Chapter 587 Let the Whole of America Bathe in the Glory of Slavery!

Chapter 580 Let the whole of America bathe in the glory of slavery!

For strategic considerations, Liang Yao agreed to Espy's request to purchase the Sacramento coastal defense guns, and said that he could give priority to supplying them to Texas as soon as possible.

Espy was overjoyed when he heard this, after all, the Sacramento guns were the most advanced cannons he had ever seen in his life.

Then, Liang Yao watched the Texas coastal patrol fleet.

Although it is called a coastal patrol fleet, Texas actually also has four thousand-ton Bold-class frigates.

However, two of these Bold-class frigates were purchased from Umbrella, and the other two were built by the Houston Shipyard.

Because the top leaders of Texas prefer giant guns, and Texas has no need for ocean voyages. The Houston Shipyard chose to install larger naval guns on the Bold-class hull, sacrificing the ability to sail in the ocean.

Therefore, the two Daring-class frigates produced by Texas are positioned more like shallow-water heavy gunboats, and all their skills are focused on firepower.

These four Daring-class warships are the core surface forces of Texas. The remaining ships are loach boats with a displacement of three to four hundred tons, or even one to two hundred tons.

Similarly, most of these loach boats are typical small boats carrying cannons, and the cannons they are equipped with are larger than the loach boats used by California.

After inspecting Texas and preparing to return to California, Liang Yao's father-in-law Bell held a banquet for Liang Yao in Houston and invited prominent figures in the south to attend in advance.

The banquet was held in the manor in Houston. Compared with the last time I came to Bell's manor, the current manor has changed a lot.

The main change is that the manor is larger and more magnificent than before, and some oriental-style buildings have been built by oriental architects.

This is also where Bell often shows off to his relatives and friends.

Because he believed that compared with the incongruous and neither Eastern nor Western buildings built by other wealthy people in the East, the Eastern buildings in his manor, which were designed by Eastern architects and constructed by Eastern people, were the most orthodox Eastern buildings.

This was indeed the case. Bell built a Chinese-style courtyard in the manor, where flowers, trees, pavilions, and even a special artificial lake and Taihu stones shipped from Shanghai were more exquisite than Liang Yao's new manor Weixiuju in Sacramento.

At the same time, Bell was also a person who paid great attention to details. Not only were there many carved window lattices, painted brackets, and glazed tiles on the exterior of the building, but even inside the building, in addition to the exquisitely crafted and exquisitely carved rosewood furniture, there were also fine export porcelain, jade carvings, wood carvings, root carvings, and celebrity calligraphy and paintings bought from Chinese merchants. Even Liang Yao couldn't help but marvel at it.

What surprised Liang Yao the most was that Bell actually got a lot of porcelain from the official kilns, a few of which were imperial blue-and-white porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties. These blue and white porcelains have bright and rich glazes, exquisite painting techniques, and elegant shapes. They don't look fake. I really don't know how much Bell spent and where he got these porcelains.

Speaking of enjoyment, it is still the slave owners in the South who enjoy it.

On the eve of the Civil War, the South contributed more than $300 million in wealth to the United States every year just for cotton trade. It is no wonder that the slave owners in the South can afford such a luxurious life. Politicians in the North are desperately trying to increase tariffs and fleece the South.

Slave owners from other states who came to Bell's manor to attend the banquet all praised the authentic oriental-style architecture and exquisite handicrafts in Bell's manor. They even used tea cups carefully, fearing that they would be damaged, because these tea cups did not look like ordinary products, not like things that could be bought with money.

The lifestyle of European aristocrats, especially French aristocrats, that the southern slave owners admired. It's just that although France's historical and cultural heritage is second to none in Europe, it is still a little worse than the Eastern powers with deeper historical heritage. Even these southern slave owners who were pretentious and did not know much about Eastern history and culture could feel the cultural gap.

Compared with the north, the south also favored the culture of the Eastern powers more, and the number of slave owners who admired the culture of the Eastern powers has increased in the past decade.

One of the important reasons is that the idyllic life that the southern slave owners yearned for was reflected in many Eastern literary works. Although many slave owners did not know Chinese characters, they could still understand the pictures on porcelain and calligraphy.

Another important reason was that the British and French coalition forces did not attack the capital of the Qing Dynasty this time, and the losses were considerable. The international reputation of the Qing Dynasty has not yet declined seriously.

Although the Manchu Qing government signed an unequal treaty after the war and still ceded land and paid compensation, in the eyes of the outside world, this time the Qing Dynasty and the British and French coalition forces drew a tie, after all, the Qing Dynasty also took back the tariff autonomy from the British. And judging from the process and results of the war, it was not very shameful to fight like this with the British and French coalition forces that had just defeated Russia in Crimea.

Liang Yao viewed with great interest the porcelains collected by his father-in-law. Surprisingly, in order to cater to the American buyers, some of the export porcelains even had images of southern slaves hunting with guns and holding banquets, as well as portraits of the founding president Washington, the Boston Tea Party, the First Continental Congress, the Battle of Lexington, and even scenes of the British surrender at Yorktown.

The slave owners who attended the banquet were full of praise for Bell's manor and collection of art. This made Liang Yao suspect that his father-in-law held a banquet for him just as an excuse to show off his manor and collection to his slave owner friends in the south. That's his true purpose.

As night fell, the kerosene lamps in Bell Manor emitted a bright light, illuminating the gorgeous banquet hall. The slave owners and their wives, dressed in gorgeous dresses and with proud and solemn faces, walked into the banquet hall with their heads held high.

Glasses of fragrant whiskey and high-quality Havana cigars were passed in their hands in turn. For a while, the entire banquet hall was filled with wine and smoke, as if they were in a heavenly palace.

That's the smell, it's really a bit choking and unpleasant.

After three rounds of drinking, the next part is the enjoyable bragging and denunciation of the North.

"Damn it, I don't understand those Yankees. Don't they know that black people are inherently inferior?" Daniel Henry Chamberlain, Secretary of State of South Carolina, began.

Soon, slave owners took over Chamberlain's words.

"Without our care and restraint, these chimpanzees who listen to the rhythm of drums and start dancing and singing in public like primitive people will lose control!"

"Yes, without our control over them, they will just continue to indulge in alcoholism, vent violence everywhere when drunk, and carry out various criminal activities!"

"Or you may faint and fall asleep on the way, and you will either starve to death in the end! Or you may be picked up by a wild beast and become its dinner!"

"Liberation! Liberation! Saying this word from the mouth of a Yankee always seems to me to be a stain on this word!"

"Yes! Damn liberation! Our black slaves are not better fed, clothed, and housed than workers in northern factories?! We don't have to worry about unemployment. We care about their lifelong employment, and they don't have to worry about having no work at all. !”

"These dirty Yankees just want cheaper slaves. If they really want to liberate black slaves, let them set an example first and liberate the workers in their factories who live worse than animals." Bar."

"Oh, my old man, you overestimate their moral level. Don't ask these Yankees to liberate the workers in the factory, even if you ask them to increase the wages of each worker by even a few cents a month. , it’s even more like killing them.”

"Slaves are assets worth hundreds, even thousands of dollars, and we can't bear to treat our private property as roughly as the Yankees did. Damn it! These Yankees were in the newspapers last month attacking us in South Carolina. Negroes don’t live past thirty-five.”

"Make it as if those Yankee factory workers who worked eighteen or nineteen hours a day lived past thirty-five."

"Yes! That's so damn right! When a black slave is sick, we have to find a doctor for the slave. The Yankees don't find a doctor for the workers in their factories."

“There is no better system in the world than slavery. This perfect system can guarantee the safety, survival, and even longevity of black people.

As long as they are responsible for working, they will not die of hunger, and we can save time on working for scientific research and artistic creation. Is there a more perfect system in the world than slavery? "

"Those Abeizi are a group of hypocritical and extremely stingy Puritans. They would rather point fingers at us from the moral high ground and talk about liberating slaves. They are not willing to spend one more minute to understand and improve their skills. The lives of workers below.”

"Abeizi are all a group of people who have fallen in love with money. In their eyes, there is only money and interests, and they will do anything for money. Unlike us in the south, where people are full of humanity. Even slaves can do it. Enjoy the slow pace of life and have a drink with friends during leisure time.”

"Fucking hell, next time I hear these Abes want to free slaves, I'm going to go north with guns and free the workers in their factories! Let the entire United States bask in the glory of slavery!" South Carolina Governor William H. Gist raised his glass and shouted.

"Let all America bask in the glory of slavery!"

A group of drunken slave owners raised their glasses and cheered with red faces. Looking at the loud slogans, it seemed that they were really going to take up arms in the next second to go north and liberate the working people in the northern factories.