Chapter 503 Undeclared War

After "solving" the two major problems of Oregon and Texas, John Tyler began his next plan. That is to continue to "send the Indians out of the country".

After all, an American president who has never slaughtered Indians is like a tsar who has never fought the Russo-Turkish War, as if he has no soul.

John Tyler wanted to be a great president, so he had to strike hard on this matter. Although the Americans' actions to expel Indians have been continuing, it is obviously impossible to leave a name in history without doing something fancy.

So the American leader signed the second westward migration order.

The first westward migration order was used to break through Oregon and try to enter California. Although it failed, it still caused a lot of trouble to the Austrian side.

The temptation of the second westward migration order was slightly stronger and more "civilized" than the first one, because this time John Tyler claimed that the Indians would become the owners of the land after he conquered the territory, and would be regarded as American citizens, and the two nations would always "friendly" towards the future.

Of course, there are still some inherent contradictions in the United States, such as the North-South issue, such as the contradiction between industry and commerce and agriculture and animal husbandry... but these are not important.

The important thing is that President John Tyler, 54, and Julia Gardner, 24, got married. A marriage with such a large age span would naturally be criticized, but the former felt that it was not important in the face of true love.

After he had resolved his own life event, he began to deal with the major event related to the fate of the United States.

On the other hand, Mexican President Tasan Anna was still full of expectations for his tricks to succeed. He hoped to return the favor to the other party.

With the support of Austria over the years, this Mexican military leader has eliminated countless competitors, defeated countless rebels, and quelled countless rebellions.

He felt that he deserved the name of the Napoleon of North America. Of course, his subordinates also knew what kind of personality the boss had and would naturally not spoil the interest of their boss.

But Tasan Anna never thought about why he always suppressed one problem and caused another.

The rebellion seemed endless, and the enemies were endless. Although he had achieved many "glorious" victories, these "achievements" overwhelmed him.

In fact, the cruelest and most tormenting situation in the world is the civil war. When facing the Americans, Tasan Anna would spare women, children, and all those who had no ability to resist.

But when facing traitors in Mexico, he almost never showed mercy, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands. But even the murderer can be soft-hearted, let alone Tasan Anna, an ordinary person.

When violent means don't work, he wants to use gentle means.

However, the political level of this president and his team is very limited. The only gentle means they can understand is to give money.

But when the market structure has not changed and the supply of goods has not increased, this approach is simply to increase inflation.

To be honest, Franz had been considering letting Mexicans use Austrian expected notes. Now President Tasan Anna directly devalued the Mexican Eagle Dollar, and the people complained and rebellion broke out.

In this chaotic environment, Austrian expected notes naturally replaced the Mexican Eagle Dollar as "hard currency", and Tasan Anna became the first magical president who could devalue his country's metal currency.

Since the Austrian-Mexican Joint Development Company was actually under the control of Franz, it had a very good reputation. In addition to its special relationship with the Mexican president, it even took on the responsibility of issuing Mexican banknotes.

However, this disaster-stricken country is not suitable for issuing banknotes at all, because the Mexican government's credibility is too poor, and the banknotes are depreciating faster than the printing speed.

Under Franz's deliberate guidance, the country's agriculture has made great progress, but industry and commerce are regressing. Tasan Anna doesn't care about these, he only cares about how much tax can be collected.

Letting such a person in power is simply great for the Austrian-Mexican Joint Development Company, which lives on this country.

However, there are also some problems, that is, Franz's repeated emphasis on fire prevention, theft prevention, and anti-Americanism has only been ignored by the Mexican president.

At this moment, large areas of New Mexico have long been infiltrated by American immigrants.

(The New Mexico region at that time included modern New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada)

Tasan Anna once considered moving the people in the southern rebellious areas to the north to defend the border, but it triggered new rebellions. After several repetitions, he gave up.

Mexico then organized a border inspection team, but these so-called troops were basically in name only, otherwise John Sina in California would not have to offer a reward for hunting down illegal immigrants.

What's more terrifying is that some small warlords under Tasan Anna completely disobeyed the orders of the central government and were even bribed by the Americans to work for the United States.

Although Mexico claimed to have 300,000 troops, 100,000 of them only existed on paper, and another 100,000 could not be mobilized at all (local rebellions needed to be pacified and suppressed), and the remaining 100,000 were like blind people in the vast New Mexico region.

Therefore, Franz doubted whether they were able to defend the existing territory.

In fact, France's attitude will greatly affect the situation in North America, but Louis Philippe was very disdainful of communicating with people like John Tyler.

And he was not too interested in the Americans' proposal to join forces to attack Mexico, and he questioned the offensive routes of the two countries.

The route given by John Taylor was that France would attack from the south of 37°N, while his side would attack from the north of 37°N. It seemed that the French had taken some advantage because the territory was larger.

But the main force of the Mexican army was almost all in the area south of 37°N. Compared with this, the Mexican territory north of 37°N had almost no defenses and no soldiers to defend.

And would the Americans' attack on California annoy the Austrian Empire? It was unlikely that they would cross the ocean to support Mexico, but would they set off a bloody storm on the European continent as a revenge?

You must know that at this time, France and Austria were only separated by a wall. Whether from Namur, from northern Italy, or from Alsace and Lorraine, the Austrian army could pass unimpeded.

This reminded Louis Philippe of one of his predecessors, Louis XVI, who "sold his head to support the United States".

The lessons learned from the past forced him to think twice before acting, and the king naturally did nothing after thinking about it, calling it "letting nature take its course".

But John Tyler was a very pragmatic man. After he learned that the local militia could solve the threat from Texas, he resolutely decided to launch the Mexican-American War.

In fact, when the Mexicans received the news of the war, the US military was already in the heart of Mexico. Of course, this is not an undeclared war, but "I declared war, but you didn't receive it."