Dashi Country, Liusha City.
Ordinary workers resumed work one after another from the fifth to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.
They will continue to build more homes, continue to build desalination plants, large-scale oil storage tanks, and start building schools.
Fifteen days later, all officials returned to work and the long annual leave was finally over.
Zhu Jingyuan's attention shifted to "protecting" Morocco.
According to the plan, after the New Year, Ming Dynasty, Ottoman, Lucia, Austria, Italy, France, and Spain will send a delegation to convince Morocco to accept the alliance plan.
This task should not be difficult, so there is no need for the Ming Dynasty Honglu Temple to send people directly.
There is no need for Zhu Jingyuan, who is in charge of foreign affairs in the West China Sea region, to take action personally.
Just let Zhu Jingyuan's aide Lin Zexu bring representatives from the Thai and Western countries under naval escort.
When Zhu Jingyuan was exchanging notes with Lin Zexu, he received news from the Jizhou Red Sea South Patrol Fleet.
Two slave traders, Gu Rui and Lu Frei, went all the way from Tianzhu to sell slaves in Beiyinzhou.
The two also specifically stated that both the most exquisite female slaves and the tasteless female slaves would be reserved for the Dashi Country.
The slaves they sent to Yinzhou were mainly male slaves, with only one-tenth of the number of interesting mid-range female slaves.
Zhu Jingyuan didn't care about their choice at all. Zhu Jingyuan had no interest in Hu Ji now.
After all, there are too many Orchids in my hands.
Before I was twenty, I only had two opportunities a month.
I have twenty-eight Orchids. If each of them had one time, it would take fourteen months to pass one round.
The key is also given to the two concubines of the Ming Dynasty who are about to arrive.
But the behavior of Gu Rui and Lu Frei aroused Zhu Jingyuan's curiosity.
Zhu Jingyuan didn't know what happened in Yinzhou.
Some American and British investors are hyping up the Menu story.
Ming merchants traded slaves from the Antilles to Northern Yinzhou.
The sale of slaves by a plantation owner in the West.
Some American and British businessmen lost all their money and eventually jumped off the building.
None of this has anything to do with Zhu Jingyuan's current responsibilities.
The relevant agencies of the Ming Dynasty may have known some information, but they did not inform Zhu Jingyuan.
However, Zhu Jingyuan can apply for relevant information.
So a message was sent directly to the Xichang headquarters, asking for the key developments in the slave market around the world.
Relevant information was sent out quickly.
Because it was sent by telegraph, the content was very brief, but the coverage was very large.
It's not just about Yin Zhou, but also about Mo Zhou and Tai Xi.
The changes in the Mexican slave market have affected most of the world!
On the route from Nanyinzhou to Mozhou, there are almost no Mo slaves.
It means that the owners of those slaves are preparing to send them to Beiyinzhou.
Not only that, the patrol fleets around Mozhou successively captured several smuggling and slave trading ships.
Some are sold from Ximo Continent to Beiyin Continent, and some are sold from East Mo Continent to Ximo Continent and Taixi.
There were also passenger fleets that deceived a small number of free Mexicans from the Antilles and Nanyin Islands to board the ships, and then sold them as slaves to the United States.
The most outrageous thing is that there are people selling ink slaves from Yinzhou to the western continent.
Although the scale of the slave trade to the West was very small, it may have been a simple attempt.
Because slavery is prohibited in both the UK and France, especially in France, foreign slaves will automatically be given the status of free persons when they go there.
However, this behavior deserves a high degree of vigilance, which means that the Mexican people have completed the triangular trade.
Zhu Jingyuan was also quite shocked by the messages in front of him.
Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously wanted to order an order to increase the ban on illegal slave trading and smuggling, and at the same time directly prohibit other slave trading activities that were on the edge of the law.
But he immediately suppressed this idea.
In the end, it was just a request to intensify efforts to ban the smuggling out of Mozhou. If the slave traders did not obey orders or resisted, the slave ships could be directly sunk.
The slave trade in other regions will not be left alone for the time being.
At present, the largest flow of Mexican slaves is from the South Yinzhou Continent and the Central Yinzhou Islands to the southern part of the United States in the North Yinzhou.
Profits were high enough to allow this slave trade to span multiple political spheres of influence.
Whether it's large ships docking at the port, small boats smuggling by river, or even land border crossings, there are solutions.
This can concentrate the Mo people in Yinzhou as much as possible.
The motivation of those involved is very high.
If the original slave owners and the Ming Dynasty's fleet were allowed to repatriate the Mo people to Mo Continent, their enthusiasm would be very low.
It can take many years to complete and leaves a lot of residue.
However, it is estimated that the current slave trading activities driven by high profits will not last for two or three years, and the Yinzhou Mo people will complete their gathering in southern America.
This will further catalyze the contradiction between the North and the South in the United States.
Some things are accumulated over a long period of time and are caused by objective factors.
The accelerated development of the United States cannot eliminate the contradiction between the North and the South, and may even intensify it.
Because the development direction of the north is industrialization, it needs "free" cheap labor.
The South still retains a plantation economy that enslaves a large number of laborers.
The slaves used in the South were personal property according to the law and could not go to the North to work.
Historically, the contradiction between the North and the South in the United States did not suddenly appear before the Civil War.
It has existed since independence and even since the colonial period.
In the decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two sides have been fighting endlessly within the rules.
The conflict that lasted for decades finally broke out and became the American Civil War.
In the history of the United States, in 1807, the federal government legislated to prohibit the importation of black slaves, and the federal fleet would attack slave ships at sea.
But there are still more and more black slaves in the United States.
There were many people in slave states who engaged in slave breeding, just like raising cattle and sheep.
The president who presided over the passage of the bill prohibiting the importation of slaves was Thomas Jefferson, the founding father of the United States.
Jefferson once wrote to Washington to exchange experiences in slave management and explain his major discoveries:
The young female slaves gave birth to children as often as every two years, which brought him a 4% annual rate of return.
Since currencies at that time were basically anchored to gold, and the industrial revolution was developing very rapidly and there was basically no inflation, a 4% yield was not considered low.
When the importation of slaves was banned, the price of ordinary slaves soared threefold.
The total value of the Jefferson family's more than 600 slaves will increase from 30,000 pounds to 100,000 pounds.
The profits from the slave breeding industry have naturally skyrocketed.
Everything is a benefit.
Jefferson himself left six mulatto descendants.
The mother of these children was Jefferson's first wife's dowry, a mixed-race slave girl named Sally.
Sally was the daughter of Jefferson's father-in-law and his slave girl. She was the half-sister of Jefferson's wife and theoretically his sister-in-law.
Mixed race female slaves were very popular at the time.
If you don't have thick lips and your skin is a little whiter, you can go to the auction house alone, and the price will be at least three times that of a mature male slave.
From 1807 to the ban on the importation of slaves until the American Civil War, all new slaves in the United States were bred.
Due to the advantages of mixed-race female slaves and the small amount of care or trade and gifts given by the male masters who gave birth to mixed-race female slaves, the survival rate of mixed-race slaves in the United States is many times higher than that of pure-blood slaves.
The final result is that American Mexicans are generally much whiter than native Mexicans...
Zhu Jingyuan didn't know if Jefferson had a mixed-race aunt and slave named Sally in this life.
But the industry of breeding slaves is mostly in business.
In this lifetime, industry in the United States is more developed than in history.
But the historical northern regions and the Great Lakes region are now owned by the French.
As a result, the industrial capacity of French Yinzhou was stronger, and the proportion of plantations in British Yinzhou was larger.
Now within the United States, the power of the South is stronger than in history.
So now we can barely maintain balance.
Now Ming merchants and Spanish and Portuguese slave owners are transporting slaves from the entire Central and Southern Yinzhou to the southern United States.
The current balance may be upset.
But where and where will the conflict break out?
The interests of existing slave owners like Jefferson, who advocated the use of breeding slaves, were most directly threatened, and they should not be tolerated.
The North may not be able to tolerate any more of its labor force becoming slaves to the South.
The British mainland began to abolish slavery, and at the same time banned the import of Tianzhu slaves to Yinzhou.
The relationship between Britain and the United States is also on the verge of danger.
Zhu Jingyuan thought deeply for a long time and then made his decision:
Allow the two slave traders Gu Rui to go to Yinzhou.
This matter itself is not important at all, but what impact will the new source of slaves have on the already chaotic situation in the United States?
After the order was issued, Zhu Jingyuan sent Lin Zexu away.
Lin Zexu will first go to Tunisia to join representatives from other countries, and then go to Morocco together.
Zhu Jingyuan began to write a report to the capital.
Write directly to his father Zhu Jianyan.
Write down your thinking process and finally give your own suggestions.
First make preparations for fighting in Beiyinzhou.
We must remind the Military Aircraft Department to continue to increase troops to Beiyinzhou and make war plans in advance.
The Ministry of Household Affairs is reminded to continue to increase the scale of immigration to Beiyinzhou, and it must be an armed immigration model.
Xin Tianfu will continue to expand its army and expand the size of the Yin servant army.
Panama, Texas, Florida, the Zhongyinzhou Islands and other places have to increase the size of their garrison.
If America is going to be in chaos, it may not necessarily be a war of independence that has been postponed for thirty years.
It may be the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Napoleonic War, and the Anglo-American War all at once.
Beiyinzhou may turn into a mess.
But Ming's defensive operations must also be controlled in intensity.
Can't let go of the force.
We cannot create a trigger for a new world war.
The Ming Dynasty was only preparing to seize Egypt and southern Tianzhu, but as a result, the pressure from the countries surrounding the Great Qin Sea exceeded the critical point, and then an anti-Ming alliance was formed.
The bandit suppression in Nanyinzhou is still going on, and it may take several years to complete.
They can be used as a reason to continue to increase troops and expand the army in Yinzhou.
The chaos in the Zhongyinzhou Islands caused by the slave trade can also be used as a reason.
They can even communicate directly with the British and French through the League of Nations to remind them that the situation in Beiyinzhou is too dangerous.
The immigrants of the Ming Dynasty needed soldiers to protect them. This was the reason why the Ming Dynasty sent more troops to Yinzhou in the north.
It is recommended that they also increase their troops to prevent the situation in Beiyinzhou from getting out of control.
(End of chapter)
Source: Previous Chapter Chapter 196 Someone jumped off the building
