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Just when Chen Ming shifted all his attention to European affairs, a big news suddenly broke out in the American vassal states, which caught him off guard.

The "Global Times", which exposed this big news and stabbed it into the society, instantly became the focus of the whole country and attracted the attention of the whole country. Huang Dingyou, then editor-in-chief of the Global Times and vice president of the Yangtze River Group, also became famous all over the country because of this report.

So what's the big news? That is the recent surge in crime rates in the Americas.

During the war, a large number of young and middle-aged people from the various vassal states of the Americas were transferred to the battlefield, and the whole society seemed to be suddenly missing a generation, and labor resources immediately entered a shortage, and even the top six countries with the most abundant human resources had sounded the red alert. As a result, large numbers of Indians and blacks appeared on farms and factories. As a result, the public order conditions in the feudal domains deteriorated rapidly, and the crime rate skyrocketed. Fights, robberies and extortion, and even murder and forced women have emerged in an endless stream, so that the economy is turbulent and the society is turbulent.

But these things were suppressed by the vassal states in the past, until Huang Dingyou's report.

In fact, this kind of problem has long been known to the rulers of the various feudal states, and the rules and regulations of these feudal states are based on Chen Han as a model, and the crime rate is counted every month. How could they not know? And it is precisely because of knowing that it is suppressed. At the same time, it is precisely because they know that under the requirements of their command, the feudal soldiers in various places will often avoid the real and the false in the battle, and are unwilling to fight a difficult battle. It's not that the soldiers don't want to fight, it's that the rulers above them don't want to see too much damage to their strength.

The reason for the increase in crime is because there is a shortage of men in society, and these people are all drawn to fight. But after the battle was over, they were able to come back. At that time, society will naturally be stable. Moreover, they are merciless to the Indians, blacks, and all the criminals, and they kill those who should not be killed, in order to alert the public.

Therefore, they did not want their soldiers to lose too much, which would have a significant impact on the future development of their vassal state.

For example, in the Battle of Cartagena, Chen Jie, the king of Cai, who was first divided into the Americas by Chen Ming, after Cai's army suffered a lot of losses with the garrison army attacking the Spanish fortress, he opposed the garrison army and then put Cai's army into the attack on Caracas. Many Cai officers and soldiers don't know what this request is.

Perhaps many of the feudal soldiers are still looking forward to the battle, so that they can earn more points, which is equivalent to earning more land. But for those in power, how to ensure that more soldiers survive is obviously more significant.

In the case of King Cai, he was frightened by the bloody battle in the fortress of Cartagena. If such a battle is fought again, Cai Jun will become crippled. It's like the French after World War I. Many people in later generations said that the reason why the French became weak chickens during World War II was because they fought so fiercely in World War I that they directly defeated the entire French nation and the blood of France. This sentence can also be used on the head of King Cai.

So, the population is really, really important to the nation of the nation.

In Europe, for example, the Gallic rooster now has a population of 30 million, and twenty years have passed since the beginning of the Revolution to this year, and more than a million French men have fallen due to war and chaos, but the French have clearly not shed their blood. This is because they have a large number of people and a large number of soldiers.

And what about Prussia, after a series of fiascos, the whole country was crippled. Although it now has only 40,000 troops due to Napoleon's limitations, they can quickly expand to 100,000 if the situation allows. But Prussia's ability to recover was far less rapid than that of Austria, which had more than twice as many people. Austria had been as miserable as Prussia had been, but now they were already taking revenge on France, regardless of the outcome.

This population is the guarantee of the comprehensive strength of the state, under the mobilization system of modern society.

Now the biggest innate factor limiting the development speed of the American vassal states is also population, don't take the Northern Song Dynasty and Jurchen, the late Ming Dynasty compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the mobilization system under the feudal system is completely different from the modern society. Don't believe it, if you look at France during World War II, the culprit for making the Gallic rooster weaker is not the population of France?

Now France has a population of 30 million, while Prussia has a population of less than 10 million, but in 1870, the population of unified Germany reached 40 million, and it has caught up with France; By 1914, Germany's population had grown to 65 million. At the end of the sixties of the nineteenth century, the proportion of young men between the ages of 20 and 34 in Germany was only slightly higher than that of France, but by 1910 the Germans had increased this advantage to 1.6:1, and by 1939 Germany was more than twice as old as France. At that time, even the population of John Bull exceeded that of the Gallic roosters, so why were they not weak chickens?

The French themselves ruined their European hegemony. You must know that the current population of Britain is only a little more than 10 million, and the population of Ireland is only 15 million. In the 19th century, the population growth rate of the French was too low.

The French now have a population of 30 million, and in a hundred years they will only be 40 million. Why did France retain their former hegemon on the European continent? And on what basis does the Gallic rooster compare with Germany?

And Europe wants wind and rain in the modern history of the world in the original time and space, why are they so awesome? That's not just the material gains of the Industrial Revolution, but also their population growth rate.

One of the most important foundations of Europe's recent history, whose population growth rate far outpaced that of other continents, is one of the most important foundations of their strength. This is not to deny the fruits of the Industrial Revolution. The implementation of the industrial revolution made Europe from a traditional agricultural society to a modern industrial and commercial society, and carried out the transformation of material civilization, which made the European population rapidly reduce its numerical disadvantage - compared with the total population of the whole human race, coupled with their advantages in material civilization were constantly expanded, which was the origin of Europe's dominant position relative to the rest of the world during this period. Even the strong position of the lighthouse state and Red Russia in the 20th century was also related to its population growth and demographic transition.

Compared with the population problem of the 21st century in later generations, the earth in the early 19th century, no matter what country, needs to multiply, multiply, and multiply! It is an absolute truth that there is great power in numbers.

So in the same way, Cai Guo was really forced to do it - asking the army not to fight a tough battle. Over the years since the founding of the country, Cai Guo now has a population of about 400,000, so how many soldiers can 400,000 Cai people recruit? How many of them are young and strong?

Li Xu's request is to work towards 20,000 people, and after the entire Cai State society has lost 20,000 men of the right age, the age class of the entire society is really broken. Young adults between the ages of 20 and 30, five or six out of ten are missing, can there be no accidents?

Can King Cai not treasure those 20,000 troops? Although Cai Guoxin recently recruited another batch of troops, the number of troops in the country reached 30,000. But this will only make the shortage of male labor in Cai even worse. Although the role of the latter is to garrison Cai Guo proper. Cai Guo dispatched the previous 20,000 troops, and these 20,000 troops were enough to extract one-third of the number of young and strong people of the entire Cai State. Therefore, in the lands directly controlled by Chen Han, such as Tokyo and Hanjin, a large number of young people were mobilized to join the army, which was not false at all.

The Chinese in the Americas, that's really 'desperate'!

In this case, of course, it is not good to break out the chaos of law and order in the rear society, which is shaking the morale of the army.

Come to think of it, the men are out to fight. If law and order in the rear is stable, then everything is easy to say. But if there is chaos in the rear, who can guarantee that no soldier will be cranky - well, what if my house is going to be robbed? Well, what if my mother-in-law is by that? And my father, mother, and my son, what should I do if I was beaten and killed? That definitely had an impact on the morale of the military.

So "Global Times" released a big satellite and made a big news. Then the result is - Huang Dingyou resigned.

It shook the morale of the army and affected its morale. Most of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion wants to send Huang Dingyou to court!

Although Huang Dingyou escaped in the end, he still had to be wiped by the government.

The American vassal states are not the Gallic roosters in the First World War in history, and the French were forced to reluctantly defeat a generation in the First World War in the original time and space, but the current development of the war situation in the Americas has obviously given the vassal states the opportunity to 'steal and play tricks'. No king is willing to "drain" their young generation with a bloody battle against the United States when the overall situation has been decided, and when the casualties refresh their psychological bottom line, the rulers of the vassal states show their war avoidance, which is the inevitable result. Because none of them want to fight for their future!

Why does Chen Ming always look at the Germans differently, and why does he always have a grudge against Russia? That's because the Germans have the courage to fight hard. Although that kind of Germany came into existence only after they suffered the humiliation of their defeat in World War I. In the same way, Russia, which is desperate to fight to the death, is also under the innervation of the iron comrades like steel.

The current Germany and Russia cannot let Chen Ming see their courage, and now they can only say that they have such a foundation.

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Sault Saint Mary.

This is the dividing point between the Lighthouse Nation and British Canada. The northern part of Michigan, which is now controlled by the lighthouse state, is the upper peninsula of Michigan, which is now controlled by the lighthouse state, and Detroit is located there. The Upper Peninsula remained in the hands of the British, including Drummond Island.

Chen Han now controlled most of the Lower Michigan Peninsula, and the American troops in Detroit, backed by the British, had ample supplies of arms and baggage, and resisted Chen Han's attacks twice. The strength of the U.S. Great Lakes Fleet has also increased from five warships to 14. Hehe, the ghost knows where the sudden extra nine warships came from.

Now the Lake Erie Naval Detachment, led by Lieutenant Commander Perry of the United States, formed by the nine extra warships in the waters east of Detroit.

Although these warships are small-tonnage sloops, brigs, and even river warships, and the combined tonnage of a fleet may not be as large as two third-class capital ships, their threat cannot be underestimated.

At least these surface forces are what Chen Han lacks.

Therefore, Chen Han planned to attack Detroit again and again, because once it was taken, the Lake Erie Fleet composed of nine warships led by Oliver Hazard Perry would become a turtle in an urn. Of course, the other five US ships under the command of McDonough, commander of the US Great Lakes Fleet, could only stay in Lake Huron forever.

Detroit is the midpoint between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario to the east of Lake Erie lies the majestic Niagara Falls.

After taking Detroit, Chen Han will successfully cut off the connection between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, and split the US Great Lakes Fleet, which has 14 large and small warships, into two parts.