Chapter 2412 The Reclaimed Eden (Part 1)

The trouble with the canal is that Georgiana has heard the mayor of Bruges, Jacob, say that as long as the sluices are repaired upstream, there will be no water in the downstream, which is basically useless. On the contrary, the railway is less restricted in this regard. .

But now the capacity of railways can’t be compared with that of canals at all. At this time, she thought of the young man recommended by Edgeworth who can design high-pressure steam engines. I don’t know if he has come. If he's that talented, it's possible that he'll have a place in the pool room someday.

Just when Georgiana appeared and disrupted the situation, the Paris MP took the Brussels MP and Bowens to another room to smoke, although Georgiana didn't mind them smoking in the house.

During the colonial period of the United States, tobacco was the main export product. Cotton, as a new agricultural product, although it is rising fiercely, is not an opponent of tobacco at this stage. Even if the output of tobacco is not as good as that of cotton, its unit price is much higher than that of cotton. , is another pillar of the plantation, even more than wheat and corn, but it is not only the United States that produces tobacco, in order to flow agricultural products into the global market, the best way is low prices, that is to say, slavery requires low tariffs, However, in order to protect the fragile textile industry and other industries in the United States, Hamilton set up high tariffs.

This is not just to protect the interests of the local people. Jefferson abolished the whiskey tax, and the US fiscal revenue mainly relied on tariffs. Assuming that the factory owner pays a free worker a very low salary in order to save costs, while the value of a slave continues to rise, plus a 20% tariff, buying a slave can pay a free worker’s salary for 18 years. Is it necessary to buy it?

Speculative business needs to recover the cost as soon as possible. 18 years is no longer a long-term. Who knows what will happen after 18 years.

The greatest value of slaves is mortgage. One slave can get a loan, and if another slave is run away, the slave owner will suffer heavy losses, or if they get sick and die, the slave owner will also suffer losses.

Ordinary new immigrants will choose areas with higher terrain, average land fertility, but easy to reclaim, and give fertile low-lying areas to slave owners. This is determined by the actual reclamation ability. Only those slave planters have enough labor force. and equipment to clean up flooded, forested areas.

Slaves are expensive, so don't let them be wasted like consumables. Who would use gold hoes to open up wasteland. Unless they have children, the slave owners will break up the slave family and sell them. They dare not do the same thing to free workers. If it is small, it may cause judicial disputes, and if it is large, it may cause riots. Workers take to the streets and smash the factory equipment.

The biggest difference between American slavery and Roman slavery is that the Romans would become slaves because of their debts, but in the United States they would be put in prison because of their debts and lose their freedom. If these prisoners went to work as weavers to repay as Bowens said debt, then they are effectively slaves.

But this does not mean that Americans in the early 19th century would not become slaves. Beginning with Barbarossa Hayreddin, Berber pirates have been attacking European merchant ships, plundering locals, and those who can pay the ransom will be released. Those who cannot afford it will be sent to the Ottoman Arab slave markets in North Africa and the Middle East for auction.

Villages in southern Europe were abandoned, families moved to hilly areas, and high walls were erected. In order to prevent its citizens from being harassed, Denmark provides weapons to pirates every year to ensure that Danish ships will not be attacked.

Before the American Revolution, the British Navy had to protect American merchant ships. In 1777, Morocco was the first to publicly recognize the United States as an independent country, and then began to attack American merchant ships endlessly, causing huge economic losses.

And because the United States is rich in nutrition and the male physique is relatively tall, those crew members will be selected as slaves, and it is said that they can exchange a few onions.

Jefferson negotiated with Adams on this issue in London when he was minister to Tripoli, but he refused to pay homage to the Koran, and the negotiations failed. Instead, he sent a U.S. Navy fleet to the Mediterranean, intending to use force to Intimidate the cities of North Africa to keep Americans safe.

It just so happened that the British navy, which was short of troops, appeared at this time. It is a good thing that the U.S. navy has combat power. They can capture the crew of the U.S. merchant ship. As for the results of the U.S. Navy's pursuit of pirates this time, they didn't even see the black flag. Later, they joined the multinational joint operations to achieve small results.

In the process of large-scale expansion of agriculture, not everyone made a fortune through slavery, some did not have the ability, and some did not want to become slave owners. They cultivated enough land for living and grazed on natural pastures. Live a life with more than enough food and clothing.

In western movies, the cowboys who rode around on horses often wore very simple clothes. Only slave owners would wear gorgeous silk coats, drink European red wine, live in luxurious manors, and enjoy steaks with silver knives and forks.

Freemasonry is very interested in esoteric teachings, and Kabbalah and the Book of Light are part of it, but later on, fewer and fewer people are interested in these mysticisms. It is more like a platform, allowing many special people to come together quietly, communicate with each other, and then convey tasks from top to bottom level by level.

Most people who want to join have a reason, in order to obtain more opportunities, resources and so on. Due to the communication restrictions and geographical characteristics of this era, each branch of the Freemasonry has its own characteristics. The Freemasons in Germany are particularly keen on some mysterious rituals, which are more religious, and they are called "hidden hands". The French Freemasonry was completely "solved" by Napoleon, who himself was the "Great Mentor".

The laws of the country are like the rules of the game. What all the participants agree to will not be unfair to each of them, because no slave owner thought he would become a slave, so they feel that slavery is a OK They attack free competition, saying that competition brings antagonism, envy, and hatred, that free laborers have few houses and homes of their own, that their employment is precarious, that disease may overwhelm them, that liberty, instead of bringing them happiness, tempts men to Sin, deep into the source of pain. The South, by contrast, was orderly, peaceful and content, with no mobs, no trade unions, no strikes for wages, and workhouses not overcrowded like in Europe.

Is it possible that when the child was captured by the slave owner and the child cried for his mother, the onlookers were indifferent.

In a game, someone is winning all the time, of course he is willing to keep playing. But there are winners and there are losers, ask the man whose wife and child have just been sold by slave owners, how he feels in that empty but sheltered house.

There was a knock on the door.

Georgiana laughed and pushed him away.

"Come in." Bonaparte said lazily, walked to the table, picked up a glass of red wine and drank it.

Then the door opened, and in came Aston Martin, the current mayor of Brussels, Lupe, and a banker from the Bank for the Promotion of Industry.

After they came in, they closed the door. It seemed that Langenhofen was going to smoke for a while.

She was so bored thinking that she found a place to sit comfortably.

"I'm hungry," she cried.

"What would you like to eat?" asked Bonaparte.

"fruit."

The banker closest to the door spoke to the guards outside, and then closed the door again.

"One more game?" asked Bonaparte.

"Of course." Lupe said, just about to collect the balls on the table.