A month passed in a flash, as did the answer published on the radio and in the newspapers by most of the media outlets, which had already predicted the outcome of the election.

The Republican Party, an emerging political party with a huge advantage in its own right, won the final victory in the presidential election of the United States of America.

Because political star Abraham Lincoln announced in the last month of the election that he would give up the right to be elected and instead fully supported Hannibal Hamlin's ascension to the top.

Under the collective efforts of all the Republican forces, the advantages far beyond the imagination of the Southern Whigs converged on this slightly chubby middle-aged man who was called "the lucky one blessed by God" by countless media.

November 14, 1857 was destined to be an extraordinary day.

At noon on this day, the wind was beautiful and the sky was cloudless.

The large lawn on the east side of the once empty Congress Hall of the American Republic of America is now crowded with people.

There were well-dressed gentlemen, and there were women in full costume; There are old people who are full of energy, and there are children who are babbling.

On this day, countless people from all over America gathered here for their new president's public inauguration.

"I solemnly swear!"

Although the official oath of inauguration, already in the morning, was spoken once inside the halls of Congress.

But at this moment, Hannibal Hamlin, who seems to have really reached the pinnacle of his life, is still standing on the podium with great excitement, repeating his oath in front of the public, like past inaugurated presidents.

This chubby middle-aged man, who had just joined the Republican Party and was put on the throne of the president of America, probably never thought that he would have such an opportunity, his face was red, and his tone was excited.

His voice was amplified by the microphone that had just been born in this era, and it reached the ears of everyone present through the loudspeakers all over the Great Lawn.

"As the 15th president of America, I will faithfully carry out my duties."

"To the best of our ability to observe, preserve, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

A group of Whig members in the Southern states, led by Jefferson Davis, sat behind Hannibal's podium and looked at him unwillingly.

Lincoln, who was also officially inaugurated as vice president in the hall of Congress, took a group of important Republican Party members to sit in the right rear and looked at the leader of this powerful industrial country with a population of 60 million people who had been elected by them with a smile.

However, what no one knows now is that today is the luckiest day in the life of Hannibal Hamlin, but it will soon be the unluckiest day of his life.

I saw a man with a gray hood, who had passed through the guards at some point, and came to the front of the podium not far away.

Before anyone could react, he quickly reached into his right hand and pulled out a short-barreled musket and aimed it at Hannibal Hamlin's chest.

"May the Lord bless ······"

"Bang!"

A piercing gunshot rang out just before Hannibal Hamlin read the last words of his oath of office!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment, and everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.

It was a few seconds before the screams of the ladies, the cries of the children, and the roars of the gentlemen rang out on the lawn.

Vice President Lincoln was the first to react, and he rushed forward as fast as he could, and tightly covered the bleeding chest of Hannibal Hamlin, who was about to become the shortest-serving president in history, who fell to the ground with his right hand.

But it was already completely late, and the bullet hit the heart with precision.

The hapless President Hannibal. I could only take one last look at the sun in the sky with nostalgia and struggle, and then closed my eyes permanently.

Lincoln raised his head in great grief, and glared at Jefferson Davis and other Confederate people who were already wearing hats and under the protection of a group of guards.

But I didn't notice it at all.

Behind him, the Secretary of Revenue, Westham Charlie, who is also a Republican, had a sneer in his eyes when he saw President Hannibal lying in a pool of blood.

On the large lawn east of the Congress Hall of the Americans, all affairs were in chaos.

Even some large business owners who participated in the president's public inauguration ceremony and did not know the inside story at all changed their faces drastically, and their eyes looked at the man next to the president's corpse solemnly.

According to the laws of the United States, if something happens during the president's presidency, the vice president will be replaced as the real president without an election.

And the current vice president is none other than Abraham Lincoln.

Once he came to power, the United States of America had struggled to maintain a North-South balance.

It will be completely shattered······

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November 15, 1857, the west coastline of the New World.

Not far from the border of Rokofell, the state of America, in the middle of the Taiping City.

"Me."

"Abraham Lincoln, hereby solemnly swear!"

It's still the slightly empty conference hall in the central building of the city.

The Taiping government headed by Hong Tiangui and ministerial-level officials from various major departments sat around the conference table and quietly listened to the sound coming from the radio on the table.

"As the 16th President of the United States, I will faithfully carry out my duties and do my utmost to observe, preserve, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

"May the Lord bless me and bless the United States!"

The day after the assassination of the 15th president, when Lincoln's oath of office as vice president was played, Hong Tiangui pressed the turn off button on the radio.

"Although we had predicted it, we still didn't expect it to be so soon."

"The situation in America has come to this point!"

Hong Tiangui was wearing a simple gray tunic, and he sighed while scanning all the comrades present.

People are still those people, compared with a few years ago, the biggest difference is that most people have a not weak Taiping spiritual power.

Except for a small number of comrades who did not apply for a breakthrough in "introducing Taiping Spiritual Qi into the body" because their bodies had not yet been trained, the other high-level members of the Taiping Society could really be regarded as "Qi Cultivation Realm" monks in ancient times.

"Then guys, follow the plan we discussed earlier."

"Ministry of Foreign Affairs, withdraw comrades operating between slave and industrial states."

"This stage in the New World will be handed over to them for the time being, and when they are exhausted, we will appear again!"

The situation in the United States of America has deteriorated to this point, and it is not a matter of one or two days, in fact, it has long been deduced by many high-level members of the Taiping Society, and naturally there is a corresponding plan.

After seeing the comrades in front of him to show his understanding, Hong Tiangui looked at the middle-aged man sitting next to him, who was the oldest of all the people in the conference room, and continued.

"Comrade Li Gu, you let the elite squad of the internal affairs force stand by immediately!"

"A day later, we headed to Colmar City together."

"Daoist Miao Shan has determined that there are real knighthood blood clans and lord werewolves there, they must know the truth about the alchemy array of the land railway!"

"This time, I'll do it myself!"

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