As the president, Zachary Taylor did not hesitate to give up his own interests and resolutely resist the expansion of slavery in the United States.
Obviously, his position and decision not only damaged his own interests, but also made him stand on the opposite side of the slave owners in the southern plantations.
In this case, the slave owners whose interests were damaged had a reason to eliminate him, and they did have the strength to do so!
However, Chen Mo's answer was somewhat unexpected.
"Your fellow countrymen did have this idea, but before they had time to do it, someone else beat them to it."
When he heard Chen Mo's words, Zachary Taylor was stunned.
Not them? There were others?
He had only been the president for more than a year, and there were so many people who wanted his life. This made Zachary Taylor a little uncomfortable, and his mood began to become complicated.
In fact, the upright and tough Zachary Taylor offended not only the southern slave owners during his presidency.
On July 29, 1844, the British Parliament passed the "Peel Regulation", which established the Bank of England's status as a currency issuing bank. This privately controlled bank officially became the national central bank of the United Kingdom, responsible for the implementation of national monetary and financial policies such as currency issuance and financial supervision.
In any country, whoever controlled the currency supply was the absolute master of all industry and commerce.
At this point, the British economy had been controlled by the bankers.
The goal of the international bankers was obviously not only the United Kingdom. The United States, a former British colony, was a rapidly developing emerging power, and had become a fat piece of meat in the eyes of the bankers at the beginning of independence.
The international bankers had always hoped to establish a private central bank in the United States to seek benefits. They had been planning for this for many years, and had successfully achieved the establishment of a private central bank twice. However, under the intervention of the president and Congress, they could not maintain it for a long time.
However, the international bankers would not give up. As powerful capitalists, they had strong political power in their hands, which was why they could successfully establish a private central bank in the United States twice.
The establishment of a private central bank was imperative. In the face of great interests and power, any people and forces in front of them would be annihilated!
Whether it was members of Congress or the president!
Even the previous ninth president, William Henry Harrison, who was also a war hero, suddenly died a month after taking office. These international bankers were inseparable.
Among them, the leader of the Whig Party, Henry Clay, played an extremely important role.
He was the founder of the first private central bank in the United States, the "First Bank of the United States", one of the founding fathers of the United States, an important successor of Alexander Hamilton's private central bank idea, and a favorite of the bankers.
He was eloquent, rigorous, and quite provocative. He gathered a group of members of parliament who supported the banking industry and were supported by the bankers. Under his organization, the Whig Party was established.
The Whigs were staunchly opposed to President Jackson's independent banking policy and were always committed to the restoration of private central banking.
William Henry Harrison was chosen by him as a presidential candidate, and he wanted to use him to establish a private central bank. He "taught" Harrison many times how to run the country.
However, William Henry Harrison was obviously not willing to become his puppet. After Harrison was elected president, the conflict between the two became more and more acute.
Henry Clay, who originally thought that he could give orders as the "retired emperor", had already found someone to write the president's inaugural speech on his behalf without Harrison's consent. However, Harrison refused. Harrison even personally drafted the inaugural speech of more than 8,000 words.
In this document, he systematically explained the ideas of governing the country, and Henry Clay's policy ideas of a private central bank and the abolition of independent finance, which deeply hurt the interests of the bankers.
March 4, 1841 was a cold day. President Harrison gave his inaugural speech in the cold wind, and as a result, he caught a cold.
This was not a big deal for President Harrison, who had a military career, but who knew that his illness was strangely getting worse and worse, and on April 4, he died.
In 1849, after the election of the war hero Zachary Taylor, who was also chosen by the Whig Party, the hope of restoring the central bank seemed close at hand.
The establishment of a private central bank, completely modeled after the Bank of England, was the highest dream of all bankers. It meant that the bankers ultimately decided the fate of the country and the people.
They thought that the soldiers were not political and would be easy to control. With their military achievements, prestige, and their strength, after being elected, they would be more dependent on the Whigs in political affairs and thus become Henry Clay's puppet.
But obviously, their wishful thinking failed again.
Like William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor had his own ideas and persistence, and he was not willing to become Henry Clay's puppet.
Zachary Taylor's negative attitude towards the establishment of a central bank, he had made it clear in private.
"The idea of establishing a central bank is dead. It will not be considered during my term."
In the end, it was not the idea of a central bank that was dead, but he himself.
The two presidents that the Whigs had elected one after another, who were war heroes, died one after another.
Their deaths seemed normal and unrelated, but upon further investigation, there were many suspicious points and oddities. Moreover, there was a hidden internal connection between their deaths.
After listening to Chen Mo's complete explanation of the cause and effect of this matter, Zachary Taylor only felt a chill in his heart.
He never thought that the ones who really wanted him dead were not the southern slave owners he thought, but the Whig Party that nominated him as the presidential candidate. Or more accurately, it was the leader of the Whig Party, Henry Clay, and the bankers behind him. After all, not everyone in the Whig Party supported the establishment of a private central bank.
Thinking that the lives of the two presidents of the United States were in the hands of a group of bankers, Zachary Taylor could not help but feel angry, but it was followed by a deep sadness.
This world was, after all, the world of capitalists. Behind the presidents stood various forces. It was just that he chose not to recognize his family, put the national interests first, and ignored the request of Henry Clay. As a result, he ended up like this, killed by a group of bankers whose demands were not fulfilled.
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