"I feel like I'm already greater than all the saints!" Sheffield sneered, "Give thousands of black houses at once, I believe it is the emperor, and these guys with an IQ of less than sixty will also support it!" Building a neighborhood is not about selling the house, it's about renting it out, and it's not about us to build it! It's about getting the blacks to do the labor to provide us with the labor so that we can have their places in the rented houses......"

Sheffield was not prepared to give up ownership of the house at all, and the ownership of the settlement was to remain in his own hands, and if Sheffield found that the land was of greater use to the day, he could justifiably drive out the black freedmen, if he wanted to.

Not only does he want the ownership of the entire land, but even the ownership of the settlement, which is not enough, far from enough! Sheffield did not want to pay for the labor of his side, and it was better to let the black freedmen who were going to settle there pay for the labor to build the house in the name of building a black home, and it can be said that Sheffield did not pay anything but some money for building materials for the time being. Eight hundred acres of land were used to expand the plantation, and not a penny was spent. As for the money for the purchase of brick cement from the brick and stone factories, he was able to collect rent and earn it back after the settlement was established.

The land was free, the houses were built by the black freedmen themselves, and Sheffield had to collect rent after the settlement was built, in fact, Sheffield lost nothing but a few drawings, and got a large piece of land for nothing. No, I owe Taylor Manor a favor to sit in the middle.

Sheffield explained everything back and forth, and it took a long time for Westin to open his mouth wide and say, "That means that you just moved your mouth, and you want to expand the plantation on eight hundred acres of land for nothing!" And thousands of blacks who are in control of their fate? ”

"Why do you only move your mouth? No, no, absolutely not, and two blank sheets of paper and a pencil! Sheffield quickly shook his head and denied it, "What is the most valuable thing in this era?" Talent! I have mercifully established black settlements, but blacks should labor to help me, right? I knew that the economic standard of black people was not good and they could not afford to buy a house, so I kindly proposed to rent a house! It's only fair to be able to live in a house with a little bit of money every month, right? ”

"That's fair!" Westin exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, "If only a few decades ago, you would have been able to trade slaves in Africa without a slave hunting team, just by one mouth......

"Thank you for the compliment, we'll go out together and ask for the price later!" Sheffield accepted the compliment in a reserved manner.

Although there were many good things, Sheffield did not wait long this time, and soon received good news from John Caldwell, the city government allocated the land near the tobacco plantation in the western suburbs to the Sheffield family, and in exchange for the Sheffield plantation had to establish a settlement for black freemen, and the contract and power of attorney were now in Sheffield's hands.

"Get the word out and get black freedmen to go to the tobacco plantations and register! I now want to know how many black slaves with free status exist in our slavery camp! Sheffield approached Henry and gave him the task of counting the population of black freedmen.

In fact, statistics are the responsibility of the government, and it is unfortunate that Sheffield has always been uninterested in the government and has a low sense of trust in the government. However, he did not always distrust the government, and if the government and the capitalists said one thing at the same time but insisted on their own words, Sheffield would certainly give the government unreserved trust in this case.

In any case, Sheffield remembers one sentence in his heart, you can never look down on the discipline of the capitalists, and the capitalists who produce any thing, they sell the same commodity, and that is conscience......

"Okay, leave it to me!" Henry did not doubt Sheffield's determination, as the middle class of white slave owners and black slaves, the number of black freedmen was pitifully small. So they had their own network of contacts, and Henry believed that these blacks could get the news on their own and come to the western suburbs in droves to register.

"One more thing, Edward, should we send black slaves who have reached the age of ten to a slave school to learn how to work on a plantation!" Henry asked, "Normally an eight-year-old slave can work in the fields, and there are already three or four children on this plantation who can afford to work......

"No, you don't have to work in the fields if you're less than twelve! Besides, you can teach it in the plantation without having to send it to a slave school! "Sheffield rejected Henry's words without even thinking about it, what to learn? In terms of China's 5,000-year history of farming, the most important thing in farming is diligence, and the rest can be learned in the process of farming, rather than in school.

Sheffield really wanted to know which unscrupulous slave owner had created this property, and since waking up here, he had been amazed by some unheard of inheritance, like Henry, who had worked in a business that trained slave stewards on the plantation, and arranged for white butlers to go to the plantation to manage the black slaves.

Gossip about the intention to establish a settlement for black freedmen had already circulated, but most of the New Orleans slave owners were very unhappy with the decision, and in their opinion, it was better for black freedmen not to have one! Not to mention the establishment of settlements for them.

This was not the case with the black freedmen, who were discriminated against throughout the city, and the temptation to have a safe place to stay was no less than the abolition of slavery, which was still far away, and their desire to move into a new home was imminent.

"I've never seen so many black people acting together!" Henry looked at the crowd and sighed, "The Holden family is only more than five hundred black slaves!" It's almost a thousand people here now......"

"What is the Holden family? Give me time, I'm sure I'm better than theirs! Sheffield, who was standing side by side, snorted and came to the top of the platform, shouting, "Quiet......"

Sheffield's words were like farts, useless in front of this group of black uncles, and he had no choice but to let Raidon take all the overseers to the stage and stand behind him, and when more than twenty of them all stood together, Sheffield's aura was finally enough to shut up these black people, although the reason why the black people shut up was more because of dozens of rifles pointed at them.

Without a loudspeaker, Sheffield could only rely on the roar, "In view of the fact that black freedmen are always considered black slaves by some people, and are treated as something that should not happen, the government has set aside this land as a black settlement!" However, the government's finances are tight, and no one wants to take over, so it ends up being handed over to our Sheffield Plantation, and we will come up with a sum of money to build a settlement, but we need you as workers to build your own home! ”

In Sheffield's mouth, he completely dressed himself as the protector of black freemen, said a bunch of crown spring nonsense, and walked straight down to let these black people line up, register the population of their homes, and count how many black freedmen there are in New Orleans. The rest is that Henry and the people are busy.

"Henry, there may be black people who haven't received the news yet, you ask these people to pass it on when they go back!" Sheffield gave an order and left here, he still had to find a group of construction workers, without the command of the construction workers, these blacks did not know how to build a house, as for the name of this settlement he shamelessly contributed his surname, it was called Sheffield Town, and these blacks must be grateful.

[Electricity was used for experiments, and there were electric lights at the time, but they were only used on the streets, and there were no household light bulbs!] 】