Memphis, the largest city in Tennessee, a river port on the east bank of the Mississippi River, an important transportation hub and transportation industry center, and the headquarters of the future FedEx.

According to the provisions of the "Mingmei Joint Proclamation" and other agreements, the Ming Dynasty and the Confederate States were bounded by the Mississippi River and did not invade each other.

In other words, Memphis is a city located on the border of Meimei, where the Meimei Railway terminates.

The Mississippi River is the largest river in North America, with a basin area larger than the Yangtze River + Yellow River, and both are high-quality shipping waterways.

Three months after Lincoln sold off shipping stocks, Daming's strategy contracted, and Mississippi shipping stocks soared, so that he almost died on the spot.

As a senior brain-dead patient who has lost his prefrontal lobe, stock trading is Comrade Lincoln's only joy in life at present.

But it's such a little pleasure that the Wall Street capitalist and hateful spoiler Zhu Fugui is not willing to satisfy him.

As Zhu Fugui's little elk and white gloves, Julie has secretly joined the Ming nationality and become the royal financial advisor, responsible for making profits for Zhu Fugui in the world's financial capital market.

Of course, Zhu Fugui is not a gambling dog, he knows that stocks are risky, and he must be cautious when entering the market.

Therefore, despite Julie's amazing trading ability, Zhu Fugui still only took out a small part of the internal funds as financial strategic funds.

Don't seek to maintain value, but just to fish in troubled waters.

All in all, the Mississippi River is a super river that can affect the New York stock market.

On this day in 1866, there were several bridges over the Mississippi River.

However, they are all found in the northern basins.

The north has a well-developed industry and a large population.

At the same time, as the upper reaches of the Mississippi River, the river channel is also relatively narrow, and the bridge construction is less difficult.

Construction of the first bridge in the middle and lower Mississippi River will not begin until next year, in 1867, in St. Louis, 400 kilometers upstream from Memphis.

The bridge is a steel arch bridge with two levels: the deck is an urban road for motor vehicles and pedestrians, and below the deck, hidden in the middle of the steel beams, is the track for trains to run (see this paragraph for photos).

The Ace Bridge is of such good quality that it is still in use for generations to come.

In other words, the railway bridge in the Memphis area is far away, and the Ming Dynasty has no plans to build a bridge in that place.

The reason is very simple, the southern government will not allow the Ming to do such a thing, and the Ming side, before the rise of a new generation of civil bridge experts such as Sha Jingfang, will not be able to build such a cross-river bridge for the time being.

In addition, Tennessee, on the other side of the Mississippi River, is known as the world's black soil and is now the largest cotton-producing and slave-trading region in North America.

According to later sources, the percentage of blacks in Memphis reached 50 percent.

It can be said that Daming didn't want those cotton-picking slaves to climb along the steel bridge.

It is better to stay on the other side of the river to provide Daming with high-grade and authentic black handmade cotton, and maybe there will be a chance to criticize them in the future.

Compared to Memphis, the thriving artisanal cotton capital on the other side of the river, the Ming side of the Mississippi River on the west bank of the river is relatively deserted.

The borders of advanced and backward countries are often like this.

For example, the U.S.-Mexico border in later generations (see this paragraph for pictures).

Daming only built a cargo point here, named Xinyu, which means new Chongqing.

Although this way of naming is not literary, it is very intimate to the children of the Ming Dynasty, and it is easy to remember and judge the direction.

Moreover, after Chongqing, Sichuan, which is full of treasures, is also in line with the reality of the Tennessee Great Plains.

At the same time, he also warned everyone that the homeland of the Yin people has not yet been fully subdued, and the headquarters of the Ming Dynasty has not yet been unified.

It doesn't matter if you don't recover it in the future, it doesn't hurt to draw the twelve-dash line first.

Of course, if you want to swallow Tennessee, how to deal with those hundreds of thousands of hey people will also have to take a lot of effort, and Daming is not prepared to mess with these things for the time being.

Therefore, the annexation of Xinchuan is still in the distant future, and Xinyu is the southwest of the current empire...... Southeastern Frontier.

The 32021st Brigade, the main force of the railway theater, is stationed here.

However, at this time, Qian Luojun, the commander of the 32021 Brigade, was in a very bad mood.

Because in front of him, the person who kept Versailles was his classmate and friend in the army, Zhao Xizhu, who returned from the Pingwei War.

If you want to talk about rank, Zhao Xizhu, who has just been promoted to at least the brigade commander, is actually not much higher than Qian Luojun, but ......

"Hahaha, old money, don't you know the battle of Nara, how our regiment ......"

"Hahaha, old money, don't you know how those magic chickens surrender ......"

"Hahaha, old money, you don't know that tanks are ...... in frontal raids"

"Enough!"

Qian Luojun slapped the table and said, "Do you think that you only have tanks?" Tell you, our brigade now also has tanks! And there are 10 of them! ”

"Oh, I know that." Zhao Xizhu reached out and dug his nostrils.

"Huh? How do you know that this batch of tanks arrived just last month! Qian Luojun said in disbelief.

"That's ......"

Zhao Xizhu sighed, patted his old friend's shoulder, and said, "Hanqi 01 is quite suitable for you, it is light and thin, and it is also highly mobile on the train. ”

"Hey, surnamed Zhao, you make it clear, how do you know!" Qian Luojun asked reluctantly.

"Well...... this"

Zhao Xizhu scratched his head and said, "I'm guessing, what's that, our armor division has begun to partially change its equipment, and the [GHS] newly developed Iron Harrier class medium and lightweight tanks have been distributed to the division and brigade one after another......"

"So I'm wondering if the Han Rider 01 that I replaced is for you to be the second line."

"Hey, Hanqi 01 is good, Li Guangwei Qinghuo is sick, it sounds amazing, let's change to an iron harrier now, it sounds like a weak man's breath, so old money, you are blessed!"

……

The Hanqi series of tanks must be the main battle tanks developed by the main force of the Ming Dynasty.

Han Cavalry, including Han Cavalry's spin-off series: White Horse, Haw Par, Xuanjia, Beiwei, and even Guan Ning (to be discussed), these may be included in the list in the future.

However, in the process of upgrading and developing the Hanqi series, there will always be such and such transitional miscellaneous products.

These miscellaneous tanks, generally speaking, will not be mass-produced, but are only used as an overrun between the two generations of Han cavalry, and are generally named after the Zahu cavalry.

After all, the current banner of the Ming Dynasty is Zhuxia's loving father, the Mongolians and the like, as the toys of the Ming Dynasty, sooner or later they will be assimilated by the inside.

The Iron Harrier was the cavalry of Western Xia, and Zhu Fugui used it as soon as he used it.

In the future, Tiefutu and Cowardly Xue may also use anything.

So that as long as the troops listen to the name, they can understand whether this is a main battle tank or a miscellaneous tank, or a foreign trade tank.

But anyway, Hanqi 01 is indeed too weak.

In the Ping-Japanese War, both were overturned by the French.

It's a shame on tanks.

Before the appearance of the new Han cavalry that could be on the stage, Zhu Fugui decided not to use this name anymore, so as not to embarrass his ancestors.

And this kind of iron harrier is actually the originally planned Hanqi 02.

Compared with the Hanqi 01, he thickened the steel plate and installed a small-caliber artillery.

The speed dropped a little bit, instead.

It is really inappropriate for this kind of weak chicken to use the name of Han Qi, and he can only be wronged and wronged by Lao Li buried in the Xixia formation.

I really have a relationship with Lao Li!