New Orleans is located at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and the whole city is built on the delta that has been impacted, and if the status is changed to China, the geographical location of New Orleans should be very similar to Shanghai. ← Mississippi River runs from north to south, connecting the north and south of the United States, and is also very much in line with the function of the main artery from an economic point of view. Because of the existence and convenience of the Mississippi River, many factories in the north opened factories directly by the river, and the products manufactured directly down the river to New Orleans, or sold on the spot or completed the turnover in New Orleans.

The United States is currently discussing the construction of a canal between the Mississippi River basin and the Great Lakes, and it is reported that preliminary work has begun, and if true, the Mississippi River basin and the Great Lakes will be opened within two years. However, in Sheffield's view, the opening of the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River basin is not good news for the South. This will allow the powerful Yankee of NORINCO to play to their strengths.

Sheffield just wanted to rebuild the plantations, clean up the plantations that had not been planned, and by the way, improve the living conditions of the black slaves, and all the black slaves were centrally managed to prevent the emergence of fugitive slaves. If there is any leftover of the ordered material, you can also consider building a vegetable greenhouse or something, in fact, the climate of Louisiana does not use vegetable greenhouses at all, and the climate is normal in most years, which is just a rainy day.

Because geographically, the terrain of the United States does not block the cold air mountains of the Arctic, so once the cold air moves south, almost a cold wind can blow from the Canadian border to New Orleans.

The next morning, Sheffield got up and went straight to the wharf, but the riverbank wharf was the transit terminal of New Orleans in the Mississippi River, and the dock facing overseas was different, this is a special transit product of the upper Mississippi River, although the big southern slave owners liked to make in Britain, but it was impossible to even import some daily necessities from Britain. Although there are some people who want to do it.

The old butler Brown borrowed a few young and strong black slaves from the surrounding slave-owning families and followed Sheffield. I have to say that the old Brown deserves to be the old Sheffield's friend in life and work partner. The two old men's Grande style is simply in the same vein, which really makes Sheffield fall to the ground.

"Uncle Brown, I don't think Westin thinks it's better to do that!" Sheffield said with some embarrassment, the few black slaves in front of him were borrowed by the old housekeeper one by one. In order not to pay, slave owners who have dealings with the Sheffield family will not worry too much about the use of a black slave. Old Brown took advantage of this psychology to run several houses and gather these slaves to help with the work.

Looking at the old man running around borrowing people, Sheffield really didn't know what to think, in his opinion, it was not expensive to hire some people, at least with the Sheffield family's financial resources, it was really not a problem.

"Westin, like you, has never suffered at all, so naturally you don't know the preciousness of money!" Brown, who was no different from Grande, said confidently that the Westin in Sheffield's mouth was the overseer of the Sheffield family's plantation, and the son of the old butler, who was about the same age as Sheffield's eldest brother.

It makes so much sense, I can't even argue with it! The old butler in front of him obviously wanted to teach Sheffield how to be a man, but he wouldn't give the old butler this opportunity, so he immediately let the black slave unload the goods with a hello, and he also rolled up his sleeves to help together. The scene of a small slave owner leading the black slaves to a better tomorrow.

"Master Sheffield?" A very nice voice came to the ears of Sheffield, who lowered his head to move bricks, oh no, he was very familiar with this voice, and while picking up the steel drill, he put it on the carriage that transported the goods, looked at Annabelle in front of him and asked, "Annabelle?" What a coincidence, I met you again at the dock today......"

"yes!" Annabelle fiddled with her hair unnaturally, looked at the workers who were constantly unloading from the ship, and said, "I'll come and see if the shackles are up today, every black slave sold in our slave market has to be put on a pair of shackles!" So every month we order a batch of shackles from the steel mill upstream, and today I heard from my father that it was the day the ship arrived, so I came over to see ......"

"Oh!" Sheffield watched as Annabelle's workers kept moving shackles down from the freighter, the number of which was now several times that of Sheffield's custom-made steel drills, and it was not known how many had not been removed. I can't help but feel ashamed of myself, don't get me wrong, this is not a beautiful feeling for a boy for a girl. It's just a feeling of powerlessness caused by the huge amount of capital in front of you.

Rubbing his chin, Sheffield said secretly; My dignity as a big plantation owner and a big slave owner seems to have been lost in just two days, and my family is stronger than me. He looks better than me, and his heart is darker than mine! Is there still a reason in these years?

"Don't you have to go to school?" Sheffield asked with some confusion, in his opinion, shouldn't this kind of eldest lady be a good baby at school, why did it appear in a slave market or a dock?

"The school curriculum is not very difficult, and my father has been in poor health recently! There are some things I should learn to deal with too! Annabelle and Sheffield stood side by side, watching the workers on the docks unloading their cargo.

Soon the things they needed were unloaded, and at this moment, a young man in a suit and a top hat came down, walked up to Annabelle, and said courteously, "Miss Annabelle, I heard that your father has been in poor health lately!" Our boss asked me to bring quite a few medicines! ”

"Thank you, sir!" Annabelle coldly took the young man's medicine and said politely, "My father's illness is not serious, and he will be fine after a rest!" And even if we need medicine, we can collect what we need all over the world through our network in London, and your boss is so kind......"

The young man smiled awkwardly and stopped talking, Annabelle's family was a large family in New Orleans, and although the demand for steel in the slave market was not large, it was a stable market for small factories. This time I came here to have a relationship with Annabelle's father, but I didn't expect a little girl to be so unkind to them.

In this era, the exquisite cash on delivery, at least in the United States, but for the raw materials needed by the British, the slave owners in New Orleans can open the net, the office of the British Chamber of Commerce in New Orleans, responsible for communicating with the big slave owners in the United States, Sheffield, who packed everything, looked at Annabelle and asked, "I don't know much about there, I believe Miss Annabelle knows a little about the situation of our family, and my father was in a hurry when he went out!" ”

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