In 1864, the world-renowned election year for the United States of America, it means that there may be a relatively large change in the United States' foreign policy. The presidents of the corresponding alliance countries have a term of six years, the first general election in 1861, and the second general election will not be held until 1867.

The Windsor Consortium has never used force against civilians, so the American people did not blindly exclude the products of the Windsor Empire. The Election Commission even prepared to purchase ibm's vote statistics system to improve the efficiency of the election. This system is quite popular in pro-Windsor countries, but in the former NATO countries, only the United States was willing to adopt it and was not opposed by the public.

The election situation was quite unfavorable to Lincoln. The Northern Army was completely lost to California, but it was also defeated by the Southern Army in the Battle of Mansfield, the Crater Battle and the Cold Port Battle. The large number of soldiers' casualties brought huge pressure to the US finances. The fall of the golden origin of California made the Northern government worse.

Generally speaking, political parties tend to nominate their current presidents, but there are many voices within the Republican Party that oppose nomination of Lincoln as a candidate. In addition to Lincoln, there are current Treasury Secretary Chase, Northern Army Commander Grant, Vice President Hamlin and Major General Butler. Among them, the generals and the vice president both recognized Lincoln's leadership and refused to participate in the general election.

The division within the Democratic Party is even more serious. On the one hand, they advocate peace, but on the other hand, they refuse to give up their territorial rights. This policy has self-contradictory, which may be Lincoln's only opportunity. Lincoln's team is "hard" in future policy expressions, but war does not necessarily require war, which provides more flexible room for maneuver for foreign policy.

Lincoln originally had few opportunities. At the beginning of the year, in order to open up the passage from Texas to California, the Southern Army deployed the 100,000 FN-1855 rifles and dozens of HD6 field artillery he had just obtained to the front line of the battlefield in New Mexico, causing the Northern Army's troops to retreat step by step.

Soon, the second railway across the North American continent led by the Windsor Consortium and the Alliance was enough to safely construct in southern New Mexico. The most troublesome railway construction is not to lay the rails, but to level the road, build bridges, and dig caves. In this regard, a large number of heavy machinery from the Panama Canal Company are very useful, so this second "Pacific Railway" may be built faster than the first one. Not to mention that the "South Pacific Railway Company" invested by Sequoia Capital is developing engineering vehicles that automatically lay the railway. Now mainstream technology also uses thermal riveting of steel in the process of laying tracks, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while engineering vehicles that automatically lay the railway will use electric welding.

South Pacific Railway has also made slight improvements to the track. Thanks to the higher-strength rail, the original large iron stick type has been transformed into a "working" type with a smaller friction coefficient and more material-saving "mechanical" type. In addition to the electrified fire head, its speed can also be increased by one step compared to the current 50 kilometers, which is about 80 kilometers.

When the Southern newspapers proudly showed off their achievements in the field of engineering, the possibility of Lincoln being re-elected can almost be described as "slim". The Southerners can actually appreciate their own railway network, which makes the Yankees, who have always been leading in industry and technology, feel a little bit better.

The technology that was shown by the Southerners was actually just that Sequoia Capital believes that its technological content is too small and disdains to keep it secret. Real high-tech is the deployment of submarine optical cables that can change the world. The mainstream scientific community does not even know what optical cables are, because the British Telegraph, which is responsible for this project in external publicity, calls optical cables "cable", so it is still considered as submarine cables. The speed of the cable is much slower than that of optical cables. The cable signals across the Atlantic Ocean take more than half an hour to reach the other side. What makes the outside world unable to crack in a short period of time are the photoelectric conversion technology and optical fiber manufacturing technology (the technology of automatically integrating impurities in the air into the surface of quartz when cooling).

In addition, the signal transmitted by optical cables does not just turn the sound directly into an electrical signal and then into an optical signal, but a digital signal. The digital signal will be automatically packaged, and it will automatically re-transmit when the packet is lost during transmission. Using this technology to transmit telegrams, voice will not have the problem of losing information, but the trouble is that it requires digital sampling of the sound, and a "sound card" is also needed to restore the digital signal. Digital phone calls have greatly increased the cost. When Tangning proposed this plan, many BT engineers and scientists did not understand. Tangning only talked about the benefits of packet loss and re-transmission, and anti-environmental interference. In fact, it is a future-oriented technology. When LCD telegraph machines are more popular, they will directly become terminals connected to the "Internet", and there is no need to reinvest and build the Internet.

Downing's high-tech is quietly traveling thousands of miles a day. Inadvertently, President Lincoln's fate has undergone a major reversal. The Americans actually cracked the secret of wireless telegraph, that is, the secret of transistors. The cracker made Downing laugh even more. Thomas Edison. The basis of transistors is the "Edison effect" where electrons cross the vacuum. Now it has been cracked by Edison. It's really fate.

This young man is less than 17 years old and has made his mark. It is incredible. Downing reads the New York Times report on Edison with great interest. When Edison was a 12-year-old kid, he started to experiment on the train truck. He tried to make gunpowder and almost detonated the train. Later, the train administrator slapped him in the cheek because of this incident, which ended up causing Edison to suffer from deafness.

Afterwards, Edison was a newspaper boy on a train between Port Huron and Detroit, selling newspapers and candy snacks. In an accidental incident, he rescued a little boy from a train collision. The boy's father happened to be the website manager of Mount Clemens. The website manager was very grateful to the young man for his righteousness and trained him to become a telegrapher.

At the beginning, the telegraph was still a primitive type of strike, and Edison's deafness allowed him to ignore the noise emitted by the telegrapher sitting next to him. Later, after the telegraph tycoon Tangning emerged, the wireless telegraph connected to the telegraph became more and more popular, and the train station also replaced the telegraph system. Since then, Edison has tinkered with the wireless telegraph every day. When the US government offered a heavy reward for cracking the secrets of wireless telegraphs, Edison conducted countless experiments. Later, the discovery of electronics and the announcement of Maxwell's equations made him finally sort out the core technology of transistors and transmitter towers, submitted his own research experience to the Lincoln government, and was recognized by government communication experts.

When the news spread, the American people were in jubilation, just like the mood of the people when China first created an atomic bomb. The genius boy under the age of 17 has aroused great interest from the Americans, especially the young man is quite handsome and photogenic. The god-level scientist Downing suddenly rose at the age of 25, and the little genius in our Michigan is even more awesome, only 16 years old. The American media deliberately ignored that Downing was a creation, and Edison was cracking... No matter what, Americans need to boost morale anyway.

After Edison made such a fuss, the morale of the United States was rising, and President Lincoln's popularity suddenly reversed, not to mention that he felt that the supreme commander's strategy was an excellent American, and he was quite supportive of their presidential re-election career.

Lincoln was behind the Galapagos Island shelling incident, but Downing couldn't hate Lincoln because he put himself in his shoes, the Americans had no other way out except assassinating him. The United States desperately chased the military technology of the Windsor Empire, but it was obviously always eating dust behind the scenes. I thought that Lincoln, a hardliner, must be defeated this time, but unexpectedly, there were troubles.

Recall that since the outbreak of the "World War", all participating countries have made remarkable technological progress. The French mass-produced penicillin, Prussia invented smokeless powder, and the Americans cracked the wireless telegraph technology.

NATO no longer exists in name, but the great friendship between members is still there. French, Russian and other countries sent congratulatory messages to Lincoln to celebrate another milestone progress in the world's people's resistance to technological hegemony. The United States, French, and Pudong countries immediately took action to build their own military wireless telegraph systems. Of course, it is impossible to compete with British Telegraph Company for civil use. They have mature technology, low cost, numerous customers, and good service. The Russians even directly took the British Telegraph Company's launch tower for themselves because they were bound by multiple battlefields and had no extra financial resources, so they had to fight against the local tyrants.

In response to the Russian behavior, a local tyrant sent more than 30 hovercraft gunboats from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, blowing the Russian Baltic Fleet trapped by sea ice to the sky. The Russians had no choice but to the point of these hovercraft that could run on the ice, and the elite fleet was slaughtered. Since the outbreak of the Baltic Sea war, the Russian Baltic Fleet had never been able to go out for the winter again. This was a fate they had already expected. Therefore, there were only the losses of ships and no losses of personnel, and the cannons on the ship were unloaded and collected.
Chapter completed!