The night passed

The next day, the sky and the earth were covered in snow, and it snowed heavily during the night, turning the castle and the city of Omaha into a fairy tale.

Richard woke up from a snowy arm and went to take a shower and wash himself in good spirits. After a while, he came to the tall European-style window in his pajamas and looked out with a cup of coffee in his hand.

Looking down from the fortress on high ground, you can see the beautiful scenery of Omaha City after the snow, a border city with a population of more than 100,000.

About 370 kilometers south of here, the Missouri River leads to Kansas City, the transportation hub of the central United States.

From here, more than 100 kilometers to the north, along the Missouri River up to Sioux City, continue north to Peel City, the capital of South Dakota, which is another important military town along the river of the Tang Kingdom, a good place for military aristocratic fiefdoms.

All three cities are characterised by their origins along the Missouri River, a vast river that has given rise to fertile riverine land, vast alluvial plains and forested wetlands that are a haven for humans and animals.

A short distance east from the city of Omaha are Davenport and Chicago, the major cities of the Great Lakes region, which are located at the same latitude, with four distinct climates, and are located in the vast central Great Plains, which is rich in products and streams, making it a rare and good place.

Unfortunately, Omaha City is located on the border, and due to the inherent conditions, the industrial economy has not developed.

It is a major agricultural and animal husbandry production center, and the main industries in the city are pig, beef and mutton food canning factories and handmade leather workshops, as well as dozens of gunsmith workshops, winemaking workshops, and bacon workshops.

Richard took two sips of the hot coffee in his hand, stared at the calm snow-covered city with deep eyes, and suddenly smiled confidently, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth.

He planned;

When we take the vast land on the east bank of the river, we will build a bridge here in the city of Omaha, and a bridge will fly east and west, and the moat will become a thoroughfare.

Until then

Omaha is located on an important road connecting the north and the south, east and west, and the huge flow of goods and people gathers, are you still afraid that the economy will not be able to develop?

In June of this year, the seven-year-old Central Railroad will be completed in its entirety, from Chang'an City (San Francisco) in the hinterland of the kingdom, Sacramento all the way east to Salt Lake City, and then from Salt Lake City over the Nevada mountains to the east, a total of about 510 kilometers to reach Taoyuan City on the Colorado Plateau, and from Taoyuan City to Omaha about 732 kilometers to the east.

This is the main line of the Central Railway of the Tang Kingdom, and it is also a super project built along the site of the original Pacific Railway, which is called the Central Railway, also known as the "Nevada Railway".

according to a pre-arranged military mobilization plan;

Beginning in February 1858, no less than 10 large emigrant ships will arrive at the ports along the coast of China every month, and the recruits who have been trained for six months will be safely delivered to the port of Oak Bay in North America at a rate of 16,000 to 18,000 men per month.

Oak Bay Port is a coastal port belonging to Pana County north of Chang'an City (San Francisco), which is a complete military port, and is also the station of the kingdom's sailing fleet, the nearby Oak Town is a town of more than 10,000 people, most of the residents of the town are the families of naval officers and soldiers, naval shipyard employees and some fishermen, the confidentiality is good, there is a branch railway connected to the coastal railway and the central railway network.

As a result, it was also chosen as a North American landing port for mainland recruits.

After a short rest here, the mainland recruits will be reorganized and sent to the Salt Lake City military base, where they will carry out live-fire training and high-difficulty campaign and tactical training.

By the end of 1858, the Tang Kingdom will add more than 200,000 well-trained mainland recruits throughout the year, which will be a powerful mobile field corps that can influence the situation in North America.

On Paradise Island, the Tang Kingdom also has 50,000 well-trained volunteer militiamen who can be deployed at any time according to the situation.

After the above-mentioned careful arrangement

The Tang Kingdom was able to mobilize an army of nearly 400,000 people without military mobilization and without affecting economic development, of which more than 300,000 could be used for mobile operations in the field, which is definitely a big deal.

In order to support such a huge military mobilization operation, the government and the royal family of the Tang Kingdom plan to spend 37.5 million yuan on mainland recruits alone, which is worth 7.5 million pounds, of which 2/3 is borne by the royal house, and the royal family finance and bank loans are each responsible for the rest at a ratio of 4:6.

Only Richard's great prestige can suppress the criticism of all parties and forcefully implement the implementation of the plan, and prepare enough strong military strength for the final intervention in the North American war situation, so that the war will be decided.

The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits.

In addition to the cavalry and fortress defense troops, the infantry of the whole army was equipped with a new Colt 1857 bolt-action rifle, which is similar to the original space-time "Mauser 1888" bolt-action rifle, with long range and high accuracy, compared with the British army's 11mm Minnie rifle that fired black powder.

The Colt 1857 bolt-action rifle leads the world in infantry weapons, using more than 60 innovative technologies, and the new smokeless gun cartridge uses nitroglycerin explosives from Nobel Laboratories, which is the world's leading smokeless explosive.

Thanks to Mr. Nobel's invention, the Tang Kingdom has continued to consolidate its advanced position in the chemical industry, especially the yellow smokeless explosives have begun to be mass-produced and widely used in the military industry.

Colt Arms' newly designed 7.92mm rimless neck bullet laid the foundation for a century and a half of gun design and led the way in infantry weapons.

The rifling of the new rifle is engraved in the chamber, the shooting distance is long, the power is high, the accuracy is high, the effective coverage area of the bullet is between 650 yards and 700 yards, and the lethality is strong within 800 yards.

Compared with the firing distance of up to 350 yards of the Colt repeating rifle (long-barreled model) commonly known as the "thirteen rings", and the firing distance of 600 yards of the British Mini rifle, the new Colt 1857 bolt-action rifle is undoubtedly more powerful, more accurate, and more lethal, so it has become the focus of the whole army to replace infantry weapons and equipment.

As for the Kingdom cavalry, they were still armed with Colt (short-barreled) repeating rifles, which had proven with strength that dense firepower was more important than accuracy and range on bumpy horseback.

Another new piece of infantry equipment is the standard wooden-handled grenade, which has been mass-produced and assembled in arsenals, but has not been distributed to the troops, but has been held in the hands as a killer weapon, ready to make a splash in major battles.

Richard's original intention was to use the grenade, a cutting-edge weapon, in the major battle to conquer Chicago.

Urban street warfare is a major topic that cannot be avoided by an army power, whether in the future or in the future, and the Tang Kingdom has no ready-made experience to learn from in this field, only practice while exploring.

In Salt Lake City, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a large number of urban buildings have been built in the barracks, which will be used as a live-fire training ground, laying the foundation for exploring the various tactics of urban siege before being tested by the rigors of war.

These valuable lessons learned from the lives of soldiers and the fires of war will form a set of urban combat regulations that will be used to build a powerful army that is invincible and invincible.

War is never a child's play, and it is easy to gamble on the fortunes of the country.

Richard was a man with a great sense of the big picture, who had been hoarding supplies for the war for many years, and was now ready to invest heavily in training a large number of mainland recruits to prepare for the struggle for hegemony in North America.

Even if it costs a lot of money, it will not hesitate.

He believed that "no one can achieve success for no reason, and efforts are in places that others can't see", even if he has the foresight and golden finger, in this kind of North American battlefield where millions of people are fiercely fighting, it is just a drop in the ocean.

If you want to flap the butterfly's wings and change history, you must start from the foundation bit by bit, guide the people of the Tang Dynasty to change in the direction of self-improvement, self-reliance and self-confidence, be proud of the identity of the "Heavenly Empire", establish a strong national self-confidence of the people, have a deep sense of belonging to the kingdom, and be proud of the noble Chinese blood.

Among them, add some things that Richard wants to add, such as iron-blooded belligerence, loyalty and patriotism, aggressiveness with a strong personal style of the monarch, and the noble concept of honor and disgrace of nobles and soldiers, etc., to form a distinct mark that belongs to the Tang Kingdom.

It's like the English guy likes to say it on his lips; "The majesty of the British Empire cannot be denigrated."

Britain's dominance over the world for more than 100 years brought a high sense of honor and pride to all citizens, and in the first and second world wars in the future, the British led the hardline European allies to win the final victory, continuing the glory of the Anglo-Saxons on the world stage.

The Tang Kingdom also needs such a sense of national identity and a high sense of honor, not to learn from the British. Instead, it regains the "spirit of the Han and Tang Dynasties", recovers the glorious historical memory of the past, erases the servility imposed on the Han people by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and reshapes the national spirit of high patriotism, self-confidence, self-improvement, and self-reliance.

Richard had prepared a word; "Those who clearly offend the Tang Empire will be punished even if they are thousands of miles away."

It has not been launched for the time being, firstly, because the national strength is not enough to dominate North America, secondly, there is no proper opportunity to go crazy, and thirdly, the national education is continuing to advance, and it will take time to ferment and obtain universal recognition, that is, one brilliant victory after another, in order to lay the universal faith of the people and the self-confidence of a strong nation.

I really want to talk about it

In the middle of the 19th century, the colonies had reached 22 million square kilometers, and the industrial output value accounted for 1/3 of the world's share.

From after the Crimean War

After a short break of two years, the British began a new wave of colonization around the world, and the British Chinese Foreign Legion followed in the footsteps of the British expansion and colonization, entering the Caucasus, the Near East, Egypt and South Africa, the Ivory Coast of Africa, the Straits Settlements of Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma and Sri Lanka in South Asia, and soon the Kingdom of Afghanistan......

The old colonists led by the British are continuing the glory of the Anglo-Saxons and pushing the glory of the Victorian period to the peak.

However, in the field of national spirituality, Richard has always advocated focusing on me, suppressing and cracking down on the radical remarks of the domestic ****, and advocated drawing the power of innovation from the thick Chinese history and culture, that is, "On the Revitalization of the Han and Tang Dynasties".

The ancestors left a rich legacy, which allowed the Tang Kingdom to pick and choose its essence and remove its dross, selectively inherit and carry forward the essence of Han and Tang culture, and form a national spirit that belongs to the Tang Empire.

The Anglo-Saxon white culture, mainly British, is not all good, and is only suitable for small countries or weak ethnic groups with poor cultural heritage, and is by no means suitable for the Chinese.

This is because the British believe in God, and religion occupies a central place in the Gu Glou-Saxon culture, which is a distinct imprint on its body that is difficult to erase, and is reflected in all aspects of cultural inheritance.

If you want to be ****, then you must accept the baptism of Western religion and become a yellow-skinned and white-hearted "banana man".

For the Chinese who claim to be the "Heavenly Empire" with profound historical accumulation, this is undoubtedly a rebellious act of humiliating their ancestors, selling themselves to take refuge, and humiliating the lintel of the family, which is shameful!

Since ancient times

In the Han and Tang dynasties, there is an ancient adage that "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn a boat", which uses a simple metaphor to reflect the dialectical relationship between the monarch and the people.

"The Old Tang Book: The Biography of Wei Zheng": "The husband uses copper as a mirror, and he can be dressed properly; With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; With people as a mirror, you can see the gains and losses. ”

Because of this, the people of the Han and Tang dynasties were very stylish, and the good looks of Zhengchen were like carp crossing the river, creating the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties.

Comparatively

In the Gu Glo-Saxon culture, it was much more crude and simple, religion became the spiritual pillar of it, and the British who believed in God were obedient and attributed all the hardships of life to "God's will", so in the history of Britain for more than 1,000 years, there were very few peasant uprisings and a lack of spirit of resistance.

The feudal lords robbed the local peasants of their land, burned their houses, forced their wives, oppressed the peasants to live in water and fire, and could only live a hard life of hunger with black bread and potatoes, and the English peasants would not resist but petition.

The largest recorded peasant revolt in British history was the Watt-Taylor Uprising;

The peasant rebels marched north, first conquering the important town of Canterbury, which was not only an important political and cultural and economic center in southern England, but also the Archdiocese of Canterbury.

Here, the enraged peasant rebels executed the Archbishop of Canterbury, who had brutally oppressed the populace, burned a large number of feudal bureaucratic documents, burned down a palace, and distributed the wealth and food collected by the noble lords and the church to the rest of the peasants.

The program of the uprising of the English peasants was:

The king wants us to pay a poll tax of 4pence, we really don't have the money to pay, we must petition the king to abolish the poll tax!

This was their political program, and as for the overthrow of royal power, the elimination of the cruelly exploiting aristocratic lords and the church, and the establishment of a peasant-owned regime, these English peasants did not think about it at all, nor did they dare to think about it, they did not have such a concept at all.

Because God does not allow it, religion imprisons people's minds.

In 1385, hundreds of thousands of peasant rebels besieged the Tower of London, and King Charles II of England had only a few hundred guards.

Forced to desperation, King Charles II of England pretended to negotiate with the rebels, and the leader of the rebels, Walter Taylor, was so happy that he hurriedly ran over, and then was killed by the king's guards.

The rebels were still unreaped, and were summoned by the king, and another leader of the uprising, John Bauer, ran over to him, and as expected, he was arrested and tortured to death.

Subsequently, King Charles II of England made a public address to the peasants, with three main points:

First, the crops are about to be harvested, so let's go back and harvest the crops, otherwise the fields will be barren.

Second, I grant to all men in the name of the king a letter of freedom, and though I kill my guards and rob me of my property, I forgive you for your sins.

Thirdly, I am aware of your petition, and I will seriously consider it.

In particular, this third point was so awesome that the king did not agree to the peasants' petition at all, but only said that I knew and that I could consider it

The peasant rebels were overjoyed when they heard this, and felt that the king had spoken too well, so let's stop staying here and hurry back to harvest the crops, so more than 100,000 people immediately dispersed.

Subsequently, the king took a crazy and bloody revenge on the peasant rebel army, which had lost its organization

This was the largest peasant revolt recorded in British history, and the process was absurd.

Boils down to its causes; It is the great spiritual shackles that religion envelops the hearts of every Englishman, imprisoning the spirit of resistance.

As a powerful world hegemon and the first country to enter industrialization, Britain's industrial economic output accounts for 1/3 of the world's total, and its economic strength is undoubtedly strong.

However, the "Irish potato famine" that occurred just a few years ago lasted for nearly five years, and more than 1 million Irish people starved to death.

This is the other side of the ruthlessness of Anglo-Saxon culture, not to mention that they do not treat the colonists as human beings, they are their own people in the British Isles, and they are not merciless when exploited.

Take a look at the "enclosure movement" in Britain in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, which caused a large number of British farmers to lose their land and were forced to go to factories to get a hard job, and the hard work of up to ten hours a day could only be exchanged for three loaves of bread.

In order to reduce costs, unscrupulous British factory owners employ a large number of child laborers between the ages of eight and nine to 10, who only need to be given a slice of bread every day.

There are even unconscionable factory owners who employ children as young as five or six years old simply because the children eat less. This is a lack of morality, there is no bottom line in life, and the British white factory group is mercenary and cruelly oppresses compatriots.

It was not until 1967 that Australia, which inherited the spirit of white British, legislated to recognize that "local aborigines are legitimate human beings", rather than wild animals that could be enslaved and hunted at will.

Don't be deceived by the white left culture of later generations of Europe, and don't be swayed by the "concept of human rights" advocated by Europeans, in Anglo-Saxon culture, there has never been such a thing as "sympathy for the weak", these are all things that the Europeans who became rich later and made out of idle eggs, which can show their superiority over others.

This kind of culture is not the culture of a powerful country that the Tang Kingdom needs.

So what does the Tang Kingdom need?

In fact, there are too many choices in the cultural inheritance of the ancestors, Du Fu Shiyun: 3,000 resentful girls were released from the palace, and 400 death row prisoners returned to prison.

A.D. 632

When Tang Taizong Li Shimin personally examined and reviewed the death penalty case, there were nearly 400 death row inmates in the file, and he was worried that there would be grievances, so Tang Taizong talked to the death row inmates one by one, and the death row inmates all said that they had committed a capital crime, that they were innocent of death, that the sentence was fair, and that they were not wronged.

Tang Taizong was very moved when he heard this, because the death penalty was executed after the autumn, so he said to these death row prisoners;

I made a gentleman's covenant with you, it is winter, let you go back for the Spring Festival and have a good reunion with your family, and after the autumn harvest next year, we will gather here again.

The four hundred death row inmates wept with gratitude and went home happily.

After the autumn of the following year, these death row inmates all returned to Dali Temple Prison, and none of them escaped or hid.

Volume 197 of Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian records:

Xin Wei, the emperor's relatives were prisoners, and when he saw the deceased, Min Zhi, even if he returned home, he would die when the ball came.

There are still death row prisoners all over the world, and they are all indulged, so that they will come to Beijing at the end of the day.

Last year, there were 390 people on death row in the world, and there was no one to supervise them, all of them praised themselves as scheduled, and none of them died; All forgiveness is given.

This is a historical fact recorded in history, whenever Richard reads this, his heart will be shocked, and he will be impressed by the spiritual outlook embodied in the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties, and his heart yearns for it.

So-called; Honest and polite.

Historically, the Tang Dynasty implemented the equalization system, everyone had land to plant, and the whole country was united, which was the fundamental reason for the economic improvement.

In the eighth or ninth year of Zhenguan, cattle and horses were everywhere, the people had enough food and clothing, they did not close their doors at night, and they did not leave anything behind, and there was a thriving scene of leveling.

So how much land do people have to plant?

Middle-aged men and Ding men over the age of 18 are each given 80 acres of land and 20 acres of Yongye field.

Old men and disabled people receive 40 acres of land, widows and concubines receive 30 acres of land, and if these people are the heads of households, each of them will receive 20 acres of Yongye land and 30 acres of mouth.

Considering that in the early days of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the total population was only more than 200,000 households, and it was only restored to 3.04 million households in the 13th year of Zhenguan, about 12.35 million people, and a large amount of farmland could implement the equalization system, so that every household had surplus grain and the people had enough food and clothing.

This situation is very consistent with the current Tang Kingdom, so in the government-led public opinion, there will often be a series of reports on the glorious past of the Han and Tang dynasties, leading the people of the kingdom to rise up a cultural trend of admiration for the ancient style, and they can't help but be deeply attracted by it.

So-called; Dive into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently.

The Los Angeles Times has opened a column called "The Spolight of the Han and Tang Dynasties", which often uses a poem and a historical record to draw out the glorious scenes that have accumulated in the heavy historical dust, and guide the public to see the wisdom and wisdom of the people.

For example;

Kaiyuan has been peaceful for a long time, the suburbs are safe, the people are full of people, the mulberry hemp is like weaving, and the sound of chickens and dogs is heard.

When opening the far gate to the west, more than 10,000 miles, the road is not forgotten, the traveler does not give food, and the people of Ding Zhuang do not know weapons.

Another example;

If it is not for the disaster of flood and drought, the people will give their families enough, and they will be full of despise, and the government treasury will have surplus goods.

The money of the Beijing division is huge, and it is rotten and cannot be studied.

The millet of Taicang, Chen Chen Xiang, is full of dew and accumulates outside, so that it is rotten and inedible.

Another example;

Recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the past, Xiaoyi still hides thousands of rooms. The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant.

He hoped that every Chinese would stick to the bottom line of morality when they became rich, build bridges and pave roads for the benefit of Sangzi and others.

And this is something that laws and regulations cannot do, and it is necessary to draw moral strength from the thick historical inheritance and spread it to everyone, which is the most precious place of Chinese culture.

Richard was confident that he would persevere, not only to extensively carry out traditional Chinese culture education in primary and secondary schools, but also to lay a good foundation.

Moreover, through the mouthpiece of public opinion controlled by the government, it is necessary to inculcate excellent cultural inheritance day after day, year after year, and for decades, so as to nourish the soul of every citizen, so as to achieve the ideal state.

The rich accumulation of Chinese culture has imperceptibly established a correct outlook on life and morality, which is very important for the stable development of a country.

The Anglo-Saxon culture, which is mainly British, is much simpler and crude, only "theistic", believing in God and obtaining eternal life. The vagrants and unemployed workers scattered throughout the cities and villages did not dare to rebel, but they took risks to rob, steal, and kill countless people, and the prisons were overcrowded.

The British government really couldn't arrange so many prisoners, so it could only transport the prisoners to the British territories of the thirteen North American states. Later, when the United States became independent and did not want these social dross, the British sent prisoners to Australia in whole ships.

Beginning in 1788, 165,000 British prisoners were sent to Australia, becoming a convict-developing country

Looking at the prosperous Tang Dynasty under the rule of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, at the very least, there were only 29 death penalty cases a year, which is the correct solution to realize the great harmony of the world.

The Yankees are devotions to the Gu Glo-Saxon culture, and today's prisons are overcrowded with prisoners, whether they are Southern slave owners or northern factory owners, who never treat blacks or hired laborers as human beings, but desperately exploit the blood and sweat of workers.

This is a manifestation of the lack of collective morality, and the Tang Kingdom cannot learn from these bad examples.

On January 22, 1858, Richard concluded his inspection of Fort Omaha and embarked on a journey to Jinling in the southern province.

Now that the Tang Kingdom has officially intervened in the Mexican Civil War, the troops of four field divisions have moved south on a large scale, converging with the Mexican government army to severely encircle and suppress the southern rebels, and they have played triumphant songs on all fronts.

Having withstood the rigors of the European war, the field divisions stationed in the Southern Military Region were strong in combat and well-equipped, and they were able to deal with the rookie-like rebels in southern Mexico.

In a lot of battles

The army of the Tang Kingdom played more of the role of a warlord, holding down the position, pressing the position and pressing the back of the Mexican government army with shiny bayonets and black holes, forcing them to rush forward with their lives.

The armies are still those armies, but the combat effectiveness that erupts is not the same.

Originally, the Mexican government army was reasonably equipped, but its discipline was extremely poor, its combat effectiveness was weak, and it was ready to collapse on the battlefield with the southern rebels.

Now there is nowhere to run, under the strict supervision of the army of the Tang Kingdom, the officers and soldiers of the Mexican government who ran around on the battlefield were directly shot and killed, and they showed no mercy at all.

The military music of the attack sounded, and it could only move forward and not retreat.

Those who do not listen to orders will be killed!

Those who fear the enemy like a mouse, slash!

Those who shake the hearts of the army, slash!

Those who flee without permission, slash!

Those who ignore military discipline will be killed!

Turtle shrinks and chops!

……

As soon as the murderous discipline was announced, the Mexican government army seemed to be a different person, the attack was also like a person, the fierce fighting was able to endure, the encirclement and suppression were also active, and it looked quite like that.

Richard's visit to the Southern Province is not only to further integrate high-level Mexican officials and elites, but also to cheer up the coalition officers and soldiers who are fighting on the first front line, and encourage everyone to better complete their combat missions, including the Mexican government forces.

If there is progress, you have to praise it, don't chill!

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