What Emperor Yang said was quite reasonable. He has now become more and more accustomed to drawing a clear line between himself and the Congress and the cabinet. Although the Chinese government has indeed been aggressive in recent years, especially in its policy towards the United States, it can be said that it is extremely tough, but as a
The Emperor of China is still willing to maintain a deep friendship with the American people.
After His Majesty the Emperor, who claims to be an old friend of the American people, sent away the U.S. Consul General in Seoul, he immediately sent a telegram to Puerto Rico, ordering the two divisions on standby there to be ready to land in Texas at any time and then arm.
Intervention, and at this time, news of the disastrous defeat of the US military in northern Texas has also come. The US military, which divided its forces into three groups to attack Dallas, suffered more than 30,000 casualties in the face of super-large-caliber mortars, armed bulldozers and trench barbed wire. Especially the pitiful
The American cavalrymen, two cavalry divisions were completely disabled.
"Oh, the United States is ruined!" Emperor Yang said gloatingly.
"Your Majesty, General Johnson also asked if there is a need to launch a counterattack into Oklahoma. According to him, the US military has been frightened by the defeat. As long as our armed bulldozers appear on the battlefield, they will definitely continue.
Continue to retreat." Yuan Shikai said.
"Is he carried away by the victory? That thing can only deal with light cavalry without heavy weapons. As long as there is an artillery position in front, they will never come back." Emperor Yang said with a smile.
It's an armed bulldozer, not a tank. A single mortar shell can cause serious damage. Using this thing is just to bully the light cavalry, and it has to be bullied when they are caught off guard. Once you attack the preset position, it is basically nothing more than suicide.
The difference is that the reason why Ye Feng achieved such a great victory was entirely because the cavalry from the central United States were ambushed by those bulldozers. He arranged the bulldozers on a nearby small open-pit iron mine, and the US military scouts also
I thought it was someone digging for mineral sand. But when the follow-up troops walked past swaggeringly, they were stabbed in the middle.
"Your Majesty, according to what Johnson said, General Ye Feng proposed to let General Motors remove the bulldozer shovel, and then use the saved weight to replace the entire vehicle with armored steel plates, so that it can deal with the small-caliber artillery of the US military, and even specially equipped
A turret-like thing houses a machine gun and a mortar at the back. They probably want to use this kind of thing for attack!" Yuan Shikai said.
"No, absolutely not. Tell them that not only can this design not be made, but they are also not allowed to mention it to anyone in the future." Emperor Yang was shocked. These guys are going to build tanks! This thing can't be rampant now.
, In fact, even the armed bulldozers were built by Johnson and others without his knowledge. It was probably Ye Feng who was inspired by the construction machinery used in the Battle of Beijing. If he had known about it before, Yang Feng would not have agreed.
Even so, there is no guarantee that other countries will not learn to use armor.
Yuan Shikai did not expect that he would have such a big reaction. Based on his understanding of His Majesty the Emperor, it seemed that there was indeed something in it.
"Your Majesty, do you mean that what they did is really effective?" he asked cautiously.
"Do you know what your biggest shortcoming is?" Emperor Yang said.
Yuan Shikai hurriedly shook his head, looking like he was asking for advice humbly.
"Your biggest shortcoming is that you are too smart!" Emperor Yang said angrily.
Yuan Shikai suddenly showed a clear expression. This must be something that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to hide. He was not planning to let outsiders know, at least for the time being. Since this could not miss an important event, he hurried to generate electricity.
Report to stop Johnson and others from developing knock-off tanks.
It's still a little early to play with tanks at this time. According to Emperor Yang's plan, it won't be too late even if Europe starts a war. This thing is different from an airplane. Aircraft require a lot of training of excellent pilots, and tanks are completely unnecessary. They can drive bulldozers.
If you know how to drive this thing, one or two years will be enough to train you in armored combat.
This disastrous defeat in Texas was a slap in the face to the U.S. federal government. President Arison was stunned. He now has an unreal feeling that he cannot defeat the Germans, the Chinese, and the Chinese.
However, the Spaniards couldn't even defeat their own country's militia. He really didn't know what the U.S. Army could bring him except failure.
Of course, it is no longer important how to evaluate the Army at this time. What is important is how to proceed with its counter-insurgency war. This failure has seriously shaken the confidence of members of Congress, especially those capitalists. At this time, most of them
They have begun to retreat. After all, getting rich is the most important thing to them. If the coalition forces continue to blockade them like this, I really don’t know how many people will go bankrupt. The reason why they support the use of force against Texas is that they feel that there is just a bunch of people there.
If the militia and the federal army cannot defeat the four-nation coalition, why can't they also defeat the militia? The battle will definitely be over quickly and with a devastating effect.
Another point is that they were forced by war reparations. In fact, this is the main reason. The three Texas states seceded from the Union, which means that they will no longer bear war reparations, which means that the burden on the remaining states will increase.
, This is naturally unacceptable to them, but looking at the current situation, it is obvious that the combat effectiveness of the other party's militia is much stronger than that of the federal army. What's more, Germany, Russia, China and the West have already threatened to send troops. Maybe this will be another war.
After a major defeat, it would be bad to increase the burden of war reparations at that time.
Therefore, the tone of the U.S. Congress immediately changed and decided to suspend the military offensive and see if it could be resolved through negotiation. For example, it agreed to the three-state secession of Texas, but they had to bear part of the war reparations. Now the United States has a population of 70 million, and Germany has a population of 70 million.
The three states of Texas paid 10 million, which is one-seventh, and the remaining compensation is 500 million. It is very reasonable for them to bear 150 million. You must know that the purchase of Louisiana also cost money.
After confirming this, the federal government immediately began to contact the Confederate government. At this time, the President of the Confederate States of America had been elected as quickly as possible. Texas Governor Culbertson was elected President of the Confederate States as expected. He and the Confederate States
The Parliament also does not want to fight. Even if they achieve a temporary victory on the battlefield, they will definitely not be able to continue to win. Moreover, if it drags on for a long time, Emperor Yang will be impatient to wait and send troops, which will create a lot of uncertainties in the future, so good luck
Just take it away is the best option.
But 150 million is absolutely not acceptable. Even if it bears the most, it can only be borne in proportion to the population. In other words, the Confederacy can only bear 71 million at most. As for the money for the Louisiana Purchase that year, that is easy to handle. Now it is
Louisiana's proportion of the original French Louisiana multiplied by the 15 million, it's nothing more than 2 million. That's it for you. If the federal government doesn't agree, then we can only continue to fight.
Maybe the Union Army will invade Oklahoma and recruit the Union Army to fight together.
The helpless federal government finally agreed to this very reasonable figure after some negotiations.
Of course, for the Confederate States of America, the result of this negotiation still requires the approval of the boss behind the scenes, because the federal side requires that this money must be paid in one lump sum. This year’s U.S. war reparations have not yet been settled, and they all rely on this money. But the Confederate States is
Those who have no money, not to mention 73 million, even 7.3 million, have only one way to raise this money, which is to issue treasury bonds and borrow money. The main loan target is naturally the largest bank in the South at this time, the People's Bank of America.
Branch.
"Loan?" Emperor Yang smiled. He did not expect that the Culbertsons would actually solve their political problem in this way and fail to plunge the United States into a protracted civil war. This is a bit regretful.
, but fortunately there is another chess piece, but this borrowing issue needs to be carefully studied.
"Of course, I can lend you $73 million." He said to the Allied minister in China who made a special trip from Beijing to Seoul. Texas originally had a commercial representative office in Beijing, but it was just
It was just a matter of leveling up. Emperor Yang still had tens of millions of dollars in banknotes that he grabbed last time that he had not exchanged for gold. This time he just asked them to take them and return them to the Americans.
"But one thing, I need something special. Mr. Pierre, you should know that such a huge sum of money is not easy for anyone to come up with. Although the People's Bank of China has money, I am not a philanthropist.
So I must get some other benefits. To put it simply, the People's Bank of China must obtain the exclusive right to issue banknotes as an agent for the Allied countries. I think this is a matter of course.
It is impossible for your country to continue to use the U.S. dollar as its currency. If it adopts the gold standard, you will not have enough gold. Even if it changes to the silver standard, you will not have enough silver unless you use the U.S. dollar as a reserve to issue new currency. But
Then you should know the risks. Even I don't dare to hold U.S. dollar banknotes now because I can't guarantee what will happen in the future.
But the credibility of the People's Bank of China can be guaranteed. Apart from the People's Bank of China, I don't think there are other banks in the three states that have this qualification. You will never continue to be like now, where any national bank is qualified to issue banknotes. This way
This is definitely not possible. In the end, any country should have only one banknote-issuing bank, not hundreds or thousands." Emperor Yang said with a smile.
At this time, the right to issue banknotes in the United States was in chaos. As long as the national bank approved by the federal or state government had the right to issue banknotes, the level of chaos was comparable to that of the Beiyang era in China. It was not resolved until the establishment of the Federal Reserve, which wanted to turn the People's Bank of America into the United States.
The Federal Reserve of the Confederate States.(To be continued...)