Lorchen-Loach was clearly overwhelmed.

"Loach, you still lack a correct understanding of our country. I suggest you go to the Chenuk region and study with Yankulovsky for a few weeks, and he will tell you the answer!"

Loach was a little skeptical, but he lowered his posture: "However, Yankulovsky must be very busy, and he probably doesn't have time to teach me!"

"Just follow him. You're a smart man, and you'll learn what you need to learn!" Turtledove said.

"The hoarding of food may be delayed?"

"It's not a month, it's still spring, and it's still early for the autumn grain harvest!" Turtledove said.

"Okay. I'll go."

The boulder in Lorqin's heart was finally reluctantly put down—at least not because he had been caught evading taxes.

He was different from Warburg, who received a huge ticket, which in Lorchen's opinion was somewhat wronged. But he really had some ...... Well, not very clean.

"By the way—" Turtledove's suddenly raised voice startled Lorqin, and he was relieved when he noticed that Turtledove had turned around and took a book from the bookcase and handed it to himself. "—take this book and read it!"

Lorchen-Loach took it with both hands and said, "Is this your latest book?"

"No, it's not. But for someone like you, you'd better memorize it!" Turtledove said. "Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll be hanged in the steel square in the future!"

Lorqin turned the white cover upside down, only to see that the title of the book was written in American—France 1848-1850

……

Fast forward to the summer of 1852.

In this year, the United States was born the first black opera in history, "The Black Shepherd's Stick", and you can tell from the name what it is probably talking about - yes, it is what you imagine as an LSP.

This is understandable, after all, all art begins with the cult of fertility, and the various forms of artistic expression derived from it are nothing more than the modification of this cult.

It's just funny that the black art of this period was actually mostly performed by white people.

White actors paint their faces black with ink, mimicking black black people, and do all kinds of funny and vulgar performances, which white audiences especially like to watch.

At the same time, in rural places such as Massachusetts and Mississippi, there are mobile caravans with all kinds of quirky things to satisfy the audience's hobbies, such as: Japanese who can swallow blades, Qing people with long pigtails and squinting eyes, Indians who snakes, Irish people who can drink beer underneath, and Africans who can wrap tools around their waists......

During this period, American society vividly expressed all kinds of discrimination against ethnic minorities.

But this is a country that claims to be "free".

Although more than 300 years have passed since the Great Discovery, people around the world still have all kinds of fantasies about the New World, believing that gold is everywhere, that they can earn several dollars a month even if they wash dishes here, and that they can pick up gold from the ground even if they wander in the wilderness.

The immigrant boom has never stopped, and people's yearning for a better life has overshadowed their sanity. After all, there are 18 floors of hell, and people on the 17th floor will inevitably feel that the next layer is better.

The rapid development of the United States, to some extent, actually did not live up to their aspirations, and many immigrants still took root after the big waves.

The Jews were the better mixed, followed by the Irish, the Poles, and the Germans...... They are distinguished by skin color and gradually occupy the mainstream of society.

And then there were the Indians, yes, the race that was supposed to be exterminated by the whites, whose social status in the white world had changed dramatically since the establishment of a huge United Emirate of America in the west, and had vaguely become second-class citizens.

The Indians in the territory of America attributed this change to their own victory, and they

He thought it was his own industriousness and obedience that finally moved the whites and made them benevolent. In order to meet this gratifying change, they spared no effort to boast about the beauty of the United States, and even organized a "Free America Special Force" to take the initiative to go to the Missouri River Theater to deal with the "savage nation" on the other side of the river.

And then there are the blacks.

There were quite a lot of blacks in the United States, and in sheer terms they were more numerous than the Indians.

By the time the summer of 1852 came, this social division in the United States had seriously affected the economy.

There is a shortage of labor in the North, while there is a surplus of labor in the South;

There is a surplus of productivity in the North, but there is a shortage of productivity in the South;

The only thing that the North and the South have in common is that consumption is sluggish. Neither the industrial products of the north nor the agricultural products of the south can open up the market of the other, and the accumulation of such contradictions has intensified over time.

At the end of the first quarter of 1852, an incident made the North even more unhappy with what the South was doing, and the entrepreneurs of New York did not hesitate to pile up their produce in the lakeside open space of Detroit and destroy it, rather than ship it to the South.

That is, the agricultural products of the South have successfully entered the America of the West - which means that the South has opened up new markets, the plantations have hardened their waists, and it is even more impossible to compromise with the North!

It was against this backdrop that James Polk, the leader of the Democratic Party, came to Broadway in New York the second week after the "Detroit Incineration Products" time.

He will watch a "Black Shepherd's Stick" with the business representatives, and then perhaps another speech depending on the situation.

……

It was about 11 p.m., and after the show, Polk went to a "Kensington Bakery" on Broadway, where he would personally buy bread for the performing artists of "The Black Shepherd's Stick."

Kensington's bakery has been closed to other customers since 7 a.m., and a large crowd of bodyguards in plainclothes has poured in, inspecting the bakery, and even the trash cans behind the door have been relocated three times.

Photojournalists occupy various convenient positions for shooting, and text reporters hold thick notebooks and meditatively revise the press releases that have already been written.

In order to show Mr. Polk's "pro-people" image, they also placed a black beggar at the door, which was an important prop, and later Mr. Polk would let him shine his shoes, and then give him a few cents, and tell him the profound truth that "there are only lazy people in America, not poor people".

Everything is ready to go.

By 10:30 a.m., there was a rush of people around Kensington's bakery.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

"All in place!"

"Move, move, move! Here's a shot......

"Props ready!"