Internal affairs can be adjusted slowly in the past few months, but diplomacy or something, after passing this village, there may be no such shop. Chuemon looked at Suke six, and immediately ordered him to go to Yokohama to deal with American envoy Harris.

Chuemon is certain that Americans want Alaska, no doubt about that. But how the whole thing works, how to tie the shogunate and the United States together, and then take advantage of the defeat of the Russian army, to blackmail the Russians well, that is another matter.

Need to think long-term!

Sukeroku didn't question anything, he might be able to guess what Chuemon was thinking. At a time when the shogunate's power was slightly shaken, if it could expand the territory for the shogunate, it would actually be a way to ease the conflict.

Anyway, it is not the first time that there has been a conflict with Russia. He has fought with the Russian army and won, and in his heart, Zhu Liu has no fear of facing the so-called Russia. If you say that the war with the British is going to start now, then it is estimated that Sukeroku will try his best to persuade Chuemon.

With the crooked thoughts of Chuemon Atsushi and his neighbors, Sukeroku arrived in Yokohama. Harris was still surprised by the surprise visit of his new shogunate foreign minister. For no other reason, although the United States and Japan have established diplomatic relations, the main activities are concentrated on the trade in Yokohama and the supply of whaling ships in Hakodate.

The interests of the Americans in Japan are these two, and nothing else. The U.S. didn't catch anything about the residential area. It's too far away. With the current strength of the United States, there is really no way to fully radiate to the Far East.

The most important reason is the Americans themselves.

The conflicts between the North and South, the abolition states and the slave states have reached the point of irreconcilability. Next year will be the year of the US presidential election, and the candidates of all parties have actually started their activities.

Elections, everyone should know more or less about it. The election in the United States is an electoral system, that is, the candidate with the most votes in the state wins the electoral votes of the entire state.

Now the population gap between the North and the South is becoming more and more apparent, and the South is no longer sure of winning. Even counting the votes of slaves controlled by plantation owners, the electoral votes in the South could not hold an overall advantage.

The so-called electoral votes are the total number of the state's Senate, plus the total number of members of the Congress, to send the electors of the state to cast a vote on behalf of the state's voters.

The Virginia Dynasty may be coming to an end!

Those big manor owners in the southern state have been elected presidents from generation to generation. How can they give up the throne of the president to the northern Yankees when they reach their generation? The big bosses in the southern state are definitely not happy and dissatisfied.

The current president of the United States is James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868), a descendant of Irish immigrants, rich in diplomacy and political skill, and a Democrat .

Although he is full of great foresight in terms of domestic policies and policies, he has continuously signed decrees and documents to protect the industrial development of northern nationalities. On the subject of slavery, however, he seemed somewhat indecisive.

As the president, in order to keep the entire federation from being divided, he is also considered "schizophrenic". When speaking in the north, he talked about promoting industrial development and opening up larger raw material bases and land for everyone to go to the west.

When speaking in the South, it was said that the abolition of slavery was a hasty decree. During his tenure, he would never abolish slavery, a tradition in the Southern states.

And to cater to Southern Democrats, he talked up state rights. The internal affairs of the southern state need to be solved by the southern state itself, and the federal government has no right to interfere in all of this. The power of the federal government and the power of the states should have a clear balance and boundaries, and should not cross each other.

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In order to allow the North and the South to understand each other, President Buchanan prohibited severe judicial reforms, maintained the legal status of the Fugitive Slave Act, and did not touch the fundamental interests of either party.

To put it bluntly, it is a paper maker!

It really is the same all over the world!

Even if he tried his best, the fundamental contradiction between the north and the south could not be resolved. Under such circumstances, what can Harris, as the United States of America's ambassador to Japan, do?

Even U.S. President Buchanan, who was under his leadership, was "schizophrenic" and was struggling to cope with the domestic situation. How could there be any thought to take care of little Japan?

Why else would the ministers of other countries come and go, and the UK has changed three ministers, and he is still in office? Because the federal government really has no time to manage this matter.

Disputes over the status of Kansas, and the just-quelled John Brown Uprising, have left the U.S. government head-to-head. You ask me about Alaska, then I'm sorry, but I can't comment.

From Chuemon, I have learned that the United States has Alaska ambitions, and I don't really believe Harris' words. The Americans at this time actually looked a little like Russians.

The Russians wanted to navigate the four oceans, so they tried their best to pick things up everywhere. Americans also want their country to span the Pacific and Atlantic from east to west.

This is the era of rapid imperialism and capitalism, and it feels quite false that you and I have no time to worry about foreign affairs.

But no matter how fake it feels~lightnovelpub.net~ Help Liu can't force Harris to admit that the United States is ready to take Alaska. So he had no choice but to return to Edo with Harris' evasive answer, and report the incident to Chuemon.

Chuemon listened to Sukeroku's retelling, and slapped his mouth twice.

Americans are either cowardly, or they are weak and have no energy to deal with foreign affairs. No wonder in history that after Perry opened the door to Japan, the United States has not taken any further steps in the past seven or eight years.

It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he doesn't have time.

When it came to saying that there was no time in the United States, Chuemon sat down, grasping something faintly in his mind. It's just that this line is not clear, and it's a bit tangled.

"What did Shangqi think of?" For the first time, Zhu Liu handled foreign affairs as a foreign country.

The result is that nothing has been accomplished, which is naturally a little embarrassing. Seeing that Chuemon was thinking, he wanted to hear it and help him make plans. Although he doesn't necessarily have a solution, he still has some ideas for clarifying the way of thinking about general events.

"The Pacific! Not bad! It's the Pacific!"