Daming 1805

Chapter 198 Beiyinzhou is about to become a mess

The Great Food Country, Quicksand City.

Ordinary workers resumed work one after another between the fifth day and the seventh day.

They're going to keep building more homes, they're going to keep building desalination plants, they're going to build massive oil storage tanks, they're going to start building schools.

Fifteen years later, all officials resumed work, and the long annual leave was finally completely over.

Zhu Jingyuan's attention shifted to the matter of "protecting" Morocco.

According to the plan, after the new year, Daming, Ottoman, Lucia, Austria, Italy, France, and Spain will send a delegation to persuade Morocco to accept the alliance plan.

This task should not be difficult, so there is no need for the Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty to send people directly.

There is no need for Zhu Jingyuan, who is in charge of foreign affairs in the Xihai area, to personally act.

Let Lin Zexu, Zhu Jingyuan's staff member, take the representatives of the Thai and Western countries under the escort of the navy.

When Zhu Jingyuan explained the precautions to Lin Zexu, he received news from the Jizhou Red Sea South Patrol Fleet.

Two slave traders, Gu Rui and Lu Fuli, actually traveled thousands of miles from Tianzhu to North Yinzhou to trade slaves.

The two also specifically explained that the most exquisite female slaves and tasteless female slaves will be reserved for Dashi Kingdom.

The slaves they sent to Yinzhou were mainly male slaves, with only one-tenth of the middle-class 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 hand.

Before I turned 20, I only had two chances a month.

I have 28 orchids, and if each one goes through one round, it will take fourteen months to go through one round.

The key is to score points for the two upcoming concubines of Ming Dynasty.

But the behavior of Gu Rui and Lu Fuli aroused Zhu Jingyuan's curiosity.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't know what happened to Yinzhou.

Certain American and British investors are hyping up the Monu thing.

The merchants of Ming Dynasty traded slaves from the Antilles to Northern Yinzhou.

The sale of slaves owned by Tessian planters.

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 institutions of the Ming court may have known some information, but they did not report it to Zhu Jingyuan.

However, Zhu Jingyuan can apply for relevant information.

So he sent a message directly to the headquarters of the West Factory, asking for key developments in the slave market around the world.

Relevant information will be sent out soon.

Because it was sent by telegram, the content is very brief, but the coverage is very large.

Not only about Yinzhou, but also about Mozhou and Taixi.

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 people slaves.

It shows that the owners of those slaves are going to send them to Northern Yinzhou.

Not only that, the patrol fleet around Mozhou successively captured several slave smuggling ships.

Some were sold from Ximozhou to Beiyinzhou, and some were sold from Dongmozhou to Ximozhou and Taixi.

There is also a fleet engaged in passenger transport, tricking a small number of free people from the Antilles and Southern Yinzhou to board the ship, and then sell them to the United States as slaves.

The most outrageous thing is that someone sold ink slaves from Yinzhou to Taixi mainland.

Although the scale of the slave trade in Taixi was very small, it may be purely an attempt.

Because the United Kingdom and the mainland of France both banned slavery, especially France, foreign slaves would automatically be given the status of free people when they went.

But this behavior is worthy of high vigilance, which makes the Mo people complete the triangular trade.

Zhu Jingyuan was quite astonished by the pieces of information in front of him.

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously wanted to order to increase the crackdown on illegal slave trade and smuggling, and at the same time directly prohibit other slave trade that was on the verge of law.

But immediately restrained this thought.

In the end, it was just a request to step up efforts to suppress smuggling from Mozhou. If the slave traders refused to obey orders or resisted, they could directly sink the slave ship.

The slave trade in other regions will not be left alone for the time being.

At present, the largest flow of Mo people's slaves is from the mainland of South Yinzhou and the islands of Central Yinzhou to the south of America in North Yinzhou.

Sufficiently high profits allow this slave trade to span multiple spheres of influence of regimes.

Whether it is large ships calling at ports by sea, smuggling by small boats on rivers, or even crossing land borders, all methods are available.

This can concentrate the ink people in Yinzhou as much as possible.

The enthusiasm of the relevant personnel is very high.

If the original slave owners and Ming's fleet were allowed to repatriate the Mo people to Mozhou, their enthusiasm would be very low.

It could take many years to complete and leave a lot of remnants.

However, the current high-profit-driven slave trading activities are estimated to last within two or three years, and the Yinzhou Mo people will complete their gathering in the southern United States.

This will further catalyze the North-South conflict in the United States.

Some things are accumulated over a long period of time and are caused by objectively existing factors.

The accelerated development of the United States will not eliminate the conflict between the North and the South, and may even increase it.

Because the direction of development in the north is industrialization, it needs "free" cheap labor.

The south still retains the plantation economy and enslaves a large number of laborers.

The slaves used in the south are personal property according to the law, and there is no way to go to the north to work.

Historically, the conflict between the North and South of the United States did not suddenly appear before the Civil War.

It has existed since independence, even since colonial times.

In the decades since 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, which is the American Civil War.

In the history of the United States, in 1807, the federal government banned 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 are many people in slave states who operate 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, exchanging slave management experience, explaining his great discovery:
The frequency of a young female slave having a child every two years brought him a 4% annual rate of return.

Since the currency was basically anchored to gold at that time, coupled with the rapid development of the industrial revolution, there was basically no inflation, and the yield of 4% was not too low.

When the importation of slaves was prohibited, the price of ordinary slaves soared three times.

The total value of more than 600 slaves in the Jefferson family will increase from £[-] to £[-].

The income of the slave breeding industry has also skyrocketed as a matter of course.

Everything is profit.

Jefferson himself left six mulatto descendants.

The mother of these children was the dowry of Jefferson's original wife, a half-breed slave girl Sally.

Sally was born to Jefferson's father-in-law and his slave girl. She is the half-sister of Jefferson's wife and is theoretically Jefferson's sister-in-law.

Half-breed slave girls were very popular at the time.

If you don't have thick lips and your skin is a little fairer, you can go to the auction alone, and the price is at least three times that of a mature male slave.

From 1807 to the prohibition of the importation of slaves, and until the American Civil War for more than 50 years, all new slaves in the United States were bred.

Due to the advantages of mixed-blood female slaves, and the small amount of care or transactions and gifts given by the male masters who gave birth to mixed-race female slaves, the survival rate of mixed-blood Mexican slaves in the United States is many times higher than that of pure-blood Mexican slaves.

The final result is that the Mexicans in the United States are generally much whiter than the native Mexicans in Mexico...

Zhu Jingyuan didn't know if Jefferson in this life had a half-breed sister-in-law named Sally.

But the slave-breeding industry was mostly run.

The American region in this life is more industrially developed than in history.

But the northern region in history and the Great Lakes region are all French now.

As a result, the French Yinzhou has stronger industrial capabilities, and the British Yinzhou has a larger proportion of plantations.

Now inside the United States, the power of the South is stronger than in history.

So now we can barely maintain the balance.

Now Ming merchants and Spanish and Portuguese slave owners are transporting slaves from the entire central and southern Yinzhou to southern America.

The current balance may be disrupted.

But where will the point of conflict erupt?

Jefferson, the group of existing slave owners, who advocated breeding and using slave owners, had the most direct threat to their interests, and they should not tolerate it.

The North probably couldn't tolerate any more labor being enslaved by the South either.

The British mainland began to abolish slavery, and at the same time prohibited the importation of Tianzhu slaves to Yinzhou.

Relations between mainland Britain and the United States were also on the brink of peril.

Zhu Jingyuan thought deeply for a long time, and then made his own decision:
Allow Gu Rui's two slave traders to go to Yinzhou.

This matter 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, meet with 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 thought process and give your own suggestions at the end.

First of all, prepare for the war in Beiyinzhou.

It is necessary to remind the Military Aircraft Department to continue to increase troops to North Yinzhou and make a war plan in advance.

Remind the Ministry of Households to continue to increase the scale of immigrants from Beiyinzhou, and it must be an armed immigration model.

Xintianfu will continue to expand its army and expand the size of the servant army of the Yin people.

Panama, Texas, Florida, and the Central Yinzhou Islands all had to increase the size of their garrisons.

If the United States is going to be in chaos, it may not necessarily be a war of independence that is postponed for 30 years.

It may be the War of Independence, the Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo-American War.

Northern Yinzhou may become a mess.

But Daming's defensive operations must also be controlled.

Can't let go of the force.

It is impossible to create a fuse for a new world war.

At the beginning, Ming Dynasty was only planning to seize Egypt and South Tianzhu, but the pressure from countries around the Great Qinhai Sea broke through the critical point, and then an anti-Ming alliance was formed.

The suppression of bandits 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 to Yinzhou.

The chaotic situation in the Yinzhou Islands caused by the slave trade can also be used as a reason.

You can even communicate with the British and French directly through the League of Nations to remind them that the situation in Northern Yinzhou is too dangerous.

Immigrants in Ming Dynasty needed soldiers to protect them, which was the reason why Ming Dynasty sent more troops to North Yinzhou.

It is suggested that they also increase their troops to prevent the situation in Northern Yinzhou from getting out of control.

(End of this chapter)