The sun never sets in America

Chapter 150 Cotton and Slaves

In mid-November 1841, there was only one and a half months left before the end of the year.

The southern state of the United States is the largest cotton production area in the United States and even the world. It produces tons of cotton every year and is shipped overseas for sale.

The biggest buyers of these cottons, like the Han Dynasty, were the British.

During this period, the British Empire was the world's largest textile manufacturing and exporting country.

You can see British machine-made printed fabrics in many places around the world.

But what everyone doesn't know is who provides the cotton behind it...the United States! !

It is this country located in the distant New World.

According to later statistics in the 50s, the cotton produced in the United States was equivalent to 70.00% of the 9000 million pounds of British consumption, 90.00% of France's 60.00 million pounds, 90.00% of the German Customs Union, and [-]% of Tsarist Russia. two.

It is true that this is data ten years later, but during this period, the importance of American cotton has actually become apparent.

From the Port of New York to major ports on the East Coast of the United States, during the cotton harvest season every year, cotton ships are everywhere, transporting cotton all the time, so that cotton, a crop that looks snow-white, is not considered in today’s academic circles. Also known as white gold.

Because it is so valuable! !

According to the original price, one pound of cotton was about ten cents. Even according to the current price, which has dropped after large-scale production expansion, it is still eight cents.

Even at today's prices, the annual cotton exports from the United States are more than $[-] million, equivalent to [-] million pounds, and may be even higher than this figure.

And the profits are very high. After all, the biggest costs of this thing, land and labor, have been solved very efficiently by farmers in the southern United States.

After all, except for the early days when slaves were sold, the price was very high. Later, as the number of female slaves increased.

These American southern farmers have begun to try to breed black slaves on their own to facilitate them to reduce the already low production costs.

The farmers in the south live a life of intoxication and dreaming every day, and they are completely different worlds from their compatriots, the miserable industrial and commercial entrepreneurs in the north.

So much so that a northern business owner once said this:

"While I was working in a factory full of butter and black coal, earning meager profits, our southern friends were already sleeping on soft swan beds, counting green dollar bills, and maybe pounds... and all this , it’s just the wealth that his family’s tens of thousands acres of cotton fields bring in a month, or even a week…”

"God is so unfair. Why do we, the people, work so hard to produce goods but live like dogs? What happened?"

From this we can see that the industrial and commercial capital in the north is envious of the farmers in the south.

After all, these guys don't need to build a factory, recruit workers, or pay for production expenses.

They completely relied on those vast lands and the slaves who paid almost no money to work. Then every time the cotton harvest season came, these guys only needed to pick the cotton and sell it to the British and French.

Businessmen from any country will give them money. This is the biggest dream of these northern business owners, to make money while lying down.

In addition to jealousy of southern farmers, the biggest difficulty in the north was the constant shortage of labor and markets due to the continuous development of industry.

Originally, the South and the North were very complementary to each other. The South produced raw materials and labor force, and the North produced industry.

With the combination of the two parties, not only will the industrial scale of the United States expand, but the domestic market will also become larger, and the national strength will naturally become stronger.

But reality is often more absurd than anyone imagines.

Because of its cooperative relationship with the United Kingdom and other European countries, a large part of the money the South earned from Europe was returned to Europe.

Those southern farmers drink French wine and champagne, use British industrial products, and even the food they eat is French food.

It can be said that they are not on the same road as the north at all.

According to economic theory, these two completely mutually exclusive places should have been two countries, but the reality is that they are both one country and they both belong to the United States of America...

This is even more troublesome. If they are two different countries, then no matter what happens to the other party, it is none of their business. But if they are one country, then some small thoughts will come out.

The US president who took office this year is a US president from a southern state, John Tyler.

He was a president who advocated a solution to slavery. Of course, he advocated a gentle solution and the gradual elimination of conflicts between the North and the South.

There is one word in all this, that is, relaxation. John Taylor knew very well that it was impossible to really solve the problem. If slavery was really solved, he would not be able to continue as president, and sooner or later he would have to get out.

Therefore, his purpose was to find conditions for both the North and the South that everyone could accept by eliminating slavery.

As Mr. Shuren said, if you want to open the windows, you have to lift the roof first, so everyone will naturally open the windows! !
By eliminating slavery, we can force both parties to make concessions and find a solution acceptable to everyone.

But alas, no! !

The contradiction between the North and the South in the United States is not as simple as slavery. It involves the future direction of the United States, whether to develop industry and develop a huge industrial system like the United Kingdom, or to become a rich man selling white gold and counting money while lying down.

The conflict between the north and the south is destined to be endless. The north needs the south's market, population, and raw materials to ensure the development of northern industry.

The South wanted to keep the slave system and continue to produce cotton in exchange for overseas luxury goods to satisfy their desires and maintain their luxurious life.

In a word, without the market, slavery cannot be abolished, even in this lifetime.

In other words, the South was actually very resistant to the North. In the eyes of many southern farmers, John Taylor, who called for the elimination of slavery, had become a traitor to the South.

Anyway, a Georgia farmer once said: "If anyone wants to touch our interests and take away our slaves, no matter what reason they use, I will mount a war horse, grab a shotgun, and fight them to the end. Even if he is the president, I will let him see what the courage of a southern man is!!"

In a word, the slavery system must not be touched. If it is touched, everyone will have to turn their backs...

In fact, if it were not for the existence of Han, the domestic situation in the United States would not be much better at this time.

If the primitive army had not invaded the Republic of Mexico and acquired large areas of territory including California and Texas, the conflict between the North and South of the United States would not have been able to slow down for such a long time.

It was delayed until 20 years later.

It can be said that the arrival of Han, objectively speaking, promoted the unity of the United States.

So far, the so-called elimination of slavery in the northern and southern markets is still in a rhetorical stage.

Everyone knows very well what is most important at this time and who is their enemy.

But this is also temporary. Once the external threat from Han is over, the North-South issue within the United States will reappear at the forefront, and it can easily trigger a full-scale war. This is understood by many knowledgeable people in the United States. clear.

Therefore, these people also put forward a theory, which is to rely on the war with the Han Dynasty to integrate all parties in the north and south of the United States to the greatest extent, and use war to accomplish this seemingly not easy task.

In fact, don’t think this is impossible. Many countries were born from wars. The real birth of France was during the Hundred Years War between England and France. Even China in later generations relied on war to integrate its huge population and complex society. Territorial.

But this path also has risks. India is a typical example. Nehru hoped to rely on the war with China to solve India's thousands of years of stubborn problems and the loose federation in the country.

But unfortunately, a hot knife-cutting-butter war ended all this, and also ruined India's future for at least a hundred years, and it has never been able to keep up with the world's trends.

We can only engage in so-called internal improvements, not reforms, because the reformers are all finished, and who dares to reform, old immortal? ?

The current situation in the United States is also the same. The huge domestic contradiction between the North and the South makes it difficult for both the North and the South to achieve effective integration. Then war is the only option, either externally or internally. Anyway, choose one of the two.And the enemy we are fighting cannot be too low. If it is too low, it will be like the annexation of northern Mexico advocated by some people in the United States.

Annexing the vast territory of northern Mexico can alleviate the internal conflicts of the United States, but it can only alleviate it. If it wants to completely solve it, it must fight a powerful opponent, and the fight must be fierce and make Americans feel To a complete threat, otherwise the United States will still be loose. The only difference is when the conflict breaks out...

So starting from this year, the domestic debate in the United States has basically divided into two factions. One faction is to unite with Mexico to attack Han; the other is to annex Mexico and then attack Han; the other is to carve up Mexico with Han and then attack Han... …

All strategies are centered around the country of Han.

Since Han State completely defeated the Republic of Mexico, Han State has been the focus of the United States.

Even the domestic media in the United States continue to publish so-called Han jokes, such as Han people do not know how to use knives and forks, Han people do not wear pants, and go to the toilet in the open, and other anti-Chinese remarks that are almost mentally retarded.

But this is all to satisfy Americans' curiosity about Han. After all, even an ordinary American understands that there is a country called Han next to their country. They defeated the Mexicans, and they seemed very powerful. (From the Apocalypse of the Han-Mexican War written by the American writer Halson, it entered the top three bestsellers in the year it was released)

Of course, in addition to slander and ridicule of the Han Dynasty, the so-called threat theory of the Han Dynasty is also indispensable.

For example, Han is the most evil country on the planet. They massacre white people, hate white people, eat the flesh of white children, and insult white women. Anyway, any evil legend related to white people can be pinned on the Han people.

Coupled with the records of the origin of America passed down from the Han Dynasty, the Americans were even more frightened.

To know what the United States is doing now, even a country boy can understand it.

They were scalping Indians in the Midwest, driving them out and massacring them.

And all of this is in the name of God, but the real situation is that atrocities are committed for the sake of the land, simply for the land. (God: Use me as an excuse for any bad thing. Have I provoked you??)
Do Americans really not know what they are doing? Of course they know, they are just pretending to be confused.

After all, there are some things that can be done, but it would be bad to say it out. After all, everyone is a civilized person, and the United States of America is a civilized country.

When a civilized country does things, it is natural to find a suitable and civilized reason to kill those people who are considered uncivilized in the American population.

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Georgia, a typical southern state in the United States, is located in the upper part of Florida. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a neighbor.

The state is mainly focused on cotton cultivation and cotton-derived industries, mainly cotton storage, sales, and rough processing.

It can be said that the economic lifeline of this state, like other agricultural states in the southern United States, relies on the cotton industry to develop to this day.

Otherwise, how could we live such a wealthy life just by producing corn and wheat?

Most people in the state are farmers, or work in the agricultural industry chain.

In fact, the state's population is at least five times higher than the official record, but these five times will not be included in the official population because they are all slaves and the private property of the farmer, and property is not eligible. To exist as a person.

November is the cotton picking season in southern states of the United States.

In the endless cotton fields, there are slaves wearing white shirts everywhere. Men and women gather together to pick white cotton all the time.

Because people in this period were not too tall, if you look at it from a distance, you can only see white moving figures, but if you look closer, you will see the specks of black mixed in the cotton fields. .

These slaves also had a similarly white cloth bag hanging on their bodies. The picked cotton was stuffed into the bag, and then when it was full, it was poured into a nearby large bag.

Everything is so orderly and makes people feel intoxicated when they see it. (Farmer: I am indeed intoxicated!!)
Not far from the cotton field, there was a shed. Inside the shed was a white man sitting on a chair. Behind him were two decent-looking mixed-race black slave women massaging him.

And he himself picks up the telescope from time to time to observe whether his property is lazy and whether it is creating wealth for him.

Compared to the Han Dynasty, every harvest season in the cotton fields required the whole village, young and old, to work together, and even people had to be hired to help.

These southern farmers in the United States are undoubtedly lucky. They do not need to work by themselves. They only need to hold whips and muskets, and then ride on tall horses to watch over their slaves. As for the rest, slaves naturally do it. .

"Fake..." When he saw a man and a woman trying to escape in the telescope, the farmer named Richman immediately cursed and startled the female slave who was massaging him behind him.

"Shali..."

"Owner……"

As Richman shouted, a tall slave ran up to him and responded respectfully.

"There are two bastards in the northwest who want to escape. Catch them." Richman coldly ordered Shari.

"Yes, Master." Sha Li didn't have the slightest feeling that he was a gangster. He quickly led a few gangster thugs under his command and captured the two men and a woman who tried to escape.

"Please, please let us go, kind master."

"Please..."

On the ground, the two male and female slaves were kneeling on the ground, pleading to Charlemagne, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

"Why did you run away??" Charlemagne squatted on the ground and looked at the two of them expressionlessly.

"We just want to be free..." the female slave replied nervously to Charlemagne.

"We just want to live a life like human beings. We don't want to go on like this, Master..." The male slave then begged Charlemagne. When he touched Charlemagne's body, he was so frightened that he peed on the spot.

"Look, this is the man who took you away and said he would give you freedom." Charlemagne looked at the yellow urine on the ground and said to the female slave with a smile, with a look of discrimination that went deep into his bones.

"You are not qualified to escape, let alone ask me for freedom, because you are my property and the property of the Rosli family." Charlemagne pronounced the fate of the two of them in one sentence.

"Send him to see God, oh, he is not qualified to see God." Charlemagne looked at the male slave who had peed with disgust and ordered with a ferocious expression.

"No, don't kill him..." After hearing this, the female slave hugged the male slave who was dragged away and begged in pain, but what was waiting for her was just to kick him away.

"Master, let him go. He will work well for you in the future. Let him go." The female slave hugged Charlemagne's thigh and begged.

"Little guy, there's nothing I can do." Charlemagne squatted on the ground, touched the female slave's face, and replied sarcastically.

"As for you, wait until you go to Lotna..." After Charlemagne finished speaking, he left here. His wife's meal was ready and he was going to eat.

"Don't... don't..." The female slave screamed and was dragged away.

She was dragged to Lotna, a place dedicated to breeding slaves.

One can imagine what fate awaits her.

The evening wind blew through Rossli Manor. On the big tree near the cotton field in the manor, there was a dead male slave hanging.

His corpse was extremely strange, and it looked like he had been greatly humiliated before his death.

In another remote farm, women's screams and cries could be heard from time to time.

The American South under slavery was so barbaric and bloody, with no humanity at all.

Humanity is for white farmers, not slaves.

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(End of this chapter)