After just one or two months, the war-torn states in the central United States recovered at an astonishing rate, far exceeding the expectations of the royal government.

The upsurge of eastward development in society brought a large amount of immigration and social capital, countless ranches and farms were put back into operation, cities were restored to their former prosperity, and factories lined up on the outskirts were re-emitted black smoke and renewed vitality.

After the Chinese New Year

Mid-February 1861

The economic summary data of the previous year was released, and the GDP of the Tang Kingdom in 1860 reached 2.216 billion Tang Yuan, an increase of 23.7% compared with the previous year, showing an explosive growth trend.

At the end of 1860, the total population reached 24.06 million, on the one hand, under the condition of a high base of new births, on the other hand, the total number of immigrants reached 1.8986 million, which also created a new high since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Among them, mainland recruits account for 311,100 people, which is an important factor that cannot be ignored in the immigrant community.

Another important factor is that the total number of white women and children in the occupied areas has reached more than 1.37 million, especially white women of childbearing age, which has pushed the total population of the Tang Kingdom up by a bit, greatly alleviating the population contradiction between Chinese immigrants and men and the problem of social difficulty in marriage, and helping to stabilize the social situation.

After the report card of this year, His Majesty the King implemented the overall strategy of "economic development must be great, and expansion cannot be stopped", achieved a bumper economic and military harvest, and the whole country has shown a prosperous development situation.

Every major expansion of the territory of the Tang Kingdom will bring countless development opportunities, which will cause explosive growth in total population and social economy.

February 27, 1861

King Li Chaming of the Tang Kingdom issued an edict to admit Tijuana, Monterrey, and Kansas as the 23rd, 24th, and 25th native provinces of the kingdom, and Costa Rica as the fourth overseas province after Hawaii, Panama, and Alaska.

Coupled with the direct territory of the royal paradise island of the Tang Kingdom, there are a total of 30 provincial-level local administrative units, and this is only the beginning of this round of great expansion.

After the 1849 Sino-American War, the Tang Kingdom was divided into 14 provinces, namely Northern Province (formerly Washington State), Idaho, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota (formerly North Dakota), South Da (formerly South Dakota), and Nebraska.

After the Mexican-American War, the eight provinces of Mexico, namely Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Coavena, Sonora, Zacatecas, Tepic and Jinling, were added to the administrative divisions of the above 22 provinces.

It now joins the provinces of Tijuana, Monterrey, Kansas and Costa Rica, together with the three overseas provinces and Paradise Island, a royal dominion, for a total of 30 provincial administrative divisions.

March 2

The Battle of Cincinnati, which had been delayed for a month and a half, went ahead as scheduled, and the long-recuperated Colorado Corps launched a tidal wave of fierce assault on Cincinnati, an important city on the Mississippi River, smashing the fortified fortified defenses with M1860-style 48-pounder mortars, thus entering the bloody battle for the city.

During the Battle of Cincinnati, the Chang'an Corps, which was dominated by mobile troops, broke into the eastern continents of the United States, spreading the war to the densely populated and historically developed urban and rural areas of the states on the east coast of the United States.

For a time, the smoke of gunfire was everywhere, and people were panicked.

March 27th

After three and a half weeks of fighting for the city, the Colorado Corps captured the Cincinnati Fortress with heavy troops, killing 77,300 enemies and capturing 38,200, leaving the remaining 80,000 defeated Americans to withdraw from the city, and the Battle of Cincinnati came to an end.

In this battle, the Colorado Corps suffered 32,300 casualties, of which about 17,600 were killed and 14,900 were wounded, and the white servant troops suffered about half of the casualties.

Until late April

The total strength of the United States of America (North), which suffered repeated blows, fell to more than 1 million, while the main force of the Eastern Front led by Commander-in-Chief Robert Lee in the South still had more than 550,000 troops, a decrease of about 120,000 from its peak.

The North and the South of the United States have always been engaged in brutal battles on the Eastern Front, and both sides are exhausted from one battle after another.

The United States of America (North) has shifted its original offensive operations to a conservative strategy of focusing on defense due to the large number of troops being deployed on the Eastern Front in order to strengthen the defense of the Western Front, and has struggled to resist the offensive launched by the United States (South).

Entered April 1861

The United States of America (North) has shown obvious defeat, suffering a series of major defeats on the Western Front, being defeated by the coalition forces dominated by the Tang Kingdom, losing cities and land, losing a large number of troops, and the war has further spread to the eastern coastal states.

In this adversity, the country was in an emergency situation of life and death, and the United States of America (North) once again carried out a national mobilization, planning to recruit no less than 600,000 militia into the army to resist the joint invasion of Tang and the United States allies.

March 7, 1861

The United States of America has held a presidential election, and the new president, Andrew Johnson, has succeeded former President James Buchanan, who has been criticized for domestic and foreign affairs, as the 16th president of the United States.

This position was supposed to belong to the Democrat Abraham Lincoln, but unfortunately in this historical time and space, Abraham Lincoln died in a shooting in Philadelphia a few years ago, and as a rising political star who was stifled before he could make a name for himself, no one remembers this person for a long time.

President Andrew Johnson took over an undoubtedly mess, and at the outset of his presidency he found that the Eastern and Western fronts were in danger of collapse on all fronts, and that they were in real danger of defeat.

After the fall of the fortified fortress city of Detroit, the battlefield on the Western Front has virtually ceased to exist, and Cincinnati, as a city in the eastern Ohio, the war of the Tang Kingdom has broken into the prosperous and wealthy traditional states of the East Coast of the United States, and the war is close at hand, and the United States has no way to retreat.

In this dilemma of dying the life and death of the country, President Andrew Johnson had to carry out his first national military mobilization since taking office, with the goal of forcibly recruiting 600,000 militia to fight in the defense of the United States.

In 1861, the United States faced two major dilemmas, one was the invasion of a strong enemy, and the other was a food crisis.

The war in North America deprived the United States of America (North) of several agricultural states in the central Great Plains that were rich in agricultural and pastoral products, and the whole country was plunged into varying degrees of famine, and the food imports from Europe and Canada were far from sufficient, and there was a large shortage.

The war led to a large number of young and middle-aged people taking up guns and going to the battlefield, and the lack of a strong labor force further hit the agricultural and animal husbandry production in the eastern coastal states, and the phenomenon of starvation of the population at the bottom of the society in many cities became more and more intense.

Washington, White House.

The Oval Office has a new owner, and former President James Buchanan left with a sigh of relief, and after four years of suffering, he finally did not personally sign the humiliating and humiliating pact of dividing the territory of the United States as the leader of the defeated country, and thus was nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever.

And this President Andrew Johnson is not necessarily, he looks like a pick-up man from every angle, that is, the kind of unlucky ghost who carries the black pot.

"Forgive me for telling the truth, Mr. President, that you ran for the wrong presidency at the wrong time and held the most difficult position in the world, and it's hard to say that it was the right decision, and I can only say that I was impressed by your bravery and fearlessness." Admiral Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the US Federation, poured a basin of cold water on his head, leaving no room for words.

President Andrew Johnson smiled wryly, the Democratic Party is a new party that has only been established for a few years, and as the first president of the Democratic Party, he shoulders the heavy responsibility of partisan participation in the mainstream of American political life, and the road ahead is tortuous and long.

The gains and losses of one person and one thing are not the most important issues.

If it weren't for the war policies that were heavily criticized during the tenure of former President James Buchanan, the Democratic Party, as a small party that had only been in existence for a few years, would not have been able to defeat a powerful political opponent and win the current presidential election

President Andrew Johnson, apparently not wanting to dwell on this issue, stepped out from behind his desk, gave the new Secretary of State Henry Jones an encouraging look, and then asked in a brisk tone;

"Now that the elections are over, gentlemen, let's turn our attention back to the pressing issues of the moment, and after the major decision to recruit 600,000 militiamen, we have solved the serious problem of the shortage of military troops.

Now we need to think about bread, the cities and factories cannot produce enough food to eat, the government is thinking about evacuating the urban population, calling on more people to go to the suburbs and villages to farm, we have a lot of fertile land that is not being used.

The immediate priority is to grow high-yielding potatoes and fast-growing vegetables, for which the government will provide all the help it can, including seeds and a small amount of money.

As long as you survive, anything is possible.

This is the most difficult time for the United States of America, and the whole country must come together to get through it.

I firmly believe that victory must belong to the United States in the end. ”

Mr. President's words were vague and did not impress Secretary of State Henry Jones and other important cabinet members, who were silent, and the atmosphere in the Oval Office gradually became solemn, and no one responded to the president's words.

There was a moment of silence

Lloyd Austin, the new Secretary of Agriculture, coughed dryly twice and said in a broken awkward silence;

"Your Excellency;

After I took over the Ministry of Agriculture, through this period of understanding, I discovered a cruel fact that we had to face;

The situation is far more serious than expected, after the loss of the traditional agricultural states in the central region, the existing grain production capacity can only meet 1/3 of the needs, which is still the current situation of 12 million people, we are completely short of 8 million people need food.

Maybe...... There are no more than 12 million people, but the severity of the problem has not changed in the slightest.

Imports from Europe, Argentina or Canada may be able to solve the food problem for one or two million people, but this is still a big gap from our needs, and we have no money.

The treacherous British grain merchants were inflating prices, and no one was willing to owe us grain on credit in the face of the unfavorable situation of the war, and this was the terrible situation we faced.

People are starving, and people from Philadelphia to New York are dying in the back alleys of the streets, scrawny and without a grain of food in their stomachs.

Today's hunger boom is widespread, and it reminds me of the terrible "Great Famine in Ireland" a few years ago, and now the terrible catastrophe is likely to become a reality on the land of America, and the tragic scene will be repeated.

When millions of people die of hunger and the faith that sustains this country collapses, perhaps there is no future for America. ”

What motivates the people of the cities to go to the suburbs to farm is just talk, where do so many people live in the wilderness? What to eat? How can we obtain enough agricultural inputs for production?

Today's eastern states of the United States are frantically hunting everything they can eat, cows, sheep, chickens, or passenger pigeons, which are rapidly decreasing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye, and many urban men buy fishing nets and go to the rivers every once in a while to fish, trying to add a meat dish to the table.

Grain prices are soaring, the people's livelihood is in dire straits, all kinds of criminal acts are rampant in cities and villages, and social order is plunging into unprecedented chaos.

And so on

In the case of foreign invasion and civil strife, it will only get worse and worse, and eventually American society will "bang" like an egg and crumble into slag, and everyone will be finished.

The relaxed look on President Andrew Johnson's face is gone, but in an irresponsible way;

Originally, a person needs about three pounds of food a day, so if you eat half less, wouldn't everyone be able to get through this most difficult time?

As a matter of fact

This would never be the case, and the powerful and wealthy would continue to live in luxury, and soaring prices would lead to widespread famine, in a vicious circle.

And this will further stimulate the greedy appetite of the hoarding capitalists, and the situation will be bad, which is almost an endless cycle unless the government intervenes......

General Grant, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Northern Army, was silent for a long time, and then said with a stern expression; "Mr. President's solution has some truth, and it is true that some of the urban population should be moved to the countryside to participate in agricultural and animal husbandry production, and the current urgent food crisis should be alleviated.

But before that

A state of emergency should be declared, a food rationing system should be fully implemented, and the criminal act of hoarding and enriching the country's wealth should be strictly cracked down, so that the American people should be given a chance to live in justice and dignity.

In addition, Mr. Secretary of State should be asked to take the lead in negotiating loans with foreign consortia and large grain merchants, and to do everything possible to transport the precious grain to the port.

This war will be very difficult, and on behalf of all the officers and men of the US military, I would like to express my determination to fight to the death, and as for whether I can defeat the invaders of the Tang Kingdom armed to the teeth, I myself have no confidence in this.

All I can promise is that I will fight to the end, face death as a soldier, and may God bless America! ”

"May God bless America!" The ministers of the new government said in unison, and many of them stretched out their hands and drew a cross in the void, looking very pious.

In this almost insoluble predicament, only faith can bring infinite strength to sustain these northerners......

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