The death toll is climbing dramatically in both the South and the North.

The hatred between the two sides has gradually reached an irreconcilable level.

Once the North conquers a southern town, it will implement a scorched earth strategy, turning everything here into a scorched earth.

And the same is true in the South.

And in such a season of non-death, there are people who think that the high-ranking figures in the South are sitting in front of Doug.

Of course, the place where the two met was not in New Haven, but on the sea far from the shipping route.

"Your Excellency, I need your industry, the materials it produces. The big plantation owner of the south said in a very soft tone.

Doug didn't answer right away, but looked nonchalantly at the liquid in the goblet in front of him.

The war has been going on for half a year.

The South, from its initial momentum, has gradually begun to reach a stalemate.

It's not that there's a problem with their will to fight, it's that their equipment is a big problem.

Originally, during the Mexican-American War, the American South was able to obtain a steady stream of houses purchased from Britain and France by sea.

And since the beginning of the Civil War, the hateful Yankees, sent a large number of ships to blockade the southern coast.

These ships are not large, and the caliber of the guns on them is also very small, so they pose little threat to the port.

However, they are able to intercept and harass cargo ships much faster than cargo ships.

Although the supply lines were not completely blocked, at the same time, the North was also making every effort to expand the scope of the war and increase the intensity of the battle, so that the supply of materials to the South became more and more difficult.

Although Britain and the development side, invented such a thing as bomb coal.

Hollowing out coal blocks and stuffing them with explosives in between, and pouring coal-powered bombs into the combustion chamber can cause damage to boilers or fires.

However, after it has worked a few times, it becomes savvy, and it is difficult to be effective again.

At this time, the plantations in the south can be said to be very uncomfortable.

Originally, they looked down on the poor ghosts in the north, but now they found a problem, even if they had money, they couldn't spend it.

However, the real continues, and the southerners will not sit still, but are constantly looking for ways to break the situation.

Eventually, they found another way to get supplies.

It is to buy from the northerners.

That's right!

Just buy from the northerners!

In this era, the plantation owners in the south, although they did not learn much materialist dialectic.

However, they know one thing very simply, that is, merchants are always profit-seeking.

Since, they can sell goods to the government and army of the North, they must also sell to the government and army of the South.

It's just that they take a lower risk when selling to the north because the price is lower.

Selling to the South, they take a higher risk, and the price will be higher.

As for what kind of patriotism, support for the system and the like.

Forget it!

Who doesn't know whom?

They approached some merchants, and indeed they were looking for the same thing, two times the premium, three times the premium, and they could buy supplies.

However, although I bought it, it was still not enough.

Many people may not be able to imagine how appalling the attrition of war really is.

In almost every battle, the bullet consumed is calculated in 10,000 rounds.

And every bullet is not cheap.

In addition to this, including the guns themselves, there are also losses.

It took them a lot of time to come into contact with a top businessman like Doug.

Doug didn't speak in a hurry, also because he knew that these southerners were in a more anxious way than he was.

Because, for himself, he can't sell those weapons and equipment, and the price is just to make less money.

And for these southerners, if they buy the supplies back a second later, they will die more and be closer to defeat.

Sure enough, the person on the other side saw that Doug didn't speak, gritted his teeth and said, "As long as you can sell us the materials, we will pay you twice the price of these materials." Wait, no! we're tripling!"

Doug finally spoke, "He said, it's not about the money. You know, what kind of behavior is it to let other people in the North know that I sell goods to you in the South? I'm not a devil, and I'm not going to sell my soul for a little money.

However, I have heard that there seems to be a strong demand for war materials in Mexico lately, I don't know if you know?"

"Mexico?" the representative of the South was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted and said, "Yes! Yes! They just lost the Mexican-American War, and they are not reconciled at all!"

They want to buy a lot of supplies and counterattack the United States!"

"That's right! But I don't know exactly what they need. I'm sure your intelligence network will be able to find out what they need.

There is a saying that the enemy of an enemy is a friend.

Since the North is now at war with the South, I don't think I, as a member of the North, have any problem making some deals with Mexico, the enemy of the Southerners. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. Thank God, I'll give you the Mexicans' supply needs as soon as possible. ”

"Well, okay. I hope the purity of the Mexican Eagle Ocean is still the same as it used to be. With that, Doug got up and left.

War has always been one of the quickest ways for capitalists to make a fortune.

And, in the vast majority of cases, there are no so-called patriotic capitalists.

In other words, the more wealth a capitalist has, the more unpatriotic he is doomed.

Why is that?

This is because the state is just an imaginary concept, a concept that binds people together with each other.

Even, it's not much different from religion.

For modern nations, their common concept is largely based on ethnicity.

For ordinary people, having mutual recognition can increase their probability of survival.

However, for the big capitalists, no matter what country they are in, they still have wealth.

And with a huge amount of wealth, they can have more social influence.

Let the government of this country, for the sake of his interests, make concessions.

For him, it's the same everywhere.

For them who can change countries at any time, they will naturally go wherever they can make more money.

For Doug, the same is true.

However, one of the big differences between Doug and those capitalists before him is that he is not so naked.

This is not because he is cautious by nature, but because he has never underestimated the strength of ordinary people.

If we say that the Claydon consortium with Bank of America as the core is a behemoth.

An ordinary person, in front of it, is like a poor and humble little ant.

However, when there are enough small ants, they can still subvert the behemoth.

Of course, no one in the West in this era has realized this.

Therefore, the capitalists are still extremely arrogant.

And their arrogance will only push the ants to their opposite, and make them coagulate, and one day they will encounter a strong backlash.

So, Doug said he had a batch of things that he wanted to sell to Mexicans.

In this way, even those who are not in the right place to fight with the South in the future will find that the Southerners actually use the same standard equipment as them on a large scale.

The Claydon consortium could also explain their intentions and accuse the Mexicans of being too low-fighting.

Even if there are doubts that most of the discourse power is in the hands of the Claydon consortium, they will not encounter much doubt.

As for the fact that, years later, the truth of the matter is discovered, so what does it matter?

After all, things were already wrong at that time, were they?

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Franklin was a black man, and his first and last name were Franklin.

Because, Franklin is his master's surname.

At this moment, Franklin was lying in the room with the red cross on it.

Although every day he sees people who used to be next to him, with white cloths on their heads, losing their lives.

However, he is still grateful for the people here.

Because, he never thought that he would be able to get treatment even after his life.

I can lie in the ward like this, I don't have to do anything, and I can recuperate with peace of mind.

You know, a month before this, even if he was sick, he could only be next to himself, and he couldn't delay his work.

Perhaps, this is a cruel thing for white people, but for them black people, it is a normal thing.

But when this red cross came here, it was different.

Everywhere they went, the men with the red cross on their clothes began to search for the sick and the wounded.

Make an effort to provide them with treatment.

Even those who are dying of death, they will try to save them.

The most important thing is that these good people, all their actions are not only directed against white people, but also against black people like him.

Franklin, 22 years old, spent the first 18 years in Africa.

Of course, he didn't know it was Africa at the time.

At that time, he lived in a tribe.

There are more than 400 people in the tribe, which is not a large tribe, but because it has a large hunting area, it can be regarded as rich compared to other tribes.

However, although they lived by hunting, Franklin's tribe was not a warlike tribe.

They only fight back when other tribes try to invade them.

When Franklin was a child, he lived in a very calm environment. However, as he grew older, the surrounding tribes became more and more irritable day by day.

It is said that some people with powerful weapons came to them.

They have many treasures, and all they need to do is exchange them for prisoners of war from hostile forces.

So, just like that, tribal clashes happened again and again.

There is a tribal war going on.

Although, Franklin's tribe is unwilling to cause trouble.

However, the other tribes, who had been exchanged for powerful weapons, attacked them in the night and captured them all.

Everyone, including Franklin, was loaded onto a big ship and shipped to another continent.

The environment on the boat was poor.

From the first day of going to sea, people were constantly getting sick and dying.

And those vicious sailors, once they find that someone has traces of illness, will not say anything, and will just throw the whole person into the sea.

Franklin didn't know how many people had died around him, but he did get off the ship alive.

But getting off the boat was just the beginning.

He was shackled and handcuffed, and began to be led to see one person after another.

There will be people who will open their mouths and look at their teeth.

There will be people who will behave more humiliating towards themselves.

However, at this time, Franklin was already numb.

He doesn't care about these actions.

Because, for him, as long as he can live, it will be fine.

Although there is nothing wrong with his body, but because his will is very trance-like.

The buyers suspected that he had a mental problem, so he was eventually sold for a bargain.

After all, every day he is there, he has to eat an extra day of food.

And his buyer is his master Franklin.

Franklin's owner, owns a small plantation.

His small plantation does not grow one crop at a fixed time.

Often, when others say that the market will be good next year, he will plant anything.

However, his luck has not been good, and it is often what he grows that costs less.

Therefore, although he has been busy for most of his life, he has not accumulated much wealth.

Even slaves could not pick the strongest ones to buy, but could only buy some processed discounted goods.

However, Franklin's owner is also confident in these discounted goods.

For him, as long as he can use it, he doesn't expect anything else.

However, the more he is compromised, the more others look down on him.

However, he didn't care if others looked down on him or not, he always said, "I'll get rich one day." ”

However, before that day came, his area was occupied by the northerners.

And the slaves who met Franklin, who were also taken in by the Cross, began to be treated.

As for Franklin's master, he had already been killed by a bullet after he had raised his gun and tried to resist.

After all, they had little protection from the Emancipation Proclamation compared to slaves.

Black people don't realize that they were only discriminated against because of the color of their skin, but now they can enjoy different treatment because of their skin color.

Of course, what they didn't expect was either.

In their eyes, the Red Cross, which seemed to be like an angel, was far less kind than they imagined.

After all, Doug doesn't do business at a loss.