Washington, USA.

Martin Van Buren is arguably one of the worst U.S. presidents of all time. The presidency began with an economic crisis, followed by the increasing military power of France and Mexico, forcing the United States to join the regional arms race.

Historically, the U.S. military has remained at a very low level until the outbreak of World War I.

But now the United States has to feed an army of 100,000 men in the face of its own economic crisis.

Perhaps God is really protecting this country, first Friedrich Liszt came to the United States to preside over economic reform, the core of which is to use foreign money to save the life of the United States.

This trick really worked, and immediately stopped the outflow of American precious metals, although there was some loss of reputation, but in this era, Americans were originally called barbarians, as long as they could save the American economy, he didn't care if others called him Arati, or Genghis Khan.

After a severe natural disaster and food crisis broke out in Europe, the United States and Russia successfully harvested European leeks. At this time, Friedrich Liszt proposed the "Moses Plan", the main purpose of which was to extradite those rich Egyptians to the United States.

At this time, Egypt's internal and external troubles, coupled with the brutality of Muhammad Ali, made many Egyptian magnates urgently leave this ghost place.

The United States could send a fleet to take the magnates and their treasures. If this plan can take shape, it will add a valuable asset to the United States.

In fact, when Friedrich Liszt first proposed this plan, he did not expect to receive such a deposit. Martin Van Buren had ordered the fleet to set sail to save the piggy banks.

But Friedrich Liszt was actually against it, he thought that it would be good to just eat the deposit, and it would not be too late for the fleet to wait for the situation to become clearer.

After all, it would be best to be able to carry those piggy banks onto the American ship, but if the fleet is to be lost because of this, it will be a bit more than worth the loss.

As a businessman, Friedrich Liszt was reluctant to take risks, but Martin Van Buren, as president, was even more reluctant to lose credit.

Due to the impact of the economic crisis, there were constant strikes and protests among American workers, and at first Martin Van Buren took a hard line and demanded that the army suppress them by force.

However, the American people were full of martial virtues, and the army at that time could not even pay their salaries, so it was naturally a thousand miles away.

Martin Van Buren then announced without restraint that the U.S. government would accept the people's opinion and adopt a ten-hour workday.

The workers' strike had just been quelled, and the North-South contradictions in the United States had escalated again. The factory owners in the North wanted to raise tariffs, while the slave owners in the South were reluctant to accept it.

Because they know very well that once the tariffs are raised, they will only be able to buy the garbage produced by the Yankees. And the originally lucrative export trade will also be turned into chicken ribs due to countermeasures tariff barriers.

In the midst of a dilemma, his secretary of state, Friedrich Liszt, came up with an idea to convert opium poppy cultivation in the South and at the same time ban poppy cultivation in the North.

By raising tariffs in this way, the interests of the northern industrialists would be protected, and the slave owners in the south would suffer less economic losses.

Although people like to start with slavery when studying the American Civil War, the root cause is the contradiction between the factory owners in the North and the farmers in the South, and the dispute between the roads of an agricultural country or an industrial country.

The climate in the United States was ideal for opium growth, and the vast and sparsely populated farms were easy to scale. But it is precisely because the land is so vast and sparsely populated that it is almost impossible to give the South the privilege of growing a certain crop.

Although the opium business was profitable, not everyone needed it, and as it grew in size and production increased, prices were bound to fall.

What is so easy to think of, those southerners must have thought of it too.

In fact, due to the tight price of opium in recent years and the deep economic crisis in the United States, many opium plantations have appeared in the southern United States at the suggestion of Friedrich Liszt.

The production of opium in the United States was sufficient to meet domestic demand, but because of the British relationship, it was unable to open foreign markets, so the area of opium cultivation did not further expand.

Martin Van Buren hoped that the North and the South would stop bickering and unite with the outside world, defeat France and Mexico first, dominate North America and then talk about other things.

However, the North and the South are deeply divided over the ownership of Texas and northern Mexico.

The South wanted to establish a slave state in these places, and the North naturally opposed it, but Martin Van Buren stood up and openly opposed Texas becoming a slave state.

From Martin van Buren's point of view, he was maintaining the balance of power on both sides and preventing civil unrest.

However, in the eyes of the Southern slave owners, this was blatantly unconstitutional, because according to the "Missouri Compromise" passed by the United States in 1820, the new state located south of 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude should be a slave state.

For a while, the name of "unconstitutional president" spread throughout the United States, and Martin Van Buren could only stand up and publicly apologize and say that he would definitely abide by the Constitution.

But the factory owners in the north were unhappy again, they refused to fight for the slave owners in the south, and they did not want to waste their money to increase the strength of their opponents.

As a result, the northern factory owners demanded that the federal government cut military spending, limit the number of troops, stop hostility with France and Mexico, and instead develop into Oregon.

Since 1830, American immigrants have been entering Oregon, and the indigenous Indians there are too weak to stop the strong white colonists.

However, the main problem facing Oregon at this time was the British colonial government of Canada. Although there were not many British colonists in the whole of Oregon, it was still nominally a two-state situation.

The actions of the northern factory owners are likely to provoke the anger of the British, and the United States will be in a worse position.

Martin Van Buren naturally did not agree to such a reckless approach, and he could only try to maintain the situation in the United States in the face of condemnation from both the North and the South.

If there was any order he had that would have been welcomed by the American people, it was the Seminole War, which aimed to expel the Indians.

In order to win the support of the people and Congress, Martin Van Buren fabricated a whole bunch of Indian atrocities out of thin air. They burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, often raiding white villages, killing men, stealing property, abducting women, and making children join shamanism.

And so on the Indians liked to eat human flesh, drink human blood, sacrifice evil gods, and even curse white colonists.

Under the stigma of the American government, the Indians are robbers, demons, and disrespectful.

Although this propaganda is outrageous, it is highly accepted by all classes in the United States, who all need a legitimate reason to continue the massacre and expulsion of Indians.

With the complicity of the United States government and the American people, the Indians in the United States began their most tragic century.

(End of chapter)