The tall dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is located in the north of Capitol Hill.
This magnificent building is more than 850 feet long from north to south, 380 feet wide from east to west, and more than 300 feet high. The Statue of Liberty at the top can overlook all other buildings in Washington.
Including the White House.
Walking through the garden designed and renovated by Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American garden design, you can get a close look at this hub of American power.
After taking a good look at this great cream-colored building, and then entering the forest of pillars composed of dozens of marble pillars, you have officially entered the core area of American political power.
After opening the door, statues of the founding fathers of the United States and other great people who have made outstanding contributions to this free and democratic country are lined up on the left and right of the corridor.
Behind the statue is a brightly decorated mural by Italian painter Constantino Brumidi.
On the walls of the political hub, there are such a large proportion of paintings with a strong Catholic flavor and Vatican style, making this country look like a theocratic country.
But considering the content of the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the United States should be a country with separation of government and God, right?
It should be.
In this complex building with 540 rooms, only one room is the core "power room".
That's the Senate Congressional Chamber.
Today, dozens of worried senators gathered just for Tom Smith.
Each senator has only one knotted eyebrow on his face.
"It's been almost three months, and Smith Company is still not bankrupt. That guy Tom, where did he get so much money?"
The senator who led the speech was a descendant of one of the five-member committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Not just him, these dozens of senators, if you look carefully at their surnames, they are basically descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Either Jefferson, Sherman, Adams, Livingston or Franklin.
Even worse, they are the surnames of Carol, Rodney and other slightly lower-class blue-blood nobles.
This is so democratic and free.
But considering that the signers of the Declaration of Independence were all great "leaders" who let their slaves and soldiers "spill their lives and blood" for the independence of the United States, it is not too much for their descendants to become senators, right?
The soldiers under their command have been fighting for a lifetime. Can't the leaders of these soldiers and the descendants of the leaders enjoy happiness and happiness?
"British? Or French?"
"It can't be them. Great Britain is currently in trouble at home and abroad. How can it have the energy to support Texans in such a big way?"
"It's impossible for the French ghosts. They have been defeated repeatedly in the Mexican battlefield. How can Napoleon III have any extra prestige to call on domestic capitalists to fund another Central American region?"
"A lunatic in Prussia? Or Habsburg in Austria? Could it be that Tsarist Russia is just as ignorant and backward?"
"..."
After much discussion, these blue-blood aristocrats could only guess that Lafayette was using silver to support the Smith Factory in Texas.
But even so, they did not expect that the Smith Factory Area in Texas would have strong enough industrial strength.
They still don't want to believe that their industrial industry has been surpassed, and they still live in the dream that the Great Lakes of the United States is the world's number one industrial region, and they don't want to wake up.
They only believe that there is an outside force using real money to disrupt the American market and destroy the industrial heritage of the Great Lakes Industrial Zone.
"Who exactly is Texas communicating with? Don't you Texans know?"
Everyone followed the eyes of the senator who spoke and looked at the two senators who represented the interests of Texas.
"No one, including my parents who have been managing the local estate in Texas, has any information that the Smith Factory area has connections with Europe."
"As for Tom Smith, he seems to be a descendant of an old-timer from Houston who built the Smith Factory District overnight."
"I don't have any useful information here. This guy is like a strong man descended from the sky. He started building Texas on a large scale without any warning."
"Not just abolishing slavery, but also supporting the employment of female workers."
"If he hadn't quietly brought millions of people from all over the world within a few months and dispersed the voice of local Texans, he might have been assassinated by local conservatives.
"
These two senators who were supposed to protect Texas have betrayed their home state long ago.
Everyone looked at the two people with doubts. They suspected that the two people had rebelled again, defected back to Texas, and came to Washington to be senators. They were just "in the Cao camp but in the Han Dynasty."
"Everyone, isn't Texas still paying taxes step by step?"
"And are you still insisting on the high tariff protection policy for Europeans and severely cracking down on the smuggling mafia?"
"Since the Smith Factory District began dumping goods in large quantities, Texas has become the only large state in the former rebel areas that still supports the federal government."
"Didn't we already dispatch a task force? When they come back, won't everything be revealed soon?"
"It's better not to think wildly at this stage. If such a big state is really forced into desperation, it may really do something unexpected."
After hearing the two timely "justifications", other senators thought about it and realized that it was indeed as the two said. Texas is now the only major state that has publicly stated that it does not support the Ku Klux Klan movement.
state.
If the federal government forces this big state to rebel, it can only be said that the gains outweigh the losses.
Considering that if the two of them did not support the interests of Mr. Yang, it would be impossible for them to enter the Senate, and everyone's concerns about the two were eliminated a lot.
Although everyone was still worried, the meeting ended successfully.
On the way after the meeting, these senators, who were in their forties and fifties, began to discuss the Texas task force that had been dispatched not long ago.
"The young men in the task force won't act impulsively, will they?"
"It's hard to say, but I firmly believe that even if my son acts impulsively on the surface, he is carefully calculated in his heart."
"They are all our juniors and will take over our position sooner or later. The most important thing for us is to trust and support them unconditionally."
"Who hasn't come here when they were young?"
Of course, these old fritters and old foxes would not go across the Middle East of the United States, where the Ku Klux Klan riots were severe, and personally go to seemingly loyal Texas to negotiate with Tom Smith.
Who knows if Texas is truly loyal or just pretending.
Those who can climb to the position of senator are all talented people in the family. They have long seen that the Ku Klux Klan riot was Tom's cover-up, but it was just like Tom's prediction.
There are also many contradictions within Yang Jiguo, and there are many interest groups.
The arrogant Yang guys would rather try their best to steal more benefits from their peers and employees.
They are also unwilling to use their extra energy to deal with these Ku Klux Klan thugs, let alone cross-regional rectification of Texas.
The task force is also a group of young people who are looking for qualifications.
