Chapter 304: Feminist standard, smoking!
"After you arrive in Panama, the local Black Gold Company branch will pick you up. Be careful of tropical diseases. You are foreigners. If too many people die, it will delay the international business of the United Company." Sheffield said to Zhang Deqing at the New Orleans dock, watching batches of Chinese workers boarding the ship. "Latin Americans are optimistic by nature. It won't be difficult for you to turn things around. Of course, all this depends on your own hands. There is one thing I want to point out. When choosing a place to live, don't be too close to the canal. Find a place that won't be troubled by floods."
"That place? Is the flood very serious?" Zhang Deqing asked with some concern.
"It's not serious, just in case!" Sheffield showed a strange smile. Floods are not necessarily natural disasters. Could it be man-made? The place where the United Company arranged the black settlement is more likely to be threatened by floods.
At that time, all it would take is a Panamanian patriot to show up and blow up a flood control dike on Gatun Lake, and the joint company would not have to pay the workers. Of course, this plan may not be implemented, and it is still in the planning stage.
Sheffield has already reminded the Chinese workers that if they really don't listen, they will still do the same when the time is right.
The Chinese workers had already given him enough rewards, and he was unwilling to force them to die, so he still had to remind them. Moreover, this plan was actually to give the United States an excuse to formally control Panama. The Chinese workers were all foreigners, and their death would not cause the federal government to intervene.
"If you encounter any problems in the area, send a telegram to New Orleans. I can give you a chance to report to me. Forget about the small matters. I am also very busy. As the Chinese saying goes, I wish you a safe trip." Sheffield patted Zhang Deqing on the shoulder and gestured to the ship, "Go ahead. Your wife and children are waiting for you."
After Sheffield finished speaking, he waved to the Chinese workers on the ship, turned around and got into the car. Edith Rockefeller was still waiting inside. The car started and the convoy prepared to return to Oak Manor.
"It's done. These Chinese workers are obedient and hardworking. No wonder you are willing to use them." Edith Rockefeller teased.
"As long as this group is afraid of death, I have plenty of ways to make them work hard. The blacks in the South were also very hardworking. But these Chinese workers can only be used for a while. When they are useful, everyone is happy. When they are not useful, let them go. Maybe they will be our enemies in the future." Sheffield chuckled and said, "Who can tell what will happen in the future."
"Just them?" Edith Rockefeller said with a look of doubt on her face, "I don't believe it!"
People are so stubborn. When they are strong, they always think that they can maintain their strength forever. But in fact, they may fall into a pit if they miss a step. People cannot predict things too far in the future. Who knows how many pits are waiting ahead? As long as people make mistakes, Sheffield knows that happy education is harmful to the country, but he is a pioneer in this regard. He wants to realize it now and nail the ceiling of the United States, so that he can rest assured.
"Don't be so confident. In fact, your current behavior is very similar to the psychology of the Chinese. Although they appear obedient on the surface, they are actually dissatisfied in their hearts, but few people admit it. Especially the local Chinese, they are very stubborn." Sheffield laughed. This stubbornness was like the United States of America more than a hundred years later.
The citizens of the United States also stubbornly believe that the United States has never made any mistakes, and the reason it has encountered challenges must be that the challengers have used some shameful tricks. So people have not made any progress at all, and there are always more idiots in every era. There are too many smart people, so the cost of ruling is increased.
Just like almost everyone who has studied history knows about the British Industrial Revolution, but they don’t know that before the Industrial Revolution, the first thing that happened in Britain was the Agricultural Revolution, because it is not written in the textbooks. Without even knowing about the Agricultural Revolution, they dare to talk about the environment that produced the Industrial Revolution and think that it can be imitated. The bankrupt farmers that emerged from the Agricultural Revolution alone, when multiplied by China’s population base, will directly lead to the rhythm of changing dynasties, which is something that no dynasty can solve.
If the situation is so bad that it is difficult to reverse, it must be completely rebuilt, but this requires bloodshed, and no one wants to shed blood if there is any other way. In fact, the foundation of the United States a hundred years later is still unique on the earth. As long as the citizens can accept a short-term decline in living standards, the United States can be restored to its peak period. However, the vast majority of citizens will not accept this and would rather live one day at a time. Candidates who make their lives decline will definitely not come to power.
Which politician is willing to take all the blame and let his successor get all the praise? Under this electoral system, it is a complete case of "our great America has its own national conditions". It is completely a systemic problem.
Entering the city of New Orleans, you can reach Oak Manor after crossing the bridge, but this time there is a rare congestion, which surprised Sheffield. What day is today? It's not a major holiday.
"What's going on?" Sheffield asked the bodyguard sitting in front. Edith Rockefeller looked through the car window and saw some women dressed up. She said, "It looks like the National Woman Suffrage Association. I saw them marching in Chicago. Some people from the National Woman Suffrage Association also came to my villa and asked me to raise funds."
"You are the richest woman in our country after all, so it's normal to find you! But what are they doing here?" Sheffield was instinctively repulsed when he heard this, and he became rude, "I want to go home now, but these women are blocking my way."
Sheffield didn't care about this and didn't participate in it, but he hated this kind of parade. The last time he encountered one was the KKK parade organized by Conley, which was equally disgusting.
"In education, marriage, religion, in every respect, disappointment is the fate of women. My life's work is to deepen this sense of disappointment in every woman until she can no longer bow to it. I want women not to be walking ornaments, not to ask their fathers and brothers for the most fashionable and gorgeous new hats, but to ask them for their rights. Now, New Zealand has given women the right to vote, and the United States, which claims to be the American century, has fallen behind a colony in this field. This is the reality."
A woman who was probably less than 40 years old was standing there shouting at the top of her lungs, causing waves of applause.
"Shivering all over, hands and feet are cold!" Sheffield, who was trapped in the convoy, grinned and muttered the female boxer's catchphrase.
Since she was trapped in the car, Sheffield had no choice but to wait until these women finished making trouble before leaving. Then she talked to Edith Rockefeller about the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Hearing that this association did not prohibit men from joining, but the main leaders were women, she sneered, "Men are allowed to join, but the main figures are all women? To put it bluntly, does this mean that they need men's money to support their cause, but all the honors they receive belong to themselves? You think very clearly..."
"Do you think they can succeed? People from this association have come to me several times!" Edith Rockefeller wanted Sheffield to help her and see if it was worth helping.
"If they just want the right to vote, they should be able to do it in ten or twenty years. If they want to get married without changing their last name like you did, that's impossible. Your success has nothing to do with women's rights. It's mainly because your father is Rockefeller." Sheffield shrugged and told the truth, "As for equal pay for equal work, don't even think about it. They won't be able to succeed in a hundred years."
One hundred years later, the white left is so strong that, apart from occupying the news section, it still cannot shake the big companies in the United States to understand the difference between men and women, and that is still a prosperous environment. If there is a little disturbance, it will be even more doomed. When the country is in adversity, it will first protect men's rights, because the country needs men to take bullets on the battlefield. The biggest enemy of women's rights is war.
"Gender equality?" Sheffield seemed to have grasped a possible benefit in his mind. This was a flash of inspiration. "It's not that I can't get involved. I can solve this problem."
"What bad intentions are you up to again?" When Edith Rockefeller saw Sheffield's expression, she knew that the slave owner must be trying to make things worse again.
"Nothing. It won't harm women's suffrage." Sheffield patted his chest and assured, "I swear on the lives of the 50,000 workers on the Panama Canal project. We can let these women's rights activists visit Oak Manor."
Of course women can have equal rights. First of all, Sheffield believes that women have the right to smoke!
Besides, aren't women weak? Black women are certainly weaker, and there are many black women in the southern states. To solve this problem first, the United Company and even its allies can work together on this issue and absorb black women into their companies.
The benefit of doing this is that it will separate the time black women and black men spend together, thus curbing the black birth rate. Thinking of this, Sheffield suddenly felt that funding the development of women's rights was simply the most important thing he, a modern slave owner, should do, and it was his unshirkable duty.
"Factories under the United Tobacco Company must recruit black women as cigarette workers!" Sheffield returned to Oak Manor and directly issued the latest executive order, "Don't do it in a big way, but you must set aside a certain share to show the United Company's support for the women's rights movement. New Orleans doesn't need it, there are not many black men here, they have all been sent to Panama. It's about other tobacco factories in the southern states. Each factory must provide accommodation. This must be done. If you want to have a job, you must accept living in the factory dormitory."
Sheffield felt that the development of the feminist movement must have an iconic combination that people can remember at a glance. The slave owners, whose minds were occupied by tobacco profits, came up with the standard combination of feminism: smoking.
(End of this chapter)
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