Chapter 441 Then defeat half of the United States!
Today's Congress is not only controlled by northern capitalists and southern plantation slave owners, but how can he alone be the opponent of these huge forces?
As Chen Mo said, Henry Clay just got ahead of the southern slave owners and attacked him in advance. Even without him, his fellow southerners would not let him go.
Zachary Taylor deeply felt that the horror of politics was far from being as simple as he thought.
Even if he puts aside personal gains and losses and puts national interests first, he will eventually infringe on the interests of others and make them want to get rid of them.
The funny thing is that he didn't understand this until his death, and simply thought that he really died of illness.
If it weren't for Chen Mo, he would never have known that there were so many complicated things hidden behind it.
Perhaps, he should not have run for president in the first place, and staying as a farmer on his cotton plantation might be his best destination.
Thinking of this, Zachary Taylor couldn't help but feel disheartened, and his eyes dimmed instantly. He sat slumped on the bed, his head lowered, and his eyes stared at the quilt in front of him, speechless for a long time.
When Victor and James saw his appearance, they couldn't help but look at Chen Mo worriedly.
Chen Mo smiled slightly and asked softly towards Zachary Taylor.
"Don't you want revenge?"
"revenge?"
Zachary Taylor still lowered his head and muttered softly. Chen Mo could see the violent fluctuations in his eyes. After a while, the violent fluctuations completely stopped. Zachary Taylor gently
He shook his head and said in a calm voice.
"So what if I take revenge? If I kill Henry Clay, other bankers' representatives will come to power. If I kill the bankers, there will also be factory owners, plantation owners, and slave owners. I can't kill them all.
Bar?"
Obviously, Zachary Taylor has lost confidence in this dark, corrupt country controlled by capitalists.
"Then do you want to abolish slavery?"
There was a smile on Chen Mo's lips.
"I want to! Of course I want to! But I can't do it, and neither can the next president! Those slave owners represent half of the United States! Unless we defeat half of the United States, slavery cannot be abolished!"
As a plantation owner himself, Zachary Taylor was very aware of the powerful power of southern slave owners in the entire southern United States. The entire southern states were completely under the control of these slave owners, including the military, state and county governments, and
From civilians to slaves, all were under the control of these plantation slave owners.
When he was in office, all he thought about was to prevent the spread of slavery to other states in the United States and maintain the status quo. He never thought about completely abolishing slavery.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to, it’s that he can’t!
Slaves are the private property of plantation owners and their free labor. If slavery is abolished, they must pay the people who cultivate the plantations for them at the same price as civilians. By then, their balance of payments will be broken.
, or even unable to make ends meet, a large number of plantations will go bankrupt.
Slaves are the lifeblood of plantation slave owners. It is impossible for slave owners to allow slavery to be abolished. This touches on their most fundamental interests. If the U.S. government forcibly abolishes slavery, the final result will only be the secession of the southern slave states.
Confederacy, and perhaps even a civil war.
"Then defeat half of America!"
Chen Mo's tone was extremely relaxed and casual, as if he was not talking about the powerful United States, but a small, weak country.
"Beat them?"
Zachary Taylor muttered.
"Yes, politics and compromise cannot solve the slave problem. The only way is war!"
"It's just that the time is not yet ripe now. Fifteen years from now, slavery will be completely a thing of the past!"
"Fifteen years?"
As he murmured about the deadline given by Chen Mo, Zachary Taylor's dim eyes could not help but shine with a glimmer of light.
Although he didn’t know why Chen Mo concluded that slavery would end in fifteen years, he had personally experienced the miraculous ability of resurrection from the dead. Zachary Taylor now blindly believed in Chen Mo’s words like Victor and James.
.
Fifteen years may sound like a long time, but it seems to Zachary Taylor to be very fast. He originally thought that slavery in the United States would not be possible until the 20th century or even the 21st century.
Completely overturned.
For a system that is deeply rooted in a country and has been implemented for nearly a hundred years, and this system also involves the fundamental interests of the dominant half of the people in the country, it is not something that can happen overnight. Fifteen years have already been a long time.
Short.
Zachary Taylor can imagine that these fifteen years will definitely not be peaceful. As Chen Mo said, politics and compromise cannot solve the slave problem. The only way is war!
Only by defeating half of the United States can slavery be completely abolished!
The end of slavery must be a great war that would be even more massive and more tragic and magnificent than the U.S.-Mexican War!
"If you want, you can join the army with Victor and James and end slavery with your own hands!"
Chen Mo's words made Zachary Taylor's eyes light up.
The reason why he was tired of war before was because he was cheated by his own people, which resulted in heavy casualties among his soldiers. In addition, the U.S.-Mexico War was essentially a war of aggression. Although it opened up and expanded the country's territory, in fact Zachary...
Taylor didn't feel so honored.
But the war against the slave owners was for the reunification of the motherland and the liberation of the people. Zachary Taylor felt that the flame of fighting was once again ignited in his heart.
However, fifteen years later, when he was over eighty years old, how could he still go to the battlefield? Even if the war started earlier, it would be difficult for his body to withstand it.
Over the years, Zachary Taylor has felt more and more that his body is not as good as before. Although he is still strong among his peers, it is still getting worse rapidly compared with when he was young. This is also why he has "malaria"
", and there is no doubt that he "died" of illness in just a few days.
Moreover, it is hard to say whether he will survive until that day. In today's era, not many people can live to be eighty years old.
Chen Mo looked at Zachary Taylor's bright and then dimmed eyes, feeling the loss and regret in his heart, and could easily see through his thoughts.
"As for your body, it's not a problem. I can bring you back to life, and naturally I can also make you young again. In fact, you now have eternal life!"