Jager Gollen: They do have a large area of land in Louisiana. In fact, Louisiana's land was not worth anything at all. What is lacking there is never land, but people.

In 1762, France and Spain united to resist British expansion in North America, and as part of the alliance, the French transferred sovereignty of Louisiana to the Spaniards. Since then, the Spaniards have been the masters of Louisiana.

But the Spaniards have always had a problem, and that is the limited population. So it doesn't offer too many immigrants. Therefore, although Louisiana is a Spanish territory, the immigrants there are still mainly French.

After the French Revolution, Spain joined the anti-French alliance and fought against France, but soon rebelled and became an ally of France. Louisiana, on the other hand, continues to be a Spanish colony, but continues to be all French-speaking people.

The Spaniards have been experiencing some economic difficulties lately (the Spaniards don't seem to have been financially difficult), and they are under a lot of pressure from the United States in North America. In Florida, the Americans were already making small moves, and in the capital of Louisiana, the Americans took advantage of the weakness of the Spaniards to force the Spaniards to recognize the "special interests" of the United States in New Orleans.

The increasingly weakened Spaniards were in fact struggling to maintain control of the vast lands of Louisiana. Napoleon, on the other hand, took the opportunity to propose to the Spaniards that he was willing to exchange some of his interests in Italy for the sovereignty of Louisiana.

Napoleon envisioned Louisiana, and Haiti, which was still under French control, to maintain considerable influence in the New World. This idea was supported by Joseph, who was much clearer about the significance of the New World for the future than most people at the time.

And to be able to strengthen the control of Louisiana, the population is, of course, the most important. But because the French had a good time during this time, there were far fewer people who were really willing to venture thousands of miles away. So the number of French immigrants is also limited. Although the Napoleonic government has always encouraged childbearing, and the Ministry of Truth has even given "heroic mothers" to mothers who have given birth to many children, this will not change the situation in the short term.

So today the French rely mainly on immigrants from other parts of Europe to Louisiana.

Of course, theoretically, ensuring that immigrants are mainly French should be more cohesive in overseas territories and homeland. But the events of the North American Revolutionary War also show that blood relations are not reliable. And unlike Napoleon, Napoleon wanted a new empire on which the sun never sets, while Joseph's expectations were much lower, and his minimum expectations were only a fragmented North American continent.

And Joseph argues that Louisiana is in a sense more likely to be more loyal to France because of the presence of the United States. Just as Canada has always been loyal to Britain because the United States exists.

With the United States, it seems feasible to control Louisiana, which is thousands of miles away. Of course, to do this, Louisiana needs to put Louisiana at odds with the United States economically.

This is not difficult, and the US economy today is largely dependent on the export of grain and cotton. These Louisiana can be produced as well, and as long as Louisiana is committed to producing these, they will be at odds with the United States. At the same time, if the North of the United States will embark on the road of industrial development in the future, according to history, it will be a contradiction that the United States will continue to export cheap manufactured goods by legal and illegal means through Louisiana. With these, a divided North America is expected.

But to achieve all this, and especially to maintain control of Louisiana for a long time, there was a problem that had to be solved, and that was Haiti, then called Santo Domingo.

Because in later generations, Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its presence in the world is not high, and most people will not know that there is such a country in the world unless there is a major earthquake or something. So at first, Joseph didn't care too much about Haiti.

But Joseph soon realized that Haiti in this era was not a place to be mentioned, and that it was even more important to the French economy than Louisiana as a whole in terms of its current significance to the French economy.

In 1780, 40 percent of the sugar and 60 percent of the coffee on the European market were produced in Haiti. Haiti produces more of these agricultural products than the entire West Indies combined. By 1791, Haiti was the world's largest producer of sugar. Haiti became the richest French colony and was also known as the "pearl" of the Caribbean.

Of course, Haiti's affluence has nothing to do with the majority of Haitians. On the contrary, it was precisely because of Haiti's wealth that Haitian slave owners drove the black slaves to work more intensively, and compared with the slaves in the southern United States, the labor intensity of the Haitian black slaves was almost as high as that of the British workers.

In 1791, taking advantage of the French Revolution, the black slaves in Haiti launched a major uprising. The rebels first united with the British and Spanish allies against the French, and then with the French against the Spaniards and the British. In order to keep Haiti in France, the revolutionary government even made a move that surprised the whole of Europe, freed slaves, gave blacks citizenship and voting rights, and appointed Toussaint Louvertur, the leader of the black rebels, as governor of Santo Domingo.

But this does not solve the most fundamental problem - the problem of land. Thus, under the jurisdiction of the French Revolutionary Government, the black people of Haiti suddenly evolved from "private slaves" to "free slaves", ah, it should be said to be "free agricultural workers". Throughout Haiti, all the land that has been developed is white, and blacks are in even worse shape after receiving so-called "citizenship" than they were before the revolution.

So in 1801, the black leader Toussaint declared Haiti's independence, completely abolished slavery, and "nationalized" the land of white colonists. In 1802, Napoleon sent an expeditionary force of 30,000 men under the command of Leclerc to try to retake Haiti. But the expeditionary force's operations in Haiti were not going well, and with the yellow fever epidemic and the various American support for the Haitian rebels, the French army was in a precarious position (from material support to naval bombardment of the French army). Even though Leclerc tricked Toussaint into negotiating and arresting him, the Haitian rebels gained the upper hand and forced the remnants of the French army to surrender in 1803, thus establishing the first independent black republic.

However, after the establishment of the independent black republic, Haiti's former riches seemed to have been lost with the departure of the colonizers. Haiti quickly became the poorest and most backward country in the world, and it continues to this day. Although he has almost the same system and laws as in the United States.

This ending naturally led many Yehebe spiritual whites to come to the conclusion that "whites are superior, blacks are inferior, and without good white leadership, blacks can only make a mess of themselves." Similar "evidence" includes nonsense such as "Mandela turned South Africa from a developed country into a developing country." (When these Yeh counted white South Africa as a developed country, he probably counted only whites and expelled all blacks.) According to their algorithm, India is also a developed country. ）

Haiti's "sinking" – let me call it "sinking", despite the fact that even when Haiti is at its richest, a black man will not live better than when he was "sinking" – is actually very simple, that is, it was originally only a highly replaceable link in the economic chain, and when it became independent, it was not only politically independent, but also economically independent.

Or, to put it more clearly, it was isolated from the chain of colonial economies. And its place in this chain was soon taken by other colonies. The cost of production in other colonies would certainly be much lower than in Haiti – unless an independent Haiti could still concentrate its land and use the blacks as "free slaves." But what is the point of a revolution?

But for France, for Napoleon's dream of a new sun, the defeat of Haiti was decisive. The loss of Haiti not only caused him a huge loss financially, (in fact, this has been recovered by asking the Republic of Haiti for ransom money), but also deprived him of an important fulcrum in the Americas. This is one of the reasons why Napoleon later sold Louisiana in its entirety to the United States.

Now, in this time and space, the problem of Haiti is also before Napoleon.

"Sooner or later, something is going to go wrong with Santo Domingo." Napoleon was well aware of this, "That Toussaint Louverdouer is already the emperor of Haiti." Well, Joseph, what do you say about that? ”

"The mountain is high and the emperor is far away." Joseph replied.

"Yes, 'the mountain is high and the emperor is far away'. It's too far from France. I've just gotten a report that Toussaint is starting to carry out some kind of 'nationalization of land,' which is to buy white people's land, hell, five centimes per acre, which is confiscation. Quite a few French people have been forced to flee and even killed. What do you think we should do? Napoleon said.

If Joseph had been educated in his previous life, he would have applauded Haiti's righteous anti-colonialist action. However, this practice harms the French, hell, to put it more clearly, in the interests of those surnamed Bonaparte! Therefore, if he could really suppress the matter directly, then Joseph would definitely raise his hands in favor of directly suppressing the Haitian uprising.

But can the crackdown succeed? Joseph couldn't help but ask himself this question.

The range of the steamship could not yet reach Haiti, where the British and Americans had an advantage at sea. Joseph asked himself what he would do if he were an English or an American and found out that the French were fighting a local black rebel in Haiti.

"What we do in Ireland, they do in Haiti." Joseph immediately came to the conclusion that "with the intervention of these guys, this battle is a bottomless pit, a quagmire, and we must not fall into it." ”

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