1850 American Gold Tycoon

"I will try my best to fight for this matter, but there is one thing. The shipping management issue with the Qing Dynasty needs to be led by the San Francisco Shipyard. This is Liang Yao's request.

The Qing Dynasty has not yet determined the partner of the shipping administration. Moreover, Buchanan was not qualified to bargain with Liang Yao on this matter.

It was up to Liang Yao whether he could win this project, so Buchanan had no choice but to nod in agreement.

"San Francisco Shipyard is the leader in the American shipbuilding industry, and San Francisco Shipyard deserves priority to participate in the shipbuilding industry if it can be obtained."

"Sir Buchanan, do you know anything about the Utah area?" Liang Yao talked about the Utah area.

It stands to reason that the Utah area is further away from the east and closer to the west coast.

Liang Yao wanted to move the Utah area, but the federal government was beyond its reach. What's more, the Mormons in the Utah area have long been a street rat in the eastern states, and everyone wants to beat them.

Not only would there not be any pressure from public opinion to move them, but the Christians in the east would also applaud them.

However, Liang Yao still planned to say hello to the federal government in advance, so that he would be able to attack the Mormons in Utah in the future and be justified.

Furthermore, Liang Yao wanted to install one of his own as the local governor of Utah Territory. This must be done through the federal government.

"You mean the local Mormons?"

When this was mentioned, Buchanan's face became very ugly.

"These heretics are indeed outrageous, and the crimes committed by their bishops are unspeakable. Only an incompetent president like Fillmore would appoint a scum like Brigham Young as governor and grant military power! This bastard Fillmore, during his tenure, He didn’t do anything serious at all and left me with such a mess that was hard to clean up.”

Buchanan vented his anger by lambasting Fillmore in the Oval Office.

Liang Yao didn't care, he wasn't scolding him anyway, he just sat quietly on the chair drinking coffee and listened to Buchanan's scolding.

After the scolding was over, Buchanan returned to the topic.

"Around Christmas, I sent people to communicate with Brigham Young and asked Brigham Young to resign. Unexpectedly, this guy actually defied the authority of the federal government. Not only did he refuse to hand over power, he also humiliated the cabinet minister I sent to deliver the message. I am now Consider forcibly removing him from his post."

"For this heretic who despises the authority of the federal government and blasphemes God, not only should he be dismissed from his post, but his dirty body should also be burned to death, so that his soul can be completely purified." Liang Yao said.

"The Mormons must also be eliminated, otherwise there will be a second, third, or even more Brigham Young. As long as the Mormons still exist, people like Brigham Young will have the soil to survive."

"What you said makes perfect sense."

The two men had surprisingly consistent attitudes towards the Mormon Church in Utah Territory, but soon, Buchanan hesitated, and he looked worried.

"Mormons are extremist religious elements and worship Brigham Young as a god. And Brigham Young had a large number of militiamen and armed believers. It would not be easy to remove him from his post and make him bow his head and confess his crime. The army would need to be deployed."

Sending out the troops. Sending out the troops costs money.

Sending troops to remote frontier areas like Utah would require more money.

It is difficult to move forward without money. If the federal government had sufficient finances, Buchanan would not let a bastard like Brigham Young be so arrogant. We had already sent troops to Utah to capture this bastard and bring him to Washington for questioning. Buchanan would not be affected by this.

"Your Excellency, I am willing to do this for you." Liang Yao volunteered.

Buchanan slapped his forehead and suddenly realized: "Look, look at my brain, I was almost mad. You are the commander of the Western Brigade, and your station is closest to the Utah Territory. It is up to you to complete this task." Couldn't be more appropriate.

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"Just what?" Liang Yao frowned.

"It's just that the federal government's finances are very tight. I heard that the salary of officers and soldiers of the western brigade is higher than that of soldiers in the east." Buchanan said with a look of embarrassment.

Liang Yao didn't know whether Buchanan said this intentionally or accidentally.

Regardless of whether he did it intentionally or accidentally, just keep negotiating terms.

"I understand the difficulties of the federal government." Liang Yao discussed the conditions with Buchanan.

"Your Excellency, I have a small suggestion: the new governor of the Utah Territory must be jointly recommended by the three West Coast states. The new governor should implement a secular transformation in the Utah Territory."

Right now, the eastern part of the federal government has too much to take care of itself, let alone the Utah Territory, which is more than 2,000 miles away from Washington.

It would be better to exchange the position of Governor of the Utah Territory for Liang Yao to send troops to Utah, and then carry out secular transformation of the Utah Territory than to let the Utah Territory be in the hands of a group of magicians.

Buchanan also did not want these Mormons to repeat the Mayflower celebration in Utah Territory during his presidency.

Buchanan stood up and paced the Oval Office, weighing the pros and cons.

If Mormonism is allowed to continue to develop, it will inevitably spread to other surrounding territories.

The U.S. federal government's ability to control the territory has always been very weak. If the cancer of Mormonism spreads to the entire West, it will become the mainstream religion in the West.

At that time, it will no longer be a problem that can be solved by simply sending troops.

Liang Yao is at least a politician in the mainstream secular world of America, and to some extent he can also represent the federal government.

With federal generals controlling the Utah Territory, the federal government could at least maintain more effective control over the Utah Territory.

Of course, the price is that Liang Yao personally and the Chinese power on the west coast will further expand in the western region.

But this is a problem that will be a headache for the subsequent presidents. I, Buchanan, will bear the reputation of purging the Mormons and regaining control of the Utah Territory for the federal government.

After all, Buchanan ended up living the life he hated most.

"The West Coast region is closer to the Utah Territory, and the legislators from the three West Coast states are also more familiar with the situation in the Utah Territory. Your suggestion has merit. I personally agree to adopt your suggestion. I will discuss it in the cabinet later. discuss this issue.”

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Virginia, a land of outstanding people, is known as the cradle of American presidents.

Nine of the fifteen presidents before the Civil War were from Southern states, and seven of these nine Southern state presidents were from Virginia.

Among the first five presidents of the United States (1789-1825), except for the second president, John Adams, who was from Massachusetts, the other four presidents were all from Virginia.

The best of these Virginia presidents are George Washington, the founding president of the United States, and Thomas Jefferson, the third president.

This shows that in the agricultural era of America, Virginia had absolute say and influence across the country.

As the United States gradually moved from the agricultural era to the industrial era, the influence of Virginia and the entire South was gradually declining.

After 1825, presidential candidates from southern states no longer had an advantage when running for president, and the proportion of southern legislators, especially members of the House of Representatives, in Congress gradually declined.

The three West Coast states that were established in recent years all joined the United States as free states. The original balance in the number of senators between slave states and free states was broken with the establishment of California.

Although after the Second Mexican-American War, the southern slave states integrated the northeastern states of the original Mexico and established the state of New South Mexico, winning two valuable Senate seats for the South.

But this still cannot change the decline of the slave states in the House of Representatives and the Senate.