The town of Topeka on the Kansas River, Kansas region of the western United States of America.

The town of Topeka, which used to be somewhat quiet, has suddenly become lively recently. In the past few days, more than hundreds of nearly 1,000 Indian tribes and Mexicans, and even some people who look like Indians but are not exactly the same as the Oriental face have entered the town, which made the town's police department very nervous for a while, but then the mayor of Topeka Town explained to the public that everyone knew that these were people from the Indian area and New Mexico, and they all came to the town to go to a large cattle processing factory in the town and a super large farm next to the town to beg for a living.

Cattle processing plants and mega-farms? The people of the town really don't know what's going on. But soon, they understood.

On that day, a large crowd of people of all kinds, numbering four or five thousand, riding thousands of horses and driving hundreds of wagons, crossed the Indian area from the southwestern Texas border, advanced into the plains of the Kansas region, broke into the town of Topeka, and stopped on the grass behind the town.

The town's police and militia self-defense forces were shocked and stepped forward to stop them, but the other side dispatched a team of nearly 800 regular troops to detain the police and militia self-defense members. The mayor of Topeka Town hurriedly stepped forward to talk about it, and then let the other party release him.

These men, who claimed to be Cherokee tribesmen among the Indians of the Texas area, were invited by the mayor of Topica to come to Kansas to set up a large farm and a cattle processing plant. The people who moved in one after another in the previous period were also people from their tribe, adding up to nearly 20,000 people. Although it is nothing in the vast and sparsely populated Kansas area, and there is no pressure in the slightest, it is already a big deal for the total population of Kansas.

It turned out that in 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Kansas and Nebraska were officially established as territories of the American Commonwealth, establishing two quasi-states, and only to wait for the future population to reach a certain level before the formal statehood began. Although the Act declared that only citizens of these two regions had the right and responsibility to decide whether to abolish slavery or slavery, Missouri, which is adjacent to Kansas, was a slave state, and many people lived in the border area with Kansas and wanted to enter Kansas for development, and strongly wanted Kansas to become a slave state.

Because Kansas was in the majority in favor of slavery, and seeing that Kansas was about to formulate a constitution to protect slavery in full accordance with the laws of Missouri, many people who opposed slavery in the United States of America actively called on anti-slavery citizens from the northeastern abolitionist states to immigrate to Kansas, and shipped guns and other weapons to Kansas to support the anti-slavery forces in Kansas. Anti-slavery activists in Kansas organized the "Abolitionist State" and changed the position of members of the Legislature. Finally, last summer, the pro-abolitionist citizens took the majority, and the Kansas Legislature was dominated by abolitionists.

The whole of Kansas had a population of 102,000 people, of whom more than 58,000 were in favor of abolition and only about 44,000 were in favor of slavery.

Immediately after this, the Congress reported to the Congress of the United States of America, asking Kansas to join the Commonwealth of America as a state, officially becoming a state of abolition in the Federation. I heard that the federal Congress had basically approved Kansas's request, and only waited for President Buchanan to sign it and announce it to the public. At this critical time, the sudden increase in the population of Topeka, the core area of Kansas, will inevitably cause some unnecessary changes. Some of those who were serious advocates of abolition immediately became vigilant.

Sure enough, before the people of Kansas, especially the "Abolitionist Party," could raise any opinions, the mayor of Topeka and more than 20 members of the Kansas "Slave Party" began to propose to the Kansas State Assembly to revote on the attitude towards slavery and re-elect to amend the state constitution. Because more than a third of lawmakers have suggested that Kansas has no choice but to re-elect. Because the population of the state was small, a few days later the results of the referendum came out: of the 123,000 free citizens in the whole of Kansas, of whom only 45,000 were in favor of the abolition of slavery, and 13,000 changed their attitude for some unknown reason to be in favor of slavery, and the number of citizens in favor of slavery turned out to be 77,000, which was a full 10,000 more than the number of those who were in favor of the abolition. This change stunned the people of the "abolitionist state party".

Only then did they realize that the so-called Cherokee Indians were all foreign aid invited by the "Slave State Party", just as their "Abolitionist State Party" invited foreign aid from the Free States of Northeast America to advocate the abolition of slavery.

The day after the vote, the Kansas State Assembly held a re-election, and sure enough, the majority members of the "Slave State Party" were elected, repealing the last amended constitution, re-establishing Kansas as a pro-slave state according to the Missouri Constitution, and declaring that a quarter of the southwest area of Kansas would be leased to the newly formed Roki Farm, which would be fully managed by the Indian Cherokee tribe renamed the Roki.

At the same time, the Kansas Assembly directly announced that Kansas would break away from the federal jurisdiction of the United States and officially become an independent Republic of Kansas, with the capital of Topeka Town.

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Washington dc.

Inside the president's office on the second floor of the White House.

President James Buchanan, Secretary of State Lewis Cass, Secretary of War Joseph Holt, Attorney General Edwin M. Stanton, U.S. Treasury Secretary Samon P. Chase, and other cabinet members sat opposite each other.

President Buchanan, who was more than a month away from his post, seemed to be 10 years older than a few months ago, sitting on a sofa made of the finest brown cowhide from Kansas, in a state of sluggish spirit, his always straight waist was bent a lot, and even his face and neck were clearly covered with spots peculiar to the elderly. It seems that the recent events of the Union, especially Lincoln's election as president and the Southern states, have left him distraught and old.

Picking up a few telegrams in his hand, Buchanan said hoarsely: "Several of them are cabinet members from the Northern Free States, and today I deliberately avoided those cabinet members from the Southern States and invited you here to discuss how to deal with the current situation in the United States." As you know, since Lincoln's election as president, the Southern slave states have been afraid of his and Republican policies in the future, fearing that the federal government will fully implement the abolitionist policy, so they have left the Union. Following South Carolina's announcement of secession from the Union, in just one month, starting with Texas on the 8th and ending in Louisiana the day before yesterday, six Southern slave states declared independence from the Union, and our federal government could not do anything about it! Why is that? ”

At this, Buchanan's deep voice was filled with anger.

Almost all of the cabinet members present here are from the North and advocate the abolition of slavery, and they understand that President Buchanan is very dissatisfied with the cabinet members from the southern states!

Starting with South Carolina, Buchanan may also have tried to compromise with the Southern states in a moderate manner, trying not to provoke them in exchange for not following South Carolina out of the federal government, but without success. But from the moment Texas seceded from the Union, Buchanan really began to harden his mind, pushing his cabinet members to take tough action against the Southern states, especially South Carolina.