Chapter 292: , The key to world empire

After reaching a basic agreement, the two sides also discussed the future education of the people of Santo Domingo.
Dessalin told Lucien that he noticed that France's wealth is inseparable from France's developed industry and agriculture, and France's developed industry and agriculture are inseparable from France's advanced science and technology. Therefore, he hopes that France can help Santo Domingo in education.
Lucien said that it is France's inescapable responsibility to help the people of the world move towards common prosperity. France is willing to provide assistance within its capacity to any country that pursues freedom, democracy and prosperity.
So the two sides reached an agreement on the black officials from Santo Domingo to France to receive education and training. From now on, Santo Domingo can send a group of officials to France to receive various technical trainings. So that they can master new ideas and new skills to better serve the people of Santo Domingo.
This move is actually training the spokesperson of France's interests in Haiti. In other words, to be more clear, it is to cultivate a leading party.
As early as when the problem of Santo Domingo first emerged, when the three brothers were discussing how to deal with such a situation, Joseph raised the issue of so-called "soft colonization" and "hard colonization".
"Our productivity is increasing rapidly, and it is difficult for European demand to support our rapid development. We need more colonies. However, there are two modes of colonization, one is soft colonization and the other is hard colonization. The so-called hard colony , Is to see a piece of land, and then directly send an army to grab this place, turn all the natives into slaves, or kill them all. Then let their own people go up and cultivate. This is how the Spanish and the British did .
As for ‘soft colonization’, there are actually precedents. At the beginning, Europeans organized ‘slave hunting teams’ in Africa to arrest black slaves. But the black people resisted fiercely, and the casualties of those Europeans were not small. In addition, there will be some losses during the transportation of the slaves. As a result, the cost of the slaves is too high and cannot be sold, or even if they are sold, they are not very profitable. If this situation continued, the slave trade would have ended long ago.
However, some genius Europeans have invented the high-end method of ‘ruling black by black’. They no longer catch black slaves by themselves, but use various industrial products to buy some black tribes, let them attack other tribes, and resell the captured blacks of other tribes to them.
As a result, this group of white people supported this tribe, and the group of white people supported that tribe. The black people fought back and forth, and then they turned other black people into black slaves. White people reduced costs, avoided risks, and made a lot of money. Well, this is the precedent of what I call ‘soft colonization’.
It's just that this method of operation is still too rough, and it can only be regarded as the primary level of soft colonization. The real soft colonization is this land. It is not labeled as a certain country’s territory on the map, but directly labeled as a certain country. It looks like a completely independent country, but their economy is similar to ours. The economy is closely linked. They provide us with raw materials, we dump industrial products to them, or use them as a base to dump industrial products to more places.
The black rebellion in Santo Domingo is just the beginning. It shows that hard colonization has begun to encounter more and more problems. In the Americas, whether it is North America or South America, the situation is becoming less and less optimistic. In North America, with the example of the United States, those colonies in Spain are now unstable. This is one reason why they returned Louisiana to us so generously. But if we take Louisiana, can we hold it?
France did not have so many surplus people transferred to Louisiana, so the population transferred in the past is estimated to be dominated by the various populations of Europe. The French will not have much advantage. Of course, this is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that traditional hard colonies have a natural tendency to separate from their home country. Because their interests are not consistent with the interests of their home country, it is useless even if the same blood and culture. "
"So, can soft colonization solve this problem?" Napoleon asked.
"Not necessarily, but it will be better. Because the spearhead of the colonial people will no longer point directly at us, but will point at people like Dusan Louvidul or Desarin. There is an extra buffer in this. . If we can establish a real
democracy
with them, and allow them to change the governor in a peaceful way. In order to avoid the use of violent means of revolution, then our control may be more concealed and longer. Some. In addition, under the premise that their economy is completely dependent on us, they can also live a little better to reduce the centrifugal force. Also, it is necessary to stir up the contradictions between them and the surroundings so that they have to rely on ours. protection."
"Like Canada and the United States today?"
Both Canada and the United States were originally British colonies in North America. Before the United States became independent, Canadians were also dissatisfied with the British. But after North America became independent, because of trade competition with the United States, coupled with the influence of other reasons such as religion, Canada and the United States are now quite at odds. The small friction between Canada and the US border is unknown. In particular, some Indians can always get weapons from Canada, and then rely on these weapons to resist the Americans' scalp tax.
"Yes. Santo Domingo is our first experiment. If the effect is good, it can be gradually promoted and used in this way to disrupt other countries."
"If communication technology can be resolved, in fact, it is not impossible to directly use Louisiana as the French mainland and call it the Province of Louisiana. It is just like the provinces in France. But now, talking about Joseph, your one When will I be able to get this stuff out? I've already spent so much money in it! If this money becomes a cannon, I can land in Britain."
"Bullshit! How much money did it cost you?" Joseph said disdainfully, "Landing in England? Where did you land from? From Dover? You don’t even look at what terrain Dover is? The fort where the British were there, If you drag the whole navy up, you may not be able to do it! The entire English Channel, on this side of us, is full of cliffs. To land, you have to go around to Scotland. The long supply line, What are you waiting for! Is that enough money?"
"That's not to blame you, it's the thing you made in Verdun, what will the Dover Fortress look like today? It's all you cheating!" Napoleon did not show any weakness to put a big pot into it. It hit Joseph's head.
"It's coming, it's coming soon. The most critical front-end technology is about to be realized. It's really fast, and I promise you, Napoleon, give me another month, and I won't need your funding later. I can get things out." Joseph said strangely, instead of refuting.
"No," Napoleon said. "You must have something to hide from me. You must have done something else with my money, didn't you, Joseph?"
"Nothing is really spent on the research of pre-technology." Joseph said, "and that pre-research itself can also make money."
"You are doing private work with money in that country."
"What country's money? What kind of private work? Isn't the country ours? To paraphrase the Sun King's words, ‘we are the country!’ What’s the country’s money?" Joseph said disdainfully.
"Well, I like to listen to these words." Napoleon said, "Tell me, what is your pre-research?"
"Well, this involves some very high-end science. At present, these things have not been made public, and not many people know them. Of course you can see them, but I can't guarantee if you can see them... In short, according to some experiments Phenomenon, coupled with mathematical calculations, we get a deduction, that is, there is a kind of wave that can propagate in space at the speed of light, we call it electromagnetic wave. We think this thing can be used to transmit information, just like sound waves. ..."
"You told me about this last time, I understand ~EbookFREE.me~ I understand that thing." Napoleon said, because Joseph was underestimated, he was very upset, "You forget about this. Now? I think your brain is getting worse and worse."
"I told you? Ah, it seems that I remembered it wrong." Joseph said indifferently, "everyone remembers it wrong."
"Okay, just say what the pre-research is, and what can you get to make money?"
"We have made a lamp that uses electricity to illuminate." Joseph said, "We have discovered before that electricity can cause heat. When the wire becomes hot due to heat, it will emit bright light. This It is one of our research goals to develop an electric lamp. When we were studying electric lamps, we discovered a new phenomenon, that is, when a energized wire is in a high temperature state, it can be different from the other one. Electric current is generated on the contacting wire. Based on this phenomenon, we have made a wave rectifier, which is the key technology for wireless communication. However, this kind of thing has too short a life span and will be damaged almost quickly. We studied it together with electric lights, and by the way, we applied for funding in the name of a rectifier. Recently, we finally saw the dawn of success. As for the corresponding by-product, it is the electric light used for lighting." Joseph said, "It will not take long. , Um, Napoleon, you can build another great wonder in Paris."
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