March 23, 1862

Under the auspices of an international mediation mission composed of European diplomatic envoys from Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Prussia, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway and other European diplomatic envoys, the Tang Empire, the victor of the North American War, the Confederate States of America (South) and the defeated United States of America (North) formally signed the "North American Peace Treaty", "North American Agricultural Unified Market Agreement", "North American Customs Union Agreement", "United States of America Military Garrison Act", "United States of America Postwar Financial Arrangements Act", "New York, Portland, Campton Lend-Lease Act" and other international treaties. and will oversee the formal promulgation and implementation of the Pacifist of America.

The above-mentioned imposition of unequal treaties has completely reduced the United States of America to a semi-colonial and semi-capitalist country, a race valley for the indulgence of the European and American powers, and a country that has lost many independent sovereignty.

The Paximen Constitution of the United States of America completely emasculated the armed forces of the country, and the United States of America pledged not to have military armed forces, but to retain only defensive national comfort teams for the maintenance of internal law and order, coastal anti-smuggling, fishing protection, and other tasks.

The country's security was maintained by the Tang Dynasty and the United Kingdom, of which the Tang Empire had 117 military bases in the United States of America, and leased New York (Eastern District), Portland and Compton, with a total of 430,000 troops.

Britain has six military bases with more than 4,700 officers and soldiers.

After the signing of the North American Peace Treaty, the Confederate States of America could not wait to withdraw their troops, and the majority of their country's male labor force was in the army, and the resumption of cotton plantation production would require a large number of military retirements.

The annual cotton planting season began in April, and after April the weather gradually warmed up, which was conducive to the growth of cotton seedlings, so there was not much time left for these white cotton planters, and the army was immediately disbanded when it returned to Richmond.

If you miss the agricultural season, you will really have to drink the northwest wind this year.

By the end of June, the south had only retained no more than 60,000 troops, which means that more than 720,000 would be decommissioned.

The garrison of the Tang Empire totaled more than 430,000 people, mainly the Northern Corps and the Colorado Corps, and the Chang'an Cavalry Corps and the Southern Corps withdrew to the empire mainland one after another after completing the corresponding tasks.

Starting in July, the army of the Tang Empire will also carry out large-scale decommissioning and remobilization work, which will last this year and next year, and reduce the total number of military personnel from the current more than 800,000 to no more than 450,000.

The number of troops stationed in the United States will also be reduced, and it will not be possible to maintain a huge scale of 430,000 troops, and the permanent size will be reduced to between 19~200,000 in two years.

A detailed account of these unequal treaties signed by the defeated United States of America (North) reveals that the intentions were so profound that they used almost every method that Richard could think of in his head.

Not to mention anything else, anyone who understands the "Peace Constitution of America" understands it, and throughout the ages, it has only been the only one in the Great Fuso Country, which has indeed firmly bound the little devils.

Now it is applied to the United States of America, and the same thing is true.

Let's take a look at the North American Agricultural Unified Market Agreement, which is a special agreement aimed at eliminating agricultural tariffs within North America and granting preferential treatment to agricultural products with zero tariffs to each other, with the intention of creating a unified North American agricultural market.

So let's see, who is the strongest in agriculture?

That's naturally the Tang Empire!

In the early 60s of the 19th century

The potential of agricultural development in the Tang Empire has just been stimulated by less than 10%, and more than 1.2 million square kilometers of fertile black soil in the Great Plains of Central North America have been newly harvested, which undoubtedly occupies an absolutely dominant position in all aspects of grain, oil, cotton, rice, wheat, meat, eggs and milk, etc., and can be dumped in North and South America at a relatively low price, and jointly create a large North American market with a total number of 50 million.

In this case

The United States of America (North) cannot afford to develop a decent agriculture and animal husbandry industry at all, and the same is true for the Confederate States of America (South), but the advantage of the United States of America lies in the cotton industry, which can form a complementary situation with the Tang Empire, which is conducive to the two sides to become bigger and stronger.

The Confederate States of America (South) had almost no industry, and was a de facto large rural village, with the largest city, Richmond, having a population of only 2,780,000.

Before the outbreak of the civil war, there were only about 90,000 workers, most of whom were in the relatively primitive stage of handicraft workshops, mainly repairing agricultural machinery and horse-drawn carriages, and all industrial products needed to be imported.

After the raw cotton in the south was exported to the Tang Empire, it was processed and dyed and woven into cotton cloth, which was more cost-effective than the British cotton cloth, and it was profitable to export it to the South American market nearby.

The North American Agricultural Unified Market Agreement will create a unified North American agricultural market for the Tang Empire, which belongs to the Tang Empire's own territory, and can well keep out agricultural products from Europe and South America.

Among other things, customs duties and the cost of long-distance traffic alone give Europe and South America no competitive advantage for bulk agricultural products.

The British also saw the great advantages of the North American Unified Market Agreement on Agriculture, and some were greedy but undecided.

Why?

The signatories, led by the Tang Empire, have made it clear; British Canada is welcome to join as an independent customs territory, and the contracting parties will be exempted from tariffs on agricultural products and promote the development of trade in North America.

What makes Britain old entangled is that Canada is located in the alpine zone, and there are many shortcomings in agricultural and animal husbandry products.

Once it is truly liberalized, then the massive agricultural and animal husbandry products will hit the Canadian market, and it will inevitably destroy its local farms and pastures, which will be terrible.

Due to climatic factors, Canada mainly produces wheat, barley, oats and soybeans, which are not produced once a year, and the unit price is not competitive.

Compared to the fertile black soil plains of central North America, the yield per acre is only one-third, which is completely uncompromising.

After careful consideration, Britain had to abandon its intention to join the North American Unified Market for Agricultural (NAAG) and still need tariffs to protect Canada's markets for potatoes, onions, beef, wine, dairy products, dried fruits, vegetables, and fruits from being completely washed away.

the high-profile announcement of the Tang Emperor Richard;

British Canada is always welcome to join the Decision on the North American Unified Market for Agriculture, and is given the unique treatment of not committing to a package of tariff preferences, but rather to mature one, join one, and do it indefinitely.

Other words

British Canada felt that it was competitive enough in areas such as barley, wheat and oats to join the North American Unified Market for Agriculture, so it joined on a separate basis, and so on.

It can only be said that such a unique preferential treatment is very sincere.

However, after careful consideration, the scheming British always rejected the goodwill of the Tang Empire and felt that it was better for him to have fun.

The North American Customs Union Agreement is even more powerful, which not only involves agriculture, but also covers industry, finance, science and technology, trade, services and education, etc., and its template is the later "European Community Steel Union", but the content is more extensive, it is a very exclusive customs union treaty.

The core content of this is the establishment of preferential tax rates of no more than 5% of the total tax amount between the contracting states in the above-mentioned areas. Compared with the strict tariff barriers in today's era, the tax rate of industrial products of 70 or 80 percent or even more than 100 percent is no different from mutual tariff exemption.

The Tang Empire, which has entered an industrialized country, can flood its industrial products into the south and north of the United States like a tide, and it doesn't matter if the south is there, anyway, there is no decent industry.

Under the impact of the industrial wave of the Tang Empire in the north, the existing little industrial strength was like ice and snow melting, and it soon disappeared invisibly.

It stands to reason

The Tang Empire has obvious advantages in the industrial field, but does not have an overwhelming advantage in the field of financial services, and the United States of America is not weak in the field of finance and trade, and it is still quite competitive.

Not really

The mystery lies in the "United States of America Post-War Financial Arrangements Act", which is an international law entrusted by international creditors to comprehensively hijack the economic and financial autonomy of the United States of America (North), giving the Tang Empire a full opportunity to control it.

During the six-year North American War, the United States of America (North) borrowed a total of 1.375 billion Tang dollars worth of loans from international borrowers, and was required to bear 500 million Tang dollars in war reparations after the war, totaling 1.875 billion Tang dollars.

And that's not including the war bonds issued to domestic investors, which also totaled more than 1.15 billion Tang Yuan, but this part is definitely a blood loss. Because dollar-denominated domestic bonds depreciate worse than waste paper, up to $1.7 million to exchange for 1 Tang Yuan.

The international syndicate will pay domestic investors in the near future with high inflation dollars, basically investing more than 100,000 yuan in domestic dollar bonds, which can be exchanged for a piece of bread money, which can be used to pass away with dozens of tons of grain.

The remaining thing is the main event, and the repayment of the huge loan worth 1.375 billion Tang dollars (including the discount of the loan in pounds, francs and marks) will be further negotiated by the international syndicate and the government of the United States of America (North).

It is estimated that this is a time-consuming and laborious debt competition, and the difficulty lies in the repayment period and the uniform bank interest.

Judging from the current and greatly weakened capacity of the United States of America (North), it is certainly not possible to pay such high interest rates as during the war, which can easily be more than 10 percent, and it is really impossible to afford to sell the United States of America (North).

But how reasonable the interest rate is set is, that is, the wise will see the wise. The international loan sharks certainly want to be able to maintain a high level of interest, and the government of the United States of America (the North) can only grind and sobble, and it is difficult to tell the pitiful story, which is a very difficult process, and it is estimated that it will not be able to finish the negotiation in a year and a half.

The other is about the war reparations worth 500 million Tang Yuan, which are guaranteed by the customs tax of the United States of America (North), which is not a problem, and its customs have been managed by the Tang Empire, Britain and France.

according to the original allocation of shares;

The Confederate States of America (Southern) enjoyed a 75% share of the war reparations, or 375 million Tang Yuan, which had essentially been transferred in full to the allies of the Tang Empire to offset a portion of the huge debt owed previously.

In other words, the Tang Empire is the actual beneficiary of the 500 million Tang Yuan war indemnity, with an annual interest of 5.5%, which will be repaid in 25 years, and a total of 921.1 million Tang Yuan with interest needs to be repaid, that is, a total of 36.844 million Tang Yuan or equivalent value goods need to be repaid every year.

On the basis of the full military occupation of the United States of America (North), the Tang Empire had sufficient means to squeeze out this part of the war reparations and use it to repay its own losses first.

It's not ......

In order to alleviate the pressure on the government of the United States of America (North) to repay its debts, the Imperial Cabinet of the Tang Empire announced;

It intends to invest 56 million Tang dollars to purchase all the land properties in Manhattan Island, New York at one time, and if the investment plan is included in New York Harbor, the one-time acquisition amount can be increased to 82 million Tang dollars.

This is also the largest investment of the Imperial Cabinet of the Tang Empire so far, with a total amount of nearly hundreds of millions, which is extremely amazing.

Today's Manhattan Island, New York, although there are no high-rise buildings like later generations, are generally 6~7 storey European-style street buildings, and it is the most prosperous urban area in New York, with a population of more than 360,000.

Dragged down by the defeat in the war, more than 60 percent of home owners on Manhattan Island went bankrupt, and more than 90 percent of financial institutions and banks on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan failed, making it the hardest hit area in need of food relief.

Due to the massive collapse of financial institutions and trading companies, as well as the staggering inflation of the US dollar, the high-wage earners who used to live in the Manhattan area have been without jobs and incomes for several years, and it has become a luxury to keep their families afloat.

The food crisis has reached such a severe level that hundreds of people die of hunger every day in New York, and many more die from chaos and shooting, and the whole city is sitting on a dynamite bag, ready to be blown to pieces by the riots at any moment.

In the face of survival and enjoyment, the choice is simple.

With just a few bags of wheat flour, you can get a luxury apartment with four bathrooms in Upper Manhattan, which is not an exaggeration.

At this time, the Royal Cabinet proposed a plan to acquire Manhattan, although the price was quite considerable, in fact, it was inevitable that it would be suspected of taking advantage of the fire.

In the total of 82 million Tang dollars to buy Manhattan and New York Harbor, how much can the government of the United States of America get?

First of all, the Tang Empire had to repay the Tang Empire's annual war reparations worth 36.844 million yuan, and the remaining funds were injected into the government account guaranteed by an international syndicate of banks to purchase a large amount of grain, dairy products and various agricultural and animal husbandry products needed to alleviate the famine, and to achieve the amount that could be maintained until mid-to-late July, at least 13 million to 14 million Tang yuan would be spent.

Added together, this has removed 50 million Tang Yuan.

The rest of the money is still being fixed on the eyes of international loan sharks, and the funds that can be used by the government to restore production and urban operations are extremely limited.

But anyway, it's a life-saving medicine when the eyebrows are burned!

After more than 10 days of difficult choices, the government of the United States of America (Northern) finally signed this large land sale contract, selling Manhattan and New York Harbor and all their attached land properties to the Royal Internal Affairs Office of the Tang Empire in exchange for 83.5 million Tang Yuan (Note; After deliberation, it was added) to alleviate urgent needs.

The Imperial Internal Affairs Office of the Tang Empire actually paid 33.5 million Tang Yuan in funds, and the remaining part was offset with the principal and interest of one year's war compensation and 14 million Tang Yuan worth of agricultural and animal husbandry products, and this part of the output was allocated from the output of the Huangzhuang and directly realized.

No one knows

The Imperial Household Office of the Tang Empire is the world's largest producer of agricultural and animal husbandry products, and all Chinese who immigrate through loans to North America need to work in the imperial village for 4~5 years to compensate for the cost of immigration.

The California Territory directly under the royal family of the Tang Empire is the most fully developed area, directly under the imperial farms and pastures throughout the Northern Province, Oregon, Missouri, Yin Linoyin, Wisconsin and Minnesota, covering an area of hundreds of thousands of hectares, widely using agricultural tractors and other mechanized operations, and producing an astonishing number of agricultural and animal husbandry products every year.

The price of agricultural and animal husbandry products exported to the United States of America (North) has doubled, and the profits are staggering, and this piece of fat meat is of course exclusive to the Imperial House.

Not only that

Huangzhuang Ranch also occupies a large share of the agricultural and animal husbandry products exported to the Confederate States of America (South), after all, large farms and large ranches have obvious advantages, a high degree of industrialization, and high unit output of fertilizer products, which is in a strong position in the competition.

April 16, 1862

When Emperor Richard of the Tang Dynasty visited Boston, an unfortunate news came from Washington, that Andrew Johnson, the current president of the United States of America, committed suicide by swallowing a gun at home, leaving a 37-page suicide note before his death, in which he had been humiliated by the defeat and humiliation of the Tang Empire, and also had an infinite desire for the people of the United States of America to become self-reliant and get rid of the semi-colonial state in the future.

However, what President Andrew Johnson did not expect was;

His residence was closely monitored by the Special Operations Division, and after his suicide, his wife at home screamed in horror when she saw this, and the first to arrive was the Special Operations Division agents who helped him put away the 37-page suicide note.

So, this suicide note, which brings together President Andrew Johnson's infinite reluctance and all his literary brilliance, is now lying quietly in the confidential safe of the Royal Secretariat, and no more than three people have read its contents.

One of them is Zheng Yuan, the head of the secretariat, the other is Hu Baili, the director of operations, and the third is the senior agent team leader who first discovered and immediately collected the suicide note, so as not to expand his influence.

"It's a good job, although this Mr. Andrew Johnson committed suicide by drinking a gun, he finally fulfilled his presidential duties and did not hand over a series of bad things to the next president, which is very responsible."

Richard had just come out of the dormitory in his pajamas, and there were heavy curtains between the beds behind him, and the snow-white graceful figure inside was glimpsed, obviously just escaped from the great cause of the conquest, and he didn't know how many times it was?

He waved his hand, signaling Director Zheng Yuan, who was cautiously bowing his head, not to say anything, and continued to command;

"I won't look at the things, and keep them in the royal secret files, hmm...... Let's put it in the highest level of secrecy.

There is nothing good about this kind of thing being revealed, and the personnel of the Special Operations Division are to be promoted to the rank of official by themselves, and Hu Baili is jointly commended once, and the secretariat can convey it on his behalf.

By the way, he was succeeded by President Nick Jones Marmont, right? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"What is this person's personality?"

"Your Majesty; I have just checked the biographical records of this person kept by the Secretariat, which show that this person is an Irish-American, who has come to North America for the fourth generation, and has some scheming and means, but his political power is relatively thin and his political influence is not great. ”

"Irish-Americans are good, from the root they can't go to the same pot as the British old pee, even if some of them are just taking advantage of each other's interests, find an opportunity to woo each other."

"Wechen obeys."

"Then so be it, don't disturb Lian's rest if you have nothing important, go ahead."

"Weichen deserves death, so he will retire."