I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Zhu Fugui was stunned by this round of operations, and really couldn't figure out what was going on in this world.

You know, according to the distribution and circulation speed, those black people definitely acted before the newspaper reached the east coast of the United States!

Could it be that heroes see the same thing?

Seeing the same thing as a group of black heroes, Zhu Fugui didn't know whether to be lucky or sad.

Now the eastern part of the North American continent has become a mess.

After the blacks went up the mountain, they stopped producing and began to plunder nearby farms and caravans.

And these farms and caravans all belong to the northern states, and for a while, the northern people set off a racist trend of "hanging black people".

On the contrary, because Robert E. Lee launched an offensive during the busy season that killed [-] enemies and lost [-], there was a large shortage of labor in various plantations in the south. Farmers had to improve the treatment of blacks, and even tried to increase the birth rate of blacks. .

The Confederate government even publicly supported the righteous zero-dollar purchases of black people in northern states, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia, and welcomed them to "go home."

Of course, the premise is to put down the arms and put on the hinges obediently.

In fact, at the beginning of the black armed riots, the Lincoln government mobilized the army to suppress it in one fell swoop, and there were not so many things.

But he still chose to send his confidant and favorite general, the supernova of the Northern Army, Brigadier General Robert Jr.

That's right, Robert King Jr. had already achieved the rank of brigadier general after a tie with Stonewall Jackson.

Because it was his old army that rebelled, it was reasonable for Lincoln to order Robert King Jr. to lead troops into the mountains to suppress the bandits.

So the end result of the matter...

Robert King Jr., who is lying down and promoted, and Jerry, a black man who reads the newspaper and directs.

They spent a month playing hide-and-seek in the Appalachian Mountains, with casualties on both sides coming from falls and disease.

The Southern Army took advantage of this opportunity to advance dozens of kilometers and resumed its strategic initiative in one fell swoop.

Under such an enemy, Lincoln had to let the blacks go and fight against the southerners' attack.

As for the rebellious Indian tribe called "Daiming" in the Northwest, Lincoln didn't care about it at all.

Can the mere Indians break into the White House and pull themselves off the presidency?

Do not make jokes!

Chapter 179 Vanderbilt's Dead End

Zhu Fugui stood in front of the sand table, reviewing the military intelligence during this period, and felt that he was really a military leader.

Although I don't know how it was done, everything that is inconsistent with the historical track will be calculated according to Daming's credit.

From this point of view, my Daming is indeed invincible in the world!

However, Zhu Fugui just sneered in his heart.

Because Ming's next opponent is an absolutely difficult bone, because it is the largest colonial stronghold of the Americans in the Northwest Territories - Portland.

Speaking of Portland, if most people don't check the information, the only impression of him is probably the Rose City or the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA.

The name "pioneer" can well explain the colonial characteristics of this city.

In later generations, Portland is far less developed than Seattle, with a population of just over 60.

But in this era, even before the railroad was extended to the deepwater port of Seattle in the 1870s, Portland was the number one port in the Pacific Northwest.

As early as 1805, the colonial leaders Lewis and Clark "expedition" here to establish settlements.

At first Portland was in the shadow of Oregon City, 19 kilometers up the Willamide River, but Portland's excellent location, not far from the mouth of the Willah River, gave it a key advantage.

By 1840, Portland had replaced Oregon City as the largest stronghold for immigrants from the western United States to operate the Northwest Coast.

According to data, the current population of Portland has reached 7, while the population of Oregon as a whole exceeds 20.

In contrast, Washington State, where Seattle is located, is far from being formed in this era. Without the state legislature, the National Guard controlled by the state government is even more impossible to talk about.

But as early as 1848, Oregon was formed and joined the federal government in 1859.

Oregon isn't as organized as the Eastern states, but it's far stronger than the Seattle area.

Here, the 41st Infantry Brigade of the National Guard under the command of the state government is stationed. This is one of the 20 standing brigades of the National Guard in the United States, and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

In fact, even in later generations, Zhu Fugui had heard the name of the Oregon National Guard.

In the Black Lives Matter movement, the Portland shooting was one of the fuses, and Portland naturally became the hardest hit area of ​​the movement.

There were even more than 100 days of riots in downtown Portland, and finally the state government dispatched the National Guard to restore law and order.

Although in essence, the National Guard can also be regarded as a kind of militia, there is no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the standing brigade with state financial support is far from the spontaneous organization of old white men encountered in Seattle and Bremerton. The militias are comparable.

In fact, not to mention the gap in individual combat power, the 41st Infantry Brigade's 5000 troops were the biggest obstacle that Ming encountered in his journey to the south.

However, going south is the basic national policy of Ming Dynasty, and fully occupying all the ports and lands west of the Rocky Mountains is an inevitable choice for Ming Dynasty to settle down.

If you want to get your hands on the rich San Francisco and Los Angeles, the hard bone of Portland must be gnawed away.

In order to achieve this goal, the entire Ming Dynasty, as a war machine, once again started rumbling.

But before that, Zhu Fugui was going to reply a letter to his first female fan. After all, she and her family seemed to be in a little trouble.

……

New York, Vanderbilt Estate.

In just half a year, old Vanderbilt looked ten years older.

He used to be full of vigor and vigor, not at all like a 70-year-old man.

But now, Old Vanderbilt seemed to be just an ordinary, dying old man.

Steve and William were the two most valued sons of Vanderbilt Sr.

Of course, the latter has always been valued, while the former has gradually been valued because of his excellent solution to the problem of ship asset liquidation.

Calling these two sons over today, old Vanderbilt chatted uncharacteristically for half an hour.

He recalled how he ambitiously started from scratch 50 years ago, and also talked about his children and how naughty they were when they were young.

In the end, he also said with emotion that he really missed too many things in this life, and his biggest regret was not being with his family well.

Such words, spoken from a ruthless big capitalist, made both sons feel the seriousness of the matter.

Although they have never heard of the saying "a man who is about to die speaks kindly, and a bird sings sadly when he is about to die", they also understand that his old father seems to be really devastated when he said such uncharacteristic words .

If it was in the past, when the old father wanted to abdicate, the two brothers would definitely fight over the inheritance rights, but at this time, they dare not answer.

The reason is simple. The railway investment has encountered huge losses, which is likely to cause the entire Vanderbilt family to go bankrupt!

The cause of the incident also starts with the civil war where the painting style suddenly changed.

Before the war broke out, the United States had 5.3 kilometers of railways, accounting for about half of the world's railway length, and 3000 kilometers more than all the railways in Europe combined.

Instead of slowing down the development of the American railroad industry, the outbreak of the war became a driving force.

In the first year of the war, the Northern Federal Government built 2 kilometers of railways.

However, these railways are actually concentrated in the eastern region, and they are mainly north-south in order to facilitate the transportation of war supplies.

At the same time, the three Pacific Railways to the Pacific Ocean, South (Los Angeles/San Diego), North (Seattle/Portland), and Central (Saramento/San Francisco), are progressing slowly and urgently need capital injection.

The ambitious old Vanderbilt was optimistic about these three major arteries traversing the United States.

As New York's top capitalist and ship magnate, Vanderbilt Sr. sold all his shipping assets and invested in the northern and central railroads.

Among them, the northern line, that is, the railway leading to the Seattle area, although the technical difficulty is relatively low, but Seattle has a small population and low commercial value in this era. Anxious to pay back, is a long-term investment.

But the middle-line railway is different, which is related to the success or failure of this investment.

In fact, as long as one of the two railways can be opened to traffic smoothly, the Vanderbilt family will make a lot of money, but the middle line will earn more.

In 1862, President Lincoln of the United States approved the construction of the median line.

The Act provides for the joint construction of the Transcontinental Pacific Railroad by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad.

The Union Pacific Railroad's starting point is Omaha, Nebraska, and the Central Pacific Railroad's starting point is Sacramento, California.

The two companies paved the railway from east to west.The western section of the Pacific Railway has to cross the entire Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the project is extremely difficult.

In the first year, the Central Pacific Railway Company made rapid progress, and the Union Pacific Railway Company sent personnel to learn from experience and discovered the secret of the Central Pacific Railway Company's use of Chinese labor.

Immediately afterwards, in the first half of last year, the joint company Firewire promoted Henry, the former head of Plash Mining, as the full-fledged person in charge of the railway, and boldly used Chinese labor for construction.

However, United's use of Henry proved to be a total disaster.

This flashy dude is a complete asshole and he screwed everything up.

For three full months, such precious three months, not a single Chinese was sent from Port Angeles.

Until he found out that something was wrong, he re-contacted the shipping company in San Francisco, which was delayed for half a year.

The old Vanderbilt didn't know how the company he invested in found such a pig as the project leader. He only knew that if he had increased his financial leverage by nearly three times, if he couldn't see the railway opened to traffic as scheduled, then nothing but Hanged on the luxurious chandelier of his own villa, he has no other way out.

"You also come to think of a way to make the middle line run through on schedule, or to transfer the risk of funds. In short, you should think of a way. Whoever can solve this problem will be my favorite son, and whoever can inherit everything from me! "

Old Vanderbilt stood up, his eyes were red, and he stared at Steve and William.

Chapter 180 A Letter to Julie, Future Administrative Planning

"My dear Julie book friend:

First of all, I would like to extend my greetings to you in early summer. The pleasant weather in June is always pleasant. In such a beautiful season, I suggest that you, like me, go to the suburbs two hundred kilometers away for hunting and fitness.

I have received the Baroque-style solid gold and diamond-encrusted music box that you sent last time. To be honest, I like this simple little thing very much.

Enclosed is a brooch, not expensive jewelry, but made of some cheap aluminum, and a ruby ​​of only 4 carats, which is not worth mentioning at all, but I hope you like it.

In addition, it is a great honor for you to continue to subscribe to my new work "Three-Body Problem", which is my painstaking work. It may be as you said, slightly beyond the cognition of this era, and it seems obscure.

Especially the [Special Theory of Relativity], [General Relativity], [Zhu Fugui Effect], [Quantum Mechanics] and a series of hypotheses that I put forward in the novel, these are just some whimsical ideas in my study of physics. , you can't understand, it's very normal.

In fact, I am not writing this novel for profit, but I hope to follow the path of future generations and make them have nowhere to go.

In short, please forgive my raving, beautiful lady.

I am more willing to explain to you some doubts in contemporary surrealist literature and art. Here I must introduce two concepts-cyberpunk and steampunk...

……

In short, these are some abstract summaries of my thinking life of young people today, and I share them with you here.

By the way, last I read in the newspaper, your family seems to be in some trouble?

Perhaps inappropriate, but as your closest friend and business associate of the Vanderbilt family, I would like to offer some less mature thinking.

In China, there is an old proverb called 'Never hang yourself on a tree, especially a tree with a crooked neck'.

In my opinion, your grandfather's obsession with limiting resources to the railroad to Saramento is tantamount to hanging on the crooked neck tree.

Go north. Seattle has the best harbor and no rolling hills. The mayor of Seattle, Charles I, is a friendly middle-aged man, and he will warmly welcome the birth of such a railway.

If there is still a shortage of funds, I can also contribute together. We will set up a Double Ju railway company and jointly operate this railway connecting the Pacific Ocean. Believe me, Asia-Pacific trade is promising.

As for the rumors that the Indians in the Seattle area were rioting, I can only say that hearing is believing, seeing is believing. There are no Indians here at all, and everything is fake news from the media. I suggest you take a look with your own eyes. "

……

Zhu Fugui handed over the letter to Julie to the guard, and the letter will be sent to the east coast via the cruise ship in Port Angeles.

To be honest, Zhu Fugui has had enough of this mode of transportation.

Whether it is as small as a letter or as large as the fat king sent out every quarter, all have to go through the British transportation channel.

Port Angeles has almost become Ming's Hong Kong, earning excessive re-export profits.

In order to get rid of such dependence, and at the same time facilitate the direct dumping of materials to the eastern region in the future, Zhu Fugui urgently needs a railway artery.

According to the original history, the Northern Line in Seattle will not be completed until several years later.

And according to the current situation, the railway company will probably abandon this plan.

So Zhu Fugui tried to persuade the Vanderbilt family to put all their eggs in one basket and build the railway to the north.

Although the Consolidated Railroad Company is useless, the railroad has also been repaired from Nebraska to Wyoming.

As originally planned, the railroad would head southwest into Utah and join the Central Railroad's western section in Nevada.

The biggest trouble for the entire Pacific Railway is the Sierra Nevada Mountains located in Nevada.