The words of Robert Peel and Viscount Palmerston sounded like they were trying to sow discord between China and the United States, but US President Adams Jr. and Secretary of State Henry Clay knew that the sinister and cruel British father was not talking nonsense this time.
Just look at the map of North America and you will know that as the United States continues to expand westward in the past few decades, this country and the Ming Empire, which occupies the northwest corner of North America, are about to collide!
The Ming Empire’s support for the Mexican Empire and Simon Bolivar, as well as the Ming Empire’s territorial claims to the western part of the Oregon region along the Pacific Ocean, and their crazy investment, gold mining, and Immigration, construction, etc. have greatly increased the possibility of fierce conflict between Ming and the United States.
According to the information held by the "White House", in 1827 alone, gold diggers from the Ming Dynasty dug up silver worth 10 million silver dollars in California. As the wealth effect of Jinshan in California gradually emerged, immigrants from the Ming Dynasty were pouring into California. These immigrants also brought a large amount of capital and technology. They not only engaged in gold mining, but also purchased large amounts of land and established estates. Jinshan Town, a Ming-style town, was also built in the Santa Francesca area.
Recently, the Ming Dynasty's embassy in Washington also put forward a proposal to "put aside the dispute, build a railway, and jointly develop western Oregon." It wants to build a railway connecting Jinshan Town and Dongfucheng, the capital of Ming Dynasty's new Manchuria, in Wenshui Bay!
What an unconcealable ambition!
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty’s investment in the Mexican Emperor Agustin I was also quite astonishing. The “military loan” alone gave him 60 million silver dollars!
Without the strong support of the Ming Dynasty, Agustin I would not have been able to survive the difficult period in the early days of the establishment of the Mexican Empire. He had long been overthrown by a group of warlords and republican radicals. The Mexican Empire may have fallen apart...
In addition to this life-saving "military loan", Daming's capital has also invested in railways, ports, and power plants in Mexico in the past two years, and also helped the Mexican emperor operate silver mines, gold mines, and mints that he nationalized. ....The total investment (including military loans and California development) may have exceeded 200 million!
In addition, Ming Dynasty invested hundreds of millions in Simon Bolivar... Moreover, Ming Dynasty was also an active supporter of Simon Bolivar's South American federation cause. They even supported Bolivar's claims Emperor established the Bolivarian dynasty!
The Ming Dynasty's line of building a great power on the American continent was itself hostile to the United States' attempt to become the only great and powerful country in the Americas.
Because once the Mexican Empire and the South American Federation are established and stable, America will no longer be American America!
Once the Americas become the Americas of Americans, the living space of Western civilization will far exceed that of the Great Tomorrow... The numerical advantages (population and GDP) of the Great Tomorrow will be occupied sooner or later ( Much more) than the Anglo-Saxon civilization in the living space!
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's American policy must be to support American powers that can resist the United States while encroaching on the land in the northwest of the American continent in an effort to expand its own living space. In this process, the confrontation between Ming Dynasty and the United States is almost certain.
"But the Ming Dynasty has a population of 360 million. If you include Japan and those vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, their population exceeds 400 million, maybe 420 to 30 million!" Little Adams said, "And the United States plus Britain only has With a population of more than 50 million...can we win?"
"It can, it must be possible!" Viscount Palmerston said in an unusually firm tone, "They have a population of 420 to 30 million, and it is still growing... This means that their current living space has been Not enough! If they don't expand, they won't be able to maintain their current wealthy life. Their huge industry needs markets, raw materials, and... the whole world!
Not long ago, Ming Dynasty incorporated Japan into its own system, which meant that they were going to expand eastward! Japan was not only the springboard for the Ming Dynasty to enter the Americas, but this country with very low manpower could also provide a large amount of labor and cannon fodder for the Ming Dynasty's eastward policy! "
Robert Peel took over Viscount Palmerston's words and continued: "Mr. President, you don't need to be too pessimistic... In fact, our population is also quite large! Our UK and you, the US, together have only one There are 50 million people, but we still have India!”
"India?" Little Adams was stunned and said to himself, "India and we are one family?"
Viscount Palmerston nodded and said: "According to the latest statistics from the Indian Imperial Government, India has a population of more than 200 million! Adding more than 50 million from our two countries, our three countries have a total population of close to 260 million! With 2.6 Three countries with a population of 100 million will unite to form a powerful Anglo-Saxon axis!"
The US Secretary of State Henry Clay next to him looked worried: "Your Excellency, 420 million is more than 260 million! That's a full 160 million more! And Ming's industry is much stronger than our three countries combined! "
"Yes!" Viscount Palmerston nodded, "They are indeed stronger than us, but that is a comparison of overall strength, not a comparison of local strength... If we want to attack their homeland together, our The strength is indeed insufficient and failure will definitely occur. But we don’t need to do this. We only need to defend the living space belonging to white people and contain them in East Asia.
We must not only prevent their troops from coming out, but also prevent their goods from coming out... We can no longer be as naive as in the past. We can no longer use gold and silver produced in the Americas to buy the Ming Dynasty. of industrial products. We must use American gold and silver to strengthen our...our two countries' industries! "
Is India no longer a family now?
Little Adams was silent for a moment, and then said: "It seems that the gold and silver in America are not buried under the ground in the United States..."
The gold and silver of America are all under the Mexican Empire and Bolivar's South American Federation!
This is also the reason why the Ming Empire is willing to spend money and efforts to support them. Now the whole world still has gold and silver standard currency... and buying Ming industrial products requires currency!
Therefore, as long as the Ming Dynasty can control the Mexican Empire and the South American Federation, it can kick Europe out of the international trade cycle - just let the gold and silver from the Americas be directly exchanged for the Ming Dynasty's industrial products. Why bring Europe with it?
If you feel that the Mexican Empire and the South American Federation have too small populations to support a large market, you can also invest in large infrastructure there. Anyway, they have plenty of gold and silver to pay their bills, and the country is quite big, so they can invest in infrastructure construction.
After hearing what little Adams said, Viscount Palmerston burst into laughter: "Mr. President, if I remember correctly, the land under your feet does not originally belong to the United States of America... or even... Not of England!"
Robert Peel said: "Mr. President, no matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty's military force is, they will not be able to invest too much power on the Atlantic coast... The long distance will make the most powerful military group weak. The Mexican Empire and the so-called South American Federation together may not have 4 million native whites. The number of whites in the United States of America will soon exceed 20 million! 20 million versus 4 million, the advantage is on our side!"
Viscount Palmerston said: "Yes, we can adopt defensive and limited offensive and harassment tactics in the United States, the East Indies, and Australia. The brave Indians will attract the main firepower of the Ming Empire.
At the same time, we can launch active attacks in the Americas... We, the British Empire, support your American expansion in the Americas and recognize that America is the America of Americans! And we can sell you our best battleships, as many as you want, and you can pay for them with Pennsylvania oil. "
"The best battleship?" The President of the United States frowned. "Minister, do you mean the Sovereign Class?"
"No, we will provide you with the most advanced Indomitable-class battleships and Courage-class heavy artillery cruisers!"
