Chapter 117 Three North American Brothers

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

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

The various forces in Mexico usually do not give in to the ownership of the silver mine, and large-scale fights often break out.

It is called a fight, but its bloody and tragic degree is no less than a small-scale war.

Both sides assembled hundreds of gunmen, carrying artillery, and fired at each other from a distance. Even local gendarmes and troops were hired to join in.

As a traitor, the reason that his valuable property was mortgaged to foreigners also blocked the mouths of factions in Mexico.

After all, Tasan Anna is now worried about not being able to find someone to start, and no one wants to cause trouble for himself at this time.

Of course, in order to make the Austrians mine less silver, the Mexican army deliberately blew up the silver mine cave, and the pot naturally had to be taken by General Epra.

Although Mexico has a developed agriculture, it actually has to import food at this time, 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 serious losses. Almost half of the farmland was burned. If it were not for Austria's food, hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico might have starved to death.

The Mexican Civil War ended, but the demand for arms did not decrease, because Mexico could clearly feel the pressure from France and the United States.

If Mexico could not have a well-armed and well-trained armed force, it would lose a large area of ​​territory, and it might even become a vassal of other major powers, and even be annexed by other countries.

The silver mines in Mexico opened the eyes of Austrian gold diggers. The silver mines in Tyrol were really bad compared to them.

Although Austria had the mining rights of the silver mines, it still had to pay taxes to the Mexican government, and the tax rate was as high as 40%. Excluding the costs of personnel and mining, the actual income of the 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 small.

The war had just ended, but Texas in the hands of the French was prosperous.

Under the instruction of Gabriel, the French governor of Texas, Texas resumed the slave trade, and countless Portuguese slave traders transported shiploads of slaves to the Gulf of Mexico.

Slave plantations sprang up in Texas, and even the newly arrived French immigrants fell in love with this lifestyle, after all, the land here was much more fertile and cheaper than in France.

The poor people from France were not so lucky. They were forced to live in the dark houses where slaves lived, working endlessly every day, and any protest would lead to a beating, and the supervisors were actually Americans.

France did not have much expectations for the new colony of Texas, because colonization required investment first, and it usually took several years to see the benefits.

This time was different. Governor Gabriel sent back 30 ships of supplies to his country in the first year, including wheat and cotton, as well as 5 million francs in taxes.

In fact, Governor Gabriel accidentally ignited the slave trade in North America. As the plantation economy continued to expand, more and more slaves were needed, but more and more areas banned the slave trade.

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

However, in Texas, due to the influx of a large number of slave traders, the price of a black slave was only $300, and there were even Indians for sale, but the price of Indians was much lower, usually only $15.

Americans did not learn from the previous experience of real estate speculation, and now they are speculating on black slaves again.

Because the black soldiers under Tasan Anna performed bravely in the Mexican Civil War, some local forces in Mexico also began to buy black slaves in order to obtain a strong black army.

Due to the strong strength shown by France in the battle with the US military, a large number of American traitors were successfully created.

Many landlords and businessmen wrote to Governor Gabriel, saying that their ancestors were French and they were always proud of their French ancestry.

If France wants to take back the lost territory one day, they are willing to cooperate with the French soldiers to recover the lost territory.

Of course, the most of these people are 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 guide, and even funded the French to build roads and hospitals in Texas.

Some people can't understand why these people want to welcome the king's army with food and drink. In fact, do you know that if there is no food and drink, once the war between France and the United States begins, the US military cannot resist it and the French army enters the United States, what will they do?

Robbery? That's just a routine operation. What's more terrible is the massacre like what France did in Spain!

The French have always regarded North America as a barbarian land, and the French have never been soft on barbarians.

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

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

The sudden appearance of France, a powerful neighbor, caused the number of US troops to soar from 15,000 to 52,000, but the US military still felt it was not enough.

Because the previous war had shocked the US military so much, the powerful firepower, iron-like discipline, and indestructible will, the strength of the French army was overly mythical by American deserters.

However, the most outrageous distortion was the strength of the French army. In order to save face and appear not so stupid, the US military insisted that the French had 20,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry in Texas, and the US military was defeated entirely because the other side did not have martial ethics, and the French army was not high in morale or strong in will, but was an army that had been poisoned by feudal monarchy.

The New York Post published an article saying, "The French are no longer the army full of justice and fearlessness led by the Marquis de Lafayette. Instead, they are the impostor and shameless lackeys of Louis Philippe."

Under pressure from the military, Martin Van Buren had to sign a presidential decree to expand the number of US Army to 100,000.

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

It seems that there is a will of God in the dark, and a sudden disaster saved the US economy.

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