1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 141-The Key to Unity

Since Anna is pregnant, she naturally needs special care. Scrooge immediately bought a villa with a small garden on Lake Erie and let Anna live in it. And just like Catherine, Scrooge also organized some reliable doctors and organized a medical team to serve Anna specifically.

However, unlike Carol, Scrooge can’t always stay by Anna’s side to accompany her. Since Catherine was pregnant, many things assigned to Carroll need Scrooge to pick up again. In order to coordinate the entire consortium, Scrooge was so busy that he could not go to bed until about one o’clock every day. Insufficient sleep also creates a vicious circle: lack of sleep makes the spirits poor, and poor spirits make the speed of processing business slow, and the speed of processing business slows, making the time for sleep even more insufficient. This even made Scrooge consider again whether he really wanted to give himself a strong pill.

“Eat a little bit and control the dosage. It shouldn’t be a big deal, right.” When bitter coffee, strong tea, and chocolate didn’t work anymore, the idea came up again. But Scrooge still put out the idea. He knows that this time he needs to be alone for a while. It would be weird if I had to rely on this every day to keep me from being addicted to drugs.

“The power must be decentralized a bit. Otherwise, sooner or later, it will be as short-lived as Qin Shihuang and Zhu Yuanzhang. Well, if you don’t do it well, it is not impossible to make Yongzheng’s virtue and directly die suddenly.” Shi Gaozhi thought. So I moved my mind on the reform of the personnel management system. But I can’t take care of this now, because it’s another big job, so let’s just put it in front of you and talk about it.

Even in such a rush, there are still messy things coming to the door. First, a bunch of invitations were sent from Europe. Some invited him and Maxwell to lecture at Cambridge University, some invited them to lecture at the University of Paris, and some invited them to lecture at the University of Göttingen. Scrooge knew that the paper with the name of own caused a sensation in the European scientific community. The Maxwell-McDonald equations, by virtue of its extremely beautiful symmetry, fascinated a large number of physicists. Some people even publicly declared: How could such an equation full of aesthetics be incorrect? The experiment that Scrooge made immediately after confirming the existence of electromagnetic waves and determining that its speed is equivalent to the speed of light also attracted the attention of the European scientific community. As a result, all kinds of invitations flew over like snow flakes.

If it were not so busy now, Scrooge would not refuse to go to Europe to brush up his reputation, by the way, he went to Göttingen to abduct a few scientists. But now, he really can’t spare time. As for Maxwell, he doesn’t have time either. Now he is in charge of the whole big experiment and he is studying thermodynamics, but he seems to have encountered a big problem… So, he doesn’t have time to spend a month sailing to Europe. Lecture.The invitation from Europe was postponed, but the United States government also came to trouble him at this time. In this era, because of Scrooge’s series of inventions, the intensity of the war far exceeds the original history, especially the consumption of various materials. It is like a bottomless pit. The bubble disappeared without a trace. In the original history, in order to fight this war, the Lincoln government owed a debt, and only owed DuPont gunpowder as much as 8 million. At this time and space, the situation is even more tragic. Damn DuPont is gone, but the Macdonald Consortium, which is more powerful than DuPont, has emerged. Now the federal government owes them tens of millions of dollars. The federal government had to rely on borrowing new debts to repay old debts by breaking down the east wall to make up for the west wall. Nowadays, even this kind of maintenance is difficult, because just repaying the interest of the old national debt already accounts for half of the expenditure on the newly borrowed national debt.

The federal government is already in such a difficult situation, and the situation of the Confederate League is of course even more unbearable. At the beginning of the war, the people of the South could still support the alliance out of their love for the South. However, as the war continued, the South continued to lose blood. The things that the people have sold by smashing the pots and selling iron are consumed on the battlefield, and the wealth of the people has been exhausted. In terms of financial resources, if the North is getting harder and harder, then the South is already collapsed. NS.

The Virginia Army, the most elite of the Southern Army, is no longer equipped with winter clothes. Now that winter has come, the soldiers have to wear single clothes and bare feet to march in the snow. It’s ridiculous to say that the South, known for its cotton, can’t even give soldiers a cotton coat.

Not only is the financial resources collapsed, the manpower in the South has also been exhausted. Nowadays, 16-year-old soldiers are no longer uncommon in the southern army. In some non-critical directions, 14-year-old soldiers are also Not without.

In such a desperate situation, even the hardest Southerners must admit that the war cannot go on. President Davis of the Confederate League sent an envoy to the federal side to demand peace.

Davis’s envoy proposed that as long as the Union agrees to continue to retain slavery in the southern states, (and not a permanent reservation, they promised that they will gradually abolish slavery on their own within five to seven years.) Recognize southern states’ slavery. All kinds of autonomy, state militia, and amnesty related personnel, they are willing to dissolve the alliance and return to federal rule.

To be honest, for Lincoln, who is also difficult to support, such a condition is really attractive. But such a major event cannot be resolved by President Lincoln alone. He must also consult with others, especially creditors of the federal government.

So Lincoln once again invited a large number of influential “patriotic entrepreneurs” including Scrooge to discuss this matter together.

Lincoln had just relayed the conditions in the South, and he had received a string of opposition.

“How is this possible? They rebel if they want to rebel. If they can’t fight, they want to go back to the past. Where is there such a good thing in the world? Can’t let the Southerners take everything cheap.” A Wall Street banker yelled.

“Yes! All traitors, and those who support the traitors, must be punished! The United States is not a club, come and go if you want!” Another railway businessman also agreed.

Scrooge stood aside coldly, looking at them. Of course he knows why these people oppose. Because war is a business, business must be profitable. In the business of the Civil War in the United States, if the federal government can completely defeat the South, then all the wealth of the South will open its doors to them, and they can seize the wealth at will. Those traitors, those who support the traitors, and those fools who were killed in the war, how much wealth should they have for plunder in their name? At this time, when the South is about to fall, negotiate a peace with them? Isn’t this a joke?

“Mr. MacDonald, what do you think of this question?” Lincoln asked.

“Mr. President, how many presidents do you plan to make another war with the South?” Scrooge asked.

Lincoln frowned and said, “Mr. MacDonald, can you make it clearer?”

“If a country wants to be unified for a long time, I think it is very important that it has the same cultural characteristics. And cultural characteristics are derived from economic characteristics. A country is economically divided, so it is culturally divided. It is also difficult to maintain unity. Therefore, as soon as there is turbulence, it may lead to division. And if the economic benefits brought by the economic model between the various parts of a country are even mutually opposed, then the emergence of separatist activities is inevitable. If we Restoring peace with it while preserving the unique economic model of the South. Then this kind of peace will inevitably be only a truce that lasts for about twenty years. Wait until the Southerners heal their wounds and wait until their next generation grows up. War will come again. Therefore, to achieve true and long-term peace, only to completely destroy the decadent, backward, and inhumane economic model of the South, make their economic model the same as ours, and make them China’s economy cannot be independent of our economy. Only then will there be true unity. For this, we must completely destroy the southern plantation economic model. It is impossible to talk about a truce.”

Lincoln looked at the other people again, and everyone else expressed their agreement with Scrooge. They also said to Lincoln that they must completely destroy the evil plantation economic model.

“But now the government’s finances are very difficult, and it is difficult to continue fighting.” Lincoln said his truth. Since you all think that the fight should continue, the government has no money now, so you can figure it out.

“The government has enough power to defeat the South.” Scrooge said, “In the battle last year, although we did not achieve the most decisive victory on the Eastern Front, on the Western Front, we already controlled Lived the entire Mississippi River. The control of the Mississippi River allows us to launch a large-scale offensive in any section along the river. And the South is absolutely unable to defend such a long border. Once our army breaks through here , The soft lower abdomen of the south is right in front of our eyes.”

“Mr. MacDonald, you are right, but if they defend these cities tightly, and then take advantage of the mobilization they control the railway to bring against us, what should they do? You know, to that At that time, because of road transportation restrictions, our logistics will be under great pressure.” An officer asked.

“What is this general?” Scrooge asked.

“This is General Grant, the commander of our army on the Western Front.” Lincoln said, “This one is General Sherman, his deputy commander.”

“It’s an honor to meet you, General Grant. It’s nice to meet you, General Sherman.” Scrooge said, “The economy of the South is different from that of the North. The most precious thing in the North is the factories. They are all in the cities. And the most precious thing in the South is the plantations, they are all in the suburbs.” Scrooge said, while carefully observing the two generals who will be the United States in the future. Grant seemed thoughtful, and Sherman seemed to think of something with joy on his face.