After being forced by the Chinese stationed in New Orleans, Davis, who was already a little wavering, finally went down the ladder and immediately held a hearing with someone in Congress to discuss the truce with the Northern Army.

Obviously, as in the past, many members of Congress expressed their own opinions on the content of this discussion, and it was difficult to reach a relatively unanimous opinion.

In the past, Davis always had a headache with this situation, compared to when Congress was in session, everyone not only spoke fiercely, but even sometimes fisted and brawled, without any gentlemanly demeanor, so he always avoided dealing with people in Congress, and always achieved his goals by privately bribing members of Congress, and rarely convened Congress directly before private communication.

But today is different, probably because of the stimulation of the Chinese, Davis suddenly wanted to take another look at the faces of these people, in order to breathe, so as to tell himself that the league has come to this situation, not because he is too bad, but because he is surrounded by a group of incompetent but powerful pig teammates!

In fact, a long time ago, there were different opinions on whether to continue fighting, some people hoped for an early truce, while others disagreed, thinking that they should fight in one go, completely defeat the Northern Army, and reunite the United States.

In other words, in terms of the attitude towards the northerners, since the establishment of the Union Powers, there has never been a unified opinion on the part of the Congress, and they have always wavered between war and peace, which has also led to the fact that the Union government has not had a detailed war plan from the very beginning, and many times it has changed back and forth, without a single definition.

For example, at the beginning of the war, when the coalition army had an advantage in a series of military operations against the federal army, the main battle faction on the side of the coalition government began to have the advantage, so the call for expanding the war was very high, which also made the coalition army at the beginning of the war more bold and frequently took the initiative to provoke the northern army.

However. When the Northern Army began to slow down, and with its huge strength in turn pressed the Alliance Army, the main peace faction of the Union Government gained the upper hand again, hoping that the Alliance Army would quickly come back to defend, not expecting to defeat the Northern Government, only hoping that the Northern Government would agree to its own independence, and everyone would continue to coexist peacefully.

This abrupt change from radical to conservative policy, so to speak. It is also an important reason for the front-line coalition army to change from active to passive.

At that time, it was the period of the First Battle of Manassas, and after a series of heroic battles, the Southern Army defeated the Northern Army of the Labor Expedition through the phalanx of waiting for work. And after that battle, the Northern Army, which was lightly enemy, had just experienced a major defeat and had not been mobilized on a large scale, and Washington's forces were very empty, and it was time to take advantage of the situation to counterattack.

It can be said that at that time, if the Union army took advantage of the situation to launch an offensive. Then, because of the small territory of the Eastern Theater, it is very likely that the coalition forces that will win a big victory will directly break Washington and achieve greater victories, which is likely to change the course of the war.

However. Jefferson. President Davis, however, stopped his own intention to attack at the time of his own victory, and did not approve the pursuit of the Confederate Army, which gave the Northern Army a valuable respite and quickly regained its strength.

After the first Battle of the Benniu River. Many people said that Davis was incompetent, missed the fighter, and did not take the initiative to pursue the enemy to expand the results of the battle. But in fact, Davis himself knows his own suffering.

Yes, Davis himself was indeed a little hesitant at that time, but out of trust in the officers and soldiers on the front line, especially when Davis had just become president, he was actually very much in favor of the pursuit operation.

In the most typical example, after the victory of the Union army, Davis immediately took a train from Richmond to Harry Heights, the key point of the battle, and cheered and celebrated with the soldiers.

However, there was considerable disagreement within the Confederate Army at the time. Jackson and others advocated an immediate pursuit in great depth, without giving the other side a chance to breathe. Gustav. Tutante. Morality. However, Beauregard disagreed, believing that the Union army was also exhausted, especially lacking heavy firepower such as artillery, and advocated an immediate rest and recuperation, and did not approve of an immediate pursuit.

According to General Boregaard's words, although the Union Army was defeated, the main force remained, and if it was easily penetrated, it would be easy to fall into the encirclement of the other side, and it was possible to turn from victory to defeat, which was quite a risky strategy.

At the time, Jefferson. President Davis is actually leaning towards Thomas. Jackson's opinion, for which he also had a fierce conflict with Bored, and the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel.

However, as Beauregard said, the Union Army is a modern army, not a cold-armed army, and if you want to launch an offset, you must be adequately supplied, at least with complete ammunition, and by the way, you must also let the soldiers bring enough dry food, so that they can't go hungry to fight.

And Jackson and others also have this meaning, that is, they hope that President Davis can immediately allocate a part of the money, first give the money in full, and then take advantage of the situation, otherwise the people below will not be able to explain.

Davis promised a big victory, but when he returned to Richmond to raise money for the front, he ran into problems.

The reason is very simple, that is, Congress does not agree to the funding of this war, and everyone knows that Congress is the real boss of the Union States, especially in terms of funding, Congress does not agree, and neither does President Davis.

Not only that, but in addition to not giving money, the Congress also questioned President Davis's order, disagreeing with the immediate pursuit, believing that it would be too risky, and would completely anger the northern government, cutting off the negotiation channel, so it hoped to accept it when it was good, and took advantage of this victory to start negotiations with the northern government, so that the northern government would recognize the independent status of the Union State, and everyone could coexist peacefully in the future, without fighting and killing.

To put it simply, that group of congressmen are scared and don't want to continue fighting, because they find that if they continue to fight, it is dangerous not to mention, and it is too costly, which is not in the interests of their group.

Therefore, this group of congressmen changed the direction of the wind and changed from the main battle faction to the main peace faction, hoping to negotiate peace with the federal government in the north.

Since Congress meant this, President Davis could not refuse, but he had promised Thomas before. Jackson would give him great support, so for the sake of his own face and in order not to let people know that he didn't say it, he simply changed his words. Saying that the pursuit operation was too risky vetoed the order to pursue.

In other words, he'd rather bear the stain of mediocrity than be known for what he said.

So, back in that time, Jefferson. Davis didn't deal with the congressional gang very much, but because many things could not be bypassed the congress, he basically used private communication to obtain the approval of the majority of the congressmen, and then issued orders directly in the name of the president without meeting.

He understood it anyway. As long as the majority of the members of Congress do not hinder him and do not convene the so-called Congress, then the president's orders can be carried out smoothly, and a president has to use bribery to bribe the members of Congress in order to achieve his own goals, which also shows in disguise how mediocre and corrupt the bureaucracy of the Union State is.

Sure enough, later, when the Chinese entered the war strongly, they completely annihilated the main forces of the federal army in the western battlefield one after another. After the Union Army was greatly weakened, and then the British and French began to intervene, the peacemakers changed the wind again and became aggressive again. He advocated the expansion of the war, the defeat of the North in one fell swoop, and the turning of the northern states into slavery.

It's a pity that their idea is good. But they can't intervene in the western theater, after all, the main force has long been lost in the previous battle with the Grant Legion, and the most critical eastern theater is the one. Robert. Although Lee is an excellent commander, the strength of the Alliance Army is only that, and the Federation Army has built a large number of strong defensive lines, and it is even more difficult to break through in the Eastern Theater.

At that time, because of the results achieved by the Chinese and the British, the members of Congress of the Confederate States once urged Jefferson . Davis asked him to immediately order the troops in the Eastern Theater to launch a resolute and effective offensive, at least a tactical victory, and not to let the Chinese take the limelight.

Davis, who couldn't stand the nagging of these councillors, did ask Robert . Lee consulted about this possibility, but Robert. Lee's side resolutely rejected the proposal, believing that it was absolutely impossible.

Because of Robert on the front line. Li knew the actual situation over there very well, and knew that wanting to attack with the opponent's tight defense was tantamount to suicide, and he obviously would not casually let his subordinates die for the sake of some people's face.

Robert. Lee is Jefferson. Davis single-handedly promoted the general, while Robert. Lee's record also made Jefferson . Davis was very relieved, so he said to Robert. Davis believed Lee's statement very much, so he stopped mentioning it, so that he could do it with peace of mind and not have any burden.

Although the proposal was rejected, Davis saw the faces of the congressmen more clearly, and found that they were indeed a bunch of unrealistic stupid pigs, and I really wondered how they dared to establish their own country without much preparation.

Indeed, although it is said that the southern states have long been opposed, in order to break away from the Union and establish an independent state, the Confederate army is more prepared, so that it can gain a local advantage at the beginning of the war.

But in reality, as a party, President Davis knew that things were not like that at all, and that the actions of the Southern states to secede from the Union were more willful than a well-prepared war.

The reason is very simple, that is, after all, the southern states are too far behind the north in terms of comprehensive strength, and if there is really a war, the previous preparations will not be enough at all.

And, as a veteran politician, Jefferson . Davis also looked down on the representatives of the Southern states, believing that they had chosen the most wrong way to defend their interests, or that breaking away from the Union, forming a coalition, and then going to war with the federal government was the most stupid decision from the start.

Strictly speaking, although Lincoln became president and the nascent Republican Party became the ruling party, in the federal government at that time, especially in the congressional system and the judge system, it was still the Democratic Party dominated by Southerners.

In other words, although Lincoln became president and showed a series of abolitionist tendencies with the support of the Republican Party, Lincoln was only president at that time, not a man of his word, let alone Congress, and even in the White House.

So at that time, Lincoln and the Republican Party behind him were really cautious, and many orders could not be really implemented, such as the famous "Homestead Law", which Lincoln proposed when he was president, but it has never been passed. It was only later that the North-South officially went to war, and the Democratic Party of the federal government was greatly weakened, and Lincoln used the authority gained during the war to force Congress to pass the bill.

In other words, when Lincoln first became president, he was still very weak, the president of the United States of America could not do whatever he wanted, not to mention that Lincoln was not very strong at that time, and the Republican Party, although vigorous, was still unable to confront the huge Democratic Party head-on.

However, the war ruined all this, and it was the hasty actions of the Southern slave owners that greatly weakened the power of the Federal Democratic Party, gave Lincoln and the Republican Party behind him the soil and space to grow and develop, and led to Lincoln's growing power.

It is conceivable that if the southern states had not hastily declared their secession from the Union and formed a Union State, and then declared war on the Union, then Lincoln and the Republican Party would never have developed so smoothly. In the same way, if everyone is still in the same country and one government at this time, and then they fight each other in the form of internal political struggles, then Lincoln is more likely to lose.

After all, the Republican Party is a nascent party, and its strength cannot be compared with the Democratic Party after all, and the president has a term, and even Lincoln narrowly won when he was president, almost losing to the Democratic Party, so once Lincoln's term of office is up, it is not certain whether he can be re-elected.

So just be patient and don't play disengagement so impulsively, but play politics as you did before. Fight. In this case, the South had a greater advantage, and it was absolutely impossible for the federal government to give up slavery easily.

On the contrary, if you play separatism, the nature will be different, and the people will have the broadest support, while the southern states will stand in a situation of total moral passivity.

But there are too many arrogant fools in the South, but Davis can't escape the circle of these fools, and is forced to join the Union government, and is elected president of this new regime.

You know, from the very beginning, Jefferson. Davis opposed secession from the Union, but more than eighty percent of Mississippi lawmakers at the time were in favor of secession, and what he said as a senator did not matter, so he was tied to the car.

As for the future, becoming president is also a coincidence, there is no speculative mind here, after all, it is the president, who doesn't want to be it? But now, he actually regretted it a little, and felt that being the president of this Union country was actually not interesting.

Thinking of this, Jefferson came back to his senses. Davis looked back at the council hall of the Congress, and found that the gang was still arguing, although there was no big fight for the time being, but many people were blushing and thick-necked, probably not far from the martial arts drama that staged an all-martial arts drama.

I took out my pocket watch and looked at it, and found that an hour and a half had passed, but it seemed that these members of Congress had not even started to get into the topic.

After smiling lightly, Davis leaned deeply on the chair behind him, narrowed his eyes, and watched the verbal strifes in this Congress with taste, and fully entered the theater mode.

Anyway, Davis has already seen through these people, they are all a group of short-sighted, inward-looking guys. They will be able to deal with their own people, and once the pressure from the outside increases and their fundamental interests are touched, they will definitely admit it immediately.

Obviously, the Chinese offer is something that these people absolutely cannot refuse, because they cannot refuse the high profits of Chinese goods and are afraid of the strong deterrence of the Chinese army.

The reason why this request was still demanded in the past was that the Chinese did not make a clear request, but now, the Chinese have made a clear demand, so they will agree to it after all.

"Hey, outsiders in foreign wars, insiders in civil wars, not enough success, more than defeat, that's what I'm talking about." (To be continued......)