Great Food Country, Quicksand City.

Ordinary workers resumed work between the fifth and seventh days of the Lunar New Year.

They are going to continue to build more homes, continue to build desalination plants, massive oil storage tanks, and start building schools.

After the fifteenth five-year period, all the officials returned to work, and the long annual leave was finally completely ended.

Zhu Jingyuan's attention shifted to the matter of "protecting" Morocco.

According to the plan, after the New Year, the Ming Dynasty, the Ottomans, Lucia, Austria, Italy, France, and Spain will send a delegation to persuade Morocco to accept the alliance's plan.

This task should not be difficult, so there is no need for the Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty to send people directly.

There is no need for Zhu Jingyuan, who is in charge of foreign affairs in the West China Sea region, to step in personally.

Let Zhu Jingyuan's staff Lin Zexu take the representatives of the Taixi countries over under the escort of the navy.

When Zhu Jingyuan explained the precautions to Lin Zexu, he received a message from the Jizhou Red Sea South Patrol Fleet.

Gu Rui and Lu Frei, two slave traders, actually traveled thousands of miles from Tianzhu to North Yinzhou to sell slaves.

The two also specially explained that the most high-quality female slaves and tasteless female slaves will be kept for the big food country.

The slaves they sent to Yinzhou were mainly male slaves, and only one-tenth of the number of flavorful middle-class female slaves.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't care about their choice at all, and Zhu Jingyuan didn't have much interest in orchids now.

After all, there are too many orchids in my hands.

Before the age of twenty, I only had two chances a month.

I have twenty-eight orchids, and if each of them is once, it will take fourteen months to pass a round.

The key is also to score points to the two upcoming Ming concubines.

But Gu Rui and Lu Frey's behavior aroused Zhu Jingyuan's curiosity.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't know what was happening in Yin Zhou.

Certain American and British investors speculated about the Murno.

Ming merchants traded slaves from the Antilles to Yinzhou in the north.

The sale of his own slaves by the owner of the Tessie plantation.

Some American and British businessmen lost all their money and eventually jumped off the building.

None of this has anything to do with Zhu Jingyuan's current responsibilities.

The relevant institutions of the Ming Dynasty may have known some information, but they did not report it to Zhu Jingyuan.

However, Zhu Jingyuan can apply for relevant information.

So he sent a message directly to the headquarters of the West Mill to ask for the key developments in the slave market around the world.

The information was sent one after another.

Because it was sent by telegram, the content was very brief, but the coverage was very large.

It's not just about Yin Zhou, but also about Mozhou and Taixi.

Changes in the Moren slave market have affected most of the world!

The route from Nanyinzhou to Mozhou is basically no longer visible to the Moren slaves.

It shows that the owners of those slaves are ready to be sent to North Yinzhou.

Not only that, the patrol fleet around Mozhou has successively searched and captured several smuggling and slave trading ships.

There are those sold from West Mo Zhou to North Yin Zhou, and there are also those sold from East Mo Zhou to West Mo Zhou and Taixi.

There was also a fleet of passenger transporters, who deceived a small number of Moxies who had the status of free men in the Antilles and Southern Yinzhou into boarding ships, and then sold them as slaves to the United States.

The most outrageous thing is that someone sold ink slaves from Yinzhou to the Taixi continent.

Although the slave trade to Tessie was very small, it was probably a simple attempt.

Because both England and France were forbidden slaves, especially France, foreign slaves were automatically granted the status of free men.

But this behavior deserves a high degree of vigilance, which makes the Moxicans complete the triangular trade.

The pieces of information in front of him made Zhu Jingyuan quite stunned.

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously wanted to order that the illegal slave trafficking and smuggling should be intensified, and at the same time, other slave trafficking activities that were on the edge of the law should be directly prohibited.

But the thought was immediately restrained.

In the end, it was only a request to intensify efforts to ban the smuggling of Mozhou to the outside world, and if the slave traders did not obey the order or resisted, they could directly sink the slave ship.

The slave trade in other regions will not be left alone for the time being.

At present, the largest flow of Mo slaves is still from the mainland of South Yinzhou and the islands of Central Yinzhou, to the southern part of the United States in North Yinzhou.

High enough profits for the slave trade to cross multiple regimes' spheres of influence.

Whether it is a large ship calling at a port by sea, a small boat smuggling by river, or even crossing the land border, it is all a way.

This can concentrate the ink people in Yinzhou as much as possible.

The motivation of the people involved is very high.

If the original slave owners and the Ming fleet were allowed to repatriate the Mo people to Mozhou, the enthusiasm would be very low.

It can take many years to complete and will leave a lot of remnants.

But now, this kind of high-profit-driven slave trade is estimated to last less than two or three years, and the Yinzhou Mexican people will complete their gathering in southern America.

This will further catalyze the North-South contradiction in the United States.

Some things are accumulated over a long period of time and are caused by objectively existing factors.

The accelerated development of the United States cannot eliminate the contradictions between the North and the South, and may even increase them.

Because the direction of development in the north is industrialization, there is a need for "free" cheap labor.

The southern ones still retain a plantation economy that enslaves a large number of laborers.

Slaves were used in the South, which were personal property according to the law, and there was no way to work in the North.

Historically, the contradictions between the North and the South in the United States did not suddenly appear before the Civil War.

It has existed since the beginning of independence, even since the colonial period.

In the decades since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two sides have been fighting over the rules.

The decades-long conflict finally erupted in the American Civil War.

In 1807, the United States legislated to prohibit the importation of black slaves, and the federal fleet would attack slave ships at sea.

But there are still more and more black slaves in the United States.

There are many people in the slave state, and they are engaged in slave breeding, just like raising cattle and sheep.

The president who presided over the passage of the Slave Import Ban Act was Thomas Jefferson, the founding father of the United States.

Jefferson once wrote to Washington to share his experience in slave management, illustrating his important discovery:

The frequency of the young slave girl's birth of children every two years brought him a rate of return of 4% per year.

Since the currency was basically anchored to gold at that time, coupled with the rapid development of the industrial revolution, there was basically no inflation, and the yield of 4% was not low.

When the importation of slaves was banned, the price of ordinary slaves soared threefold.

The total value of the Jefferson's more than 600 slaves would rise from 30,000 to 100,000 pounds.

The profits of the slave breeding industry have also skyrocketed.

Everything is a benefit.

Jefferson himself left six mulatto-white offspring.

The mother of these children was the dowry of Jefferson's original wife, a mixed-race slave girl, Sally.

Sally was born to Jefferson's father-in-law and his slave girl, the half-sister of Jefferson's wife, and theoretically Jefferson's sister-in-law.

Mixed-race slave girls were very popular at the time.

If you don't have thick lips and slightly whiter skin, you can go to auction alone, and the price is at least three times that of a male slave in the prime of life.

From 1807 to the ban on the importation of slaves, until the American Civil War for more than 50 years, all the new slaves in the United States were bred.

Due to the predominance of mixed-race female slaves, due to the small amount of care or trading and gifts that the male owners who gave birth to mixed-race female slaves, the survival rate of mixed-race ink slaves in the United States was many times higher than that of pure-blood ink slaves.

The end result is that the American ink people are generally much whiter than the native ink people in Mozhou......

Zhu Jingyuan didn't know if Jefferson in this life had a mixed-race aunt named Sally as a slave.

But the slave-breeding industry was mostly in business.

In this lifetime, the industry in the United States is more developed than in history.

But the historical northern region, the Great Lakes, is now French.

As a result, the industrial capacity of French Yinzhou was stronger, and the proportion of plantations in British Yinzhou was larger.

Internally, the power of the South is now stronger than it was historically.

That's why it's hard to maintain balance now.

Now the Ming merchants and Spanish and Portuguese slave owners transported the slaves of the entire central and southern Yinzhou to the southern part of the United States.

The current equilibrium may be upset.

But where and where will the contradiction erupt?

Jefferson's gang of existing slave owners, slave owners who advocated the use of breeding slaves, had the most direct threat to their interests, and they should not tolerate it.

The North may not tolerate more labor becoming slaves in the South either.

Britain began to abolish slavery, and at the same time banned the import of Tianzhu slaves to Yinzhou.

Britain's mainland relationship with the United States is also on the fringe.

Zhu Jingyuan thought deeply for a long time, and then made his own decision:

Allow Gu Rui's two slave traders to go to Yinzhou.

This matter is not important at all, but what impact will the new source of slaves have on the already chaotic situation in the United States?

After the order was issued, Zhu Jingyuan sent Lin Zexu away.

Lin Zexu will first travel to Tunisia to meet with representatives from other countries, and then go to Morocco together.

Zhu Jingyuan began to write a report to the Beijing Division.

wrote directly to his father Zhu Jianyan.

Write down your thought process and give your own advice at the end.

First of all, prepare for war in North Yinzhou.

It is necessary to remind the Military Aircraft Department to continue to increase troops in North Yinzhou and make war plans in advance.

The Ministry of Household was reminded that it would continue to increase the scale of migration in North Yinzhou, and it must be an armed migration model.

Xintianfu should continue to expand the army and expand the scale of the Yin servant army.

Panama, Texas, Florida, and the Central Inzhou Islands all have to increase the size of their garrisons.

The chaos in the United States is not necessarily a war of independence that has been postponed for 30 years.

It may be the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo-American War.

North Yinzhou may be a mess.

However, the defensive operation of the Ming Dynasty must also be controlled.

I couldn't let go of the force.

There can be no more fuse for a new world war.

The Ming Dynasty was only preparing to seize Egypt and Nantianzhu, but as a result, the pressure of the countries around the Great Qin Sea broke through the critical point, and then an anti-Ming alliance came out.

The crackdown on bandits in Nanyinzhou is still going on, and it may take a few more years to complete.

They can be used as a reason to continue to increase troops and expand troops in Yinzhou.

The chaotic situation in the Central Inchau Islands caused by the slave trade can also be used as a reason.

He could even communicate directly with the British and French through the League of Nations to remind them that the situation in North Yinzhou was too dangerous.

The immigrants of the Ming Dynasty needed the protection of soldiers, which was the reason why the Ming Dynasty increased its troops to Northern Yinzhou.

It was suggested that they also increase their troops in case the situation in North Yinzhou got out of control.

(End of chapter)

Source: Chapter 196 of the previous chapter Someone jumped off the building