January 1, 1863, this was the day when the Declaration on Liberation of Slaves officially came into effect. In order to maintain the unification of the Federation, this Declaration actually liberated only the slaves in slave states occupied by the north. In real history, this document has an identifiable significance, winning international public opinion support for the north (mainly Britain) and winning the army for fugitive slaves as soldiers. This was a process of decline and rise. Some people believed that this day was a turning point in the Civil War.

However, the real situation at this time is that California has been occupied by the East India Company's army, which has made its debut in the south, north and east directions. The urban area of ​​San Francisco is in a siege and the military supplies are in a hurry. What's worse is that the 12-hour work system for black slaves has been passed, and there is one holiday every week, and there is a strong injection of 80 million US dollars. When the north promotes the humanitarian work they do for black slaves, the south is also boasting that their black slaves enjoy a better working environment than most white workers in the north.

Although the slave owners in the south were stubborn, they respected the law. Since the 12-hour work system was introduced, they really implemented it, which greatly improved the living conditions of black slaves. Therefore, there were much fewer black slaves who fled than in real history. The slave states loyal to the federal states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia expressed dissatisfaction with their depreciating assets, because the calls for abolition of the entire federal abolition were rising, and their black slaves were likely to recover their freedom overnight. Therefore, many members of these states were planning to defect to the South. The unity of the federal government faced severe challenges.

Because of the smooth flow of sea routes and continuous replenishment of war materials, the southern army became more and more braver as the war zones entered the northern states, making the financial markets in the north even more turbulent. The fall of California was regarded as a turning point that the situation was unfavorable to the Northern Army, because the North mobilized 100,000 troops and corresponding logistics forces for this, thus weakening the strength of the other theaters.

The Homestead Act came into effect almost as long as the Declaration on Liberation of Slaves. The western United States owns a large amount of undeveloped state-owned land. In order to utilize these lands, the US Congress passed this bill as early as 1860, stipulating that American citizens can obtain up to 160 acres of western land cultivation rights at extremely low prices and even free of charge, and officially own its property rights after ploughing on the authorized land for five years.

Since southern slave owners wanted this bill to be open to slave owners, the Democratic Party, which represented the interests of the South, had always obstructed the bill, and in 1860, the then Democratic President Buchanan used the president's veto power. Now, under the auspices of Lincoln, the Homestead Act has officially come into effect. These farmers who obtained the land will be loyal supporters of the Northern government, and even if their opponents are unfathomable super multinational consortiums, they will fight to the end. These farmers who farmed themselves have a deep hatred of slavery. You think, they worked hard but the other party used slaves to work. How can they reason? Can they compete with the slave owner's manor at such a high cost?

The morale of the slave states was shaken, while the Free State was even more united, and the competition between the United States and the Windsor Consortium was still endless.

When the East India Company Army, which was mainly Japanese samurai, made its debut in California, the United States shared its combat experience with NATO member states. The Russians were the most shocked, because they had direct conflicts with the Japanese army on the Far East battlefield. They thought the other side was already difficult enough, but now they realized that it was because the East India Company had not rolled up their sleeves and went on the field, and the terrible hydraulic howitzers had not been used. The Russians who originally wanted to attack the Senggelinqin army south of Heilongjiang immediately stopped and took the initiative to negotiate with the Mongolian cavalry that separatisted the three eastern provinces, hoping that the other side could become a stop to the Qing army going north, and they were all in their efforts to prevent the Japanese army that might land in Vladivostok.

The Russian army was overly concerned about this. Tangning's strategy was that the Japanese army operated the American battlefield, the Qing army managed the East Asian battlefield, and would not take an offensive attitude for a long time. Because of inconvenient transportation, it was not easy to deliver war materials to the battlefield. Instead of wasting energy, it was better to fight a defensive counterattack. Once the entire Qing Dynasty's inter-provincial trunk line was opened, the good days of the polar bears would come to an end. Even civilized countries like the United States would be torn apart, and the aggressive Russia would definitely be divided in Tangning's calculations.

As for Senggelinqin's troops, they have lost the ammunition supply of the Desert Eagle and have been neglecting training recently, and it is no longer a problem. After Gansu and Shaanxi ethnic minorities have been cleaned up, Tang Ning doesn't even plan to deal with the rebels in the three northeastern provinces. They are considering giving great autonomy to the three northeastern provinces. It is true autonomy, not just to give the title of "autonomous region". For a consortium, the greatest interest is to make capitalism surpass nationalism. If you want to make a country like Russia, the United States, and the Qing Dynasty that has the potential of superpowers too unified will be very unfavorable to the security of the consortium. Therefore, fragmentation of the world is Tang Ning's direction of efforts, and he will not make the Qing Dynasty too powerful.

In order to test the loyalty of Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng again, the court ordered the two to take military airships to Beijing to file a lawsuit. Both of them gritted the bullet. As a result, the court was very satisfied. The number of fn-1855 rifles of the two troops was increased again. Each unit reached the level of 10,000 fn-1855, and supplemented with 200 mortars, and its combat effectiveness had reached the offensive level. The situation of the Russians on the Eastern Front was getting worse and worse.

The Russians, who were raining all night, were also in crisis on the Western Front, and Poland rebelled. The ones ruled by foreign races were most hated by force were recruited, just like the Italians hated France during the reign of Emperor Napoleon, just like the Qin State cross-provincial service and building the Great Wall after the reunification. The young Polish people hated to death and went to fight for the Russian Empire, which had nothing to do with them, so they became heroic. Inspired by these young Polish people, senior politicians from Poland and Lithuania joined them one after another.

Downing immediately found the Danes to discuss military aid to Poland. Why look for the Danes? Because they had just passed a new constitution and were about to implement a new constitution in Schleswig Holstein. A large number of Germans lived in the south of Schleswig Holstein. Bismarck took the opportunity to express his dissatisfaction with Denmark. The relationship between the two countries deteriorated. It was the best time for the Windsor consortium to pull the Danes to the World Trade Camp.

Downing suggested to the King of Denmark: "Prussia has not joined the battle with the World Trade Union countries so far. The purpose is very clear, and it is to propose the rights and interests of Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark. Now when Denmark wants to make a choice, either stand on my side and take advantage of the Polish uprising in January to give strong support to the rebels to curb the Russian power. The East India Company will give back to help when Schleswig-Holstein is coveted by Prussia."

The Danish king replied: "It is the season of sea ice, and the Baltic Sea is no longer open to navigation. I am afraid there will be difficulties in assisting the Polish rebels."

Downing: "We will build icebreakers that can break the waterways on the ice, and all aid ships heading to Poland are flying the East India Company flags, and Denmark can maintain the illusion of neutrality before the Prussians attack."

The Denmark king thought "this is best", so the two sides reached a gentleman agreement, and Denmark allowed the East India Company's supply fleet to pass through, but did not participate in it in person. At this time, Scandinavian countries were very friendly, and Sweden had a good relationship with Downing. In the end, both Denmark and Sweden expressed their willingness to lend the East India Company, and war resources such as EIC's warships could stay at the ports of the two countries.

After the icebreaker was not successfully built, the East India Company used hovercraft to Poland and Lithuania. This was a hovercraft that Downing planned to land for the British during the Second British-China War. However, the British did not let him be the commander of the Expeditionary Force, so they had no chance to appear. They had a chance to appear in the Battle of Hawaii, but the enemy surrendered and had no chance to fight. No one knew about the existence of this black technology so far.

This is a high-speed ship that uses a high-power blower to penetrate the bottom of the ship to reduce navigation resistance. It can "fly" on the ice and water surfaces. It can reach a speed of up to 80 kilometers, load capacity up to 9 tons, or about 80 passengers.

The airship began to reconnaise the harbor cities of uprising countries such as Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, and contacted the leaders of the independent political forces of the Three Kingdoms in London. These leaders were divided into two factions, one in red and the other in white. Red was the pioneer of the uprising, representing peasants, proletarians, and white represented enlightened landlords, intellectuals, etc.

The Red and White schools have a very difficult division, because the former hopes to give farmers land free of charge in the process of abolishing the serfdom, while the latter hopes that the landlords will receive certain compensation. The old rules of the separation of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and the separation of property rights and human rights are just suitable for the mediation of the conflict between them, and they are the most prestigious mediators, because past history has proved that Tangning's behavior is consistent with policies.

All these systems have a prerequisite, to fight away the Russian imperial invaders. The three parties reached an understanding that after the War of Independence was completed, Tang Ning was appointed as the mediator and then a constitution was formulated to resolve disputes. In the War of Independence, the East India Company obtained command of the rebel army. This was equivalent to the eic launch of guns and cannons, and the rebel army launched its people, which brought great trouble to Russia. The Baltic battlefield was officially opened.

Considering that the Russians' military strength on the Polish battlefield may be 10 times that of the rebels, Tangning decided to give them the FN-1855 and command the rebels to gather in port cities. As long as they obtain strongholds along the Baltic Sea coast, the hovercraft could deliver a steady stream of supplies and set up 6-inch cannons on the hovercraft to provide heavy fire support to friendly forces. The Russians believed that the East India Company would send snowmobile to the war at most. When they saw the big guy flying on the ice, they were stunned and played with black technology again.

The 6-inch cannon of the hovercraft caused huge casualties to the Russian army. A team of Russian troops wanted to grab a hovercraft to go back to study. The precedent of Americans desperately salvaging the king-class cruiser gave them a good reason. When they got closer, they found that the weapons on the hovercraft seemed to be unprecedented and could actually fire three consecutive shots! Yes, in order to protect the hovercraft, these elite troops were equipped with the Black Contractor rifle for the first time without throwing bullet shells. A magazine filled with 50 rounds assault rifle fired unprecedentedly individual soldiers at the Russian suicide squad.

The poor Russian army's desperate gray animals came step by step on the ice. They were greeted by the iconic "tumbling" three-combo attack. The distributed bullet surface made it difficult for the Russian army to escape the slippery foot.

We must take care of the uprising of the Baltic Sea coast of the rebel army at a distance of only 300 kilometers. The airship can reach any point within three hours for air intelligence support, and the hovercraft can provide firepower support within four or five hours. Under the information dispatch of the airship, it can be more reasonable and effectively make up for the shortcomings of insufficient troops of our own and the rebel army.

The treacherous minister Bismarck believed that the later Prussia joined the war, the more affordable it was. Who knows what magic weapons did the East India Company have? Look, Eic exposed heavy cruisers in the Battle of Suez, found the opponent's mortar in the Battle of California, and exposed the "ice boat" on the Baltic battlefield. However, Eic has now hit the doorstep, and it is unreasonable to not take action. The Russians have repeatedly urged Prussia: Brother, it's time to go on the field!

The treacherous minister had to reluctantly agree, and he also wanted to win over Austria, and said to the Austrian Emperor, "Look, our German people were treated unfairly by the Danes in Schleswig Holstein. Let's fight Denmark together and annex Schleswig Holstein together. Austria disagreed at first, but the treacherous minister said insidiously: "If you don't come now, don't blame anyone for helping you when Italy wants to take back Venice in the future. Now the only one who can help you is NATO."

The emperor was shocked and thought that the treacherous words were justified. He put his brother-in-law aside. He passed a resolution of armed interference in Schleswig-Holstein at the Frankfurt Conference of the German Confederacy and even expelled Luxembourg from the German Confederacy.

At the instruction of the treacherous minister Bismarck, the German Confederacy issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Denmark, and that the East India Company's ships must be stopped immediately, otherwise a war will be initiated.

Denmark really didn't expect Prussia to do whatever it was. The king was busy convincing Sweden and British helpers, but did not respond within 72 hours. As a result, the Dedan War broke out.
Chapter completed!