"According to the news from New York, more than two thousand people departed from Chicago on the first day. Over the next few days, the number of potential immigrants may exceed ten thousand. Given Chicago's current situation, we should be able to tap into the potential for tens of thousands of immigrants..."
"Mm. All right, Thomas. There are many Germans in North America, and they are a presence we cannot ignore. The Immigration Office needs to learn to penetrate deeper into America's grassroots, especially rural areas and American port cities. Those all require special attention. Ideally, we should persuade some immigrants to turn back from America the moment they first arrive."
"Your Highness, by turning them back, do you mean sending them back to Europe?"
"Anywhere will do! The best outcome is simply for them not to remain in the United States. Of course, your Immigration Office must act within its capabilities. Do not arouse American suspicion."
"Your Highness, rest assured on that point! The American government is practically nonexistent. Our people should not run into any trouble."
"I am not talking about the American government, but Americans themselves—especially America's financial conglomerates. They are the true masters behind the United States. If they discovered our immigration efforts in America, what do you think the consequences would be?"
Thomas immediately understood. The American government might ordinarily seem harmless to man and beast alike, but provoking the interest groups behind it would mean enormous trouble. At its core, the Civil War had been a war launched by Northern American capitalists to seize the Southern slaveholders' labor, raw materials, and markets. Their greed for labor in particular was bottomless. East Africa's immigration recruitment from America was, in every sense, digging at America's foundations.
But at the thought of labor, an idea instantly flashed