Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 134: Spring Night
Subtitle of this chapter: There are many heroes at the widow’s door, and the master has broad ideas in his mind.
Our Master Yuan did not dislike President Harding. It is rare in American history to have such a president who flatters his superiors.
Although Warren Harding has been ranked in the top three of the worst presidents in American history since his death.
The only ones who could compete with him were James Buchanan, the 15th president, who was unable to resolve the North-South conflict and led to the outbreak of the Civil War, and Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, who was the first president in American history to be impeached..
To be honest, Yuan Yanshu quite likes the President of the United States.
Isn't it just openly bringing a mistress into the White House? The mistress was consensual, and Clinton had an affair with a female intern, which was much worse than his.
Isn't it just to indulge his cabinet members and party bosses to make money? For a big country like the United States, this money is nothing. In order to make money, the military-industrial complexes and energy tycoons around Bush Jr. launched two wars, killed millions of people, and messed up half the world. What are the "Ohio Gang"?
Isn't it just an embroidered pillow, a bag of grass and donkey dung? Obama, who is good for nothing except telling jokes, is worse than Harding. For his own and one-party selfishness, he has greatly deepened the racial and class contradictions in the United States. It can be said that he has torn the American nation, which was finally integrated, into pieces again.
Compared with these three, Harding can't be said to be as pure as an angel, but he is not that bad either. On the contrary, he is praised as a good man with a loyal and true temperament. It's a pity that he didn't join the Hongmen.
Besides, whether President Harding was dead or alive, it would not have had much impact on history.
The descendant of the Demon once said that there is no party outside the party, only imperial thinking; there is no faction within the party, only all kinds of weird things.
There are many factions within the communist vanguard, let alone the capitalist election machine?
Moreover, the "Ohio Gang" was only one of the more powerful factions within the Republican Party. The presidential candidate they put forward, Warren Harding, was recognized by everyone, so he temporarily became the leader of all factions within the party.
The party's candidate nomination at that time was not the primary election system of later generations. Candidates would not stand on the stage for a debate, and then all party members would vote. Instead, they used the party convention method, that is, a group of bigwigs held a small meeting behind closed doors. However, they would still use voting to select the presidential candidate in the end, after all, voting was more interesting than fighting in a group.
Like in 1920, it took Republican leaders 10 rounds of voting before they decided to choose Harding.
So, when the "Ohio Gang" and Warren Harding became the party's negative assets, the Republican Party would definitely try every means to cut them off...such as assassination!
If we follow this line of thought, why would our Master Yuan, a Seres, rashly get involved in such a big political conspiracy? Is it because he thinks he can't die fast enough?
For the sake of his own life and property safety, of course he would just roll as far away as possible.
But Yuan Yanshu couldn't say to Harding that it would be better for you to die sooner and be reborn, and the earlier you die, the better your reputation will be, so it would be better for Doctor Wen to disappear.
Of the thirty-six strategies, running away was the best strategy, so he had no choice but to perfunctorily deal with Harding, and then immediately sent Wen Jinxiu to Europe. In this way, he could say that Doctor Wen was traveling around the world and going to Europe to find a suitable furnace.
This is not a lie. Old man Wen Caihua will definitely continue to study the Yellow and Red Art when he goes to Europe.
So whether Warren Harding really died of a stroke in the end has nothing to do with us Seres.
And there was another benefit to doing this. Counting the days, FDR would be sick with polio in less than four months. Letting the old man suffer a little and then curing him would make him more grateful.
At that time, we can not only enhance the reputation of traditional Chinese medicine, but also gain Roosevelt's favor. Wouldn't that be great?
I'm sorry, dear Mr. President, it's not that I don't want to change history and let you live a few more years. In fact, it might be a good thing for you to go to heaven earlier.
Thinking of this, our Master Yuan looked up and saw the sky full of stars in the spring night.
He couldn't help but feel poetic, and chanted in a soft voice: "The stars are not the same as last night, I'm going to have a midnight snack. A moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold, I'll get up tomorrow and drink tofu pudding..."
Alas, the barbarian countries are still not as good as our great China. Not to mention salty tofu pudding, even sweet tofu pudding is not available.
Never mind, midnight snack and Miss Moman are waiting for him.
“Whoosh!”
He used a "flick of the fingers" to throw the cigarette butt in his hand into the river beside the hotel. He suppressed his excitement and walked into the rosewood lobby leisurely with his hands behind his back...
When Master Yuan entered, he did not see Miss Moman, but saw...
He couldn't help but stammer and asked, "How did you find me?!"
"Nui, I had to have people search every hotel in Washington before I could find you."
"Coco...that Ms. Brooks..."
"You, when you were watching the rain scene, you called me Keke. Now that the old one has been replaced by the new one, you call me Ms. Brooks..."
Wait, why do the lines this woman says sound so familiar?
That's not right. Now is not the time to worry about this.
No, this would change history. What if MacArthur couldn't marry this beauty and was not kicked out to the Philippines by Pershing?
Really, I am not one of those American heroes who have the custom of marrying young widows. In fact, a second-married woman like Ms. Brooks with a child can also be considered a widow.
That's right, the three greatest presidents at the beginning of the founding of the United States - the first president Washington, the third president Jefferson who drafted the Declaration of Independence, and the fourth president Madison, known as the father of the Constitution, all married widows.
The widows that the three of them married were all real white, rich and beautiful women. Among the "Three Imperial Commanders" in World War II, MacArthur married Brooks the next year, and Marshall also married a wealthy widow a few years later.
Come to think of it, can this be considered a tradition of the American elite?
In fact, this is not only the tradition of Americans, but also the tradition of Anglo-Saxons, and can be traced back to the tradition of the Germanic peoples.
An important marriage tradition of the Germanic people is to pay special attention to dowry, and dowry is often the first factor considered in marriage.
In fact, the dowry of the ancient Germanic people was a way for women to obtain their parents' property. Sons could directly inherit their parents' property, while dowry was a pre-allocation to daughters, or an early inheritance of property.
This tradition has been preserved by the Anglo-Saxon people. There are two special clauses in the Magna Carta to protect the rights of widows: Article 7 protects a widow's dowry, inheritance and common property with her husband before his death from being encroached upon by the king; Article 8 emphasizes that a widow shall not be forced to remarry.
Yuan Yan quickly found an excuse and said, "Ms. Brooks, I have to work tonight. How about we do it another day..."
"No need to wait until another day. I'll accompany you while you work." Keke smiled sweetly, walked up to him, took his arm affectionately, and dragged him into the elevator...