Chapter 695 Zhao Si, why are you so bad!

"What? Send troops in Washington? That's illegal!"

Hearing Xianfeng's suggestion that "be the best and send troops to Washington", Breckenridge, the radical and militant faction of the Southern Democratic Party, was immediately exploded and looked at Xianfeng with an incredible look, as if saying: How can you be so bad? If you can't choose, send troops to Washington. Is this what people do?

And Xianfeng was also confused! What is this Breckenridge's idea? This is too strange, right? You are there every day and you are shouting and killing and leaving the Federation. This is a rebellion! Then let's say that it is illegal to advance to Washington!

Is there any legal rebellion in this world? Is it legal for Hong Xiuquan to rebel in Jintian? Or is it legal for him to rebel in the old forest in Northeast China?

"My Vice President!" Xianfeng gritted his teeth, "You said it was illegal to enter Washington, but it would be legal to call you to withdraw from the federal government every day?"

"It is certainly legal to withdraw from the federal government!" Breckenridge said to Xianfeng in an eloquent tone: "The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution stipulates that 'the power not granted to the federal government is retained by the state', which means that sovereignty is in the state, but only granted to the federal government by the state. The state has the right to withdraw when the federal government violates the state's rights. This is an implicit right granted to each state by the Constitution!"

It also implies power. Xianfeng almost made the innocent and romantic vice president of the United States. Even if the power struggle is written in black and white, even if it refers to the Mississippi River as an oath, he will not admit it.

What other implicit rights do you have? That is, you haven't written it clearly. Will people recognize it if you are talking to yourself?

Even if you have never studied, you will not be so naive if you have heard someone talk about the storytelling of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" under the overpass!

By the way, you probably haven’t even heard of the storytelling of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It’s so scary to be uneducated!

Thinking of this, Xianfeng patiently said to the US Vice President in front of him: "Mr. Vice President, I first assume that you have recognized the implicit rights of the Northern Free State."

Breckenridge looked proud: "If they don't recognize it, our southern militia will force them to recognize it with muskets!"

Xianfeng looked at the innocent blue eyes of the American "big boy" who had never even heard of the storytelling of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with sympathy: "Mr. Vice President, let's deduce if, I mean, if, your southern states withdraw from the federal government based on this implicit right. Does that mean that the southern states and the United States of America belong to two countries?"

"Of course!" said Breckenridge, "we each passed their own."

"Is that true?" Xianfeng smiled, "Are you two countries long ago and Mexico? Why did you invade others and seize more than half of their territory?"

"That's because they Mexicans do not allow Texas to be independent." Breckenridge said seriously.

"Is there anything wrong with the Mexicans not allowing their territory to be taken to independence by you American immigrants?" Xianfeng asked with his eyes wide open.

"Of course this is wrong!" Breckenridge immediately changed into a hegemonic face, "Biss Zhao, please make sure that America is the American America!"

"Well," Xianfeng said with a smile, "When you withdraw from the Federation, you will not be part of the United States, America will belong to others. And you are another Mexico! You are a farmer with a population of only one quarter of the United States, an industry of only one-fourth of the United States, and a wealthy country.

By the way, you are still practicing barbaric slavery! Mr. Vice President, do you think the American masters in the north will let you go? Think about it yourself. If there is such an evil country next to the United States now that is rich, has no industry, has a population of only one-quarter or five of the United States, and has a sinful slavery, you wouldn't want to invade? Even if you, a slave owner, are kind-hearted and don't do anything to bully people, what about those Yankees? They are so kind?"

Breckenridge's face changed. It was broken. As soon as I quit, I turned from America to another Mexico. Yankees were so bad, how could they not come to rob? Wait, I have cotton!

"No, no, no," Breckenridge said seriously, "We have cotton, and no one dares to declare war on cotton!"

"There is cotton?" Xianfeng felt sympathy. What a fool, the Vice President of the United States is a fool? Cotton is useless! My Qing Dynasty also had silk, porcelain, and tea back then. What's the use? My Qing Dynasty is still gone!

"Mr. Vice President!" Xianfeng said with a wry smile, "There are steel, warships, guns and cannons in the north. What do you have? Is there cotton? Do you want to kill the Yankees with cotton?"

"The British need our cotton!" Breckenridge said in an almost pious tone, "If we don't have our cotton, the British textile mill would not be able to start construction."

Xianfeng sneered: "They can also let the Indians and Egyptians help them grow cotton, and at most they starve to death a little Indians. The British don't care at all! So without American cotton, British textile mills will not close. At most they will reduce production and increase prices, and they may make more money! Moreover, aren't you former Americans just traitors who opposed British rule seventy or eighty years ago? You actually expect the British to ignore past grudges and die tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people for you for a little cotton? When you Americans were making independence, Britain only died for 40,000 to 50,000 people and gave up. And to defeat the United States on the east coast of North America and force the United States to give up eleven slave states in the south. How much will the United Kingdom die? Vice President, are you really so sure that the British will pay such a big price for cotton? Have you asked Viscount Palmerston and Prince Albert?"

I have to ask about this matter? Breckenridge looked at Xianfeng stupidly.

Xianfeng sighed: This foolish Vice President took it for granted in this matter!

"Mr. Vice President," Xianfeng said to the silly US Vice President, "I think you must have not received any promises from Viscount Palmerston or Prince Albert? Britain has just experienced a war against Russia and a rebellion that swept India, how interested are they to be immediately involved in another American civil war?"

"Inner, civil war?" Breckenridge was stunned again, "How did it turn into civil war?"

"Of course it's a civil war!" Xianfeng said, "Since the north will definitely invade the south, why do they still admit that you have the right to withdraw from the Federation? That implicit rights are not explicit. Why do they recognize it? Isn't it good to directly declare you as traitors? In this way, they can justify you as traitors."

Come back again!

Breckenridge scratched his head, as if that was the case. If the South successfully withdrew from the Federation, it would be bad. The South would not be the United States, but the second in Mexico! The Yankees next door would be so bad that they would definitely invade! Since the Yankees would definitely invade, why should they admit any implicit rights? Isn't sending troops to fight against the rebels? So there is no chance of independence in the Eleven Southern States.

Since there is no chance of independence, civil war will definitely break out, so should the South start to take action first?

Thinking of this, Breckenridge looked at Davis: "Jefferson. Will the American people support us?"

"This." Davis was unsure either.

"Vice President, Senator," Xianfeng took out another public opinion evaluation report that came from the Democratic Party Congress at this time. "Is the evaluation result in this report accurate?"

"Accurate," said Davis, "this is evaluated by experts in the party, and the accuracy is quite high."

"Then it says that the Democratic Party's support rate is about 47%, the Republican Party's support rate is about 40%, and the remaining voters are from the Constitutional Coalition Party." Xianfeng pointed to the numbers in the assessment report and said, "The Democratic Party is clearly 7% ahead of the Republican Party, why do you lose?"

Davis sighed and said, "Bishop Zhao, our election as president in the United States does not mean that whoever gets more votes will be the president."

"Oh," Xianfeng was stunned, "Is it because he has few votes?"

“Neither,” Breckenridge explained, “the rules of the U.S. presidential election should emphasize the principle of state power supremacy!”

“Get more state support and win?”

"No, it depends on how many people the states support are." Davis said. "We will allocate electoral votes based on the population of each state. Usually, all electoral votes in a state will be voted for candidates who receive more votes in the state. Although the Republicans' support rate is only 40%, their supporters are concentrated in the northern states, and many voters who support Democratic Party among these large-capital states also have many voters who support Democratic Party. However, because they are minority in most large-capital states, the electoral votes in these large-capital states will be voted for the Republican Party."

Breckenridge continued: "Our Democrats have an overwhelming advantage among the eleven slave states in the south. But even if we get every vote in these eleven states, we end up with only 72 electoral votes. The Republican Party can win at least 150 electoral votes with a simple majority in the northern states. Now there are 303 electoral votes in the United States, and 152 can win safely, but because the Constitutional United Party can win at least a dozen electoral votes, so."

"So a 47% approval rating will lose to a 40% approval rating?" Xianfeng smiled, "Since the Vice President has 47% of voters who support the Democratic Party, why are you hesitating? Announce the Republican Party to cheat in the northern states! Anyway, there are a lot of fraud in your American elections. You just use this as an excuse to enter Capitol Hill and take Washington! Oh, by the way, before the presidential handover in January next year, your Democratic Party Mr. Buchanan is the president, and you Mr. Breckenridge is the vice president! The federal army of the United States is still in the control of your Democrats! Isn't this a sure win situation?"

It seems to be right!

Davis and Breckenridge looked at each other, and then turned their attention to Xianfeng together - how could this rebel expert from China be so bad? But it seems that he is bad and makes sense!
Chapter completed!