"What did you say?" Sir Thomas Trowbridge, the First Sea Lord, stood up excitedly, looked at Huck and shouted: "Huck, say it again!"
His excitement is certainly understandable.
The Japanese immigrants in Texas were all done by the Ming Dynasty. The purpose was to help the Mexican Empire guard the border and guard the treasure land of Texas, while curbing the further growth of the United States and continuing the struggle between the United States and Mexico in Texas to avoid the United States' large-scale Western expansion. advance, threatening Ming's expansion on the west coast of North America.
The Americans in Texas are of course supported by the US government. The purpose...of course is to capture the land of Texas. Although the United States already occupies millions of square kilometers of fertile land, it has a population of only 20 million and cannot use that much. Large tracts of fertile land in the country are left uncultivated. But who wants too little good land? Moreover, Texas is right on the lips of the United States, and it also belongs to Mexico, the potential rival of the United States-Mexico is also a big country! The territory is also several million square kilometers larger, but the white skin is smaller.
But a small population now does not mean it will not grow in the future!
As long as the Mexican Empire had enough good land, Texas, for example, was a very good and very large land. It was flat, fertile, with abundant rainfall, a mild climate, and a long coastline and inland rivers. This piece of land is to be placed in Europe and can accommodate the entire population of France! If it were placed in East Asia, the population of two Japanese could be accommodated.
If Americans don't take over Texas now, there will be millions of immigrants from East Asia or Europe there in the future, and Mexico will become stronger!
So the current conflict in Texas is actually the trigger for the battle over the national destiny of the two American countries, the United States and Mexico.
And Ming Dynasty is also an American country - Ming Dynasty also occupies a large area in the northwest corner of America. Although the climate in most of that territory is cold, the livable part is very small, so the population is not large. But Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to it and is also looking to expand to Oregon and California.
Therefore, it is impossible for Ming Dynasty to sit back and watch the United States grow stronger, swallow up all the good land in Mexico, and finally threaten its rule on the west coast of North America. Therefore, once the conflict in Texas escalates, Ming Dynasty will inevitably be involved.
If this matter gets serious, it will become the second battlefield in the West's resistance to Ming Dynasty!
Huck also knew the significance of this matter, so he smiled and said to the First Sea Lord: "Sir, the thing is like this. With the support of Ming Dynasty and Mexico, a large number of Japanese immigrants have moved into Texas in the past two years. The number exceeded 20,000. This made the white immigrants who moved to Texas from the United States feel dangerous, and the Mexican government was afraid of the large number of American immigrants entering Texas. Last year, it issued a decree prohibiting American immigrants from entering Texas. This made the Americans in Texas Feeling angry, at the end of last year, Austin and Houston, the leaders of the American immigrants in Texas, united with the local Indians to issue a warning to the Japanese immigrants, telling them to get out of Texas immediately. However, they were rejected by the Japanese immigrants, so Sam Houston He led a white-Indian coalition of thousands to march toward Dezhou City, where the Japanese inhabited. As a result, they were ambushed under Dezhou City and suffered heavy casualties! Now the U.S. government is ready to use the killing of foreigners as an excuse to intervene and ask us for help. .”
"Prime Minister," Foreign Secretary Robert Peel immediately gave his opinion, "The responsibility for this matter lies entirely with the Mexican authorities. They colluded with the Ming Empire and Japan in an attempt to betray Texas, and also closed the border to prohibit American immigrants from entering... ...This is an infringement on the United States and the entire Western world and cannot be allowed! So we should firmly support the United States!"
The Foreign Secretary of the British Empire is really talented! Because the Mexican authorities were afraid that Americans who had illegally entered Texas would fight for independence in Texas, they banned them from entering. At the same time, they introduced some Japanese immigrants to counter the American threat, which actually turned into an invasion of the United States and even the entire West... Co-authored by Mexico The empire would have given Texas to the United States for free.
After hearing this nonsense, the Duke of Wellington frowned, "That Emperor Agustin seemed to have ordered two 'Hero Guard Packages' three years ago. Have they arrived now?"
"It was here last year," Lord Palmerston, Lord Admiralty, laughed, "otherwise Emperor Agustin wouldn't have dared to ban Americans from entering the country illegally!"
The Duke of Wellington clapped his fingers and said: "If I remember correctly, the two packages are two hero-class ships, two hero-class ships, four warrior-class ships, six guard-class ships... a total of 14 cutting-edge ships, right? In addition, the Gran Colombia Federation in South America also has an alliance with the Mexican Empire, right? Can the navies of these two countries be dealt with by the US Navy itself? "
"Yes!" Viscount Palmerston said, "With our help, the Americans also built the United States-class battleship... This class of battleship is actually a weakened version of the Victory-class, with completely different firepower and armor than the Victory-class. The same, but the speed is 3 knots slower, and it is only 18 knots without forced ventilation. But the United States already has 5 completed United States-class ships, which is enough to deal with the Emperor of Mexico's 2 Hero-class ships and 2 Hero-class ships. As for Gran Colombia ...Since the death of Bolivar, this country has lost its dream, leaving only a lot of people fighting for power and split apart at some point. So Gran Colombia will not fight with Mexico at all. America, they will just remain neutral."
"Okay!" Duke Wellington nodded and smiled, "This way the Americans can be sure of victory... As long as the Americans defeat the Mexicans, the Ming Dynasty will definitely be involved! And the North American battlefield is too far away from the Ming Dynasty's homeland. Far, the cost of Ming's forcible intervention must be very huge! If they had not intervened, then after the Americans defeated Mexico, they would have swallowed Texas, California and Oregon together, becoming an intercontinental country with two oceans, and We will share the Pacific Ocean with Ming Dynasty. This must be something that Ming Dynasty cannot accept!
Therefore, it is clear that there must be a battle between the United States and the United States! "
He glanced at both sides of the conference table, taking in all the gloating faces, "Gentlemen, although the British Empire is facing an unprecedentedly difficult situation, we should still express our firm support to the United States! I hope the cabinet All members can support my decision!”
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Beijing, Xishan Airport is directly under the naval aviation.
A Feilong III passenger airship slowly lowered, then the airship's cabin door opened and the gangway was lowered. Zhuge Weidao and his secretary and adjutant Yu Ziqi emerged from the airship cabin one after the other.
The person who greeted Zhuge Weidao at the airport was his former housekeeper. Recently, with the support of Zhuge Weidao, he was elected as the political official Dao Yude under the promotion of his family's elder Yu Quan. In addition to the eight major aristocratic families in the Ming Dynasty, there are also There are several political parties controlled by aristocratic and noble families. Among them, the political party controlled by several major families, including the Zhuge family, the Yu family, the Guo family, and the Zhendong Wang Zhang family, is called the Fair Party!
Judging from the name, you know it’s fair!
This Fair Party was founded by King Zhuge Wuzhong. It has always been aimed at safeguarding the "ancestral system" of equalizing land, limiting land, and equality. It is the largest party in the political meeting. With the support of the Fair Party, when will Zhuge Weidao stop being a general? He can retire and become a civilian minister (the army and navy ministers are active-duty officers), or even become the prime minister!
When Zhuge Weidao saw Yu De coming to pick him up, he cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Xiaoqian, I heard that you have been elected as a political officer. Now your future is bright!"
"Isn't this all thanks to you?" Yu De also bowed his hand, "Without you taking me to the Golden Kingdom for gold plating, I wouldn't have been able to write articles and become famous, and I wouldn't have been able to run a newspaper later... ..I don’t have that kind of reputation, even if my uncle wants to promote me, no one else will recognize him!”
Zhuge Weidao nodded: "We are all our own people... By the way, why do we have time to come to the airport today? Isn't the Political Council meeting?"
Yu De said: "Daozi, don't you know? Something happened in Texas! We might have to go to war with the United States again... This is a two-front war!"
