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The welcome reception was held in Cleveland by a man named Suby? On Jones's wealthy merchant's estate, Subi was a shipbuilding merchant whose factory produced all kinds of inland lake (river) ships. He also owned a small stretch of railroad, and before the economic crisis, he was a leader in Cleveland's business community, and after the crisis broke out, although he managed it well, he still suffered some losses. But because others lost more, he seemed to be richer relatively speaking. So, taking advantage of the bankruptcy of a large number of people, he even expanded his own property further - he bought another section of the railway at a very low price. It is believed that when the crisis passes, his assets will grow significantly. Mr. Subi was an old Whig, a staunch abolitionist. Although he has also said things like, "are intellectually between humans and gorillas, or even closer to gorillas, so don't expect them to be able to do any complicated work - even if it's sawing wood with a garden saw - they can only do stupid things like cart transporting wood".

Scrooge and Rockefeller rode in a carriage to the door of Mr. Suby's estate. It is a European-style building with white walls and black wrought iron gates. As soon as the carriage came to a stop, a black waiter in uniform stepped forward and pulled the door open for the passengers to get off.

"How can there be black slaves here?" Scrooge asked Gardner in a whisper.

"It wasn't a black slave, just a black waiter, a free black man who had run away from the South. Mr. Subi was a staunch abolitionist, and many black people who came to the north to seek freedom through the Guò Underground Railway were helped by him, and were given the opportunity to work freely in his factories and other enterprises. If it weren't for the damn Fugitive Slave Act, there would have been more blacks getting his help. Gardner replied.

Scrooge knew that Gardner's "Fugitive Slave Act" was not referring to the "Fugitive Slave Act" signed by Washington, who owned more than 300 slaves (60% of whom were female slaves) who liked to pull out the teeth of black slaves in exchange for his own falling cherry god axe, but to the enhanced version of the "Fugitive Slave Act" signed by Washington in 185o in order to prevent more and more slaves from fleeing to the abolitionist states in the north. That act even allowed slave owners in the Southern states to go to the Free States of the North to hunt down fugitive slaves and bring them back to the South.

Gardner showed the invitation at the door, and a servant shouted, "Mr. Gardner, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Scrooge here." "It's a bit like the self-proclaimed aristocrats of Southern slave owners.

Entering the black-lacquered wrought-iron gates, there is a set of fountains, and in the center of the fountain is a marble statue that Scrooge recognizes, a replica of Michelangelo's "Bound Slave". The statue depicts a slave who is desperately resisting, and Mr. Subi placed it in this position with the intention of being conceivable.

Bypassing the fountain and statue, is a small building with a Romanesque portico. Although it is far from Van der Fast's mansion in terms of momentum, it is clearly imitating its style.

The host, Subi, was greeting the guests at the door, he was a tall and thin man, who looked about 1.8 meters tall, with a thin face with deep wrinkles that seemed to be chiseled out of a chisel, and two small eyes that were very bright, like a falcon.

As Scrooge and the others walked towards the small building, Mr. Subi was talking to a few of the other guests, but he clearly saw Scrooge and them—in fact, there was a big man Gardner here, and it was not easy to be inconspicuous. So Subi whispered a few more words to the guests, and then turned his head, smiled and greeted him.

"Ah, welcome, Gardner! My old friend! ”

"Thank you for your hospitality too!" Gardner grinned and walked up to shake Subi's hand and introduced him to his two companions.

"This is my friend Rockefeller, a very hardworking and capable good businessman."

"Ah, I've heard of you." Subi shook Rockefeller's hand, "It's amazing that in today's economy, your company can continue to be profitable." If you don't have your own company anymore, I'd like to hire you as my business manager. ”

"You've won the prize," said Rockefeller, "and I, along with Scrooge and a few other friends, have studied your recent investment activities, and we all agree that your recent railroad acquisitions are classic and will serve as a success story for future success stories in the business schools of various universities." ”

"What do you think of this acquisition?" Subi's little eyes flashed with curiosity, "A lot of people aren't optimistic about my acquisition, they think I'm playing with fire." ”

"The crisis cannot last forever. And the value of that railroad is much more than what it is today. Some mediocre people are frightened by the momentary crisis, and only think that the end of the world has really come. The opinions of these cowards are not worth mentioning, they will all be scared to death by their imaginary phantoms. If I could have that money, I would have joined in the acquisition of the railroad. Rockefeller said.

In fact, anyone likes to hear people slap their ass. Even those who claim to hate sycophants the most. The reason why there are so-called people who don't like others to shoot their own sycophants is only because the people who photographed him didn't get the idea and wanted to pat the horses' ass, but they all slapped the horse's hooves. Everyone has the most important and proud thing in their hearts, and sometimes, they always like to hide it and deliberately not show it. But if you tout these aspects of him at this time, well, it's going to make him comfortable.

Subi is the same, the acquisition of the railroad in the crisis is his most proud investment, but this investment has not yet made him money, and many people are still attacking him for being confused. At this time, of course, he was very happy to hear such an evaluation.

"Nice lad! Well done! You're all going to be Monopoly. Subi encouraged Rockefeller as a senior. Of course, decades later, when the aging Subi retired to take his grandson, he told his grandson that he had a vicious eye, and he could see at a glance that Scrooge and Rockefeller were not the things in the pool. Although when he said this, it was mainly just polite. In fact, many of the so-called discerning people in history are of this type.

"Mr. Suby, this is the Mr. Scrooge that you Tebby asked me to bring with me." Gardner went on to introduce Subi to his fellow travelers.

"Hello, Mr. Subi!" Scrooge shook Subi's hand.

"Ah, Scrooge. I didn't expect you to be so ...... So young. Your performance in grain futures and the acquisition of arms companies even makes me tremble, and you are so young, in the future, Cleveland, and even the entire American arms dealers will tremble in your shadow for a long time, I must warn my son not to be an arms dealer. Subi felt that his opinion of Scrooge was high enough, but even he did not expect that the shadow of this child would be hung for a long time and a wide range in the future.

"You've won the prize, you're going to up." Scrooge said.

"If you can be boasted, I dare say, arms dealers all over America will come and praise you. Well, I've heard Clark talk about your vision for the future of the United States, and do you think there will be a civil war in the United States? Subi said.

Scrooge thought for a moment, then replied, "Yes, sir." I think this war is inevitable. "Subi was a merchant in the transportation industry, and both rail and inland river transportation were very important for the war. For him, a war that is bound to be won is not a bad thing.

"Ah, a lot of people have been saying that we have to avoid war as much as possible, and that we have to try to reach a compromise with the South. Scrooge: What do you think about this? Subi continued.

"I certainly support efforts to avoid war. If the Southerners had not been so arrogant, willing to negotiate with us reasonably, respect the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence, abolish inhumane slavery, and work with us to protect the interests of American corporations, we certainly do not want a civil war. However, if they arrogantly reject this point, move against the tide of history for their own selfish interests, continue to go against the founding spirit of the United States, and smear the face of the United States, then in order to defend the 'self-evident truth' of 'equality in life', we can even fearlessly face the armed army of the most powerful empire in the world, and now we will still be afraid of those separatist traitors? We have an olive branch in our hands all the time, please don't let it slip out of our hands. To this question, Scrooge immediately replied, righteously, sternly, and loudly.

"Well said! You've said everything I want to say. It seems that you are really a natural Republican. How's that, interested in joining us Republicans? Subi made an invitation to Scrooge, "Although in principle, we don't take minors, but if you want, it's not a big problem. ”

"My father had been a staunch Whig supporter (Joseph Sr. didn't have any obvious political leanings, though Scrooge felt that as a Protestant father, he was more likely to support the Whigs), and I was willing to join any organization that was faithful to God and the ideals of American founding." Although the Jatiya Party is now in power, it is clear that the economic crisis, and the incompetence of the Buchanan government in the midst of the economic crisis, has angered most of the northerners, and his attempts to reconcile the north and the south have not been approved by the southerners. Some radical Southerners even called him a traitor because he was unwilling to use federal violence to ensure that the Fugitive Slave Act was unimpeded. Therefore, in the next general election, it is a question whether the Democratic Party can guarantee that it will not split. And the Republican Party, which has basically completed integration, will inevitably win a big victory after receiving the blessing of the 57-year crisis. And Scrooge knew that not just the next election, but decades after the war, the Republican Party would remain in power for a long time. Joining the Republican Party was definitely the right choice.