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After reaching a basic agreement, the two sides also discussed the future education of the people of Santo Domingo.

Dessalines told Lucien that he noticed that the wealth of France is inseparable from the developed industry and agriculture in France, and the developed industry and agriculture in France is inseparable from the advanced science and technology in France. Therefore, he hopes that France can help Santo Domingo in terms of education.

Lucien said that it is France's unshirkable responsibility to help the people of the world to achieve common prosperity, and France is willing to provide assistance within its capacity to any country that pursues freedom, democracy and prosperity.

So the two sides reached an agreement on the black officials from Santo Domingo to come to France for education and training. Every year in the future, Santo Domingo can send a group of officials to France to receive various technical training. So that they can master new ideas and new skills to better serve the people of Santo Domingo.

This move is actually cultivating a spokesman for France's interests in Haiti. Or to put it more clearly, it is to cultivate leading parties.

As early as when the issue of Santo Domingo first emerged, when the three brothers were discussing how to deal with the situation, Joseph raised the issue of so-called "soft colonization" and "hard colonization".

"Our productivity is increasing rapidly, and European demand can hardly support our rapid development. We need more colonies. But there are two modes of colonization, one is soft colonization and the other is hard colonization. The so-called hard colonization , is to see a piece of land, and then directly send troops to snatch this place, turn all the natives here into slaves, or kill them all. Then let their own people go up to cultivate. This is what the Spaniards and the British did .

As for "soft colonization", there are actually precedents. At the beginning, Europeans organized "slave catchers" in Africa to capture black slaves. But the blacks resisted fiercely, and the casualties of those Europeans were not small. In addition, there will be some losses during the transportation of black slaves. As a result, the cost of black slaves is too high to be sold, or even if sold, it is not very profitable. Originally, if this situation continued, the black slave trade would have ended long ago.

However, some talented Europeans invented the high-end method of "fighting black with black". They no longer capture black slaves themselves, but use various industrial products to buy certain black tribes, let them attack other tribes, and resell the captured blacks from other tribes to them.

As a result, this group of white people supported this tribe, and that group of white people supported that tribe, and the black people fought back and forth, and then turned other black people into black slaves themselves. White people cut costs, avoided risks, and made a lot of money. Well, this is the precedent of what I call 'soft colonization'.

It's just that this kind of operation method is still too rough, and can only be regarded as the primary level of soft colonization. The real soft colony is that this piece of land is not labeled as a certain country’s territory on the map, but is directly labeled as a certain country. It looks like a completely independent country, but their economy is different from ours. The economy is closely linked. They provide us with raw materials, and we dump industrial products on them, or use them as a base to dump industrial products to many other places.

The black rebellion in Santo Domingo is just the beginning. It shows that the hard colonization has begun to encounter more and more problems. In the Americas, both North and South America, the situation is getting worse. In North America, with the example of the United States, the Spanish colonies are not safe today. That's one reason why they gave Louisiana back to us so generously. But if we take Louisiana, can we hold it?

France does not have so much remaining population transferred to Louisiana, so the transferred population is estimated to be dominated by various populations from all over Europe. The French do not have much advantage. Of course, this is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that traditional hard colonies have a natural tendency to separate from the mother country. Because their interests are not consistent with those of their home country, even the same blood and culture are useless. "

"So, soft colonization can solve this problem?" asked Napoleon.

"Not necessarily, but it will be better. Because the spearhead of the colonial people will no longer be directed at us, but will be directed at people such as Dusan Louverture, or Dessalines. There is an extra layer of buffer .If we can establish a real 'democracy' among them, allowing them to replace the governor in a peaceful way. So as to avoid the revolution using violent means, then our control may be more concealed and longer. Some. In addition, on the premise of making their economy completely dependent on us, we can also let them live a little better, so as to reduce the centrifugal force. Also, it is to stir up conflicts between them and their surroundings, so that they have to rely on ours Protect."

"Like Canada and America today?"

Canada and the United States were originally British colonies in North America. Before the independence of the United States, Canadians were also dissatisfied with the British. But after the independence of North America, because of the trade competition with the United States, coupled with the influence of other reasons such as religion, Canada and the United States are now quite at odds. There are so many minor frictions between the borders of Canada and the United States. Especially some Indians can always get weapons from Canada, and then rely on these weapons to resist the scalp tax collected by the Americans.

"Yes. Santo Domingo is our first experiment. If the effect is good, we can gradually promote it and use this method to make trouble for other countries."

"If the communication technology can be solved, it is not impossible to directly use Louisiana as the mainland of France and call it the province of Louisiana. It is like the provinces in France. But now, speaking of Joseph, yours When will this stuff come out? I’ve already spent so much money in it! If the money turns into cannons, I’ll be able to land in Britain.”

"What nonsense! How much did it cost you?" Joseph said disdainfully, "Landing in England? Where did you land from? From Dover? Don't you see the terrain of Dover? The fort where the British were there, You may not be able to drag the entire navy up! The entire English Channel, on our side, is full of cliffs. To land, you have to go around to the Scottish side. Such a long supply line, What are you waiting for! Is that enough money?"

"It's not your fault, it's the thing you made in Verdun. What will Dover Fortress look like today? You are completely deceiving people!" Napoleon also did not show any weakness and emptied a large pot at once. It fell on Joseph's head.

"Soon, soon. The most critical front-end technology is about to be realized. It's really fast, and I assure you, Napoleon, give me another month, and I won't need your appropriation later. I can get things out." Joseph strangely did not refute, but said this.

"No," said Napoleon, "you must be hiding something from me. You must have taken my money for something else, have you not, Joseph?"

"Nothing, it's really all spent on the research of pre-technology." Joseph said, "And that pre-research itself can also make money."

"You are doing private work with money from that country."

"What kind of country's money? What kind of private work? Isn't the country ours? To paraphrase the Sun King's words, 'We are the country!' What kind of country's money?" Joseph said disdainfully.

"Well, I like to hear this sentence." Napoleon said, "Tell me, what is your pre-research?"

"Well, this involves some very high-end science. At present, these things have not been made public, and not many people know about them. Of course you can take a look, but I can't guarantee whether you can understand... In short, according to some experiments Phenomena, coupled with mathematical calculations, we got an inference, that is, there is a wave that can propagate at the speed of light in space, we call it electromagnetic wave. We think this thing can be used to transmit information, just like sound waves ..."

"You told me this last time, I understand, I understand that thing." Napoleon said, because he was underestimated by Joseph, he was a little unhappy, "Have you forgotten this? I see your My brain is getting worse and worse."

"I told you? Ah, it seems that I remembered it wrong." Joseph said nonchalantly, "Everyone has a wrong memory sometimes."

"Okay, let's just talk about what the pre-research is, and what can you get to make money?"

"We have come up with a lamp that uses electricity to illuminate." Joseph said, "We have discovered before that electric current will cause heat. When the wire is heated due to heat, it will emit bright light. This It is one of our research goals - to develop a kind of electric lamp. And when we were studying electric lamps, we discovered a new phenomenon, that is, when one conducting wire is in a high temperature state, it can A current is generated on wires that are not in contact. According to this phenomenon, we have manufactured a wave rectifier, which is the key technology for wireless communication. However, the life of this kind of thing is too short, and it will soon be destroyed. damage. We studied it together with electric lights, and applied for funds in the name of wave rectifiers, and recently we finally saw the dawn of success. As for the corresponding by-products, they are electric lights for lighting." Joseph said, "Using Before long, well, Napoleon, you'll be building another great spectacle in Paris."