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 72: Cutting Sausages
Subtitle of this chapter: The great historical trend is overwhelming
"Mr. President, what do you want to do? Hahaha..." Mr. Dougherty, who can be the Attorney General, is naturally qualified to practice law. He smiled and replied without thinking: "This guy is trying to distance himself. What he means is that he is not drinking in public."
Yes, that’s what our Master Yuan meant. And in the legal sense, he was speaking “facts”.
He didn't organize so many people to watch the duel, nor did he publicly call on everyone to watch, and he didn't charge admission. Of course, it's a bit of a "coincidence", but Yuan Yanshu can argue that he didn't know so many people would come in advance.
Therefore, anyone present who had a little legal knowledge gave a thumbs up to his statement.
"Yes, yes, the weather is really nice today, so I took my family out for a walk."
"Yes, yes, Mr. Yuan is right. Is it a coincidence that we met here?"
"That's right, if Mr. Yuan needs proof, I am willing to go to court to testify."
How should I put it? In fact, deep in the human heart, there is a "hero complex" to challenge public power. This is why "Water Margin" can flourish in Serbia and continue to flourish despite repeated bans, and this is also why the American people like and even worship criminals like Al Capone.
So when faced with such circumstances, the American people naturally stood on Master Yuan's side.
Yuan Yan suddenly raised her hand and said, "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your honesty..."
When the noise around him died down, he spoke again: "Then I will also honestly tell you the cause of this duel. The cause is that Lieutenant Colonel Harold Alexander and I both believe that the other country is not civilized enough."
"Many people, including the respected President Harding, can testify for me. I admitted on the spot that my country is indeed not civilized enough, but Lieutenant Colonel Alexander refused to admit that his country is barbaric, even though the tragedy of Bloody Sunday happened not long ago in his hometown of Ireland. So there was today's duel."
"I believe that a true patriot must not only defend the honor of his country, but also face up to his country's shortcomings. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander is undoubtedly a patriot, but he can only do the first half. This is the biggest difference between him and me... Well, another difference is that I can drink more than him."
“Hahaha… pa pa pa…”
Our Master Yuan's "sincere" speech immediately aroused laughter and applause.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that everyone here is a true patriot, so you will definitely listen to my criticism of your country... Of course, if anyone among you is not convinced, we will have to have another duel like this."
"I want to tell you a story that happened in our Chinese history. About 1,700 years ago, when Caracalla and Geta co-ruled the Roman Empire, there was a monarch in China named Bei Liu. At that time, a drought hit his country, causing a food shortage. In order to ensure food supply, all food-related by-products, especially wine, were banned, and brewing wine was considered a criminal act."
"However, the implementation of this decree was excessive. Officials would punish ordinary people for brewing tools in their homes, even if they did not brew wine. This practice naturally aroused people's dissatisfaction, so Yong Jian, one of Liu Bei's ministers, wanted to dissuade him from enacting this decree."
"One day, the king and his ministers went out together and saw an unrelated couple walking on the street. Yong Jian suddenly said, 'This couple is suspected of violating morals. Why don't you tie them up and bring them to justice?' Bei Liu was stunned. He asked, 'A man and a woman are walking on the street properly, neither of them is offending each other. What makes you say they are violating morals?'"
"Yong Jian then immediately said something very illuminating: 'Because they have instruments that can be used for sexual intercourse, isn't this the same as having tools for brewing wine at home, which can lead to illegal brewing?'"
"Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing wrong with pursuing virtue. The problem is how we pursue virtue. Finally, I would like to leave you with this sentence."
"belch!"
Yuan Yan suddenly burped loudly, and he said in an apologetic tone: "Sorry, I drank five bottles of whiskey, and my mind is a little unclear."
"Now I'm going to go to the police station to get some sleep. It's definitely not as comfortable as my hotel room, but it will definitely be quieter. Thank you!"
As he said this, he bowed to the people around him several times in a dashing manner, and then walked leisurely towards the police from Fort Myer.
Why did our Master Yuan suddenly attack Prohibition?
This was not a sudden idea, but he had had this idea for a long time. However, he had never encountered the right opportunity, but now was a godsend opportunity.
The reason is that the more he studied the political context of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in recent months, the more he realized that there was a lot of water behind Prohibition.
He came to a very reasonable conclusion that the Chinese Exclusion Act and Prohibition, seemingly two unrelated things, are actually two sides of the same coin and cannot be separated.
It can even be said that the prerequisite for repealing the Chinese Exclusion Act is to overturn Prohibition.
Yuan Yanshu believes that both the Chinese Exclusion Act and Prohibition are actually xenophobic and anti-immigration policies promoted by WASPs. Of course, the former is very obvious, while the latter is relatively obscure.
The Seres said that one should not enter a dangerous country, and one should not live in a chaotic country. The Europeans were not completely blind to the wind. They did not know that the First World War would be so tragic, but everyone could smell the gunpowder between the European countries at that time.
In fact, more than a decade before World War I, America had seen another wave of immigration, and this time the immigrants were mainly from Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe, who were even “lower” than the Irish.
You have to know that the Germans who immigrated to America before were basically oppressed Protestants, and the Anglo-Saxons, Saxons, and Germans were one family 1,500 years ago.
Although the Irish, or Celts, are Catholics, they at least speak English. As neighbors over the years, many of their cultural customs are similar to those of the WASPs.
However, whether in appearance, language, customs, or especially religion, these new immigrants were even more different from WASPs.
Therefore, WASPs became more dissatisfied and discriminatory towards this group of immigrants, and subsequent immigration policies would naturally become tighter. After 1925, any foreigner traveling to the United States had to go to the local consulate to apply for a visa first, and it was no longer possible to obtain a visa on arrival as before.
Prohibition was actually a means to suppress immigrants and Catholics. It was also the last struggle of WASPs to prevent America from becoming...well, changing color.
When FDR lifted Prohibition in the 1930s, it marked the first By that time, WASPs had to accept other white people and become a white American nation.
In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, and black people finally became part of this "imagined community."
By the 1990s, during Bill Clinton's administration, Mexicans officially joined the American family.
Obama's coming to power shows that the sausage has been almost cut to the root. The American nation has completed its historical mission and ushered in a "new life." They will be "sublimated" into global citizens who have no national identity but only value identity.
However, taking too big a step can easily lead to failure, and universalism, no matter how good it is, cannot whiten the world. So in the 21st century, when white Americans are about to become a minority, our Emperor Trump, a descendant of Germans, has become the last hope for white rednecks in the United States.
Unfortunately , based on what our Master Yuan saw when he inexplicably traveled through time, this hope is not very promising.
