On April 27, 1865, after 21 days of negotiations, the war between the two United States finally ended at the negotiating table at the Oriental Building in the New Chang'an (Toronto) in Canada, the first high-rise building on the American continent.

According to the terms of negotiations between the Union and the Union, two weeks after the signing of the peace treaty, the Confederate States of America will hold a vote on whether it will become independent. Whatever the outcome of the vote, the United States of America would recognize it. In fact, both sides know that this is just a formality, and the independence of the Union State is immutable.

"At least, the result is a little more lenient than we thought!"

After signing the peace treaty, Lincoln said to his staff with some sighs.

"At least we didn't cede that piece of land!"

Perhaps, for Lincoln, this was the only reason for his optimism, and the negotiations were mostly between the two Americans, and the South did not demand land or reparations, but only for independence.

Even more reassuring was China, which had not asked for land cession as he had expected throughout the negotiations, and at the outset, Lincoln's greatest concern was China, fearing that China would take the opportunity to demand land cession, but the result was unexpected—China had promised not to ask the United States to cede land before the negotiations.

But that doesn't mean China isn't demanding other commercial interests — China demands most-favored-nation status and Chinese railroad companies the right to explore and build railroads in the United States, both of which Lincoln agreed to despite arguments.

Under the two agreements, Chinese railroads have the right to explore railroad routes and build railroads in the United States, even without permission from Washington, and they enjoy the same treatment as American railroads. The most-favoured-nation (MFN) status is limited to 10 years, and the requirement must be goods of Chinese origin, with the exception of entrepot trade carried out by Chinese merchants.

It can be said that the outcome of the negotiations was far better than Washington imagined, of course, for them, except for the South in the end, it still maintained its independence, spent billions of dollars, died so many people, and in the end, everything went back to the same place.

This cannot but be said to be a failure, but there is no better option for Washington, which just over twenty days ago was faced with a crushing defeat at Petersburg and the threat of invasion by a strong neighbor to the north.

"Yes, Mr. President, there is no better outcome......"

Seward, as Secretary of State, nodded, he was not directly involved in the negotiations, but he knew that the negotiations could even end with another outcome - during the negotiations, the South insisted on the trial of Sherman, and demanded that the North compensate the South for the damage - $1.5 billion!

At that time, for the South, they had the advantage, the Chinese were their allies, in less than half a month after the federal withdrawal, from Africa, Canada and Panama, more than 150,000 Chinese troops were stationed in the South, the South, with the help of their allies, once again restored confidence, not only military aid, the Chinese also provided a loan of 100 million Chinese dollars to the South to help the South, so the Southerners believed that they could carry the war to the end.

Faced with the threat of war in the South, Washington even had to turn to China for help, hoping that China would mediate, and it was with China's mediation that the South gave up its demand for reparations, and as for the trial of Sherman, it also turned into his dismissal from the military.

All in all, everything was better than expected.

However, even so, there may still be many people who find this result unacceptable! Mr. President! ”

Seward reminded the president.

"Many people oppose the negotiations, oppose our humiliating acceptance of the blackmail of the Chinese!"

"Seward, my friend, if we don't accept it, then, perhaps, now the Chinese have set fire to the White House, for the United States, perhaps, this is the best option, now we need to face more problems!"

Lincoln believed that this was the last and only option, and certainly the best option for the United States.

However, as expected, after the news of the signing of the peace treaty, it immediately caused an uproar in Washington and the whole United States, and there were many opponents, especially some states were very radical, they did not expect that the war would end in this way, especially for some patriots, they believed that all this was because of China, because of the intervention of the Chinese, the Union lost the war on the eve of victory.

The next day, Lincoln woke up early, and although yesterday there was a lot of criticism throughout Washington, the news from California made him quite unhappy that there had been an attack on Chinese nationals in California, and they were expatriates, not immigrants. To do this, he had to meet with the Chinese ambassador in the middle of the night to assure the federal government that the matter would be properly resolved, but fortunately, the Chinese did not want to make a fuss, and the two sides would negotiate compensation and other issues in the coming days.

But this is not the most important thing, more important is that in the face of the peace treaty, some states expressed strong opposition, and some states even bluntly accused Washington of betraying the country, for which he had to use a telegram to negotiate with those governors to resolve the differences between the two sides.

Even now, no one is thinking about impeaching the president, but Lincoln can vaguely guess why—the politicians in Washington need him to do it all.

In the morning, Lincoln met with the Cabinet members in his office, where they discussed how they would treat the South, and in any case they would have to face an independent South, with which they would establish diplomatic relations and recognize their independence.

Of course, there is a more important topic for the conference, which is the Midwest railroad, and the American railroad companies must speed up the construction of the railroad, otherwise in the next few years, it will be infiltrated by the Chinese railroad company, and the railroad will bring a steady stream of Chinese immigrants to the United States, and in 20 years, the west of the Mississippi River will become a yellow America.

This was of course something they did not want to see, and the outcome of the meeting was simple - the Cabinet unanimously agreed to set up a U.S. government railroad company with a view to speeding up the construction of railroads and expediting immigration to the west.

"We have to make sure it's white!"

After the meeting, Lincoln went to Ford's Theatre at 8 p.m. as originally planned, and had invited the Stantons.

It seemed that all was going well, at least in Lincoln's opinion, the results were much better now than they had been before the decision had been made, and Lincoln and his wife had a stumbling ride out in the carriage, in which he talked to his wife about his personal plans for the future, and he talked about the idea of traveling abroad once during his tenure.

"If I could, I would like to be able to go to China, because neither the Europeans nor we know the country, and that's why we will suffer the ...... of failure."

Lincoln believed that it was ignorance that reversed America's defeat.

"We know Europe, we know any other country, but we never know about China, we don't even know what's going on there, we have to know them, and hopefully there's an opportunity......"

Thinking of this, he thought of possible impeachment and said to his wife.

"If they impeach me, then maybe we'll go back to Springfield and get back to our old business, or something else......"

Finally, he looked at his wife again and said.

"Maybe it will come a little later than expected......"

He then went to the War Department, where Crook, the guard sent to him by the Secretary of the Army, went with him to the theater. He had a mysterious premonition about the future, and so far since he was elected president, he has received at least 80 threatening letters, and even once had his hat knocked off by a cold gun, but at that time he seemed to have paid little attention to these.

And this time Lincoln said to Crook:

"You know what? Crook, I feel like some people want my life. I have no doubt that they were going to do that. When he said this, he was serious, his tone was calm and his expression was serious, obviously not joking.

At the War Office, Stanton apologized to Lincoln because he and his wife could not go to the theater. Lincoln invited Eckert again, and the other party also apologized.

On the way, Lincoln said to Crook:

"Now that posters have been put up saying that we are going there, we cannot let the people down. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't go, I don't want to go. ”

And to Crook's surprise, the president said yes to him at the time of parting.

"Goodbye, Crook." And not, as the usual saying goes, "Good night, Crook." ”

The presidential couple arrived at the theater after half past eight in the evening, along with Major H. Rustborne, who accepted the invitation, and his fiancée, Miss Clara Harris. Clara, who accepted the invitation, is the daughter of Senator Ella Harris. They sat in Box 7. John Parker was in charge of the guards, and he had checked beforehand, but found nothing.

And at that time, a small peephole had been drilled in the box door.

That's what John Smith did. He was an ordinary man who supported the emancipation of black slaves, and of course a supporter of the Union, and he supported the Union's war against the South, but the Union signed the Peace of Cessation and even abandoned the cause of emancipation of black slaves, which made him feel that Lincoln had betrayed those black slaves. So he drilled a peephole in the afternoon, the purpose of which was to find out what was going on with the president in the box and wait for an opportunity to enter the box.

John also dug a groove behind the door to the presidential box in the balcony so that the door could be boarded up. At the same time, he wrote a long letter stating that he had murdered the president out of patriotism, and that he gave it to a friend for him to take out the next day for publication.

In his opinion, the assassination of Lincoln was a patriotic act, because Lincoln betrayed the United States and betrayed the black slaves. He had been waiting for an opportunity since learning of the peace treaty, and the president and his wife had given him the opportunity to attend a play at Ford's Theatre. It took him an afternoon to get everything in order, and he even arranged for some of his accomplices to assassinate the vice president and secretary of state.

But even so, John decided to take matters into his own hands, and around 10:10 p.m., Booth slipped into Ford's Theater.

The old play "Our American Cousin" was played at Ford's Theatre that night, and the president was always very involved in the play, and this time he was no different, unaware of the danger looming.

John pushed against the passage door as planned, the passage was empty, and the guard Parker probably slipped out to drink because he didn't like the show, John quietly walked into the box door, put the peephole in, pushed the door open after a while, quietly walked behind Lincoln, pointed a pistol at the back of the president's head, and then pulled the trigger.

When Major Rushburn turned around when he heard the gunshots, he noticed that there was smoke not far away, and saw a man standing between the box door and the president, and he immediately pounced on him. John slashed him with a knife and jumped off the stage, where he screamed.

"The tree of freedom must always be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is the natural fertilizer of the Tree of Freedom. ”

After shouting these words, John slipped to the back door of the theater, where someone recognized him and watched him limp away as he broke his leg when he jumped off.

By this time, the whole theater was in chaos, and Mary turned back when she heard the gunshots and found her husband hanging his head motionless, and when she realized what was happening, she let out a chilling scream.

It was Rushburn shouting for the man, and John had barely escaped from the back door of the theater when the audience immediately went into a mess, realizing what had happened, and the president had been assassinated.

In the midst of the chaos, a doctor named Lear, who is the assistant surgeon in the army, quickly arrives in the president's box to examine the president's wounds. While he was examining the wounds, two more doctors came, both of whom were audience members of the play. They examined it and turned out that the bullet entered from the left side of the head, reaching close to the right eye, without an exit. The president's injuries were unanimously determined by several doctors to be fatal and beyond medical treatment.

The night was turbulent for Washington, with the president mortally wounded and at the same time the secretary of state had an accident at home. At least seven people in Seward's family were injured, at least one of whom was seriously injured, and Seward himself was lying in a hospital bed with a fixed steel frame on his head, and he was seriously injured by a knife, and he narrowly escaped death.

The dying president was carried to William Peterson's home and placed on a wooden bed. Stanton and Wells have arrived, and Stanton is busy in and out, issuing orders after orders, so that the chaos in Washington caused by the assassination of the president is gradually brought under control.

At this time, President Lincoln's breathing was uncontrollable, and it had been difficult and weak. The strength of this indomitable man was gradually losing his vitality, but even so, he showed great tenacity, and he held his last breath until 7:22 a.m. on April 29, 1865.

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