Chapter 379: The Americans' Dunkirk
"6 If the land is not good, we will send him a ship, no matter what, we must let him fight to California, only when the war is burned over, we can send troops there on the grounds of protecting the expatriate." ?......" Yang Feng said without hesitation.
"In addition, I told Santos that he must take New Mexico and Arizona by the end of this year, and this is a matter of my trust in him, and if he can't complete this task, then I will leave it to someone else." After thinking about it, he went on to say that if Santos couldn't take these two places, then he would let the Confederacy instigate these two states to secede from the United States and join the Confederacy, and threaten the military in Mexico, and the residents of these two states would make a wise choice.
"Your Majesty, do you want to..."Yuan Shikai said with some confusion, he really didn't understand why His Majesty the Emperor was in such a hurry, at this time, Arizona and New Mexico were just a barren land, with only a few settlements, except for a little silver ore and copper ore, it could be said that there was almost no value.
"It's very simple, I'm going to build a pipeline across these states, pump crude oil from Texas and Louisiana directly to the ports on the Pacific coast, and then our tankers will load it there, and we will have to start exploring the line by next year at the latest, and we will try to build it in '05." Yang Feng said. The plastics industry has led to countless industries based on it, such as juice processing and the use of plastic bottles. Tangerine juice with a lot of preservatives added. Truckloads are being shipped to Europe, and the boom in orange juice has led to a large number of orange plantations in the south, and many oranges that could only rot in the mountains are now treasures, and this industry chain alone feeds millions of people, and it is snowballing.
The emergence of greenhouses is also causing a fanaticism throughout Europe, especially in cold Russia. Now, if any Russian aristocrat and wealthy merchant did not build a greenhouse and eat fresh vegetables and fruits in the freezing cold of tens of degrees below zero, it would simply become a laughing stock in social occasions. And this is just one branch of the petrochemical industry, and Gulf Oil is currently building a new rayon production line in China, in the words of Emperor Yang. This stuff will also drive the world crazy. In addition to these, there are chemical fertilizers, and it is said that synthetic rubber is also being prepared. It can be said that the future is bright, but this qiē is built on the basis of one thing.
Cheap crude oil.
There is only one oil field in China, Shandong, and although production will reach a record 5 million tons this year, this year's crude oil imports are likely to exceed 10 million tons, and countless oil tankers are being launched at major shipyards in China and then shuttled between China and the Ottoman Empire.
Although the opening of the East Texas and Shreveport oil fields has pulled down the originally sharply rising oil prices, but this benefit China has no chance to enjoy, the reason is very simple, the transportation cost is too high, where crude oil exports China can only take the rail to Los Angeles, must pay a lot of freight and taxes to the Americans, and at this time Sino-US relations are not good friends, all kinds of deliberately set up obstacles, so that the road from American oil to China is full of thorns, not to mention the small volume of railway transportation, can not meet China's rapidly growing oil demand.
If there is such an oil pipeline, then cheap crude oil from the Americas can continue to pour into China, and in order to see this scene as soon as possible, those capitalists absolutely do not mind another war.
In the distant port of Tampico, Mexico, countless Americans are suffering in fear and despair, surrounded by the guns and roars of 400,000 Mexicans, and countless American ships of all sizes in the harbor are disregarding the danger of capsizing, picking up the American soldiers crowded in the harbor to the ship, and the cannonballs in the sky are whistling and rowing, and then exploding huge fireballs on the shore, taking the lives of countless American soldiers by the way, and on the American warships anchored on the seashore, one cannon after another is also roaring, Desperately blocking the attacking Mexican army.
The 200,000 U.S. troops gathered in this port have just been transported half, and at least 100,000 are still stranded here, and many are still in the bitter battle with the Mexicans, using their lives to win the opportunity to retreat for the people in the port, although for this American retreat from Dunkirk, the new U.S. President Brian has mobilized almost all the transportation capacity he can mobilize, but the size of the port of Tampico determines that this is an extremely difficult task, not to mention the crazy attack of 400,000 Mexican troops on the periphery.
In order to speed up the retreat, he even had to resort to an extremely humiliating way, the retreating American troops did not withdraw to American territory, but withdrew to the nearest Confederacy port, and then handed over their weapons to the Confederate troops and returned to the United States by train as refugees, for which the U.S. government needed to pay the Confederate government $20 million to buy the road.
"The glory of the past, the dreams of the past, are all gone with the wind, and the ambition of the United States of America ends forever in this small port." As the commander-in-chief of the retreat, Lieutenant General Myers said somewhat sadly.
"Maybe that's not what we should have in the first place, like President Bryan said, we've been on a wrong path for too long, and now we're just getting it right, and the war is coming to an end, and now I can finally go back to my farm in Illinois." The general next to him was not as pessimistic as he was.
"The end? You are too naïve, this is a world of the jungle, do not disturb the predation of the lions, you think you can quietly hide and eat grass, but you don't know that you don't want to be a predator, you can only become a predator, those beasts with fangs and claws will not have any compassion, expecting to break off their minions and get their mercy is pure dreaming, the United States does not want to become the target of the colonizers again, then only turn yourself into a colonizer, pastoral era, a beautiful dream, It won't be long before the iron hooves of the invaders will trample our land. Miles said with a sneer.
It has to be said that the former Supreme Commander of the US 6th Army was still very sober-minded, because when he said this, the aggressor had already arrived, and Santos had already received an order from Emperor Yang to invade the United States, and at this time, the current President of the Republic of Mexico, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, was personally directing the attack on Tampico.
"Well, since it is the request of His Majesty the Emperor, then I and the people of Mexico are more than happy to serve him." Looking at the telegram in his hand, he smiled and said to the manager of JY Company who sent this telegram.
Of course, he welcomes such a good thing, the slogan he shouted before is to lead the Mexican people to recover the land that was robbed by the United States, although it was just a slogan at that time, but now with the victory of the war against the United States, many Mexicans have really shouted about it, but it is the geographical barrier that prevents them, and now there are Chinese to provide direct help, then it will naturally push the boat.
"But before that, you have to buy these ships, including some of the supporting warships, I think Mexico now should also very much need a naval fleet that is enough to protect itself, if you have a navy, like the current situation, you can completely annihilate the American invaders, instead of letting them escape." The manager said with a smile.
That's true, but as you know, my government is very financially strained, because we've been at war for years. Santos said.
"It's very simple, the People's Bank should be very willing to help you and the Mexican people in any way it can, of course you need to come up with a certain amount of exchange, after all, this is a business behavior, and the rules cannot be broken." The manager said.
"So what do you get in exchange?" Santos said.
"Your Excellency, do you feel that your country's current monetary order is too chaotic? I think it's better for a country to have only one banknote store, only in this way can a country's economy get a healthy development, for example, the Confederates, you see, because there is only one banknote store, the economy of this country can be said to be unique in the whole of America, and the number of illegal immigrants who risk their lives to smuggle into this country is enough to prove this. If Mexico had only one banknote, it would have been the star of the Americas, and I think that's good for the people of your country, and you don't want their hard-earned money to go to a bank that is in danger of going bankrupt at any moment, right? The strength of the People's Bank ensured that there would never be a danger of collapse, as was the power, credibility and wealth of the Chinese Emperor, and of course the mighty army. The manager said.
"That's true, but I still need to consult with the People's Committee." His Excellency the President, who had already deposited more than seven million pounds sterling in the People's Bank at this time, said with a solemn face. )
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