Chapter 59: The Pioneers
Although they have received peace assurances from America, and intelligence shows that the Americans are indeed reducing their forces at this time, their focus is entirely on economic construction, and it seems that they are planning to take advantage of this window of confrontation between the north and the south.
But Jefferson Davis still couldn't make up his mind! He didn't lack wisdom, he didn't lack ambition, he didn't lack strength, he was bold, and perhaps the only thing that stopped him from doing it was that he was so fickle.
He can come up with many bold plans, and he has the resources to do so.
But often at the last moment, he will wake up and drive backwards. Just as he was the first to abandon his army and run back to Washington on the battlefield in Mexico, this time, he actually wants to make peace with the North again - Soya even speculates that he has a tendency to form a coalition government with the North!
…… It's just, Soya, what can he do as an Indian? Davis could use him as a glove, but if he really thought that Davis trusted him, it was completely overthinking!
Since leaving North Dakota six years ago, Soya has only returned to America once, this summer.
And that time when I went home, I was also shouldering Davis's secret order, and it was impossible to make a big splash. It took half a month to go back and forth on the road, and it took four hours to analyze the current situation with Turtledove, and the content of the discussion was all about the principle of high-level construction, and the two sides did not talk about the specific details.
It is even less likely that the turtledove will be told to say something like 'if so, then you will be like that'.
In short, they can only confirm that the two sides are indeed walking on the same road, and as for what problems they have encountered on this road, they can only solve them separately.
No one knows if you do it right, and you carry it yourself if you do it wrong. At this time, America was no longer a rudimentary dhow, and there were quite a few forces influencing it, trying to steer its direction and control its speed.
As it grows, pirates have set their sights on it, great white sharks cruising the bottom of its ships, and storms gathering above its heads...... Only a handful of people, unaltered in their original intentions, continued to plunge into the fog ahead of the route, clearing reefs, fighting storms, dispersing pirates, marking the course - their names were destined to be buried in the vast sea with their bodies.
And as time goes on, there will also be fewer and fewer of these few. Unless the great ship of America can grow a body of steel, be steam-powered, have strong sails, and be able to break through the waves with its own power before the last pioneer dies - until that day, no one will pour the spirits into the sea to honor the 'pioneers' who have not even left their names!
…… On the night of November 10, 1852, Sawyer 'bumped into' Major Jubal Anderson Earley at the Artemis Tavern.
"Major Anderson, are you drinking here too?" Soya sat down next to a bearded man at the bar with her glass in hand.
The bearded man turned his head drunkenly, glanced at Soya, and spat out a word from the bush of his beard: "Get out!" ”
"I've got a drink for today!" Soya said to the waiter behind the bar.
"Paulson, go and put up a sign at the door, 'No Indians and no dogs!' Anderson instructed the waiter.
His body was large, his voice was loud, and he was slightly drunk at this time, and he did not hide his dislike for the Indians.
It's true that Soya is the celebrity next to Davis, but Anderson doesn't need to give him face at all. The reason why Major Anderson is a major is that he has been killed all the way from Iroquois to Seminole.
"Uh-" Soya smiled awkwardly and nodded in apology. The Indians did not fare much better in the Southern Union, and although they were nominally 'free', they were inferior to the blacks.
At least blacks, as a private property, will still be more or less loved. And the white man treats the Indians today, like a cuckold drunkard husband dealing with his wife's illegitimate son, beating and scolding lightly, and not pouring boiling water on his body because the bastard has an unreasonable rogue uncle......
"—I don't mean anything other than to congratulate Major Anderson in advance on his ascension." Soya humbly explained.
"Ascension? Is there going to be a war? Anderson's eyes lit up. The contradiction between the north and the south in terms of economic structure is implemented in specific individuals, that is, the enmity of destroying the family and destroying the family.
At this time, the North and the South had not officially started a war, but the families of the Southern soldiers who remained in the North were poisoned by it.
As the North's hatred of the South became more public, a large number of Northerners with ties to the South were arrested, expelled, and even those who were disciplined were hostile to their neighbors.
The media is also adding fuel to the clamoring to teach the recalcitrant Southern elders a lesson. The family of Major Jubal Anderson Earley died on the way back from the North to the South!
Although the top brass on both sides of the North and the South are trying to restrain their public opinion, unlike Davis, who only needs to control a few large families, the North is more industrial, and capital interferes more in power, Zachary Taylor needs to worry more about his votes, and he needs the media more than the media needs him.
On the contrary, the call for war in the north became the highest among the three kingdoms. In fact, during this period, both the Indians and the whites, whether it was America or the North and the South, were doing their best to control and did not want to have a war.
However, these three giant ships sailing in the vast sea, no matter how hard the helmsman tried to turn, they were still getting closer and closer!
……
"War? No, no, no, no, no......", Soya was surprised,
"Major Anderson, don't you know yet? Mr. President has already negotiated with the North, and we will form a coalition government with them, and when the time comes, Major Anderson will definitely be promoted! ”
"I'm going to TM!" Anderson scolded,
"Mr. President has betrayed us!" He staggered to his feet, glanced at the noisy tavern, and felt only that his blood was surging and he was full of anger.
"Don't drink it, listen to Lao Tzu!" Anderson yelled, "We are all ready to die for this country, but our president has betrayed us and is suing for peace with the North!" There was a moment of silence in the tavern, and someone asked, "Anderson, are you serious?" Anderson grabbed Soya and pushed him in front of him: "This pig is a big celebrity in front of the president, he just said that he leaked his mouth - MD, we are all sold!" Soya looked at the crowd around him in horror, people were clustered into groups, all of them were uniformly red-necked and bearded.
He trembled and threatened: "You ...... What do you want to do? Do you want to mutiny? ”