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As a result, they were not able to leave until the moment when the ball was finally over. By this time, three hours had passed.

It was a long enough and extremely difficult time that Elizabeth collapsed in her seat almost as soon as she got into the carriage.

"You're in a very bad situation, Elizabeth." Qin Lang looked at her worriedly, when he danced before, he felt that she was almost suffocating. "You really should have left early."

"I don't want to discuss this now, Qin." She said with difficulty, gasping violently, "Anyway, get the carriage back to the hotel as soon as possible." I've got to get the evening dress off quickly. ”

Even if she didn't say anything, Qin Lang knew what to do. He turned and signaled to the guard driving the carriage, and the carriage immediately moved, while he turned back and continued, "Maybe I should postpone tomorrow's trip." ”

"There's no need. It's just a minor issue, just change your clothes. Elizabeth made her attitude resolute.

Of course, that's really not a big deal, and being confined to an extremely ill-fitting evening gown for a few hours won't cause any serious harm...... At least she thinks so. As for Qin Lang, although he was worried, there was no evidence to prove that her situation was not optimistic, so he had to nod and agree with her opinion.

So the next morning, they boarded a train to the capital of the United States, as planned.

It was Elizabeth's first trip to Washington, D.C., but it wasn't for Qin Lang - but the last time he traveled to Washington was after a hundred and nine years - and it was a fairly unfamiliar city to both of them, but their reactions were completely different.

Elizabeth was very happy, there was some excitement, and she seemed to be completely unaffected by yesterday's painful experience, but Qin Lang was not excited at all. In his opinion, Washington is a very boring city, and two of his favorite attractions, the Vietnam War Memorial and the Korean War Memorial, do not exist yet.

During his four years in the United States, he went to Washington three times, and each time he spent a full day touring the two memorial walls—nothing else, except that it was quite interesting to commemorate both wars in which the Chinese army participated and in which the American army was defeated.

If you add the famous quote engraved on the Korean War memorial wall, "Freedom is not without a price", he can feel even more interesting.

Unfortunately, that's all in the past.

"Perhaps, I should propose to Congress that a ...... be built," he thought for a moment, and it seemed a little early to propose a national war memorial wall, and the Spanish-American War was clearly not qualified for the Spanish-American War, regardless of its size or the number of people killed. But there is another way to go. "Of course, I could build a memorial wall in front of the headquarters of the Umbrella Corporation and engrave the name of every fallen mercenary."

Qin Lang thought about it more carefully. A memorial wall for mercenaries, which no one seems to have done yet. He can create a new "first".

He laughed. "Yes, I can do that. A memorial wall for mercenaries, it's a good idea. ”

"What's a good idea, Qin?" Elizabeth looked up at him, and the laughter confused her, "What did you think of again?" ”

"Just an interesting idea." Qin Lang said with a smile while continuing to conceive of his new ideas. Although it was not possible or necessary for him to design the entire building himself—it was the architect's job—it was necessary to come up with a motto engraved on the wall.

And this motto must be in line with the object of the memorial wall, the mercenary of the Umbrella company, "freedom is not for nothing" is obviously not suitable for such a building, he needs another motto, such as ...... Yuri. What did Orloff say? "If you don't sell weapons to fight your country, you're not an international arms dealer," might change it a few words......

But it seemed too explicit for any American to like.

It should be re-chosen.

Qin Lang was completely so absorbed in his thinking that he completely ignored Elizabeth beside him. At first, she watched him think with interest, but it wasn't long before annoyance replaced curiosity; Although Qin Lang was always like this, now she was starting to get angry.

"What interesting idea did you come up with, Qin?" She raised her voice slightly, "Can you tell me?" ”

Qin Lang came back to his senses, smiled at her apologetically, and explained, "To put it simply, I'm thinking about building a building to commemorate the fallen mercenaries. ”

"Like the Washington Monument? But is it necessary? Elizabeth was confused. It seems necessary to erect a monument to the founding president of the United States; It also seems necessary to build a national cemetery for the fallen soldiers. But build a memorial for the mercenaries...... Qin Lang himself once said to others that mercenaries were just some "dollar warriors", so was it necessary to commemorate them?

In fact, this was indeed unnecessary, but Qin Lang thought it was necessary. "Why not?" He shrugged, "The American people can build a monument in honor of an impostor founding father—"

"The Father of the Nation who is an impostor?" Elizabeth stood on her feet, "You mean Washington?" ”

"Of course." Qin Lang began to make an argument that should be considered a fallacy in the eyes of most people, "The real founding father of the United States is King Louis XVI of the Bourbon dynasty. Washington is just in name. ”

However, he had his own arguments: Louis XVI sent an army and navy to the North American continent to assist the Americans in the war against the British, and at the Battle of Yorktown, not only was the huge French naval fleet blockading the sea, but the French soldiers also outnumbered the American soldiers in the encirclement force on land; And another important point is that when the Continental Congress was unable to pay its soldiers, it was Louis XVI who paid it.

Without the golden franc of the King of France, the British would certainly have won the war, because at the moment when His Majesty's Hessian mercenaries seized the heads of the "rebels", the members of the Continental Congress and the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, General Washington, had been killed by mutinous American GIs.

Considering that since 1790 to the present, the U.S. Army has continued to rebel or mutinied over the issue of military pay, this is definitely not alarmist. Unlike the freedom fighters in the movies, the Continental Army soldiers and militia were never patriots fighting for freedom, they were either businessmen trying to evade taxes or slave owners trying to defend the black slavery, but more often they were mercenaries fighting for money, and they would not have to work for the legislators without enough pay.

So, it was poor His Majesty Louis XVI who saved the United States, but at the cost of huge war expenses, increased taxes, bourgeois riots, and finally guillotined himself.

"In fact, I think the United States should build a monument to Louis XVI." Qin Lang sighed.

"Okay." Elizabeth was quick to accept his views. Of course, this is not surprising, although her parents were both Irish - hence her Catholic - she grew up in London and was rightly inclinedly inclined, and so, like many Englishmen, was a little resentful of the "rebellion" on the North American continent. On this basis, she certainly preferred to believe that it was the French who defeated the British army, and not the rabble of the colonies.

But for Washington, she still can't accept his point of view. "Anyway, George. Washington remained commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first president of the United States. ”

"That's right." Qin Lang did not deny Washington's identity, but ridiculed it, "but he is a commander-in-chief who cannot fully control the troops, and he is also a president who lacks power and status." ”

As Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, who was appointed by Parliament only the day after its founding, the former colonel of the British colonial militia - with the de facto equivalent of a lieutenant - George Murphy. Washington never had full control over the nominally his army, and the various legions did not obey his orders, not only fighting on their own, but often bypassing his direct communication with Parliament.

Horatio. Gates was accustomed to doing this, and not only did he not contact Washington in advance during the Battle of Saratoga, but after the victory, he directly reported the war to the Continental Congress, but did not report to his commander-in-chief at the same time, and Washington still got the news from the Congress.

And it's not just this one.

But Gates and other corps commanders are not all the problem, and Washington lacks effective control over the forces directly under his command. The infantry regiments of the Continental Army were all formed by the states, and the arms, ammunition, clothing, and salaries were the responsibility of the state councils, the commanders of which were appointed by the councils, and the soldiers were recruited by the commanders themselves, so that each regiment owed allegiance only to the councils, and the only thing His Excellency Commander-in-Chief could do was to direct them into battle.

Unfortunately, however, Washington also has no record to boast about. Unlike generals such as Gates, he spent most of his time leading his troops to attack the civilians of the colonies that supported the British, and not only rarely fought the British army, but even retreated when confronted by the pro-British militia.

So this leads to a ridiculous result: even in the Virginia Army, George Virginia. General Washington has no prestige or status, and is nothing more than the head of the army hired by New York's tax evaders, now Wall Street's business and financial magnates. Of course, it is precisely because of this that in the 1870s, when the conglomerates finally overwhelmed the poor Southerners and became the masters of the United States, General Washington, who actually controlled only part of the army of New York State in the Revolutionary War, was increasingly sublimated as a symbol of unity.

"But you should understand that he is not Napoleon." Qin Lang made a small summary. "Compare that to the ten dollars on Alexander. Hamilton, Franklin on a hundred dollars, and James on five thousand dollars. Madison, they are all greater than Washington. ”

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Note: In 1790, the first mutiny occurred in the United States, when about 2,000 Revolutionary War veterans occupied the arsenal in Springfield and demanded payment from the government.

PS: I made a mistake yesterday, the main gun caliber of the battleship is the diameter, and the waist circumference of the woman is the girth, so it is extremely inappropriate to use it as a metaphor - thank you for the reminder of the lazy worm Yi Shui. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )