President Polk could not have imagined that, in another time and space, some 150 years from now, another American president would be in the same position as him, asking nearly identical questions from members of Congress.

But unlike the president 150 years later, James Polk was weathered, and in the mid-19th century, when moral civilization was still in the obscurantist stage, the Oval Office flirted with actresses as powerful.

"I'll say it again, I don't know any Matthew! I've never heard of Louis Rosa—"

Polk flew into a rage, slammed his fist against the podium, and stared fiercely at Silas Wright, who asked him the question.

"—If you dare to be so rude again, I'm going to duel you!"

Polk was a veteran of America's Second Revolutionary War, while Silas Wright was a pure election official who probably couldn't even use a gun. There is only one result in a duel between the two!

"Alright, Mr. Wright, let's change the question—"

The moderator of the interrogator was Henry Klay, the current leader of the Whigs, who interrupted the quarrel between Polk and Silas Wright.

He looked like a mild-mannered, kind old man with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

His magnanimity saved the inquiry and allowed it to proceed...... (After all, the game has just begun, and both sides have a lot of chips worth exchanging.)

***

What happened on the east coast was as far away as what happened on the moon to White Rock in the west.

Even if Ikaruga had worked hard to establish a dedicated channel for transmitting information, it would have taken at least a week to get the message from Washington to White Rock.

However, there is a lot of information that you don't need to see or listen to in person, you just need to make an inference based on other things, and you can roughly understand it.

For example, Stephen Carney of the Expeditionary Force suddenly stopped in Belleville County, Kansas, and Ikaruga even heard the sound of a squeak' of brakes - it was obvious that he was scared, maybe he was calling for help from the rear, and a larger army would enter the battle sequence next!

For example, the ratio of gold to the dollar has dropped to 1.7, which means that the American Federation is taking measures to stabilize the price of gold, and the two parties in Washington should have reached some degree of compromise - businessmen are particularly sensitive to the fluctuations of gold prices, they are like ants in the ground, and they can know if it will rain tomorrow with a few shakes of their tentacles!

Across the Missouri River, for example, the Yancton Economic suddenly began calling on the Democrats and the Whigs to unite and beware of Mexican invasions during these stormy years. Although these small local newspapers have always liked to be alarmist, the turtledove still reads a taste of salvation from them: "Canada, from the north, covers me on three sides; England, fake trade, poison schemes hide ......"

All kinds of news converged, making the turtledove nervous and exciting, but also couldn't help but want to laugh.

Troubled times are coming!

What could be more joyful than seeing the enemy busily look like he was looking at him?

That's right, the main battlefield of this war is in the south.

That's right, this war started last month.

But who said that war can only happen in the south?

But who says the war can only start last month?

As early as the year before, Turtle Dove sent sturgeon and smoked fish to Washington, D.C., and this little guy got a vote out of the garbage heap and formed a special task force on the far East Coast - there are no Indians on the East Coast anymore, but there are poor people there, and there are many of them!

Scalp hadn't been in the limelight for a long time, and only the top brass of White Rock knew where he had gone—an Indian Union embassy in Europe had been set up in distant Paris, with Scalp as its first ambassador. He does everything he can wherever he is, including but not limited to beating the American ambassador in a sack!

Mississippi and Alabama are Seminole 'reservations,' and there is a wave of wind there, where Indians say they want to 'go back to Florida.'" Whether you can go back is one thing, whether you want to go back is another, at least, the people there dare to think about it!

In addition, after 1845, a large number of 'writers' suddenly sprung up on the land of America, who were particularly prolific, but also revealed a strange smell, perhaps from their almost cookie-cutter works: "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "Uncle George's Cabin", "Aunt Sophie's Cabin", "Aunt Mary's Cabin", "...... All the works with the word "cottage" have a silly black and salty heroine in them without exception, and one of them, "Sister Tracy's Cabin", has been evaluated as "the most popular literary work in the cotton field in 1845"!

…… It's all good.

Next, as long as the threat from Denver can be addressed, Ikaruga can quickly free up a hand and take out Stephen Carney with a left hook!

Then concentrate on going south, a right hook, and officially enter the Mexican battlefield!

***

Denver.

Many people think that a city like Denver, built on mining development, should be dirty and gray, full of sweaty miners and clanging shovels;

But actually, that's not the case in Denver!

It's a city of suits and ties, and while Deadwood is still mining to the north, Denver people have begun to drink red wine, wipe the soot off their shoes with a lot of money, and set rules that everyone must follow with the shiny barrel of their guns.

It's a city with rules!

Patek Philippe's watch Hermès bag, Cartier's necklace Burberry mink...... Other places rarely sell one foreign item a year, but in the glass window on the street side of Denver, several pieces can be sold in a day.

On Warburg Avenue in the middle of the city, singing and dancing floats parade three times a day, and girls dressed in flowers and branches toss kisses in all directions like raindrops, so that even the homeless under the street lamps can get one.

Artists from all over the world like to do open-air performances here, and a big brother in the crowd passing by may reward him with a handful of bloody dollars, and the federal tax collector is hanging from a street lamp with only a few skeletons left, so this kind of reward is a net income that no one has to pay taxes!

It's not that no one wants to take this place, six years ago there was an Apache named 'Fury' who gathered tens of thousands of horses to take this place, but now in the desert to the south, there is no way to tell which one is Furywind on the dense crosses.

The three families of Smith, St. Clair, and Warburg control everything in Denver, and "everything" literally means that every Denver person, from body to soul, is under the control of the three families.

It's a safe city!

Bustling city!

It is also a city full of dreams and hopes!

On the last day of February 1846, an Eastern European lad named Arvada Yankolovsky, who had settled a week's salary of $5 from his boss, happily got off work—

- Denver at night, the wonderful life has just begun!