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Such a scene was unfolding in Lincoln's office.

Of course, the future Oval Office of the White House will not be built by Franklin D. Roosevelt more than 70 years later.

Today, Lincoln's office is cramped and messy, and executives including the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, and the commander-in-chief of the Union Forces are all silent.

Just a minute ago, His Excellency the Grand Commander had just smashed everything on his desk in a storm, venting his anger wantonly.

There has already been a large wave of people being squirted out of the office by Lincoln.

These were mostly pro-Democrats or Lincoln's political opponents.

For them, Lincoln's actions could only give a sense of his incompetent rage.

What is there to fear from a wretched creature who is about to lose power?

They wish they could see the jokes of Republicans in the midterm elections!

But for Secretary of State Seward and others, the joke was not funny at all.

They were all close officials appointed by Lincoln, and their power came from the president, and if Lincoln lost power, he was doomed.

And the situation of Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, Army Chief Grant, is slightly peculiar.

As a soldier, he did not participate in bipartisan politics, was not a close confidant of Lincoln, and even had a lot of contradictions in his previous war strategy.

However, as a staunch mainstay activist, Grant naturally disliked the Democratic Party who had an eye for eye with the southern slave states.

At this moment, what frightened Grant and others, or the death of the rabbit and the fox, was the news that the White House got half an hour ago.

William Tecusay Sherman, the mastermind of the Northern Army's three-light policy, the commander of the Western Theater of the Union Army, and the famous general who worked with Grant to formulate a plan for coordinated operations in the eastern and western theaters and division and annihilation of the enemy, has been confirmed dead.

After he was arrested by the Akito, he was secretly executed in an extremely undignified manner.

Sherman's death meant the complete defeat of the "New Crusade" against the Northwest Rebellion after losing more than 25,000 lives.

The loss of more than 20,000 people in an inconsequential battle is enough to make the Republican Party, which narrowly won the presidential election, even more worrisome in next year's midterm elections.

The worst outcome would be for the Democrats to return to control of the House and Senate, preventing Lincoln's decree from leaving the White House.

And there is reason to believe that the Democrats have reached some kind of tacit agreement with the southern slave states.

After all, the two of them are inextricably linked.

In short, anyway, Sherman died, an embarrassing death, and a terrifying death.

The so-called Emperor Ming actually wrote a letter to the White House.

In the letter, this incorruptible and shameless guy actually said: "Due to the lack of professional executioners in our Ming Dynasty, the executing cooks only have experience in decomposing white pigs, and they are not good at the physiological anatomy of white-skinned people.

As a result, Mr. Sherman had a bad experience. We apologize for the inconvenience. ”

Needless to say, this letter was ghostwritten by Zhu Fugui's personal secretary, Hirobumi Ito, who is proficient in the "spirit of Jujiang".

We have been counterfeiting pharmaceuticals for 40 years, and we have caused you trouble!

We're secretly discharging nuclear wastewater, and we're causing you trouble!

We have committed war crimes and caused you trouble!

As long as I bow fast enough, then the condemnation will not catch up with me!

Of course, Zhu Fugui doesn't like Little Japan's tricks, but don't say it, it's quite touching to disgust Lao Mei.

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"Your Excellency, Sherman is an old friend of mine, he is known for his strange and varied cavalry tactics, how did the Akito capture him alive?"

Grant raised his own questions at this point.

"This is the battle report, you can see it for yourself, I shouldn't have listened to your slander and trusted Sherman, if Robert Jr. came out, he would definitely be caught!" Lincoln handed over a document.

The corner of Grant's eye twitched.

That Robert King Jr., who has been "fighting" with blacks for more than a year, has been fighting more and more blacks, and his own military rank is getting higher and higher?

Shaking his head, Trant took a closer look at the battle report.

Lincoln discussed a new round of economic stimulus with the Secretary of the Treasury and others.

Although war is the best economic stimulus, this long civil war has been fought for more than four years, and no matter how effective the fierce drugs are, they are now gradually beginning to show drug resistance.

The cost of the war, the cost of the bandits, the cost of purchasing large quantities of goods from the British in order to ensure their neutrality, all of this had drained the federal government's finances.

Had it not been for Lincoln's creative invention of the Homestead Act and the Railroad Act, which sold the land of the Indians for a good price, and the unexpected rise in international food prices, which made a lot of money from exporting wheat, the federal government would have been almost bankrupt.

Of course, the real solution to this dilemma is simple, that is, to impose a comprehensive personal income tax and collect heavy taxes from Wall Street predators and New York capitalists.

It's just that at present, the tax collection of these rich people is not smooth.

Lincoln called his confidant Secretary of the Treasury and Grant today to discuss the creation of a military force independent of the Army and led by the IRS, the National Revenue Service, which Lincoln established three years ago.

The tax police, who were previously armed only with revolvers and rifles, were no longer sufficient.

Lincoln believed that the IRS had to be equipped with cannons and bayonets in order to obtain the resources needed to continue the war.

But the idea was strongly opposed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.

Without the passage of the House of Representatives, Lincoln could not pass the creation of the IRS Army in the form of law, and could only advance it by presidential executive order.

There are a lot of drawbacks to this.

But looking at next year's Republican ......

Not to mention the House of Representatives, even the Senate will soon be finished!

Lincoln couldn't care so much, and was ready to cut through the mess quickly.

But Finance Minister Miller Herrol still insisted that it should be passed by both houses of parliament to achieve legislation.

During the argument, Grant hastily finished reading the battle report.

"Gentlemen, this is not the time to quarrel."

He interrupted with a frown: "As a professional soldier, I would like to point out that the capture of General Sherman this time does not seem to be simple. ”

"Huh? General Grant, please expand on it? Lincoln, who was anxious, hurriedly signaled.

"Yes, Mr. President."

"Because ......"

"So ......"

"All in all, the above is a sign that Akito is fully aware of General Sherman's movements, and that our cowboys are not aware of any enemy scouts. There can only be one explanation for all this......"

Grant looked around at everyone in the office, "That is, Akito has infiltrated the federal army, and there are traitors in the army!" ”

"I think it's imperative to carry out a purge that will be carried out in a big way!"

Grant's voice, loud in the office!