Brigham Young's Utah is not the same as the later Utah, it is directly changed from the entire Utah territory, including the later Colorado, part of Wyoming and most of Nevada, directly bordering California. Although the population is small, the territory is large. Moreover, geographical location is very important, and if there is a real conflict between the North and the South in the United States in the future, California's position will have to take into account Utah's attitude -- because if Utah is on the southern side, Utah's 250,000 population will immediately be able to organize more than 20,000 militias, and with the Chinese majority in California as the internal response, California's pro-northern forces have no chance of winning at all. Once California and Utah join the South, Arizona and New Mexico in the south will be surrounded by the South and pro-South Mexico, and there will be no choice but to join the Confederate Union.

In this way, the southern part of the United States could add four large states at once, and it also allowed the armed intervention of the Ming army to intervene - of course, these four states are not very populous, and their accession will not give the southern part of the United States the power to overwhelm the north.

Lesinskaya, that is, Maria. Clementina listened to him with a smile, nodded and said, "Mr. Young, speaking of which, it won't be long before I should call you Mr. Governor, right?" ”

"No, no, I'm a Religious Leader, not fit to be governor or legislator." Brigham Yang hurriedly waved his hand, although with his prestige in Utah, there was no problem in electing the governor and congressman. But there is no precedent in the United States for a religious leader to be elected governor or congressman, and his wife is a little more than that. Moreover, the current Mormon Church is not a small denomination in the United States, but a large international denomination. There are also quite a few believers outside the United States. If Brigham Yang really wants to be a governor and a congressman. It's bound to cause a lot of controversy. Of course, the politician who can be elected in Utah must be a representative supported by the Mormon Church, that is certain.

The smile on Maria's face widened, "Mr. Jan, you are truly a respectable religious leader. I heard that the Mormon Church also sent a mission to the Black Free Zone of Texas despite its own financial difficulties. To help black people in need. ”

Brigham Yang is a tall and burly white man, with a pair of eagle eyes that are extremely powerful, and he is a smart person at first glance. Cheng Dù, who has a keen sense of politics, certainly knows that Maria's activities of coming to the United States under a pseudonym and jumping up and down must be here to make trouble. However, he still smiled and said: "Black people are also created by God...... As a servant of God, of course, I had to find a way to save them. ”

It wasn't Brigham Young who was actually interested in blacks, and now all the Christian churches in America were busy saving the souls of blacks -- contrary to the attitude of their government and parliament.

Yang Dashen's tone was a little emotional: "Originally, black people lived well in Africa, but it was those white thugs who did not believe in God who captured and sold them to the United States as slaves. Such a sinful system, which has not yet been completely abolished, is really blasphemous to God. Our Mormon abolitionist stance has always been very strong. ”

Maria also nodded convincingly, anyway, one of them was a god. One is a favorite concubine, and they are all masters who can pretend to be garlic. Maria had already put away her smile, shook her head and sighed: "Mr. Young, it is the fault of our white people, and now it is really the most immoral thing in the world to let innocent blacks suffer...... Shouldn't Mormons do something about it? ”

Brigham Yang's brows were already wrinkled, he was the leader of the Mormon Church, and he was an American, a white American.

Maria said lightly: "The black free zone is an out-and-out disaster, a zone of inhumane disaster, and the act of deporting black people in the United States to a small wasteland near Mexico is not liberation, but abandonment, and murder!" Such a crime will not be concealed for long, and will soon be exposed by journalists with a sense of justice! When the time comes, the whole world will condemn the United States, including every American with a conscience. ”

Brigham Yang's eyes were heavy and silent. Of course, he knew that Maria had made many friends in the press during this time, including reporters from the United States and from Europe. Presumably she has already funded some of them to go to the Black Free Zone for interviews...... It won't be long before the world's public opinion jumps out to criticize the Black Freedom Act, which they held to the sky not long ago.

"Madame, what do you want me to do? To condemn the Negro Liberty Act too? ”

Maria shook her head slightly, "Condemnation doesn't solve the problem, I want to ...... When the situation in the black free zone is exposed, there will be many people who will come out to condemn it, and there will be no shortage of Mormons. My thought is, is it possible for Mormons and Utah to come up with a way to help black people? For example, a special tariff was imposed to raise $2 billion for the repatriation of 3.5 million blacks in the Black Free Zone. ”

"A special tariff? Can the southern states agree? Brigham Young certainly knew that the southern states of the United States were opposed to high tariffs.

Maria laughed, "Isn't the American South a beneficiary of slavery?" Shouldn't they pay a little for the repatriation of blacks? If none of them are willing to pay the price, then why should the slaveless North pay? I think that's the most likely solution to the Black Free Zone problem right now. ”

Brigham Yang still shook his head: "The truth is so, but the southern states still won't agree, and $2 billion is too much, and the annual tariff revenue of the United States is only more than $50 million." ”

Maria's voice was slightly lower: "Mr. Yang, it's one thing to bring it up, and it's another thing to ask for it, don't you even want to help with this little favor?" ”

Maria is the largest benefactor of the Mormon Church, and has donated more than $10 million to the Mormon Church over the years. Without her patronage, the Mormon Church would not have been able to toss around in Utah territory. Such a gold owner is not easy to offend.

Brigham Yang thought about it, and finally nodded, "Okay, we just put it forward, we won't really push it, and we don't have the strength to push for such a bill." ”

Maria smiled and nodded, relieved. Her political experience is not comparable to that of Brigham Yang. Of course, I know that the factory owners in the north of the United States have dreamed of high tariffs -- but there has never been a single reason for this, and now they have a good face to impose high tariffs in order to save 3.5 million slaves who were enslaved and abandoned by the southern serf owners, and if you don't do such a good thing, you will really be a fool!

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At the same time, Wu Chunqiu, the Ming ambassador to the United States and Mexico, had already arrived in Monterrey, an important town in northeastern Mexico. He had already negotiated with the Empress of Mexico about the establishment of the Royal Shipping Company of Mexico, although Mathilde knew that Zhu Jishi had taken out such a large sum of money to set up this shipping company for the purpose of not simply for his son. However, he was glad that his son had received such a large fortune, so he cooperated as much as possible.

After completing this mission, Wu Chunqiu went to Monterrey, in northeastern Mexico, near Texas, hoping to learn from Admiral Denave, who commanded the troops stationed there, about the problem of black Americans smuggling into Mexico.

He would have thought that Maria. What will Clementina's daddy use to arrest smuggled black Americans. However, in the end, he saw in the barracks outside Monterrey that the recruits of the brigade were black recruits, who had changed into the white uniforms of the Mexican Army Foreign Legion! Thousands of people stood in the playground dressed in front of white officers in straight uniforms and shiny boots, shouting commands. Thousands of black soldiers, at the sound of the command, did the simplest tactical movements - turn left, turn right, start and walk, and stand. It's simple, but it's already uniform, and it's clear that Admiral Deneuve has put a lot of effort into training this black army! (To be continued......)