"Napoleon, are you going to send an expeditionary force?" Joseph asked.

"I'm a little worried, those guys can still fight." Napoleon said.

The black army in Haiti was able to defeat the French army in Haiti together with the British and Spaniards, and then went back to defeat the British and Spanish troops with only two or three kittens and dogs left, and their combat effectiveness was still good. According to veterans who had served in the French army in Haiti and later returned to fight in the country, their combat effectiveness was quite close to that of the Vendée rebels - of course, the Vendée rebels who did not leave the Vendée.

The main force of the Vendée rebels was defeated by Napoleon, and it was fought very easily, but Napoleon himself knew very well that the main force of the rebels he defeated was not actually the authentic Vendée rebels. Really, before the nobles asked to march to Paris, they dispersed in a hurry, each returning to his own house, looking for his own mother's Vendée rebels, but there was enough morale to attack in the Vendée area. Not to mention anything else, any army with such morale is not easy to deal with.

"And our navy is still too weak to blockade the whole of Santo Domingo. Those British, as well as the Americans, will certainly take the opportunity to support them. What we do in Ireland, they will do in Santo Domingo. Damn the British, damn the Yankees, if it wasn't us French, they would have been caught and hanged by the British! Now they are ungrateful, dragging us back! Napoleon continued to complain.

"It was already a shame that the Americans did not join the anti-French alliance in the first place." Joseph laughed and said, "After all, we have an enmity with the Americans. We killed one of America's founding fathers and exiled another American founding father. ”

"What do you say...... Ah, that seems to be what you say. Napoleon was stunned at first, but then he understood, "If you want to say that Louis XVI is a fool, he can really be regarded as the father of the nation of the Americans." And Lafayette won't say good things about us. ”

"Napoleon, you remember, there is no benevolence between nations, only interests." Joseph added.

"Of course I know that." Napoleon said, "It is really unwilling to lose Santo Domingo just like this." There's too much money involved. ”

"Good, good!" Joseph applauded with joy, "Napoleon, you are becoming more and more mature!" You already know to be patient when you have to. Of course, it would be unbearable to lose Santo Domingo unconditionally, after all, it would involve too much money. Still, I think we can send someone over and what is that black governor called? With that, Joseph looked at Napoleon.

Napoleon rolled his eyes and said, "How do I know, who will remember the name of a black man?" ”

"Toussaint Louvidur." Lucien added on the side.

Napoleon glared at Lucien fiercely and said, "This is not a name, what is a name?" ”

"How do I know who's going to remember what a black man's name is?" Lucien replied.

Well, their attitude is indeed a bit racist, after all, this is the first year of the nineteenth century, and at this time there is no black life matter, and there is still a certain amount of controversy about whether black people should be considered human beings. The attitude of Napoleon and Lucien was really not particularly reactionary.

"Okay, don't worry about the useless things." "What is important is how to recover as much as possible, even to cause problems for the British and the Americans," Joseph said. Think about it first, what's our bottom line? And then think about what problems we have with each of them. Let's think about what kind of outcome we can all accept. Well, guess what, that ...... Well, guess what's their bottom line? ”

Napoleon did not speak, but glanced at Lucien.

"Isn't it independence?" Lucien Road.

When Joseph heard this, he shook his head in his heart, and was about to speak, when Napoleon jumped up from his chair and said, "My stupid brother! What's going on in your head every day? If you continue like this, the next time we have a meeting, we should kick you out and let that troublemaker take your place. If that ...... If you just want to be independent, that's not a big deal at all. But you forget that there must be economic reasons for political moves. He didn't want nominal independence, he wanted a change in the land system of Santo Domingo, just like our revolution in France! This is where the real contradiction between us and them lies! ”

Lucien was stunned, and after a while, he suddenly slapped his face and said, "That's not easy to say?" It's so easy to do! Isn't it because those blacks don't have land? Well, now in theory these blacks are all French citizens. Theoretically, they also have the right to immigrate to Louisiana. In order to encourage immigrants, the system that we designated for five years of continuous cultivation and land ownership also applies to them, doesn't it? Let's let them immigrate to Louisiana! Although they are black, they are also black French-speaking. ”

"You think they'll believe us? They won't worry, we load them on the ship and tow them directly to Georgia and sell them to the Yankees over there? "But there is some truth to your suggestion." Let me think again......"

"Think of their weaknesses, Napoleon." Joseph said, "The sea ...... The richness of the land of Santo Domingo was based on trade. I'm sure the one who can dance on the three eggs of France, England, and Spain should be able to understand this. We want to convince him that if the land of the white French is unconditionally deprived, then he and his country will be excluded from the whole chain of trade. And once they are excluded from this trade chain, even if they get the land, they can only live a hard life. ”

"Even if they did give money, the British, the Spaniards, the Americans wouldn't let them into the trade chain. Because they are not a good role model. If they are allowed to live a good life, they are encouraging rebellion within themselves. On the contrary, only we can give them the opportunity to continue to trade. I think we can have a good talk with Toussaint Louverdur from that point of view, he should be a guy who can talk. Lucien said.

"So, what's our bottom line?" Napoleon said again.

"Saint-Domingo remained within France. The land of the whites can only be ransomed, and it is a real ransom, but we can give them low-interest loans. And of course their French citizenship is guaranteed. In this way, they owe us money, and they can only use our trade channels, and we can recover some of our economic losses, and we can continue to tie them to our chariots. Lucien said.

"We should also demand control of the port, at least of the military port, so that we can arrange a fleet here. To deter the British and Americans. We're going to quickly build a fort there, hoard coal, and get the steamers over. By that time, as far as the Americans' navy is concerned,...... Napoleon, "and we will transfer the whites in Santo Domingo to Louisiana, and add the French whites in Louisiana." But these people ......."

"I don't recommend letting them go to Louisiana." Joseph said, "Indeed, they are French, authentic Frenchmen." But will they be loyal to France? We feel like we've earned them more ransom money, but will they think so? ”

So several people fell silent. After a while, it was Lucien who spoke first

"They won't appreciate us, they'll just feel that we've betrayed their interests. Moreover, these people were able to occupy a large area of land in Santo Domingo and make so much money, and their relationship with the domestic aristocracy was quite close. If they had been in the country at the time of the revolution, they would have been guillotined as enemies of the republic, or hung on street lamp poles. Although they are people with French nationality, they are not our people. ”

"So don't count on them," said Napoleon, "or we will ...... Simply agree to their independence, no, it should be 'self-government', and secretly agree to allow them to be independent in the future, but ask for some special benefits, such as 'military protection', such as letting them pay for the territory. ”

"So, what about the white landlords?" Joseph asked.

"They are not our fellow travelers in their interests," said Napoleon, "and I will let them die!" ”

"We in the Ministry of Truth should also seize this opportunity to vigorously promote our ideas of 'liberty, equality, fraternity', hehe, those British and Americans think they can make trouble for us and trap us? I'm going to give them a headache for themselves because of Santo Domingo's example! Lucien also said.

"To do so would be to injure Spain." Joseph added.

"Joseph, you are not the king of Spain, do you care about them to die? Even if we hurt them by mistake, can they still make an alliance with us? How dare they? It's already their honor to be dogs for us. Lucien said disdainfully.

"But we have other colonies in other regions." Napoleon said, "We can't shoot ourselves in the foot." Therefore, the Ministry of Truth does not have to make too much effort to publicize this matter. As for causing trouble to the British and Americans, Santo Domingo was there, and could get it peacefully, which in itself was adding trouble to them. ”

So the tone of dealing with this matter was set, and now all that remains is to find a messenger.

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