Interfering in the dispute between the North and the South of the United States has long been no secret to the bigwigs of the Generalissimo's Office and the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty. The terms of the "Hawaii Secret Treaty", these bigwigs have been able to recite it backwards. As early as the beginning of 186o, the first expeditionary force embarked on ships and sailed to the Americas in the name of aiding the Mexican Empire, and by this time had been stationed in the Valley of Mexico for half a year, and was already preparing to send troops to fight. The second batch of expeditionary forces is a mixed Sino-Japanese force, a total of 80,000 people in two armies, and the weapons and equipment are exactly the same as those of the first army of the expeditionary force, which was assembled in the Kwantung Plain of Japan in June 186o, and has been training for more than half a year!

Seriously, Sino-Japanese relations in this time and space were so good that the Tokugawa shogunate was very attentive in preparing a military regiment for the Chinese Expeditionary Force! 6ooo girls have been recruited, and some of them have already arrived in Mexico with the First Army of the Expeditionary Force! If you let people like Aritomo and Hirobumi Ito in Yamaprefecture in another time and space know, they would have to be so angry that they would vomit blood...... However, in this time and space, these two are also Japanese soldiers in the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and they are now practicing their skills to kill the enemy day and night.

As for the issue of weaponry and military spending, proper arrangements have long been made. It's 1861 now! It is the second year of the second five-year plan of the Industrial Promotion Association, and after more than ten years of continuous investment, although the heavy industry of the Ming Dynasty is still not as good as the old imperialist Britain, it has left the United States, France, Prussia and Russia behind! Taking steel and coal as an example, in 186o, Daming's pig iron output has exceeded 18o tons, and the steel output has reached 8o tons, and the pig iron output is only 7o tons less than that of the United Kingdom, and the steel output is comparable! The coal output of Daming, stimulated by the large demand of the machine industry, exceeded 3ooo tons in one fell swoop, close to the UK's 5O, and firmly sat in the second place in the world. Almost all weapons and equipment have been localized, and the arms industry is very advanced, which is enough to meet the needs of a large-scale modernization war.

The operating mileage of the Daming Railway has exceeded 40,000 miles, second only to the United States and second in the world. However, Daming's 40,000 miles of railway is mainly based on steel rails, and the railways in the United States are mainly backward plate rails, although the operating mileage is more than China, Daming Railway Company has achieved profitability as early as 1855, and by 186o year, the net profit has exceeded 1ooo million silver dollars!

Under such a good economic development, the financial revenue of the Ming Empire also increased significantly, and by 186o, it was a full 2o more than in 1857! Moreover, it achieved the first financial surplus since the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, with a surplus of 5oo yuan......

However, relying on this 5oo yuan is definitely not enough to support the expenses of intervening in the American Civil War, fortunately, the financing ability of the Ming Empire is very strong, not only successfully running several public bonds in India, but also raising a large amount of money in the European market. This time, in the name of "participating in the Central American war and supporting Mexico", the equivalent of 100 million silver dollars was successfully raised in the financial markets of London and Paris. Enough to support the first and second expeditionary forces.

And this qiē preparation is for today's arrival. Before going to the temple for a meeting, Zuo Zongtang, Luo Zenan and others had also learned the news of South Carolina's withdrawal from the United States of America, and they naturally knew what it meant. As soon as I arrived at the temple, it didn't take much time to discuss what I was going to do now. First of all, it was the first time to recognize the Southern Federation of the United States (at this time, the name of the southern part of the United States was not known), and if the North of the United States protested, then it would be decisively severed! The second is to study in what name to enter the war, whether to declare war on the North of the United States, fight an all-out war or leave it undeclared, and let the Chinese Expeditionary Force enter the South of the United States in the name of the Volunteer Army, depending on the position of France, Mexico, and Britain -- the key is whether Britain will enter the war and whether France is willing to let the "Four-Power Agreement" come to an end. The implication is that once Britain does not intend to enter the war, and France prepares to enter the war, the paper agreement signed by China, Britain, France, and Mexico after the end of the war against Russia will become a piece of waste paper. In its place, it will be the "China, France, Mexico, and the United States (American South) Four-Power Alliance Treaty", which will mean something, even if you think about it, you can understand it.

Zhu Jishi calculated the time in his heart, these Yankees are very unfavorable to fight the civil war, a large number of states have to meet to discuss the issue of taking sides, the southern generals who serve in the federal army still have resignation rolls and leave, and the south also elects the president, formulates the constitution, and organizes the army...... It is estimated that it will not be done in a few months. The same thing should be done in the north. At present, the 6th Army of the US Federation is less than 20,000, and there is no way to fight a war.

In addition, the issue of Mexico's participation in the war was also negotiated. It's hard to say whether the Southern Alliance will agree to Mexico's acquisition of territory in the western United States! Why don't you have to play a few warm-up games first to make the American South feel that things are a bit tricky?

When Zhu Jishi finished the meeting of the temple before lunch,. It seems that these two have received instructions from the French emperor to urgently come to Zhu Jishi to consult on interfering in the American Civil War. The French emperor's interest now lies in the Americas, a pro-French American Confederation, a large Mexican Latin Empire belonging to the Bonaparte family, and possibly the Brazilian Empire into the arms of France - a height that even Napoleon I did not reach, a great empire across the Atlantic, holding the hegemony of two worlds (referring to the Americas and Europe, Africa, and West Asia), plus the support of China, the hegemon of the Eastern world, France is the world hegemon! Overlord of the sea and 6 lands! Britain or something, not at all an opponent of France, as for Germany...... What if they could be unified? Can it still confront the overlords of the two worlds? Drag them to death!

So now Napoleon III feels good about himself, with a smile of excitement on his face. Especially Lao Pier, a veteran left over from the Napoleonic era, has a smile on his face that can't be hidden. The French Empire has finally become a great power under the leadership of Napoleon III, and it is now the hegemon of the world!

As soon as he saw Zhu Jishi, the old man who had already changed into the uniform of the 6th Army of France stood upright, that is, he raised his hand and saluted, and then said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Emperor, I am here to bid you farewell!" I have been summoned by the Emperor of France to be awarded the rank of General and Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces! I don't think you're going to object to this appointment, are you? ”

Of course, the coalition refers to the "coalition forces of France, the Ming Dynasty, Mexico, and the United States", and it seems that Napoleon III has decided to tear his face and intervene in the American Civil War by force! And the generals who were able to command the forces of the four-nation alliance,. This old guy can be said to be the founder of the 6th Army of the Ming Dynasty, Shi Dakai is just his student, how dare he not listen to the command? Moreover, this old man's brain is not outdated, he knows the latest weapons and tactics well, and he can be regarded as one of the masters of barbed wire squatting and pit flow...... If the old man survives the Franco-Prussian War, he will really drink a pot of Moltke, the Prussian god of war! Moreover, the French 6th Army at that time was all veterans who had been baptized by the American Civil War, could Prussian recruits really fight with others?

Thinking of this, Zhu Jishi nodded with a smile, and said to Lao Pier in French: "Jérôme, if you are in command of the coalition army, then I can't rest assured." There must be no one in the North who knows how to fight a war better than you, but, there is a question I want to know, how much time are you prepared to spend helping the South to achieve their ** wishes? ”rs

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