New Shun 1730

The economic structure of North America determines that the slave issue is a killer. The South, which was originally very opposed to the union of states, taxation, and the maintenance of the army, had to consider compromise once Dashun used slaves as an excuse.

Dashun attacked the two plantations just to express an attitude.

The real threat is hidden behind the attitude.

The economic structure of North America at this time is that the South and the North are in a mutually dependent relationship.

The South holds slaves.

The North sells slaves.

The manufacturing industry in the South cannot develop because it is relatively rich, and the average assets of rural families are much higher than those in the North.

The sugarcane wine in the North is a hard currency for exchanging slaves.

Of course, after the Treaty of Utrecht-Madrid, Britain has the monopoly on Atlantic slaves. But now, Dashun has fought to Gibraltar, and France has been stuck in Senegal. In this case, Britain's slave trade in the future is equivalent to being cut off by Dashun.

In the past, the East India Company could still use the "cloth of sorrow", that is, blue oriental cotton cloth, to exchange slaves.

Now, Dashun does not buy slaves, but sells cloth. Apart from sugarcane wine, North America and Britain can't come up with anything decent to exchange for slaves.

Besides, as long as Dashun shows a little opposition to slaves, it means that the slave trade may be intercepted. At that time, the price of slaves will soar, and the plantations will feel that their assets have increased in value.

However, seeing that Dashun is about to break the British navigation regulations, the dream of free trade and selling tobacco and other things directly to Europe without going through a port of trade will come true. At this time, the price of slaves is not a good thing.

The people in the southern states also feel very aggrieved.

I can't help thinking that you Dashun want a demarcation line and a buffer zone, but it's not us plantations that cross the border. Why don't you fight those Scottish horse thieves and Irish shepherds? Why affect the slave trade?

But in the face of their grievances, Dashun said it very clearly.

It is very difficult and costly for Dashun to send troops directly to the Appalachian Mountains.

After calculation, it is better to hijack slave ships in West Africa, force southern plantations to pay for soldiers, and then use North American soldiers to suppress North American settlers.

In short, Dashun means that they hope that the elites of the thirteen states will serve as a territorial officer for Dashun, and they will ensure the existence of the buffer zone and the Appalachian Mountain watershed as the border.

Because the really rich people live in the east. And only the rich people, such as big businessmen, slave owners, and big landowners, can speak well, and they are the real ruling class of the thirteen states.

If you fight desperately, you can't make money. Because Dashun is really capable of plunging the east into a depression.

If you don't fight desperately, you people will either think about asking the people to collect taxes or pay for it yourself. In the end, it is definitely more economical for you to pay to suppress the settlers in the west than for Dashun to cut off your trade.

Just like the Opium War in history, the high profits of the opium trade came from the fact that the Qing Dynasty still had a certain degree of ruling ability and could temporarily ban local tobacco planting.

The reason is the same.

Dashun believed that the Thirteen States were too loose. Now the Thirteen States must have a stable united government with a certain degree of ruling ability, so as to be able to ban crossing the Appalachian Mountains.

This ruling ability includes three basic abilities: taxation, raising troops, and law enforcement.

If you don't have it, you should get it out quickly. Franklin's previous Albany Conference proposal is used as a blueprint. After some modifications, you can discuss it again.

This kind of thing is definitely not as simple as having a meal together. Get together in the morning and talk it out in the afternoon.

Dashun also pursued a strategy of fighting and talking at the same time.

In mid-April, the elite engineers of Dashun near the Delaware River had already broken camp and boarded the ship. They agreed with the French to wait for the thaw of the estuary of the St. Lawrence River, and then began to head north to help France repel the British army in the north and recapture Louisburg.

By the end of May, the first batch of merchant ships mobilized by Dashun had arrived in Philadelphia.

After docking in Senegal to replenish food, these merchant ships arrived in Philadelphia along the classic route of the triangular trade.

As a result, the whole of North America presented a magical scene that seemed like postmodernism.

Legally, Dashun and Britain are now at war.

In fact, they are also fighting. Moreover, there are many militias from various states in the army attacking the north and northwest, especially Virginia and Massachusetts. In other words, in fact, Dashun is also at war with North America.

However, on the other hand, both sides are happy.

The north fights the north.

The south should do business as usual.

Even because Britain's naval power in West Africa lost its fulcrum, France and the Netherlands regained the initiative in the slave trade.

Originally, this was a trade monopolized by Britain, especially the transportation of slaves to Spanish colonies. This was the post-war pattern of the War of Spanish Succession, which was signed and recognized by Spain. Even though Spain spent 1.5 million taels to buy back the slave trade monopoly at the end of the Jenkins's Ear War, the British had more merchant ships and Spain's trade control was too complicated, so Britain still controlled the initiative in the slave trade.

But now, it's different.

The French slave trade itself is also an officially authorized semi-monopoly. Although the Netherlands is loose in management and has suffered a disastrous defeat in several previous wars against Britain.

However, with the Dashun going to Southeast Asia and cooperating with Dutch commercial capital, the Dutch slave trade has also been "flourishing" in recent years.

So, in the north, the North American militia and the British regular army are fighting fiercely with the Chinese, French, Indian tribes, and Catholic militia.

In the south, the songs are still sung and the dances are still performed. The French slave ships are unprecedentedly welcomed by the southern states to make up for the shortage of slaves after the British army's maritime trade was cut off.

A meeting is being held in Philadelphia.

The southern plantation owners are sensitive to the smell and know that Dashun will definitely abolish the British Navigation Regulations. From this, it can be seen that their plantation industry is about to make a fortune. There is no longer a restriction on the "Listed Commodities Act" for trade, which means that they are about to usher in a great development in the southern and central European markets.

So the southern plantation owners are rapidly expanding the scale of plantations and increasing the number of slaves.

It's not just a gamble on the future, but also because it's a fight for the "pricing power" of slaves.

When the fight started, both sides hurt each other... Although the North American group and the African group have never read a serious economics textbook, it doesn't mean that they don't know the price trend.

The plantation owners in North America, the Caribbean and other regions all thought at the beginning: Look, the two sides are fighting fiercely, and it has become a world war. The slave trade must be affected. So, is it easy to draw a conclusion? The price of slaves will plummet?

Because the two sides are fighting fiercely, the slave trade has been affected, and a large number of slaves are in stock. Doesn't that mean that the price must fall?

This truth can be fully understood without reading an economics textbook.

However, they never expected that those slave sellers in Africa, although they had never read an economics textbook, actually knew to unite and raise prices!

A large number of slave suppliers and chiefs did not choose to roll up or lower prices with each other, but instead contacted each other to reduce the supply of slaves and increase the selling price of slaves.

These slave suppliers found that with the outbreak of the First World War, the price of grain continued to fall. Although it was counterintuitive, it was the reality.

A large amount of commercial grain in North America had nowhere to go because of the British landlords' protection of grain prices and the Chinese and French hijacking of ships.

What North America urgently needed was currency, slaves, and sugar.

In the New England region, the central region, and especially in states such as Connecticut that grow wheat and corn, they had no other industries and could not grow anything else.

A large number of self-employed farmers, or small farms with family slaves, often had three or four hundred acres of land. They wanted to exchange grain for things they used, of course, just money.

This made a large amount of grain look for export directions, and the slave trade in West Africa was an important market.

And local slave traders and suppliers found that when the price of grain was low, they kept slaves like pigs and did not sell them, controlled the shipment volume, raised the price, and made higher profits.

For example, get a ship of grain and let the slaves make a few broken straw houses with banana leaves. When eating, they knocked on the basin and threw food into the slave pen. The mortality rate was not very high. If you calculate the price increase, it is actually higher than the original rate of return.

By the way, they can also give birth to little slaves, and the little slaves can also be sold for money, just like selling old sows and piglets in Dashun.

Today, the Dashun Navy, the French Navy, and the British Navy are squatting in the north and south of the strait to compete with each other.

If it really compares privateers, France is not bad.

As another important slave trader, Portugal has passed the great development period of Brazilian gold mines in the past few years, and the output of gold mines has begun to shrink. Even though Portugal is now at war with France and Spain, slave traders still take the initiative to contact France, hoping that France will help sell slaves.

In this case, France quickly gained the initiative in the Atlantic slave trade, so this magical scene was created.

The north is fighting with France.

The ports in the south are open, welcoming French slave ships to sell slaves.

Behind the slave trade, there is a bigger problem of the French industry.

If someone thinks about it, they will consider, how did France complete the slave trade?

France also produces wine, but it produces brandy and other wines. Will West Africa need such a large amount of brandy?

West Africa wants wine, but it wants rum, but rum production is suppressed in France because it wants to protect its own grape planting industry.

Guns for slaves? France does produce guns, but it is impossible to trade so many slaves with guns alone.

If you think about this step, it is easy to think that France mostly uses Chinese cotton cloth as the main trading commodity in the slave trade.

Indeed, France has a cotton cloth ban.

However, France also has comprador groups and slave trade groups.

Through their disdainful efforts, these people successfully opened a gap.

Of course, historically, this gap has been opened since 1729. It is allowed to build a factory for imitation cotton cloth in Nantes.

However, because the technology is too poor, [Africans do not need to verify, just smell it, they can distinguish the poor imitation cotton cloth in Nantes].

Historically, by 1759, due to the outbreak of war, the amount of cotton cloth flowing from the Netherlands and Britain into France decreased.

At that time, the molasses trade between New England in North America and the French Caribbean Islands developed rapidly, causing the demand for slaves in the Caribbean to rise rapidly.

French slave traders could not exchange New England rum for slaves; and because of the war blockade, they could not exchange cotton cloth for slaves.

Therefore, in 1759, the French Ministry of Finance took the lead in approving the production of cotton cloth, but it had to be "produced only for the purpose of foreign trade." Because of the external blockade, the French cotton cloth manufacturing industry has developed rapidly since the great blockade of 59.

However, now, at this moment, the situation is completely different.

The blockade of France was not as successful as it was in history. The local cotton cloth manufacturing industry in France was not supported by slave traders and merchants. Historically, the reason they supported it was that they urgently needed cotton cloth to sell slaves. Even if the quality was inferior, it was better than nothing. Therefore, the anti-comprador and self-production movement led by the Ministry of Finance gave rise to the rapid development of cotton cloth production in Nantes, Rouen and other places. But now, slave traders and comprador merchants do not need to develop local manufacturing, but prefer to use Dashun cotton cloth directly.

Things are always like this. War, hostility, embargo... The result is often to destroy the merchant groups of the country, but to make the local manufacturing industry grow.

However, France now has an ally who is a pure commodity export trading country. This ally does not impose an embargo on France, but has been trying to find partners within France, and gradually opened up a gap from the Nantes export cotton cloth licensed production order in 1729.