Yokosuka Port, Japan.
This port, formerly the home port of the Japanese Shogunate Navy and later the headquarters of the Japanese Shogunate Coast Guard Fleet, is heavily guarded today. There are coast guards everywhere wearing white leggings, blue military uniforms, and flat Aoi-patterned hats. , carrying a Taiping rifle and opened the cordon. It is said that the leader of the Mito family accompanied the Commander of the Ming Pacific Fleet on his visit and wanted to ensure the safety of the Commander.
As for the military port, oh, it should be the police port, there are warships and warships lined up neatly. "Akagi", "Kaga", "Furutaka", "Aoba", "Myoko", "Haguro", "Mogami", "Tone", "Suzuya", "Kumano", "Mikuma", " Atago, Maya, and Chokai. Two aircraft-carrying frigates and twelve armored destroyers have all expired. In addition to the four aircraft-carrying frigates that are still under construction, the entire main force of the Dezhou Maritime Navy is planned. Now they are all concentrated in Yokosuka Port.
In addition to these capital ships, the Dezhou Coast also has five large armed transport ships modified based on the Nanjima-class transport ships and Nanyang-class sail transport ships, named "Yamato", "Musashi", "Shinano", and "Nagawa" respectively. Gate" and "Mutsu" have also gathered at Yokosuka Port today.
After working hard for several years and submitting enough letters of surrender in the Malay Campaign, Japan's maritime power finally completed its rebirth in August of the 11th year of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the previous shogunate navy that was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese maritime armed forces that have reappeared in the world under the name of Dezhou Sea have become more powerful. Not only does the ship have a larger total tonnage and better quality, but it also forms a system and has truly powerful air power.
There is another reason why Japan's maritime force can be revived in such a short period of time. An insider will know at a glance, that is, Japan's navy has never really disappeared. What was lost before was only naval ships, but The Navy's fleet was retained intact and converted into the Coast Guard and Texas Immigration Transport Fleet. Moreover, the business of transporting Japanese armed immigrants to distant Texas greatly trained the sailors. Before this, due to lack of funds to purchase coal, the Japanese Navy rarely went to sea for training, let alone one or two at a time. That’s a super long distance of 10,000 nautical miles.
And because the coastlines of the Caribbean and South America are not very peaceful, and pirates appear from time to time, the ships transporting armed immigrants are "Yamato", "Musashi", "Shinano", "Nagato", and "Mutsu" "And so on, all equipped with 155mm, 120mm and 75mm rapid-fire guns. Therefore, the sailors on these five large armed transport ships do not lack opportunities to participate in actual combat and design training using artillery.
In order to allow more former naval personnel to keep their jobs and skills, the Tokugawa Shogunate's Naval Office arranged four groups of personnel for each large armed transport ship. Each time it was dispatched, two groups of personnel boarded the ship and took turns to practice. . When a voyage is over, two groups of people disembark and another two groups get on the ship and continue.
In addition, the Coast Guard, which is responsible for anti-smuggling in Japan's offshore waters, and the Texas Coast Guard, which is responsible for the offshore defense of Texas City, have also absorbed a large number of former navy personnel. Therefore, the essence of the Japanese navy's years of training has been preserved.
With these elite soldiers and generals, they will naturally be able to take over the fourteen battleships very quickly!
Now, the sailors from the Dezhou Sea were standing on the side decks of fourteen battleships and five armed transport ships. Their uniforms were straight and motionless, with only the corners of their uniforms moving in the wind.
On the Akagi ship, a group of people gathered on one side of the angled aircraft deck. Next to it was a military band, playing the Texas Maritime March - "The Great Power of Tosho Bless Us Now". A flag of Tokugawa Mitsuba slowly rose.
By the way, the "Texas" in "Texas Haizi" is not the abbreviation of Texas, but the meaning of Tokugawa State! Therefore, the sea of Texas needs the blessing of Ieyasu, the powerful god, and the flag of Texas is also the flag of the shamrock.
Then the flag of the commander-in-chief of the Texas Sea Self Defense Force was raised. Takenobu Enomoto, the first commander-in-chief of the Texas Sea Self-Defense Force, and Saigo Takamori, the commander-in-chief of the Texas Ground Self-Defense Force, both stood in the queue, facing the slowly rising flag. The flag was given a Ming-style military salute.
The brief ceremony was quickly completed. Enomoto Takenoki and Saigo Takamori remained sullen, as if they did not hear the congratulatory and encouraging words of the people around them. It wasn't until Zhuge Weidao and Tokugawa Qi Zhao, who had come from the Ming Dynasty, walked up to them that they bowed respectfully.
Tokugawa Saiaki said: "Enomoto-kun, Saigo-kun, although you are Japanese, from now on, as the commanders of the Texas Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Texas Ground Self-Defense Force, you will accept the direct command of the Ming Dynasty Pacific Fleet. We have taken control of the Tokugawa State. Whether it can last forever on the North American continent depends on your bravery and resourcefulness!"
"Hai!"
Enomoto and Saigo agreed loudly, and then they both bowed to Zhuge Weidao and said, "Please take good care of me!"
This time it was not only Haizi but also an independent mixed brigade from Luzi who was sent to Texas. Those five armed transport ships were used to transport seven to eight thousand soldiers and thousands of women accompanying the army. They were not comfort women. Although some of them also did a little business, they were mainly used to transport them. For marriage to people who have moved to Texas from Haizi or Mainland China.
According to the plan, these officers and soldiers from Texas Land and Texas Sea will stay in Texas as long as possible. As long as they can stay, the United States will have a headache in the future!
Andrew Jackson, the 11th President of the United States of America, is having a lot of headaches these days!
But it was not the Japanese in Texas that gave him a headache. As a war president, how could he have a headache because of tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants? His country now has a population of 20 million, and most of them are white!
No country in the entire New World had such a large white population. Thanks to the efforts of these high-quality white people from Europe, the United States' industry, agriculture, overseas trade and other aspects have developed very rapidly! Although the industrial output value is far less than that of the United Kingdom, the per capita national income is higher than that of the United Kingdom, and is comparable to that of the Ming Empire on the other side of the Pacific.
Moreover, at this time, the "per capita" in the United States is really more "equal", rather than letting the poor Irish farmers and the big bankers in London to "equalize". Therefore, this average and wealthy country has a fatal attraction for the hard-working and brave people on the European continent on the other side of the Atlantic, but they have not yet made a fortune.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of white immigrants cross the ocean and come to the United States, adding another upward momentum to this prosperous country.
If someone were counting GDP at this time, then the GDP of the United States would probably be close to equaling that of the United Kingdom, and its growth rate would definitely crush the Ming Dynasty!
Becoming the President of the United States in this era is simply a matter of "winning by lying down". You can win by doing whatever you want!
And Andrew Jackson is a president who can toss. On the one hand, he is tossing with the central bank of the United States; on the other hand, he is tossing with his own cabinet members, which is very troublesome.
The former central bank is called the Second Bank of the United States, which is the second central bank of the United States! Although the United States was founded only a few years ago, it already had two central banks. The previous one, called the First Bank of the United States, had already gone bankrupt. And Andrew Jackson's ideal was to close the Second Bank of the United States!
The reason why he and his cabinet members were struggling was that the wife of his Secretary of War Eaton was a mistress. This matter was not a big deal in Europe, but in the United States, which was influenced by Puritan ideas, it was a "politically incorrect" thing. thing. Therefore, the Eaton couple were excluded by their colleagues, and because Jackson once had an affair with a married woman, he sided with Eaton on this issue and asked the ministers not to exclude Eaton. As a result, the ministers believed that this was interfering with their personal freedom, so There's a cabinet strike.
As a result, the current U.S. government can only rely on Jackson, Eaton and a few of Jackson's cronies. It is also nicknamed the "Kitchen Cabinet". Now President Jackson is working overtime in the White House to deal with the rectification of the U.S. Central Bank. When he was having a headache, the door to his office was suddenly pushed open by Secretary of War Eaton.
Jackson looked up at Eaton and immediately saw a hint of panic in the old subordinate's expression.
"Eton, what's wrong?" Jackson asked.
"The President and the British Ambassador just called and said that the Japanese are going to send more troops to Texas!"
(End of chapter)
