Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner Chapter 25

I don't know if Tangning's worship to the Dragon King has played a role in the past few days. The black cloud stopped when it was about to reach Tangning's plantation, forming a miraculous "split rain". Affected by the heavy rain, on the contrary, because of the rain next to it, a lot of cool wind was blowing, which made the slaves and overseers working under the sun a lot cooler, and at the same time they were secretly amazed in their hearts.

Not only that, in the next few days of picking time, there was not much rain intrusion, only two light rains, but even so, many black slaves and supervisors fell ill because of rain picking, but relatively In other words, this loss is small.

The natural next step after the cotton is picked is to sell it. Because American cotton now has a near-monopoly status, all British businessmen come to the South to purchase cotton, and the planters are very arrogant to British businessmen, so they let the South. Congressmen had the illusion that they could control everything by cotton, so much so that South Carolina Congressman James Henry Hammond delivered his famous "Cotton is God" speech in the state legislature, arrogantly declaring: "There is no If any big country dares to go to war against cotton, cotton is king!"

Even during the Civil War, Charleston's "Mirror" made the following remarks: "We will drag on until every cotton mill in Britain and France goes bankrupt, and we will not stop until they support our independence! Try to see no cotton supply within three years. , what will the world be like?"

New Orleans is no exception. When the harvesting of each manor was almost the same, Frick sent someone to invite the major manor owners to his house for a meeting. The topic was naturally the price of cotton. This kind of meeting is held every year, because everyone wants to unify one. The price is sold to the outside world, so as to ensure the interests of everyone.

When they arrived at the venue, before the official meeting started, the big fat Carter said to Tangning with an envious expression, "Tony, your luck this year is really good. It seems that it doesn't rain much in your place!"

"Yes, my cotton was soaked by the heavy rain!" The skinny William echoed.

"You wouldn't let your **** rush to harvest when it was raining, do you just watch the cotton rot?" Carter sneered.

William sighed and said, "Nonsense, who can watch it, but those **** **** are too slow, so they didn't take much!"

"The nigger's hands and feet are slow, which means your whip isn't hard enough! Look at how all the cotton in my house is picked!" Carter said proudly.

"But I heard that more than ten black slaves under your command died, so the money is less?" William retorted.

Just when Carter wanted to refute, Frick said loudly, "Everyone, be quiet!"

Everyone respected Frick's authority, and gradually became quiet, and Frick said: "The hardest harvest of the year is finally over, but because of the heavy rain this year, Everyone's loss is not small..."

Before Frick could finish speaking, William interjected: "Carter has nothing to lose. His cotton has been picked. This is what he said just now!"

Carter immediately retorted: "Who said I didn't lose anything? I've killed more than ten black slaves, isn't that money?"

Frick stretched out his hand and pressed it down: "Don't be arrogant, listen to me first, in order to make up for everyone's losses, and there is news from Richmond, so this year's cotton price has increased by half, what do you think?"

Naturally, everyone had no opinion on the price increase. Only Tangning raised her hand and asked, "Will those British businessmen accept such a price increase?"

Carter interrupted and said, "What other way do they have to accept? Now only we, the United States, can provide them with enough cotton, and as long as we don't raise it too much, they can only accept it!"

Frick nodded in agreement: "Carter is right, and our increase is not too much, because the heavy rain has suffered losses, then there is no way but to increase the price, which is also in line with the market that the Yankees said. Rules, right?"

In fact, Tangning also knew that even if the price went up, those British businessmen would have to hold their noses and accept it, but they would always have a grudge in their hearts. During the Civil War, there was a reason why they didn't help you.

At this time, Frick said again: "By the way, there is one more thing. I heard that there was a case of candy poisoning in the UK recently, and many people died, so please stop buying British candy!"

Tangning knew that what Frick was talking about was the candy poisoning case that happened in Bradford, England. 21 people died and more than 200 people were poisoned, which shocked the whole of Europe!

The reason is actually very absurd, not some pervert murderer revenge society~www.mtlnovel.com~ but from a black-hearted businessman who cut corners, this guy often mixes gypsum powder in white sugar, and every time he goes to a drugstore to buy gypsum powder .

When he went to buy gypsum powder this time, the owner of the pharmacy he often cooperated with was not there. He was received by a new clerk. Because he couldn't say it directly when buying this kind of thing, he vaguely told the clerk that he wanted one in the corner of the warehouse. The contents of the wooden barrels, coincidentally, there were two wooden barrels in the corner of the warehouse, so the clerk mistakenly took arsenic as gypsum powder and sold it to the candy merchant, so 20 kilograms of "arsenic candy" flowed into the market , caused this tragedy, and after this incident, the UK deliberately promulgated the "Pharmacy Act"!

As for why Frick specifically mentioned this, it is because Americans are addicted to sugar. It's no wonder they are so fat. Looking at the way and the amount of sugar they eat, even Tangning is so serious. Coke patients were a little scared, but since they came, they forced the chef to change the taste of cooking on the grounds that he was recovering from a serious illness, otherwise he would really not be able to eat at all.

PS: It seems that Little Box made "Let's Reason" in Penguin. It must be admitted that the setting is very creative. It got rid of the tricky practice of one case and one background in the past, and connected all eleven cases together. It looks better in the back, but it also requires more of the screenwriter. In addition, Penguin is really willing to spend money. Not only did he directly take a building for the real scene, but he also customized the room according to each case. I felt that I had to spend a lot of money on the loop theater of the first case.

But unfortunately, the selection of guests was not very successful. Although I like all of these guests, especially the young class leader and Liu Yuning, the problem is that you must first have a control over the overall situation. The importance of Teacher Sa!

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