The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1475 The War between North and South
Everything was within Narciso Lopez's expectations. In fact, his real employer was the slave-owning group in the South. Otherwise, how could he, an exiled politician abandoned by his family, gather a team of several hundred people?

On the other side of Cuba, Dracon was staring at the map in front of him in a daze. The officials around him also looked at him in confusion. After all, the governor was usually known for his toughness, so why was his action this time so strange?

In fact, Narciso Lopez was not a threat before he joined forces with the local resistance organizations. Even if he absorbed the so-called resistance organizations on the island of Cuba, their strength would be vulnerable.

The previous defeat by the local garrison in the east was the best proof of this.

However, facing such an opponent, La Concha still refused to send troops. The gentlemen on the island were very happy, after all, with La Concha's army guarding, they didn't have to worry about Narciso Lopez and the rebels invading.

In order to allow La Concha to continue guarding Havana, the gentlemen on the island paid a lot of money.

For these people, whether they are loyal to Spain, Austria, or the United States, it doesn't make much difference. What matters most to them is land, property, and the way of life they are accustomed to.

But they could never accept being on an equal footing with those rebels, or even those mixed-race people.

Although La Concha did not take any action, the western part of Cuba was not peaceful. As the story of Narciso López spread, the original resistance organizations on the island of Cuba were encouraged.

Although these people were not able to attack cities or well-defended estates, they had their own unique way of resisting: burning farmland.

Firefighting methods were already scarce in this era, and Cuba was in its dry season, so every fire would bring shame to the Cuban government.

This method of resistance just touches the foundation of Cuba's economy, and it is very low-cost and much more efficient than frontal combat.

Soon Narciso López also learned this tactic, and he even threatened the local garrison that if they continued the attack, he would burn the entire island of Cuba.

The two sides on the island of Cuba were inexplicably deadlocked.

Unlike the calm on the island of Cuba, the U.S. Congress was in turmoil at this time.

"Freedom or Death!"

Scarface Lincoln slammed the Declaration of Independence heavily on the table. The tall and strong man thought he could refute the other party speechless with Patrick Henry's famous quote.

"Congressman Lincoln, why don't you go to the docks in New England and say that?"

Jefferson Davis immediately stood up and retorted.

Although New England was a free state in the northern United States at that time, its merchant ships almost monopolized the Atlantic trade of the United States, and more than 80% of black slaves were transported to the United States through them.

Jefferson Davis, a biochemical demon, Scarface Lincoln's lifelong enemy, and later the president of the Southern United States. According to legend, when he was young, he used nitric acid to disfigure his own black slave out of curiosity, and as compensation, he personally designed an iron mask for him.

Lincoln's political career in the book is not exactly the same as in history. Due to the further intensification of the conflict between the North and the South and the failure of the Mexican-American War, he was not sent back home, but continued to serve as a member of Congress.

These words from the biological demon Davis just hit the sore spot of the northern United States. Even if Scarface Lincoln was eloquent, he could not directly deny the facts before him.

Jefferson Davis followed up his victory. "How dare you prevent Cuba from following the traditions of the Union and becoming a new member of it? It is Manifest Destiny that Cuba should become a territory of the United States!"

His words immediately won applause.

"You have chained the hands of your compatriots, and now you want to chain the hands of the Statue of Liberty with the shackles of Cuba. What do you want to do?!"

Lincoln wanted to try another angle, but Davis wasn't going to let him go.

"That's not what you said when you were counting the money. Now you want to judge us as a moral saint? Congressman Lincoln, you'd better figure out who your compatriots are!
It's us standing here, or those chimpanzees shipped from Africa!"

The North and the South, led by Lincoln and Davis respectively, argued endlessly in Congress. The focus of the debate between the two sides suddenly shifted from whether to send troops to whether Cuba should become a slave state or a free state.

This was undoubtedly another clash of power between the North and the South, but the Southern leader John Caldwell Calhoun was calm and composed, as if everything was within his expectations.

This made Soros feel a chill down his spine. It seemed that he had underestimated the American political arena. Soros realized at this time that he had never squeezed into the real core circle and that he had only learned some superficial information.

"Congressman Soros, we are all Americans and naturally we should put the interests of the United States first. Why are you so unhappy?"

John Caldwell Calhoun joked that he had long been dissatisfied with the upstart. However, he was a wise old man and would not say everything. He would just let the other party find the answer himself.
"Hypocrites! Who do you think produces the cotton in your factories? Without cotton, without slavery, and without the South, your factories would all close down!"

"Damn it! How dare you say that! Why do you in the South sell us inferior cotton that Europeans don't want? Why is it so expensive?"

"Didn't you sell us the cotton cloth with defective quality first?"

"You bullshit!"

"You're talking nonsense!"

Suddenly, a Northern congressman raised the Constitution and threw it at the other side. The Southern congressman, not to be outdone, immediately picked up the ink bottle and started to fight back. A big battle was about to break out.

Nicholas I, who was in St. Petersburg, was very angry and thought that the Americans should be taught a lesson. However, due to the limited overseas combat capabilities of the Russian Navy, Nicholas I could only issue a statement to condemn it.

But fortunately, the world is round, and Russia decided to send more troops to Alaska. Nicholas I thought that he could attack the United States through Britain when necessary, especially after hearing that the Austrian Empire had dug up gold in America, he also wanted to try his luck.

Except for some small countries in the German region that claimed to teach the Americans a lesson, the reactions of other countries were very indifferent, as if the incident did not exist at all.

Even in the Austrian Empire itself, there was no official emergency announcement or military preparations, and the Ministry of Taxation even canceled the war tax.

This made the Austrians happy but also felt something was strange. Franz was studying the issue of Patagonia.

The exiled Jews of the Austrian Empire were leading their jailers on their campaigns, and in half a year they had exterminated more than a dozen grassland peoples that were classified as barbaric civilizations by the Viceroyalty of La Plata.

(End of this chapter)