In this way, under the multiple pressures of southern slave owners, hostile parties, and the original Whig party supporting slave holders, the anti-slavery people in the Whig party gradually moved closer to the group with Chen Mo as the core and the biggest supporter, and the strength of the Chen Mo group continued to increase.

Chen Mo, with his strong financial strength surpassing that of the richest man in the United States, the huge prestige he has won in the Whig Party over the years, and his control over the core of the current group's young party members, firmly occupy the dominant position of this group.

Once again united, they finally withstood the slavery attacks and gained a foothold in Congress.

In fact, it was not only the Whig Party that was divided, but also the Democratic Party, which won the election, because of the issue of slavery.

The antagonism between the capitalists of the North and the slave owners of the South became more and more intense, the parliamentarians representing the interests of both sides were arguing endlessly in Congress, and even the members of the North and the South were in constant conflict within the two parties, and the cohesion of the parties was reduced as never before.

This intra-party chaos continued until 1854, when the contradictions within the party finally erupted after several years of accumulation.

In July 1854, under the impetus of Chen Mo, the Northern Whig Party united with the anti-slave holders and other anti-slavery factions in the Northern Democratic Party to form a new political party, the Republican Party, and based the party's values on "individual freedom" and "national unity", and it was their common pursuit to prevent the expansion of slavery in the western region, and even further eliminate the slavery system.

The main members of the Republican Party were representatives of the northern bourgeoisie, consisting of representatives of the industrial and commercial owners of the Northeast who opposed slavery and agricultural entrepreneurs of the developing states of the Midwest, while the Democratic Party after the split mainly represented the interests of plantation owners and entrepreneurs associated with the slave owners of the South.

As for the Whig Party, it has already existed in name only, most of its members have joined the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, and the rest of the people have played no role in the political situation, and the once prosperous Whig Party has completely declined.

As the largest rancher, factory owner and capitalist in the northern United States, he employs hundreds of thousands of farmers, cowboys, workers, and employees, and controls the wealth, personnel, and political forces that occupy an absolute dominant position in the newly formed Republican Party.

In the previous dormant period, Chen Mo intended to continuously enhance his prestige and influence in the circle he formed, and there was a faint tendency to cultivate him as his spokesperson.

And this young talent, who was born in poverty, became a lawyer by self-education, became a state legislator at the age of 25, and was elected to the House of Representatives at the age of 37 did not live up to Chen Mo's cultivation and expectations.

With the addition of more core members of the original Whig Party, he did not worry that his position was threatened, but personally invited many members to join the group, and in the end, not only was not compared, but also gradually integrated and united everyone with excellent political skills, completely consolidating his position as the leader of the team and the spokesperson of Chen Mo.

After it was later reorganized into the Republican Party, it relied on the strength of the united Northern Whig Party to firmly grasp the leadership of the Republican Party.

The young Republican leader's name is Abraham Lincoln!

The existence or non-existence of slavery has become the most prominent contradiction in the United States at present, and has even directly led to the change of political parties, and after the reorganization of the two parties, this issue has been completely intensified, and the debate and struggle between the whole Congress and even the whole country have become more and more intense!

In that year, Southern slave owners attempted to extend slavery to Kansas by force, and an armed struggle broke out in Kansas against Western farmers and immigrants from the Free States against Southern slave owners, which continued until 1856, kicking off the American Civil War.

In early 1856, the Brooklyn estate in southeastern New York welcomed a mysterious guest.

This person is extremely tall, more than 1.9 meters tall, but his body under the wide and slender black woolen coat is very thin, and his cheeks are even more sunken, and he does not look handsome.

However, his figure is very straight and straight, without the slightest problem of bending over and slumping shoulders that is common to tall and thin people, and the whole person feels very confident and calm, and the atmosphere is extraordinary.

After Zachary Taylor led him to Chen Mo's study, he turned around and left.

The tall man didn't rush in, but turned his head and watched as Zachary Taylor's figure disappeared around the corner of the hallway, his thin face full of doubt.

Although Zachary Taylor wore a neat and decent suit and behaved gentlemanly and elegant, he relied on his keen eye to read countless people, and felt from Taylor a kind of heroic atmosphere that he could only feel in those veteran generals who had been in a hundred battles, and a kind of free and easy to look down on everything after holding power.

Moreover, this man felt very familiar to him, but he was sure that he had never seen him before, how strange!

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a clue, and the man had to put this matter aside for the time being, he still had important things to do.

Turning his head, carefully arranging his clothes and tie, and confirming that his appearance was correct, the man solemnly stretched out his thin palm and gently knocked on the door in front of him with a gentle rhythm.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

Soon, a deep and majestic voice sounded inside the door.

"Come in!"

The man quickly straightened up his shirt, which had been slightly crooked by the knock, and raised his hand to open the door and stepped inside.

It is a study full of medieval retro style, and there is a huge oil painting hanging on the wall facing the doorway, and the first time I see it, the man's eyes can't help but be attracted to this painting.

A majestic blackstone castle rises above the horizon, and the tall walls are filled with soldiers standing in battle.

In front of the castle, a fully armed, heavily armored knight regiment wrapped in cold silver heavy armor, led by a black-robed knight in the lead, charged towards the gate of the castle with an indomitable and terrifying momentum, like a silver sword.