Chapter 272: , The question of Haiti

Jager Goreng and they do have a large area in Louisiana. In fact, the land in Louisiana is not worth any money. What was missing there was never land, but people.
In 1762, France and Spain united to resist British expansion in North America. As part of the alliance, the French transferred the sovereignty of Louisiana to the Spanish. From then on, the Spaniard became the master of Louisiana.
But Spaniards have always had a problem, and that is their limited population. So there are not many immigrants. So although Louisiana is a Spanish territory, the immigrants there are still mainly French.
After the French Revolution, Spain once joined the anti-French alliance and fought France, but quickly rebelled and became an ally of France. As for Louisiana, it continues to be a Spanish colony, but it continues to be French-speaking people.
Recently, the Spaniards have encountered some economic difficulties (in other words, the Spaniards do not seem to have economic difficulties), and they are also under a lot of pressure from the United States in North America. In Florida, the Americans have begun to engage in some small actions, and in the capital of Louisiana, the Americans used the weakness of the Spaniards to force the Spaniards to recognize the "special interests" of the United States in New Orleans.
The increasingly weak Spaniards had in fact been unable to maintain control of the vast land of Louisiana. Napoleon took the opportunity to propose to the Spaniards that he was willing to use some of his interests in Italy in exchange for the sovereignty of Louisiana.
In Napoleon's vision, using Louis Anna and Haiti, which is currently still controlled by France, can maintain considerable influence in the New World. And this idea was also supported by Joseph. Compared with most people at that time, Joseph's meaning of the New World for the future was much clearer.
To be able to strengthen the control of Louisiana, population is of course the most important. However, the French have had a good life because of this period, and there are fewer people who are really willing to venture thousands of miles away. Therefore, the number of French immigrants is also limited. Although the Napoleonic government has always encouraged childbirth, and the Ministry of Truth has even issued "hero mother" medals to mothers who have given birth to many children, this will not change the situation in the short term.
So now the French mainly rely on immigrating to Louisiana from other parts of Europe.
Of course, theoretically speaking, ensuring that the immigrants are mainly French should be able to ensure the cohesion of overseas territories and homeland. However, the North American War of Independence actually shows that the mere kinship is not reliable. And unlike Napoleon, Napoleon hopes for a new empire that never sets, but Joseph's expectations are much lower. His lowest expectations are only a torn North American continent.
And Joseph believes that because of the existence of the United States, Louisiana is in a sense easier to be more loyal to France. Just as Canada has always been loyal to Britain because of the existence of the United States.
With the United States, it seems feasible to control Louisiana, thousands of miles away. Of course, to do this, Louisiana must be in economic conflict with the United States.
This is not difficult. Today's American economy mainly depends on the export of grain and cotton. These Louisiana can also be produced, as long as Louisiana is committed to producing these, they will conflict with the United States. At the same time, according to history, the North of the United States will embark on the road of industrial development in the future, so it is a contradiction to continuously export cheap industrial products to the United States through legal and illegal means through Louisiana. With these, a divided North America is completely expected.
But to achieve all of this, especially to maintain long-term control of Louisiana, there is a problem that must be solved, that is, Haiti, then called Santo Domingo.
Because in later generations, Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its presence in the world is not high. If there is no major earthquake or something, most people would not even know that there is such a country in the world. So at first, Joseph didn't care much about Haiti.
But Joseph soon realized that Haiti in this era is really not a place that is not worth mentioning. Even in terms of its current significance to the French economy, its importance is even greater than that of the entire Louisan. Satisfied.
In 1780, 40% of cane sugar and 60% of coffee on the European market were produced in Haiti. Haiti produces more agricultural products than the entire West Indies combined. By 1791, Haiti's cane sugar production had occupied the first place in the world. Haiti has become the richest colony in France, and Haiti is also known as the "Pearl" in the Caribbean.
Of course, the wealthy people in Haiti have nothing to do with most people in Haiti. On the contrary, because of the prosperity of Haiti, the slave owners in Haiti have a stronger desire to drive the black slaves to work hard. Compared with those slaves in the southern United States, the labor intensity of the Haitian black slaves is almost as strong as that of the British workers.
In 1791, taking advantage of the opportunity of the French revolution, the black slaves in Haiti launched a great uprising. The insurgents first joined forces with the anti-French alliances of Britain and Spain against the French, and then joined forces with the French against the Spanish and British. In order to keep Haiti in France, the revolutionary government even made a move that surprised the whole of Europe: freeing slaves, giving black citizenship and voting rights, and appointing Dusan Louvidul, leader of the black rebel army, as Santo. Governor Mingo.
But this did not solve the most fundamental problem of land. Therefore, under the jurisdiction of the French Revolutionary Government, the blacks of Haiti suddenly evolved from "private slaves" to "free slaves", ah, it should be said that they became "free agricultural workers." In the whole of Haiti, all developed land is white, and the situation of blacks after obtaining the so-called "citizenship" is even worse than before the revolution.
So in the original history, in 1801, the black leader Dusan declared the independence of Haiti, completely abolished slavery, and "nationalized" the land of white colonists. So Napoleon sent a 30,000 expeditionary army with Leclerc commander-in-chief in 1802 to try to retake Haiti. However, the operations of the Expeditionary Force in Haiti were not smooth. Coupled with the yellow fever epidemic, coupled with the various support of the Americans for the Haitian Rebels, (from material support to the dispatch of naval artillery to attack French troops) the French army was in a precarious position. . Even if Leclerc deceived Dusan to negotiate and arrested him, the Haitian rebels still prevailed and forced the remaining French troops to surrender in 1803, thus establishing the first independent black republic.
However, after the establishment of an independent black republic, the richness of Haiti seems to have disappeared with the passing of the colonists. Haiti quickly became the poorest and backward country in the world, and it has remained the same today. Although he has almost the same system and laws as the United States.
This ending naturally led many spiritual whites of Ye Hebu to come to this conclusion: "Whites are superior people, and blacks are inferior. Without the leadership of excellent whites, blacks can only make a mess of themselves. "Similar "evidence" also includes nonsense such as "Mandela turned South Africa from a developed country into a developing country". (When these Ye He counted white South Africa as a developed country, they probably only counted the white people and expelled all the black people. According to their algorithm, India is actually a developed country.)
Haiti’s "sinking" let me call it "sinking" for the time being, although in fact, even when Haiti was the most "richest", a black man would not live better than his "sinking" life is actually very simple. That is, it was originally only a highly substitutable link in the economic chain. When it became independent, it was not only independent politically, but also economically independent.
Or to put it more clearly, it is isolated from the colonial economic chain. And its position on this chain was soon replaced by other colonies. The cost of production in other colonies is definitely much lower than that of Haiti unless Haiti can concentrate its land after independence and use the blacks as "free slaves." But if so, what is the significance of the revolution?
But for France, for Napoleon’s dream of a new sun, Haiti’s defeat was decisive. The loss of Haiti not only caused him to suffer a huge economic loss, (in fact, this has been restored by asking the Republic of Haiti for redemption), but also caused him to lose an important fulcrum in the Americas. This is also one of the reasons why Napoleon happily sold Louisiana to the United States.
Now, in this time and space, the problem of Haiti is also before Napoleon.
"Santo Domingo will have a problem sooner or later." Napoleon knew this very well. "That Toussaint Louvidul is already the land emperor of Haiti. Well, Joseph, what do you say?"
"The emperor is far away from the mountain," Joseph replied.
"Yeah~EbookFREE.me~The emperor of the mountain is far away. It is too far from France. I just got a report that Dusan started to promote the'nationalization of land', which is to redeem white people’s land, it, per acre Wushengding, this is confiscation. Many French people have been forced to flee or even be killed. What do you think we should do?" Napoleon said.
If you follow the education that Joseph received in his previous life, then of course you have to applaud and cheer for Haiti's just action against colonialism. However, this approach hurts the French, hell, to put it more clearly, it is the interests of the Bonaparte! Therefore, if the incident can be directly suppressed, Joseph will definitely raise his hands in favor of directly suppressing the uprising in Haiti.
But can the suppression succeed? Joseph had to ask himself this question.
The steamship cannot reach Haiti yet, where the British and Americans have an advantage at sea. Joseph asked himself, if he was a British or Yankee, what would they do when they found out that the French were fighting with the local black rebels in Haiti?
"Whatever we did in Ireland, they will do it in Haiti." Joseph immediately came to this conclusion: "With the intervention of these guys, this battle is a bottomless pit, a quagmire, and we must not fall into it. Go in."