readx; Chapter 493: African Colonies

After writing down Huo Shan's request, Huo Feng asked, "Young Master, how is the political division of Liberia divided, is it a colony, or an overseas province directly under our jurisdiction?"

After a moment of silence, "Let's change the name of Liberia to the West African Territory and call it a colony to the outside world! After all the blacks there are cleared and domestic immigrants occupy the majority, it will not be too late to change it to an overseas province!"

The reason for this, Huo Shan's other consideration is that most of Africa is now a colony of Western powers, and if he makes Liberia an overseas province, it will be too eye-catching. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Young Master, the military department sent a telegram, I want to ask if we can continue to expand to the African continent now, where there is still a large amount of ownerless land!" Of course, the African natives in these lands were consciously ignored by Huo Feng.

After hearing this, Huo Shan lowered his head and pondered for a while, then slowly shook his head.

"Young Master, why? Now that the British are pinned down by us in Egypt and are temporarily powerless to expand, while France, Germany, and Italy are all vigorously exploring Africa, if we don't get involved at this time, I'm afraid Africa will be carved up by them!" Huo Feng said with a hint of urgency in his words.

He didn't understand why Huo Shan, who had shown greed for land in the previous wars of annexing the South Seas, the Pacific Islands, and the American continent, was so conservative on the issue of African expansion.

"Huo Feng, there used to be an old saying in our country called 'a gun shoots a bird in the head', in six years, we have expanded rapidly from nothing to more than 10 million square kilometers of land now, which is fast enough, and even looking back, I myself am a little frightened. ”

"Now with the end of the Sino-American war. We have swallowed more than five million square kilometers of land west of the Mississippi River in the United States, and we are big enough that what we need now is time to digest it. Instead of craving for more!"

Speaking of this, Huo Shan took a deep breath, "Although the African continent is good. But it's too close to Europe, and if we expand aggressively in Africa, it will definitely attract the hostility of all the countries in Europe, and the gains will outweigh the losses!"

"Young Master, will we give up on Africa?" Huo Feng's tone was full of unwillingness.

"Give up?" Huo Shan smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "If I give up, I won't buy the Comoros Islands from the French." The 5th Marine Division will not be allowed to occupy Liberia. As long as we firmly stand in these two places, then the African continent will always be under our noses, and when the time comes, when our national strength is strong, we can expand inland from these two places at any time!"

"I'm going to send you off, Huo Feng, my ambition is enough to swallow the whole world!"

Listening to the young master's last words, Huo Feng's heart was surging, and at the same time, he was also looking forward to the future of Huo Jiajun.

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Just when Huo Shan was in the future with Huo Feng's planner Huo Jiajun, the monthly ministerial meeting of the Government Council was also held in the small conference room of the government office building in Ma Chen, the political center of Huo Jiajun.

"Before the meeting begins, I would like to tell you a good news!" After Huang Sheng's excited eyes slowly swept over everyone's faces, he immediately announced loudly with a spring breeze on his face: "We have signed an armistice treaty with the Americans, and from now on, all the former American territories west of the Mississippi River will belong to our Huo Family Army!"

Huang Sheng's voice just fell. There was an immediate burst of cheers in the small conference room, although they had expected it before, but when the treaty was actually signed, the joy overflowing in their hearts still made them lose their former calm.

Quietly looking at the major ministers of the Huo Jiajun who were screaming and jumping in the hall, Rong Hong's eyes were a little complicated, as his place of study, he had lived in the United States for many years, and Rong Hong, who had gradually learned about the world in the United States, was very emotional about this country that really belonged to democracy and freedom in his opinion.

Originally, his lifelong dream was to build the Qing Dynasty into a prosperous and powerful country like the United States. It's a pity that the decay and decline of the Qing government turned all his ambitions into 'falling flowers and deliberately following the water.' Flowing water has no intention of falling flowers', leaving empty regrets and losses.

But that's how wonderful things are. Just when he was completely dead set on reforming the Qing Dynasty, the Huo Jiajun in Nanyang suddenly rose up at this time, defeated the Dutch and Portuguese, rose rapidly like a comet, and now defeated the United States of America, which he once regarded as his second homeland. Now, a paper treaty has ceded most of the United States.

This kind of fact makes Rong Hong's mind extremely complicated.

"But no matter what, I am still a Han and a Chinese after all! The rise of China is the most important thing for me! Moreover, here I finally found this hope, found the hope of bringing China back to the top! I will continue to fight for this team and the country that is about to be established." Rong Hong thought secretly in his heart.

At this time, after Huang Sheng read out all the contents of the "Chicago Treaty", the joyful atmosphere in the small meeting reached the first level.

After a few minutes of letting everyone's emotions out, Huang Sheng stretched out his hand and pressed it weakly, signaling everyone to calm down.

According to the telegram sent by Koyama, we are required to get a good grasp of the establishment of the political system west of the Mississippi River that originally belonged to the states of the United States, to redivide the territories of the provinces, and to organize the governors of the provinces and the departments of government at all levels as soon as possible. ”

At the beginning, Huo Shan wanted to occupy the territory north of the Missouri River and the Pratt River, and west of the Rocky Mountain and the Grande River as the territory of the Huo family's army.

However, with the development of the war and the connivance of the British, Huo Shan's appetite grew, and now the entire west of the Mississippi River, including Alaska, has become the new territory of the Huo family's army, so the original political division is no longer suitable and needs to be redivided.

"The original Alaska is still Youzhou Province, the former Washington State and Oregon are still Liangzhou Province, the former California is still Yizhou Province, the former San Francisco is still the municipality of OCT, the former Montana and Ihoda are still Liangzhou Province, the former Nevada and Utah are still Yongzhou Province, the former Wyoming and Colorado are still Jizhou Province, the original North and South Dakota are still Qingzhou Province, these eight provinces and one city still maintain the original territory!"

After reading this, Huang Sheng paused, giving everyone around him a time to think about it, before he said again: "New Mexico is now merged as a whole, and it will be merged with Arizona to form Yanzhou Province!"

Originally, Yanzhou Province only had the Rocky Mountains and the west part of the Rio Grande River, but now the remaining eastern part has also been integrated into Yanzhou Province.

"Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and northwestern Missouri merged to form Xuzhou Province!"

Originally, only the northwestern corner of Wisconsin belonged to Xuzhou Province, but more than 10,000 square kilometers belonged to Xuzhou Province, and after the signing of the "Chicago Treaty", the northwest part of the line from the Chipawa River to Reims belonged to Huojiajun, so that the new Xuzhou Province would directly increase by 40,000 square kilometers on the original basis, exceeding the area of one Taiwan-Bay Island.

"Missouri and Iowa as a whole merged into Jingzhou Province!"

Originally, only the northern part of Missouri was previously included in Jingzhou, and now the remaining southern part of Missouri has also been integrated.

"Kansas as a whole and Nebraska merged into Yuzhou Province!"

As in Jingzhou Province, only the northern part of Kansas originally belonged to Yuzhou, and now the entire state's 213,000 square kilometers of land are all integrated into Yuzhou Province.

"In addition to the above-mentioned states and provinces, we will establish two new provinces in the American Territory this time, one of which is the merger of Arkansas and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River into a new province called Yangzhou Province!

"Oklahoma and Texas were merged into a new province called Jiaozhou Province, and the provincial seat was White Horse City (formerly Oklahoma City)!"

"Okay, that's how the provinces and cities in the Americas are divided as a whole!" After finishing speaking, Huang Sheng sighed lightly and put down the documents in his hand.

"Prime Minister, isn't the last Jiaozhou Province too big? Oklahoma and Texas together have a land area of 880,000 square kilometers!"

"And this is not Alaska, which is still wild, from the earliest Spaniards to the later Americans, South Texas has been doing very well, and it has not been affected by the war, and it still maintains a very good economic and industrial base, and if we can replenish the population enough, it will soon be able to develop here. ”

"In addition, Texas and Oklahoma are located in the Great Plains, with good agricultural conditions, and it is easy to resettle a large number of immigrants, and the large area of provincial governance may overwhelm the future Jiaozhou provincial government and affect the economic development of Jiaozhou Province!"

Huo Dian, Minister of Civil Affairs, fell into words, and the other ministers of the surrounding government affairs yuan nodded at the same time.

As a Chinese, they are very clear about how deep the Chinese feel for the land, and it can be expected that provinces such as Xuzhou, Jiaozhou, and Yangzhou provinces, which are close to the Mississippi River with sufficient water sources, fertile land, and flat terrain, will inevitably be the first choice for Qing immigrants in the future.

The excessively large land area of Jiaozhou Province may be nothing at first, but after five or ten years, I am afraid that a provincial government of Jiaozhou will not be able to afford the government affairs of the entire provincial government. (To be continued)

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