After entering 1851, the Tang Kingdom developed by leaps and bounds in various fields in the previous year, and made great progress in social industry, minerals, agriculture and animal husbandry economy.

Driven by rounds of Chinese gold rush immigration, since mid-September 1849, when the national population of the Tang Kingdom exceeded the 2 million mark, there were two reliable transit ports in Midway and Hawaii, and the immigration boom reached a new level.

By the end of 1850, the country's population reached 2,889,500, just one step away from 3 million.

By the end of February 1851, the country's population had officially crossed the 3 million mark, and the proportion of the Chinese population had risen to 78.3 percent, with whites and Mexicans accounting for 21.7 percent (not counting the indigenous Indian population and prisoners in the forced labor camps).

Of course, it is also necessary to see;

Three years after the Tang Kingdom signed a peace treaty with the United States, the population of the United States continued to grow by leaps and bounds, from less than 20 million to 24.77 million.

Enter 1851

It was also the second year of the Tang-Mexico War, because the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom ravaged the central and southern states of Mexico, burning and looting everywhere, a large number of Mexican refugees were forced to leave their homes and gather around Mexico City, forming a wave of more than 1.7 million Mexican refugees.

The corrupt and inefficient Mexican government has once again shown great incompetence in the face of such a massive refugee influx, allowing the crisis to unfold and lead to the catastrophic "Mexican Famine".

According to incomplete statistics

In January ~ March 1851 alone, as many as 720,000 people died due to hunger and epidemics, and the area around Mexico City was full of hungry mayflies, like a hell on earth.

The situation in Mexico City is also not optimistic, with a large number of poor and hungry people struggling to survive, while the upper class and the owners of the large estates are drunk and obsessed with money, and they do not care about the lives of the people at the bottom.

By the end of March 1851, the newly built Central Railway was sending a steady stream of recruits to the southern front, and Aguascaliste received a total of 12,000 Chinese recruits from three divisions.

At this point, the Tang Kingdom gathered in Aguascalienste, including three cavalry divisions, three infantry divisions, and two Mexican servant divisions (a total of 12,000 people), including 37,500 troops, hoarded a large amount of military supplies, and the preparations for the Battle of Mexico City were all ready.

"There is no hurry, the official offensive will be carried out before the summer harvest, that is, in June." Richard said with a determined expression.

In the temporary palace, the commanders of the three cavalry divisions, the commanders of the three infantry divisions, and the commander of the cuirassier regiment of the royal family, Colonel Chen Chuan, and other senior officers who had ended the military operation in the recent stage, all gathered in the palace to participate in the military aircraft.

Richard looked relaxed and teased the two Menghu who were crawling beside him, this is the young and strong Menghu bred in the palace, the beast pet of His Majesty the King.

"Your Majesty means ......," Colonel Tian Mantun of the 1st Cavalry Division asked tentatively.

Richard glanced at everyone and instructed Colonel Chen Chuan, who was standing beside him; Since everyone is wondering, why not strike while the iron is hot and conquer Mexico City in one fell swoop, then you can tell everyone the truth that "a good meal is not afraid of being late". In war, relaxation is the king. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Chuan respectfully accepted the order.

Then he took a few steps, made a gesture, and then pointed to the large map hanging from the temple;

"Wechen is hereby ordered to discuss the upcoming Battle of Mexico City with his colleagues in the army, and try to make a move to lead the way.

The micro-minister is dull, and it is not enough to comprehend the holy will.

Where it is shallow, I still ask my colleagues in the military to testify.

From a strategic point of view;

Our army is growing stronger, the domestic economy is booming, the industry, agriculture and animal husbandry are developing rapidly, and the large cotton plantations mainly in New Mexico and Chihuahua are beginning to see scale.

By the end of March, a spring famine had caused a large number of people in Mexico to starve to death, and many states in the central and southern regions had lost their harvests, and the situation became more and more serious.

Although public opinion in the United States is dry, it has maintained caution and restraint in the military field, and has not found any obvious moves to expand its military and increase its armaments, which is conducive to us exchanging time for space, so as to seize the greatest geopolitical war interests and put the greatest pressure on the Mexicans.

Britain, France, Spain, and other European countries are far away, and their respective interests are different, and judging from the current situation, it is impossible to have a substantial impact on the military operations of our Tang Kingdom.

Although London has been highly critical lately, considering that it itself has just experienced an unprecedented "Irish potato crisis", it has only eased slightly since the second half of last year, and the whole of Ireland has lost a quarter of its population.

So, we can actually ignore this double standard.

The purpose of this war is to weaken both the population and the size of the enemy, and in view of this, the summer harvest from late June to early July will be the focus of this year.

On the one hand, we must ensure the income from the sowing of land in the occupied areas in the north, mobilize as many people as possible to harvest quickly, return the grain to the warehouse, ensure the harvest of cotton and grain crops, and protect the interests of the Chinese immigrants.

On the other hand

Beginning in late May, the Kingdom will assemble five cavalry divisions to launch a large-scale "Clean-up Operation" against towns and villages in central and southern Mexico.

The purpose of Operation Cleanup is to crack down on Mexican civil disobedience, burn crops, and drive and deter more Mexican refugees from fleeing to the capital, Mexico City.

Early June

His Majesty will personally lead the main army of the kingdom to the south and go to Mexico City to confront the enemy, contain the main force of the Mexican army, and create a favorable environment for the "Qingxiang Operation".

The purpose of the war is to ......"

Hearing Colonel Chen Chuan's explanation, all the senior officers suddenly realized that they were all respectfully called "Your Majesty Shengming".

King Richard's move was a deliberate move, and after more than a year of war, the total population of Mexico has dropped to less than 4.6 million, dealing a heavy blow to its overall national strength.

After a few months of confrontation, half of the country's population, that is, more than 2.2 million Mexican refugees, will be displaced, and the summer harvest will be missed, and the Mexicans who have no food will have to drink the northwest wind, how much will be left?

Throughout the history of the countries of the world

The number of soldiers killed and wounded during war is often less than a fraction of the civilian deaths, because the low-level civilians who die from the spread of war and epidemics are often 10 times or even dozens of times more than the soldiers on the battlefield.

Richard knew that Mexicans were very promising, and that in later generations, the total population of the country exceeded 120 million, and tens of millions of Mexicans crossed the border into the United States, which became a major problem between the United States and Mexico that could not be solved for decades.

The case for those who cross the border in Mexico is strong;

California, Texas, and New Mexico were originally Mexican territories, and we just went back to our homes.

If you cut him in half now, there won't be so many people in 150 years, right?

None of the officers present could have imagined that His Majesty was thinking so far ahead, and after discussing it for a while, he took his leave and left the palace.

Richard stretched out his hand and scratched the soft and smooth hair of Menghu who was sitting down, and the two Menghu, one left and one right, stretched out their heads and pressed against him affectionately, like a well-behaved kitten.

At this time, Richard's gaze into the distance appeared deep and wise.

The Tang Kingdom did not invest much troops on the front line, and the agricultural output of the seven northern states of Mexico could fully supply this small army, and the only bulk materials that needed to be transported were weapons and ammunition, and the construction of the Central Railway at a huge cost had been spent, so it had the conditions for long-term military confrontation.

Thankfully, he made a decisive decision to wage war against Mexico, and now he has seen more lucrative gains than he imagined.

This bite is really bubbling with oil!

In Guatemala, Central America, Tang and Mexico have been in secret contact through the channels of the local government, looking for the possibility of concluding a war contract.

After winning the Battle of Tanigua, the state of Aguascaliste was added as its own reward, that is, the eight states in northern and central Mexico, with a total area of 1 million and 770 square kilometers.

In the beginning

The Mexican government flatly refused, and the bargaining chip for the peace talks was to cede the land of the three northern states, with a total territory of about 573,000 square kilometers, and the Tang Kingdom would pay a certain amount of land sales costs.

There is a huge difference between the positions of the two sides, and the negotiators of the Tang Kingdom have an extremely tough attitude, and directly throw the negotiation text in front of the Mexicans, saying; "You only have to say OK and keep fighting, and the longer it drags on, the greater the price you pay."

Later, the Mexican negotiators' position softened, saying that the seven northern states were not impossible to negotiate, and the key was the conditions.

That is, they ask for large sums of money.

The current Mexican government is essentially divided and in danger of a serious civil war, with President Santayo just a puppet to bear the blame, and the actual power is in the hands of Finance Minister Rodriguez and General Leto, the commander-in-chief of the Mexican government forces.

The fierce fighting between the two factions led to the delay in the Mexican government's decision to end the war, and directly led to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in Mexico City, which caused strong resentment in the central and southern states of Mexico, and civil uprisings one after another.

And all this has aggravated the deep disaster in Mexico.

If history has not changed

The division of Mexico would be inevitable, plunging into a full-scale civil war in 1860.

The emergence of the Tang Kingdom and its powerful invasion of northern Mexico, the extreme corruption of the Mexican government and a series of mismeasures, coupled with the incessant struggle for its own selfishness, led to the current "Mexico City Famine", which further exacerbated the internal crisis.

Richard is carefully considering whether to postpone the decision to move the whole army south in early June, because given the dire situation facing the Mexican government, they may not make it to the end of the year.

If the Mexican Civil War broke out earlier, it would give the Tang Kingdom the opportunity to bypass the U.S.-owned state of Monterey and gain a valuable piece of territory adjacent to the sea in the Gulf of Mexico.

Or push for the division of Mexico, making it a few small countries in North and Central America, and completely cut off the troubles.

Think about it

In fact, this plan is not appropriate, first of all, the states of central and southern Mexico are extremely fragmented, and the territory of each state is small and dense, the large ones are 3~40,000 square kilometers, and the small ones are only a few thousand square kilometers.

Even if the Tang Kingdom bypassed Monterey and got such a small piece of territory adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, it would not be of much practical significance.

Time of war

The United States could easily cut off these tens of square kilometers of territory leading to the Gulf of Mexico, and the U.S. Navy fleet could concentrate all its efforts on blockading the area, which would not play a role in sustaining the war and linking the European maritime trade routes.

It's too big to move in Mexico and cause a lot of resentment in London.

Britain's North America policy is a "three-country balance", that is, the United States, the Tang Kingdom and Mexico contain each other, so that none of them will become bigger, resulting in an imbalance of power in North America.

The Tang Kingdom was not afraid that the British army of more than 200,000 troops would cross the ocean to intervene and let the calculating British shed blood and sacrifice for the Mexicans, this possibility was not even 1/10,000.

The point is that Britain, as a world hegemon, has too much political, economic and military influence to be able to turn its hands into clouds and rain without a single soldier.

There are too many options in the London entrainment that can force the Tang Kingdom to bow its head.

Just restricting trade with Europe, the Tang Kingdom can't afford it with its current small size, let alone others?

The Tang Kingdom cannot now take the risk of losing Britain's support, otherwise, once Britain turns to ease relations with the United States, the Tang Kingdom will be in a dangerous situation.

From this, Richard thought of Sir Henry John Temple, the foreign secretary in the cabinet in London, and could not help but have a deep headache.

This duke has always been hostile to the Tang Kingdom, and last year, he led the letter of inquiry sent by the British government in response to the Tang Kingdom's occupation of Hawaii and the annexation of Panama.

Sir Henry John Temple, the most influential elder in the British Whig Party, is only 43 years old this year, and if he follows the original historical trajectory in the years to come, he will serve two terms as British Prime Minister.

With his hostile attitude towards the Tang Kingdom, I'm afraid the future is not good!

Part of the reason why Richard planned his trip to Europe was because he wanted to find a suitable opportunity during his visit to Europe, so he took it personally.

Others certainly don't have such otherworldly skills, but they have no problem, as long as they plan reasonably, Richard is very sure that he can get out safely, and Britain will never put suspicion on himself.

After all, Sir Henry John Temple has always been known for his sharp views, and there are countless opponents in the political arena.

If the arrangement is accidental, it is even more fine.

Whenever I think of the British Prime Minister as a hard-line white supremacist with a natural hostility towards the Orientals and other peoples, this is most likely reflected in the foreign policy of the United Kingdom, which is extremely detrimental to the Tang Kingdom.

Out of consideration for eliminating the uncertain danger factors in the future development of the Tang Kingdom, it is worth taking the risk.

Given the anger and dissatisfaction of the current London government, it was necessary for Richard, as the king of the Tang Kingdom, to make a visit to England sometime after the war to dispel his doubts and show his loyalty.

So

The pilgrimage of the king of North America will allow the face of the British Empire to be well maintained, and London's dissatisfaction will naturally disappear, the rift will be bridged, and the two countries will be reconciled as before.

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