A Prussian journalist recorded the fashion moment with a Ming camera, and Robert Lee, a dressing expert, landed in Europe with his little story of breastfeeding.

In the end, Zhu Fugui, as a secondary participant, also gained about 700,000 cultural values from this fashion show, which can be regarded as a consolation.

The fact that a cultural feast can be held in the midst of war shows that the Southern State is now under much less internal and external pressure than it was in the previous two years.

But it wasn't always smooth sailing.

Less than a month after Richmond Fashion Week ended, there were small protests by soldiers in Virginia.

Fed up with moldy corn and beans, the old Paige of the Northern Virginia Regiment finally rose to the occasion with the slogan "No corn, no traditional food."

"Dixie's comrades, we are shooting at the Yankees on the front lines, and the greedy quartermasters are embezzling our military dollars."

"Delicious cereal porridge with a faint smell of the sea, and I think that enjoying these traditional delicacies is the natural right of every one of our Southern sergeants!"

"Comrades-in-arms, General Li must have been deceived by traitors, and when he was addicted to art, he didn't know what the greedy moths were doing!"

"Let me pick up my rifle and take back our honor!"

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When Zhu Fugui received Robert Lee's letter, he was confused.

To be honest, since the second and third phases of the Xinjin Agricultural Reclamation Area were completed ahead of schedule and the grain output was bumper, Zhu Fugui has not bought pig feed from later generations.

As a low value-added commodity, the cultural value penalty is not high, not to mention that as a fake and shoddy product, the fat king is the cheapest one, and there is nothing distressing to purchase some.

But isn't this a bumper harvest...... It's going to rot in the warehouse......

That's why Zhu Fugui sent corn and beans to the rednecks to improve their diet.

I didn't expect them to riot.

That's a big problem.

Among the major political entities in North America today:

Canada - 2.1 million people

Daming - 2.2 million people

Johnson's government - 9.1 million

Lincoln administration - 11.4 million people

Government of the South - 6.7 million people

Lone Star Government - 2.5 million people

Mexico - 8.8 million people

In fact, the population of the United States has not been reduced much by the years of war, and the combined population of the four countries is still close to 30 million.

But considering that once the war ended, the annual population growth rate of the United States would immediately exceed 30%, so maintaining the continuation of the Civil War was a must for the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, on this issue, the Ming and the British once again found a common language.

The Ming and the British stir up together, and they must not let Millican be reunited.

Therefore, it is necessary to immediately restore the supply of fat kings to the Southern Army, and satisfy the appetite of the Southern Dixie warriors as soon as possible.

However, there is a problem now, that is, the free trade agreement signed between the Ming Dynasty and the Confederate government is a bit untenable.

Due to the shortage of pounds in North America, trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Confederate was settled in the form of barter.

Don't think bartering is low, even in later generations, it is the most basic operation to circumvent the hegemony of the dollar.

Of course, if a country has enough gold reserves, it can also use gold to make direct purchases.

For example, the local chicken in the financial turmoil of the past two years has operated in this way.

The problem was that the Confederates today did not have enough gold reserves and not enough commodities to cover their debts.

As for the exchange with the Ming currency, don't even think about it, the Ming Dynasty will not want their waste paper.

Now is the season of green and yellow.

The Confederate needed the grain and industrial products of the Ming Dynasty, but the black handmade cotton that the Ming needed was far from the season of picking.

Faced with such a situation, the southern government had to send a mission to Fengdu.

This is not our long-lived master engaged in great power chauvinism, Zhu Fugui is very willing to meet President Davis in the south somewhere.

But the problem is, people don't want to say anything!

It seems that Zhu Fugui is a beast of the flood.

So 70 years after the Magourny mission entered Beijing, a special foreign mission entered Fengjing.

The meeting lasted for three whole days, and then a series of treaties were promulgated, such as the "Joint Communiqué between the Ming Empire and the Confederate States of America on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations", the "Mingmei Joint Declaration on the Sovereignty of the Mississippi River Basin", and the "21 Articles on Deepening the Construction of Ming-US Economic and Trade Cooperation".

According to this series of treaties, the Ming Dynasty and the Confederate States of America mutually recognized their independent sovereignty.

The Ming Dynasty committed itself to one American principle, affirming that there was only one United States in the world, that is, the Confederate States of America, which existed in a confederation system, and did not recognize the legitimacy of the Northern Federal Government.

According to the treaty, by April, the Ming Dynasty and the Confederate States of America will establish embassies and consulates in Xinfeng and Richmond respectively, and send diplomatic envoys.

At the same time, the Confederate States of America recognized the Ming Dynasty as the legitimate successor of the Native Americans, with de jure sovereignty west of the Mississippi River, and did not recognize the illegal occupation of this area by the puppet government in the north.

Daming will provide a special loan of 3 million pounds to the Confederate States of America, with all the warships of the Confederate fleet of the United States of America as collateral.

It should be noted here that last year, the Confederate government of the United States of America, spent about $66 million, equivalent to about £12 million, including a fiscal deficit of nearly £2.7 million.

It can be said that with the size of the Confederacy's population of 6.7 million, it is basically on the verge of bankruptcy.

Daming's 3 million pounds, that is, about 18 million Daming silver dollars, equivalent to about 4.4 billion yuan in later generations, because the price of silver in later generations still did not skyrocket, Zhu Fugui actually purchased these silver only 1 billion yuan.

This money, to put it bluntly, is just 10 small goals, which is not on the table at all, but it is quite life-saving for the southern government at this time.

And for Daming, this deal is not a loss.

For example, many people in later generations did not understand the Republic's aid to Africa, and thought that the western part of the country was still grazing, but we should not support the blacks.

The internal logic of the two things is the same.

Because these aids, in fact, are specially turned into our products and projects, and will soon return to China.

In fact, the cost is very small.

It is certainly cost-effective to trade these things for markets, resources, and political influence.

Back to Daming's loan, it is naturally more cost-effective, after all, the loan has to be repaid.

The Confederate government now has little pressure at sea, and there is really no need for their fleets to exist.

The ships are very new and advanced.

£2 million may be a bit of a premium, but it's not a big loss.

What's more, this is only one of the 21 articles in the "21 Articles for Deepening Ming-US Economic and Trade Cooperation".

The other 20 can fully compensate for these losses.