July 16th

It was the vigorous wheat harvest season, and Richard issued a royal decree;

The location of Denver Castle was named Phoenix City, which means "Phoenix Nirvana", indicating that the future of Phoenix City will be even better.

Phoenix City includes but is not limited to Denver Castle, with a total population of 133,700 (including hard labor convicts), and is the largest city in the Tang Kingdom.

The location of the Indian Valley is named Taoyuan City, including but not limited to the Indian Valley, which means that "finding the peach source is good to avoid Qin, and the peach is red and seeing the spring of another year", even if the war on the Colorado Plateau spreads, it is still like a paradise.

Taoyuan City has 37,900 residents, including 11,755 Chinese families and 955 white families, and there is not a single prisoner with hard labor.

In the irregular valley with a total area of about 372 square kilometers, there are 11 hydraulic sawmills, 5 flour mills (note that 9 flour mills are under construction to varying degrees), 2 cement factories (one is already in operation and one is about to be put into operation), 4 garment factories, 27 various distilleries, 12 food factories, two coal mines, 19 hydraulic oil mills, one steel mill, more than 100 blacksmith shops, more than 160 carpenter shops, 13 gun-making workshops, 29 pickle workshops, 9 tofu workshops, There are also a variety of other handicraft workshops, which have initially formed a complete industrial capacity.

In addition, there are more than 1,200 small and medium-sized farms in the valley, which not only grow rice, but also raise a large number of chickens, ducks and poultry to supply the city of Phoenix.

The grain and other cash crops that are abundant on the Colorado Plateau are processed in Taoyuan City into bags of flour, rice, barrels and barrels of beer and liquor, pickled pickles and mustards, and turned into bread, pastries, biscuits and other foods.

Therefore, outside the valley mouth of Taoyuan City, about 4.2 kilometers away from Cherry Creek, a large railway station is being built, which is in a semicircular structure, surrounded by a 3.6-meter-high defensive wall, with defensive towers and forts at both ends, and is heavily guarded.

Trains enter the railway station and pass through the city gates, which are closed to form a fortified fortress in wartime.

The Taoyuan City Railway Station is an important measure to strengthen the city's defense, and any invading enemy does not break through the railway station, so don't want to touch the edge of the Taoyuan City Taniguchi Fortress.

The railroad from Taoyuan to Denver has been paved, using rails from the Taoyuan Iron and Steel Plant, which continues to extend northwest into the intensive agricultural and animal husbandry area.

On the one hand, after passing through Denver to the south, with the hard work of 4,200 Indian hard servants, it is hoped that the main line of the Western Railway will be communicated as soon as possible and the plan for the whole line will be completed.

Richard has been urging the construction of the railway to be accelerated, but unfortunately he has to be in a hurry due to the lack of manpower during the wheat harvest season.

He has been worried that the United States will start a war in August ~ September, and the number of American troops gathered in Kansas City has reached more than 40,000, and they are rebuilding transportation stations and roads, hoarding supplies, showing full malice.

If it turns out as expected, the Colorado Plateau harvest will turn into a disaster, and the supplies will not be able to be transported, and the piles will be full of pits and valleys, and you can only watch the mold rot, how sad it would be!

So, in case the expectation is not bad.

Richard was ready to lead the cavalry to take the initiative to attack, delay the offensive pace of the American army, destroy its logistics and transportation lines, and intercept them layer by layer, so as to achieve the goal of gaining time.

From mid-July to the end of July

Richard has been in fear, sometimes so anxious that he can't sleep in the middle of the night, always worried that the US military will take advantage of this fateful opportunity to kill.

It turned out that he was overly worried.

The most brutal and bloody siege battle of the Mexican-American War lasted for two months, and the US army repeatedly attacked Mexico City, with endless artillery fire, but encountered head-on attacks, and little progress was made.

At this time, although the U.S. military captured most of Mexico's territory, the resistance in various places was very fierce, causing heavy casualties to the U.S. military.

The Mexican army is still fighting fiercely with the US army throughout the country, and the Mexican people are still waging guerrilla warfare in the US-occupied areas, fighting the US army with broadswords, spears, and shotguns.

In February 1847 alone, an ambush killed more than 300 American troops, inspired by the victory of the Tang Kingdom, the anti-aggression battles across the country surged, and the scale of the battle was much larger than the original historical period.

In July, Mexican guerrillas attacked Puebra, killing the U.S. governor and destroying most of the 870 U.S. defenders. The U.S. military then brutally suppressed it, but it was still unable to extinguish the flames of the Mexican people's revolt.

In July 1847, 28,000 U.S. troops were fighting guerrillas and another 35,000 were besieging Mexico City.

Considering the difficulty and strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Kingdom, the United States had to repeatedly postpone the plan of the westward expedition and use all its strength to deal with the Mexicans, preparing to subdue one first.

On August 12, the second phase of the Western Railway was finally completed, and the southbound and northbound railway lines were successfully closed.

The four trains that had been waiting in Rio Rancho for a long time were loaded with supplies and arrived in Denver on August 14 for a grand opening ceremony of the Western Railroad, which was warmly welcomed by the people of Denver.

The supplies on these trains were unloaded on the same day, and the trains were filled with high-quality coal, and then loaded with flour, beer, liquor, a large number of cattle, horses, and all kinds of food on their way back, and also heralded the opening of the Western Railway.

At this point

Richard's heart that had been hanging was put down, Taoyuan City was working overtime day and night, all kinds of products were piled up in warehouses, and the railway was urgently needed to connect the whole kingdom with a modern and high-capacity means of transportation.

On the Colorado Plateau

All adult men between the ages of 18 and 30 (except for indigenous Indians and hard servants) must be unconditionally drafted and serve in the army when the kingdom wars need it.

As of the end of August

The total population of the Tang Kingdom has exceeded 336,000, of which 4,332 babies are less than a year old, most of whom are born to Indian women who were distributed to soldiers and civil officials after the encirclement and suppression of Indian tribes last year.

During the wheat harvest season on the Colorado Plateau, it was common to see Caucasian or Native American women with big bellies, helping in the fields or by the wagons, which made Richard happiest.

How many exactly?

Because of the general conservative and restrained character of the Chinese, it is really difficult to investigate this matter, but according to the approximate statistics of the women who have shown their pregnancy, there are at least 3.5~38,000.

What does this mean?

It means that more than half of the women are pregnant and about to give birth, which shows that these Chinese cubs are really hard, cultivating land during the day and farming at night.

In order to cope with the first baby boom faced by the Tang Kingdom, Richard deliberately negotiated with the British, focusing on midwives and Chinese medicine practitioners among Chinese immigrants, as long as they paid $100 for each person served.

As long as the money is in place, there is no doubt about the ability of the British to get things done.

This price is four times higher than the cost of ordinary Chinese immigrants, so it is expected that the number of midwives and Chinese medicine practitioners arriving in North America will increase dramatically from October, and Chinese medicine halls will also be everywhere.

The Shenzhou continent is an inexhaustible treasure, and the human resources are endless, which is the greatest confidence for Richard to gain a foothold in North America and develop and grow.

September 4th, around 11:00 p.m

Richard led some military and political officials to take the southbound Western Railway train, leaving Denver, which had been guarded for a year, and embarked on his second national tour.

The train runs along the railway line, and along the way the barren New Mexico region is bare rocky mountains, the Gobi Desert is left behind, and the scenery is dull and desolate, as if walking on the surface of Mars, inaccessible.

Richard retracted his gaze in a good mood, he was riding in two passenger cars attached to the back of the train, and the accompanying guards squadron and military and political officials, a total of more than 150 people, were all crammed into these two carriages.

As a result, Richard also had only one separate opposite train seat, separated by wooden planks in the middle, forming a narrow space.

By the time of the evening

The opposite train seat removes the small table legs, and the table top is placed on the seats on either side to form a bed that can be reclined and rested.

His Majesty the King is the only one who can enjoy such treatment, there is no way, the conditions in the early days of the kingdom are simple, there is not even a special train, everything can only be simplified because of ugliness.

But this did not affect Richard's happy mood in the slightest, from Denver to Rio Rancho Fortress, the train needs to run for a day, and the speed is about 45~50 kilometers per hour.

This train was made by a British 1840's "Fire."

Driven by a steam locomotive, the "Fly" is one of the most advanced locomotive models in the world today, with a top speed of 95 km/h.

Of course, such a speed can only be achieved with light load on a specific high-quality track, and does not have universal significance. Trains loaded with goods can only reach speeds of up to more than 50 kilometers per hour.

Even more than 100 years later, ordinary trains will only be at this level, but with a stronger carrying capacity.

Next

6:00 a.m

When it was dark, Richard's train pulled into the Rio Rancho Fortress train station with a long air whistle.

More than a year apart

Rio Rancho has changed dramatically, from the highland fortress on the banks of the Holy Spring River to the town of Rio Rancho, a 4.3-kilometre-long distance has been built into a fortress city of about 12 square kilometers.

The streets in the city are orderly, wide and straight, and most of the brick houses are in the shape of a "hui", which is very conducive to street fighting and defense.

Most of the buildings near the street entrance belong to banks, telegraph offices, police stations, railway companies and mining companies, and most of them are 3~4 storey sturdy buildings.

Gun emplacements and heavy machine gun emplacements can be set up on the roof, which can be condescending in wartime, and can easily control the surrounding area.

Rio Rancho Fort is second only to Denver Fort as a garrison castle, and the kingdom has spent a lot of resources to build it, and the results have been gratifying.

The railway station is located 6.7 kilometers south of the Rio Rancho fortress, and there is only a lonely railway station and two rows of brick houses, as well as a large livestock fence, and more than 30 carts neatly placed outside the fence, which is mainly used for mule and horse foster care.

When there is no transport to do, the mules and horses are unloaded and placed in the livestock pens.

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