The final terms of the peace talks between the Union of Mineworkers and the coal cartel were a 10% wage increase and ten hours of working time per day. This was considered a compromise. Morgan gained great convenience for the coal cartel. Regarding Roosevelt's actions,

The mines were confiscated and they also gave firm resistance.

From newspaper reports, we know that Morgan is the undoubted protagonist, occupying far more space than Roosevelt. Rather than praising the president's stance on this matter, many interested parties are more willing to praise Morgan's efforts.

Sheffield also quickly received the news. This should be Morgan teaching a lesson to the smug President Roosevelt. At least for now, this first powerful president in modern times is not a match for a tycoon like Morgan.

But this has nothing to do with him. The slave owner is still cautiously making friends with President Wilson. Through personal contact, he can judge whether this president, who is still more of a scholar than a politician, is the candidate he wants to promote.

For the United States, the early twentieth century was the beginning of the expansion of federal authority, which was mainly reflected in the increase in presidential power. Sheffield must have been as unwilling to this as Morgan and Rockefeller. But there was no way to stop it.

There is always a reason for the evolution of things. We cannot only consider the domestic environment. The external factors of the two world wars also had an impact on the president who was in office at the time.

Without the participation of the United States in the two world wars, the power of the federal president would not be as great as it was more than a hundred years later. However, out of interests, the United States would always participate in the war. Once it participates in the war, the authority of the military will naturally expand, and the military will naturally expand.

The expansion of the authority of the other side will kidnap the country to continue the war, and then the war-related interests will become larger and will not let the war stop easily.

Just like if the Ming Dynasty had not been in poor financial condition since the founding of the country, the last candidate of the dynasty would not have repeatedly cut back due to financial problems. Step by step, it made it so embarrassing for the emperor to defend the country. Even if so many buffer zones were abandoned, the Ming army was still

No money to maintain fighting capacity.

As the president of Princeton, Wilson didn't have a good impression of Sheffield during their first meeting. After all, the slave owner's boasting was a bit too much, until he saw Sheffield having nothing to do, holding Macartney's Memoirs.

I was looking at it, so I found a friend to try it out. This person is the child of Wilson's family friend. He grew up in the Qing Dynasty. He is now returning to China for further study. He has a good relationship with Wilson.

After sending this child of his family friend out, Wilson threw himself into the intense work, but there was no movement for several days. Finally, he saw Leighton Stuart again. Wilson quickly stopped the junior who was about to leave in a hurry, and asked, "What have you been doing recently?

Already."

"Dear Mr. Wilson, I have never seen such a knowledgeable sinologist. His eyes seem to be able to see the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Talking to him was very useful to me. Time passed very quickly. I won't say more.

, I still have questions to ask!" Leighton Stuart quickly said what he had learned, and hurriedly disappeared from Wilson's sight.

Wilson's face turned red and white, and he said to himself, "Isn't that billionaire lying?"

On the campus of Princeton University, two young people can often be seen taking a walk recently, happily discussing issues that others cannot understand at all, because the two of them are talking in Chinese. It is said that they are discussing, but in fact, Leighton Stuart is asking the slave owner for advice.

All kinds of questions.

Sheffield, who had already met many presidents, was no longer surprised by this well-known figure in history. The two of them were peers. Stuart asked for advice so politely. Sheffield still tried his best to provide his true opinions in the field that he could.

Considering his status as a citizen of the United States, Sheffield did not deliberately deceive Leighton Stuart because he knew that Leighton Stuart would not be in the country for long and would still go to the East in the future. This ill-fated diplomat should have less unrealistic thinking.

It's better. If you stay in one place for a long time, you may develop some unrealistic ideas, which may sometimes harm yourself.

"Leiden Stuart, in the end, the Chinese people have to deal with their own affairs. Sometimes you think you are doing it for their own good, but they may not appreciate it." Sheffield took out his gloves and patted the chair twice, then sat down and solemnly

He said, "You have lived in China for many years, but some things have been interfered with by your long-term life. You cannot have wishful thinking for a country with such a large population."

"Mr. William, I can see some very good characteristics of the Chinese people, which are not what many citizens say. I think a boss like you who knows very well can reverse this situation if he can make a little effort.

Impression." The young Leighton Stuart was in high spirits, and he didn't take the slave owner's words to heart at first glance.

I have already done it! Sheffield secretly complained in his heart that the Chinese Exclusion Act would disappear automatically if nothing happens, but this matter must not be used to claim credit. He paused and said, "Citizens are hostile to foreign ethnic groups for the sake of their own country. This is

You can't blame them for being patriotic, and you haven't seen many other characteristics of the Chinese people. A person cannot be useless, and the same is true for a country. People are so contradictory, let alone a country."

Just like Wilson, although Sheffield did not communicate with the other party for a long time, a few meetings were enough to have a general understanding. Everything has two sides, although Wilson's academic background led to him having very high moral standards.

, and also put it into his own political and diplomatic actions. He was born in the South, and discrimination against black people is inevitable. All his views on freedom and democracy are only applicable to European countries. He was the most criticized by later generations.

During his tenure, racial segregation policies were implemented within the federal government.

"China is a country that is useless unless it is humiliated. They don't feel that they are wrong at all. After all, in the agricultural era, it was so successful that you can't find any civilization in Asia that is as stable as it." Sheffield used the word "China."

The word stable is used instead of strong. After all, this is the United States. There is no market for self-entertainment that has led the world for thousands of years since ancient times.

"Stable?" Stuart muttered this word, feeling that he heard a very novel point of view from Sheffield.

"Yes, stable!" Sheffield nodded. "When it comes to civilization in the agricultural era, Indian culture can also be said to be brilliant. The Arabs in West Asia are very powerful, and the Persians have a very glorious history. But Chinese culture is very stable, of course.

It is very conservative in some aspects, but its collective nature is far greater than other Asian civilizations."

"Mr. William, I think that the vast Qing Dynasty today is not the China of the past." Stuart thought for a moment and objected, "You may not know the entire history of China."

Sheffield opened his mouth but did not refute Leighton Stuart. If we do not count the Yuan and Qing Dynasties, the foreign policies of the Han, Tang and Song and Ming dynasties were indeed completely different. The former was obviously very motivated to develop, while the latter was obviously conservative.

"Every civilization is always conservative when it reaches maturity! Not everyone is like our country, which has been a group of poor immigrants since its establishment!" Sheffield smiled and praised the United States. He really wanted to say,

The United States of America more than a hundred years later will actually have huge problems, and it is far less energetic than the United States of today.

I don’t know how to bring back the young people who have been ruined by happy education, and the elites of the United States have no intention of making the citizen class competitive again. Counting the time, the time when the United States was founded at that time was also

It is equivalent to the late stage of a dynasty. If it cannot withstand the competition of the Republic, it will prove that what a beacon of capitalism, the hope of mankind cannot escape the prosperity and decline.

The citizens of the United States have never experienced a change of government, nor have they experienced falling to the bottom and getting back up again. It is very doubtful whether they can persevere when they are really in adversity.

In less than ten days, Sheffield successfully gained a little fan at Princeton University, firmly established himself as the leader of sinology in the country, and finally gave Macartney's Memoirs to Leighton Stuart, who was not afraid

Taking Leighton Stuart astray made him more down-to-earth.

The complete version of Macartney's memoirs does not blindly belittle the Qing Dynasty. A normal book must have praise and criticism. Unfortunately, many people intercept the parts they want and use them to refute the same book.

Content, what do slave owners say? Dynasty fans are incomprehensible.

Wilson was shocked that Stuart Stuart had become Sheffield's fanboy so quickly. You must know that Stuart Stuart was born in the East, and everything he saw and heard was from personal experience. He was so convinced of a capitalist. This made Wilson realize that he had judged

After a mistake, Wilson, who had a strong academic mindset, officially came into contact with Sheffield as a scholar.

Did Stuart experience it personally? Didn’t I experience it personally? Sheffield kept these words in his stomach and pretended that Wilson asked Stuart to test whether he had ink.

Now as the president of Princeton University, Wilson's biggest wish is to push the university to a higher level, and even directly expounded his ideas on curbing elite clubs in front of Sheffield.

Is this the nerdy side coming out? Of course Sheffield knows what an elite club is, like the Skull and Bones Society. He himself is a member of the Texas Club. He can be sure that Wilson's idea will not succeed, because elite clubs will come later.
Chapter completed!