Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

Josephine has never formally expressed her opinion on remarriage. As an unmarried lady, he knows what to do and what to say at what stage, but for Josephine, he has never been able to determine what he should do .

how to say?Her attitude is really too negative, she is only interested in talking about "money".She'll ask him how he decides on an investment and how it's going to be implemented, and a true "lady" shouldn't want to know that.

After several conversations like this, he realized to his surprise that this was not possible, and he was not here to be her investment advisor.

"Josephine."

She lifted her eyes from the page, "Huh?" He didn't even use the word "Miss" suddenly, which was strange.

"I must ask you something . . . or something."

"Don't ask." She immediately tried to block his speech.

He smiled briefly, wiping his lips with his fingers.He was handsome, with a dazzling look when he smiled.The lips are natural pale pink, the upper lip is thin and shaped like Cupid's bow, the lower lip is slightly thicker, pink and full.

It is lips suitable for kissing.

Josephine felt nothing but regret.

There is no real "free love" in this era, especially in the parents' home, even if Emile wants them to be alone, she has to send the black mother to stay beside her.Mammy Black watched them both with her big bell-like eyes, lest the Yankee behave inappropriately.

Philip was sitting on the single sofa opposite her, leaning his upper body forward at this time, with an earnest expression, and his voice was slightly lowered, "If you are willing to tell me to get out, I will leave immediately."

She smiled.

He smiled complacently, "I must know what you mean, if you think I have no chance at all, please tell me now."

"You are so realistic."

"Men are very realistic. If I can't see the 'future', I will sadly admit defeat, try to maintain my dignity, and leave as soon as possible. Maybe I should ask you first, what do you think of me?"

"Opinions?" She closed the novel casually and put it on the low table. "Can't you let me enjoy the pleasure of being pursued?"

"It's hard for me to have fun under the eyes of this black goddess in your family." He looked eagerly, "You were too young when you got married last time, and you gave birth to a child early, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to enjoy marriage. the joys of life."

"You don't need to tell me that."

"I mean, since you want to get married again, I don't see how the Charlestonian can do better than me."

"Mother doesn't like the Yankees."

"But what I'm after is you. What's your idea? The real idea."

"What do I really think?" The corners of her mouth curled up in a graceful arc, "Speaking out will scare you."

"Scare me?" He said suspiciously, "No, no, no matter what you say, I can accept it."

Josephine didn't speak for a while.

Accepting a man's compliments was commonplace to her, and neither Philip nor Leonardo could have developed a better compliment for it.When a beauty has astonishing beauty, others will only compliment you on your beauty, while ignoring your temperament and character.

If you choose to marry, Philip or Leonardo are good candidates. The Darcy family has no parents and brothers, only the uncle's family. The interpersonal relationship is simple. After marriage, she can fully control the financial power of the Darcy family. What do you want to do? Just do whatever, Leonardo is content to be his farmer and slave master, as long as his expenses are okay, she can do whatever she wants.

Philip's family is relatively complicated, with too many relatives, but the advantage is that this person's business is very good, he can make a lot of money, and there are very few places where he is shackled by the family. If she is unwilling to deal with a large family of relatives, he should have no objection .

This is the best husband she can find in this era.

As for Rhett Butler, she also agreed with her mother that the rumors of Rhett and "that kind of woman" couldn't get past her, and she was out early.

Men are realistic, women can get carried away with love, and a man like Philip Talent wouldn't even consider marriage if he wasn't sure he was eager to "get" a woman.

All she had done to Philip from the first time she had met him on the ship had been to promise him that he would propose to her.

"Josephine?"

She came back to her senses and frowned at him, "Philip."

She motioned him to come closer to her, and she got off the sofa and sat on the carpet with her arms on the low table.

He also followed her example and slid down to sit on the carpet, so that there was only a small low table between them.

Josephine smiled and stretched out her right hand, quickly pressing on his lips.

The Robillard family's "gradual redemption" process of granting freedom to black slaves is going smoothly.How many house slaves does a family of five need?The answer is a minimum of 20 people, no upper limit, as long as you have enough rooms for slaves to live in.

The slaves in the family were all bought when the old Robillard first came to the United States. The purchase price was very cheap, and the most expensive one only cost 800 US dollars. 60 slaves, Robillard House still uses more than 30 black slaves.

Josephine boldly announced that all slaves in the family, regardless of their age, can start to redeem themselves. The price calculation formula is that the longer the service period, the lower the redemption price. Over 35 years old only need to pay 200 US dollars. "Senior slaves" like the black mother only need to pay $10. A nominal fee of $[-] is required.

Underage children are the most expensive, but they only cost $500. If a couple in their 30s has three children, they only need $3 to be free for the whole family.

Emile wondered why she set the price so low for the ransom.

"You have to let them really come up with the money, and you can't set it too high. Most of them will still be servants at home, and you can't make them hate us for such a small amount of money."

Emile was surprised, "What do you mean?"

"Mother, it's not easy to explain." Josephine thought about the wording for a while, with the Black Sister beside her, and Lydia, the other two slave girls who had not yet been redeemed. "Let's not say that no one owns slaves in Paris now. Take this time when I went to New York as an example. There are no black slaves in the North. I inquired about it, and the implementation was very thorough. No family dared to publicly announce that they still had slaves in their homes." The ex-slaves now have everything, there are black lawyers, there are black priests, and Philip said they play cricket and tennis, and there are good black cricketers and tennis players."

"Does this have anything to do with the price of slave redemption?"

"Yes. Why do we white people always think that black people are stupid, stupid, and violent? The reason is that we don't let black people go to school to read and write. Don't white people have people who are stupid, stupid, and fight all day long? Violence stems from lack of knowledge, People with higher levels of knowledge are theoretically more peaceful, and knowledge is directly proportional to income. Philip earns $20 a year. How could he wander the streets, drinking and fighting all day long? But his annual income does not exceed $1000 Some people may not even be able to fill their own stomachs. Of course, he hopes that this society will be as chaotic as possible. If there is a riot on the streets of Savannah, he may loot a store or a wealthy family and rob himself Something you can't afford."

"I still don't get it."

"I mean, we don't lack this little money, but the reason why we can't redeem the slaves at home for free is because a person needs to pay a price for what he wants. If 'freedom' is too easy to get, instead It will make them think—" She thought it was hard to say clearly, paused, and then said after a while: "The rest of Savannah's family will think that our family has made a bad start. The slaves in their family are also clamoring for a free ransom, which has not been done by other families in Savannah, if you don’t mind other wives scolding you behind your back, I don’t care about such a small ransom.”

Emile supported her forehead, "I don't care what those wives say behind their backs, but you are right, our family should not start anything that attracts attention."

Charles looked like an ignorant young man, but he thought about the same thing as Josephine.

"I kind of understand what you mean. You set this stepped redemption price because you don't want them to be free too easily, right?"

"Yes." Josephine wrote upstairs in her study.

"You're right, our family is indeed not short of such a small amount of money. All the slaves in the family are redeemed, which means tens of thousands, and the family can spend tens of thousands a year." Charles said nonchalantly: "After Doug redeemed himself, I will still be It’s no different from before. I don’t care about paying him a year’s salary, I only care about whether he is still as loyal to his duties as before. To be honest, I think Doug’s mood is much better recently than before.”

"It's hard to explain this to my mother. I hope to give the slaves freedom, but I don't want their freedom to come too easily, and I don't want them to feel resentment."

"You mean, worried about what they will do to retaliate against our family?" Charles looked disbelieving.

"Why did those slave owners punish escaped slaves so cruelly?" She put down her pen and blotted the ink on the letter paper with a blotting roller.

He had never thought about this question before, and after thinking about it for a while, he said: "Use severe punishment to warn slaves not to escape and not to take revenge on their masters?"

"Does black people kill white people in every city?"

"I don't know if it's 'every city', but there are indeed, and there are quite a few." Charles had an unnatural expression on his face: black slaves would not only kill the original master, but also rape|rape the master's wife and daughter, Although the end was usually to be caught and hanged, death was the punishment for a crime, but the crime was committed.

"The reason why white slave owners are consistent in their words and deeds on the crime of violently suppressing blacks is because they understand that such crimes exist, and they may fall on themselves one day. Parents are very gentle and rarely beat and scold slaves, but Can you guarantee that there is no resentment among the slaves in the family?"

Charles was speechless, he really couldn't guarantee it.

He is not a teenager who just knows how to play all day.The trip to New York also showed him the difference between black freemen and black slaves, and Josephine had no trouble persuading him.

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* Rhett Butler: I heard that I am the leading actor, fake!