The victory of the slaveholding faction in the Kansas area did not mean that after the victory was determined, the losing side automatically withdrew as the federal government imagined.

Buchanan was guilty of political naivety in this regard.

The factory owners and capitalists represented by the northern liberals. Would they care about the life and death of those slaves?

They only compete for the sales market of their products. The United States does not have its own colonies.

So what can we rely on to compete for the sales market? We can only rely on cheap labor to reduce labor costs.

The technology of the United States is basically stolen from the Great Empire, and its production efficiency is obviously not comparable to others.

Therefore, the population and market in the South must be obtained by the industrial capitalists in the North.

In other words, the contradiction between liberals and slaveholders is irreconcilable.

One of them wants to guard the fertile land, raise a group of slaves who work for free, and live their own small life.

Driven by capital, one wants to make his factory bigger and stronger.

Contradictions driven by interests are often the most irreconcilable.

This contradiction can be seen from the evolution of American political parties. In July 1854, the Whig Party joined forces with the Northern Democratic Party and other anti-slavery factions to form the Republican Party, and based the party's values ​​on "individual freedom" and "national

Unity".

In 1856, a middle-aged politician named Abraham quit the Whig Party because he strongly opposed the expansion of slavery, joined the anti-slavery Republican Party, and soon became the main leader of the party.

At this time, Abraham had been elected as the Republican presidential candidate and began his own presidential campaign.

The campaign slogans he put forward were to oppose slavery, support free economic development, increase tariffs to protect local industrial development, safeguard the interests of homesteaders, and the issue of land distribution in the central and western regions...

These propositions received strong support from northern capitalists.

This allowed Lincoln to receive a large amount of political donations for his campaign.

This time, the capitalists in the North have spent a lot of money and must send the Republican candidate to the presidential throne.

The two consecutive Democratic presidents, Pierce and Buchanan, caused northerners to suffer a lot.

Naturally, the slaveholding faction in the South could not tolerate a radical anti-slavery activist like Abraham becoming president.

They also supported their own men to run against Lincoln in the election.

This victory of the slaveholding faction in Kansas caused great harm to the liberal faction.

But this was of great help to Abraham's campaign.

Because the northern states that were still waiting on the sidelines are now also fearful of the expansion of the southern slaveholding faction and have turned to support the anti-slavery Republican Party.

Those states dominated by industrial production did not want slavery to continue to expand.

Many insightful people are on Abraham's side. These people control public opinion in society. Their voices can play an important role in Abraham's campaign.

When the two sides were fighting fiercely on the campaign trail.

Yangtze Security has taken advantage of the opportunity of maintaining its own transportation lines.

In later years, he established his own strongholds in Trinidad, Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and other places. These strongholds almost controlled the main access to the Rocky Mountains from the central plains.

In this way, the entire western region, except for the New Mexico region where the Mexican population accounts for the majority, has fallen under the actual control of California.

After the Yangtze River Security Bureau, the de facto Californian Army, operates these fortresses controlling the main roads.

Even if Dong Shuheng directly announced the founding of the country here, the federal government could only look back and sigh.

Of course, now is not the time. At least we have to wait until the North and the South start fighting.

Today, California is still a confederate state of the Union, a state that politically supports the institution of slavery.

Although there are basically no slave farms in California.

Some are just collective farms or Han self-cultivated farms.

At the same time, the same emphasis is placed on developing industry and commerce here as in the north.

The Yangtze Security Bureau is also a mercenary force of the southern slaveholding faction, not a volunteer army sent by California.

Originally such a state was supposed to be against slavery.

In Philadelphia, where the headquarters of the Republican Party is located, the party's Central Committee is holding an important meeting.

As an anti-slavery party, the Republican Party has been an important supporter of the Kansas Civil War.

They traveled to the northern states and persuaded those state legislatures to send volunteers to fight in the Kansas area.

At the same time, they also need to convince those capitalists to provide financial support for the battle in Kansas.

This time the battle in the Kansas area failed, and the liberals no longer had a foothold in Kansas.

They could only retreat to the Nebraska area in the north.

But liberals can't just give up.

The loss of tens of thousands of people was nothing. Even the loss of the territory of Kansas was nothing. There were not many people there in the first place.

"Everyone, the failure of the Kansas area has shown us the ambition of those southern slave owners. One day they will expand slavery to the entire United States."

"The United States, where the Statue of Liberty is erected, is actually full of slavery. If this continues, America will become a joke to the whole world."

"We are a free country. Give us freedom or give us death. It's time to draw a clear line between us and these enemies."

"Those states that were committed to the development of slaves must be cleaned up. We must call on more freedom fighters to go to Kansas to launch a counterattack and drive out the slave-holding accomplices from Kansas."

…

Abraham delivered an important speech to key members of the party, which was equivalent to the liberals blowing the clarion call for counterattack.

Abraham also used the opportunity of the election to continuously expand the strength of the liberal faction.

Volunteers from various states continued to gather in Missouri and Nebraska.

A larger war is coming.

Kansas area. The slaveholding faction that occupied the entire territory formed a new government.

The first thing they did was divide the land.

The first batch of land was distributed to those southern plantation owners who contributed the most.

Yangtze Security also acquired a large piece of land in western Kansas.

After all, among the several teams of the Southern Allied Forces, Yangtze Security is the most capable team.

Not to mention the powerful Yangtze River security regular army, the white volunteers and mercenaries were also impressed by the bravery and fearlessness of the Fuso warriors when they charged.

A slave-holding volunteer soldier wrote in his diary: "There was a group of shorter soldiers in that Chinese army, and their clothes were a little different. Those people rarely spoke. From a distance, it made people think that they were all

Mute, the most common action they make is to nod or bow. When attacking, they often give up their rifles and replace them with their own long knives. Although they are not tall, they can always cut the enemy's vital parts with their long knives.

.Even if blood is splashed on their faces, these people are still unmoved. If a child asks me next time what the devil looks like, I will tell him that the devil is a group of dwarfs."

…

After the liberals lost Kansas City, their armed men retreated to Missouri in the east or Nebraska in the north.

But the freedmen who had settled here could not evacuate so easily.

They still want to guard their land. They think they can protect their property by relying on federal laws and the muskets in their hands.

These people are so naive that even the federal government cannot control them at this time.

The newly formed government of Kansas directly issued a decree to liquidate those who supported the rebels.

Next, the army was dispersed. Yangtze Security also sent out the servant army that had suffered heavy casualties before.

This is considered compensation for them.

It is foreseeable that after cleaning up the Kansas area, many of these people will be able to go back and buy real estate.

This can also serve as a good example for the next new batch of servant armies.

Many details of this purge were taken out and hyped in newspapers by the northern states.

Suddenly the newspapers were full of words such as "massacre", "robbery", and "cruelty".

This allowed northern states to recruit volunteers much faster.

By the way, the food of the slaveholding faction in the South is indeed not very good.

Even if those civilians dare not leave, they only have so few people, so how much land can they occupy?

At worst, we can limit the amount of land they have.

It would be too cruel to clean it up directly.

It's just that this is exactly what California wants to see.

The deeper the conflict between the North and the South, the more beneficial it will be to California.

Wall can now consider the issue from California's perspective.

He already knew Dong Shuheng's future plans.

Hua'er knew that he would never be able to escape the title of aristocrat in the future.
To be continued...