In May 1801, after a series of battles, the "Free Trade" finally returned to mainland France. The "Free Trade" was accompanied by Jean-Jacques de Salin, a representative of the Governor of Santo Domingo, Toussaint Louvidur. He will travel to Paris, where he will meet first with Lucien, Minister of Truth, then with Talleyrand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and, in due course, with Napoleon, First Consul.

Jean-Jacques de Salin was originally a slave on the plantation and did not read much, but he was a very intelligent man. He distinguished himself in the slave revolt in Santo Domingo and gradually became the most effective general under Toussaint Louverdur. In the original history, when the French Expeditionary Force used negotiations as an excuse to trap Toussaint Louverdur, it was De Salin who continued to lead the rebel army, insisted on fighting the French Expeditionary Force, and finally expelled the French from Santo Domingo and established the world's first independent black republic. And de Salin also became the first president of the black republic, and later became emperor, becoming emperor of Haiti.

It's just that the end of this Haitian emperor is not good. After Haiti's independence, in order to solve the land problem, he adopted the most direct and straightforward means - killing all the whites, and then distributing all the land to his supporters.

However, after Haiti's independence and this move, Haiti's trade routes were almost cut off, and even the British, who had always supported him, although they did not launch a trade embargo on Haiti on the surface, in fact, withdrew from Haiti's trade circle. The nascent Haiti, on the other hand, is a country that can only grow cash crops and cannot even achieve food self-sufficiency. 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.

Famine began to spread in Haiti, and many "free blacks" had to flee the world's only "free country" that belonged to black people. In order to ensure the interests of his supporters, and in order to increase agricultural production, and in order to maintain the state, de Salin re-established the plantation system, using draconian measures to bind laborers to the places where they were contracted, and to punish those who fled and hid those who escaped. That is, he turned the vast majority of free blacks back into serfs, while some of the blacks who followed him replaced the former white slave owners.

Such reactionary measures naturally aroused the opposition of the broad masses of the people, and in one of the rebellions, de Salin was assassinated. Haiti has since been mired in division and civil war......

Along with the "Free Trade" arrived in France, in addition to the representatives of the blacks, there was also a group of whites. It's just that their identity is not a representative of a person, but a prisoner.

These were all plantation owners or, rather, slave owners in Santo Domingo. Governor Toussaint Louvidur found excuses to slander them as having a conspiracy with the exiled nobles to overthrow the Republic.

Of course, these accusations are pure slander, but to say that these people had a close relationship with the nobles back then, it is not a problem to find out the problem. Even, as long as there is a need, evidence is not a problem. Both the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Public Security have a way of coming up with ironclad evidence that seems absolutely conclusive.

In the past few years, the axe of dictatorship has temporarily retracted its edge, and many people have begun to forget its existence. But it did not disappear as everyone felt it, and when the age of peace came, it quietly hid in some dark corner, like a knife in a gorgeous scabbard. People often only see the various gorgeous patterns on the scabbard, but forget the sharp knife hidden inside.

During these years, the power of the dictatorship has not weakened, and it has even become more refined than in Robespierre's time. At Robespierre's time, the Committee of Public Safety was a big stick, and although it was very powerful, it required a great deal of power to use, and it was completely incapable of any delicate work. But today's dictatorship has evolved into a delicate scalpel. can be carried out more accurately, and with less collateral damage.

For example, the creation of "ironclad evidence" and the like, in the past, Robespierre's Public Safety Committee could not do such a high-tech thing.

However, France will most likely not immediately give a verdict to the "suspects" who were sent, but will first put them under house arrest and then slowly investigate. While retaining a reason to turn against Toussaint Louvidur when the time comes.

De Salin went ashore, but the French government did not immediately arrange for him to go to Paris, but was taken by people from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Trade to inspect French agricultural and industrial production.

De Salin knew that the French meant to show him strength. In the eyes of the French, the place of Santo Domingo could not be self-sufficient in food in any case, so even if it became independent, it would have to be dependent on a certain power. The French showed him strength in order to make him understand that since he must recognize a father, he must recognize a father who is the strongest and most willing to be good to him.

Today, for example, they take de Salin to visit the wheat-producing regions along the Seine. In May, the winter wheat is about to enter the grain filling stage, which is the time when water is needed. However, the Seine region has experienced drought this year, but fortunately there are now water conservancy facilities in the area, so wheat production has not been affected.

De Salin had planted the land before, but he had never grown wheat, so he didn't really know how the wheat would grow. But even so, the fact that the French could easily pump the river to high ground far above the river for irrigation with a machine was almost miraculous, but it also deeply shocked de Salin.

If the French countryside only surprised de Salin, the subsequent inspection of French industry made de Salin feel terrified. The Frenchman gave him a tour of an artillery factory, where he saw with his own eyes how large pieces of red-hot steel ingots were crushed and deformed under the roaring forging press, like a ball of dough; I saw with my own eyes that the cannon blanks of one cannon after another were punched in the drilling machine, and sparks were splashed everywhere; See the cannons being produced from the factories one by one. The power of France shocked this black man from the distant Central American region.

Although he knew that the French were going to scare themselves with this, De Salin was still frightened by these things. He couldn't help but start thinking about how many cannons he could have in a year just for this factory, if he got Santo Domingo......

The idea of having de Salin visit France and then negotiate with him actually came from Joseph.

In that time and space in the previous life, Ah Mei, you see, often used this hand to deal with those from backward countries. Many times, backward countries send individuals to Ah Mei You, in order to learn the advanced technology and advanced ideas that Ah Mei you see, but as a result, a lot of foreign exchange was spent, and after studying a circle, the learning results of these people who came to study became these two sentences:

"Look at other people's sisters, you see, that's really ......"

"Sister of the people, how advanced you look, ** country, you have to follow behind for a hundred years to eat soil ......"

Even, these people have become a mouthpiece for the thoughts of Ah Mei you see, and even the interests of Ah Mei you see, and even let out such a self-depraved incompetent sigh:

"This loess alone can no longer give birth to a new culture", "This earthy yellow earth cannot teach us what the true scientific spirit is".

And further to conclude such a total surrender as "we must embrace the blue civilization."

Of course, this kind of practice you see is also risky. Back then, when the ancestral dragon traveled south to Wu Yue, he also wanted to use his strength to deter his subordinates. And his actions did have a certain effect. It's just that the reason why heroes are different from mediocre people is that when they are facing a huge gap with mediocre people, they will only bow to the ground, but heroes are inspired to "replace him" and "the husband should be like this".

And the proudest thing about the flower growers is that we have no shortage of heroes at any time. "Princes and generals, rather have a kind!"

However, de Salin was not a hero like Liu Xiang, so what the French showed him deeply shocked him, which also laid a good foundation for the French to negotiate with him later.