Chapter 65: A Visitor from the North

This is only the first step, Sheffield will have to control more blacks in the future. One of the prerequisites for a big plantation is a huge piece of land, and he has set aside a piece of land close to the small town of Sheffield as a place for children to play, and of course has made some exercise facilities such as horizontal bars, seesaws and the like.

"Children, if you want to grow up smoothly, you must have a healthy body! Moderate exercise will give you a good foundation! There were three or four hundred children in the small town of Sheffield, and with the black slave children on the plantation, he found ten rooms from the houses that the town did not live in as a place to educate the children.

Sheffield's method of educating children is completely different, and the socialist education system of Yishui is different from the way that later generations in the United States blatantly promoted elite education in the name of happy education, giving up the vast majority of ordinary children. Sheffield has always instilled an equal attitude, introduced a competitive system, and of course is far more authoritative than any other school's teacher.

The so-called education must not be completed by Sheffield itself, in fact, Sheffield cannot be completed, and he can't hand over four or five hundred children, but it doesn't matter! It was a piece of cake for the Sheffield family to find a dozen overseers to work as substitute teachers.

I remember that on the first day, when I asked the overseers to substitute for the class, almost all the overseers were resigning, and Sheffield's threat of not hiring finally made these overseers understand who was the big brother in this plantation! To this day, he still remembers his words, "You just have to teach these children what it means to be faithful, and I understand that you don't know anything, at least you can read, right?" I don't care what method you use, let them read and write first, let the children have a sense of awe of you, let them understand what authority is, but you can't beat the children badly, understand? ”

The curriculum here is based on the curriculum of Eastern countries, but there is a slight difference that the ratio of culture and physical education is 1:7! That's right, Sheffield is under the guise of educating children, allowing the overseers to attack these young and ignorant children and cultivate loyalty to the Sheffield family. And Sheffield still has good reasons to do so, if a black man comes to him, he will definitely move out the idea of happy education in the United States in the future.

Every two overseers were in charge of forty or so pupils, and Sheffield picked out a tenth of the brightest ones from among them to educate them personally, and these negroes were the black stewards of the future Lincoln and Martin's current plantations. Cultivating a strong team of black stewards can build a more rapid presence among blacks, helping Sheffield Plantations to reach out among the black community.

In Sheffield's eyes, these black children were far more useful, and he was already thinking about whether to provide Taylor Manor with a few such children, maybe he could get twice the result with half the effort when capturing slaves.

"Edward, three Yankees have approached our plantation, and they say they've come from the north looking for work! I just don't know why they came to us here, do you want to get rid of these Yankees? Henry knew that Sheffield's attitude towards the northerners had always been very bad, even worse than that of the black slaves, so he proposed.

"Yankey? Three people? Sheffield's eyes narrowed, "Just bring them in, they're guests anyway, maybe they will bring us good news!" If his guess was right, it was probably the talent Thomas had found for himself from the north, but he would have to deign to be an assistant in Sheffield.

Sheffield met three people, all of whom were not very old, that is, in their twenties, probably younger than Westin and Sheffield's big brother, basically his peers.

"Thomas introduced you here? He once said that he had met a few very capable friends, and we in the south are relatively lacking in this kind of talent, so he will introduce them to me! Sheffield chatted a few words and directly pointed out the intentions of several people.

"Hello, Mr. Sheffield! You're younger than we are, and you don't know that you're in control of the plantation now? A blonde-haired teenager who looked very sunny asked.

"Daddy and Big Brother are not in Louisiana at the moment, so I can say that the plantation is currently under my control!" Sheffield's face was modest, as he usually did when he first met a stranger. Sheffield will only regain its true nature if the two sides have actually made contact, well! It's not the same as the average American.

"I wonder what the relationship between Mr. Sheffield and Thomas is? I remember that we remembered that he didn't like the South and quarreled with us about it, but when he returned to his hometown, he was ready to move, and his attitude towards the South changed! The chestnut-haired man in the middle asked.

"We were friends, and we had a good relationship when he came to the South!" Sheffield continued to lie with a blank face, tight-lipped about Thomas's status as a white slave.

After half an hour of detailed discussion, Sheffield did not feel that there was anything wrong with it, especially the maroon-haired man in the detailed conversation, and his family turned out to be a small factory owner, which surprised Sheffield a little. But it was immediately solved, because their family was bankrupt.

The blond-haired one is Mike, the other one is called Rahel, and the former factory owner is Charles.

"It seems that the industry competition in the north is still quite fierce!" Sheffield inquired carefully about the current situation in the north, and finally appointed three people to be the white stewards of the plantation, "Theoretically you can manage anything on the plantation, including the black steward, including the overseer!" Transforming the plantation and so on, I have only one request, I can't beat and scold black people at will, especially if black people don't make mistakes......"

"By the way, I also bought a batch of experimental equipment in London, if there are guys who are interested in this area! You can also introduce me to it! Sheffield finally added, to be honest, the plan to attract talent had just begun, and he had a feeling that he could not bear it, and it seemed that it was a little difficult to rely on the income of the plantation alone.

Recalling that there were no dangerous inventions, Sheffield decided to get the electric light out first, and always used kerosene lamps for lighting, especially when Sheffield was a diary powerhouse, which greatly damaged his eyesight.

The only technical difficulty of the electric light is how to evacuate the air in the bulb and make it a vacuum, which requires an investment or find someone to get the vacuum pump, which is not a problem, if Sheffield is not mistaken, the vacuum pump will appear immediately, he needs to go to London alone to inquire who is studying this kind of thing, solve this only difficulty, the electric light will appear logically, as for the rumored Edison who invented the electric light, it seems that he has just been born.

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