The so-called fighting without breaking means that the state of war between China and the United States of America remains unchanged, and the California area occupied by China will not be returned, but since the United States has not declared war on China and has not imposed war sanctions, China has not imposed sanctions on American businessmen, and the trade between the two countries has continued to come and go.

That is to say, on the surface, China seems to be in a state of war with the United States, but in private, the Chinese government has shown goodwill to the American negotiators, and has found all kinds of excuses and shirks to give the Americans the impression that the Chinese government is also chasing ducks to the shelves, and under the pressure of public opinion, it has to declare war on the United States and ease the situation on the surface, but in fact it still hopes to work hand in hand with the Americans and hope to move towards peace as much as possible.

In order to show that the Chinese government was only forced to declare war, Li Yongji sent a telegram to Prime Minister Shen Shiming in China, asking him to personally negotiate with the US ambassador to China and plenipotentiary negotiator Anson Pu to conduct in-depth and lengthy negotiations on the 926 incident, the unauthorized occupation of California by the Red Fort Expeditionary Force in Hollywood, and China's declaration of war on the United States.

During the negotiations, Shen Shiming repeatedly stressed that neither the Chinese emperor nor the Chinese government originally wanted a war with the United States, because it would be no good for China, only bad.

However, due to the occurrence of the 926 incident, it has set off a very strong anti-American public opinion in China, and the army of the Red Fort in Hollywood has attacked the troops of the United States of America and occupied San Francisco and Sacramento, which has caused high public opinion and made the Chinese government very passive.

In Shen Shiming's statement, he and the Chinese Emperor Xià did not want to go to war with the United States, but due to the high public opinion, the House of Commons quickly convened a popular meeting, at which the motion for war was passed by a 99 percent vote.

According to China's constitution, once the lower house convenes a popular session and more than 90 percent of the proposals are put on the agenda of the senate. The Senate must convene a Council of the Elders in which all the Elders meet, and within seven days decide on the proposals of the Assembly.

At the Senate meeting, the nine senators also voted seven in favor, one abstention, and one vote against, and passed the bill to go to war against the United States, and once the Senate made a final ruling, and the ruling was consistent with the proposal of the lower house, then the Chinese government must obey the decision of the Senate and officially go to war against the United States. Because this is a constitutional power.

It stands to reason that according to the provisions of the Constitution of the Chinese Empire, the emperor, as the supreme head of state, can veto the bill of the upper house, or the senate, to start a war, but once the emperor vetoes, the upper and lower houses must be replaced, and the bill must be discussed again, which takes a long time. It also damaged the prestige of the emperor, so the emperor kept quiet and let things develop, otherwise. The situation could be worse, so hopefully Anson can understand.

In order to increase the persuasiveness and make Pu Anchen believe that the emperor was also a little helpless, Shen Shiming also proposed vaguely. The Red Fort in Hollywood is actually operated by the Eastern Bloc, although the Eastern Bloc has the emperor invested in it. But in fact, it also involves the interests of various magnates, and even the interests of the mysterious group behind the emperor.

When Pu Anchen asked if that mysterious group was the human innovation alliance that supported the emperor's seizure of power in China, Shen Shiming would mysteriously say, yes, it was the secret organization, and the Eastern Bloc also had the shadow of this organization behind it, and even they were the main ones.

Shen Shiming implemented the spirit of Li Yongji and threw out the conspiracy theories that Li Yongji came up with, saying that the source of this human innovation alliance is actually the United States, and even the Civil War was their people at work, and it was their efforts that promoted the outbreak of the Civil War.

When Pu Anchen was taken aback, Shen Shiming would delete and subtract some of the inside information and details of the US war that Li Yongji had collected using modern society, and even the details of Pu Anchen, and even where Pu Anchen was born, what he had experienced before, and when he formed the Republican Party.

Although Pu Anchen's experience is not particularly secret, in that era, it is difficult to know Pu Anchen's past experience if it is not specially investigated, and later generations about his experience are also based on his public experience, plus his autobiography to summarize, but before his death, or in 1862, Pu Anchen's experience is still little known, at least not so systematic.

Therefore, when Anson heard that China was the first to be able to talk about his personal experience in such detail, his heart was shocked.

Taking advantage of Pu Anchen's shock, Shen Shiming said, don't look at His Majesty's current scenery, it seems that he has a lot of power, but he is actually very affected by this human innovation alliance, and in China, I don't know how many people are members of this organization, so he has to temporarily compromise, and can only declare war on the United States, avoid disagreement with domestic public opinion, and avoid early confrontation with this human innovation alliance.

However, despite this, Shen Shiming also said that His Majesty the Emperor and the Chinese government can guarantee that they will only declare war on the United States on the surface, and will not sanction American trade in China, let alone American businessmen, and will not take the initiative to send the Praetorian Guard and the National Defense Force to war with the United States as a last resort.

In other words, although China declared war on the United States at the political level, it was only the mercenaries of the Eastern Bloc who opposed the United States, that is, the Chinese expeditionary force that even the Chinese government and the Chinese emperor could not completely control.

In addition, the Chinese government will not and cannot afford to resupply the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the California area, and the supply of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, including the hiring of personnel in China, is a private action of the Eastern Bloc and has nothing to do with the Chinese government.

Although he has repeatedly emphasized that the military action against California is a corporate act of the Eastern Bloc, Shen Shiming also said that if the United States of America is unable to defeat the Chinese Expeditionary Force, or even if it is forced to make peace with the Chinese Expeditionary Force and sign an alliance under the city, then the Chinese government will also push the boat and recognize the fruits of the expeditionary force's victory.

All in all, the Chinese government will not send troops to the United States, and everything is a corporate behavior of the Eastern Bloc. But if you Americans can't even defeat the mercenaries of the Eastern Bloc without the support of the Chinese Empire, and are forced to sign some unequal treaties with others, then our Chinese government might as well accept it.

This situation is a bit similar to the British East India Company, which also expanded in the name of an enterprise and conquered India with the power of an enterprise. Later, the British also took advantage of this, and even after the Indian uprising a few years ago, they took over the power of the East India Company in India and ruled India in the name of the British royal family.

Therefore, Shen Shiming's meaning is already obvious, that is, although the Chinese Empire declared war on the United States, it will not dispatch a single soldier of the Chinese government, and no Janissaries and National Defense Forces will be dispatched. It's just a battle between the Eastern Bloc and the United States of America.

If you, the United States, can win the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Task Force of the Eastern Bloc, then we in China will sign with you a treaty of equality that does not harm the interests of both sides, and end this war; But if you can't even defeat this Chinese expeditionary force and are forced to sign an unequal treaty, then the Chinese government doesn't mind following and taking a bite.

This is a typical bandit logic of the great powers, although Pu Anchen is still angry, but people have talked about it, in order not to cause the Chinese government to intervene, he has to endure it. Agreed to the proposal.

However, Pu Anchen was actually relieved in his heart, because in his opinion, although the negotiations did not really achieve peace between China and the United States. It did not really eliminate the war, but it understood the inside story, at least so that the Chinese government, a rising behemoth, would not intervene in the army, and would not harm the interests of American businessmen in China. There is not even a ban on trade between China and the United States, which is already a great blessing in misfortune.

It was precisely because of Pu Anchen's message that Lincoln had always been so restrained in the Chinese Empire. Otherwise, he would have ordered the closure of the Chinese Embassy in Washington and the arrest of those Chinese businessmen in the United States.

By the way, Pu Anchen's letter was actually sent through the Chinese Embassy in the United States, because the Chinese Embassy in the United States has a radio transceiver, which can obtain information from China in a timely manner, agree, and can also transmit the news from the United States back to China in a timely manner.

However, this kind of high-tech radio transceiver is a special secret, not to the public, only vaguely informed Lincoln and a few other high-level officials, and the radio transceiver is also guarded and used by special personnel, once someone forcibly plunders, the special person will destroy this radio transceiver.

In fact, even if the Americans grab this radio transceiver, it is useless, and it will definitely not be able to crack it, because this radio transceiver is a digital product of modern society, all of which are modern integrated circuit equipment, and this kind of integrated circuit and core processor equipment, the technological generation difference is too much worse than that of the 19th century, and with the level of science and technology in the 19th century, it cannot be cracked at all.

Think about it, in this era, when wired telegraphy just appeared, and even radio has not yet been thoroughly introduced, and no vacuum tube or tube has been found, how can you understand integrated circuits.

Therefore, despite the strict security measures, in fact, Li Yongji is not worried about the safety of the radio transceiver, anyway, these products cannot be cracked even if Westerners take them, and they cannot be used, because once they are lost, the Chinese side can completely paralyze the transceiver by giving an order at will.

There is no way, this is the generation gap between technology in the 21st century and technology in the 19th century, when the difference between technology and technology is too great, many things are unsolvable.

Of course, what Li Yongji didn't expect was that his flickering, especially the conspiracy theory of the so-called Human Innovation Alliance, also made Lincoln suspicious, thinking that there were members of this organization everywhere, so he mentioned strengthening investment in intelligence organizations, and mentioning that he had launched a crackdown on Rothschild and other bankers, which was an unintentional move, because in Shen Shiming's statement, bankers such as the Rothschild family are one of the important members of this human innovation alliance.

In any case, whether Li Yongji's fooling has worked, or whether the US Government does not want to have another strong opponent, although China and the United States have gone to war, they have maintained a situation of fighting but not breaking, and everyone has left room for each other.

Originally, the Lincoln government thought that it could continue to maintain the current situation with the Chinese government and no longer let Sino-US relations deteriorate, and the Lincoln government selectively forgot that California had fallen into the hands of the Chinese, and even the propaganda rarely mentioned this, just to say how the British were, just hoping to deal with Sino-US relations coldly.

However, what the Americans never expected was that the Chinese, or the Chinese Expeditionary Force, did not give Lincoln face and suddenly appeared in New Orleans. He actually intervened in the American Civil War before the British.

So, how did this Chinese expeditionary force suddenly appear in New Orleans? Weren't they in California before?

It turned out that when Li Yongji conquered San Francisco and Sacramento and mastered the main territory of Upper California, in view of the fact that there were not many forces in the western United States that could pose a substantial threat to the California region, he began to divide the troops.

To put it simply, Li Yongji does not want to occupy the western part of the United States little by little, because most of the land is uninhabited and not even developed by the United States itself. It was only after the victory over Mexico that they acquired these lands in name.

To put it bluntly, even if the United States is added to the southern Confederate states, the total population is only 50 million, of which more than 90 percent are east of the Mississippi River, and most of the rest are in Texas, and the western states, including California. Washington State, New Mexico, etc., there are almost no people.

Therefore, even if the Chinese work hard to occupy these places. There is no obvious benefit, and even if more land is occupied, it still belongs to the United States.

It was a common practice in this era to obtain these lands legally. It is to defeat the United States, let the United States sign a land transfer treaty with China, and cede these lands to China. In this way, it is legal and reasonable, and there will be no more lawsuits or disputes in the future.

Obviously, since the United States, or the United States of America, has little power in the western region, even if it defeats the sporadic garrisons there, it will have no effect on the United States Government, and it is impossible for the United States Government to agree to cede land.

If it was the twentieth century, it might be difficult, after all, the western part of the United States at that time was already very important in the eyes of the American government, and it was the core land that could not be given up, but in the mid-nineteenth century, these western lands were not the core territory of the United States, and their value was not so great, so once the United States was defeated, it was very likely that it would agree to cede the land.

After all, in a sense, these lands in the west were not originally American, they were forcibly occupied by the United States from Mexico, and they have not been developed for a long time, and now the Chinese have grabbed them, and there is nothing wrong with them.

Now that he understands this, Li Yongji's operational policy is very clear, that is, to pull the main force out and go to the eastern region of the United States to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the US army, defeat the Americans from the frontal battlefield, and kill and injure the living forces of the federal army as much as possible.

The advantage of this is obvious, once the living force of the Union Army is killed, it can not only force the United States of America to agree to cede land to China, but also help the Union Army in disguise, make the strategic stalemate between the North and the South longer, and force the United States of America to recognize the independent status of the Union States of America.

According to the news from the Chinese Embassy in the United States in Washington, on the eastern front, the federal army and the coalition army are already in a stage of strategic stalemate, and even the federal army is still weaker than the alliance army, so there is no need for help, but on the more important western front, the alliance army is retreating one after another.

The Eastern Front, the front between Richmond and Washington, was also important, but it was not decisive because of the similarity in strength. On the contrary, the Western Front, especially along the Mississippi River, was the lifeblood of the Confederate Powers, and if they were defeated here, the Confederates would lose much blood and would no longer be able to fight the United States.

Therefore, Li Yongji decided to directly attack the Union Army in the west, as long as the Western Army of the Union Army was defeated and the western communication line of the Union State was unimpeded, this Civil War would still be fought.

For this reason, Li Yongji began to implement a two-step strategy after laying down Upper California.

The so-called two-step process, the first step is to quickly send the main army to the eastern battlefield of the United States to participate in the war, and the second step is to strengthen the dominance of the Chinese in the California region.

As for the first step, there is no need to say much, only by sending the main force to the east of the United States to participate in the war and completely defeat the United States of America, can we fundamentally and legally obtain the land in the west and divide the United States.

In the second step, the so-called strengthening of the dominant position of Chinese in California mainly refers to increasing immigration to California, introducing Chinese poor people to California, and enriching the number of Chinese in California, as the saying goes. is to have a hard body, and what you want is a well-deserved one!

In order to make the second step a good way, the government specifically promised that as long as any legal Chinese who had reached the age of eighteen came to California, then both men and women could go to the California Directory with their Chinese Imperial ID cards to receive fifteen acres of land for free, that is, thirty acres of land.

As long as you have been cultivating the land for five years in a row and have been approved by the local government. The government will issue you with land deeds and other land certificates, and from then on, this land will become your private land, except that the ownership of the land is still owned by the Chinese Empire, and the ownership and use rights are yours and permanent.

During the period when you receive the land for free for trial cultivation, the government does not charge any fees, and no one will collect money from you as you toss. And when you have the certificate of land ownership and use right, and become a landlord, you only need to pay one-thirtieth of the land use tax every year.

This land use tax is a price assessed by the government in advance. Generally, it will be clearly notified to you in advance before you receive it, and it is generally a fixed tax, and the light tax will not change.

This fee is actually very low, normally speaking. As long as the land is not abandoned, even if you plant some wheat, you will use the laziest way to plant it. If you sow the seeds, you don't care, and the use tax is less than one-thirtieth of your wheat harvest, so it's no different from giving it away.

In addition, these 30 acres of land refer to the known developable land that you have received from the government, but if you want to open up your own wasteland and develop those wastelands that the government is not yet able to develop, then you can plant as much land as you think.

Anyway, as long as the land is enclosed, no matter how much, there will be no charge for five years, but the local government will send an appraiser to assess the value of the land you occupy, and if you agree, you will be issued a pioneer certificate after the assessment, proving that the land belongs to you temporarily.

With the pioneer certificate, after five years, the wasteland will become developed land, and then the pioneer certificate will become a title deed, and the government will collect land use tax according to the appraisal price on the original pioneer certificate every year, in other words, the land will become a familiar land recognized by the government.

Generally speaking, the larger the area, the more fertile the land, and the higher the appraisal value.

If the reclaimer is not satisfied with the appraisal price, he can file an appeal opportunity, and if the appeal is successful, he can be evaluated according to the reclaimer's price, but if the appeal fails, it must be calculated according to the government's appraisal price.

Although the higher the appraisal price, the higher the land use tax to be paid in the future, the higher the land price, the higher the purchase and sale price.

In other words, after you obtain the title deed, you can trade according to the appraisal price as the benchmark price, and the transaction tax in the land transaction will be calculated based on the difference between the actual transaction price and the benchmark appraisal price.

If you can't pay the land tax after five years, then the government will auction it, and the auction money will be paid to the land tax first, and then to the land reclamation, so there is a certain risk in this land reclamation.

However, in this way, it also gives the enclosures a new opportunity to make a fortune, especially those who go early, because they can enclose a large amount of land in advance, and then wait for five years to obtain the title deed, and then sell the land to make a fortune, or even sell the pioneer certificate in advance without waiting for five years.

In other words, the pioneer certificate can be regarded as an option of the title deed, and it is also recognized, anyway, the government only looks at the pioneer certificate in the end, and only looks at who the land belongs to after five years, and the object of issuance of the title deed, or the object of tax collection, is also the holder of the pioneer certificate after five years.

It should be particularly pointed out that this act of clearing wasteland is not an act of enclosing land by yourself, but an act of government organizations.

That is to say, the Governor of California will organize enclosure meetings on a regular basis, and you only have to sign up for the enclosure meeting, and then a large number of people will go to the designated wasteland within the specified time to stake their own land, and when the time is up, they will be divided according to the land you have encircled, and the land will be assessed for the enclosure and the pioneer certificate will be issued.

Land that is not privately enclosed in the enclosure assembly is illegal land, which is not recognized by the government and will not be protected by the government.

In addition, for many people who cannot afford to come to California alone to pioneer, funded by the Eastern Group, in the form of interest-free loans, escort these Chinese to work in California, you only need to go to the name, agree to get free land, take one-fifteenth of the harvest to pay off the debt, no interest during the debt repayment period, and at any time.

In this way, you can get on the ship for free, free access to the pioneering tools provided by the Oriental Group, including clothing, farm tools, seeds, etc., almost all you need to do is out of the people, and everything else is covered by the Oriental Group, all the expenses are included in the loan, and after you get the land in the future, it will be automatically deducted from the land income.

Although it is always a little unsettling for you to sign a loan contract during this process, it also shows that you will have land when you arrive in California, otherwise people will not agree to lend you money.

Taken together, this series of policies is the so-called Pioneer Act, and there is no doubt that this plan is to stimulate Chinese to go to California to enclose land.

Today, this policy has been widely publicized in China, although I dare not say that everyone knows it, but it is not far behind. In particular, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and other impoverished areas are the focus of propaganda.

In other words, the Chinese Empire hopes to move the poor people in these poor areas to California, enrich the local area with the poor people, and occupy California with a large number of Chinese, so that as long as the Chinese number is overwhelmingly large and they have the ability to defend the fruits of victory, then no one can take this land away.

Since the California region was in the east of the Chinese Empire, this initiative to call on the Chinese to go to California to clear the land is also called the Eastward Expansion Movement.

The main body of this eastward expansion movement seems to be the corporate behavior of the Eastern Bloc, but there is a shadow of the imperial government in it, because the local government of the Chinese Empire will vigorously assist this kind of behavior, after all, in China, nothing can be done without the assistance of the local government. (To be continued......)