Bad news, especially two, Lincoln suddenly mentioned it in his heart, and exchanged a look of surprise with Grant, in their expectation, there must be something wrong with the battle situation.

Lincoln hurriedly said, "Let's talk about the not-so-bad one first." “

"Your Excellency, take a look at this book." The secretary handed the book to Lincoln, and when Lincoln looked at it, there was a blonde beauty printed on the cover, typical American attire, blood flowing from the corners of her mouth, and she fell into the arms of a handsome young man with her chest in her hand, and the background was that the plantations in the South were being destroyed by artillery fire, and the whites and blacks were fleeing with each other's arms, with a face full of despair, and a white man blocked several black slaves behind him, and was shot in the chest, and the shooter was none other than the Northern soldier, and the title of the book was "Gone with the Wind"!

The cover was very informative, and Lincoln's face became heavy, and then he opened the introduction, his face became even heavier, and after casually flipping through a few pages in the middle, "Fuck! , pure! There was a sudden roar and the book slammed to the ground.

Grant hurriedly picked it up and looked through it, and after a while, his face became very ugly. "Where did this book come from?" Grant asked, turning his head.

The secretary replied: "General Grant, in the Washington market, there are people who are distributing it for free, and this is not the worst, according to the news just received, the book has been officially distributed in Britain, France, the Netherlands and other European countries, sold at a symbolic price of one penny, and has been a sensation as soon as it came out, and has also been highly praised by famous English and French writers such as Hugo, Thackeray, Dickens, Flaubert, and Alexandre Dumas.

On the back page of the introduction, the book vividly describes the social situation in the American South, and makes one have to reflect on the authenticity of the demonizing propaganda of the American South for a long time. He also said that this book delicately depicts the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature, in the face of the destruction of his homeland. The tragedy of lovers not being able to stay in love with each other makes people cry, and the transracial friendship between whites and blacks is touching. Others pointed out that the U.S. Constitution stipulates that U.S. states have the freedom to join or withdraw from the Union freely, and that the North's interference in the South's independence is a gross interference with the U.S. Constitution, a violation of the Declaration of Independence, and a prelude to the Washington administration's desire to establish an exclusive regime. “

“Fuck！“ Grant also shouted angrily: "This must be a ghost made by the Chinese emperor, right." It is him, this person is the most cunning and the best at using propaganda offensives, Your Excellency the President, you should closely investigate, list "Gone with the Wind" as a banned book, and arrest those who dare to spread and read it, and limit the scope of influence to the minimum as soon as possible, so as not to cause unnecessary changes. “

Lincoln was a little sluggish. After a while, he sighed and said: "If this book can appear in Washington, I am afraid that New York, Philadelphia and other big cities, including the southern United States, should have it, this must be a premeditated action." It is the intervention of China and European countries in the US Civil War, but it is unconstitutional to prohibit the people from freely reading and disseminating books and newspapers. It's the preserve of dictatorships, if we do. Doesn't it give the enemy a pretext to attack us for establishing a dictatorship? "This ......," Grant exclaimed anxiously, "so what should I do?" Do we do nothing and allow the enemy to distort the facts? Until public opinion condemns us one-sidedly, and finally the internal wavering, the people rebel and leave, the army collapses without a fight, and the United States is divided into two countries, the North and the South? “

Yes, banning the circulation of books and newspapers violates the U.S. Constitution and will provide an excuse for the enemy, not to mention that books can be banned if you want to? Can't you read it privately if it's not publicly disseminated? Lincoln was so confused that he didn't know what to do.

At this time, the secretary said: "Your Excellency the President and General Grant, this is not the worst, Britain and France have already arranged "Gone with the Wind" into an opera, and it has been staged in major theaters across the country, and the venue is full......

"Shut up!" Lincoln could no longer listen to it, and shouted loudly, in the face of China's carefully planned public opinion offensive, the immature United States was completely defeated, and did not know how to fight back against China's means of reversing right and wrong.

"Bang!" With a bang, Lincoln sat back in his chair and took several deep breaths before he said helplessly: "Good means, good means, Chinese emperor, is this your revenge?" So, what's next, worse news? Say, I'm mentally prepared. “

The secretary said cautiously: "The United Kingdom announced more than half a month ago that because of the environmental pollution and human rights problems in the United States, since the date of the announcement, it will cooperate with China to impose trade sanctions on the United States, and impose 100% punitive tariffs on all industrial products, until the United States Government comes up with effective rectification measures and earnestly implements them." "What? Bandit! Shameless! Bastard! Even if Lincoln claimed to be mentally prepared, he jumped up in shock, trade sanctions, who would have thought that a while ago he was secretly happy about China's trade sanctions against the United Kingdom, but it didn't take long for the stick of sanctions to fall on his head, or in such a surprise situation.

According to Wang Feng's original plan, after Britain announced an average price increase of 100% for industrial products and the lifting of sanctions against Britain, China and Britain immediately announced trade sanctions against the United States, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and other major industrial countries in Europe and the United States.

"Your Excellency the President, I ask you to convene a parliament immediately and formulate countermeasures against China. Gran also roared loudly in anger.

It's just that Lincoln is the president in the end, but he is very sober, the United States sanctions against China, just like the British sanctions against China, have almost no effect, this can't be helped, China's export products, in addition to silk, ceramics and tea, are high-tech products, is just needed, take the most popular Chinese billiards in the United States, until now European and American scientists have not been able to crack it, what is this thing made of, the shape and weight, including the hardness and gloss are similar to ivory billiards, but not ivory products, The price is also several times cheaper than ivory.

That is to say, a 100% retaliatory tariff on billiards is useless, because it is still much cheaper than ivory billiards, and a forced tax will only cause domestic dissatisfaction, and the rest of the various plastic products are also irreplaceable, unless a one-time imposition of more than 500% of the furious tariffs, it is possible to stifle the encroachment of Chinese billiards and plastic products on the US market.

But to do so would be an obvious irrational act, and it would give the impression that Washington was immature, and it would call into question whether the North was fully justified for waging war against the South. (To be continued.) )

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