Welcome to 19th-century Europe, where strength reigns supreme

A large part of the reason why Lincoln was unwilling to accept help from Prussia at the beginning was because it was a European country. Unlike most Asian and African countries in the world, the United States had never associated itself with Europe.

The United States is the United States, and Europe is Europe. They are independent entities. In fact, the United States in this era does not have a good relationship with Europe because it was an independent country from a colony and was very dissatisfied with its former suzerain country, the United Kingdom. France, which is a colonial empire, is actually okay because it has helped us in the past, but generally speaking, we still keep a distance from it and try to avoid contact as much as possible.

As for Prussia, a second-rate country in Europe, Lincoln had little hope for it. After all, it was a kingdom with a constitutional monarchy. Although the king was not a dictator, his power was not small. From an ideological point of view, the United States did not like it very much. .

But there were two reasons that prompted Lincoln to decide to ask Prussia for help. One was the clumsy behavior of Britain and France. These two forces definitely wanted to intervene in the American Civil War. As colonial powers, they were very powerful and had colonies in South America. If you want to get tangible benefits from the American Civil War, it is not too difficult. This is something Lincoln needs to be wary of.

The second is that Prussia's victory over the Ming army surprised Lincoln because the entire newspaper was about how brutal the Prussian army was. The French and British troops only mentioned it and left the most eye-catching page of the newspaper to Prussia.

Anyway, it means that Prussia is so inhumane, and everyone does shameless things. As a result, Prussia is now shameless, and Britain and France are acting as peacemakers. But this is not important. The purpose of Britain is to make other countries pay attention to Prussia and curb Prussia. development, but it is not easy to break the skin directly, so it just disgusts Prussia a little and suppresses Prussia's overseas market.

Now that the relationship between Britain and Prussia has declined, Lincoln has sensed an opportunity. If he can make Prussia a little fatter and let Prussia fight with Britain and France, then he will be far away from Europe. If they fight, it is none of my business. It's not a big deal to just watch the fun.

After all, there is no such thing as airplanes, the era of air combat has not yet come, and the United States is not very interested in the throne of world hegemony. The United States can make a fortune by relying on the Atlantic Ocean.

Lincoln personally wrote a letter to Tina the day after the Battle of Fort Sumter, "The United States is about to or is already in civil war. Britain hopes to reach out to the United States again, and we hope Prussia can help. , but on this basis, we still hope that the two countries will respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity."

The implication is that Lincoln hopes that Prussia will only provide limited help and not directly participate in the American Civil War. After all, it would be troublesome if the Prussian army stayed in the United States. After all, the current U.S. Army cannot defeat anyone, let alone Prussia. Even the Kingdom of Sardinia and the famous Pasta Kingdom may not be able to defeat it, let alone Prussia, which can blast the Ming army.

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April 4th, Prussia was also very calm today. Tina was quarreling with Congress every day about the war against the Ming Dynasty, but it was only a little bit of a fuss and basically didn't cause much trouble.

Since the end of the war against the Ming Dynasty, although the Prussian army has performed at a high level, it has proved the feasibility of Ron's military reform and the benefits of introducing new weapons to the war, and the old oilmen of the General Staff have shut up. Next The reform will become much smoother, and the military's opposition has long been diluted by the joy of victory.

However, Prussia's foreign war directly shrank Prussia's foreign trade by [-]%. This is a comparison of the total import and export volume from March to April and January to February. Now the excess production capacity can only be sold to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom It now accounts for [-]% of the entire Prussian export trade, and the remaining [-]% is the proportion accounted for by the other German Confederation and France. To be honest, it is not particularly large.

This is a very serious problem. Prussia's foreign trade is almost monopolized by the Commonwealth, and it is difficult to find new customers. Tina has also tried to win over other countries besides Britain, such as Tsarist Russia and Sweden in the north.

But these countries are too abstract. Sweden's industrialization process is very slow, and it is rich in iron ore and other rare metals. Prussia's foreign trade is mainly steel and coal mines, which are not in short supply in these eastern and western Nordic countries.

Tsarist Russia in the east has no idea about these things at all. Tsarist Russia is also a resource-rich country, and if you talk about industry with a country with feudal serfdom, people will laugh at you as a country bumpkin. This big thing is so expensive, why don’t you just catch a few gray animals in the fields? More profitable?

The current industrial development situation in Prussia is very similar to that of the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. The National Industrial Renewal Agency unified planning and then let workers work according to the designed projects. Many resources are state-owned property, so there is no need to lick the capitalists hard. And the old aristocrats, just give them a little oil and water to stop their mouths.

But Prussia is a capitalist country after all. It owes money every day to carry out industrialization, and it is almost becoming the third grade of Germany, but its industrial ratio is much more normal than that of a mustache.

The output of Prussia's civilian industry was 1855% higher than in [-], while the output of the military industry only increased by [-]%.

Because of this, Tina complained about it. Compared with the previous kings who looked grim, August was not so concerned about the construction of the army. Instead, he wanted to develop civilian industries that were closely related to people's lives, such as paper mills and The number of glass factories has increased by more than [-] in the past few years.

Most of the steel production and coal production are sold, and the production capacity injected into the army is nothing compared to the production capacity sold.

However, a large part of this is due to practical factors, and there is really no money.

And today a man came to the Prussian Reichstag, Hannibal Hamlin.

He was wearing a suit and a black gentleman's hat, holding a letter in his hand. When the doorman asked him, he said that he represented Lincoln.