After reaching a basic agreement, the two sides also held talks on the future education of the people of Santo Domingo.

De Salin told Lucien that he noticed that France's wealth was inseparable from France's developed industry and agriculture, which in turn was inseparable from France's advanced science and technology. He therefore hoped that France would help Santo Domingo in the area of education.

Lucien said that it is France's unshirkable responsibility to help the people of the world move towards common prosperity, and France is willing to provide help to any country that pursues freedom, democracy and prosperity.

So the two sides agreed that black officials from Santo Domingo should come to France for education and training. Every year in the future, Santo Domingo will be able to send a group of officials to France for training in various techniques. So that they can have new ideas, new skills, and better serve the people of Santo Domingo.

This move is actually cultivating a spokesman for France's interests in Haiti. Or to put it more clearly, it is to cultivate a leading party.

As early as when the Santo Domingo problem first began to emerge, when the three brothers were discussing how to deal with the situation, Joseph raised the question of what is called "soft colonization" and "hard colonization".

"Our productivity is increasing very quickly, the demand in Europe is difficult to support our rapid development, and we need more colonies. But there are two modes of colonization, one is soft colonization and the other is hard colonization. The so-called hard colonization is to see a piece of land, and then directly send an army to grab this place, turn the natives here into slaves, or kill them all. Then let your own people go up and reclaim it. The Spaniards and the British did just that.

As for 'soft colonization', there are actually precedents. At the beginning, Europeans organized 'slave hunting teams' in Africa to capture black slaves. But the blacks resisted fiercely, and the casualties of those Europeans were not small. In addition, there will be some losses during the transportation of black slaves, and as a result, the cost of black slaves is too high to sell, or even if they are sold, they are not very profitable. If this situation had continued, the slave trade would have been over a long time ago.

However, some genius Europeans have invented the high-end means of 'treating black with black'. They no longer hunted slaves themselves, but used all kinds of industrial goods to buy certain black tribes, let them attack other tribes, and resell the captured black people from other tribes to them.

As a result, this gang of sub-whites supported this tribe, and that gang of sub-whites supported that tribe, and the blacks fought around and turned other blacks into black slaves themselves. Whites cut costs, avoided risks, and made big money. Well, that's what I call the precedent of 'soft colonization'.

It's just that this means of operation is still too crude, and it can only be regarded as the primary level of soft colonization. The real soft colonization is that this land, which is not marked on the map as a country's territory, but directly as a country, looks like a completely independent country, but their economy is closely linked to ours. They supply us with raw materials, and we dump industrial goods at them, or use them as a base to dump industrial goods in many other places.

The rebellion of the blacks in Santo Domingo was only the beginning, and it showed that hard colonization was beginning to run into more and more problems. The situation in the Americas, both in North and South America, is becoming less and less optimistic. In North America, with the example of the United States, the Spanish colonies are now unstable. That's one of the reasons why they were so generous with Louisiana to give it back to us. But if we take Louisiana, will we be able to hold it?

There is not so much of the remaining population in France that has been transferred to Louisiana, so it is estimated that the transfer of the population from the past will be dominated by the various populations of all over Europe. The French do not have much of an advantage, but this is not the biggest problem, but the biggest problem is that the traditional hard colonies have a natural tendency to separate from the mother country. Because their interests are not aligned with those of their home country, it is useless to have the same blood and culture. ”

"So, soft colonization can solve this problem?" Napoleon asked.

"Not necessarily, but it would be better. Because the people of the colonies will no longer point the finger directly at us, but at people like Toussaint Louvidur or De Salin. There's an extra layer of cushioning. If we can establish a real 'democratic' among them, we can allow them to change the governor in a peaceful way. If we avoid revolution by violent means, then our control may be more subtle and longer-lasting. In addition, on the premise of making their economy completely dependent on us, we can also make them live a little better to reduce centrifugal force. In addition, it is to provoke contradictions between them and their surroundings, so that they have to rely on our protection. ”

"Like Canada and the United States today?"

Canada and the United States were originally British colonies in North America, and before the independence of the United States, Canadians were equally dissatisfied with the British. However, after the independence of North America, because of the trade competition with the United States, and the influence of other reasons such as religion, Canada and the United States are now quite incompatible. It is not known how much small friction there is between the borders of Canada and the United States. Some Indians, in particular, were always able to get their hands on the Canadian side of the country, and then relied on these weapons to resist the scalp taxes imposed by the Americans.

"Yes. Santo Domingo is our first experiment, and if it works well, it can be gradually rolled out and used in this way to cause trouble for other countries. ”

"If communication technology can be solved, in fact, it is not impossible to directly refer to Louisiana as the mainland of France and call it the province of Louisiana. It's like the provinces of France. But now, Joseph, when will you be able to get that thing out of yours? I've already thrown so much money into it! If all this money were turned into cannons, I would be able to land in Britain. ”

"! How much money did it cost you? Joseph said disdainfully, "Landing in England? Where did you log in from? From Dover? You don't look at what terrain Dover is? That artillery battery where the British, if you drag the whole navy up, you may not be able to do it! The whole English Channel, on our side, is full of cliffs, and if you want to land, you have to go around to the Scottish side, such a long supply line, what the hell are you waiting for! That's enough money? ”

"That's not your fault, it's the thing you made in Verdun, and what the Dover Fortress is like today? You're totally cheating! Napoleon, too, threw a cauldron at Joseph's head at once.

"It's coming, it's going to be fast. The most critical front-end technology is almost realized. It's really fast, and I promise you, Napoleon, give me another month, and then I won't need your appropriation to get things out. Strangely not refuted, Joseph said this.

"No," said Napoleon, "you must have something to hide from me, you must have taken my money and done something else, didn't you, Joseph?" ”

"No, it's really all spent on the research of pre-technology." "And that pre-study itself can make money." ”

"You're doing private work with that country's money."

"What country money? What private work? Isn't the country ours? To paraphrase the Sun King, 'We are the nation!' 'What country money?' Joseph said disdainfully.

"Well, I love to hear that." Napoleon said, "Tell me, what is that pre-research of yours?" ”

"Well, there's some very high-end science involved. At present, these things have not been made public, and not many people know about them. Of course you can see it, but I can't guarantee that you can see it...... In short, based on some experimental phenomena, coupled with mathematical calculations, we have come to the corollary that there is a wave that can propagate at the speed of light in space, which we call electromagnetic waves. We felt that this thing could be used to transmit information, like sound waves......"

"You told me about this last time, I understand, I understand that thing." Napoleon said that he was a little upset that Joseph had underestimated him, "You forgot about this? I think your brain is getting worse and worse. ”

"Told you? Ah, it looks like I'm misremembering. Joseph said disapprerovingly, "Everyone has a time when they are wrong. ”

"Okay, let's just talk about what pre-research is, and what can make money?"

"We came up with a lamp that uses electricity to illuminate it." "We've found before that electric current causes heat. When the wire is heated and the temperature is high, it emits bright light. That's one of our research goals – to develop an electric light. When we were studying electric lights, we found a new phenomenon, that is, when an energized wire is in a high temperature state, it can generate current on another wire that is not in contact with it. Based on this phenomenon, we have built a commuter for the whole wave, which is the key technology for wireless communication. However, such a thing has a short lifespan and will break down almost quickly. We studied it together with electric lights, and by the way, we applied for funding in the name of an amator, and recently we finally saw the light of day. As for the corresponding by-product, it is the electric lamp used for lighting. "It won't be long before you, well, Napoleon, will be able to build another great spectacle in Paris." ”