Chapter 753 Sister Victoria, can we cheat the United States together?

Luo Yaoguo's fingers gently tapped the table, and his eyes fell on a map of America spread out on the desk. The vast land west of the Mississippi River was drawn with a thick line with pencils, crossing the Rocky Mountains and reaching the Pacific coast.

Nathaniel stared at the line and frowned slightly. He understood what Luo Yaoguo meant - this line was not a railway, but a shackle.

"Is that all?" Luo Yaoguo suddenly spoke with a bit of joke in his tone, "It's too polite to ask for the British."

Nathaniel couldn't help but sneer: "Your Highness, do you know that this war is because the Yankees are determined to raise tariffs? If Lincoln bows his head and gives up the tariffs now, wouldn't this war be in vain?"

"Free fight?" Luo Yaoguo shook his head and pointed at the green-backed dollar on the table. "Nataniel, you underestimate this war too much."

He picked up a banknote and looked at the sunlight outside the window. The dark green ink was shining with a dull luster under the light.

"Before the war, did the U.S. federal government dare to issue such unchangeable waste paper? Chartered banks in various states are blooming everywhere, with 1,600 banks, and every family can print money, which is as messy as a pot of porridge. But what about now?" He sneered, "If the Lincoln government can really raise money on gold bonds, the next step is to collect the issuance rights of the states, establish a central bank, and hold the issuance rights of the US dollar in its own hands."

Nathaniel was silent.

Luo Yaoguo continued: "Let's talk about the army. Before the war, the federal army had only more than 10,000 people, and the militias of each state combined ten times that. Now? The northern government holds millions of troops. The New York Congress can pass the Homestead Act to take over the land in the Midwest to the Federation and then distribute it to the civilians. This is a matter that the state power faction will agree before the war?"

He put down the banknotes and his eyes were sharp: "Nataniel, the United States in the past is on the verge of death. When this war is over, no matter who wins, a brand new United States will emerge - a centralized, industrialized, and inflamed monster. If the world's second industrial country is now united, do you think Britain can still suppress it?"

Nathaniel's Adam's apple rolled, and he was speechless for a moment.

Luo Yaoguo picked up the teacup, took a sip, and then continued: "Of course, what should be threatened at the moment, you still have to threaten it. The 20% tariff will last for 10 or 20 years, and how long it can be delayed. As for gold bonds..."

He stroked his fingertips and landed on the Rocky Mountains on the map.

"We have to let Americans take things to mortgage."

Nathaniel narrowed his eyes: "The federal government is so poor now that it is shaking, what can it be mortgaged?"

"Railroad." Luo Yaoguo said lightly, "The Pacific Chartered Railway - the federal government took out monopoly rights of road construction and twenty miles of land along the route. London and California's capital and technology were used to contribute, and each of the three parties had one-third of the shares. Then use these shares to guarantee 10 million pounds of gold bonds."

Nathaniel instantly understood his intentions.

There is no need to rush to build this railway. As long as you hold the monopoly right to build a road, and for decades, the development of the western United States will stagnate, and the capital of the United Kingdom and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can firmly control gold, silver, copper and other resources on the west coast of the United States.

"Your Highness, this condition is too harsh." Nathaniel carefully said, "The interest rate of 15%, the monopoly right to build roads of the Pacific Railway, and the twenty-year low tariff bill. Not to mention whether the Americans agreed or not, even the British may not be willing to cooperate. They could invest huge sums of money in the United States before the Civil War!"

Luo Yaoguo smiled. It turns out that capital has no motherland!

"They will cooperate," he whispered, "because I will talk to my sister Victoria in person."

Nathaniel was stunned. Only then did he remember that the prophet claimed to be the godson of God, and after Queen Victoria obtained the covenant version, she thought she was Jesus' sister Mary was reincarnated.

"And..." Luo Yaoguo lowered his voice, "I still have chips in my hand."

"What chips?"

"Details of the negotiations between the Lincoln government and Nicholas Zhao Si." Luo Yaoguo said word by word, "even... the news of the secret peace talks between the north and the south. This is enough internal news to affect the trends of the financial markets on Wall Street and London!"

Nathaniel's pupils shrank: "North-South Peace? Is there such a thing?"

Luo Yaoguo did not answer directly, but just smiled meaningfully.

"It is important to be harmonious." He said slowly, "If the American Civil War really wins, no matter whether the north or the south wins, a stronger America will be born. But if this battle ends in peace talks..."

He paused and tapped his fingertips on the table.

"That's the real failure."

“Dear Sister Victoria:

May the peace of the Lord be with you.

When I stand on the walls of Tianjing and look at the West, I always think of my sister walking in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Although we are thousands of miles apart, we are all thinking about the same question - who should dominate the future of this world?

Sister, have you ever thought that the bleeding country on the other side of the ocean might become the biggest threat to the British Empire? The American Civil War was an apparent battle for slavery, but in fact it was a battle for national form. If the North wins, a centralized industrial monster would emerge; if the South is independent, the split United States would never be able to challenge Britain's hegemony - this should have been the ideal result. But now, the Lincoln government is using war to forge an unprecedentedly powerful confederacy: unify currency, unify army, and unify taxes. Such an United States would be a hundred times more dangerous than the thirteen colonies that resisted Britain back then.

Do you still remember the ‘Monroyism’? ‘America is the America of the Americans’—the subtext of this sentence is ‘America will eventually be the America of the Americans’. They have coveted Canada for a long time and sent troops to occupy San Juan Island in 1861. If this ‘Choose Country’ is allowed to industrialize, within thirty years, the entire North and South America will become their backyard. By then, how long will the British Empire’s rice flag fly in Canada?

Sister, I have a suggestion: You will come forward to mediate the American Civil War. Let the South retain the system of "state power first", let slaves continue to exist in the name of "serfs", and permanently lock federal tariffs at 20%. Such peace is the real victory - a United States that can never be united is the United States that is most beneficial to Britain.

Your loyal brother

Luo Yaoguo

In Tianjing in December 1862”

Queen Victoria's voice came to an abrupt end. She put down the English letter written by Luo Yaoguo himself, picked up the blue and white porcelain cup and took a sip of silky milk tea.

"Dear Albert, what do you think?" she turned to her husband who was wiping her glasses. "This 'Yellow Peril' proposal is interesting."

The prince put his glasses on his nose and said carelessly: "What I care more about is, 'Yellow Peril' or 'Beautiful Disaster', which is more terrible? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has controlled the entire China except Gansu and the Western Regions, and their steam engine output has increased fourfold last year."

"But yellow people can never really threaten the white world!" Victoria suddenly raised her tone. She put down her blue and white porcelain cup and picked up Luo Yaoguo's letter, "The Americans are the biggest troubles! The descendants of the Puritans have rebellious blood flowing in their blood vessels. If they are unified and powerful, she clenched the letter paper tightly, and her knuckles turned a little white. "They may support another Cromwell to subvert our empire."

Carl Moore, who had been silent, suddenly burst out laughing. The bearded royal adviser had finished his term as the Minister of Heaven in North Korea, returned to London, and began to write his second part of the Eastward Journey, and began to summarize his experiences and lessons in helping the North Korean heaven establish "industrialization without capitalists."

"Your Majesty, your 'brother' has made a fatal mistake." Moore smiled. "He thought that controlling gold and silver could kill an industrial country, but he didn't know that what was really valuable was never gold, but goods that could be bought with gold."

Prince Albert, who already knew that "Moore" was a member of the "Red Ghost", frowned: "Carl, you mean."

"If all the vaults of banks in London are emptied tomorrow, but as long as Manchester's textile machines are still rotating, Birmingham's steelmaking furnace is still burning, and the British Empire still has the most powerful navy and the vastest colony in the world, the British pound will still be the British pound." Moore stood up and walked a few steps in the room. "But if the factory is stopped and the farmland is deserted, the Royal Navy will no longer exist, even if the cellar is full of gold bricks," he suddenly stopped and said in a very affirmative tone, "These metals can only be used to decorate the tombs of the British Empire!"

Victoria let go of Luo Yaoguo's letter and pondered: "If you lose industry, you will lose your empire."

Outside the window, the whistle of the "Warrior"-class ironclad ship on the Thames was vaguely heard.

"So you think Luo Yaoguo's plan" Prince Albert said.

"Doesn't be defeated." Moore took out his handkerchief to wipe the lenses. The glass reflected the flames jumping in the fireplace. "There are 30,000 miles of railways in the north of the United States, and the pig iron production has exceeded 1 million tons, and the steel production has exceeded 200,000 tons. Six thousand engineers are trained every year, and there is a 400% grain self-sufficiency rate. Even without gold and silver as a guarantee, their green backed banknotes can still be circulated in the northern United States - because American commodities need a currency to help them circulate, rather than with money, commodities can rise from the shelves themselves."

Queen Victoria's bun's face sank: "So, we should support North quick victory?"

"No," Prince Albert shook his head, "Even if Luo Yaoguo's plan is doomed to fail, we must join it. As long as it can slow down the United States to become a powerful industrial empire, it will be beneficial to the British Empire. Moreover, the longer the American civil war drags on, the more benefits the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will seize on the west coast of the United States, and the more difficult it will be to give up in the future! The future Sino-US war will be more difficult to avoid!"
Chapter completed!