Frick glanced at Tangning appreciatively, and then continued: "What I mean is not to give them a group of black slaves for free, but to select a group of black slaves who are loyal to us and whom we can trust to serve as slaves for the underground railway.
When the members take them away, they can leave us marks along the way, so we can know their route and all their strongholds at once."
Hearing this, Carter couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh, what a good way, what a good way, this is really a good way! Yes, since we can't find their stronghold and route, then we can wait for them to tell us on their own initiative.
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Everyone else also praised Frick's method, but then everyone began to worry about the second step, because although there were many black slaves under their control, there were only a few who were loyal enough. At this time, Frick
He began to accuse: "Hey, I told you a long time ago, don't be so harsh on the black slaves. They are all our money-making tools. You have tortured them all to death, so who will give us work? Are you going to do it yourself?"
Are you growing cotton? And although these black slaves cannot be regarded as human beings, they are all money. A black slave costs three to four hundred US dollars. If you kill one, doesn't it mean that you have lost three to four hundred US dollars? Okay,
Now let’s all join together and see how many there are!”
After discussing how many black slaves each family would send out and joint defense, the meeting was basically over. But at this moment, Tangning suddenly stood up and said, "Actually, we have another method that can fundamentally solve this problem.
Method!"
Because of Tangning's support for him just now, Flick decided to give him a chance: "Oh, little Tangning, please tell me if there is any good way to fundamentally solve this problem!"
Tangning pondered for a moment and then said, "I think so. The reason why these underground railways were able to abduct black slaves away from us is because the black slaves believed their lies and believed that they would live a good life as long as they went to the north.
!But is this really the case? Are the workers of northern factory owners really living a better life than the black slaves on the plantations?"
Tang Ning's words aroused the voices of many slave owners, and they all shouted: "How is this possible? How many workers starve to death or freeze to death every year because they don't have enough to eat, but how can such a thing happen to our black slaves?"
?!"
"There are also those workers who will be fired immediately once they get old or disabled, but how can the black slaves under our hands be like this? Not only will they not be kicked out, but we will also arrange easy jobs for them.
So we are much more conscientious than those factory owners!" (This is true, but it is not that the slave owners are kind-hearted, but that if they don't do this, other young black slaves will see it in the old black slaves.
The shadow of their own future creates a mood of resistance and opposition, so the slave owners have to do this. Of course, in fact, the number of old black slaves is not large, because most of them will not survive to old age...
)
"That's right, and our cotton planting is only busy for a while. It's not like in the factory, where there is no idle time every day, and many people are exhausted to death!"
"..."
After everyone had finished talking, Tangning concluded: "The problem now is that the black slaves don't know these situations, so as long as we make these situations clear to them, I think the black slaves will not be fooled by those on the Underground Railroad."
If you are bewitched, you will naturally not follow them, and then the subway’s conspiracy will fail!”
"But if we tell the black slaves this, can they believe it?" Carter questioned.
"It is true that they may not believe what we say, but we can go to the north to find a few black slaves who were transferred to the north by the underground railway to work in factories, and let them come forward to speak out. Do you think the black slaves will not believe it?" Tang Ning was very busy.
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Frick applauded and praised: "What a great idea, what a great idea. Little Tangning, you are indeed quite capable. No wonder Old Tangning is confident in handing over the family property to you. Okay, I will send people to the north to find a few black slaves like this!"
"Mr. Frick, why don't you give me this task? I just plan to go to New York after the cotton picking is over!" Tangning applied on her own initiative.
"Okay, then I'll leave it to you!"
Back at the manor, Downing ordered Mike and Pascal and the supervisors to step up supervision of the black slaves and strive to complete the cotton picking work as soon as possible. Then he returned to the bedroom to continue training Isabel and Caroline.
After a fierce fight, Tangning smoked a cigar and asked the two girls who were cleaning him up with their little mouths: "Two little darlings, do you want to go to New York with me?"
"You, you mean you want to take us to New York?" Isabel asked in surprise.
Tangning nodded and replied, "Yes, I'm going to New York for two important events in a while, and I may have to stay there for a while, so how can I be away from you two beauties? What? You don't want to go?
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Isabel nodded repeatedly and replied: "I am willing to go, I am willing to go, how can I not want to go? I heard that New York is much more lively than New Orleans, but we didn't expect that the host would take us there, so we are so surprised!"
"New York may indeed be a little more lively, but life is definitely not as comfortable as ours!" In fact, Tang Ning was telling the truth. As a worker at the bottom, it goes without saying that life is difficult; even capitalists and factory owners have a difficult life.
They are not as good as manor owners like Tang Ning, because the cotton business has been so good in the past two years. As long as there is cotton, there is no one to harvest it, so the slave owners in the south are almost making money lying down!
However, the industry in the United States at this time was still in the development stage, at least incomparable to that of the United Kingdom. If it did not formulate a protective tariff policy, let alone seize the market in other countries, it would not even be possible to maintain the domestic market of the United States.
Therefore, for the factory owners in the north, the tariffs on British industrial products must be increased, otherwise they will not be able to survive. However, once the tariffs are increased, the United Kingdom will correspondingly increase the tariffs on cotton. This is something that the southern manor owners cannot tolerate, so
This is the fundamental reason why the Civil War broke out.
"By the way, Master, what are you going to New York for this time?" Caroline asked curiously.
"Looking for someone!" Tangning answered word by word, and then explained: "First we need to find a group of black slaves who were abducted from the south to work as workers in the north, and then we need to find a guy named Henry Goebbels!"
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