Half of the Michigan Peninsula, where Detroit is located, is now in the hands of the U.S. military, and the peninsula acts like a sluice separating Lake Michigan from Lake Huron, which is connected by the narrow Mackinac Waterway, which is very close to Sault Saint Mary. Lake Huron, www.biquge.info further north, is connected to Lake Superior, the westernmost of the Great Lakes, through Sault Ste. Mary, and Lake Superior is closely connected to the Mississippi River, which runs north and south of the United States.

Further east from Lake Huron is Lake Erie. Although Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario to the east, the Niagara River connects the two lakes, which is home to the majestic Niagara Falls. Fort Niagara, built by the French, is now a point of communication between the British and the United States.

To the west of Lake Erie is the Detroit River, and then to Lake St. Clair, the waters of which the River St. Clair joins Lake Huron. Therefore, as long as Chen Han controls Detroit, he will not only be able to cut off a British vein for the United States -- north of Detroit is the southern convex part of Canada in the Great Lakes region, where later cities such as Toronto and Hamilton are located. It is not too convenient for the British to send supplies to the United States from here. It can also cut off one of the arms of the U.S. Navy.

In later generations, the beautiful state of Michigan has a place on the upper and lower peninsulas that is close to Canada.

The Detroit area is one of them, located on the Lower Peninsula. Sault Ste. Mary is the one located on the Upper Peninsula. Do you say that the location of Sault Ste. Mary is important?

This place was controlled by the British a few years ago. Although it has a small population, it was the first white settlement in Michigan in 1668.

But now Sault Ste. Mary is divided into two, with the Sault Ste. Mary River as the dividing line, the northern one belongs to the British, and the southern one belongs to Chen Han. The Southern Su Saint Mary, which was controlled by Chen Han, was originally ceded to the United States by the British. It is good to establish a border transportation line on land.

As a result, the Americans did not fight. This land, which had been cultivated by the French since 1670, and the location of Wisconsin, which was later the seat of the United States, was swept away by Jiang Kui and his troops in the early days of the war. The British had to transfer a large amount of material that had been hoarded in North Sioux Sainte-Marie to Saña [at the mouth of the St. Clair] by boat.

All the territory [Wisconsin] is occupied by the Chinese, the Americans have no place here, why is the British still hoarding so many military supplies in North Sue Saint Mary? Are the British going to die in person? This is obviously impossible.

In the battle that followed, Chen Han captured half of the Lower Michigan Peninsula, and the entire Lake Michigan became Chen Han's inner lake, which was wrapped between Michigan and Wisconsin. The land of Michigan in later generations was the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of the Michigan Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula of Wisconsin, which is the Upper and Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The width between the upper and lower peninsulas is only about 12 miles, and there are three islands at the upper mouth of the waterway, which are very close to each other: Mackinaw, Delang, and Boiblanc. This is also known as the Mackinac Waterway, where Chen Han arranged a large number of artillery, and also set up water drains and hidden piles, which successfully 'protected' Lake Michigan. And it's less than 250 miles from Sault Ste. Mary in a straight line.

The 14 U.S. warships under the command of Colonel McDonough Thomas, commander of the U.S. Great Lakes Fleet, are now operating only between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Detroit is at the heart of the two lakes.

The Great Lakes are now navigable to the Atlantic Ocean. Historically, the Erie Canal, which took more than eight years [due to the influence of the Second War between the United States and Britain], was not even planned for a drawing design at this time. The Welland Canal [bypassing the waterfall to connect Lake Erie with Lake Ontario] was built later in history than the Erie Canal. As a result, the Great Lakes are not yet able to sail directly to the Atlantic, even the smallest dhows.

Let's put it this way, after the British handed over their nine small warships to the United States, they no longer had any serious surface armament in their hands. Because the ships from outside could not be brought in, the British had to seize the time to build them themselves, and they should pretend to be gunboats with their own transport ships.

As a result, Sault Saint Mary, a city more than 200 miles from Detroit and controlled by China and Britain respectively, became the rear of the war. And with the continuous exchange between China and the UK, the city has become more and more important. All kinds of drunkards and snake gods gather here!

Because this land connects Lake Superior, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, it is the intersection of the three Hubo Shipping Lanes, and Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are two very important points for the current Sino-American war.

The area around Lake Michigan was occupied by Chen Han, and for the Americans it was an enemy-occupied area; And Lake Huron is a war zone, on which five American warships always float. At the same time, Sault Sainte-Marie is also the only channel for Chen Han to exchange intelligence and trade with the British, which is like the great Shanghai during the original time and space anti-Japanese war, although it has fallen into the hands of the enemy, but the three religions and nine streams are gathered, and the enemy and the enemy are constantly fighting, which is also a city of great significance to the British and the United States.

Sault Ste. Marie was originally nothing more than a small and inconspicuous city, and it was only because of the war that it 'shined' on the North American continent.

With the investment of Chen Han's manpower and material resources, the depression in the early occupation was calm, and the balloon blowing up of the South Su Sainte-Marie quickly became larger. There were no fortified fortifications, but it was a center of trade between China and British Canada.

Leather goods, timber, grain, and cloth were the focus of Sino-British trade, while metals, gunpowder, and medicines were prohibited items.

Moreover, trade between China and Britain was rarely traded in money, and most of them were bartered.

The British exported furs, timber and American ginseng, and traded grain, cloth and some handicraft products from Chinese merchants. The former is priced lower than the original market price, while the latter is priced much higher than the original market price.

Because the former is a commercial item, while the latter is a necessity of life. Especially grain.

Chen Han's garrison here has always maintained the standard of an integrated battalion, and no matter how the British mix up in the Americas, there will always be so many troops here. At the same time, there was no fanfare for the construction of fortresses and fortifications, and even the camps were civil structures.

As a city that suddenly flourished due to the "import-export" trade, there are also no impregnable reinforced concrete buildings in Sault Sainte-Marie, and the houses are all Western-style, which is left over from the original residents. Houses and buildings that had been reduced to rubble during the war, such as the church, had all been cleared. What can still be used is kept, what cannot be used is completely thrown away, and the scars left by the war have faded and are almost invisible. The inhabitants of this small town now numbered less than a thousand, and among them there were not only Chinese, but also some white, black, and mixed-race people, and the origins were very complicated -- immigrants from the various vassal states, Indians, British, a small number of Americans with the name of British, and a small number of black fugitives, and the origin of the mestizos was even more complicated. There is Anglo-Indian, Franco-Indian, Anglo-Black, French-Black and Indo-Black.

In a city with only 1,000 people, the floating population is eager to be more than the permanent population. But no matter how much there is, the population will not exceed 2,000, and a reorganized battalion will be more than enough to suppress Sault Saint-Marie.

Even if the British had placed a whole regiment of regular troops at St. Mary's in North Sioux, Arthur Wellesley had almost one-third of his remaining regular lobster soldiers in St. Mary's in North Sioux St. Mary, and St. Mary's in South Sioux did not show the slightest pressure. This is also a confident performance! In fact, the most stressful and busiest in South Sue Sainte-Marie was not the garrison at all, but the police department.

No matter how secretly the British support Lao Mei, Dabanya and Portugal, it is impossible for London to have a head-on conflict with Chen Han and openly intervene in the war.

The boom in commerce soon led the Chinese immigrants in the city of St. Mary's in South to open taverns, shops and hostels, and the population here was much smaller than the 3,000 people at its peak, especially the permanent residents, but the spending power of the floating population was much greater than that of the residents of the past. But at least two-thirds of the residents of these small thousands of people are engaged in business wholeheartedly, and the shadow of war does not frighten them, on the contrary, many believe that it will make their interests greater.

The people of the South Sioux St. Mary's Police Department were even more determined that there must be more than a handful of spies among the thousands of additional itinerant residents in the city. It can even be said that there are a lot of intelligence officers.

Is Saint Mary of South Sioux a special trading point for the British, how convenient it is to pass on the news? Every day, the police station can finalize a group of suspects suspected of espionage, and every once in a while, they can even invite people into the police station for free entertainment.

And are the prey that is about to fall into the net really unaware? How can it be. But they still rushed headlong to Suo-Sainte-Marie. In any case, the trade of St. Mary of South Sioux continues to operate, and there is no sign of decline in sight.

At noon, the restaurants in the city were busy. Especially the old Luoyang shop in the center of the town, the owner Liang Zhaoxing is a native of Chenzhou Fucheng in eastern Henan, and he followed his fellow villager Liang Guangliang to be a soldier when he was a child, but the recruit training score is countdown, and he has been helping the miscellaneous on the stove for a few years. The fragrance is mellow, non-sticky.

Liang Zhaoxing originally opened a shop to sell soup in his hometown of Chenzhou Qiankou Town, he is a veteran, and he has a relationship in his hometown to take care of, and his business is doing well. People like him don't need to emigrate at all, but nothing can stop bad luck.

Leung Siu-hing's business was booming, and his shop was opened, but it caused trouble. Someone got drunk in his shop, got into a fight, and killed someone. Although the main responsibility for this does not lie with Liang Zhaoxing, the person who died is a second-generation official. People used a little trick to make Liang Zhaoxing's business no longer possible, and later he was reported to the immigration list, which is not possible without immigration.

Maybe the man announced that he would be punished for his personal vendetta in the future, but the time of retribution was not so timely, and Liang Zhaoxing's family had to emigrate. But relying on the skill of cooking soup and his previous savings, Liang Zhaoxing has already gained a firm foothold in the city of St. Mary's in South Sioux.

Although he was always a guy when he was in the army, he was much more courageous than ordinary people. Confident that Britain would not dare to break out into conflict with Chen Han at all, St. Mary's of Southern Su seemed dangerous, but in fact it was impregnable.

Now that the Liang family has settled down in the small town of St. Mary's in South Sioux, they have become famous throughout the city with their unique beef soup.

The people who come here to drink the soup are not only Chinese, but also many white people from the north, and the Liang family is crowded in this shop.

This man is moving with the world, like a rootless duckweed, falling with the wind.

In the original time and space, the West was at its peak and Western civilization was prosperous, which became a universal value in the world. Westerners disdain to change their tastes for the sake of Eastern food. Many Chinese taste the best preserved eggs by them as devil's eggs, bird's nest called swallow saliva, as for stinky tofu, edamame tofu and chicken feet, internal organs and so on, Westerners reject all of them. On the contrary, they said that foie gras and caviar were the three major delicacies in the world, and many people with brain defects were still convinced.

But now in this time and space, the fortune of the East is at its peak. China's powerful national power shocked the whole of Europe, China's splendid civilization and culture let Westerners take the initiative to learn, and human beings worship the strong without distinguishing between things. Backed by China's strong national strength, Chen Han did not need to make a big show of what Confucius Academy was in Europe, and Chinese culture, food, customs, etiquette and other things were constantly imported to the West in the past twenty or thirty years, and were constantly taken the initiative by Westerners to understand. The East is prosperous and the West is declining, and the transformation of Westerners is just like many banana people and petty bourgeoisie in the original time and space to worship foreign countries, to infinitely respect the deliciousness and etiquette of Western food, to respect coffee and respect the West, and Westerners have also begun to take the initiative to change to egg people. Nowadays, many Westerners feel that 'clear tea' is more tasteful, and they also think that China's eight major cuisines are extremely delicious. And the matsutake mushrooms, caviar, and foie gras in the West are all hehe.

The Liang family's beef soup shop is just a small and humble example. Those foreigners who drink Luoyang-style beef soup, in addition to admiring, may not have noticed the change in their hearts.

Perhaps a hundred years later, among the Westerners, there will also be "everyone" and "masters" clamoring for the abolition of Latin and the implementation of square characters, the abolition of the marriage system of monogamy and lovers and the conversion to monogamy and polygonal concubinage, and the belief in the Buddha of Sanqing and the Jade Emperor instead of believing in God and God.

Chinese schools do not specifically test foreign languages, while in the education system of Western countries, Chinese will become extremely important.

In the final analysis, it is a question of the strength of a country.

Whether a national culture is competitive in the world depends first on whether the country behind it is competitive in international affairs.