Chapter 767: Give him a taste of his own medicine (asking for double monthly tickets)

Chapter 768: Repay the other person the same way he did (asking for double monthly votes)

The United States will not be used to these "troublesome people". Attorney General Jennings Randolph immediately mobilized the militia to disperse the marchers.

The marchers did not put up much resistance and left as soon as they asked me to leave. However, they circled the street and ran to the door of the Federal Courthouse to continue shouting slogans.

Well, one-third of these people are paid to work, so they appear to be very "professional". They planned their action plan a week in advance, including how to expand their influence and what to do if they encountered militias.

Therefore, even though Randolph mobilized thousands of militiamen and strictly guarded all important departments in Philadelphia, he still could not extinguish the passion of the marchers.

The salaries of these "professionals" are all paid by an organization called the "Association for the Relief of the Disabled in the War of Independence."

The purpose of the "Association" is "to enable American citizens who were harmed by British colonists to survive."

Of course, it is very reasonable for the staff of the association to hate the British invaders who had harmed American citizens.

So the "Association" angrily organized this massive demonstration after hearing that the British were starting a war against their dear French friends.

The funds for the "Association" mainly came from planters in Georgia and South Carolina, most of whom were French. After being destroyed by Booker's black slave army, French businessmen, on the advice of the Minister of Trade, , buying the bottom of a large number of cotton plantations in these two places.

At the beginning of this year, in order to give back to the United States, they funded the establishment of the "Association for the Aid of the Disabled in the Revolutionary War" under the call of John Castle, a well-known lawyer and speaker.

No one knows that Mr. Castle has another identity, that is, a captain agent of the French Intelligence Agency.

The learned Mr. Kals calls the association a "NGO", which means an organization that does not rely on the power of the government to carry out public welfare activities.

However, this definition is quite difficult to pronounce, so people usually just call it “NGO” for short.

As for how to form and operate NGOs, later generations of the American CIA have already done a lot of demonstrations. Joseph just copied a "manual" and gave it to Fouche, who quickly understood it and started to implement it.

However, this "technique" can only be used in a parliamentary country like the United States. If it were a monarchy like Prussia and Austria that dared to do this, the secret police would come to arrest people in minutes.

When people who "opposed British hegemony" held a portrait of a little girl who was brutally murdered by the British during the Revolutionary War and began a sit-in in Philadelphia's Northwest Square, and more and more people participated, the federal parliament finally felt a little headache.

In Franklin's villa, several important figures in the United States looked at the hundreds of petitioning citizens walking on the street not far away, and they all frowned.

"I went to the square yesterday afternoon and saw thousands of people gathered there." Speaker of the House of Representatives Madison shook his head and said, "These stupid guys have no idea what it means to be involved in the Anglo-French war."

"Ordinary people just want to vent their emotions, how can they care about so much?"

Hamilton's voice was filled with anger: "It's all the fault of the French envoy. During this period, he was giving speeches everywhere, which made the idiots' heads go crazy."

Jefferson, who was more pro-French, shrugged: "Frankly speaking, he was just stating the facts, whether it was a treaty or the ongoing war in Europe."

"But it is simply impossible for us to lose so many interests for France. Justice Jay's negotiations are what we expect..."

As Hamilton was talking, his assistant suddenly opened the door and rushed in, waving a newspaper anxiously and saying: "Mr. Hamilton, it's not good..."

Hamilton looked at him with an unhappy expression: "Don't be so rash, Clark, what's wrong?"

"You, you'd better see for yourself."

Hamilton took a copy of the "Philadelphia Correspondence" from his assistant, opened it, and saw the headline on the front page: "The government is negotiating with the United Kingdom and plans to improve U.S.-British diplomatic relations in exchange for benefits."

He hurriedly looked down. The text elaborated on the U.S. government's plans to no longer pursue the British navy's seizure of U.S. merchant ships in order to expand trade with Britain, and not to return U.S. citizens captured by the British as sailors. At the same time, the United States would open the Mississippi River to British merchant shipping and prohibit the raiding of British-flagged ships off the U.S. coast.

Yes, dozens of American merchant ships traveling to France to trade were seized by the British navy after Britain began blocking French maritime trade.

This matter caused a lot of noise in the United States.

And this news actually said that the US government just let it go.

It is conceivable that after this news spread, the United States would immediately explode!

However, what made Hamilton sweat the most was that the U.S. government was indeed preparing to do this, and negotiator Jay was already on the ship to London...

He thrust the newspaper at Jefferson and roared, "Who leaked the news?!"

Only less than 10 senior US officials knew about this secret negotiation. Logically speaking, it would be impossible for this matter to be revealed.

Several people in the room immediately looked at each other, and then shook their heads.

Of course they didn't know that Joseph had "guessed" the content of the negotiation.

The current international situation facing the United States is not much different from that in history, and these people are still in charge, so the policies they formulate will definitely follow the old path.

So he asked Baron Fourcade to announce the US government's negotiation conditions in advance, strip off their "underpants", and use American public opinion to force Washington to abandon these policies.

Hamilton looked at the clock, grabbed his coat and ran out the door, saying to Jefferson: "The French envoy is coming soon, you can perfunctorily deal with him, I will report to the President!"

In this way, the "US-France Diplomatic Coordination Conference" originally scheduled to start here at noon was postponed to two days later.

That afternoon, Washington personally refuted the rumors in public in front of the Congress Hall, saying that the US government would never make concessions to Britain, that merchant ships illegally seized by Britain must be compensated, and that all captured American citizens would return to their hometowns. The Mississippi River will always be the "private property" of American merchant ships, and will never be allowed to be touched by the British, and the US government has never planned to abandon its French allies.

Thanks to his quick response, he avoided the situation where the American Shipping Association organized ship owners to come to Philadelphia to make trouble.

While Washington was speaking publicly, a fast sailing ship also left the Port of Philadelphia, ready to bring back Chief Justice Jay, the negotiating representative with Britain.

However, at the coordination meeting two days later, the French envoy brought good news to the American bosses who were busy putting out fires everywhere - France would agree that the United States would remain neutral and not participate in the war.