"Your Majesty, the British fleet has set sail!"

On the battleship Weiyuan, Admiral Zeng Tao of the Nanyang Fleet reported to the Emperor of God.

The God Emperor nodded indifferently.

At this time, he was leading this huge fleet of seven battleships, four cruisers, and ten cruisers, sailing in the azure of the South China Sea, which, together with one battleship and two battlecruisers in Zhennancheng, formed the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Navy.

In fact, it is the main fleet.

The remaining Beiyang Fleet consisted of a total of twenty cruisers.

The so-called cruisers are actually the original frigates, but the name is changed to sound more domineering, of course, even these small boats are enough to run rampant in the north, after all, in addition to the Yangtze River in the north of the Ming Dynasty, there are basically no other enemies, North Korea is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, and there are only a few broken ships in the Japanese country, not so much a naval army as a coastal patrol team, not to mention the Ming Beiyang fleet, that is, the Qing army Yangtze River naval division can abuse it in the past, in fact, they will not sail to the open sea at all.

As for the Americas direction......

It is the duty of the Oriental Fleet.

But at present there are only two battle cruisers in the Oriental Fleet, that is, the two that went to the United States, and they have already arrived in the United States, and it is said that they have been ceremoniously welcomed by the American people, and they have even been invited to the White House by the newly inaugurated President John Brown. Taylor hosted a banquet.

Especially after learning that the Ming Dynasty had just annihilated the invading British Eastern Expeditionary Force, the American people were even more enthusiastic about them.

It is estimated that they will be back next spring.

At that time, Yang Feng could begin his plan of conquest of the Americas, with these two battle cruisers as the core, plus a dozen enlarged cruisers under construction, to form the Ming Oriental Fleet, first to occupy Hawaii, then to San Francisco to establish a fortress, then colonize there, and go north to attack the Russian settlements. They still have some inhabitants on Kodiak Island in Alaska, and Alaska is also an important source of Russian furs, especially expensive otter skins, so Yang Feng can attack settlements and merchant ships to lure the Tsar into joining Daoguang's alliance.

This is important.

Although these things are not valuable, the effect of slapping the face is obvious.

If you pan for gold in the upper reaches of the Yukon River right after, it will be completely exciting.

It would be strange if the tsar, who had irreconcilable contradictions between the two sides, could still hold back, and once the tsar joined the Daoguang camp, Yang Feng could suck the blood of the Russians in the Far East and Siberia to the greatest extent in the war. Although there is a long ice period, the navigation period of half a year is enough to ensure the stationing and operation of an army along the Heilongjiang River, after all, even if it is an ice age, it is impossible for the enemy to besiege the fortress of the Ming army at minus 30 degrees.

Of course, that's all for later.

The seizure of Alaska and the provocative Tsar was only the first step.

In addition, after the Ming army arrived in San Francisco, it could also unite with the United States to attack Mexico in the south, and plan the Mexican-American War in advance to seize California, which belonged to Mexico.

The U.S. can get the states of Arizona.

In this way, the two sides can divide the more than 2 million square kilometers originally occupied by the United States, and eventually the two sides will be bounded by the Rocky Mountains, the east will belong to the United States, and the west will belong to the Ming Dynasty, and then the Pacific Railroad plan will lure the United States to move west and merge with the Indians, and it is best to get the silver mines in Nevada out to make the Americans crazy, so that the Ming can secretly smuggle weapons to the Indians in the back.

Let them kill each other anyway.

Here he can build the railroad in advance, especially the Rocky Mountain section, and when the Americans solve the Indians, he can complete the connection and let the western train cross the North American continent.

All that's left is to wait for the moment.

The premise of the conquest of the Americas was that he had to have enough population, and it was useless to do anything until there were enough immigrants, and all he could do now was to use the Mexican-American War as an opportunity to preemptively take California, expel the Indians north, and take control of Oregon and Washington. It wasn't until six years ago that the first couple arrived in Oregon in a caravan along the famous National Historic Trail, when there wouldn't be a few residents, and an Indian raider would be able to take them out, as would a copycat. In short, the Americans will not fall out with him for such a trivial matter, he will be the owner of the money, and the first American immigrants from Washington State will only pass through Oregon next year, and the only people who have arrived there at this time are fur traders who trade with the Indians.

What's more, the sovereignty of these two states is still uncertain.

In fact, this land, collectively known as Oregon, was theoretically supposed to belong to the United Kingdom, but the British basically forgot about it, so that the Americans could claim that it belonged to them, and the sovereignty of this land was very vague, and it was not until 1846 that the two sides formally demarcated the border and actually incorporated it into the United States.

He could even reach a formal partition agreement with the U.S. government, confirming Ming's sovereignty west of the Rocky Mountains.

This is also not difficult to achieve.

First of all, the two sides have a common enemy, that is, the British, who have been bitten by the American people so far, in fact, the United States and Britain have just settled the main territorial issue between them this year, and the north is still a colony under the direct control of Britain, and both the government and the people of the United States have deep malice towards Victoria. In the same way, Britain and Canada believed that the United States was their common enemy until World War II, and even had secret plans for the British to land in New York and Boston to defend Canada once the United States invaded Canada.

It is said that the Ming Dynasty and the United States are natural allies.

In addition, they can also cooperate or be embarrassed to invade Mexico in the south, after all, it is impossible for the Americans to know about Mexico's rot at this time.

How could they know that they had only 13,000 dead, and that 11,000 of them had not been killed in battle, but in fact more than 2,000 had been killed in total, and that they had directly entered Mexico City in just over a year, and then forced the Mexican president to sign a treaty of friendship with bayonets? You must know that Mexico at this time at least seems to be not inferior to the United States, so if there is a collaborator before the war, it is undoubtedly a very surprising thing, for the lone star that has been separated from Mexico, for the vast western Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, it is completely possible to divide the west of the Rocky Mountains to the Ming Dynasty, and to the Ming Emperor who came from the west coast of the Pacific Ocean with friendship......

The main thing, of course, is that he came with money.

You can even use money to solve the US government officials, saying that the US government in this era is actually very easy to settle, as long as you have money, if you have money, it is no problem to buy the president's life.

Well, they weren't just bought.

In short, this is Yang Feng's first plan for the conquest of the Americas.

As for the second period, it has to be the Civil War.

What is the value of the United States to the Ming Dynasty? Of course, it was the largest granary, and the Ming and the slave owners in the south were natural allies, who drove the black slaves to open up the land and farm, enjoy the beautiful idyllic songs of their God's garden, and live gracefully in the quiet fragrance of flowers, of course, the blood and sweat of the black slaves had to be ignored. And Daming developed industrialization and kept buying the grain and cotton they planted, and at the same time brought them all kinds of industrial products they needed to help them live more elegantly, what a perfect win-win relationship of cooperation!

And it is absolutely outrageous that the evil capitalists in the north want to use the chimneys emitting black smoke to destroy the idylls of the people of the south.

The Great Ming Emperor will never allow it.

Then the United States can be separated, anyway, even if Yang Feng is not behind the push, the contradictions between them are irreconcilable, and when the Civil War starts, the Ming Dynasty can provide a steady stream of arms to the south, and even simply send troops to the flanks to defend the freedom of the people in the south, so that if you add the three western states that have fallen into Yang Feng's pocket, then the United States can actually be divided into three parts.

But that's not enough.

It should also continue to be divided, for example, during this period, the Indians can also be supported, let them build a small country along the west coast of the Great Lakes, such as Montana, North and South Da, etc., this area is the most tenacious resistance of the Indians, and it is said that Brigadier General Custer died in Montana. At that time, the Indians had already formed an alliance, gave them some military assistance, and even sent some Ming troops to change their vests, which was enough to give the Indians an advantage in these three states, and then engage in mediation, and even develop a set of theories such as the Indians were the descendants of Yin Shang, so that the Indians could control this area and form a separation.

After that, it's missionary.

Under the banner of the same root and the same origin to preach to the Indians, if necessary, the emperor can personally show them a miracle, as long as their chiefs convert to the Holy Religion, they can be crowned a vassal king, etc., these places will become the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, in other words, they are still very useful, the total population is so small, and after a long time, it will be completely assimilated and absorbed, and it can even be the precursor of the king, under the banner of recovering the land where the Indians have lived for generations, and continue the war with the Americans, which has also been very useful since ancient times, Anyway, no matter how the Americans theorize, they can't carry the big stick since ancient times.

Well, they can't play since ancient times.

In short, the United States is dismembered and cannibalized in various ways, until the country is turned into a small player.

During this period, the Ming Dynasty continued to emigrate to the West Coast.

At least more than one million immigrants to the three states of California must be made to ensure the real foothold of the Ming Dynasty in the Americas, the gold in this area, oil is the best bait to attract immigrants, don't underestimate California's oil, before World War I, California's oil production has exceeded 10 million tons, and even accounts for one-fifth of the world's oil production, which is also the main pillar of the rise of the Rockefeller family. The kerosene refined in California can completely cover the American market, and the remaining heavy oil as fuel can also become the main fuel for the Ming ships, under the banner of developing oil for the god emperor, it is completely possible to make this immigration with a religious halo, the most direct interest temptation plus the great aura of religion, it should not be difficult to immigrate millions in ten years.

Only when the population of the Ming on the west coast exceeded one million and they were self-sufficient in food could they expand eastward beyond the Rocky Mountains.

But not to expand into the Confederacy.

The Confederacy, a purely agrarian country, is at best Brazil or Argentina, and such a stupid and cute country needs to be cared for, so as not to spoil their idyllic dreams, and even Texas oil must be discovered as late as possible.

The goal of the expansion is only the Federally controlled area in the north, and at least the part west of the Mississippi River will be taken away, leaving the Northeast of the Union, especially the steel mountains of Minnesota, which must be cut off from the map of the United States. Although the United States will still have Appalachian coal and Pennsylvania oil, without the Australian iron ore mine, which was arguably the most important iron ore mine in the world before the discovery, American industry will hardly be able to achieve much. For nearly 40 years, from 1910 to the end of World War II, steel production, which accounted for half of the world's total output, was the foundation of the invincibility of American industry.

Appalachia's world's finest coal mine.

Horrific oil production in East Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

The steel mountains of Minnesota.

In other words, Americans have reason to think that their chosen people, no major country has so many and complete top resources at the same time, these resources are different from Russia's permafrost in Siberia, all in the location of easy mining and transportation, and through the Confederacy, the oil fields of East Texas can be cut off for them, Yang Feng personally cut off the iron ore in Minnesota, and the United States, which is left with only Appalachian coal, cannot jump on one leg.

As for the South American direction, Yang Feng did not see the need to expand there with great effort.

The people of these countries cannot.

Venezuela, Argentina......

This one strange thing after another has already proved this point one after another, they will not pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty, these guys will only continue to be so stupid, and in the future, what the Ming needs to do for these countries is only economic penetration, and then control resources, and play a coup d'état when needed, in short, just learn from the United States in the original history.

There is no need to really engage in invasion and annexation.

At this time, there were very few British immigrants in that area, and the British did not have the ability to compete with him for this area, in fact, even the big cities of Winnipeg were all in the future, and the British colonized Canada at this time, only the eastern part of the Great Lakes, and they did not have the ability to project military power to the central plains. On the contrary, the Ming army passing through the mountains from the west coast is only equivalent to the distance from Guangxi to Yunnan at most, and it is even easier.

As for the eastern part of the Great Lakes, the core area of Canada at this time, Yang Feng has no interest, and it is difficult for these guys to do it.

Anyway, the Americans were all pumped back twice by them.

(Approaching the Chinese New Year, one chapter per day)