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

Chapter 1509 Ant Fight
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was in some trouble. Their port was filled with rocks and hay. It was literally filling up all the warehouses, which was affecting the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's storage.

If the Pacific Steamship Company continued to play the price war, they would lose everything sooner or later. And even if the Pacific Steamship Company worked day and night, they would not be able to transport all the stones.

New York City's policies did not work in the southern states, and Vanderbilt could only watch his share decrease little by little.

But this was not the end, as the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's monopoly business also encountered problems.

Suddenly, both Nicaragua and Panama announced that they would increase tolls on the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's ships, while the American Emperor Steamship Company's ships were completely unaffected.

"This is unfair competition!"

Vanderbilt roared, but this time the mayor of New York City really had no way out, so he could only speak helplessly.

"How about I write you another injunction? Forbidding them to charge your fleet?"

There was great embarrassment written on both sides' faces.

Vanderbilt turned to his congressman friends again. These people were the real powerful people in the United States, but even they could do nothing about the trouble Vanderbilt had recently gotten into.

After all, at that time Nicaragua belonged to the Austrian Empire and Panama belonged to the Spanish Kingdom, and they were not two soft persimmons in history.

As time went by, Vanderbilt encountered new troubles. His ship encountered pirates in the Pacific Ocean. These pirates did not attack the crew, but only robbed the cargo on the ship and the ship itself.

In fact, all of Vanderbilt's ships were armed, but the pirates they encountered this time were too brutal, and the equipment of both sides was completely not on the same level, so the crew had no intention of resisting at all.

According to the US Navy's estimates, the only people capable of causing trouble on the east coast of the Pacific were the Austrians and Russians, but those pirates all had Asian faces, spoke Italian, and claimed to be subordinates of Whitebeard Roger.

In the absence of evidence, neither the U.S. Navy nor the U.S. government dared to accuse the two powers.

Under Vanderbilt's operation, the US Navy finally announced that it would crack down on pirates along the Pacific coast, but the entire army was wiped out in the first battle.

This time, the US Navy finally figured out that the pirates were riding on a battleship, a steam-powered one.

At that time, the US military only had a few light frigates in the Pacific, and there was no fighting between the two sides. The commander of the US Navy just took a look from a distance and decided to lower the flag and surrender.

The ships of the Southern Emperor Steamship Company of America did not encounter this situation.
Vanderbilt finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he decided to try a new approach. So Vanderbilt found the most popular congressman in the North at that time, Scarface Lincoln.

Just by seeing the scar, Vanderbilt felt that the other party had extraordinary aura.

Lincoln, who had worked as a lawyer before, naturally knew Vanderbilt well. After all, there was no lawyer in the United States who didn't want to serve the Vanderbilt family.

U.S. Congress.

"America has an obligation and a responsibility to protect the American dream of its citizens! Mr. Vanderbilt's legitimate rights and interests have been violated! This is a shame for America!"

Jefferson Hamilton Davis simply stood up and interrupted Lincoln's speech.

"Do you know how much wages Mr. Vanderbilt, whom you are trying to protect, owes to so many people? He used junk bonds to replace workers' wages and asked them to sign death waivers.

Those who worked for him until they died could only receive a $7 pension and had to undergo extremely strict scrutiny.

Who is responsible for their American dream? "

"You're lying! Mr. Vanderbilt is the highest taxpayer in the United States."

"He's almost the same as the person who evaded the most taxes! You said I was lying? Then do you want to hear the testimony of former employees of the Vanderbilt family?"

"Who can guarantee that they were not bribed by you? Their words are even more untrustworthy!"

"While you speak out for black slaves and capitalists every day, have you ever thought about speaking for real workers? Who should protect the American dream of those workers?" Jefferson Hamilton Davis' words left Lincoln speechless.

The entire American South was closely united by two companies and one man, who carried the hopes of the entire American South.

Many big names have invested in the company, but the name Joshua Abraham Norton is unfamiliar to people. However, no one cares, as they just think that he is a big name who does not want to use his real name.

This incident also gave the Austrian Empire's secret service personnel a new understanding of the emperor's bad taste, and they absolutely did not want to be retaliated by His Majesty the Emperor.

Imperial Academy for Girls, Vienna.

Lakshmi Payi was definitely one of the smartest and most knowledgeable young people in all of Jhansi, but in this school, she could not pass any subject.

This made Lakshmi Payi feel very hurt, and her followers couldn't even pass the most basic common sense test.

"knowledge is power."

Anna waved her little fists to cheer Lakshmi Payi up, but the test just now was obviously too much of a blow to the latter.

"My brother said that he could provide some places for international students to Zhangxi. You can send people to learn from us, and then you will become stronger."

"really?"

Lakshmi Payi's eyes lit up.

"Of course, knowledge is power! Technology can change a lot of things, my brother said."

Anna answered affirmatively.

In fact, the two sides were completely on different channels. Lakshmi Payi was worried that the Austrian Empire would not teach the real things. After all, there is an old saying in India that "the scriptures should not be passed on lightly."

Anna was afraid that the other party did not believe in the power of knowledge because Lakshmi Payi was obviously deeply influenced by religion.

Lakshmi Payi naturally didn't dare to say it clearly, she could only curl her lips.

"Your brother again. What do you take him for?"

"Jancy, if you knew what my brother has done, you would know how to worship him without excess."

Lakshmi Payi said nonchalantly.

"Isn't it just defeating a few small European countries? In India, this can only be regarded as a fight between villagers. Do you know how many people died in the war between us and the Tang Empire?

Ten trillion! That’s more people than all the battles in your European history combined! This is recorded in history books!”

Lakshmi Payi's face was full of pride, while Anna was speechless.

"Jansi, you are talking about a mythological story."

Lakshmi Payi immediately retorted.

"Isn't your history also recorded by the priests?"

Anna was speechless again. She was not very good at refuting others, but she really couldn't help it at this moment.

"At least the priests won't record ant fights as wars. India can't have a population of 10 trillion, so 10 trillion ants dying in a war is about right!"