What did His Majesty plan, Li Fushou laughed and did not explain, and Marshal Li Zhuzhu couldn't chase after him, so he could only leave the Daming Palace with doubts and return to the Duke's Mansion.

It's not that Li Fushou is selling Guanzi, but that he hasn't written a word, what can he say now?

After the North American War

In addition to the 10 independent states of the United States, there are other territorial issues, including Cuba occupied in the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico, the overseas enclave of Alaska, sovereignty over part of the Pacific Islands, and the Panama Canal project, all of which are not covered by the peace treaty.

And, of course, there's the issue of the New Mexico region.

Each of these is not a trivial problem, it is enough to cause a war, and it is very difficult to want the United States to regress easily.

After the defeat, the reason why the United States recognized the independence of the states was because it was an irretrievable fact, and in the face of the cruel reality of the country's ruin, it had to pinch its nose and admit it.

However, it should be noted that, after all, the United States is not the decadent and backward Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Qing Dynasty, and will not easily make concessions on major issues involving territorial sovereignty and strategic interests.

Each of the above problems is different, and it is necessary to solve them one by one.

On the issue of the Panama Canal

After the military occupation of the region, the Ocean Empire has fully taken over the rights and interests of the US Canal Company, and will complete the transfer of ownership through redemption, which is already in progress.

At the beginning, the United States obtained all the ownership and operation rights of the canal from the French at a cost of 40 million US dollars, and now the Imperial Royal Fund will take the Panama Canal from the Chinese at a cost of 45 million US dollars, and complete the follow-up excavation work.

Why acquire ownership and operation of the Panama Canal in the name of a private company?

In fact, there is a precedent in the world today, and the French got the rights to the Panama Canal in the name of the French Canal Company, and this company is a private joint-stock company, which is self-financed and operates independently.

The advantage of this is to reduce the international sensitivity of the canal issue, to treat ships from all over the world openly and equally, and to pass as long as they pay the normal fee, and there is no deliberate difficulty.

Of course, complete fairness is not possible.

The war has evolved to the point where the people of the United States have actually lost their significant influence on South America and their control over Central America.

But it does not mean that the United States has made concessions on other issues.

For example, on the Cuban issue, the people of the United States resolutely refused to let go, and through international mediation, a new plan was recently formed;

That is, a plan of co-governance of all countries led by Britain and the Ocean Empire, with the participation of the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, to support a local government that can represent the interests of all parties, and to implement international co-management of the Cuban issue.

That is to say, everyone can step in and develop trade and influence infiltration, but they must abide by the rules of the game, and they must not interfere with the ability of local governments to make their own decisions, and they cannot implement exclusive and discriminatory policies, etc.

On the issue of Puerto Rico, the Ocean Empire and Britain chose to back down, acquiescing in the special interests of the United States in the region and recognizing it as belonging to the sphere of influence of the United States.

In the case of the American Pacific islands, the Ocean Empire is ready to buy all of them for a sum of money, not more than $20 million, including Midway, Samoa, and so on.

This is one of the rights and interests of the winner, and the United States has to agree under pressure.

Today's Alaska is an international trusteeship, and there is no talk of the final status for the time being, and it is not a good time to solve the Alaska problem.

For example;

Because of the outbreak of war between Japan and the United States in New Mexico, the United States urgently needs the Ocean Empire to stand by, so it will have to make big concessions on some other important issues in exchange for the tacit cooperation of the Ocean Empire.

This is the rights and interests of the world powers, and doing nothing can take a large amount of money.

After all, the New Mexico region is North American, and it is much more important than Alaska in the minds of the people of the United States.

In Li Fushou's strategic plan, the key goal of strategic competition in the next few decades is to target the United States, constantly weaken its regional and international influence, compete for the world market, limit its political and military capabilities, and plunder its luck, which is an important strategic goal of the Ocean Empire.

The war in North America has made a good start, and we must continue to do it in the future.

By 1908

The economic boom began after the end of the Civil War and coincided with the arrival of the second industrial revolution, in the 43 years from 1865 to 1908, the industrial output value of the country increased by as much as eight times.

By 1894, the year of the Sino-Japanese War, the value of manufacturing output in the United Kingdom was twice that of Britain and half of that of European countries combined.

Since then, the industry of the United States has continued to develop by leaps and bounds, and by the eve of the war in 1908, the total industrial output of the United States has accounted for more than one-third of the world, which is equivalent to the sum of the four countries of Britain, Germany, France and Ocean.

And this is exactly the sufficient confidence of President Theodore Roosevelt to wage war, he saw the strong lineup of 22 battleships of the US naval fleet, and saw the strength of 11 battleships of the Ocean Empire.

On paper, the United States has twice the absolute advantage.

The only thing that President Theodore Roosevelt missed was combat effectiveness, and the ability of the top commanders of the United States Army and Navy to collapse became an important factor affecting the outcome of the war.

The U.S. Navy made the same major mistake as the Russians, that is, an expedition across the ocean, throwing troops one by one, and then being swallowed by the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, which eventually led to the total annihilation.

When the Ocean Empire Expeditionary Force landed on the west coast, with the weak ability of the United States Federation Army, it could not afford the command and dispatch ability of hundreds of thousands of large corps to fight, let alone confront the Imperial Expeditionary Force head-on, so it was defeated again and again, and the loss was a mess.

In the whole war, the strong economic and industrial capacity of the United States was not reflected at all, and it was beaten and lost its armor and threw itself into defeat.

Therefore, the powerful war ability of the United States was not reflected at all, and it was simmered and extinguished by a slap, and this war was lost very unjustly.

In terms of various economic indicators before the war, the country ranked among the top in the world.

In 1908, the country's pig iron output was 26.46 million tons, steel output was 28.8 million tons, coal output was more than 420 million tons, and oil output was 200 million barrels, all of which ranked first in the world.

In 1910, production was almost at a halt or even one-third of the original output, especially in terms of oil production, with the Republic of California alone accounting for 110 million barrels, more than half of the country's original oil production.

Coupled with the effects of the war, the country's oil production in 1910 shrank sharply to 35 million barrels, only one-sixth of the pre-war level.

meanwhile

The Royal Fund of the Ocean Empire invested heavily in steel and coal production, which contributed to a huge jump in pig iron production of 14 million tons, steel production of 20 million tons, and oil production of 140 million barrels in 1910.

The Ocean Empire is the birthplace of the world's automobile industry, by 1908 the automobile production has risen to 570,000, in terms of car ownership, in 1908 the Ocean Changguo had 1.19 million private cars, the United States had 660,000, and the private cars of major capitalist countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Canada added up to only 320,000, not even one-third of the Ocean Empire.

Relying on the rapid development of the automobile industry, the shipbuilding industry and the equipment manufacturing industry are flying together, and more than eighty percent of the output of the steel industry of the Ocean Empire is used for its own economic development, and the development momentum is stronger than that of Germany.

Objectively speaking, this is plundering the luck of the United States.

The dismantling of thousands of factories in the Great Lakes region enriched and perfected a total of 41 major industrial categories of the Ocean Empire, and at the same time put the Northern Union at a high starting point, producing a steady stream of industrial products to the European market, filling the production gap in the Great Lakes region and becoming its biggest competitor.

Next, in early 1911, there will be a general election for the cabinet of the Ocean Empire.

The royalist forces, headed by Zhang Li, the new leader of the Zhi Gong Party, have an advantage in the new election, and if nothing else, they will replace the current cabinet, which has been in power for two terms, and become a powerful assistant to Emperor Li Fushou.

All of this is under Li Fushou's control.

From 1911 onwards, due to the huge war reparations brought by the North American War flooded the treasury and the unprecedented financial wealth, the Ocean Empire will carry out the largest infrastructure project in history, covering urban construction, roads, railways, bridges, docks, dams, farmland and water conservancy facilities, etc., with a total investment of up to 1.5 billion gold oceans for a period of 5 years.

meanwhile

Large-scale institutions led by the Royal Fund will make large investments in the domestic industrial field, and strive to increase the output of steel, coal, rubber, organic chemicals, and machinery industries by 2~3 times in 3~5 years to reach the world's leading level.

Large-scale investment in these areas will create millions of jobs, further enhance the empire's industrialization index, strengthen industrial production capacity, and drive economic development to a new level.

From 1911 to 1916

These five years will become the golden period of the empire's large-scale construction, and the huge war reparations obtained every year will be invested in infrastructure construction and quickly transformed into national strength, which will greatly strengthen the empire's strength to cope with the changes at the beginning of the century.

From the standpoint

The industrial economy of the United States was severely damaged in the war, and could not recover to the pre-war level in a short time, because of the heavy debt, dancing with shackles, and could only watch a large number of markets occupied by the enterprises of the ocean empire.

Even if the First World War broke out as scheduled, the country was limited by its production capacity. I had to watch a large number of orders flow to the ocean empire, and I lost the good situation of rapid economic recovery.

Due to the huge war reparations, the economy of the United States has been inserted into a pipe and has been bleeding day and night, and it can be expected that in the next 10 to 20 years, it will always be in a state of serious weakness, and the country's luck will be greatly lost, which is the situation that Li Fushou is willing to see.