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Since Anna is pregnant, it is natural that she needs special care. Scrooge immediately had a villa with a small garden bought in Lake Erie and let Anna live in it. And just like with Catherine, Scrooge also organized some reliable doctors and organized a medical team to serve Anna specifically.

It's just that, unlike Carol, Scrooge can't always stay by Anna's side to accompany her, and since Catherine became pregnant, many things assigned to Carol need to be picked up again by Scrooge himself. In order to coordinate the entire consortium, Scrooge was so busy that he could not sleep until about one o'clock every day. Lack of sleep also creates a vicious circle: the lack of sleep makes the mental health worse, the mental health makes the degree of dealing with affairs decreases, and the degree of dealing with affairs decreases, which makes the time of sleep even less sufficient. This even made Scrooge think again about whether he really wanted to take a little Diana pill for himself.

"Eat a little bit, control the dose, it shouldn't be a big deal." When bitter coffee, strong tea, and chocolate didn't work very well, the thought came to me again. However, Scrooge dismissed the idea. He knew that he needed to be alone for a while this time. It would be strange if you had to rely on this every day to stay out of drug addiction.

"There has to be a little bit of decentralization. Otherwise, sooner or later, it will be as short-lived as Qin Shihuang and Zhu Yuanzhang, well, if it is not done well, it will become Yongzheng's virtue, and it is not impossible to die suddenly. Scrooge thought so, so he moved his mind to reform the personnel management system. But I can't take care of this yet, because this is another big job, so let's talk about it first.

In such a hectic situation, there are still messy things coming to the door. First of all, a bunch of invitations were sent from Europe, some inviting him and Maxwell to give lectures at Cambridge University, some inviting them to lecture at the University of Paris, and some inviting them to give lectures at the University of Göttingen. Scrooge knew that the paper bearing his name had caused a sensation in the European scientific community, and that the Maxwell-MacDonald equations, with their extremely beautiful symmetry, had fascinated a large number of physicists, and some even openly declared: How could such an aesthetically pleasing equation be incorrect? Scrooge's subsequent confirmation, which confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves and determined that their degrees are equivalent to light, also attracted the attention of the European scientific community. As a result, all kinds of invitations flew like snowflakes.

If he hadn't been so busy now, Scrooge would not have refused to go to Europe to brush up his reputation, and by the way, he would go to Göttingen to kidnap a few scientists. But right now, he really can't find the time. As for Maxwell, he didn't have time either, and now he was in charge of the whole Dashi, and he was studying thermodynamics, but he seemed to have a big problem...... Therefore, he did not have time to spend a month on a ship to Europe to give lectures.

The invitation from Europe was postponed, but the U.S. government also came to his trouble at this time. In this era, because of a series of Scrooge's Ming, the intensity of the war far exceeded the original history, especially the consumption of various materials, it was like a bottomless pit, no matter how many materials you threw into it, it disappeared without even a bubble. In the original history, in order to fight this war, the Lincoln administration owed a lot of debt, owing DuPont as much as 8oo for gunpowder alone. And at this time, the situation is even more tragic, damn DuPont is gone, but the MacDonald consortium, which is more powerful than DuPont, has emerged, and now the federal government owes them tens of millions of dollars. The federal government had to rely on borrowing new debt to pay off old debts, tearing down the east wall and replacing the west wall. Today, even this is difficult, because the interest repayment of old government bonds alone accounts for half of the expenditure on newly borrowed government bonds.

The federal government is already in such a difficult situation, and the situation of the Southern Union is of course even more unbearable. At the beginning of the war, the people of the South were still able to support the alliance out of love for the South, but as the war continued, the South continued to lose blood. The things that the people sold by smashing pots and selling iron were exhausted after turning around on the battlefield, and the wealth of the people had dried up, and in terms of financial resources alone, if the north was becoming more and more difficult, then the south was already collapsing.

The Virginia Legion, the most elite of the Confederate army, was no longer equipped with winter clothes, and now, winter had arrived, and the soldiers had to march in the snow in single clothes and barefoot. It's ridiculous to say that the south, which is famous for its abundance of cotton, can't even give the soldiers a cotton coat.

Not only did the financial resources collapse to the point of collapse, but the manpower of the South was also exhausted, and now in the armies of the South, sixteen-year-old soldiers were not uncommon, and in some non-critical directions, fourteen-year-old soldiers were not absent.

In such a situation of near-despair, even the most die-hard Southerners have to admit that the war cannot be fought. President Davis of the Southern Union sent an emissary to the federal side demanding peace.

Davis's emissaries offered that they would gradually abolish slavery on their own within five to seven years, as long as the Union agreed to keep slavery in the Southern states, and not permanently. By recognizing the autonomy of the southern states and the state militias, and granting amnesty to those involved, they were willing to dissolve the Union and return to federal rule.

To be honest, for Lincoln, which is also difficult to support, such a condition is really attractive. However, such a major event is not something that President Lincoln can decide alone. He also had to consult with others, especially the federal creditors.

So Lincoln once again invited a large number of influential "patriotic entrepreneurs," including Scrooge, to discuss this matter.

No sooner had Lincoln finished paraphrasing the conditions in the South than he received a string of objections.

"How is this possible? If they want to rebel, they will rebel, and if they can't fight it, they want to go back to the past, where in the world is there such a good thing? You can't take advantage of everything that the Southerners have taken advantage of. A Wall Street banker shouted.

"Not bad! The traitors of the qiē, as well as those who support the traitors, must be punished! The United States is not a club, come when you want, go when you want! Another railroad businessman agreed.

Scrooge stood coldly and looked at them. Of course, he knew why these people were against it. Because war is a business, and business must make money. In the American Civil War, if the federal government can completely defeat the South, then every wealth of the South will be open to them, and they can seize it at will. The traitors, the traitors, the fools who were killed in the war, how much wealth should they have in their names to plunder? At this time, at a time when the South is about to fall, negotiate peace with them? Isn't that a joke?

"Mr. MacDonald, what do you think about this?" Lincoln asked.

"Mr. President, are you going to have your next president go to war with the South again?" Scrooge asked.

Lincoln furrowed his eyebrows and said, "Mr. MacDonald, can you speak more clearly?" ”

"I think it's important for a country to be unified for a long time, and that is to have the same cultural characteristics. Cultural characteristics, on the other hand, are derived from economic characteristics. If a country is economically divided, it is difficult for it to remain culturally united. As a result, any turmoil can lead to division. And if the economic benefits of the economic model between the various parts of a country are even opposed, then the emergence of separatist activities is inevitable. If we restore peace with the South while preserving the unique economic model of the South. This kind of peace must only be a truce lasting about 20 years. When the southerners heal their wounds, when their next generation grows up, the war will come again. Therefore, the only way to achieve real and lasting peace is to completely destroy the rotten, backward and inhumane economic model of the South, to make their economic model the same as ours, and to make their economy independent of ours. Then there will be true unity. To do this, we must completely destroy the plantation economy of the South. And this cannot be done by talking about a truce. ”

Lincoln looked at the others, all of whom agreed with Scrooge. They also made a statement to Lincoln that they must completely destroy the plantation economic model that saved all evils.

"But now the government's finances are very difficult, and it is difficult to continue fighting." Lincoln spoke his heart. Since you all think that you should continue to fight, then, the government has no money now, so you can watch and do it.

"The government now has enough power to bring down the South." "In the last year's fighting, although we did not have the most decisive victory on the Eastern Front, on the Western Front we had taken control of the entire Mississippi River," Scrooge said. Control of the Mississippi River allowed us to launch a large-scale offensive at any point along the river. And the south will never be able to defend such a long stretch of border. As soon as our army broke through here, the soft underbelly of the south was right in front of our eyes. ”

"Mr. MacDonald, you have a point, but what if they defend these cities tightly, and then take advantage of the control of the railroad and the advantage of mobilization to confront us? You know, at that point, our logistics will be under great pressure because of the constraints of road transport. An officer asked.

"Who is this general?" Scrooge asked.

"This is General Grant, the commander of our troops on the Western Front." Lincoln said, "This one made his deputy commander, General Sherman. ”

"It's an honor to meet you, General Grant. Nice to meet you, General Sherman. "The economy of the South is not the same as that of the North. The most precious thing in the north is the factories, which are all in the cities. And the most precious thing in the south are the plantations, and they are all on the outskirts. Scrooge said as he carefully observed these two generals who would threaten the United States in the future. Grant seemed thoughtful, while Sherman seemed to think of something and his face was full of joy.