Dominate the Country

Things are unpredictable. No one can predict what kind of changes will happen in the world in the next second, which is more unpredictable than war.

Just when Chen Ming shifted all his attention to European affairs, a big news suddenly broke out in the American vassal states, catching him off guard.

The Global Times, which exposed this big news and spread it to the society, instantly became the focus of the country and attracted the attention of the whole country. Huang Dingyou, who was the editor-in-chief of the Global Times and vice president of Yangtze River Group at the time, also became famous throughout the country because of this report.

So what is this big news? It is the recent surge in crime rates in the American vassal states.

During the war, a large number of young and middle-aged people in the American vassal states were drawn to the battlefield. The whole society seemed to have suddenly lost a generation, and labor resources immediately entered a shortage. Even the top six countries with the most abundant human resources have sounded the red alert. As a result, a large number of Indians and blacks appeared in farms and factories. The consequence of this is that the social security conditions in the vassal states deteriorated rapidly and the crime rate rose sharply. Fights, robberies, extortion, and even murders and rapes are endless, causing economic turmoil and social unrest.

But these things were suppressed by the feudal states before, until Huang Dingyou's report.

In fact, such problems have long been known to the rulers of the feudal states. The rules and regulations of these feudal states are based on Chen Han as a model, and the crime rate is counted every month. How could they not know? And it is precisely because they know that they suppress it. At the same time, it is also because they know that under their command requirements, the feudal soldiers in various places will often avoid the real and the virtual in the battle, and are unwilling to fight difficult battles. This is not that the soldiers are unwilling to fight, but that the rulers above them do not want to see their strength damaged too much.

The reason for the increase in all crime rates is that there is a lack of men in society, and these people are all drawn to fight. But after the war, they can still come back. At that time, society will naturally be stable. Moreover, they showed no mercy to the Indians and blacks who committed crimes, and to all the people who committed crimes. They killed those who should not be killed, and also killed those who should not be killed in order to warn the public.

So they did not want their soldiers to suffer too much loss, which would have a major impact on the future development of their vassal state.

For example, in the Cartagena offensive, Chen Yu, the King of Cai, who was first enfeoffed in America by Chen Ming, opposed the garrison army to put the Cai army into the attack on Caracas after the Cai army suffered heavy losses as the garrison army attacked the Spanish fortress. Many officers and soldiers of the Cai army did not know what was going on with this request.

Perhaps many vassal soldiers were still looking forward to the arrival of the battle, so as to earn more points, which was equivalent to earning more land. But for the superiors, how to ensure that more soldiers survived was obviously more meaningful.

Take the King of Cai as an example. He was frightened by the bloody battle of the Cartagena fortress. If such a battle is fought again, the Cai army will become disabled. This is like the French after the first battle in the original time and space. Many people in later generations said that the reason why the French became weak during World War II was because they fought too fiercely during World War I, which directly killed a generation of the entire French nation and also killed the blood of France. This sentence can also be applied to King Cai.

So, population is really very important for a country and nation.

For example, in Europe, the current Gallic rooster has a population of 30 million. From the beginning of the Great Revolution to this year, 20 years have passed. Wars and chaos have caused more than one million French men to fall, but the French have obviously not bled dry. This is because they have a large number of people and a large number of soldiers.

As for Prussia, after a series of disastrous defeats, the entire country was crippled. Although its current number of troops is only 40,000 troops due to Napoleon's restrictions, as long as the situation permits, they can quickly expand to 100,000 or 100,000. But Prussia's recovery ability is far less fast than Austria, whose population is more than twice its size. Austria was as miserable as Prussia at the beginning, but now they are already taking revenge on France, no matter what the result is.

This population is the guarantee of the country's comprehensive strength, under the mobilization system of modern society.

The biggest innate factor that restricts the development speed of American vassal states is also population. Don't compare the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jurchens, and the late Ming Dynasty with the Qing Dynasty. The mobilization system under the feudal system is completely different from that in modern society. If you don't believe it, look at France during World War II. Isn't the culprit that made the Gallic rooster weaker the French population?

France now has a population of 30 million, while Prussia's population is less than 10 million, but in 1870 in the original time and space, the population of unified Germany reached 40 million, catching up with France; and then in 1914, Germany's population increased to 65 million. In the late 1860s, the proportion of young men aged 20 to 34 in Germany was only slightly higher than that of France, but by 1910, the Germans had increased this advantage to 1.6:1; by 1939, the number of people in Germany who were suitable for military service was more than twice that of France. At that time, even John Bull's population exceeded that of the Gallic rooster, so how could they not be weak?

The French destroyed their own hegemony in Europe. You should know that the current population of the UK is only over 10 million, and the population of Ireland is only 15 million. In the 19th century of the original time and space, the population growth rate of the French was too low.

The French population is now 30 million, but in a hundred years, it will only be 40 million. Why does France still maintain its original position as the hegemon of the European continent? Why can the Gallic rooster compare with Germany?

And in the modern history of the world in the original time and space, Europe has been able to get whatever it wants. Why are they so awesome? It is not just the material achievements brought by the Industrial Revolution, but also their population growth rate.

In modern European history, their population growth rate far exceeded that of other continents, which is one of the most important foundations for their strength. This is not to deny the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. The promotion of the Industrial Revolution has allowed Europe to move from a traditional agricultural society to a modern industrial and commercial society, and has carried out a material civilization transformation. This has rapidly reduced the disadvantage of the European population in terms of quantity. Compared with the total population of mankind, their advantages in material civilization have been continuously expanded, which is the origin of Europe's dominant position relative to other parts of the world during this period. Even the strong position of the Lighthouse Country and Red Russia in the 20th century is also related to their population growth and population transformation.

Compared with the population problem in the 21st century, the earth in the early 19th century, no matter which country, needed to reproduce, reproduce, and reproduce again! Strength in numbers is an absolute truth in this era.

Then the same reason, the State of Cai was really forced to do it-required the army not to fight a tough battle. In the years since the founding of the country, the State of Cai now has a population of about 400,000. How many soldiers can the 400,000 people of Cai recruit? How many young and strong people are there?

Li Xu's requirement is to work towards 20,000 people, and after the entire Cai society lost 20,000 young men, the age class of the entire society was really broken. If five or six out of ten young and strong people between the ages of 20 and 30 are gone, how can there be no trouble?

Can the King of Cai not treasure the 20,000 troops? Although the State of Cai has recently recruited a group of troops, the number of troops in the country has reached 30,000. But this will only make the male labor force in the territory of Cai more scarce. Although the latter's role is to garrison the homeland of Cai. The Cai State still dispatched the same 20,000 troops as before, and these 20,000 troops were enough to extract one-third of the young and strong people of the entire Cai State. Therefore, in the lands directly controlled by Chen Han, such as Tokyo and Hanjin, a large number of young people were mobilized to join the army, which was not false at all.

The Chinese in America are really "fighting hard"!

In this case, it is certainly not good to expose the chaos in the social security in the rear, because that would shake the morale of the army.

Think about it, all the men have come out to fight. If the security in the rear is stable, everything will be fine. But if the security in the rear is chaotic, who can guarantee that no soldiers will have wild thoughts-well, what if my family is robbed? Well, what if my wife is killed? And what if my parents and my son are beaten and killed? That will definitely affect the morale of the army.

So the Global Times released a big satellite and made a big news. Then the result is-Huang Dingyou resigned.

It shook the morale of the army and affected the morale. The Grand Commander's Office will bring Huang Dingyou to court!

Although Huang Dingyou finally escaped, the government still has to clean up his mess.

The vassal states in America are not the Gallic roosters in the First World War in history. The French were forced to fight a generation of people in the original time and space, but now the development of the war in America has obviously given the vassal states the opportunity to "sneak and play tricks". No king is willing to have a bloody battle against the United States when the overall situation has been determined, which will "drain" their young generation. When the casualties refresh their psychological bottom line, the rulers of the vassal states will show a mood of avoiding war, which is an inevitable result. Because none of them want to fight for their future!

Why does Chen Ming always look at the Germans differently, and why does he always hold a grudge against Russia? That is because the Germans have the courage to fight to the death. Although such a Germany only appeared after they suffered the humiliation of defeat in World War I. By the same token, Russia, which fights desperately, is also under the control of the steel-like nerves of Comrade Steel.

Germany and Russia now cannot let Chen Ming see their courage. Now we can only say that they have such a foundation.

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Sault Sainte Marie.

This is the dividing point between the Lighthouse Country and British Canada. The northern region where it is located is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the future Lighthouse Country. Michigan is composed of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, which is now controlled by the Lighthouse Country, is the main part of Michigan in the future. Detroit is there. The Upper Peninsula has always been controlled by the British army, including Drummond Island.

Chen Han now controls most of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The US military in Detroit has the British backing and sufficient supply of arms and supplies. It has resisted Chen Han's attack twice. The strength of the US Great Lakes Fleet has also increased from the original five warships to fourteen. Haha, everyone knows where the nine warships that suddenly appeared came from.

Now the nine warships that suddenly appeared are led by Lieutenant Colonel Perry of the United States Navy and form the Lake Erie Navy Squadron in the waters east of Detroit.

Although these warships are small-tonnage single-masted warships, two-masted warships, or even inland warships, the combined tonnage of a fleet may not be as large as two third-level battleships, but their threat cannot be underestimated.

At least these surface forces are what Chen Han lacks.

So Chen Han planned to attack Detroit again and again, because once it was taken, the Lake Erie Fleet composed of nine warships led by Oliver Hazard Perry would be trapped. Of course, the other five American ships commanded by McDonough, the commander of the US Great Lakes Fleet, could only stay in Lake Huron forever.

Detroit is the midpoint between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, and there is a magnificent Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario to the east of Lake Erie.

By taking Detroit, Chen Han will successfully cut off the connection between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, and divide the US Great Lakes Fleet with 14 large and small warships into two parts.