Ma Shali may have misunderstood Feng Yunshan's meaning, and said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, as you know, the entire Whig Party has declined. The Northern Whigs have all broken away and joined the Republican Party for the most part, and a small number of Northern Whigs have formed a party called the Constitutional Union Party, but it is difficult to compare with the strength of the original Whig Party. And we, the Southern Whigs, in addition to more than half of the scum who joined the Republican and Democratic parties, formed a new organization called the 'Conservatives'. Nowadays, the 'conservatives' are all supported by the good people of the South, and they are not rich. Therefore, we can only promise Your Majesty that we will repay double the expenses incurred in helping our 'conservatives' in the near future. And, in addition to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, which has already been purchased by your country, we can convince the Admiralty to sell the Portsmouth Shipyard to your country as well. ”

This is obviously for fear that he will not agree, so he made an empty promise and poured ecstasy soup on himself.

Feng Yunshan smiled. This Marshali may have stayed in the southern part of the United States and gone to the plantation owners to count cotton every day, and was not very familiar with the Chinese Empire today. He still thinks that today's Chinese Empire is still the same as in previous years, and it will be able to make himself feel at any cost for a shipyard? He didn't understand that today's Chinese Empire, after the acquisition of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the core workers, technicians and design drawing technology of the shipyard have been slowly transferred to the Chinese Empire, coupled with Prussia's steel production technology, and the continuous introduction of French shipbuilding technology, today's four major shipbuilding bureaus of the Chinese Empire have initially had the ability to manufacture warships on a large scale, and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau even has the ability to produce battleships with the technical help of French ship engineers. The Shengjing Harbour Administration has now put the development of ironclad ships on the agenda, and only after the secret agreement signed with the French Vallewski is fulfilled, the design and manufacturing drawings of the ironclad ship and the ship engineer arrive, and then it will start to build the ironclad ship with all its might. Therefore, the Portsmouth shipyard in Marshali's view is a huge temptation, and for Feng Yunshan, hehe, some is better, and no is not bad.

"Mr. Marshali, let's not talk about that. What I'm saying is, what do you want the Chinese Empire to do? Feng Yunshan looked at Ma Shali condescendingly, "Do you want me to contribute $100,000 or $200,000 to sponsor?" The Whig party, the 'conservative', doesn't have a presidential nominee? Sponsor the Democratic candidate of the South instead? ”

Marshali was a little gloomy, their Whig Party was no longer mentioned, the entire Whig Party was almost disbanded, and only a few loyal members of the Whig Party composed of 'conservatives', but they could not even nominate a presidential candidate, so they had no choice but to secretly unite with the Southern Democratic Party, hoping to use their strength to achieve the goal of reviving the Whig Party. It's just that the Democrats, who have always been the sworn enemies of the Whigs, are now only falling out with the Democrats in the North, and the Whigs like Marshali and the Whigs have a close relationship with the planters in the South, and the Democrats in the South are reluctant to cooperate with them for the sake of the overall interests of the South, and they are only using them for a while, and once they are used, they will never let the Whigs grow. And he Mashali never wants to really help the Democratic Party become president. If it weren't for the Republicans' opposition to slavery to the detriment of the South, their Whigs would have leaned more Republican.

For a while, Marshali didn't know how to answer, so he could only reluctantly answer: "Anyway, we must not let that Siward be elected." ”

Feng Yunshan laughed and said, "Mr. Marshali, I think your idea is wrong. If you really want the good of your Whigs, and for the good of the people of the South, you should choose the Republican named William Seward to be elected. ”

Masali was amazed and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, don't be joking, if it is really that Republican madman, you can't be sure that slavery will be abolished?" The whole South will be a disaster! It will also be a catastrophe for the United States of America, and a civil war will most likely break out! ”

Feng Yunshan clapped his palms and stood up: "That's right! It was precisely because of the outbreak of civil war that he was chosen! Mr. Marshali, if you calm down and think about it, is it still possible to reconcile the interests of the South and the North? What other means are there than war for the northerners to take care of your southern interests? Will it make your Southern Whigs stronger? ”

Marshali was stunned! It seems that this emperor of the East is very reasonable, and he can see it more thoroughly than himself. The South has always been a plantation economy dominated by the cultivation of cotton, etc., which needs the promotion of the savings of slavery; The vigorous development of industry in the North required a large number of cheap labor and a vast market in the South, but this cheap labor was attracted by the relatively well-paid plantations in the South, and the markets in the South were all flooded with better quality and lower prices of British goods. The contradictions between the two sides are simply greater than those of the two countries, and they cannot be reconciled. Naturally, the capital and industrial forces in the north do not care about the farm economy in the south, on the contrary, they hate to tear the south to pieces, push the industry and markets of the north to the whole south, and let the south serve the north.

That's really the truth! Mashali felt himself tremble: "North and South, there is really only war to settle disputes!" My God! ”

Mashali was in pain for a while before he asked Feng Yunshan with red eyes, "Your Majesty, then in your opinion, the south can only defend its slave ownership through war?" ”

"Not bad!" Feng Yunshan said with a serious face: "From the perspective of a bystander, the development of the north is getting faster and faster, and the strength is beginning to surpass that of the south. The difference is that the North is not united, while the South, spurred on by last year's Brown slave uprising, has been united and has the determination and courage to fight to defend its rights. Therefore, the people in power in the South, for their own interests, must wage war as soon as possible, and only through war can they have the possibility of retaining their rights. Otherwise, the further back you go, the more powerful the North becomes, and sooner or later the South will be controlled and swallowed up by the North. And today's presidential election is an excellent opportunity to wage war. Moreover, as long as the elected president is a Republican madman Seward who strongly opposes slavery, the Southerners can take this opportunity to directly declare their secession from the American Union, and many states will surely join the secession team, and when the time comes, you Whigs will raise your arms and call out on behalf of those Southern farmers to gather the power of the states and form a new American Union, which will be able to compete with the few industrial states in the North, and perhaps the North will be able to submit and retreat, and if they do not back down, they will be the ones who start the war. The Confederate Federation has all the more reason to send troops directly. Don't tell me, Mr. Marshali, that you don't know that the southern states are not prepared in the slightest? ”

Marshali thought about it carefully, and it was true that some of the southern states, especially like South Carolina Governor William. Gist, long before the election, had publicly called on the southern states to discuss a big plan, once the Republicans who opposed slavery were elected president, and controlled Congress to change the federal constitution to ban slaves, it would be the end of the Southerners, and he would lead South Carolina to withdraw from the Union, and he would not hesitate to fight.

Feng Yunshan then added a fire: "The south should have been prepared!" Unless it was a Southern pro-slavery Democrat elected president, the South would have seceded from the Union as long as a Republican was elected, as long as someone took the lead. They have to. Mr. Marshali, have you not noticed that the expansion of the territory of the United States over the years has been fully supported by the southerners, and has expanded to the south and west? In fact, the reason is very simple, the slave population in the south is increasing, and sooner or later there will be a surplus, and slavery must be promoted externally. That's why it's better for the South to have the Republican madman Seward elected president! And Mr. Marshali, in this process, you Whigs should take up the heavy responsibility of leading the people of the South to defend their rights and lives, so that you can rebuild the past glory of the Whigs! ”

Mashali muttered, "Your Majesty, let me go back and think about it." ”

Feng Yunshan nodded.

He knew that by giving Marshali a little time, the Whigs, who had become somewhat out of touch with the times, would wake up and know that he was right. Of course, when Mashali learns about the situation he has laid out in northern Mexico in advance, he will realize that his aim is to provoke war between the North and the South of the United States. But Feng Yunshan believed that the southern slave owners behind Mashali would definitely find him to cooperate in this situation. This was the reason why Marshali had been sent to the Holy King, though he had not yet realized it. But Feng Yunshan understood that the politicians behind Marshali who represented the interests of the South had seen this for a long time, and it was only because Marshali was more familiar with him that they sent this honest man who was bent on rebuilding the glory of the Whigs.

After sending off Mashali, Feng Yunshan sighed heavily: Whether it is according to the original trajectory of history, Lincoln is elected president, or he changes history to make that Seward president president, anyway, as long as the Republicans are elected president, a civil war between the north and the south will definitely break out. At this historic moment, you have to prepare yourself.

The first thing to prepare for is the famous Fort Sumter, a stone fort on the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, where the Civil War began.

Of course, in this regard, Fan Ruzeng's secret service department has begun to gradually install personnel as early as a few years ago, and now, several major intelligence stations in North America have been fully established.

There are others, and they have to be arranged according to their own plans. Feng Yunshan seemed to see the scene filled with gunsmoke, and the world police in the future would not appear.