Chapter 75: The Fate of the Closure
The United States was also extremely uncomfortable at the moment, and Polk's unexpected death and the treachery of the British threw the American government into chaos.
Polk was actually a very hard-working president, while Interim President Dallas was a playboy in the truest sense of the word, 55 years old, but still ageless, often wandering back and forth.
As for the piles of affairs, it fell to the new vice president, who had never had the luxury of being in the White House, and he knew that his abilities were limited, but he looked down on Polk because he was a hillbilly.
Becoming interim president is just a matter of having someone to take the blame, and since tearing up the trade agreement with the UK, the British have embarked on a series of trade sanctions.
In fact, the British, who are in the midst of an economic crisis, have long wanted to find an outlet for their contradictions, and it is easier to turn their domestic contradictions abroad than to resolve them.
Although the British and French had fought fiercely in Spain, neither side recognized the war.
The French used foreign legions, while the British sent the Irish to the Spanish battlefield. Britain and France are opponents in the same class, but the Americans are different.
To be honest, there are really no great powers on the European continent who treat it as a dish, and the reason why the Americans have been able to defeat the British repeatedly in history is not because of the magical play of the anti-British heroes.
In fact, in several naval confrontations between the two countries, the British did not even have the strength of a finger. The two sides opened up a fight, and the Americans did not even have the slightest chance of winning.
The top brass knows, but the civilians don't, they only know that interim President Dallas is a traitor. It was the northern factories that benefited from trade protection, while it was the southern estate owners who suffered from British sanctions.
Naturally, the latter could not sit still and begin to be active in the impeachment of Dallas. Despite the increase in tariffs, the industry in the American North did not develop as rapidly as it did in history.
Because of the lack of cheap Irish, the wages of native American workers at this time were frighteningly high, averaging $15 a month, or $180 a year.
This was almost three times as many as Austrian workers and five times as many as Prussian workers.
In addition, the United States also highlights a shoddy production, poor craftsmanship, coupled with high labor costs, their goods are not competitive at all.
At this time, the Americans could buy not only British dumped goods, but also French and Austrian smuggled goods, which were of high quality and low price, and of many varieties, so naturally they were not interested in American goods at all.
As a result, the trade protection policy was originally implemented to develop the domestic economy, but it was accidentally involved in the economic crisis.
In fact, due to the economic downturn, countries have cut orders accordingly, but the cotton and wheat planted in the fields cannot be turned into anything else.
This is the case in agricultural exporters, which are extremely resilient to risks.
None of this was something that interim President Dallas could handle, and in order to prevent embarrassment when he went out, he simply invited people to the White House for a party.
However, at this time, an open letter from a French scholar still gave some comfort to Americans.
Time and time again, the famous Alexis de Tocqueville came to the same conclusion: "The Americans, apart from the slave states, are not only the most enlightened people in the world, but (and I place this above above above) the most practical and political education of all nations." ”
Alexis de Tocqueville, a French scholar and politician, is the author of "On Democracy in America" and "The Book of Revelation" (referring to some people who only look at their names).
Tocqueville came to this conclusion again because he saw his homeland, France was in chaos, and he knew that a catastrophe was imminent, but that was exactly what he was expecting.
Tocqueville decided to find a hotel in a good location, and he opened the window to smell the gunpowder in the air, and he wanted to witness this history.
When Tocqueville went out of his way to find a three-story hotel with a direct view of the city and the Maharaja, he felt that no one was better located than him.
So Tocqueville lay contentedly in bed and waited for the world to change, while the two bearded men were stewing a sauerkraut pot on the rooftop floor.
On the other side of the European continent, Hungary.
You, abscesses on the Motherland,
What should I say to you?
I'm going to burn you! I'm fire!
I am not fire, there is no destructive flame.
But I have a high-pitched voice,
I will curse you.
Curse you with the most vicious words.
There is no treasure trove in the motherland,
Is there any wealth that cannot be tolerated?
Motherland, my poor motherland.
He was so sick and so poor.
And you robbers,
But he took the medicine money that the motherland exchanged for blood and sweat.
You take them to foreign countries,
An altar of foreign idols was offered.
You have no mercy for this motherland!
It's stuck in the mud begging for food!
When it bleeds, sheds tears,
but you fill your glasses in foreign lands.
—Pedolfi, 1847.
Pedolfi was a very gifted poet, and Franz was afraid of his verbal criticism, so he helped him in his early years and allowed him to complete his studies in Vienna.
Nine years ago, a flood ruined Pei Duofei's family, making them poor overnight.
The relatives who owed them money directly chose not to repay the debts, forcing the Pei Duofei family, who originally had some wealth, to work as butchers' apprentices to pick up some miscellaneous pieces that others didn't want.
However, Franz directly used his connections to help Pei Duofei's family find out and get the account back.
Later, he offered Pei Duofei a scholarship to study in Vienna, and even arranged for the Count of Széchenyi to travel with him more often, hoping to change the great poet's opinion.
However, sometimes fate is so unpredictable, and when Pei Duofei arrives in Vienna, he finds himself out of place here, and then meets his classmates who have made a lot of money.
The prosperity of Vienna and the village of Koloshi where he lived are completely two worlds, and the traffic of the metropolis is changing with each passing day, which not only does not make Pei Duofei yearn for it, but makes this child from a small village feel deeply inferior.
He saw the great Hungarian aristocrats spending a lot of money in the night clubs of Vienna, swaggering through the city in luxurious carriages, and the children of the nobles could buy all the land in his family with a single piece of clothing.
Then there was the exaggerated scholarship offered by Franz, and the efforts of three generations of Pei Duofei's grandparents could not save so much money.
Pedolfi was confused, and Count Széchenyi said it was lucky, but he felt otherwise.
The classmates around him cast envious glances, but he didn't know why, was it really lucky? Or a clown at the mercy of others?
After all, his classmates occasionally tease beggars with a large silver coin (florin), is this scholarship a silver coin in the pocket of some big man?
At this time, Pedolfi suddenly got a copy of the "Pest Daily", and Count Széchenyi said that Kossuth wanted to destroy Hungary and was a madman.
However, Pedolfi felt that what Kosuth said was the truth, and then he resolutely returned to Hungary to follow in Kossuth's footsteps, despite the retention of Count Széchenyi.
October 19, 1847 – Pedolfi married Sendrel Yulia.
On this day, he vowed to overthrow the Austrian Empire and defeat the blood-sucking monster that lay on top of the Hungarians' heads.
Pei Duofei wrote the famous poem "Freedom and Love"
"Life is precious, but love is even more valuable. If you talk about freedom, you can throw both. ”
The audience was in an uproar when the poem came out, and everyone knew what it meant, but the guests did not back down, they were all young people with the same ideals as Pedolfi, and they all believed that Kossuth would lead them to victory.