The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven Chapter 73

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In Franz's eyes, Mexico has always been a big fat sheep.

This country is sitting on the world's largest silver mine, but because of corruption and corruption, the government can only borrow money to survive.

Various forces in Mexico usually refuse to give in to the ownership of the silver mines, and large-scale fighting often breaks out.

Said to be fighting with weapons, its **** and tragic degree is no less than a small-scale war.

The two sides assembled hundreds of gunmen, armed with artillery, and fired at each other from a distance, and even local military police and the army would be hired to join them.

As a traitor, the outrageous reason for mortgaging valuable properties under his name to foreigners also blocked the mouths of the factions in Mexico.

After all, Tasang Anna is worrying about not being able to find someone to attack, and no one wants to make trouble for himself at this time.

Of course, in order to prevent the Austrians from mining some silver mines, the Mexican army intentionally blew up the silver mines. This blame must naturally be carried by General Epra.

Mexico has a well-developed agriculture, but at this time food is actually imported, and when they learned about the price of Austrian food, they decided to import it in the future.

After the Mexican Civil War, agriculture suffered the most. Almost half of the farmland was burned. If it were not for the food from Austria, hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico might starve to death.

The Mexican Civil War is over, but the demand for arms has not decreased, because Mexico can clearly feel the pressure from France and the United States.

If you can't have a well-armed and well-trained armed force, then Mexico will lose a large area of ​​​​territory, and may even become a vassal of other major countries, or even be annexed by other countries.

Compared with the silver mines of Mexico, which opened the eyes of Austrian gold prospectors, the silver mines of Tyrol really suck.

Although Austria has the right to mine silver mines, it still has to pay taxes to the Mexican government, and the tax rate is as high as 40%. Excluding personnel and mining costs, in fact, the income from silver mines should be 50-50 between Austria and Mexico. .

As long as Mexico is still adjacent to France and the United States, it cannot give up developing bilateral relations with Austria, because the possibility of changing the political structure of the North American continent with its own power is very slim.

Also just after the end of the war, Texas in the hands of the French is a scene of prosperity.

Under the instruction of Gabriel, the governor of Texas in France, Texas resumed the slave trade, and countless Portuguese slave traders transported ship after ship of slaves to the Gulf of Mexico.

Slave estates sprang up in Texas one after another, and even the new French immigrants fell in love with this way of life. After all, the land here was much more fertile and cheaper than France.

The bottom poor from France are not so lucky. They are forced to live in black rooms where slaves live, and work endlessly every day. Any protest will lead to a severe beating, and those supervisors are American people.

Originally, France did not have much expectations for the new colony of Texas, because colonization requires investment first, and it usually takes a few years to see the benefits.

But this time was different. In the first year, Governor Gabriel shipped back 30 shipments of supplies to the country, including wheat and cotton, and 5 million francs in taxes.

In fact, Governor Gabriel inadvertently ignited the slave trade in North America. Due to the continuous expansion of the plantation economy, more and more slaves were needed, but more and more areas prohibited slave trade.

This led to an inversion of supply and demand, and the price of a black slave in the United States could even reach as high as $1,500.

However, in Texas, due to the influx of a large number of slave traders, the price of a black slave is only 300 US dollars, and there are even Indians for sale, but the price of Indians is much lower, usually as long as 15 US dollars .

The Americans did not learn from the previous experience of real estate speculation, and now they are starting to fry black slaves again.

Due to the bravery of Tasan Anna's black soldiers in the Mexican Civil War, some local forces in Mexico also began to buy black slaves in order to obtain a powerful black army.

Due to France's strong strength when fighting the U.S. military, it successfully created a large number of American traitors.

Many landowners and businessmen wrote to Governor Gabriel, saying that their ancestors were French and they had always been proud of their French blood.

One day, if the Great France wants to recover the lost land, they are willing to cooperate with the outside world and recover the lost land together with the French Heavenly Soldiers.

Of course, these people are mostly in Oklahoma and Louisiana. In fact, this is just a self-protection method for landlords and businessmen.

So these people tried every means to do business with the French, acting like a leading party, and even paid for the French to build roads and hospitals in Texas.

Some people can't understand why these people have a posture of eating a pot of milk to welcome the king's teacher. In fact, do you know that if there is no such food and a pot of milk, once France and the United States go to war, the US military will not be able to resist, and the French army will enter the United States. What will be done in the country?

robbery? That's just routine. Even more terrible is the massacre like France did in Spain!

The French have always regarded North America as a land of barbarians.

Even Gabriel himself did not expect that he could independently solve the expenses of the French army stationed in Texas, and even pay taxes for his country.

On the other hand, in the United States, due to the defeat of the war and the turmoil of the economic crisis, the whole country was shrouded in a feeling of anxiety and panic. The sales of cotton in the south dropped sharply and were replaced by cotton from Texas and Egypt.

The sudden emergence of a strong neighbor in France caused the number of U.S. troops to soar from 15,000 to 52,000, but the U.S. military still felt that it was not enough.

Because the previous war shocked the American military too much, with powerful firepower, steel-like discipline, and indestructible will, the strength of the French army was over-mythologized by American deserters.

However, the most outrageously distorted is the strength of the French army. In order to save face, the U.S. military appeared to be not so stupid, and insisted that the French had 20,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry in Texas. Talk about martial arts, and the French army is not high morale, nor is it strong-willed, but an army that has been poisoned by feudal kingship ideology.

The New York Post issued an article stating that "the French now are no longer the army full of justice and fearlessness led by the Marquis de Lafayette. It is the impostor Louis-Philippe, the despicable and shameless minion."

Under pressure from the military, Martin Van Buren had to sign a presidential decree expanding the strength of the U.S. Army to one hundred thousand.

However, these 100,000 soldiers cost money, whether it is weapons and ammunition, or food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the United States just has no money at this time.

It's just that there seems to be a divine will in the dark, a sudden disaster saved the US economy.

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