New Shun 1730

At this time, Dashun still had a lot of face with the Acadians.

After all, guns and food were all funded by Dashun.

In addition, Dashun also contacted the slave owners in the southern states, and the slave owners in the south were very happy.

Because the price of slaves is very expensive now.

At the beginning, everyone thought that the slave trade would be affected by the war, and the slave suppliers in Africa would have to lower the price because they couldn't sell their goods.

This is a basic economic principle.

Who would have thought that the slave traders in West Africa not only did not lower the price, but instead organized a "slave price alliance". The major slave suppliers reached an agreement with each other to strictly control the shipment of slaves.

In addition, food in North America is very cheap now, and it is not expensive to keep slaves. This slave price alliance quickly reduced the supply of slaves, and the price soared.

Once the price rose, many jobs on the plantation, especially very dangerous jobs, would not be cost-effective to use slaves.

Now the price of a slave arriving on the shore is more than six or seven horses.

If you lose six or seven horses at once, how much wealth would you have to lose?

So the plantation owners in the southern states and the Dashun side expressed their willingness to accept these New Englanders who immigrated to the north after the Acadians were expelled.

Because these poor British people can be used for some dangerous jobs.

Since they are Christians, they can be used as debt slaves, but not as animal slaves.

And animal slaves are always family property from generation to generation.

Like land deeds and houses, they are not much property.

And the poor British are not family property, so some dangerous jobs can be done by these people.

It can save a lot of money.

For example, if a slave dies in the more dangerous cleaning of tobacco kilns, it is equivalent to losing more than 100 pounds in cash. This thing can really be cashed at any time. Just take it to the market in the morning and get 100 pounds in cash at noon, and it is not paper money.

So if it dies, it is quite painful, equivalent to losing 300 taels of silver.

It is very different to find a poor British person to do it.

It is not property.

The maximum compensation for death is 3 pounds.

Can it be the same?

Another factor is religion.

In the northern states, such as Massachusetts, the Congregational Church is the only one that dominates, and has combined church and state, so other denominations are trying to oppose the Congregational Church.

In the southern states, because they have closer relations with the UK, market demand and economic ties are greater, there are more people from the Church of England. The southern states need more people from the Congregational Church to come to the south to dilute the power of the Church of England.

Most of these northern immigrants are from the Congregational Church.

Moreover, due to some historical factors, they are quite disgusted with the Church of England.

In this way, these people are both poor and from the Congregational Church, so the plantation owners in the southern states like them very much.

So I told the people in Dashun that they should be sent over, and we will pay for the shipping. The shipping fee is just a debt, just a debt slave.

People in the plantations in the southern states also complained to Dashun.

It is said that before the Acadians were expelled, a group of them were sent to plantations in southern states. Not only were these people difficult to manage, but they also formed small circles easily due to religious and language issues.

Then a wave of uprisings broke out. Several brave Acadians launched an uprising on the plantation and fled the plantation.

At first, the plantation owners in the southern states, especially Georgia and South Carolina, were quite happy.

On the one hand, these people were cheap and almost free.

On the other hand, although these people were Christians, there were already great commentators who had specially published "commentaries on the scriptures". They believed that the Acadians could not be considered true Christians because they believed in animism at the beginning, so the things that were produced by the fusion of their traditions and Christian ideas could not be considered Christianity, so they could not be considered Christians and could be used as slaves of property.

The reason was that the productivity of the Indians was backward at the beginning. As the saying goes, the Shang Dynasty died due to alcoholism. People with insufficient productivity really had no resistance after coming into contact with alcohol.

Some awakened Indians began to mix scriptures and combine them. With the help of the Bible, they created something that was easy to spread in the tribe, mainly to make Indians quit drinking.

It can be understood as the Christianity of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", which has a strong local flavor, so some traditional ideas must have been added.

In simple terms, the Protestants excommunicated these people through annotations to circumvent the restriction that "Christians cannot be slaves for generations".

However, the plantation owners in Georgia and South Carolina were not happy for two days before they found that these people loved to resist.

Not only did they love to resist, but they also had a fierceness.

Alexander Broussard, the younger brother of Joseph Broussard, a famous resistance hero in history, led 30 people from the plantation in South Carolina to revolt and return home. The 30 people walked 6,800 kilometers, and finally 12 people returned to their hometown alive.

Their resistance led the rest of the slaves to resist.

So at first they thought it was a big profit, but in the end they found it was a thunder.

The plantation owners in the southern states also complained to the Dashun people that it would be better to follow the example of Massachusetts and simply lock them up on the ship and not allow them to disembark, so that they all freeze to death; or follow the example of Virginia and directly lock them up in concentration camps.

I thought I had gotten a great bargain, but ended up losing a lot.

So, the plantation owners and state legislatures in the southern states made a deal with Dashun.

They said there were 1,400 Acadians in Georgia and the Carolinas.

Later, when things got bad, they found out that Thomas Hancock and Charles Apthorpe, the two Yankees who contracted the migration, were too cunning. All of these 1,400 Acadians were "the most dishonest and the most rebellious," and they were all sent to the South.

The plantation owners in Georgia and the Carolinas said they would send these 1,400 Acadians out of the country and raise money to send them back.

After that, as a filler, they would replace them with some New England immigrants from here to the South to be indentured servants and debt slaves.

On the one hand, everyone spoke English and was British, so it was easy to manage.

On the other hand, these people believed in the sanctity of private property and would not rebel against the plantations.

Dashun naturally agreed.

However, the immigrants who occupied the nest of New England were not only in the Annapolis Valley. So, they could be killed or slaughtered, but there were still enough people left for exchange.

And those who witnessed the wrath of revenge in the Annapolis Valley could be sent to the southern plantations, but not all of them. A group of them had to be sent to Pennsylvania, Virginia and other places.

Sending them to Pennsylvania was to spread fear. Because Pennsylvania as a whole tends to peace and opposes border wars, there are both religious factors and interest factors caused by peaceful borders.

Sending them to Virginia was also to spread fear. The Williamsburg concentration camp in Virginia still held more than 800 people. Not only was it a good opportunity for exchange, it was also to incite Virginia to become the target of public criticism.

Because those tobacco growers in Virginia, they must have new land, and tobacco is too land-intensive. Including Washington and others, their land speculation was mainly aimed at Virginia's tobacco plantations.

In short, Pennsylvania can pull and scare them with fear, making them inclined to peace.

Massachusetts is more capable of pulling. Although they are crazy, the ones who really have influence are all smugglers. They are afraid that the war will affect their business.

There is no need to mention the southern states. They don’t care about the Northwest Frontier War whether they pull or not. If there is something, the northern states will take it. Can those French and Indians kill all the way to Georgia?

Only Virginia can’t pull. The economic structure is here. New land is urgently needed to grow tobacco. There is no fertilizer these days. The land that has been planted with tobacco cannot be planted again within 15 years.

Therefore, you have to be beaten whether you pull or not, whether you smile or not.

Then it’s better to send those who have experienced the Annapolis Valley Massacre over there.

It’s best to exchange.

If the group of people in Virginia directly massacred more than 800 people in the Williamsburg concentration camp, there is nothing we can do.

Anyway, Virginia massacred in the concentration camp, so this side will retaliate against Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other states, and retaliate against the plantations in the South in equal measure.

Force the states to unite and first slaughter the land speculators in Virginia.

In this way, Dashun's letting these trembling people live is not the kindness of Duke Xiang of Song.

Sometimes the living are more useful than the dead, and the dead can't speak, so how can they spread fear?

So, under the pretext of "letting these people live in exchange for more tribesmen", Dashun finally persuaded these Acadians who were bloodthirsty and completely blinded by hatred.

After all, many Acadians here know that some of their relatives are not dead, but have been shipped away as slaves.

After waiting for Dashun to calm them down, they also gave up the impulse to slaughter all the New England people here for revenge.

It seems that Dashun has been a good person this time and saved so many people.

These people don't have to die, and they should have a sense of happiness of escaping death.

It's just that... the people on the Dashun side are all a group of "superstitious atheists" who can't understand Christians at all, and they can't understand that religious people have other spiritual fears besides the fear of death.

In fact, most of the living people who were cowering in the town at this time had completely collapsed.

It's not just the fear of death they witnessed before.

It's also because they are Congregationalists, and when the Congregationalists burned the Quakers before, the Quakers made a terrible prophecy: If you Congregationalists play like this, the Last Judgment Day is coming!

The last time, that is, during the first Anglo-French and Indian War, that is, the [King Philip's War], the Quakers' prophecy of "The Last Judgment Day is coming" had scared many people crazy.

Because that was the first time that the Congregationalists in the colonies came into contact with the cruelty of "war".

The two sides killed and burned each other, the villages were destroyed, and the towns were destroyed. These second- and third-generation immigrants, far away from Europe where wars were fought all day, really thought this was a city on the hill. Where have they seen such a posture?

The Indians decided to take revenge and actually broke into the colonists' inner cities. Many people looked at the scorched earth and the scene of war - although this war scene was nothing compared to the Thirty Years' War that wiped out two-thirds of the German population, it was just that their lives were too good, so when they saw this scene for the first time, they were scared crazy - many people really believed that it was over, that what the Quakers said was right, the Last Judgment was coming.

Nearly a hundred years later, this group of Congregationalists witnessed the cruelty of war and the tragic revenge in Annapolis Valley. Naturally, they once again thought of the Quaker prophecy - the Last Judgment, which was coming.

Dashun, a group of superstitious atheists, felt that they had saved them, and they should at least have a sense of happiness for escaping death.

Who would have thought that for this group of Congregationalists, there was another great fear that was no less than death, the Last Judgment.

Of course, the Last Judgment itself was not terrible.

The problem was that it was agreed that everyone else would die, but I would live. Am I the one chosen by God?

Damn, now people on my side are dying, and others are living. Aren’t I the one who should die in the Last Judgment?