Port of Yokosuka, Japan.

This former home port of the Japanese Shogunate Navy, and later the headquarters port of the Japanese Shogunate Coast Guard fleet, is now heavily guarded, and everywhere there are coast guards wearing white leggings, blue uniforms, and flat sunflower hats, carrying Taiping-style rifles to open the cordon. It is said that the head of the Mito family accompanied the commander of the Damei Pacific Fleet on his visit to ensure the safety of His Excellency the commander.

And the military port, oh, it should be inside the police port, and the warships and warships are neatly arranged. "Akagi", "Kaga", "Furutaka", "Aoba", "Myoko", "Haguro", "Mogami", "Tone", "Suzuya", "Kumano", "Mikuma", "Atago", "Maya", "Chokai", the two aircraft-carrying frigates and the twelve armored destroyers have all expired, and all the main forces of the planned Tokushu Kaiji are now concentrated in the port of Yokosuka, except for the four aircraft-carrying frigates that are still under construction.

In addition to these capital ships, there are also five large armed transport ships based on the Nanjima-class transport ships and the Nanyang-class sail carriers, named "Yamato", "Musashi", "Shinano", "Nagato", and "Mutsu", all of which have gathered in Yokosuka Port today.

After several years of lying on the salary and having enough votes in the Malay campaign, Japan's maritime power finally completed its rebirth in August of the 11th year of the Ming Dynasty. Compared to the previous shogunate navy that was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese naval forces that have now reappeared in the world under the name of the Tokushu Sea have become more powerful. Not only is the total tonnage of the ships larger and the quality better, but also the formation of a system, which also has a truly formidable air power.

And there is another reason why Japan's maritime forces can be revived in such a short period of time, and that is that the Japanese navy has never really disappeared. Previously, only the ships of the Navy were lost, but the ranks of the Navy were maintained intact and converted into the Coast Guard and the Texas Immigrant Transport Fleet. Moreover, the seafarers were greatly trained by transporting armed Japanese immigrants to distant Texas – before that, the Japanese navy had rarely gone to sea for training due to lack of funds to purchase coal, let alone 10,000 or 20,000 nautical miles at a time.

And because the coastlines of the Caribbean Sea and South America are not very peaceful, and pirates are infested from time to time, the ships transporting armed immigrants, such as "Yamato", "Musashi", "Shinano", "Nagato", "Mutsu", etc., are all equipped with 155 mm, 120 mm and 75 mm rapid-fire guns. Therefore, the sailors on these five large armed transport ships did not lack the opportunity to participate in actual combat and use artillery for design training.

In order to allow more former naval personnel to keep their jobs and skills, the Tokugawa Shogunate's naval office also arranged four groups of personnel for each large armed transport ship, and each time they were dispatched, two groups of personnel were on board and took turns to practice. When a voyage is over, two groups of people get off the ship and change two groups to get on the boat and continue to work.

In addition, the Coast Guard, which is responsible for anti-smuggling in Japan's coastal waters, and the Texas Coast Guard, which is responsible for the coastal defense of Texas City, have also absorbed a large number of former naval personnel. Therefore, the essence of the Japanese Navy's many years of training has been preserved.

With these elite soldiers, they will naturally be able to take over the fourteen capital ships soon!

At present, the sailors of the Texas Sea are standing on the side decks of 14 capital ships and 5 armed transport ships, their uniforms straight and motionless, only the corners of their uniforms moving with the wind.

On the Akagi ship, a group of people gathered on the side of the beveled aircraft deck, and on the side was a military band, ticking to play the Texas Sea Self March - "Tosho Daquan Now Bless Us". A flag of Tokugawa shamrock is slowly raised.

By the way, the "Texas" of this "Texas Haizi" is not an abbreviation of Texas, but the meaning of Tokugawa State! Therefore, the Texas Sea needs the blessing of the powerful god Ieyasu, and the flag of Texas is also the flag of the three-leaf sunflower.

The first commander of the Texas Navy, Takeki Enomoto, and the commander of the Texas Ground Self-Defense Force, Saigo Takamori, stood in the middle of the queue and gave a Ming-style military salute to the slowly rising flag.

The brief ceremony was quickly completed, and Enomoto Takeki and Saigo Takamori kept their faces strained as if they hadn't heard the congratulatory words of encouragement from the people around them. It wasn't until Zhuge Weidao and Tokugawa Qizhao, who had arrived from the Ming Dynasty, walked in front of them that the two bowed respectfully.

Tokugawa Saiaki opened his mouth and said: "Enomoto-kun, Saigo-kun, although you are Japanese, from now on, you will be the commander of the Texas Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Texas Ground Self-Defense Force, and accept the direct jurisdiction of the Daming Pacific Fleet. Whether the Tokugawa Prefecture can survive on the North American continent depends on your bravery and resourcefulness! ”

"Hay!"

Enomoto and Saigo agreed loudly, and then bowed to Zhuge Weidao, and said, "Please take care of me!" ”

This time, it was not only Haizi who was sent to Texas, but also an independent mixed brigade of Luzi. The five armed transport ships were used to transport seven or eight thousand Lu Zi officers and soldiers and thousands of women accompanying the army—they were not consolation women, although some of them could also do a little meat business, but they were mainly used to marry people who had already moved to Texas Haizi and Lu Zi.

According to the plan, these officers and soldiers of Texas Luzi and Texas Haizi will stay in Texas as much as possible, as long as they can keep them, then Lao Mei will have a headache in the future!

The 11th President of the United States of America, Andrew Brown. Jackson has a lot of headaches these days!

But it wasn't the Japanese devils in Texas who gave him a headache, as a war president, how could he have a headache because of tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants? His country now has a population of 20 million, and the vast majority of them are white!

No other country in the entire New World has that much of a white population. And thanks to the efforts of these high-quality white populations from Europe, the development of industry, agriculture, overseas trade and other aspects of the United States is very rapid! Although the industrial output value is far inferior to that of Britain, its per capita national income is higher than that of Britain, and comparable to that of the Ming Empire on the other side of the Pacific.

And at this time, the "per capita" of the United States was really more "average", rather than the poor Irish farmers and the big bankers in London to "equalize". So this average and affluent country has a fatal attraction for the industrious, brave people of the European continent on the other side of the Atlantic, but who have not yet made a fortune.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of white immigrants cross the ocean to the United States, adding another upward impetus to the thriving country.

If someone is counting GDP at this time, then the GDP of the United States is likely to be about to catch up with the United Kingdom, and its growth rate will definitely crush the Ming Dynasty!

Becoming the president of the United States in this era is simply "lying down to win".

And Andrew. Jackson is a president who can toss, and he is now tossing with the central bank of the United States on the one hand; On the one hand, it is a headache to toss with his cabinet members.

The central bank of the former is called the Bank of the Second United States, which is the second central bank of the United States! Although the United States has not been open for many years, it has had two central banks, and the previous one, called the First United States Bank, has been tossed and collapsed. And Andrew. Jackson's dream was to collapse the Second United States Bank as well!

And the reason why he and his cabinet members are torn is that the wife of his war secretary Eaton is a junior. This is not a big deal in Europe, but in the United States, which was influenced by Puritan ideas, it was a "politically incorrect" thing. So the Eatons were ostracized by their colleagues, and Jackson also sided with Eaton on this issue because he had been in contact with a married woman, and asked the ministers not to exclude Eaton, but the ministers thought that this was interfering with their personal freedom, so there was a cabinet strike.

As a result, the current US government can only be maintained by Jackson, Eaton, and a few of Jackson's cronies, and is also jokingly called the "kitchen cabinet." Now President Jackson is working overtime in the white house to deal with the matter of rectifying the US central bank, and when he was having a headache, the door of his office was suddenly pushed open by Secretary of War Eaton.

Jackson glanced up at Eaton, and immediately saw a hint of panic in the old subordinate's expression.

"Eaton, what's wrong?" Jackson asked.

"The British ambassador just called and said that the Japanese devils are going to send more troops to Texas!"

(End of chapter)