In March, despite the cloudless skies, the Fifi drizzle and the people hiding under umbrellas and creeping over puddles, the Fifth Subdivision is undoubtedly the largest slum in the city, home to tens of thousands of immigrants from Ireland and other European countries. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Chaos and squalor pervade every corner of the place, where men join gangs and women become prostitutes is almost the only way for people here to survive.

After leaving the cramped room with a strange smell, Tom wandered around the city aimlessly, dressed completely differently from ordinary immigrants, and kept neat and tidy even in the slums.

That's why he got a job as a newspaper reporter. As one of the few literate immigrants, Tom had more opportunities than those immigrants - he could enter many professions, but he chose to become a journalist, and maybe one day, he would start a newspaper or magazine, who knows?

As usual, standing by the newsstand, Tom browsed through the newspapers and magazines, and the newspaper seller wore an Irishman's red beret on his head, and roared heartbreakingly. "Look at the newspapers, read the newspapers, the Chinese fleet has arrived in New York, and the despicable yellow race is declaring war on the whites." Tom was stunned for a moment at first, he knew that the fleet had arrived in New York yesterday, but he didn't expect that the newspaper would use such a headline.

"This is inciting hostility against the Chinese!"

Tom silently pondered in his heart, it is not uncommon for foreign warships to visit New York, in fact, almost every month, foreign warships sail into New York Harbor, receive supplies in the harbor, replenish coal and other materials, and even this is not the first time that Chinese warships have sailed into New York Harbor, but compared with the past, the sail training ships that came to the ocean here, this time they arrived in New York with six ironclad ships - that is an ironclad that the United States has never had!

"It seems that Americans don't care much about politics."

Despite the inflammatory news in the newspapers, Tom noted that for the Americans, they did not seem to care about this, and indeed, it was not the fleet of Chinese sailing from Africa that was more eye-catching now, but the current division of the country.

As he walked the streets, looking for news, Tom soon saw a group of sailors, sailors from the United States Navy, who were not very tall, but they looked extremely athletic, and their skin was dark, but they were by no means different from the blacks, and they were not the same as the Indians, but they all seemed to be extremely energetic. They were wearing uniforms, sailor uniforms, sailor hats, and these sailors looked extremely energetic.

"Chinese sailors!"

The people of New York would always greet these sailors with curiosity. And the sailors would smile politely back. They walked and talked pleasantly with each other. People didn't know what they were talking about—judging by their facial expressions, they were also very curious about New York—and it was clear that everything in the New World was new and curious to these sailors from the East. They were just ordinary sailors, walking the streets of New York, trying to get a coffee in a café, even listening to a play in a theater that no one could understand, in short, they were no different from any foreign sailor visiting New York.

No

How could there be no difference?

Their skin color is the difference!

The fundamental reason why the newspapers use a lot of articles to mention them is because of their skin color, because their skin color is different from that of white people, and it is this difference in skin color that makes New York newspapers use the term "yellow peril" to describe them.

"I don't know what the Qing emperor's expression will be if he sees them."

Tom thought so in his heart, and immediately thought of the nobles who lived in Upper Manhattan and went into exile to the Qing Kingdom, the Qing nobles who came to America from the Qing Kingdom, bought hundreds of acres of estates there, and continued their luxurious lives there, although they had women-like braids, but they were still sought after by New Yorkers, because they were "nobles", even the nobles of the Tatars. For those "native old mao" in the New World, they are naturally full of interest and even affection for these "mysterious nobles" in the East.

Of course, after the initial interest and fanaticism, the interest of the people of New York in the "Oriental aristocracy" naturally waned, but this did not prevent them from living a prosperous life in New York, where legend has it that they brought unimaginable wealth from China, ships of gold and silver dollars.

Of course, the world is so absurd, and how ridiculous that those who have lost their foothold in the East have found refuge in the United States, the only democracy on earth!

There is nothing more ridiculous and ridiculous! Frowning, Tom lost interest in the nobles of the Qing Kingdom at this moment, they were just some Tatars who were still alive in the 17th century, and they had no idea what was happening in the world. And these people are ...... These sailors, they are undoubtedly modern, belong to the future!

"Yesterday on the far side of the ocean, a fleet set sail, and they came here to show us the steam-ironclad ships from the East, with their thick steel armor, their powerful steam engines, their unimaginable speeds, and what is even more surprising - they mainly use steam engines in their voyages! And not sails! It may be safe to say that now China's shipbuilding technology is surpassing that of the British! "Obviously, through this voyage, the whole world understands that China has a powerful armored fleet, and their armored fleet can sail long distances, and it is shocking that a few years ago their shipbuilding industry was not worth mentioning, and even now, there are students from China in American universities. Tens of thousands of Chinese students are studying in Britain, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Prussia and other European and American countries, learning European science, law and other things, and bringing all this back to China to become part of the "Chinese culture" that they are proud of.

"As a country, the progress made by the Chinese Empire in the last few years is astonishing, although we do not want to admit it, but in the face of changes in China, we have to admit the fact that in the next ten to twenty years, China will surpass all European countries,"

Before he knew it, Tom was at the Chinese Consulate General in New York, looking at the officials who were coming in and out of the Consulate General, looking at the Orientals, and a report in the New York Times came to his mind.

"Now, all of Europe, facing pressure from China, almost all diplomats talk about the question of how to build a European military alliance to counter the threat from China, which is not only a threat to China, but also a warning to China's expansion ambitions in places like Africa." In the following paragraph, the article is even more openly emphasized:

"With a population of 400 million, China has a population larger than all of Europe, and the population pressure at home makes it inevitable that they will encroach on Africa and even other European colonies...... One thing that is probably certain is that Christian civilization will suffer the most serious threat in the future, from the threat of Confucian civilization. As a journalist, Tom certainly understands that this is just an exaggeration by some people, after all, everyone knows very well that in the face of Britain, the power of the Chinese is still weak, and the reason why Europeans are talking about the Chinese threat now is largely because of China's unyielding in Africa, as a dissatisfaction with Britain and other countries meddling in their colonies, and there are even people in their newspapers discussing whether the slave trade should be resumed to export slaves to the United States and Brazil, of course, this is to express dissatisfaction with Britain. In the past, it was the all-out blows of Britain that brought the slave trade in Africa to an end, and now such news appearing in the colonies is more of an expression of dissatisfaction with the British.

After all, everyone knew that if slaves were to be exported again, Britain would most likely send their fleets to resume their cruises against the slave trade, which would inevitably lead to a conflict between China and Britain, and the entire Atlantic would then be tense and even at war.

"We cannot tolerate this expansion of the Chinese. From my contacts with the Chinese, I believe that they first believe that state-to-state exchanges are based on strength, that mutual relations with China depend on strength, and that if strength cannot suppress China, then they can never become friends. "Isn't that the rule that is common all over the world?

Why has it now become a principle that the Chinese believe in?

Skin tone, skin tone makes all of it!

Tom thought to himself when he noticed a poster on the side of the road in support of the emancipation of slaves, and when he saw the poster, he frowned, tore his ears and cursed in his mouth.

"are also human? What a bunch of crazy people! ”

Although before this, Tom had been indignant about the injustice suffered by the Chinese, when he saw the poster, his whole person became thunderous, he could not accept the granting of black citizenship, and even in his heart, he also supported the South and supported the continuation of slavery in the South.

"Those people, such a madman, are they going to let white people go to war for?"

Thinking of the gunpowder news in the newspapers, Tom's mood could not be kept any longer.

"They actually want to give the slaves citizenship, they want to liberate those slaves, and they will regret it when those slaves bully their wives and daughters and give birth to mongrels!"

What if war breaks out?

Maybe it's because of that poster, maybe it's because he thinks of the recent tense situation reported in the newspaper, which makes Tom silently think in his heart,

"Perhaps, I should go to the South!"

Tom silently thought in his heart that when he got to the South, he could fight for the interests of the white people, and of course, he could also fight for the people and the monarchy of the United States. Southerners, of course, had the right to own slaves, and the Constitution of the United States had never forbade this, and now, Lincoln, the tyrant, was encroaching on the interests of the Americans! Well, it must be influenced by those crumbs!

It's ridiculous that they think are human!

Tom, who was mocking those "northerners" who agreed that were people, thought of what he saw a few days ago, when those gangsters wantonly beat under the command of his men on the streets, and he almost didn't cheer for those gangsters in his heart.

"Perhaps, you should really continue the slave trade so that the South can get more cheap slaves instead of those who are equivalent to sky-high slaves......"

Thinking of the once cheap black slaves, Tom secretly thought to himself that if the slave trade could be restarted, perhaps, he would also buy some black slaves.

"Hey, it's a pity that there is no possibility at all!"

While he was thinking this, Tom saw a horse-drawn carriage drive out of the gate of the consulate, and the black carriage was heading directly in the direction of the harbor, perhaps to the sailors who were on their way to the harbor to pay their respects.

This time Tom had guessed wrong—the carriage was filled with young diplomats who had just arrived in New York with the fleet the previous day, and had no rest at all, and went straight to another destination.

"Why go south via New York?"

Looking at New York outside the car window, Ma Fuguo asked with some puzzlement.

"Why can't we just go to Atlanta?"

"Because there are no merchant ships in the south that go directly to Europe!"

As a "veteran diplomat" who has been in the United States for two years, Yu Delhi knows the United States better, and he also knows the South.

"The South is not so much the South of the United States, but rather the raw material colonies of the North, the agents of the North control the foreign trade of the South, and the banks of the North also control the finance there, in order to be able to control the South, the control of the shipping routes is undoubtedly the best choice to achieve all this, so if we want to go to Atlanta, we must take a boat from New York!"

"Then why don't the southerners open up their own routes?"

Ma Fuguo's tone was still puzzled, in his opinion this was almost unthinkable, just like in China, in the past, the route of the Bohai Bay was controlled by the southerners, but now the local gentry in Shandong and other places have set up steamship companies to compete with the southerners, and they will never sit idly by and watch the southerners control the transportation there.

"That is, why can't they sell their own cotton overseas, but they are in the hands of fake northerners!"

"Southerners, what do you say?"

He pondered for a moment before he replied.

"Compared to the northerners, the southerners in the United States are more gentlemen, they don't even want to do business, they prefer to run their farms, for them, wealth is the farm, it is slaves! There are all kinds of risks involved in doing business, and now ......"

Looking at these colleagues in the car, Yu Derry said with a smile.

"So, now is our chance! When the northerners pull out of there, we will face a market vacuum! ”

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