Chapter 53 Consent in Principle
"No, the accounting problem still needs to be clear!" Immediately arrived at Wilson Taylor's study, Annabelle hugged Sheffield directly from behind in a hurry, and both of them were suddenly shocked, stiffening at the door of the study like statues. Sheffield stood in the doorway, his right hand still in the posture of opening the door and entering the house.
Time seems to stand still, for a long time! Sheffield coughed lightly to hide his heart, "Anna, I don't think this is good, it will be seen!" If you don't let go, my life is likely to be confessed to Taylor Manor today! ”
In all fairness, Sheffield sincerely wished that the time would stay a little longer, and the girl's smell got into Sheffield's nose from behind, it was an exciting smell, the touch of the back was so real, and the two small particles were even more intoxicating. But that wasn't a reason for Sheffield to indulge, and there were hundreds of thugs on the estate, although only a small fraction of Taylor's Manor.
He couldn't beat any of these slave hunters, and the danger to his life made Sheffield maintain the greatest restraint, and anyone with a little common sense would know that if he dared to act rashly at this time, the thugs of Taylor Manor would definitely tear him to pieces.
"Let me come down and settle the bill!" Annabelle hung on Sheffield's body like a koala, her soft voice and some rapid breathing made Sheffield swallow instinctively and spit at the mouth.
It's simply impossible! Sheffield will never pay back, Sheffield is not fighting alone at this moment, General Kim is with him, and threatens in a low voice, "Come down first, pounce on me, and spread out what people think of you!" ”
Sheffield's words are not serious, in comparison, the stronger the religion, the more conservative the difference between men and women, treating European and American women as sluts is the biggest mistake, and the attitude in some places in this regard is no worse than that of the Middle East, in comparison, the south is much stricter than the north in this regard, so Sheffield dares to threaten the girls on his body.
"You don't have to say so much, no amount of excuses can change the fact that you have to pay the bill!" Sheffield's resolute attitude left Sheffield speechless, but he had to admit that the girl was really right......
can only take the last step, Sheffield ignored the girl on the back of the eyes closed, put his hand on the doorknob and pushed the door open, the speed behind was faster than Sheffield's action of pushing the door, jumping down like a dexterous monkey, after the door was pushed open, the somewhat stunned Wilson Taylor turned his head sideways, saw his girl standing at the door with Sheffield, stunned for a moment and opened his mouth and said, "Little Edward, John and I have been waiting for a while!" ”
"Uncle Taylor, keep you waiting!" Sheffield wore a hypocritical smile and tried to lower his posture as much as possible. Out of the corner of his eye, he could still see the thin anger flashing on the face of the girl next to her, like the princess of the iron fan coming down from the Flame Mountain.
Sheffield's smile became more and more easy-going, and on the surface, it seemed that he should be the benchmark slave owner of the future, the conscience of the slave owners, and the model of the slave owners. Conscience and role models naturally won't be repaid, but conscience still needs a while now, and the idea of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land in his previous life is still influencing him, and he always wants to pit the rich, at least make them anxious.
The two sat down, and John Caldwell looked at Sheffield and said with a smile, "Old Sheffield suddenly made the decision to go to the front line, and took away his adult son. In fact, many people think that the old Sheffield is old and confused, or because of the death of his wife, he was stimulated, and even went to the front line to venture despite the plantation business. Now it seems that little Edward is also very capable, and you do things more beautifully than your father and big brother......"
Sheffield listened quietly to Caldwell's words, and did not have any resentment at some of the criticisms of his cheap father, because he could not understand why a plantation owner would make such a decision. If this person is not his titular father, he must think that this person has a hole in his brain.
But there are exceptions to everything, since it is his own father, how to say Sheffield has to say two words of defense, "Dad was a very adventurous person when he was young, and later he had a wife and us, as the head of the family must shoulder the responsibility of the whole family, as a man, Dad can't be willful!" After the death of his mother, Daddy sank for a long time, but he still came out, just as the war between the United States and Mexico had begun, and under the inspiration of the Manifest Destiny, Daddy decided to take his eldest brother to the battlefield and fulfill his mission as a man again......"
Sheffield switched his thinking to the commissar model, explaining why the elder Sheffield would abandon the plantation and decide to go to the front to fight the war from both the national and family perspectives. When he spoke, he was full of emotion, and he almost believed himself with so much emotion that he knew that old Sheffield would make such a head-wrenching decision.
"It seems that we still don't know much about the character of old Sheffield, and some of our opinions are wrong!" After a long time, John Caldwell nodded, he himself is a senator of the Democratic Party, and his understanding of the manifest destiny is more profound than that of a pure slave owner, so after Sheffield finished explaining, the impression of the old miser changed a lot, "You want the land in the western suburbs to be used as a plantation, but our plan is to establish a black freedman settlement and centralize the management of black freedmen, otherwise there will always be some misunderstandings!" ”
The so-called misunderstanding is that this is the stronghold of slave owners, and the black freedmen of New Orleans are less than one-tenth of the black slaves, let alone the total population of all residents. So there will always be this kind of scene, that is, there will always be people who want to turn the few remaining black freedmen into black slaves, which is illegal after all, so the black freedmen can only be centralized.
Who made this proposal, Sheffield thought for a long time, and felt that the person who made this proposal was really a high-ranking person, and this was not the prototype of apartheid? I have to admit that compared with direct slavery, this method is still advanced.
"There are only about 2,000 black freedmen, and eight hundred acres of land is too wasteful for them!" Sheffield said very coldly, "The black people are still living with lions and elephants in Africa without our help, and we brought them to the United States to let them know what modern society is." Without our supervision they will only make a mess of things, so the first function of the settlement is to manage, centrally manage the black freedmen! Instead of us paying for a swarm of lazy parasites, ten acres of land for a small settlement is enough, and I've already drawn the blueprints! ”
Sheffield pulled out the renderings he had drawn on the plantation as he spoke, and John Caldwell put on his glasses and looked at them and asked, "Yes, it's easy to see the advantages of this kind of settlement, and it's definitely very easy to manage!" I don't think there's a problem with handing over that piece of land to you......"
Sheffield was embarrassed to say that the renderings were not the same as the real thing, but after receiving the senator's verbal consent, he instantly decided to hold the words in his stomach. In his previous life, John Caldwell had agreed in principle.
[Didn't I say that the Q group is under construction on the shelves, why is it brushed again? ] 】