Chapter 71 Aftermath (Part 2)

In order to cope with the current bank run, Britain had to continue to increase exports in exchange for more coins.

However, both France and the German states raised trade barriers to prevent the British from taking the opportunity to dump goods.

This weakened Britain's ability to consume cotton, and the weakening of Britain's ability to consume cotton exacerbated the economic crisis.

Herman Brunn, the largest cotton buyer in the United States, declared bankruptcy, and more companies engaged in cotton-related industries went bankrupt.

Looking at the bankruptcy reports that were like snowflakes in front of him, Martin Van Buren sat in the carriage made of wooden boards from the frigate Constitution, feeling as if he had died.

Martin Van Buren didn't know where to go, and what made matters worse was that those Texans easily accepted their new identity as French.

The first battle after France returned to North America severely damaged the arrogant US military, and instantly made the rednecks in Texas fall in love with it and shout "Long live France!"

That's right, wherever the French army passed, rednecks speaking American French could be seen everywhere. The scene of welcoming the royal army with food and drink made Gabriel, the governor of Texas, feel like he had returned to the Napoleonic era.

When he followed General Napoleon through the Arc de Triomphe, the people also welcomed them in this way.

Later, the First Empire collapsed, and Gabriel was expelled by the royalists and spurned by the people.

During the July Monarchy, Louis Philippe reinstated him, but Gabriel could only be a dog of the Orleans family, suppressing uprisings everywhere. He was called a butcher and executioner.

Today, Gabriel dared not dream of such treatment, which made Gabriel feel very good.

And this move of the rednecks inadvertently saved his life.

France's colonial policy is more cruel than that of the British. They not only plunder wealth and monopolize trade, but also implement a tough national assimilation policy.

It is almost impossible to support agents like the British. The French often choose to completely eliminate all resistance forces.

This is related to the needs of the two countries. Britain is an island country with strong industrial strength and needs a vast dumping ground for goods.

France itself has a huge market and can radiate its power to the interior of the European continent. What it needs more is the source of raw materials.

In order to better suppress the resistance forces in the colonies, the governors of the French colonies have very great power.

The performance of the rednecks today moved Gabriel very much. He wanted to rebuild the glory of New France with Texas as the starting point.

Governor Gabriel announced to the rednecks:

"All people living in French colonies are French citizens regardless of their skin color and enjoy all the rights stipulated by the constitution. Anyone born free or who obtains freedom in French colonies enjoys (1) civil rights; (2) political rights stipulated by law."

In order to win over the hearts of the people, Gabriel implemented a lower tax rate than that in mainland France and guaranteed that no merchants could monopolize trade.

He retained the existing property of the rednecks. If the rednecks wanted to continue to cultivate the land, they only had to pay a fee to the French colonial government.

Of course, Gabriel also had his requirements, that is, all Texans must send their children to Catholic schools established by France to learn French.

Learning French is nothing, but the Catholic Church's schools disgusted the rednecks, and some rednecks immediately proposed that they could pay to build their own schools to learn French.

Governor Gabriel agreed to the rednecks' request, but all children must go to school before 1840. This is Governor Gabriel's bottom line, and the rednecks are also aware of it, so they naturally dare not violate it.

Governor Gabriel also asked the Texans to form the Texas Self-Defense Army. The officers were appointed by the governor himself and were mainly volunteers, but in the case of insufficient numbers, the colonial government had the right to forcibly recruit, and those who were forcibly recruited could use money to let others serve on their behalf.

In fact, Governor Gabriel did not need to worry about this. The rednecks admired the powerful French army very much. After all, the Mexicans, whom they could not defeat, were pressed in the city by the US military, and the French army killed the US military as soon as they arrived.

The three thousand US prisoners are still working in the plantation instead of black slaves, which is the best proof.

When the Mexican army retreated, almost all blacks chose to give up their property and follow Tasan Anna's army.

So after the war, the slave owners in Texas couldn't find a single slave.

Since France banned the slave trade, the slave owners wanted to get their slaves back. After all, those slaves were originally their property, and the U.S. military had promised before, but now the U.S. military was captured.

Governor Gabriel thought this was a good opportunity. He recognized slavery in Texas and wrote to the cabinet saying that this was a tradition of the Texans and should be respected.

In fact, the French cabinet didn't care about this at all. Slavery was limited to Texas and not in the mainland, so the Catholic priests would not have any objections.

Governor Gabriel wanted to ask Mexico to get back those black slaves, but was rejected by Tasan Anna.

Governor Gabriel's messenger even found a black officer standing next to Tasan Anna, and finally had to flee back to Texas to tell Gabriel.

So Governor Gabriel distributed those American prisoners of war for whom no ransom had been paid to the slave owners in Texas as compensation for their loss of black slaves.

France's ambition is not just Texas, all this is just the beginning.

For this reason, France decided to immigrate 100,000 people to Texas. Of course, even if 200,000 more people immigrated to Texas, the land of Texas would be enough.

This is why Governor Gabriel must form the Texas Self-Defense Force.

For France, Texas is not enough. They want Louisiana, Wyoming, Oregon, Quebec, and the whole of North America to surrender to France.

This financial tsunami did not have a big impact on the Austrian Empire.

On the contrary, it had a great impact on Austria's international financiers, especially the Rothschild family. Due to the plummeting land prices in the United States, they had a lot of bad debts, and even many loans were lost.

Some people lost everything, and some people made a lot of money.

This includes Archduke Karl. As the richest noble in Austria, he did not hesitate to use the funds in his hand to buy Austrian railway stocks after receiving Franz's letter.

In the end, he bought the railway from Vienna to Venice for 15 million florins.

But Archduke Karl was not satisfied. Like Franz II, he considered himself an Italian. He planned to build a railway to Tuscany so that he could go home easily.

Archduke Karl's butlers stopped his crazy behavior. After all, in the eyes of the butlers, this was no different from wasting money, and it was not as cost-effective as buying some works of art.

As for why it was the butlers, because there were 500,000 people working for Archduke Karl's family, and only one butler was not enough.

Christmas Eve, 1836.

Looking at Talia outside the window in a fiery red velvet coat, a fiery red top and a short skirt, Franz really didn't know how to violate the doctrine.

Oh, and there was also a pointed red hat. Talia was carrying a bag on her back and climbed up to Franz's window along the bed sheet.

"Here, a Christmas gift!"

Franz opened the bag and found that it contained the remaining funds for the acquisition of the railway. He couldn't help but frown.

"This is my money!"