?? Early 1873

?? On the 9th day of the first lunar month, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the Second Emperor of the French Empire, who once carried the dream of revival, died of illness while in exile in England, representing the end of an era.

?? After the news broke, almost Europe shook.

?? The mood is particularly complicated by the French nation, the emperor who was once exalted to the altar brought the glory of France in the mid-19th century, but also brought a humiliating historical defeat, and the halo of glory was shattered in an instant.

?? Richard, the legendary emperor of the Tang Empire, sent telegrams of condolence to the governments of London and Paris, expressing condolences for the disgraceful end of this historic figure.

?? In the message of condolence, Richard commented on the French Emperor Napoleon III; "He was a man who was determined to restore France to its glory, profoundly changing the geopolitical landscape of Europe in the mid-19th century, leaving a unique mark......"

?? Lord William Eult Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was personally present at the funeral and publicly stated at the funeral;

??“ The Napoleonic dynasty always brought something special to Europe, and His Majesty the Emperor was an old friend of ours, who went out of London and eventually came back here......"

?? In contrast to the British official statements, which were full of connotations, the French republicans warmly celebrated the death of the feudal emperor. There were even more than a dozen grand dinners in Paris to celebrate the end of the French Third Republic, the greatest hidden danger.

?? The old-fashioned royalists and Napoleons in France wept bitterly, mourning the loss of the light that guided the path of life and the future of the country, and the loss of the highly respected French emperor.

?? One joy and one sorrow reflect the clear characteristics of the French people's love and hate, and the strong emotions are not concealed.

?? With the arrival of the New Year

?? The French customs strictly investigated and cracked down on smuggling, and the large-scale smuggling carnival that lasted for nearly two years finally subsided, and the smugglers of the Tang Dynasty and the German Empire left France one after another, counting the harvest with joy.

?? Towards the last moment of the German retreat, all the smugglers were frantically dumping their goods, emptying their stocks as quickly as possible at any cost, and exchanging them into a large amount of franc currency and depositing them in the bank.

?? Then, through international exchange, the funds on the account are transferred abroad, including London, Berlin, Milan, Amsterdam and other places, and the signs of capital flight are very obvious.

?? According to the estimates of the French government;

?? In the large-scale smuggling wave that lasted for nearly two years, Chinese merchants and German merchants were the most active, looting wealth worth 2.3 billion francs from all over France, and losing 6~700 million francs in customs revenue.

?? Coupled with the 5 billion francs war reparations to Germany, the French social wealth is facing serious blood loss and is in urgent need of replenishment.

?? The newly stabilized French government was immediately confronted with diametrically opposed policy choices, one inside and one outside, with a completely different focus.

?? One is to vigorously develop the economy internally, restore industrial and agricultural production, focus energy on economic development, restore people's livelihood, and restore the homeland that has been devastated by the war.

?? One was to immediately begin to expand the colonization of the world, and to regain blood by frantically plundering wealth outward, with the main targets being the Middle East and Indochina.

?? After a short discussion, as the world's oldest colonizer, the French government naturally chose the latter;

?? That is, through the expansionary colonial policy, it further strengthened the plundering of the colonies, made great strides to expand the colonial areas in the Middle East and the Indochina Peninsula, and adopted the method of "making up for the losses in the embankment and making up for the losses outside the embankment......

?? Daming Palace

?? Emperor Richard carefully flipped through the recent international developments, put down the documents in his hand and sighed lightly, stood up and walked outside the hall with his hands in his hands, he wanted to go to the back garden to relax.

?? The officials of the Imperial Secretariat and the military attachés of the Royal Chamberlain who were accompanying them tacitly avoided it, but only stood guard on the perimeter, waiting for the call of His Majesty the Emperor at any time.

?? His Majesty the Emperor does not like the crowd around him, and he should be especially quiet when thinking about problems.

?? Walking in the Imperial Garden, the fragrance of birds and flowers is blowing, and the breeze is blowing, making people feel extraordinarily peaceful.

?? The rise of Datang has made a small turn in world history, and now it is back on the established track, moving forward tenaciously according to the original trajectory.

?? Whether it is the situation in Europe, East Asia, or the Middle East, they are basically moving according to the original historical trajectory.

?? Only the whole of the Americas, including Central America, has changed dramatically.

?? In the fifth year since the Cuban uprising, the losses of the Spanish colonizers and the rebel army have been very large, and the entire Cuban population has been drastically reduced from more than 1.5 million to less than one million due to the annual war and plague.

?? Rough estimates are between 920,000 and 960,000;

?? The Spanish colonists lost between 70,000 and 80,000 troops, the rebels lost more than 250,000, and the rest were the population that died due to famine, plague and abuse in the harsh conditions of war.

?? The Spaniards' concentration camps were notorious and were known as "death camps", which were widely criticized for their poor living conditions and high mortality rates, and were criticized by the Tang Empire and many countries in North and South America.

?? At present, Cuba, which was colonized by Spain, is in an unprecedentedly weak state, internal contradictions have intensified, and a large number of Chinese businessmen and immigrants have withdrawn from the region one after another.

?? This situation made the Royal Army General Staff Headquarters ready to make several secret plays, trying to find an excuse to intervene in the situation in Cuba and make it an overseas province of the Empire through war.

?? Emperor Richard suppressed these secret plays, and he knew that now was not the best time.

?? If history has not changed

?? Next year, the Spanish Bourbon dynasty will be restored, and then immediately send heavy troops to try to extinguish the Cuban uprising in one fell swoop, and the most brutal and bloody battles have not yet begun.

?? At this stage

?? The empire sent weapons, gunpowder, food and other materials to the island of Cuba in various ways, and it was only right to support the people's rebels to continue fighting.

?? Once it's completely broken, it's easier to clean it up.

?? Walking on the path in the forest, two huge white tigers followed, these are the second generation of "White Skin" and "Red Middle". The pet beasts of the older generation have died and have been made into tiger skin mattresses and placed in the side hall at the foot of Wanshou Mountain.

?? Richard walked to the height of the rockery, stood in the pavilion and looked at the vast Taiye Pool, and suddenly felt relaxed and happy.

?? Two giant white tigers snuggled up to him, one left and one right, and gently arched Richard with their huge tiger heads.

?? Richard smiled indifferently and reached out to scratch the scalp of the giant tiger, but he was thinking about dealing with the British in his heart.

?? With the rise of the empire, British rulers redefined the relationship between the two countries, both cooperative and competitive.

?? On the issue of North America

?? The British are the most powerful foreign power in the shadows, and in the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, there is a small circle of British high society, which stubbornly refuses to allow rich Chinese businessmen and big entrepreneurs to enter.

?? The post-war order in North America was based on more than a dozen treaties such as the North American Peace Treaty, the Peace Constitution of the United States, the North American Agricultural Unified Market Agreement, the North American Customs Union Agreement, the United States of America Garrison Act, the United States of America Postwar Financial Arrangements Act, the New York, Portland, and Campton Lend-Lease Act, and in particular, dozens of military bases throughout the United States of America, which were the most direct way for the empire to exert influence.

?? As a typical immigrant country, the United States of America has rapidly recovered its post-war financial restructuring since its population re-surpassed 10 million in 1863.

?? This is the case with small countries, where the overall economy collapses quickly and recovers quickly.

?? With the loss of the vast southern part of the United States and the Great Plains of central North America, the United States of America has shrunk dramatically, adding up to just over 860,000 square kilometres, losing the foundation of a large agricultural country.

?? Therefore, more than 70% of the country's agricultural products and various foods, livestock and poultry meat need to be imported from the Tang Empire, and the degree of dependence is quite high.

?? After more than 10 years of recovery and development, the total population of the United States of America exceeded 20 million at the end of 1872, reaching a record high of 21.77 million.

?? In horizontal comparison, this population size has exceeded the total population size of the North during the American Civil War.

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?? The massive flow of European immigrants to North America was an unstoppable historical trend, and in order to strengthen penetration and control over the United States of America, the empire also encouraged migration to the East Coast.

?? Over the years, many retired officers and soldiers of the military stationed in North America have found white women to start families in the local area, and finally stayed in the cities of the East Coast to live, and the Chinese residents have become an important part of the local population.

?? In 1863

?? The population of the United States of America is composed of 73.2 per cent of whites, 15.4 per cent of Chinese Americans, 7.3 per cent of blacks, 3.1 per cent of Mexicans and 0.9 per cent of Indians.

?? 10 years have passed

?? Due to the continuous import of European immigrants, the proportion of whites in the population has further increased, from 73.2% to 76.1%, and they are the mainstream ethnic group in society.

?? The proportion of Chinese Americans has also increased significantly, from 15.4% to 19.3%, and these two major ethnic groups have exceeded 95%, forming a predominantly white social structure.

?? Free blacks have been subject to various severe restrictions, the level of marriage and childbearing has decreased, and the difficulty of starting a family has skyrocketed, so the proportion of blacks has dropped sharply, from 7.3% to less than 3%, Mexicans account for 0.92%, and Indians have become negligible.

?? It is precisely this demographic structure that has made the "Liberal Party" rapidly rise to become the third largest party in the United States of America, because it is a party dominated by Chinese Americans, and it has won the social identity of the Chinese American community, which accounts for 19.3% of the population, and has become its iron vote base.

?? On this basis

??“ The Liberal Party, which put forward the slogan of breaking the monopoly of British politics, won the support of many German, French, Italian, and Mexican residents, and won many seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives in successive midterm elections and presidential elections.

??“ Zhang Zongliang, the leader of the "Liberal Party", participated in the 1872 presidential election, and finally lost to the Republican Rutherford Burchard Hayes, but it also greatly shook the political scene of the United States of America.

?? By participating in the general election, the Liberal Party won more seats in the Senate and House of Representatives.

?? North America is the core of the interests of the Tang Empire, and the unified market of North America is the cornerstone of North American policy, and the garrison of the United States of America is a powerful means to ensure the influence of the Tang Empire.

?? Now

?? The Liberal Party has won nearly one-third of the seats in the House of Representatives and 17 of the 100 Senate seats in the United States of America.

?? The Tang Empire's more than ten years of business infiltration is not useless, and it has cultivated a large number of interest spokesmen and leading parties in the United States of America, and has the strength to influence its political situation.

?? On the contrary, in the Confederate States of America, a close ally, the influence of the empire is far less than that of the north.

?? If you want to say that the character is stubborn and hard, I recommend the southerners.

?? If you want to be conservative, the first recommendation is the Southerners.

?? If you want to say that you stubbornly adhere to tradition, you should first recommend the southerners.

?? At a time when the abolitionist movement was surging in the world today, the southerners stubbornly insisted on slavery and did not relax, and no one persuaded anyone to persuade them to enter the country.

?? But that's right, that's how the Southerners are twisted.

?? Because the southern Yankees insisted on using a large number of black slaves to cultivate cotton fields, their production costs could be reduced to a minimum, and a large number of cheap lint not only hit the Bengal cotton, Indian cotton, and Egyptian cotton in the British market, but also caused a serious impact on the cotton of the southern provinces of the Tang Empire.

?? In order to protect the interests of cotton plantations in the southern provinces, the Tang Empire imposed a punitive high tariff of 36% on the export of southern Yankee cotton, which was also the main focus of the conflict between the two countries.

?? The Confederate States of America is the world's largest cotton exporter, and cotton exports are vital to life and death, but also to the country's economic development, so the protective policies of the Tang Empire have attracted strong opposition.

?? In order to counter the high tariffs on cotton of the Tang Empire, the Confederate States of America also imposed high tariffs on agricultural and sideline products imported by the Tang Empire, which was a regression of the unified market in North America.

?? It is precisely because of this factor

?? In recent years, there have been constant economic frictions between the two countries, and the forces in the upper echelons of the Confederate States of America, led by the British white estate owners, have a strong sentiment of exclusion from Chinese businessmen and estate owners, and the relationship is not harmonious.

?? Why is the development of political parties led by ethnic Chinese also not going well?

?? In 1863, the population of the Confederate States of America recovered to 8.15 million, and in the composition of the population, 36.72% were whites, 23.1% were Chinese, 32.4% were blacks, 5.7% were Mexicans and Central Americans, and 2.1% were Indians.

?? 10 years have passed

?? Thanks to the two-way importation of European immigrants and Chinese immigrants, coupled with natural population growth, the population of the Confederate States of America has grown to 14.61 million, making it a proper agricultural regional powerhouse.

?? According to the statistics at the end of 1872

?? White people, who make up 43.6 percent, an increase of nearly 7 percent, and Chinese, who make up 28.5 percent, an increase of 5.4 percent, are the mainstream voting ethnic group in the American South and a major player in political life.

?? The decline in blacks from 32.4 percent to 25.9 percent, the reduction in the world slave trade and the influx of whites and Chinese immigrants, filling a considerable labor gap, are the main reasons for the decline in the proportion of blacks.

?? The lack of access to Central American and Indian populations has resulted in high mortality rates and a significant decline in the proportion of the population due to abuse and hardship.

?? Since the Chinese population is the mainstream of southern society, why is it difficult to move forward in the political arena?

?? This is the main reason why the Yankees are extremely conservative and selfish, the racial atmosphere is strong, and the white voters generally reject the Chinese suffrage, and it is extremely difficult to divide and win over.

?? The second reason is that there are too many small actions that do not pay attention to it, the election lacks the principles of openness, transparency and fairness, and the black box operations are frequent, which makes people helpless?

?? The third reason is that the Confederate States of America are more self-reliant and sovereign, and they are more assertive when it comes to their own interests, and there is less room for relaxation.

?? In 1873, there was a certain amount of overproduction in the Tang Empire, and many small and medium-sized enterprises went bankrupt one after another, casting a shadow on the economic prospects.

?? This year is the year of the great recession of the world economy, and we must be prepared for a hard life.

Some people died, but not completely......