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

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But things haven't always been that smooth.

Less than a month after Richmond Fashion Week ended, there was a modest protest of soldiers in Virginia.

Fed up with moldy corn and beans, the old Pages of the Legion of Northern Virginia finally rose up and chanted the slogan "No corn, traditional food."

"My comrades at Dixie, we're shooting at the Yankees at the front while greedy quartermasters are stealing our money."

"Delicious porridge, with a hint of the sea, I think it is the natural right of every one of us Southern soldiers to enjoy these traditional delicacies!"

"Comrades, General Li must have been deceived by traitors. When he was indulging in art, he didn't know the good deeds of greedy moths!"

"Let me pick up the rifle and take back our honor!"

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When Zhu Fugui received the letter from Robert Lee, he was in a daze.

To be honest, since the second and third phases of the Xinjin Agricultural Reclamation Area were completed ahead of schedule and the grain production was bumper, Zhu Fugui has never bought pig feed from later generations.

Pig feed is a low-value-added product, and the cultural value penalty is not high. What's more, as a fake and inferior product, Fat King is the cheapest among them, so there is nothing distressing to buy some.

But isn't this a bumper harvest of grain... It's going to rot in the warehouse...

That's why Zhu Fugui sent the corn and beans to the red necks to improve their food.

Unexpectedly, they actually rioted.

This is a big problem.

Among the major political entities in North America today:

Canada - 210 million people

Daming - 220 million people

Johnson government - 910 million people

Lincoln Administration - 1140 million people

Southern Government - 670 million people

Lone Star Government - 250 million people

Mexico - 880 million people

Years of wars have not actually reduced the population of the United States too much. Today, the total population of the four countries is still close to 3000 million.

But considering that once the war is over, the annual population growth rate of the United States will immediately exceed 30%, so maintaining the continuation of the Civil War is what Ming must do.

In fact, on this issue, Ming and Britain once again found a common language.

Daming and Daying are messing up shit together, and they must not allow Millikin to return to unity.

Therefore, it is necessary to immediately resume the supply of fattening kings to the southern army, and satisfy the appetite of the southern Dixie warriors as soon as possible.

But now there is a problem, that is, the free trade agreement signed by Ming Dynasty and the Confederate government of the Confederacy is a bit unsustainable.

Due to the shortage of sterling in North America, the trade settlement between Ming and the Confederacy was in the form of barter.

Don't think that bartering is very low, even in later generations, this is the most basic operation to bypass the hegemony of the dollar.

Of course, if a country has enough gold reserves, it can also use gold for direct shopping.

For example, the local chickens that experienced financial turmoil in the past two years did so.

But the problem is that today the Confederacy has neither enough gold reserves nor enough commodities to pay off its debts.

As for swapping with Daming's local currency, I don't even think about it. Daming won't want their waste paper.

Now is the season of lean and yellow.

The Southern Confederacy needed Ming's food and industrial products, but the black handmade cotton needed by Ming was far from reaching the picking season.

Faced with such a situation, the southern government had no choice but to send a mission to Fengdu.

This is not our Long Live Lord engaging in big country chauvinism. Zhu Fugui is very willing to meet with President Davis in the South somewhere.

But the problem is, people refuse to say anything!

As if Zhu Fugui was a scourge, he was afraid that he would become Lincoln's second.

So exactly 70 years after the Magorny mission entered Beijing, a special foreign mission entered Fengjing.

The meeting lasted for three full days, followed by the "Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Ming Empire and the Confederate States of America", "Ming-US (South) Joint Statement on the Sovereignty of the Mississippi River Basin", and "21 Articles on Deepening Ming-US (South) Economic and Trade Cooperation" A series of treaties have been issued one after another.

According to this series of treaties, Ming and the Confederate States of America mutually recognized independence and sovereignty.

Ming promised the one-American principle, affirming that there is only one United States in the world, that is, the Confederate States of America that existed in the Confederation system, and did not recognize the legitimacy of the Northern Federal Government.

According to the treaty, before April, the Ming Dynasty and the Confederate States of America would respectively establish embassies and consulates in Xinfeng and Richmond, and send diplomatic envoys there.

At the same time, the Confederate States of America recognized Ming as the legal successor of the Native Americans and had legal sovereignty west of the Mississippi River, and did not recognize the illegal occupation of this area by the northern puppet government.

Ming Dynasty will provide a special loan of 300 million pounds to the Confederate States of America, with all warships in the Confederate States of America fleet as collateral.

It needs to be explained here that last year the government of the Confederate States of America, the Confederate States, spent about 6600 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to about 1200 million pounds, including a fiscal deficit of nearly 270 million pounds.

It can be said that with a population of 670 million, the Confederacy is basically on the verge of bankruptcy.

Daming’s 300 million pounds, or about 1800 million Daming silver dollars, is equivalent to about 44 billion yuan in later generations. Since the price of silver in later generations has not skyrocketed, Zhu Fugui actually purchased these silvers for only 10 billion yuan.

To put it bluntly, this amount of money is only 10 small goals. It is basically useless, but it is quite life-saving for the southern government at this time.

And for Daming, this deal is not a loss.

For example, many people in later generations do not understand the Republic's assistance to Africa, and think that the west of the country is still grazing, but we support black people. It really shouldn't be.

The inner logic of the two things is the same.

Because these aids are actually specially turned into our products and projects, and will soon return to China.

In fact, only a small cost is paid.

It is of course cost-effective to exchange these things for markets, resources, and political influence.

Going back to Daming's loan, it is naturally more cost-effective, after all, the loan has to be repaid.

The Confederate Government's current sea pressure is not great, and their fleet really has no need to exist.

Those ships are very new and advanced.

£200 million may be a bit of a premium, but it's not too much of a loss.

What's more, this is only one of the "21 Articles for Deepening Ming-US (South) Economic and Trade Cooperation".

The other 20 can fully compensate for these losses.

Chapter 323 Lian Na and Xia Jiang

The rumbling trains on the railway represent hope, and the end of the railway is the distant gaze of the empire.

With the signing of the relevant treaty between the Ming Dynasty and the Confederate Government of the South, the Mingmei Railway became more and more busy.

The grain deep-processing products marked "Fattening King" and various small industrial products were loaded into a car box and headed southeast along the railway track.

Of course, the world was not peaceful, and Ming had to do business with a sword.

On each train, there are soldiers from the Third War Zone of the Ming Dynasty, wearing straight woolen coats, walking with the train, and changing defenses and dispatching at key nodes of the railway.

After the victory of the Ping-Japanese War, Zhu Fugui reorganized and reorganized the total military force of the Ming Dynasty, and set up three theaters.

They are the Chaowa Theater, the Central Theater, and the Railway Theater.

Among them, Zheng Baoguo, the former governor-general in Japan, assumed the post of governor-general of the War Zone of the Japanese Dynasty, and the governor-general in Japan was abolished immediately.

Although Zheng Baoguo, an old comrade, did not have any outstanding talents, his success lies in his stability and prudence.

It is precisely because he knows that his talents are mediocre, Zheng Baoguo always keeps in mind his fundamental purpose, and completes all tasks assigned by the Long Live God without compromise, and does not touch anything that the Long Live God expressly prohibits.

In terms of work, he cooperated with the Chairman of the Asian Metropolitan Government to further transform Japanese society.

Ask for more instructions and report more to ensure that the Ministry of War and Long Live Lord can grasp the first-hand information of the Far East in the first place.

At the same time, the troops in the Chaowa war zone need to switch defenses with the troops of the Ming Dynasty headquarters every two years to avoid the appearance of feudal towns to the greatest extent.

As for changing defenses more frequently, it is easy to cause soldiers not knowing their generals, and generals not knowing their soldiers, which greatly damages the combat effectiveness of the troops stationed in Japan.

All in all, what Daming needs is definitely not Li Chengliang No. [-].

The mature and prudent Zheng Baoguo is the most suitable candidate.

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The central theater is the main theater responsible for most of the interests of the Ming headquarters. It is under the direct control of Marshal Zhu, and the Ministry of War is directly involved in the division of labor.

The Central Theater has concentrated the elite divisions of the Royal Army and Navy of the Ming Dynasty. While protecting the interests of the headquarters, they must also be prepared to rush to the Far East at any time.

Compared with the first two theaters, the third theater of Ming Dynasty, that is, the railway theater, is much weaker.

Its governor is Jiang Biao, the former commander of the Second Division of the Royal Army, and the total force under its jurisdiction is only 1 Division B and 1 Special Infantry Regiment, with a total of 1 people.

If we want to make a comparison, the governor's office of the railway is probably equivalent to the governor's office of the Ming and Qing water transport.

It's just that the combat power of the former is much stronger.

The railway theater is responsible for maintaining the sovereignty and economic interests of the 20 miles on both sides of the Mingmei Railway, which is 32.2 kilometers wide, and ensuring the safety of the main railway line.

Of course, Zhu Fugui is known as an honest and trustworthy young gentleman, and he always abides by the contract in everything he does.

According to the "Tripartite Agreement" two years ago, Brother Li Hongzhang still has a lot of shares in this railway!

Although after several rounds of financing dilution, Li Hongzhang's shares are less than 3%, but he still brings him a lot of dividends every year.

After Daming collected the tax, he handed it over to the Huai Army every ten days.

In addition, what even Li Hongzhang himself did not understand was that he actually owned more than 3000 square kilometers of land in North America, equivalent to half the area of Shanghai.

He couldn't understand the contract himself, so Zhu Fugui reluctantly managed the land on his behalf.

All in all, Daming has huge interests on the Ming-US Railway, and it is worth setting up a special war zone for protection.

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The town of Franklin is located in Tennessee at the intersection of three U.S. lines of control in the east.

Franklin is more than 800 kilometers away from Richmond, 1200 kilometers away from New York, and 300 kilometers away from Memphis, an important node of Mingmei Railway.

Such a location makes this humble town almost forgotten by the world.

Lian Na wore a long gray cloth dress full of patches, and hurriedly knocked on the gate of a local manor.

The door creaked open, and it was opened by a black maid.

Tennessee is a typical southern state. Although the state government has made a promise to abolish slavery, slavery is still common and open.

In fact, as the black knights became more and more suppressed under the siege of Robert King Jr., doing evil in the north, the basic base for abolition of slavery has become smaller and smaller.

"Welcome, Miss Lianna, my daughter has been waiting for you for a long time, but before that, would you mind having a drink with me?"

"Mr. Cuomo, I'm just Miss Helen's piano teacher."

"Hehe, don't be nervous, I just admire your artistic accomplishment."

……

After finishing today's piano teaching, Lian Na hurriedly left Como Manor.

Recently, Mr. Cuomo, the owner of the manor and a Tennessee state senator, has become more and more aggressive.

Lianna could even read the outspoken desire in his eyes.

It scared her.

After walking a few blocks, the street in front of me became dirty and cramped.

This is where Lian Na rents.

For a small city like Franklin, this is already the edge of the city.

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