Regarding the civil war between the North and the South in the United States, Feng Yunshan has his own understanding.

Since childhood, the American Civil War depicted in history textbooks has always said that because of the slavery system, the North and the South were divided, resulting in a civil war, and it is also said that the Civil War was a great historical event against slavery. But as Feng Yunshan's experience grew, especially after the popularity of online forums, he found that other views seemed to be more reasonable. That is, the civil war between the North and the South in the United States is actually just a competition for the interests of the North and the South, and the reason and original intention of the outbreak have nothing to do with whether or not to abolish black slavery, but after the outbreak of the Northern Union, because of the needs of the war, brought a means of abolishing slavery, in fact, it is just an act of digging corners, of course, it also played an excellent effect, with the betrayal of the black people in the south and the power of public opinion, the victory is more beneficial to the North.

It can be seen from this that the abolition of slavery by the Union Government and Lincoln was by no means for the benefit of black slaves, but only for the needs of war and the needs of the industrial development of the North. Feng Yunshan also read some books to introduce them, saying that the life of black slaves in the southern states of the United States is not as miserable as always advertised, in fact, among the white residents of the south, slave owners are only a very few, of course, the white slave owners who have slaves can be regarded as the rich people of that era, and the slave owners are "very kind" to adult blacks, in fact, the nutritional conditions of blacks are much better than those of the people in the Qing Dynasty in the same period, and slave owners encourage blacks to have a large number of children, you can see the preciousness of these black slaves. In fact, at that time, the price of an adult healthy black slave was 500-1500 US dollars, even if the average value was 1,000 US dollars, it was equivalent to 500,000 yuan of RMB today. Is there such a big contradiction between the occasional meat-eating southern slaves and the hungry northern commoners? This is impossible, so the contradiction arises between the slave owners in the South and the industrial capitalists in the North.

In fact, it is true that the contradiction between the north and the south is more of an economic contradiction, which in turn leads to a contradiction in the political system. On the one hand, the vast majority of American industry is concentrated in the North and Northwest, while the South has a slave-based plantation economy. The South mainly produces cotton, and most of it is exported to Britain and Western European countries in exchange for cheap and high-quality industrial products in Europe, but for the industrial products in the north of the United States, because of their relatively high cost and high price, Southerners are reluctant to exchange goods with northerners. As a result, the contradictions between the North and the South have become increasingly acute.

On the one hand, the North needs to master the market of the South and sell the industrial products produced in the North, and at the same time, it also needs to use the cotton and other raw materials of the South, and the capitalists in the North need free workers, after all, slaves are too expensive, they have to be responsible for the birth, old age, sickness and death of slaves, the burden is too heavy, and they want to emancipate black slaves and hire them at low prices; On the other hand, the plantation owners in the South wanted to import cheap British goods, preferred to sell cotton abroad for more profit, and at the same time, they also wanted more black slaves to develop more cultivation.

In particular, the contradiction of tariffs is particularly prominent. Most of the industrial products manufactured in the north are imitations of Europe, which are crude and inferior in quality, and cannot compete with Europe, so they can only raise the import tariffs on European industrial products to protect the interests of domestic capital. As a result of the European countermeasures, the tariffs on cotton and other agricultural products from the south entering the European market have increased significantly, causing heavy losses to the plantation owners in the south. Coupled with the fact that the United States has been a loose federal system since its founding and the principle of division of states, the law does not necessarily define it as an absolutely indivisible whole, but a union that is voluntary and involuntary. Therefore, the South naturally did not want to lose forever, and the idea of seceding from the Union was born.

Therefore, the motive for the war in the North was not to emancipate the black slaves, and slavery was only an ideological pretext for war between the North and the South.

However, after studying Ma Zhe for many years, Feng Yunshan knows that the most fundamental problem is actually overproduction! For the North, their industrial products cannot be sold because of their poor quality and high prices, that is, they are overproduced, and they hope to open up sales channels for their products to the West, the South, the Americas and the Far East. For the South, the lifeblood of their economy was slaves and cotton, but with the rise of cotton cultivation in Egypt, India and other places, the price of cotton began to fall, and the decline in cotton led to a surplus of black slaves in the South. Therefore, in order to get rid of this oversupply of black slaves, the southern plantation owners had to expand and spread the black slaves to more areas, but the result of expanding the slave production system could only be to make cotton more surplus. Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan naturally knew what he should do.

He wanted the American Civil War to break out a little earlier, and then it was better to last longer and be a little more miserable. It is better to let the United States directly divide it, so that I am afraid that the world will dominate the world in the future

Feng Yunshan began to wonder whether to let the current 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan, have some accident and retire early, according to the historical process, Lin will definitely emerge and become the Republican elected president, which will lead to a direct turn of face in the South.

In addition, let the secret service department do something at the intelligence station in the United States to provoke disputes between the North and the South, so as to further stimulate and intensify the contradictions between the North and the South.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan suddenly remembered that Marshali and the Southern Whigs behind him had to establish good relations with them before the outbreak of the civil war between the North and the South, and once the war broke out, it would be most beneficial for the Chinese Empire to support the weaker Southern Alliance and let it continue its war with the Northern Federation for a long time.

It's time to do more arrangement. Now that the Purse Rifle Manufacturing Company in Virginia, USA, has been acquired by the Empire, and tens of thousands of muskets have arrived in the Empire, it is time to relocate it. The province of New Mexico, not far from Virginia, is a good choice.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan asked people to take a map, carefully looked at it, and then ordered: the "Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company" was relocated to Mazatlan as a whole. In this way, when the American Civil War breaks out in the future, he can use the "Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company" to produce arms and weapons, sell them to the Confederate Alliance, and support the South while making profits, giving him the best of both worlds. The Southern Alliance suffered too much because of the poor weapons. With the Sharps rifle provided by himself, it must be much better than the original smoothbore gun, which can last longer, and even defeat the Northern Federation.

Feng Yunshan suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he suddenly remembered a weapon of war, that is, the Gatling gun! It seems to have been designed by an American named Gatling named Richard or the year after next year. It seems that the Northern Union army bought 10 and played a huge role in beating the Southern army on the battlefield, and this sharp weapon must be in their own hands.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan immediately summoned Fan Ruzeng and instructed: "Mobilize all the spies in the United States to find a doctor named Charlie or something, it seems that he is in the area of Missouri." Once you find it, you will do whatever it takes to bring it back to Shengjing! ”

Feng Yunshan thought that it would be most appropriate to capture Gatlin himself, who invented the machine gun. Although he could vaguely remember the general principle of the Gatling gun, the so-called revolver rifle firing principle, which used a set of transmission mechanisms to rotate several barrels around a common axis to complete a continuous fire. According to this line of thinking, the gun engineers in his arsenal must also be able to develop machine guns, but Feng Yunshan has some celebrity effect, and he always feels that it is better for him in history to develop and improve, so as to avoid changing history less, so that he can be more sure of the future.

However, once such a sharp weapon is really invented, it will definitely be hidden as the most secret nuclear weapon, and it will not be launched for people to discover until it is critical, let alone sold to other countries.