Chapter 690 Fool, the key to the problem is not abolition and anti-Chinese, but tariffs!

North Korea's Heaven, Pyongyang East Palace.

Nanmoto Rice closed the carved wooden door, blocking the cold wind blowing from the Datong River outside the newly built magnificent Eastern Palace. Maria spread a stack of documents on the sandalwood table table, and the wide cuffs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ochre yellow robe swept the paper page: "Please look at the dried king, this is the pig iron production of the United States of America last year."

Hong Renyi leaned over and looked carefully, and his finger stopped on a string of numbers with many zeros: "830,000 tons? Our Seoul Railway Factory is only one-twentieth of that of others!"

"Yes, our Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant produced only 500,000 tons of iron last year." Maria pulled out a pencil from her sleeve and outlined it on the paper: "They also used a Beisemai converter to make steel. Last year, they produced 60,000 tons, which is comparable to our Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant. Their steel production this year is estimated to exceed 100,000 tons, and pig iron can definitely exceed 1 million tons!"

One hundred thousand tons of steel, one million tons of iron

Daozi's hand holding the tea tray trembled slightly. Her Eastern King worked hard to develop the industry of the North Korean heaven in the past two years, but compared with this American country, it is really not worth mentioning!

Maria picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Actually, the gap between our steel and the United States is not the biggest. Compared with the number of spindles in coal, railways and textile mills is far behind! Last year, the United States dug a total of 14 million tons of coal. China, North Korea, and Japan added up and don't know if there are 4 million tons? It's only a fraction of them. The railway has almost 30,000 miles. It's nearly 100,000 miles! The world's number one!"

"One Thousand Mile Railway" Hong Renyu took a breath.

Nan Ben Daozi's face was also a little pale. She had known that the United States' industrial strength was strong for a long time, but she didn't expect that the people were so powerful! The North Korean Heavenly Kingdom is still worried about the expenses required for the 1,000-mile railway in Busan-Pyongyang. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom spent a lot of money on overhauling the railway in the past two years, but as of the autumn of the ninth year of Tianli, only less than 4,000-mile railways had been built. Only 4% of the United States!

"The King of Wu said that in thirty years, the west of the Rocky Mountains may be able to stand on its own. But now," she moved her finger to the two columns of shipbuilding and merchant ship registration. "As of 1858, the total tonnage of merchant ships in the United States was more than 5 million tons, ranking first in the world! In 1858, the total tonnage of various types of ships newly built by the Americans was as high as 215,000 tons, second only to the 250,000 tons in the United Kingdom, ranking second in the world. 10% of them were steam ships!"

Maria paused and said, "King, don't you think we can seize the sea control of the West Coast of North America with more than a dozen "Shanghai" and Sanyuan ships, right? As long as the Americans draw one percent of their merchant ships to install them, they will be hundreds of warships! Even if the steam ships produced by the United States are driven to the West Coast in a year, there are more than 20,000 tons, which is equivalent to 20 "Shanghai" class!"

In 1859, the United States was far ahead of China, Japan and North Korea! Although there was no railway across the two oceans and no Panama Canal, it made it difficult for the United States to release its military strength to the Pacific Ocean.

But it's difficult, not impossible!

As long as the United States makes up its mind, with the strong shipbuilding strength of the United States and its merchant ships of more than 5 million tons, it is also OK to transport a hundred armed merchant ships and a few steam warships to the Pacific Ocean. But it will take some time.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is willing to spend a year to increase its troops on the west coast of North America, due to its national strength and distance (the distance between the trans-Pacific Ocean is not close), the power it can invest is limited.

Therefore, Luo Yaoguo's "West Coast Policy" is actually a bug in American politics. He must hold up the sign of "standard for one America" ​​and not engage in "one America and one Plus" high, and he must never showdown with the United States.

At least war cannot be started until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom achieves industrialization.

After carefully reading the report brought by Maria, Daozi suddenly looked up: "Mr. Maria means to really ask the sending to evacuate North America?"

"It's not about evacuating, but about stopping when it's done!" Maria said, "Now a war between the north and the south is brewing within the United States. Our real-time faction faction is hiding behind the Rocky Mountains and watching the tiger fight. If we show our ambition to split the United States at this time, we may lead both the north and the south of the United States that are preparing to start a war to the west!"

"The war between the north and the south of the United States?" asked Daozi, "Is it because of the abolished black slaves?" She was a little puzzled, "Where are white Americans killed each other because of the black slaves?"

"It's not because of the black slaves," Maria shook her head, "but because of the tariff!"

"Tariff?" Hong Renyi looked at Maria, "Is tariffs that important?"

"Of course!" Maria said, "Tariffs are the most important thing that concerns the money bags of factory owners in the north and manor owners in the south of the United States, so they block people's wealth, such as killing parents!" She smiled, "We white people also pay attention to filial piety!"

Suddenly, a rapid footstep sound came from outside the hall. The guards reported through the curtain: "The King of the East has arrived!"

O'Connor Loli Manor, Long Island County, New York, USA.

The beech wood in the fireplace was crackling, and the palms of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis twisted tighter and tighter around the waist of a boy in a maid outfit. The Japanese girl inhaled in pain, but her face still maintained a gentle smile.

Senator Davis roared at Xianfeng opposite him: "The yellow-skinned monkey in San Francisco dares to define what white people are! Do you really think the star-striped flag is a rag?"

Xianfeng also hugged an O'Connor's Japanese "maid" and exhaled: "When South Carolina declared the federal tariff law invalid in 1832, why didn't the Stars and Stripes be rags?"

The Japanese girl in Davis's palm suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and then gave Davis an apology smile.

"What is the weekly salary of those workers used in the Yankees' factories? It costs about 10-12 US dollars!" Xianfeng picked up the coffee and took a sip. "It is 2-2.5 pounds in pounds. What about British workers? The weekly salary of British manufacturing workers is only 1 pound, only 4%-50% of that in the United States. And the skills and labor intensity of British workers, and the spirit of seriousness and responsibility, are there no comparisons between lazy people in American factories? If it weren't for the 45% tariff wall in 1828."

Davis's face gradually turned pale, and the "abnormal tariffs" in 1828 almost destroyed all the owners of the southern United States. If the United States collects 45% of the tariffs on European industrial products, European countries will definitely increase taxes on American agricultural products! At that time, American cotton will be replaced by Egypt and India cotton. The owners of the southern United States do not need any abolition of slavery at all, and they will be abolished themselves!

So in order to fight against the high tariffs created by the Yankees, the South Carolina State Legislature passed the "Repeal Act", declaring that the tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 were "ineffective" in the state and threatened to resist federal law enforcement by force.

At that time, US President Andrew Johnson passed the "Weapon Act" in an attempt to authorize the federal army to suppress the armed tax resistance in South Carolina, and the Civil War almost broke out. Fortunately, Henry Clay, the founder of the Whig Party, stood up and introduced a "Compromising Tax Law", promising to gradually reduce tariffs to 20%, so as to avoid the Civil War start early.

"The Republican Party does not have peacemakers like Henry Clay, both Lincoln and Seward, who will only be moderate on the abolition issue, and the tariffs are at least 50%. "Xianfeng smiled, "because with the increasing number of steam ships and the larger the number of transatlantic transportation costs are rapidly declining. Without the 50% tariff, no one will buy inferior industrial products produced by waste factories in the north of the United States. At that time, the British would buy Indian and Egyptian cotton, and French tobacco dealers would find Turkey to purchase goods. Do you guess the cotton ships in Charleston Port will rust?"

O'Connor shook his whiskey cup. Before going to the West Coast to hunt for gold, he was also one of the lazy and stupid workers in the north who were asking for high prices. I have to say that they could not handle British workers!

In the long run, it seems that the tariffs of 50% or even higher for workers in China, Japan, and North Korea are indeed necessary. At the same time, because the United States has the vastest plains in the world, the cost of agricultural production in the United States is very low. American agricultural products can beat the whole world! So if the United States adopts high tariffs of 50% to protect industries, then American agriculture will become the target of foreign revenge.

In fact, the high tariffs in the United States are to make agricultural states in the south bear the losses and industrial states in the north profit.

"Last year, the United States exported $340 million in agricultural products." Xianfeng reported the figure that Davis had long been imprinted in his mind. "Southern states account for 75% of your cotton, wheat, and tobacco face 50% of the Europeans' reciprocal tariffs, that is, the factory owners in the north are eating the bodies of your southern farmers alive."

"What kind of federal politics do you Chinese know about?" Davis blushed, "There are seven state legislatures in the south that clearly oppose high tariffs."

"How did the compromise tariffs come from in 1833?" Xianfeng said coldly, "If South Carolina hadn't put the cannons at Charleston Port, Senator Clay would have promised a ten-year tax cut? But this time, even if you pulled the cannons out, the northern Republicans would not have made concessions! Because the Northern Industrial State now has much stronger power than in 1833! In 1833, the Northern Free State had only more than 6 million people, and your Southern Slave State had a population of 6.9 million, including black slaves. And at that time, the Northern Workers were at that time.

Yezhou's industry has just begun and is not as grand as it is today. Now, there is more than 20 million people in the north, and your southern slave states only have 9 million, of which 3.5 million are still black slaves. So, Jefferson, my dear friend, why do you think you can rely on a few cannons this time to scare the Yankees away? The Yankees have the second largest industry in the world, which is stronger than the industries of France and Russia. Can you use a few cannons to scare Napoleon or the Tsar? So, throw away your fantasy and prepare for war!"
Chapter completed!