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This inability to fight isn't just limited to the American Civil War in the home world; the American Civil War in the second world is also nearing its end. Bismarck and Richelieu are in charge there, and they've done their utmost to turn America from a second-degree cripple into something on the verge of collapse.

On the domestic side, Anglo-Saxon and Jewish capital are secretly in contact, trying to end the civil war. Both sides realize that if they continue fighting, not only will the United States be destroyed, but their own interests will also be destroyed. Jews have already lost Israel, the "promised land" in the Middle East, and anti-Semitic movements are beginning to rise worldwide. All of this is their own doing. With Anglo-Saxon capital turning against them, Jewish capital is now at the biggest disadvantage.

With Jewish capital indicating its willingness to make significant concessions, many things can be discussed.

Talk? Impossible. Keep fighting! The higher-ups can talk, but it's normal for those who have committed blood feuds to refuse and even rebel. After all, soldiers who have lost loved ones and close friends can't just let go of everything because of a handshake with the higher-ups. Or rather, once the higher-ups start negotiating, they will immediately realize that they have been betrayed.

Even if the two sides are in secret contact, they will try every means to conduct encrypted communication.

After all, the existence of Golden Eye Network has fostered a habit among high-ranking officials in various countries to act as riddle tellers, or to conduct clandestine transactions by using seemingly harmless dialogues that actually conceal information. There is no way to leave any documents or records; it all depends on the tacit understanding between the two parties. If one party breaks this understanding, then so be it; there is no other way.

Once the privileged lost their information advantage, the stock market became much more normal, and no one cut off power anymore, which made many retail investors feel relieved.

While making big money in such a stock market is basically a pipe dream, even those high-ranking officials can't make any money.

Just based on that, doesn't it feel incredibly awesome?

In World Two, the war between the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan and the Soviet revisionists has been disrupted by the addition of South Sudan (China). Yes, China, having completed its second revolution, has sided with the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan, and the revolutionary forces within the red camp have begun to join forces to deal with revisionism.

This is truly a moving and historic moment.

One important reason why southern Jiangsu was able to do this is that the United States is now completely fractured.

It must be admitted that the ship girl bearing the name Bismarck is also a powerful figure in terms of political skills. She made full use of the existing contradictions within the United States, and on the basis of cultivating the existing Red Ocean market, she gave full play to the regional advantages and discovered a new blue ocean market in an unexpected place. She opened up key information nodes, realized secondary value empowerment, and achieved high-efficiency asset monetization through quick and efficient technical operations.

Look at the current situation in the United States. Bismarck indirectly detonated all the contradictions in the society of the second-world government. Coupled with the objective environment of the United States having a nationwide gun ownership, the effect was not so much a takeoff, but an explosion on the spot, spiraling into the sky.

With things having reached this point, all the previous plans could be put to rest, and Qin Shan was about to return to his loyal America.

This time, let's just change her name.

Section 128: The Colorful American Civil War

"Admiral, the organizational structures in this world have become very chaotic due to the existence of certain alien technologies."

Bismarck is reporting the situation in World Two to Qin Shan. As for why the two are reporting to each other while lying in bed, don't worry about the details, it doesn't affect their work anyway (laughs).

On the surface, World Two, with its humanoid characters and advanced technology, resembles a self-destructing game where the characters have their own lives. However, the two worldviews are not exactly the same; they are vastly different.

Of the three major powers that could influence the world, the Soviet Union, the United States, and China, now that Afghanistan, China, the Soviet Union, and South Africa are gone, the remaining two are in civil war. This means that the revisionist forces, represented by the bourgeoisie, are launching a counterattack, because this is their last chance.

Southern Jiangsu has replaced the Soviet Union in completing the national automation system, using advanced ternary quantum computers, and has begun to fully cover the super-planned economy system nationwide, achieving a comprehensive downward shift of productivity.

To give a simple example, in southern Jiangsu, there are a large number of civilian dolls, almost every household has one, and they are widely used in various fields, solving people's most basic living problems and allowing them to devote themselves wholeheartedly to their hobbies.

Of course, this wholehearted dedication refers to the fact that after completing the six-hour workday, apart from the essential management positions, other positions that are detached from the real economy have been eliminated. Social management is more flattened, more efficient, and the social environment is more equitable. Although there are still economic entities such as individual businesses, if capitalism wants to be restored in southern Jiangsu, it can only follow the cyberpunk system under centralized capitalism. Otherwise, it is simply powerless to resist the new economic society in which the means of production are fully decentralized.

The above are changes at the national level. At the more specific organizational level, due to the objective existence of productivity that is not commensurate with their own level of civilization, many companies with extraterrestrial technology can exert an overwhelming influence in regions outside of southern Jiangsu. For example, there is the Antarctic Alliance, which claims to be an ideal place for scientific researchers, hidden in Antarctica (there is an Antarctic Alliance).

In reality, this organization's structure is similar to that of a company. It looks like a national corporation, and its existence is based on a large number of people engaged in the service industry to support a small number of elites. It seems to be developing well now, but because it lacks a sufficient population base, it will inevitably struggle to develop in the future if it does not maintain a continuous flow of talent immigration.

Doesn't it resemble the United States of the past (late 18th and 19th centuries), a country that spared no expense in attracting immigrants for development?

Many British technicians brought British technology to the United States to set up factories at that time.

So no matter how hard this organization tries, it can't grow big, and it can't become large. Not all talents will be attracted. If the domestic research environment is good and I can enjoy the services and conveniences provided by humanoids, why would I travel thousands of miles to Antarctica? The penguins there aren't that attractive.

Aside from these more iconic corporate organizations, many other groups that have profited from the scraps of alien technology have grown and expanded around the world. However, they obviously lack the power to confront state-level armed forces. For example, within the countries surrounding southern Jiangsu, there are no corporate organizations that can dominate the local area. If there were, they would be dismantled. If you're not convinced, come on, look at my million-strong People's Liberation Army and forty heavily armed combined arms brigades. Can you stay calm now?

It wasn't just calm, it almost cooled down.

This is what it means to be truly free from confusion at forty. With forty heavily armed combined arms brigades under her command, Su Nan is someone on Earth who can find nothing that would puzzle her, and no country would dare to challenge her.

"When you look at the details of any world, it's all a tangled mess of threads, but that's okay. We just need to grasp the main aspect of the principal contradiction. At worst, we can overcome anything with sheer force."

Qin Shan, who was kneading steamed buns, was very satisfied with the current development of World No. 2. He had caught enough fish and could now reel in the catch.

After having a good meal with Bismarck, it was time to take control of the world. World Two, here I come!

World Two, continental United States, status: civil war.

"Attack! Kill them all!"

"Long live America! Long live the President!"

"Die, you beasts who have betrayed God!"

"For a pure and beautiful new world!"

"Purify everything with fire!"

The United States in World No. 2 has entered a state of total chaos, where all political spectrums can find their base. Even if you are a Frankenstein's monster of social, feudal, capitalist, democratic, and revisionist elements, you can still find like-minded friends here.

Compared to this, the Spanish Civil War was relatively straightforward in terms of opposing factions.

Who told American capitalists to have such a blast cutting into society before, and then to impose a high-pressure regime on their own people? In terms of keeping the people ignorant and deceiving them, and creating information cocoons, the United States has done something unprecedented, and it's unlikely that anyone will ever surpass it, unless you're a bald guy named Yuri.

The chaotic alliances have led to a complete lack of trust between the states. Today you and me, tomorrow we'll kill each other, and the day after tomorrow we'll kill each other. They've figured out all the possible combinations.

In general, the states in the United States have formed various alliances, such as the Southeast Mutual Protection, the Northern Alliance, the Western Congress, the Eastern Union, the Central Pact, and the Confederate States of America. The most outrageous one is Texas. It joined the Confederate States of America, but at the same time it is a signatory state to the Central Pact, has military obligations to the Southeast Mutual Protection, has its own members in the Western Congress, and has a neutral and mutually trusting relationship with the Eastern Union. Even Yan Xishan would have declared it invincible.

Have you ever seen something roll around on five eggs? This is it!

Texas's ability to operate so successfully has nothing to do with others' approval; it's mainly due to its strength. It has everything that other states have, things that other states don't have, and even things that other states only have a part of.

In the financially-dominated United States, Texas does indeed have a rebellious streak; the more you focus on finance, the more I focus on industry. Clearly, during the American Civil War, the dollar, already worthless, couldn't kill anyone; airplanes and artillery were far more convincing. So now, Texas has become a shared arms factory for various factions in the US, and they operate with unbridled zeal. Factories operate 24/7, with workers averaging over 14 hours a day, sometimes even 13, and death from overwork is commonplace.

No problem, though. To avoid worker revolts, Texas had already prepared to increase wages, and the overtime pay was absolutely generous. In addition, it's too difficult to find a peaceful place in the US these days, so many people are flocking to Texas, making Texas's labor force even richer. It can even build more infrastructure while focusing on military production.

So, are those states just going to let Texas make so much money? What else could they do? Are they going to team up and bomb Texas?

Putting aside the fact that Texas is known for its strong fighting spirit, do you think it's realistic to expect these states to unite and beat up Texas? They'd probably start fighting amongst themselves before they even exchanged a few words.

So Texas, like Texas in the American Civil War, enjoyed neutral peace.

But all of this is on the premise that they are not being targeted.

“In the American Civil War, every state in the US has to participate. How can Texas stand aside?” At an arms factory in Texas, Qin Shan smiled and left a small gift.

The tactical nuclear bomb, with an explosive yield equivalent to 10,000 tons of TNT, was taken from a US military warehouse.

Three minutes later, with a loud bang, Texas's neutrality came to an end.

The churning mushroom cloud and terrifying nuclear radiation proved just how dangerous the weapons that destroyed this place were. Texas, hit by nuclear weapons, roared like a male hunter whose testicles had been stepped on, ready to fight to the death.

At this moment, all the factions fighting in the American Civil War immediately issued a collective statement: It wasn't me!

Just kidding, who would admit to something like that? Pushing Texas into the opposing camp is because they think the Civil War didn't kill enough people and want to increase the intensity, right?

If the attack ends here, the final result will inevitably be that the situation calms down. After all, it was just a nuclear bomb. Although the destroyed arms factory belonged to a wealthy family and the losses were indeed quite heavy, as long as they can still sell weapons, and as long as Texas's military production capacity remains an indispensable force for the United States, there will be plenty of opportunities to make money. For the sake of appeasing the people, they can just make a few noises as a formality. Do they really care about those lowly people who died? What the United States lacks most right now is cheap labor. If you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will.

However, it was clear that the attack would not end there. The capitalists' casualties were no longer within Qin Shan's considerations; something even more ruthless was yet to come.

Just as Texas officials were stepping in to negotiate with other states and try to build strategic trust (they couldn't delay arms sales, and they couldn't demolish my house), another mushroom cloud—no, several mushroom clouds—rose up in Texas.

This attack was even more destructive, directly cutting off 80 percent of Texas's military production capacity.

Texas is truly enraged this time. However, when they started yelling again, the reactions of other states became ambiguous, with some even bluntly accusing Texas of staging the whole thing at the negotiating table.

This is ridiculous! Have you ever seen someone expose their own family like this?!

However, the changes in these people made the Texas elites realize instantly that they were no longer the force that controlled a huge military production capacity and that no party in the American Civil War wanted to provoke. Their influence, along with the Texas military production capacity that was bombed away, had become a thing of the past.

Then they immediately thought of another, even worse possibility: that other states, unable to tolerate Texas's continued neutrality, would tacitly take action against Texas.

The core reason why the various factions in the American Civil War could not unite to deal with Texas was not only due to the existing contradictions between them, but also because Texas was a tough nut to crack. You need to be strong to fight a tough battle. Neutrality is the ultimate test of strength. Otherwise, you can only choose to kneel down in various ways. For example, those European countries that were neutral in World War II, which of them did not actually kneel down to Nazi Germany in a standard and sincere manner, or even secretly aid and abet the atrocities?

To achieve true neutrality, you must first ensure that you have the power to eliminate anyone who doesn't want you to remain neutral.

That's reality; true neutrality requires you to have enough muscle to guarantee it.

So Qin Shan only secretly dropped a few nuclear bombs, and the American Civil War began to develop in a more chaotic direction, and soon expanded to the whole of North America.

Because the Americas in the second world had the Inter-American Alliance, which was essentially another NATO that the United States formed in its own backyard after the Soviet Union pushed through Europe. Later, Canada and Mexico joined the new American market system as economic colonies. After all, these two countries were right on the doorstep of the United States. Seeing the ever-expanding Soviet Union and the increasingly silent but terrifying Southern Soviet Union, it was only natural for the United States to want to expand its size and bolster its courage.

This has resulted in a kind of economic integration among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Their transportation links are interconnected, and each country has its own areas of expertise. For example, Canada provides mineral resources, while Mexico provides agricultural resources. The former forms a new complementary system with the Great Lakes industrial region of the United States, while the latter forms a complementary system with the large farms in the central and southern United States.

Under the deterrent power of the red forces, America's decline has clearly been severely curbed, after all, capitalists are genuinely worried about swaying on the streetlights.

The cost is that if the United States descends into chaos, Mexico and Canada will not be able to remain uninvolved. Their economies are deeply intertwined with the United States, their military forces have become subservient to the US, and they are politically intertwined, jointly building a cyberpunk economic system. The interests of the United States are actually the interests of the entire Inter-American Alliance. By taking advantage of their proximity, Mexico and Canada can also participate in the US's economic plunder of South America.

Once you experience the pleasure of sucking blood, it's very difficult to quit.

Therefore, after the American Civil War, the two subordinate states were the most anxious. After all, they had truly benefited from the plunder by the American imperialists and were part of the vested interest group of American imperialism. Of course, they had to defend their interests.

Therefore, after the outbreak of the American Civil War, both Canada and Mexico joined the conflict. However, their differing interests led to a direct shift from cooperation to hostility. One allied with the Northern Alliance, primarily composed of the Great Lakes industrial region, while the other aligned with the Central Entente and the Confederate Army (primarily agricultural). Coupled with the traditional red-blue divide on the political spectrum, it's fair to say that even Americans themselves are now confused about their own situation. This also demonstrates how successful Bismarck's strategy of maneuvering between different factions was.

It would have been impossible for Bismarck to achieve this level of success through his own efforts alone. There were also historical trends, and I mean there were many other helpers, namely Bismarck's own forces, a new force specifically cultivated within the United States.

The American Socialist Revolutionary Party (ASRP), headquartered in Alaska, is a political party that has been established for many years.

Chapter 129: Alaska's Rebirth from the Ashes

At its peak, few believed that the world's leading superpower was essentially a religious empire.

Yes, the United States is a religious empire. Although it doesn't have a pope, religion has a profound influence on the country. If you want to start a revolution in America, God is an unavoidable topic. This is not surprising. Our country has been fighting with religions for so long, with numerous suppressions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam, among others. When religion and secular life collide, it's a conflict of interests that is irreconcilable. Even Buddhism, which seems relatively mild, has been subjected to large-scale crackdowns three times in our country. This shows how thorny the religious issue is. You can't expect a country that's only two or three hundred years old to instantly leap over five thousand years of history; that's unrealistic.

But Qin Shan clearly didn't want to pursue any divine right of kings, nor was he interested in having an ethereal God on his head. His sufficient strength allowed him to be capricious on this issue and create a truly communist party in the United States according to his own standards.

Although such people are rare in the American context, they do exist; careful observation will reveal them.

Under Qin Shan's instructions, Bismarck managed to find this group of seemingly unconventional communists amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War and unite them under a single banner.

The method was very simple: use the commune system.

There are many types of communal systems. In ancient times, there was a primitive communal system, but that was because everyone was starving and they banded together to ensure that as many people as possible could survive. It is completely different from the trade union system of the modern era.

Because of the United States' status as an immigrant nation, its people are quite free, and this freedom is ingrained in their bones. It's not that they can't unite, but rather that they are more self-centered, and the atmosphere of collectivism is not strong here (after all, since the founding of the United States, there have been very few times when people have gone hungry, and without environmental pressure, the collectivism that is based on the right to survival is easily diluted). In addition, the US government's own mismanagement and vertical division of society have led Americans to prefer to stick together based on their beliefs, skin color, hobbies, and rules.

Just look at American communities. When you buy a house in a place, you're not just buying a place to live. You also have to abide by all sorts of messy local rules. For example, if this is a Catholic community, everyone has to attend Mass together on time. Pets are prohibited in this community. Even keeping a hamster is illegal. And American law supports these community laws, with penalties or even eviction.

The result of everyone being free is a huge number of rules, and some people are even more free, which has led the United States to speed along the road of being a bunch of rats since the day it was founded. Compared to them, Jiangsu is truly an unbreakable ironclad alliance.

Even in such an environment, people still need to unite. Even if only a few want to unite, they can form a unique commune atmosphere. If this commune also controls certain means of production and can be self-sufficient, then it has the potential for further development. However, in the United States, such communes are subjected to various covert attacks. After all, if you can be self-sufficient, how can capitalists still afford luxury cars and villas?

However, there is one exception in the United States: Alaska, a former Cold War defense front, Russia's most regrettable major land transaction, a border post in the Americas sold for $7.2 million, where ten out of twelve months are covered in ice and snow. Due to the local natural environment, very few Americans live there. In the 2050s and 60s of World War II, the population barely exceeded one million. For a land area of ​​over 1.7 million square kilometers, this population is like sprinkling pepper in the ocean.

Because the local environment is not very suitable for the survival of carbon-based organisms at room temperature, the local people of Alaska have a relatively strong sense of collectivism compared to other parts of the United States. This is a habit formed by people who have lived here in the past. After all, for a considerable period of time after the Industrial Revolution, Alaska's development was quite slow, and American capitalists were not very interested in investing in Alaska, which would result in a loss. Not every country can afford to lay power grids and roads for a few households.

This resulted in Alaska's overall planning lagging behind other parts of the United States by at least thirty years. Its peak period of development was during the Cold War, when the US military had radar stations and anti-missile systems there to contain the Soviet Union. In order to transport goods in, they carefully repaired the port and surrounding roads, and then nothing more.

With the global trend towards greater peace, Alaska's attractiveness has plummeted. The US government has largely ignored the region, forcing the local government to unite all available resources to develop Alaska's unique economic ecosystem and maintain its infrastructure, at least to prevent its economy from collapsing.

Knowing their own limitations, the Alaskan local government had no designs on overnight riches or anything like that.

Far from the political vortex of the United States, while the LGBT movement began to surge across the country and even the entire Americas, Alaska remained peaceful and serene, much like a retired old man holding a teacup and watching the tides rise and fall on the beach.

However, the American Civil War still affected this area because the US federal government siphoned off people and taxes from here. After the collapse of the federal government, other factions also began to siphon off resources from Alaska, especially the western coast, which controlled half of the US Navy. They were really ruthless towards Alaska. After all, with Alaska's small size, how could it resist the heavy blows of the West? The Pacific Fleet was the only king on the US coast. It couldn't beat the South Pacific, and it couldn't even bully its own people.

As a result, life in Alaska began to get tough. The locals, who just wanted to live their own lives, started to feel very unhappy with other states in the United States, especially those that were exploiting them.

It's understandable to be unhappy. Don't forget how the Ansars, America's core base, made their fortunes. The pirates' business acumen was just that simple, unpretentious, and boring.

However, Alaska's unique geographical location did indeed make it a paradise-like place, so Bismarck began to bet on it, while stirring up conflicts between the western states and Alaska. From fishery resources to taxation issues, and even port usage rights, these were all points of contention.

Where there is a conflict of interest, there will inevitably be conflict. Once the conflict reaches a certain point, it will inevitably erupt. Soon, the locals clashed with the Pacific Fleet Marines over the issue of port usage rights.

There have been many similar conflicts before, but after accumulating enough contradictions, the intensity of this conflict was obviously absurdly high. The two sides went from arguing at the beginning to directly picking up weapons and firing at each other in just five minutes. The port was soon filled with thousands of corpses, and destroyers from the U.S. Pacific Fleet also joined in, directly shelling the local Alaskans.

The local armed forces in Alaska after the Cold War were clearly insufficient to confront the Pacific Fleet, and the western states of the United States, having broken off relations, were no longer pretending and were ready to swallow up the interests of Alaska whole.

Even a small mosquito is still a piece of meat. The American Civil War has been going on for so long that all resources have to be allocated. They won't stop eating you just because you're a mosquito. When protein is scarce, who cares where it comes from? The raw material for Kangfuxin Liquid is American linseed oil. How many users care? Even if they knew, what difference would it make? They just don't look at the ingredient list.

Just when the people of Alaska were in despair at being plundered by their own country, Bismarck appeared before them with the American Socialist Revolutionary Party.

At first, the locals didn't pay much attention to this small party of just over a hundred people. They were just surprised that these people were well-equipped and had high morale, and that they were all led by Bismarck.

It's quite amazing that the United States, a world number two, has never had a female president. In the US, women's status is only nominally high. In reality, key positions and the absolute number of people who make the decisions are dominated by men. Although they say that LGBT people should be respected, the vast majority of them still hold the mindset of old white men.

Don't listen to what they shout, listen to what they do.

Yes, that's right, it's them. Politicians should only use the collective term "them".

The simplest way to get the locals to support the American Socialist Party was to win a battle. It was that easy. Bismarck immediately devised a plan to raid the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which was stationed in a port in Alaska. The fleet consisted of five destroyers and three frigates, which were insignificant compared to the total tonnage of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but they were enough to bully Alaska at that time.

Then this group of people got bullied by Bismarck, this ruthless guy who appeared out of nowhere.

When the American Socialist fighters launched their attack at the agreed time, they found the entire port eerily quiet. All the guards on duty had their throats slit, and the same was true on the warships. Although they could hardly believe it, the fact was that Bismarck, all by himself, had wiped out all the Pacific Fleet officers and men in the port, allowing the American Socialists to take over everything in the port without firing a single shot.

The next day, as the American Socialist Party's red flag fluttered in the wind, the local people of Alaska were shocked and accepted this reality.

The American Socialist Party then became the undisputed hero in the hearts of the locals, and the recruitment work in the area became very smooth.

After all, the American Civil War is not over yet. Comrades in Alaska, you don't want your homeland to be ravaged by those White Army soldiers, do you? Then join us, and we will create a brand new America!