When the Crimean War was in full swing in Europe, the public opinion circles of the Tang Kingdom criticized the "Black Sea Incident" and demanded repeated negotiations with Tsarist Russia, but the time was invisibly delayed.

A few months later

The Tsarist fleet, which was rampant in the Black Sea for a while, began to collapse under the blow of the absolute superiority of the British and French combined fleets, and the perpetrator, Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, was also killed in the tragic naval battle.

From a certain point of view, it is also a disguised revenge for the crew and sailors of the Tang Kingdom who died unjustly in the Black Sea incident.

But the demands of the Tang Kingdom are not only there, but also demand a public trial of the responsibilities of the Black Sea Fleet and higher-ranking generals who are responsible, and demand compensation and an apology.

Such a demand was tantamount to reparations for defeat and a public humiliation to Tsar Nicholas I, and it was impossible for a die-hard Russia to accede even if it was defeated, unless it was Britain who made this demand.

In the eyes of the world's powers, the Tang Kingdom is still a small player on the world's chessboard.

On September 7, 1854, the Tang Kingdom officially declared war on Tsarist Russia, joining the Crimean War in the same camp of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire, and was the only ally outside Europe.

At this point

The Tang Kingdom began to slowly prepare for the expeditionary force to Europe, recruiting new recruits and training among the new Chinese immigrants, supplemented by experienced officers and sergeants, with a total of 50,000 recruits.

From the beginning of September to the end of September, the total number of recruits has not yet reached 10,000, and many people do not know where the recruits are standing?

There was neither propaganda nor mobilization, and many people who wanted to sign up for the expeditionary force could not find a way, so nearly 10,000 people were recruited in less than a month.

At this time, in the Crimean War, the brutal battle for the fortress of Sevastopol between the two sides officially began.

In order to land and conquer the fortress of Sevastopol of the Tsarist Black Sea Fleet, the Anglo-French forces and the Ottoman side gathered heavy forces and on September 7, with the support of almost all the British and French fleets, they made a large-scale landing on the fortress of Sevastopol.

After the Anglo-French combined fleet bombarded the fortress continuously, a huge transport fleet transported soldiers ashore in waves and engaged in fierce battles with the Russian troops who had been waiting here for a long time.

The fighting was unprecedentedly fierce, with both sides throwing in their forces at all costs to fight for every inch of land.

The commander of the British army was Baron Raglan, an approachable nobleman. The commander of the French army was Marshal Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnault, a new generation of French soldiers created in the French Revolution.

The British and French forces invested more than 20 divisions in the landing battle, each with more than 6,000 troops, with a total of more than 100,000 troops, and opened up a solid landing ground after hard fighting.

Among the several theaters after the outbreak of the Crimean War, the battle for the fortress of Sevastopol was the most brutal, fierce and bloody, and the price paid by both sides was the worst.

Due to the continuous investment of troops by the coalition forces, the Russian side also did its best to draw reinforcements, and the two sides formed a tug-of-war in the fortress of Sevastopol, which lasted for more than a year.

The difficulties of long-distance expeditions, especially the low cost of local women, led to a large number of soldiers in the Anglo-French army contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, and a cholera epidemic in the barracks caused a large attrition.

In an unexpected fire that preceded the launch of the landing battle, the Anglo-French army's logistical supply camp was wiped out, with a staggering loss of 160,000 pairs of boots alone, as well as tens of thousands of tents and other important supplies.

I have to say

In the mid-19th century, the old colonial powers such as Britain and France were extremely tolerant of war losses, and in addition to urgently deploying supplies, they launched a large-scale campaign to attack the fortress of Sevastopol as scheduled, even if the casualties increased.

In response to the slow mobilization of the Tang Kingdom, the British commander Baron Raglan told the "Times" reporter who came to interview on the battlefield strewn with corpses on the front line of Sevastopol;

"Thankfully, Tang's declaration of war on the Russians is really good news, I just hope they move faster, even if it is just to add an extra infantry division to my men, it may be the last straw that crushes the Russians. If we continue to move slowly like this, we may not be able to catch up with the defeat of the Russians and the signing of the treaty. ”

From these words

You can also hear the bitter smell of the battle for the front line of Sevastopol, and when the soldiers of the Anglo-French army braved the fierce fire of the new Russian artillery, how much did they hope that there was still the support of the Oriental army around them?

The brutality of the war in Europe is unquestionable, with tens of thousands of shells fired at every turn.

The reason why the Russian army was able to support under the fierce attack was that in addition to the soldiers' stubborn will to resist and a steady stream of reinforcements, its new Colt breech guns and new shells also caused great damage to the coalition forces.

Fortunately, the Russians have a limited number of shells, and hundreds of thousands of shells cannot determine the final direction of the war.

The rifled Mini rifles equipped by the British army in 1851 were lethal within 550 yards, causing heavy casualties to the Russian army in a battlefield duel.

The old smoothbore guns equipped by the Russian army have an effective firing range of only 150 to 200 yards, poor shooting accuracy, and low power, and they suffer very much in infantry line operations.

The Anglo-French forces were supported by naval guns, and they far outnumbered the Russian army in terms of the number of artillery.

This back and forth, the tug-of-war between the positions of the two sides became even more tragic.

Often, the British and French forces had just occupied the positions during the day, and the Tsarist Russian troops recaptured them at night through white-knuckle charges, and a position was repeatedly sawed a dozen times or more, and the corpses were all over the field, which was unprecedentedly bloody.

Across the vast Atlantic Ocean

As the Kansas Civil War intensified, the state governments supported by the North and the South quickly armed themselves and formed a variety of volunteer militia regiments, and even many officers from the North and South Military Academy at West Point participated in the operation.

In just three months, there were 171 battles between the two sides, large and small, with a total of nearly 4,000 casualties.

Not far away

On the Colorado Plateau, there is an autumn harvest scene, with golden wheat waves, melons and fruits, and horse-drawn carts full of harvest crops on asphalt roads, and everyone's face is filled with joy after the harvest.

As the war progressed, Europe's need for supplies became more urgent, and the Colorado Plateau was rich in rum, whiskey, Mexican vermouth, etc., and orders were often hundreds of thousands of tons.

The pastures in the northern provinces are also busy, and more than 100,000 horses have been sent to the frontline battlefields in Europe, and the follow-up orders are several times that number, and the prices are also good, which makes everyone happy.

It was also at the beginning of September;

The national population of the Tang Kingdom exceeded 8 million for the first time, reaching 8,033,700. The total number of immigrants in a single month in June, July and August exceeded 100,000, reaching the peak of Chinese immigration since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

On the one hand, this is because the war in Shenzhou has spread to the north, including Beizhili and the Jiaodong Peninsula, forming a huge wave of more than 1.3 million refugees, and very few can actually board the migrant ship.

The Tang Kingdom only needs a young population between the ages of 10~25, especially males and marriageable girls, who are required to be in good health, have good physical appearance, speak clearly and preferably have a certain cultural ability.

These principles alone exclude the vast majority of refugees.

Of course, self-financed immigrants with certain economic ability, such as wealthy businessmen, fugitive eunuch families, traditional Chinese medicine monks, and famous pear orchards, can board the immigration ship with their families.

Naturally, there will be no restrictions on the tickets that people buy at their own expense.

The vast territory of the Tang Kingdom is like a dry sponge, desperately absorbing a large number of laborers, and its appetite is amazing, almost as much as it wants.

Fortunately, in the first half of the year, the Tang Kingdom passed the "Targeted Immigration Preferential Loan Law" advocated by the central and eastern provinces, and these proposals initiated by the central and eastern inland provinces locked in the destination in advance through immigration loans to prevent them from being carved up by the coastal provinces of the West Sea.

With the economic prosperity, hundreds of large and small banks and money banks appeared in the Tang Kingdom, which not only met the needs of economic development and immigration loans, but also caused chaos in the financial market to a certain extent.

To this end, in September, the parliament of the Tang Kingdom officially passed the "Finance Law" (provisional), which set the entry threshold for the current financial field, regulated business behavior, and made many highly influential restrictions.

For example, there are different levels of financial licenses, and the high-level financial licenses can operate all kinds of loans and immigration loans, absorb savings funds, and operate offshore immigration loan business.

Lower-grade financial licenses are more restrictive, allowing only one or a few types of financial businesses to be operated, depending on the reserve requirement and strength.

On this basis

The Financial Law (Provisional) implements a financial regulatory system, financial punishment measures, lists the conditions for financial crimes, and clarifies the standards for financial fraud and violations, which is an important regulation to regulate the behavior of the financial field in the Tang Kingdom.

This will help the development of large banks with strong strength and money banks in a standardized manner, maintain the order of the financial market, crack down on financial speculation, and bring the development of the banking and insurance industries into a standardized track.

Seattle

This coastal city ushered in new opportunities during the European war, and the salted fish and salty seafood produced here became important military supplies, and large orders from Europe often amounted to hundreds of thousands of tons, and exports reached tens of thousands of tons every quarter

On the one hand, this has strongly increased the price of seafood, and on the other hand, it has greatly promoted the development of Seattle's marine fishing industry, shipbuilding industry and seafood processing plant, and the development momentum is gratifying.

You can see the seaside along the coast of Seattle, where the original dozen shipyards have grown to dozens, each of which is doing well, and there are shipowners with money waiting anxiously behind them.

The situation in Seattle is that the seafood is divided up as soon as it arrives, and the processing plants are working day and night at full capacity, and the products are immediately loaded onto ships and sent to Panama, where they appear on the tables of the Crimean coalition three weeks later.

If you want to get a piece of this feast, you have to have fishing boats first.

Therefore, since the beginning of this year, the business of Seattle shipyards has been booming, and many shipyards have scheduled orders for the second half of next year or even the year after.

But can the war last so long?

It's slow, and I can't even eat hot.

It is in this context that Seattle's shipyards are blooming everywhere, and some small shipyards have only a dozen people, and they still dare to take shipbuilding orders.

The business talent and courage of the Chinese are undoubted, as long as there is a suitable soil, they will flourish, and the steel shipbuilding process is rapidly proliferating in the Tang Kingdom, as long as a few experienced craftsmen scrape together a sum of money, they dare to open a shipyard and become their own ship owners. This has also led to the loss of experienced craftsmen in large steel mills.

The fishing boats that fish in the coastal waters are not large, basically only about 70 or 80 tons to more than 100 tons, and even if they are large ships, small boats have 10 or 20 tons.

If you can't buy an iron boat, you can buy a wooden boat, anyway, as long as you can catch fish.

Nowadays, the internal combustion engine research laboratory of the University of California in the Tang Kingdom has invented a small diesel engine, only 4 horsepower, through an iron shaft plus propeller, which is very simple and convenient, and it is quite good fishing boat power.

If the power is not enough, then there are two, and if it is not enough, there are three or four.

And this newly invented small diesel engine is the guarantee that Seattle shipyards are blooming everywhere.

As long as you build a hull, whether it is a wooden boat or an iron boat, and hang two small diesel engines behind the buttocks, you can go out to sea to fish.

Anyway, according to the current conditions, you can't go far to the sea.

Only medium- and large-sized fishing vessels can be built by powerful shipyards, equipped with medium-sized horizontal steam engines, which have large power and long maintenance time, and can go to the middle and distant seas to fish.

Of course, this kind of medium and large fishing boats have a large investment and a long construction time, which is far less fast and cheap than small fishing boats.

After more than 6 years of development

Seattle has developed into a second-tier city with a population of 289,000, which is one step away from the 300,000 population of first-tier cities, and will surely be able to cross by the end of the year.

On Vancouver Island, more than 170 kilometers north of Seattle, there is also a small fishing village that has developed into a large fishing city with a population of more than 100,000, and is famous for its timber and fishing.

In particular, the towering giant trees produced in Vancouver, which slide directly into the sea along the mountain slide, and then bundle into wooden rows, are towed by steamers along the coast, all the way south to Chang'an (San Francisco) Bay, and are the main wood suppliers for the construction of Daming Palace.

I have to say

The abundant resources contained in North America are inexhaustible, and even though the Tang Kingdom is fully expanding its colonization in the rapid development, the development area still accounts for a little more than 3% of the entire territory.

After Alaska was added to the national territory, the proportion of development in the Tang Kingdom was further reduced, falling below 5% and leaving only a little more than 3%.

Within the territory of the Tang Kingdom, there are more than 22 million bison herds, 1 billion passenger pigeons, more than a million wild horses and countless other wild animals.

In the six northern provinces, the vast black soil has a very low degree of development, often tens or hundreds of kilometers of uninhabited, only large areas of mountains, forests and grasslands, containing rich mineral resources to be developed urgently.

The most striking example is the abundant oil resources in North Dakota, the amount of which has been proved to be extremely staggering, but because it is located in the interior of the country, it is not suitable for development for the time being, so it can only be reluctantly shelved.

This situation is not a minority, the Tang Kingdom sent a national resource exploration expert group, in the new eight provinces of Mexico and the six northern provinces, found extremely rich deposits of coal, iron, copper, zinc, aluminum, lead and oil, because of this and that reason can not be developed for the time being, I have to say that it is quite a pity.

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