Early the next morning, while Tangning was sleeping soundly with Caroline and Isabel, his former maid knocked on the door and reported: "Master, Mr. Frick sent someone to invite you to his place, saying it is important.
I need to discuss the matter with you."
Frick's manor is much larger than Tangning's, and the various landscapes and layouts are very elegant and exquisite. However, Tangning knows that this is just a superficial phenomenon. The residential area behind Frick's manor is basically built like an armed fortress.
, the color of the steel inside is extremely rich, and it is said that this armed fortress can even withstand a small military attack. It is also said that the reason why the Frick family decided to set the manor here was because it was originally a French colonial stronghold, so it was
The Rick family just bought it and turned it into their current base camp.
When I walked into the conference room, I saw that all the large estate owners in the New Orleans area were here, but it was noisy at the moment. Everyone was chatting around, until the owner of the estate, Frick, came to the main seat.
He coughed: "Gentlemen, gentlemen, please be quiet!" Then it became quiet.
"Gentlemen, I called everyone here today because those hateful, damn, Yangki thieves who deserve to go to hell are here again, and this time their scale is quite large." Frick said bitterly.
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The word "Yankee" has two meanings in the United States and abroad. When used abroad, it generally refers to all Americans. When used domestically, it refers to Americans in New England and some northern states... and the Civil War
Before and after, American southerners collectively referred to northerners who went to the south, whether they were politicians, businessmen, soldiers, or lawyers, as "Yankees."
"Yankee Thief? Are those Underground Railroad villains coming to kidnap our slaves again?" A fat slave owner named Carter sitting next to Tangning asked hurriedly.
Frick nodded and replied: "Yes, they are the gang of villains from the Underground Railroad. And it is said that they will send out a large number of people this time to abduct black slaves from us on a large scale."
The Underground Railroad refers to some caring people in the North who were determined to liberate black slaves in the early days of the Civil War, save them from the control of slave owners, and come to live in the free world in the North. Because the routes they led the black slaves to escape were very secret.
, so it is called the underground railway.
The initial intention of this organization was good, but in the later period, the joining of many capitalists made this action with a noble purpose become more utilitarian, because the emerging northern factories were in urgent need of workers, and the existing northern factories
The number of workers is simply not enough, so that many workers work 16 to 18 hours a day. This is due to the cruelty of capitalist exploitation on the one hand, and the real shortage of labor force on the other. Therefore, they are in urgent need of as many as 100,000 workers from the south.
There are millions of black slaves, and luring them over has become the easiest way. Anyway, they can only work in factories. But for the southern plantation owners, this kind of behavior is naked robbery. You know
They paid for the black slaves. If you abduct the black slaves, who will make up for their losses? Therefore, the southern plantation owners hated the Underground Railroad.
Hearing the news, the big slave owners present couldn't help but started talking. Frick had to knock on the table again and shouted: "Don't mess up, everyone. I called everyone here this time to discuss a countermeasure to deal with these abominable gang."
The gay guy."
"What else is there to discuss? Since these gangsters dare to come and snatch our slaves, why should we be polite to them? If we catch them, we will kill them all. This time we must give these gangsters a good blow.
Be arrogant, lest they really think that we in the south are all gentlemen." Fatty Carter said bitterly.
A tall and thin man sitting opposite him snorted coldly: "What you said is simple, Carter. If we can catch them, who among us can keep them? But the question now is where can you catch them?"
go?"
Carter's face turned red when he was told this, because he had never thought about how to catch these gay guys before he spoke, but fortunately, he suddenly had an idea and came up with a way, so he said: "We, we
You can send someone to keep an eye on our black slaves. Since those Yang guys want to abduct them, they must make contact with them. As soon as they come into contact, we will arrest them. What about this method?"
Frick thought about it for a moment, then frowned and said: "Carter, this is also a way, but we are too passive in this way, and we probably won't catch many people this way. The most thorough way is to kill them like this
All the strongholds of the underground railway will be removed, completely destroying this underground passage."
"But these guys are so cunning. We haven't discovered where this passage is for so many years." Carter said with a sad face.
Seeing that no one had any good solutions, Frick sighed and said: "I do have a solution here. Let's see if it works!"
Naturally, no one would object to what Frick said, so Frick paused and continued: "Actually, my idea is very simple. Since these members of the Underground Railroad want to abduct our black slaves, instead of passively defending, we should always
If you are always on guard against them, why not find an opportunity to send them a group of black slaves..."
Before he could finish speaking, the big fat Carter interrupted: "Mr. Frick, there is no reason why you should take the initiative to give things to thieves if you are afraid of thieves coming to steal things. Wouldn't that make us southerners too fearful?"
Is it done?"
At this time, Tangning stood up and said, "Uncle Carter, please listen to Mr. Frick. I believe Mr. Frick's plan is definitely not that simple!"
PS: Several hundred words have been deleted from the previous chapter and this chapter. I will post them to the group when I have time...