Fox of France

In May 1801, after a series of battles, the "Free Trade" finally returned to mainland France again. Also arriving with the Liberty was Jean-Jacques Dessalines, representative of the governor of Santo Domingo, Toussaint Louverture. He will go to Paris, first to meet Lucien, Minister of Truth, then Talleyrand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and, in due course, Napoleon the First Consul.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines was originally a slave on a plantation. He didn't read much, but he was very smart. He performed outstandingly in the slave uprising in Santo Domingo, and gradually became the most powerful general under Dusan Louverture. In the original history, when the French Expeditionary Force used negotiations as an excuse to trap Toussaint Louverture, it was Dessalines who continued to lead the rebel army, insisted on fighting the French Expeditionary Force, and finally drove the French from Santo Mingo was expelled and established the world's first independent black republic. And Dessalines also became the first president of this black republic, and later proclaimed himself emperor and became the emperor of Haiti.

It's just that the Haitian emperor's ending was not good. After Haiti became independent, in order to solve the land problem, he adopted the most direct and straightforward method-killing all white people, and then allocating all the land to his supporters.

However, from Haiti's independence to this move, Haiti's trade lines were almost completely broken. Even the British who had always supported him, although they did not launch a trade embargo against Haiti on the surface, in fact, they also withdrew Haiti's trade circle. But the newly-born Haiti is a country that can only grow cash crops, and cannot even be self-sufficient in food. At this time, they can only rely on smuggling, using coffee and cane sugar to exchange food from smugglers at prices far below the international market.

Famine began to spread in Haiti, and many "free blacks" had to flee from the only "free country" in the world that belonged to blacks. In order to ensure the interests of his supporters, increase agricultural production, and maintain the country, Dessalines re-established the plantation system, using severe measures to tie laborers to the contracted places and punish those who escaped and hid Runner's man. That is to say, he turned the majority of free blacks back into serfs, and some blacks who followed him replaced the former white slave owners.

Such reactionary measures naturally aroused the opposition of the majority of the people, so in a rebellion, Dessalines was assassinated and killed. And Haiti has since fallen into division and civil war...

Along with the "Free Trade" arrived in France, in addition to black representatives, there was also a group of white people. It's just that their identities are not representatives of anyone, but prisoners.

These people were all plantation owners of Santo Domingo, or rather, slave owners. Governor Dusan Louverture found some excuses, slandering them and exiled nobles for conspiring to overthrow the Republic.

These accusations are of course pure slander, but it is not a problem to say that these people had a close relationship with the nobles back then, and it is not a problem to find out the problem. Even, as long as there is a need, evidence is not a problem. Whether it is the Ministry of Truth or the Ministry of Public Security, there are ways to produce ironclad evidence that looks absolutely conclusive.

Over the past few years, the ax of the dictatorship has temporarily put away its edge, and many people have begun to forget its existence. But it didn't disappear as everyone felt. When the peaceful era came, it quietly hid in a dark corner, like a knife being put into a gorgeous scabbard. People often only see the various gorgeous patterns on the scabbard, but forget the sharp knife hidden inside.

In these years, the power of dictatorship has not actually weakened, and it is even more pure than Robespierre's era. In Robespierre's time, the Committee of Public Safety was just a big stick. Although it was powerful, it consumed a lot of energy to use, and it was completely incapable of doing any delicate work. But today's dictatorship has evolved into a delicate scalpel. It can be performed more accurately and with less collateral damage.

For example, in the past, the public security committee under Robespierre could not do such high-tech things as creating "iron evidence".

However, most of France will not immediately give a sentence to the "suspects" who are sent, but put them under house arrest first, and then slowly investigate. While keeping a reason to turn against Dusan Louverture at that time.

Dessalines went ashore, but the French government did not immediately arrange for him to go to Paris. Instead, people from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Trade took him to inspect French agricultural and industrial production.

Dessalines knew that the Frenchman meant to show him strength. In the eyes of the French, Santo Domingo cannot achieve food self-sufficiency anyway, so even if it becomes independent, it must be attached to a certain force. The French showed him strength so that he could understand that since he must recognize a father, he must recognize the strongest father who is most willing to treat him well.

Today, for example, they take Dessalines to visit the wheat-growing areas along the Seine. In May, winter wheat is about to enter the grain filling period, and this is the time when water is needed. However, the area around the Seine River has encountered drought again this year. Fortunately, there are already complete water conservancy facilities in this area, so the production of wheat has not been affected.

Dessaline had also planted land before, but he had never grown wheat, so he didn't know how the wheat grew. But even so, the French were able to use a machine to easily pump the river water to the highlands far above the river for irrigation. This almost miraculous thing shocked Dessaline deeply. .

If the French countryside only surprised Dessalines, the inspection of French industry later made Dessalines terrified. The French led him to visit an artillery factory. He saw with his own eyes how large red-hot steel ingots were squeezed and deformed under the roaring forging press, like a ball of dough; The blanks of cannons are drilled on the drilling machine, and sparks are flying; see the cannons being produced one by one from the factory. The powerful power of France shocked this black man from far away Central America.

Although he knew that the French were relying on these things to scare him, Dessalines was still intimidated by these things. He couldn't help but start to think, just this factory, how many cannons can be produced in a year, if they get Santo Domingo...

The idea of ​​letting Dessaline visit France first and then negotiate with him actually came from Joseph.

In that time and space in her previous life, you see, Amei often used this trick to deal with people from backward countries. Many times, in backward countries, people are sent to visit Ameiyou. The purpose is to learn the advanced technology and advanced ideas of Ameiyou. In the end, they spent a lot of foreign exchange. After studying for a while, these came to learn People's learning results have become these two sentences:

"Look at my sister, look, that's really..."

"My sister, you see how advanced you are, the country, you have to follow behind for a hundred years to eat dirt..."

What's more, large numbers of these people have become the mouthpieces of Ameiyoukan's thoughts and even Ameiyoukan's interests.

"This piece of loess alone can no longer breed a new culture", "This piece of earthy yellow land cannot teach us what is the true scientific spirit."

And further draw the conclusion of total surrender like "we must embrace the blue civilization".

Of course, the way you see it, sister, is also risky. Back then when Zu Long traveled south to Wuyue, he also wanted to use his strength to frighten dissidents. And his actions did have some effect. It's just that the reason why heroes are different from mediocre people is that when facing a huge gap with mediocre people, they will only worship with all five bodies, while heroes are inspired to "he can replace him" and "a man should be like this" ambition.

And the most proud point of the florists is that we have no shortage of heroes at any time. "Princes and generals, I'd rather be kind!"

However, Dessaline is not a hero like Liu Xiang, so what the French showed him deeply shocked him, which also laid a good foundation for the French to negotiate with him afterwards.