The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 721: Xianfeng's Serving as an Official in the United States

"Is this your prophecy?" Moore stroked his thick beard, his eyes flashing with the sharpness of dialectics.

Although Moore is a staunch materialist, when Luo Yaoguo's predictions really come true one by one, believing in his predictive ability while remaining skeptical is the true materialism!
If the immortal on the flying sword flies right in front of you, and you still don't believe it and insist on pulling your beard and saying it is an illusion, then that is not materialism but idealism.

"Just treat our conversation as a deduction of historical materialism!" Luo Yaoguo took a sip of wine, and the crystal glass reflected his cunning eyes. "Teacher Karl, I think the historical conditions for the German unification war led by the Prussian Junker nobles will mature in three years!"

"Three years?" Moore showed a surprised look, "That is, in 1864. The bourgeois Prussian warlord group is going to go to war with the French Bonaparte dynasty?"

"No," Luo Yaoguo shook the wine glass, and the blood-red liquid swirled in the glass. "The historical stage of 1864 belonged to the Prussian-Danish War."

"Putin?" Moore's eyebrows rose like swords. "It must be about the ownership of the two feudal remnants of Schleswig-Holstein? Haha, when German capitalism develops to a certain stage, it will inevitably clear out this kind of medieval garbage."

"That's right," Luo Yaoguo put down his wine glass and traced the outline of the Baltic Sea on the oak tabletop with his fingertips. "The Danish royal family tried to use the fig leaf of nationalism to cover up the essence of feudal annexation, while the Prussian Junkers temporarily colluded with the Austrian Habsburgs and used the more hypocritical 'German national interests' as an excuse for plunder."

"The temporary alliance between Prussia and Austria." Moore's sneer carried a depth that penetrated history. "It's just the death struggle of two former capitalist regimes. But you said Prussia will lead the unification? What about Austria?"

"The Austro-Prussian War of 1866!" Luo Yaoguo stretched out his left hand, "Only..." He bent his thumb and index finger and made a "seven" gesture.

"Seven months?" Moore took out a pencil and calculated the troop strength comparison in his notebook.

"Seven weeks!" Luo Yaoguo smiled like a real fortune teller. "The corrupt military-bureaucratic machine of the Habsburg dynasty will collapse in the face of modern warfare. However, the Prussian Junkers dare not swallow up the whole of Austria for the time being - just like the bourgeoisie dare not completely eliminate the feudal remnants."

"The Small German Plan!" Moore slammed his notebook shut. "This is the product of a dirty deal between the Junker nobility and the bourgeoisie! This top-down pseudo-unification will only strengthen Prussian military despotism and turn all of Germany into a military camp! The contradictions between the workers and the bourgeoisie, and between the Junker landlords and industrial capital, will become increasingly intense in this deformed unification!"

Luo Yaoguo nodded and said, "You have revealed the essence of history. But as long as the Prussian war machine can divert contradictions through foreign plunder, and as long as the Bonaparte dynasty can paralyze the people with false victories, these two reactionary regimes can still survive. So."

"So Napoleon III, the villain who holds high the banner of Napoleon, must start a war!" Moore stood up suddenly, his shadow casting a giant's outline on the wall. "Even if this swindler from the Bonaparte family is aware of the risks, the capital logic of the French financial aristocracy and arms dealers will inevitably drive him to war - capital's thirst for profit will trample on all human laws!"

Luo Yaoguo stared at the flickering candlelight: "The Prussian Junker Group also needs war. They want to feed the steel monster in the Ruhr area by annexing the mineral resources of Alsace-Lorraine, and use the guise of German unification to cover up the essence of class oppression. But there are no winners in the war of capitalism. When Bonaparte's mask is torn off..."

"The working people of France will once again shock the world with the courage of the Great Revolution!" Moore's voice rolled like thunder, "The spark of the next revolution is growing in the slums of Paris!"

Luo Yaoguo walked to the window and looked at the gloomy night sky: "But the fruits of the revolution may be usurped by the bourgeois republicans, just like in 1848."

Moore grabbed a pen and wrote a long string of German in his notebook: "So we must start preparing for the historical opportunity ten years later! In this way, when the war in the old world burns down the Bonaparte dynasty, the working people of Paris will have their own regime!"

"So do you think that France will have a revolution before Germany?" Luo Yaoguo asked in a low voice, "This may change the course of history." "History never follows a script!" Moore closed his notebook, "But we can grasp the inevitability of history - the internal contradictions of capitalism will inevitably lead to a world war, and your Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cannot stay out of it!"

Luo Yaoguo laughed and said, "Not only is it impossible, but because of the industrialization of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the world war will come sooner rather than later! Because the world today simply cannot afford the industrialization of a country with a population of one billion!" His expression suddenly became extremely serious, "I can't even imagine what it would mean for an industrialized country with a population of one billion to emerge in the last decade of the 19th century?"

Moore said in an unusually firm tone: "This means that all mankind will enter a brand new era!"

When Moore was leaving Yu Garden in a carriage with a vision of the future, Maria came to Luo Yaoguo with the telegram she had just translated: "Your Highness, Ambassador Xu and Zhao Si sent a joint telegram. They have signed a purchase contract worth 70 pounds with President Davis, including a 'Tianjing' class ironclad ship, a 'Shanghai' class wooden cruiser and rifles, artillery and ammunition worth 1 pounds. In addition, the Americans are also prepared to use the production license and drawings, samples and molds of the Spencer repeating rifle to offset part of the payment. The specific value of those things has yet to be determined."

"Good!" Luo Yaoguo nodded with a smile, "Xu Jishe and Zhao Si did a good job. Send them a telegram and tell them that one Tianjing-class ship and one Shanghai-class ship can be delivered immediately! Also, send an express letter to Zhang Bao in Tianwang City and ask him to take the blueprints of the Turtle Ship to New York in the name of a major commander of the California Militia Navy to express the support of the three Chinese states on the West Coast to Lincoln!"

"Yes!" Maria wrote down the contents of the telegram and express letter dictated by Luo Yaoguo and left in a hurry. The telegram to Xianfeng and Xu Jishe could be sent to Washington very quickly. But the express letter to Zhang Bao had to be sent slowly across the Pacific Ocean - there was no trans-Pacific telegraph line at that time.

At this moment, in the temporary presidential palace in New York, the capital of the Northern Federal Republic of the United States, President Lincoln held up a telegram, stood in front of a long table covered with maps, and looked at him with a sharp gaze: "Gentlemen! History will remember this day - the United States is no longer fighting alone!" He waved the telegram, "Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King of the Korean Heavenly Kingdom, the Eastern hero who just brought the Japanese archipelago under his command, has sent an armored fleet across the two oceans! The Korean flag will fly in New York Harbor, and fight against division and slavery with us!" Thunderous applause immediately broke out in the presidential office.

Secretary of State Seward slammed the table excitedly: "Mr. President, this is God's will! The ironclad ships from Korea not only bring artillery, but also the dawn of civilization - they abolish feudalism and liberate peasants, which coincides with our cause of abolition of slavery! Now the hypocrites in Europe and the slavery in the South should tremble!"

Secretary of War Stanton's finger slid across the Pacific route map: "The 32-pound cannon equipped on that 'Orient' class ironclad ship is enough to shatter the arrogance of the Southerners! I suggest that the federal government immediately purchase it and hand it over to our navy. If the construction of this battleship is not difficult, we should also manufacture it in large quantities in the shipyards of New York and Boston - we have the second largest shipbuilding industry in the world!"

Lincoln nodded, then put his hands on the table, his voice deep and firm: "When Yang Xiuqing's warriors shouted the slogan of 'destroy the Tokugawa Shogunate' at the foot of Mount Fuji, they were also fighting for freedom! Today, the wind from the Pacific Ocean blows towards New York, blowing away the indifference of Europe! Gentlemen," he raised his right fist, "this is not a war, this is a new crusade for mankind to move towards light! America, wins again!"

Everyone in the office stood up and applauded, and the printing houses of major newspapers in New York were printing extra editions - President Lincoln had already ordered that the American people must know that the Korean people stand with them!
Confederate Palace in Washington, same evening.

President Davis leaned back in a mahogany chair, holding the Petersburg pipe sent by the Russian ambassador with his fingertips, with a smile on his face: "Gentlemen, look at the gift from the Russian Empire!" He unfolded the secret letter from the Winter Palace, "His Majesty Alexander II promised that a new batch of 3,000 Cossack cavalry has boarded the transport ship bound for Charleston! Their sabers will teach the Yankees what 'order' is!"

There was reserved and arrogant applause in the Oval Office.

Vice President Stephens took over the president's words: "Even better, the Tsar will send a serfdom reform advisory group to assist us in perfecting the advanced serfdom..." He glanced at Xianfeng in the corner, who was also a recognized expert on serfdom, "As President Davis said, this is a sacred mission given to white people by God!"

Davis stood up and walked towards Xianfeng, slapping a newly signed letter of appointment as the chairman of the committee on his chest: "Bishop Zhao, you and the Russians' wisdom will save the United States! Northerners think they can blockade our ports with broken ships from North Korea?" He sneered, "Little do they know that the real power lies in the economic system that suits the American conditions. And serfdom is the most suitable for the American conditions. I know that you know more about serfdom than any other American, so I appoint you as the chairman of the American Serfdom Committee, fully responsible for promoting advanced serfdom in the United States!"

There was thunderous applause in the Oval Office!

(End of this chapter)