Barely a year after the German prince became King of Mexico, rebellions in Mexico were still raging, but they were weakening day by day, and scattered revolts were nothing more than unorganized confrontations.

The price paid by the Germans was very large, and the economic loss of the United States, an important market, was very detrimental to the development of German industry. The defeat of the Julia regime, the Germans lost less than 3,000 soldiers, but they were able to suppress the repeated rebellions, but the losses of the German army were as high as 8,000, and the military expenditure was more than 30 million pounds, which was no less than fighting a large-scale war.

Earnings were negative for the time being, but expectations for the future were high, and in a year 80,000 Germans, most of them farmers, poured into Mexico. But there are also thousands of small and medium-sized investors who value Mexico's development potential and want to make a difference here, despite the economic damage and the economic crisis caused by the Mexican crisis.

It is very difficult for a political confrontation with the United States to turn into a war, because the United States also has gains. They got a lot of islands in the Caribbean, and it was a premeditated thing in hindsight.

Spain could not support the war between Spain and the Inca Kingdom, who would have thought that the Americans would mediate instead of supporting Spain to fight China to the end like Britain. After Spain ended the war with the Inca Kingdom, it was heavily indebted and under great financial pressure, and on the other hand, it was probably a political agreement with the United States, and the United States helped mediate, and Spain accepted the United States to buy Spanish colonies with a lot of money; The reason why Britain did not interfere with the United States to get these territories was mainly to play a balance, and on the issue of introducing Germany into Mexico, there was a rift in Anglo-American relations, and Britain needed to appease the United States, anyway, the United States would not become strong enough to get rid of British influence when it got these territories, and Spain would not lose much to Britain if it lost these territories. So Britain acquiesced. As for the Americans' statements, blocking China's further expansion in the Caribbean is also an important reason.

In short, the Americans seized the Spanish colonies at a time when the time, place, and people were all right.

The ability of American politicians is there, and they seized this opportunity, but the ability of American politicians will never be able to solve the dead knot within the United States, the problem of slavery!

After obtaining the three islands, the north and the south quickly launched a fierce struggle over the three islands. In fact, if the north can not care about how the southerners live, how these three islands love to do will basically not affect the lives of the northerners. But the problem is that the North and the South of the United States are in the same country and have the same regime. The question of how to deal with the political status of the three islands is not just a question for the southerners, but for the United States as a whole. The problem is that the three islands are clearly closer to the south, both geographically and economically.

When the United States got Florida, there was a dispute between the North and the South, and with the support of President Millard Fillmore, who favored the South, Florida became a slave state. But now in Cuba and other places, there is no such problem as Florida, there is no slavery problem in Florida, under the pressure of Britain, where did the Spaniards abolish slavery, but Cuba did not, Cuba's economy is based on slavery plantations, and the Spaniards could not abolish slavery here. As a result, slavery on the three tropical islands was preserved and even became a transit point for smuggling efforts in the southern United States.

It is also for this reason that the slave owners in Cuba and other places have always had close ties with the slave owners in the southern United States, and after the US government bought Cuba and other places, there was not even much confrontation here, and the government controlled by the slave owners quickly accepted the United States.

Therefore, Cuba and other places must be slave-owned, and the North and the South have no dispute and acquiesce, but on the issue of the number of states, the North is resolutely unwilling to budge. The Southern slave states demanded that the three separate islands of Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico become the three states of the United States. Due to the developed plantation economy, there were a large number of black slaves here, and if the ratio of five black people in the United States was counted as three heads, all three islands met the minimum statehood standard in the United States and could become an American state.

The North resolutely disagreed, and once it agreed, it would be tantamount to making the number of slave states in the United States instantly exceed that of the free states. Once a state becomes a state, it has the power to send senators and representatives to Congress and the right to vote for the president. Under the Electoral College, the three states would undoubtedly support the presidents of the slave states. This means that the political balance between the North and the South will be broken, and the tradition that the number of free states in the North has always been one more than that of slave states, which has been formed since the founding of the country, will be broken.

In the future, not only will it be easier for the slave states to be elected presidents, but the number of members of Congress may be greater in the South than in the North. This kind of power struggle has kept the North and the South at loggerheads. Neither side could pass bills favorable to the other, and the North could accept at most three islands to join the United States in the name of one state, and would never allow them to become three slave states. The South insisted that the number of people in the three states had reached the standard for statehood, and there was no reason why the northern states would be established when the number of people arrived, but the southern states would not be able to. The North argues that these three islands, which are not yet US states, cannot be counted as blacks in numbers, and only those who own property are considered perpetrators in the legal sense.

The two sides quarreled so much that not even a single state of Cuba was created, and in this situation, the United States ushered in a general election.

After getting the list of candidates for the US presidential election, Zhou Lang couldn't help but sigh, knowing that the division of the United States was just around the corner.

Because the newly formed Republican candidate in the United States for a few years is a familiar name, Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln's appearance is not necessarily divided, but as long as Lincoln is elected, the United States will definitely be divided, because Lincoln was an anti-slavery politician, and he rose politically by opposing slavery.

Anyone sitting in the position of president of the United States will not be able to resolve the issue of differences between the North and the South, and both Southerners and Northerners will eventually adopt a compromise attitude on this issue. This kind of compromise attitude is bound to be unflattering to both sides, with the North believing that the president accommodating the South, and the South believing that the President accommodating the North, so since the seventh US President Jackson, the president has not been able to be re-elected for eight consecutive terms, and he will be out of office after four years, because no one can satisfy both the North and the South at the same time in office. There have even been cases in history where Taylor's president, who seized more than two million ordinary kilometers of territory from Mexico, could not be re-elected.

In fact, the United States fought the Mexican-American War, which was very important to the United States, and seized a large amount of territory, but the North did not support it, because it was worried that the South would expand its power, and it was mainly the militias of the southern states that fought in the war, so in the early days of the Civil War, the Southern Army crushed the North, because through the Mexican-American War, the South trained a group of experienced officers and soldiers; The North would rather plot to seize Canada from the powerful British than from the weak Mexico, and the South did not support the North's seizure of Canada.

This kind of difference has been so big that regional interests outweigh national interests, and if it is placed in a politically strong country, it may not lead to a split, such as China, the north-south divide, the east-west divide is very large, but the Tiannan and the south can be condensed into a country, such as Germany, the Protestant differences in the north and the Catholic differences in the south are even big enough to cause war, but they can also be maintained together under the strong rule of the German Empire, but they can be placed in a politically loose regime like the American Federation, which will definitely lead to a split.

If another person sat in the position of president of the United States, he could barely maintain the United States, but Lincoln couldn't, he started by opposing slavery, although after he came to power, he actually adopted policies that were no different from those of his predecessors, and they were also compromises, but the South did not wait for him to adopt these policies, and took the lead in announcing his separation, because they did not believe that Lincoln would compromise, even if anyone sitting in that position only compromised.

After Zhou Lang got the list of presidential candidates, he knew that the time had come for the United States to divide, unless Lincoln was not elected. However, in the current situation in the United States, the Northern Free States still have the upper hand, and Cuba and other places are unable to participate in this election because they are being excluded by the Northern States.

The fierce confrontation between the North and the South did not weaken Lincoln's competitive advantage, but instead allowed Lincoln to have a higher turnout in the North when both sides were emotionally opposed to the other.

Sure enough, according to Zhou Lang's guess, Lincoln was elected, and more than half of the votes were cast, and his vote in history was only 40 percent, and he won because of the Electoral College system, which supported him more states.

After the news of Lincoln's election was announced, the six southern states of the United States, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, quickly announced their secession from the United States and established a Union State.

The Confederates moved quickly, and South Carolina opened fire on the state's federal troops stationed at Fort Sumter in Charleston, forcing them to surrender, with the goal of expelling the U.S. confederation troops. Lincoln immediately used this as a reason to rule that the Confederate rebellion and demanded that the other states of the Union send troops to retake Fort Sumter and other forts to defend the capital and maintain the Union.

But the move divided the United States, causing Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina to vote to secede from the Union and join the Union.

At this time, Lincoln also did not indicate an attitude of wanting to abolish slavery, and the reason why these states chose to support the South was not a problem of slavery, but a question of power, and it was not slavery itself that led to the division of the United States, but the struggle for power!