When the career has reached a certain level, it is usually not satisfied with one-way development, just as all eggs cannot be put in one basket, cross-industry development is what careerists pursue, and this is true of the capitalists in the north, and the big slave owners in the south. Annabelle's father directly started the slave market business in the later years, and began to do slave trading in New Orleans, the stronghold of slavery, and the Oranger family began to build a container warehouse on the docks, and the Claire family, known as the first slave owner family, directly bought the docks, although not all.

"The Claire family has been here for a hundred years, and it is rumored that the Claire family has taken root here as early as New France!" Annabelle said, "Actually, we all know that there seems to be no difference between several slave owner families, in fact, the position of the first slave owner of the Claire family is more stable than ours......

"New France?" Sheffield could not help but be shocked when she heard Annabelle's words, that New France in its heyday could be more extensive than the more famous French West Africa in later generations, if France had not been defeated at the hands of the British. With New France, which occupies three-fifths of North America, who knows if it will be stronger than the current empire on which the sun never sets, "I didn't expect that we also have a long-established family here, which is really unexpected......"

Sheffield didn't know how he was feeling right now, as if he had finally felt that he knew the world, and suddenly realized that he had just begun to have a basic understanding of the world. It has been 100 years since the collapse of New France, and 40 years since Louisiana was incorporated into the United States, and there is still a 100-year-old French family in the country that has such a big impression that affects the trade between New Orleans and London.

"I didn't expect you to finish harvesting cotton so quickly, I don't know if the yield has reached your estimate!" Annabelle wore a long white dress, which was the same as the last time the two met, except for the details.

Sheffield has always believed that there are not many girls who dare to wear white dresses, and under normal circumstances, they will only backfire their own flaws, but at present, it seems that Annabelle should not belong to this category, at least with Sheffield's limited eyesight, there are no shortcomings.

"It's okay!" Sheffield kept converting units in his mind, probably because his life in his previous life was too impressive. Coupled with the fact that the metric unit is the mainstream of the world, Sheffield spends a long time calculating the relationship between acres and pounds and hectares and kilograms every time it is calculated, "The cotton we picked out is 700,000 pounds, which should be regarded as a bumper harvest!" ”

After nearly a minute, Sheffield was calculating that 700,000 pounds of cotton had been harvested on the plantation this year, probably less than 320 tons, and Annabelle covered her mouth lightly and said, "That's a lot of money!" ”

Although Annabelle can't see the future, but the price of cotton has risen every year in recent years, the price has increased by a little and a half times compared to five years ago, and it seems that the demand in Britain is still rising, Annabelle's uncle has begun to suggest to her father whether to re-establish the plantation, you must know that several large slave owners, including the Annabelle family, in fact, in terms of the area of the plantation are not more than the Sheffield family.

Sheffield and their plantation owners, although they are not as rich as Claire and Olange's families, this is because Claire's family has developed in many aspects, and the benefits of the plantation alone are not necessarily the opponents of Sheffield's family. According to Sheffield's understanding, the largest slave owners in New Orleans should be the Holden family, who occupied 8,000 acres of land on five plantations and owned more than 500 black slaves.

"If only my plantation could be the size of the Holden family!" Sheffield said with some envy, "Three of Holden's plantations are cotton plantations, and the income this time is several times that of mine......"

"Edward, your ambition is not small!" Annabelle pursed her lips and smiled, "Although the Holden family is nominally ranked fifth, but from the perspective of slave owners, their family is the real first slave owner, I heard that the Holden family is going to change all plantations into cotton plantations, it seems that the income from cotton really makes many people unable to sit still, no wonder my uncle asked my father to reopen the plantation, you must know that our family's plantation has been closed for more than ten years, and I was ......not born at that time."

"You seem to know a lot about the Holden family!" Sheffield watched as a worker pulled out a large cotton bale and was trapped on a crane on a freighter, and then bales of cotton were weighed and loaded onto the ship, and a boulder in his heart fell to the ground.

"The Holden family has been busy harvesting cotton lately, and it seems that three black slaves are tired to death! Their overseer came to the slave market yesterday and left some of our family with some able-bodied black slaves! When this time is over, the head of the family will come back from a trip to Europe and will personally choose it! Annabelle said indifferently, "It's just some business dealings, our family and Claire and Olange's family are not simple plantation owners after all, and there will be more contact with other plantations......"

Understand! A shopping activity, Sheffield was chatting with Annabelle in bitter pleasure, and Westin, who was holding a pen and paper nearby, looked back at the two people under the warehouse from time to time, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "If you want to say that Edward is really much better than Uncle Sheffield in terms of laziness, or am I ...... my life."

"But when it comes to buying and selling slaves, I have some ideas!" Sheffield suddenly remembered the matter of making a wedding dress for Annabelle's family, in line with the idea that they were all doing their best for the great cause of slavery in the south, the stronger the power of the slave owners, the more stable Sheffield, as a vested and interested person, would live, so now is not the time to harm others and benefit themselves.

"Oh, are you going to get involved in the slave market?" Annabelle's voice instantly became a lot colder, although she and Sheffield got along quite well, but she had to make a clear position on this matter, otherwise she would not be able to stop her father from suppressing the Sheffield family, and it would be best for the two families to be safe.

Sheffield couldn't laugh or cry, although the slave trade is now profitable, but it can't last long, as long as the Civil War is together, the North, which has a superior navy, can easily strangle New Orleans, and the shipping routes are strangled, and the slave trade naturally can't be carried out.

"I'm just proposing, you know the war we have with Mexico right now!" Sheffield said in a very serious tone, "To be honest, according to my father's letter, although the war will not end in a short time, it is because of the inconvenience of Mexican supplies, and our victory is certain......"

"That's a good thing!" Annabelle's education from her father was the same as that of other southern slave owners, and she was greatly rejoiced to learn that the war was going well.

"Listen to me!" Sheffield reluctantly shut up the girl and continued, "The land of the Lone Star Republic is very large, and it is a very developed place, I believe that our senators in the south must turn it into a slave state, and the price of slaves will definitely increase at that time, understand?" So now you have a chance in the slave market......"

Annabelle kept nodding her head like a puppet, and her clenched little fists couldn't hide her excitement, "If we start hoarding slaves from now on, our family can make a big profit in the future, and I want to tell my father the news......"

Sheffield grabbed the excited Annabelle and told her about the time of the war, what time period she needed to cut into, etc., Annabelle kept nodding, "Yes, there are not enough black slaves in the country, my father will contact the smuggling ship to go to the Ivory Coast to catch ......"

"Of course!" Sheffield kept cheering Annabelle and said confidently, "The flower of freedom needs blood to be watered...... I have to say that Sheffield just likes this feeling of embarrassment.

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