Chapter 262: Slave Ship
Wang Zihao was led by the secret agents of the Heaven and Earth Society in the city, and five hundred heavy cavalry arrived at the door of the government warehouse. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Zhang Qixun, who was wearing a four-rank official uniform, knelt at the door of the warehouse with a group of officials, catchers, and white servants, waiting for the Ming army to surrender.
Seeing an official wearing the prefect's official mansion, Wang Zihao pointed with a horsewhip in his hand: "Someone!" Take this Tartar dog officer down for me! Push it out and cut it! ”
The two heavy cavalry turned over and dismounted and walked towards Zhang Qixun.
"Wronged! Treat unjustly! General, the lower official has already surrendered, why do you want to kill the lower officer? Zhang Qixun knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, shouting injustice with a handful of snot and tears.
Wang Zihao's horse whip pointed: "Our army has besieged the city for several days, shouted many times to persuade you to surrender, and shot in the persuasion letter, but you refuse to open the door to meet the king!" According to the regulations of our army, if you surrender until the siege is made, it will be regarded as stubborn resistance and beheaded! ”
"General! Wronged! It's not that the lower officials refuse to surrender, but the soldiers in the city don't allow the lower officials to surrender! General, wronged! The lower officials are really wronged! Zhang Qixun cried and kowtowed and begged for mercy, "The lower officials can't resist those who read, but the lower officials are trying to keep the warehouse, which contains grain, silk, tea, and silver, which can replace the lives of the lower officials!" ”
Wang Zihao remembered the ugly performance of a group of scholars just now, so he shouted: "Escort this Tartar dog officer to the Chinese army camp!" It's up to the big boss to dispose of! ”
"No!" The two soldiers arched their hands.
Zhang Qixun was escorted to the camp of the Chinese army, and the two heavy cavalry arched their hands and said: "Big handsome! Zhang Qixun, the prefect of Hengzhou, has been escorted, and he asks the marshal to decide! ”
Wang Xinyu was talking to Miss Lian, but saw two cavalrymen escorting the Qing court prefect in, so he waved his hand impatiently and said: "I have said it a long time ago, if you don't open the door and surrender before the siege, it will be regarded as stubborn resistance to the end, and if you push it out, what are you doing here?" ”
"Marshal, it was General Wang who asked this dog official to come here!" A cavalryman bowed.
That Zhang Qixun knelt on the ground at once, crawled to Wang Xinyu's feet, and cried with snot and tears: "Handsome, wronged!" It's not that the villain refuses to open the door and surrender, but that those sour people don't let the villain open the door! Dashuai, wronged! I also hope that the handsome man will be aware and innocent. ”
"Oh? Is it a bunch of sour people who won't let you surrender? Well, this clan won't embarrass your family, so I'll reward you with a whole corpse! Come on, pull this Tartar prefect out and hang it! Wang Xinyu shouted.
"Dashuai, spare your life! Spare your life! Zhang Qixun was dragged out by two pro-soldiers, and the crying became farther and farther away. Soon after, the crying stopped abruptly.
"Dashuai, it's really not that this dog official doesn't surrender, but the soldiers in the city obstruct him, not to mention that this Qixun has merit in protecting the warehouse, why do you want to kill him?" Miss Line asked, puzzled.
Wang Xinyu said: "Since there are rules, you can't break them at will!" Otherwise, if you break the rules today, what will happen in the future? This Tartar prefect has merit, and this domain rewarded him with a whole corpse, and did not execute the men in his family, nor did he send female dependents into slaves, which was already a gift to him! ”
However, Wang Xinyu did not intend to let Zhang Qixun's family go like this, and after an order, Zhang Qixun's wife, son, and brother were all sent to distant America to expand the population there, and Zhang Qixun's concubines and daughters were assigned to their own meritorious soldiers. All the subordinates in the house were dismissed, the men were sent to the Americas, and the maids were distributed to the soldiers.
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Thousands of miles away, in the South China Sea, a slave ship was sailing from Annam to Borneo.
The slave ship was full of women bought from Annam, and this ship was specially designed to transport women from Annam to Luzon, because among the Han immigrants in Luzon, there were more men and fewer women, and many Han men were reluctant to marry local women who were not in the dark, and as a result, beautiful and slender Annam women became sought-after goods.
The owner of the ship, Liu Tao, is Liu Qi's younger brother. That Liu Qi was originally the housekeeper of Pan Liu, the chairman of Nanyang Company, and now Liu Qi has become the manager of the armed security department of Nanyang Company, and his younger brother Liu Tao has done the work of running Vietnamese brides.
To this end, Liu Tao purchased six slave trading ships, all of which were Spanish galleons with a displacement of 800 tons from the Spaniards in Manila.
After all, Vietnamese brides are valuable commodities, and the accommodation conditions on the ship are relatively good, and the cabins in the ship are built entirely according to the specifications of the passenger ship, which is divided into rooms, each room has four bunk beds, a cabin can accommodate eight people, and a ship can transport 300 Vietnamese brides at a time.
According to the price of buying a Vietnamese bride in Luzon, a Vietnamese bride can be sold for twenty taels of silver, while Liu Tao only needs to spend two taels of silver to buy an Annam woman in Annam, and after deducting travel expenses and other costs, a Vietnamese bride can earn sixteen taels of silver for transporting to Luzon.
If it is shipped to Borneo, or shipped to Singapore, it will make more money, in Borneo or Singapore, a Vietnamese bride can be sold for thirty taels of silver, and after deducting the cost, Liu Tao can earn twenty-two taels.
However, in Java or Golden State, the sales of Vietnamese brides are not very good, because in Java and Golden State, there are many Solomon women with fair skin and beautiful appearance!
Those women who believed in Hinduism or Buddhism were originally superior people in the kingdom of Srivijaya. Later, after the fall of the Sriwijaya Kingdom, because the Green Religion was very popular among the black and ugly local natives, the Green Religion arose, and the original superior people were reduced to inferior people. But with the arrival of the Nanyang Company, those beautiful and elegant high-ranking people of the former Sriwijaya Kingdom have resumed their status as high-ranking people.
Because these Solomon people were fair-skinned and handsome, they were very popular with the Han Chinese.
However, the local Indonesian natives are not treated well by the Han Chinese, and those Indonesian natives with collapsed noses, black skin and curly hair, lazy, ugly, and unhygienic, deserve the fate of slaves.
Wang Xinyu learned that the Solomon people once established the glorious civilization of the Srivijaya Kingdom, but later it was destroyed by the Green Religion, and after the Indonesian islands were greened, they entered the civilization regression, and finally were annexed by Western colonizers, which is simply a sadness in the history of civilization. In fact, the Green Cultists are not as good as the barbarians in the north in essence, and Manchu and Mongolia are better than the Green Cult.
From Annan to sell women to all parts of Nanyang, it is estimated that it will not take about 20 years, and there will be few young women in Annan, and the remaining Annan men either can't afford to marry their wives and fight for a lifetime, or they are mercenaries for the Ming Dynasty.
In the long run, the Annan race will disappear from the face of the earth, and the few remaining Annan nobles who can afford to marry wives will eventually have to integrate into the Han Chinese.
In addition to selling Vietnamese brides, Liu Tao also sold Japanese brides and Korean brides. The price of the North Korean bride is even higher, while the pink Japanese little loli can be sold for a higher price.
But now Liu Tao has received a new task: when he came to Hongji City and met his brother Liu Qi, Liu Qi gave him a task: "Sell Kunlun slaves to the Americas, Zheng Jing has a shortage of slaves, the gap is very large, and Kunlun slaves are needed to work locally, so we can't let the Han people, as well as the Japanese and Annam people who have taken refuge in us, be slaves over there, right?" ”
It is true that there is a lack of population on the Zheng Jing side, the territory of the Americas is too big, the population is too small, the Han people over there in the past, as well as the Japanese, Annam and Koreans who took refuge in the Ming Dynasty, are only enough to be soldiers, with the expansion of the territory, there is no longer even a working population, it is difficult to develop.
Liu Tao was very disgusted with the dark-skinned Kunlun slaves: "Why don't you use the local natives as slaves?" ”
Liu Qi shook his head: "The physique of the local natives is too poor!" The mortality rate is high! How can we treat those who survive as if they were our own? ”
"To trade black slaves, you need to go to Kunlun Prefecture (Africa) to catch Kunlun slaves, the journey is too far, the cost is very high, and I don't know if I can make money after a trip." Liu Tao said with a sad face.
Liu Qi laughed: "You still want to sell Kunlun slaves like Vietnamese brides?" You just need to transport the Kunlun slaves like livestock! It's not like the Great Cannibal hasn't done this kind of thing! If it weren't for the rise of the Turkish Empire, the Great Cannibals would now be weakened, and they don't know how many Kunlun slaves they would have to suffer! ”
The Arab Empire has done a lot of black slave trafficking, and black slaves have been sold to the Tang Dynasty, but the black slaves sold by the Arab Empire are all men, and there are very few female black slaves.
When Huang Chao raised his army, there were still many Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty back then, but they were all killed by Huang Chao.
In Wang Xinyu's eyes, black people with low IQ are a group of talking animals. In the United States in later generations, blacks clamed for human rights and shared the country's benefits all day long, and protested many times against the policemen who shot and killed black people. At the end of the day, it's still the whites who are too soft-hearted! The Arabs have a longer history of using black slaves than the white colonizers, but why didn't Our Lady jump out and accuse the Arabs? Because the black slaves left no descendants in Arabia!
In contrast to the white colonizers, the Arabs simply did not allow black slaves to leave offspring. However, they also introduced a small number of female black slaves, which were used to vent for male black slaves and stimulate their enthusiasm for labor. It's just that there are more men and fewer women, and the proportion is seriously out of balance, and female black slaves are originally venting tools, and naturally it is impossible to leave offspring.
However, Liu Tao raised another question: "Originally, the Great Food Empire was engaged in the Kunlun slave industry, but now the Great Food Empire has been destroyed by the Turkish Empire, and the current black slaves are all Taixi people." If we want to get involved in the slave trade, we need to build a base in Kunlun Prefecture and arrest people there, how much will it cost? I'm afraid the gains outweigh the losses, right? ”
Liu Qihaha laughed and said, "We don't need to open a base in Kunlun Prefecture!" We just need to open a route to Kunlun Prefecture! The tribes in Kunlun Prefecture are in war every year, and the prisoners of war they captured are killed in vain, so it is better to sell them to us. And we can export a batch of knives, guns and arrows to them, exchange them for prisoners of war, and let them fight themselves. (To be continued.) )