The difficulty for the government in the abolition of slavery lies in the fact that it has to resolve the various problems encountered in the process of abolition, and at the same time it has to bear enormous financial pressure. The first is the ransom paid to the slaves in the prime of life, among the 40 million black slaves, more than half are young and middle-aged, and the ransom of 20 million black slaves is a huge amount of money according to the market price. Before the American Civil War, although the price of slaves fluctuated greatly, and even individual slaves could be sold for thousands of dollars, historically, the average price of civil war money in the United States was twenty-five pounds, the Indians were only worth ten pounds, the white indentured slaves were also ten pounds, and the price of Chinese laborers was the cheapest, only five pounds.

The reason why blacks are more expensive than Indians and trafficked Chinese piglets is not because you think that you blacks are in better physical condition and can work better than other races, but because blacks have a stoic personality and will not resist the instructions of their masters, and will faithfully carry out their master's orders. The slaves of other races, under extreme oppression, will carry out fierce resistance, Chinese often think that they are the least resistant people, but the number of Chinese peasant uprisings is the largest in the world, and only Chinese peasants can become emperors after the success of the uprising. Therefore, although the price of whites, Chinese, and Indians was lower, the farmers still favored black slaves. But when Chinese laborers were freely employed, hard-working Chinese laborers became the most popular, and even the most industrious Irish in Europe feared that Chinese laborers would rob them of their jobs, setting off a wave of Chinese exclusion.

The same is true in the South African market, where there are also white slaves, and the Alaper people in North Africa have long traded white slaves, except for women, men are not particularly welcome, and until the Ottoman Empire was driven to the peninsula by the Greeks in Lower Asia, white slaves were sold from Bulgaria and other places. South Africa was still dominated by black slaves, and the price of an adult black slave was only half that of the United States, ranging from ten to twelve pounds. Prices are a bit lower for women, generally between eight and ten pounds. The average price is basically 10 pounds.

20 million black slaves, but 200 million pounds, is an unbearable amount of money for the Kingdom of South Africa. Although there was some industry, it was still a predominantly agrarian country, and it was rich by a group of slave owners, and the state finances were very low, because they implemented the traditional system of light taxation, agricultural taxes were already very low, and the government was very rudimentary. Although the annual tax is as high as 30 million taels of gold, equivalent to 160 million pounds, the annual treasury is barely balanced at best, and often exceeds the means, and requires short-term reception to balance the finances at the end of the year.

In this case, it is really stressful for South Africa to spend 200 million pounds to buy black slaves.

The African company's plan was to finance the Kingdom of South Africa in 10 years with a guarantee guarantee, with an interest rate as low as 3 percent, and basically enjoy the interest rate of Chinese government bonds, which is a low-interest loan that cannot be borrowed with South African credit anyway. The principal and interest totalled £270 million, and £27 million a year would need to be repaid, and although it was no less heavy, it would not go bankrupt.

The expected benefits compared to long-term liabilities made Huashana make the decision to abolish slavery without hesitation in the face of the promise of full support from African companies.

As a result, the world's largest slave country quickly announced the abolition of slavery, and the African company sang a loud voice, expressing its full support for the abolition of slavery in the Kingdom of South Africa.

While the world is focused on the Civil War, Western countries are only concerned about the impact of abolition in Europe, such as a drop in their trade with South Africa, a drop in South Africa's raw material exports, or some small rebellion in South Africa.

But from the very beginning, Chinese politicians sensed this vein, especially the princeling forces such as Zhou Guanhai, who immediately linked it to the United States. The emperor asked the crown prince to put pressure on the southern part of the United States to abolish slavery in the Confederate States of America, but the crown prince has not yet done it, and South Africa, a vassal country with close relations with China's overseas companies, took the lead in announcing the abolition of slavery.

It is easy to link the issue of slavery in South Africa to the American South, but it is still too early to fully understand the emperor's intentions, but Zhou Guanhai immediately had his own idea of using the topic to play. He decided to start the layout as soon as possible, not to give the emperor time, it is best to directly disrupt the emperor's original plan, or even let the emperor have to follow him, so that he can completely grasp the initiative.

What Zhou Guanhai and the crown prince did not know was that the development of the war was slightly different from that in history, because China had deployed heavy troops on the border, both the north and the south did not dare to fight a big war in the west, and both adopted a defensive posture in the west, trying their best to avoid China's involvement, because neither side was very worried about China's attitude. For the north, they found that Chinese soldiers often provoked on the border, often acted and crossed the line, and the US president repeatedly ordered the troops on the Western Front to restrain themselves and not to clash with the Chinese; As far as the South is concerned, China's attitude towards them is clear, wanting the South to abolish slavery, and the South is also worried that China's deployment of troops along the Mississippi River is aimed at itself.

Both sides are worried about China, so neither dares to fight a big war on the Western Front, and is on the defensive. Therefore, they all coincidentally concentrated the main forces in a range of more than 100 kilometers between Richmond and Washington for repeated tug-of-war, with extremely heavy casualties, but you come and go, and there is no decisive battle. The war lasted just over three months, with more than 30,000 casualties on both sides, and the three-month war that Lincoln believed and the short-term war argument that the South believed were in fact bankrupt, and the war began to develop into a long-term one, and both sides began to have problems with their finances and soldiers.

Historically, the South squeezed $1.7 billion in funds by issuing paper money, and then a large number of plantation owners went bankrupt after the war, and now it has only been three months, and even printing paper money is a way to quench thirst, and the gold in the hands of the enthusiastic people has not yet run out, and they have patriotic enthusiasm to buy government bonds. The problem was that soldiers, enthusiastic women, and plantation owners could not provide soldiers, nor could the conscription system and state-based militia system in the North.

When both sides could not gather the young men who volunteered to die for their country, conscription was naturally put on the agenda, and the Confederacy, whose population was smaller than that of the North, was the most urgent, and began to seek passage of the Confederate Congress through the "Conscription Act", requiring all able-bodied white men between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve for three years; The Northern Union tried to pass the Militia Act, hoping to give blacks the right to become soldiers or laborers, hoping that in the hope of getting a group of black young adults to support the war.

Historically, when the militia bill could not meet the requirements, the North passed the "Recruitment Law", requiring each state to complete a fixed number of conscriptions, and if the number of volunteers was insufficient, compulsory conscription was made up, and all male citizens between the ages of 20 and 45, including immigrants applying for naturalization, were required to serve. A large number of immigrants who had just set foot in the port of New York and spoke the languages of various European countries, before they could breathe the "free" air of the United States, were stopped by the recruiting officers waiting in the harbor and told them that they had become soldiers of the United States of America with honor, put on their military uniforms and sent them to the battlefield. Even a riot broke out in New York as a result.

For a time, the bill could not be passed, and it was necessary to wait until there was enough pressure on the battlefield to promote the passage of the bill, which is a common problem of the system they practiced.

At this time, Zhou Guanhai's operation began, and under the operation of the crown prince, China has been in contact with both sides of the United States, and this time the crown prince personally met with the representatives of the Allied countries to tell each other whether it is possible to consider a period of abolition of slavery, such as 10 years, or even 20 years, to give the country a buffer.

The representative of the Southern Union knew very well that slavery did not have a good reputation in the whole world, and no matter how much the South tried to package the warmth between slave owners and slaves, it could not be convincing, because only slaves had ever turned into slave owners, and no slave owner had ever been sold into slavery after bankruptcy.

Therefore, the representative of the League did not argue, saying only that he himself did not support slavery, but that any action to abolish slavery would be anachronistic during the war. The cornerstone of Southern society was slavery, and the main property of the slave owner was the slave, so the main property of the state was the slave. Many slave owners borrowed money against slaves, and once slaves were abolished, they had to go bankrupt.

What the representative did not say was that the slave owners' debts indirectly helped the state. Because there were a large number of slave owners in debt to buy government bonds, if slavery were abolished at this time, the government would lose a lot of money formed by using slaves as collateral, and at the same time, they would lose the direction of their war.

After continuing to be fruitless from the south, Zhou Guanhai's second set of operations for the crown prince began, and the crown prince openly met with the representatives of the north. Instead of expressing support for the North, I discussed with the representatives of the North whether there was a possibility of restoring peace, allowing the South to accept an armistice, rejoin the United States, and stop the war.

The Confederates were interested in this proposal, because just a few months before the outbreak of the war, American politicians had met in Washington to try to bridge the divide between the North and the South, and the northerners who did not want war were the majority, and Lincoln himself did not want war. Moreover, the North has always been very worried about the intervention of the world powers, and if European countries and China recognize the South and support the South to become independent, it will be a huge blow to the United States.

But this has already been fought, and at this time it is almost impossible to say a truce.

The crown prince's symbolic mediation can only be symbolic.

Then he began the third step of action, and began to speak publicly criticizing slavery in the South. At the same time, high praise was given to the abolition of slavery in South Africa. With China's influence, China's criticism of the South has led to a one-sided criticism of slavery in world opinion, and it has also commented on the abolitionist movement in South Africa.

No matter in terms of scale and difficulty, there is no reason why South Africans can abolish slavery, but the United States cannot abolish slavery, and inadvertently, Southern abolition has become a standard for American abolition, an object that can be imitated and referenced.