Chapter 283: Paradise on earth

The purpose here is nothing more than enclosure. In Sheffield ’s eyes, Puerto Rico ’s land is a high-quality asset with the same advantages as Hawaii. It has a small population and a good geographical location. The most important thing is that its political status is ambiguous.
The issue of political ambiguity is too important. The advantage of political ambiguity is that Puerto Rico will definitely have vacancies beyond the law, and there will be room for operations when there is vacancy.
Sheffield gave an example. The laws of a country, whether it is the Soviet Union or the United States, as long as the law exists, it is possible to find a way to bypass it, but there will not be a lot of idleness to make a profit.
When will the Soviet Union be able to make large-scale profits? The answer is that after the map came to power, the state's thinking has changed, and many laws have become ineffective. This has led to the emergence of oligarchs and the collapse of the country. In just a few years, it was accompanied by political turmoil that created a group of oligarchs.
Sheffield did not have such good luck to catch up with gluttonous feast, but Puerto Rico is now at this stage, the law in the strict sense does not exist, everything is done by the Governor ’s Office. This kind of environment is Sheffield's favorite. The United Company has always been a company that strongly supports the war. Naturally, it must take the lead and appear on every newly occupied land.
"What does it mean to be interested in the land here?" Allen asked, daring to think in a flash of thought in his eyes.
"Meaning ..." Sheffield was also a little uncertain, and finally vaguely said, "Sheep eat people ..."
The wool knitting industry in Britain and other countries is prosperous, the demand for wool has soared, and raising sheep has become a very profitable business. British landlords have fenced their own land and public land to graze their flocks and forcibly seized farmers' land. The peasants lost the land on which they depended to support their families, and helped the old and the young, wandering towards strange places. This is the "enclosure movement" of the "sheep eaters" in the history of British capitalism.
The enclosure movement started with the deprivation of farmers' public land. In the United Kingdom, although the land has already been owned, there is no fixed owner for public land such as forests, grasslands, swamps and wastelands. Some nobles used their power to first expand the flock here and forcefully occupy these public lands.
When these lands could not meet the needs of the nobles ’growing flock, they began to use various methods to drive the farmers who rented their land from generation to generation out of their homes, and even circled the entire village and nearby land into Sheep farm.
To be honest, this kind of enclosure has appeared in Chinese history, that is, the gentry of the Southern and Northern Dynasties did so, especially the gentry of the Southern Dynasties encircled the deep mountains and Daze as their own private territory.
But the Northern and Southern Dynasties seemed to have a bad reputation. It was simply that the Han court and the Hu court were more shameless than anyone, and they had no bottom line. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is almost a period with no advantages. Comparing the enclosure between Britain and China, Sheffield can draw a simple conclusion that China is not suitable for the emergence of capitalist society. The closest thing to the social structure of the British sheep-eating period was the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the later historical period, there will be no capitalist society. The East and West are completely two-system society.
"Sheep eating people? Are you going to rode in Puerto Rico?" Allen looked at Sheffield with a complicated look, and finally nodded. "I don't know if I can help."
"How could there be no place for Mr. Governor to help? In fact, the United Company and other friends' companies have always wanted to be friends with the Governor. After all, things about the South Base, Governor Allen should have some understanding. We have always been on the south. Very interested! "Sheffield frowned," Puerto Rico is in the south! "
The South Base is a political term. It is the southern states that the Democratic Party has never failed in previous elections. The commonality of these states is that they have all joined the United States of America. As the Governor of Puerto Rico, Allen certainly knows the stubborn Dixie at this point. How stubborn.
The Democratic Party has always appeared in the face of fighting for the rights of the poor, because the southern states are really poorer than the north.
For Sheffield, Puerto Rico is nothing more than to come and take the lead, circle the valuable places and hoard, and then slowly find a way to develop, even if not first, you must first occupy the pit, he If you do n’t account for it, it ’s unacceptable for Yankee to come to occupy it.
"Isn't it actually impossible?" Allen said hesitantly. "I heard that the governor of Hawaii and William have a good relationship. I don't know if it's true."
"Not only is it good, but we are the closest partners. There is a part of the governor of Hawaii in the sugar trust system!" Sheffield smiled as I understood it, and said nonchalantly, "The Governor can make a price, after all I personally like to make new friends, and the Governor of Hawaii can testify. "
Before coming, Sheffield conducted a survey on the first governor. This governor was not a person based on honesty and honesty. In fact, in this era, civil servants at all levels in the United States are really not greedy. . In the gilded age, the appearance is gold and the inside is shit, which is very normal.
As for the collusion between officials and businessmen, this is not the first time that Sheffield has done it. He can be friends with the 3K party, what's the big deal with being friends with others? See what price the governor is going to make?
"William, I actually bought a coffee plantation in Puerto Rico!" Alan Gu said in his words. "I heard that most of the coffee in the domestic market is now in your hands."
"We farmers, even planters, are normal in my hands," Sheffield said modestly. "Currently there are two main coffee growing areas, the Philippines and Cuba in Asia. Of course I know Before, Puerto Rico ’s coffee was also an important industry, and it ’s not surprising that the Governor has a coffee plantation in his hands.

As for which Spanish nobility this plantation belonged to before, it doesn't matter. Since you lose, you have to bear the cost of losing. The key is who it belongs to now.
The Governor of Puerto Rico has officially set out the conditions for his coffee plantation to enter the domestic sales system. But if Sheffield agreed, he helped the United Company get the most valuable land in Puerto Rico.
"No problem!" Sheffield quickly agreed to the other party's request neatly. Compared with the gradual warming of the domestic election battle, he has already started a rodeo operation in Puerto Rico.
You can never wake a person who pretends to be asleep. For the current heated elections, Sheffield is pretending to be asleep, as long as California and southern states are still in the hands of the Democratic Party. important. Well, he is indeed comforting himself now. The entry into the White House is actually very important, except that William McKinley has caught up with two prosperous periods in the middle of capitalism, and Roosevelt is also a well-known war hero in the country.
On the other side of the Democratic Party, the candidate is William Bryan who hates trust more than anyone. There was no way to fight this battle. Although Roosevelt's later actions showed that Roosevelt also fought against trust companies for the purpose of centralization, he did not move the most powerful companies. The most important thing was that Roosevelt did not express before he became president. After dissatisfaction with the trust company, after falling into power, he settled accounts after the fall and killed major companies by surprise.
William Bryan took the dismantling of the trust as the purpose of the election, which is difficult to defeat itself! Sheffield ’s political contribution was just a little bit of incense from the Democratic Party. Although the candidates are the same, the topic of the general election has changed. Although monetary policy has attracted the attention of many people, the Republican Party has chosen topics that are more beneficial to them, political victory, military victory, economic prosperity, and propaganda.
In Sheffield, Puerto Rico, a few entourage allies were quickly ushered in, and a vigorous investigation was conducted on Puerto Rico to select several of the most valuable beaches and plantations.
Many shareholders are also very satisfied with the environment here. They have unconditionally believed in Sheffield's vision for the Empire to pay attention to the charge. The boss of the United Company said that this is good, and this is good.
"Puerto Rico is not far from the homeland, and there is exoticism here, you are all men, you should know the weaknesses of men! I am going to open an overseas casino here." Sheffield said his thoughts, "Puerto Rico's vague political status , Can help me succeed. As for what you want to do business, I do n’t interfere. Here can be as a place for some rich domestic people to forget to return to, not in the country, it is difficult to investigate. Whether it is a rich businessman, a judge or a senator, all Can come!"
"If it's really done, I can't imagine what kind of scene this is. In fact, I think the scope can be bigger, not just to set the source of customers in the country." McHale groaned and followed Sheffield's idea. The following said, "Human weaknesses are shared, and there is no distinction between Americans and Mexicans. Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean and in the middle of North and South America. It can be considered to be a high society in the entire America. National connections to a certain extent. "
"The most important thing is that this kind of network is actually very useful. If the high society of the entire America gathers here," Gael said with a smile, "William, the internationalization you have always been thinking about will increase a lot of help."
"What is that still stunned? Let's start now! Let's make this a paradise for high society." Sheffield laughed. "As for the little things like elections, who cares?"