The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 209 Target Texas
The establishment of administrative agencies in the American empire cannot be based solely on the size of the territory. As we all know, population is the most critical factor in economic production. Without people, fertile land and mineral resources will not produce any value.

Therefore, the American Empire divided its homeland into seven continents when it was founded. The seven continents have different populations and land areas, but the gap in total economic output is not large.

The New England region seems to be a huge area, but in fact the number of Indians and whites under the jurisdiction of the American Empire is extremely small. It makes little sense to subdivide the New England region. It is simply to establish a large region.

Even so, the New England Region only has two administrative units, urban and rural, and no municipal administrative units. Even the district capital of the New England Region has a population that is not as large as an ordinary city in the seven continents of the American Empire.

The province of Florida has the same problem.

Although the population here is larger than that of New England, the number of whites (including mixed-race whites) and Indians registered in the American Empire is small.

Of course, in terms of population alone, Florida Province is not far behind the other seven continents, but the industrial progress of Florida Province is about zero!
This resulted in the Province of Florida becoming the second-to-last provincial administrative region in the American Empire.

Last but not least is New England...

There is not much difference between the number of Indians in the Florida province who are not registered and the number of imperial citizens who are registered. The American Empire's control here is far less than that of the seven continents.

This is the current situation in North America. Even in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, there are still a large number of unruly Indian tribes in many places.

Of course, compared to other regions in North America, the Viceroyalty of New Spain was definitely a very wealthy place.

The climate and land there are so nourishing, and the mineral resources are extremely rich, with a large number of precious metal deposits!

Every year, the Governor-General of New Spain transports a shipment of gold and silver to the mainland of the Kingdom of Spain!

European countries even had to cancel the gold-silver standard and formulate a gold-standard monetary policy because the Spanish transported too much silver, which caused the price of silver to plummet.

Of course, formulating a gold standard policy first requires sufficient gold reserves. Only a few major powers in the European continent have the ability to establish a gold standard monetary policy.

Even the American Empire currently implements a gold and silver bistandard monetary policy. The reason is that Yuri does not have enough gold reserves as reserves...

The currency of the American Empire was divided into gold coins and silver coins of various values.

Gold coins are of extremely high value and are rarely used in ordinary people's lives. Gold coins are widely used only in large-scale transactions. Silver coins are the most widely circulated currency in the American empire. Who calls the flood of silver?

In this world, there is no ancient Eastern country that uses its trade surplus to embezzle the world's silver, but the Spanish Kingdom's American colonies mine only a lot more silver. Therefore, the price of silver in this world has depreciated even more than at the same time in Yuri's previous life, and is even the same as that of copper. The value is almost the same...

However, in this era, copper metal has become a strategic material. Bronze-cast cannons often have a service life far longer than iron-cast cannons, and they are more durable and difficult to explode. Therefore, countries that have entered the industrial age have listed copper mines as strategic reserve resources. Naturally, it is impossible to circulate copper as currency.

The currency of the American Empire bears a bust of Yuri on the front, with the minting date and denomination printed on the back.

On the European continent, the currency of the American Empire is still in circulation due to its sufficient weight, and the folks have given this currency a very appropriate name-tyrant currency.

Now Yuri, the tyrant, accompanied by Napoleon, led the first division of the Imperial Legion to the Texas Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

The Texas province here is not the US imperialist state of Texas in Yuri's previous life, and the area is not comparable to that of Texas in his previous life.

Due to the vast and sparsely populated land filled with unruly Indian tribes, the governor of New Spain included the North American colonies north of the Province of Mexico, excluding the strongholds on the west coast, into the Province of Texas...

The division of the provinces in the Governor's District of New Spain is very simple and rough. The huge Governor's District of New Spain has only four provinces.

The ceded Florida Province (including the sum of East and West Florida), Texas Province, the core Mexico Province, and the Caribbean Province with the Spice Islands as the main body.

Of course, this is only a regional concept, and the Governor General of New Spain has not established a complete administrative system like the American Empire.

Each province did not even have a separate provincial government, only a simple local aristocratic provincial assembly.

The main thing is to obey the orders of the Governor-General.

And in this large colony, the people who control the grassroots are all planters, and their private armed forces are part of the colonial army.

There are very few troops directly under the Governor's Mansion.

These plantation owners are all vested interests, so they are willing to obey the orders of the Governor's Palace.

Today, what Yuri needs to deal with is such a group of colonial troops controlled by plantation owners.

Thanks to the previous war, the colonial regular army that only belonged to the Governor's Palace has been almost abolished, and the rest are gathered in Mexico City to protect the Governor's Palace, and local control has dropped to the lowest point in history.

Even so, it is not an easy task to conquer Texas Province, because those plantation owners will do everything for their own interests!
The Spanish planters all knew that there was no possibility of compromise with the tyrants of the American Empire. Yuri would not allow these semi-independent planters with guns and land to exist.

A gun ban alone is not acceptable to plantation owners.

At the same time, Yuri also needs the wealthy plantation owners in the Viceroyalty of New Spain to accumulate wealth for hundreds of years!

The American Empire has been militaristic since the time of the American Confederation, and its finances have been in deficit every year. If Yuri hadn't implemented a high-pressure policy, the American Empire would have collapsed long ago.

Therefore, robbing money, food, and population has become the core point of the sustainable development of the American empire.

Moreover, on the North American continent today, to the west of the American Empire is the loose Great Soviet Union, and to the north is the Canadian Republic, which has just become independent and has not yet straightened out its internal struggle for power.

Obviously, neither of these two forces can pose a threat to the American Empire. Yuri naturally wants to attack the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which has a pleasant climate, fertile land, and silver mines.

Before that, Yuri needs a casus belli.

(End of this chapter)