Chapter 119: Pressure
At the same time that Tom was writing the house rules forbidding marriage and having children with powerful families, Youngster began the largest reorganization war since the Mayflower landed on the American continent.
Since the Thirteen States period, the United States of America has not faced a purely European-style army due to its unique geographical location in the Americas.
For the old Yankee administration, whether it was the American Revolutionary War, or the American seizure of land from Spain (in this case, the American seizure of Florida), or several other hostile wars between the United States and Europe.
The old Yankee administration of the United States of America has never faced the old elite armies of Europe head-on.
Thus, before the advent of Tom the Great to the United States, military service in the United States of America was dominated by militias, and the American government did not need a more specialized military to deal with war.
The conscription in the United States is also a temporary conscription during the war, and this conscription system is difficult to ensure that these temporary conscripts recruit new recruits will also have effective immediate combat effectiveness.
On the other hand, Tom the Great's army was a purely professional army with German veterans as the core, supplemented by Dixie Red Neck, Irish refugees, Middle Eastern and Eastern European serfs, and East Asian employees.
With the exception of the Red Neck, who learned marksmanship through herding and hunting, most of the German veterans received complete and detailed militarized training in North Germany.
Although Tom the Great promised that all the German veterans who had become owners of assembly line bulk factories would not let them go to war again.
But let them be instructors and earn some extra money, they are still happy.
What's more, the position of the factory owner in the Smith factory area is limited, and there are still many German veterans who have not become factory owners.
If nothing else, all the male members of the Smith family, except for the little furry boy who was less than fifteen years old, and Tom, who had evaded military service, were veterans who had served in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
There are even many veterans who have participated in wars, killed people, and seen blood.
Judging from Tom's involvement in the Mexican Civil War, if Tom's knightly guard was composed of American militia and commanded by John Mueller,
It's not going to be the result that Tom needs.
You want the militias in the United States to give up occupying cities, burning, killing, and plundering, and directly leveling the possible booty and venting basins?
Impossible, the American militia can already be called a miracle of American military discipline if it does not turn all the women in a city into one person and two lives.
And what is the concept of military discipline in the standing armies of the European continent?
Even Tsarist Russia, which had the most chaotic military discipline and the most weak national strength, could resolutely implement a scorched earth policy to consume the invincible French army of the invincible Napoleon I.
(The Cossack part of the Russian army was relatively the most resistant to the scorched-earth policy, but in the end, on the orders of Alexander I, the scorched-earth policy was implemented.) )
You let the old Yankee army of the past fight against the European armies with such a lower limit of military discipline?
What kind of army was the old Yankee army before? You let him fight a European-style army? Can he fight? He couldn't fight.
No, you know.
The Texas government is still quietly declaring its submission to the old Yankee government of the United States, but there is no actual submission other than verbal submission.
Taxes are paid with a state bank face value of hundreds of thousands of dollars in HERO dollars,
As long as Elder Yankee sent any investigation or tax collector or something, he was guaranteed to die in the chemical pool of a factory in Texas Smith the next day, and even the body could not be found.
Before Charles's speech, the attitude of the old Yankee towards Texas was still laissez-faire, as long as Texas submitted to the old Yankee government for one day, the old Yankee government could slowly integrate the Texas region sooner or later.
They won't always be in power with a paranoia like Tom the Great in Fantasy Company.
When HERO has a gentle person at the helm, sooner or later the company will join the American family.
But when Youngster looked at the Texas intelligence Charles had gathered, they couldn't sit still.
Except for checks
In addition to collecting various circumstances about Tom the Great's ascension to the throne, Les also collected information about the newly established Hero Orphanage and the Texas military system.
Father Martin's mass search for orphans under the age of ten in Texas and Dixie alarmed Charles.
After Charles sent someone to investigate the HERO orphanage, it was determined that the orphanage was a purely militarized college.
An academy for training war maniacs.
And Texas also has a Prussian military system that matches this academy of war madmen.
A Texas that does not listen to the tune and does not listen to propaganda, if it honestly engages in industry or agriculture, no matter how it is conducted, it is no threat to the American Yankee elders.
In a way, it can even be said that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
But you Tom came up with a European-style army, and you also did military school education,
Mexico was defeated by you, what is the army you are still cultivating?
The most important thing is that the Texas region does not engage in the navy.
The area bordering the lands under Tom the Great, with the exception of the United Mexican States, which has less than a third of its territory left, is the old Yankee government of the United States.
The intelligence that the number of "security guards" in the HERO military academy and the company continues to rise, and Tom Smith's ascension to the throne are the most critical factors that prompted the decisive battle between Elder Young and Tom.
What Charles said was all about the scene, and this information was the fundamental reason why Elder Yang finally agreed to Charles's proposal.
If you don't put a knife on Yang Ki Lao's neck, how can Yang Ji Lao unite against Tom?
After Elder Yang Ki read Charles's information, he understood that the man with a hippie smile, moody face, picking his feet in meetings, and receiving diplomatic envoys to eat mutton noodles in front of him had long been ready to unify the United States by force.
The ascension to the throne was ostensibly Tom's attempt to paralyze and win over Europeans by opening marriage channels, but it also exposed Tom Smith's ambitions.
The Yankees were also forced to give up their illusions of taking Texas and Mexico before Tom was fully grown.
The total population of Texas and Mexico is less than 2.5 million, and the Great Lakes Industrial Zone and the new industrial area of the western United States are about 20 million people.
The attitude is biased towards Texas, but the Dixie region outside of Texas is about eight million people under the control of the Yankee Army.
What worries Youngkee is that the population of Texas was only about 200,000 a few years ago, just after the end of the Civil War, and when the Mexican region was conquered by Tom Smith, the population was only a no-man's land that tended to zero.