Chapter 440: Private Central Bank!

As president, Zachary Taylor did not hesitate to give up his own interests and resolutely resist the expansion of slavery in the United States.

Obviously, his position and decisions not only hurt his own interests, but also put him in opposition to other Southern plantation slave owners.

In this case, the slave owners whose interests have been harmed have reason to remove this great "obstacle" of him, and they do have the strength!

However, Chen Mo's answer was somewhat unexpected.

"Your fellows do have this idea, but before they can do it, someone else will take the lead."

Hearing Chen Mo's words, Zachary Taylor couldn't help but be stunned.

Not them? Anyone else?

He has only been president for more than a year, and there are so many people who want their lives, which makes Zachary Taylor feel a little uncomfortable, and his mood begins to become complicated.

In fact, the upright and tough Zachary Taylor offended more than just Southern slave owners during his presidency.

On July 29, 1844, the British Parliament passed the Peel Ordinance, which established the status of the Bank of England as a currency issuing bank, and this privately controlled bank officially became the national central bank of the United Kingdom, responsible for the implementation of national monetary and financial policies such as currency issuance and financial supervision.

In any country, whoever controls the money supply is the absolute master of all industry and commerce.

As a result, the British economy has become controlled by the bankers.

The international bankers are clearly not just targeting Britain, the United States, a former British colony, a rapidly developing emerging power, has already become a fat piece in the eyes of bankers at the beginning of its independence.

International bankers have always wanted to establish a private US central bank in the United States for their own benefit, and they have been planning to operate for many years, and have succeeded in creating a private central bank twice, but they have not been able to sustain it for a long time due to the intervention of the president and Congress.

However, international bankers will not give up, as powerful capitalists have a strong political power in their hands, which is why they have been able to successfully establish a private US central bank twice.

The creation of private central banks is imperative, and in the face of huge interests and rights, any person and force that stands in their way will be annihilated!

Whether it's a parliamentarian, or a president!

Even the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, a war hero, a month after his inauguration, was linked to these international bankers.

Henry Clay, the leader of the Whigs, played an extremely important role in this.

He was the founder of the first private central bank in the United States, the "First Bank of America", one of the founding fathers of the United States, an important successor to Alexander Hamilton's idea of private central banking, and the darling of bankers.

He was eloquent, thoughtful, and incendiary, and gathered around him a group of parliamentarians who supported the banking industry and were supported by the bankers, and formed the Whig Party under his organization.

The Whigs were staunchly opposed to President Jackson's independent banking policy and remained committed to restoring a private central banking system.

William Henry Harrison was favored by him, was elected as a presidential candidate, wanted to use his hands to realize the creation of a private central bank, and repeatedly "taught" Harrison how to govern.

However, William Henry Harrison was clearly not willing to be his puppet, and after Harrison was elected president, the contradiction between the two became increasingly acute.

Henry Clay, who thought he could give orders as the "emperor", had found someone to ghostwrite the president's inaugural speech without Harrison's consent, but Harrison refused, and Harrison personally drafted the inaugural speech of more than 8,000 words.

In this document, which systematically expounded the idea of statecraft, he deeply stung the interests of bankers by striking a sharp opposition to Henry Clay's policy ideas of private central banks and the abolition of independent finance.

On March 4, 1841, a cold day, President Harrison gave his inaugural address in the cold wind, only to catch the cold.

This was not a big deal for President Harrison, who knew that his illness was strangely getting worse and worse, and he died on April 4.

By 1849, when Zachary Taylor, a war hero who had also been chosen by the Whigs, was elected, hope for the restoration of the central bank seemed imminent.

The establishment of a private central bank modelled entirely on the Bank of England model is the highest dream of all bankers, which means that bankers ultimately decide the fate of the country and its people.

They thought that the military would be well controlled, and that after being elected with military merit, prestige, and their strength, they would rely more on the Whigs in political affairs, thus becoming Henry Clay's puppet.

But apparently, their wishful thinking has failed again.

Zachary Taylor, like William Henry Harrison, has his own ideas and persistence, and is not willing to become Henry. Clay's puppet.

Zachary Taylor's negative attitude towards the establishment of a central bank, which he has made clear in private.

"The idea of establishing a central bank is dead, and I will not consider it during my tenure."

As a result, it was not the idea of the central bank, but precisely himself.

The two presidents who were war heroes launched by the Whigs died violently one after another.

Their deaths seem normal and unrelated, but there are many doubts and strangeties under the deep investigation, and there is a hidden inner connection.

Listening to Chen Mo tell the whole story of the cause and effect, Zachary Taylor only felt a chill in his heart.

Little did he know that it was not the Southern slave owners he thought he thought would have been killed, but the Whig Party, or rather, Henry Clay, the leader of the Whig Party, and the bankers behind him, who had not all supported the establishment of a private central bank.

The thought of two U.S. presidents being manipulated by a group of bankers makes Zachary Taylor feel a sense of outrage, but then a deep sense of sorrow.

This world, after all, is the world of capitalists, and there are all kinds of forces standing behind their presidents, but he chose to deny his six relatives, put the interests of the country first, and ignored Henry Clay's demands.

Even if there were no bankers, there were other capitalists, factory owners, farmers, and slave owners who controlled the United States.