Chapter 290: , Shocked

After a series of battles, the "Free Trade" finally returned to the French mainland in May 1801. Also arriving with the "Free Trade" was Jean-Jacques de Salin, the representative of Santo Domingo Governor Dusan Louvidul. He will go to Paris, first to meet the Minister of Truth Lucien, then to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Talleyrand, and when appropriate, to meet the first ruling Napoleon.
Jean-Jacques de Salin was originally a slave on the plantation and had not read many books, but he was very smart. In the slave uprising in Santo Domingo, he performed outstandingly and gradually became the most powerful general under Dusan Luvidul. In the original history, when the French Expeditionary Force used negotiations as an excuse to trap Toussaint Louvidure, it was also Dessaline who continued to lead the insurgents, insisted on fighting the French Expeditionary Force, and eventually removed the French from Santo. Mingo expelled and established the world's first independent black republic. Dessaling also became the first president of this black republic, and later became the emperor of Haiti.
It's just that the end of the Haitian emperor is not good. After the independence of Haiti, in order to solve the land problem, he adopted the most direct and simple method to kill the white people, and then allocated all the land to his supporters.
However, from the independence of Haiti to this move, the trade line in Haiti was almost broken. Even the British who had always supported him, although apparently did not launch a trade embargo against Haiti, in fact, they also withdrew. Haiti’s trading circle. But the newly born Haiti is a country that can only grow cash crops and cannot even be self-sufficient in food. At this time they can only rely on smuggling, using coffee and cane sugar in exchange for food from smugglers at prices far below the international market.
The famine began to spread in Haiti, and many "free blacks" had to flee from the only "free country" belonging to blacks in the world. In order to ensure the interests of his supporters, to increase agricultural production, and to maintain the country, De Salin re-established the plantation system, using strict measures to restrain the laborers in the contracted areas, and punishing those who escape and hide Runaway people. In other words, he turned the vast number of free blacks into serfs again, and some blacks who followed him replaced the former white slave owners.
Such reactionary measures naturally aroused the opposition of the broad masses of people, so in a rebellion, De Salin was assassinated and killed. And Haiti has since fallen into division and civil war...
With the "Free Trade" arriving in France, in addition to black representatives, there is also a group of white people. It's just that their identity is not a representative of someone, but a prisoner.
These people are all planters in Santo Domingo, or slave owners. Governor Dusan Luvidul found some excuses to slander them for conspiracy with the exiled nobles and want to subvert the Republic.
These accusations are of course pure slander, but to say that these people were already close to the nobles, the problem must be found, and it is not a problem. Even if there is a need, evidence is not a problem. Whether it is the Ministry of Truth or the Ministry of Public Security, there are ways to produce ironclad evidence that seems absolutely conclusive.
In the past few years, the dictatorship's axe has temporarily taken away its edge, and many people have begun to forget its existence. But it did not disappear as everyone felt. When the era of peace came, it quietly hid in a dark corner, like a knife was put into a gorgeous scabbard. People often only see the gorgeous patterns on the scabbard, but forget the sharp knife hidden inside.
In these years, the power of the dictatorship has not weakened, even more refined than Robespierre’s time. When Robespierre was in Robespierre, the Public Security Committee was just a big stick. Although it was very powerful, it consumed a lot of power and could not do any delicate work. But today's dictatorship has evolved into a delicate scalpel. It can be performed more accurately, and the collateral damage is smaller.
For example, in the past, the public security committee under Robespierre could not do such high-tech things as "iron proof."
However, most of France will not immediately give the sent "suspects" a sentence, but put them under house arrest first, and then slowly investigate. While keeping a reason to turn his face with Dusan Luvidul then.
Dessalin came ashore, but the French government did not arrange him to go to Paris immediately. Instead, people from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Trade took him to investigate French agricultural and industrial production.
De Salin knew that the French meant to show him strength. In the eyes of the French, Santo Domingo cannot achieve self-sufficiency in food anyway, so even if it becomes independent, it must be dependent on some power. The French showed his power to let him understand that since he must recognize a dad, he must recognize the strongest and most willing to treat him well.
For example, they are now taking Dessalin to visit the wheat producing areas along the Seine. In May, the winter wheat is about to enter the grain-filling period, and this time is when water is needed. However, the Seine area has encountered a drought this year. Fortunately, there are now complete water conservancy facilities in this area, so the wheat production has not been affected.
Dessaling had also planted land before, but he had never planted wheat, so he didn't really understand how the wheat grew. But even so, the French can use a machine to easily pump the river water to high ground far above the river for irrigation. This is almost a miraculous thing, but it also shocked Dessalin deeply. .
If the French countryside only surprises Dessalin, the subsequent inspection of French industry will make Dessalin feel terrified. The French led him to visit an artillery factory. He saw with his own eyes how large pieces of red-burning steel ingots were squeezed and deformed under the roaring forging machine, like a ball of dough; he saw a door with his own eyes. The blanks of the cannons were punched on the drilling machine, sparks splashed everywhere; I saw the cannons being produced one by one from the factory. The powerful force of France shocked this black man from the remote Central American region.
Although he knew that the French wanted to use these to frighten himself, Dessalin was still frightened by these things. He couldn't help but start to figure out how many cannons could be in a year in just this factory, if he got Santo Domingo...
The idea of ​​letting Dessalin visit France first, and then negotiate with him, actually came from Joseph.
In that time and space in the last life, A-mei, you see, often used this hand to deal with people from backward countries. Many times, in backward countries, people are sent to see A-mei for you to see, in order to learn the advanced technology and advanced ideas that A-mei you see, but a lot of foreign exchange has been spent. After a round of learning, these people come to learn. People's learning results have become these two sentences:
"Look at other Amei, it's really..."
"You see, Amei, how advanced you are, the country, you have to follow behind and eat dirt for a hundred years..."
Even ~EbookFREE.me~ a large number of these people have become the voice of Amei’s thoughts, and even Amei’s interests, and even uttered such self-willing and depraved incompetent sighs:
"This loess alone can no longer give birth to a new culture", "this earthy yellow earth cannot teach us the true scientific spirit."
And further came to the conclusion that "we must embrace the blue civilization."
Of course, the approach you see, Amei, is also risky. Even when Zulong traveled south to Wu Yue, he also wanted to use his own power to deter nonchalants. And his actions did have a certain effect. However, the reason why heroes are different from mediocrities is that when they face a huge gap with mediocrities, they can only bow down to the ground, but the heroes are inspired to "he can replace him", and "the man should be the same". ambition.
And the most proud thing about flower growers is that we don't lack heroes at all times. "Prince generals, I would rather have a kind!"
However, Dessalin is not a hero like Liu Xiang, so the French that showed him deeply shocked him, which also laid a good foundation for the French to negotiate with him.
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