Others don't understand, but Dong Shuheng understands.
With the continuous development of society, nationalism will become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Even those ethnic minorities who rule a country by force cannot hold on.
The power of a country ultimately lies in the hands of the majority ethnic group.
And a country without a strong majority ethnic group cannot be politically stable.
China now has a population of nearly 600 million. This number may even double again within ten years.
At this time, India had a population of about 200 million, France had a population of 30 million, and Prussia and the surrounding North German states together had a population of more than 30 million.
The total population of the world does not exceed 2 billion.
The reason why Dong Shuheng had the courage to occupy so much territory was because of the population he controlled.
Population talent is the most valuable resource.
Dong Shuheng took care of some urgent matters and started this year's western tour.
He is a typical emperor who does not sit in the palace and spends half of every year outside.
Dong Shuheng has already visited the three directions of east, north and south, and now only the west is left.
This is the trouble with the territory being too large. He has to patrol the place and can only go in one direction every year.
As usual, wherever there are trains, you have to take the train.
Dong Shuheng doesn’t have to go to every place.
He patrols very casually, and the route is temporarily determined. He stops when he wants to, and sometimes changes the route midway.
Anyway, the security work is the responsibility of the internal security and security corps.
No need to make advance arrangements locally.
This has made officials in several western provinces very nervous recently.
Most of the officials were sent off to visit and see what was wrong with the place.
Some officials who usually have some public grievances or have done bad things are now in a state of panic.
When traveling domestically, he does not need so many people around him, and the arrangements are quite flexible.
In distant America, a grand campaign speech is being held in Washington.
A middle-aged man with a slender figure, thin cheeks, but bright eyes was speaking impassionedly to the crowd.
"A hundred years ago, a group of freedom fighters founded this great country, this country was born for freedom..."
Lincoln's speeches always excited his audience.
Every word seems to resonate in people's hearts.
The audience in the audience was as excited as a chicken, applauding and screaming!
Now is the critical moment in the American general election. His opponent at this time is the Democratic candidate Douglas.
The audience in the audience did not know that this candidate, who often criticized the black slave system and cared about the poor people during his speeches, would change the history of America.
Lincoln was born into a poor family in Hardin County, Kentucky on February 12, 1809.
His parents are descendants of British immigrants who made a living by farming and hunting. When he was a child, Lincoln helped the family move firewood, carry water, and do farm work. He was a hard-working and sensible child.
In 1816, Lincoln's family moved to southwestern Indiana to open up wasteland and farm for a living.
When Lincoln was 9 years old, his mother, who was only 36 years old, unfortunately passed away.
A year later, my father married a kind and open-minded woman named Sally Bush.
The stepmother was kind and hard-working. She treated the children of her husband's ex-wife as if they were her own. She was full of love for little Lincoln. Lincoln also respected and loved his stepmother. The family lived in harmony and happiness.
Due to his poor family, Lincoln only attended elementary school for four months. In order to study, he borrowed books everywhere and often exchanged hard labor for books, newspapers and periodicals to read.
He couldn't afford a notebook to practice calligraphy, so he wrote on flat walls. In this way, he gradually accumulated a lot of knowledge including poetry, law, and biography. In addition, he also taught himself geometry.
When he was 18 years old, the tall Lincoln was hired by a ship owner and sailed thousands of miles down the Ohio River to New Orleans as a crew member.
Before the age of 25, Lincoln had no fixed occupation. In order to support his family, he worked as a ferryman on the Ohio River, a plantation worker, a store clerk, and a mason.
As an adult, because he was proficient in surveying and calculation, he became a local land surveyor and was often invited by people to resolve land boundary disputes.
After hard work, Lincoln was always a young man who loved reading and often read until late at night.
In his youth, Lincoln read all of Shakespeare's works, read "History of the United States", and also read many historical and literary books.
In 1834, Lincoln gave his first political speech at a political rally. Because he criticized black slavery and put forward some suggestions that were beneficial to public causes, Lincoln gained influence among the public.
In August of the same year, 25-year-old Lincoln was elected as an Illinois state congressman as a Whig and served three terms until 1842. At the same time, he managed a rural post office and engaged in land surveying.
In 1835, Lincoln's fiancée Anne Rutledge unfortunately died. Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown and was bedridden for six months.
In 1836, Lincoln became a lawyer through many years of self-study, and later co-founded a law firm in Springfield.
Soon, Lincoln became the leader of the Whig Party in the state House of Representatives. After several electoral failures, in 1846, the 37-year-old Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1847, as a representative of the Whig Party, Lincoln participated in the election for Congress and succeeded, coming to the capital Washington for the first time.
Before and after, the debate about the slavery system became a major event in American political life. During this debate, Lincoln gradually became an anti-slavery activist.
He believed that slavery should eventually be eliminated, and slavery should first be abolished in Washington, the capital. Slavery advocates who represented the interests of southern slave owners frantically opposed Lincoln's elimination of slavery.
In 1850, the power of slave owners in the United States increased greatly, and Lincoln was forced to give up his identity as a member of Congress and continue to work as a lawyer.
In 1856, Lincoln quit the Whig Party due to his strong opposition to the expansion of slavery, joined the newly formed anti-slavery Republican Party, and soon became the main leader of the party.
In 1858, Lincoln began his presidential campaign.
This was the first time Lincoln participated in the election, and it was also the first time the Republican Party sent someone to participate in the election.
Democrats mostly sneered.
During this period, the Democratic Party had dominated the presidency for more than ten years. The power of the slaveholding faction had been very strong in Congress since the early 1950s.
Lincoln, who came from a lower class background, knew very well who his friends were and who were his enemies.
As the industrialization process of Europa spread, the Renaissance Army also began to industrialize.
Northern states that relied heavily on trade began to experience a crisis.
To end this crisis, we must either control the dumping of large quantities of colonial goods and obtain cheap raw materials like Britain and France.
Of course, this is impossible, as the Milicians do not have such force. Their way to control the colonies has been blocked by the Europas.
Therefore, the key to solving this problem lies in opening up the domestic market. These capitalists in the north pointed to the slave plantations in the south.
The Yankees export so much cheap cotton to Britain and France every year.
The cloth produced by Britain and France in turn competed with northern factories.
Isn’t this just capitalizing on the enemy!
Lincoln was not actually a complete abolitionist.
When he first became president, he also made some remarks about compromise with the South.
He later said in his inaugural speech: "Some southerners think that when the Republican Party comes to power, they will touch their property and create panic. In fact, this is unnecessary. The Constitution does not give me such power.
No one can deprive others of their property."
The property he mentioned here naturally included those slaves.
In fact, at the beginning of the Civil War, the North did not mention the liberation of black slaves.
At that time, the Northern Army thought that the Southern Army was just a bunch of mobs and could be put down in a matter of minutes. But when they started fighting, they found that they couldn't defeat them at all.
So the issue of emancipating black slaves began to be raised, and a large number of black people were recruited into the army.
However, if civil war breaks out again between the north and south of America at this time, it may be more complicated than in history.
Because Dong Shuheng has been preparing for this for several years.
The Chinese in California would become an important variable in the Civil War.
But Lincoln now had no time to deal with the problem of the overpopulation of Chinese in the west.
In their eyes, Kansas has bare mountains to the west except for the bison herds, and the Gobi Desert to the west.
There is barren land everywhere.
Not only that, it's a lawless place.
Indians, Mexican gangs, robbery and murder are commonplace.
When people go there, they greet others with guns in their hands.
Only adventurers would go that far west.
Indiana, where Lincoln's family moved to, is east of the Mississippi River and is considered a remote place.
Kansas, where the war is currently breaking out, is still a newly developed place and is not even an official state of America.
To the west, Colorado is a large no-man's land.
Lincoln must get the presidential scepter this time.
Lincoln had his own revenge. He often criticized slavery in his recent speeches in order to win the favor of those northern capitalists.
Some of them are Democrats.
The Civil War in Kansas has continued until now, although the northern liberals have temporarily lost.
But it caused the Democratic Party to split.
In this election, the Democratic Party initially introduced Douglas as their representative.
Douglas's attitude towards slavery was neither support nor opposition. If the Buddhist system were to deal with it, the southern states would not do it. If your attitude is so unclear, what if you rebel one day?
As a result, the Democrats in the southern slave states introduced another candidate, Breckinridge, believing that this person could better represent their interests. In this way, the supporters of the Democratic Party were actually divided.
This was not over yet. There were still differences among the slave states. Tennessee stated that it would not support Breckinridge. Instead, it established a separate Constitutional Union Party and nominated John Bell as president. It can be said that this election has not even started yet.
, the Democrats and the southern states lost.
This is where Lincoln's confidence lies now.
Those southerners have been stimulated by the Civil War in Kansas to become arrogant and domineering.
Anyone who does not clearly support slavery seems to be their enemy.
A large number of states sandwiched between the North and the South had ambiguous attitudes towards the slave system.
These states not only develop industrial production, but also have some slave-holding estates. Therefore, it is difficult for them to express their stance clearly.
By doing this, the South was pushing these people to Lincoln's side.
In several debates, Lincoln expressed his opposition to slavery, but he believed that maintaining the unity of the Union was the main task.
Therefore, Lincoln did not propose the immediate abolition of slavery. However, Lincoln's stance against slavery was supported by the majority of the people, and his speech was admirable.
People gave him the unsophisticated nickname of "The Candidate for Splitting Fence Timbers."
In current terms, this Lincoln is more down-to-earth.
He has a better understanding of the lives of ordinary people and what they think.
The development of northern industry and the development of the central region gave rise to a middle class in America.
Of course, this is not the middle class as it is now. It just means that these people's economic status has reached the level where they can read newspapers and participate in politics.
They already have the will to participate in the election.
In this regard, Millikin has done much better than China. Because Dong Shuheng now has no way to implement electoral systems in various provinces.
Because ordinary people under the rule of the Baath Army have no desire to participate in elections.
They have not formed their own macro-political opinions.
Lincoln's family conditions were average and he did not own his own house in Washington.
In Washington, he could only live in a hotel. Sometimes, he would go to the coffee shop below the hotel to chat with ordinary guests.
He is a very diligent candidate, traveling around to give speeches, which makes him feel very tired.
"Sir, there is an invitation letter from the Northern Freedom Front. Do you want to go to the appointment?" A handsome white man with blond hair walked into the room. He was holding a beautifully crafted red envelope in his hand.
invitation letter.
There is a seal, or image, on the cover of this invitation, two crossed rifles, with a torch on top.
The torch represents freedom, the rifle represents force, and the use of force to defend freedom. Lincoln knew about this organization, which was an organization formed by liberal Kansans.
They were very active in the northern states, looking for support everywhere.
"Pete, go get back to them. I will make the appointment on time." This was not the first time Lincoln met these people.
This young man named Landon Pitt was Lincoln's campaign assistant. Although he was young, Pitt was already a state legislator in Indiana.
These people were investing in Lincoln, hoping that after he became president, he would support their abolitionist policy in Kansas.
At the same time, they also hoped to gain support from those Republican leaders through Lincoln.
Of course, they also have to act as Lincoln's mouthpiece behind closed doors.
Help Lincoln win votes and publicity in the central and northern states.
Both sides get what they need.
"Also, Pete, help me contact the California representative in Washington. I want to meet with him."
Although California is now under Chinese control, its nominal governor is still Bai Qiwen, and California's Senate members in Washington are also white.
This state has developed rapidly in the past two years. Not only economically, the scope of its control is also increasing.
The western region has not yet been demarcated, and there is only one official state, California. The rest of the country is undeveloped.
So now that there are people in California, he can continue to expand the scope of California.
Lincoln knew that the state's registered population had reached more than three million people.
There are now only 30 million people in the entire United States, with California accounting for one-tenth.
Even though it is rumored that the population of California is mainly Chinese, according to the American constitution, these people have the right to vote.
Since it is a vote, then it is the target of Lincoln's struggle.
Lincoln could put aside all current issues in order to run for president.
He feels that as long as he is elected president, these problems can always be solved.