Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

Chapter 260 027 These rulers of Haiti are all at the level of benevolent rulers of Tongliao
If Solovyov had not known that the French expeditionary force and the Haitian rebels would kill each other indiscriminately, often exceeding the lower limit of human acceptance in the 1800s, causing serious damage to the local area, and even having such a bad impact that zombie legends were spreading throughout the Americas, he would not have planned to go back the same way to the Western Hemisphere.

That’s right, the word Zombie originated from the murder of white people by a Haitian mixed-race man named Jean Zombi. There was also a Brazilian slave uprising leader, but the latter was a rebel after all, while the former was just a murderer.

As for the Poles who remained in Haiti, there might be thousands of them at this time. These people were deployed to suppress the black slave uprising in the colony of Saint-Domingue, and thus joined the rebels together with the mixed-race armed forces led by Alexandre Petion.

However, they did not seem to notice how terrifying Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a semi-illiterate man, would be, and that he was extremely terrifying coming from the voodoo stronghold of West Africa.

When Solovyov was collecting information, he asked Polina for help. After all, many of her friends in bed had returned from Saint-Domingue, and the French army was still stationed in the eastern part of the island.

And this sexiest "Venus Goddess" in Santo Domingo is indeed very resourceful.

However, she was pregnant and still wearing thin clothes, which looked a bit funny. After all, the clothes were so thin that you could clearly see the structure of her upper body.

"Pauleta, sometimes you just don't know. Never mind. It's no use telling you."

"Are you serious about starting a study of the West Indies and looking for your relatives there?"

"If I were to go, I would probably go to Guadeloupe, after all, my stepmother's family might still be there, and there might be a plantation there."

"Is your stepmother an only child?"

"I never heard her mention her brothers and sisters, only her three cousins ​​mentioned more."

However, Polina knew who it was, but she refused to say it. In order to distract his attention, she put Solovyov's hand on her round belly.

"The child is moving, Michel. I didn't feel this way when Camilo came to me. It seems that you are the father."

"Pauletta, you really like to play dangerous games. I am a little scared of you."

Anyone who meets such a woman who likes to play "dangerous games" with several lovers and her husband will be troubled. However, it can be confirmed that her son Demid is definitely the son of General Leclerc. He even has weak resistance like his father and is still being treated with diet and herbs.

"It doesn't matter. This is your baby. You can touch my belly and feel the baby's movements. Also, I'm tired. Please help me lie down. Madeline will get the information for you."

Solovyov also had to help Polina lie down. Another reason why she was so unrestrained and bold at home was that Prince Borghese regained his freedom during her pregnancy. This pair of men and women always had some like-mindedness. If Solovyov had not had physical relations with her and knew that she was kind-hearted by nature, he might have stayed away from her with such outrageous personal morals.

Prince Borghese is not at his official residence at the Charloster Palace. He is now enjoying himself and his housekeeper is now pregnant.

"How is Sylvia now?"

"Her feet are a little swollen, but the doctor diagnosed that it's nothing serious, she just needs to be nursed back to health."

"Then look at my feet?"

Polina must have good body flexibility, which could unlock some strange things. Uh, that's probably it. She could lift up her right leg with her pregnant belly and put her white and soft little feet into Solovyov's hands.

It was unclear whether she was trying to seduce him or wanted Solovyov's help in checking him out.

"You have a very healthy body, Pauletta. I have seen many girls barefoot, but few have feet as beautiful as yours."

Polina was still very happy with the praise.

"So, which goddess am I more suitable to play?"

"From your perspective on life, only Venus is more suitable. After all, you really don't have any concept of 'chastity'."

"When I was in Santo Domingo, they also praised me as a goddess. I don't have any good memories there."

If Leclerc were still alive, she certainly wouldn't think so.

"General Leclerc should not have used that trick to get rid of such a leader of black people. Because the remaining people, except for Alexandre Petion, who is a staunch republican and educated, are not worth mentioning."

"If you were here, my poor Charles might not have died of illness."

"But the tropical environment is terrible, especially yellow fever. The wife of a new friend I met not long ago also died of yellow fever."

"What a sad story. I feel a little sorry for that gentleman. You can kiss my hand and then go and urge Madeline to get the information for you. I want to be alone for a while."

She would cry when she thought of her dead ex-husband, but this kind of true love would be fatal even if General Leclerc was still alive.

The information that Madeleine brought was related to the various rebel forces in Saint-Domingue.

Solovyov himself should note that among the four giants of the Haitian rebels, only Alexandre Petion was born into the bourgeoisie. He was a mixed-race person with one-quarter black blood, and had received a rigorous education. He went to study at the Paris Military Academy and returned to Haiti with Leclerc last year. However, because of Leclerc's actions, he finally joined forces with Dusalin, who was fighting guerrillas in the jungle.

Alexandre Petion's personal resume is very clear. He came to the Paris Military Academy in 1788 and encountered the French Revolution while receiving military training. His political views should be regarded as a staunch Jacobin, advocating distributing land to peasants and living a self-sufficient life.

However, in the West Indies, this was more or less disastrous. The black slaves regained their freedom, but they did not master advanced production technology. Moreover, the destruction of the plantation economy would also cause the economic collapse of the western colony of Saint-Domingue, which was once France's money bag.

The war is still going on. By November 1803, the French army will finally fail in Haiti. The economic model there is still a plantation economy. Napoleon will go on an expedition to Saint-Domingue because the plantations here are an important source of income. Their role to France is equivalent to that of Northern Italy to Austria, so they cannot be easily abandoned.

Mixed-race people like Petion, because of their higher cultural level, also tend to favor more progressive reforms, but this also depends on the occasion.

However, looking at the situation of black people, except for Toussaint Louverture, a self-taught leader who was imprisoned by France until his death, the cultural level of other black people is really hard to describe.

Dessalines was a semi-illiterate, barbaric and brave man. Judging from the information obtained by Madeleine, it was simply unreasonable. It was like releasing Idi Amin early. If we knew what he would do next year, it would be like Bokassa.
In fact, the country of Haiti should have its own series in Tongliao studies to prove how weird this country is, instead of just talking about Duvalier.

After all, Haiti alone is able to combine the various elements of the Central African Empire, Uganda, Liberia, Zaire and Equatorial Guinea, which is indeed extraordinary.

There is a smart leader but lacks comprehension and patience; there is also a fan who claims to be an emperor; the conflict between blacks and mixed-race people is like a preview of the conflict between immigrant blacks and native blacks in Liberia; the level of corruption and exploitation is so high that Mobutu would be as bad as him; and the problem of Equatorial Guinea is the massacre and expulsion of white people, and the general cultural level in the country is very low.

This last point might have been even worse if Alexandre Petion had not backed up the education system.

It sounds like this place is beyond saving.

Apart from Pétion, Dessalines and Christopher had a cultural level of burning books and burying scholars alive. The latter was not even a freed slave from a French colony, but a slave who escaped from a British colony. At least Dessalines had a supervisor position that gave him certain management skills, while Christopher's approach was even more abstract.

Although it is not their fault that such a group of black people in Haiti have a low level of education, they govern the country as they please and commit a series of heinous crimes.
After reading the relevant materials, Solovyov had diluted the exaggerations in the French texts.

After all, others don't know what Haiti is like, but he knows it very well.

People like Dessalines and Christophe will be the majority in Haiti in the future, while people like Pétion will be rare.

But Petion's distribution of land to farmers, Dessalines and Christophe were a step backwards in history, and Haiti had experienced brutal massacres more than once. No wonder Trujillo would take revenge.
After all, the Dominican area east of Santo Domingo is still in the hands of the French.

As for how many white people are left in Haiti, the current estimate is not accurate due to previous massacres between them.

There were Poles who defected to the rebels, and there was even a Polish-American mixed-race black general. There were also Germans who settled in the French Corner, and in addition there were French and European whites in several cities.

If the Poles are also considered Russians, then Russian naval intervention would actually be just right, but that would certainly involve a big fight.

And the Poles are more or less unable to distinguish what is good and what is bad.

You have to know that if Haiti cannot solve the problems from the beginning, it will only fall into an abyss from which there is no escape in the future.

Especially when the guarantee had been made, the massacre of white people, often against unarmed women and children, was even more despicable than Sima Yi swearing on the Luo River.

What’s more, among those who were massacred, there were many French people who sympathized with the blacks and even provided help.

As for a man like Dessalines, judging from his behavior, Solovyov was not aware that he would initiate a massacre. However, based on his understanding of Haiti and African countries, killing was inevitable. After all, the ruler of Haiti was a benevolent and kind emperor.

And Christophe is also a bandit. Among the four giants of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture and Alexandre Pétion represent the upper limit of the country of Haiti, while Christophe may be even worse than Dessalines.

Although these have not happened yet, considering what Christopher did on the Dominican side, it is somewhat of a compliment to say that he was an intruder in the village.

As a fan of slitting throats, he killed a staggering number of people during his operations in the Dominican Republic, including children whose throats were slit in the church and clergymen whose throats were slit during the retreat.

Moreover, he will build a lot of buildings in the future because he also calls himself king.

It's just this group of human beings. It's really because of the contrast with their peers that the images of Louverture and Pétion are very tall. It will be rare for Haiti to have such leaders and national leaders in the future.

As for their continued development of the plantation economy, this is already relatively "progressive".

If he went to Haiti, Solovyov couldn't imagine what the bottom line would be.

But there is something interesting, that is, there are indeed Russians in Port-au-Prince.

As for why there were Russians here, Solovyov had no idea, but this was also a reason to intervene. Even if there was only one person, the fleet could be allowed to set off. What's more, there were more than a dozen people there, which gave him an even more sufficient reason to intervene.

Rear Admiral Senyavin's fleet has set off, and there are some special people in the fleet.

Because they need to deal with black people, they need generals or officials of black descent to accompany them to Haiti, which will be more conducive to negotiations.

General Hannibal's descendants were also involved in such things. His eldest son Ivan Abramovich was the commander-in-chief of the Black Sea Fleet and had many connections in the navy, but he died in 1801.

At this time, General Hannibal's other sons were still alive. Those who set off on the ship were his grandson, Lieutenant Pavel Hannibal of the Guards, and retired naval officer Yakov Hannibal.

It's just a coincidence that Yakov Hannibal's family lives in Ryazan. In fact, his manor is very close to Solovyov's manor, and the elders of the two families can be said to be old neighbors and old friends.

Ryazan is a place with many talented people and famous figures, often heavyweights, such as Yakov Hannibal, who later became famous because he was a relative of Pushkin.

They had already set out. The cousins ​​set out with the fleet. They happened to be attending a ball in St. Petersburg, so they were summoned by Alexander and assigned this mission.

(End of this chapter)