Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2412 Reclaimed Eden (1)

The troubles of the canal Georgiana has already heard from the mayor of Bruges, Jacob, that as long as the upstream locks are repaired, there will be no water 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 canals at all. She thought of the young man who was recommended by Edgeworth to design a high-pressure steam engine. I wonder if he is here, if he is really like Edgeworth said If he is that talented, he might one day have a place in this pool room.

  Just as Georgiana shows up and spoils the situation, the MP for Paris takes the MP for Brussels and Bowens to another room to smoke, although Georgiana doesn't mind them smoking in the room.

In the colonial period of the United States, tobacco was the main export product. As a new agricultural product, cotton, although rising fiercely, is no match for 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 just the United States that produces tobacco, in order to flow agricultural products into the global market, the best way is low prices, which means that slavery requires low tariffs, But Hamilton set high tariffs to protect America's fragile textile industry and other industries.

   This is not only to protect the interests of the locals, Jefferson abolished the whisky tax, and the United States' fiscal revenue mainly depends on tariffs. Suppose the factory owner pays a free worker a very low salary in order to save costs, while the value of a slave is constantly rising, plus a 20% tariff, buying a slave can pay a free worker 18 years of salary, the slave still Do you need to buy it?

   The speculative business needs to recover the cost as soon as possible. 18 years is no longer a long term. Who knows what the situation will be after 18 years.

  The maximum value of a slave is mortgage. With one slave, you can get a loan. If you run another, the slave owner suffers heavy losses, or if they get sick and die, the slave owner also loses.

Ordinary new immigrants will choose areas with higher terrain and 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 plantation owners have enough labor. and equipment to clean up flooded, forested areas.

   Slaves are expensive, so don’t let them wear out like consumables, who would use a golden **** to open up the land. Unless they have children, slave owners will break up their slave families and sell them, the same thing they dare not do to free workers. At a small scale, it may lead to judicial disputes, and at a larger scale, it may lead to riots. Workers take to the streets to march and smash factory equipment. This is not like a slave owner in Barbados who killed a slave and can solve it with a few dollars.

The biggest difference between American slavery and Roman slavery is that Romans will become slaves because of debt, but in the United States they will be put in prison because of debt and lose their freedom. If these prisoners go to work as weavers to pay off 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 merchant ships in Europe, looting the locals, and those who can pay the ransom will be released. , and those who cannot afford it are sent to auction in Ottoman Arab slave markets in North Africa and the Middle East.

  The villages of southern Europe were abandoned and families moved to hilly areas and built high walls. In order to avoid harassment of its own citizens, Denmark provides weapons to pirates every year to ensure that Danish ships are not 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 great economic losses.

   And because the United States is rich in nutrients and males are taller, those crew members will be picked to be slaves, and it is said that they can exchange a few onions.

Jefferson and Adams negotiated this issue in London with a special envoy to Tripoli when he was still French envoy, but he refused to pay his respects to the Koran, and the negotiations did not come to fruition. Instead, he sent a U.S. Navy fleet to the Mediterranean, intending to use force. Coerce North African cities into keeping Americans safe.

   It happened that the British Navy, which was short of troops, appeared at this time. It is a good thing that the US Navy has combat power. They can capture the crew of the American merchant ships. As for the results of the US Navy's pursuit of pirates this time, they didn't even see the black flag. Later, they joined the multinational joint operation and only had a small victory.

In the process of the 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. Live a well-off life.

  The cowboys riding horses in Western movies often wear very simple clothes. Only slave owners 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 esotericism, and Kabbalah and the Book of Light are all part of it, but after development, fewer and fewer people are interested in these mysticism. It's more like a platform, allowing many special characters to quietly come together, communicate with each other, and then convey tasks from top to bottom.

   Most of the people who want to join have a reason, in order to get more opportunities, resources and so on. Due to the communication restrictions and regional characteristics of this era, each branch of Freemasonry has its own characteristics. Freemasonry in Germany is particularly keen on some mysterious rituals, with a more intense religious color, they are called "Hidden Hands". Freemasonry in France was completely "solved" by Napoleon, who was himself a "great teacher".

The laws of the country are like the rules of the game, and what all the participants agree on will not be unfair to each of them, because no slave owner thinks that he will become a slave, so they feel that slavery is a OK They attack free competition, saying that competition brings confrontation, envy and hatred, that free laborers have few houses of their own, that their employment is precarious, that disease may overwhelm them, that freedom does not bring them happiness, but induces people to Sin is a source of deep pain. The South, by contrast, was orderly, peaceful and content, with no mobs, no unions, no strikes for wages, and no workhouses as overcrowded as in Europe.

   Is it possible that the onlookers were indifferent when the child was taken away by the slave owner and the child was crying for his mother.

   In a game, someone keeps winning, and of course he wants to keep playing. But there are winners and losers. Ask the man whose wife and children were just sold by the slave owners how he felt when he was in that empty but sheltered house.

   There was a knock on the door.

  Georgianna laughed and pushed him away.

   "Come in," said Bonaparte lazily, walking to the table and drinking a glass of red wine.

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

   They closed the door after they came in. It seems that Langenhofen will be smoking for a while.

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

   "I'm hungry," she yelled.

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

"fruit."

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

   "Another game?" asked Bonaparte.

   "Sure," said Lupe, just about to put away the ball on the table.

   Bonaparte stopped him with a club.

   "You have to come in person, no other help?"

  Lupe looked at him.

   "I don't have a helper now, do you think it will be the same as me in the future?"

   Bonaparte kept staring at him, and after a moment he suddenly smiled and put the club away.

   Then Lupe began to clean up the table, and soon he piled the **** into a triangle and placed them in the middle of the table.

   (end of this chapter)