it is much better than the cotton in the sixties of the nineteenth century.

Because of this, Li Yongji did not rush to kill everything, and left some room for ammunition for others, and even planned to wait for the British and French to come in in the future, and take the initiative to cede part of the market of the allied countries, so that they could trade evenly and get rich together.

At least for now, Li Yongji doesn't want to turn against the British and the French, after all, for the Chinese Empire controlled by Li Yongji, the current number one enemy will never be the British and the French!

Therefore, for the current Li Yongji and the Chinese Empire, it is impossible to eat alone, and the balance of interests is the king. Because you are late to the benefits, you will have to pay the price, and for now, this price is to try to fight the United States!

Li Yongji is not unconfident that he can defeat the United States of America on his own, but then the price he paid would be a little too much, or the cost would be too great. Because the war materials consumed in modern warfare are incomparable with those of the nineteenth century, fighting a war looks like a pleasure, but the cost is not small, he is somewhat distressed, after all, he has spent a lot of money on arms and materials recently, so he stopped in Memphis, and it is also related to not wanting to waste more money.

Outsiders only see how fierce and capable the Dream Division is, but they don't know how much the Dream Division costs, and with the money to raise a division, Li Yongji can at least raise more than 300,000 modern troops.

Now, it is much better to be able to pull the British and the French into the water together, and a group of people come and carry them, than to carry them alone. (To be continued) R640