I don’t know if Tang Ning’s worship of the Dragon King these past few days had an effect. This black cloud actually stopped when it was about to reach Tang Ning’s plantation, forming a magical "rain across the road". Not only was Tang Ning’s plantation not affected by
Affected by the heavy rain, but because it was raining nearby, a lot of cool breeze blew in, which made the black slaves and supervisors who were working in the bright sun a lot cooler, and at the same time they were secretly amazed in their hearts.
Not only that, during the picking time in the next few days, we did not encounter much rain, only two light rains. However, even so, many black slaves and supervisors fell ill because of picking in the rain, but relatively
Generally speaking, this loss is considered small.
The next step after picking cotton is to sell it. Because American cotton now has a near-monopoly, British businessmen come to the South to purchase cotton, and the plantation owners are very arrogant towards the British businessmen, so they let the South
Congressmen had the illusion that they could control everything with cotton, so much so that South Carolina Congressman James Henry Hammond delivered the famous speech "Cotton is God" in front of the state Congress, arrogantly declaring: "There is no cotton in the world yet.
If any big country dares to go to war with cotton, cotton will be king!"
Even during the Civil War, Charleston's "Mirror" made this statement: "We will delay every cotton mill in Britain and France going bankrupt, and we will not give up until they support our independence! Let's see there is no cotton supply in three years.
, what will the world look like?”
New Orleans is no exception. When all the estates were about to harvest, Frick sent people to invite the owners of the major estates to his house for a meeting. The topic was naturally the price of cotton. This kind of meeting would be held every year because everyone wanted to unify.
The price is sold to the outside world, so as to ensure the interests of everyone.
When they arrived at the venue, before the meeting officially started, the fat Carter said to Tangning with an envious look on his face: "Tony, you are so lucky this year. It seems that it doesn't rain much where you are!"
"Yes, my cotton has been soaked by the heavy rain!" Thin William agreed.
"You won't let your black slaves harvest the cotton when it rains, so you can just watch the cotton being soaked?" Carter sneered.
William sighed and said: "Nonsense, who can watch helplessly, but those damn black slaves were too slow, and they didn't take much away at all!"
"The slowness of the black slave's movements means that your whip is not strong enough! Look how I picked all the cotton back!" Carter said proudly.
"But I heard that more than ten of your black slaves died, so the money will be less?" William retorted.
Just when Carter wanted to refute, Frick said loudly: "Everyone, be quiet!"
Everyone still respected Frick's authority and slowly became quiet. Then Frick said: "The most difficult harvest of the year is finally over, but because of the heavy rain this year,
Everyone's losses are not small..."
Before Frick could finish his words, William interjected: "Carter has not lost anything. He has picked all the cotton. This is what he said himself just now!"
Carter immediately retorted: "Who said I have no losses? I killed more than ten black slaves, so that's not money?"
Frick stretched out his hand and pressed it: "Don't make any noise, listen to me first. In order to make up for everyone's losses, and there is also news from Richmond, the price of cotton this year has increased by half. What do you think?"
Naturally, no one had any objection to the price increase. Only Tangning raised her hand and asked, "Can those British businessmen accept such a price increase?"
Carter interjected: "What else can they do except accept it? Only we, the United States, can provide them with sufficient cotton now. As long as we don't raise the price too much, they will have no choice but to accept it!"
Frick nodded and agreed: "Carter is right, and our increase is not excessive. We suffered losses due to the heavy rain, so we have no choice but to increase the price. This is also in line with what those Yang guys said about the market.
The rules, right?”
In fact, Tang Ning also knew that even if the price increased, those British businessmen would have to hold their noses and accept it, but they would still leave resentment in their hearts. During the Civil War, people who didn't help you probably had this to vent their resentment.
At this time Frick added: "By the way, one more thing, I heard that there was a candy poisoning case in the UK recently, and many people died, so don't buy British candies yet!"
Tangning knew that what Frick was talking about was the candy poisoning case that happened in Bradford, England some time ago. 21 people died and more than 200 were poisoned. It shocked the whole of Europe!
The cause is actually very absurd. It is not a perverted murderer seeking revenge on society, but a sinister businessman who cut corners and cut corners. This guy often mixes sugar with gypsum powder and always goes to a drugstore to buy gypsum powder.
This time when he went to buy gypsum powder, the owner of the drugstore he often cooperated with was not there, and a new clerk greeted him. Because he couldn't tell directly when buying this kind of thing, he vaguely told the clerk that he wanted one in the corner of the warehouse.
The contents of the barrels happened to be two barrels in the corner of the warehouse, so the clerk mistakenly took out the arsenic as gypsum powder and sold it to a candy merchant. As a result, 20 kilograms of "arsenic candies" flowed into the market.
, caused this tragedy, after this incident, the UK specially enacted the "Pharmacy Act"!
As for why Frick mentioned this specifically, it’s because Americans have been addicted to sugar since this time. It’s no wonder they have so many fat people. Looking at the way and amount of sugar they eat, even Tang Ning is a heavy person.
Coke patients are a little scared. Fortunately, since he arrived, he has used the excuse of recovering from a serious illness to force the chef to change the taste of cooking, otherwise he would really not be able to eat it at all.
PS: Look at "Let's Start Mystery" produced by Little Box at Penguin. I must admit that the setting is very creative. It gets rid of the past trick of one case and one background, and connects all eleven cases together, which makes it more and more perfect.
It gets better later on, but this also places higher demands on screenwriters. In addition, Penguin is really willing to spend money. Not only did he directly use a building as a real scene, but he also customized rooms according to each case. It was just the loop theater for the first case.
I feel like I have to spend a lot of money.
But it is a pity that the selection of guests was not very successful. Although I like these guests very much, especially the young class leader and Liu Yuning, the problem is that you must first have someone who controls the overall situation. At this time, I can see that Teacher He and