"It's just that you're not familiar with the British Chamber of Commerce, right?" Annabelle nodded knowingly, and said with an expression that I knew was like this, "I have been to the office of the British Chamber of Commerce a few times, and I should be able to help you......"

"Thank you so much, Miss Annabelle!" Sheffield was grateful from the bottom of his heart, the elder Sheffield had to stay in Mexico for at least two years, and now the plantation business had to be supported by him. Even if you catch ducks on the shelves, you have to learn it, and if you don't understand it, you have to learn, there's nothing to say! You can't let the old housekeeper run around with him, just take care of the old man.

"This, Uncle Brown! I'll take a look first! Sheffield put his hands in the posture of a shopkeeper, and quickly handed over the transportation of the steel drill to the old butler, who had already paid the bill anyway, and would not worry about filling his pocket.

Sitting in the carriage of Annabelle's family, closing the door, the two sat side by side, and the atmosphere was a little unusual. This carriage is not an open carriage for Sheffield to sit in, but a carriage similar to a home, it is very good to say that it is used to participate in any party, it can show status and status, the two horses in front of it look of good blood, the pure black coat color is as soft as satin, and the horse's back is streamlined, which looks noble and temperamental.

"Why do I have a feeling of early love, it's time to pass that age, right?" Sheffield laughed at himself, and immediately opened his mouth to resolve the embarrassment and chatted, "The cotton is ripe, and I am going to go to the Chamber of Commerce to contact the buyers in London." ”

"Yes, it's cotton harvest season again!" On the rocking carriage, Annabelle looked at the flow of people, "Every year at this time, it is the busiest time for the Chamber of Commerce, a month ago London sent a lot of people to discuss what price to buy this year, but in my opinion, the sooner the better, things should be sooner rather than ......later."

Sheffield would have been happy to ask an old man with glasses talking, but Annabelle was clearly not, the woman was a year younger. The delicate face always puts on a thoughtful look, so it's hard for Sheffield to say the word admiration.

"The cotton field is finished, and I will see if there is enough time to plant something else?" Sheffield said to himself, "Actually, I think the pharmaceutical factory should be very developed, and I also want to buy more land to grow corn and food!" ”

"What? Want to become the biggest slave owner in New Orleans? Annabelle looked at Sheffield with a smile, feeling quite funny, "So in the future, the big customers of the slave market will sit next to me, should I have a relationship ......?"

Is this trying to make me kneel and lick? It's simply impossible, Sheffield thinks he's a strong-willed person, and he won't show up when he sees a woman who can't walk, huh? At least not yet.

"I'm still not sure about using black slaves in factories!" Sheffield didn't hide his worries and said, "If it is possible to work in steel mills and mines, but once black slaves enter the work that requires discipline, I am not sure what the results will be......" Black people are loose by nature, even if they preached equality every day in the society in the previous life, they could not prevent negative news about black people, and it was precisely because of this that Sheffield, a staunch socialist, would enter the thinking of slave owners in an instant.

"Black slaves are indeed a problem!" Annabelle nodded approvingly, and directly defined "They can't do even the most basic things, and without us monitoring their lives, they will fall into endless vendettas, essentially no different from gorillas, I dare to conclude that without our care, blacks will fend for themselves sooner or later......"

Sheffield felt that the conversation between the two could be better summed up by the word "smelly similarity", and I believe that the two are not strangers, and the current thinking of the two of them in the southern United States should be the mainstream thought, and the slave owners do think that the black slave is just a tool, but they must also have the determination to maintain the tool, and the life, clothing, food and even reproduction of the black slave are things that the slave owner should care about.

It didn't take long for Annabelle to take Sheffield to the location of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce is very large, both in terms of appearance and interior decoration is not very luxurious, there is a cold feeling of the Industrial Revolution, but the hall inside the Chamber of Commerce is not like this, it can be described as full of people. Sheffield saw many familiar faces in his memory, and given the identity of the Sheffield family, these were all slave owners who had met, or larger plantation owners.

It's hard to imagine an occasion where the entire slave-owning class of Louisiana could be wiped out, but Sheffield has seen it now, and in just a few minutes, he has greeted and exchanged greetings with several groups of slave-owners who have left an impression in his memory! They asked each other about their respective production this year and the psychological bottom line of the purchase price.

"Well, it's nothing!" Annabelle didn't leave Sheffield's side and whispered, "I wonder if you're satisfied with the price of cotton this purchase?" Or would you like to mention the price? ”

"Cotton prices are simply not worth caring too much about!" Sheffield didn't feel nervous, and Annabelle found a bench to sit down, ignoring the commotion around her, and focused all her attention on the girl in front of her, saying, "The British government won't let us who supply raw materials lose money!" After all, there are Yankees from the north, so they won't lower our prices, and the appearance of competitors is a good thing for us......"

"That's probably the only good thing the Yankees do!" Annabelle wrinkled her nose, apparently with a deep-seated prejudice against the Yankeos of the North.

"This also involves the UK's global industrial chain!" Sheffield smiled and said, "We supply the local raw materials to the UK, so that the British textile industry has enough raw materials to start, now the British colony of India itself is famous for the textile industry, so the more sufficient raw materials we supply, the faster the Indian textile industry controlled by the British will die, this is also the British strategy, crush the local textile industry in India, complete the dumping of products......"

"So we are helping the British to kill the Indians, and we are supporting the British, which is to help the British to bring down India's economy and complete the dumping? The higher our cotton production, the higher the mortality rate for Indians? Annabelle was clever enough to immediately understand what Sheffield's words meant.