After Doug and Lincoln's conversation came to an end, Mayor De Niro asked, "Lincoln, don't you know that your cabinet-building candidate has been selected?"

Lincoln said with a smile, "But no one thinks I can really be elected president. I am still far from forming a cabinet."

Doug realized at this time that Mayor De Niro was unwilling to be a small mayor. He had to display his talents from a higher place first.

The presidential election in the United States is not just a presidential election, but also means a change of leadership around the core team around the president.

After all, even in a small business, new leaders want to change to their own people when they take office.

Not to mention an important position like the US president.

Other people may not necessarily be male servants, but may be more capable than their own, but who knows whose interests they will serve at critical moments?

Moreover, any member of the cabinet of a president is not just out of the president's own wishes, but also represents the interests of the financial backers behind the president.

If Doug Clayden strives to support Lincoln in his campaign for president at this moment, if Lincoln successfully runs, he can add his people to Lincoln's team.

This kind of adds people is not only for the sake of good looks, but also for more benefits.

The election of every president means that the interest groups behind him are in power.

If Lincoln became the president of the United States, Doug and his industry would naturally expand rapidly.

Because policy is on his side.

He had any idea here, and he could ask Lincoln to cooperate in the other way.

There are policies. As for money, if Doug intends to establish the US Central Bank, if it is really established, he will still have as much money as he wants.

However, at that time, the monetary value of money will be greatly weakened, and it belongs to the nature of power and will begin to appear.

If Doug wants to put $4 trillion into real estate, real estate will flourish in an instant.

This is the power that money has and controls people.

Of course, this kind of power cannot be used at will.

The result of abuse of power is that this power is becoming increasingly difficult to use.

If all the products produced in the United States were only worth ten million dollars, the central bank controlled by Doug invested billions of dollars into the market.

Sorry, if the US dollar is not pegged to gold, it will depreciate quickly and depreciate to a situation that ordinary people can't imagine.

Of course, Doug wouldn't be that stupid.

Lincoln wants to be president, De Niro wants to enter the presidential cabinet, and Doug wants to own the central bank.

The three of them had their own thoughts, but their thoughts overlapped, prompting them to work hard for the same goal.

That is - let Lincoln be elected president!

Doug chose Lincoln over others not because Lincoln came to see him on his own initiative, nor because in his memory, Lincoln once served as president.

But other candidates for presidents already have deep-rooted interest groups behind them.

Although Doug can also participate in that interest group, if divided according to strength, he will get too few fruits.

Such meager interests are better to let him gamble and support Lincoln, a presidential candidate who does not have much capitalist support.

Of course, those who run for president are not only from the north, but also from the south.

The funders behind the candidates of the North are all big factory owners and capitalists, while the funders of the candidates of the South are planters.

The plantation economy relies on the international trade system, and high-quality crops have wide sales around the world.

Compared with inferior industrial products in the north, agricultural products are easier to sell and make more profits.

However, in recent years, the presidential election has been the presidential election in the north.

Why is this?

The reason is very simple, there are many citizens in the north.

There are far more citizens in the north who have votes than in the south.

Although the South has to crush the North in terms of absolute numbers.

However, there is a very important problem: slaves are not humans, and blacks are not humans.

Black people don't have the ability to vote.

The status of black slaves is no different from that of a dog. They are all owned by their masters. Although they have life, they are the attributes of "things" at the legal level.

The president of the north represents the interests of the north.

Although the first US president was also a slave owner.

However, the political center is in the north, the president is from the north, and policies are always tilted towards the north.

It's like tariffs.

The South hopes that the lower the tariff, the better, whether it is import tariffs or export tariffs.

Because in this way, whether it is to take out the whole product from abroad or to buy foreign agricultural machinery and luxury goods, it is more cost-effective.

But for the north, if foreign machines are cheaper, the southern market will be occupied by foreign machines, and the machines produced in the country will not be sold at all.

This won't work!

Therefore, they advocated raising tariffs!

Of course, in addition to the increase in import tariffs, export tariffs are also very good.

Although there is also a planting industry in the north, the grain output is not as high as the south and the price is more expensive.

If the price after the tariff is added, foreign buyers cannot accept it.

They can only sell their food in the country.

The north buys cheap food and then exports expensive and inferior machines.

In this way, the south completely became an economic vassal of the north.

Provide primary agricultural products and purchase intermediate industrial products.

Although the South does not disgust with being an economic colony in industrialized areas, they would rather be an economic colony in Britain than an American one.

Because the UK has the first-mover advantage of industry, no matter from any perspective, the UK's industrial products are far superior to the United States.

Of course, there may be people from the south who come up with very wonderful ideas.

It is better to liberate black slaves, let them become people in the political sense, and give them the right to vote. Isn’t this a solution to the problem?

However, it is not easy to let the slave owner liberate the slaves.

If you have a cow at home, if you sell it, you can make others happier.

Will you sell cattle?

No!

Of course not.

Because, you really have a cow.

Because, you really bought this cow with great effort.

Therefore, although all planters expect someone to liberate the slaves and release some votes.

However, no one took the lead in doing so.

Because, for the liberation of one's own slaves, whoever comes first will suffer a loss.

If everyone doesn’t want to suffer losses, then it’s better to maintain the status quo.

Even with high tariffs, everyone was just yelling the northerners and trying their best to export.

In exchange for industrial and luxury goods produced all over the world.
Chapter completed!