As usual, Elizabeth was in her home, leaning against the window and reading a book quietly in the sunshine, writing something on it with a pen from time to time. Suddenly there was the sound of wheels and horse hooves outside the door.
, she immediately put down her pen and account book.
Looking up, he saw Zhu Xianhai getting out of the car. These days, he always leaves early and comes home late. He is rarely at home and doesn't know what he is busy with.
After thinking about it, she took a deep breath, opened the window and said.
"Hey Steven, are you free tonight?"
What?
Looking up at Elizabeth, half of her body exposed from the window, Zhu Xianhai felt that this scene seemed a bit familiar, as if he had seen it in Water Margin.
Is this a date?
No, this is just a normal exchange between neighbors. According to Elizabeth, this is just a slight expression of her feelings as a neighbor.
All right!
Can't think too much.
Although it was just a dinner for two people, it was very sumptuous, and red wine was also indispensable. It was indeed a pleasure to eat steak and drink red wine in the company of beautiful women.
Elizabeth sat opposite him, looking at each other across the table, and the light fragrance of her body always hit her nose involuntarily.
But recently, Zhu Xianhai's thoughts have been a little confused and he has no choice.
More than a thousand people need to be accommodated!
Lights, lights swaying in the restaurant.
Staring at the dim light, Zhu Xianhai became distracted again.
Oil lamp!
In this era, electric lamps have not been invented yet. Oil lamps are used all over the world. What are the most commonly used lamps now?
Of course it's whale oil.
Since the founding of the United States, the whaling industry has developed rapidly due to the demand for lighting. The commercial value of whale blubber is comparable to "bio-oil", which directly promotes the development of the U.S. economy. Now it has reached its golden age - more than 700 fishing boats
A fleet of whale ships traversed the oceans, and American whale oil lit up the world.
As the demand for whale oil gradually expands, the supply of whale oil has become increasingly tight. The outbreak of the Civil War next year will become a catalyst for the skyrocketing price of whale oil in the United States. Since a large number of ships were expropriated during the civil war,
The supply of whale oil was becoming increasingly tight and almost unsustainable.
Closely accompanied by this is the crazy rise in the price of whale oil, so that many people can no longer even afford lighting facilities such as whale oil lamps.
It was at this time that a new industry of refining kerosene from petroleum to replace sperm whale oil for lighting emerged and quickly became popular.
The consumption of kerosene increased rapidly in the following years, which led to the rapid development of the oil mining and smelting industry. It was during this process that the world's first billionaire, Rockefeller, emerged!
And now...the oil industry is just getting started!
If he gets involved in the oil industry now, not only will he be able to make a steady profit, it will even allow him to build an oil empire.
Accommodating more than a thousand people couldn't be simpler or easier.
But certainly not at first!
Elizabeth looked at the man in front of her, and a woman's intuition told her that this man was a little absent-minded today.
Did you do something wrong?
"Steven, Steven, what are you thinking about?"
Elizabeth's beautiful face tilted slightly and asked with concern.
Only then did Zhu Xianhai realize that he had been distracted for who knows how long.
"Sorry, I was thinking about something."
"Did you encounter any trouble? Can you tell me about it?"
Being stared at by her beautiful eyes, even though Zhu Xianhai wanted to hide it, he thought about it and told it truthfully.
"My God, even slaves in Brazil who are indentured servants here and there will not suffer such torture, those damn Brazilian slave owners!"
When criticizing the cruelty of Brazilian slave owners, Elizabeth said again.
"Throughout the Americas, anyone with a conscience is well aware of the sins of Brazilian slave owners, but those people don't care about it at all. Do you want to save them? How to save them?"
"Um……"
Zhu Xianhai paused and said.
"It should be a contract to buy them out. If they don't want to, maybe it can be resolved through legal channels."
Of course, this is impossible. The law works, so what’s the use of guns?
Tooth for tooth, blood for blood!
"I hope, I hope the judges in Brazil still have a sense of conscience."
Elizabeth said with some uncertainty.
"But you have to be mentally prepared. Those judges will most likely not support you. In South America, everyone knows the Brazilians very well. Brazil cannot do without slaves. Even now, they are still capturing indigenous people in the rainforest.
People are slaves. They have not banned or abolished slavery for a long time because of the shortage of labor force. Especially ten years ago, in 1850, under the pressure of international public opinion, Brazil announced a ban on the slave trade. There was a lack of input of subsequent slave labor force.
This has intensified the labor shortage in Brazil. Therefore, they can only do everything possible to introduce immigrant labor to fill the vacancies. I think your compatriots are such victims. In this case, it may be difficult for their judges to support it.
When the time comes for your prosecution, what are you going to do?"
Putting down the red wine glass in his hand, Zhu Xianhai was silent for a while and then said.
"If the law cannot solve this problem, I think I will take extra-legal means. I think no one has the right to enslave others. If God doesn't stop them - then I will!"
"Even if it means sacrificing your own life?"
Zhu Xianhai didn't speak, and he hadn't even simulated it until now. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but that he didn't dare to face the results. He was afraid that he would shrink from the results.
Elizabeth smiled sweetly and looked at Zhu Xianhai with a bit more admiration in her eyes. Women love to fantasize, especially European women. They always imagine a perfect man like a knight, and Elizabeth is no exception.
And of course this knight is going to punish good and promote evil and defeat evil.
The slave traders must be the evil party. Correspondingly, Zhu Xianhai is naturally the knight. Although he knows that the other party is powerful, he still desperately wants to challenge the other party, just for justice!
"Actually, compared to my own life, I am more concerned about what to do after rescuing them? There are so many people, where should I place them..."
Zhu Xianhai frowned and said helplessly.
"If this problem is not solved, what can we do even if we save them? Are we going to wait there to die?"
This chapter has been completed!