"Open market?"

"Yes!"

Turtledove couldn't help but laugh.

……

The market, this is something that a country in the age of an agrarian economy simply cannot understand.

The industrial revolution brought about by the industrial countries to the strength of the agricultural countries, in addition to the torrent of scientific and technological products, there is also ideological destruction!

In Mexico, 200 years later, farmers would rather leave their land unplanted than plant, because the corn and wheat crops from the big brother next door are so cheap that it is better to get them directly from the big brother next door than to spend the year in Barra.

Of course, Mexico is not for nothing, and some kind of high-cash crop is also needed by the Americans, so everyone can have each other.

It's just that this kind of deformed economic complementarity is really a special case, so special that it can simply and straightforwardly illustrate how sad it must be if a country's product market is occupied by others.

The "state" - this ideological thing, since the first day of its establishment, has naturally taken on the natural attribute of a fence. Just like every chick will have a shell, natural creations will always give some special protection to the weak in infancy.

If this shell is peeled off in advance, the chick will never be born - it will only be born in a steaming pot with tomato or seaweed.

A market economy is not a free economy, and trade barriers naturally exist.

Davis wanted to let America open the market at this time, undoubtedly to open the shell of America's little chicken in advance.

Perhaps Davis himself did not even realize that such an act could have led to a war in the later stages of the market economy — but in the middle of the 19th century, he probably did not realize it.

Capital is only following instinct in this period, just like the law of survival in the animal kingdom, all actions are for reproduction, and capital is also for reproduction.

1 dollar wants to become 10 yuan, and 10 yuan wants to become 100 yuan...... The fundamental reason why the capitalists are willing to sell the noose that hanged themselves is that the reproductive impulse of capital is innate, and reason is simply vulnerable to the flood of desire.

To say that Davis wants to use the "market" as a tool to destroy America is to think too highly of him. If he had had such a forward-thinking understanding, he would not have chosen to be the face of the Southern plantation economy, but rather a consultant on Wall Street or something.

To put it bluntly, the "market" is an extraordinarily powerful weapon, and the United States can use it vigorously in 200 years, while the United States at this time is still too tender.

There is nothing wrong with the instinct of capital, the direction, but it met the wrong opponent at the wrong time.

……

"Then open the market!" Turtledove said.

Soya's face was a little solemn, and he was still a little worried: "The growth of corn and wheat requires cycles, and if a large number of crops pour in in a short period of time, it is very likely to cause the bankruptcy of agriculture—"

"How do you think serfs can go bankrupt?" Turtledove asked rhetorically.

In America, quite a few immigrants worked day and night in order to earn more points, more slaves than slaves, and rolled up like a multi-purpose planter. They have nothing but points, and Ikaruga really can't think of how else they will go bankrupt?

As for such a thing as abandoning the land and not planting it, so a big planning committee, even if it did such a directive as "move the grain seedlings in the ridges to the east by 30 millimeters", would still the land be abandoned?

Soya was still a little hesitant, "What I'm afraid of is that first the crop market, then the industrial goods market, and then the raw material market - turtledoves, I have been observing in the United States for 6 years, and what is more terrifying than their guns is their machines - our products are not comparable to theirs at all!"

"An open market is not a flood beast, so don't worry too much!" "Our market is always under our control, and to put it mildly, we can open the market or close it at any time – it's up to me

If you make money here, you have to spend it here, and you want to take it home!"

"Well, you just have to know what to expect—that way, Davis will have the unwavering support of almost all the lords of the manors in the south, and he'll be grateful to you!" Soya said.

"Then you tell him for me, and I'm waiting for the day when he becomes president!" Turtledove said.

"It may not be so smooth," Soya said, "the forces in the north are also very strong, especially Polk is pushing for a reshuffle of the Democratic Party, and if he succeeds, there is a good chance that he will make a comeback!"

The turtledove nodded.

……

At this time, the United States is completely different from the United States in another time and space.

After losing the Mexican-American War, the pent-up contradictions within the United States could not be released, but relying on Zachary Taylor's strongman methods, it was pressed down like a pressure cooker.

[In view of the general environment,

The great inertia of capital is still engulfing the United States, and the Great Lakes region is booming, and there is already a tendency to rival that of Lorraine, Ruhr or the industrial areas of London in Europe.

However, the advantages of the World Island have become its fatal weakness at this time. Unable to open the world market, the capitalists of the Great Lakes industrial region could only watch as their money was lost to the British and French. It's even worse than making them lose money!

Forget if others don't help them, even their own people in the south don't help them, they would rather buy British foreign basins and French foreign pants than support national industry, and the black-hearted southerners also export cotton to Africa and exchange it for "MadeinAfra" hats to earn their scissors?

In the eyes of southerners, the old man in the north is even more hateful - he is tired and tired of farming in the fields, and the old man in the north is desperately trying to lower the price, saying that Indian cotton is the best cotton in the world!

What's even more odious is that the northern elders also slandered the southerners, saying that they used black slaves and had blood on their cotton......

The two completely different economic forms of the North and the South divide the United States into two distinct parts from the market map - 10 years ahead of the United States in another time and space!

In such a surging situation, some people who should have appeared did not appear, and some things that should have happened did not happen...... These are just some of the humble little whirlpools in the torrent.

There was a time when turtledoves were obsessed with assassination, and it was also a good time when the crescent moon, smoked fish, and sturgeon were in full swing. But later, the turtledove finally realized that under the mighty general trend, the existence or absence of certain people is not really important.

There has never been a hero in the history of the United States, there would have been Paige Washington without George Washington, and there would have been Catherine Roosevelt without Franklin D. Roosevelt...... The so-called American heroes are just idols created with high-powered printing presses.

Like that vanished Abraham Lincoln – who would have thought that James Polk would shout the slogan "Free the Black Slaves" in his place?

- In another time and space, all American heroes are virtual characters, Batman, Iron Man or something, if its history is really as singing and crying as he declared, with the great strength of Hollywood, can't there be a character who can become a symbol hero?

There is a saying among the people of Western America: "At this time there are no heroes worthy of praise, so all cats and dogs have become famous!"

……

Turtledove said, "You told him for me, the market, I opened up, and he did what his northern brothers were not willing to do! If that's not support, what else is support? My only hope is that if he becomes president one day, he will not forget the promise of peace that he has given us!"

Soya nodded, "Then ...... Trust him?"

"Hehe," Turtledove smiled, "Trust ourselves!"

……

Soya was taken out of the city before dawn without alerting anyone, as if he had never come.

It wasn't long before Lorchen-Loach was summoned by the turtledove, and he was given the daunting task of stockpiling America's food for the next three years by the end of the year.

"Oh my God, turtledove, do you want to go to war with the Americans next year?" Lorgen-Loach exaggerated jokes.

At the beginning of the year, the Warburgs were fined a large sum of money for tax evasion, and Lorchen-Loach had every motive to suspect that it was now his turn......